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DOJ Brings New Fraud Election Cases plus Rubio Boots Iranian Delegation · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 1: And now the radical left, Democrats want to burn it
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  Speaker 1: all down. They want to take it all down. Every
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  Speaker 1: single Democrat in Congress voted against our record tax cuts.
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  Speaker 1: They voted against no tax on tips. They voted against
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  Speaker 2: They voted against voter ID. They voted against proof of citizenship.
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  Speaker 2: You know why they voted against them? Because they want
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 4: Good Friday morning. Nice to have you with us on
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  Speaker 4: the 47 Morning Update. And we've got two big stories
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  Speaker 4: for you. First up, in Minnesota, we now.
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  Speaker 2: Have guaranteed evidence.
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  Speaker 4: That illegal immigrants voted in multiple elections, and not just
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  Speaker 4: in Minnesota. In fact, we now have proof it was
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  Speaker 4: happening all over the country. We have the details of
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  Speaker 4: exactly what's happening that the left and the media said, oh,
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  Speaker 4: it never happened.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they said it over and over again.
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  Speaker 4: Illegal immigrants weren't voting in our elections. Well, now we
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  Speaker 4: know they actually were. Up next, an amazing story. We
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  Speaker 4: now have learned that the Trump administration, through the State Department,
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  Speaker 4: Marco Rubio, has kicked out Iranian diplomats after they, quote,
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  Speaker 4: overstayed their welcome in New York City at the General Assembly.
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  Speaker 4: Iran pushing back on that narrative, and we have what
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  Speaker 4: they had to say, which was pretty laughable. Before we
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  Speaker 4: get to that, though, I want to talk to you
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  Speaker 3: Story number one.
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  Speaker 4: It's no longer a theory about what could happen with
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  Speaker 4: illegal immigrants voting in our elections.
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  Speaker 2: It's actually happened.
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  Speaker 4: And now we're getting actual federal indictments. A federal grand
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  Speaker 4: jury in Minnesota has indicted 10 foreign nationals on charges
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  Speaker 4: involving illegal voting or falsely claiming U.S. citizenship in order
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  Speaker 4: to register or vote. Now, according to the Justice Department,
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  Speaker 4: the alleged conduct stretches across the 2022 general election. the
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  Speaker 4: 2024 presidential election, and even Minnesota's August 2026 primary. Now,
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  Speaker 4: if you look at the data I just told you,
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  Speaker 4: that would be just two months ago. And the timing
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  Speaker 4: matters because this isn't an isolated announcement. Over the past
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  Speaker 4: several weeks, the Trump administration's Justice Department has announced a
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  Speaker 4: series of election crime prosecutions around the country as the
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  Speaker 4: midterm elections approach. At the same time, it's important to
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  Speaker 4: put the scale in context. AP reports that documented non-citizen
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  Speaker 4: voting remains rare relative to the tens of millions of
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  Speaker 4: ballots cast nationally. And critics of the administration argue. that
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  Speaker 4: the crackdown risk creating an exaggerated impression about its prevalence.
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  Speaker 4: But the Minnesota allegations themselves are very specific. The defendants
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  Speaker 4: are foreign nationals from Liberia, Lithuania, Ghana, Germany, Bosnia, Brazil, Canada,
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  Speaker 4: and South Africa. Nine are alleged to have actually voted.
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  Speaker 4: The 10th is accused of falsely claiming citizenship while registering
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  Speaker 4: to vote. Now, they are legal permanent residents, according to
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  Speaker 4: the Minnesota Public Radio. They say not people who simply
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  Speaker 4: cross the border illegally. Of course, trying to make it
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  Speaker 4: sound better than it really is. Seven are accused of
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  Speaker 4: voting in the 2024 presidential election, meaning they were canceling
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  Speaker 4: out votes of American citizens.
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  Speaker 2: One defendant, a Lithuanian national, allegedly voted back in 2022.
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  Speaker 1: And another.
