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Speaker 2: People are saying, no mold, forget about it. In fact,
Speaker 2: if you were like me and you grew up poor,
Speaker 2: you didn't have lucky charms. You had something that was
Speaker 2: the equivalent like fortune totems, or you didn't have cheerios.
Speaker 2: You would have oat circles, and you didn't have fruit loops.
Speaker 2: You'd have fruit rings something like that. Right, you didn't
Speaker 2: have the actual stuff. We had knockoff cereals, and knockoff
Speaker 2: cereals were fine.
Speaker 3: It was good. In fact, in some cases you got
Speaker 3: so you like them better.
Speaker 2: I always hated the knockoff cheerios, but I thought that
Speaker 2: the knockoff wheaties.
Speaker 3: Were fine, Right, I mean, you just got so that
Speaker 3: you got used to it.
Speaker 2: There are other things that you can buy that are
Speaker 2: store bought, that are reasonable duplicates, and stores are getting
Speaker 2: better at this than they were when we were younger,
Speaker 2: which was so so.
Speaker 3: Many millennia ago.
Speaker 2: But Treehouse Foods is one of the country's largest manufacturers
Speaker 2: of private brands, they're the ones. So if you see
Speaker 2: something that is the equate brand from Walmart that may
Speaker 2: have come from Treehouse Foods. If you see the Safeway
Speaker 2: brand that may have come from Treehouse Foods. If you
Speaker 2: see which is like or excuse me, you see like
Speaker 2: the Safeway Albertson's. If you see the Kroger brand from
Speaker 2: like Ralph's, may have come from Treehouse Foods.
Speaker 3: They make a bunch of that stuff. However, we are
Speaker 3: seeing the whole.
Speaker 2: Egg thing going on, with the price of eggs going up,
Speaker 2: which certainly is not in any way, shape or form
Speaker 2: a money grabbed by the egg manufacturers capitalizing on the
Speaker 2: spike and prices due to the bird flu. Coffee prices
Speaker 2: are going up, and of course we may start seeing
Speaker 2: more prices jumping because of the threats of terraces tariffs.
Speaker 2: So here's what you're looking at. Prices on things like cookies, crackers, coffee,
Speaker 2: and other things are not only going up everywhere, but
Speaker 2: they are also going up for the store brought store
Speaker 2: bought brands, the store brand names, right, which we always
Speaker 2: think of as being generic. People have decided I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go and I don't know who does this I don't
Speaker 2: know who it is that is insane enough to do it,
Speaker 2: but some people say I will just go without coffee. Friends.
Speaker 2: We are in a bad spot. When inflation gets to
Speaker 2: the point where people are not having their morning drugs,
Speaker 2: that's gonna make things that work a whole lot more difficult.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you know any coffee drinkers. Maybe
Speaker 2: you're you are a coffee drinker, but if the point
Speaker 2: comes where you have to start rationing coffee, things are
Speaker 2: gonna get ugly fast. They say that people are stressed. Treehouse,
Speaker 2: that's again they make the groceries. Their financial chief says,
Speaker 2: we don't have any strong indicators that consumers are going
Speaker 2: to be less stressed in the near term, and grocery
Speaker 2: retailers are relying on third parties like Treehouse to make
Speaker 2: their store brands.
Speaker 3: Is from the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 2: Giants like Kroger Albertson's Costco boosting investments in their branded products.
Speaker 2: Private labels are growing faster than name brand goods heading
Speaker 2: into the pandemic, and then consumers stuck at home with
Speaker 2: money to spend, went back to the national brands and
Speaker 2: low cost brands.
Speaker 3: We've seen now a resurgence for a couple of reasons.
Speaker 2: Because you have higher grocery prices, retailers are expending their
Speaker 2: store brand offerings. Walmart is introducing a premium line of
Speaker 2: food called Better Goods along their Great Value brand. So
Speaker 2: you've got the Great Value and then you've got Better Goods,
Speaker 2: which is supposed to be the step up. But now
Speaker 2: people are even saying, we're just going to cut back
Speaker 2: on even the low cost stuff. To me, this is
Speaker 2: a bad omen. You've got consumer confidence. You may have
Speaker 2: seen the report consumer confidence is down. With consumer confidence,
Speaker 2: whether they have reason to or not. Maybe it's based
Speaker 2: on the news, Maybe it's based on the worries over
Speaker 2: the tariffs. Maybe people have lost jobs. But at this
Speaker 2: point it doesn't look like we're in a recession. The
Speaker 2: fear of recession is so great that people are beginning
Speaker 2: to behave as though we are in a recession. We're
Speaker 2: priming for it, we're getting ready, we're pregaming. The next
Speaker 2: recession is what's happening, and so people are cutting back
Speaker 2: on things, even the store brand products, but they're also
Speaker 2: cutting back on this from the Wall Street Journal, US
Speaker 2: convenience store sales falling over four percent by volume.
