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Sen. Booker FIRED UP over Trump'sIRS settlement 'The president is a tax cheat!' · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: President who is a saint. No president in the history
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  Speaker 1: of this country has been caught in tax cheating more
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  Speaker 1: than this one. A Pullit Surprise winning documentation of his
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  Speaker 1: tax cheating came out in twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: Pulleit Serprise. Donald Trump said, I'm going to assue you.
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  Speaker 2: It's all wrong.
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  Speaker 1: That suit was thrown out because the president is a
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  Speaker 1: tax chief. But it didn't stop with that. He was
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  Speaker 1: a tax cheat with his nonprofit as well. He created
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  Speaker 1: a so called charity. But what did he do with
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  Speaker 1: that charity. It was cited by the state of New
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  Speaker 1: York for self dealing for tax cheating and was shut down.
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  Speaker 1: We have an known arsonist, and we have just in
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  Speaker 1: this committee given him a whole barrel full of gasoline
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  Speaker 1: to light on fire our tax laws and have no
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  Speaker 1: accountability for the conflagration. This is so ridiculous that we
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  Speaker 1: are sitting back here and allowing this to happen. A
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  Speaker 1: president that we know is a tax chief. That is
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  Speaker 1: a fact. That is a fact. We have now just
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  Speaker 1: given him an immunity to his tax cheating. Now here's
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  Speaker 1: an admission I'm going to make to my colleagues on the
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  Speaker 1: other side. We've had presidents to have done things that,
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  Speaker 1: to me, do not pass the smell test and do
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  Speaker 1: not pass the appearance of impropriety. I think this committee
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  Speaker 1: should pass a law that no children of presidents should
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  Speaker 1: be able to grift off their parents' office. To me,
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  Speaker 1: it is ridiculous the corruption that we have normalized in America.
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  Speaker 1: That president's children can go out and sit on boards
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  Speaker 1: and make money. That is wrong and that is corrupting.
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  Speaker 1: But they have become so obsessed with the millions that
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  Speaker 1: the Bidens have made that they have ignored complet delely
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  Speaker 1: the billions of dollars that the Trump family is making.
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  Speaker 1: That is like being obsessed and using a magnifying glass
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  Speaker 1: to study the stain on the living room carpet when
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  Speaker 1: behind you is a mountain of excrement covering the living
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  Speaker 1: room couch and coffee table. This is so outrageous. The
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  Speaker 1: lack of proportionality going on on, my colleagues, it is laughable.
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  Speaker 1: This is absolutely insane that we have a president of
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  Speaker 1: the United States that has now made two billion dollars
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  Speaker 1: doing what while he's such a shrewd businessman. Let me
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  Speaker 1: create my own crypto coin and have foreign nations invest
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  Speaker 1: in it. Oh and by the way, if you are
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  Speaker 1: a corporation in America, put my children on the board
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  Speaker 1: and they'll get no big contracts.
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  Speaker 2: We are.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Judiciary Committee. We're supposed to be checking
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  Speaker 1: and balancing this nation.
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  Speaker 2: Why have people on both.
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  Speaker 1: Sides of the aisle given up on any trust in
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  Speaker 1: government is because we are surrendering any shred of integrity
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  Speaker 1: left and now we're letting an attorney general become the
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  Speaker 1: highest law enforcement officer in the land and.
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  Speaker 2: Putting no holds whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: I had hope for two weeks that we would get something,
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  Speaker 1: two weeks that we would have something substantive to stop
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  Speaker 1: the world's greatest presidential tax cheat from cheating. And we've
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  Speaker 1: done nothing. And this man is going to now sail
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  Speaker 1: to the floor, and history is going to show it.
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  Speaker 1: I know what's going to come out in history on
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  Speaker 1: this president, and I know what's going.
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  Speaker 2: To come out on Todd Blanche And in.
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  Speaker 1: The simplest way that should outrage any shred of decency
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  Speaker 1: my colleagues have, because this isn't left or right, this
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  Speaker 1: isn't presidential enrichment. This is the deepest, most sacred urgency
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  Speaker 1: of this committee. And I know colleagues on both sides
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  Speaker 1: care about it. Victims of crime should have justice. And
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  Speaker 1: here in the United States of America one of the
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  Speaker 1: greatest sex trafficking rings we've ever seen, when only two
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  Speaker 1: people over one thousand women sexually assaulted and raped, only
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  Speaker 1: two people have been held accountable. There are other criminals
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  Speaker 1: out there that haven't been found. And what did the
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  Speaker 1: man that we're talking about becoming the Attorney General of
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  Speaker 1: the United States, what did he do well? He joined
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  Speaker 1: in the situation room in the White House. Y'all know
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  Speaker 1: what the situation room is, right, This is where we
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  Speaker 1: go to deal with the greatest national security threats, in
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  Speaker 1: a classified room, to deal with the safety of our nation.
