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Speaker 1: Rabbit out of a Hat or a Deal with a devil?

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Speaker 1: An eleventh hour agreement installs a two week ceasefire in Iran,

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Speaker 1: and we have all the latest developments. How do Republicans

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Speaker 2: We have a pack show. We're glad you're here.

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Speaker 1: On Wednesday, April the eighth, this is common sense for

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Speaker 1: the American people. I'm Scott Jennings Broadcasting for Salem, and

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Speaker 1: we are back in your nation's capital where the Saint

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Speaker 1: Louis Cardinals go for the series win against the Nationals. Today,

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Speaker 2: On this day at History.

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Speaker 1: By the way, nineteen seventy four, Hank Aaron hit his

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Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifteenth home run, breaking Babe Ruth's long

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Speaker 1: standing record under intense national attention. As for today's news,

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Speaker 1: we begin with Iran. Last night, President Trump announced a

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Speaker 1: two week ceasefire of Operation Epic Fury, pending the reopening

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Speaker 1: of the Strait of Horn Moves. And we have confirmation

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Speaker 1: today that in fact, some ships have passed through, just

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Speaker 1: as Trump said they would, although although to underscore how

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Speaker 1: tenuous this all is, and the last little bit, Iran

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Speaker 1: has halted some traffic, accusing Israel of breaking the ceasefire.

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Speaker 2: We'll keep an eye on it throughout the show.

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Speaker 1: Fast moving developments here, obviously, and it is a fair

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Speaker 1: question is Iran legitimately interested in peace or are these

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Speaker 1: fanatics trying to dupe and trick the West Yet again,

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Speaker 1: I'm hopeful, but we have to be honest and realistic

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Speaker 1: about who we are dealing with here. There are supposedly

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Speaker 1: plans and points being traded back and forth between the

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Speaker 1: United States and Iran, and we as the public, haven't

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Speaker 1: seen exactly what is on or off the table. Anyone

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Speaker 1: telling you they know for sure what's going to happen

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Speaker 1: is simply full of it today. But let us assume

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Speaker 1: that the ceasefire stays on track and that peace talks

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Speaker 1: among all the parties get going by the end of

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Speaker 1: the week, which seems likely. Despite harsh criticism and naysaying

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Speaker 1: from Democrats, Trump did in fact succeed in using military

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Speaker 1: leverage to force Iran to the table for the purpose

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Speaker 1: of making the Middle East and the world a safer place.

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Speaker 1: Most Democrats have been rooting for Iran because they hate

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Speaker 1: Trump that much. They hate Trump more than they like

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Speaker 1: the idea of the US winning a war. Shockingly, they

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Speaker 1: want this war effort to fail, all to run to

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Speaker 1: the TV cameras so they can attack Trump. But last

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Speaker 1: night on CNN I found a clear eyed Democrat named

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Speaker 1: Congressman Josh Gottthheimer, who is from New Jersey. Let's hear

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Speaker 1: from Josh in clip number ten.

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Speaker 4: The goal should be to crush the leading state sponsor

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Speaker 4: of terror. We should want to massively set back as

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Speaker 4: a country their blistic missile program. We should want to

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Speaker 4: weaken their nuclear program. We've weakened it a bit last June,

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Speaker 4: and I'm hoping when we get the out reports here

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Speaker 4: that we've weakened it more. We should want to step

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Speaker 4: back their terror program, and they want to undermine our

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Speaker 3: We shouldn't gloss over the goal that we should all share.

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Speaker 2: I don't think anybody, I don't think anybody is glossing on.

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Speaker 4: But sometimes I think I don't think any for the

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 6: I don't think about a second. I don't think anybody

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Speaker 7: I think that's completely off base what I think.

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Speaker 2: But what I think is, listen, there are people there

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump, so they can blame it the question now.

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Speaker 1: Jin of course, Representative Gotttheimer is right. There are many

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Speaker 1: is what Secretary of War Pete Hegseth had to say

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Speaker 3: And so right now it's buried and we're watching it.

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Speaker 8: We know exactly what they have, and they know that,

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Speaker 3: But what is clear what the.

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Speaker 7: Iranian, the new Iranian regime.

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Speaker 8: Knows is they'll never have a nuclear weapon or the

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Speaker 8: the new regime, you heard the list that I read.

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Speaker 8: It's a new group of people who've seen the full

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Speaker 8: capability of the United States military and has a new

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Speaker 8: calculus about what it means to negotiate with us. Hence

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Speaker 8: why they came to the table wanting a ceasefire and

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Speaker 8: the shooting to stop.

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Speaker 1: So we have a ceasefire, and we're still ironing it out,

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Speaker 1: obviously based on the news of the day, and that's

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Speaker 2: Here's more, hegseeth at cut number eight, We'll be hanging around.

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Speaker 3: We're not going anywhere.

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Speaker 8: We're going to make sure Iran complies with this ceasefire

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Speaker 3: So we'll stay put, stay ready, stay vigilant.

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Speaker 8: As the Chairman laid out, our troops are prepared to defend,

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Speaker 8: prepared to go on offense, prepared to restart at a

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Speaker 8: order to ensure that Iran complies. As far as the Strait,

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Speaker 8: you saw the initial agreement that we struck, which is

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Speaker 8: Iran's letting hips go through.

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Speaker 1: And alongside Secretary Hegseth today was Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Kine,

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Speaker 1: who described the utter destruction that the US military has

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Speaker 2: Let's hear that.

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Speaker 9: And Cut number five lies mostly at the bottom of

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Speaker 9: the Arabian golf and we assess what we've sont More

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Speaker 9: the major service combatants. As the Secretary said, one hundred

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Speaker 9: and half of the IRGC Navy small attack boats. Joint

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Speaker 9: fires projected from the land, sea and air executed more

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Speaker 9: of their naval minds, and perhaps most importantly, we've destroyed

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Speaker 9: Iran's defense industrial base their ability to reconstitute those capabilities

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Speaker 1: As for the White House reaction, Vice President JD. Vance

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Speaker 1: speaking in Budapest, he's there rallying for Hungarian Prime Minister

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Speaker 1: Victor Orbon. He had this to say and cut number eleven,

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Speaker 10: Sold us not to use those tools. He's sold us

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Speaker 10: to come to the negotiating table. But if the Iranians

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Speaker 10: don't do the exact same thing, they're going to find

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Speaker 10: out that the President of the United States is not

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Speaker 10: one to mess around. He's impatient, he's impatient to make progress.

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Speaker 10: He has told us in negotiating good faith, and I

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Speaker 10: think if they negotiating good faith, we will be able

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Speaker 10: to find a deal, but that's a big if, and

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Speaker 10: ultimately it's up to.

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Speaker 3: The Iranians how they negotiate. I hope they make the

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Speaker 1: Now this hour, we're expecting the White House Press Secretary

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Speaker 1: Caroline Leavitt to take the podium. Will bring any relevant

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Speaker 1: comments to you before the end of the show. It

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Speaker 1: is a fast moving story, but it seems to me

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Speaker 1: that Trump has defanged Iran, that he has a path

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Speaker 2: That's the glass half full view.

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Speaker 1: Even as Democrats continue to play the heads eye win

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Speaker 1: It's so transer, apparently political and partisan, but President Trumps

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Speaker 1: how is the financial world reacting to all of this?

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Speaker 12: He spared those targets because Iran accepted the ceasefire under

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Speaker 2: Mark, We've had you on many times.

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Speaker 1: We've been going through this process for the last month

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Speaker 2: How do you see it today?

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Speaker 7: So Scott, thanks for having me back.

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Speaker 13: Look, I think the president can be proud of the

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Speaker 13: It's been forty day war. Scott and as secret Heckchef

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Speaker 1: Mark, what do you make of democrats and media types

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Speaker 13: Yeah, you always hope a media would call balls and

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Speaker 7: So, yes, exactly right.

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Speaker 13: I mean they continue to condemn the president no matter

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Speaker 1: Mark question of the day for me is can you

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Speaker 2: Number one? And number two?

