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The Great Pressure Campaign | Episode 316 · V

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  Speaker 1: Everybody, welcome to Vince on a Tuesday. It's great to
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  Speaker 1: have you with us today. The best audience anywhere. I've
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  Speaker 1: got a big show ahead for you. We'll take a
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  Speaker 1: close look at President Trump's Iran team. They're working on
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  Speaker 1: a deal. And despite the nonsense you're hearing.
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  Speaker 2: In the media, oh, J.D.
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  Speaker 1: Vance and Marco Rubio and Donald Trump, they're all headed
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  Speaker 1: in different directions. Now, they're all on the same page, actually.
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  Speaker 1: They're fighting for the country. They're trying to secure a peace.
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  Speaker 1: I will give you the latest on that subject, including
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  Speaker 1: the breaking news from the president of the United States.
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  Speaker 1: This morning, there's always breaking news from the president Of
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  Speaker 1: the United States. Also coming up on the program today,
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  Speaker 1: we are going to get into the details of a
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  Speaker 1: just emerging scandal, yet another one, from the Biden administration.
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  Speaker 1: And this involves the death of American citizens and the
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  Speaker 1: Biden administration's knowledge that it was happening and they didn't
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  Speaker 1: do anything about it. I've got brand new details. These
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  Speaker 1: are just breaking. We'll talk about them coming up on
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  Speaker 1: the program. We'll be joined by a very great guest
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  Speaker 1: on that subject, Tristan Levitt. He'll discuss the details of it.
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  Speaker 1: A lot emerging on that and so much more all
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  Speaker 4: Boom.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, indeed.
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  Speaker 1: Got the interview threads on today. We're going to be
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  Speaker 1: talking to Tristan Levitt coming up, who represents all of
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  Speaker 1: these whistleblowers who've had some very, very important stories to share.
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  Speaker 1: And Tristan helps them do it. He'll talk to us
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  Speaker 1: this morning. If you are not attuned to this story,
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  Speaker 1: just to give you a really quick summary of it. So, again,
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  Speaker 1: you can tell some friends, let people know, especially if
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  Speaker 1: 8 a.m. Rumble dot com slash Vince. Get the word out,
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  Speaker 1: because coming up this hour, really near the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the hour, we're going to be talking to Tristan Levitt
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  Speaker 1: about what I'm referring to as Operation Fentanyl and Furious.
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  Speaker 1: Operation Fentanyl and Furious. Now, that is not, as far
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  Speaker 1: as I'm aware, the actual official government name, but this
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  Speaker 1: reminds me so much of Operation Fast and Furious. For
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  Speaker 1: those of you old enough to remember, back during the
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  Speaker 1: Obama era, Obama allowed the A bunch of guns to be, quote,
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  Speaker 1: walked into Mexico. In other words, the Obama administration was
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  Speaker 1: aware that all these weapons were being sold to the
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  Speaker 1: cartels and they let it happen anyway. The theory was, well,
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  Speaker 1: we can track them. If they go that way, we
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  Speaker 1: can track them. And then, of course, they lost track
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  Speaker 1: of them. And then one of those guns ended up
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  Speaker 1: being brought back into the United States of America and
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  Speaker 1: used to kill a Border Patrol agent by the name
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  Speaker 1: of Brian Terry. Do you guys remember all of this? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Operation Fast and Furious. It led to Eric Holder, the
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  Speaker 1: Attorney General of the United States, being held in contempt
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  Speaker 1: of Congress. And yet, of course, no consequences for him
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  Speaker 1: criminally because he was the Attorney General and he was
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  Speaker 1: insulated from criminal consequences because he was literally above the law.
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  Speaker 1: He was above the law. The left tells us all
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  Speaker 1: the time, nobody's above the law. Yeah, Democrats are. Democrats
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  Speaker 1: are constantly above the law, especially when they control the
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  Speaker 1: levers of power. That was Operation Fast and Furious. So
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  Speaker 1: now we have Operation Fentanyl and Furious. The Biden administration was,
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  Speaker 1: according to an Associated Press report and our guest coming up,
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  Speaker 1: Tristan Levitt, the Biden administration was aware that, what's the number?
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  Speaker 1: Hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills were pouring into the
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  Speaker 1: United States of America. They knew where the drugs were,
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  Speaker 1: down to the shipment. They knew exactly which shipments had
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  Speaker 1: the drugs. They let them come in.
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  Speaker 6: Why?
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  Speaker 1: They claimed they wanted to use it for law enforcement
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  Speaker 1: purposes to keep tracking the flow of fentanyl.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: You know that hundreds of thousands of pills, that means
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  Speaker 1: that Americans were being poisoned and killed by this. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we've got a very big scandal right now developing. We'll
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  Speaker 1: get to the bottom of some more of it coming
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  Speaker 1: up with Tristan Levitt. That's the bottom of the hour.
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  Speaker 1: Do alert your friends about what we're up to because...
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  Speaker 1: I think we're at the beginning of a massive, massive story,
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  Speaker 1: and you're going to want to be here for it. OK,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get to more of that coming up. But first,
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  Speaker 1: what a difference a brain makes, huh? I told you
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  Speaker 1: what a difference a vice president makes. We were talking
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  Speaker 1: at some length about this yesterday. But just what a
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  Speaker 1: breath of fresh air J.D. Vance has been as vice
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  Speaker 1: president of the United States. Compare and contrast J.D. Vance
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  Speaker 1: to Kamala freaking Harris. who barely knows how to get
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  Speaker 1: to the end of a sentence. Meanwhile, J.D. Vance is
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  Speaker 1: trying to get to the end of a war with
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  Speaker 1: Iran that is stretched on in fits and starts for
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  Speaker 1: 47 years. What a difference a vice president makes. And yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: the president of the United States got into some of
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  Speaker 1: the details on this. He said, what a difference. He
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  Speaker 1: truly said this. What a difference a brain makes. Watch
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  Speaker 1: President Trump from the Oval Office.
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  Speaker 6: The Press.
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  Speaker 3: I think that they're doing a fantastic job. Our Secretary
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  Speaker 3: is fantastic. I think he's maybe going to go down
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  Speaker 3: as the best ever.
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  Speaker 5: And I thought J.D.
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  Speaker 3: Vance this morning was fantastic. I watched his news conference.
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  Speaker 3: And from Switzerland, he's a very smart guy. He did
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  Speaker 3: a great job. You know, when I look at the Democrats,
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  Speaker 3: I call them the Democrats. They're dumb.
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  Speaker 2: They're Democrats.
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  Speaker 3: When I watched that, where one of them thought it
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  Speaker 3: was World War XI. She said, World War XI. She
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  Speaker 3: read World War II.
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  Speaker 2: You know about that, right?
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  Speaker 3: This is one of their potential leaders, Ilhan Omar, who
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  Speaker 3: married her brother to get into the country, by the way, illegally.
