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The DNC's Leftward Lurch, to Abolish ICE and Beyond plus The Democratic Identity Crisis Week In Review · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 1: Good Saturday morning. It's nice to have you with us
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  Speaker 1: on the Week in Review. Verdict with Ted Cruz, Ben
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  Speaker 1: Ferguson with you. And here are some of the stories
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  Speaker 1: that you may have missed that we talked about this week.
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  Speaker 1: First up, El Saeed trying to tone down the rhetoric
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  Speaker 1: of his past to make you feel like he's not
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  Speaker 1: a radical. Well, how radical is he? Just take a
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  Speaker 1: look at his sister in her own words. And you'll
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  Speaker 1: understand exactly where they're all coming from. Up next, the
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  Speaker 1: Democrat Socialists of America, they put out their platform agenda
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  Speaker 1: and it's radical. Well, now the Democratic Party has put
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  Speaker 1: out some of their new mandates and it includes abolishing ICE.
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  Speaker 1: Are they competing for who's more extreme? We explain that
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  Speaker 1: as well. And finally, a new national security concern that
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  Speaker 1: involves Hassan Piker and his brother. So what has he
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  Speaker 1: said to put him on a concern list? We have
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  Speaker 1: that for you as well. It's the Week in Review,
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  Speaker 1: and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Democrats are used to the media just being their cheerleaders
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  Speaker 2: and press agents, and so any criticism they don't know
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  Speaker 2: how to handle. All right, so you've heard the stunning
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  Speaker 2: news about the conference he's speaking at. alongside this radical
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  Speaker 2: calling for pedophilia of your young family members. You've heard
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  Speaker 2: the stunning news that he was responsible for killing over
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  Speaker 2: 4,000 dogs and cats and puppies and kittens. Surely there
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  Speaker 2: can't be more. And as the old movie Airplane says,
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  Speaker 2: yes there can and don't call me Shirley. I want
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  Speaker 2: you to take a moment and acquaint yourself with Abdul
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  Speaker 2: Al-Sayyad's sister. Now, Abdul's own record is of being a Marxist, Islamist,
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  Speaker 2: America hater. I got to say, as bad as he is,
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  Speaker 2: his sister is something really special. She's a professor at
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  Speaker 2: the University of Chicago, and unfortunately, so many of our
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  Speaker 2: professors are radical. She's a full-on communist. She's a Marxist.
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  Speaker 2: She's a rabid Islamist. She is a naked Jew hater,
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  Speaker 2: and she hates America. I'm going to back all this up.
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  Speaker 2: These are not empty charges. All right, October 7th, October 7th,
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  Speaker 2: when Hamas massacred over 1,200 innocents in Israel, when they
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  Speaker 2: raped little girls and women in the streets, that morning,
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  Speaker 2: Abdul's sister, Eman Abdel Hadi, tweeted the following. This is
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  Speaker 2: the entirety of her tweet. Mourning freedom with a Palestinian flag.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: That was her tweet celebrating... That was at 5.51 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: on October 7th, 2023. That's while people, while women and
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  Speaker 2: girls are still being raped, she's celebrating. And you might say, well,
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  Speaker 2: maybe she didn't know the facts. Well, then let's go
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  Speaker 2: to later in the day on October 7th. So Bernie Sanders,
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  Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders, his own record attacking Israel and welcoming anti-Semitism
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  Speaker 2: is unfortunate. But here's what Bernie Sanders said on October 7th.
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  Speaker 2: I absolutely condemn the horrifying attack on Israel by Hamas
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  Speaker 2: and Islamic Jihad. There is no justification for this violence,
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  Speaker 2: and innocent people on both sides will suffer hugely because
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  Speaker 2: of it. It must end now. So that's what Bernie
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  Speaker 2: Sanders said the morning of October 7th. Here's what Abdul's
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  Speaker 2: sister said at 11.07 a.m. on October 7th, retweeting or
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  Speaker 2: quote-tweeting Bernie Sanders. What a disappointment. If you can't stand
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  Speaker 2: with the people that have been held in an open
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  Speaker 2: prison for 16 years, finally fighting their oppressors, how can
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  Speaker 2: you claim to stand for justice? So understand, her complaint
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  Speaker 2: is Bernie Sanders was not pro-Hamas enough. She needed him
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  Speaker 2: to be even more pro-Hamas. That's how radical she is.