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  Speaker 4: Ghana National allegedly voted as recently as August 11th of
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  Speaker 4: this year in the Minnesota primary. Now, these are indictments,
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  Speaker 4: and that's important because we're also expected to have even
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  Speaker 4: more indictments come down from the Trump DOJ. Minnesota, by
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  Speaker 4: the way, isn't the only place where DOJ has been
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  Speaker 4: bringing these cases. And I say that because liberals are
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  Speaker 4: going to immediately say, well, this is just a couple
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  Speaker 4: of people in Minnesota. It's not really that big of
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  Speaker 4: a deal. No one should be really caring about this.
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  Speaker 4: This really is nothing. Well, in fact, it is. Now,
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  Speaker 4: this is, again, a part of a bigger DOJ operation.
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  Speaker 4: Just last week, the Justice Department announced charges against 16
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  Speaker 4: people nationwide involving illegal voting, illegal voter registration, and related
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  Speaker 4: election crimes. And Texas was at the center of that announcement.
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  Speaker 4: The DOJ said eight foreign nationals residing in Texas were
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  Speaker 4: facing charges. Among them was a Mexican national who the
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  Speaker 4: DOJ described as being unlawfully present in the United States
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  Speaker 4: and subject to final removal order. Prosecutors charged him with
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  Speaker 4: allegedly voting in a federal election and falsely claiming citizenship
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  Speaker 4: to register. Now, the other Texas defendants included these types
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  Speaker 4: of issues. Lawful permanent residents originally from Nigeria, Mexico, India,
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  Speaker 4: and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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  Speaker 2: The immigration distinctions matter.
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  Speaker 4: Many people charged in these cases are, quote, lawful present non-citizens. Again,
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  Speaker 4: the media wants you to say, hey, they're not really
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  Speaker 4: illegal immigrants. Now, in a separate North District of Texas
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  Speaker 4: operation in September, federal prosecutors announced charges against seven non-citizens
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  Speaker 4: alleging unlawful voting or false claims of American citizenship. Six
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  Speaker 4: were indicted September the 10th, and another was charged.
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  Speaker 2: The following day.
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  Speaker 4: And then came another nationwide DOJ announcement this week involving
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  Speaker 4: 12 people in election-related crimes. And several cases are worth
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  Speaker 4: also paying attention to. In Florida, you had prosecutors there
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  Speaker 4: that charged a 75-year-old, a Canadian national who the DOJ
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  Speaker 4: described as an illegal alien, with voting in three federal elections,
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  Speaker 4: the 2022 primary, the 2022 general election, and the 2024
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  Speaker 4: general election as well. Another Florida case produced a guilty plea.
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  Speaker 4: Valerie Vidor, a Haitian national who was on temporary protected status,
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  Speaker 4: pled guilty to falsely claiming American citizenship to register and
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  Speaker 4: voting in the 2024 general election. Now, again, he pled guilty.
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  Speaker 4: In Hawaii, for example, a Filipino national and lawful permanent
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  Speaker 4: resident yet again also has now pled guilty to unlawfully
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  Speaker 4: voting as a non-citizen after casting a ballot in the
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  Speaker 4: 2024 election. Now, the DOJ also charged a Mexican national
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  Speaker 4: in Pennsylvania with allegedly voting in the 2022 and 2024
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  Speaker 4: general elections. And another Mexican national who was a lawful
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  Speaker 4: permanent resident was charged after Midland County, Texas. Records allegedly
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  Speaker 4: showed she registered in 2020 and voted in the 2024 election. Now,
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  Speaker 4: when you put all of these announcements and these stories together,
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  Speaker 4: you can see exactly why the Trump administration said they
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  Speaker 4: were going to take on this issue. You can see
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  Speaker 4: what the administration is doing is taking conduct that historically
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  Speaker 4: might have been treated as, well, you know, scattered local
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  Speaker 4: election cases, making federal enforcement and non-citizen voting a highly
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  Speaker 4: visible national priority. That is important. It's something the president
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  Speaker 4: promised to do. And DOJ isn't just prosecuting voters. Earlier
