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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, Cheers Scott Jennings.

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Speaker 3: Rather a special day for the show.

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Speaker 4: The main topic of the show today for these next

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Speaker 4: We're doing some things over in the White House Complex.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna talk about some polling.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna interview Mary Margaret Oolahan from the Daily Wire.

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Speaker 3: She covers President Trump on a daily basis. We really do.

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Speaker 4: Have a packed show for you today, all wrapped around

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Speaker 4: the one year anniversary of Donald Trump retaking the White

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Speaker 4: I was thinking about today's show, thinking about the one

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Speaker 4: January twentieth, twenty twenty five. Donald Trump has won in

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Speaker 3: He has won millions more votes than Kamala.

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Speaker 4: Harris, and he believes that he has a mandate from

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Speaker 4: all of it, all of it was wrapped around this phrase,

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Speaker 4: a revolution of common sense. In fact, I'll never forget

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Speaker 3: And in fact, it did make a great book.

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Speaker 4: the definition of how Donald Trump has rebranded his political

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Speaker 4: last year. This is Donald Trump speaking in the Capitol rotunda.

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Speaker 5: Today, I will sign a series of historic executive orders.

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Speaker 5: With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of

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Speaker 3: Revolution of common sense. It's all about common sense.

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Speaker 3: He has settled eight conflicts.

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Speaker 4: Tracking a business story for you today that is attracting

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Speaker 4: called Power the Future. Daniel, Welcome to the Scott Shetning Show.

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Speaker 3: Scott, great to be home with you, Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Daniel.

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Speaker 4: I want to dive in and talk energy and this

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Speaker 2: Explain my friend, Yeah, this is a really important issue

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Speaker 2: So our concern in the rail industry is this, if

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Speaker 2: Coal, back to coal, the best thing you could do.

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Speaker 3: He talked about the evils of coal.

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Speaker 2: That's when he told everyone me and all of my

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Speaker 3: And everyone scratched their head and said, did Biden just

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Speaker 2: It produced eight hundred megawatts of power for the Boston area.

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Speaker 3: They gladly demolished it. They got rid of the jobs.

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Speaker 2: No one bid on an offshore plant, no one bid

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Speaker 2: And how is electricity prices in Massachusetts? They've gone through

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Speaker 2: the roof. So the best thing we could do on

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Speaker 2: affordability is reopen as many coal and natural gas and

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Speaker 2: nuclear and hydro. But reopen what the Biden administrations foolishly shuddered.

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Speaker 3: It's Daniel Turner. He's the CEO of Power the Future

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Speaker 3: or Daniel.

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Speaker 4: You've obviously have been tracking over the years a lot

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Speaker 4: about the sources of energy in this country. Now you're

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Speaker 4: interested in how that energy has moved around the transportation

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Speaker 4: of that energy, which is I think what attracted your

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Speaker 4: attention to this proposed merger of these railroads. Tell us

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Speaker 4: about this op ed that you wrote in town hall

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Speaker 4: dot com. Tell us about your organization's concerns if this

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Speaker 4: merger goes through, what will happen to energy prices and

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Speaker 4: American energy dominance.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what will happen, in the simplest is that you

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Speaker 2: have less competition, and that's bad for markets in any industry.

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Speaker 2: It's bad if you want a sandwich shop, it's bad

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Speaker 2: if you want a grocery store. A competition keeps prices low.

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Speaker 2: And so our concern is that as we are bringing

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Speaker 2: more American energy online, whether we're mining it, whether we're

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Speaker 2: producing it from the ground that has to be transported,

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Speaker 2: and if we have just one monopoly, it will be

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Speaker 2: like Amtrak. Right now, I take Amtrak a lot from

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Speaker 2: New York City to Boston back to DC, et cetera,

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Speaker 2: et cetera. Look at how much Amtrak costs and look

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Speaker 2: at its reliability.

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Speaker 3: I'm no knock to Secretary Duffy.

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Speaker 2: He's trying his hardest, right, But why did the rest

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Speaker 2: of the world seem to have mastered.

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Speaker 3: Rail and America has it?

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Speaker 2: And the reason why is because they have multiple competitive lines.

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Speaker 2: So I don't want to see one behemoth rail company

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Speaker 2: that will control pricing if we're going to keep try

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Speaker 2: to keep prices low.

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Speaker 4: Discussing the potential merger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern here,

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Speaker 4: So the application to get federal approval has been.

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Speaker 3: Filed by the.

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Speaker 4: Parties here in front of the Surface Transportation Board. I

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Speaker 4: guess that happened right before Christmas. What happens next? What

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Speaker 4: will the Surface Transportation Board be looking at? What questions

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Speaker 4: will be the will they be asking? And will you

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Speaker 4: be engaging in that process? We are engaging that process.

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Speaker 2: We send a letter to to Chairman Fuchs expressing our

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Speaker 2: concern and we reference that two thousand and one decision

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Speaker 2: by the Service Transportation Board on mergers, and their criteria

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Speaker 2: is mergers have to be beneficial for pricing and competitiveness,

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Speaker 2: and we're arguing this will do the exact opposite. And

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Speaker 2: you know, I understand people's hesitation. You don't want to

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Speaker 2: tinker with the private sector. You have to let companies operate,

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Speaker 2: of course, but there is also a role for government

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Speaker 2: in preventing these types of monopolies.

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Speaker 3: And you know, I use the banking example.

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Speaker 2: I used the healthcare example, even if that was not

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Speaker 2: the intended consequence.

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Speaker 3: And you can argue whether or.

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Speaker 2: Not Elizabeth Warren wanted fewer, bigger banks, but if that

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Speaker 2: was not the intended consequence, but that is the reality, right,

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Speaker 2: The reality is we have small, fewer, larger, richer, more

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Speaker 2: powerful companies, and that is not good for pricing. So

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Speaker 2: I don't want to see that happen to rail like

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Speaker 2: I've seen it happen to other sectors.

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Speaker 3: We've got to get this energy out of the ground.

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Speaker 2: We've got to refine it, we've got to produce it

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Speaker 2: and get it to places so that affordability continues.

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Speaker 3: To come down.

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Speaker 2: And one more obstacle would be a behemoth monopoly that

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Speaker 2: is jacking up prices.

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Speaker 4: Now, devil's advocate the railroads would say, hey, if you

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Speaker 4: let us merge, we'll have greater efficiencies, we'll be able

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Speaker 4: to do more together, and we might even be able

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Speaker 4: to drive prices down overall in the rail business.

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Speaker 3: How would you answer that retort from them, Yeah, the.

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Speaker 2: Best example of what's going to happen in the future

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Speaker 2: is what has happened in the past. And in the past,

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Speaker 2: as we've seen these mergers happen, we've seen affordability go

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Speaker 2: through the roof. We've seen pricing go through the roof

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Speaker 2: and options and that's just not just in the rail space.