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  Speaker 2: That's how much she hates Israel. That's how much she
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  Speaker 2: hates Jews. And by the way, She's also a communist.
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  Speaker 2: So listen to her. This is her own voice talking
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  Speaker 2: about what she thinks about capitalism.
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  Speaker 3: Capitalism is at the root of pretty much all of
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  Speaker 3: our social ills and has some way that it plays
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  Speaker 3: a lot into all the oppressions that we face. So
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  Speaker 3: for me, I don't see issues of sexuality or race
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  Speaker 3: or gender as separate from issues of economic justice. Capitalism
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  Speaker 3: has done a really good job of dividing us and
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  Speaker 3: has done a really good job of objectifying our bodies
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  Speaker 3: and just basically stealing from generation after generation of people who.
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  Speaker 4: Aren't at the top.
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  Speaker 3: So socialism really affects every type of political activity that
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  Speaker 3: I'm in. There's no separation for me between all of
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  Speaker 3: these things.
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  Speaker 1: Senator, you listen to how well thought out her answer was.
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  Speaker 1: This is a core belief. I think it's pretty clear
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  Speaker 1: that you have core beliefs in this family. And this
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  Speaker 1: is the radicalization of a family. One of them has
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  Speaker 1: to dial it back a little bit, even though he
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  Speaker 1: didn't dial it back for years. Let's also be clear
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  Speaker 1: about that in Al-Said. And so it's like, OK, I
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  Speaker 1: guess we can pull it back just a little bit
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  Speaker 1: while I'm trying to, you know, become an elected official.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, and Al-Said has talked about how he hates Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 2: It turns out his sister does, too. Here's what she's
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  Speaker 2: tweeted on Thanksgiving and July 4th. Quote, we can't have
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  Speaker 2: nice things under settler colonialism. May all the empires fall.
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  Speaker 2: And then on July 4th, quote, excuse me if I
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  Speaker 2: don't celebrate the transfer of stolen land from one colonizer
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  Speaker 2: to another. Hashtag July 4th. And then, amazingly enough, so
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  Speaker 2: she didn't think Bernie Sanders was woke enough or Israel
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  Speaker 2: hating enough or America hating enough. She also didn't think
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  Speaker 2: the University of Michigan was. So the University of Michigan,
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  Speaker 2: on December 8th, 2023, tweeted out, in the context of
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  Speaker 2: the national discourse, the University of Michigan unequivocally condemns calls
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  Speaker 2: for the genocide of Jews or any other peoples as
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  Speaker 2: this is antithetical to our values.
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  Speaker 5: So, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Fairly mild tweet saying that University of Michigan is against
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  Speaker 2: the genocide of Jews. What was Abdul's sister's reaction to this? Quote,
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  Speaker 2: the students you have been arresting and disciplining have not
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  Speaker 2: been calling for a genocide of Jews. They have been
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  Speaker 2: calling for an end to the current actual ongoing genocide
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  Speaker 2: of the Palestinian people. I am ashamed to be a
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  Speaker 2: Michigan Wolverine.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: That was in response to Michigan saying they opposed the
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  Speaker 2: genocide of Jews. That made her ashamed to be a
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  Speaker 2: Michigan Wolverine. And final thing I want you to hear
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  Speaker 2: about her. Surely, she's proud to be a professor at
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  Speaker 2: the University of Chicago. I mean, after all, that's her employer.