Speaker 3: What are they cutting back on?
Speaker 2: Derrito's When you stop in at the circle K or
Speaker 2: the shell station, there's no there's no big bag of chips.
Speaker 2: If you've bought a bag of chips at the gas
Speaker 2: stations lately, have you seen the price on that, it's
Speaker 2: seven bucks. Seven bucks for a bag of potato chips
Speaker 2: is not even the family size bag. I know, I
Speaker 2: sound like a grumpy old man. I understand, but I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be grumpy. I don't like it. So people are
Speaker 2: cutting back and what they're buying. That includes Doritos, that
Speaker 2: includes Twinkies. And I think we just saved Twinkies from
Speaker 2: the brink of extinction a decade ago. They were all
Speaker 2: ready to wrap up. But here's the really scary thing.
Speaker 2: While we have some people cutting back on things like
Speaker 2: coffee and other places, which is terrifying, sounds like some
Speaker 2: people are cutting back on cigarettes. Oh my, So now
Speaker 2: you've got people that are not gonna have their cigarettes
Speaker 2: or their coffee in the morning. That is uh, it's
Speaker 2: gonna get ugly fast, friends, this is gonna be very
Speaker 2: apocalyptic in a hurry.
Speaker 3: I don't have high hopes. So what can you do?
Speaker 2: Could you turn to one of those dollar stores. Nope,
Speaker 2: because have you been to a dollar store lately? Nothing
Speaker 2: costs a dollar anymore. And now Dollar General says they're
Speaker 2: not even making any money and they're shutting up shop.
Speaker 4: Dollar General is closing nearly one hundred store The company
Speaker 4: says it plans to close ninety six locations by January
Speaker 4: of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: That's not too many, though, I think Dollar General opens
Speaker 2: more than one hundred a day. I'm exaggerating, but not
Speaker 2: by much. This is from Whas by the way, I
Speaker 2: believe this is in Louisville.
Speaker 4: Dollar General CEO says that the number of closings represents
Speaker 4: less than one percent of the company's.
Speaker 3: Overall store base.
Speaker 4: It also plans to close forty five of Dollar General's
Speaker 4: Home to corese stores popshelf.
Speaker 3: I think no Dollar General had home to course stores.
Speaker 3: Did you know then Bed's through dollars? All right? The
Speaker 3: DECI that was quick, Amy, you get credit on that one.
Speaker 3: That was very quick.
Speaker 4: The decision came after a view of the store performance
Speaker 4: and conditions to determine which stores should be closed or
Speaker 4: maybe be rebranded. Now, as of now, it's not known
Speaker 4: which locations are set to close. There are more than
Speaker 4: thirty of those stores in the Louisville metrics.
Speaker 2: All right, so again I told you that it was
Speaker 2: from Louisville. Did he just say rebranded if they're going
Speaker 2: to close or rebrand? So you rebrand from a Dollar
Speaker 2: General to what a dollar Lieutenant? I don't understand what
Speaker 2: the rebrand would be. You go more high end Dollar General.
Speaker 2: There's no lower end Dollar I mean, Dollar General is
Speaker 2: what it is. It's just cheap, cheap. All the dollar
Speaker 2: stores just cheap. Tell you, man, I would think Dollar
Speaker 2: General would do really well as people are worried about
Speaker 2: inflation and recession. It has in the past. Walmart and
Speaker 2: Dollar General stores do well during recessions. They do, they do,
Speaker 2: And yet here they are saying they're going to close
Speaker 2: some shops.
Speaker 3: We'll find out how it plays out. Okay.
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Speaker 2: Big questions are coming up about the people being deported,
Speaker 2: especially when we find out that we're trying to deport
Speaker 2: people who have a legal status in the United States,
Speaker 2: including green cards or well respected positions within major universities.
