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An American Democrat Operative in Canada · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 1: Well, Bionna, the justices in this case have sided with
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  Speaker 1: the Trump administration. First, to give you a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of context, this dates back to this executive order that
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  Speaker 1: was issued by President Trump in March that, as you said,
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  Speaker 1: really was focused on election integrity, election security. Every American
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  Speaker 1: who the federal government believes is eligible to vote in
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  Speaker 1: federal elections, they were then directed to send those lists
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  Speaker 1: eventually to the state's to help the states then cull
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  Speaker 1: their voter rolls looking for non-citizens or anyone else who
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  Speaker 1: is ineligible to vote. Of course, that ties back to
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  Speaker 1: the president's longstanding claims that there is widespread voter fraud
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  Speaker 1: in this country.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Saturday morning.
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  Speaker 4: So nice to have you with us on the 47
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  Speaker 4: Morning Update.
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  Speaker 3: And we've got two big stories for you.
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  Speaker 4: First up, in a shocking news story, we are now
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  Speaker 4: learning that Democrats are actually working with Canada to undermine
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  Speaker 4: President Donald Trump and his tariff negotiations with our northern neighbor.
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  Speaker 3: So how did they get away with it? We'll expose
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  Speaker 3: it all.
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  Speaker 4: Up next, a very interesting move by the president, using
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  Speaker 4: ICE agents to help protect our election integrity with the
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  Speaker 4: midterms coming up. Plus, also screening people from other countries.
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  Speaker 4: It's the 47 Morning Update, and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 4: I want to get you up to date on what's
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  Speaker 4: happening with Canada right now. And there's something very weird, odd, strange, unique,
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  Speaker 4: and honestly, not surprising, all at the same time happening.
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  Speaker 4: And that is, it looks like Liberal Democrats are now
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  Speaker 4: working with Canada to undermine President Donald Trump. Now, the
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  Speaker 4: Canadian Prime Minister Carney appointed a longtime Democrat political operative
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  Speaker 4: who to a newly created senior position in his government.
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  Speaker 4: The latest action in a long history between prominent Democrats
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  Speaker 4: colluding with the country's leaders to oppose the Trump administration.
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  Speaker 4: The two countries are now embroiled in a tense back
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  Speaker 4: and forth, years in the making that threatens American interests
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  Speaker 4: on trade as well as national security. Now, in mid-July,
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  Speaker 4: Carney appointed Johnson as chief operating officer of the prime
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  Speaker 4: minister's office. The position is the equivalent of the White
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  Speaker 4: House chief of staff, and she is the first person
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  Speaker 4: to hold the title in the Canadian government. Johnson also
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  Speaker 4: concurrently serves as senior special advisor for, quote, United States
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  Speaker 4: stakeholder strategy, a post she was hired in February of
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  Speaker 4: this year to have as well. Now, what makes this
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  Speaker 4: arrangement unusual is as an American citizen, Johnson, yes, you
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  Speaker 4: heard that right, as an American citizen, Democrat operative, Johnson
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  Speaker 4: is forbidden from top secret security clearance. As Carney's top deputy,
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  Speaker 4: it's unclear what access Johnson receives to classified or secure materials. Now,
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  Speaker 4: there was also no official announcement of the hire on
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  Speaker 4: the prime minister's official website, which makes this even more
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  Speaker 4: interesting because normally you would publicize something like this unless
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  Speaker 4: you're trying to downplay it on purpose. Now, Johnson's professional
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  Speaker 4: history is lined with connections to Democrats in America. Remember,
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  Speaker 4: this is an American citizen. In 2016, for example, she
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  Speaker 4: was listed as director of scheduling. for the failed Hillary
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  Speaker 4: Clinton presidential campaign in 2020. She also worked for Michael
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  Speaker 4: Bloomberg's now-defunct hawkish political consulting firm. and provided quote-unquote strategic
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  Speaker 4: consulting services to the Biden campaign from August through December
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  Speaker 4: of 2020. Now, when I say this is a top-level
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  Speaker 4: American citizen democratic operative who's now the chief of staff
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  Speaker 4: in Canada for the prime minister, yeah, you should all
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  Speaker 4: be saying, what in the world's going on?
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  Speaker 3: Now, that's not all she's done. Let me also just
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  Speaker 3: tell you, she also took a position.
