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When the spars, thanks everybody from being here today again. They're good to
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help the kids about inner cities. Uh, and there's so many of them
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that need help, especially in the today. Uh. I wanna thank James
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bitte On, assistant director of the You have to be ho co be either
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and you don't get through just Uh, I have to walk alone by joint
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friend zips. I wanna thank the people who talking the big tenders. H.
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Let's see our sponsors frekrant No, you know I I need to be
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last. Uh from how do you say it first? Okay? Vick Bogall,
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thank you mix, Uh listen, get up your firm, Heeta ruther
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Bok watch Woods and wives or nothing? Thank you Margot? Watch what favorite
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sports? Thank good? Now watch a choice? Uh? Todd Trabiro gay
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you burg like uh for being a concert and uh or uh big table buyers.
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Let's see uh wood for Jameson which wood happen? Uh? What's your
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favorite games? They go back a long way? But he's legends. Uh
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his dad bills pegas. Okay, well, see I should have looked at
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the handspect for what's does the other jameson gig? Thank you the game?
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You right, now and UH on a big type of fighters grant best teacher's
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people. H Well, let's just thank you book had the one again Howard
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Becka we uh and uh the Business Council of New York State, thank you
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for keeping mistiness falling. Hund you mine grow under them. Uh, James
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L. Bernini's thank you so much. Land shopman John Sulliers, you know
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I don't know that's true. And again thank you going for me here.
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And in addition, we have uh uh I piple November seventeenth, we have
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beyor Eric Adams and then Wi the seventh fifth. Uh. We have Barry
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Kudlow and the Nigs one of the Biggs after Tons in the future coming.
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Uh. We have cousle going goes to cauble going in decemberth uh for Christmas,
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but this this year because of uh it's schedule being kind of a Vatican
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were probably in January and UH also in h January or February island Dursuit's uh
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to tell us about the acts of bour that's pot light in the world.
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I late second I get there and we have a Christmas wife right when's Christmas
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pride is forty kids. But this is when you go to Harlem on one
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hundred and nineteenth Street on a Saturday morning and watch the kids. Uh we
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can't make warm fifteen or twenty thousand happy, but we're Friday at least five
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sixty seven hundred meg housept happy and follow us quick about that and why that?
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Uh, there's a legal lunch. Get enough uh lawyers to write the
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tap uh watch on what is the legal watches Detember first, thirteen. Everybody's
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a lawyer, show up, okay, thanks from so much to walk a
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couple you know me show the beach up. Your agency is watched the whole
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front. Uh tell me all along every table to ten twelve, then watch
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his head help the kids. Any if buys his own table. Thank you
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say uh, thank you very much. I know that people are dying to
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hear what I have to say, because oh I could tell me it right
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over to me. They said, what's from five last work here? Especially
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announcement. We actually very important after the launch, but everybody's pleased. Remain
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seated so that could be first at the cokeraum and I don't have to waste
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any long all Uh. We got a great uh great group of people here
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today and be at the Harvard Club. I I was at Harvard see the
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bookstore and I but uh, first of all, a big thanks to all
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of the and white you know many people here, Mark Stewart, after the
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Commissioners, community affairs, the one my law, great prospective detective sergeants,
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just one thing round the plus. But do you ever remember being see uh
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uh princess of the police Athletic thin what has a tough job and they've got
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a lot of great uh evers brother working bas Our Germany for a law along
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a long time and now it's a great name launch course this business and uh
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great the brothers Mark Sports what's you? And the director who really makes the
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work and he's the best rectory you've ever had, Carlos the last quest h
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and uh the first Lady of New York Margo cas a machine you say you
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fem give me back to uh got Richard Weinberg, Uh great, great the
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when you're finest builders and ransathly package if the Irwin Cohen thank you lay there
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and what about great Golders the best private club of York and New York Athletic
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got Jim Rapperty and Tim Gleason in West School or something like that and uh
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spect o Riggie Taylor, the Great the slam and the young man, tell
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uh they slack when we lend inis drum one of our fives. Can you
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name from New York Times to be a gas stop stolled and make all this
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happen at the uh uh harmar copulations. I want you to meet this woman.
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She's the mayor of men also a candidate. She's running her sentence against
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Bob Menende's one of the best politicians money can buy. But let's let's uh
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have a stands up. Uh Christine Toronto Glaster in my book, uh and
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so uh U a great honor to have your bilt you Gazey started these lines,
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was about some thirty years ago. Uh. And then eventually we moved
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him over to the police that loved the league. But to have uh Roygy
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Gazzy here is as a great honor. Hey this table also the director of
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the security for the US Open Cornelius Craig Cornelias about one of the finest men
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ever in the politics in the answer in the government, but really one of
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the greatest human beings ever in politics. David Pattis's Coming Day. Thanks for
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being here today. Thanks to uh following you of our pavior ay Uh you
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know the police athletically gives the finest children's charity in New York. Nobody does
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moor for the kids in New York, especially as a place where it's needed
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most. And think this. Returnees and others have said it's a great crime
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fighting tool. We take a lot of kids Promation Department gyps. Listen the
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recidivism break on pl kids. He's like on the third what the normal visions?