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  Speaker 3: But when I watch AOC have no idea what a
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  Speaker 3: simple question, what happened? When she was over in Switzerland,
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  Speaker 3: which she probably never went there before, and then I
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  Speaker 3: watched somebody like J.D. or Marco, I said, what a difference.
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  Speaker 3: What a difference. What a difference a brain makes.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Josh, I think we might need that clip on standby, brother.
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  Speaker 1: What a difference a brain makes.
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  Speaker 4: What a difference.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, man, that's funny. Whenever I think of the left,
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  Speaker 1: I think back to, remember Young Frankenstein? Remember the movie,
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  Speaker 1: Young Frankenstein? Abbey Normal is the name, is the brain
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  Speaker 1: that Igor pulls. He goes, Abbey something? Abbey Normal? That's
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  Speaker 1: a deep cut. This is for those of you who
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  Speaker 1: are aware of what I'm talking about. What a difference
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  Speaker 1: a brain makes.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's good to have J.D. Vance in there. And
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  Speaker 1: the president, pay attention to the top of that clip too.
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  Speaker 1: The president, despite efforts to try and sow division within
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  Speaker 1: the Trump administration going, I got a great team on this.
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  Speaker 1: I got Marco Rubio. I got J.D. Vance. I've got
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  Speaker 1: these great negotiators who are doing a wonderful job and
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  Speaker 1: I'm all in on what they're up to. It's been
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  Speaker 1: pretty funny though to watch, amusing for those of us
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  Speaker 1: who know what we're looking at. It's been amusing to
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  Speaker 1: watch people be like, I can't believe J.D. Vance is
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  Speaker 1: doing this deal.
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  Speaker 2: What is this J.D.
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  Speaker 1: Vance deal? I was like, I think you're talking about Trump. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's got J.D. Vance leading the negotiating team, but you're
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  Speaker 1: blaming Vance here? That's your move? Why don't you just
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  Speaker 1: say you don't like what Trump is doing? Why do
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  Speaker 1: you have to make this about J.D.
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  Speaker 6: Vance?
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  Speaker 1: What is that about? It's like you can see through it,
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  Speaker 1: can't you? Yeah, we can all see through it. And
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  Speaker 1: maybe take a break from crapping on everything the president's
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  Speaker 1: trying to accomplish here. Let the man work. Let the
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  Speaker 1: man work. You know, I've There's this great expression. Did
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  Speaker 1: Dan come up with this? Our friend Dan Bongino, the doomers,
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  Speaker 1: this expression, the doomers, people are always constantly shitting on everything.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me, crapping on, trying not to curse as much,
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  Speaker 1: crapping on everything President Trump is doing, who are supposedly
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  Speaker 1: on his side, but are crapping on everything he's trying
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  Speaker 1: to do. It's a doomsday mentality. Just like, calm down,
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  Speaker 1: calm down. Let the man work. There's a reason that
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  Speaker 1: you and I keep voting for him. and he's got
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  Speaker 1: this underway. So the president this morning has actually added
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  Speaker 1: some more information on this subject, and this is what
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  Speaker 1: he posts to Truth Social. I just saw this as
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  Speaker 1: we were starting the show this morning. Despite their protestations
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  Speaker 1: and false statements to the contrary, coupled with the drumbeat
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  Speaker 1: of the fake news, which is doing everything possible to
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  Speaker 1: make the U.S. victory as small and as insignificant as possible,
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  Speaker 1: Iran is has fully and completely agreed to the highest
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  Speaker 1: level nuclear inspections long into the future. Infinity, he says,
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  Speaker 1: infinity with three exclamation points. That's a pretty good deal. Infinity.
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  Speaker 1: This will ensure nuclear honesty, he writes. If they did
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  Speaker 1: not agree to this, there would be no further negotiations.
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  Speaker 1: Based on this and other major concessions being made by Iran,
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  Speaker 1: I've agreed to allow the Hormuz Strait to remain open
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  Speaker 1: with no further naval blockade. However, All ships remain in
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  Speaker 1: place should it be necessary to reinstitute the blockade, which
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  Speaker 1: seems at this point highly unlikely. The money and or
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  Speaker 1: sanctions that the U.S. Treasury is releasing goes into escrow,
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  Speaker 1: controlled by the United States, and will be used for
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  Speaker 1: the purchase of food and medical supplies exclusively from the
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  Speaker 1: United States, including corn, wheat, soybeans from our great American farmers.
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  Speaker 1: These are things that are desperately needed by Iran. This
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  Speaker 1: is a humanitarian crisis, and I feel it is necessary
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  Speaker 1: to help. Now, before it's too late, talks are going well.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J.
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  Speaker 5: Trump.
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  Speaker 1: So the president's saying, keep cool, my babies. Just calm.
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  Speaker 1: We've got this stuff going out the door. This is
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  Speaker 1: American farm product. We're using that Iranian money to purchase it,
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  Speaker 1: and then we're giving it to the Iranian people. You
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  Speaker 1: don't think we thought this through? You don't think we
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  Speaker 1: put the effort into constructing a system that prevents terrorism?
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  Speaker 1: Of course they did. It's obvious from the very beginning
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  Speaker 1: that this is what this was about. Keep cool, my babies.
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  Speaker 2: Keep cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed. Thank you, me, for saying that.
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  Speaker 2: Josh.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Josh. And yes, every so often my intermittent attribution,
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  Speaker 1: that is a Conan O'Brien quote from Late Night with
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  Speaker 1: Conan O'Brien from the early aughts. Long ago, long ago.
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  Speaker 3: What a difference a brain makes.
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  Speaker 1: What a difference. Wow, that was a fastball. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for that.
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  Speaker 2: What a difference.
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  Speaker 1: So what about the president's efforts to try and bring
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  Speaker 1: peace to the region and the role that Israel plays
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  Speaker 1: in that? Because clearly Israel has a huge vested interest
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  Speaker 1: in this subject. Well, yesterday, Benjamin Netanyahu put out a
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  Speaker 1: statement saying that the Israeli military has no restrictions in
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  Speaker 1: its efforts to target Hezbollah in Lebanon. and that the
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  Speaker 1: IDF will stay present there in South Lebanon to continue
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  Speaker 1: to fight against Hezbollah. He's like, we're staying anyway. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: the point is kind of like, I don't really care
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  Speaker 1: what Trump says, we're staying. And Trump, President Trump is
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  Speaker 1: trying to juggle some chainsaws here. He's not telling Israel
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  Speaker 1: they can't defend themselves. He's saying, you can, you should
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  Speaker 1: make it proportional to the extent that you can. We're
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  Speaker 1: trying to bring down the tensions. What the president said
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  Speaker 1: earlier this week or late last week is like when Hezbollah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, throws a missile and it hits like a
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  Speaker 1: random piece of dirt, it doesn't kill anybody. And then
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  Speaker 1: Israel responds by blowing up an entire building near Beirut.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, that's not proportional. Why don't we have some
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  Speaker 1: proportionality here? Because we're trying to bring down the temperature.
