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Hegseth, Trump sets record straight on narco boat strikes · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: I wanted to clarify something that you had said on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday regarding the boat strikes near Venezuela. And you had
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  Speaker 1: said that you didn't know if the second strike on
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  Speaker 1: that one boat had happened, but you wouldn't have wanted it.
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  Speaker 1: Now that your administration has acknowledged that it happened, do
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  Speaker 1: you support that second strike? And mister Secretary, I want
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  Speaker 1: to clarify something you had said in an interview back
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  Speaker 1: at September. I believe on Fox News you said that
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  Speaker 1: you had watched that strike live on television in real time.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know that there were survivors after the initial stroke?
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, all I know is this every boat that
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  Speaker 2: you see get blown up, we saved twenty five thousand,
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  Speaker 2: on average lives, twenty five thousand lives. They've been sending
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  Speaker 2: enough of this horrible fentanyl and other things.
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  Speaker 3: Like cocaine and other things. But Feddohl right now is
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  Speaker 3: the leader of the pack to kill our entire nation.
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  Speaker 2: Because a little speck of the head of a pin
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  Speaker 2: can kill somebody is very dangerous. If I know so
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  Speaker 2: many people with this somebswhere drug I actually had one
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  Speaker 2: little sample and they died. They died they couldn't believe it.
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  Speaker 2: As far as the attack is concerned, I didn't, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I still haven't gotten a lot of information because they
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  Speaker 2: rely on Pete. But to me, it was an attack.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't one strike, two strikes, three strikes.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody asked me a question about the second struck. I
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  Speaker 3: didn't know about the second strike. I didn't know anything
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  Speaker 3: about people. I wasn't involved.
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  Speaker 2: I knew they took out about but I would say this,
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  Speaker 2: they had a strike. I hear the gentleman that was
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  Speaker 2: in charge of that as extraordinaries, extraordinary personal, and Pete
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  Speaker 2: speak about him. But Pete was satisfied. Pete didn't know
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  Speaker 2: about second attack having to do with two people, and
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  Speaker 2: I guess Pete would have to speak to it. I
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  Speaker 2: can say this, I want those boats taken out, and
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  Speaker 2: if we have to, will attack on land also, just
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  Speaker 2: like we attack on sea.
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  Speaker 3: And they're very little coming in by sea. I think
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  Speaker 3: we've knocked out over ninety percent of it. There's very
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  Speaker 3: little to say that, there's very little.
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  Speaker 2: We're saving hundreds of thousands of lives with those pinpoint attacks.
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  Speaker 3: It's an amazing thing when you see.
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  Speaker 2: A boat going along and you know a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the press would like to say they're not.
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  Speaker 3: You see the boat, they're not maybe drugs.
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  Speaker 2: You see these boats first of all, who has five
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  Speaker 2: engines on the back of a boat going in weird
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  Speaker 2: directions and loaded up with lots of white contactors.
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  Speaker 3: They'revolved their bags or things.
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  Speaker 2: Now they've done an amazing job, and Peter's done an
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  Speaker 2: amazing job.
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  Speaker 3: Pete, you could probably vener answer the question our spot
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  Speaker 3: on SWIR.
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  Speaker 4: I think you got to start with the baseline which
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  Speaker 4: Marco laid out and was laid out and got twenty
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  Speaker 4: million people invading.
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  Speaker 5: Our country over four years. We don't know where they're
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  Speaker 5: coming from.
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  Speaker 4: That includes trendy arragua and cartels and violent criminals.
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  Speaker 5: They bring drugs, and you mentioned it, mister.
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  Speaker 4: President, poisoning and intentional poisoning of the American people, killing
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  Speaker 4: hundreds of thousands of Americans. So the president had the
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  Speaker 4: courage to designate these cartels, has designated terrorist organizations. A
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  Speaker 4: number of US here served in the military and spent
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  Speaker 4: twenty years fighting terrorists like al Qaeda and Isis on
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  Speaker 4: the other side of the world.
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  Speaker 5: How do you treat al Qaeda and Isis?
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  Speaker 4: Do you arrest them and treat them, pat them on
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  Speaker 4: the head and say don't do that again. Or you
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  Speaker 4: end the problem directly by taking a lethal kinetic approach.
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  Speaker 4: And that's the way President Trump has authorized the War Department.
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  Speaker 5: To look at these cartels.
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  Speaker 4: And I wish everybody could be in the room watching
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  Speaker 4: our professionals, Our professionals.
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  Speaker 5: Like Mitch Bradley, Admiral Mitch Bradley and others at Jaysacket,
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  Speaker 5: so calm and other commanders.
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  Speaker 4: The deliberative process, the detail, the rigorous, the intel, the legal,
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  Speaker 4: the evidence based way that we're able to with sources
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  Speaker 4: and methods.
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  Speaker 5: That we can't reveal here. Make sure that every one.
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  Speaker 4: Of those drug boats is tied to a designated terrorist organization.
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  Speaker 4: We know who's on it, what they're doing, what they're carrying.
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  Speaker 4: All these white bails or not Christmas gifts from Santa.
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  Speaker 4: This is drugs running on four motor fast boats or submarines.
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  Speaker 5: That we've also struck. No one's fishing on a submarine.
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  Speaker 3: And I have empowered them to make that.
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  Speaker 5: Call now the first couple of strikes, as you would,
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  Speaker 5: as any leader would want, you want to own that responsibility.
