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Multiple airports refuse to play Kristi Noem video blaming Democrats for government shutdown · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: The federal government has been shut down for more than
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  Speaker 1: two weeks, and the White House is using the levers
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  Speaker 1: of the federal government in effect to blame Democrats, and
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  Speaker 1: that is coming, in fact to your TSA lines.
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  Speaker 2: Democrats in Congress refuse to fund the federal government and
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  Speaker 2: because of this, many of our operations are impacted and
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  Speaker 2: most of our TSA employees are working without pay.
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  Speaker 1: So the White House rolled out this video from DHS
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  Speaker 1: Secretary Christino to be plated at airports, and several of
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  Speaker 1: those airports are refusing, including Portland, and a statement to CNN,
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  Speaker 1: the operator of Portland International says, we did not consent
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  Speaker 1: to playing the video in its current form, as we
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  Speaker 1: believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets
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  Speaker 1: for political purposes and messaging. So the greater question to
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  Speaker 1: ask is why the Trump administration is using government resources
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  Speaker 1: to cast political blame. I was talking with the documentary
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  Speaker 1: filmmaker Raoul Peck. He's done a new work on George Orwell,
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  Speaker 1: and Heck calls us kind of move or Well in.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but there is something that we can call the truth,
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  Speaker 3: you know, even a mathematical truth. That's why we call
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  Speaker 3: the film two plus two equal five, because we have
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  Speaker 3: a number of people who wants you to believe that
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  Speaker 3: two plus two equal five, and who can get you confused,
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  Speaker 3: because when it's an voice of authority who comes on
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  Speaker 3: TV and tells you, you know what, as of today,
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  Speaker 3: two plus two equal five, and by the time you
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  Speaker 3: start to understand, wait, wait a minute, that's not what
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  Speaker 3: I remember, and the time is gone and you already submerge. Yes, bye.
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  Speaker 3: By what you call the propaganda.
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  Speaker 1: Basically, submerge is a good word.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it does feel like the water is rising.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes that was the plan. Let's flood the zone.
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  Speaker 1: Group chat is back, Michelle. I want to start with
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  Speaker 1: you because I also noticed if you call the White
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  Speaker 1: House hotline, Caroline Levitt pops up and says, hello, America.
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  Speaker 1: The Democrats so don't want to fund the government because
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  Speaker 1: they want to fund healthcare for illegal immigrants. It's a
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  Speaker 1: very specific line. Can you talk about how they're using
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  Speaker 1: wherever they can to spread this message?
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  Speaker 4: That's right, and it's not just there. I mean government
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  Speaker 4: websites were getting this banner splashed across them. You couldn't
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  Speaker 4: miss it. It's a big red banner that had the
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  Speaker 4: same message started the first week of the shutdown, if
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  Speaker 4: you emailed the Press office at the White House, you
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  Speaker 4: would get an automated response. And my understanding is that
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  Speaker 4: spread to other offices in the administration. There were some
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  Speaker 4: workers at the Education Department who said that without their knowledge,
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  Speaker 4: their own out of office replies were fashion into a
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  Speaker 4: message like this. But this is all kind of in
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  Speaker 4: concert with the way the Trump administration has tried to
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  Speaker 4: put Mexicum pressure wherever they can and use political communication
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  Speaker 4: or political style communication wherever.
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  Speaker 1: Can I ask my messaging folks about this. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: there are consultants who would love to fantasize about putting
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  Speaker 1: their message of where they can. The Hatch Act actually
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  Speaker 1: says maybe it can't. And I thought it was interesting
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  Speaker 1: that Portland Airport authorities brought it up.
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  Speaker 5: So I actually make these ads for Congressmen. And when
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  Speaker 5: we make these ads for Congressman and for those of
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  Speaker 5: you at home, the congressional budget for each House office,
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  Speaker 5: they get around three hundred and fifty thousand dollars to
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  Speaker 5: communicate with their constitutions about what's going on in Washington
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  Speaker 5: and what is Let's say you have a VA claim
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  Speaker 5: or you're having problems with some other atmosh something to
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  Speaker 5: do with the government. But in that a lawyer has
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  Speaker 5: to see it to make sure that I'm not violating
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  Speaker 5: the Hatch Act by targeting Democrats targeting Republicans. I can't
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  Speaker 5: even send a mailer based off of your political party.
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  Speaker 5: It has to be to the general public because it's
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  Speaker 5: your government money.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny the documentarian is doing something on George Orwell.
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  Speaker 1: And I know a lot of people have read nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty four. If you haven't, aw's the time. But one
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  Speaker 1: of the concerns is about telling people. You can use
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  Speaker 1: the term propaganda, but basically telling people what you're seeing.
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  Speaker 1: The government is shut down, you're standing in line at
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  Speaker 1: the airport, your workers aren't being paid is a very
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  Speaker 1: specific person's fault, according to me, And that is the
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  Speaker 1: fact instead of the fact of lawmakers are having a
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  Speaker 1: bipartisan fight and that's prevented everyone from being paid.
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  Speaker 2: There's two things here. One, as we all know, and
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  Speaker 2: I say this all the time, that the Trump administration
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  Speaker 2: is one hundred percent willing to fight anything in the courts.
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  Speaker 2: But we're sitting here talking about exactly what they want
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  Speaker 2: us to be talking about, which is Democrats being blamed
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  Speaker 2: for the shutdown. I understand we're doing it different ways,
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  Speaker 2: but that's what they care about. So they're winning in
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  Speaker 2: their mind, and they'll fight this in the courts, which
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  Speaker 2: everything's being fought in the courts. I need to say
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  Speaker 2: one more thing about this. He was talking to me
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  Speaker 2: this weekend about being in East Texas. The American people
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  Speaker 2: do not want our government to be shut down, and
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  Speaker 2: our leaders on both sides need to get their act
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  Speaker 2: together and get back to work.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is to your point. That person you're
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  Speaker 1: talking about who thinks it's horrible, if they're standing in
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  Speaker 1: line at the airport, would they be looking up at
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  Speaker 1: that and be like, oh, yeah, that's that's true.
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  Speaker 2: Why I think that they annoyed on both sides. This
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  Speaker 2: is why the Congress has such a low approval rating.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, in general, get back to work. Figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: You can't have Republicans saying their thing. You can't have
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  Speaker 2: Schumer saying this is better for Democrats if it stays
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  Speaker 2: shut down, it just needs to stop.