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  Speaker 1: And so yesterday, it sounds like President Trump, in the
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  Speaker 1: midst of everything, he was told about Benjamin Netanyahu's statement.
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  Speaker 1: And he didn't smack him around or anything. He just said, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'll look into it. I'm a problem solver. Here's the
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  Speaker 1: president yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: Watch.
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  Speaker 3: Here's another beauty. Watch this one. Well, early today, the
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  Speaker 3: Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said his forces are not
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  Speaker 3: leaving Lebanon.
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  Speaker 2: That is a sticking point.
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  Speaker 3: Who did he tell that to you?
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  Speaker 2: He said it publicly in Israel.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we're going to take a look at it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what would you do to make sure that he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't sabotage me?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm not going to tell you what I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to do, but it gets solved. I'm a problem solver.
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  Speaker 3: I get problems solved real fast, including with Bibi.
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  Speaker 6: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: President.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: What's the latest you've heard from the Biden administration?
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  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. And this is typical Trump.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look, it doesn't matter what kind of alliance
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  Speaker 1: you have with the United States, if you're the UK,
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  Speaker 1: if you're Canada, Australia. Like President Trump is going to
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  Speaker 1: constantly be grabbing allies and adversaries by the shirt collars
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  Speaker 1: and saying, I need you to make a deal that's
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  Speaker 1: good for the United States of America. This is his custom.
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  Speaker 1: This is his habit. And this is how he makes deals.
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  Speaker 1: And also he'll be diplomatic and polite and wonderful. And
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  Speaker 1: this is, of course, he was doing that yesterday. As
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  Speaker 1: he was asked this question, he didn't know about it yet.
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  Speaker 1: It was all breaking. He's given Netanyahu grace and those
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  Speaker 1: two will talk on the phone and figure out what
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  Speaker 1: they can do. to make this work for the United States,
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  Speaker 1: because that's the most important thing to us, and that's
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  Speaker 1: the most important thing to the president of the United States.
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  Speaker 1: And look, for Israel, a great future awaits if the
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  Speaker 1: president can score a peace deal here, where the whole
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  Speaker 1: Middle East is concentrated on security instead of terrorism. That
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  Speaker 1: would be excellent. That's what the president's pursuing. Now, one
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  Speaker 1: of the big headlines yesterday was entirely consistent with the MOU,
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  Speaker 1: which is Iran can begin to sell its oil on
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  Speaker 1: the international market. Now, this hurts China. I've seen some
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  Speaker 1: claims that this really helps China. It doesn't help China
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  Speaker 1: at all. Actually, it hurts China dramatically. And here's why.
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  Speaker 1: Because Iran was selling its oil anyway under the sanctioned regime,
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  Speaker 1: and they were selling 90% of the sanctioned oil to China. Now,
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  Speaker 1: with Iran being able to sell on the international market,
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  Speaker 1: China loses access to its share of the Iranian oil.
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  Speaker 1: This is a big spillover benefit of the way this
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  Speaker 1: is being arranged. And here's Scott Besson. Yesterday, he posted
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  Speaker 1: on Truth Social, excuse me, on X. He posted on
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  Speaker 1: X that this was happening. This is under his authorities,
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  Speaker 1: the president's authorities. He said, under President Trump and the
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  Speaker 1: vice president, we will continue to make the world safer
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  Speaker 1: and more prosperous in line with the ongoing productive talks
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  Speaker 1: in Switzerland and Iran is committed to free and open
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  Speaker 1: transit in the Strait and to permit IAEA inspectors into
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  Speaker 1: their country. You just heard the president this morning reiterate
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  Speaker 1: that point. As part of the framework, Treasury has issued
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  Speaker 1: a temporary 60-day general license authorizing the production, delivery, and
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  Speaker 1: sale of Iranian oil. And what does that mean for
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  Speaker 1: the rest of us? Well, it means that global energy
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  Speaker 1: is going to come down in price pretty dramatically. And
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  Speaker 1: when global energy prices come down, that's a huge benefit
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  Speaker 1: to humanity. This is a humanitarian requirement. Cheap, abundant, plentiful
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  Speaker 1: energy all over the planet. It's good for all of us.
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  Speaker 1: It keeps humans alive, actually, and flourishing. And here's Kevin Hassett,
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  Speaker 1: one of the president's top economic advisors this weekend, saying
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  Speaker 1: that the oil is definitely flowing. The price is definitely
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  Speaker 1: coming down. And this is good for all of us.
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  Speaker 1: Watch this.
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  Speaker 2: Cut three.
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  Speaker 5: If you look at what the futures markets were saying
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  Speaker 5: all along from the beginning of this episode, they pretty
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  Speaker 5: much got it right. And so right now, futures markets
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: are saying that we're headed down into the 70s sometime soon.
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: People are reluctant to buy at the spot price because
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: they think the futures price is going to be so low.
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: And I can say that J.D. Vance has been on
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: the ball in Switzerland negotiating with the Iranians. He reports
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: great progress, reports that the U.N. is going to inspect Iran.
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: their nuclear facilities. And we're getting some of the really,
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: really big tankers out of the Straits now so that
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: the amount of oil coming through the Straits as of
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: the beginning of the weekend was almost as much as
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: we saw pre-war. So I think that right now there's
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: still work to do. There's still work to do. But J.D.
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: Vance has made a huge amount of progress. The fact
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: that they're open to U.N. inspectors suggests that, you know,
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: while the Israeli conflict with Hezbollah is something that's going
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: to still have to be discussed, the oil market impact
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: of this thing, I believe, is is most mostly resolved.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: So the rigs for says in our chat that Kevin
• 17:43
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• 17:46
  Speaker 5: He does.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: He does seem kind of like a pastor, doesn't he?
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: But he's saying, look, that's a big deal. You tell,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: did you hear him say that we're almost back to
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: pre-war levels on oil flow through the Strait of Hormuz?
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: That's a very big deal. It's a very big sign.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: And what a great, what a blessing it was to
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: have Daniel Turner on with us Friday, explaining from Power
• 18:05
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• 18:08
  Speaker 1: and the average gas station owner, the reason that there's
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: lag time on gas prices, even though oil prices are
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: coming down very quickly, the reason that there's lag time
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: on these gas prices is because the oil, the gas rather,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: that you're buying when you fill up your car is
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: gas that was already, it's underground. It was purchased at
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: the higher price. And until they empty that tank out,
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  Speaker 1: they've got to make their money back from the higher
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: price purchase. So there's a little bit of lag time.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: But as this new refined product starts making its way
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: into these American gas stations, you'll start seeing those prices
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: come down even more. And chat, tell me, are you
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: seeing prices come down at all near your homes?
