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Iran Releases 25-Page Letter Urging Americans to Punish Trump · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 4: You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 2: Good Monday morning. Nice to have you with us on
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  Speaker 2: the 47 Morning Update. And we've got two big stories
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  Speaker 2: for you. First up, Iran publishing a more than two
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  Speaker 2: dozen page propaganda letter urging American voters to punish President
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump in the midterm elections. so that you'll vote
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  Speaker 2: for the Democrats. We break down the letter for you
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  Speaker 2: and everything it had to say in it. Also, if
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  Speaker 2: you wonder what Democrats are going to do if they
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  Speaker 2: get power in the midterms, well, you don't have to wonder.
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  Speaker 2: They're now spelling it out. Trump's opponents planning efforts, they say,
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  Speaker 2: to reverse his presidency forever. And how much power a U.S.
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  Speaker 2: president can have in the future. How aggressive is it?
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  Speaker 2: It's shocking, and I have that for you as well.
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  Speaker 2: It's the 47 Morning Update, and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 4: First up, story number one.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're trying to decide who you're going to
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  Speaker 2: vote for in the midterm elections, if you're going to
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  Speaker 2: pick a party to go with, just know Iran, they
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  Speaker 2: have decided who they want you to vote for. Iran
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  Speaker 2: has now published a massive letter urging U.S. voters to
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  Speaker 2: punish Donald Trump in the midterm elections. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary
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  Speaker 2: Guard put out a 25-page letter addressed to Americans urging
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  Speaker 2: you to oppose President Donald Trump during the upcoming midterms.
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  Speaker 2: The IRGC, which has repeatedly tried to sway the November
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  Speaker 2: 3rd U.S. elections, claimed that President Trump and his support
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  Speaker 2: of Israel were actually the cause of the war, and
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  Speaker 2: they urged voters in America to reject both in the
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  Speaker 2: voting booth, saying this, America's national security and the lives
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  Speaker 2: of its service members are entrusted to someone who is
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  Speaker 2: not only an inveterated liar, but is also an insanely
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  Speaker 2: advantageous man whose only motivation in life is the accumulation
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  Speaker 2: of greater wealth. That is what the IRGC spokesman said
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  Speaker 2: in the regime's latest attack on President Trump. Now, the
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  Speaker 2: letter also accuses President Trump of concealing the peaceful nature, quote-unquote,
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  Speaker 2: of Iran's nuclear program. This is not a joke, by
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  Speaker 2: the way. This is actually in their letter. Despite, they say,
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  Speaker 2: allegations from the International Atomic Energy Agency watchdog that Tehran
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  Speaker 2: was enriching its uranium beyond what was needed for a
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  Speaker 2: power plant. We all know that, but hey. You know,
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  Speaker 2: let's go back to the propaganda. Now, the U.S. and
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  Speaker 2: Israel have defended the war with Iran primarily as a
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  Speaker 2: means to prevent the Islamic Republic from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 2: The IRGC also lashed out against the U.S. government in general.
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  Speaker 2: designating the security force as a terrorist group, claiming that
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  Speaker 2: there was not, quote, a single verifiable instance where the
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  Speaker 2: IRGC has committed an act of violence against civilians. By
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  Speaker 2: the way, that's like Pathological Lying 101, and we'll deal
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  Speaker 2: with that in a moment. Now, all of this comes
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  Speaker 2: as the regime stands accused of killing between 7,000 to
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  Speaker 2: 30,000 protesters in January during that brutal crackdown on dissidents.
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  Speaker 2: which the regime, of course, defended by claiming the violence
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  Speaker 2: was instigated by foreign actors. Somehow this is America's fault.
