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Speaker 1: And here we go. Hi, how are hold it down? Man?

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How are you welcome to the Big podcast. It's Tuesday.

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Today is the second day of December, Year of Our Lord,

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twenty twenty five. My name is Tom Sullivan. And this

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whole business about the shooting the Narco boats and killing

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the occupants of those boats is still it's not going

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to go away anytime soon. But I find it fascinating

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on many different levels. First of all, you start thinking

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about the fact that this sounds very political, because what

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it what a lot of people anti Trump, people, people

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on the left, people that are in the middle whatever

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that are anti Trump. They're certainly anti Hagseath as well,

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and and so you would expect that they would accuse

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the president and the Defense secretary of all kinds of

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terrible things. But this is different because, and by the way,

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I have I have a number of prominent people that

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are on both sides of this issue. One side of

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the issue says you can't do that. You can't shoot

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survivors in a wrect boat. That, no, you gotta You've

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got to pick them up as prisoners of war. You

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gotta do somebody. You can't just kill them. You cannot

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kill everybody after the damage to the ship has been done,

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or the boat is not a ship, and the other

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there's another group of people that say, yes, you do.

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You kill the enemy. You break things, and you kill

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the enemy. That's what the military does. So we've got

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both sides of this. But investigations have already started. It's bipartisan.

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I've got Republicans and Democrats that are saying we need

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to look into this, and they started today the gathering

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together to put together investigations into what happened with the

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Narco boat that was hit for the second time. The

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first time blew up the boat. The second time was

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to blow up whatever survivors were there. And so the

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thing that makes this different to me is that this

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isn't just political mud being thrown around. It's that, but

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it's much more because somebody is going to be right

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and somebody is going to be wrong. They're going to

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investigate this to find out was there a war crime

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committed or not. And if there wasn't, then there's going

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to be some people that are throwing the mud that

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are going to look pretty pretty bad. I guess they

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don't care. I guess they don't care. If there was

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a war crime committed? What's gonna happen. Well, normally war

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crimes are are prosecuted by the Uniform Code of Military

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Justice by the military, they prosecute their own under UCMJ.

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But the civilian head of the military, the Defense secretary,

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is not going to be court martialed. It's for uniform

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active duty military. Certainly the president won't be court martialed,

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but it And then you've got this admiral who Pete

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Hegsath is talking very positively about Admiral I'll get his

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name here in a minute. Admiral Mitch Bradley is his name,

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highly decorated admiral. And people are now starting to ask

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the question about the Defense secretary. Hegseth is trying to say,

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look at I gave the original orders to attack the boat,

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but then I left, I left the room, and what

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happened after that? And I'm falling back whatever the admiral

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decisions were. So it sounds like he's trying to shift

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the blame over to the admiral Colonel Cedric Layton while

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he thinks that they are trying to throw the admiral

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under the bus.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's a great potential for that. The

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way this is characterized was kind of interesting because when

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Secretary Hegseth made his announcement via tweet basically saying that

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he backs up all the decisions that Admiral Bradley may

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the real underlying current here seems to be the fact

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that the decisions were Admiral Bradley's and Hexeth himself is

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not really taking responsibility for these actions. But the fact

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of the matter is these actions were carried out at

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the behest not only of Secretary Headset but also of

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President Trump. So they are ultimately responsible for how the

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military carries out these missions. They have to not only

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ensure that these orders are carried out if they want

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them carried out, but they also have to make sure

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that those orders are lawful. And if you don't make

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sure those orders are lawful and people engage in in

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these kinds of attacks and called double tap attack, that

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would be a significant not only breach of the laws

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of war, but it is also potentially a war crime.

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And that's the kind of thing that we're looking at.

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Speaker 1: But is it a war crime? Because you have different

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people saying different things. Mark Kelly, the Senator from Arizona,

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the guy who was getting a lot of attention because

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of the don't of a illegal orders tape that went

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out by the Democrats. And he's a former Navy captain,

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he retired Navy captain. He was an astronaut. So this

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is his reaction to this so far.