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  Speaker 4: this summer, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division sent letters
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  Speaker 4: to election officials in all 50 states. warning that election
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  Speaker 4: officials could potentially face criminal consequences if they knowingly permit
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  Speaker 4: noncitizens to vote or knowingly keep ineligible noncitizens on voter rolls. Now,
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  Speaker 4: DOJ also demanded information about how states intended to comply
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  Speaker 4: with federal election law. So this is broader than arresting
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  Speaker 4: individual defendants. The administration is putting pressure on the systems
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  Speaker 4: to maintain voter rolls as well. And that brings us
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  Speaker 4: to the larger issue here. Federal law generally prohibits non-citizens
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  Speaker 4: from voting in federal elections. and falsely claiming American citizenship
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  Speaker 4: in order to vote can carry serious criminal penalties. In
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  Speaker 4: the Minnesota case, DOJ says a false citizenship claim can
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  Speaker 4: carry up to five years in prison and a $ 250, 000 fine,
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  Speaker 4: while voting as a non-citizen under the charged federal statute
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  Speaker 4: can carry up to a one-year imprisonment and up to
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  Speaker 4: a $ 100, 000 fine as well. There's also another significant legal
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  Speaker 4: aspect of this. A federal district judge in Florida also
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  Speaker 4: ruled yesterday that the federal statute criminalizing non-citizens voting unconstitutional
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  Speaker 4: in a case of a Jamaican national accused of illegally
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  Speaker 4: voting in the 2020 election. Now, that judge concluded that
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  Speaker 4: voter qualifications are an area constitutionally assigned to the states.
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  Speaker 4: The ruling currently concerns that case and does not mean
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  Speaker 4: states suddenly permit non-citizens to vote in federal elections. Which
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  Speaker 4: brings us to the bigger question. Why are Democrats acting
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  Speaker 4: like this isn't happening? It's because they want it to happen.
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  Speaker 4: They create a system where it was easy for this
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  Speaker 4: to happen. And now what they're going to do is
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  Speaker 4: turn this into what they describe as a states' rights
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  Speaker 4: issue where one state can say, no, no, no, we
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  Speaker 4: allow illegal immigrants to vote in our elections. Maybe they
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  Speaker 4: are federal elections. They don't really care. They're saying that
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  Speaker 4: is now the big issue. And let's be clear. This
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  Speaker 4: is actually the ballgame for Democrats. What Democrats want is
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  Speaker 4: to give no different than what they've done with sanctuary cities.
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  Speaker 4: They want to have sanctuary states for illegal immigrants to vote.
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  Speaker 4: And they want to look you in the eye and
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  Speaker 4: they want to tell you there's nothing you can do
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  Speaker 4: about it. They believe that this is, quote, a state's
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  Speaker 4: rights issue for that manipulation and for that reason. Now,
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  Speaker 4: there's also one other part of the story that's really important,
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  Speaker 4: and that's going into the midterms when Democrats look you
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  Speaker 4: straight in the eyes and tell you there's no such
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  Speaker 4: thing as voter fraud and that it's not really happening
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  Speaker 4: and that illegal immigrants aren't actually voting in our elections.
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  Speaker 4: And that is some conspiracy theory. Well, remind them of
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  Speaker 4: what I told you on the show today. Not only
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  Speaker 4: is it happening, it's happening all over the country. And
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  Speaker 4: we're also expecting more indictments to come down before Election Day.
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  Speaker 4: There's also a timing part of this that's really brilliant
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  Speaker 4: by the Trump administration. What they're saying with these indictments
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  Speaker 4: right before a midterm election is this. If you try
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  Speaker 4: to vote in our elections illegally, we're going to find
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  Speaker 4: you and then we're going to arrest you. And then
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  Speaker 4: there's a very good chance you're going to be deported
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  Speaker 4: or go to jail for a long time. That is
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  Speaker 4: the reason why this story is so interesting and so
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  Speaker 4: impactful right now.
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  Speaker 3: Now, story number two.
