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Advance Placement: Van Jones on The Four Corners of Power in America: Black People Have It Wrong! · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
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  Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador
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  Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
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  Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
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  Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
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  Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy nom the United States
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border
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  Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over
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  Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you
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  Speaker 1: are here illegally, your next you will be fined nearly
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  Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned, and deported. You will
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  Speaker 1: never return. But if you register using our CBP home
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  Speaker 1: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.
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  Speaker 1: Do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump, America's laws,
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  Speaker 1: border and families will.
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  Speaker 2: Be protected sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security.
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  Speaker 3: You know, people come to me all the time now
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  Speaker 3: and say, you know, I want to start not for
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  Speaker 3: profit organization. They want me to help them do that.
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  Speaker 3: I really challenge them, like, is that what's missing? In
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  Speaker 3: our community, like we don't have enough not for profits,
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  Speaker 3: we don't have enough charitable organizations?
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  Speaker 2: Is that?
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  Speaker 3: Is that really? Where the where the lack is? People say, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I want to go to law school. You know you
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  Speaker 3: went to the law school. I want to go to
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  Speaker 3: law school. I'm like, really, really is that?
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  Speaker 2: Is that?
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  Speaker 3: Is that what you think? We don't have enough? We
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  Speaker 3: don't have enough lawyers. You know, we've had lawyers going
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  Speaker 3: back to Thirdgod Marshall, We've had lawyers. You know, we
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  Speaker 3: had not for profits. I mean it's it's it's good
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  Speaker 3: maybe for your first five or six years out of
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  Speaker 3: school just to kind of like give back and be grounded.
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  Speaker 3: But what we don't have is enough people who understand
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  Speaker 3: financing technology. If you look at how power functions, there's
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  Speaker 3: four corners of power in this country is Washington, d C. Politics,
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  Speaker 3: but lawyers there. I know that world. I come out
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  Speaker 3: of that world. But that's one corner New York City
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  Speaker 3: where we're sitting right now Wall Street finance. I don't
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  Speaker 3: see how many black people doing that. And so automatically
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  Speaker 3: you know something is wrong because here we have all
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  Speaker 3: these black people in politics, public affairs, lawyers, senators Congress people.
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  Speaker 3: We've got a black vice president, we got two black senators.
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  Speaker 3: Of the top ten cities in America, seven have black mayors.
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  Speaker 3: Keem Jeffery is about to run all Democrats in the House.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we got a lot of black people in politics,
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  Speaker 3: public service, not for profit law degreees. But you get
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  Speaker 3: in the train from DC and come up here to
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  Speaker 3: New York and go to Wall Street. You don't see
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  Speaker 3: as many black folks up here. Wait a minute, that's
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  Speaker 3: a problem. Then you hop on an airplane, go from
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  Speaker 3: New York City JFK Land in the Bay Area SFO.
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  Speaker 3: Now you're in Silicon Valley technology. Very few of us
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  Speaker 3: in that world. Hold on, a second trillion dollar industry
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  Speaker 3: is being launched, biotech, h ai quantum computing. Uh, very
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  Speaker 3: few of us there. Then if you leave SFO, pop
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  Speaker 3: down at lax in La Hollywood. Okay, we have a
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  Speaker 3: lot of stars, but we don't own the studios. You
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  Speaker 3: have very few Tyler Perry's, very few oprahs. So if
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  Speaker 3: you're trying to play a four corner game of power,
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  Speaker 3: and all we have is a bunch of lawyers in
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  Speaker 3: the politics corner, but we don't have power in the
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  Speaker 3: finance corner, the technology corner, and the media ownership corner. Then,
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  Speaker 3: no matter how well we play the game, we're probably
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  Speaker 3: going to lose more than we win.
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  Speaker 4: So it's media, finance, tech and politics politics corner.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, And you just see it on the map. DC
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  Speaker 3: is politics, New York is finance, Bay Area is technology,
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  Speaker 3: and LA is media ownership. And most black folks are
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  Speaker 3: in politics and entertainment. But we don't own Prince. He's
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  Speaker 3: always told me, Van, you're on CNN. You don't own CNN.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not impressed.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: That was help prints would talk to us. That's how
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  Speaker 3: friends would talk to each other. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, so you asked a question about it. What
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  Speaker 3: I would say is I think it's time for us
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  Speaker 3: to start using business. It's time for us to start
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  Speaker 3: using investment. It's time for us to start using the
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  Speaker 3: power of the market to uplift our community as our
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  Speaker 3: primary strategy, and then use not for profits as a
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  Speaker 3: secondary strategy. We've been in reverse. We've been primarily trying
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  Speaker 3: to go to politics, protests not for profits to fix everything.
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  Speaker 3: Other communities they don't do that. Other communities they have
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  Speaker 3: businesses and they have a lobbyist to go to the
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  Speaker 3: government to help their businesses. We mostly have a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of lobbyists with no business to help. It's not going
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  Speaker 3: to work.
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  Speaker 4: Talking to somebody, I think he's from Congo, but he
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  Speaker 4: was talking about the whole continent of Africa and he
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  Speaker 4: was saying that charity is not going to solve Africa's problems.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Part, billions of dollars has gone into charity and it's
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  Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
• 7:16
  Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy nom the United States
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: are here illegally, your next you will be fine nearly
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned and deported. You will
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: never return. But if you register using our CBP home
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: Do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump, America's laws
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: order and families will.