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Speaker 3: I will not be intimidated by this president. I am

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not going to be silenced by this president for the

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people around him, because I've given too much in service

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to this country to back down to this guy. There

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needs to be an investigation. We need to pull some

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of these members of DD in the military into the

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Armed Services committees in the House and the Senate.

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Speaker 1: Well, and that apparently is is underway. However, one of

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the other senators who serves on the Armed Forces Committee,

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Mark Wayne Mullen from Oklahoma, as a totally different attitude

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about this.

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 5: Mark is out there trying to talk like a tough guy,

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and it's not becoming of him. I used to really

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take him serious because he actually is a pretty smart guy.

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But I mean, just yesterday I was on a news

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program right before him, and he goes out and says,

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the President doesn't like brown people. He's just he's trying

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to get attention for whatever reason. Maybe he's trying to

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think there's an opportunity for him to run for president,

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but he's felling. I mean, what he said about our

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men and women in uniform about not falling direct orders

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was completely reckless and ridiculous by sowing any type of

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doubt and dissent inside over men and women while we're

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at a time of you know, unprecedented dangers from abroad

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and home, and then you see him go out like

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this and starts, you know, throwing out this rhetoric. It

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sounds like to me, he's pandering to this far left base,

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which is why the Democrats have a low approval rating,

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which is the lowest they've had in since they've you know,

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actually measured the Democrat Party's approval ratings. So I hate

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that Mark Kelly's going down this path, but you know,

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this is what happens when you have people that are

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more interested in political gain than they are actually leading

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for American people. Because who could argue about us being

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proactive against these drug terrorist organizations that are flooding our

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streets with drugs bill that no one can can deny.

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I mean, think about this, We've had more overdose deaths

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in the United States in twenty twenty four than we

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had in the entire Vietnam War, and so we should

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be applauding President Trump and Secretary Hegseth for being proactive

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when the previous administration turned a blind eye to it

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and open our borders.

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Speaker 1: And he's absolutely right. There were eighty According to the CDC,

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there were eighty thousand, three hundred ninety one deaths by

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illegal drugs in this country, which was better than that

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was twenty twenty four. Twenty twenty three, it was one

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hundred and a little more than one hundred and ten thousand.

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So a lot of people dying by voluntarily taking illegal drugs,

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which is another whole topic. But Dan Crenshaw, who was

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a congressman from Texas, he has decided to not be

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a congressman anymore. He's a former United States Navy seal

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officer and so he was involved in counter terrorism missions.

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Speaker 6: I can't recall any time in my history doing counter

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chairs on operations where we strike a group, whether that's

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a building or a boat or a vehicle, and then

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we were like, oh, well, they're survivors. We have to

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go we can't kill them. Of course they killed them. Yeah, so,

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I mean, I don't know. I'm not a lawyer, I'm

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not a JAG officer. But they're going to have to

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decide was this in fact a war crime, yes or no?

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Dan Grenshaw says, that's what they did. General Jack Keen

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Speaker 7: Yeah, well, first of all, I think we should just

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hold off fire here a little bit and let's get

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on with an investigation. I think the Pentagon should do

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the investigation. They do a lot of these things in

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the past, and they're very good at getting the facts out.

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With all the variables and complexities that are involved here,

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and things are flying around by people, they just don't

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know what they're talking about. A couple of examples. You

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have an operation on the ground, then you have wounded

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soldiers as a result of it. Of course, we don't

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kill those wounded soldiers because we're in control. Actually, the

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obligation is to take them prisoner and after are wounded

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is treated, treat those as wounded and evacuate them. But

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these are isolated events. Airstrike's done sometimes on the ground

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or sometimes at sea, and there's nobody there in control

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of the situation. So if the target is people or

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it's a facility, and both of those are important, the

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objective is to kill the people and destroy the facility.

