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Verdict Year End Week in Review: Goal Post Moved to Protect Joe, Democrat Congressman Carjacked, & WH Changes Course on Antisemitism · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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Speaker 1: Welcome in as verdict to with Senator Ted Cruz Ben
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Speaker 1: Ferguson with you, and as we get ready for a
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Speaker 1: new year, it's important that we take a look back
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Speaker 1: at some of the biggest stories of this past year,
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Speaker 1: give you some of those big stories and things to
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Speaker 1: look forward to or issues that you may need to
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Speaker 1: be paying attention to heading into twenty twenty four. The
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Speaker 1: White House had a very interesting response, and this is
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Speaker 1: the third change now in the goal post for Joe
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Speaker 1: Biden's involvement with Hunter Biden's businesses. The first was they
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Speaker 1: never spoke about business. Ever, then they changed it to
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Speaker 1: he was never in business with his son. That was
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Speaker 1: the goalpost moving yet again. Now the White Houses Ian
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Speaker 1: Sam's came out and moved the goal posts again when
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Speaker 1: he said this.
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Speaker 2: The other allegations is the President was present at some
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Speaker 2: of the meetings between Hunter Biden and his business associates.
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Speaker 2: Why was the president at those meetings on those phone calls?
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Speaker 3: Well, again, I think this is part of the right
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Speaker 3: wing's misinformation machine to try to confuse people about what
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Speaker 3: the truth is. The truth is that the President, as
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Speaker 3: he has said publicly for years, calls his family every
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Speaker 3: day to check in. He calls his son every day
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Speaker 3: to check in. He calls his other family members to
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Speaker 3: check in to see how they're doing. He loves them.
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Speaker 3: They're a tight knit family. And what the GOP's own
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Speaker 3: witness testified in this case is that that's exactly what
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Speaker 3: the President was doing. He was checking in with Hunter
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Speaker 3: during a particularly hard time. I might add a time
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Speaker 3: where the family was going through Hunter's brother, BEA's illness,
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Speaker 3: and of course the President checks in with his son
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Speaker 3: and talks to them. But again that witness testified no
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Speaker 3: business dealings of Hunter, Biden's or anyone's was discussed in
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Speaker 3: these conversations. And so again they're trying to make this
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Speaker 3: sort of strange connection when their own investigation has disproven
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Speaker 3: these claims.
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Speaker 2: Before I let you go in this is the president
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Speaker 2: respond In terms of how the President has reacted to this,
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Speaker 2: especially as somebody who's been in politics and been in
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Speaker 2: Washington for as long as he has been, the idea
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Speaker 2: that he is now a subject to an impeachment inquiry
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Speaker 2: as president of the United States, what's his response to that.
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Speaker 3: You know, President has been in politics for a long time,
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Speaker 3: and I think, as he would say, he's seen a
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Speaker 3: lot of malarkey along the way, but this might take
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Speaker 3: the cake. You know, he's focused on the issues that
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Speaker 3: actually matter to the American people. You just saw him
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Speaker 3: spending the last week traveling around the world, shoring up
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Speaker 3: our alliance as advancing national interests in Asia, our economic
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Speaker 3: interests in Asia, showing American leadership on the world stage.
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Speaker 3: He's coming back here. He's announcing today a quarter billion
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Speaker 3: dollar investment in cancer research, try to finally cure cancer.
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Speaker 3: That's what his administration and this president is focused on
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Speaker 3: every day. They're focused on the actual needs of the
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Speaker 3: American people. And I think what he would say is
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Speaker 3: maybe the House Republicans should join him.
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Speaker 1: There's the pardon there where he says that Joe Biden
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Speaker 1: attended Hunter's business meetings because he loves him. That's the
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Speaker 1: new goalpost that they just moved significantly from they never
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Speaker 1: talked about business to then well they never work together.
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Speaker 1: Now it's well, he just went to the business meetings
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Speaker 1: because he loves him.
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Speaker 4: Really, that's the new excuse.