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  Speaker 2: Not a joke again. The letter, again, it was more
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  Speaker 2: than two dozen pages, went on to claim that the
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  Speaker 2: war was decimating the U.S. economy due to high fuel
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  Speaker 2: prices caused by the fighting in the Middle East. Quote,
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  Speaker 2: the U.S. economy is on the precept of collapse. Man,
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad the IRGC put out this letter. Otherwise, we
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  Speaker 2: would have really been shocked when this happens. Back to
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  Speaker 2: the letter. And yet he keeps on telling Americans, referring
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  Speaker 2: to Trump, that the economy is booming and that the
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  Speaker 2: prices will soon start to come down the letter states. Quote,
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  Speaker 2: this is perhaps his biggest lie. It's said of the
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  Speaker 2: president soon. The dam will break. And the economy will implode, causing, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: great pain for Americans for many, many years. The IRGC,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, has long maintained that it can cause
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  Speaker 2: enough economic harm on the U.S. to force it to concede,
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  Speaker 2: while also enduring massive economic strains under the Trump's Operation
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  Speaker 2: Economic Outcast. Iran is currently experiencing a trade freefall under
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  Speaker 2: the U.S. blockade with its currency, the rial. plummeting to
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  Speaker 2: historic lows this week. The man in charge of the
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  Speaker 2: IRGC also tried to refute the claims that Iran had
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  Speaker 2: lost control of the Strait of Hormuz, where oil is
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  Speaker 2: flowing at about half of what it was before the
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  Speaker 2: war began, saying this, the fact that the Americans might manage,
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  Speaker 2: at great expense, considerable trouble and high risk to sneak
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  Speaker 2: a small vessel through the Strait of Hormuz under cover
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  Speaker 2: of darkness to export, say, 100 to 200 barrels of
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  Speaker 2: oil does not mean the Strait is open, the IRGC claimed.
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  Speaker 2: Just to put in perspective, more than 7 million barrels
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  Speaker 2: are flowing out of the Strait of Hormuz a day,
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  Speaker 2: with the Persian Gulf's total crude exports now at 72%
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  Speaker 2: of pre-war levels, according to the maritime trackers that are
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  Speaker 2: watching the actual Strait of Hormuz. So again, a little
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  Speaker 2: bit different. They say it's 100 to 200 barrels of
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  Speaker 2: oil going through an itty-bitty little ship In the middle
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  Speaker 2: of the night, under the cover of darkness, when the
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  Speaker 2: reality is you have more than 7 million barrels a
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  Speaker 2: day flowing through the Strait. Now, you go back through
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  Speaker 2: all of this right now, and this goes back to
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  Speaker 2: the propaganda. They, and I'm referring to Iran, they've understood
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  Speaker 2: something pretty clearly. They believe that they can totally wait
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  Speaker 2: out the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: They don't care that their people are suffering. They don't
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  Speaker 2: care that people in their own country have no money.
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  Speaker 2: And even if they have a ton of money, it's
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  Speaker 2: worthless on the marketplace right now. They don't care as
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  Speaker 2: long as they're not suffering. And the guys at the
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  Speaker 2: top are not suffering. Let's be clear about that. They're
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  Speaker 2: not suffering. It is the real citizens of Iran that
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  Speaker 2: are suffering. Now, they believe that they are able to
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  Speaker 2: hold out longer than America is for political purposes. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this is the reason why I said a deal would
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  Speaker 2: probably not get done before the midterms. Because if you
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  Speaker 2: look at the IRGC's letter, they're making it pretty clear,
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  Speaker 2: we're willing to destroy our own country and make people
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  Speaker 2: suffer in our own country at the highest levels before
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  Speaker 2: we give in to President Trump and a deal because
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  Speaker 2: we think the midterms we can hit back and hurt
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  Speaker 2: the president. Now, there's also an interesting part of this
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  Speaker 2: as well that is the second part, and that's the politics.
