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Omar's Missing Week Ends with a Cash Call · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 1: They cited a financial disclosure for Congress that initially said
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  Speaker 1: that your husband's firm was worth $ 30 million. That was
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  Speaker 1: before an accountant put in the liabilities of that firm,
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  Speaker 1: which then brought the $ 30 million down to like essentially
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  Speaker 1: net zero.
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  Speaker 2: $ 20, 000.
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  Speaker 1: Which did make me worry a little about your husband's business.
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  Speaker 2: To be honest.
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  Speaker 3: She's not in them anymore. She's not in them anymore.
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  Speaker 3: She's not in them anymore.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 5: Good Thursday morning. So nice to have you with us
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  Speaker 5: on the 47 Morning Update. And my oh my, do
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  Speaker 5: we have an update for you on Elam Omar. She's
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  Speaker 5: come out of hiding and she's taking swings at President
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  Speaker 5: Donald Trump, even putting out a TikTok video begging for
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  Speaker 5: donations and then sat down for what I could only
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  Speaker 5: describe as a fake interview with MSNOW. trying to help
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  Speaker 5: her explain all of her problems away. So what did
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  Speaker 5: she say? We've got it all for you. Before we
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  Speaker 6: It's the 47 Morning Update, and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 5: So, Ilham Omar has been in hiding. This after there
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  Speaker 5: is a serious investigation, and then them actually coming into
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  Speaker 5: her house, raiding it, and taking things afterwards. She disappeared
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  Speaker 5: for a week. Where in the world is Ilham Omar?
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  Speaker 5: That's a game that could have been played over the
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  Speaker 5: last seven days. She has now resurfaced.
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  Speaker 3: And.
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  Speaker 6: This time, she has a simple message. I'm not joking.
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  Speaker 6: Send money! That's right.
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  Speaker 5: With federal investigators examining allegations of immigration fraud.
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  Speaker 6: After agents raided her D.C.
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  Speaker 5: Home, seized electronic devices and her passport.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, they got her passport. And questioned members of her family.
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  Speaker 5: Omar is now saying, please, can you just send money? Now,
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  Speaker 5: before I give you her response, as she's come out
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  Speaker 5: of hiding, she put it on TikTok and then did
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  Speaker 5: an interview. You need to understand just how serious the
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  Speaker 5: investigation has become even over the last 12 hours, all right?
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  Speaker 6: So I'm going to go back to October the 12th.
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  Speaker 5: Six o'clock in the morning, federal agents from Homeland Security
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  Speaker 5: investigations arrived at Omar's Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 6: Residence.
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  Speaker 5: They were executing a search warrant authorized by a federal judge. Now,
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  Speaker 5: this wasn't some routine paperwork request. Investigators seized electronic devices,
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  Speaker 5: then documents, her personal cell phone, and her passport. Now,
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  Speaker 5: the Justice Department confirmed that the search was connected to
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  Speaker 5: an ongoing federal criminal investigation. Now, what were they investigating?
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  Speaker 5: We now know a lot more about that. According to
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  Speaker 5: reports that have been widely circulated by CNN, CBS News,
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  Speaker 5: Washington Post, they're all now saying the same thing. Federal
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  Speaker 5: investigators are examining whether Omar or her late father provided
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  Speaker 5: false information on immigration and citizenship paperwork dating back decades.
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  Speaker 5: That's number one. Now, specifically, we're now learning investigators are
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  Speaker 5: looking at whether her age was accurately reported when her
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  Speaker 5: father became a naturalized American citizen in 2000. Now, you
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  Speaker 5: may say, all right, why does that matter? Well, because
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  Speaker 5: under the citizenship laws that were applicable at the time,
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  Speaker 5: a child could automatically acquire citizenship. through a naturalized parent
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  Speaker 5: if certain requirements were satisfied. Well, investigators are now examining
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  Speaker 5: whether Omar actually did qualify. And if federal prosecutors can
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  Speaker 5: establish that material information was deliberately falsified, then there's real
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  Speaker 5: legal consequences. And that's the other important part about this investigation. Now,
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  Speaker 5: the second part of this investigation is also what we're
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  Speaker 5: learning a lot more about right now. The investigation is
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  Speaker 5: now reaching into her family. And that is where this story,
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  Speaker 5: and honestly, just kind of blew up. Like, it got bigger.
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  Speaker 5: According to CBS News, multiple members of Omar's family have
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  Speaker 5: received federal grand jury subpoenas. And now we know that
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  Speaker 5: her older sister has been interviewed also by federal investigators.
