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'This is overt' Fmr. FBI official blasts Trump admin's raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar's home · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: First, I should say that the things that they are
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  Speaker 1: alleging about Congresswoman Ilhan Omar are a lie. Like there's
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  Speaker 1: no evidence that she has married her.
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  Speaker 2: Like, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: It's insane that I'm about to have to explain it
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  Speaker 1: to people. But what I want people to hear is
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  Speaker 1: that they've been telling Ilhan Omar to get out of
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  Speaker 1: this country for a very long time. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: think that this all goes back to denaturalization.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember when we were sitting at.
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  Speaker 1: This table, Olivia Troy was here, and she talked to
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  Speaker 1: us about how in the first Trump administration, denaturalization is
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  Speaker 1: something that Stephen Miller talked about a lot. And they
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  Speaker 1: weren't able to denaturalize a lot of people in that
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  Speaker 1: first Trump administration, because you know what? It takes a
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  Speaker 1: lot of lawyers, a lot of people willing to toe
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  Speaker 1: the line.
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  Speaker 2: But now.
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  Speaker 1: You've got a judge somewhere that had signed a warrant
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  Speaker 1: for them to go and raid this woman's home. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I am concerned because if they can do it to
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  Speaker 1: Ilhan Omar, if they are successful here, what's to stop
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  Speaker 1: them anywhere else?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's be clear.
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  Speaker 3: This is far from the first time that the Trump
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  Speaker 3: administration has had DOJ violate its own policies and norms
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  Speaker 3: in order to.
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  Speaker 4: Go after a political adversary.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not just a question of can it happen
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  Speaker 3: to Representative Omar? Can it happen to Jim Comey? Can
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  Speaker 3: it happen to Letitia James? Can it happen to Don Lemon?
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  Speaker 3: Can it happen to the Broadview.
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  Speaker 4: Six, which also included congressional candidates?
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  Speaker 3: This should not surprise us. It should still disgust us.
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  Speaker 3: But the time for shock is over. And the time
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  Speaker 3: to actually start fighting back is what should occur. And
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  Speaker 3: I really, really hope that when this nightmare ends, there
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  Speaker 3: will be some accounting and reckoning, some sort of ramification happening.
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  Speaker 3: for the law enforcement officials and the DOJ attorneys who
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  Speaker 3: are allowing this madness to happen. Put aside whether Representative
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  Speaker 3: Omar has done anything, DOJ was willing to break one
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  Speaker 3: of its most sacred norms about not taking prosecutorial or
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  Speaker 3: investigative action in public within 90 days of an election.
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  Speaker 3: You know what administration strengthened that norm more than any other?
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  Speaker 3: the first Trump one under William Barr, who felt they
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  Speaker 3: had been mistreated by how the FBI examined the Russia cases.
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  Speaker 5: Well, so let's put an exclamation point on that and
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  Speaker 5: read from the unwritten 60-day rule from June of 2018.
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  Speaker 5: Prosecutors avoid public disclosure of investigative steps related to electoral
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  Speaker 5: matters or the return of indictments against a candidate for
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  Speaker 5: office within 60 days of a primary or general election.
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  Speaker 5: The 60-day rule is not written or described in any
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  Speaker 5: department policy or regulation. Nevertheless, high-ranking department and FBI officials
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  Speaker 5: acknowledge the existence of a general practice that informs department decisions.
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  Speaker 5: And then this is from the DOJ Inspector General report during,
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  Speaker 5: as you just rightly noted, the Trump first term. Here's
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  Speaker 5: the thing that strikes me about this. Here's another woman
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  Speaker 5: of color who is a target of.
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  Speaker 2: This man, the president.
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  Speaker 5: And we all know and have seen he seems to
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  Speaker 5: have a problem with women of color.
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  Speaker 2: Who have titles and responsibilities.
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  Speaker 5: I just want to give you some recent headlines on
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  Speaker 5: his attacks on powerful women of color. MSNOW today, Representative
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  Speaker 5: Ilhan Omar says she will not be silenced after federal
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  Speaker 5: agents search her home. October 9th, from New York Times,
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  Speaker 5: Trump announces White House inquiry into Fed Governor Cook. People,
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  Speaker 5: October 10th, Donald Trump calls New York Attorney General Letitia
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  Speaker 5: James disgusting at a dog following her appointment to Cornell
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  Speaker 5: rape case. The Griot, October 9th, LaMonica McIver takes ICE
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  Speaker 5: oversight case to full appeals court.
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  Speaker 2: I will fight like hell.
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  Speaker 5: These women pissed Donald Trump off because he can't control them.
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  Speaker 2: He's not like the white Republican men around him.
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  Speaker 5: Who bend over backwards to do his bidding and give
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  Speaker 5: him what he wants. These are women who have integrity
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  Speaker 5: and dignity. So we have to understand and contextualize, I think.
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  Speaker 2: What this is versus what it isn't.