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Speaker 2: That's an industry writ large, and we do better as

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Speaker 2: a free market when we have more options, more competition

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Speaker 2: in the space.

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Speaker 3: That's what keeps prices low.

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Speaker 2: And the simplest example is just you know, look at

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Speaker 2: your local town. If you have three or four grocery stores,

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Speaker 2: that's a hell of a lot better than having just one.

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Speaker 2: If you have three or four coffee shops, that's better

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Speaker 2: than having just one. And we want coal miners and

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Speaker 2: we want oil and gas.

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Speaker 3: Workers to say, hey, we've got options. What railroad.

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Speaker 2: We're going to put our product on. If there's only

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Speaker 2: one option, they will now set the price. That's just

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Speaker 2: human nature that unfortunately, that's just how the world works.

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Speaker 2: It's a responsibility of government to make sure that doesn't happen.

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Speaker 4: Okay, you've laid out the potential harm that this merger

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Speaker 4: would cause. Do you believe the Surface Transportation Board or

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Speaker 4: the people who are serving on it now agree with you.

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Speaker 3: Is it a little mysterious.

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Speaker 1: Where they are.

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Speaker 4: Do you have any idea where their leanings may be

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Speaker 4: as this process begins.

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Speaker 3: I don't.

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Speaker 2: The only newest development in large scale mergers that have

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Speaker 2: made national news is the Netflix one that President Trump

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Speaker 2: even took the truth social and said this would not

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Speaker 2: be a good thing. So my hunches that the president

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Speaker 2: and his administration are in tune with this to say, yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know, we don't want big mon their companies to develop.

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Speaker 2: We don't want these things to get too big. We

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Speaker 2: want options, we want affordability, we want competitiveness. So I'm

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Speaker 2: hoping that that's the direction that we continue to go

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Speaker 2: as a country.

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Speaker 3: That's just classic capitalism, classic.

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Speaker 2: Belief in free markets and this concern of corporatism, that

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Speaker 2: kind of intends to dominate the conversation.

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Speaker 3: Ten seconds to go. Daniel.

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Speaker 4: You are the founder and executive director of Power the Future.

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Speaker 4: Where do we find your organization on the internet?

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Speaker 2: Powerthefuture dot com and you can find this letter and

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Speaker 2: all the other stuff we do to support American energy workers.

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Speaker 2: And thanks for having me on your show, Scott, it

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Speaker 2: means a lot.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for being here today.

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Speaker 4: Daniel Turner, founder and executive director of Power the Future,

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Speaker 4: Common Sense for the American people more when we come back.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 4: Coming up on the end of the first hour here,

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Speaker 4: and it is the one year anniversary of Donald Trump

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Speaker 4: taking the oath of office for a second time, and

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Speaker 4: we're doing the show today from the White House Complex.

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Speaker 4: We're looking back on the first year of Trump in office,

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Speaker 4: and we're going to do that in the next hour

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Speaker 4: with some really, really special guests. We have Judge Janine Piro,

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Speaker 4: who is the District Attorney for the District of Columbia.

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Speaker 4: She wants to talk about crime fighting in the District

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Speaker 4: of Columbia. We have the Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon

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Speaker 4: is going to talk about efforts to close down the

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Speaker 4: Department of Education and reduce that bureaucracy. We have doctor

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Speaker 4: j Bodicharia, who is the director of the National Institute

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Speaker 4: of Health, talking about recovering public confidence in the health

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Speaker 4: regime in this country following all the mistakes that were

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Speaker 4: made in COVID. Also a little bit about the Make

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Speaker 4: America Healthy agenda. And I think the interview of the

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Speaker 4: day is with todd Lyons. Todd Lyons is the acting

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Speaker 4: director of ICE. You've seen him on television, no doubt.

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Speaker 4: He is in the middle of this situation in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Speaker 4: He's overseeing all ICE operations in the country. We have

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Speaker 4: three four thousand ICE agents and staff and personnel in Minneapolis.

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Speaker 4: We're going to talk to todd Lyons about that, and

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Speaker 4: I want to give you a little taste of this interview.

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Speaker 4: It's coming up at thirty three minutes past the next hour.

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Speaker 4: But todd Lyons made a couple of things very very clear.

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Speaker 4: Number One, it is the position of the Trump administration

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Speaker 4: to ask and hopefully get cooperation from Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: If they did that, what would happen.

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Speaker 4: ICE agents would be reduced in Minnesota because they would

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Speaker 4: be getting cooperation, and the transfers of the aliens would

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Speaker 4: happen in the jails at number two, I want you

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Speaker 4: to hear that.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna play this right now.

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Speaker 4: Listen to what happens when an ICE agent in Minneapolis

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Speaker 4: comes under attack out in the field. You will not

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Speaker 4: believe your ears. This is the acting director of ICE,

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Speaker 4: todd lyons. Here's a little teaser of our full interview

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Speaker 4: coming up in the next hour.

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Speaker 3: Let me go back to this.

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Speaker 4: Issue of cooperation, and because I think this is getting

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Speaker 4: lost and all of the back and forth, is it

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Speaker 4: the position of the Trump administration that if Minnesota officials,

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Speaker 4: Governor Walls and Mayor Frye and the police there, if

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Speaker 4: they would cooperate with ICE in the same way you're

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Speaker 4: getting cooperation in say Dallas or places in Florida, anywhere

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Speaker 4: in the country, that the ICE presence that you have

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Speaker 4: would not be necessary.

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Speaker 3: One hundred percent.

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Speaker 8: And you know, if we had that cooperation, like I

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Speaker 8: said in the jails or bettyet, if we had the

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Speaker 8: cooperation when our offices and agents are attacked on the street,

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Speaker 8: we wouldn't see this so many.

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Speaker 3: People out now.

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Speaker 4: Let me ask you this, if an ICE agent is

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Speaker 4: attacked on the street, what does the Minneapolis police do

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Speaker 4: right now, They don't do anything an ICE agent comes

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Speaker 4: under attack, say like the story the other day where

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Speaker 4: the agent was hit with the shovels by the three

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Speaker 4: Venezuelan nationals, the Minneapolis Police Department does not respond to

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Speaker 4: help the ICE agent.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 8: And that's the problem with a lot of these jurisdiction

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Speaker 8: is they're hitting law enforcement offices against each other.

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Speaker 3: So it's not a red state or blue state issue.

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Speaker 3: I can give you a great example.

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Speaker 8: While the City of New York maybe a sanctuary jurisdiction,

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Speaker 8: the NYPD will come out and assist us, or come

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Speaker 8: out and squash any type of protests.

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Speaker 3: Before it starts.

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Speaker 4: So let me just for the record, you're asking here

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Speaker 4: on the Scott Jennings Show today, your appeal to Minnesota

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Speaker 4: would be, please cooperate with us and please allow the

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Speaker 4: Minneapolis Police to assist fellow law enforcement if they come

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Speaker 4: under attack.