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Are you seeing this happen?
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Now I know that there's gas that's expensive in places
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: like California, no question, especially where they impose these crazy
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: state taxes. But have you seen gas prices come down
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: at all? I've seen some feedback from our audience saying, yeah,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: I'm seeing it, yes. Down 20 cents, says Kmart. I
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: believe that's not the actual store, Kmart. That's our friend
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Kmart who's in chat. Yes, yes, yes, seeing lower prices.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: R Cooling says no, not seeing those lower prices yet.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Where are you, R Cooling? Where are you not seeing
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: the lower prices yet? Yes, but slowly. South Jersey, down
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: 10 cents. South Carolina is down. We're seeing that. Pennsylvania, Massachusetts.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Well, that's a good sign. Thank you, Little. Nobody's got
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: this kind of man on the street reporting. This is great.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Everyone's saying they've got this. No in California. I'm sorry
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: for those of you in California. It's crazy out there.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: It's super crazy.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Crazy.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: $ 4.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: 84 in California. That's insane.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: That's totally insane.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sorry, Callie. I'm sorry you've got to deal
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: with that crap. What a beautiful state. The Democrats have
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: just been trying to destroy it. They're big on destroying
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: beautiful things, right? They started with California. Right now, they're
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: working on the reflecting poll. Anything that's beautiful, they're trying
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: to destroy. I've got more on all of it coming
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: up in the program. We're going to get to some
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: of the latest. And also our great guest, Tristan Leavitt,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: will be joining us coming up in just minutes. We'll
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: talk a bit about Operation Fentanyl and Furious. It's insane
• 20:25
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  Speaker 1: Patriot Mobile. Okay, I was mentioning a moment ago that
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: the left is interested in destruction. They don't like beautiful things.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Beautiful things are attractive things. And if those beautiful, attractive
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: things are in any way associated with Donald Trump and
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: the people who voted for him, man, they really hate,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: really hate it. And that leads to the story of
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: the reflecting pool. What a saga this has been. Have
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: you noticed how obsessed the left has been with the
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: reflecting pool renovations? Now, it shouldn't be some sort of
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: like incredible story that a president of the United States
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: is actually fixing one of America's most important monuments. That
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: shouldn't be a big.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Story at all.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: That should just be kind of like an everyday, oh,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: isn't that wonderful? The government is actually doing something for us.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: But it's an unusual story because actually a lot of
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: administrations have abdicated the responsibility to care for it. President
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Trump is finally doing something about it. So he's been
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: working to beautify it. And because the president's been doing that,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: the left has turned it into a big story because
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: they've been rooting against beauty, as they so often do.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: In fact- We now have evidence that they've been actively
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: sabotaging beauty as multiple people have been arrested for vandalism
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: of the reflecting pool. And here's the president yesterday in
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: the Oval Office discussing the animals who would vandalize an
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: important American monument like the reflecting pool in front of
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: the Lincoln Memorial. Here's President Trump cut for a watch.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Vandalism. You know, we have a hundred and we have a.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: I think 290, 300 foot slit right through it, probably
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: a box cutter or a knife of some kind. We
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: had people lifting up the basic, some of the, it's
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: not a lot of damage, but we'll probably have to
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: let the water out and refix it.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: They went in there with a knife.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: I was just told by the people over at Parks,
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: they have five people are arrested and five people are
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: under investigation right now. And it's a sad thing. In
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: addition to that, they, you know, we put brand new
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: beautiful grass all around. They put these massive letters on
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: the grass. You probably know about that, right? And they
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: said 86, 47. They probably got that from the dirty cop.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Call me.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: You know he's a dirty cop, don't you? Dirty cop.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: He's a crooked guy. They destroyed the grass. So that's
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: a big thing. But we're going to get it back
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: very soon.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: So they're working on it. They're draining it. They're fixing
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: it up. They're healing it. And they're going to get
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: it back up and running, despite the fact that the
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: left keeps trying to upend it and rooting on its destruction.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: You know what this is really a sign of? It's
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: a sign of how few scandals they can even get
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: a hold of associated with President Trump. They don't have
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: a scandal. They're not even sure what to do. President
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Trump's list of success is so meaningful and so long.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: that they've backed up to item 6,428, the reflecting poll,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: and they're trying to sabotage his improvement of it. You know,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: as somebody who's been in and around Washington now for, what,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: 16 years now, I used to commute oftentimes by a
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: lot of these locations that the president has now fixed up.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: And one of the things I didn't realize about D.C.,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: when I was walking through it is how many fountains
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: there were all over the place. And the reason I
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: didn't know there were fountains is because they weren't even operating.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: This was 16 years ago. They haven't been operating. President
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Trump has restored them. He's restored fountains at Union Station,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: which are now flowing. They look beautiful. They've improved the
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: human spirit as you walk by them. Meridian Hill Park
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: in Washington, D.C. now has an epic fountain finally cascading
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: after many years of disrepair and not functioning at all.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: It was a dry, graffitied-filled basin. Trump has fixed it.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Trump has turned on the fountains at Freedom Plaza, which
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: is not that far from the White House, right nearby.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: And I didn't realize there was a fountain there. In
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: other words, Trump is dramatically beautifying the city. Meanwhile, he's
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: also making it safer as he's brought down some of
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: the violent crime rates to record lows and deployed the
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: National Guard to help be a steady presence in the
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: city to convey that law and order will prevail. It's
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: been a great thing. And rather than rooting for these successes,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: rather than rooting for beauty, rather than rooting for law
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: and order, rather than celebrating the kinds of scenes that
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: do uplift the human spirit, the left is doing what
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: it does best, which is there being AOCs, agents of chaos,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: agents of destruction. You are not allowed to have nice things.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: And if you have something nice, the left is coming
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: for it. whether it's through confiscatory tax policy or straight
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: up destroying a beautiful vision. Look at these people. You
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: have protesters who are angry at Trump with their crazy
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: pink hair and their ugly pride flags. What a disgusting
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: looking flag. I keep telling you every time I see it,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: there's no way a gay dude designed that flag. It's
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: too ugly. And there they are, just acting super crazy,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: upset about the reflecting pool and celebrating the algae that's
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: within it right now.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: What's wrong with you?