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  Speaker 1: And yet this administration in the situation room calls an
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  Speaker 1: emergency meeting at which Todd Blanche was there to say,
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  Speaker 1: what are we going to do? Because the president appears
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  Speaker 1: in the Epstein files hundreds of times, they didn't get
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  Speaker 1: together to say this is really bad. This is a
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  Speaker 1: roding trust in the justice system, This is a rooting trust.
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  Speaker 2: In the rule of law.
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  Speaker 1: We have to find a way to hold powerful people accountable. No,
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  Speaker 1: they came together with Todd Blanche in the room how
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  Speaker 1: do we protect the president?
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  Speaker 2: And what happened after that?
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  Speaker 1: One of the most unusual things in the history of
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  Speaker 1: our country happened after that.
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  Speaker 2: Todd Blanche, at.
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  Speaker 1: The highest heights of our Justice Department, ran to the
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  Speaker 1: prison of Glene Maxwell. This is unprecedented, This is lawyers
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  Speaker 1: tell me untoward, this is corrupting. He didn't study the
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  Speaker 1: case files, he didn't talk to the prosecutors. No, he
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  Speaker 1: ran to the jail cell and met with her for
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  Speaker 1: two days, insulting every single Epstein victim that had been asking.
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  Speaker 2: For a meeting for years.
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  Speaker 1: And after two days of meetings, did we get information
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  Speaker 1: that led to an indictment?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: Did we get information that led to new opens of investigations? No?
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  Speaker 2: Did we get one more conviction? No?
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  Speaker 1: What did we get that a convicted sex offender was
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  Speaker 1: able to leave her confinement and go to the cushiest prison.
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  Speaker 2: In our land?
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  Speaker 1: That by Bureau of Prison Law, by DOJ lawha is
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  Speaker 1: a violation of their principles. So Glayne Masquhell is sitting
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  Speaker 1: in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that
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  Speaker 1: helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent.
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  Speaker 2: And the man responsible for that.
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  Speaker 1: We are about to make the Attorney General of the
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  Speaker 1: United States of America.
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  Speaker 2: This man is not our lawyer. He is not America's lawyer.
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  Speaker 1: He is about to become Trump's sword against his adversaries
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  Speaker 1: and shield.
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  Speaker 2: Against any scrutiny.
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  Speaker 1: The shield is gonna shield him from tax cheating, The
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  Speaker 1: shield is gonna shield him from investigation for any involvement
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  Speaker 1: he may have had in Epstein's deeds. And the sword
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  Speaker 1: I've seen it unprecedented that the Attorney General should investigate
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  Speaker 1: colleagues here.
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  Speaker 2: On this committee. This is farcical.
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  Speaker 1: It would be literally laughably funny if it wasn't so dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: We are about to put a person in one of
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  Speaker 1: the most powerful positions in the land, vital for not
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  Speaker 1: only enforcing the law protecting national security, but also vital
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  Speaker 1: for upholding our democracy. And my Republican colleagues sound like
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  Speaker 1: Jan Brady, Marsha Marshall, Marsha Biden, Biden, Biden.
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  Speaker 2: You are worried.
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  Speaker 1: About a pickpocket a pickpocket.
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  Speaker 2: When it comes to grand theft, larceny.
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to our democracy, You're worried about someone
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  Speaker 1: who is doing petty theft while there is the murder
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  Speaker 1: of art democratic traditions going on before our eyes. We
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  Speaker 1: are in dangerous waters, folks, We are in dangerous waters.
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  Speaker 1: We are turning the ideals of justice and this committee
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  Speaker 1: into a mockery by letting the least qualified person, a
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  Speaker 1: person proven to do Donald Trump's will over the law.
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  Speaker 1: He is about Trump and not truth. He is about
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  Speaker 1: corruption and not the constant. He's about being Donald Trump's
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  Speaker 1: lawyer and not the people's lawyer.
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  Speaker 2: This is so deeply wrong.
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  Speaker 1: We will rue the day that we let this man
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  Speaker 1: have this much power under such a corrupt president.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir,