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Obama Admin Caught in a Bombshell LIE about the Russia Hoax plus ALL THE WINS in the One Big Beautiful Bill · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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Speaker 1: Welcome in his verdic with Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson
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Speaker 1: with you Center. It's a big week out of Washington, DC.
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Speaker 1: You were there for a lot of it. Tulci Gabbard
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Speaker 1: coming out and making it pretty clear she believes that
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Speaker 1: there are people in around the President of the United
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Speaker 1: States of America at the time, Barack Obama, who may
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Speaker 1: have deliberately and purposely perpetrated a hoax against Donald Trump.
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Speaker 1: People are even using the word treason at this point,
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Speaker 1: and criminal referrals are actually being talked about. Well.
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Speaker 2: Tulca Gabbard this week released a bombshell. She released evidence
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Speaker 2: that Barack Obama and his senior intelligence team deliberately lied
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Speaker 2: to the American people. They knew they lied, and they
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Speaker 2: did so to undermine the incoming Trump administration, the incoming
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Speaker 2: president who had just been elected in twenty sixteen. And
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Speaker 2: the bombshell, We're going to break it down for you.
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Speaker 2: She laid out, chapter and verse. She brought the receipts.
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Speaker 2: How for months, the Obama intelligence community had assessed Russia
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Speaker 2: was not trying to interfear with the election, was not
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Speaker 2: trying to elect Donald Trump, which is of course exactly
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Speaker 2: the opposite of what they spent the next four years
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Speaker 2: telling the American people. We're going to break down exactly
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Speaker 2: what she laid out and what it means, and what
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Speaker 2: the criminal liability is, who's going to be held accountable,
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Speaker 1: the Bombshell Center. I was in DC when this happened,
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Speaker 1: and everyone was talking about the report that was released
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Speaker 1: showing how the Obama administration in essence perpetrated the Russian
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Speaker 1: hoax on Donald Trump to undermine his presidency, but also
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Speaker 1: to really get him out of the White House.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's right, and it's important to understand what is
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Speaker 2: new about this.
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Speaker 3: Listen.
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Speaker 2: Everyone has known for some time that the Obama team
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Speaker 2: pushed the Russia Russia Russia hoax. We've known that that's
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Speaker 2: been well established. What is new what Tulsa Gabbard put
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Speaker 2: out this week is that they knew they were lying
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Speaker 2: when they did that, because the intelligence had been precisely
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Speaker 2: the opposite. And what I want to do is I
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Speaker 2: want to walk through a little bit of this timeline
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Speaker 2: and give you the specific facts. So August thirty first
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Speaker 2: of twenty sixteen, a DHS official tells former DNI director
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Speaker 2: James Clapper that there was quote no indication of a
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Speaker 2: Russian threat to directly manipulate the actual vote count. That's
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Speaker 2: in August of twenty sixteen. Then September second, twenty sixteen,
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Speaker 2: the FBI said it was quote uncomfortable implying that there
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Speaker 2: was definitive information that Russia intended to disrupt our elections.
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Speaker 2: Then on Stember ninth, twenty sixteen, quote, the intelligence community
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Speaker 2: concluded that Russia was probably not trying to influence the
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Speaker 2: election by using cyber means to target election infrastructure. That continued,
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Speaker 2: so that was not just through August and September of
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Speaker 2: twenty sixteen, but it continued after the election. The election
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Speaker 2: happens in November twenty sixteen. On December seventh, twenty sixteen,
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Speaker 2: here are the talking points that D and I Director
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Speaker 2: Clapper had prepared for him. Quote, Foreign adversaries did not
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Speaker 2: use cyber attacks on election infrastructure to alter the US
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Speaker 2: presidential election outcome. The next day, December eighth, Barack Obama's
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Speaker 2: presidential Daily Brief read as follows quote, we assess that
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Speaker 2: Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election
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Speaker 2: results by conducting militious cyber activities against election infrastructure.
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Speaker 1: That's an important point there by the way.
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Speaker 2: That's what Barack Obama was briefed on December eighth, And
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Speaker 2: then December ninth, twenty sixteen, everything changed. On December ninth,
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Speaker 2: D and I Director Clapper, national Security Advisor Susan Rice,
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Speaker 2: Secretary of State John Kerrey, and Deputy FBI Director McCabe.
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Speaker 2: They all met in person, and in that meeting they
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Speaker 2: reversed course entirely one hundred and eighty degrees. They flipped,
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Speaker 2: and they agreed to recommend sanctioning members of the Russian
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Speaker 2: military intelligence because of the Russia hoax. They tasked the
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Speaker 2: intelligence community with creating an assessment of the tools Moscow
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Speaker 2: used to influence the twenty sixteen election, and that same day,
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Speaker 2: deep state officials in the intelligence community began leaking false
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Speaker 2: intelligence to the Washington Post. This was a decision they
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Speaker 2: made to lie to the American people.
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Speaker 3: And that's the news.
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Speaker 1: Deliberately and orchestrated and planned out. This wasn't just a
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Speaker 1: random what's got there lie and at press briefing. This
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Speaker 1: was a plan, like writing a movie script of how
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Speaker 1: you were going to lie to the American people and
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Speaker 1: use the intelligence agencies to do it.