Speaker 2: It kind of started with this Machmud Khalil, who was
Speaker 2: a guy protesting at Columbia. Many many schools were protesting
Speaker 2: during the demonstrations over the warre in Goza, right, most
Speaker 2: of the protesters were pro Israeli protesters. And as we know,
Speaker 2: when it comes to protesting, you cannot be pro one
Speaker 2: side without being anti the other. That's how it works out.
Speaker 2: You can't say I love the Dodgers without people knowing
Speaker 2: that that means you hate the Yankees. Now, maybe you
Speaker 2: do hate the Yankees. But is it possible that you're
Speaker 2: just rooting for your team.
Speaker 3: Possible. But when it comes to the world of politics.
Speaker 2: And especially when it comes to something so significant as
Speaker 2: war and war where religion is involved, you have to
Speaker 2: be my side or the other side.
Speaker 3: You're either with me or you're against me.
Speaker 2: So Khalil and Khalil was in large part part of
Speaker 2: the demonstrations at Columbia. We saw those at UCLA. You
Speaker 2: see your Vine, Berkeley, Stanford, Santa Cruz. There's been a
Speaker 2: number of California schools. Of course, we're taking part in
Speaker 2: these protests. Some of them did feel distinctly anti Semitic.
Speaker 2: That doesn't mean everybody there was, but it wasn't like
Speaker 2: they were stopping it from being anti Semitic either, So
Speaker 2: we know how this played out. However, as much as
Speaker 2: we despise that anti semitism is not illegal in the
Speaker 2: United States, you're allowed to be anti Semitic, You're allowed
Speaker 2: to be racist. You're not allowed to hire base on
Speaker 2: racism or anti semitism, but you are allowed to be
Speaker 2: an a in America. That hasn't changed in the last
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty years. You can still be a
Speaker 2: total a hole in America. The line is when you're
Speaker 2: being an a hole and it starts to threaten other
Speaker 2: people if there is demonstrable harm being done, although did
Speaker 2: this guy, makmuk Khalil, actually demonstrate any harm. He was
Speaker 2: a negotiator that was representing the student protesters at Columbia.
Speaker 2: He is a permanent US resident. He was arrested March
Speaker 2: ninth at his apartment by Customs and Enforcement by ICE.
Speaker 2: A cord of the ap agent said they were executing
Speaker 2: a State Department order to revoke his student visa.
Speaker 3: His lawyer says, you didn't have a student visa. He's
Speaker 3: a green card holder.
Speaker 2: He's a permanent legal US resident. They said, oh, we're
Speaker 2: taking that too.
Speaker 3: What this is.
Speaker 2: This is like when you were a kid and the
Speaker 2: bully came by and punched you and said give me
Speaker 2: your lunch money, and you said, I've got my lunch money,
Speaker 2: but please don't take my allowance.
Speaker 3: I just got it.
Speaker 2: And the bully goes, oh, can give me that allowance too.
Speaker 2: That's basically what's going on. So the State Department says,
Speaker 2: we want a student, we're taking away with the student visa.
Speaker 2: The lawyer says he didn't have he's a part US resident. Oh,
Speaker 2: we're taking that away too. And why is that? Because
Speaker 2: Trump has signed an order, signed an executive order to
Speaker 2: cancel and deport the students and all the student visas
Speaker 2: of any hamas sympathizers on college campuses.
Speaker 3: That's a tough one.
Speaker 2: And the reason it's tough is again, you're allowed to disagree.
Speaker 2: Even if your disagreement makes you a total a hole
Speaker 2: in the eyes of the majority of people, you are
Speaker 2: still allowed to disagree.
Speaker 3: In America.
Speaker 2: You may remember after nine to eleven there were a
Speaker 2: number of politicians who came out and they said.
Speaker 3: Look, one eleven was abhorrent.
Speaker 2: It was a terrible chapter in American history, and that said,
Speaker 2: you kind of understand why some people hate us, and
Speaker 2: they were lambassad They were.
Speaker 3: Told, how dare you? You can't say such terrible things
Speaker 3: about America.
Speaker 2: Don't you know we're in a war against terrorism, and
Speaker 2: yet you're still allowed to say that. Even Congress persons
Speaker 2: were saying that they don't approve of nine to eleven,
Speaker 2: but they kind of understand why other countries, why other
Speaker 2: groups hate us.
Speaker 3: Now dare you do that?