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Speaker 5: Well, look, I mean, what good and loving and devoted
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Speaker 5: father hasn't called in twenty times to his son's meeting
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Speaker 5: with corrupt oligarchs who are paying millions of dollars in
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Speaker 5: exchange for favors from that father while he's sitting and
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Speaker 5: serving as the vice president of the United States. I mean,
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Speaker 5: that's really just what any good dad would do. I mean,
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Speaker 5: it really is. It's cynical because they point out that
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Speaker 5: Joe's other son tragically died of cancer, so they want
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Speaker 5: to wrap it in the sympathy of a human tragedy
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Speaker 5: to say, well, of course, you know, listen, why was
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Speaker 5: Hunter getting paid the millions of dollars. I didn't hear
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Speaker 5: him say a word about that. There's no value Hunter provides.
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Speaker 5: What was the value Hunter brought? You know, Ben, you're
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Speaker 5: a talented guy, You're a charming guy. Are there any
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Speaker 5: foreign Nola garks calling you up saying, Ben, I want
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Speaker 5: to wire millions of.
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Speaker 4: Dollars to you zero. That's not all, you know.
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Speaker 5: They don't do that to anybody. They only do it
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Speaker 5: if you were providing value. And what all of these
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Speaker 5: talking heads, what all of these democrat hacks are saying,
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Speaker 5: what all of the corporate media puppets are are refusing
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Speaker 5: to answer, is is what did Hunter get in exchange
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Speaker 5: for the tens of millions of dollars, and according to
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Speaker 5: the House it could be north of twenty thirty million dollars.
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Speaker 5: We're talking massive amounts of money, and by the way,
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Speaker 5: not money from you know, normal American companies, not money
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Speaker 5: from our friends and allies. It wasn't money from France,
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Speaker 5: it wasn't money from Italy, it wasn't money from the
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Speaker 5: United Kingdom, wasn't money from Japan. It was money from China, Russia, Ukraine.
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Speaker 5: They singled out nations with very significant antagonism and hostility
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Speaker 5: to America and some of the most corrupt nations on earth.
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Speaker 5: And there is no innocent explanation. By the way, you
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Speaker 5: don't hear any of these Democrats explaining why did Joe
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Speaker 5: Biden have multiple book burner phones, Why did he have
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Speaker 5: fake emails? Why did he use fake emails to send
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Speaker 5: emails to his son Hunter about Ukraine on government email
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Speaker 5: while Hunter was getting paid millions of dollars. All of
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Speaker 5: that the Democrats want you to ignore and say, well, gosh,
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Speaker 5: Joe's just a loving dad, and that's what loving dads do.
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Speaker 5: They helped their sons make thirty million dollars from corrupt
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Speaker 5: olago arks who are enemies of America.
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Speaker 1: I want to get back to this montage, Senator, that
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Speaker 1: was one that went viral, and I hope you will
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Speaker 1: give this to your friends shared on social media, because
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Speaker 1: it's another example of how many lives have been told
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Speaker 1: by the Bidens and how much the media has been
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Speaker 1: willing to cover for them. And this is what this
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Speaker 1: impeachment inquiry is going to be all about. Never discussed
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Speaker 1: with my son's one, my brother, or anyone else in
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Speaker 1: being heaven.
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Speaker 6: To do with their businesses.
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Speaker 5: President Biden met with at least fourteen of Hunter's business
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Speaker 5: associates while he was vice president.
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Speaker 7: And Vice president Joe Biden at dinner with his son
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Speaker 7: Hunter along with Hunters of business associates from Ukraine, Russia,
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Speaker 7: and Kazakhstan, and the day after the dinner, a Barisma
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Speaker 7: executive said a note to Hunter quoting dear Hunter, thank
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Speaker 7: you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity
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Speaker 7: to meet your father and spend some time together.
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Speaker 8: Hunter's lucrative business dealings often included giving as much as
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Speaker 8: fifty percent of his earnings to his dad.