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Speaker 2: And what Tulsea Gabbert has now given us the receipts
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Speaker 2: on is they knew they were lying that for months
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Speaker 2: and months and months, the intelligence community had been reporting
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Speaker 2: exactly the opposite. So when they made this decision, it
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Speaker 2: was a political determination. It was a political determination because
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Speaker 2: they hated Donald Trump. And it was a political determination
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Speaker 2: because they were furious with the American people for electing
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump president. And this was an attempt to subvert democracy.
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Speaker 2: And this was an attempt to overthrow the then newly
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Speaker 2: elected president of the United States. And is what is
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Speaker 2: brazen about it. It is that they did it. All
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Speaker 2: of the intelligence that for months and months and months
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Speaker 2: had been reported it suddenly magically disappeared. They didn't acknowledge it.
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Speaker 2: They simply those facts were no longer operative. They had
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Speaker 2: a political agenda, facts be damned, and they were willing
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Speaker 2: to lie to the American people, and they were willing
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Speaker 2: to lie to Congress.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, when you think about changing the papers is the
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Speaker 1: way it was described to the White House Press Briefing
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Speaker 1: where it was like the report says one plus one
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Speaker 1: equals too and they're like, no, no, we're going to
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Speaker 1: change that to equal seven. They knew they were doing
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Speaker 1: this to hurt the president and in essence a coup attempt.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't even one plus one equal seven. It's one
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Speaker 2: plus one equals cucumber.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I mean a great point.
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Speaker 1: And this is what happens when you have a rogue
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Speaker 1: deep state, which goes back to it. The President said
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Speaker 1: he believed this was what had happened, and they said
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Speaker 1: it was crazy when it happened. Cina. I want to
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Speaker 1: go back into what Tulsa Gabbert said when she went
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Speaker 1: it to the White House White House Press Briefing Room
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Speaker 1: and she opened it up as she was in produced
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Speaker 1: by the White House pres Secretary, and here's what she
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Speaker 1: had to say.
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Speaker 4: The stunning revelations that we are releasing today should be
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Speaker 4: of concern to every American. This is not about Democrats Republicans.
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Speaker 4: This has to do with the integrity of our Democratic
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Speaker 4: Republic and American voters having faith that the votes cast
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Speaker 4: will count. There is irrefutable evidence that detail how President
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Speaker 4: Obama and his national security team directed the creation of
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Speaker 4: an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false. They
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Speaker 4: knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia interfered
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Speaker 4: in the twenty sixteen election to help President Trump win,
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Speaker 4: selling it to the American people as though it were true.
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Speaker 4: It wasn't. The report that we released today shows in
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Speaker 4: great detail how they carried this out. They manufactured findings
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Speaker 4: from shoddy sources. They suppressed evidence and credible intelligence that
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Speaker 4: disproved their false claims. They disobeyed traditional trade craft intelligence
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Speaker 4: community standards, and withheld the truth from the American people.
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Speaker 4: In doing so, they conspired to subvert the will of
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Speaker 4: the American people who elected Donald Trump in that election
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Speaker 4: in November of twenty sixteen. They worked with their partners
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Speaker 4: in the media to promote this lie, ultimately to undermine
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Speaker 4: the legitimacy of President Trump and launching what would be
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Speaker 4: a year's long coup against him and his administration.
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Speaker 1: A year's long coup against him and his administration orchestrated
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Speaker 1: with the deep State.
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Speaker 3: And the media.
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Speaker 1: She's indicting all of them, saying they knew this was
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Speaker 1: a lie.
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Speaker 2: She is, and I will say, as she rightly pointed out,
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Speaker 2: the evidence she put out shows, number one, it was
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Speaker 2: false that Russia was trying to interfere with the election.
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Speaker 2: But number two, a second predicate of their lie is
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Speaker 2: that Russia was trying to interfere to benefit Donald Trump.
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Speaker 2: That was a critical Democrat partisan lie. And one of
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Speaker 2: the pieces that she put out is that the Obama
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Speaker 2: intelligence community assessed that that Russia had in its possession
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Speaker 2: damaging information about Hillary Clinton, including DNC communication. So this
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Speaker 2: is the Democrat National Committee communicating saying that Clinton was
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Speaker 2: suffering from quote intensified psycho emotional problems, including uncontrolled fits
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Speaker 2: of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness. And by the way, that's
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Speaker 2: really weird. Well, you've been Aroundhillary Clinton and cheerful.
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Speaker 1: If you've been around Hillary Clinton, she's not exactly the
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Speaker 1: most cheerful person, so that would be a red flag.
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Speaker 4: And what the.
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Speaker 2: DNC communications further indicated was that Clinton was placed on
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Speaker 2: a daily regimen of quote heavy tranquilizers, and while being
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Speaker 2: afraid of losing, she remained quote obsessed.
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Speaker 3: With a thirst for power.
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Speaker 2: Now, I don't know if if this supposed Russian intelligence
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Speaker 2: is accurate or not. Tulci Gabbard released it and said
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Speaker 2: that the Obama intelligence community assessed that Russia had this,
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Speaker 2: and here's the critical part. Russia didn't release it. It
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Speaker 2: clearly would have been damaging to Hillary Clinton. If they
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Speaker 2: wanted Donald Trump to win, they would have put it out,
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Speaker 2: presumably in October of twenty sixteen. They didn't that she
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Speaker 2: had another element of the lie.