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Speaker 8: Yes, I would say, please turn over your criminal legal

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Speaker 8: aliens to us in a secure environment so you don't

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Speaker 8: have us out on the streets.

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Speaker 3: But if we are on the streets making.

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Speaker 8: Those arrest, help protect our agents and your neighborhoods by

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Speaker 8: keeping these protests at bay.

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Speaker 3: That was Todd.

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Speaker 4: Lyons, the acting director of ICE, and we have so

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Speaker 4: much more.

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Speaker 3: With Todd Lions. I'll tell you what I did with

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Speaker 3: Todd He just left here by the way.

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Speaker 4: We went through a lot of the accusations that are

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Speaker 4: made against ICE. You know, do they have the proper training,

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Speaker 4: do they have the right experience? Are you targeting Americans citizens?

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Speaker 4: Do you hear all these things on your television day

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Speaker 4: after day after day. I went through all of these

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Speaker 4: accusations with Todd Lyons. You hear the accusations. You are

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Speaker 4: going to get the truth, the truth of the matter

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Speaker 4: from Todd Lyons coming up in the next hour. It's

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Speaker 4: common sense for the American people. Scott Jennings broadcasting to

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Speaker 4: you today from the White House Complex. One year ago.

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Speaker 4: One year ago, Donald Trump put his hand on the

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Speaker 4: Bible and he took the oath of office, and he

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Speaker 4: this country from a disastrous four years under Joe Biden.

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Speaker 3: It was a.

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Speaker 4: Disaster for the economy because of the inflationary policies. It

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Speaker 3: It was a disaster.

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Speaker 4: Or immigration, for border enforcement, they're telling Ice don't enforce

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Speaker 4: because of American weakness. All of these things have been

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Speaker 3: You're gonna hear from.

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Speaker 4: The people making it happen when we come back. It's

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Speaker 4: common sense for the American people. Scott Jennings is here.

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Speaker 4: Stay with us on Salem.

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Speaker 1: The voice of free speech, the truth delivered, common.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 4: This is the one year anniversary of President Trump taking

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Speaker 4: broadcasting The Scott Jennings Show today from the White House Complex.

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Speaker 4: We have an amazing set of interviews for you today,

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Speaker 4: You can see one of them sitting next to me

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Speaker 4: if you're following on the video feed right now. This

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Speaker 4: is the Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon. Will get to

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Speaker 4: we are here Secretary McMahon on the one year anniversary

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Speaker 4: of the President taking the oath of office and in his

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Speaker 4: inaugural address he said to the American people, I will

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Speaker 4: have a revolution of common sense.

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Speaker 3: Has the President delivered on the promise.

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Speaker 9: I think he certainly has. Why we've seen it in

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Speaker 9: so many levels of government. You know, education is certainly

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Speaker 9: one of those.

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Speaker 4: So you're running the Department of Education. I want to

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Speaker 4: I heard you give a speech the other day and

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Speaker 4: job it was is to eliminate their own job. Because

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Speaker 4: the President has promised to eliminate the Department of Education,

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Speaker 4: what is going on on that front? This is obviously

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Speaker 4: something conservatives that wanted to do for many decades.

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Speaker 9: Well, I think we're making good progress. And the President

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Speaker 9: was very sincere about getting the bureaucracy out of education,

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Speaker 9: and that's his main concern, that there's so much bureaucracy

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Speaker 9: that is in Washington, d C. He clearly is a

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Speaker 9: strong supporter of education. He's clearly showed it in the

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Speaker 9: One Big Beautiful Bill in which we had for the

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Speaker 9: first time a national choice school choice program.

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Speaker 1: That's part of that.

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Speaker 9: He has just simply said, let's take a look at

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Speaker 9: what we're doing and making sure we're doing it.

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Speaker 1: For the people.

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Speaker 9: Bring education closest to the child, because that is the

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Speaker 9: best place for it to be. Teachers, parents, school pintendents,

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Speaker 9: governors know better than Washington, d C. Which is better

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Speaker 9: for their schools to support their communities.

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Speaker 3: When you took over.

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Speaker 4: The Department of Education, what were some of the things

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Speaker 4: that you found inside the bureaucracy that were absolutely an impediment,

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Speaker 4: in your opinion, to actually improving educational outcomes in this country.

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Speaker 9: Well, just how long it took to get things done.

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Speaker 9: I mean, one of the things that we have done,

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Speaker 9: we just signed taking education back to the states, a

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Speaker 9: waiver for the state of Iowa they applied for it,

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Speaker 9: which allowed the governor to combine several grant streams into

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Speaker 9: was best for the state. And that's going to save dollars.

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Speaker 9: It's going to save them about eight million dollars on

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Speaker 9: this one particular grant, and so that's one of the

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Speaker 9: things that we're doing. We want to save dollars. We

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Speaker 9: want to cut through the red tape.

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Speaker 4: So overall reduction in bureaucracy is occurring at the Department

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Speaker 4: of Education. To fully eliminate it, it would require an

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Speaker 4: Act of Congress.

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Speaker 3: Right, yes, it does, and do you believe the Republicans

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Speaker 3: up on the hill are going to try to go

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Speaker 3: for it this year?

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Speaker 9: We certainly are pushing strongly for it. There'll be measures

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Speaker 9: that are already being put into place that will continue.

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Speaker 9: More of them continue to be put into place for

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Speaker 9: this year. I call it a proof of kind. You know,

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Speaker 9: we're signing into agency agreements to move some sections of

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Speaker 9: the department to other agencies, letting them work, letting people

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Speaker 9: work together. It's still under the budget of Education with

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Speaker 9: supervision from Education, but it's really meshing with people and

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Speaker 9: other agencies. The first ones we've signed with Labor. We're

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Speaker 9: already seeing the success in that of getting payments out

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Speaker 4: Yeah, this is one of the things about closing up

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Speaker 4: this bureaucracy at education that I think is important. It's

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Speaker 4: not like you're eliminating services, You're moving them to other

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Speaker 4: parts of the federal government under your supervision. People are

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Speaker 4: still interacting with the educational programs. It's just we're reducing

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Speaker 4: the bureaucracy streamlining those interactions.

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Speaker 1: Well, yes, absolutely.

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Speaker 9: And take for instance, there were twenty three workforce programs

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Speaker 9: in government that were part of you know, not only education,

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Speaker 9: but across all different agencies. So we've consolidated those, moves

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Speaker 9: them into the Department of Labor.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't that make sense?

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Speaker 9: Isn't that part of the common sense measure that the

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Speaker 4: Sounds like common sense to me. Let me also go

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Speaker 4: into another aspect of your job. You are part of

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Speaker 4: a big group that's working on the two hundred and

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Speaker 4: fiftieth anniversary of our country, and I shudder to think

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Speaker 4: what would be happening if we had not won the

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Speaker 4: election in November of twenty twenty four, we'd be.