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Speaker 1: What is going to happen to the nuclear material? The

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Speaker 1: That will be part of an agreement.

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Speaker 13: What's your view, Scott, You can't trust this regime. It

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Speaker 7: The enriched material is key.

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Speaker 13: I mean, there's eleven bombs worth of a highly enriched

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Speaker 13: I think it's one of the key demands that President

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Speaker 7: And we can either do it a couple of ways.

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Speaker 7: You can do this peacefully or we can return to

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Speaker 1: All right, Mark, I'll give you the last word. Are

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Speaker 7: I'm feeling really optimistic, Scott.

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Speaker 13: I mean, there's a long road ahead, lots of zigs

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Speaker 2: Alex, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 1: Tell us what eight states should we be watching this fall.

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Speaker 2: That's a lot of money you're putting down right.

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Speaker 1: stuff is coming out, is hurting them or is just

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Speaker 1: this sort of who we're running against right now?

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Speaker 5: You know, I think it's a reflection, Scott, of the

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Speaker 5: divisive ideological battle that is that is being waged within

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Speaker 5: the Democrat party itself. You have three candidates in Michigan

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Speaker 5: in particular, two more moderate individuals, and then of course

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Speaker 5: that duel said is noted. Who is certainly more more

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Speaker 5: on the far left radical side, and you know, all

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Speaker 5: three are equally well positioned to potentially win this primary

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Speaker 5: You've got. You know, they're all pulling in the high twenties,

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Speaker 5: low thirties, They're raising about equal amounts of money. And

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Speaker 5: again it's a reflection of just the weakness of Chuck Schumer,

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Speaker 5: who is objectively the least popular politician in America, and

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Speaker 5: his inability to clear primary races for his party and

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Speaker 5: select or help select or recruit quality candidates on his side.

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Speaker 5: I mean, this is not just true in It's true

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Speaker 5: in Iowa. It's true in Maine with Graham Platner, who

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Speaker 5: again is a radical left its fraud candidly running against

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Speaker 5: Janet Mills, who was Chuck Schumer's personally recruited candidate, and

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Speaker 5: he's outpolling her by double digits. But in the case

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Speaker 5: of Michigan, you know, this is a late primary for them,

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Speaker 5: and so we're talking early August is when they will

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Speaker 5: have their nominee. Meanwhile, you have somebody like Mike Rogers,

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Speaker 5: who is came nineteen thousand vote short last cycle, but

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Speaker 5: who announced six months earlier this time, has an incredible runway.

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Speaker 5: Did not have a primary unlike last cycle, and who

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Speaker 5: was very well positioned to flip this seat to red

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Speaker 5: in November.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the main Democratic primary that you brought up is

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Speaker 1: sort of fascinating. Here you have the sitting governor of Maine,

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Speaker 1: Janet Mills, a Democrat, that's who the establishment wants in Washington,

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Speaker 1: and then the Bernie Sanders wing of the party has

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Speaker 1: gotten behind.

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Speaker 2: This grand Platner.

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Speaker 1: You may have heard of Graham Platner because he had

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Speaker 1: a Nazi tattoo. He has said terribly anti Semitic things.

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Speaker 1: He's said a frankly, a lot of crazy things about

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Speaker 1: women and the treatment of women. Yet right now it

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Speaker 1: seems like the energy and the Democratic Party up there

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Speaker 1: in Maine is squarely behind Plattner. Is it your expectation

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Speaker 1: that he is going to beat Janet Mills. If he does,

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Speaker 1: it would be quite an upset, don't you think?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, And again a reflection of just how we Chuck

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Speaker 5: Schumer and the Democrat establishment is. I think that if

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Speaker 5: the race were held tomorrow, Graham would hands down be

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Speaker 5: their nominee, and I think they are going to come

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Speaker 5: to regret that. But to your point, Scott, all of

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Speaker 5: the momentum, and the energy is with the far left,

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Speaker 5: radically liberal wing of the party. And you know that

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Speaker 5: might be played well in a primary, but ultimately, come November,

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Speaker 5: the vast majority of Americans believe in common sense policies

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Speaker 5: like secure borders, like a focus on jobs in the economy.

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Speaker 5: They don't want people like Graham Platner, who, aside from

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Speaker 5: his policy positions, is noted, has said and done some

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Speaker 5: really crazy stuff. Vast majority of Americans don't want somebody

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Speaker 5: like that represented them in Washington.

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Speaker 1: Talking to Alex Letcham, he is the head of the

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Speaker 1: Senate Leadership Fund, which is the principal super pac that

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Speaker 1: supports Republicans running for the United States Senate. They've recently

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Speaker 1: announced three hundred and fifty million dollars in spending across

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Speaker 1: eight states to defend the Republican majority. Alex Let's, over

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Speaker 1: the next couple of minutes, quickly go through some of

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Speaker 1: these places. We're looking at five seats that are held

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Speaker 1: by Republicans, three that are currently held by Democrats.

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Speaker 2: The biggest number on the board that I see.

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Speaker 1: As Ohio, where you are about to spend the seventy

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Speaker 1: nine million dollars. This is John Housted running for election there.

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Speaker 1: He was appointed to replace Vance. He's facing the old

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Speaker 1: Senator Shared Brown. What's the thirty second capsule on Ohio?

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 5: I mean Ohio has been for the last couple of

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Speaker 5: cycles very competitive. It has the state itself has quite

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Speaker 5: a few media markets, which is why this race is

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Speaker 5: is traditionally so expensive. In fact, it was the most

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Speaker 5: expensive Senate race last cycle when SLF and other organizations

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Speaker 5: supported Senator Bernie Marino, we took out Shared Brown. His

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Speaker 5: image is not anywhere near where it used to be.

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Speaker 5: But the guy has been in public office for decades

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Speaker 5: and knows nothing else, and so you know, we're not

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Speaker 5: surprised that he's running again. We feel very confident with

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Speaker 5: Senator John Houstad. But this is the state that President

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Speaker 5: Trump won by eleven percent, Bernie Marino almost by nearly

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Speaker 5: four percent. Know that it's going to take resources, but

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Speaker 5: ultimately we have a tremendous candidate in John Houston. Another one,

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Speaker 5: as you noted, North Carolina, we've got a tremendous candidate,

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Speaker 5: Michael Wattley, the former RNC chair. Democrats recruited Wily Cooper,

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Speaker 5: the former governor of North Carolina, but you know Governor Cooper.

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Speaker 5: When he was elected in twenty sixteen, he was by

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Speaker 5: a tenth of a percentage point, and between twenty sixteen

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Speaker 5: and his race in twenty twenty, a combined twenty five

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Speaker 5: million dollars was spent against Cooper litigating his record. I

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Speaker 5: can promise you that ten times that much at least

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Speaker 5: will be spent exposing his record for the radical Democrat

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Speaker 5: that he is, whether it was his failure to respond

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Speaker 5: to Hurricane Heleen, or his very controversial part in commutation

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Speaker 5: record as governor, or his many vetos of common sense

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Speaker 5: legislation passed by a by artistan basis by the legislature

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Speaker 5: there in North Carolina. So we feel very good about

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Speaker 5: that state, but again a very expensive state and market

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Speaker 5: to compete in.

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Speaker 3: But otherwise Iowa.

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Speaker 5: Again quite a few media markets in that state. But

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Speaker 5: Ashley Hinson, current congresswoman from the second Congressional District there

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Speaker 5: tremendous candidate in someone who is incredibly disciplined and hard working.

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Speaker 5: We feel very fortunate that she jumped in this race

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Speaker 5: and we're proud to support her. And again we do

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Speaker 5: not have a primary there. And then also Alaska, you

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Speaker 5: know Dan Sullivan running for reelection here. Chuck Schumer did

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Speaker 5: recruit Mary pel Tola, former congresswoman who again we defeated

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Speaker 5: last cycle. And so you know, in the case of

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Speaker 5: Shared Brown in, Mary pelt in Ohio, and Mary Peltol

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Speaker 5: in Alaska, these are literally the only Democrat, the only

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Speaker 5: options they had to run in those states. These are

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Speaker 5: ultimately Republican states and ultimately states that actually President Trump

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Speaker 5: won by thirteen percentage points each. And so while it

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Speaker 5: will take some resources to help support our candidates, we

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Speaker 5: feel very, very confident that they will retain those seeds.