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Speaker 9: The text read quote, I hope you all can do
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Speaker 9: what I did and pay for everything for this entire family.
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Speaker 9: For thirty years. It's really hard, but don't worry. Unlike Pop,
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Speaker 9: I won't make you give me half your salary.
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Speaker 10: His son Hunter, joining the then vice president on the
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Speaker 10: official visit to Beijing. Unknown to the press, back then,
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Speaker 10: Hunter Biden was forming a Chinese private equity fund, planning
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Speaker 10: to raise money, including from Chinese investors.
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Speaker 4: Ten days after the Bidens trip, Shanghai.
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Speaker 5: Authorities issued the fund's business license and.
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Speaker 6: Hunter introduced me as this is Tony Dad, the individual
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Speaker 6: I told you about that's helping us with the business
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Speaker 6: that we're working on in the.
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Speaker 11: Chinese The email reads this way quote at the moment,
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Speaker 11: there's a provisional agreement that the equity will be distributed
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Speaker 11: as follows ten held by Hunter for the big guy.
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Speaker 6: I one thousand percent seen here and know that the
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Speaker 6: big guy is referencing Joe Biden. I met with a
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Speaker 6: former vice president of person multiple times.
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Speaker 12: A newly revealed text message, Joe's Babolinski was apparently warned
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Speaker 12: by business partner James Gillier, don't mention Joe being involved.
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Speaker 12: It's only when you are face to face. I know
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Speaker 12: you know that, but they are paranoid.
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Speaker 8: Chinese executives admitted to reporters that they were actually introduced
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Speaker 8: to the Vice presidents by Hunter.
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Speaker 5: Hunter and the then Vice President seeing for the pair
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Speaker 5: of Mexican billionaires.
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Speaker 2: At the same time, Hunter had been working on energy
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Speaker 2: deals in Mexico.
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Speaker 9: Joe Biden also had a Hunter at his business partner,
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Speaker 9: fly On f was two to Mexico.
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Speaker 8: His closest business partner. Hunters made at least nineteen visits
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Speaker 8: to the White House and other official locations, including a
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Speaker 8: sit down with then Vice President Joe Biden in the
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Speaker 8: West Wing.
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Speaker 11: There's photographic evidence of Biden on a golf out and
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Speaker 11: with both his son Hunter and a man called Devin Archer,
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Speaker 11: who was another member of the Barice Maboort.
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Speaker 8: We also know that Devin Archer in that picture had
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Speaker 8: a meeting in the White House one on one meeting
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Speaker 8: with Joe Biden about a week before they joined the
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Speaker 8: Maarie Maboard.
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Speaker 1: You hear that, Senator, and this explains exactly why this
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Speaker 1: impeached inquiry is going to be so important.
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Speaker 5: Well it does. It also explains why the Democrat talking
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Speaker 5: point and the corporate media talking point that there is
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Speaker 5: no evidence of Joe Biden's corruption. It is flatly false
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Speaker 5: and I got to say James Carvill saying he's really
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Speaker 5: looking forward to hearings on this. Well, you know what, James,
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Speaker 5: so am.
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Speaker 1: I I want to move to something else that obviously
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Speaker 1: got pushed back in the headlines, but it still is important.
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Speaker 1: The crime wave that we're seeing is not just sweeping
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Speaker 1: the nation, but now it's affecting democratic leaders and leaders
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Speaker 1: in the liberal movement like we haven't seen before, and
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Speaker 1: it's happening way more often. I'll give you an example.
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Speaker 1: You have a Democratic Representative, Henry Queller, who was carjacked
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Speaker 1: at gunpoint in DC. This comes as in just the past,
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Speaker 1: well it was in a twenty four hour period. You
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Speaker 1: had a liberal gay reporter that was shot and killed
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Speaker 1: in his home in Philly. You had a far left
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Speaker 1: activist that was stabbed to death by a range stranger
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Speaker 1: in Brooklyn in front of his girlfriend. You had this
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Speaker 1: Democratic congressman who was carjacked at gunpoint in DC by
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Speaker 1: four African American men. And yet we have Democrats who
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Speaker 1: have a soft on crime policies that aren't just hurting
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Speaker 1: their neighborhoods that I mentioned these different spots, but it's
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Speaker 1: hurting people in.