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  Speaker 5: Fox News even reported that Noor, the sister, voluntarily spoke
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  Speaker 5: with investigators following the raid. Now, you've got to think
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  Speaker 5: about that. You've got federal agents. They are no longer
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  Speaker 5: simply reviewing old immigration records. They're now questioning family members
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  Speaker 5: who may have knowledge of the circumstances surrounding Omar's immigration history.
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  Speaker 5: There's also another development as well. Omar's sister was scheduled
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  Speaker 5: to appear at a book event in Minnesota on October
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  Speaker 5: the 15th. That appearance was canceled with organizers citing a, quote,
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  Speaker 5: family emergency. Now, the cancellation also came during the same
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  Speaker 5: week that the investigators were questioning members of the family. Now,
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  Speaker 5: that is obviously important news. Now, there's also another claim,
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  Speaker 5: and this allegation has actually followed Ilham Omar for years,
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  Speaker 5: and that claim is that she married her brother as
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  Speaker 5: part of an immigration scheme. Now, Omar has repeatedly denied
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  Speaker 5: that allegation, and she said that it is not established
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  Speaker 5: with any type of facts at all. Well, That brings
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  Speaker 5: us to where we are today. And that is where
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  Speaker 5: did she actually go? Why did she disappear for a week? Well,
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  Speaker 5: she's come out of hiding and she decided to do
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  Speaker 5: a TikTok video. And here's what Omar said.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone, Ilhan here.
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  Speaker 8: I just wanted to say thank you so much for
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  Speaker 8: the support to everyone who sent a note of support
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  Speaker 8: for everyone who sent $ 5, $ 10, $ 20 support. That goes
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  Speaker 8: a long way as we fight Trump and his administration
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  Speaker 8: for trying to intimidate me and so many people right
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  Speaker 8: before the midterm elections. We know that they're running scared.
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  Speaker 8: We're not going to be intimidated. We're not going to
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  Speaker 8: be silenced. We're not going to be scared. I'll be
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  Speaker 8: out there campaigning alongside all of you and making sure
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  Speaker 8: that we beat back all of this and that we
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  Speaker 8: win in the midterms, win the House, win the Senate,
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  Speaker 8: and hold this administration accountable. Thank you so much again.
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  Speaker 3: And please continue to support us.
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  Speaker 8: It is going to be a very expensive and challenging time.
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  Speaker 8: And so we appreciate whether you're able to send 5, 10, 20.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: There it is.
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  Speaker 5: Elam for Congress. She puts it out there. It's going
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  Speaker 5: to be very challenging. It's going to be a challenging time. Now,
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  Speaker 5: you notice that she was a little bit more meek
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  Speaker 5: and mild. She used her bread and butter that Donald
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  Speaker 5: Trump is evil, even though Donald Trump has said from
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  Speaker 5: the very beginning one thing. We're going to cut down
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  Speaker 5: on waste, fraud, that would apply to her, and abuse.
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  Speaker 5: That would also apply to Olam Omar. She was also
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  Speaker 5: asked one other question in an interview about the rumors
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  Speaker 5: of her marrying her brother. and in MS Now, the
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  Speaker 5: liberal network, and I want you to hear what she
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  Speaker 5: said in the interview about that.
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  Speaker 3: It started with a Somali blog that I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if it still exists, but somebody put in there that
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  Speaker 3: he had to have been my brother or something to
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  Speaker 3: that effect. And right-wing conspiracy theorists in Minneapolis got a
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  Speaker 3: hold of it, and they just kind of went and
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  Speaker 3: found random people who were like, she introduced us. She
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  Speaker 3: introduced him to us and said he was her brother,
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  Speaker 3: which is... you know, insane. I mean, no, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know those people that they talk about.
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  Speaker 2: He was not, you were not related to him. Not
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  Speaker 2: that there's not like, there's.
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  Speaker 1: Not some weird kernel of truth that through some game,
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  Speaker 1: not to my knowledge.
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  Speaker 5: Not to my knowledge. That's your new line of excuse. Again,
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  Speaker 5: this is the law. Omar sitting down with a friendly saying,
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  Speaker 5: not to my knowledge. Am I related to this guy
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  Speaker 5: who people say is my brother who I married? Now,
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  Speaker 5: there's also another part of this investigation that we're learning about,
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  Speaker 5: and it involves the family's finances. CBS News has also
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  Speaker 5: reported that federal prosecutors are examining the financial disclosures involving
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  Speaker 5: businesses operated by Omar's husband. Those disclosures initially reported business
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  Speaker 5: valuations totaling between $ 6 million and $ 30 million. Omar subsequently
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  Speaker 5: attributed the figures to an accounting error and then filed
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  Speaker 5: amended disclosures reporting substantially lower asset values. Federal authorities are
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  Speaker 5: examining those discrepancies. And a discrepancy in a financial disclosure
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  Speaker 5: does not, by the way, automatically mean somebody committed a crime.