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Speaker 2: That's Alex Lecham.

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Speaker 1: He is the executive director of the Senate Leadership Fund.

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Speaker 1: They just announced a three hundred and fifty million dollar

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Speaker 1: investment in eight Senate races around the country to help

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Speaker 1: the Republicans hold the Senate majority. Alex, thanks for the

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Speaker 1: big preview today. We'll follow up with you as the

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Speaker 1: year in the midterm wears on. Quick word from our

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Speaker 1: want to tell you a story about a man named

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Speaker 1: Phineas who as a child survived the Holocaust. Phineas survived

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Speaker 1: He can no longer stand on his own or even

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Speaker 1: We've got more breaking news after this. It's Scott Jennings

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Speaker 1: on Salem. Don't go anywhere.

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Speaker 11: Ready for some common sense and a little Kentucky wendage.

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Speaker 1: Here's Scott Jennings. Welcome back to the show. According to

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Speaker 1: a new scoop from the Daily Wire. An illegal immigrant

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Speaker 1: working as a pastor in Kentucky pleaded guilty to sexually

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Speaker 1: assaulting a fourteen year old girl inside a church and

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Speaker 1: somehow was sentenced to just two years in prison. Now

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Speaker 1: that illegal alien's attorney is arguing he's already served enough

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Speaker 1: time for the sexual assault of a minor. Meanwhile, Ice

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Speaker 1: is trying to force Kentucky authorities to actually honor their

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Speaker 1: detainer after this same alien has gone free in two

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Speaker 1: previous cases. Joining us now to break all this down.

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Speaker 1: Jenny Tier, the Daily Wires immigration reporter. She broke the story. Jenny,

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Speaker 1: welcome back to the show. Tell us what in the

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Speaker 1: world is going on here in northern Kentucky. This is

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Speaker 1: a greater Cincinnati area, right.

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Speaker 14: It's unbelievable to think that a man who snuck across

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Speaker 14: the border as what we call a godaway, so he

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Speaker 14: was able to get past border authorities at an unknown time,

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Speaker 14: at an unknown location, but ended up in Kentucky, ended

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Speaker 14: up working as a pastor, and then sexually assaulted one

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Speaker 14: of his congregants, a fourteen year old girl, during a

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Speaker 14: Sunday service. He lured her up to his office while

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Speaker 14: her family was there. While she was attending church, locked

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Speaker 14: the door and then proceeded to just brutally assault her.

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Speaker 6: And the details are horrific.

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Speaker 14: I won't bring up many of them, but she was

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Speaker 14: left with some bruising and she reported this. This was

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Speaker 14: reported to authorities. What had happened though after the fact,

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Speaker 14: is that he had already fled to California for what

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Speaker 14: he said was a mission trip, and he skipped his

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Speaker 14: return flight to Kentucky. Luckily, federal authorities were able to

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Speaker 14: nab him. Now this was in twenty twenty three, but

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Speaker 14: before this, he was actually released twice for previous arrests

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Speaker 14: that included theft, that included reckless driving, and those happened

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Speaker 14: in Kentucky.

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Speaker 6: So Kentucky authorities dropped.

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Speaker 14: The ball on this one and left this girl as

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Speaker 14: a victim as a result. And not only that, now

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Speaker 14: I really concerned that they're going to release him again.

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Speaker 14: His attorney says that he's had time served and so

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Speaker 14: they've lodged a detainer, but you know, based on previous cases,

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Speaker 14: it's a real concern that he could be back on

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Speaker 14: the streets.

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Speaker 1: So right now, this illegal alien who sexually assaulted the

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Speaker 1: girl is in jail, but the fear is he is

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Speaker 1: soon to be released based on the request of his attorney,

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Speaker 1: who ultimately in what jurisdiction right now is he and

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Speaker 1: who ultimately is going to make the decision about whether

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Speaker 1: he gets turned over to Ice.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, he's in Covington, Kentucky, so it would likely be

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Speaker 14: the local authorities there that are holding him. But it

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Speaker 14: could also be the judge in this case who would

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Speaker 14: decide whether the amount of time he's had in jail

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Speaker 14: already is amounting to the time served. You know, he

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Speaker 14: was given a two year sentence, but he's already been

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Speaker 14: in behind bars, you know since twenty twenty three. His

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Speaker 14: child is living, you know, presumably in Kentucky and likely

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Speaker 14: fears this man coming back on the streets who was

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Speaker 14: her pastor and also part of the community and then

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Speaker 14: use that position to then sexually assault this young girl.

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Speaker 14: He would be required, however, to have you know, registry

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Speaker 14: as a sex offender and to keep his distance from

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Speaker 14: this young girl. But who's to say that someone who

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Speaker 14: came across illegally without having any regard for our laws

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Speaker 14: is not going to continue on this path of lawlessness.

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Speaker 1: Jenny, I'm going to give you the last word on

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Speaker 1: this But as I hear you describe this story, and

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Speaker 1: you've had many other stories similar to this, I just

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Speaker 1: think the average person is going see if any illegal

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Speaker 1: alien comes into our country, breaks a bunch of laws

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Speaker 1: in and out of jail, appears to be able to

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Speaker 1: assaults sexually, assaults brutally a fourteen year old girl, and

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Speaker 1: we're sitting here having a conversation about how he might

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Speaker 1: free to rome in Kentucky or in the United States

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Speaker 1: of America.

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Speaker 2: I think it's discussed.

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Speaker 1: I think people are outraged by these stories, but you're

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Speaker 1: breaking a bunch of them, and they're happening all.

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Speaker 2: Over the country. I'll give you the last word on it.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, this is all too common.

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Speaker 14: And if we want to talk about illegal immigration and crime,

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Speaker 14: the amount of industries that this has touched. We're talking

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Speaker 14: about a church where you should feel safe with your pastor.

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Speaker 14: We're talking about the trucking industry where you're getting your deliveries.

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Speaker 14: We're talking about policing in the United States. Some jurisdictions

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Speaker 14: allow illegal immigrants to work as police. We have for

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Speaker 14: years put in place, whether it's at the local level

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Speaker 14: or the national level, policies that have allowed this to

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Speaker 14: just exponentially grow and form into just a country that

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Speaker 14: has fostered the sense of wawless this and this man

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Speaker 14: clearly thought he could operate with impunity, because time and

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Speaker 14: time again he was given a second, third chance.

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Speaker 1: Jenny Tier with a Daily Wire. We're grateful for your

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Speaker 1: journalism on this. If not but for you, we wouldn't

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Speaker 1: know about a lot of these things. We're taking a break.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back on Salem. Don't go anywhere.

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Speaker 2: It is Wednesday, April the eighth.

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Speaker 1: Scott Jtting's here on Salem, common Sense for the American people.

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Speaker 1: Giving you a quick check of the headlines as we continue,

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Speaker 1: and we do have some breaking news into the Scott

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Speaker 1: Jetting Show. White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt has just

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Speaker 1: left the podium after talking to the media.

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Speaker 2: One bit of news that she did unfurl.

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Speaker 1: Vice President Jade Vance will go to Pakistan on Saturday

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Speaker 1: for peace talks with Iran. Also going with him, the

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Speaker 1: President's envoy, Steve Whitkoff, and the President's son in law,

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Speaker 1: Jared Kushner. So vance Witkoff and Kushner to Pakistan for

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Speaker 1: talks with Iran on Saturday. We do have a cease

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Speaker 1: fire in place. The lynch pin here is that President

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Speaker 1: Trump wanted to see the Strait of horn Moves opened up.

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Speaker 2: We have seen some activity.

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Speaker 1: Let's hear what Caroline Levitt had to say about all

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Speaker 1: of that in cut number sixteen with.