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Speaker 1: It's a huge element of the lie. So the question
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Speaker 1: now becomes this where we go from here, and it
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Speaker 1: seems to be moving actually very fast. Great example of
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Speaker 1: that is the Attorney General, Pam Bondi were now being
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Speaker 1: told is forming a strike force to quote investigate disclosures
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Speaker 1: from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. That
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Speaker 1: would be Toulci Gabbard that raises allegations the Obama administration
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Speaker 1: quote manufactured an intelligence assessment in twenty seventeen promoting the
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Speaker 1: Russian Hoaks collusion, saying, quote the Department of Justice announcing
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Speaker 1: the formation of the strike force on Wednesday. The strike
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Speaker 1: force will assess the evidence publicized by the d and
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Speaker 1: I Director and investigate any potential quote next level steps
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Speaker 1: which might stem from d and I Gabbard's disclosures, that's
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Speaker 1: coming from the release, and Bondy called the disclosures from
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Speaker 1: Gabbard's office quote troubling in.
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Speaker 2: The statement, well, I'm very glad that the Trump Department
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Speaker 2: of Justice is investigating this. Tulsea Gabbard made a criminal
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Speaker 2: referral to the Department of Justice, and Pambondi launched this
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Speaker 2: strike force. And many people are asking, quite reasonably, is
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Speaker 2: anyone going to be held accountable for this, because it
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Speaker 2: seems so frustrating to have people breaking the law over
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Speaker 2: and over and over again and nobody being prosecuted, nobody
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Speaker 2: going to jail. I very much hope people are held accountable.
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Speaker 2: I hope that the Trump Department of Justice is able
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Speaker 2: to prosecute and improve if there is criminal conduct, that
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Speaker 2: they're able to prove it and get convictions and people
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Speaker 2: are held accountable. And I'll tell you the people who
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Speaker 2: are most likely to face criminal liability are those senior
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Speaker 2: members of the Obama Intelligence Commune unity, those people that
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Speaker 2: were in the December ninth meeting where they decided to
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Speaker 2: deliberately lie to the American people. Those names, by the way,
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Speaker 2: and in particular, so those names you're talking about, James
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Speaker 2: Clapper is one example. We're talking about the biggest names there. Yes,
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Speaker 2: I'm talking about James Clapper, I'm talking about Susan Rice,
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Speaker 2: I'm talking about John Carey, and I'm talking about Deputy
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Speaker 2: FBI Director mcabe.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 2: Those were the ones. And in particular also it is
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Speaker 2: the senior officials who testified falsely testified before Congress and
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Speaker 2: lied and knew there were lying. And there are two
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Speaker 2: relevant federal criminal statutes that are most relevant. Number one
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Speaker 2: is eighteen USC. Section sixteen twenty one, and that is perjury. Whoever,
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Speaker 2: having taken an oath, wilfully states any material matter which
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Speaker 2: he does not believe to be true, is guilty of perjury.
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Speaker 2: That this applies to sworn congressional testimony. And secondly, eighteen USC.
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Speaker 2: Section one thousand and one, whoever knowingly and wilfully makes
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Speaker 2: any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement in any matter
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Speaker 2: within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch
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Speaker 2: shall be fined or in prison. Both of these you've got,
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Speaker 2: in particular, two different testimonies that are really problematic number one.
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Speaker 2: On May eighth, twenty seventeen, James Clapper testified before the
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Speaker 2: Senate Judiciary Committee about the Russia collusion and what he said,
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Speaker 2: according to what's been released by Toolsey Gabbart, he knew
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Speaker 2: was false. He said, in particular, quote Russia's influence activities
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Speaker 2: in the run up to the twenty sixteen presidential election
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Speaker 2: constituted the high water mark of their long running efforts.
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Speaker 2: They must be congratulating themselves. This episode is a clarion
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Speaker 2: call for vigilance and action against a threat to the
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Speaker 2: very foundations of our democratic system. And then in November
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty, Andrew McCabe testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Speaker 2: He lied as well, and I will say for the
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Speaker 2: Statute of limitations, if it was materially covered up, it
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Speaker 2: is extended. This is the most likely area you'll find
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Speaker 2: criminal liability.
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Speaker 2: We have stopped a four trillion dollar tax increase. If
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Speaker 2: We enacted new tax cuts. No tax on tips. Yep,
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Speaker 2: That means if you're a waiter or a waitress, if
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Speaker 2: working Americans. That's in there. No tax on overtime is
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Speaker 2: in there, No tax on Social Security is in there.
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Speaker 2: All three of those were President Trump's campaign promises. We
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Speaker 2: delivered on all three of those, and working Americans all
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Speaker 3: That's huge.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just huge when you think about that
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Speaker 1: and you think about the promise and how it was,
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Speaker 1: you know, you look at the president. I go back
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Speaker 1: to the campaign. Yeah, and he came out he was
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Speaker 1: in Vegas and he was like, hey, we shouldn't be
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Speaker 1: taxing people. They're working their tails off in the tips
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Speaker 1: and everything else. And then the left actually came out
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Speaker 1: immediately started attacking him for the say it will never happen.
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Speaker 1: This is not a good idea.