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Speaker 3: Apologizing for America.

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Speaker 4: Instead, we're going to be celebrating America here in the

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Speaker 4: two hundred and fiftieth birthday coming up on July the fourth.

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Speaker 3: What are you doing on that?

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Speaker 9: Well, we have we're working with a coalition of fifty

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Speaker 9: different members going to different states on our history Rocks Tour,

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Speaker 9: the Trailed Independence. It is really fun. We're going to

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Speaker 9: middle schools and high schools. We actually have competitions and

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Speaker 9: they're based on, you know, questions from about the states

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Speaker 9: relative to signing the Declaration of Independence as well as

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Speaker 9: international questions. We have winners, we give out prizes. The

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Speaker 9: whole auditorium full of kids just is soenthusiastic and supportive,

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Speaker 9: and they're really enjoying it and they're really looking forward

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Speaker 9: to the two hundred and fiftieth celebration.

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Speaker 4: I think this is part of the President's leadership on

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Speaker 4: this front. We're trying to teach kids to love America.

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Speaker 4: And unfortunately, there's a lot of people on the left

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Speaker 4: teaching kids to hate America or that America is somehow

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Speaker 4: rotten at its core. But it seems to me that

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Speaker 4: part of the project here is we have to remind

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Speaker 4: people we live in the greatest country on Earth.

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Speaker 9: And that's exactly how all of the comments and the

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Speaker 9: speeches start in all of these assemblies. This is the

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Speaker 9: greatest country on Earth and we're going to celebrate her

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Speaker 9: this two hundred and fiftieth year. And it is amazing

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Speaker 9: the kids really get into it.

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Speaker 4: Secretary of Education Linda McMahon our first guest here the

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Speaker 4: two o'clock hour on the Scotch Sheenning Show. We're broadcasting

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Speaker 4: from the White House today on President Trump's one year

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Speaker 4: anniversary of taking the oath of office for a second time.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to ask you, Secretary of McMahon, take us

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Speaker 4: inside the Oval office. You're part of the cab. You're

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Speaker 4: involved in a lot of high level meetings with the President.

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Speaker 4: You interact with him often, you have a long standing

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Speaker 4: relationship with him. For our listeners, take us in to

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Speaker 4: the decision making process of Donald Trump. How does it

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Speaker 4: work in the room when he's looking at an issue

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Speaker 4: and needs to make a decision. How do you get

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Speaker 4: him to that decision point? How does he ingest information

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Speaker 4: and how does that interaction work.

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Speaker 9: He's incredibly quick on the downtake for information. He understands it.

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Speaker 9: And of course it's not that he hasn't looked at

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Speaker 9: it before you get there. He's had briefings. He understands

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Speaker 9: what the issues are.

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Speaker 1: You go in.

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Speaker 9: He expects you to really know your position very well.

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Speaker 9: He's he can grill you, and he really expects you

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Speaker 9: to know the answers. But he's he's very decisive. He'll

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Speaker 9: either give you a clear direction when you're leaving about

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Speaker 9: other things you need to look at, or he'll make

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Speaker 9: a decision while you're there. And it's you don't never

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Speaker 9: have a question about where you stand or where his

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Speaker 9: direction is.

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Speaker 1: He's great to work for, his great.

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Speaker 3: Talk to us about the interplay with the cabinet. It

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Speaker 3: seems to me.

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Speaker 4: Part of the ethos of Trump two point zero here

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Speaker 4: is that he's got the cabinet and the staff that

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Speaker 4: matches his leadership style. And it feels like that that

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Speaker 4: is filtering out to the government where you have a

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Speaker 4: lot of cohesion among the different cabinet officers. Give us

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Speaker 4: some personal color on the interplay between you and some

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Speaker 4: of the other cabinet secretaries.

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Speaker 9: Well, it's an unbelievable collaboration. This is a cabinet. First

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Speaker 9: of all, we know each other. A lot of us

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Speaker 9: knew each other in the First administration or through America

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Speaker 9: First Policy Institute.

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Speaker 1: We really do work together.

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Speaker 9: We understand that if labor is working on a project

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Speaker 9: that might involve SBA, that might involve ED, we all

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Speaker 9: get together, we talk about it. We will do co

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Speaker 9: press conferences, we'll do meetings on the road as we

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Speaker 9: tour the different states, and incredibly not only collaborative, but

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Speaker 9: corroborative cabinet.

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Speaker 4: We've got about a minute to go here. Secretary of McMahon,

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Speaker 4: we know what you've been working on in year one.

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Speaker 4: We know you're working on the two hundred fiftieth anniversary project.

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Speaker 4: What are some other policy or leadership issues you're working

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Speaker 4: on for year two at the Department of Education. We

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Speaker 4: know you're trying to shut it down, But as you

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Speaker 4: think about planning for the next twelve months, what can

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Speaker 4: the American people expect out of your office?

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Speaker 9: Well, you can certainly expect us to continue to enforce

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Speaker 9: Title nine ives. On the Supreme Court steps last week,

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Speaker 9: We're hopeful that the Supreme Court will make a pretty

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Speaker 9: quick decision on this. We want to make sure that

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Speaker 9: our colleges and universities continue to operate as those centers

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Speaker 9: for truth seekers, that they are doing the way with

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Speaker 9: any anti semitism or any kind of discriminatory policies that

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Speaker 9: they have, that they vet students who are coming in,

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Speaker 9: that grades are based on merit and not great inflation

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Speaker 9: of just pushing people along. So we have a long

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Speaker 9: list on higher ed and then middle schools well, looking

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Speaker 9: at different pathways to jobs. We have a workforce shortage

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Speaker 9: in this country, so we want to make sure that

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Speaker 9: community colleges and other schools are working to create this pathways.

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Speaker 4: That's Secretary of Lenda McMahon. When we come back, Doctor

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Speaker 4: j Bodicharia is here on Salem. I really appreciate Linda

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Speaker 4: McMahon coming by today, a big part of the President's administration.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 4: It is the one year anniversary of President Trump retaking

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Speaker 4: the White House and we are broadcasting today.

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Speaker 3: From the White House Complex.

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Speaker 4: We have great guests lined up for you, including the

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Speaker 4: guy sitting right next to me, doctor j Vadacharia, who's

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Speaker 4: the director of the National Institute of Health dot Welcome

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Speaker 4: to the Scott Jennings Shows.

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Speaker 3: Scott, thanks for having me on. This is absolute honor.

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Speaker 4: Well, we're glad you're here, and we're glad you're in

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Speaker 4: your job because and this is where I want to start.

