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Tillis warns Trump administration against making same mistakes that the Biden administration did · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Thank you, mister Chared. I'm going to take up where
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  Speaker 1: you just left off. Thank you for being before the hearing.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're doing very well. Mister Blant. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to kind of ascend to the rarefied era of the
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  Speaker 1: moral high ground here for a minute. As I've heard
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  Speaker 1: some of the Democrats talking about this administration, it's almost
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  Speaker 1: as if they weren't here when the Biden administration did
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  Speaker 1: the indictments against President Trump. We've already heard it talk
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  Speaker 1: about Jack Smith. We haven't talked about the way that
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  Speaker 1: they dealt with a family member who was being indicted
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  Speaker 1: in Hunter Biden. I don't remember them saying anything during
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  Speaker 1: those days. And Judiciary Committee, I don't think I remember
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  Speaker 1: them ramping up the freedom of access to clinic entrances
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  Speaker 1: and trying to arrest pro life people from the law
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  Speaker 1: that they decided to ratchet up in nineteen ninety four,
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  Speaker 1: A couple of important cases there, and then the January
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  Speaker 1: sixth Capital riot prosecutions. The fact of the matter is,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll get to this in a minute, the part
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  Speaker 1: I don't like about it, but hundreds or thousands of
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  Speaker 1: people's lives were destroyed because they did something stupid that day,
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  Speaker 1: And there's a vast difference between difference between doing something
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  Speaker 1: stupid and doing something that destroys your career and wins
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  Speaker 1: you financially. And this administration, the Biden administration, tapped on
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  Speaker 1: the emotions of the time to over prosecute and weaponize
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  Speaker 1: the DOJ and went after people that I believe deserved
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  Speaker 1: a pardon because they weren't the people that attacked police officers.
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  Speaker 1: They weren't the people who knowingly destroyed the capital. They
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  Speaker 1: weren't the people who proudly went in like a QAnon
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  Speaker 1: shaman and pretending like he'd taken the Senate ground. They're
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  Speaker 1: the people that get me mad, which is why I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to talk about them anymore. But it's remarkable
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  Speaker 1: how it's almost as if that men in black, that
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  Speaker 1: device they used to erase their memories. It's remarkable that
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  Speaker 1: these people set before this committee when all that was
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  Speaker 1: going on and not a whiff. I hate duplicity and
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  Speaker 1: I hate situational ethics, and I want to lay the
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  Speaker 1: groundwork to say I was against that, and I'm also
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  Speaker 1: against some of the decisions of the president. Not you,
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  Speaker 1: mister Blanche, You work for somebody and you got to
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  Speaker 1: do what you're told to do, and I hope you
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  Speaker 1: stay within the ethical bounds of the lot. You have
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  Speaker 1: to answer to the bars and everyone else. But it's
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  Speaker 1: just jarring to hear people criticize this administration when they
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  Speaker 1: can't look in the mirror and ask themselves why they
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  Speaker 1: weren't criticizing an administration when they happen to have a
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  Speaker 1: blue jersey. Now my criticism of the administration with the
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  Speaker 1: red jersey January sixth, I have surged heaven and earth
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  Speaker 1: and I haven't found anything except to passing comment at
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  Speaker 1: a c SPAN conference. So can you tell me to
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  Speaker 1: definitively that you think that any Capital police officer who
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  Speaker 1: was harmed on January the sixth was a victim of
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  Speaker 1: a heinous crime at the hands of the person who
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  Speaker 1: did it, Yes, and should have been prosecuted and was
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  Speaker 1: and they were. And so I just with the members, please,
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  Speaker 1: you know is as long as you can prove you
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  Speaker 1: been consistent, use those soundbites, but don't use them when
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  Speaker 1: you look the other way when fundamentally, at the abstract level,
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  Speaker 1: President Biden did everything that you're accusing President Trump of doing.
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  Speaker 1: And a part of what we've got to get rid of,
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  Speaker 1: mister Blanche. Is this political physics going on? American people
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  Speaker 1: are an exceptional people, and they always like to best
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  Speaker 1: each other. And what I've seen happening here is when
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  Speaker 1: we have a bad action of one administration, I'll be
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  Speaker 1: damned if we don't repeat it with the other one.
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  Speaker 1: I want leadership, says We're going to ratchet things down
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  Speaker 1: and not make the heinous mistakes that the Biden administration did.
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  Speaker 1: Let's be better than them. Not better at prosecuting people
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  Speaker 1: that maybe we shouldn't or take a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: time before we indict them, but let's just be better
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  Speaker 1: than them. Let's set an example and stop this spiraling.
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  Speaker 1: Or the next Congress that I will not be a
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  Speaker 1: part of, we'll be talking about it again. Or in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty nine, if a Democrat president comes in, they're
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  Speaker 1: going to up the ante and they're going to go
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  Speaker 1: right after the baby. Or this administration is an example
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  Speaker 1: of why they should, because this administration has done the
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  Speaker 1: same thing to justify their some of their behavior. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not criticizing you, but I'm trying to just cut through
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  Speaker 1: the rhetoric and let people all know that we are
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  Speaker 1: at this place today in part because of the actions
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  Speaker 1: of the Biden administration and the weaponization that I even
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  Speaker 1: saw under Garland, who I generally supported. So let's just
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  Speaker 1: be real here, people. If you're going to criticize one
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  Speaker 1: in minute, look in the mirror before you do it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: mister Blanche, I want to stick a fork in this
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  Speaker 1: turkey of a seventeen seventy six fund. And you've said
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  Speaker 1: that it's moot. I've had colleagues here, attorney. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: an attorney. I'm a business consultant. I see a problem.