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Speaker 2: This is they did say it will never happen. He said,
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Speaker 2: it's an empty promise.
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Speaker 4: Ye.
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Speaker 2: By the way, I've told the story of where he
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Speaker 2: came up with the idea of no tax on tips.
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Speaker 2: He was the day of his Vegas rally. He was
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Speaker 2: having lunch in Vegas. He said there was a waitress
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Speaker 2: who came up to him. I was serving him lunch,
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Speaker 2: and Trump being Trump, he told us he said she
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Speaker 2: was beautiful. I'm telling you she was beautiful. And she
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Speaker 2: he said, she was saying how stressful it was to
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Speaker 2: pay taxes on tips and how complicated it was. And
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Speaker 2: he said, he just put out a piece of paper
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Speaker 2: and he wrote on the piece of paper, no tax
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Speaker 2: on tips. He said, what do you think. She says,
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Speaker 2: that sounds great, And he said, I had a rally
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Speaker 2: that afternoon. So I went out to the rally and
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Speaker 2: I said, all right, let's try it out. And he said,
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Speaker 2: no tax on tips.
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Speaker 3: Place went nuts.
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Speaker 2: It went nuts.
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Speaker 3: And I saw that town. I mean, yes, people will.
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Speaker 2: Make a five percent of the workers in Nevada are
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Speaker 2: tipped workers and they rely on it as there I guests,
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Speaker 2: and so I saw it, and I said, this is
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Speaker 2: political genius. And I immediately drafted the legislation to make
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Speaker 2: it happen. That is part of One Big Beautiful Bill
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Speaker 2: Victory three. Securing the Border. We mentioned what the President
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Speaker 2: It is, as I said, the biggest investment ever to
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Speaker 3: One of the things that you mentioned there was technology.
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Speaker 1: It is amazing to see how far behind we've been
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Speaker 1: on technology and how we didn't have the funding for
19:47
Speaker 1: the technology that we knew we needed. That was clearly
19:49
Speaker 1: done on purpose by the prior administration, because if you
19:52
Speaker 1: don't have the technology, then you're behind. The cartails are ahead,
19:55
Speaker 1: the human traffickers are ahead, the people are ahead of you.
19:58
Speaker 1: They held us back on purpose to again open the border. Yes,
20:02
Speaker 1: so we've been playing catch up, and that's why this
20:04
Speaker 1: money was so important this bill. There's another strategic victory,
20:07
Speaker 1: which is every spending bill. The Democrats hold border spending
20:10
Speaker 1: and military spending hostage.
20:12
Speaker 2: Yep. What we've done is funded the things that are
20:14
Speaker 2: critical to keeping this country safe, which means the Democrats
20:17
Speaker 2: can't hold it hostage anymore. So it has there's a
20:20
Speaker 2: tactical advantage going forward on the next budget battle because
20:23
Speaker 2: this one hundred and fifty billion dollars we have appropriated it,
20:26
Speaker 2: it is going out the door, and there's not a
20:28
Speaker 2: damn thing Chuck Schumer or AOC can do to stop it.
20:32
Speaker 1: That is valuable on the psyche aspect of it, because
20:35
Speaker 1: I do think this is one of the things that
20:37
Speaker 1: is I'm witnessing a change our border patrol agents, whether
20:41
Speaker 1: it's Department Home Security, ICE. Yes, their mentality right now
20:45
Speaker 1: has got to be on a high.
20:48
Speaker 2: It is like a drowning man about to die given
20:51
Speaker 2: a life preserver, lifted out, saved. They are able to
20:56
Speaker 2: do their jobs. They're lots like, they're fired up, They're
20:58
Speaker 2: ready to go to wool. They're stopping drug traffickers. Every
21:01
Speaker 2: time I see a border patrol agents or an ICE agent,
21:04
Speaker 2: to be honest, half the time we just hug. I
21:07
Speaker 2: mean the level of their just like, thank god, we
21:09
Speaker 2: got your job. Victory number four repaying the States for
21:15
Speaker 2: border security thirteen and a half billion dollars, over ten
21:19
Speaker 2: billion dollars going to Texas. Texas taxpayers spent over ten
21:22
Speaker 2: billion dollars to secure the border because Joe Biden and
21:25
Speaker 2: the Democrats refused to do so. I help lead the
21:29
Speaker 2: charge to repay the states that is in there. That
21:32
Speaker 2: means Texas is getting over ten billion dollars paid back.
21:35
Speaker 2: That's a huge victory. Victory number four. Victory number five
21:40
Speaker 2: rebuilding the military over one hundred and fifty billion dollars
21:47
Speaker 2: to support our soldiers, our sailors, our airmen, our marines,
21:50
Speaker 2: to build new submarines, to build new next generation fighter jets,
21:55
Speaker 2: to improve our ability to stand up to China, to
21:59
Speaker 2: stand up to our enemies, to combat hypersonics, the next
22:03
Speaker 2: generation of warfare. Look, with the military, often you're fighting
22:06
Speaker 2: the last war. We're going forward. We're going to face
22:10
Speaker 2: ten thousand drone swarms using AI. Investing one hundred and
22:16
Speaker 2: fifty billion dollars to make sure we can defend this nation.
22:19
Speaker 2: There's no responsibility the federal government has that is more important.