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  Speaker 5: This is not some legitimate legal proceeding, which, to your point,
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  Speaker 5: I think on the back end of this, all these
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  Speaker 5: DOJ lawyers are bringing this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to have a very ugly time. in local
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  Speaker 2: bars and in federal bars. How do you see.
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  Speaker 5: That piece of it, though, that this targeting really sort
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  Speaker 5: of says something very specific about the women in Trump's
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  Speaker 5: crosshairs when you go back and look at the black
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  Speaker 5: journalists who've been called pigs and other names now to
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  Speaker 5: women who have real power and authority as government officials?
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  Speaker 3: I don't think at this point in his second administration,
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  Speaker 3: we need to code it.
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  Speaker 4: As subtext or a dog whistle. This is overt.
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  Speaker 3: There is a project by this administration, not just if
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  Speaker 3: you look at the statements cabinet officials make, but if
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  Speaker 3: you look at the quote, supposed philosophers they admire, if
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  Speaker 3: you look at the think tanks they've listened to, there
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  Speaker 3: is an actual organized effort to make this into solely
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  Speaker 3: a white Christian country. And, you know, this sort of
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  Speaker 3: gets at what you were saying before with denaturalization.
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  Speaker 4: Let's be clear.
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  Speaker 3: When they're talking about heritage Americans who've been here for
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  Speaker 3: hundreds of years, there are a lot of people who
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  Speaker 3: are forcibly living in the South during that era that
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  Speaker 3: they do not consider heritage Americans. You know, they're not
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  Speaker 3: talking about slaves or the descendants of slaves. They're not
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  Speaker 3: talking about the descendants of Native Americans. They're talking about
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  Speaker 3: people who look like them, and they're upset because now the.
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  Speaker 4: Country belongs to everybody.
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  Speaker 3: And they feel a resentment that they've been kicked out
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  Speaker 3: of power and somehow made less important.
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  Speaker 4: And instead of celebrating the fact that this is a country.
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  Speaker 3: that actually try to enact the up from your bootstraps,
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  Speaker 3: anybody can be a king mentality.
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  Speaker 4: They've decided to turn it around.
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  Speaker 3: And say that's not what America is about.
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  Speaker 4: America is about inherited class status.
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  Speaker 6: They've often been fearful of a multicultural democracy. That is
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  Speaker 6: something that is just the, it's antithetical to how they think.
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  Speaker 6: And it's scary for them on so many different reasons.
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  Speaker 6: And to your point, I agree with you. I think
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  Speaker 6: that is the best example of the American experiment. The
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  Speaker 6: one that I take the most pride in personally is
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  Speaker 6: that we're trying to do something here, the multicultural democracy
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  Speaker 6: that the world has not seen in its history. This
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  Speaker 6: is still very much a new thing. And they are
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  Speaker 6: so much just relegated to the backwards past. Real quickly,
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  Speaker 6: while I have you. That's why I think there's a
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  Speaker 6: lot of politics here with Omar. She is always on
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  Speaker 6: all the right-wing media and in the echo chamber, so
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  Speaker 6: they want to do this to rally up the base
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  Speaker 6: a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: But real quickly, they.
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  Speaker 6: Have not had a lot of success going down this
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  Speaker 6: rabbit hole of conspiracy theories. A lot of lawyers, even
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  Speaker 6: ones who are conservative, have looked at a lot of
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  Speaker 6: these cases the Trump administration has been pushing and been like,
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  Speaker 6: there's no there there. It's our guy Joe, the Italian
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  Speaker 6: last name, I forget his name.
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  Speaker 2: He quit. He quit, right?
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  Speaker 4: There's no there there.
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  Speaker 6: And I think that's something to be said when you
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  Speaker 6: have people who are very much comfortable in the MAGA
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  Speaker 6: orbit saying there's nothing here.
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  Speaker 2: We've got nothing to do.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, look, at a certain point, it's one thing to
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  Speaker 3: spin conspiracy theories around. on podcasts or on far-right news
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  Speaker 3: channels or on Truth Social. But at a certain point,
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  Speaker 3: if you're trying to take away somebody's liberty, if you're
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  Speaker 3: actually trying to take away somebody's freedom and throw them
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  Speaker 3: in jail, you need to be able to convince a
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  Speaker 3: grand jury you know what you're doing. You need to
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  Speaker 3: be able to convince a judge that your claims have
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  Speaker 3: some merit. And you need to be able to convince
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  Speaker 3: a jury of the defendant's peers that what you're saying
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  Speaker 3: isn't nonsense. And the fact is, all these cases they're
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  Speaker 3: bringing against their enemies, particularly the one in the Southern
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  Speaker 3: District of Florida, alleging some sort.
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  Speaker 4: Of grand conspiracy to keep.
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  Speaker 3: Trump out of office from the Russia investigations up through
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  Speaker 3: Jack Smith's investigations. There is no factual predication to justify
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  Speaker 3: any of these. And that's why not only are they
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  Speaker 3: losing the cases they're bringing, they're losing the attorneys and
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  Speaker 3: investigators who are staffing them.
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