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Speaker 4: Texas as well.
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Speaker 1: And almost every House Democrat voted against the Republican efforts
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Speaker 1: to stop the DC week on Crime bill, which specifically
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Speaker 1: would have reduced carjacking penalties. This is something that the Democrats,
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Speaker 1: I mean they voted for its. Aldred for example, voted
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Speaker 1: with the Dems on this one. It's shocking to me.
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Speaker 5: Well, listen, crime is out of control in this country,
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Speaker 5: and it's an issue that has people understandably very concerned.
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Speaker 5: I watched tonight the video of the liberal activist in
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Speaker 5: New York at four the morning being stabbed to death
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Speaker 5: on the streets of New York by a guy that'
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Speaker 5: certain appears deranged. It was horrific to watch. You're right,
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Speaker 5: the news of the left wing journalist in Philadelphia who
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Speaker 5: was shot I think seven times in his own home
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Speaker 5: and killed in the past few days. And Henry Quaar. Look,
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Speaker 5: Henry Quayar is a Democrat congressman from Texas. I know
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Speaker 5: Henry well. Henry represents Laredo up to San Antonio. Henry
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Speaker 5: is the most conservative of the Texas Democrats. I worked
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Speaker 5: hand in hand with Henry, for example, on the Texas Bridges.
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Speaker 5: We've talked on this podcast before about four bridges from
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Speaker 5: Texas to Mexico that Henry and I teamed up in
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Speaker 5: and won big legislative victories to build new bridges to
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Speaker 5: Mexico for legal commerce, to expand bridges. Henry, as I said,
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Speaker 5: is by far the most conservative of the Texas Democrats. Well,
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Speaker 5: in the last couple of days, Henry was coming to
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Speaker 5: his apartment in DC. It was nine thirty at night
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Speaker 5: and he was getting out of his car and it
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Speaker 5: was carjacked. He was carjacked by four individuals. They put
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Speaker 5: a gun in his face, they stole the car, they
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Speaker 5: stole his life uggage. Presumably I haven't spoken to Henry
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Speaker 5: since it happened, but you have to assume that with
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Speaker 5: a gun in his face, he was afraid for his life.
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Speaker 5: I mean, that is frightening. My understanding is Henry lives
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Speaker 5: at an apartment building where there were multiple members of
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Speaker 5: Congress who live there. There are apparently multiple members of
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Speaker 5: congressional leadership who live there, which means there are a
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Speaker 5: lot of Capitol police around there. And at nine thirty
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Speaker 5: at night he was carjacked on the streets of DC.
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Speaker 5: And then that reflects the crime wave that is sweeping
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Speaker 5: this country.
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Speaker 12: Now.
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Speaker 5: The DC city Council, which is populated by left wing Democrats,
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Speaker 5: they voted to lower the penalties for violent crimes, including carjackings.
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Speaker 5: In particular, they voted to lower the sentence from twenty
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Speaker 5: one years to seven years, and they voted to lower
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Speaker 5: the sentence from forty years if armed to fifteen years.
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Speaker 5: And under the revised code, carjacking is now divided into
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Speaker 5: three gradations dependent on severity, with the lowest penalties for
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Speaker 5: an unarmed defense ranging from four to eighteen years, and
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Speaker 5: the highest penalties from an armed defense ranging from twelve
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Speaker 5: to twenty four years. Now in the Congress, thankfully, the
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Speaker 5: Congress has the ability to rescind any legislation in the
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Speaker 5: District of Columbia. The reason for that is the Constitution
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Speaker 5: gives Congress total authority over DC. Unlike a state. We
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Speaker 5: can't rescind laws in Texas or any other state, but
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Speaker 5: d C is a federal district in Congress has plenary
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Speaker 5: authority over it. And so in Congress we voted to
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Speaker 5: rescind these softened crime laws that lessen the penalties for
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Speaker 5: violent crimes, and the results are horrific, as we're seeing carjacking, murders,
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Speaker 5: crime rates skyrocketing in d C and all across the country.