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  Speaker 1: I want to solve it. This is a problem. It
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  Speaker 1: should never be paid out. You've said it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be mood, that it's moot. Others, these smart attorneys that
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  Speaker 1: I'm surrounded by, I think that the courts are probably
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  Speaker 1: going to deal with it. But why should we waste
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  Speaker 1: the court capacity on this issue. If I could walk
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  Speaker 1: to the Senate floor with an agreed to piece of
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  Speaker 1: text coming from the administration that just renders this whole
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  Speaker 1: thing dead gone, I don't need approbas language. I don't
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  Speaker 1: need a statement from the administration. All I need is
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  Speaker 1: language to say. Everybody around here said it's over, So
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  Speaker 1: why can't we agree to language that I can walk
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  Speaker 1: down to the Senate floor and get a UC and
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  Speaker 1: dare the Democrats to a pose who ending this? And
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  Speaker 1: d'arre a Republican too? If the President supports it? Why
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  Speaker 1: is that a bad strategy? It's not. I mean, certainly
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  Speaker 1: the Department's Justice in the White House has worked with
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  Speaker 1: you and your colleagues to come up with language. We
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  Speaker 1: do not object that path or including it in some
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  Speaker 1: other I want to make the distinction, though, because I
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  Speaker 1: know that Senator Collins and the Appropriations team are working
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  Speaker 1: on this language. But you've already I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you've been paying attention to Congress. You've got your own
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  Speaker 1: job to do. But we're not necessarily getting along really
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  Speaker 1: well right now on the party lines the cham I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Schumer's already threatening a government shutdown. We haven't even had
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  Speaker 1: appropriations discussions, you know, except on going negotiations. He's already
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  Speaker 1: threatening a shutdown. So that language could be in a
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  Speaker 1: bill that's dead on arrival because nobody's going to do it.
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  Speaker 1: My question is who on earth who in this Senate
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  Speaker 1: Chamber would raise an objection if we were able to
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  Speaker 1: put something on the floor that ended this debate. The
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  Speaker 1: only reason I think that a Democrat would be opposed
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  Speaker 1: to it is they love milking this thing for what
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  Speaker 1: it is. I want to stick a fork in it.
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  Speaker 1: And can I get your commitment to UH to maybe
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  Speaker 1: provide us with some technical assistance on what that language
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  Speaker 1: would look like. Absolutely, thank you, mister Blanch. I did
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  Speaker 1: want to just echo and and mister Chairman, I know
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  Speaker 1: I caught him off guard. Or if I can seek
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  Speaker 1: unanimous consent to put into the record the letter that
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  Speaker 1: Center Corner and I sent to mister blanch with that objection,
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  Speaker 1: so that that's the letter on on the issue that
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  Speaker 1: Center Britt most recently brought up. I think there's a
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  Speaker 1: way to solve that, and I have confidence in your
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  Speaker 1: ability to do it, mister Blanche. But it is very
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  Speaker 1: important and uh, I guess for the purposes of back
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  Speaker 1: to the pardons, I get pretty emotional about that. The
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  Speaker 1: I think a better we need to do a better
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  Speaker 1: job of looking through the pardons process. Okay, I've talked
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  Speaker 1: about the January sixth pardons, but in this administration, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm no fan of Ed Marden, that's exactly why he'll
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  Speaker 1: never get confirmed in the US Senate. As long as
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  Speaker 1: I'm here, that's only one hundred and seventy two days.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you can come back next year. But I think
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  Speaker 1: the pardons process is something else we have to look at.
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  Speaker 1: The Democrats are considered are criticizing this administration for pardons.
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  Speaker 1: You take a look at the egregious list of pardons
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  Speaker 1: in in the Biden administration. Let's not forget that the
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  Speaker 1: Biden administration also had prospective pardons get out of jail
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  Speaker 1: free car I heard people criticizing some of the get
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  Speaker 1: out of audit arguments for the agreement seventeen seventy six agreement.
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  Speaker 1: Have they all forgotten that Biden in the eleventh hour
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  Speaker 1: gave perspective part to people who hadn't even charged with anything. Again,
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  Speaker 1: the point that I'm trying to make, folks is you're
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  Speaker 1: all victims of political physics. There was no criticism about
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  Speaker 1: that then, and now we're trying to criticize this president
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  Speaker 1: for pardons that I've criticized. So the point here, and
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  Speaker 1: I do believe that in the Trump administration, I have
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  Speaker 1: talked about the January sixth partons, but I'm concerned that
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  Speaker 1: the Binance CEO got got pardon I'm concerned that there
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  Speaker 1: was talk about a corporation getting a pardon, so I'd
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  Speaker 1: be very curious, if you're confirmed, if we could sit
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  Speaker 1: down and understand how that process goes and to what
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  Speaker 1: extent we can have visibility into these people getting pardons,
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  Speaker 1: starting with a lot of the partons that came out
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  Speaker 1: of the Biden administration. Can I get your commitment of
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  Speaker 1: confirmed to walk through that process? Of course, yes. Center.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, mister Blinche. You've done a great job today.