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Speaker 4: Seems to me that one of the big jobs that

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Speaker 4: you had when you took this appointment from President Trump

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Speaker 4: was to rebuild public confidence in the public health regime

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Speaker 4: after COVID.

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Speaker 3: A lot of people had a lot of questquestions, and

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Speaker 3: a lot of people thought they were lied to and misled.

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Speaker 4: What did you find when you arrived and how have

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Speaker 4: you tackled that important issue?

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Speaker 10: I mean, first, you're absolutely right, I mean the school closures,

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Speaker 10: the mask mandates, and you remember the PLEXI class everywhere,

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Speaker 10: none of that did anything and other than like cause

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Speaker 10: us all distress and we had among the highest all

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Speaker 10: cause access deathways in the world the h from during COVID.

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Speaker 3: But science is still important.

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Speaker 10: Science is still the central to like actually functionally well,

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Speaker 10: it does cures. So what we've done is we've refocused

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Speaker 10: the NIH on things that actually matter for the American people.

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Speaker 10: We got rid of all the DEI was that was

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Speaker 10: a huge, huge, huge lift because you know, people had

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Speaker 10: to sign essentially DEI loyalty os inside the NIH. Got

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Speaker 10: rid of that, got rid of the funding for the

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Speaker 10: DEI and it's still gonna courts.

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Speaker 3: That were what does that mean?

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Speaker 4: Does that mean science was being wrapped around DEI regulations

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Speaker 4: instead of you know, being the preeminent issue in the department.

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Speaker 10: I mean, basically, it's a question of mission. The mission

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Speaker 10: is to improve long is to do research that extends

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Speaker 10: life and cures people. Right, that's the mission. The mission

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Speaker 10: had extended to solving social justice problems. A lot of

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Speaker 10: the research agenda focused on documenting differences and attributing it

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Speaker 10: to systemic races and differences in race and out some

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Speaker 10: certain outcomes. Instead, now we're saying it's for everybody, whether

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Speaker 10: you're black, white, whatever, We're going to focus on research

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Speaker 10: that makes you healthier.

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Speaker 4: So on that front, one of the big announcements from

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Speaker 4: the Trump administration and the MAHA agenda has been around

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Speaker 4: the Dietary Guidelines, which just came out. Your NIH was

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Speaker 4: very instrumental in putting this together. What should Americans know

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Speaker 4: about the new dietary Guidelines.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's a huge sea Chaine Scott.

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Speaker 10: It puts eating healthy food, eating real food at the

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Speaker 10: core of the dietet guidelines. It restores the science that

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Speaker 10: underlies that the New Dietary Guidelines has been It looked

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Speaker 10: at for years, and yet it never came to the

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Speaker 10: public consciousness. Like so, for instance, dietary fat. You remember

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Speaker 10: how fat was bad for you. I remember, I remember

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Speaker 10: how eggs were bad for you. I remember the science and.

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Speaker 3: You're and you're talking to a chicken farmer, and I

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Speaker 3: know that's not true.

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Speaker 4: Eggs are good for you, major superfood.

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Speaker 3: Well that's the funny thing. Like I grew up our

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Speaker 3: family scared of eggs. Yeah, we didn't have I didn't

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Speaker 3: have an egg till like I was in college. Oh

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Speaker 3: my goodness. And then it was like egg whites. They

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Speaker 3: were terrible. Scott, Yeah, I know. And it was because

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Speaker 3: that's my advice. That's what you now. They're superfood. They're fantastic.

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Speaker 4: So dietary guidelines is a big accomplishment of year one

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Speaker 4: at the ni AGE.

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Speaker 3: Let me ask you about year two.

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Speaker 4: You are working on something called the replication crisis. You

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Speaker 4: mentioned this to me earlier, and I'm going to be

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Speaker 4: candid with you. I've not heard of this, but this

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Speaker 4: is a big issue going on in the background that

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Speaker 4: the American public needs.

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Speaker 3: To know about it. Yeah, so a lot.

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Speaker 10: It turns out a lot of science that we that

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Speaker 10: we find not just just science in general, including including

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Speaker 10: biological sciences. People published papers and top journals and then

978
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Speaker 10: but it turns out that independent people look at it,

979
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Speaker 10: it doesn't replicate. It doesn't that same thing. You don't

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Speaker 10: find the same thing. That's actually was the core of

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Speaker 10: the trust crisis during COVID. You had authority determining what

982
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Speaker 10: was true or false in physical, physical reality rather than

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Speaker 10: sort of independent scientists looking at the same thing.

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Speaker 3: We're going to change that. We're going to fix that

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Speaker 3: with the NIH.

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Speaker 10: We're going to fund people to check the science of

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Speaker 10: other people, and we're going to make replication the core

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Speaker 10: basis of truth rather than authority.

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Speaker 3: How do you think things are going We've got about

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Speaker 3: a minute and a half here. What do you think?

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Speaker 3: How do you think things are going out there with research?

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Speaker 4: I mean, there's been a lot of conversation the last

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Speaker 4: year about research going on in universities, funding for research,

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Speaker 4: What kind of research is being done. What's the relationship

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Speaker 4: between NIH and all these researchers out there, Who are

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Speaker 4: you know, doing what you said you want to do,

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Speaker 4: which is try to get to cures, try to make

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Speaker 4: people healthier.

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Speaker 10: I mean that's the NIH is the single most important

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Speaker 10: biomedical research institute of support in the world world.

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Speaker 3: It sets the direction for scientific research.

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Speaker 10: When you had an NIH that was focused on DEI

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Speaker 10: focused on dangerous gain of function, work focused on really

1004
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Speaker 10: ideological crusades. It went astray under President Trump and secrety ACCADNTY.

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Speaker 10: We're now focused on research that advances the health and

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Speaker 10: longevity of the American people. It's a world of difference.

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Speaker 10: We're taking authority. It's just because I say something that's

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Speaker 10: true doesn't mean it's true. Just instead, it's independent scientists

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Speaker 10: looking at the same thing, finding the same answer.

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Speaker 3: That's the key idea that will drive research forward.

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Speaker 4: That's doctor Jay Badacharia. He is the director of the

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Speaker 4: National Institute of Health. And you've had an eventful year,

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Speaker 4: the dietary guidelines, restoring public confidence from COVID, You've got

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Speaker 4: this replication issue, a lot of research issues out there.

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Speaker 4: I know you've been very busy. We're grateful for you

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Speaker 4: coming by to stop here on the president's one year

1017
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Speaker 4: anniversary of retaking office. When we come back on the show,

1018
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Speaker 4: important interview, todd Lyons, the acting Director of ICE is here.

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Speaker 4: Don't miss it. It's common sense for the American people.

