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Where in the World is James Talafreako??? | Episode 387 · V

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  Speaker 1: We've got a lot coming up today. Where the hell
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  Speaker 1: is James Talafrico? The guy disappeared off the face of
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  Speaker 1: the earth at a really pivotal time with less than
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  Speaker 1: a month ago.
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  Speaker 2: Before the midterms. Where the hell did he go? Why
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  Speaker 2: is he in hiding? We'll explore that. That's coming up
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  Speaker 2: on the program.
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  Speaker 1: a lot to talk about with the senator. We're going
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  Speaker 1: Okay, we've got a lot going on. Let me just
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  Speaker 1: start with the big question. Where in the world is
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  Speaker 1: James Talafrico? Whatever happened to that guy? Whatever happened to him?
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  Speaker 1: He's been missing now for going on 13 days. He's
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  Speaker 1: disappeared from the campaign trail in Texas. Now, you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to be a political consultant, some sort of polling expert,
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  Speaker 1: or an experienced politician to know You don't disappear for
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  Speaker 1: two weeks off of the campaign trail in the closing
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  Speaker 1: days of the midterms.
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  Speaker 2: Now, for normal people, I would say that in a
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  Speaker 2: way it's kind of a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's like we don't have to see James Talafrico as much,
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  Speaker 1: and this is limiting his ability to try and appeal
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  Speaker 1: to voters in a dishonest way to get their support.
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  Speaker 1: So as far as I'm concerned, he can stay off
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  Speaker 1: the campaign trail for the rest of this campaign.
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  Speaker 2: But it is a bit of a mystery, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Who the hell is the guy? Just disappeared?
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Ken Paxton is out there campaigning every single day
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  Speaker 1: in Texas, standing alongside President Trump on rally stages, earning
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  Speaker 1: every single vote he can possibly get inside of Texas.
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  Speaker 1: So we have kind of a bizarro mystery underway. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the official explanation for James Talifrico's disappearance is he's got
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  Speaker 1: the flu.
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  Speaker 2: He's got the flu. He's a little sick.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, as this all started, his disappearance, he appeared
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  Speaker 1: by video at an event and said, sorry, I can't
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  Speaker 1: be there.
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  Speaker 2: I've got the black lung, Pop. Or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: He said he was sick. And since then, he hasn't
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  Speaker 1: been seen. And this is a very unusual thing. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the President of the United States has noted how bizarre
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  Speaker 1: this is. He posted to Truth Social the following. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: he said, Telefrico's been missing for 12 days.
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  Speaker 4: 12 days.
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  Speaker 1: Now, after looking for him throughout all of Texas and beyond,
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  Speaker 1: probably even weirder places than anyone would think possible. They've
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  Speaker 1: checked every drag show in Texas and they haven't found
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  Speaker 1: him yet. They say, quote, he put out a statement that.
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  Speaker 2: He has the flu.
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  Speaker 1: 12 days is a long time to rid yourself of
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  Speaker 1: the so-called flu bug.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on?
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  Speaker 1: We need a senator that's a proven champion, like one
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  Speaker 1: that has been, without question, the greatest attorney general in
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  Speaker 1: the history of Texas and one of the greatest in
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  Speaker 1: the USA. His name is Ken Paxton, and he will
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  Speaker 1: never let you down. Thank you for your attention to
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  Speaker 1: this matter, President Donald J.
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  Speaker 5: Trump.
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  Speaker 1: So here's President Trump throwing the red flag. Hey, can
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  Speaker 1: I get a review here? What the hell's going on?
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  Speaker 1: Where'd this guy go? What happened to him? They say
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  Speaker 1: he has the flu?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The left is freaking out as well about this.
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  Speaker 1: It's not just the president of the United States flagging
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  Speaker 1: this thing.
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  Speaker 2: It's the left pulling.
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  Speaker 1: Their hair out over the reality that James Talafico is
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  Speaker 1: off the campaign trail.
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  Speaker 2: Look at this from NBC. We don't want this right now.
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  Speaker 1: Texas Senate candidate James Tala, they call him, what is this? Rico, Rico, whatever, okay.
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  Speaker 1: But James Talafico off the trail with the flu. We
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  Speaker 1: don't want this right now, they say over at NBC.
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  Speaker 1: The bitter fight over a Texas Senate seat that Democrats
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  Speaker 1: believe is within reach for the first time in decades
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  Speaker 1: should be ramping up right now. But in the final push,
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  Speaker 1: when campaigns believe most voters are finally tuning in, Democrat
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  Speaker 1: state rep James Talafrico has been off the trail for
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  Speaker 1: in-person events in the state for 12 days. His campaign
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  Speaker 1: says he has the flu and is expected to be
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  Speaker 1: back in action this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: They say he appeared virtually at a forum.
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  Speaker 1: But his last in-person event at the state, in the state,
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  Speaker 1: was September 26th.
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  Speaker 2: That was it. That was it.
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  Speaker 1: Ken Paxton's campaign saying they have a simple request. They
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  Speaker 1: want proof of life. Talafrico wants to represent 31 million
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  Speaker 1: Texans in the Senate, but for 12 days he's hidden
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  Speaker 1: from every one of them? There's a reason they call
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  Speaker 1: it Texas tough, and it's not because Texans hide at
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  Speaker 1: the first sign of trouble. If Talafrico's too fragile to
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  Speaker 1: face Texans, he has no business asking for.
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  Speaker 2: their vote.
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  Speaker 1: A Texas Democrat who's involved in Talofrico's race said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: he's like really sick. Believe me, we don't want this
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  Speaker 1: right now. We'd rather have him on the trail.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry about that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just telling you this exactly how that person spoke.
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  Speaker 1: I guarantee at the Hispanic Business Council event that he
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  Speaker 1: appeared at virtually. He was blowing his nose and coughing
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  Speaker 1: throughout the event.
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  Speaker 2: You know, really hamming it up. So Talofrico's got the
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  Speaker 2: got the bug. He's got the flu. We should figure
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  Speaker 2: out if he's got the plague, perhaps. Does he have
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  Speaker 2: the plague? Does he have the plague? Could that be
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  Speaker 2: what it is?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the plague has arrived in Texas and Talifrico is
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  Speaker 1: the first person to get it.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody knows. But here's something we do know. The flu
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  Speaker 2: doesn't usually last this long. 12 days? Going on 13 days?
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  Speaker 1: Computer, how long does the average flu last for a
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  Speaker 1: 37-year-old man?
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  Speaker 2: Here's what Grok has to say about the subject.
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  Speaker 1: For a healthy 37 year old man, an uncomplicated flu
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  Speaker 1: usually runs around three to seven days, up to a week.
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  Speaker 1: For the main symptoms, most people feel clearly better within
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  Speaker 1: about a week. That age falls in the ordinary working
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  Speaker 1: age adult range. Uncomplicated influenza is not meaningfully longer or
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  Speaker 1: shorter at 37 than other healthy adults. Community data for adults,
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  Speaker 1: Aged 15 to 64 puts the average reported illness at
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  Speaker 1: around eight to nine days, which includes the slower tail
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  Speaker 1: after the worst days have passed.
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  Speaker 2: The worst days have passed. So, in other words, what
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  Speaker 2: the hell are they doing?
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  Speaker 1: You get the impression, because of his history of lying
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  Speaker 1: to you, that he's lying to you.
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  Speaker 2: That he's lying actively right now. What is this? Now,
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  Speaker 2: I will tell you, the rumor mill on this subject
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  Speaker 2: is buzzing right now.
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  Speaker 1: The rumor mill is buzzing that the Talafrico campaign is
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  Speaker 1: engaged in some sort of cover-up, that they're not revealing
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  Speaker 1: what's going on. There are all sorts of claims online
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  Speaker 1: that something way weirder is going on.
