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LARRY with Larry O'Connor - Federal Agents Search Ilhan Omar’s Home. Her Own Words Come Back to Haunt Her. · Salem Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: You're used to a raid by the feds or DHS
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Speaker 1: or the Justice Department under a Democrat administration where they
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Speaker 1: would give a sneak preview to CNN and CNN would
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Speaker 1: be like right there just by accident when the raid began.
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Speaker 1: That was when the raid was of Donald Trump or
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Speaker 1: a Trump administration or campaign official. Well, this time it
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Speaker 1: was Fox News that got the heads up. I wonder
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Speaker 1: how that happened.
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Speaker 2: This happened a little bit shortly after six o'clock this
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Speaker 2: morning here at Congresswoman Omar's home in Washington, D.C.
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Speaker 1: It's unclear if she's home at this time.
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Speaker 2: It does not appear so because we've been out here
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Speaker 2: for several hours now after this happened. You can see
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Speaker 2: on scene behind me. There are several investigators from Homeland
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Speaker 2: Security Investigations. I'm going to back out of the way.
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Speaker 2: Homeland Security Investigations, they go by HSI. They are on scene.
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Speaker 2: also told that DOJ involved in this investigation. We don't
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Speaker 2: have details, guys, specifically about what the investigation entails, but
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Speaker 2: we can report that it is a federal criminal investigation.
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Speaker 2: I want to read a statement from a DOJ spokesperson.
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Speaker 2: It says, quote, today in the Washington, D.C. area, Homeland
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Speaker 2: Security Investigations executed a judicially authorized search warrant and secured
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Speaker 2: by the Department of Justice. This enforcement action is part
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Speaker 2: of an ongoing federal criminal investigation. Again, we are out
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Speaker 2: here at the congresswoman's home in Washington, D.C. No public
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Speaker 2: comments from her at this time, but agents have been
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Speaker 2: out here for several hours, fairly quiet on the street
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Speaker 2: today on this Columbus Day here in Washington, D.C. A
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Speaker 2: couple of agents outside going in and out of the home,
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Speaker 2: but not a real strong presence But still no comment
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Speaker 2: from the congresswoman at this time. But we can confirm
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Speaker 2: she is under federal criminal investigation. I do want to
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Speaker 2: add one more thing, if I can, guys. A judge
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Speaker 2: did have to sign off on this search warrant. This
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Speaker 2: is not something DOJ or Homeland Security could just do
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Speaker 2: ad hoc. This is something a federal judge would have
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Speaker 2: had to sign off on for them behind me to
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Speaker 2: be here today.
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Speaker 3: So, David, we are reaching out to our sources. One
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Speaker 3: of our sources is telling us this is in connection
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Speaker 3: with a RICO investigation. My question is, since they've raided
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Speaker 3: the D.C. home, is Minnesota being raided at the same
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Speaker 3: time right now or do we know?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we have no information on Minnesota. It's a question
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Speaker 2: we've asked nothing at this time. We obviously know she
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Speaker 2: lives in Minnesota. She may presumably be there right now.
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Speaker 2: That could be part of the investigation. But as far
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Speaker 2: as the D.C. angle of this, we just know the D.C.
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Speaker 2: home right now is part of this investigation.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. And what's amazing to me about this entire
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Speaker 1: story is that, you know, people like, well, what could
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Speaker 1: this be? And the fact is, it could be a
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Speaker 1: whole lot of different things. Because Ilhan Omar is up
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Speaker 1: to her eyebrows in a whole lot of criminal allegations, right?
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Speaker 1: This could be about the missing $ 30 million or whatever
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Speaker 1: the dollar amount was that she claimed as money that
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Speaker 1: she had made in the prior year. And then she
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Speaker 1: resubmitted her financials and, oh, no, we didn't make anybody actually.
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Speaker 1: And the winery that we were making money off of
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Speaker 1: is now just an empty storefront and We've never heard
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Speaker 1: of Ilhan Omar and all of that jazz. This could
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Speaker 1: also be, of course, about Mark Wayne Mullen just a
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Speaker 1: month ago in Dallas telling our friend Betty Johnson that,
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Speaker 1: and I'm quoting Mark Wayne Mullen now, we know she
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Speaker 1: married her brother for immigration purposes. Now, that would explain
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Speaker 1: why Homeland Security is there, right? So it could be that.