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is to destroy the boat and kill the people. In

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about twenty five percent of these kind of attacks, we

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do reattack either. If the facility was the objective to

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destroy the rest of the facility, if the people is

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the objective to kill the rest of the people, that's

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just the reality of what we're dealing with. The people

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got to get to head around this, and they're misinterpreting

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what is taking place here. And certainly when we reattack

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on the ground or at sea, many of those people

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are obviously they may have been armed, but they're going

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to be in a disarranged state. But the target is

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the people. And if we can't get to those people

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and take them prisoner, then I think the commander is

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likely acting properly. But I don't even know all the

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facts and circumstances. Certainly, I'm just basing it on my

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years of experience. Well, I need an investigation.

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Speaker 1: Here, Yeah, so we need an investigation. Is the way

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he left it. But it's interesting where sometimes you kill

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the people, sometimes you don't. I'm thinking of a column

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obominator because President Obama sent all kinds of drones in

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to kill people in the Middle East when we were

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fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. So it's been done, but

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all of a sudden, they're coming out of their shoes

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about the fact this is a war crime because they

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went back not only blew up the boat, but also

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blew up the people that were on the boat. Which

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brings us to the question about the Afghan refugee that

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killed the one National Guard soldier in Washington and critically

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wounded the other. He's still in critical condition in the

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hospital in DC. And the question is about bringing I

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mentioned this yesterday about bringing people in to this country

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on these refugee programs, and I placed myself in the

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shoes of somebody that was picked up out of Syria

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and brought to somewhere in the United States. You talk

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about a culture shock, it's got to be. I would

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think if I was a Syrian resident and I was

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escaping the country, I would want to be put in

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a country next to Syria, nearby the same geographic area

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they have the same culture, same religion, same all that

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same food. So now apparently the president is very interested

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in banning people coming into this country from countries that

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are of concern. I don't know what that means. It's

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not defined. I'm sure we could probably agree. There's nineteen

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of them on the list, and apparently that is the

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beginning list. It's going to grow about a travel ban.

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And remember when President Trump one point, oh, he wasn't

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in office a month and they came up with the

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Muslim travel band and that did not go very far.

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It got adjusted and changed. But the idea has been

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there ever since about people from countries that have a

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different attitude about us, a different culture. Whatever you want,

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do we want them in this country. Now. What we

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have historically is we have people from Western Europe and

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from Asia and they have come to this country and

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have assimilated. The problem with a lot of the people

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that have come into the country in the last twenty years,

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there's been little, to know assimilation by lots of them.

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So a ban on foreigners coming into this nation. Caroline

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Levitt addressed it at a White House briefing.

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Speaker 8: As you know, for those who do not align with

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our country's national interests. The Secretary of State has the

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right to do that, and we've taken unprecedented action to

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do just that. We are also now pausing all asylum

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adjudications for additional vetting as well. And again, having a

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visa in the United States is not a right, it

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is a privilege. In the Secretary of State, if you

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are deemed contrary to our countries for national interests, has

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the right to revoke that privilege.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's been tried by the Secretary of State. Marco

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a protester, and they tried to deport him and they

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got into a court fight. I saw some events the

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other day where there was a bunch of Democrats celebrating.

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I think it was one of the races, the governor's

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races in New Jersey, I believe, and he was there.

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woman that won New Jersey governorship. So he never I think.

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he got out of that and back. And this is

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not a good person, but he is bound to determine

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that he wants to be in America. If he hates America,

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why does he want to be here? So, but in

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any case, because it's a better place to live than

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what he's used to. So I don't know how far

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this is going to go, this proclamation about if you

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don't align with our values? What is that? Byron Donalds

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was asked the same question about this banning of foreigners,

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certain foreigners it is.

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Speaker 9: I mean, look, obviously, in light of what happened in Washington,

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d C. We could go coupled with the fact that

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the nation is still dealing with massive amounts of illegal

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immigration in our country that has flooded every city and

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every state in America.

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Speaker 2: So yes, is warranted.