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  Speaker 2: In the flu.
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  Speaker 1: We just don't know. The answer is we just don't
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  Speaker 1: know right now. But here's what I can tell you.
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  Speaker 1: We're in the closing days of the campaign. James Talifrico
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  Speaker 1: does deserve to lose. And every day that he spends
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  Speaker 1: off of the campaign trail is another day that Ken
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  Speaker 1: Paxton can accrue more support, more votes, and more energy
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  Speaker 1: to get across the finish line and help President Trump
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  Speaker 1: actually secure his agenda. And that's what we need. No
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  Speaker 1: matter what this is, we need Ken Paxton to win.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're in Texas, not only do you need
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  Speaker 1: to vote for him, you need to get every single
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  Speaker 1: person you've ever met in Texas to.
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  Speaker 2: Join you in that endeavor. Please help us win the midterms.
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  Speaker 1: You know, coming up later in the program, we're going
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: to talk to the Utah Senator Mike Lee, which I'm
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: very happy to have him with us on the show.
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  Speaker 1: I know you've been eager to have him stop by
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  Speaker 1: the program too. So I'm glad we could get this
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  Speaker 1: set up today. But one of the things that's really
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: obvious to me about Mike Lee's mission of passing the,
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: you ready for it? Save America Act is he needs
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: backup in the United States Senate. We got to give
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: the heave-ho, and we already have, basically, to Thumbelina and
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: to John Cornyn and to Mitch McConnell. The nice thing
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: is all of these guys are headed for the exits.
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  Speaker 1: Who's going to come in and replace them? What kind
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: of sturdy, quality, save-America votes are set to arrive? That
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: is why the midterms are so important. Priority one for
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: you and for me, election integrity. Because out of election
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  Speaker 1: integrity spills everything else.
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  Speaker 2: If you don't have control of your government, you lose
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  Speaker 2: control of everything.
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  Speaker 1: Election integrity is how you have control. We need the
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  Speaker 1: Save America Act. We need great Republican senators in place
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  Speaker 1: to pass it. Ken Paxton is a huge factor in
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  Speaker 1: that equation. Get him into office.
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  Speaker 2: Get him into office.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll keep our eyes on whether or not anything
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  Speaker 1: else transpires in the Talafrico thing. I believe, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you know, Josh, I think I saw
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  Speaker 1: CNN is scheduled to have some sort of town hall
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  Speaker 1: with Telefrico in the middle of next week, or at
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  Speaker 1: least it was previously scheduled. They're still advertising to their
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  Speaker 1: viewer that they're going to have it. Not certain that's
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  Speaker 1: going to take place. Watch CNN all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: just yank down all the advertising for that and then
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  Speaker 1: move on like nothing happened.
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  Speaker 2: Could happen. It could happen.
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  Speaker 1: One more thing in Texas I want to share with
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: you before we move on to some other elements today.
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  Speaker 1: There is a CNN, speaking of CNN, there's a CNN
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  Speaker 1: report this morning that Ken Paxton has been complaining on
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  Speaker 1: secret audio, complaining on secret audio that John Cornyn wants
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  Speaker 1: him to lose.
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  Speaker 4: Here it is.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the piece. He wants me to lose.
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  Speaker 1: Paxton complains about lack of support from Cornyn and leaked audio.
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  Speaker 2: So, I just want to remind you of something.
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: All of the, quote, leaked audio we keep seeing from
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: Ken Paxton is all just like normal people thoughts. Like
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: the government shouldn't spend so much money, that energy prices
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: should come down, that voters are concerned about energy prices
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: in the war in Iran.
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  Speaker 2: And here's the latest.
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  Speaker 1: Ken Paxton says the truth out loud that John Cornyn
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  Speaker 1: wants him to lose.
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  Speaker 2: These aren't scandals. What the hell are you even talking about?
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  Speaker 2: Is this the audio right here? It looks like this
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  Speaker 2: is the audio. Let's take a listen to this.
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  Speaker 4: This is the scandal?
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  Speaker 6: Ken Paxton caught saying John Cornyn wants him to lose.
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  Speaker 4: What? Is that true?
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  Speaker 1: How is that even possible?
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: Isn't he a Republican senator?
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  Speaker 1: It's so obvious to anybody who's paid any attention whatsoever
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  Speaker 1: that that's true. Of course he wants him to lose.
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  Speaker 1: John Cornyn is.
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  Speaker 2: A bitter, bitter old man.
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  Speaker 1: He hates that Ken Paxton's the nominee. And he's working
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  Speaker 1: his tail off to try and prevent him from winning.
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  Speaker 1: So he can turn around and give you the old fat,
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  Speaker 1: I told you so. You should have gone with me. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: John Cornyn is a disaster who Texas voters properly fired.
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  Speaker 2: He wants me to lose.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no kidding. These are not scandals. The media, boy,
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  Speaker 1: their desperation has caused for my celebration. The media are
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  Speaker 1: so desperate to try and turn every utterance from Ken
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: Paxton into a scandal.
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  Speaker 2: And then every time I hear him, I'm like, he's
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: right about that. Yeah, he's right about that. Voters are
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: hearing him. They're going, oh, oh, good. Somebody with some sense.
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  Speaker 2: Please vote for Ken. Vote for Ken. He's great.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see. I've got some other elements to get to
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  Speaker 2: with you.
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  Speaker 1: And some of you know it because you've lived it.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: And here's how this goes.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Major corporations in the United States of America import foreign labor,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: which is by law directly tethered to the company. So
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: these employees that they hire from overseas, when they arrive,
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: they can't actually go anywhere else in the country. Now, instinctively,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: you may think, well, that's a good thing. They shouldn't
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: be here in the first place, but if they are,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: they shouldn't go elsewhere. Yes, but here's the problem. If
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: they're tethered to the company, they have no bargaining power,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: which means the company can pay them rock bottom wages,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: and they've got way more leverage over those employees than
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: they do American workers. So as a result, American workers
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: don't get the job at all. So American workers are
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: being underbid. They're hiring foreign indentured servants to work inside
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: the United States of America. And this is hurting the country,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: our country, on a routine basis. The president's done with this.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: The vice president's done with this. The attorney general's done
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: with this. And the Department of Labor, for that matter,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: is done with this. So yesterday, the team is going
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: after all of it, and they're going specifically after Microsoft,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: a huge company with a lot of power.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Here's the vice president, cut one.
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: So if the H-1B visa is how people come into
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: the country, the perm... program is how they stay in
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: the United States to begin with. Now, there has been
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has abused
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: this system more than Microsoft. And let me just give
• 18:25
  Speaker 7: you a couple of statistics on this. So in the
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: last year, Microsoft, and I want to be clear about
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: the data here, so let me check this, but Microsoft
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: laid off last year 6,000, 6,000 American workers. At the
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: same time, the company benefited from 6,300 H-1B visas and
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: and almost 3,000 green cards. In other words, if you
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: do the math, for every worker that Microsoft laid off,
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign
• 18:54
  Speaker 7: indentured servants. Now, that is a scandalous system that we've
• 18:57
  Speaker 7: allowed in this country for far too long. But thanks
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: to the work of this task force and thanks to
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: the empowerment of the President of the United States, we
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: are going to stop it. Because thanks to an ongoing investigation,
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: we have decided to suspend the PERM program for Microsoft,
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: which means they will no longer be able to apply
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: they'll no longer be able to take those H-1Bs and
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: apply for permanent resident status within the United States of America.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: It's abusive, and those numbers are just jaw-dropping.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Microsoft fired 6,000 people last year, 6,000, excuse me, Americans
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: last year, and then brought in 9,000 foreign indentured servants.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: We're putting an end to that. We're going to suspend
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: this program, says the vice president of the United States.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: And he goes on. He explains how this fraud is committed.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: How exactly this works and how the money flows, how
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: this foreign labor is being brought in at an immense
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: discount to these companies, again, at the expense of American workers.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Here's the vice president explaining the fraud.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Cut to.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: Here's the basic data.