22:23
Speaker 2: And by the way, this is the money the Democrats
22:26
Speaker 2: always hold hostage, so we funded it. Right now they
22:29
Speaker 2: can they can no longer touch this hostage because this
22:32
Speaker 2: is done.
22:33
Speaker 3: Huge victory Number six. The coast Guard.
22:38
Speaker 2: Now this is something I'm particularly proud of because as
22:41
Speaker 2: you know, I'm the chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science,
22:43
Speaker 2: and Transportation. The Coastguard is in our jurisdiction. So I
22:47
Speaker 2: wrote the Coast Guard Provision twenty four billion dollars for
22:52
Speaker 2: the Coast Guard. This is the single largest investment in
22:56
Speaker 2: the Coast Guard in the history of the United States
22:58
Speaker 2: of America. To give you a sense of the scope
23:01
Speaker 2: of the order of magnitude, the annual budget of the
23:04
Speaker 2: Coast Guard is about twelve million dollars. We are spending
23:08
Speaker 2: about two hundred percent of the annual budget on the
23:11
Speaker 2: Coastguard in investments. And what are we doing. We're buying
23:15
Speaker 2: new ships, We're buying new helicopters, We're buying new physical infrastructure,
23:19
Speaker 2: and critically, we are investing in ice cutters, in polar
23:22
Speaker 2: ice cutters and Arctic ice cutters. Right now, China is
23:27
Speaker 2: kicking our ass in the Arctic, and the Arctic is
23:30
Speaker 2: critical for national security. Any war ICBMs are going to
23:33
Speaker 2: come over the Arctic. The Arctic is now You've got
23:36
Speaker 2: the United States on the Arctic, You've got China playing
23:39
Speaker 2: on the Arctic, You've got Russia playing on the Arctic,
23:41
Speaker 2: and we are losing this funding will enable us not
23:45
Speaker 2: only to compete, to win. And by the way, a
23:48
Speaker 2: huge theme of everything I do in Congress is beat China,
23:51
Speaker 2: Beat China, Beat China. This investment in the Coastguard is
23:54
Speaker 2: to beat China and the Arctic. But let me tell
23:57
Speaker 2: you a huge America first benefit for this, which is
24:01
Speaker 2: shipbuilding in America has almost entirely disappeared. Yeah, and that's
24:05
Speaker 2: scary from national security symbol, it is very scary. But
24:08
Speaker 2: this Coastguard Bill will bring ship building back to America.
24:13
Speaker 2: You look at Galveston, Texas. There's a huge, multi billion
24:16
Speaker 2: dollar shipyard that is being built and expanded right now
24:20
Speaker 2: to build these ice cutters. And the problem previously is
24:24
Speaker 2: if you're a private company, you couldn't make the multi
24:27
Speaker 2: billion dollar investment because you didn't know where demand was
24:30
Speaker 2: going to come from. Because we have twenty four billion
24:32
Speaker 2: dollars appropriated, there is a multi year stream of buy
24:37
Speaker 2: orders coming from the Coastguard for these ice cutters. That
24:41
Speaker 2: is going to bring back thousands of jobs, good American
24:44
Speaker 2: jobs right here building ships to keep America safe. That
24:48
Speaker 2: is in the bill. I'll tell you when I was
24:50
Speaker 2: in the Hill Country, when I was with the coastguardsmen
24:53
Speaker 2: who were rescuing Texans from the floods, every single coasting
24:58
Speaker 2: every one of them, every man in woman, what knew
25:01
Speaker 2: exactly about this investment in the Coast Guard. They knew
25:04
Speaker 2: it was the biggest in history, and every one of
25:06
Speaker 2: them said, thank you. This will make a massive difference
25:10
Speaker 2: in our ability to do it.
25:11
Speaker 1: I've got a good friend the Coast Guard, and he
25:12
Speaker 1: said to me the other day about this. He said,
25:14
Speaker 1: you know, the Coast Guard, and he's been in for
25:16
Speaker 1: twenty plus years. He said, We've always gotten the hand
25:19
Speaker 1: me downs, we get the leftover equipment and the old equipment.
25:22
Speaker 1: That's a lot of their equipment literally come from surplus
25:25
Speaker 1: from military and other things. He said, this is the
25:27
Speaker 1: first time that we are now like on the cutting
25:30
Speaker 1: edge on our own because of what you just described.
25:33
Speaker 1: He said, not only has morale gone through the roof,
25:35
Speaker 1: we're no longer like the forgotten agency, like we're kind
25:38
Speaker 1: of like, oh, the fifth wheel of military and government.
25:41
Speaker 1: He's like, now we matter and it matters for national security,
25:44
Speaker 1: as he described it. And I think that's a great point.
25:46
Speaker 2: That is absolutely right. And by the way, the Coast
25:48
Speaker 2: Guard also does drug interdiction. It does border security exactly.
25:51
Speaker 2: The Coast Guard is critical for securing our border, and
25:54
Speaker 2: so this investment having those coast Guard cutters to stop
25:57
Speaker 2: drug traffickers, stop human traffickers, and also to engage in
26:01
Speaker 2: search and rescue, which is hugely important. That investment something
26:05
Speaker 2: I care deeply about. And by the way, we're at
26:10
Speaker 2: number six. I told you I'm going to give you twelve. Yeah,
26:13
Speaker 2: major conservative victories in the One Big Beautiful Bill. We're
26:16
Speaker 2: at six. I actually want listeners to pause for a second.