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Speaker 1: It could be that. But then we heard it's a
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Speaker 1: RICO investigation, according to Lawrence Jacobs there on the curvy couch.
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Speaker 1: And maybe it's because There are connections between Ilhan Omar
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Speaker 1: and Feeding Our Future, that Somali-American front group. of people
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Speaker 1: who were defrauding the federal government for tons of money.
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Speaker 1: We've already got the leader who had connections to Ilhan
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Speaker 1: Omar going to jail for all of that fraud. And
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Speaker 1: there are suggestions that money from that fraudulent activity went
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Speaker 1: back to Somalia to terror groups. Maybe that's what's going
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Speaker 1: on here. That's the thing. I mean, pick your poison.
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Speaker 1: It could be a ton of different things going on here.
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Speaker 1: Why wasn't Ilhan Omar there? Well, of course, because she's
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Speaker 1: He's celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day today. So you couldn't expect
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Speaker 1: her to show up in D.C. Here's one of the
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Speaker 1: investigators there. Fox Digital started talking to him outside Ilhan
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Speaker 1: Omar's house. It seems to be a lot of police
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Speaker 1: activity here. Can you let me know what's going on? No,
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Speaker 1: just police activity. There won't be too much.
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Speaker 3: Are you from the neighborhood?
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 4: I'm just trying to walk up the street.
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Speaker 1: Do you live in the neighborhood? I'm visiting a friend
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Speaker 1: over there.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Well, I would suggest.
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Speaker 3: You mean you're visiting a friend right now?
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Speaker 1: Yes. Is there a reason you're videotaping me?
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Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 1: I just want to know what's going on.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Police activity.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But this is... What does HSI stand for? Homeland Security.
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Speaker 1: So is this a raid? Like an illegal immigration raid?
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Speaker 8: No.
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Speaker 1: It's not, but I just told you it's police activity.
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Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 1: I've asked you three times. I'd appreciate it if you'd
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Speaker 1: bring the camera down. I can't stop you. There's a
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Speaker 1: congresswoman who rents or lives a house. Her name's Congresswoman
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Speaker 1: Ilhan Omar. Are you guys raiding her house? I'm not
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Speaker 1: going to discuss anything. All right.
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Speaker 9: Thank you, sir.
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Speaker 10: You have a good day.
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Speaker 1: You too. By the way, I don't know if that's
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Speaker 1: a Fox Digital cameraman or if they obtained that video
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Speaker 1: from Fox Digital, although I do want to show you
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Speaker 1: this part. I don't know if you caught it or not,
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Speaker 1: as they were showing the sidewalk where this took place.
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Speaker 1: You'll see the sign there out in front of either
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Speaker 1: This could be a list of 10 different things that
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Speaker 1: they're investigating over there. One never knows. What's shocking to
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Speaker 1: me is over on one of the other cable networks,
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Speaker 1: I think they call themselves CNN, although I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: what that middle N stands for. It's not news, that's
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Speaker 1: for sure. They seem to have the sads over this story.
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Speaker 5: So some breaking news coming in as we speak. Learning
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Speaker 5: that federal officers have conducted a search and did so
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Speaker 5: early today at the home of Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
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Speaker 5: CNN's Caitlin Polance is gathering the details on this for
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Speaker 5: us and joins us now. Caitlin, what are you learning?
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Speaker 11: Kate, we're learning bits and pieces of what's happening here,
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Speaker 11: but there is a search that was going on this
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Speaker 11: morning or is going on still at the home of
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Speaker 11: Ilhan Omar, the Democratic representative from Minnesota, who is also
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Speaker 11: running again for Congress in the middle of this election season.
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Speaker 11: This would be her D.C. area home. And the confirmation
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Speaker 11: we've gotten of this is from the Justice Department itself,
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Speaker 11: them saying that the Justice Department secured a court authorized
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Speaker 11: search warrant and that Homeland Security investigators would be the
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Speaker 11: agency that is conducting this search this morning. We don't
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Speaker 11: have much more indication on exactly what this is, but
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Speaker 11: it appears to be some level of an immigration investigation,
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Speaker 11: given that it's Homeland Security doing this, and also some
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Speaker 11: of the statements that are coming out out of the
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Speaker 11: White House, specifically by White House border czar Tom Homan.