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Speaker 9: I think the administration's take on this is the appropriate one.

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first order or business was shutting the border down completely.

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That promise was made and that promise was kept. Now

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it's about making sure that we really just pause a

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lot of the immigration into the United States while we

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get our house in order to a large degree, So

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I think what Secretary Nomens talking about is warranted.

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Speaker 1: So this is interesting, but it hasn't been really well defined.

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And so who are people from other parts of the

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world that we want in our country or don't. And again,

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a ship, you sailed to America. You were here. There

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was no immigration issue. But most of those people came

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from Western Europe or from Asia, and they went through

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the vetting process and they had to prove that they

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had somebody here that could support them and that they

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had a skill that we wanted in this country. There

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were a lot of requirements to be able to come

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into this country that we don't have anymore. And that's

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one of the problems is we have a lot of

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people that come into the country. Maybe their children or

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their grandchildren will be full fledged American someday, but they're lost.

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They don't speak the language, they don't have the same culture.

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They may hate America and everything that we stand for.

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But that's what has moved in over the last twenty

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years or so. And one of those groups are the Somalis. Yes,

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the people from Somalia, and a lot of them, as

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many immigrants have done here in New York City. We

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have in Brooklyn and in Queens there are neighborhoods that

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are I mean ethnic, it doesn't say it. They have

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to come over from another country and they find the

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people that came from that same country. And so there

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are neighborhoods of people who are from the same ethnic area,

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and they have the same culture in their neighborhoods. They

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wear the same clothes that they used to wear, They

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have the same for the grocery stores are all filled

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with foods that they like, all of that and so.

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But in Minnesota there is a large contingent of somalions

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and apparently there is a giant scandal that all the

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fingers are being pointed at Tim Walls, the governor, for

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doing nothing about a billion dollar fraud. It's added up

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to about a billion dollars worth of money that have

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gone through the Somalian neighborhood to Somalia to one of

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the big terrorist groups, Al Shabbad, and nobody in Minnesota

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was doing anything about it until now. Oh here's Tom Emmers,

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one of the congressmen from Minnesota.

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Speaker 4: Al Shabab controls all the financial infrastructure in Somalia. This

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money has gone back to Somalia. Ergo, common sense would

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tell you that millions of dollars taxpayer dollars from Minnesotan's

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has gone to terrace known as al Shabab in Somalia.

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This is an awful situation. Tim Wallace should be held accountably.

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Speaker 1: Walls is up for election next year and there's a

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woman that's running against him. She is the Speaker of

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the House. Her name is Lisa Dumuth and she is

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making this part of her campaign.

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Speaker 10: Fraud in Minnesota under the watch of Governor Walls has

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exploded in his seven years as governor. There are twenty

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eight known scandals of fraud just over seven years. He

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takes responsibility for putting people in jail, but he's never

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apologized to the taxpayers. He's never taken accountability of saying

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this has happened on his watch, and he's pushed it aside.

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Speaker 1: Apparently it's pretty brazen. Even one of the defense attorneys

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that was representing people who were accused of taking the

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Minnesota money and funneling it off to the Somalis is

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stunned by how this was so obvious that it was

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going on.

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Speaker 11: By liking that to someone saying, hey, someone stealing all

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the cookies out of the cookie jar and the government

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just running over itself to refill it as fast as

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it can and not getting to the root of the problem.

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Speaker 1: So apparently people knew about the problem and did not

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try to stop it. They just put more money into

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the money going to Somalia. Back to Brian Donalds again

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about what's going on in Minnesota.

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Speaker 9: Well, honestly, a lot of this stuff happens because you

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have these Democrat front groups who are using government money.