26:19
Speaker 2: How many of you could list the first six before
26:22
Speaker 2: this podcast? And I just want to make the point
26:25
Speaker 2: what kind of job does the corporate media do. I'm
26:27
Speaker 2: willing to bet virtually none of our listeners could have
26:30
Speaker 2: listed those first six because the news hasn't covered. And
26:34
Speaker 2: it's why we do this podcast to give you information
26:38
Speaker 2: so that when you're talking to your friends and your colleagues,
26:40
Speaker 2: you will know what's being accomplished. There's a reason President
26:44
Speaker 2: Trump is so excited about this One Big Beautiful Bill
26:46
Speaker 2: because it is massive, massive victories for America. Number seven,
26:52
Speaker 2: Number seven Spectrum now spectrum? What is spectrum? Electromagnetic spectrum?
26:57
Speaker 2: It is how we communicate. It our cell phones work.
27:00
Speaker 2: It's how Wi Fi works, it's how satellites work, it's
27:03
Speaker 2: how streaming works. It's all of electronics spectrum. The largest
27:08
Speaker 2: holder of spectrum is the United States government. The United
27:11
Speaker 2: States Government has vast swaths of spectrum, and under Joe Biden,
27:16
Speaker 2: the United States Government stop making new spectrum available to
27:19
Speaker 2: the private sector. They ended auction authority. It was grotesquely irresponsible.
27:24
Speaker 2: It did massive damage to America. It destroyed jobs in America,
27:28
Speaker 2: and it let China get ahead of America. In this bill,
27:33
Speaker 2: I wrote the legislation that directs the federal government to
27:37
Speaker 2: auction to the private sector eight hundred megahertz of spectrum
27:42
Speaker 2: for private sector investment. What does that mean? Number One,
27:47
Speaker 2: That will generate in excess of one hundred billion dollars
27:52
Speaker 2: of revenue to the federal government. Wow, real money. Now,
27:55
Speaker 2: even in government terms, one hundred billion dollars is real money.
28:00
Speaker 2: And listen, you and I are deeply concerned about the
28:02
Speaker 2: deficit and the debt. The entire commerce title that I
28:06
Speaker 2: wrote that had historic investments in Coastguard and a bunch
28:09
Speaker 2: of other things, I ended up saving over forty billion dollars,
28:13
Speaker 2: reducing the deficit and the debt by over forty billion dollars.
28:17
Speaker 2: And the driver was because of Spectrum auction authority we
28:20
Speaker 2: brought in. We will bring in one hundred billion dollars
28:23
Speaker 2: to pay down the debt. Credible, that's real money. But
28:26
Speaker 2: it's not the biggest piece of this. The biggest piece
28:29
Speaker 2: of this is by auctioning the Spectrum off, we will
28:33
Speaker 2: open up billions and billions of dollars of private sector investment.
28:37
Speaker 2: The companies that buy this Spectrum are going to invest.
28:40
Speaker 2: It is going to create hundreds of thousands of jobs.
28:44
Speaker 2: That is not an exaggeration, hundreds of thousands of jobs.
28:48
Speaker 2: And you know what spectrum is all about, beating China
28:51
Speaker 2: to six G. I mentioned my consistent theme, beat China.
28:54
Speaker 2: Beat China in the Arctic with the Coastguard, beat China
28:58
Speaker 2: to six G with Spectrum. And I got to tell you,
29:02
Speaker 2: three months ago, there was nobody in Washington who thought
29:07
Speaker 2: we could get this done. I sat in the office
29:09
Speaker 2: of the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, a good
29:12
Speaker 2: friend of mine. I said, Mike, We're gonna do Spectrum
29:15
Speaker 2: on the one big, beautiful bill and Mike laughed in
29:17
Speaker 2: my face.
29:17
Speaker 3: He's a good friend. But yeah, there's no way, he.
29:20
Speaker 2: Said, there's no chance because the Department of Defense and
29:23
Speaker 2: the CIA will fight you, They will stop you. You
29:26
Speaker 2: cannot get it done. We not only got it done
29:29
Speaker 2: when I cut the deal and got it in the bill.
29:31
Speaker 2: President Trump called me the next morning. He said, Ted,
29:35
Speaker 2: this is incredible. This is like, how did you get
29:39
Speaker 2: such an incredible deal? Historic spectrum auction authority producing hundreds
29:45
Speaker 2: of thousands of jobs and beating China to six g
29:49
Speaker 2: that's in the bill. Number eight Air traffic Control. This
29:54
Speaker 2: bill invests twelve and a half billion dollars modernizing our
29:58
Speaker 2: air traffic control. Keep your family safer when you fly,
30:01
Speaker 2: to keep my family safer when we fly. To stop
30:04
Speaker 2: using outdated radars, to stop using computers that have floppy discs,
30:08
Speaker 2: and a little copper wire copper wire, to modernize our
30:12
Speaker 2: air traffic control. A massive investment in keeping the American
30:16
Speaker 2: public safe. This bill. I wrote that portion that is
30:19
Speaker 2: also in the Commerce title. So I wrote that portion
30:21
Speaker 2: that will fund and improve air traffic control. A huge victory.