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  Speaker 2: Be protected, sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security.
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  Speaker 4: And business is going to change the things because he's
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  Speaker 4: like the politicians. They can't get it right. It's gonna
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  Speaker 4: get mismanaged anyway. And when he when he explained it
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  Speaker 4: to me, it was it made a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 4: And I kind of see the same thing in America, right,
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  Speaker 4: And that's why we started our platform because, like you said,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's not changing anything to have lawyers. It's
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  Speaker 4: good to have it, it's good to have social programs,
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  Speaker 4: but ultimately it just kind of keeps you at the
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  Speaker 4: same level that you're at.
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  Speaker 3: Look, everybody needs to vote. I'm not saying anything negative
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  Speaker 3: about that, but the ballot box is not where you
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  Speaker 3: can get what you want. The ballot boxes where you
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  Speaker 3: can lose what you've got. So if you don't show up,
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  Speaker 3: you can lose what you've got. So we have to
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  Speaker 3: vote defensively to make sure they don't take more rights
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  Speaker 3: from us, take more stuff from us. But your that's
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  Speaker 3: your defensive strategy. Your offensive strategy has to be what
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  Speaker 3: part of this economy do we want to own and control?
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  Speaker 3: And you know, part of with the reason I wound
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  Speaker 3: up getting that big grant from Jeff Bezos has to
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  Speaker 3: do with me trying to figure that out. And it's
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  Speaker 3: amazing how one thing will lead to another thing. So
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  Speaker 3: I was trying to be a do gooder, you know,
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  Speaker 3: trying to help people who don't have anything in our community.
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  Speaker 3: And you meet people, you know, people who see you
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  Speaker 3: on TV or they hear about your work you're doing,
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  Speaker 3: and they want to come, they want to help. And
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  Speaker 3: a lot of times people have they have money, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they're they're wealthy people. So Felicia Horowitz, who's an African
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  Speaker 3: American woman exactly married to Ben Horowitz, the recent Horwitz
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  Speaker 3: is like the big the biggest investment firma in Silicon Valley,
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  Speaker 3: the biggest investors in technology, the most successful in technology. Well,
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  Speaker 3: you know, this is a Jewish guide with a black wife.
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  Speaker 3: So these they understand oppression, they understand what's going on.
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  Speaker 3: And so Felicia Horowitz had to ask her mission to
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  Speaker 3: try to get more of us involved what's going on
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  Speaker 3: in Silicon Valley and we're right there in California not
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  Speaker 3: not really noticing what was going on. So she's mc
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  Speaker 3: hammer and NAS and myself and other people. She would
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  Speaker 3: bring over to the house and try to give us game,
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  Speaker 3: and Ben would try to give us game. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: we were very hardheaded because you know, it's like, well,
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  Speaker 3: I'm successful, I mean, and she's like, no, you don't
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  Speaker 3: understand anything about what's going on in this state. And
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  Speaker 3: so over time I started realizing, wait a minute, like
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  Speaker 3: we're we're sitting here in California. We're billions of dollars
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  Speaker 3: of being the main technology. We're not uploading apps, we're
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  Speaker 3: downloading apps. When you're downloading the app, that means when
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  Speaker 3: you move your thumbs around, you're making money for somebody else.
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  Speaker 3: It's when you upload a app and somebody uses the
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  Speaker 3: app you uploaded, that's when you make money. Black people
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  Speaker 3: moving that thumbs around making money for somebody else. That
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  Speaker 3: used to be called picking cotton. Okay, so we're like
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of digital cotton pickers out here, downloading other
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  Speaker 3: people stuff making money for them. And so I said, okay,
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  Speaker 3: I need to do something different. And then she introduced
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  Speaker 3: me to the people who run the Sun Valley Conference
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  Speaker 3: and they invited me there, and that's where all the
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  Speaker 3: billionaires go once a year to talk and do deals
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  Speaker 3: and stuff. So I show up there with my eyeballs
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  Speaker 3: like about to fall out of my head because you know,
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  Speaker 3: there's Zuckerberg right there, there's you know, all these names
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  Speaker 3: that you've heard of, and they're just walking around, no staff,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just talking to each other, eating meals, and
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  Speaker 3: you start to realize, hold on a second, this is
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  Speaker 3: the whole community of people that are billionaires. It's not
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  Speaker 3: like one billionaire over there and one billionaire over here.
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  Speaker 3: They know each other, they speak the same language, their
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  Speaker 3: kids go to the same schools, and there's very few
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  Speaker 3: of us that participated at that level. And so I realized, Man,
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  Speaker 3: Felicia's really changing things by just even just the exposure.
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  Speaker 3: But then, you know, I would come out of it
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  Speaker 3: and I would feel depressed because like, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: how this world works, and you know, what am I
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  Speaker 3: supposed to do and how is it supposed to and
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  Speaker 3: so you have to go through that whole period just
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  Speaker 3: feeling disoriented and almost like a big dummy, like I
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  Speaker 3: spent my whole life out here, like it's like the matrix.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy Noman, the United States
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security under President Trump. Attempted illegal border
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: were here illegally, your next you will be fine nearly
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned, and deported. You will
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: never return. But if you register using our CBP home
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: Do what's right, leave now. Under President Trump America's laws,
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: border and families will be protected.
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security,