Speaker 2: The real kicker on this case with the Khalil is
Speaker 2: that Marco Rubio, formerly known as Little Marco, did a
Speaker 2: press conference right after the arrest and he said, this
Speaker 2: is not about free speech. This is about people that
Speaker 2: don't have a right to be in the United States
Speaker 2: to begin with.
Speaker 3: But it sounds like by all accounts he did.
Speaker 2: He had a student visa, then he had a permanent
Speaker 2: green card, and now we're just claiming you don't have
Speaker 2: a right to be here because we're policing your ideas now.
Speaker 2: But it's not just him. There was also a doctor
Speaker 2: who was detained. Now a highly regarded kidney doctor.
Speaker 5: Just after six pm.
Speaker 3: Six from ABC.
Speaker 5: Seven Saturday, planes carrying more than two hundred Venezuelan prisoners
Speaker 5: left the US after the administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act,
Speaker 5: a law from the late seventeen hundreds that allows the
Speaker 5: government to deport non citizens without due process during wartime.
Speaker 3: Are we at war with Venezuela? Anybody? Anybody? The answer
Speaker 3: is no.
Speaker 5: Less than an hour later, a federal judge temporarily blocked
Speaker 5: the president from invoking the law and ordered the planes
Speaker 5: to turn around, saying any plane containing these folks that
Speaker 5: is going to take off or is in the air
Speaker 5: needs to be returned to the United States. But the
Speaker 5: planes never turned around, and video shows the alleged gang
Speaker 5: members being marched into prison in El Salvador yesterday. Critics
Speaker 5: argue the administration defied the judge's orders, but the White
Speaker 5: House argues the judge has no jurisdiction over the presidence
Speaker 5: conduct of foreign affairs, his authorities under the Alien Enemies Act,
Speaker 5: and his core Article two powers to remove foreign alien
Speaker 5: terrorist staff.
Speaker 2: All right, So that is key, And I guess I
Speaker 2: thought there was more of this. Deported doctor. I want
Speaker 2: to talk about this deported doctor or the detained doctor.
Speaker 2: I'll do that here in a second. But also, you
Speaker 2: just heard the report from ABC saying we didn't like
Speaker 2: what the judge had to say. The administration just says, hey,
Speaker 2: what jurisdiction do judges have? What can federal judges? They
Speaker 2: don't really get to talk about us. They have no
Speaker 2: jurisdiction over us. We're the White House for Pete's sake,
Speaker 2: which means that we no longer have checks and balances.
Speaker 2: We just have separate silos where judges issue rulings in
Speaker 2: vacuums that don't apply, and Congress writes laws that don't apply,
Speaker 2: and the White House executes laws that they don't even have.
Speaker 3: Kay if I am six forty Chris Merrill Live everywhere and.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for hanging out, making us a
Speaker 2: part of your day. We appreciate it. YadA, YadA, YadA,
Speaker 2: lots of thank yous blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: So but here's what you came from. Do you want
Speaker 3: to know stuff? I get it.
Speaker 2: I mentioned before I'd boned up the audio that we
Speaker 2: had a doctor who was detained because she went to
Speaker 2: a funeral. Well, it happened to be the funeral of
Speaker 2: a Hezbollah leader. Is she a member of Hesbela I No,
Speaker 2: by all accounts she is not. However, just being at
Speaker 2: the funeral, which attracted tens of thousands of people, was
Speaker 2: enough for the current administration to side eye her and
Speaker 2: say we don't really like you doing that, so why
Speaker 2: don't you not come back again?
Speaker 3: ABC had the story.
Speaker 5: Another deportation in recent days is in the spotlight. Protesters
Speaker 5: are demanding the return of doctor Russia Alawi, an assistant
Speaker 5: professor at Brown University who's a kidney transplant specialist.
Speaker 3: Ah kidney transplant at Brown Universe. What is that? Who's that?
Speaker 2: It's not even a real college. There's so much ado
Speaker 2: about nothing. My god, we're just deporting Ivy League doctors now.
Speaker 5: She reportedly had a valid visa, but was detained last
Speaker 5: week at Boston's Logan Airport after returning from Lebanon. Federal
Speaker 5: officials not commenting on why, only saying our CBP officers
Speaker 5: adhere to strict protocols to identify and stop threats. Nicoldy Antonio,
Speaker 5: ABC News Washington, all right, thank.
Speaker 3: You very much, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: All right, So we don't really know why we're not
Speaker 2: being told a whole lot. It's a little bit like Doge,
Speaker 2: where we just say, trust us, everything's going to be
Speaker 2: better after you let us do.