30:25
Speaker 2: Number nine space, yep, this bill has ten billion dollars
30:31
Speaker 2: for NASA to go to the Moon, for the Artemis program,
30:36
Speaker 2: for the Gateway program to beat China to the moon.
30:40
Speaker 2: China has said they intend to return to the moon
30:42
Speaker 2: by twenty thirty. In my view, if we lose the
30:46
Speaker 2: Moon to China, it would be a catastrophic loss. It
30:50
Speaker 2: would be a loss if we woke up in a
30:52
Speaker 2: few years and China was on the moon and China
30:54
Speaker 2: established a base on the moon, which is what they
30:56
Speaker 2: said they intend to do with the Russians.
30:58
Speaker 1: And they made that very clear. That is the sole
31:00
Speaker 1: intent of going. It's not just to go to the moon.
31:02
Speaker 1: It's to have a base on the moon.
31:04
Speaker 2: Yes, if they did that and we lost, I think
31:07
Speaker 2: it would be worse than Sputnik that it would be
31:11
Speaker 2: a national body blow that would crush this country. And look,
31:15
Speaker 2: the moon is critical number one for national security. The
31:19
Speaker 2: moon is the high ground you look at. So much
31:21
Speaker 2: of our national security and so much of our commerce
31:23
Speaker 2: depends on satellites in orbit around the Earth. The moon
31:27
Speaker 2: gives you the high ground. It is very dangerous for
31:30
Speaker 2: us to see that to China. It is unacceptable for
31:33
Speaker 2: us to see that to China. But number two, there
31:35
Speaker 2: are massive rare minerals on the moon. There are enormous
31:39
Speaker 2: economic advantages. It is current US law that it is
31:44
Speaker 2: the policy of the American government to have a sustained
31:47
Speaker 2: human habitation either on the lunar surface or in cislunar orbit.
31:52
Speaker 2: This investment in beating China to the moon. And by
31:55
Speaker 2: the way, the Moon is a stepping stone to Mars.
31:58
Speaker 2: We will go to Mars, but we haven't landed on
32:01
Speaker 2: a celestial body in over fifty years. So we're gonna
32:03
Speaker 2: land on the Moon first to make sure we know
32:05
Speaker 2: how to do it, and then we're gonna go to Mars.
32:07
Speaker 2: This investment, I wrote this investment in there. I will
32:11
Speaker 2: say there was significant resistance, and without getting too much
32:16
Speaker 2: into the sausage making, we won against the resistance. This
32:21
Speaker 2: is in there. It is a massive investment. Well, yeah,
32:26
Speaker 2: that is exactly right.
32:28
Speaker 3: That's number nine. Number ten.
32:30
Speaker 2: Cafe standards, the standards that mandate you keep having to
32:35
Speaker 2: have higher and higher fuel efficiency on your cars. That's
32:38
Speaker 2: what the Biden administration has used as its tool, as
32:41
Speaker 2: one of its tools to wage the war on the
32:44
Speaker 2: internal combustion engine, to try to force every car to
32:47
Speaker 2: be electric. Is they keep jacking up CAFE standards higher
32:50
Speaker 2: and higher and higher. What does that mean? Number one,
32:52
Speaker 2: it drives up the cost of your cars. You notice
32:54
Speaker 2: cars have gotten a lot more expensive. Trucks have gotten
32:56
Speaker 2: a lot more expensive. Number two, it makes cars less
32:59
Speaker 2: safe because one of the ways you get the gas
33:01
Speaker 2: efficiency hire is you replace metal with plastics. You chl
33:05
Speaker 2: cheap plastic that crumbles it in a crash and more
33:08
Speaker 2: people die. In the commerce section of the oneful, big,
33:12
Speaker 2: beautiful bill, you know what we did to cafe standards?
33:15
Speaker 3: What was that zeroed them out? Really they're gone.
33:18
Speaker 1: So it's actually in this so you're telling me that
33:20
Speaker 1: my car, instead of being all plastic, we have a
33:22
Speaker 1: little finger bade and everything breaks. They can actually go
33:25
Speaker 1: back and say, hey, we're not trying to save weight here,
33:26
Speaker 1: we're trying to actually make safe cars.
33:28
Speaker 2: It can be a great American car again, made a
33:31
Speaker 2: steel tough as hell. And by the way, you want
33:34
Speaker 2: to buy electric car, great, that's your choice. You want
33:36
Speaker 2: to have to hybrid, great, you want to buy a
33:38
Speaker 2: gas car great. It ought to be consumers choosing. And
33:41
Speaker 2: actually the way we did this we very much modeled
33:45
Speaker 2: how in twenty seventeen we repealed the individual mandate on Obamacare.
33:49
Speaker 2: So that was a fight I led in twenty seventeen.
