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China accused of MANIPULATING Americans through social media · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: Item on the agenda with each other and with their staffs.
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  Speaker 2: This comes as about seven in 10 Americans oppose the
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  Speaker 2: building of an AI data center in this area, in
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  Speaker 2: their area. Let's bring in Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, chairman
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  Speaker 2: of the Senate Intelligence Committee and an expert on China,
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  Speaker 2: wrote a book about it, bestseller, about what to look
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  Speaker 2: out for.
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  Speaker 1: Senator, what do you worry most about with this meeting?
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  Speaker 1: What do you hope emerges from it?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Brian, it's good to be on with you. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I might not have personally rolled out the red carpet
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  Speaker 3: for a communist dictator, but I think it's more important
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  Speaker 3: than what's on the menu at the White House is
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  Speaker 3: what the president and Xi Jinping discuss. We need to
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  Speaker 3: make it clear we won't tolerate China. stealing our AI
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  Speaker 3: models the way they've cheated so much in the last
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  Speaker 3: several decades, our farmers and our factory workers, that we're
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  Speaker 3: not going to send them the most advanced semiconductor chips
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  Speaker 3: and they shouldn't be diverting them, that they need to
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  Speaker 3: stop threatening their neighbors like Taiwan and Japan, and that
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  Speaker 3: we're going to stand with those neighbors. And that also
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  Speaker 3: that they need to stop persecuting their own citizens, for example,
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  Speaker 3: Christians inside of China or other ethnic and religious minorities.
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  Speaker 3: So the pomp and circumstance matters less to me than
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  Speaker 3: taking a firm, strong line against China and standing up
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  Speaker 3: for American interests.
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  Speaker 2: Two of the three things they don't want to hear
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  Speaker 2: from us, human rights and Taiwan.
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  Speaker 1: You would still bring it up. Absolutely, Brian.
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  Speaker 3: We need to stand with Taiwan. We need to continue
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  Speaker 3: to support Taiwan's military. The surest way to avoid a
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  Speaker 3: conflict over Taiwan with China is to help Taiwan to
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  Speaker 3: be able to defend itself so China won't be tempted
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  Speaker 3: to go for the jugular. We need to stand with Taiwan,
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  Speaker 3: just like we need to stand with our other allies
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  Speaker 3: in the Western Pacific, Japan and Philippines, both treaty allies
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  Speaker 3: who are threatened routinely by Chinese aggression.
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  Speaker 2: So there was a massive hack, and we're just getting
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  Speaker 2: information now. The FBI is investigating hackers' claims of a
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  Speaker 2: massive data theft.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the quote.
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  Speaker 2: The FBI is aware of claims regarding unauthorized activity affecting FBIjobs.gov,
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  Speaker 2: and it's currently investigating.
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  Speaker 1: How big a deal is this?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's concerning, and I'm aware of these reports as well.
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  Speaker 3: We're in communication with the FBI about it. Obviously, it's
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  Speaker 3: not just FBI agents and applicants, but their families as well.
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  Speaker 3: This group claims that they did this to get the
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  Speaker 3: FBI to stop investigating them. Of course, the FBI will
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  Speaker 3: never do that. They'll never succumb to such threats.
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  Speaker 2: You also believe, when it comes to China, they're trying
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  Speaker 2: to manipulate our news cycle.
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  Speaker 1: They're trying to shape the American public.
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  Speaker 2: And when we see all this negativity about data centers
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  Speaker 2: and AI and fear, that works to China's agenda. You
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  Speaker 2: believe they're actually working our free system against us.
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  Speaker 3: They are, Brian. There's no question. This is what communist
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  Speaker 3: Russia did. This is what communist China does. They use
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  Speaker 3: social media. They especially use TikTok to try to influence
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  Speaker 3: and manipulate American public opinion to their advantage. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: we're a democracy. We have free speech. We're not going
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  Speaker 3: to crack down on American citizen speech, but we need
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  Speaker 3: to expose Chinese manipulation of American social media platforms and
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  Speaker 3: especially the continued use of TikTok to influence America through
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  Speaker 3: Chinese communist propaganda.
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  Speaker 1: You're running for reelection.
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  Speaker 2: You have some differing views from your challenger, Arkansas Democrat
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  Speaker 2: Hallie Schaffner. She claims that farmers should trade five Americans
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  Speaker 2: for just one illegal immigrant.
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  Speaker 1: She does not believe— she.
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  Speaker 2: Thinks it's bad to round up illegal immigrants that work
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  Speaker 2: on farms.
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  Speaker 1: Your thoughts?
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  Speaker 3: Brian, this is a shocking statement by my liberal Democratic opponent.
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  Speaker 3: She said that she would trade five Arkansans for one
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  Speaker 3: illegal immigrant. The Democrats have gotten pretty radical on immigration,
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  Speaker 3: but this is far beyond what even Joe Biden or
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  Speaker 3: Kamala Harris said or what socialists up in New York
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  Speaker 3: City are saying. And the reason for that is because
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  Speaker 3: she wants to pay American workers less and she can
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  Speaker 3: pay illegal aliens less if she's using them as opposed
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  Speaker 3: to employing hardworking Arkansans. But again, it's just another sign
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  Speaker 3: of how radical Democrats have become. Again, this is not
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  Speaker 3: New York City. It's not Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: It's in Arkansas.
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  Speaker 3: And my opponent is talking about trading five Arkansans for
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  Speaker 3: one illegal immigrant worker.
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  Speaker 1: She says leave the illegals alone to work on the
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  Speaker 1: farms in your stances.
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  Speaker 3: No, we should be employing hardworking Arkansans on our farms. Now,
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  Speaker 3: in some places, if there's infrastructure limits, like housing or
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  Speaker 3: so forth, there are legal visa programs to bring in
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  Speaker 3: legal immigrants to work. But there should never be the
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  Speaker 3: choice to replace five Arkansans with one illegal immigrant, just
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  Speaker 3: so you can pay them less and not pay hardworking
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  Speaker 3: Arkansans more.
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  Speaker 2: And we reached out to Hallie Schaffner for a statement
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  Speaker 2: we have not heard back.
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  Speaker 1: Senator Tom Cotton, thanks so much. Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Brian.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Last question real quick. Do you have any tattoos, Senator?
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  Speaker 3: Fact-checked from what you said on the previous segment, no.
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  Speaker 3: I have no tattoos, Brian.
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  Speaker 1: Thank goodness. I do not have to issue a correction.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 2: Senator Tom Cotton, my primary source. Up next, the First Lady,
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  Speaker 2: Monty Trump, joins us live here on the Kirby Couch next.
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