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  Speaker 2: If you're a undecided voter and you think about what
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  Speaker 2: I just said, do you really want to be voting
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  Speaker 2: for a party that a terrorist organization is telling you
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  Speaker 2: to vote for? I do believe that is a fair
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  Speaker 2: question that should be asked. There's a lot of people,
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  Speaker 2: I think, that would probably look at this and they
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  Speaker 2: would say to themselves, hey, I don't want to be
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  Speaker 2: on the same side as a terrorist organization and who
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  Speaker 2: they want. Now, the economy in Iran is beyond what
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  Speaker 2: I would describe as a disaster right now. Their currency
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  Speaker 2: is the lowest level in our lifetime. Their economic inflation
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  Speaker 2: issues are just massive. I mean, absolutely ginormous. It is really, really, really,
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  Speaker 2: really bad right now. That's the second part of this
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  Speaker 2: that people need to understand. And so when you actually
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  Speaker 2: look at it now for what it is, it's bad
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  Speaker 2: right now. They know it's bad. And what they're betting
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  Speaker 2: on is that somehow President Trump's going to lose the House,
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  Speaker 2: maybe the Senate, right? That's their goal. And then they
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  Speaker 2: have leverage because War Powers Acts and Democrats will go
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  Speaker 2: against the president, which will actually help out the IRGC,
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  Speaker 2: a terrorist organization, and for them to then basically get
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  Speaker 2: their oil moving again. Now, look, the biggest threat to
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  Speaker 2: the IRGC right now is the oil that has stopped flowing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to say that again. The biggest threat to
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  Speaker 2: the IRGC, to the terrorists who are running right now, Iran,
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  Speaker 2: is the oil that stops flowing because then they run
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  Speaker 2: out of money. And when they run out of money,
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  Speaker 2: they can't pay people. When they can't pay They're mobsters,
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  Speaker 2: they're military, they're lynching, whatever you want to call them.
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  Speaker 2: That is when they're in serious, serious, serious, serious, serious,
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  Speaker 2: serious trouble. And they understand that right now. So if
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  Speaker 2: you take a step back and you and you just
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  Speaker 2: stop with the rhetoric and what's being said and you
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  Speaker 2: look at the reality of what is being said, what
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  Speaker 2: they're saying now is they're saying, hey, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: make it to Election Day. And then we'll probably do
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  Speaker 2: a deal with the president. But until then, heads up,
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  Speaker 2: don't vote for Donald Trump. Vote against Donald Trump because
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  Speaker 2: that will hurt Donald Trump. And somehow Donald Trump's the
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  Speaker 2: worst person in the world. And you should hate Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: And we are the IRGC, a terrorist organization, telling you
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  Speaker 2: that you should hate Donald Trump. You really, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: can't make this up. Like the level of the craziness,
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  Speaker 2: the level of the insanity. The level at which there
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  Speaker 2: is this just pure anger and disdain and hatred for
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  Speaker 2: America from a terrorist organization is honestly pretty impressive. And
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  Speaker 2: I go back to the core here. If you're an
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  Speaker 2: American voter, do you really want to be voting for
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  Speaker 2: the same party that a terrorist organization is telling you
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  Speaker 2: to vote for? I don't. This is a 25-page letter.
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  Speaker 2: It is a letter. It is a love level to
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  Speaker 2: terrorism and a hate level. That's maybe the best way
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  Speaker 2: I can describe it. It is a hate letter to freedom, democracy,
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  Speaker 2: and to President Donald Trump. That's what it is, folks.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know any other way to put it. That
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  Speaker 2: is what this is. So I am telling you right now,
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  Speaker 2: if you haven't thought about voting in this midterm, you
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  Speaker 2: really should. And if you haven't thought about the politics
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  Speaker 2: of what it looks like to vote for or against
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  Speaker 2: certain things, well, now you know. You can side with
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  Speaker 2: Freedom and Democracy or you can side with a side
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  Speaker 2: of the IRGC of a terrorist organization who is telling you, please,
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  Speaker 2: whatever you do, vote against Donald Trump. Just vote against
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump at all costs. And if you do that,
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  Speaker 2: you'll be so happy because you'll be on the side
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  Speaker 2: of the terrorists. That's the closing argument from Iran right now. We, Iran,
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  Speaker 2: endorse all the Democratic candidates, all the Marxists, all the socialists,
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  Speaker 2: all the communist candidates, the Democratic Socialists of America. We're
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  Speaker 2: on their side. Just don't vote for Donald Trump. That's
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  Speaker 2: what this election is going to come down to. When
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  Speaker 2: they tell you how crazy they are and who their
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  Speaker 2: supporters are, believe them, because now they have the IRGC,
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  Speaker 2: a terrorist organization, begging Americans to vote against Trump's agenda.
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  Speaker 4: Now, story number two.