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  Speaker 4: We are now learning through reports that in Washington, D.C.,
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  Speaker 4: on Thursday, the Secretary of State Marco Rubio personally ordered
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  Speaker 4: Iranian diplomats, allegedly in the United States to attend last
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  Speaker 4: week's U.N. General Assembly, to leave the country after low-level
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  Speaker 4: discussions with the U.S. failed to produce any results. Two
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  Speaker 4: sources now telling Axios that the expulsion occurred. One of
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  Speaker 4: them described the reason as the Iranians overstaying their welcome
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  Speaker 4: in America. The outlet described the situation as, quote, highly
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  Speaker 4: unusual diplomatic rebuke from the State Department, particularly given that
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  Speaker 4: the Iranian delegation included high level officials. most prominently Iranian
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  Speaker 4: Foreign Minister Abbas. Reports throughout the past two weeks also
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  Speaker 4: indicated that informal conversations regarding the ongoing conflict between America
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  Speaker 4: and Iran had actually been taking place on the sidelines
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  Speaker 4: of the General Assembly, but had gone nowhere. We now
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  Speaker 4: know that they, referring to Iran, went public last week
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  Speaker 4: with a proposal for the White House to end the
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  Speaker 4: American blockade of Iranian ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
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  Speaker 4: which has devastated Iran's already limited oil industry. President Donald
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  Speaker 4: Trump told reporters this week that he was not interested
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  Speaker 4: in the agreement. Trump suggested that the Iranians were desperate
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  Speaker 4: to end the blockade given the damage to national economy
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  Speaker 4: that's happened in Iran. Trump suggested the Iranians were, quote,
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  Speaker 4: desperate to end the blockade given the damage to the
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  Speaker 4: national economy they were enduring. He also said they didn't
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  Speaker 4: offer any major concessions it could make for an appealing
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  Speaker 4: deal for Washington, D.C. President Trump announced the launch of
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  Speaker 4: Operation Epic Fury all the way back on February the 28th. Why?
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  Speaker 4: It was simple, to neutralize the Iranian terror regime's ability
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  Speaker 4: to pose a threat to America and Israel.
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  Speaker 2: On the first day of that operation.
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  Speaker 4: The military eliminated the country's longtime dictator, the Supreme Leader, Soleimani.
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  Speaker 4: And Americans and Israeli forces have since killed dozens of
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  Speaker 4: high-ranking regime officials, effectively replacing most positions at the top
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  Speaker 4: of the Iranian government. Now, the Iranians have responded by
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  Speaker 4: bombing its Gulf Arab neighbors, rebooting the Houthi proxy terrorist
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  Speaker 4: organization in Yemen, and disrupting global shipping in the Strait
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  Speaker 4: of Hormuz, something that they desperately needed to do at
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  Speaker 4: all costs to try to make this too hard for
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump, and make the price of oil go up,
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  Speaker 4: which meant it would hurt the president in the midterms,
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  Speaker 4: and they knew it. Now, there's even more to this story,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm going to have it for you in a moment,
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  Speaker 4: but I want to talk real quick about something else.
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  Speaker 4: On October the 7th, 2023, Israeli firefighter Danny faced a
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  Speaker 4: nightmare no parent should ever endure. A terrorist attacked his community.
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  Speaker 4: He and his wife sheltered in their safe room. Just
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  Speaker 4: yards away, his daughter and son-in-law were trapped inside their home.
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  Speaker 4: as it burned during the horrific attacks on that day.
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  Speaker 4: There was nothing he could do to save them. Danny
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  Speaker 4: has dedicated his life to rescuing others. Yet in the
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  Speaker 4: midst of unimaginable grief, he stepped forward to help evacuate
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  Speaker 4: survivors and care for a shattered community. Today, he continues
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  Speaker 4: helping rebuild. And his story reminds us that behind every
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  Speaker 4: headline is a family, is a mom, a father, a son,
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  Speaker 4: or a daughter whose life mattered. And that's why thousands
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  Speaker 4: fellowship movement started by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
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  Speaker 4: Each flag planted as part of this powerful movement honors
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  Speaker 4: a life that was lost. And each flag stands against
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  Speaker 4: hatred as well. Each flag declares to the world that
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  Speaker 4: All right, I want to get back to this story
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  Speaker 4: about this deal with Iran. And again, I go back
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  Speaker 4: to this. The two countries signed an agreement in June
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  Speaker 4: to reopen the strait and move towards ending the conflict.