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  Speaker 4: So I said, I'm going to be the one to
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  Speaker 4: make the call after getting all the.
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  Speaker 5: Information and make sure it's the right strike. That was
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  Speaker 5: September second.
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  Speaker 6: There's a lot of intelligence that goes into that building
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  Speaker 6: that case and understanding that a lot of people providing information.
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  Speaker 6: I watched that first strike life, as you can imagine,
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  Speaker 6: at the Department of War, we got a lot of
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  Speaker 6: things to do, so I didn't stick around for the
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  Speaker 6: hour and two hours whatever where all.
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  Speaker 4: The sensitive site exploitation digitally occurs.
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  Speaker 5: So I moved on to my next meeting.
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  Speaker 4: A couple of hours later, I learned that that commander
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  Speaker 4: had made which he had the complete authority to do.
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  Speaker 4: And by the way, Edward Bradley made the correct decision
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  Speaker 4: to ultimately sink the boat and eliminate the threat. He
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  Speaker 4: sunk the boat, sunk the boat and eliminated the threat,
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  Speaker 4: and he was the right call.
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  Speaker 5: We have his back and the American people are safer
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  Speaker 5: because narco terrorists.
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  Speaker 4: No, you can't bring drugs through the water and eventually
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  Speaker 4: on land if necessary, I have to do to the
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  Speaker 4: American people.
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  Speaker 5: We will eliminate that threat, and we're proud to do it.
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  Speaker 1: So you didn't see any survivors to be clear after
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  Speaker 1: that first jot.
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  Speaker 4: I did not personally see survivors, but I stand because
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  Speaker 4: the thing was on fire. I was exploded in fires smoke,
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  Speaker 4: you can't see anything. You got digital. This is called
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  Speaker 4: the folk of war. This is what you and the
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  Speaker 4: press don't understand. You sit in your conditioned offices or
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  Speaker 4: up on Capitol Hill and you knit pick and you
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  Speaker 4: plant fake stories in the Washington Post about kill everybody,
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  Speaker 4: phrases on anonymous sources, not based.
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  Speaker 5: In anything, not based in any truth at all, and
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  Speaker 5: then you want.
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  Speaker 4: To throw up really irresponsible terms about American heroes, about
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  Speaker 4: the judgment that they made. I wrote a whole book
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  Speaker 4: on this topic because of what politicians and the press
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  Speaker 4: does to war fighters.
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  Speaker 5: President Trump has empowered.
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  Speaker 4: Commanders, commanders to do what is necessary, which is dark
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  Speaker 4: and difficult. He's in the dead of night on behalf
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  Speaker 4: of the American people. We support them and will stop
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  Speaker 4: the poisoning.
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  Speaker 5: Of the American people.
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  Speaker 1: And it's the secretary on the second strike, you said
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  Speaker 1: it happened more than an hour after the first that
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  Speaker 1: I hear Courent.
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  Speaker 4: The exact amount of time, and it's you're about the rooms,
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  Speaker 4: which we're saying, I already stated my answer quite clearly.
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  Speaker 3: So remember this, we lost last year.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was more than that, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: people don't like saying it because they always said one
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  Speaker 2: hundred thousand, one hundred and fifteen thousand numbers we've been
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  Speaker 2: hearing for years. So we lost last year more than
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  Speaker 2: two hundred thousand people dead, people ruined families beyond the
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  Speaker 2: two hundred thousand, and those two hundred thousand, that family
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  Speaker 2: will never be the same. But these people have killed
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  Speaker 2: over two hundred thousand people, actually killed over two hundred
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  Speaker 2: thousand people last year, and those numbers are down. Those
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  Speaker 2: numbers are down and way down, and they're down because
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  Speaker 2: we're doing these strikes and we're going to start doing
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  Speaker 2: those strikes on the land too. You know, the land
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  Speaker 2: is much easier, it's much easier, and we know the
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  Speaker 2: out say take, we know everything about them, we know
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  Speaker 2: where they live, we know where the bad ones live,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to start that very soon too.
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  Speaker 3: Always start that.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to grab those us down so low, and
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  Speaker 2: then you're gonna have families to be able to live without.
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  Speaker 3: The fear of their son or daughter just having a pill,
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  Speaker 3: to have.
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  Speaker 2: A little fun and ending up dying within a period
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  Speaker 2: of sixty seconds. Now, we're not gonna let that happen.
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  Speaker 2: We're not gonna let it continue to happen. What Biden
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  Speaker 2: did to this country by allowing all these people, and
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  Speaker 2: I call them animals in many cases, I think they
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  Speaker 2: are animals to come into our country and destroy our
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  Speaker 2: country and let all those drugs pour in, let people
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  Speaker 2: just walk across the border like.
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  Speaker 3: It was nothing.
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  Speaker 2: You look at them, a lot of them, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they say, oh, let's not discriminate.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not talking about color. I'm just talking about you.
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  Speaker 3: Look into the eyes of some of these people. We're smart,
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  Speaker 3: and you see a killer. Come on in, just come on.
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  Speaker 2: In eleventh, eight hundred and eighty eight murderers, many of
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  Speaker 2: them committed more than one murder. He allowed them into
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  Speaker 2: our country totally undrevented, totally unchecked. But he also allowed
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  Speaker 2: drugs to come in at record numbers, and hundreds of
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  Speaker 2: thousands of people a year died.
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  Speaker 3: And we're taking those son of a bitches out you.
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