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Speaker 1: You also have the White House, who was asked about
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Speaker 1: part of this, and I want to play that for everybody.
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Speaker 4: Take a listen.
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Speaker 13: If a member of Congress is not safe on the
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Speaker 13: streets of the nation's capital, who is.
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Speaker 10: Look, we're grateful and relieved that the congressman is unharmed.
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Speaker 10: We understand what communities are going through across the country,
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Speaker 10: not just in DC. That's why the President took action
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Speaker 10: very early on in his administration to get the American
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Speaker 10: Rescue Plan done without the help of Republicans. That's why
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Speaker 10: every time he puts forward his budget he makes sure
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Speaker 10: there are billions of dollars to deal with crime. That's
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Speaker 10: just a fact. All you got to look is what
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Speaker 10: the President has been able to do this past two years.
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Speaker 10: There's always going to be work, more work to be done.
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Speaker 10: But the fact is the president has taken action.
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Speaker 4: He hasn't taken action, He's done the opposite of that.
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Speaker 5: She didn't have an answer to that. Holy crap, If
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Speaker 5: a Democrat congressman is getting carjacked on the streets of
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Speaker 5: DC at nine thirty pm, what the heck is the answer?
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Speaker 5: And she's like no, no, no, no, no, I'm not going
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Speaker 5: to answer that. And what was her answer, Well, you know,
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Speaker 5: Joe Biden spending a ton of money, mind you, not
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Speaker 5: actually putting criminal in jail, not supporting police, not doing
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Speaker 5: anything to stop crime. But he's shoveling a whole lot
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Speaker 5: of cash at Democrat special interest groups. He's shoveling a
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Speaker 5: whole lot of cash at deficit spending that's causing rampant inflation.
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Speaker 5: That is her answer. It's an utter non sequitur. And
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Speaker 5: by the way, it's not just Henry quaar Angie Craig,
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Speaker 5: who is a Democrat Member of Congress from Minnesota, was
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Speaker 5: assaulted in the apartment of her DC, her DC apartment
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Speaker 5: in February of this year. And this is a pattern
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Speaker 5: that is happening over and over and over again. Let
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Speaker 5: me give you some stats. Car jackings in DC are
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Speaker 5: up one hundred and nine percent, robberies are up sixty
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Speaker 5: eight percent, theft is up twenty two percent, homicides are
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Speaker 5: up thirty eight percent, and the city is on pace
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Speaker 5: for the deadliest year in two decades. Not only that,
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Speaker 5: nine of the top ten city with the highest homicide
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Speaker 5: rights are run by Democrats. Twenty seven of the top
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Speaker 5: thirty cities with the highest murder rates are run by Democrats.
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Speaker 5: This is a pattern, and you're saying Kareem John Pierre
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Speaker 5: and the Biden White House utterly dodging responsibilities for their
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Speaker 5: soft on crime policies that are endangering people all across
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Speaker 5: the country.
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Speaker 1: One to last question for you, will Democrats move on
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Speaker 1: this because even the White House Presidenttery was asked a
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Speaker 1: question of follow up where she could have kind of
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Speaker 1: gotten a redo.
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Speaker 4: I got to play it. It's too good, not too If.
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Speaker 13: President Biden's policies are helping bring crime down, would he
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Speaker 13: be comfortable with somebody borrowing his corvette and parking it
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Speaker 13: on the street overnight in Southeast DC.
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Speaker 10: I'm not gonna get into hypotheticals. I'm just gonna get
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Speaker 10: into the facts about what this president has done.
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Speaker 4: In this president, I mean, she's still screwed it up.