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: They're LGBT protesters. Algae, blame Trump. Yeah, whack jobs is
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: what they are. In fact, you guys want a preview
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: of what's coming up on the radio show today? I've got,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you, let me give you a preview.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Producer Jim did not give me permission for this, but
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a preview anyway. Listen to this.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: This is producer Jim put this together for us about
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: these crazy algae people. Take a listen. Let me load
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: it up for you because we got to pull them
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: from the radio folder. Here it is. Take a listen.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Let's go.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: Let's go. We at the Algae Salvation Society are on
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: a mission to preserve the suffocating and gross effects of
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: algae in the reflecting pool just to stick it to
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Donald Trump. As leftist lunatics, we must ignore common sense
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: solutions to make things in our nation's capital beautiful and
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: encourage things like algae blooms and pond scum to destroy
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: anything good Trump tries to do. At ASS, we are
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: Team Algae because anything that is good for President Trump
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: and the rest of the country is bad for us.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: Join us in saving the algae because at the Algae
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: Salvation Society, we are all ass.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Thank you, producer Jim, for bringing joy to our days.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: You see, on the right, we can make beautiful things.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: We can even make beauty out of their chaos. They're
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: all ass.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: They really are.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: They truly are. All right, coming up in a moment,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: the details on a breaking scandal, which we really need
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: to dive into, Operation Fentanyl and Furious, the death of
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: American citizens, and the government was aware that it was
• 29:35
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• 29:38
  Speaker 1: we are joined by Tristan Lerner. in just a moment.
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  Speaker 1: We've got, like I'm telling you, we've got a big
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  Speaker 1: fentanyl scandal. Now, clearly, one of the things that the
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: president of the United States has had a lot of
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: success on is bringing down drug overdose deaths in the
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: United States. That's great news. But before he came into office,
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  Speaker 1: the Biden administration devised a plan to allow fentanyl to
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  Speaker 1: pour into the country. I'm sorry, what?
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: For more on this, I want.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: To bring in the great Tristan Leavitt. He's from Empower Oversight.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: He's the president there. He handles all these whistleblowers, and
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: he does a great job at it. Tristan, great to
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: talk to you again today, sir. Thank you for being
• 33:02
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• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Always a pleasure, Vince.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Okay, so I'm calling this Operation Fentanyl and Furious because
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: it reminds me so much of Operation Fast and Furious
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: when the Obama administration allowed guns to, quote, walk into Mexico,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: one of which was used to kill a Border Patrol
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: agent by the name of Brian Terry. But this sounds
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: like this is on a whole nother level. Like Operation
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Fast and Furious is nothing compared to what you're exposing
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: right now. Tell us what you found.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Well, DEA agent David Howell is a whistleblower who came
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: to us. He came to Empower Oversight really because my partner,
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: Jason Foster, and I were Grassley's lead investigators on Operation
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Fast and Furious 15 years ago. So he got in
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: touch with us through the original Fast and Furious whistleblower,
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  Speaker 2: John Dodson. And what he shared with us was that
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  Speaker 2: after Operation Fast and Furious, we knew that the Justice
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  Speaker 2: Department had adopted protocols for whenever agents in any agency
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  Speaker 2: were listening to a federal wiretap and became aware that
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  Speaker 2: guns were about to be trafficked. They had a responsibility
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  Speaker 2: under those protocols to try and stop those guns from
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: being trafficked. And that was really a reversal of ATF's
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  Speaker 2: policy of saying, hey, rather than stop the guns, we're
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: going to try and follow them, see where they go,
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: and work our way up to the bigger fish. Unfortunately,
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: the DEA And the ATF ended up in a similar
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: conundrum because DEA was subject later to 2019 Trump administration protocols.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: So the firearms protocols are the only ones that existed,
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: but fentanyl is so deadly. that the Trump administration also
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: later created a Title III wiretap fentanyl protocol saying, again,
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: unlike other types of drugs, since just the tiniest, you know,
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: just a pencil tip of fentanyl could be enough to
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: kill someone, we're going to put a new policy in
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: place saying if you become aware that fentanyl is about
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: to be trafficked, you need to try and stop that
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: So unlike, say, like a marijuana shipment or something where
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: the DEA may sit back for a moment and say, okay,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: we'll let it go so we can see the pathways
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: that it's traveling in. But fentanyl, they say even the
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: smallest amount can kill an American citizen, any human being.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: And so, therefore, this is to be treated as one
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: of the most deadly agents coming into our country. In fact,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: I just looked it up. Gun deaths are nowhere near
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: fentanyl deaths. I mean, we have fewer than half in
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: the number, whereas fentanyl deaths, drug overdoses, over 100,000 a
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: year during this period you're talking about. That's right.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: And that's why the DEA adopted a One Pill Can
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Kill campaign. You may have seen that advertising around. And
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: the Trump administration designated fentanyl as a weapon of mass
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: destruction in the second administration. But in between those two administrations,
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: the Biden administration, at least in New Mexico, we haven't
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: determined yet whether it happened in other places. But in
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: New Mexico, they decided that they were tired of just
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: knocking off low level buyer or distributors, traffickers. And so
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: they started instructing the agents to let shipments go. And
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: that was both the DEA and the U.S. Attorney's Office
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: in New Mexico. So our client, David Howell, objected to that.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: He got in trouble because he seized some from a
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: car when they told him not to. And they really
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: sidelined him. And he started watching for other examples of this.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: And ultimately, there were shipments of 75,000, 100,000, 200,000. We
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: believe that ultimately the totals are more than 1 million
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: fentanyl pills that were allowed to be trafficked and agents
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: were told, stand down. We just wanna watch and see
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: where these go. And so the human cost of this
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: was likely immeasurable. We don't know how many deaths, unlike
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: a firearm where there's a serial number that you could
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: trace back each firearm. There's no way to track precisely
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: where all the fentanyl went, but it likely traveled all
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: throughout the country because that's what happens when those come
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: across the border.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: So given over 1 million fentanyl pills, that the Biden
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: administration was aware were pouring into the country and they
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: let it happen anyway. They could have interdicted it, they didn't.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: That's a guarantee that American citizens were killed by this,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: isn't it?
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: I think it is. There's no way to measure how
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: many were killed, but it is inevitable that lives were
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: lost because of this decision to allow the fentanyl on
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: the streets. Now, of course, DEA in New Mexico, the
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: leadership there would say, well, We ultimately did seize it.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: And in some cases, you know, months later, a year later,
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: they did. But in those instances, they don't know if
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: they got it all. They didn't have a precise way
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: to track it. And there's no way to know, again,
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: how many lives are lost along the way.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: This is insane. So David Howell, why is he going?