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  Speaker 2: That's where she teaches. She teaches right now. She poisons
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  Speaker 2: the minds of young students right now at the University
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  Speaker 2: of Chicago. Obviously, she's proud of that. Well, turns out
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  Speaker 2: she's not. Give a listen to what she has to
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  Speaker 2: say about the University of Chicago's where she is a
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  Speaker 2: professor right now.
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  Speaker 4: F * * * the University of Chicago. It's evil. Like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's a colonial landlord. Like, why would I
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  Speaker 4: put any of my political energy into this space?
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  Speaker 3: And I kind of had a little bit of disdain for, like,
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  Speaker 3: people who spent a lot of time doing that. And
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  Speaker 3: the genocide really collapsed that and made me realize that....
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  Speaker 6: Two things.
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  Speaker 4: One is that, well, my students needed me.
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  Speaker 3: So it was like, oh, actually, I have to organize
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  Speaker 3: here to take care of my students, who I do
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  Speaker 3: care about. But I also realized, and I think this
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  Speaker 3: is a lesson, this is a painful lesson that a
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  Speaker 3: lot of us in the Palestine Solidarity Movement have been learning,
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  Speaker 3: is that We don't have power. We can shift the
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  Speaker 3: moral authority all we want. And we've won the moral question.
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  Speaker 3: That was the imperative that we've had.
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  Speaker 6: Done.
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  Speaker 4: Check. Put Palestine in the national consciousness. We did it.
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  Speaker 4: Make people sympathetic to Palestine. Teach the history. We did it.
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  Speaker 4: Now you have white boys on the north side of
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  Speaker 4: Chicago being like, hey, man, free Palestine.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, OK.
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  Speaker 4: Did not see it coming. Glad it's here. But what
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  Speaker 4: we don't have is power.
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  Speaker 3: And I think for me, the question of base building
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  Speaker 3: is about I think the question that I am asking
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  Speaker 3: myself and I'm asking you to ask yourself is where
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  Speaker 3: can I actually build power? Turns out I work at
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  Speaker 3: one of the biggest employers in the city of Chicago.
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  Speaker 3: I work at a place that is a landlord, a
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  Speaker 3: health care provider, a police force.
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  Speaker 4: But they are right. And a place where.
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  Speaker 3: I have access to thousands of people that I could
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  Speaker 3: potentially organize. And you know what?
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  Speaker 4: It's not fun. Organizing academics?
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  Speaker 3: Next time you're in your organizing meeting being frustrated, please
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  Speaker 3: think of me. Please think about me trying to organize academics.
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  Speaker 5: It's brutal.
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  Speaker 4: I never saw this coming.
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  Speaker 3: However, but I'm just like, actually, this is where I
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  Speaker 3: need to build power, right?
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  Speaker 4: This is my best possible structural leverage.
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  Speaker 3: And so I do, I do one-on-ones with my liberal
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  Speaker 3: colleagues who are like, well, I don't know, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's just, I think we should live the life of
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  Speaker 3: the mind here in Hyde Park.
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  Speaker 4: It was like, yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 6: I hear you totally.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: Like this is, and this, and by the way, this
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  Speaker 1: is when you and I've worn for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: You need to pay attention where you send your kids
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  Speaker 1: to school and who's indoctrinating them because this, is a
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  Speaker 1: woman who is indoctrinating children or young adults in college
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  Speaker 1: each and every day.
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  Speaker 2: So what she says is F the University of Chicago.
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  Speaker 4: It's evil.
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  Speaker 2: But where can I build power? I have access to
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  Speaker 2: thousands of people I can potentially organize. So the students,
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  Speaker 2: the young people, she is trying to proselytize them and
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  Speaker 2: turn them into Islamists and communists. And what she says
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  Speaker 2: explicitly is, this is where I need to build power. Well,
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  Speaker 2: let me just ask you something. Where do you think
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  Speaker 2: Abdul El-Sayed thinks he needs to build power? This is
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  Speaker 2: a family raised on hate. And this is a family
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  Speaker 2: devoted to hate. That's how radical the Democrats nominees are
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  Speaker 2: this cycle.