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Speaker 5: Look, of course, not nobody. Would you park your corvette
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Speaker 5: on the street. It's gonna get robbed, it's gonna get
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Speaker 5: broken into, it's gonna get key, it's gonna get vandalized.
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Speaker 5: She can't answer that question, and so you know what
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Speaker 5: she's counting on. Look that was a question from Fox News,
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Speaker 5: So Fox will cover it, Ben, you worked for years
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Speaker 5: at CNN. Did CNN cover that exchange?
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Speaker 4: Hell?
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Speaker 5: No, MSNBC, no, ABC, NBCCBS, Nope.
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Speaker 4: They know that.
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Speaker 5: The corporate media, they are the puppets for the administration.
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Speaker 5: They are the propagandists for the administration. They will repeat
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Speaker 5: the regime line. And so look, any sane person would
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Speaker 5: say no to the question, would you be happy with
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Speaker 5: your your your classic Corvette parked on the streets of DC?
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Speaker 5: Of course not, because crime is out of control and
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Speaker 5: the problem is. Look, let me underscore that again when
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Speaker 5: the DC City Council looked at skyrocketing crime rates and said,
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Speaker 5: you know what, the answer here is, let's lower the
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Speaker 5: penalties on violent crime. That's the best solution. We've got
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Speaker 5: too many murderers, too many murders, too many carjackings. Let's
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Speaker 5: send people to jail for shorter times for murder and carjacking.
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Speaker 5: That's a great idea. In Congress, thankfully, we overturn that
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Speaker 5: in the House. Every single House Democrat except two the
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Speaker 5: Santni Gonzalez, a Texan, and Henry quay are a Texan
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Speaker 5: who was just carjacked in the last forty eight hours
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Speaker 5: are the only two who voted no. That means every
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Speaker 5: other House Democrat, if you can think of a House Democrat,
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Speaker 5: they voted in favor of lessening the penalties on carjackers
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Speaker 5: and on murderers. Why do you think crime is out
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Speaker 5: of control?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a Democratic party and this is certainly going
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Speaker 1: to be an issue with the president shoal election.
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Speaker 5: Dark forget Ben, Ben hold on. Before we wrap up,
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Speaker 5: I want to ask you a final question.
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Speaker 4: I'm ready.
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Speaker 5: If you're standing by a doorway and you see a
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Speaker 5: little red box that is three inches by four inches, ah,
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Speaker 5: and it says the word fire on it, and it
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Speaker 5: says pull this for the fire alarm. My question to
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Speaker 5: you is is that a doorknob?
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Speaker 4: That is not a doorknob? And that is not a
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Speaker 4: way to exit the building. But how do you know?
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Speaker 4: How do you know? Ben?
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Speaker 5: Seriously? I mean, look, it's not like.
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Speaker 1: That insurrectionism one oh one, right, Like, don't you immediately
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Speaker 1: lock that person up forever?
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Speaker 5: Well, let me ask you this. It's not like you
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Speaker 5: were a high school principal. It's not like you were
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Speaker 5: a high school principal in a high school that had
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Speaker 5: fire alarms. It's not like you were a high school
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Speaker 5: principal in a high school that had fire alarms, that
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Speaker 5: had a policy that said, if you a student pulls
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Speaker 5: the fire alarm, you will be expelled. Jamal Bowman, the
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Speaker 5: Democrat congressman, was a principal at a high school that
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Speaker 5: had a policy that if you Ben Ferguson, a student
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Speaker 5: in his high school, pulled the fire alarm, you would
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Speaker 5: be expelled. And yet what did Jamal Bowman do? Oh,
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Speaker 5: I'm going to pull the fire alarm because I want
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Speaker 5: to stop the Republican vote. And why is it?
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Speaker 4: His claim?
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Speaker 5: If you believe him, his his defense is I'm dumber
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Speaker 5: than a box of rocks, and I think a fire
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Speaker 5: alarm is a doorknop. That is his defense, and that's
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Speaker 5: the best interpretation he can hope for.