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: This is as far as I'm aware, this is the
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: first time he's going public. You are giving him assistance
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: on this subject. Tell us about why he's going public now.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Well, after he was sidelined, after he got in trouble
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: for seizing that one car, the U.S. Attorney's Office basically
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: told him, you're not allowed to testify in cases anymore
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: because we're afraid you will tell them what we're doing.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: We're afraid that you'll speak up about the truth here.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: And so he, from there, filed a complaint with the U.S.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: Office of Special Counsel, an agency that I used to
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: help lead. And they went through a multi-year process, as
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: they do. First, they were very interested in the disclosures.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Their process is then that they send over a referral
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: to the agency. And so the Justice Department during the
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Biden administration wrote up a report saying, hey, this isn't
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: a big deal for two reasons. One of them is
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: you are saying that there's no discretion under these fentanyl protocols. Well,
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: good news. We're changing the fentanyl protocols. Now there is discretion.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: So they disregarded his complaint because of that. They also said, look,
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, these are decisions that
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: prosecutors have to make. We think that they were within
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: their discretion to go ahead and allow this fentanyl to
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: go as it was. So If you look in the
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: fall of 2025, OSC's process is after that. They will
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: take that report. They send it to the president and
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: to the Congress. And so that report is on there with,
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: you know, it's redacted. But you look up Justice Department
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: on the OSC website, and you'll see a whole report
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: about this with OSC ultimately concluding, yeah, it was reasonable
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: for the Justice Department to conclude that this was not
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: a violation of policy, wasn't a threat to public safety.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: So that really motivated him to say, hey, I need
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: to do more. Simultaneously, an AP reporter actually reached out
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: to him because OSC failed to fully redact the documents.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: So an OSC or an AP reporter figured out that
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: it was him and asked him if he was willing
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: to speak. And he said, you know what? I am
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: willing to speak up because I think the American public
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: would view this very differently than the Biden Justice Department has. Definitely.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: That's true. Help me understand the timeline about where this
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: stands now. Did the Trump administration successfully end this?
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know that the Trump administration really had
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: awareness of this until Mr. Howell came forward. So in
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: January of, sorry, in March of 2025, after the inauguration,
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: DEA did make a large seizure of fentanyl in Albuquerque.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: In fact, it's DEA's largest seizure of fentanyl ever. Shockingly,
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: it just happened to be in Albuquerque. Interesting. So, of course,
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: that took some off the street. But again, that's only
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: a portion. That was not the case that Special Agent Howell,
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: any of the cases he was working on. Again, this
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: just highlights how much fentanyl has been coming into our country.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: So still, there is fentanyl out there that was never seized. Now, we,
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: of course, have flagged this for Justice Department leadership. We
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: believe that there is an inspector general investigation that's being launched,
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: and we hope that Congress will investigate as well. But yeah,
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: my hope is that the Trump administration will released the
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: records will go in and look and say, okay, where
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: else was this tactic being used? And that they will
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: transparently share with the public where else it was used
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: as well as who was responsible for it.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: You know, it's, um, I was reading the Associated Press's
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: coverage of this because of course they, they broke this
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: story yesterday. Uh, and, and I noticed that they didn't
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: ever include the word Biden in the piece, nor did
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: they include the word Trump for that matter. They only
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: included some dates. They said 2023 to 2025, which is
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: a Just that's like a really hard time frame to
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: pin down, because 2025 is like when Biden leaves and
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: President Trump arrives in January. And then they sort of
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: generically cite various agency spokespeople.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: And I was confused.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: I'm like, is there there's no Trump people defending this,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: are they? Are there people justifying this within Trump world
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: at all? Because if they are, we should direct our
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: ire at them as well. It seems like this is
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: in almost every sense of Biden scandal.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: I think it is. I noted that from both the
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: AP piece and there's an Albuquerque Journal journalist that also
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: got a hold of this, Colleen Heald. And so they
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: released their pieces at the same time. And she also
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: quotes the DEA. But again, I think this is all
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: local DEA leadership that they have asked for comment that's
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: defending it because those were the ones in place, right?
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: So these are career employees, people who were there during
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: the Biden era who were watching as this was happening
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: and letting it happen.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: Or not just watching, or we're directing it, right? This
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: is DEA leadership. I mean, the same, you know, as
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: you know, with a new presidential administration, you get 4,000
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: new political appointees while the 2 million career employees stay
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: in place. So all of the DEA New Mexico field
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: office that was doing this before is still there. And
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: of course, they have every interest in defending what they
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: were doing before. One of those pieces also interviewed the former,
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: the Biden-appointed U.S. attorney, Alex Chibala's, And he very specifically acknowledged, yeah,
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: this is what we're doing. We hoped it would save
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: lives in the long run because you know we'd be
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: able to take down these organizations, which is just an
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: insane take.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Enough, enough. I mean, it's just the same crap with
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: gain-of-function research. It's always the same, oh, I hope this
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: will save lives in the long run after we kill
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: millions of people. I hope it saves somebody. It's like,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: it's such bull crap. Enough killing American citizens. I mean,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: how much more punishment can we possibly take? And Tristan, I...
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: It is staggering. We have been subjected to so many
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: scandals in a row. It just feels like we become
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: numb to it. This is what you're talking about would
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: amount to one of the biggest scandals in American history.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Millions of fentanyl pills that the administration knew were pouring
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: into the country. They let it happen and guaranteed American
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: citizens were being killed.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: By this behavior. You're not wrong. And the Justice Department,
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: even if headquarters could claim we didn't know at first
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: this was happening, when they had it brought to their attention,
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: their response was, well, let's change our protocols so that
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: it's allowed now. That's the problem that we face.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: God, what a nightmare. OK, so you said Congress may
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: get on this. Do you have any indication from anybody
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: in Congress that they're seriously going to launch a hearing?
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: They should immediately.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we have one congressional committee. I won't be specific
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: just to preserve. Again, people are different stages, but Special
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: Agent Howell is going to be interviewed tomorrow. And we've
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: spoken with staff from multiple different committees. And so I
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: don't know if there will be hearings or anything else,
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: but they are definitely digging in.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: Okay, good. And then will we be able to speak
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: to Mr. Howell himself at some point soon?
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: Most likely, yes. We're still trying to see if there
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: will be any blowback from the story yesterday from his
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: direct supervisors. There shouldn't. The word came from higher levels
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: of the Justice Department. You better leave this guy alone.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: But still, there are subtle ways that people can mess
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: with an individual. And so we anticipate him being able
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: to speak about his experiences. and share more about it
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: with the public.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Okay, so I'm sorry, but that's a really important detail.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: The high levels of the Justice Department are saying that
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: what he's sharing is important and do not mess with him.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: That would include, I hope, the Attorney General of the
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: United States, Todd Blanch.
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: So I can't speak to within, you know, I hope
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: also that he shares the same view. I haven't spoken
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: to him. I haven't spoken directly to his people, but... Again,
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: individuals within the Justice Department have assured us that they
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: will do their very best to make sure that he
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: is within DEA, that hands are off him and he's protected.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: And there's a letter on our website, EmpowerOversight.org, that has
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: our press release that notes, we sent our initial letter
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: before this became public to the Inspector General saying, hey,
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: you really need to have an investigation on this. We
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: then sent it to Congress saying, hey, you better make
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: sure that they investigate it. And then about a month later,
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: so about two weeks ago, we sent a letter to
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: the Deputy Attorney General's office saying, to say, hey, please
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: ensure that this whistleblower is protected. And again, we got
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: a favorable reception from that letter.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: And then what about consequences here? Do you have your
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: arms around what is possible? Like what can be done
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: to hold people accountable for the death of American citizens
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: in this cruel way?
