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Speaker 1: Welcome to a brand new episode of them Sheeltzvoy podcast.

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Speaker 2: I have a.

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Speaker 1: wouldn't you. We've got great content, including today it's a

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Speaker 1: Wildcard Wednesday, which means we go a little bit wild

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Speaker 1: on the internet. We kind of look around at what's trending,

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Speaker 1: what's going on, and we bring it to you for

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Speaker 1: your perusal. So, without further ado, now I will admit

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Speaker 1: to you that I am recording this on the Tuesday

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Speaker 1: before the Wednesday, and on this Tuesday, the President Trump

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Speaker 1: is in Pennsylvania given a big rally. I don't have

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Speaker 1: sound of that for you, sorry, But I've got lots

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Speaker 1: of other really interesting stuff, including this. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you've heard about this case out of the United Kingdom,

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Speaker 1: where to like seventeen year old Afghan asylum seekers were

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Speaker 1: they and raped a fifteen year old girl and it's horrific.

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Speaker 1: And the lawyer for one of the young men said, look,

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Speaker 1: they just didn't know any better, and so you should

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Speaker 1: really just forgive them and let them go. They come

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Speaker 1: from a totally different society. Well, listen to Nigel Farage

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Speaker 1: and what he had to say about that.

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Speaker 3: Let's roll it and I'm sorry, but if you was

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Speaker 3: a country allow young men who come from countries in

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Speaker 3: which women aren't even classed as second class citizens, and

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Speaker 3: you put them up enforced our hotels, allow them to

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Speaker 3: work illegally, their attitude towards women is completely different to ours.

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Speaker 3: So the social effects of this are appalling as well.

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Speaker 1: So here's the thing. Ultimately, both the young men were sentenced.

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Speaker 1: One has a detainer order as well, so there was

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Speaker 1: justice in this case considering how you measure out justice.

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Speaker 1: But look, here's something essential about illegal migration, illegal immigration

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Speaker 1: wherever it is. If these two young men came from

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Speaker 1: a society that's completely different, with completely different values from

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Speaker 1: the UK, now you hope and you expect that they'll

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Speaker 1: learn the laws, they learn to assimilate socially and in

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Speaker 1: terms of what they're expected to do and how they're

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Speaker 1: expected to act. Apparently these two weren't, or even if

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Speaker 1: they were, they decided to break the law anyway and

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Speaker 1: rape a young girl. Okay, So this is one of

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Speaker 1: the things about all of this. Not every country shares

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Speaker 1: the other country's values and in this case the UK

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Speaker 1: and Afghanistan, we had people from two very different kinds

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Speaker 1: of societies where men do not look at in the

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Speaker 1: same way and so look at them as objects. And

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Speaker 1: that is a thing, and it is real, and so

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's wrong or xenophobic for a country

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Speaker 1: period of time, even if it takes some time, and

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Speaker 1: citizen of that country, and it has established. I don't

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Speaker 1: think it's that tough. Every country has a unique set

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Speaker 1: didn't assimilate at all. And now they're in jail and

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Speaker 1: I think one is being deported. I wanted to get

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Speaker 1: that in because that was a really big case out

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Speaker 1: in the UK, and it's really important to note. If

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Speaker 1: and again you house them and you give them all

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Speaker 1: the benefits your country has to offer and you don't

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Speaker 1: expect them to follow the rules, that's a recipe for

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Speaker 1: social disaster, all right. Speaking of social disaster, Randy Weingarten

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Speaker 1: she's back on a podcast, and here she is talking

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Speaker 1: about she's answering a question about all the chaos during COVID,

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Speaker 1: and I want to remind you that the teachers' unions

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Speaker 1: Let's this is now here we are twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Here's Randy Winingarten roll it.

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Speaker 4: I do wonder what you think, like looking back to

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Speaker 4: that tumultuous period of time, do you think that teacher

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Speaker 4: unions and Democrats have done enough self examination in the

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Speaker 4: role they played in pandemic school closures? Like were their

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Speaker 4: mistakes made?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, of course there were, and there were mistakes made

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Speaker 5: by everyone. There was huge mistakes made by the Trump

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Speaker 5: as they were focusing on reopening it. Reopening became political,

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Speaker 1: Okay, Hello, you know what, when you don't have an

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Speaker 1: answer for your own problems, when you can't come up

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Speaker 1: responsibility for the mikestakes you make, just point at Trump

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Speaker 1: and that White House just pointed the whole Trump administration.

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Speaker 1: There's your out, and a lot of people will just

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Speaker 1: accept that, Yeah, we did things wrong, but so did everybody.

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Speaker 1: So did everybody? Not everybody, I mean, I think Florida

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Speaker 1: point in the finger, all right. Erica Kirk is making

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Speaker 1: the television rounds because her late husband, Charlie Kirk, has

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Speaker 1: one last Bookook that is now being brought out for publication.

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Speaker 1: It's I think it's available now, and Erica, as his widow,

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Speaker 1: don't know what that's like, and you don't know what

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Speaker 1: it's like behind closed doors versus what you have to

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Speaker 1: do to present yourself in public, because now Erica Kirk

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Speaker 1: is a public figure. You know, It's amazing. The day

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Speaker 1: She became this representative of him, his family, and of

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Speaker 1: turning Point USA. But people whenever she smiles suggest, wow,

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Speaker 1: she's not grieving at all. Well, there's a commentator, a

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Speaker 1: political commentator named Mary Catherine Ham, who was seven months

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Speaker 1: little sympathy for Erica Kirk Rollett.