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Speaker 11: Here he is speaking to Fox News when asked about
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Speaker 11: Representative Ilhan Omar.
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Speaker 1: Can you tell sort of how they're covering this like
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Speaker 1: there's a funeral going on? By the way, this doesn't
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Speaker 1: have to be immigration. Homeland Security covers a whole lot
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Speaker 1: of stuff. Yes, immigration is a big part of what
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Speaker 1: Homeland Security investigates, but Homeland Security also investigates terror links,
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Speaker 1: don't they? Any kind of terrorist activity would fall under
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Speaker 1: the auspices of Homeland Security. But I just want you
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Speaker 1: to the sort of judgy tone in all of this
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Speaker 1: about an early morning raid on a political figure. This
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Speaker 1: is practically unheard of. Well, CNN used to get the
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Speaker 1: phone call for ride alongs when it was Roger Stone's
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Speaker 1: house or when it was the Mar-a-Lago raid down in
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Speaker 1: Florida of President Trump's home. So the FBI could rifle
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Speaker 1: through his wife's underwear drawer. Then CNN was all over it.
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Speaker 1: It was stop the presses is the greatest thing that's
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Speaker 1: ever happened. Now it's one of their team and they've
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Speaker 1: got a problem with it. Look at the face. Look
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Speaker 1: at the face. Look at the anger. Look at the disappointment.
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Speaker 1: Look at the frustration. Look at the pearl clutching. Look
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Speaker 1: at those fabulous red glasses. Should I get some of those?
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Speaker 1: I think I might.
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Speaker 12: Well, I'm not going to get ahead of Todd Blanch
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Speaker 12: on this or Secretary Mullen, but we know this investigation
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Speaker 12: was ongoing for a while. There was a warrant executed
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Speaker 12: this morning. So I'll leave it at that. It's specific
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Speaker 12: to the investigation. I think I need to turn that
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Speaker 12: over to Todd Blanch or Mark Blanch and Mullen. I
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Speaker 12: don't want to get ahead of them commenting on an
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Speaker 12: ongoing investigation.
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Speaker 11: Now, there have been allegations from Republicans and including from
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Speaker 11: Tom Homan, the White House borders are, that there could
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Speaker 11: be some level of immigration fraud. We don't have any
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Speaker 11: of that substantiated at this time, and there haven't been
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Speaker 11: any criminal charges or other immigration enforcement actions against Representative Omar.
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Speaker 11: So this is an ongoing situation, and we're still seeing
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Speaker 11: exactly what would come But it is quite notable. It's
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Speaker 11: in the middle of an election season and that this
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Speaker 11: is a sitting member of Congress running for reelection.
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Speaker 1: Oh, it's in the middle of election season. That's just precious,
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Speaker 1: isn't it? Yeah, it's a Homeland Security situation and they
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Speaker 1: have reason to believe that the judge has reason to
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Speaker 1: believe that there's enough evidence to to justify a warrant
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Speaker 1: to search the home because of a Homeland Security issue.
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Speaker 1: But we might want to put it on hold for
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Speaker 1: another month and handle it after the election, by the way.
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Speaker 1: Imagine if that were the case. Let's just think this
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Speaker 1: through for a moment. Imagine they had the evidence of
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Speaker 1: a potential crime. Imagine that they had a judge that
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Speaker 1: signed off on a warrant to say, yeah, you should
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Speaker 1: probably raid the home. And instead of actually executing that
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Speaker 1: search warrant now, they said, oh, but wait, there's an
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Speaker 1: election coming up. So let's hold off and not do
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Speaker 1: anything until after the election. Well, if you're a voter
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Speaker 1: in Minnesota, how would you feel if you found out
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Speaker 1: after Election Day that that your congresswoman has just had
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Speaker 1: her home raided and they had evidence, you know, good
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Speaker 1: four weeks ago, but they didn't do anything about it
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Speaker 1: because they didn't want to affect the election. No, actually,
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Speaker 1: maybe maybe the sort of thing that you should know
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Speaker 1: about before you have an election. Oh, and by the way,
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Speaker 1: all the pearl clutching and the shaming that's going on
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Speaker 1: here about this outrageously politicized Trump administration doing a raid
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Speaker 1: on the home of Ilhan Omar, one of 435 members
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Speaker 1: of Congress just a few weeks before the election. Remember
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Speaker 1: when I just mentioned the Mar-a-Lago raid, the raid of
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Speaker 1: a former president in his home, unprecedented, never happened before.