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: I frankly think, Vince, this is one of the biggest
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: conundrums that we face in our public life today because
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: our government is not structured to create the sort of
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: accountability that most people expect. And you could attribute that
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: to a lot of things. If I really wanted to,
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: you know, wax philosophical about it, you think back to
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: John Adams saying our government's made for a moral and
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: religious people, right? And that doesn't need to be, you know,
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: people can take that in different ways, but there's an
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: element of trust that we put in our government. And
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: so our criminal statutes aren't set up for this. And
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: it was a question I got with Operation Fast and Furious.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: Where are the people going to jail? And you'd say, well,
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: this was, you know, Congressman, Chairman Daryl Issa would call
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: it felony stupid, right? Their intention wasn't to kill people,
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: but through dumb decisions that they made, this is where
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: it ended up. I don't know what the motivations were
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: behind this because we don't have enough information yet. But generally,
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: I would say our laws afford a lot of latitude
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: to prosecutors, to law enforcement. And so we may need
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: to differently consider what kinds of consequences we subject people
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: to when they And you know, the left is always
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: attacking qualified immunity for law enforcement.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: They're always trying to get rid of it. But the
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: second you bring this up, oh, the Biden administration just
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: killed a ton of people with fentanyl. They're going to say, well,
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: we have qualified immunity. We can't prosecute anybody. It's really,
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: oh my God, it's a nightmare. Thank you, Tristan. Tristan,
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: every time we hear about a new whistleblower, maybe not
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: every time, but close to every time. Every time we
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: hear about a new whistleblower exposing these important revelations, you're
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: often at the center of helping make that happen. So
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: thank you for your great work and for your organization
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: and power oversight. Thank you, Tristan. We can't wait to
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: hear more. Thank you.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Vince.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: All right, there's Tristan Leva with, I assure you, the
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: beginning of a scandal you are about to hear a
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: tremendous more about. And you heard it right here, this
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: story just breaking now as we As we start the
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: week and Tristan sharing that. And I do intend, as
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: I was asking him just a moment ago, hopefully we
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: can get this whistleblower on with us. I'd love to
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: have a conversation with him, find out more about what
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: he was seeing on the inside and bring that to you.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: This is a very, very big story. Again, fentanyl, fentanyl
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: just pouring into our country, killing American citizens, millions of pills.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: They knew about it. Guaranteed that was killing us. It's
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: really sick stuff. What a difference the administration makes. This
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: FBI and this Justice Department has actually brought the drug
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: overdose deaths down a lot, which has been wonderful news.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: A lot of that's just been securing the border. And
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: let me go to that issue for a moment. I
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: want to give you an update on securing the border,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: because there was a story this week in Axios about
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: how the Department of Homeland Security is working aggressively to
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: get the border wall finished. Now, remember, the The big,
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: beautiful bill, now the big, beautiful law, had a bunch
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: of funding in it in order to finish the navigable
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: portions of the border, to finish all of the wall off,
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: including water barriers, you know, right there in the Rio Grande,
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: have water barriers up so people can't just swim across it,
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: which is a stupid and a life-threatening thing to do
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: in the first place. But they're trying to create all
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: sorts of barriers to stop people from pouring into the country,
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: including after President Trump leaves office. And here's the update
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: from Axios. Now they're making it, they basically say, the
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: headline is the clock is ticking on Trump's border wall.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: And in other words, they're running out of time. Not
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: exactly because the timeline that the Trump administration has is
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: by the end of next year, it would be by
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: the end of 2027 to have this finished. And here
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: is what they've got. They say the closer you look
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: at Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen's declaration that the
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: border wall will be finished by this time next year,
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: the harder it is to make the numbers work, they claim.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: They say DHS has only completed 10% of its planned
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: primary wall. It will have to navigate construction lawsuits, negotiate
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: with or sue private citizens for land access, and finalize
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: contracts and designs, all while minimizing the delays that do
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: slow big construction projects. There are about 700 miles of
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: primary border wall left to build, 700 miles, according to
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: Customs and Border Protection spokesman, along with public agency data
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: that tracks wall construction from the CBP and the Department
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: of War. So they would need to increase to about
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: 13 miles a week to finish on Mark Wynn Mullen's
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: self-declared timeline. The primary wall construction rate for most of
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: this year has been roughly 2.6 miles per week. So
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: they really need to to jump it up. Uh, but
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: DHS is counting on construction speed to, to jump up
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: now that the majority of contracts have finally been awarded.
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: That's been truthfully, uh, as far as we've been aware, the,
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: a lot of this has been getting the companies on
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: board after Congress finally authorized the funding last year. So
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: they went through the bids, they got the construction companies
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: and now they're getting these projects up and running and, uh, they're,
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: they're advancing past the design stage. Um, Mark Wayne Mullen
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: just testified to Congress in June, quote, we're on track
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: to have the primary border wall done, completed from the
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  Speaker 1: Pacific to the Gulf of America this time next year.
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  Speaker 1: We're ahead of schedule. We're below budget on building border wall,
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  Speaker 1: said the CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott at a recent public event.
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  Speaker 1: Primary border wall, I've made a commitment to the president,
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  Speaker 1: will be done by the end of 2027. 2027. 2027.
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  Speaker 1: And that, of course, would give us a full year
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  Speaker 1: of additional year of the of the end of the
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  Speaker 1: Trump administration for them to have that wall up. And
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  Speaker 1: if they don't, if they don't meet that deadline of 2027, again,
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  Speaker 1: they have 2028 to work on it, too. CBP continues
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  Speaker 1: to develop and finalize its plan for border barrier construction
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  Speaker 1: funded by the one beautiful bill act with a focus
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  Speaker 1: on the top operational priorities with historical rates of high
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  Speaker 1: illegal entry where illegal aliens regularly attempt to enter the
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  Speaker 1: United States. So this is underway. Do they have to
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  Speaker 1: navigate a maze of obstructions in order to get a
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  Speaker 1: border wall up? Yes, they do. But the DHS Secretary
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  Speaker 1: Mark Wayne Mullen, the CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott, they're saying
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  Speaker 1: this thing's going to be done by next year. All right,
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  Speaker 1: let's hold them to it. And I'm glad to see
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  Speaker 1: they're building this thing because it has to stay. It
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  Speaker 1: is a durable policy against whatever sort of amnesty efforts
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  Speaker 1: the left has designs for. going into the future, if,
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  Speaker 1: God forbid, they ever get power again, it'd be good
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  Speaker 1: to have a wall up. It'd be very good to
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  Speaker 1: have a wall up. And they're working on it as
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  Speaker 1: we speak. That's wonderful. Meanwhile, the FBI scored a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of big victories this week. You see what the FBI
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  Speaker 1: is up to? It's been crazy, actually. Just in the
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  Speaker 1: last 24 hours, the FBI.