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  Speaker 1: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
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  Speaker 1: you can go back and listen to the full podcast
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  Speaker 1: from earlier this week.
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  Speaker 2: Now on to story number two.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, if you thought it was just
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  Speaker 1: the Democratic Socialists of America that were really getting their mojo,
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  Speaker 1: I guess now the DNC is trying to say, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: we're just as radical as you are. with a new
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  Speaker 1: stance that the Democratic National Committee, just when you thought
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  Speaker 1: they might try to like dial it down a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: the crazy, they have now changed their platform to say,
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  Speaker 1: hold on, we're all in on abolishing ICE, making sure
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  Speaker 1: they don't exist anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and there's some Democrat politicians who pretend, oh, this
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  Speaker 2: is an extreme view. It's only by the radicals, the DSA,
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  Speaker 2: the communists and socialists in our party, although they won't
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  Speaker 2: admit they're communists and socialists in their party. It's not
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  Speaker 2: the rest of us normal Democrats. Well, this past week,
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  Speaker 2: the DNC was meeting in Austin, Texas, sadly in our
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  Speaker 2: home state, and the DNC adopted a resolution urging congressional
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  Speaker 2: Democrats to abolish ICE. And the abolition measure, it was
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  Speaker 2: known as Resolution 27, it cleared the DNC's resolution committee.
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  Speaker 2: In a 25 to 12 vote, with one abstention, it
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  Speaker 2: headed to the full membership. It was bundled into a
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  Speaker 2: larger package, and it was approved by the full membership.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think the vote was?
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming, knowing the Democratic Party and radical as they are,
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  Speaker 1: it was probably a very high success rate.
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  Speaker 2: Unanimous.
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  Speaker 4: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: Every single person voting voted yes. The vote's non-binding. It
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  Speaker 2: doesn't formally change the party's platform for 2028. But the
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  Speaker 2: DNC has now voted for a resolution saying abolish ICE.
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  Speaker 2: And understand what abolish ICE means. ICE is the Immigration
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  Speaker 2: and Customs Enforcement Agency. It is the agency that tracks
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  Speaker 2: down illegal immigrants inside the interior of the United States.
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  Speaker 2: It tracks down gangbangers. It tracks down MS-13 in Trender, Aragua.
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  Speaker 2: It tracks down murderers and child rapists and human traffickers.
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  Speaker 2: And the position now adopted unanimously by the DNC is
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats want to abolish it. If you abolish ICE,
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  Speaker 2: it means you are no longer willing to enforce our
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  Speaker 2: immigration laws. It means you want the illegal immigrants in
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  Speaker 2: America to stay here. By the way, with no ICE,
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  Speaker 2: nobody gets deported. Once you get in, you stay here
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  Speaker 2: forever with no ICE. With no ICE, the criminal gangbangers
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  Speaker 2: who are illegals They're not prosecuted. They're not arrested. By
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  Speaker 2: the way, the over 300,000 children that the Biden administration
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  Speaker 2: had in federal custody that they handed over to adults
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  Speaker 2: and then lost. And many of those adults were not
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  Speaker 2: family members. They don't know where they are. The Trump administration,
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  Speaker 2: one of the most important things they've done is they've
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  Speaker 2: gone and tracked down thousands upon thousands of those kids
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  Speaker 2: and gotten them out of situations where they're facing the
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  Speaker 2: potential for abuse, sexual abuse, physical abuse. The position of
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats is to heck with those kids, leave them
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  Speaker 2: where they are. We're not going to enforce. We're not
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  Speaker 2: going to investigate. We're not going to do anything because, look,
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  Speaker 2: Abolish ICE is the immigration version of Abolish the Police.
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  Speaker 2: And we've talked a lot on this pod about how
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  Speaker 2: radicalized the Democrats have gotten. This is no longer the fringe.