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Speaker 15: Respect to the first reporting out of Iranian state media.

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Speaker 15: The President was made aware of those reports before I

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Speaker 15: came to the podium. That is completely unacceptable. And again

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Speaker 15: this is a case of what they're saying publicly is

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Speaker 15: different privately. We have seen an uptick of traffic in

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Speaker 15: the strait today, and I will reiterate the President's expectation

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Speaker 15: and demand that the Strait of her Moose is reopened immediately,

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Speaker 15: quickly and safely. That is his expectation. It has been

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Speaker 15: relayed to him privately that that is what's taking place

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Speaker 15: in These reports publicly are false.

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Speaker 1: So we've seen some reports today that perhaps Iran was

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Speaker 1: opening and then closing the Strait of horn Moves.

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Speaker 2: Caroline Levitt shooting that down today.

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Speaker 1: And if you're having trouble out there deciding who's winning

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Speaker 1: and losing this military engagement. Caroline Levitt cleared up for you.

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Speaker 1: Let's listen to cut fifteen.

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Speaker 15: Six weeks ago, the President looked the American people in

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Speaker 15: the eye directly, and he told them that he launched

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Speaker 15: this operation to take out the imminent threat that was

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Speaker 15: posed by Iran. And that threat has now been greatly destroyed.

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Speaker 15: Their navy, their missiles, their defense industrial base, and their

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Speaker 15: desire and their plan to build a nuclear bomb inside

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Speaker 15: their country is no longer going to be allowed, can

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Speaker 15: no longer happen. Thanks to the remarkable success of Operation

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Speaker 15: Epicuri over the course of the last thirty eight days,

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Speaker 15: that has been absolutely achieved. And now we're moving into

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Speaker 15: the next phase of this, which is a negotiating period

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Speaker 15: to put some fine points on this and to hopefully

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Speaker 15: the Middle East.

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Speaker 1: All Right, Caroline Levitch, she had a lot to say

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Speaker 1: today that was some of the most important. But the

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Speaker 1: breaking news is Vice President Vance and envoys of the

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Speaker 1: President heading to Pakistan for talks with Iran on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Government fraud news.

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Speaker 1: Vice President Vance's new anti Fraud Task Force says they

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Speaker 1: have found nearly six point three billion dollars already.

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Speaker 2: This is according to reports in the Daily Caller.

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Speaker 1: Seems like the administration is getting more aggressive fighting fraud

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Speaker 1: every single day, and one of the biggest offenders is

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Speaker 1: the state of California. Another investigation by Chris Ruffo and

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Speaker 1: Ryan Thorpe, published this week in the City Journal, finds

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Speaker 1: that California under Democrat Gavin Newsom, may have lost as

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Speaker 1: much as one hundred and eighty billion dollars to fraud,

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Speaker 1: waste and abuse, pandemic, unemployment programs, healthcare spending, taxpayer funded

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Speaker 1: systems where oversight seems to have simply collapsed and fraudsters

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Speaker 1: were taking massive advantage of the taxpayers. The scale of

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Speaker 1: all this raising a lot of eyebrows, particularly as Newsom

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Speaker 1: molds a presidential run. Exactly how did all this happen?

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Speaker 1: Who is responsible? Could it happen?

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Speaker 2: Again?

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Speaker 1: Joining us now, one of the reporters behind this major investigation,

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Speaker 1: Ryan Thorpe, joins us here on the Scott Jennings Show. Ryan,

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Speaker 1: this reporting that you and Chris did is breathtaking. One

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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty billion dollars. You call it Newsom's empire

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Speaker 1: of fraud. Walk us through how you uncovered and calculated

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Speaker 1: all of this fraud.

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Speaker 6: Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 16: So, as part of this investigation, we looked at a

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Speaker 16: litany of state auditor reports from the state auditor in California.

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Speaker 16: We looked at criminal indictments, government oversight reports, court records,

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Speaker 16: and then we spoke to experts in the private sector.

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Speaker 16: We spoke to academics who study fraud within government programs,

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Speaker 16: and we also spoke to sources at health and Human Services,

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Speaker 16: and just looking at two of these state programs, so Medical,

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Speaker 16: the experts that we spoke to gave us a range

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Speaker 16: of a fraud rate of fifteen percent at the low

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Speaker 16: end to twenty five percent at the high end. Given

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Speaker 16: the fact that Medical's ending under Newsome is eclipsed more

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Speaker 16: than the trillion dollars, applying that conservative fifteen percent fraud

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Speaker 16: rate to Medical gets you to one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 16: billion already. In addition, we looked at unemployment insurance, which

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Speaker 16: the state government has admitted to losing twenty billion dollars

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Speaker 16: to fraud just during the pandemic alone. Although we spoke

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Speaker 16: to an outside expert, a leading expert in the country,

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Speaker 16: amend named Heywood Talco from Lexus and Nexus who he

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Speaker 16: pegged the figure at thirty two point six billion. You

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Speaker 16: can bind those two together, you're already at one hundred

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Speaker 16: and eighty billion. I must admit, like, I know there's

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Speaker 16: sticker shock associated with a figure that large. I think

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Speaker 16: that's a conservative estimate. I think we're on the low end.

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Speaker 16: And again, that is simply two government programs, whereas we

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Speaker 16: know that there is massive fraud in a variety of

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Speaker 16: government programs in the state of California.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, to say sticker shock is probably to understate it

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Speaker 1: a little bit. One hundred and eighty billion dollars. I

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Speaker 1: have to ask, did you find any evidence that there

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Speaker 1: are any guard rails at all in California under Gavin

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Speaker 1: Newsom designed to prevent fraud like this, where any officials

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Speaker 1: warned and ignored it? I mean, was anybody paying any

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Speaker 1: attention to this? I mean that amount of money. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we're not talking about pocket change here, this real.

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Speaker 16: Money, absolutely so medical for instance, it has been on

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Speaker 16: the State Auditor's high risk list since two thousand and seven,

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Speaker 16: so it's well over a decade now that the State

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Speaker 16: Auditor has been raising significant concerns about vulnerabilities within that

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Speaker 16: massive program, and the government has simply been either unwilling

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Speaker 16: or unable to implement the recommendations that have been coming

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Speaker 16: down and to tighten up program integrity. I mean, you

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Speaker 16: can pick a government program at random, start diving into

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Speaker 16: the documentation, and you'll see that people were raising alarm

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Speaker 16: bells for a very long time. And what is so

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Speaker 16: tragic about this situation is that not only was it predictable,

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Speaker 16: it was there were various people pointing out these problems,

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Speaker 16: telling the government of California precisely what was going to happen.

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Speaker 16: Those concerns were ignored, and now the situation is metastasized

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Speaker 16: to such an extent that, look, we're not talking about

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Speaker 16: billions of dollars. We're not talking about tens of billions

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Speaker 16: of dollars. We're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars

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Speaker 16: in fraud in California under the Newsom administration alone.

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Speaker 1: So, if I'm understanding you correctly, there were people sounding

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Speaker 1: the alarm, they were raising red flags, whatever you want

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Speaker 1: to call it. The buck stops on all this programming

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Speaker 1: with the Governor of California. Is that your reporting, is

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Speaker 1: it your belief that Gavin Newsom and his administration simply

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Speaker 1: look the other way. And if the answer to that

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Speaker 1: question is yes, is anything they did possibly criminal?

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Speaker 2: And is anything they did frankly.

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Speaker 1: Just because of politics and how it works in California.

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Speaker 16: Well, I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not going to

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Speaker 16: weigh in onto whether or not any of this is

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Speaker 16: criminal in nature. Having said that, I think what we're

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Speaker 16: seeing in California is quite reminiscent of the situation that

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Speaker 16: we saw in Minnesota, where the extent of the fraud

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Speaker 16: was an open secret for a very long time, and

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Speaker 16: there appears to have been significant political incentives at play

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Speaker 16: that made government officials turn a blind eye, look the

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Speaker 16: other way however you want to put it. But none

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Speaker 16: of this should be coming as a surprise. I guarantee

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Speaker 16: it isn't a surprise to people within in power in

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Speaker 16: politics in the state of California, because for them to

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Speaker 16: come out and say, well, you know, we didn't know

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Speaker 16: this was going on, or how could we have known,

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Speaker 16: it's simply not credible.