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They have people who probably work in the Walls administration

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who are partial to these groups. So when this money

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goes out the door or nobody's really tracking. It's one

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of the bigger issues in our government, both federally and

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actually in a lot of states, is that you don't

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really have real controls minding the store per se, and

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so you have these front groups. They sign up for

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different grant programs, they get this money, they put some

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baseless line item in for why they need it, but

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it goes to so many of their activities. It's that

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nobody's tracking. So I think that the investigations into this

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are are going to be critical. I'm glad that the

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Treasury Secretary is stepping up to investigate this matter. More

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needs to come and there needs to be a lot

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of oversight on these dollars. One of the big things

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this is why usaid when Donald Trump came into office,

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had to be thoroughly reviewed shut down. Most of it

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is because a lot of these dollars, which everybody says

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is going to humanitarian efforts, actually go to a lot

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of radicalism around the globe and here in the United States.

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Speaker 1: So it is common and it's not sending money off

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to Somalia into Al Shabbad, but it is common enough

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to wear somebody sets up some nonprofit organization Citizens for

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good Goodness, and then they have their political friends fund

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them with huge amounts of money, and that money then

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goes back to causes that those people belong to their

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their party, at various aspects of their party, they will

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get the money. In this case, it's going to a

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terrorist group, and Tim Walls did nothing about it. John

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Ashbrook thinks this story is going to get even bigger,

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especially around the re election potential of Tim Waaltz.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm telling you this is a huge, huge story.

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You got Tim Walls saying that he wants to start

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investigating now. But the truth was there there were government

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employees who raised red flags and investigated these frauds at

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the time, and what happened The left wing NGO bullied

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them out of saying something about it, So it's it's

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not a problem. It was just recently uncovered. They're locals

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who knew about it at the time. The New York

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Times reported this, And the worst thing about this is

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that the money was supposed to go to the neediest

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of all people who were hungry, the homeless, families who

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have children with autism. They rely on those sorts of

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resources that were stolen and sent to Somalia. That original

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City Journal article that reported the money was siphoned by

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al Shabab quoted multiple law enforcement sources who have investigated

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this sort of fraud over multiple states, starting in Seattle

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and leading to Minneapolis.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, this is pretty common in state government

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and even in big cities as well, Los Angeles for example,

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where they have these groups that are friends of the

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politicians that can move lots of money, millions and millions

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of dollars of money. And did you hear what he said?

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He said, The New York Times is reporting all this.

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We accuse the New York Times of not reporting on

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anything that is not favorable for a Democrat. But here,

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obviously they think this is big enough to go after,

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even though Tim Waltz is on the left side of

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the aisle. So this story is probably going to grow.

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Speaker 9: But I.

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Speaker 1: Think this is probably a problem going on in your

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very state because it's so easy for them to set

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this up and make it look like they're doing wonderful

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things when they're just stealing the money. And today in

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Tennessee they are voting Nashville area. It's the seventh congressional district.

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They have an interesting race going there. This is Mark Green,

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who stepped down from Congress. It was a Republican. It's

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a Republican area. Donald Trump won this district by twenty

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two points, so he walked away with it. But that

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was Donald Trump. So now you've got Mark Green who's

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stepping aside, and they have a Democrat and Republican. The

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Democrat is a woman who is well kind of falls

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into these categories that we've been watching lately. She is

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a big socialist, she wants to defund the police. She

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hates Nashville, she hates country music, she hates Christiana religious

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religious people make her nervous. This is so we'll see

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how she does. But she's running against a guy who's

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a very staid Republican, and we'll see how it turns out.

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Tim Burshett is a congressman from Tennessee, and listen to

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what he has to say.

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Speaker 13: Now, Sarah, shit and except it's a special election. You've

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got weather coming into Tennessee and we don't you know,

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we get a half inch of snow and it's shut

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the schools and ride the stores of milk and bread.

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And President Trump is exactly right. This is an indicator.

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Look this lady, it was educated in Knoxville, Tennessee, my hometown.

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We need to wake up of what's going on. It's

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not these people moving in from California or New York

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or Chicago. Even it's our own homegrown Marxist that we're

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bringing up. We've got to start paying attention to our

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base and what the heck's going on. And Matt is

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one of the best candidates I've ever seen. And you're correct,

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it does go from north to south in Tennessee. I've

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been in over fifty counties in the last year, and

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I've been all over his district. I've been back three

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different times to help him. Look, he is an exceptional candidate.