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  Speaker 2: This is the unanimously adopted resolution position of the entire
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  Speaker 2: Democrat National Committee. That means even the most supposedly moderate Democrat,
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  Speaker 2: their party's position is get rid of ICE altogether.
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  Speaker 1: And Senator, final question on this. You look at the
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  Speaker 1: pushing here by the left to force, I think it's
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  Speaker 1: pretty darn clear, the Democratic Party to just become more
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  Speaker 1: and more and more extreme. Will there be pushback or
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  Speaker 1: is this them just admitting, hey, stick with us. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to where you are in the Democratic Socialists. Or
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  Speaker 1: do you believe that voters are going to say Democratic Party,
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  Speaker 1: you've gone too far?
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, I hope so. That's what the midterms are
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  Speaker 2: going to determine, at least as an initial push. I
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  Speaker 2: hope the voters say, listen, I agree. don't want unlimited
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  Speaker 2: illegal immigrants in our country. I don't want criminals released.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want ICE abolished. I don't want the police abolished.
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  Speaker 2: I want to lock up criminals and bad guys. Here's
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  Speaker 2: what the White House said. A White House spokeswoman, Lauren Biss,
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  Speaker 2: said the following this weekend, quote, extreme radical Democrats want
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  Speaker 2: to abolish ICE and defund the police. Instead of trying
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  Speaker 2: to abolish ICE, Democrats should be thanking ICE law enforcement
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  Speaker 2: officers for putting their lives on the line to arrest
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  Speaker 2: and remove murderers, rapists, pedophiles, and gang members from American communities.
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  Speaker 2: Many of these criminals were released from jails by Democrat
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  Speaker 2: radical politicians. President Trump's effort to remove criminal illegal aliens
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  Speaker 2: from American communities is already delivering results, including the lowest
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  Speaker 2: murder rate in 125 years. That's a profound record of success,
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  Speaker 2: but look, Elections are about making the case to the
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  Speaker 2: American people. So I hope all of the Republicans on
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  Speaker 2: the ballot make the case that producing extraordinary results in immigration,
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  Speaker 2: seeing illegal border crossings drop 99%, producing 20% drops in
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  Speaker 2: the murder rates and 20% drops in the deaths from
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  Speaker 2: drug overdoses, that is saving the lives of literally thousands
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  Speaker 2: of Americans. That's a record of success. And the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: are saying, don't just go back to Joe Biden era. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: when Biden was president, we had ICE. We had not
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  Speaker 2: abolished the police, although Democrats in cities had slashed the
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  Speaker 2: funding of a number of police departments. The Democrat position
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  Speaker 2: now is go further than Biden. They don't just want
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  Speaker 2: open borders. They want to release violent criminals. And I
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  Speaker 2: got to say, I don't think that's where most Americans are.
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  Speaker 2: I think if you talk to your average American citizen,
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  Speaker 2: a Republican, yes, but also an independent, or even most Democrats,
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  Speaker 2: and ask them, do you want to release murderers and
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  Speaker 2: rapists into your community? It is only the extreme zealots
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  Speaker 2: who would say yes. That used to be a position
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  Speaker 2: that was a bipartisan, like, obvious duh position. Today, the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats are being driven by their zealots, and the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the party is terrified of those zealots. And so,
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  Speaker 2: Between now and Election Day, we need to make the
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  Speaker 2: case to the voters, and I hope every candidate does,
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  Speaker 2: so I can tell you on this podcast, we're certainly
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  Speaker 2: going to lay out the facts and make the case
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  Speaker 2: that we should be protecting American citizens and not releasing violent, criminal,
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  Speaker 2: illegal aliens into the United States. I think that's basic
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  Speaker 2: common sense. I think that's where most Americans are.