Speaker 3: Whatever we want.
Speaker 2: So you've had judges that say, you can't just declare
Speaker 2: that we are in a wartime when there is no war.
Speaker 3: There's no war on Venezuela.
Speaker 2: And so when you start finding Venezuelan gang members and
Speaker 2: then sending them to El Salvador using the seventeen ninety
Speaker 2: eight law, that doesn't fly, and of course the White
Speaker 2: House then in response said speaking of flying, sorry, planes
Speaker 2: already in the air, Ali Ali oxen free. And a
Speaker 2: judge is not very happy about that. So the judge said,
Speaker 2: look back in my courtroom. I want to know what's
Speaker 2: going on. And so the the administration showed up back
Speaker 2: in court and the judge said what happened? They went,
Speaker 2: you don't have any jurisdiction over us. You can't really
Speaker 2: tell us what to do. And the judge said, yeah,
Speaker 2: here's the thing I can, And he said, what's happening here?
Speaker 2: And they said, we're not really gonna We don't really
Speaker 2: have to tell you because judges aren't allowed to control
Speaker 2: the executive branch's legitimate power. That's our vice president said
Speaker 2: that he's a vice president, you're just a judge.
Speaker 3: So basically they know the White House claims to have
Speaker 3: an UNO reverse card. So what can happen if suddenly
Speaker 3: you've got a.
Speaker 2: Number of judges that are ruling against a president and
Speaker 2: the president says, yeah, I'm not gonna follow that. Yeah
Speaker 2: I don't like your order. Yeah you told me not
Speaker 2: to do this thing that I want to do, so
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do it anyway. And at some point you'd
Speaker 2: think the rank and files would stop doing these things.
Speaker 2: But I think a lot of the rank and files
Speaker 2: that are enforcing some of these laws kind of like it,
Speaker 2: and I think that the people who don't like it
Speaker 2: are being weeded out. So you're ending up with a
Speaker 2: very loyal enforcement group at CBP, at ICE, at the FBI,
Speaker 2: at the CIA, at all the executive branches. You're ending
Speaker 2: up was loyalists, because if you're not loyal, you're being
Speaker 2: identified and you're being given a scarlet tea, and or
Speaker 2: you may just be saying this is not from any longer.
Speaker 3: I can't do this. I'm gonna head into the private sector.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna try to find a job with my local
Speaker 2: police department or my sheriff's department, or or you're if
Speaker 2: you're in a specialized division within one of those enforcement
Speaker 2: alphabet soup agencies. You may be saying, I can go
Speaker 2: make money doing this elsewhere. I have a friend of
Speaker 2: mine that was she was an accountant. She was a
Speaker 2: forensic accountant with the CIA. Excuse me, with the FBI.
Speaker 2: My apologies, she's a forensic accountant with the FBI. And
Speaker 2: I was like, that's the coolest job. She's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I got a badge, I carry a gun, but all
Speaker 2: I do is I just run numbers all day. And
Speaker 2: I said that's so cool, and she goes it is
Speaker 2: I can make more money in the private sector, and
Speaker 2: eventually is well, she did so, I'm gonna go make
Speaker 2: more money working for one of these big corporations.
Speaker 3: She did so.
Speaker 2: At some point, people are moving on, They're weeding themselves out.
Speaker 2: So what can the judges do if the president just
Speaker 2: ignores them effectively nothing? They can hold an agency in contempt.
Speaker 2: So you've got a district judge that holds the White
Speaker 2: House in contempt, and then what.
Speaker 3: What if they don't want to be held in contempt? Nothing?
Speaker 2: Nothing, They don't take control away, they don't do anything,
Speaker 2: and the president can always parton himself anyway, So there
Speaker 2: is nothing. The Marshal Service enforces the federal court orders.
Speaker 2: Do you know who the Martial Service works for, the
Speaker 2: Department of Justice?
Speaker 3: You know who?
Speaker 2: The Department of Justice is under the executive branch. All
Speaker 2: of the orders trickle down from the White House. So
Speaker 2: if you have a rogue president, I'm not saying this
Speaker 2: is the case, but if you have a rogue president,
Speaker 2: there's pretty much nothing you can do to stop them
Speaker 2: other than politically.
Speaker 3: But is anybody politically going to stop this president? I
Speaker 3: don't see that happening either.