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Speaker 1: That voice you're hearing today is Ryan Thorpe. He's with

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Speaker 1: a Manhattan Institute. He and Chris Rufo have written this

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Speaker 1: story for the City Journal. It's called Empire of Fraud,

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Speaker 1: all about what's going on in California under Gavin Newsom

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Speaker 1: and the shocking number here the headline number, one hundred

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Speaker 1: and eighty billion dollars lost to fraud, waste and abuse. Ryan,

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Speaker 1: Where is this money? Is it just lost or can

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Speaker 1: When we come back, more with Ryan Thorpe on this

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Speaker 1: fraud investigation in California, Shocking information when we come back

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Speaker 1: on the Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 11: He's the author of the best selling book A Revolution

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Speaker 11: of Common Sense.

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Speaker 3: Here's Scott Jennings, welcome.

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Speaker 2: Back to the show.

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Speaker 1: We are continuing our conversation on this staggering report out

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Speaker 1: of California, up to one hundred and eighty billion dollars

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Speaker 1: billion with a bee lost to fraud, waste, and abuse

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Speaker 1: under the management of Gavin Newsom. Joining us here for

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Speaker 1: another segment, Ryan Thorpe. He's with a Manhattan institute. He

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Speaker 1: and Chris Rufo has published their findings here in the

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Speaker 1: City Journal.

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Speaker 2: Ryan, I'm going to.

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Speaker 1: Start where we left off before the commercial break, one

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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty billion dollars.

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Speaker 2: Where is this money? Is any of it recoverable or

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Speaker 2: is it just gone?

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Speaker 16: Well, we know the money has gone to a variety

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Speaker 16: of different places. So in some cases there were government employees,

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Speaker 16: often ones who were themselves responsible for overseeing these programs,

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Speaker 16: who have been convicted of defrauding the very programs that

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Speaker 16: they were supposed to oversee. We know that Governor Gavin

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Speaker 16: Newsom's former chief of staff, a woman named Dana Williamson,

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Speaker 16: has been charged for defrauding COVID nineteen relief funds. We

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Speaker 16: know that in many cases we're looking at the work

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Speaker 16: of very sophisticated fraud networks, often transnational in nature, and

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Speaker 16: the experts that I spoke to say that this would

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Speaker 16: be the most significant amount of funds that we're talking

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Speaker 16: about here. That money's often leaving the country, and once

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Speaker 16: it's left the country, it is incredibly difficult for the

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Speaker 16: federal government to go identify those funds and clawed back.

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Speaker 16: And one individual I spoke to for this article a

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Speaker 16: man as I mentioned before, named Heyward Talco. He said

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Speaker 16: he's been pleading with the government for many years now

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Speaker 16: to draw what he calls a pay and chase model.

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Speaker 16: Seems to be this mindset and government that, well, we

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Speaker 16: just need to get money into the hands of people

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Speaker 16: who need it. We know these programs are going to

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Speaker 16: be targeted by fraudsters, but we'll do our best to

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Speaker 16: identify that after the fact and then go and chase

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Speaker 16: down that money. And that is simply a wrong headed

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Speaker 16: approach to this issue. And based off my report, I

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Speaker 16: would say that the government's ability to claw back those

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Speaker 16: taxpayer dollars is it's simply not doable.

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Speaker 1: Ryan, as you were reporting this story, did you talk

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Speaker 1: to anybody in California in a position of responsibility who

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Speaker 1: was embarrassed, chagrined, sorry about any of this or is

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Speaker 1: this just the price of doing business with Democrats in

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Speaker 1: charge of California, or is there one person out there

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Speaker 1: who said to you, yeah, gee whiz, we mess this up.

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Speaker 16: No one in a position of authority or position of power.

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Speaker 16: And the response from Newsom's office was quite striking. And

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Speaker 16: when we submitted a series of requests for comment for

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Speaker 16: this article, what we got back was probably a page

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Speaker 16: to a page and a half of basically a ramby

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Speaker 16: kind of screed blaming the Trump administration for all of

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Speaker 16: these failures. So there was no sort of responsible be

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Speaker 16: taken from the governor's office for being ultimately the person

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Speaker 16: who has overseen this absolute disaster.

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Speaker 1: All right, final question for you, Ryan, as you're covering

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Speaker 1: this story in California, you obviously referenced this earlier, that

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Speaker 1: the fraud in Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of similarities here.

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Speaker 1: Actually, you know, democrats running states looking the other way

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Speaker 1: when alarms are sounded, money leaving the country.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you hear a lot of the same themes.

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Speaker 1: Although the money, the dollar amount in California is just

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Speaker 1: enormous one hundred and eighty billion. But as you're reporting

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Speaker 1: all this out, it's also happening at the same time

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Speaker 1: that Vice President jd. Vance is now leading a federal

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Speaker 1: fraud task force, and they're obviously swinging into action. We

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Speaker 1: also heard the new Acting Attorney General, Todd Blanche say

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Speaker 1: the DOJ is getting more active on the fraud cases.

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Speaker 1: Do you expect to see the Vance people, the Todd

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Speaker 1: Blanche people moving into California now, based on the reporting

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Speaker 1: you've done here in this story called Empire or Fraud, I.

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Speaker 2: Mean, I certainly, I hope so.

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Speaker 16: Bill Saley, US attorney in California, has also set up

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Speaker 16: a fraud task force to look at homelessness funds, missing

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Speaker 16: homelessness funds. There's been indictments coming down there. I know

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Speaker 16: Vice President Vance's task force. I believe there have been

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Speaker 16: some indictments already associated with that. So I think we're

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Speaker 16: really just scratching the surface here. I think more indictments

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Speaker 16: will be coming as the federal government, which you know,

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Speaker 16: they're taking this quite seriously. To their credit, they're devoting

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Speaker 16: significant resources to this. I think it's long overdue, and

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Speaker 16: I think we're going to see a lot more people

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Speaker 16: facing criminal charges as a result of the federal government's efforts.

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Speaker 1: All right, that vois you're hearing today on the Scott

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Speaker 1: Jennings Show reporter Ryan Thorpe.

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Speaker 2: He's with a Manhattan institute.

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Speaker 1: He and Chris Ruffo have written this story called Empire

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Speaker 1: of Fraud, about one hundred and eighty billion dollars in

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Speaker 1: fraud in the state of California on Gavin Newsom's watch.

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Speaker 1: You can read all about it in a publication called

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Speaker 1: The City Journal. You have to read this. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we're not talking abouticles and dimes here. One hundred and

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Speaker 1: eighty billion dollars.

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Speaker 17: Ryan.

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Speaker 1: We're really grateful for your reporting. Thanks for coming on

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Speaker 1: the show to talk to us about it today. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for the inputution all right, Ryan Thorpe there writing for

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Speaker 1: the City Journal. One hundred and eighty billion dollars billion

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Speaker 1: with a B and a lot of it leaving the country.

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Speaker 1: It is absolutely disgusting. May bring this up with our

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Speaker 1: next guest after the break. Congressman Jim Jordan, chairman of

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Speaker 1: the House Judiciary Committee, is stopping by. He's here next

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Speaker 1: on The Scott Jenning Show. Stay with us at the

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Speaker 1: Leftist haven't had enough yet, but there's more. This is

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Speaker 1: the Scott Jennings.

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Speaker 2: Show, and we have breaking news.

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Speaker 1: Just a few minutes ago, White House Press Secretary Caroline

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Speaker 1: Levitt at the podium talking about peace talks that will

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Speaker 1: get underway this weekend in Pakistan.

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Speaker 2: Let's hear from Levitt. In cut number twenty.