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  Speaker 4: With Bloomberg L.P., It's unclear if she worked for the
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  Speaker 4: Biden-Harris campaign in 2024, and the FEC records do not
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  Speaker 4: show expenditures connected to her. She did, though, contribute to
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  Speaker 4: the campaign via the radical organization ActBlue. Am I painting
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  Speaker 4: a good enough picture for you now? Yeah, it's pretty damning, right? Now,
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  Speaker 4: Johnson's ties to Bloomberg serve as the thorough way to
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  Speaker 4: Carney and the web of the Democrats who enjoy access
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  Speaker 4: to the prime minister in Canada. As UN Special Envoy
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  Speaker 4: on Climate Action and Finance, Carney focused on developing tools, guidance,
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  Speaker 4: and products for investors that will combine positive social and
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  Speaker 4: environmental outcomes with strong risk-adjusted returns, quote-unquote. That according to
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  Speaker 4: a biography from the World Bank. Now, Carney served in
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  Speaker 4: the position beginning in 19, following stints as governor of
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  Speaker 4: the Bank of England and the Bank of Canada. Now,
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  Speaker 4: in his U.N. role, Carney co-chaired the Glasgow Financial Alliance
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  Speaker 4: for Net Zero.
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  Speaker 3: And guess what?
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  Speaker 4: The American, who's now the chief of staff in Canada,
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  Speaker 4: provided him with research and support.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all of this, you get my point. Now you
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  Speaker 3: know just how bad it is.
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  Speaker 4: Now, when the American citizen Johnson joined the Canadian government,
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  Speaker 4: her portfolio focused on U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Stakeholder strategy. And Canadian-U.S. relations.
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  Speaker 4: Carney and Canada's Liberal Party has hosted a number of
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  Speaker 4: establishment Democrats, and this is where it gets really interesting.
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  Speaker 4: A great example of the radicals they host in Canada,
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  Speaker 4: Alex Soros, has also made visits to Canada twice just
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  Speaker 4: this year. while former President Barack Obama gave a speech
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  Speaker 4: at the Canada 2020 Gala in Toronto, showing Carney's success,
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  Speaker 4: bringing them to Canada to strategize against President Donald Trump. Now,
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  Speaker 4: another connection between Washington Democrats and Carney. is Gerald Butts,
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  Speaker 4: the former political advisor and strategist to the Prime Minister
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  Speaker 4: Justin Trudeau. Now, he is well known in Canada as
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  Speaker 4: the architect of liberals' climate and net zero policies, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the Green New Deal, making him a natural ally, yet again,
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  Speaker 4: for Carney.
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  Speaker 3: Now, this isn't the only big connections.
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  Speaker 4: We also now have learned that Carney and Butts also
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  Speaker 4: hold significant ties to John Podesta, You'll remember that name
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  Speaker 4: because he's the longtime Democratic power broker, dating all the
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  Speaker 4: way back to the Clinton administration, where he served as
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  Speaker 4: White House chief of staff. Podesta chaired the Hillary Clinton
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  Speaker 4: campaign in 2016 and would later serve in multiple climate
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  Speaker 4: related roles in the Biden administration. You know, when Solyndra
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  Speaker 4: and all those things were going on, where they wasted
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  Speaker 4: your tax dollars by the billions and billions of.
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  Speaker 3: Dollars, you know, during that time.
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  Speaker 4: Now, Hillary Clinton was a featured speaker at a Canada
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  Speaker 4: 2020 conference and also in 2014, an event that also
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  Speaker 4: served as a fundraiser for the Liberal Party of Canada.
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  Speaker 4: In 17, even a former speechwriter for conservative Prime Minister
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  Speaker 4: Stephen Harper told the New York Post in 2015, quote,
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  Speaker 4: Podesta and Butts clearly know each other, but Carney's campaign
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  Speaker 4: has been very careful not to tie him to anyone
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  Speaker 4: too specifically. Podesta reportedly helped facilitate a private meeting involving Carney,
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  Speaker 4: Obama and Soros at the former president's May 2016 speech
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  Speaker 4: in Toronto. This was followed several weeks later by another
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  Speaker 4: private gathering in Nova Scotia. And that meeting included federal
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  Speaker 4: industry ministers, as well as Soros' wife, Uma Abedin, a
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  Speaker 4: longtime Hillary Clinton loyalist, and Frank McKenna, who currently serves
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  Speaker 4: as the deputy chair of TD Bank Group and chair
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  Speaker 4: of the Brooksfield Asset Management. Now, I tell you about
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  Speaker 4: all this so you understand just how heavy the Democratic
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  Speaker 4: Party is deep inside of Canada. And what are they doing?
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  Speaker 4: Doing everything they can right now to undermine the president
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  Speaker 4: of the United States of America. Even Stephen Moore, talking
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  Speaker 4: about the tariffs on Fox Business Channel, had this to say.
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  Speaker 5: But I do want to point out to the viewers
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  Speaker 5: that China has, I mean, Canada has been cheating. They
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  Speaker 5: are imposing very high tariffs on American farm goods, our
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  Speaker 5: manufacturing goods, our technology products. And so they have been
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  Speaker 5: imposing pretty high tariffs on the U.S. And what Trump
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  Speaker 5: wants to do is force Canada to bring those down.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's a wise strategy.