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  Speaker 2: So you don't have to speculate any longer about what
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  Speaker 2: Democrats are planning if they get back control of the
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  Speaker 2: House or the Senate. There is something very significant that's
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  Speaker 2: happening in Washington right now, and it's all about organizing.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump's opponents, they are planning what they describe as
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  Speaker 2: a post-Trump America. Now, not simply about thinking about who
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  Speaker 2: might replace him or what policies a future Democratic president
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  Speaker 2: might pursue. That's what normal, sane people would be talking about.
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  Speaker 4: No, no.
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  Speaker 2: This is totally different. They're wanting to rewrite the rules
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  Speaker 2: surrounding presidential power, we're now being told, and then reverse
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  Speaker 2: some of the institutional changes Trump has made during his
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  Speaker 2: second term. Now, I want to be clear. What I'm
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  Speaker 2: saying to you right now is not speculation. The Washington
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  Speaker 2: Post is now reporting, yeah, the liberal Washington Post, that
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  Speaker 2: Democratic lawmakers, former government officials, lawyers, ethic experts, and outside
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  Speaker 2: organizations are actively developing proposals right now. The headline says
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  Speaker 2: it plainly. Trump's opponents are planning efforts to reverse his
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  Speaker 2: changes to the presidency. Now, according to the Washington Post,
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  Speaker 2: Democrats are drafting what they describe as legislation. And that
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  Speaker 2: legislation is aimed at restricting presidential emergency powers. Democratic lawyers
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  Speaker 2: are discussing ways to insulate the Justice Department from presidential influence.
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  Speaker 2: And they say their proposals involving presidential ethics and conflicts
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  Speaker 2: of interest. Then they say protections for federal employees and
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  Speaker 2: even legislation governing renovations to the White House because they're
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  Speaker 2: still obsessed with the president making the White House nicer
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  Speaker 2: than it is now with the presidential ballroom. Jamie Raskin,
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  Speaker 2: the radical top Democrat in the House Judiciary Committee, he
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  Speaker 2: has described over the weekend what he believes will be required...
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  Speaker 2: in remarkable terms, saying, quote, we have a massive reconstruction
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  Speaker 2: task ahead of us. And he says this isn't something
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  Speaker 2: that gets accomplished overnight. He says it could take years
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  Speaker 2: or decades. Raskin says Democrats will have to go department
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  Speaker 2: by department, subject by subject, to determine what should be
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  Speaker 2: preserved and what should be recreated. In other words, they
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  Speaker 2: want to totally tear down our government and the way
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  Speaker 2: that it works. Now, I want you to just think
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  Speaker 2: about what that tells you right now. This isn't a
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  Speaker 2: debate about one Trump policy. OK, what they're saying is
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  Speaker 2: this is now a debate about the structure and the
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  Speaker 2: power of the presidency itself. And they're saying when we
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  Speaker 2: don't have it right, when Democrats are not in charge
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  Speaker 2: of the presidency, then we believe that we should be
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  Speaker 2: able to strip the president of his job, of his duty,
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  Speaker 2: of his powers, so that if he's doing anything that
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  Speaker 2: we don't like, then we can. Well, just kill it
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  Speaker 2: and it won't happen. This is no longer a debate about, again, policies.
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  Speaker 2: This is about power and control. Now, what's also interesting
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  Speaker 2: is the pre-planning here. Democrats aren't waiting until Trump leaves
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  Speaker 2: office to start their planning. One major target by this
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  Speaker 2: way is the president's use of emergency powers, they said,
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  Speaker 2: and they're saying this publicly. Trump has declared roughly a
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  Speaker 2: dozen emergencies during his second term and used emergency authority
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  Speaker 2: to get things done in areas ranging from tariffs to
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  Speaker 2: immigration enforcement, National Guard deployments. And they say, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: we're getting rid of that. You've got a couple of
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  Speaker 2: Democratic representatives, DelBene and Don Byers. They've now introduced legislation,
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  Speaker 2: they say, that would prevent presidents from imposing tariffs through
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  Speaker 2: national emergency authority without congressional approval. Therefore, it would take
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  Speaker 2: away the president's ability to leverage tariffs on other countries.