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  Speaker 4: Iran obviously instantly violated the agreement. While still technically viable,
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  Speaker 4: neither side has respected its terms since, is what the
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  Speaker 4: media has said about the deal. The Iranian government dismissed
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  Speaker 4: reports of its top diplomats being expelled from America on
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  Speaker 4: Thursday as well. Denying that it ever happened, Iran's United
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  Speaker 4: Nations mission confirmed that the individuals involved and all of
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  Speaker 4: their underlings did leave the United States on Monday, but
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  Speaker 4: claimed they had planned to leave on that day anyway. Quote,
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  Speaker 4: the Iranian delegation left New York on Monday evening in
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  Speaker 4: accordance with the schedule that had also been communicated to
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  Speaker 4: the U.S. Department of State in advance on September the 17th. Now,
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  Speaker 4: the national newspaper also reported them saying this in the letter,
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  Speaker 4: having achieved nothing. The State Department has resorted to promoting
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  Speaker 4: baseless reports, the Iranian said as well. Now, the Iran
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  Speaker 4: state-run news agency, IRNA, also denied the report, elevated commentary
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  Speaker 4: from Iranian officials demanding dialogue and diplomacy to resolve the
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  Speaker 4: conflict with the U.S., The foreign minister, for example, was, quote,
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  Speaker 4: on Russian television as insisting that Iran is looking, quote,
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  Speaker 4: to resolve issues diplomatically. And they said that's what prompted
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  Speaker 4: the seven-day initiative, they said, which would require the United
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  Speaker 4: States to lift the maritime blockade on Iran in the
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  Speaker 4: Strait immediately. Quote, we presented this plan to the Americans
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  Speaker 4: via Qatar, and we recently received the other party's view
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  Speaker 4: through the Qatari mediator and during the foreign minister's brief
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  Speaker 4: stopover while returning from New York. They shared the seven-day
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  Speaker 4: plan on Friday as a form, they said, of pressuring
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  Speaker 4: the public to accept it.
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  Speaker 2: The deal would have required the U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Blockade to end and lifting all of its sanctions on
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  Speaker 4: the Iranian oil industry, as well as Iran receiving access
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  Speaker 4: to funds frozen in response to its status as the
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  Speaker 4: world's most prolific state sponsor of jihadist terrorism. The agreement
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  Speaker 4: would also require Israel to end its campaign against the
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  Speaker 4: Iranian proxy terrorist organization Hezbollah in Lebanon. The Iranians offered
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  Speaker 4: to stop engaging in piracy against random ships in the
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  Speaker 4: Strait of Hormuz and to begin a discussion about its
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  Speaker 4: illicit nuclear program in exchange. So now you know exactly
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  Speaker 4: what happened. Donald Trump, by the way, resided putting it
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  Speaker 4: this way. They want to make a deal where they
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  Speaker 4: open the Strait immediately because they're losing so badly. They
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  Speaker 4: don't have any money now because they wanted to close
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  Speaker 4: the strait. And I said, that's fine. We're going to
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  Speaker 4: close it on you. But everybody else is going to
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  Speaker 4: be able to use it. They want to make a deal.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that's fine, Trump added. I like making
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  Speaker 4: a deal, too. But the deal would not be acceptable
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  Speaker 4: that they offered. Now, just so you know how bad
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  Speaker 4: things are in Iran right now, Iran's currency, the ral,
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  Speaker 4: has been in free fall for months as a result
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  Speaker 4: of the conflict.
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  Speaker 2: The currency's value fell to a record low on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 4: Of 2.5 million rials per U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Dollar.
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  Speaker 4: Out-of-control inflation is also a problem in Iran. Supply issues
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  Speaker 4: are a major issue. And other quality-of-life problems have led
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  Speaker 4: to widespread protests in the country. And we saw that
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  Speaker 4: back in December of 2025 and January of this year.
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  Speaker 4: The regime opted to silence those protests by engaging in
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  Speaker 4: widespread brutality, killing thousands of people in January alone.
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