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: If you are working as an H-1B visa in the
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: United States of America, you're earning $ 20, 000 less than an
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: American citizen hired in the same position. If you were
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: brought in by one of these foreign outsourcing firms, you're
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: making $ 48, 000 less than an American citizen in a similar position.
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: So I'm sure that everybody here understands the game that
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: is being played. You bring in indentured servants from outside
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: the country. You lay off American workers. And if you're
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: a corporation, you make a ton of money by undercutting
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: the wages of American workers, replacing them with people who, frankly,
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: shouldn't be in the United States of America to begin with.
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: This is a terribly pernicious system. It's gone on for
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: too long. And we'd all encourage, by the way, Congress
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: to do something about it. But there are things within
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: our authority under the law, our regulatory authorities and administration
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: to fix this problem.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: And that's exactly what we're going to do.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: It's a wonderful explanation of what exactly is going on. Again,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: this is all designed, the way that this corruption is designed,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: this cronyism is designed, it's designed to undermine American workers.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: That's the effect of it, clearly. And this has to
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: be brought to an end.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: So no good conversation about fixing our broken immigration system
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: can be had without a man we call Stephen Miller.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: That's because that's his name. Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready?
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: It's Miller time. Stephen Miller speaking yesterday from this big event.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: Watch.
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: Our worst nightmares about the fraud that had been taking
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: place in this country were exceeded. Fraud that has been
• 21:48
  Speaker 8: going on for years, decades, and in some cases, generations.
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: Vice President Vance and his team have exposed historic volumes
• 21:58
  Speaker 8: of food stamp fraud. daycare fraud, Medicaid fraud, healthcare fraud,
• 22:03
  Speaker 8: Social Security fraud, every kind of fraud you can imagine
• 22:06
  Speaker 8: that steals from and betrays American families and workers. Today
• 22:10
  Speaker 8: is no different. What the task force and its partners
• 22:14
  Speaker 8: in law enforcement have uncovered is systemic immigration fraud that
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: violates the laws and statutes of the United States to
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: undercut American workers and labor. The H-1B program and the
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: PERM program that's attached to it have explicit statutory commands
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: that must be followed. It requires individuals, for example, to
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: have a unique, highly specialized occupation, as one example. And yet,
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: in case after case after case, we see individuals that
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: are being brought into the country for skills that are
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: not specialized, that are not unique, and that are not skilled,
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: and that are doing work that is currently being done
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: by American workers, but at vastly lower pay.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: This is an exploitative system. It's hurting American citizens. We
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: are putting an end to it. We are putting an
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: end to it. And one more element on this, you know, J.D.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Vance talked about Stephen Miller's remarks. And he said, you know,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: there's this very pernicious claim that runs around Washington.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: And you hear it expressed by.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Both political parties, by the way. You'll know what I'm
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: talking about the second I mention it.
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: Ready?
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Americans aren't good enough. Americans aren't good enough.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Have you noticed how frequently that particular claim pervades the
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: immigration debate, the border debate, the labor debate? All of
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: these debates, there's a very sort of patronizing view of
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: the American citizen, a contemptuous view of the American citizen.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Americans suck.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: They can't do these jobs. They won't take the jobs.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: They're too lazy. That's the attitude. And that is a
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: cancer we have to absolutely stamp out of the people
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: who claim to be the leaders of this country. Here's
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: the vice president saying that Americans aren't just good.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: They're incredible. Watch this.
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: There's this pernicious idea, and Stephen alluded to it. which
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: is that Americans are not good enough for the jobs
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: in their own country. You hear people say that in
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: subtle ways and sometimes explicit ways. When people say that
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: Americans won't work on farms or they won't work in
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: certain dirty jobs, what they're really saying is that Americans won't.
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: Work in those jobs for poverty wages, nor should they.
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: When you hear people say that we have to bring
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: in foreign accountants because there aren't enough American accountants, what
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: they're saying is that there aren't enough people who can
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: do math in the United States of America which is absurd.
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: When people say we need to bring in foreign IT
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: specialists and quite literally force people to train their own replacements,
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: what we're saying is that there are Americans who cannot
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: do those jobs, and that is absurd.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: To the American people, this FISA.
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: Fraud is a frontal assault on the idea that you
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: deserve to inherit the jobs and the positions in your
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: own country. Never believe the lie that Americans are not
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: good enough to build a future for Americans.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: That's what visa fraud tells you. It is a lie.
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: And the president of the United States does not stand
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: for it. And neither does anybody on this stage.
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Amazing.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Just amazing.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: What a what a great recitation of reality. America is
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: full of great Americans who want good paying jobs. And
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: all they're asking for is the opportunity to work and
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: get paid a fair wage. And you've got you've got
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Washington fully dedicated to undermining that mission by the average
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: American citizen.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Truly, truly.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: This is not it's not a matter of being some
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: sort of free market. This is a rigged market because
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: of what Washington has created. And the Trump administration is
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: doing their part to try and tackle that kind of corruption. Now, Microsoft,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: they did respond to this yesterday. They want to get
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: their their part in. They said the following. By the way,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: they haven't updated the Microsoft website in like 30 years.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: It's the same.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: It looks like they literally just created the same exact
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: website like when they launched.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Here they are.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: They say, we believe in the strength and the talent
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: of the American workforce. Pay attention to this line. This
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: is my favorite line. That is why the vast majority
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: of Microsoft employees in the United States are Americans. Now
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: do the math on that sentence, would you? The vast
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: majority of Microsoft employees in the United States, so now
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: they've narrowed it down. So Microsoft, which is an American company,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: they have employees all over planet Earth. But among the
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: employees that are in America, most of them are American.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: That's it? That's your big defense?
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Most of your employees inside of our borders are Americans?
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: What percentage of your employees who are inside the United
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: States are not Americans?
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: What's going on there? But they say, we're not abusing anything.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: We're not abusing anything. We're doing great work.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: The Trump administration disagrees, which is why Microsoft has been
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: suspended from this program. And it doesn't seem like the
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Trump administration is going to back down on.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: This subject at all.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: And, you know, the fact that they went after Microsoft
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: and Adobe, they went after Adobe yesterday as well. The
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: fact that they're going after these major, big-name, powerful companies,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: you know this is a warning shot to anybody else
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: committing H-1B visa abuse in the United States of America
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: right now. It's a sign that, hey, we're going to
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: go after the biggest dogs on the block. We're going
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: to go after the guys with the most influence, the
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: most money, the most power, the most lawmakers that they own,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: the most lobbyists.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: We're going to go after them with aggression.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: So for those of you who don't have quite as
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: much power as Microsoft, you should know that you are
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: obviously fair game as well.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: That's the message.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: It's a clear warning shot being sent to anybody who's
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: committing this kind of abuse against the American worker.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: And I love it. I adore it so much.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: So a great, great move by the vice president and
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: his team yesterday. Now, it's not just big companies that
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: are going after either. Yesterday, they also announced they're going
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: after a ton of major universities for J-1 visa abuse,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: another visa involving university attendance in the United States.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Here is J.D.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Vance announcing that they're going after some of the biggest
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: named universities in the country.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Cut five, go.
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: If you were.
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: Brought in by one of these foreign outsourcing firms, you're
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: making $ 48, 000 less than an American citizen in a similar position.