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  Speaker 4: So the big question is this. If Canada has been cheating,
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  Speaker 4: the question is for how long? And how long has
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  Speaker 4: the Democratic Party been enabling Canada to take advantage of
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  Speaker 4: the United States of America? This is, by the way,
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  Speaker 4: why President Trump's 50 percent tariffs on roughly 20 billion
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  Speaker 4: worth of Canadian goods that took effect on August the
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  Speaker 4: 22nd on Saturday. Well, he did it after those negotiations
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  Speaker 4: between us and Canada collapsed.
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  Speaker 3: And he understands what I'm telling you now.
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  Speaker 4: There are bad actors in Canada who represent America that
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  Speaker 4: are somehow working on the side of Canada to undermine
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump. You think about how much liberals hate America.
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  Speaker 4: They're willing to go work for the other team to
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  Speaker 4: hurt Donald Trump. And that means they're hurting all of us.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, the White House says Canada is discriminating
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  Speaker 4: against American commerce. Where's the Democratic Party and why aren't
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  Speaker 4: they standing up for American commerce? And if you look
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  Speaker 4: at dairy and alcohol and automobiles, well, you look at
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  Speaker 4: just how big of an advantage Canada has. You got
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  Speaker 4: to ask yourself this question. Why would Democrats ever agree
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  Speaker 4: to supporting Canada knowing what they're doing when it comes
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  Speaker 4: to the double standard in trade? now trump has now
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  Speaker 4: threatened another major escalation doubling tariffs on canadian cars trucks
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  Speaker 4: and auto parts from 25 to 50 beginning january 1
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  Speaker 4: And that would be especially significant because the U.S. and
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  Speaker 4: Canadian auto industries have deeply integrated supply chains. What's clear
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  Speaker 4: is the president of the United States of America, even
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  Speaker 4: if he is having to fight Canada right now, well,
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  Speaker 4: he's not afraid apparently to fight the liberals, to fight
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  Speaker 4: the Democrats in this country who are now working to
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  Speaker 4: undermine America on behalf of the Canadian prime minister.
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  Speaker 2: Next, story number two.
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  Speaker 4: U.S. immigration officers, we now are being told, have been
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  Speaker 4: reassigned to screen South African refugees and find unlawful voters.
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  Speaker 4: This is big breaking news as all U.S. immigration officers
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  Speaker 4: working for a key anti-fraud unit have been reassigned by
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  Speaker 4: the Trump administration to focus on screening South African refugees
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  Speaker 4: and alleged unlawful voters. The Fraud Detection and National Security
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  Speaker 4: Directive immigration officers have been shifted full-time onto two high-priority initiatives,
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  Speaker 4: that according to the internal correspondence seen by The Guardian.
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  Speaker 3: Leaving U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Citizenship and Immigration Services, known as the USCIS, unable to
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  Speaker 4: provide officers to train asylum officers in the near future.
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  Speaker 4: But this is designed on purpose to make sure that
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  Speaker 4: America stays safe. The USCIS is inside the Department of
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  Speaker 4: Homeland Security, which has led Donald Trump's immigration crackdown during
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  Speaker 4: his second term. The processing of asylum claims has largely
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  Speaker 4: ground to a halt during Trump's administration. leaving many seeking
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  Speaker 4: asylum in limbo. And why is that happening? Because of
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  Speaker 4: the countless number of legal immigrants that the Democratic Party
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  Speaker 4: allowed to come across our southern border. So if you're
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  Speaker 4: angry about this chaos and limbo, if you're a liberal
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  Speaker 4: out there, just know this could have all been avoided
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  Speaker 4: if you didn't have wide open southern borders for countless years.
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  Speaker 4: The immigration officers have been reassigned, we're being told, full
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  Speaker 4: time to these high priority initiatives. South Africa refugee screening
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  Speaker 4: and then unlawful voter screening as well. The message sent
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  Speaker 4: on Monday said because of this, we will not have
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  Speaker 4: the ability to assign immigration officers to the training portfolio
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  Speaker 4: for the near future. Now contacted for comment, the USCIS
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  Speaker 4: spokesman said the directorate works on different vetting portfolios to
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  Speaker 4: combat fraud, maintain the integrity of the immigration system, which
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  Speaker 4: clearly we had completely lost in the Biden administration, and
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  Speaker 4: then also detect national security and public safety threats, saying, quote,
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  Speaker 4: this mission set includes a number of those priorities, including
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  Speaker 4: election integrity, and refugee screening. Now, the FDNS is the U.S.