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Speaker 1: By the way, I have to ask now, because you
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Speaker 1: brought it up, if a Republican would have done that,
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Speaker 1: how fast would they have been kicked out of Congress?
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Speaker 4: And would they have a mug shot at this point?
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Speaker 5: To be honest, I don't think they'd be kicked out
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Speaker 5: of Congress, but I think they might have a mug shot.
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Speaker 5: And my guess is look kicking people out of Congress
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Speaker 5: is pretty severe. My guess is the votes won't be
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Speaker 5: there for that. My prediction is they will censure him.
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Speaker 5: I think the votes will be there for censuring him.
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Speaker 5: But it is a criminal offense in the District of
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Speaker 5: Columbia to pull a fire alarm fraudulently, and he is
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Speaker 5: on video doing that. But he is counting on the
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Speaker 5: corporate media to ignore the fact that he was willing
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Speaker 5: to pull a fire alarm to try to stop the
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Speaker 5: Congress from voting on a provision that he didn't like, which,
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Speaker 5: mind you, was a provision to fund the government, and
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Speaker 5: he wanted to force a government shut down, so they
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Speaker 5: pulled a fire alarm because it to happen. But again,
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Speaker 5: he knew the corporate media would cover for him, and
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Speaker 5: they're doing it right now.
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Speaker 4: Santa, I want to play for you quickly.
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Speaker 1: The White House and the White House got themselves in
21:14
Speaker 1: some trouble because the President has mostly been saying the
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Speaker 1: right things, but the White House and the staffers completely
21:22
Speaker 1: different story. Take a list of the White House press
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Speaker 1: briefing his level of concern.
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Speaker 10: Right now about the potential rise of anti Semitism in life.
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Speaker 13: Of everything that's.
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Speaker 1: Going on in Israel.
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Speaker 10: So a couple of things. Look, we have not seen
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Speaker 10: any credible threats. I know there's been always questions about
21:42
Speaker 10: credible threats, and so I just want to make sure
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Speaker 10: that that's out there. But look, Muslim and those perceived
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Speaker 10: to be Muslim have endured a disproportionate number of hate
21:52
Speaker 10: fueled attacks. And certainly President Biden understands that many of
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Speaker 10: our Muslim Arab Arab Americans and Palestine Americans, loved ones
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Speaker 10: and neighbors are worried about the hate being directed at
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Speaker 10: their communities. And that is something you heard the President
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Speaker 10: speak to in his in his address just last last Thursday.
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Speaker 10: And so one of the things that the President has
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Speaker 10: done is directed his team, Homeland Security team to prioritize
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Speaker 10: prevention and disruption of any emerging threats that could harm
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Speaker 10: the Jewish, the Muslim, and our Americans are any other communities.
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Speaker 10: And that is something that the President has sought to
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Speaker 10: do and since day one, as you know, the President
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Speaker 10: ran on on on you know, bringing community, protecting communities obviously,
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Speaker 10: but bringing people together the soul, protecting the soul of
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Speaker 10: the nation. Uh, And so that is something that the
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Speaker 10: President takes very very seriously.
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Speaker 11: Uh.
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Speaker 10: And you know, we're going to continue to denounce any
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Speaker 10: sort of hate towards any American here.
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Speaker 6: Uh.
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Speaker 10: And so that's what we're going to continue to be
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Speaker 10: steadfast on. Again. He has he has advised directed his
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Speaker 10: Homeland security team to make sure that they're on top
22:59
Speaker 10: of this center.
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Speaker 1: The part about this that's so appable is the White
23:04
Speaker 1: House Press Secretary has now come out and said, quote,
23:07
Speaker 1: she misheard the anti semitism question only because of the
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Speaker 1: massive backlash from that answer.
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Speaker 5: Well, it really is striking that the White House Press
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Speaker 5: Secretary is unwilling to stand up and clearly and unequivocally
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Speaker 5: condemn anti Semitism. Say, anti Semitism is wrong, it is evil.