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: So I'm sure that everybody here understands the game that
• 28:54
  Speaker 7: is being played. You bring in indentured servants from outside
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: the country. You lay off American workers. And if you're
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: a corporation, you make a ton of money by undercutting
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: the wages of American workers, replacing them with people who
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: frankly shouldn't be in the United States of America to
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: begin with. This is a terribly pernicious system. It's gone
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: on for too long. And we'd all encourage, by the way,
• 29:17
  Speaker 7: Congress to do something about it. But there are things
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: within our authority under the law, our regulatory authorities and
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: administration to fix this problem.
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: And that's exactly what we're going to do.
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: I want to make one final announcement here, because while
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: we see a lot of H-1B visa fraud, we also
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: see a lot of J-1 visa fraud. And this is
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: where some of America's most elite universities bring in foreigners, again,
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: to undercut the wages of American residents. Now, there are
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: nine universities in particular that we believe merit an investigation.
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: Those universities are Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, the University of Pittsburgh,
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: UC Davis, Caltech, Arizona State, and MIT. And what we
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: see is that when you employ an American worker as
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: a graduate student, as a researcher, they're making about $ 20, 000
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: more than someone brought in under a J-1 visa. And importantly,
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: these universities are employing J-1 visas for federally funded grants
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: at a rate of about 61 percent. The national average
• 30:14
  Speaker 7: is 38 percent. So something weird is going on at
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: these universities. They're using these visas way too much. They're
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: using them to undercut the wages of American grad students
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: and American researchers. And it simply has to stop.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how much more enthusiastic and
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: excited you could possibly be for this.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: This is the.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Kind of delivering on what they promised they would do
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: that you want.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: This is great.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: This is such a clear sign for the midterms of
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: what the stakes are. Do you want to continue down
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: this path of cracking down on the fraudsters, cracking down
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: on corrupt institutions, ending this kind of crony rigging of
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: our system Or do you want all of those problems
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: to get worse?
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: That's the question.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: That's in front of you at the ballot box right now.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Do you want to continue on the path of success
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: or do you want these sinister problems to get worse?
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: That's the question before voters.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: I know what I want.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: I know I want the success to continue. I'm glad
• 31:15
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• 31:17
  Speaker 2: That's huge.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: And coming up on the program, I do have more
• 31:22
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• 31:25
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• 31:30
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• 31:36
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• 31:38
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• 31:40
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• 31:44
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• 31:44
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• 31:48
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• 31:50
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. It's good to be with you.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: I know it's very busy. We're in the midst of
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: midterm season.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Just talk about the stakes, if you will, for the election.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: What's on the line here? What should people know?
• 34:48
  Speaker 9: Everything.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: Everything's on the line. The stakes couldn't be higher.
• 34:51
  Speaker 9: I can't remember a time when a midterm election mattered
• 34:54
  Speaker 9: so much, especially at a time when we're still getting
• 34:58
  Speaker 9: revelation after revelation about what happened during the Biden administration
• 35:02
  Speaker 9: with regard to political weaponization. And especially at a time
• 35:05
  Speaker 9: when our national debt has now crested above $ 40 trillion.
• 35:10
  Speaker 9: Treasury yield rates are on the increase. There's so much
• 35:14
  Speaker 9: that is at stake. Everything that the Democrats are offering, meanwhile,
• 35:18
  Speaker 9: would make matters worse. They want more of the same
• 35:21
  Speaker 9: poison that is harming hardworking Americans. The affordability problem has
• 35:26
  Speaker 9: been made worse every time the federal government steps in
• 35:30
  Speaker 9: and tries to do more in terms of spending or
• 35:32
  Speaker 9: tries to do more in terms of economic regulation, it
• 35:36
  Speaker 9: ends up meaning that every paycheck earned by every hardworking
• 35:40
  Speaker 9: American buys less. And that's why even those who have
• 35:43
  Speaker 9: been fortunate enough to see perhaps a modest increase in
• 35:46
  Speaker 9: their pay over the last few years find that it's
• 35:49
  Speaker 9: getting more and more difficult. The last thing we need
• 35:50
  Speaker 9: to do right now is to elect a party that
• 35:55
  Speaker 9: really is the dog being wagged by the tail that
• 35:59
  Speaker 9: is the democratic socialists of America.
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: That is the last thing we need.
• 36:03
  Speaker 9: So I'm encouraging everyone everywhere to vote for Republicans up
• 36:07
  Speaker 9: and down the ticket.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 36:09
  Speaker 9: Because you are electing the DSA if you vote for
• 36:12
  Speaker 9: a Democrat, even if the Democrat you appear to be
• 36:14
  Speaker 9: voting for in a U.S. House or Senate race appears
• 36:18
  Speaker 9: to be, you know, not a Democratic Socialist. they are
• 36:22
  Speaker 9: increasingly moving in that direction as a party. And that's
• 36:24
  Speaker 9: what you'll be empowering.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, the Democrat socialists say out loud they
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: want to defund the police and open the borders. And
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: then when Democrat establishment figures are actually in charge, they
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: do that very thing anyway. We just experienced the Biden
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: era and tens of millions of people were imported. The
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: only functional difference between the socialists and the establishment Democrats
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: is that the socialists are more honest somehow.
• 36:44
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: They're more honest, more transparent, more upfront about it.
• 36:48
  Speaker 9: And I think that's why some of the so-called moderate Democrats,
• 36:51
  Speaker 9: which are an increasingly dying breed, really resent some of
• 36:55
  Speaker 9: the DSA candidates is that, hey, don't tell the other
• 36:58
  Speaker 9: team what we're actually going to do because we want
• 37:01
  Speaker 9: to hide some of that or else it'll freak people
• 37:03
  Speaker 9: out and scare them away. But our voters, hardworking American
• 37:07
  Speaker 9: voters everywhere need to understand these risks. are electing the
• 37:11
  Speaker 9: DSA if you elect Democratic majorities in either the House
• 37:14
  Speaker 9: or the Senate, or heaven forbid, both.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: So what you're getting at is that the actual policy
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: positions of Democrats are entirely unappealing to voters, which is
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: why I'm thoroughly convinced that the only way Democrats can
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: really get power in America is through rigged schemes these days,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: whether it's removing their political opponents from the ballot, importing
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: illegal aliens to pad their numbers in the electoral college
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: or congressional districts, or having election systems that are wide
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: open to fraud, and I know this is.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: Of immense concern to you.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Can you talk about election integrity and what the stakes
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: are here in this election?
• 37:47
  Speaker 9: Yeah, the reason I've pushed so hard on the Save
• 37:50
  Speaker 9: America Act and on other voter security measures has to
• 37:55
  Speaker 9: do with a few factors, perhaps the most important of
• 37:58
  Speaker 9: which is the fact that we've got record numbers of
• 38:01
  Speaker 9: non-citizens now residing at the United States. An estimated more
• 38:07
  Speaker 9: than 30 million non-citizens are now in the United States.
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: I believe that's the most we've ever had at any
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: given time.