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Speaker 4: Stay with us, well, welcome back to the Scott Chenning Show. Tuesday,

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Speaker 4: January twenty If common sense for the American people here

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Speaker 4: on Salem. We're broadcasting the show today from the White

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Speaker 4: House Complex. It is the one year anniversary of Donald

1024
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Speaker 4: Trump retaking the White House and in his inaugural address

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Speaker 4: he said, We'll have a revolution of common sense, and

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Speaker 4: a lot of that in that speech was aimed directly

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Speaker 4: at ending the Biden border crisis and getting immigration enforcement

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Speaker 4: under control. And our special guest to talk about all

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Speaker 4: of that Todd Lyons, who is the director of ICE.

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Speaker 4: Todd Welcome back to the.

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Speaker 3: Scott Chenning Show. Thanks got I appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: So you're obviously in one of the most stressful government

1033
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Speaker 4: jobs right now because of what's going on in Minneapolis,

1034
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Speaker 4: the job that you were given to do around the country.

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Speaker 4: What I'd like to start with is just to let

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Speaker 4: you talk a little bit your view of Minneapolis right now.

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Speaker 4: We have a lot of ICE agents on the ground,

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Speaker 4: We're in the news every day. There's there's a lot

1039
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Speaker 4: of issues going on. When you wake up in the

1040
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Speaker 4: morning and when you go to bed at night. What

1041
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Speaker 4: is your holistic view of this situation? How is it going,

1042
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Speaker 4: why and how could.

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Speaker 3: It be better? Sure?

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Speaker 8: Well, you know the big things got I wish I

1045
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Speaker 8: hope you know the American publican members is the fact

1046
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Speaker 8: that why we got there in the first place. We

1047
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Speaker 8: were there Home Mask Secreity Investigations was investigating a nine

1048
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Speaker 8: billion dollar fraud scheme originally.

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Speaker 3: That's what we weren't there for.

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Speaker 8: At the same time, though, we were always on the

1051
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Speaker 8: ground doing our ICE Immigration at Forcement mission, right, So

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Speaker 8: we've always been in Minneapolis.

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Speaker 3: It's nothing new. We are out there arresting the worst

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Speaker 3: of the worst.

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Speaker 8: You know, one thing that's really frustrating for us is

1056
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Speaker 8: you constantly hear all the time if ICE shows up

1057
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Speaker 8: with a criminal warrant, if a judge signs off in

1058
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Speaker 8: this case, we'll support you. Much like Los Angeles we

1059
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Speaker 8: had the riots where we went to do a work

1060
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Speaker 8: site enforcement, we actually had a criminal warrant and we

1061
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Speaker 8: still came across protest. Now we're out there doing a

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Speaker 8: lawful law enforcement mission, and we have American citizens and

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Speaker 8: lawful permanent residents and some illegal aliens that are involving

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Speaker 8: themselves in a law enforcement situation and dangerous for everybody.

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Speaker 8: And you know, conduct to where the President's point was

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Speaker 8: common sense. Common sense would be you work with federal

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Speaker 8: law enforcement, and we're just not seeing that so while

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Speaker 8: we're out there trying to do our mission, they're releasing

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Speaker 8: criminal aliens back on the street.

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Speaker 3: We have to go arrest them. Now, we need more

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Speaker 3: agents and offices to protect the cops out.

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Speaker 8: There arresting people. You know, I go to bed every

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Speaker 8: night and my biggest concern is the man woman of

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Speaker 8: ICE in their safety. And they go home safe every night.

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Speaker 8: Right now, Minneapolis is just not a safe place. But

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Speaker 8: we have to make sure we protect our offices and agents,

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Speaker 8: but we have to protect the communities of Minnesota as well.

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Speaker 4: So let's talk about the ICE presence in Minneapolis. There

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Speaker 4: are how many ICE agents in Minneapolis right now?

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Speaker 8: Right now we have about total between all our components,

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Speaker 8: about four thousand folks.

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Speaker 3: On the ground.

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Speaker 4: And is that the most staff you have in any

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Speaker 4: metropolitan area in the country right now?

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Speaker 3: Yes? Okay, So let's talk about why that is.

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Speaker 4: In cities and states across this country, ICE Department of

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Speaker 4: Homeland Security is getting cooperation from state and local officials.

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Speaker 4: And when you're talking about cooperation, what does that look like.

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Speaker 4: Give me an example of where cooperation is working perfectly.

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Speaker 8: You know, I'll give you a great example if we'll

1091
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Speaker 8: give a jurisdiction. In Texas, say Dallas Sheriff's office, we

1092
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Speaker 8: have an immigration enforcement officer stationed there. People come in,

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Speaker 8: they screen them as well, they place detainers on them.

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Speaker 8: They determine that person's here I legally in the country. Oh,

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Speaker 8: and he's a public safety threat because a local law

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Speaker 8: enforcement agency decided to put him behind bars.

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Speaker 3: And then when the state.

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Speaker 8: Or the locals are done with that individual, they turned

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Speaker 8: them over in a safe, secure environment.

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Speaker 3: That's cooperation in the jails.

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Speaker 4: In the jails, so we're talking about an illegal alien

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Speaker 4: that is a threat to public safety, picked up by

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Speaker 4: local law enforcement. You put a detainer on them, and

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Speaker 4: then the locals work with your guys to just transfer

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Speaker 4: them in an administrative way.

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Speaker 8: This is as easy as it gets. This is what

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Speaker 8: cooperation looks like. One hundred percent. That is the best

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Speaker 8: example of cooperation.

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Speaker 3: I can give. So in Minneapolis we have the opposite

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Speaker 3: of that.

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Speaker 4: There is no cooperation, meaning they pick up an illegal

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Speaker 4: alien who is a violent person. They then let them

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Speaker 4: out of jail, they go back on the street, and

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Speaker 4: then that forces ice to have to go chase them

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Speaker 4: down on the street in the neighborhoods and the communities, which.

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Speaker 3: Is why you have to have a larger presence. Yes,

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Speaker 3: one hundred percent.

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Speaker 8: So for US, it would only take one or two

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Speaker 8: agents or officers to take custody to them in a

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Speaker 8: secure jail environment. Back in traditional days, we would go

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Speaker 8: out with five to six officers to make that arrest.

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Speaker 8: But now when officers and agents are being attacked by

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Speaker 8: bystanders who have nothing to do with the situation, or

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Speaker 8: protesters come out, we're having to go out with ten

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Speaker 8: to fifteen additional individuals just to protect that arrest.

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Speaker 3: Heam.

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Speaker 4: So you've got people who are chasing down violent illegal aliens,

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Speaker 4: and then you have people protecting the people who are

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Speaker 4: chasing down violent illegal aliens.

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Speaker 3: One hundred percent.

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Speaker 4: So this is why you have so many people in Minneapolis.

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Speaker 4: As you know, I sit in my job at CNN

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00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:56,080
Speaker 4: every night and I hear a lot of accusations made

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Speaker 4: against ICE. I want to go through some of this

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Speaker 4: and just let you debunk some of the myths that

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Speaker 4: are out there. A Number one, they say ICE is

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00:58:03,880 --> 00:58:07,680
Speaker 4: targeting American citizens to arrest and deport.