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Speaker 1: Early dawn before sunrise with cars and sirens and the
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Speaker 1: photos that were put out that showed erroneously that he
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Speaker 1: had top secret national security documents that he had stolen
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Speaker 1: from the White House. And he was colluding with the
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Speaker 1: Saudis to sell them nuclear secrets. Remember all of that?
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Speaker 1: That happened 92 days before the election of 2022.
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Speaker 7: Oh, a.
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Speaker 1: Midterm election where Republicans were doing really well and everyone
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Speaker 1: thought we'd have a red wave and sweep in and
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Speaker 1: get majorities in the House and the Senate. And I mean,
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Speaker 1: Republicans did win the House. They didn't win the Senate.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't nearly as good an election as they were
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Speaker 1: hoping it would be. And I don't know, maybe that
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Speaker 1: Mar-a-Lago raid 92 days before the election may have changed
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Speaker 1: things there. Please give me a break, CNN. Meanwhile, over
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Speaker 1: on MSNOW, they're really, really, really, really upset about this.
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Speaker 1: Although strangely, they're actually fairer in their reporting in certain
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Speaker 1: respects than CNN was.
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Speaker 9: In this hour with breaking news that we've been following,
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Speaker 9: we're learning federal agents searched the Washington, D.C. area home
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Speaker 9: of Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar earlier this morning. The Department
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Speaker 9: of Justice said in a statement that that the search
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Speaker 9: was part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation. Let's bring
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Speaker 9: in MSNOW's Ken Delanian, who has been following this story
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Speaker 9: for us. Ken, what more do we know at this
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Speaker 9: point in the morning?
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Speaker 1: Good morning, Ariel.
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Speaker 4: As you mentioned, the Justice Department is confirming that this
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Speaker 4: search was pursuant to a court order. So that means
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Speaker 4: that the Department of Homeland Security, which carried out the search,
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Speaker 4: had to present evidence to a judge suggesting that there
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Speaker 4: was evidence of a crime at this location at Representative
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Speaker 4: Omar's home in Washington, D.C., or at least that there
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Speaker 4: was probable cause to believe that there was such evidence.
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Speaker 4: And so the agents came in and they searched the
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Speaker 4: home as we understand it. Now, we've not been able
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Speaker 4: to get any details on what exactly this criminal investigation
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Speaker 4: is about. Other outlets are reporting that investigators are examining
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Speaker 4: paperwork pursuant to Omar's citizenship. She acquired citizenship in 2000.
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Speaker 4: And one of the questions it's been reported that investigators
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Speaker 4: are examining is, is whether she was 18 at the
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Speaker 4: time that that happened, because the law would be different
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Speaker 4: whether she was a child or whether she was 18.
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Speaker 4: That seems like it would be an issue easily cleared up.
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Speaker 4: But nonetheless, you know, these federal agents are coming. We're
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Speaker 4: combing through her personal property in a very, very intrusive search. Obviously,
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Speaker 4: this raises a lot of questions because Representative Omar is
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Speaker 4: a longstanding opponent of President Trump. has been targeted on
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Speaker 4: the right for a long period of time. She's a
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Speaker 4: sitting member of Congress with certain privileges around the speech
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Speaker 4: and debate clause. So there's a lot we don't know here.
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Speaker 4: A lot of questions have been raised. What we do
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Speaker 4: know is the Justice Department is saying that this was
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Speaker 4: a search pursuant to a court order.
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Speaker 1: Oh, the search and the speech and debate clause. Now
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Speaker 1: they're worried about the speech and debate clause and the
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Speaker 1: executive branch infringing on the legislative branch's power under the
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Speaker 1: speech and debate clause. Hey, can we get the MSNOW
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Speaker 1: report online? on Jack Smith getting warrants and intruding on
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Speaker 1: the phone calls and text messages of sitting members of
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Speaker 1: Congress during his investigation over January 6th and Donald Trump,
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Speaker 1: because that may have been an infringement on the speech
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Speaker 1: and debate clause. Did MSNOW cover that? No, did they not? Okay.