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But President Reagan said it best. He said, we're one

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generation from losing the Republic. Brother, we're three We're one

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vote series away from losing the Republic. We lose three votes,

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you know, we've already got people leaving, talking of others leading.

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This is the proverbial canary in the cave. If Matt

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Van Epps, a qualified candidate a district that Trump won

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by over fifteen points, can't carry this thing, we're in trouble.

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Republicans are asleep at the switch. We pay attention to presidents,

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because President Trump is a great president. We should be

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paying attention to him. When it gets down to the

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other rices, we forget about it. We forget Congress, we

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forget to you a Senate, We forget our school boards,

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our mayors, and then we scratch our heads and wonder

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why are our taxes so high? Why are these crazy policies.

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It's because our own homegrown Marxists are sticking it to us,

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and we don't have the guts of the gumption to

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get out of bed and go vote. Forty five percent

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of Evangelical Christians, and I consider myself in that crowd

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thirty percent of the gun owners are not even going

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to go to the polls. This is what happens when

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twelve percent of the population votes. This is what we get.

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Matt Vanipps should not even it should not even be

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a race. This lady is a Marxist and she's not

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even a friendly Marxist like AOC.

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Speaker 1: I have to go back and look at it. If

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I remember, right, I think Zoron ma'm donnie won the

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Democrat nomination for New York City mayor, not for the

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general election, but for the nomination for the Democrat Party.

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I think it was twelve or fourteen percent because it

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was a special election. And so in Tennessee today they've

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got a special election and it's cold. I don't know

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if they're getting snow today. If not, they're close. So

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this is the kind of election where a lot of

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people like he said, that normally turn out and vote,

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are not going to turn out and vote, and as

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a result, the woman that's running could have a decent

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chance of actually winning. The Democrats are not sitting back idly.

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They're really working this particular race. And AOC she's there

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with her campaign group, her money. If I remember, she

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also her first win was with a very small percentage.

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Here's what AOC had to say about this Tennessee race.

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Speaker 14: After the horrific Medicaid cuts that Republicans have passed in

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the last year, there are going to be that thousands

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of Tennesseeans who are going to be cut off from

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their healthcare next year, starting in January. We cannot take

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that sitting down. And the way that we fight back,

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the way that we fight for each other, and the

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way that we fight for a better and brighter future,

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is by voting for aften.

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Speaker 1: Often the first name of this lady, that's Ronny aften Ben.

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And well, she was asked a question about do you

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still believe in defunding police and listen to her answer.

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Speaker 15: Those past comments were at a time when I was

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a private citizen.

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Speaker 3: What do you think now?

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Speaker 4: What more money for cops be good or bad? I

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think it depends on what the community wants.

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Speaker 15: And so I've worked with communities all these my constituents

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want to ensure that there is investment in their community

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for community safety, community protection, mental health services.

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Speaker 1: So she didn't answer the question, and she's talking about

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basically instead of the police being arriving on a nine

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to one one call. They'll send mental health professionals or whatever,

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anything but the police. She doesn't like the police. Timber

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Shed is pulling his hair out.

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Speaker 13: Well, she's got all that soro sesque dart money coming

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in and look, and she doesn't represent the extreme part

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of the Democrat Party. She is the main stream of

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the congressional Democrat Party. And by not answering that question,

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she will fit perfectly in Congress because this gutless bunch

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up here can't They can't pull water out of a

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boat if you had the instructions written on the heel.