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  Speaker 4: CIS unit responsible for detecting fraud and national security concerns
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  Speaker 4: in immigration benefits applications, including asylum claims. Its officers work
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  Speaker 4: with asylum offices to identify cases requiring what they describe
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  Speaker 4: as further investigation. refer matters to law enforcement, and help
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  Speaker 4: asylum officers identify potential fraud and other red flags. Now,
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  Speaker 4: the reassignment marks a significant diversion of FDNS personnel. The
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  Speaker 4: message addresses only the agency's ability to provide officers for
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  Speaker 4: asylum officer training. It does not say whether routine FDNS screenings.
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  Speaker 4: of pending asylum applications has also slowed or stopped altogether. Now,
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  Speaker 4: a disruption to training would limit specialized instruction for asylum officers,
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  Speaker 4: and a broader slowdown in casework screening would have more
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  Speaker 4: direct consequences, they say, for pending applications. But here's the
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  Speaker 4: part that's really important. The refugee screening priority is part
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  Speaker 4: of the Trump administration's bid. They say to sharply curtail U.S.
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  Speaker 4: refugee resettlement. while also prioritizing admissions of South Africans, primarily
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  Speaker 4: from an area where U.S. officials say they face racial
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  Speaker 4: discrimination and quote unquote white genocide, which the South African
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  Speaker 4: government has, quote, rejected as unfounded and politically motivated. Now,
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  Speaker 4: the most recent refugee report from the U.S. State Department
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  Speaker 4: detailed that of the 10,258 refugees admitted to the U.S.
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  Speaker 4: between October 1, 2025 and July 31, 2026, 1,255 were
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  Speaker 4: from South Africa. The remaining three were Afghans that were
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  Speaker 4: admitted in November. Now, the second priority identified in this
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  Speaker 4: clear message, the screening for, quote, unlawful voters, that appears
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  Speaker 4: to be part of the broader administration's effort to identify
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  Speaker 4: non-citizens alleged to have registered to vote in U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Elections.
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  Speaker 4: Now, experts have expressed a lot of concern. Now, President
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  Speaker 4: Trump has expressed a lot of concern about this being
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  Speaker 4: a significant problem. And that's part of the reason why
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  Speaker 4: clearly the resources are being moved to deal with our
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  Speaker 4: midterm elections that are coming up. Now, the USCIS has
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  Speaker 4: already moved to bar naturalization for green card holders who
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  Speaker 4: voted or registered to vote, showing that if you skip
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  Speaker 4: out on the system or abuse the system and you
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  Speaker 4: think you're going to become an American citizen under this administration,
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  Speaker 4: you are dead wrong. DHS Secretary, for example, Mark Wayne Mullen,
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  Speaker 4: said in July that the department has identified over 250,000
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  Speaker 4: potential non-citizens illegally registered to vote in California, in Nevada,
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  Speaker 4: in New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Now, this is a shocking number.
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  Speaker 4: And the point is the president has made it clear
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  Speaker 4: what his agenda items are. He wants to make sure
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  Speaker 4: that our elections are secure. He wants to make sure
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  Speaker 4: that if you're in this country taking advantage of this country,
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  Speaker 4: especially on a green card, that you will be held accountable.
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  Speaker 3: For your abusing the system.
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  Speaker 4: And he wants to make sure that if you do
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  Speaker 4: ever vote in an election illegally and you are a
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  Speaker 4: green card holder or trying to become an American citizen,
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  Speaker 4: that you will never receive that incredible gift. Now, if
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  Speaker 4: you just go back to the very basics here, one
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  Speaker 4: thing is very clear. This president is saying he is
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  Speaker 4: going to trust but verify when it comes to our
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  Speaker 4: election system. He's making sure that there are actually checks
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  Speaker 4: and balances, not just a bunch of people looking the
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  Speaker 4: other way. And one thing's for sure, you cannot trust
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  Speaker 4: the Democratic Party with these elections at all. They will
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  Speaker 4: lie to your face and tell you that the border
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  Speaker 4: is secure while millions of Americans are coming across the
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  Speaker 4: border illegally. They will also tell you that our election
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  Speaker 4: system is secure, even while you know that there are
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  Speaker 4: actually documented cases of of illegal immigrants who have registered
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  Speaker 4: to vote and have voted in our prior elections. So
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  Speaker 4: this will be a very important moment, a moment where
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  Speaker 4: the president of the United States of America is saying,
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  Speaker 4: I am going to make sure that whatever happened before
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  Speaker 4: doesn't happen again. And if there is cheating, we're going
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  Speaker 4: to find it and we'll hold those accountable for it.
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  Speaker 4: And if there's no cheating, great, then we're doing our
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  Speaker 4: job exactly the way that we should be.
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  Speaker 3: So here's the.
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  Speaker 4: President letting those bad actors know less than 70 days
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  Speaker 4: out from the midterms that we are paying attention to
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  Speaker 4: our elections like never before.
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