33:51
Speaker 2: The individual mandate. The way we eliminated it is under
33:57
Speaker 2: the rules of reconciliation, we could not eliminate the legal
34:02
Speaker 2: mandate to buy health insurance, which was the individual mandator
34:05
Speaker 2: under Obamacare. So you know what we did. We made
34:07
Speaker 2: the penalty zero. So you used to be the IRS
34:11
Speaker 2: finds you. If you didn't buy health insurance, the IRS
34:13
Speaker 2: would find you. It is still the law. You're required
34:15
Speaker 2: to buy health insurance. Don't you will be fined zero
34:18
Speaker 2: dollars and zero cents. We did the same thing to
34:21
Speaker 2: cafe standards, so they can put their standards out, but
34:23
Speaker 2: the penalty for violating it is zero. And I want
34:27
Speaker 2: to mention, look, this is again like PBS at NPR,
34:32
Speaker 2: this has been a conservative battle for fifty years.
34:36
Speaker 3: And Democrats have been winning for fifty years unfortunately.
34:38
Speaker 2: And we got this done. I wrote this portion, it
34:41
Speaker 2: is in the bill. It is zeroed out, and we
34:44
Speaker 2: got this done. And I'm willing to bet fewer than
34:47
Speaker 2: one percent of our listeners even knew we had done it,
34:51
Speaker 2: because we won so many victories that this falls all
34:54
Speaker 2: the way down to number.
34:55
Speaker 3: Ten on the list. Incredible, well done.
34:57
Speaker 2: The final two, yep, the final two is you now
35:00
Speaker 2: are very near and dear to my heart. Number eleven
35:03
Speaker 2: is school choice. In this bill, we pass the single
35:08
Speaker 2: largest and most consequential federal school choice bill in the
35:11
Speaker 2: history of our country. I wrote this provision. Every single
35:15
Speaker 2: American taxpayer can now contribute up to seventeen hundred dollars
35:19
Speaker 2: a year to a scholarship granting organization in the States
35:23
Speaker 2: and get a dollar for dollar credit on their taxes.
35:26
Speaker 2: It means the money is free. The effect of this
35:30
Speaker 2: is going to be tens of billions of new scholarship
35:33
Speaker 2: money in the States for school choice, for K through
35:38
Speaker 2: twelve school choice. We're going to do a subsequent pod
35:40
Speaker 2: that does a really deep die because.
35:43
Speaker 3: This is part of your legacy. By the way, this
35:45
Speaker 3: is going to be part of your lig.
35:46
Speaker 2: This is the issue I care more about than anything else.
35:49
Speaker 2: I have spent thirty years fighting for it, and we're
35:52
Speaker 2: going to do another pod where we do a very
35:53
Speaker 2: deep die because there's some aspects of this that I
35:56
Speaker 2: want the listeners to appreciate that are both incredible policy
36:00
Speaker 2: victories but also massive political victories. We are creating incentives
36:05
Speaker 2: to turn blue states red, to build constituencies of parents
36:09
Speaker 2: and kids who want fantastic educations. This is I told
36:13
Speaker 2: the President, if and when we get this done, you
36:16
Speaker 2: will go down in history as one of the greatest
36:18
Speaker 2: civil rights presidents in our nation's history. Your critics will
36:21
Speaker 2: never acknowledge that.
36:22
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the reality will be you're going to change
36:24
Speaker 3: poor communities.
36:25
Speaker 2: The reality is the school choice provision is massive, and
36:30
Speaker 2: it's in the bill. And then the final number twelve
36:33
Speaker 2: are the Trump accounts, the invest America accounts. Again, I
36:36
Speaker 2: wrote this provision.
36:37
Speaker 3: This could fundamentally change this country.
36:39
Speaker 2: By the way, starting next year July fourth of next year,
36:43
Speaker 2: the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the United States
36:45
Speaker 2: of America, every child in America will have a personal
36:49
Speaker 2: investment account. Every newborn child will have it seated with
36:52
Speaker 2: one thousand dollars. Parents, family employers can contribute up to
36:58
Speaker 2: five thousand dollars a year in a tax advantage account.
37:02
Speaker 2: All of that money is invested in the S and P.
37:04
Speaker 2: Five hundred is invested in the stock market. That enables
37:07
Speaker 2: every kid to enjoy the incredible benefits of compound growth,
37:12
Speaker 2: which will transform our kids. The wealth creation for the
37:16
Speaker 2: next generation of Americans will be utterly transformative and not
37:20
Speaker 2: only that this creates a new generation of capitalists, as
37:24
Speaker 2: our kids will all be owners of the largest employers
37:27
Speaker 2: in America. These two victories, school choice and personal investment
37:34
Speaker 2: accounts for kids without exaggeration, Ben and I've told the
37:38
Speaker 2: President this. I think ten years, twenty years, thirty years
37:42
Speaker 2: from now, these will be the two things everyone remembers
37:45
Speaker 2: from this bill everything else. I listed one through ten,
37:48
Speaker 2: which are massive that they are conservative victories for the generations.
37:53
Speaker 2: I think eleven and twelve will dwarf one and ten
37:56
Speaker 2: because the difference. We will see trillions of dollars invested
38:01
Speaker 2: in four oh one case for kids in these Trump accounts.
38:04
Speaker 2: That will change the future of every one of our
38:06
Speaker 2: kids and make them all have skin in the game
38:09
Speaker 2: in our capitalist society. And school choice is going to
38:12
Speaker 2: literally provide hope and opportunity to millions of kids. We
38:16
Speaker 2: got both of them done. Those are victories, generational victories,
38:21
Speaker 2: and when the President signed it on July fourth, they
38:24
Speaker 2: were victories for all of America.
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