• 38:14
  Speaker 9: Vince, the interesting thing about that, and the reason I
• 38:16
  Speaker 9: focus on this so much, is that when you combine
• 38:18
  Speaker 9: that with other developments that have occurred over the last
• 38:20
  Speaker 9: 25 years, this creates the perfect storm for election security
• 38:26
  Speaker 9: that can threaten both the perception of election security and
• 38:30
  Speaker 9: the reality of election security. in basically every state, uh,
• 38:37
  Speaker 9: as a result of the way that the national voter
• 38:40
  Speaker 9: registration act and VRA, uh, also known as the federal
• 38:44
  Speaker 9: motor voter law has been implemented and the way that
• 38:48
  Speaker 9: it was badly interpreted by the Supreme court a little
• 38:51
  Speaker 9: more than a decade ago, those factors lining up with
• 38:55
  Speaker 9: the massive influx of, uh, of immigrants, some legal, mostly illegal,
• 39:02
  Speaker 9: over the last few years, coupled with the fact that
• 39:04
  Speaker 9: it's now easier than ever in almost every state for non-citizens,
• 39:08
  Speaker 9: including in about half the states, even illegal aliens, to
• 39:14
  Speaker 9: obtain a driver's license. You marry that up with the NVRA,
• 39:17
  Speaker 9: the law I mentioned a minute ago, the Federal Motor
• 39:19
  Speaker 9: Voter Law, When you apply for a driver's license in
• 39:22
  Speaker 9: almost every state, you can by simply checking a box
• 39:26
  Speaker 9: and then signing your name saying, trust me, bro, I'm
• 39:29
  Speaker 9: a citizen. No verification required. In many instances, no verification
• 39:34
  Speaker 9: even allowed. It's way too easy now.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: They weren't citizens and they were being registered to vote
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: by the thousands.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: So that's, I mean, it's completely broken.
• 39:44
  Speaker 9: But Vince, that was just a computer glitch, of course.
• 39:48
  Speaker 9: Nobody intended that. That's what they're telling us. And if
• 39:52
  Speaker 9: you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you
• 39:55
  Speaker 9: somewhere in America at any given point.
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: We know that this happens.
• 39:59
  Speaker 9: We know that we have discovered, some would say at
• 40:03
  Speaker 9: the low end, tens of thousands. The Trump administration officials
• 40:07
  Speaker 9: that I talked to would say, no, we've discovered hundreds
• 40:09
  Speaker 9: of thousands of instances of non-citizens registering to vote. All
• 40:15
  Speaker 9: this year, as Save America Act has been gaining more momentum,
• 40:19
  Speaker 9: Democrats keep saying, ah, this doesn't happen. Voter fraud in
• 40:22
  Speaker 9: general doesn't happen, never happens. And non-citizen voting also doesn't happen.
• 40:28
  Speaker 9: Only the problem is throughout the years, there's been this drip, drip, drip,
• 40:32
  Speaker 9: thanks in large part to the efforts of people at
• 40:34
  Speaker 9: the Department of Justice, like Harmeet Dhillon, who have continued
• 40:37
  Speaker 9: to pursue these records, to a lot of the personnel
• 40:40
  Speaker 9: in the Department of Homeland Security, who maintain the this
• 40:44
  Speaker 9: existing SAVE database, we've been getting more and more information
• 40:49
  Speaker 9: all the time showing that this does happen. In many
• 40:52
  Speaker 9: documented instances, it has happened. And yet Democrats still continue
• 40:56
  Speaker 9: to rely on this point that, oh.
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: This is a figment of our imagination. This is fake.
• 41:05
  Speaker 9: But it's hard to defend the argument that it's fake
• 41:07
  Speaker 9: when it keeps happening. And we keep discovering more and
• 41:10
  Speaker 9: more evidence of it being widespread.
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Okay, so let's talk about the Save America Act in
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: particular and what it's going to take to get it passed.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: All year long, I've been rooting you on, and I
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: think you're vowing in efforts to get this thing passed.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: You're the author of the legislation, and you've been fighting
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: every which way to get it through, including by reminding
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: people that it doesn't take 60 votes to pass legislation.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: It takes 60 votes to end debate early. It takes
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: 51 votes to pass any piece of legislation in the Senate.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: And I think that detail has been so important for
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: people to understand.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: And one of the reasons they do is because of you.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: I'm convinced that one of the things we need to
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: focus on in the midterms is giving you some more backup.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: You need more America first, election integrity Republicans in office
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: alongside you to get this done.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: It feels like that's the mandate here.
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
• 42:02
  Speaker 9: And I saw you had a recent interview with Vice
• 42:05
  Speaker 9: President Vance in which you and the Vice President articulated
• 42:09
  Speaker 9: this well.
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: As Vice President Vance.
• 42:11
  Speaker 9: Explained recently while being interviewed by you, the margins are
• 42:15
  Speaker 9: really close. We do have a few Republicans who are
• 42:18
  Speaker 9: less supportive than they should be of the Save America Act.
• 42:20
  Speaker 9: And we may have a small handful of Republicans who
• 42:23
  Speaker 9: maybe aren't as comfortable as we would like them to
• 42:26
  Speaker 9: be with ways that we can break a filibuster, either
• 42:32
  Speaker 9: involving nuking the filibuster, which we don't currently have the
• 42:35
  Speaker 9: votes to do, or even with regard to other steps
• 42:39
  Speaker 9: like having the vice president and the chair and the
• 42:42
  Speaker 9: vice president perhaps making a ruling from the chair that
• 42:44
  Speaker 9: doesn't necessarily always dovetail with the advice of the parliamentarian
• 42:50
  Speaker 9: and what an appealed ruling of the chair.
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: Would look like.
• 42:52
  Speaker 9: All those things come back down to the need to
• 42:55
  Speaker 9: elect more Republicans to the Senate, and to make sure
• 42:58
  Speaker 9: that those we are electing to the Senate include people
• 43:03
  Speaker 9: who are willing to do the hard work of breaking
• 43:06
  Speaker 9: a filibuster. Even short of nuking it, we can outwork them.
• 43:11
  Speaker 9: We can exhaust them. That's really one of the best
• 43:15
  Speaker 9: ways of breaking through a filibuster is you make clear
• 43:18
  Speaker 9: that on some legislation important to the party in the.
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: Majority, we're going to spend a lot of time on them.
• 43:24
  Speaker 9: Maybe a few consecutive weeks, maybe without taking breaks for
• 43:28
  Speaker 9: the weekend. And we're going to start requiring senators who
• 43:32
  Speaker 9: want to filibuster to actually speak and hold the floor
• 43:35
  Speaker 9: while doing that. The more we can elect more Republicans
• 43:39
  Speaker 9: to the Senate, the greater the likelihood is that we
• 43:41
  Speaker 9: can hold at least 50 votes to support that, with
• 43:44
  Speaker 9: Vice President Vance being available to break any tie, and
• 43:47
  Speaker 9: we can get that done. There are reasons why That
• 43:49
  Speaker 9: didn't happen this year. Some of them having to do
• 43:51
  Speaker 9: with how much clock we had to eat just trying
• 43:53
  Speaker 9: to get the Department of Homeland Security funded, which we
• 43:55
  Speaker 9: eventually did. That was costly time that was hard to
• 43:59
  Speaker 9: make up. And some of them related to just the
• 44:01
  Speaker 9: Republicans that we've got. We've got a real opportunity this
• 44:04
  Speaker 9: November to elect more Republicans and more Republicans who would
• 44:08
  Speaker 9: support these aggressive efforts so that we don't end up
• 44:11
  Speaker 9: being dominated by Democrats even when we're in the majority.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: I saw, I shared with our audience, Rachel Bovard, who
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: you know, had suggested at one point that maybe the
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: Republicans could use a form of legislative tyranny.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: Nothing unlawful, nothing unconstitutional. You just schedule votes over and
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: over in the middle of the.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: Night until you actually get this thing passed and you
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: wear Democrats out.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: Would you be open to a tactic like that?
• 44:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 44:33
  Speaker 9: First of all, Rachel Bovard is a gift to the
• 44:36
  Speaker 9: United States of America, to the United States Senate, and
• 44:38
  Speaker 9: to humanity. She's got a brilliant mind, understands the rules,
• 44:42
  Speaker 9: the precedents, and the customs of the Senate well, and
• 44:45
  Speaker 9: also shares our conservative values. We don't have to call it.