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Speaker 1: Did you notice also nowhere in that report were the
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Speaker 1: other speculative concerns that we may have here? over Ilhan
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Speaker 1: Omar's marriage to her brother that has already been widely
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Speaker 1: reported by Mark Wayne Mullen, the actual secretary of the
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Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Security, that they know for a fact
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Speaker 1: that she did, in fact, marry her brother, which, you know,
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Speaker 1: would kind of make her eligible for deportation and denaturalization.
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Speaker 1: No mention of that. See, the MSNOW audience never hears
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Speaker 1: stuff like this. And so when it actually comes up, well, then,
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Speaker 1: because MSNOW has never reported on those facts, then their
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Speaker 1: audience thinks that it's just a right-wing conspiracy.
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Speaker 9: Can you just remind us of the history between Ilhan
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Speaker 9: Omar and President Trump and the larger Republican Party?
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Speaker 1: Sure.
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Speaker 7: It's not an uplifting history. The president has been very
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Speaker 7: critical of Omar, along with her fellow, quote-unquote, squad members.
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Speaker 1: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. The president hasn't been very
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Speaker 1: nice to Ilhan Omar and the squad. I'm sorry. Have
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Speaker 1: they been super supportive and complimentary of the president? By
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Speaker 1: the way, what is quote unquote squad? They call themselves
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Speaker 1: the squad. Seriously, Reuters? This is how well we're just
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Speaker 1: here to report the facts. And here's how the story begins.
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Speaker 1: Trump's been really mean to Ilhan Omar. I don't think
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Speaker 1: she's been super nice to Donald Trump, but I guess
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Speaker 1: it all depends on how you want to frame this story. Oh,
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Speaker 1: but please continue, Jeff Mason. By the way, now he's Bloomberg.
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Speaker 1: I think he used to be Reuters. He was also
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Speaker 1: the president of the White House Correspondents Association for many years.
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Speaker 6: So.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, over the years, starting during his first term and
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Speaker 7: has often disparaged her and disparaged her representation from Minnesota.
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Speaker 7: And I think that gives me an opportunity to mention
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Speaker 7: again that Ken was just talking about immigration and paperwork
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Speaker 7: going back to when she was a child. that have
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Speaker 7: stirred up conspiracies in right-wing circles. But let's not forget
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Speaker 7: that this is a sitting member of Congress. So that
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Speaker 7: underscores how significant this is in a moment when we
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Speaker 7: don't have a whole lot of facts. I think it's
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Speaker 7: important to note, again, that she was an elected congresswoman
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Speaker 7: from the state of Minnesota by her district, who the
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Speaker 7: president has clearly had as a target for some time.
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Speaker 1: Amazing. Thank you, Newsbusters, for the clip. So there you go.
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Speaker 1: Boys and girls, if you ever get elected to Congress,
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Speaker 1: all you have to do is be a vehement opponent
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Speaker 1: to whomever the president of the United States is, and
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Speaker 1: then you get a get out of jail free card.
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Speaker 1: If there's ever a crime that you've committed and the
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Speaker 1: Justice Department comes and authorizes a search warrant and they
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Speaker 1: get a judge to actually sign off on that warrant
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Speaker 1: and they go into your home to look for evidence
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Speaker 1: that you've broken the law, as long as you've been
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Speaker 1: a critic of the sitting president, MS Now is going
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Speaker 1: to give you a free pass. They're going to say, well,
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Speaker 1: I mean, listen, obviously this is just a political. Here's
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Speaker 1: the thing. They just assume that Donald Trump and and
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Speaker 1: and his administration use the law and use the Justice Department,
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Speaker 1: FBI and DHS in the same brazen political way that
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden did. And of course, they shrugged it off
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Speaker 1: when Joe Biden did it or when Merrick Garland did it,
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Speaker 1: because that's just justice, man. They're just following the law.
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Speaker 1: Funny how that works, isn't it? By the way, not uncoincidentally,
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Speaker 1: President Trump just recently was at a rally in Tennessee
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Speaker 1: and the subject of Ilhan Omar came up.
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Speaker 10: She comes from Somalia. She comes from Somalia. They don't
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Speaker 10: have a government. They don't have police.
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Speaker 1: All they have is crime and squalor.
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Speaker 6: And she comes into our country and she says, my
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Speaker 6: constitution allows me. She's talking about our constitution. What they've
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Speaker 6: done to Minnesota, these people from Somalia, what they've done
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Speaker 6: to Minnesota should never be allowed.