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She is clearly the far left dream girl. She doesn't

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say anything and she will vote. Is so far to

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the left that she will make AOC look like she

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subscribes to the National Review. It is a pathetic situation, brother,

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that this is where the Democrat this is. You know,

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people say it's not Kennedy's Democrat Party. He can's not

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even Bill Clinton's Democrat Party anymore. This thing is so

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far to the left. They're bringing in Aosa and al

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Gore for goodness, sikes a guy that tells us we're

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going to have this global warming and yet it's record

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calls in Tennessee and he still has a platform. We've

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got a wake. She is the mainstream of the Democrat

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Party and we've got to stop it. And surely to

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goodness and we can stop it and kind of say

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Matt Van Epps is the candidate. If you're out there, folks,

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plays vote for him.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Tim Verseett sounded like he's worried this

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should be this should be a walk a walk away

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for the Republicans. But he's worried about it. AOC is there,

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they're putting money into it, and he is fussing about it.

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Today was day two of the hearing about for Luigi Maggione.

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Court here in New York is trying to figure out

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as far as a pre trial hearing, which is what

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will be admissible in that hearing when it finally comes around.

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Josh Ritter, defense lawyer, explained what's going.

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Speaker 16: On absolutely and this is critically important too, because what

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this goes to is the officer's state of mind when

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they're first making contact with this individual, because now they

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believe that they're not just contacting somebody who's loitering at

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a McDonald's, they're contacting somebody who could potentially have assassinated

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someone brazenly on New York street, meaning he could be armed,

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meaning officer safety is of primary concern. So the idea

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that they might search his backpack to make sure that

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he doesn't have any weapons, search his person to make

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sure he doesn't have anything on him is perfectly reasonable

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and goes towards their probable cause to do that, which

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is at issue in this hearing whether or not they

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could have searched him and seize those items, the weapon,

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and what they also find inside that backpack was his journal,

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which is going to become critical evidence at trial.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, his defense lawyers are saying they should have gotten

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the search warrant before looking in his backpack, and they

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asked him or talked to him a little bit before

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they read him his miranda rights. So what he said

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before his Miranda warr they want thrown out. They want

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everything in the backpack thrown out, which is the notebook,

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the gun, the fake ID. There's a bunch of stuff

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in there. But this is a call about a guy

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that they think might be the guy who just gunned

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down insurance executive on the streets in New York a

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couple days before. So the Altuona Police Department comes over there.

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They're thinking this guy could be dangerous. Of course, they're

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going to pat him down, find out if he has

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any arms on him. Look, what's this backpack? What's in there?

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He also seemed like the kind of guy that probably

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was talking a lot, rather talkative type of person before

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the police were able to find out who he really was.

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Here's Donna Rotuneau, also a defense lawyer.

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Speaker 17: They're doing what they have to do. The lawyers have

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filed these motions. These are appropriate motions to file. They

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of course want to suppress the gun. They want to

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suppress them magazine. They want to suppress the manifesto, his

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own writings, because those are very damaging pieces of evidence.

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Speaker 4: So they're doing their job.

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Speaker 17: I'm not so sure legally they have a great ground

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to stand on. I agree with Josh. The police are

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coming into that situation knowing what they know about what

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the allegations are against this person. And you know, if

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you're capable of carrying out that type of a murder

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on the streets of New York, they have a right

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to make sure not only they are safe, but how

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about everyone else In the McDonald's so.

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Speaker 1: On Wall Streek today we did a up one day

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down the next. Today with an upday, the Dow Jones

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industrials up one hundred eighty five the close of forty

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seven thousand and four to seventy four s and p

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up sixteen. Nazdack up one hundred and thirty seven. Crypto

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if you're following bitcoin, ninety one thousand to day back

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up a little from been falling and falling and falling,

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so that went on the rise. Gold was down thirty

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three dollars to forty two forty two, and oil was

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down a buck to fifty eight dollars now for one

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barrel of oil, and no the national average triple a

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gas prices. The national average for gasoline is now two

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dollars and ninety nine cents a gallon. Then, I know

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some of you out in California you're still paying a

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huge for something. Is the average price there, but nationally

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two dollars ninety nine cents. That's it for today. Thank

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you for coming by. We will be back again tomorrow.

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Hope to see you then