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Speaker 6: I think it's really fitting that Charlie's message that he

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Speaker 6: but pointing people toward God and toward a practical way

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Speaker 6: very much into, particularly at the end of his life,

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Speaker 6: and Erica is stepping into those shoes to communicate that

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Speaker 6: as well. When she notes that people don't know you,

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Speaker 6: people don't know what's going on behind the scenes, I

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Speaker 6: just want to note when she takes incoming and takes

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Speaker 6: criticism about how she's living her life because she is

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Speaker 6: out there and she is a public figure. She's a

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Speaker 6: public figure now because her husband was murdered in cold blood,

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Speaker 6: and because she believes in his legacy, and because she

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Speaker 6: that means she's powerful. She's a powerful woman of faith,

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Speaker 6: and she is being given power to do this from

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Speaker 6: many the life she lives behind the scenes, she's probably

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Speaker 6: shielding us from a lot of her innermost feelings. And

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Speaker 6: I really, as somebody who was widowed myself with two

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Speaker 1: It really is amazing to think about what that would

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Speaker 1: And she's lost her husband in a brutal, unnecessary, targeted,

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Speaker 1: evil attack, an assassination. So for those who see her

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Speaker 1: you've never been through what she's going through. All Right,

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Speaker 1: you've heard about fraud in Minnesota. This is where I live,

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Speaker 1: so this is particularly important, but we're hearing about it

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Speaker 1: in Maine as well, and it's probably coming to a

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Speaker 1: state near you, so be prepared. But really, what's going

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Speaker 1: on in Minnesota. I found a few videos that really

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Speaker 1: explain it for people who aren't totally clear on how

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Speaker 1: out of hand this is and what's going on. I

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Speaker 1: want to start with this reporter, a local reporter, and

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Speaker 1: reporter from the ABC affiliate k STP here in the

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Speaker 1: Twin Cities put together this little piece. I want to

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Speaker 7: I just want to get this all out while it's

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Speaker 8: That's me.

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Speaker 7: Investigative reporter Eric Rasmussen with five Eyewitness News. I recently

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Speaker 7: checked on this house in Burnsville, Minnesota, looking for info

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Speaker 7: about a man named obde kerm Eley do you know

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Speaker 7: where he is? He fled the country in twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 7: right before being indicted for fraud along with his boss

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Speaker 7: and forty five others linked to feeding our future. Investigators say,

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Speaker 7: stolen taxpayer money paid for this house, and the FEDS

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Speaker 7: filed paperwork to take it through forfeiture. Do you know

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Speaker 7: if the government is trying to take this house? That's

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Speaker 7: the voice of his ex wife, according to a young

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Speaker 7: She says a couple of years ago, the government came

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Speaker 7: and she says they worked it all out. The question

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Speaker 7: in all of this is abd kerm Dlay is still

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Speaker 7: listed as the owner of this house here, and obviously

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Speaker 7: neighbors around here have questions about what's going on with

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Speaker 7: the efforts to recover the proceeds of all the fraud.

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Speaker 7: So we'll keep asking questions.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you for doing your job, and I hope

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Speaker 1: more do because immediately now again, this fraud is so

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Speaker 1: enormous and so broad in its reach, but people want

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Speaker 1: to start pointing the finger at others, not the people

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Speaker 1: who committed the fraud, but at others. Why why do

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Speaker 9: So?

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Speaker 1: Why when we find an illegal immigrant in another state

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Speaker 1: and he gets arrested and sent to Venezuela, and we

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Speaker 1: take his side instead of the side of the people

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Speaker 1: he victimized. Why why do we do that? Why do

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Speaker 1: we take the side of men who want to compete

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Speaker 1: being treated unfairly in that whole mess. So I don't

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Speaker 1: know why, but let's go on to the next one.

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Speaker 1: I thought Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana, even though he's

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Speaker 1: way down in Louisiana, he's in DC and he understands

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Speaker 1: what's going on here. I love listening to this man.

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Speaker 1: He's been on our podcast. You should look it up

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Speaker 1: and listen to that one here he talks about it

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Speaker 2: Feeding our futures.

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Speaker 10: Went to the state and said, have you stop giving

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Speaker 10: us this money. We're going to call you racist and

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Speaker 10: we're going to sue you, and you don't want to

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Speaker 10: be in the news. Now here's what. And you said, well,

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Speaker 10: why didn't the employees do something?

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Speaker 10: They told the people up, the people with the flags

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Speaker 10: in their office, and you know what, they did nothing.

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Speaker 10: You know why, Well, here's what the legislative auditor in

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Speaker 10: Minnesota said. He said that the threat of litigation and

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Speaker 10: the negative press affected how the state politicians used their

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Speaker 2: For Democrats. And in fact, one of one of the

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Speaker 10: Fraud investigation said, look, total prosecutors, let me just give

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Speaker 1: I hope you followed all of that. But basically, here

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Speaker 7: It was bad.

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Speaker 1: It is bad. We'll see just how far it reaches.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't just feeding our future. There was an autism

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Speaker 11: Let's hear what he had to say.

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Speaker 12: That money has gone overseas and we are cracked that

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Speaker 11: Okay, but you have no evidence of that money being

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Speaker 12: That's why it's an investigation. We started it last week.

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Speaker 12: We'll see where it goes. But I can tell you that,

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Speaker 12: you know, it's terrible. You know, the representative Omar tried

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Speaker 12: You know, she was gaslighting the American people to her. Yeah,

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Speaker 12: but you know, when you come to this country, you

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that'd be nice. I noticed that she said conservative

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Speaker 1: writers have suggested that money was going to al Shabab

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Speaker 11: I want to pick up on where the Treasury Secretary

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Speaker 11: Do you want to respond to that? Do you know

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Speaker 8: I really don't, and I don't think of the Secretary

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Speaker 1: Well listen, I'm gonna I think the Secretary knew exactly

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Speaker 1: because certain people committed crimes here and it was highly

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Speaker 9: I found out this morning that June ninth will be

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