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  Speaker 1: Just captured the second most wanted fraudster on its top
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  Speaker 1: 10 fraudsters list. Its most wanted fraudsters list. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the one that they came up with because JD Vance
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  Speaker 1: asked for it.
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  Speaker 5: Here they go.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday, Fox report on the subject.
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  Speaker 2: Cut five.
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  Speaker 1: Watch this.
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  Speaker 6: Second most wanted fraudster. He's allegedly behind, listen to this,
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  Speaker 6: a $ 1. 2 billion Medicare conspiracy.
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  Speaker 5: Billion with a B.
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  Speaker 6: White House officials praising the anti-fraud task force's role in
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  Speaker 6: making this bust.
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  Speaker 7: This is why this task force was so important, because
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  Speaker 7: it has focused all of the resources of the federal
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  Speaker 7: government on doing this.
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  Speaker 5: The Biden administration could have gotten him.
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  Speaker 7: They found plenty of time to arrest people playing outside
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  Speaker 7: of abortion clinics, but instead they let this guy run
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  Speaker 7: away with all of his money outside of the country.
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  Speaker 6: And David Spunn is joining us live from Washington with
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  Speaker 6: the latest on this. David, DOJ has been busy, busy,
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  Speaker 6: busy making these busts.
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  Speaker 5: The department really has, Bill.
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  Speaker 7: This captures part of that administration's approach to highlight fraud. Sure,
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  Speaker 7: other justice departments in the past have caught fraudsters and
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  Speaker 7: did it for decades, but this time the FBI and
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  Speaker 7: DOJ put together a most wanted fraudster list with eight people.
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  Speaker 7: Two are already in custody and just Three weeks. Herbert
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  Speaker 7: Kimball joins the list of those captured after he was
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  Speaker 7: taken down in the Philippines. According to authorities, he targeted
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  Speaker 7: the Medicare system to the tune of $ 1. 2 billion. Investigators
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  Speaker 7: say he operated a sophisticated call center operation, and his
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  Speaker 7: conspiracy involved orthopedic braces and billing Medicare. He operated in
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  Speaker 7: the Philippines, where he was picked up after fleeing the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: He was in the Philippines. They got a hold of him.
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  Speaker 1: Thank God. $ 1. 2 billion? This guy became a billionaire by
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  Speaker 1: stealing from your paycheck? Stealing from the elderly? Stealing from
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  Speaker 1: Medicare recipients? Launch him into the sun, please. I know
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  Speaker 1: SpaceX just put a rocket up in the air today.
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  Speaker 1: Can we strap him to one of them? He doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have to sit on the inside.
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  Speaker 6: $ 1.
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  Speaker 1: 2 billion. And they're not done. Did you see what
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  Speaker 1: they did yesterday? So in addition to busting these people
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  Speaker 1: for $ 1. 2 billion in theft, then all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: they cranked out another one yesterday. The FBI brought back
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  Speaker 1: a fugitive accused of $ 3. 7 billion in Medicare fraud, caught
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  Speaker 1: in Turkey. Ibrahim Khaldun Hilmi fled the United States in
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  Speaker 1: May of last year, obviously with the Trump administration hot
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  Speaker 1: on his tail. Turkish authorities detained him. A fugitive accused
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  Speaker 1: of helping mastermind a $ 3. 7 billion Medicare fraud scheme, one
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  Speaker 1: of the largest in American history, is now in American custody.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities tracked him down in Turkey and flew him back
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  Speaker 1: to the U.S. to face charges the FBI just announced
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  Speaker 1: on Monday. Khaldun Helmi, recently detained by Turkish authorities, fled
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  Speaker 1: America in May of 25. The FBI's critical incident response
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  Speaker 1: group flew out to Turkey and transported Helmi's ass back
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  Speaker 1: to the United States on Friday through a foreign transfer
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  Speaker 1: of custody operation. Kash Patel hailing the operation as a
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  Speaker 1: major victory in the bureau's efforts to track down fugitives
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  Speaker 1: accused of stealing taxpayer dollars. Ibrahim Khaldun Helmi charged with
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  Speaker 1: one of the biggest Medicare scams in history. $ 3. 7 billion
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  Speaker 1: scheme to defraud Medicare. Steal from the elderly, steal from
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  Speaker 1: your paycheck. How many hours have you busted your ass
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  Speaker 1: to pay the government money that you didn't want to pay?
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  Speaker 1: And then that money gets stolen from you by people
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  Speaker 1: like this. What do I got? That's four, $ 5 billion
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  Speaker 1: so far in just 24 hours. $ 5 billion of stolen
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  Speaker 1: money in the form of these guys who have just
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  Speaker 1: been arrested. And we're not going to get all that back.
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  Speaker 1: They'll try. The government's going to try and get some
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  Speaker 1: of it back. A lot of that's just gone. It's
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  Speaker 1: been spent. It's in foreign countries. It's disappeared. That's why
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  Speaker 1: you got to stop it before it happens. That's more,
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  Speaker 1: more of these most wanted guys are being caught. Two
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago, they picked up a dude from Minnesota too. Another,
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  Speaker 1: another dude with a, with a, oh, here's a good
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  Speaker 1: Irish name.
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  Speaker 6: Ready?
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  Speaker 1: Saeed Abdullahi Adeg.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: FBI Director Kash Patel announcing, this is two weeks ago,
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  Speaker 1: that Saeed Abdullahi Areg, a former Minneapolis grocery and deli owner,
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  Speaker 1: had surrendered to federal authorities, marking the first person on
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  Speaker 1: the FBI's new most wanted fraudsters list to be taken
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  Speaker 1: into custody as federal authorities continue a nationwide fraud crackdown.
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  Speaker 1: Faces charges including conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud,
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  Speaker 1: money laundering, The FBI said a reg, a former South
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  Speaker 1: Minneapolis grocery and deli owner, surrendered to federal authorities less
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  Speaker 1: than a week after the Justice Department unveiled its most
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  Speaker 1: wanted fraudsters list, which is intended to publicly identify these
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  Speaker 1: individuals charged in major fraud cases. Quote, today's arrest is historic.
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  Speaker 1: The first ever arrest of a subject on our most
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  Speaker 1: wanted fraudsters list released last week with J.D. Vance's White
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  Speaker 1: House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud. That was Patel. In
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  Speaker 1: a statement, Cash Patel in a statement. So Cash, man,
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  Speaker 1: Cash is staying busy here, ladies and gentlemen. They're picking
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  Speaker 1: been stealing billions of dollars from you and me. This
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