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Speaker 15: I can announce that the President is dispatching his negotiating team,

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Speaker 15: led by the Vice President of the United States JD. Vance,

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Speaker 15: Special Envoy Whitcoff, and mister Kushner to Islamabad for talks

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Speaker 15: this weekend. The first round of those talks will take

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Speaker 15: place on Saturday morning local time, and we know we

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Speaker 15: look forward to those in person meetings.

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Speaker 2: All right, the breaking news is that Vice President Vance.

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Speaker 1: Witkoff and Kushner headed to Pakistan to negotiate with a ran.

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Speaker 2: On behalf of the United States.

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Speaker 1: Joining me to discuss this and several other stories, we

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Speaker 1: have the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee with us,

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Speaker 1: the gentleman from Ohio, Congressman Jim Jordan, is on the line. Congressman,

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Speaker 1: thanks for your time today. As you hear news of

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Speaker 1: the cease fire and you hear Caroline Levitt today, what's

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Speaker 1: your reaction.

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Speaker 2: To all of this?

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Speaker 17: No, I think this is this is great news, you know,

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Speaker 17: in that we're sending the team there, We're going to

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Speaker 17: meet looks like face to face and in Islama's bod

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Speaker 17: they're in Pakistan with with Irainians and try to hammer

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Speaker 17: this out. You know, for me, this is always scott

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Speaker 17: about stopping and I ran from getting a nuclear weapon.

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Speaker 17: You cannot have a regime who's done with this regime

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Speaker 17: is done for now almost fifty years, to Americans, to Israelis,

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Speaker 17: to accountless other people around the planet, and to their

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Speaker 17: own citizens. I was I was talking to someone earlier

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Speaker 17: in Iran. Wrestling is big one of their big sports,

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Speaker 17: whole that whole area of the world that the Turkish people,

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Speaker 17: the Armenians all over there, the Dakistanis, and it's big,

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Speaker 17: and they just show how ruthless they were and what

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Speaker 17: they what they will do to people who upright, you know,

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Speaker 17: protests against the regime. And they took that junior wrestler,

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Speaker 17: it's been reported, this nineteen year old champion wrestler in

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Speaker 17: their country and they hung him in a public way.

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Speaker 17: I mean, it's like, this is who we're up against.

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Speaker 17: And so the President's making sure that kind of regime

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Speaker 17: who's done all that and willing to do that to

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Speaker 17: their own people cannot have a nuclear weapon. To me,

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Speaker 17: that was always the primary objective, and I applawed the

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Speaker 17: President for you know, making sure they're not going to

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Speaker 17: get that. And now that we've had to cease fire,

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Speaker 17: they're going to negotiate. I think that is, you know, wonderful.

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Speaker 17: Let's figure out how we make sure that they never

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Speaker 17: get this nuclear capability.

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Speaker 1: Congressman, one thing that has just shocked me the number

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Speaker 1: of Democrats, some of your colleagues in the US House

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Speaker 1: willing to go on television and seemingly root for bad

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Speaker 1: outcomes for the United States.

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Speaker 2: It's like they can't tell who the good guys.

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Speaker 1: And the bad guys are here, but you have Democrat

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Speaker 1: after Democrat going on and sort of wish casting bad

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Speaker 1: outcomes for our military, all because they want to try

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Speaker 1: to make some political attack against Donald Trump. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I guess I expected some of that from the fringes,

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Speaker 1: but it seems to be a mainstream talking point in

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Speaker 1: their party right now.

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Speaker 17: It certainly is, And you know how many called for

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Speaker 17: his impeachment this week. I forget how many Democrats called

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Speaker 17: for that. You know, we knew that there were some

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Speaker 17: on the hard left, but let's be honest, the hard

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Speaker 17: left now controls that party. It's a sad state of

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Speaker 17: affairs for the Democrat Party that the radical left is

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Speaker 17: in control. All the energy in their party is from

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Speaker 17: the left and the things they were saying, and again

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Speaker 17: I come back to the fundamentals. No, presidents, I mean,

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Speaker 17: I always say this about politics. We make the job

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Speaker 17: too complicated. It's pretty basic. Could tell the voters you

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Speaker 17: were going to do when you ran for the job.

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Speaker 17: If you get elected, do what you said. No one

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Speaker 17: does it better than President Trump. He said he cut taxes,

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Speaker 17: he did. He said he secured the border he did

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Speaker 17: first term. He said he put conservatives on the cord.

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Speaker 17: He didd. He said he would make sure, you know,

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Speaker 17: put the mbassy in Jerusalem. He did. And he also

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Speaker 17: said he was not going to allow Iran to get

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Speaker 17: a nuclear weapon. And the previous president's, previous administrations had

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Speaker 17: cut deals with Iran, had given things to Iran. They're

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Speaker 17: crazy Iranian agreement that Obama put together. This president said no,

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Speaker 17: we're going to stop them. And you would think everyone

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Speaker 17: would be supportive of that when you look at the

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Speaker 17: history of this regime. But unfortunately the radical left isn't.

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Speaker 17: And as you say, all they want to do is attack.

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Speaker 1: The President, Congressman, do you foresee a long term US

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Speaker 1: presence here beyond what we already have in the Middle

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Speaker 1: East for the purpose of monitoring whatever peace agreement we

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Speaker 1: do hammer out with the Iranians? I mean, they are

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Speaker 1: the Iranian regime after all, and you can't really trust them.

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Speaker 1: Do you think going to need more American military forces

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Speaker 1: to stay there longer just to make sure they're living

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Speaker 1: up to whatever they agree to in Pakistan?

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Speaker 17: Well, the shorter answer is, I don't know that anyone

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Speaker 17: can predict exactly what's going to happen in the future,

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Speaker 17: but we do know what what Sectary Rubio, Secretary Hexath,

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Speaker 17: and the President or you know, the commander in chief

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Speaker 17: has said that they do not want that, they don't

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Speaker 17: expect that. And so I I I go with what

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Speaker 17: what the President said, I go with what what what

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Speaker 17: Secretary of State Rubio is said and Secretary of War

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Speaker 17: Hexith is said about this. So and let's let's hope

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Speaker 17: that is that's exactly the outcome here, that there's not

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Speaker 17: a large president that has to be maintained in any

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Speaker 17: way there. Now, we have interests all over the world, uh,

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Speaker 17: and you know we're gonna we're gonna have those bases

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Speaker 17: and and and interest in and we gotta you know,

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Speaker 17: we got a deep water navy second to none is

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Speaker 17: as President Trump has pointed out. So we'll we'll we'll see,

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Speaker 17: but and then we'll see how this starts, on how

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Speaker 17: this goes Saturday when when the Vice President and mister

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Speaker 17: Wikop and mister Kushner sit down and uh and work

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Speaker 17: on what the what the final agreement.

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Speaker 1: Is going to be, Boyscher hearing is Congressman Jim Jordan

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Speaker 1: of Ohio, Congressman, let's bring it back home. The Department

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Speaker 1: of Homeland Security remains shut down. Congress is on recess

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Speaker 1: that ends at the beginning of next week. The Senate

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Speaker 1: passed a plan and it seems like Foon and Speaker

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Speaker 1: Johnson and the President are aligned on this two track

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Speaker 1: plan to fund DHS through a regular bill except for

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Speaker 1: the immigration enforcement and then do reconciliation to do the

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Speaker 1: immigration enforcement. Now, a lot of folks in the House

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Speaker 1: on the Republican side weren't happy with this when it

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Speaker 1: was initially floated.

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Speaker 2: But is that still the direction we're headed?

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Speaker 1: Do you expect that to come to fruition when you

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Speaker 1: get back to Washington.

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Speaker 2: Next week.