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  Speaker 5: But what prosecutors are looking into is what happened and
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  Speaker 5: whether any laws were violated and there was this much money.
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  Speaker 5: Where did it actually go? Now, these are all questions
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  Speaker 5: that she should have to answer. She was asked about
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  Speaker 5: her money and she wants you to believe now that
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  Speaker 5: she's not rich. She's working class and lives a very
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  Speaker 5: basic life.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask about the second part of the world
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  Speaker 1: that the president has conjured about you, which is which
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  Speaker 1: is your fabulous wealth.
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  Speaker 2: He has said that, like, I mean, again, you.
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  Speaker 1: Can never track what the president's actually saying because he
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  Speaker 1: says a lot of things, that you have all this money,
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  Speaker 1: that you drive a lot of cars, you have a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of houses. They cited a financial disclosure for Congress
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  Speaker 1: that initially said that your husband's firm was worth $ 30 million.
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  Speaker 1: That was before an accountant put in the liabilities of
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  Speaker 1: that firm, which then brought the $ 30 million down to, like,
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  Speaker 1: essentially net zero, $ 20, 000, which did make me worry a
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  Speaker 1: little about your husband's business, to be honest.
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  Speaker 3: He's not in them anymore.
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  Speaker 9: I was like, well, that seems like a big difference
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  Speaker 9: between $ 30 million and $ 20, 000. There was a congressional oversight
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  Speaker 9: body that voted that there was no wrongdoing, there was
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  Speaker 9: no evidence of wrongdoing.
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  Speaker 2: What is your financial situation?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's, you know, working class, I guess, like
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  Speaker 3: paycheck to paycheck still. You know, we've got four kids, and.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we live, I think, like a basic life.
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  Speaker 3: I have a Toyota Camry that's from 2016. It's my
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  Speaker 3: only car. I rent my D.C. place and my Minneapolis place.
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  Speaker 3: And so, I mean, I don't know if that sounds like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, not majority of Congress, but there's some of
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  Speaker 3: us that don't come from wealth and don't have wealth.
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  Speaker 2: Is that a big divide in Congress?
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  Speaker 3: It is. Yeah, because you have, like, the millionaires and...
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  Speaker 3: And then you have those of us, you know, when
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  Speaker 3: we first went to Congress, had to borrow money to
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  Speaker 3: find a place to sleep.
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  Speaker 2: It's expensive, actually, to live in two places.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: It's expensive, you know, to live in two places.
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  Speaker 5: When you listen to that interview, you almost have to
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  Speaker 5: ask yourself this question. Is it even an interview or
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  Speaker 5: is it just straight up propaganda? There's not a tough
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  Speaker 5: question there. He's apologizing on her behalf, making it easier
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  Speaker 5: for her to answer the questions. Those aren't hard questions.
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  Speaker 5: It's like, well, you know, they said you didn't do
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  Speaker 5: anything wrong. So, you know, let's just make sure that
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  Speaker 5: everybody knows that you're totally fine. And hey, who cares
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  Speaker 5: if $ 6 million or $ 15 million or $ 20 or $ 30
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  Speaker 5: million in fact disappeared and that you changed it? How
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  Speaker 5: do you get it that wrong in your financial disclosures?
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  Speaker 5: There's a lot here. And this goes back to President
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  Speaker 5: Donald Trump. A really important part of the question with
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  Speaker 5: President Donald Trump that he talked about, and that is, hey,
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  Speaker 5: if you're committing fraud or abuse, it doesn't matter who
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  Speaker 5: you are. It doesn't matter, by the way, if you
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  Speaker 5: are a member of Congress. We are going to find it,
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  Speaker 5: and we are going to make sure that you cannot
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  Speaker 5: abuse the system. Now, ultimately, if it comes out in
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  Speaker 5: this investigation that she should have never been eligible to
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  Speaker 5: be in Congress, that she actually shouldn't even be in
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  Speaker 5: this country, and that she lied on these forms, That
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  Speaker 5: is going to send a massive message to others that
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  Speaker 5: have lied to get in this country or others that
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  Speaker 5: have broken into this country or others that have lied
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  Speaker 5: on forms to stay in this country. That while Donald
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  Speaker 5: Trump's in office, while he's the president, while his administration
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  Speaker 5: is in charge, it doesn't matter who you are.
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  Speaker 6: They are willing to look at everything. And that may
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  Speaker 6: be the moral.
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  Speaker 2: Of the story.
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