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So, uh, you're helping a great cause. Now the FBI,
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you've had uh FPI is a very special organization. Play the New York office.
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You're something really special. And we've had the greatest director Tom the Jim
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Fox and all the others and been directors here and we've come one with us
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right now. And I'd like you to introduce our special guest, George Benzealos,
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a long time jump job teacher. You fayal organizations used to be the
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uh see o O the Federal Law enforcements. UH foundation still gonna create work
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for all of us here in New York. George Vendezuela's a bunch of taking
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you there. Thank you, Mark Well, it's a real honor permitted to
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disclose the shoes. I at least feeling right now. And it's just as
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director of Charge of the York Mike far best job of that job. That's
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also the most of the jobs U as Bill doll as New York. The
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rest of the country not those And New York's advantagers we do have in New
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York is the best. Like this between the foundations and who was athletically he's
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a venture. It's all about bringing people together and work together. And James
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is only gonna hit two months last the last part he had here. He
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was here. He wasn't an a assigned to New York yet and he took
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the time to come to this of that kind of time and UH and that's
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something that the community noticed quickly and appreciate it. But James came from uh
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the Houston office. He was in charge you on Houston office. There's some
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of the things he did down there. He's gonna go well for New York.
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He was able with all the city crime going on, he was able
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to work some of these repeat offenders into the federal system to to face federal
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time. Because as we know, a lot of the great cities, oh
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I think the a's he had just Returney's offices. I was gonna starting hurt.
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You know. There's a lot of strong the a's get an office and
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a lot of the cities are again hurt crime. So this is where the
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FBI at all the other federal agencies to step in and help. And James
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did that and use he done a tremendous job doing that. And he doesn't
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talk up with some big office experience. He worked in LA office for a
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number of years as a a new agent, work the streets. LA's one
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office. It's not New York, but but one thing is that's it has
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water in New York. Is that extreme gang presence. LA's a the Keeam
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gangs, you know, and James worked a lot of the gangs over his
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career, and so it's gonna serve him while here. I think you wanna
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hear from him, so he hit right to him. And I think I
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think James is gonna bring the community together like both the other sisters, I
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mean, and I think James is good to it right in. You always
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been right in and uh and I look forward to work with them. They
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have guys like a a family seven though we never worked with nothing together.
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It's that the Kenny Bacon thing. We all though some people we work with
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and suppost like a preacher goody in New Yorky. You know somebody are related
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to somebody. Yeah, l we we have a lot of the safe friends.
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So for me, it's a lot of PRESU can do, James spect
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that's Georgia. We have to do well. Thank you for a bite for
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years. Man. It's great to be back here and we had a good
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time the last time I was here and uh AUGI the safety of the communities
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we served is not just the concerned responsibility of law enforcement, but your community
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as well. You have the I needs public help and achieve success our community
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serves and as our highs and years, we count to the school of society
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approach to aid us as we become at this evolution of crime. The FBI
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has made a concentrated effort to grow stronger connections with all our communities, developing
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channels people ongoing communication. This includes building relationships with our kids. You're cring
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to trust, wantuls and provide them opportunities to grow and learn in the safety
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and environments that we live in. The FBI has pro to the programs like
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Exports and Team Academy. This is one of the kids. We can come
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to the FBI, understand our pass, understand how there's to be lawn for.
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In addition to this, work is still needed to grow these connections.
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We need to maintain and further gain our kids and communities trust. This is
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the the FBI saying we need to gain the trust of the community and don't
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kids when the wanting signs of President people know who may come to come is
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lawful law enforcement, that's law. Without that trust, we cannot do the
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work we do to protect the American people. The League knows that our best
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chance of bringing about change comes with teaching tolerance and leading by example. If
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we're not working together to create an atmosphere of tolerance and respect for one another,
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we run the risk of allowing hatred to stream through our communities. Give
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you a way to crimes of unspeakable nature as we're experiencing today. This is
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why our law enforcement partnerships are so valuable and why growing stronger connections with members
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of our community is so essential. Not only do me defendant one another from
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potential physical dangers we can, but we work together from gradials dangers from showing
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up on the doorsteps of citizens he served. If we don't have a trust
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of our community leaves, and if the children in our communities don't feel they
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can trust us, you're fighting and uphill back These relationships especially essential to our
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continued success in today's involving way and to ensuring we build trust along the new
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generation of parents and children who hold out future in their hands. This seems
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particularly typical topical given the current environment overseas and what that means for us here
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at home. I'm gonna shift gears here and we'na talk a little bit about
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what we're experiencing challenges the ongoing your questioning for and is rarely hamas commony.