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  Speaker 2: Raskin has drafted also other legislation already. One proposal, he says,
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  Speaker 2: would prohibit a president from accepting payments from foreign governments
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  Speaker 2: without congressional consent. Another, he said, would require public review
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  Speaker 2: before major White House renovations. Another proposal, they say, would
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  Speaker 2: restrict a president's ability to enter financial settlements with his
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  Speaker 2: own government. And then there's Rahm Emanuel. Remember the former
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  Speaker 2: Chicago mayor who used to be the mastermind behind Barack Obama?
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  Speaker 2: He released what he described as, and this is not
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  Speaker 2: a joke, an ethics package covering all three branches of government.
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  Speaker 2: That's the guy that wants to be president one day,
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  Speaker 2: by the way. His proposal would ban stock trading and
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  Speaker 2: prediction market betting, require officials worth more than a million
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  Speaker 2: to use blind trust and prohibit acceptance of foreign gifts
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  Speaker 2: as well. Then there's Senator Chris Murphy. He's introduced something
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  Speaker 2: called the No Political Enemies Act. That should be fun.
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  Speaker 2: He says it's, quote, designed to prohibit executive branch officials
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  Speaker 2: from punishing people or organizations because of protected speech. Wow,
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  Speaker 2: isn't that what they did under Obama and Biden? Just
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  Speaker 2: isn't it funny how the things they say they want
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  Speaker 2: to ban, they actually did? You got to laugh at
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: some of the hypocrisy here. Now, one of the biggest
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  Speaker 2: battles of all, they also say, involves the federal workforce.
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  Speaker 2: Trump has spent much of his time at the White
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  Speaker 2: House trying to make executive branch more responsive to the
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  Speaker 2: elected president. And reducing or restructuring parts of the federal bureaucracy.
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  Speaker 2: Democrats say, uh-uh. We want stronger protections for federal workers
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  Speaker 2: so you can't fire them. In other words, it's like
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  Speaker 2: tenure for the crazies in our government. The partnership, they say,
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  Speaker 2: for public service has developed proposals that would make it
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  Speaker 2: harder for future presidents to conduct large-scale firings, even if
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  Speaker 2: they're the president. They said it would strengthen requirements that
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  Speaker 2: hiring and dismissal decisions to be based on merit and
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  Speaker 2: due process. So in other words, if you hire a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of socialist, communist, Marxist, and another party comes in,
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  Speaker 2: and the American people say, we don't want this, they
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  Speaker 2: want to make it nearly impossible for you to go
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  Speaker 2: fire the communists, the Marxists, the socialists, the activist employees.
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  Speaker 2: Like that's what they want you to have no chance
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  Speaker 2: to do. They want to say, no, no, no, you
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  Speaker 2: can't do that. You absolutely cannot. Now, when you think
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  Speaker 2: about how crazy that is, it explains. And again, Democrats saying, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we have control of bureaucracy of Washington. When we lose power,
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  Speaker 2: we believe we should still be able to have you
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  Speaker 2: in those positions of power. And we believe that you
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: shouldn't be able to fire someone and get rid of them.
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  Speaker 2: Like that is insane. Because what they're basically saying is
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  Speaker 2: the president of the United States of America doesn't get
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  Speaker 2: to be the president of the United States of America.
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  Speaker 2: What they're also saying is we're not worried about taking
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  Speaker 2: away this power if a Democrat gets elected because they'll
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  Speaker 2: already have the bureaucracy there that believes in what they
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  Speaker 2: believe in as a Democrat or a socialist or a
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  Speaker 2: communist or a Marxist. So all the pieces of the
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  Speaker 2: puzzle are already there. So we don't mind if we
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  Speaker 2: take away this power because it's only really going to
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  Speaker 2: affect Republicans. It will not affect us, right? It does
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  Speaker 2: not have us, the Democratic, Socialist, Communist, Marxist in America.
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  Speaker 2: That is what they are saying. And that should concern everyone. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the most consequential fight concerns, by the way, the Department
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  Speaker 2: of Justice. And this is where Democrats are playing at
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  Speaker 2: a whole nother level. All right. Former Biden Justice Department
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  Speaker 2: official Gupta told the Post that former DOJ officials from administrations,
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  Speaker 2: they say they claim both Republicans and Democrats are already
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  Speaker 2: discussing how they believe the department should be rebuilt after Trump.