• 44:48
  Speaker 9: I love the title legislative purity, even though I know
• 44:52
  Speaker 9: exactly which it actually paints the picture well. But another
• 44:55
  Speaker 9: way of phrasing it to me, the same thing, because
• 44:57
  Speaker 9: I completely agree with her, is to just say there
• 45:01
  Speaker 9: have to be moments where we mean it and where
• 45:03
  Speaker 9: we show that we mean it by working as hard
• 45:07
  Speaker 9: as we have to.
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: In order to get the job.
• 45:09
  Speaker 9: Done, even if that means making people work late into
• 45:12
  Speaker 9: the night, even if that means saying you don't get
• 45:14
  Speaker 9: the benefit of a filibuster if you're not willing to
• 45:17
  Speaker 9: do the work of a filibuster, which involves a speech.
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: So in my conversation with the vice president, he disclosed
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: that he has been wargaming pretty intensively this year with
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: the president ways in which we could get this done.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: He said they did talk at length about having him
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: take over the Senate.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: Floor and what was achievable.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: And for those who haven't seen it, In brief, he
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: just described that there weren't enough Republican senators to stand
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: with him, that they would join with Democrats, they would
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: overrule him, and the effect would be just a ceremonial
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: event rather than one that produced what we needed, results.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: Can I ask, Senator, were you ever a part of
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: those conversations with the president and the vice president?
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: Because I feel like you would be central to those chats.
• 45:59
  Speaker 9: I've had countless conversations with President Trump. and with Vice
• 46:02
  Speaker 9: President Vance on this issue. Not all of them were
• 46:05
  Speaker 9: with them together, but I've had more conversations than I
• 46:08
  Speaker 9: can possibly recall with each of them and with key
• 46:11
  Speaker 9: White House staffers and with my Senate Republican colleagues and
• 46:14
  Speaker 9: those who advise us on this issue. So, yeah, this
• 46:17
  Speaker 9: has been part of an ongoing process. And it's the
• 46:21
  Speaker 9: fruits of those, the outcome of those conversations, as the
• 46:24
  Speaker 9: Vice President indicated, are that you've got to make sure
• 46:28
  Speaker 9: that you've done your homework in advance and that you've
• 46:30
  Speaker 9: got the troops within the Senate to back you up
• 46:33
  Speaker 9: when you do them.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: And then when it comes to Senate leadership, I know
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: you've been very kind to Senate leadership this year in
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: the midst of this fight. I've noticed that publicly. But
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: at times you would call out John Thuner or at
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: least react to him as he was saying things in
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: public about the progress of the Save America Act. And
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: the one thing that always drove me a little crazy
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: this year is that I felt like he was simply
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: being a play-by-play commentator.
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: He was like, well, the votes aren't there.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: But we weren't getting, I felt like, meaningful updates from
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: him about how much effort he was putting in to
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: get them. I wasn't convinced that arm-twisting was going on,
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: that the votes themselves were actually being whipped. Can you
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: take us behind the scenes at all about how much
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: effort was actually put in this year to get the
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: votes to achieve this?
• 47:16
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: Now, to be clear.
• 47:19
  Speaker 9: A full reporting of what he has done is going
• 47:23
  Speaker 9: to have to involve a conversation with him. I'd encourage
• 47:27
  Speaker 9: you to interview him and talk to him about this.
• 47:30
  Speaker 9: But let me tell you some of my observations about it.
• 47:32
  Speaker 9: We had a lot of conversations, a lot of conversations
• 47:34
  Speaker 9: one-on-one between me and Senator Thune, between all my Senate
• 47:39
  Speaker 9: Republican colleagues individually and as a group. And I will
• 47:43
  Speaker 9: say this, there are a lot of challenges. He does
• 47:46
  Speaker 9: not have an easy job, particularly given the closeness of
• 47:49
  Speaker 9: the margins and the fact that we've got a handful
• 47:53
  Speaker 9: of senators who don't necessarily see the need for the
• 47:56
  Speaker 9: Save America Act or feel the urgency behind the need
• 47:59
  Speaker 9: to pass it. So I don't want to oversimplify any
• 48:02
  Speaker 9: of this or suggest that any of it was easy.
• 48:06
  Speaker 9: And I also feel the need to reiterate what I
• 48:09
  Speaker 9: said a moment ago, that the degree of difficulty score
• 48:14
  Speaker 9: the amount of complexity of this was significantly complicated by
• 48:17
  Speaker 9: what happened with the appropriations process. For the first time
• 48:22
  Speaker 9: that I can recall, or that I'm aware of ever,
• 48:25
  Speaker 9: you had the Senate Democrats saying, we don't want to
• 48:29
  Speaker 9: fund this department, or we're unwilling to fund this department
• 48:32
  Speaker 9: at all if those funds are going to end up
• 48:34
  Speaker 9: funding ICE.
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: And so as a result of that, that cost us
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: a lot of time.
• 48:39
  Speaker 9: We learned a lot in that process, and we figured
• 48:41
  Speaker 9: out ways that I think will And knock on wood,
• 48:45
  Speaker 9: if we're given the chance to have dual majorities in
• 48:48
  Speaker 9: both chambers over the next two years, I think it'll
• 48:52
  Speaker 9: help us avoid some of those things. But that took
• 48:55
  Speaker 9: away a lot of floor time and therefore a lot
• 48:57
  Speaker 9: of options for Senator Thune. That's why I think what's
• 49:01
  Speaker 9: most helpful right now is to look toward the future.
• 49:03
  Speaker 9: If we're able to keep this majority, I think some
• 49:06
  Speaker 9: of the changes that we'll see in the majority that
• 49:09
  Speaker 9: are pretty easy to predict right now will themselves even
• 49:12
  Speaker 9: if the numbers remain unchanged, in fact, in some ways, even,
• 49:17
  Speaker 9: for example, hypothetically, imagine if we go from 50%, down
• 49:20
  Speaker 9: to 52, depending on who wins, that may actually enhance
• 49:25
  Speaker 9: our ability to get those things done. That, together with
• 49:28
  Speaker 9: some of the reclaimed time that it took to fund DHS.
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: We know now how to get around that.
• 49:35
  Speaker 9: I think the prospects moving forward, if we can keep
• 49:37
  Speaker 9: these dual majorities, the prospects are good.
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: I am optimistic.
• 49:41
  Speaker 9: We are, moreover, looking at a very real possibility during
• 49:45
  Speaker 9: the lame duck, with or without victory in November, of
• 49:50
  Speaker 9: an aggressive reconciliation push. through reconciliation, we can bypass a
• 49:55
  Speaker 9: lot of the need for cloture, 60 vote thresholds and
• 49:59
  Speaker 9: so forth. There are things that we can do. We
• 50:03
  Speaker 9: can't pass Save America itself as written through reconciliation because
• 50:08
  Speaker 9: it's not budgetary, but we've figured out ways to replicate many,
• 50:13
  Speaker 9: if not most, of the benefits of Save America through
• 50:15
  Speaker 9: something that can properly be rendered budgetary.
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: I'm excited about that as well.
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: I love that concept, although I'm on guard for it
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: kind of for the reasons that you vocalized earlier this year,
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: which is basically, as I understood it, that you basically
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: offer a big pool of money to the blue states,
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: to every state, and say, hey, if you have election integrity,
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: you get access to the cash.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: I always thought, well, why would the blue states even care?
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: They're not going to take the cash for election integrity
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: because they're too dependent on.
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: Their elections being fraudulent. You feel like you can put
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: the screws to them a little bit?
• 50:47
  Speaker 9: There are a number of things. What you say is legitimate.