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I really want you to understand. Looking as the gale of law enforcement are
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doing around the world to address extititions these major issues, the FBI has continue
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to monitor the threats associated with the real a Mons conflict, both in the
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United States and overseas. There's been a devastating loss of life, with thousands
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of Israelis and Palestanians killed, including at least thirty five American citizens. Since
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their deaths, the very five American citizens Washington Field Office has opened up investigations
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into their deaths. So once you want to understand, we're not just allowing
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them to die without any action. The FBI and law enforcement of Welling bring
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to what's going on there. Amasistity and still holds hundreds of hostitutes. And
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although we are there rayful that two American hostages, a mother and a daughter
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were reduced to amass still holds ten Americans hostage. The FBI has also opened
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up ten investigations into US hostages and kidnapping. We will not go long without
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trying to bring them back home. Mm The FBI has worked retires to without
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interagency and international parties to locate the hostages and bring them home. The young
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gooing conflict is not isolated just als and issue, and we have already seen
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the conflict inspired terrorist acts overseas of KI and Isis. They have called for
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support to alas mm urge its follows trutargety. Jewish presence all over the world,
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especially Jewish neighborhoods in America and Europe. Iranian media has amplified myths and
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disinformation online about the conflict and publicly message support to the mobs and threatened to
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attack. You must interested in the Middle East, if excuse me, in
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the Middle East and the US directly on injuries. Less than a week after
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the attack in France, an individual stabbed and killed. Less than a week
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after the attack of the Stob seven in France, and individual stabbed and killed
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the teacher at a school and injured several other people. A few days after
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that ta attack, individual in Beligible claimed membership and license and then shot and
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killed two Swedish nationals. There has also been an increase in attacks on US
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military leasons carried out by Iranian back the militias threatened threatening the safety and security
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by a military personnelity over seas. We are actively monitoring the situation of overseas
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use which is be fueled and evolving, and we are assessing implications throughout the
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domesticigure right environment regarding specific They have not conducted or called for a tax needing
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less, but we cannot do We cannot and do not discount the possibility that
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they could direct a tax as a homeland, which you would be a deviation
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in the historical focus by operations to destrict the terror threat in the homeland has
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remained hypened throughout twenty twenty three. And we do not see it stopping going
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into twenty twenty four. But recent events have increased the possibility or potential attack
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at least individuals and institutions in the United States. We're not concerned. This
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made PROMPTU. We are most concerned, and this made promp homegrown violent extremts
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and long offenders motivated by poor reacting to the events piece events to conduct the
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tax against juition are American and Muslim communities here in the United States. We're
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also concerned about domestic ration motivated by the extrems with the ideologies targeting juition,
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Muslim or aur American communities. So I'm gonna hit that part of them that
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is basically saying we have US citizens will become gradialized and return against the citizens.
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The terrorists no longer have to send the old team to the United States
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and to conduct the terrorist attack and use the internet to gradialize American citizens usually
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all them to conduct the terrorist attacks like we've been seeing over the last couple
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of days. But a lot of if we live right now, can't in
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law, I'm not dragging any incredible threat as a right now we do not
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know threat to the old and I have to hit that because we have to
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function without fear. So right now, Ayeah, there is no incredible threat
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to the United States. I'm wonderst FBI field officers across the country with an
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aggressive sense of vers We are determined to do everything is possible to fulfill our
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mission and protected American people. Since the October seventh attack, the FBI has
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opened up hundreds of inquiries and those in law enforcement that is gardens. We've
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opened up hundreds of gardeners that happened nexus to the common These guardians range from
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non specific threats with no clear time frame or target to incorpork a corroborated threats
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to life to threats seriously enough to opening investigations to wrestler. We are using
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and leveraging all of our investigator techniques to mitigate these threats. Along with our
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apartments, we're also leaning forward and outreach efforts with our community departners, especially
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our favor based communities. Since the confidence I've first had gone out and met
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with the Jewish and Muslim communities on several occasions since October seven, the attacks
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to Since October seven attacks, the FBI at our partners have a wrestled two
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individuals plotting potential terrorist attacks. Two weeks ago my former office at BI Houston
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around Pales Uni and sidey sever who studied how to build bombs and posted our
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mind allowed wanting to fight against Israel in God and supporting killing people of the
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Jewish faith. Last week at FBI Las Vegas, a resident individual who made
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numerous violence anti sement writing bron calls to a Jewish United States Center OBI Chicago
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office that's also opened the federal hate crime investigation into a landlord whose statitude death
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a six year old Palestinian American. They seriously injuring his mother because the tenants
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were a Muslim. And over the weekend there were reports of online quotes that
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writtned violence against Jewish students at Cornell University. This is all going on.
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This is all going on while the FBI in New York Field office continues to
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do dress live in crime, the metal crisis, intrusions, white call,
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the crimes, and the counter intelligence threads from China and Russia. We know
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our FBI in New York is in constant communications with you and your community partners,
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and that we are working closely together to follow up on every tip and
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lead to keep our communities. To report information to the FBI, please use
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tips dot FBI dot go or one eight hundred calor FBI. And inconclusion,
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we have a long road ahead of us and we will continue renize more and
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more on the support and cooperation from our partners and communities. But by moving
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forward together, we will continue to keep our communities. Say thank you again
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for writing me here Today can happen to up up at the batta At the batt