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  Speaker 2: She says experienced career officials have indicated they would be
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  Speaker 2: willing to return The state objective is restoring what these
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  Speaker 2: officials describe as the DOJ's traditional independence from presidential political influence,
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  Speaker 2: which is totally a lie. We know that the DOJ
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  Speaker 2: was politicized under the Biden years, under the Obama years,
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  Speaker 2: like we've never seen before. And what they're saying is
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  Speaker 2: we got to go back and get our power back. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the Trump administration, of course, rejects the broader premise behind
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  Speaker 2: all of this. White House spokesman even said to the
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  Speaker 2: Washington Post this week that the administration has compiled, let
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  Speaker 2: me rephrase that, has complied, with legal decisions while using
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  Speaker 2: the appeals process to challenge rulings that it disputes. In
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  Speaker 2: other words, following the law. The White House communications director,
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  Speaker 2: Stephen Chung, went even further, arguing Trump's accomplishments will be
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  Speaker 2: imprinted upon the fabric of America and influence future administrations.
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  Speaker 2: And conservatives are challenging Democrats on another point as well.
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  Speaker 2: Will they actually impose these restrictions on a Democrat president?
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  Speaker 2: Question mark, right? Well, Tiffany Justice of Heritage Action told
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  Speaker 2: The Post that she doesn't believe Democrats would voluntarily restrict
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  Speaker 2: the authority of a Democratic president. But again, you got
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: to understand, they're assuming that most of the people that
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  Speaker 2: are in positions of power in the government and the
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  Speaker 2: bureaucracy that they get back into the bureaucracy are going
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: to be on their team on their side. So that's
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  Speaker 2: all that really matters. You get my point here? Do
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: you understand how this is going down? Do you understand
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  Speaker 2: the calculus behind this? It's pretty damning if you think
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  Speaker 2: about what they're doing. And then it goes to this.
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  Speaker 2: The broader argument by Democrats is that Trump isn't inventing
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  Speaker 2: presidential power from scratch. Presidents of both parties, they say,
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  Speaker 2: have expanded executive authority. They just say that Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't have the same authority that Democrats have had in
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  Speaker 2: the past. And by the way, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: historical evidence for that broader point that I just made.
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  Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan, he fired more than 11,000 striking air traffic controllers.
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  Speaker 2: You may remember that. Fired them all. George W. Bush
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  Speaker 2: dramatically expanded executive national security authority after September the 11th.
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  Speaker 2: Barack Obama used executive authority to create DACA, dramatically expanded
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  Speaker 2: the use of drone strikes when he was president. He
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: relied heavy on executive actions when Congress wouldn't enact portions
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  Speaker 2: of his agenda. So like this is there is precedent
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  Speaker 2: for what Trump is doing right now. The larger. Constitutional
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  Speaker 2: question isn't simply whether Donald Trump has expanded presidential power.
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  Speaker 2: It's whether Congress is going to reclaim power or powers.
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  Speaker 2: I should say the presence of both parties have accumulated
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  Speaker 2: for decades and the Democrats themselves are saying, Hey, we
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: want to go back and we want to take back
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  Speaker 2: all the power only by the way, when Republicans only, okay.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Only when Republicans are in power. We want to control
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  Speaker 2: the executive. We will hide and make it impossible to
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  Speaker 2: fire us when Republicans get elected. And when Republicans get elected,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: we won't give them a staff that they need to
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: follow out their agenda because we will own all of
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: the executive branch. We will own all of the bureaucracy
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: and we'll have all of these people in the bureaucracy
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: that will be there to stop president Trump or any
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: future Republican presence. That is what they're saying. In other words,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: We've got communism. You may win an election. It doesn't matter.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: You won't get to do anything you said to people
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: you're going to do because we're going to stop you
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: every single step of the way moving forward. What is
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: also interesting about what I just told you is they're
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: saying all this publicly. You don't have to guess, folks,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: what they're doing now. Okay? You don't have to guess.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: You don't have to guess. This is what they're going
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: to do. They are telling you This is what they
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: are going to do. They are making it explicitly clear
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: that this is what they are going to do.
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