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  Speaker 1: As before, if you want to hear the rest of
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  Speaker 1: this conversation on this topic, you can go back and
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  Speaker 1: download the podcast from earlier this week to hear the
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  Speaker 1: entire thing. I want to get back to the big story,
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  Speaker 1: number three of the week, you may have missed. All right, Senator,
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  Speaker 1: I want to get into this national security issue, the
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  Speaker 1: media not talking about it. But Hassan Piker's got a
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  Speaker 1: wingman brother. He is a space engineer with security clearance. Now,
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  Speaker 1: that on its face, not a big deal. What's a
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  Speaker 1: big deal is the details behind the brother.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's start with Hassan Piker. Hassan Piker is a radical.
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  Speaker 2: This entire show, we've been talking about the radicals who
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  Speaker 2: sadly are becoming more and more commonplace on the left,
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  Speaker 2: more and more commonplace in the Democrat Party. And Assan
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  Speaker 2: Piker is a great example of he's an influencer who
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats have embraced. He is a communist. He is
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  Speaker 2: an Islamist. He hates America. He routinely rails. He hates
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  Speaker 2: African Americans. He hates white Americans.
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  Speaker 5: He hates the.
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  Speaker 2: United States of America. He has said, and this is
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  Speaker 2: a quote, America deserved 9-11.
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  Speaker 7: Ah.
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  Speaker 2: This is, and by the way, Abdul Al Saad and
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  Speaker 2: other Democrats campaign with him, embrace him. Look, when they
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: stand next to him and both figuratively and literally embrace him,
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  Speaker 2: they're saying they support his ideas. Well, turns out Hassan
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Piker has a brother, and his brother is in a
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: position that if he believes the same thing Hassan does,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: he's in a position to do real damage. Here's a
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  Speaker 2: story from the Washington Free Beacon. Hassan Piker's younger brother
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  Speaker 2: is an aerospace engineer with security clearances who spent years
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  Speaker 2: working on U.S. military projects for Boeing, projects that include
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  Speaker 2: Air Force One and the top secret, quote, doomsday plane
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  Speaker 2: designed for nuclear war. Now, let's see, is this guy
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  Speaker 2: maybe the brother he doesn't have anything to do with
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: this on Piker. He doesn't agree with his views. Maybe
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: they're estranged. That might be a different circumstance. Well, turns
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: out that is not the case. Let me continue reading.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Murat Piker, an engineer who spent more than a decade
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  Speaker 2: at Boeing, regularly appears on his older brother's controversial social
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  Speaker 2: media channels. and has also accompanied him to events. Hassan
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: has declared that, quote, America deserved 9-11, bragged about his
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: support for Hamas, spoken in favor of Iran's right to
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  Speaker 2: defend itself, and blamed Iran's death to America and great
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  Speaker 2: Satan rhetoric on the United States, quote, messing around in
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  Speaker 2: the Middle East. Well, his kid brother, Murat, worked as
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: a full-time employee at Boeing for more than a decade
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: and left on his own, of his own volition, earlier
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: this year. He said, quote, my background includes significant experience
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: at Boeing Space and Defense, where I led mechanical design
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: and integration for next-generation satellite structures, managed high-pressure anomaly investigations,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: and defined structural interfaces across subsystems. That's what Murat says
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: on his LinkedIn page. Murat and Hasan Piker were both
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: born in New Jersey, but they did their primary and
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: their secondary schooling in Turkey. Marat worked on Air Force One.
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  Speaker 2: And you just, you have to ask. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if Marat shares his brother's hatred for America, his brother's
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: embrace of radical Islam. But given that they have done,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Hassan Piker's show repeatedly together, gone to events together, that
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: is a reasonable inference and it's a reasonable question And
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: it raises the question, listen, if this is someone that
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: hates America and wants to do damage to America, what
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  Speaker 2: harm could he do with security clearances working for Boeing
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: and for the military on very, very sensitive projects?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, very sensitive projects. And, you know, when you look
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: at this, it's being exposed. I'm glad, by the way,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: for the work the Washington Free Beacon has done. Yet again,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: another example, Senator, of a major story that has national
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: security implications here. And the mainstream media just completely looks
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  Speaker 1: the other way.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they do because they don't want to cover this.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: They don't want to cover the fact. And understand that
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: when Chuck Schumer, when Abdul Al-Sayed had been asked, do
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: they distance themselves from Hassan Piker? They consistently say no,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: that they want these radicals. Here, give a listen to
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  Speaker 2: Ro Khanna, who is the Democrat congressman being asked if
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Democrats should distance themselves from radical Hassan Piker.