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Speaker 1: And let's see what happens.
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Speaker 12: J.D.
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Speaker 6: Vance and our people are looking at it.
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Speaker 1: I love how he pronounces Somalia. Somalia. Somalia. So that
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Speaker 1: was just this weekend in Tennessee at a rally. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: by the way, this just in, and I do mean literally,
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Speaker 1: like right when we went on the air, Ilhan Omar,
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Speaker 1: perhaps you've heard of her. She put out a statement
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Speaker 1: about this raid. Here's her official statement, dropped about 20
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Speaker 1: minutes ago. I'm okay. Well, no one was worried about whether,
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Speaker 1: what do you mean you're okay? Were you in danger?
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Speaker 1: Did people think that you were in danger, that something
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Speaker 1: had happened? I'm okay. Make no mistake. This is an
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Speaker 1: attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement.
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Speaker 1: For 10 years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies
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Speaker 1: and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in
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Speaker 1: his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced. Well,
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Speaker 1: that's a fascinating statement that she's put on her social
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Speaker 1: media platform. because it's a far cry from this statement
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Speaker 1: she put out back in 23. Our democracy rests on
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Speaker 1: the rule of law when someone, no matter how powerful
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Speaker 1: they are, is suspected of a criminal act. Our justice
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Speaker 1: system investigates charges and convicts them in accordance with due process.
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Speaker 1: I think that was when President Trump was indicted by
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Speaker 1: Letitia James up in New York for a completely bogus charge,
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Speaker 1: as you know. So that's what she said then. When someone,
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Speaker 1: no matter how powerful they are, is suspected of a
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Speaker 1: criminal act, our justice system investigates. Well, how does that
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Speaker 1: match with today's statement after she's now being investigated? This
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Speaker 1: is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal
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Speaker 1: law enforcement. But it's hard for me to make sense
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Speaker 1: of this because it's almost like she has two different
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Speaker 1: standards and two different rules for herself and for Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump or Republicans.
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 1: But the other thing that's strange about all of this,
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Speaker 1: that she's upset. that she's being investigated and that a
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Speaker 1: judge has signed off on a warrant to search her
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Speaker 1: home for potential crimes that she may or may not
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Speaker 1: be involved with through Department of Homeland Security, be it
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Speaker 1: immigration or RICO or national security or fraud or what
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Speaker 1: have you. What's confusing to me is that just recently
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Speaker 1: I heard a woman who looks and sounds very much
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Speaker 1: like Ilhan Omar say this.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: No, I mean, I listen. Suggest all you want. Please
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Speaker 8: investigate all you want.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 8: Like to me, I'm not I'm not like I'm above
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Speaker 8: the law. And how dare you? You know, like I
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Speaker 8: understand politics. I understand what these people have to do
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Speaker 8: in order to like feed their base.
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Speaker 1: There you go. Investigate me all you want, she said.
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Speaker 1: Wish granted. Congratulations, you're being investigated, but not all we want. Surely,
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Speaker 1: trust me, there's a whole lot more that we want
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Speaker 1: here when it comes to investigations. But it's something, at least,
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Speaker 1: and it's strange now to hear her complaining about it
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Speaker 1: and expressing outrage, isn't it? Investigate me all you want.
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Speaker 1: By the way, as we've been covering the Ilhan Omar
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Speaker 1: story and the Minnesota fraud story that Nick Shirley uncovered
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Speaker 1: and the recent Confirmation from Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne
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Speaker 1: Mullen that we know she married her brother, dot, dot, dot.
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Speaker 1: And there's an investigation ongoing. I'm not immune to the
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Speaker 1: fact that in our live chat and in the comments section,
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Speaker 1: we often see people express their frustration, and I feel
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Speaker 1: your frustration, saying, do something. They're not going to do anything.
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Speaker 1: Nothing will ever happen. Nobody ever does anything. We know
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Speaker 1: that they break the law and they never actually have
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Speaker 1: to pay the price or penalty. Why don't we actually investigate?
23:36
Speaker 1: Why don't we do anything? Stop with just having committee
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Speaker 1: hearings and do something. Stop with just giving interviews and
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Speaker 1: saying things and do something. Well, today... To coin a phrase,
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Speaker 1: some people did something. And it feels good. Let's see
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Speaker 1: where it goes.