Speaker 2: If you have if you have a powerful president who's
Speaker 2: decided to ignore his own responsibilities, so the office, there's
Speaker 2: no stopping that person, and that's when you end up
Speaker 2: with what they call a constitutional crisis. I AM six
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Speaker 3: Pleasure being with you. Do you remember it was a
Speaker 3: few years back that.
Speaker 2: President Trump first term was paying tribute to the code
Speaker 2: talkers at a White House events.
Speaker 6: And I just want to thank you because you have
Speaker 6: very very special people. You were here long before any
Speaker 6: of us were here. Although we have a representative in
Speaker 6: Congress who they say was here a long time ago.
Speaker 6: They call her Pocahontas. But you know what, I like
Speaker 6: you because you are special. You are special people. You
Speaker 6: are really incredible people. And I have from the heart,
Speaker 6: from the absolute heart, we appreciate what you've done, how
Speaker 6: you've done it, the bravery that you displayed, and the
Speaker 6: love that you have for your country.
Speaker 3: Yeah, really from the heart. Not like that, Elizabeth Warren. Okay.
Speaker 2: So we paid tribute to the code talkers, especially because
Speaker 2: of what they contributed in both World Wars. Chalk Taw
Speaker 2: soldiers in World War One, Comanche troops at Utah Beach,
Speaker 2: the Navajo code talkers, of course, who you've heard so
Speaker 2: much about it iwo Jima. They were speaking in a
Speaker 2: language that the other troops couldn't they couldn't crack very
Speaker 2: difficult to uh, very difficult to crack the language, and
Speaker 2: especially because the code talkers started changing up their own language,
Speaker 2: which is brilliant. So Utah Beach, you had comanches that
Speaker 2: there weren't words in Comanchee for bombers.
Speaker 3: There wasn't a word.
Speaker 2: There's a reason to have that word. So they came
Speaker 2: up with it. They called them pregnant airplanes. They didn't
Speaker 2: have a word for turtle for tank, excuse me, so
Speaker 2: they started calling those turtles. And so they would say,
Speaker 2: you know, turtles are inbound. And even if the even
Speaker 2: if the enemy could decipher some of what was saying,
Speaker 2: would they be able to understand that turtles meant tanks.
Speaker 2: May have come up with that one may have may
Speaker 2: have been able to figure out pregnant airplanes, may have
Speaker 2: figured out when they called uh Adolf Hitler possa taboo,
Speaker 2: that that meant crazy white man could be.
Speaker 3: They could have, but they didn't.
Speaker 2: And we thank in large part the code talkers for
Speaker 2: the work that they did in those wars that ultimately
Speaker 2: flemixed our enemies and helped lead to victories in both
Speaker 2: World War One and World War Two. At least we
Speaker 2: used to thank them because if you go now to
Speaker 2: military websites that used to pay tribute to the the
Speaker 2: Native American code talkers, the ones that you heard Trump
Speaker 2: praising while he bagged on Elizabeth Warren from the bottom
Speaker 2: of his heart for loving the country so much. They've
Speaker 2: been removed from many of the websites. Several broken URLs
Speaker 2: on those websites are now labeled d e I. The
Speaker 2: Defense Department's URLs amended with the letters d EI, suggesting
Speaker 2: that those websites have been removed following the executive order
Speaker 2: ending federal Diversity Equity and Inclusion initiatives. Asked about the
Speaker 2: missing pages, Pentagon Press secretary replying in a statement that
Speaker 2: Pete Hegsith has said DEI is dead at.
Speaker 3: The Defense Department.
Speaker 2: We are pleased by the rapid compliance across the department
Speaker 2: with the directive removing DEI from all platforms. In the
Speaker 2: rare cases that content is removed that is out of
Speaker 2: the clearly outlined scope of the directive, we instruct components Accordingly,
Speaker 2: they did not address the code talkers being removed. They
Speaker 2: did not address whether the code talkers are considered DEI figures.
Speaker 2: Although code talkers were part of a diversity push within
Speaker 2: the Department of Defense. They were part of a recruitment
Speaker 2: that sought to seek soldiers of different backgrounds. So maybe
Speaker 2: maybe code talkers, and I suppose, for that matter, the
Speaker 2: Tuskegee Airmen are the original deis and we've been able
Speaker 2: to put a stop to that and certainly put a
Speaker 2: stop to learning about diversity in American history. Take a
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