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Speaker 5: It is a unique evil that has existed on this
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Speaker 5: face of this planet for thousands of years, and we
23:30
Speaker 5: are completely opposed to it. Moreover, we will ensure that
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Speaker 5: that law enforcement resources are there to protect Jewish Americans.
23:37
Speaker 5: I'll tell you, Jewish communities across this country have a
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Speaker 5: level of concern and a level of fear. Unlike any
23:43
Speaker 5: time I've ever seen as the anti semitism on college campuses.
23:48
Speaker 5: That there was a Jewish student at Columbia was beaten
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Speaker 5: with a stick in recent days, the threats of violence
23:56
Speaker 5: on campuses because the anti is the jew hating far
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Speaker 5: left is so extreme that there is a real threat
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Speaker 5: of violence against the American Jewish community and for that matter,
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Speaker 5: of the Jewish community worldwide, in Europe and elsewhere. And
24:13
Speaker 5: I got to say her answer to that was striking
24:17
Speaker 5: in that the Babylon Bee, which does a fabulous job
24:21
Speaker 5: as a humor and satire site, they they had an
24:25
Speaker 5: article that they hadn't published, but they they tweeted it
24:28
Speaker 5: out today and they said, it's hard to stay ahead
24:31
Speaker 5: of reality. At the Babylon Bee. We had this written
24:33
Speaker 5: up last night, only to wake up and see the
24:36
Speaker 5: White House doing exactly this before we had a chance
24:38
Speaker 5: to publish. And here was the fake satirical headline that
24:42
Speaker 5: they had written, and they were getting ready to publish
24:44
Speaker 5: when Kareem John Pierre beat them to the punch. The
24:47
Speaker 5: fake headline read in strong response to rising hate crimes
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Speaker 5: against Jews, Democrats denounce Islamophobia. That's exactly what she did,
24:57
Speaker 5: and it's that I tweeted out, no longer sat are
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Speaker 5: just sad because their view listen when it comes to
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Speaker 5: the anti Semitic bigots to when it comes to the squad,
25:08
Speaker 5: when it comes to the thirty five student groups at
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Speaker 5: Harvard and the radicals running our college campuses, the Biden
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Speaker 5: White House, and I would have to assume, including Kareem
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Speaker 5: John Pierre, side with the radicals against the people of
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Speaker 5: Israel and against even American Jews. Their answer, they say,
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Speaker 5: we've seen no credible threat of anti Semitism in America. Really, well,
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Speaker 5: where the hell have you been if you haven't seen any,
25:35
Speaker 5: Because I got to tell you, the Jewish community is
25:37
Speaker 5: feeling it acutely, and we've seen multiple horrific acts of
25:41
Speaker 5: violence directed against Jews, directed against synagogues, including mass murders
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Speaker 5: in the United States, and for the White House to
25:48
Speaker 5: say they see no credible threat is truly absurd.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I was talking literally today to a differend of mine
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Speaker 1: who's Jewish and that works very close to Times Square
25:59
Speaker 1: in a largely Jewish community, and he said they had
26:01
Speaker 1: been told by local law enforcement to really be on
26:05
Speaker 1: high alert and be careful, and even it recommended they
26:08
Speaker 1: travel together in groups, not be isolated alone, and to
26:12
Speaker 1: be careful at their places of business. That is what
26:16
Speaker 1: he said to me today. And yet the White House
26:18
Speaker 1: is acting like none of that's happening at all.
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Speaker 5: It is sad, and today's Democrat Party is captive to
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Speaker 5: the far left. And I will say I've had conversations
26:29
Speaker 5: with multiple people on the left who are not deeply political,
26:33
Speaker 5: who are shocked at the open anti semitism that is
26:38
Speaker 5: arising on the far left. It's been there for a
26:40
Speaker 5: long time, but if you're not paying close attention, it
26:43
Speaker 5: takes something like the events of the last couple of
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Speaker 5: weeks to really bring into stark relief. And I hope
26:48
Speaker 5: this is opening some eyes.
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