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Speaker 17: Yeah, I do, and it just underscores if our need

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Speaker 17: to do a second reconciliation deal where I think. I

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Speaker 17: think obviously you want to fund ice and customer and

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Speaker 17: border patrol. Those have to get funded, so we'll have

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Speaker 17: to do reconciliation for that. Back to the kind of

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Speaker 17: what we were just talking about before, I don't know

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Speaker 17: that the Democrats will help us pass supplemental to replenish

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Speaker 17: our military. You know, when when you go into a war,

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Speaker 17: you use weapons, you use bullets, and you have to

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Speaker 17: replenish those. So we're going to need that. We're going

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Speaker 17: to need some supplemental funding for the Pentagon. I don't

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Speaker 17: know if they vote for that, so I think we're

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Speaker 17: gonna have to do that as part of reconciliation. And

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Speaker 17: then frankly, I would add a third component. I would

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Speaker 17: make sure we deal with this fraud issue that is

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Speaker 17: so rampant. We saw in Minneapolis, we've seen it at

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Speaker 17: the beginning of what we're uncovering in California and other places.

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Speaker 17: So I do think there's there are key things we

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Speaker 17: can do that deal with budget and deal with spending

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Speaker 17: that protect taxpayer money and combat this fraud that was

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Speaker 17: so rampant in Minnesota. Since we the reconciliation package is

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Speaker 17: going to be those three components. In my mind, that

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Speaker 17: would be ideal. So I think that's what we're gonna

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Speaker 17: we're going to focus on, and we'll have to get

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Speaker 17: that done here sometime in the next few weeks.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad you brought up the fraud issue.

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Speaker 1: We just had Ryan thorpe On who along with Chris Ruffo,

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Speaker 1: had the big report on California. Yeah, the price tag

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Speaker 1: they put on it was one hundred and eighty billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: He says, a lot of that money went out of

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Speaker 1: the country. Maybe expand a little bit on what you

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Speaker 1: think the House Republicans want to do to fight this fraud,

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Speaker 1: because Minnesota, California, there's a lot of it out there,

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Speaker 1: especially in blue states.

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Speaker 17: What do you have in mind, Well, a couple things. One,

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Speaker 17: you have to have more safeguards, more checks, more balances

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Speaker 17: on the front end. You can't just let the money

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Speaker 17: go out the door. What they were doing in Minnesota

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Speaker 17: was they were take the Feeding our Future program is

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Speaker 17: a program designed to give meals to kids during the

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Speaker 17: COVID time. You know, underprivileged in underserved kids. So they

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Speaker 17: were supposed to be providing meals and supposed to be

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Speaker 17: children that were getting those meals. Well, guess what, there

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Speaker 17: were no meals. There were no kids. There were just

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Speaker 17: stuffing money in their pocket. So you have to have

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Speaker 17: safeguards in place before you give these quote not for

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Speaker 17: profits the money. The other thing you got to look

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Speaker 17: at is make sure people who come here illegally, the

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Speaker 17: eight to ten million who got in the country, Let's

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Speaker 17: make sure they're not some proof of who you are

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Speaker 17: before you receive taxpayer money. Let's make sure they're not

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Speaker 17: getting welfare and tax payer money. So I think those

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Speaker 17: are just two things on the front end, easy things

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Speaker 17: on the front end that we can do to safeguard

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Speaker 17: your tax dollars, your listeners, tax dollars, American tax dollars.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, these amounts are staggering, one hundred and eighty billion.

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Speaker 1: Vice President's task forces they've already uncovered six billion.

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Speaker 2: The Attorney General.

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Speaker 1: Acting Attorney General says they've got eight thousand cases opening

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Speaker 1: up out there.

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Speaker 2: It's really just a staggering amount of fraud.

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Speaker 1: So I think you're right on to work with the

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Speaker 1: administration to fulfill some of these obligations to crack down

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Speaker 1: on this.

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Speaker 17: Yeah, and I would just ask I remember in Minnesota,

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Speaker 17: it was primarily the Somali American community. So ninety some

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Speaker 17: people have already been indicted. Eighty five of those ninety

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Speaker 17: some were Somali Americans and they did it. They were

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Speaker 17: looking the other way up there because this was a

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Speaker 17: key voting block. And you have to take my words

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Speaker 17: for it. Take a Somali American who worked in the

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Speaker 17: Attorney General's office. That's what they said on the record.

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Speaker 17: They said this was a key voting block. So it

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Speaker 17: was driven by politics, and that is the worst. So

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Speaker 17: that's why you have to have these safe guards and

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Speaker 17: checks and bounces on the front. And that's why you

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Speaker 17: got to make sure that no illegals are getting this.

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Speaker 17: The generosity of the American taxpayer and those things all

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Speaker 17: have to happen before the money gets sent out the door.

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Speaker 1: Congressman Jim Jordan is our guest. Another topic, Congressman, I

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Speaker 1: know you're interested in. There's been reporting about the Democratic

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Speaker 1: fundraising platform known as Act Blue and the possibility or

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Speaker 1: the fact that they were allowing foreign money into our elections.

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Speaker 1: And then there's other reporting that they may know that

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Speaker 1: they lied to Congress about it. What can you tell

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Speaker 1: us about the next steps on investigating Act Blue and

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Speaker 1: all this foreign money that may have flooded into American elections.

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Speaker 17: Well, yeah, our investigation will continue. We've already deposed five

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Speaker 17: people from Act Blue. These were people who had either

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Speaker 17: resigned or been been fired after the twenty twenty four

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Speaker 17: election cycle, and we will be releasing a report that

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Speaker 17: will get into all this. But this is understand too.

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Speaker 17: This was the fun raising machine behind that Democrat part.

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Speaker 17: This this thing does billions of dollars every election cycle

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Speaker 17: for Democrats. There were candidates last cycle and twenty four

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Speaker 17: congressional candidates raising two and three million dollars a quarter,

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Speaker 17: and much of it was coming from Act Blue. Then

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Speaker 17: you have this report comes out from the New York

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Speaker 17: Times about the dispute with their council. They've now fired

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Speaker 17: this council, but their council said, hey, you've given some

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Speaker 17: response to Congress as part of our investigation. You've given

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Speaker 17: response to Congress that may not be entirely accurate on

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Speaker 17: the measures you've put in place to protect from foreign contributions,

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Speaker 17: which is illegal, and so there's that is So we're

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Speaker 17: looking into all this we do have documents already that

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Speaker 17: show they relaxed their fraud standards, internal documents where people

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Speaker 17: who were in charge of fraud prevention were saying, well,

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Speaker 17: these new measures we do actually make it so it's

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Speaker 17: harder for us to detect the fraud. They relaxed the

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Speaker 17: stand So we actually have those documents and we'll be

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Speaker 17: able to relate more what these people said next week,

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Speaker 17: but we have to get clearance from three committees before

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Speaker 17: we can actually release that information. But as I said,

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Speaker 17: we've deposed five people already.

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Speaker 1: But just for the record, can you say right now

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Speaker 1: for certain that foreign money did come in to our

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Speaker 1: elections through Act Blue to help democratic campaigns?

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Speaker 17: I can't say one hundred Well I can say this.

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Speaker 17: It sure looks that way, and it looks like the

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Speaker 17: standards were relaxed so that it was tougher to detect that,

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Speaker 17: and it looks like in fact, foreign contributions did come in.

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Speaker 17: But we're digging into it and we'll be able to

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Speaker 17: talk about what was conveyed in those depositions next week

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Speaker 17: once we get clearance. Because we're doing it's three committees

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Speaker 17: involved in this investigation, and we will have a report next.

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Speaker 1: Week Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio. Thanks for your time.

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Speaker 1: We'll look forward to the follow up on all these issues.

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Speaker 1: I know you're on top of it. A word now

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Speaker 1: for people out there who are dealing with Medicare, if

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Speaker 1: you're on Medicare, if your parents are on Medicare, if

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Speaker 1: they are of that age, I want you to listen

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Speaker 1: up to this. Medicare is extremely confusing. It is a mess.

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Speaker 1: You get the mailers, you get the robo calls. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of half truths out there, and I want

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Speaker 1: you to know that I'm partnering with a company called Chapter.

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Speaker 1: Chapter cuts through the noise. Here's what we did with

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Speaker 1: my parents. You go onto this consultation. It takes about

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Speaker 1: twenty minutes, it's free. Actually, the results of it speak

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Speaker 1: for themselves. They help my mom for just a few

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Speaker 1: simple questions, save about six hundred dollars a year. And

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Speaker 1: from my dad, they acted as a true concierge. They

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Speaker 1: helped him find a new primary care physician because he

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Speaker 1: had moved and he needed a new doctor. So they

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Speaker 1: save you money, They help you find the right doctor.