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Speaker 3: Is this true? That is not true at all? One

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Speaker 3: hundred percent false.

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Speaker 4: Okay, how would an American citizen get ensnared in a

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Speaker 4: situation with ICE. What's the most common way that would happen.

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Speaker 8: You know, we've seen a playout right now, is when

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00:58:19,560 --> 00:58:22,440
Speaker 8: they interject themselves in a law enforcement situation, when they

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00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:25,440
Speaker 8: appee to harass or assault offices or agents.

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Speaker 4: Okay, what if say an American citizen is harboring illegal

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00:58:29,040 --> 00:58:31,040
Speaker 4: aliens in their home, is that another way.

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Speaker 3: They could come into contact. That's another way as well.

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Speaker 8: Or if you're an employer and you're employing legal aliens

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Speaker 8: or part of a labor forced labor network, you can

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Speaker 8: be encountered that way through a criminal investigation.

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Speaker 4: And let's go into these interactions between American citizens and

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Speaker 4: ICE agents who are in the field doing their job,

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00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:51,560
Speaker 4: performing lawful law enforcement activity.

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Speaker 3: What are you seeing?

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Speaker 4: I mean, obviously we know the tragic situation with the

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Speaker 4: shooting an agent was hit with a car. What other

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Speaker 4: kinds of ways are you seeing people come after and

1158
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Speaker 4: assault ICE agents? You know, previous to Minnesota, we used

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Speaker 4: to see people just come up, try to stick a

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Speaker 4: cell phone in an officer or agent's face, try to

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Speaker 4: record it, yelling at them from across the street.

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Speaker 3: Then started slowly picking up more.

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Speaker 8: Then we started seeing the vehicle incidence, not necessarily ramming

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Speaker 8: at the beginning, but you know, blocking officers agents in

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Speaker 8: so they couldn't go to a next arrest.

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Speaker 3: Then, through a lot of.

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Speaker 8: The political rhetoric when they talked about actually things you

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Speaker 8: could do to impede at ice officers, we started individuals

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Speaker 8: going in and trying to rescue, if you will, grab

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Speaker 8: the illegal alien out from the officers, pushing the offices

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Speaker 8: out of the way, because you know, the left has

1172
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Speaker 8: this rhetoric that you're an American citiszen. Ice can't touch you, right,

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Speaker 8: If you touch a law enforcement officer, you're going to jail.

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Speaker 4: Right, So you have American citizens who are trying to

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Speaker 4: grab illegal aliens who are being apprehended and rip them away,

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Speaker 4: rip them away, I mean, and so this is a

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Speaker 4: felony under federal law. Interfering with law enforcement is a felony. Yes, yes, okay, So,

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Speaker 4: I mean it is amazing to me the irresponsibility of

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Speaker 4: the rhetoric out here. People are being trained to inject

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Speaker 4: themselves into situations and now they're in harm's way. They

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Speaker 4: can be charged with a felony or they could get injured.

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Speaker 4: This is important. The public service announcement here is when

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Speaker 4: you inject yourself into a law enforcement situation, you are putting.

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Speaker 3: Yourself in danger one hundred percent.

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Speaker 8: And that's a lot of these instances we see are

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Speaker 8: people injecting themselves into a situation that they.

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Speaker 3: Just don't need to be there.

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Speaker 8: We're all for peaceful protest, but do it in a

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Speaker 8: safe and smart way. What they're doing now is not smart.

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Speaker 4: All right, this voice you're hearing today, todd lyons he

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Speaker 4: is the director of ICE. We're talking about all the

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Speaker 4: issues with immigration enforcement. Let me tell you another myth

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Speaker 4: that I hear all the time, and that is that

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Speaker 4: ICE agents aren't trained.

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Speaker 3: They're not trained properly.

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Speaker 4: You're hiring people and throwing them out onto the streets

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Speaker 4: without any training whatsoever.

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Speaker 3: What say you to that accusation. I debunked that totally too.

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Speaker 8: So what we've done, Scott's we went and we looked

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Speaker 8: at everything holistically right and efficiency of government. We want

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Speaker 8: to look at what we can do to make sure

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Speaker 8: we're sending everyone out there top well trained offices on

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Speaker 8: the street, but also using our time wisely. So what

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Speaker 8: I have done is we recruited a lot of former

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Speaker 8: federal law enforcement current federal law enforcement, state and local,

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Speaker 8: so we're able to use their training and their experience

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Speaker 8: as well. But we still have everyone that goes through

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Speaker 8: the Fletsey the Law Enforcement Training Center. Everyone's still training

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Speaker 8: defensive tactics. Everyone has qualification scores, they have PT standards.

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Speaker 8: It is still the same. We just went from having

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Speaker 8: eight hour class days to twelve hour class days, six

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Speaker 8: days a week to make sure we can get more

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Speaker 8: men and women out on the street. But we have

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Speaker 8: not subsided on our standards. That was one thing I

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Speaker 8: stood from all. We weren't going to do that, and

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Speaker 8: I made sure the training staff figured out a way

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Speaker 8: that we have the best trained people out on the

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Speaker 8: street and still meeting the president's goal of getting.

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Speaker 3: Ten thousand new agents.

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Speaker 4: So the accusation that you're hiring somebody on Wednesday and

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Speaker 4: throwing them out on the street on a Thursday with

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Speaker 4: no training is totally.

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Speaker 3: False, completely false.

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Speaker 4: And the accusation that you have reduced or degraded training

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Speaker 4: requirements or the standards to become.

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Speaker 3: An ICE agent, that is false. That is false.

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Speaker 4: How is recruitment going Because you were given an additional

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Speaker 4: budget in the Big Beautiful Bill to hire more ice agents.

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Speaker 4: How is recruitment going under that new program. You know,

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Speaker 4: recruitment's going great. We've met our goal, but we're actually

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Speaker 4: exceeding it now. We're still going to hire more.

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Speaker 8: You know, you think, with all the bad publicity that

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Speaker 8: ICE is getting right now.

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Speaker 3: Did be we'd have a stoppage, but we don't.

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Speaker 8: We have all with two hundred and twenty thousand applicants

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Speaker 8: American no American law enforcement offices that wanted to come

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Speaker 8: and be a part of a good organization, good federal

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Speaker 8: law enforcement career.

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Speaker 3: And it's still continues.

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Speaker 8: We still have people every day putting in to be

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Speaker 8: an ICE special Agent or deportation officer.

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Speaker 4: So the people that are on the streets in Minneapolis

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Speaker 4: have all the proper training, and in the case of

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Speaker 4: many of these folks, they've been with the agency for

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Speaker 4: years and years and years, so you know, it's not

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Speaker 4: as though they are brand new to this.