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: You stuck your neck out for progressives like Abdullah Saeed.
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: You also supported Plattner before the allegations came out. You've
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: also stuck your neck out for Hassan Piker. And you've
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: seen that Hassan Piker is now being attacked 24-7 on
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: Fox News. Here's Haley Stevens going on Fox and saying, well,
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: the first thing, you know, how El-Sayed could moderate to
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: voters is to get rid of the Piker affiliation.
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  Speaker 4: You've seen Neera.
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  Speaker 6: Tanden retweet Laura Loomer's attack on Hassan Piker. Your comment
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: on Hassan Piker, what should the Democrats do with him?
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: Should they abandon him? Do you renounce your support of him?
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: You tell me, Roe. Give it to me straight. It's absurd.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, these are the same people who were at
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: one point criticizing Democrats for going on Joe Rogan. I mean,
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: remember when Bernie went on Joe Rogan, the same people
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: who said, oh, you can't go on Joe Rogan. These
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: are the same folks who criticized me when I went
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: on Ben Shapiro. Should I not go on Ben Shapiro's
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: podcast because I disagree with him? We had an oral
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: argument on the minimum wage. Just because someone is engaging
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: with Hassan Paikar who has strong viewpoints on these issues,
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: doesn't mean that you're endorsing every single one of Hasan
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: Piker's positions. And if you're going to argue that we
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: should exclude left-wing commentators and Frankly, some of these people
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: were arguing that we should be canceling and excluding right-wing commentators.
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: You're left with a party that is basically a status
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: quo party.
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: That's why we lost two elections.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, I love how he's sitting there. He's like, oh,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: it's no different than me going on Ben Shapiro's show.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Ben Shapiro is not a radical in the way that
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: you would have to defend Hassan Piker. And yet to
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: compare that you're going, oh, I just take a risk
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: on these guys because, you know, I'm not going to
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: agree with everything they say. Look at what you're endorsing.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: It is radical, extreme and crazy.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Well, and look, Ro Khanna was someone who got elected
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: to Congress from Silicon Valley. He was someone who got
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: elected with the support of the tech bros and his
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: initial brand. was kind of a moderate, common-sense Democrat. And
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: then he looked around the Democrat Party and said, wait
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: a second, nobody wants moderate, common-sense Democrats. And so he's
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: decided to go hard, hard left. As the beginning of
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: that interview showed, he went up to Maine and embraced
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Graham Plattner and said, hey, this is great. You know,
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: a Nazi communist, my kind of guy. And so, you know,
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: you listen to what Kana said there. He said, well,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: just because they're engaging, that was the verb he used,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: engaging with Hassan Piker. Let's be clear, Hassan, Al-Said is
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: not engaging with Hassan Piker. He's not saying, you know, Hassan,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: I actually think you're wrong when you say America deserved 9-11.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: I don't think we deserve to be attacked by Islamist
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: terrorists who murdered nearly 3,000 people. They're not engaging. They're embracing.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: They're celebrating. They're adopting. It is who they are. And
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: I will say, you know, there's the old line that
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. Ro
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Khanna is rich as hell. And the latest news story
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: said he traded $ 165 million in trades. He made over
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: 5,000 trades last year. I don't think members of Congress
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: should be buying and selling stock and getting rich. And
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: this is a great example of the hypocrisy, which is
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: that they embrace Marxism while living as complete and utter hypocrites.
• 26:10
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• 26:25
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