• 50:51
  Speaker 9: There is a little bit more to the picture. I
• 50:53
  Speaker 9: don't want to create too exquisite of a picture right now,
• 50:56
  Speaker 9: lest we forecast to those who disagree with us and
• 50:58
  Speaker 9: will already be plotting to undermine what we're going to
• 51:01
  Speaker 9: try to do. But I am optimistic about our ability
• 51:04
  Speaker 9: to do things. And during a limb duck, yes, our
• 51:07
  Speaker 9: clock is limited. The pressure will be on, however, if
• 51:10
  Speaker 9: we lose control of either chamber. And I think nothing
• 51:14
  Speaker 9: sharpens the mind and sharpens the will of Republican senators
• 51:17
  Speaker 9: and representatives quite like a clock ticking down, knowing that
• 51:23
  Speaker 9: we're about to lose the majority.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: Okay, one more topic for you.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: If you retain the majority, the chatter I hear is
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: that you will be likely the next Judiciary Committee chairman.
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: And in that role, you will have extraordinary influence over
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: America's justice system, which is in desperate need of being fixed.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: When my audience is concerned about, hey, why isn't so-and-so
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: being prosecuted? Why aren't we seeing justice very swiftly? One
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: of the things I have to remind everyone of is, like,
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: the justice system is very broken. We have a lot
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: of radical U.S.
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: Attorneys.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: We have a lot of radical judges. We have people
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: in place who shouldn't be.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: The president doesn't get his actual picks because Democrats like
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: Adam Schiff get a veto authority in a place like
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: California over those selections. And that's all the product of
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: something called the blue slip. That's a cliff-nose version. But
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: as a Judiciary Committee chairman... you would have a lot
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: of say over whether or not that system continues. Can
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: you tell us what you would have in store if
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: you were in charge of the Judiciary Committee?
• 52:22
  Speaker 9: Yeah, let me start by explaining what the blue slip is,
• 52:25
  Speaker 9: and then that will help inform how I answer your question.
• 52:30
  Speaker 9: So the blue slip is not a rule. It's not
• 52:32
  Speaker 9: a rule of the Senate. It's not a law, nor
• 52:35
  Speaker 9: is it a rule of the Judiciary Committee. It is
• 52:38
  Speaker 9: rather a custom rule. But it's a longstanding custom. It's
• 52:41
  Speaker 9: been in place for many decades, I think 60, 70 years,
• 52:44
  Speaker 9: something like that. The blue slip, the basic premise behind
• 52:50
  Speaker 9: it is that for certain nominations, including and especially U.S.
• 52:53
  Speaker 9: attorneys and federal judges, especially U.S. district judges, those are
• 52:59
  Speaker 9: the trial court judges, the workhorses, the courts of first
• 53:06
  Speaker 9: resort within the federal system.
• 53:09
  Speaker 4: The custom says that.
• 53:11
  Speaker 9: Before we move forward with those nominations, we have to
• 53:14
  Speaker 9: have both of the home state senators return blue slips.
• 53:18
  Speaker 9: It's called a blue slip because it's literally, by tradition,
• 53:21
  Speaker 9: written on blue sheet of paper in which the two
• 53:25
  Speaker 9: home state senators sign and signify, we're good with this nomination.
• 53:29
  Speaker 9: You're not sticking us with a federal district judge who we,
• 53:32
  Speaker 9: the local state's senators, don't like, don't want, and aren't
• 53:35
  Speaker 9: willing to confirm. And so that's what sometimes stalls out
• 53:41
  Speaker 9: what would otherwise be perhaps more nominations, especially in some
• 53:47
  Speaker 9: of the blue states, by President Trump to U.S.
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: District judge positions and U.S. attorney positions.
• 53:54
  Speaker 9: There are a couple of things about the blue slip
• 53:55
  Speaker 9: that are easy to oversimplify, but an additional understanding can
• 54:00
  Speaker 9: be informative. Because it's not written down as a rule
• 54:03
  Speaker 9: or as a law, it evolves. It has never remained
• 54:06
  Speaker 9: totally static for a long time. For example, U.S. Circuit
• 54:11
  Speaker 9: Court judges, the appellate court judges named from a particular state,
• 54:17
  Speaker 9: used to be capable of being blocked by one or
• 54:20
  Speaker 9: both of the home state senators, Starting in 2019, the
• 54:26
  Speaker 9: blue slip was rendered more of an advisory measure with
• 54:29
  Speaker 9: regard to circuit judges. But that's one of countless examples
• 54:33
  Speaker 9: I can point to over the last 50, 60 years.
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: In which the blue slip has changed. Another feature of
• 54:39
  Speaker 4: the blue slip is that.
• 54:40
  Speaker 9: It is now embedded within the customs and the psyche
• 54:46
  Speaker 9: of the Senate that any changes that have to be made,
• 54:49
  Speaker 9: for example, when then-chairman Lindsey Graham in 2019, during the
• 54:55
  Speaker 9: second half of Trump's first administration as president. When he
• 54:59
  Speaker 9: made that modification I described a moment ago, he had
• 55:02
  Speaker 9: to make sure, before he did it, that he'd be
• 55:05
  Speaker 9: backed up by enough senators, and most importantly, Republican senators,
• 55:11
  Speaker 9: that it would stick. Because it does you no good
• 55:14
  Speaker 9: for the Judiciary Committee chairman to just announce a change
• 55:17
  Speaker 9: unless you're gonna be backed up by your colleagues in
• 55:19
  Speaker 9: doing that. These things will all go into the equation,
• 55:24
  Speaker 9: assuming we are in the majority the next time around,
• 55:27
  Speaker 9: in connection with any discussions we might have about where
• 55:30
  Speaker 9: the blue slip goes. I will add that even if
• 55:33
  Speaker 9: we didn't change the blue slip at all, there are
• 55:38
  Speaker 9: other things at the margins that can be done that
• 55:40
  Speaker 9: can make a huge difference toward helping President Trump make
• 55:45
  Speaker 9: district court and U.S. attorney nominations in those blue states
• 55:49
  Speaker 9: with one or in some cases two Democratic senators to
• 55:53
  Speaker 9: increase the president's leverage or to help the president persuade
• 55:57
  Speaker 9: Democratic senators to go along with him on some of these.
• 56:00
  Speaker 9: It'd be a mistake to forecast all of those now.
• 56:03
  Speaker 9: And I'm also almost a little bit, there's one area
• 56:05
  Speaker 9: where I'm a little bit superstitious. I don't like counting
• 56:07
  Speaker 9: chickens before they're hatched. And it feels like tempting fate
• 56:11
  Speaker 9: to outline too much of that too far in advance.
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: But the summary here is you've got a toolkit with
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: some interesting options for the Save America Act and the
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: blue slip. And you don't want to get ahead of them,
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: but you definitely want to see them come to pass.
• 56:25
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's right.
• 56:25
  Speaker 9: And look, the blue slip procedure works best when there
• 56:28
  Speaker 9: is an understanding. An understanding, let me put it this way.
• 56:34
  Speaker 9: Each time we have a new White House counsel, especially
• 56:37
  Speaker 9: when there's a new president, and obviously the new president's
• 56:39
  Speaker 9: gonna come in with the new president's own White House counsel.
• 56:43
  Speaker 9: Ever since I was the first one into the Senate
• 56:46
  Speaker 9: in 2011, there have been three different presidents in office
• 56:50
  Speaker 9: since that time. I've always had conversations with the new
• 56:53
  Speaker 9: White House counsel talking about sort of the rules of
• 56:57
  Speaker 9: the road when it comes to these nominations, especially U.S.
• 56:59
  Speaker 9: attorneys and federal district judges. Like, how many names do
• 57:03
  Speaker 9: you want me to submit? for your consideration for district judges.
• 57:06
  Speaker 9: To what extent do you, and if the majority party
• 57:09
  Speaker 9: aligns with the party of the appointed president, what do
• 57:14
  Speaker 9: you anticipate is going to be the rules of the road?