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Speaker 1: Chapter advocates for you, not the insurance companies. They'll tell

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Speaker 1: you if you're already on the right plan, or if

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Speaker 1: there is something better for you, I cannot recommend this

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Speaker 1: If you're dealing with Medicare, you dial Pound two point

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Speaker 1: fifty and you say Medicare Plan.

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Speaker 2: That's all you have to do. It's called Chapter. It's

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Speaker 2: a free call.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, Josh Krauschaier is here to round

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Speaker 1: out the show. Scott Jenning's on Salem, Stay with us, the.

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Speaker 11: Voice of gweeveson common sense for the American people.

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Speaker 3: This is the Scott Jenning Shop.

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Speaker 2: Rounding out the hour with some breaking news.

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Speaker 1: The Katari armed forces say they have intercepted seven ballistic

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Speaker 1: missiles and several drones from Iran. The Katari Defense Ministry

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Speaker 1: posted that on X a little while ago, and news

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Speaker 1: accounts are now confirming it. So we're supposedly in a

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Speaker 1: ceasefire with Iran, but according to Kutter, Iran is still

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Speaker 1: firing off ballistic missiles and these attack drones. To discuss

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Speaker 1: this development and the ceasefire in general, I have the

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Speaker 1: editor in chief of Jewish Insider with me, Josh Krausher,

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Speaker 1: friend of the show, Josh welcome back. It seems that

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Speaker 1: the dispute here is over Lebanon and Israel, and the

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Speaker 1: United States say Lebanon is not part of this, that

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Speaker 1: Israel is going to continue to fight over there, but

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Speaker 1: Iran is wanting it to be part of it.

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Speaker 2: Is that how you see it? What do you know

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Speaker 2: right now?

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Speaker 18: Well, look, I think it shows how many crossed lines

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Speaker 18: we've seen in the last twenty four hours. I think

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Speaker 18: going back to Trump's threat to kind of knock out

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Speaker 18: a Ran civilization, I think it was a threat that

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Speaker 18: it didn't have any real force behind it, and he

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Speaker 18: quickly backed down and tried to kind of reach some

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Speaker 18: kind of ceasefire, some kind of deal. But this deal

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Speaker 18: doesn't seem to be much of a deal.

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Speaker 13: Scott.

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Speaker 18: I mean, the US and Israel stopped attacking Iran, but

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Speaker 18: we're still seeing Iranian attacks on Saudi Arabia Israel. Now, Katar,

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Speaker 18: the straight up her moves, I think is now blocked

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Speaker 18: again because perhaps this disagreement over what's going on in

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Speaker 18: South Lebanon. Israel, for what it's worth, is doing military

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Speaker 18: operations to combat Hesbola, which they've been doing for some

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Speaker 18: time now to deter the terror them on their northern border,

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Speaker 18: and now Iran is sort of backing out of the agreement. Now,

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Speaker 18: whether the agreement explicitly kind of had anything to do

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Speaker 18: with Israel's action against Lebanon or not, reality is like,

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Speaker 18: this is all hesbl As an Iranian proxy. This is

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Speaker 18: one This is one of the you know, the big

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Speaker 18: fronts of the larger war that the US and Israel

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Speaker 18: have been fighting. And you know, I think there was

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Speaker 18: I mean, it's a little bit of lack of clarity

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Speaker 18: right now and what exactly the ceasefire entails and whether

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Speaker 18: we may have to go back to military operations if

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Speaker 18: it Ran does not abide by the agreement.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a few jagged edges on this in the

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Speaker 1: first few hours of the ceasefire, I would admit that.

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Speaker 1: At the same time, the White House today has announced

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Speaker 1: a vice President Vance and Witkoff and Kushner are going

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Speaker 1: to Pakistan on Saturday to have peace talks with Iran.

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Speaker 1: So some parts of this are moving forward. I guess

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Speaker 1: the question is between now and then, if Iran doesn't

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Speaker 1: stop firing off missiles and attack drones, if they don't

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Speaker 1: really ultimately live up to the ceasefire, you know what

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Speaker 1: would the US posture be to continue with these talks

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Speaker 1: or to pull out until Iran can live up to

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Speaker 1: some of this What do you think? What do you

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Speaker 1: think we'll see over the next couple of days on that, Josh.

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Speaker 18: Well, I think the goal is piece through strength, to

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Speaker 18: show of the damage and and and the empower that

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Speaker 18: the American military and along with the Israelis were able

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Speaker 18: to impose on I Ran over the last six weeks,

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Speaker 18: and and to really put.

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Speaker 2: You know, hope.

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Speaker 18: Hopefully that led to pressure for I Ran to come

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Speaker 18: to the bargaining table and make some real concessions. So

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Speaker 18: I must admit, Scott, I'm not seeing that from the

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Speaker 18: Iranian rhetoric. We've been through these negotiations. The Iranians are masters,

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Speaker 18: going back many many years of using these negotiations as

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Speaker 18: stalling tactics, not to give anything, but just to buy time.

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Speaker 18: So I'm not particularly optimistic that they're going to lead

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Speaker 18: to anything significant. Hopefully there's some progress made, but we've

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Speaker 18: seen this movie before. I think the worry is that

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Speaker 18: if if if kind of Trump made an empty threat

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Speaker 18: that he get ended up backing down from is there

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Speaker 18: going to be and the markets are good news? Is

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Speaker 18: like the gas, price of oil is down, our stock

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Speaker 18: market is going gangbusters today. But if that's the day

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Speaker 18: to day reading that the White House is looking at,

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Speaker 18: I feel like there might have been some strategic opportunities

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Speaker 18: that could have been missed. And as far as this

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Speaker 18: operation has.

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Speaker 2: Gone, all right, wet blanket.

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Speaker 1: Josh Krauscher, I'll give you the last word on this.

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Speaker 2: JD.

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Speaker 1: Vance is being sent by the President to negotiate in

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Speaker 1: Pakistan with the Iranians this weekend. Can of give us

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Speaker 1: a little political breakdown on that as Vice President Vance

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Speaker 1: looks ahead to his future in twenty twenty eight.

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Speaker 18: Yeah, I mean this is a fascinating dynamic. I look,

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Speaker 18: the vice president has been within the inner circle of

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Speaker 18: President Trump's the most skeptical of military intervention. There was

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Speaker 18: a story of the New York Times that kind of

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Speaker 18: laid out the different sides as the debate whether to

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Speaker 18: go to war with Iran took place. But you know,

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Speaker 18: you know this, Scott, if you're a vice president, if

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Speaker 18: you're if you're if you're on a ticket, it's hard

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Speaker 18: to kind of separate yourself. You look look at Kamala Harris.

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Speaker 18: She she was trying to distinguished herself from Joe Biden.

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Speaker 18: It didn't work at all. And if jad Vance's strategy

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Speaker 18: is to try to leak or try to keep some

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Speaker 18: distance from Donald Trump, and you know, the criticized parts

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Speaker 18: of the operation are to say that he's sort of

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Speaker 18: the candidate of diplomacy, even though Trump was more hawkish

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Speaker 18: in this case of going to war with Iran. You know,

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Speaker 18: I just don't think you can, politically speaking, you can

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Speaker 18: separate yourself from your boss. And you know, so that's

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Speaker 18: it's hard. The strategy of that. It's just gonna be

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Speaker 18: really challenging for the Vice president.

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Speaker 17: All Right.

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Speaker 1: That voice you're hearing today the voice of the wet

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Speaker 1: blanket Josh Krauscher, editor in chief of The Jewish Insider,

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Speaker 1: one of the smartest analysts in DC. Josh, we got

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Speaker 1: to go. Thanks for your time today. We'll have you

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Speaker 1: back soon. We're out of here. We'll be back tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: It's Scott on Salem. Thanks for listening.