• 57:17
  Speaker 9: In most instances, there's kind of an understanding that the
• 57:22
  Speaker 9: home state senator, if he or she's not in the
• 57:26
  Speaker 9: same party as the appointed.
• 57:28
  Speaker 4: President, will be willing to.
• 57:32
  Speaker 9: It's not always going to be the same list of
• 57:33
  Speaker 9: names that they discuss with the White House that they
• 57:37
  Speaker 9: want to be considered. In other words, you can usually
• 57:40
  Speaker 9: find compromised positions. Maybe a Democrat president won't necessarily be
• 57:46
  Speaker 9: inclined to appoint the same people who a Republican president
• 57:49
  Speaker 9: might appoint. There are nonetheless options available that would be
• 57:53
  Speaker 9: mutually agreeable to us. In fact, when President Biden took office,
• 57:58
  Speaker 9: It was made more explicit to me by the White
• 57:59
  Speaker 9: House counsel, the incoming White House counsel. Look, we intend
• 58:03
  Speaker 9: to respect the blue slip on U.S. attorney and district
• 58:07
  Speaker 9: court nominations. But if we feel like you're abusing it,
• 58:10
  Speaker 9: we and Chairman Durbin, Dick Durbin was the chairman of
• 58:13
  Speaker 9: the Judiciary Committee at the time of the White House counsel,
• 58:15
  Speaker 9: told me neither we nor Chairman Durbin will necessarily commit
• 58:19
  Speaker 9: open-endedly to honoring the blue slip if you're wielding it
• 58:24
  Speaker 9: irresponsibly if you're giving us names that you know we
• 58:26
  Speaker 9: can't and won't nominate. So that kind of conversation can happen.
• 58:30
  Speaker 9: That can also help facilitate the workings of the blue
• 58:34
  Speaker 9: slip process.
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: That's an important piece of information.
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: The Biden White House said that we're willing to override
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: the blue slip for our people if we feel like
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: you're abusing it.
• 58:43
  Speaker 9: Meanwhile, and they and they indicated that the Senate Democrats
• 58:46
  Speaker 9: would back them up on that.
• 58:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: And boy, is the left abusing it. Senator Mike Lee
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us.
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: I know you're busy.
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: Appreciate you taking some time out to join us. The
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: audience really wanted to hear from you. Glad we could today.
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much.
• 58:59
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Vince.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you soon. That guy's just such a
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: great tactician. You can hear it there. By the way,
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: this interview, what you just heard means. you know more
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: about this issue than literally anybody in the rest of
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: the country.
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: Sincerely.
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: Taking us under the hood of the tactics necessary to
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: get our country back. And let me just emphasize once
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: again that key point. And you even heard him say, like, hey,
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: even if we shrink our majority, if we stay in
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: the Some of the backup that seems to be en
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: route to the United States Senate will make it more
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: likely we get the Save America Act passed.
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: This is huge.
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: He is staying in the fight, and so should the
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: rest of us. Mike Lee, man, has just been a hero, truly,
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: in the United States Senate, and great to see him
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: stay in this fight. Great to have him with us today.
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: We'll have to do that again soon. I appreciate him
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: for stopping by. Before we close out today's program, I
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: do want to give you some good news. As the
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: Trump administration— raids Los Angeles in order to clean it
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: up against the will of the corrupt Democrat officials who
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: run both that city and that state.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: Here is a breaking news report.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: This is a Fox report from yesterday as the feds
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: raid Skid Row, Los Angeles, California.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: Take a look.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 5: Here it is.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: Cut six.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 4: Massive raid is targeting drug dealers on L.A.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 8: 's Skid Row, who sold fentanyl and PCP to the homeless.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 6: Well, we're told this is part of a four-month undercover
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 6: operation targeting drug dealers on Skid Row.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: Look right now. We'll show you people being arrested here.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 6: This is an infamous site for not only drug use
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 6: but homelessness as well. And that gentleman you just saw
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 6: being walked away, we actually saw large wads of cash
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 6: being pulled from his pocket. You could see some of
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 6: it being processed here on scene. I asked the FBI
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 6: what that means, seeing these huge wads of cash. They
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 6: said it probably means they're in the right place.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: Location. So federal agents, including the FBI, DEA, U.S.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 6: Attorney's Office and LAPD, hundreds of agents around us right now,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 6: people being arrested on site.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: And of course, also lots of dogs and animals.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 6: You can see these caged dogs in the distance. That's
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 6: also become a very disturbing and hot topic here on
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 6: Skid Row.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: It's amazing. It's amazing.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: This has been going on, this open-air drug market, just
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: people dying, people living inside of the elements, rotting away.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: This is what the left pretends is empathy and charity.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: They're like, oh, this is the way to live.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: On the street? Full of drugs? Needles everywhere? Human waste?
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 5: No.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: The Trump administration going in, cleaning it up. We also
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: heard from an FBI official by the name of Patrick
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: Grandy yesterday. He's the assistant director in charge of the
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: FBI's L.A. field office. And he described the interagency effort
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: necessary to go in and clean this place up, despite
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: the fact that Mayor Karen Bass and all of the
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: other ridiculous Democrats never wanted this to happen in the
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: first place.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: Watch.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 10: Hello, I'm Patrick Grandy, the assistant director in charge of
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 10: the FBI's Los Angeles field office. I'm out here this
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 10: morning with the Homeland Security Task Force, which includes the FBI, DEA, ATF, U.S. Marshals,
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 10: Los Angeles Police Department, and other federal, state, and local agencies.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 10: We're here today as part of Operation Save Skid Row,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 10: where we have collectively executed dozens of federal arrest and
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 10: search warrants in and around the Skid Row area, targeting
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 10: individuals who have exploited some of Los Angeles' most vulnerable
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 10: community who live and reside around the Skid Row area.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 10: Today's operation has been a tremendous success, And as part
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 10: of the FBI's ongoing efforts to combat violent crime, I
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 10: want to thank all of our federal, state, and local
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 10: partners who have been part of this operation and who
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 10: work with us side by side as we continue to
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 10: make the Los Angeles region safer for everyone.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: Look at that guy. Professional.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: Law enforcement just going in there, cleaning up the city. Now,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: there's a second-order effect here. For those of you who
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: have been with me for a while, you know we've
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: covered Skid Row in particular.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: Because of election meddling that's done there.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: James O'Keefe captured this on his cameras, and a woman
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: who was involved in actually doing the election meddling has
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: pled guilty in federal court to doing it, which.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: Of course is what we call justice.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: So we got a conviction against her. There have been
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: many election rigging schemes that emanate right out of Skid Row. Basically,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: people who are suffering from mental illness, addicted to drugs,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: Democrats go to them in this compromised and vulnerable state.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: They'll give him a couple of bucks, give him a cigarette,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: get him to sign a petition, get him to register
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: to vote under a false address, get him to vote
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: and get involved in stealing elections in California. They have
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: used Skid Row as an election fraud clearinghouse. And now,
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: with the Trump administration cleaning it up just ahead of
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: the midterms, I think there may be some impact to
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: the vote tally in California as well, that There will
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: be fewer fraudulent votes now because of what the Trump
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: administration did.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: You can't miss that.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: But they say it's been going on for four months,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: this operation. They finally pulled the trigger this week. They're
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: cleaning up Los Angeles. Whether or not Democrats want that
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: to happen.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 5: Good.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: Please continue to clean up the country. Get rid of
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: these Democrats. That's why we need the Save America Act.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: As always, thank you for being with me today. Thank
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: you to Senator Mike Lee for stopping by the program.
• 1:04:31
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• 1:04:35
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• 1:04:38
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• 1:04:41
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• 1:04:42
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• 1:04:46
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• 1:04:47
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• 1:04:50
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• 1:04:52
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• 1:04:55
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