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Speaker 3: In fact, the agent that was involved in the shooting

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Speaker 3: the other.

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Speaker 4: Day, ten year guy, in fact, had been hit by

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Speaker 4: a car last summer and had thirty five stitches in

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Speaker 4: his leg. So these are people who are not just trained,

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Speaker 4: but experienced.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 8: They have the experience, and you know, not only do

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Speaker 8: they have the experience in ICE, they have a lot

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Speaker 8: of experience from other law enforcement agency as well. As

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Speaker 8: our officer that was involved in that shooting, he served

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Speaker 8: proudly in the Port Patrol, was a member of their

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Speaker 8: special response.

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Speaker 3: Team, so he was well trained.

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Speaker 4: Let me go back to this issue of cooperation, and

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Speaker 4: because I think this is getting lost and all of

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Speaker 4: the back and forth, is it the position of the

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Speaker 4: Trump administration that if Minnesota officials, Governor Walls and Mayor

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Speaker 4: Frye and the police there, if they would cooperate with

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Speaker 4: ICE in the same way you're getting cooperation and say

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Speaker 4: Dallas or places in Florida, anywhere in the country, that

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Speaker 4: the ICE presence that you have would not be necessary.

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Speaker 3: One hundred percent.

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Speaker 8: And you know, if we had that cooperation, like I

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Speaker 8: said in the jails or bettyet, if we had the

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Speaker 8: cooperation when our offices and agents are attacked on the street,

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Speaker 8: we wouldn't see this so many people.

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Speaker 4: Now, let me ask you this, if an ICE agent

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Speaker 4: is attacked on the street, what does the Minneapolis police

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Speaker 4: do right now?

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Speaker 3: They don't do anything.

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Speaker 4: An ICE agent comes under attack, say like the story

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Speaker 4: the other day where the agent was hit with the

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Speaker 4: shovels by the three Venezuelan nationals. The Minneapolis Police Department

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Speaker 4: does not respond to help.

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Speaker 8: The Ice agent. No, And that's the problem with a

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Speaker 8: lot of these jurisdictions. They're pitting law enforcement offices against

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Speaker 8: each other. So it's not a red state or blue

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Speaker 8: state issue. I can give you a great example. While

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Speaker 8: the City of New York may be a sanctuary jurisdiction,

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Speaker 8: the NYPD will come out and assist us, or come

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Speaker 8: out and squash any type of protests before it starts.

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Speaker 8: So let me just for the record, you're asking here

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Speaker 8: on the Scott Jetting Show today, your appeal to Minnesota

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Speaker 8: would be, please cooperate with us and please allow the

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Speaker 8: Minneapolis police to assist fellow law enforcement if they come

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Speaker 8: under attack. Yes, I would say, please turn over your

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01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:50,360
Speaker 8: criminal legal aliens to us in a secure environment so

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Speaker 8: you don't have us out on the streets. But if

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Speaker 8: we are on the streets making those arrest, help protect

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Speaker 8: our agents and your neighborhoods by keeping these protesters at bay.

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Speaker 4: And the kinds of people you're encounter, these are the

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Speaker 4: worst of the worst.

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Speaker 3: Give me just a few.

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Speaker 4: Examples of the kinds of crimes that have been committed

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Speaker 4: by these illegal aliens.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I can give you three.

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Speaker 8: Last night we had one that was arrested for a

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Speaker 8: distribution of fetnyl when that was arrested for distribution of

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Speaker 8: ecstasy over eight thousand tablets. Two for sexual assaults of

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Speaker 8: a child and a murder. You know, and we look

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Speaker 8: at one that the secretary is actually out on a

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Speaker 8: ride along. Was wanted out of Connecticut for a sexual

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Speaker 8: assault of a child. Kim Minnesota was arrested for a DUI,

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Speaker 8: was released back on the street, and he had a

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Speaker 8: penning homicide charge in his home nation.

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Speaker 3: Those are the ones that is Todd Lyons. He is

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Speaker 3: the director of Ice.

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Speaker 4: the Scott Jennings Show, Common Sense for the American people

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Speaker 4: rounding out the show today, as we look back on

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Speaker 4: President Trump's first year in office. Back in the White House,

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Speaker 4: Judge Janine Piro is our cleanup hitter today. Judge Janine,

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Speaker 4: thanks for coming by the Scott Jennings Show. First time

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Speaker 4: we've actually met. Yeah, and first time you've been on

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Speaker 4: the show. I got to ask you. You you had everything,

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Speaker 4: famous media person, great show, great life, and yet you

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Speaker 4: laid it all down to come back into public service.

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Speaker 1: Why first of.

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Speaker 11: All, you left out the most important part of my life,

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Speaker 11: hair and makeup every day.

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Speaker 3: That's right, Okay.

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Speaker 11: I gave it up because law enforcement is where I started.

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Speaker 11: It's my wheelhouse. I was a prosecutor judge at DA.

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Speaker 11: It was the best job in the world. And I

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Speaker 11: saw in DC when the President asked me, I saw

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Speaker 11: a place that was simply a disaster, the fourth highest

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Speaker 11: murder rate in the country a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 11: and I said, you know, this.

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Speaker 1: Is made for me. I'm going to give it all up,

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Speaker 1: but I'm gonna be me.

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Speaker 11: This is who I am thirty two years and judge

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Speaker 11: as well.

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Speaker 1: It was for me a dream job. And then I

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Speaker 1: came to d C.

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Speaker 4: Well, let's talk about DC. As you mentioned, I a

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Speaker 4: lot of problems here. But President Trump intervened. We had

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Speaker 4: National Guard come in. You also had a real focus

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Speaker 4: on just day to day law enforcement in the District

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Speaker 4: of Columbia.

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Speaker 3: How much better is it today than when you got here.

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Speaker 11: The change is not only palpable, it's visible. We've since

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Speaker 11: the surgeon August of twenty twenty five, we've made nine

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Speaker 11: fifty arrests, nine hundred and some odd guns off the street.

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Speaker 11: That means that they can't be used in carjackings, robberies, murders,

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Speaker 11: and we're making criminals accountable.

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Speaker 1: My office is prosecuting crime.

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Speaker 11: My predecessor and the Biden administration didn't prosecute sixty percent

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Speaker 11: of the arrests. So now we're prosecuting more crime than

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Speaker 11: ever in the history of the district. I make it

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Speaker 11: very clear we take this stuff seriously. You're going to

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Speaker 11: be accountable. I want to change the laws. I'm tired

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Speaker 11: of the DC Council and they're ridiculous laws that allow

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Speaker 11: judges to have criminals walk after they shoot someone through

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Speaker 11: the chest in a public place, and they say after

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Speaker 11: I get a conviction, finally they say, okay, you know what, you.

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Speaker 1: Should go to college. Goodbye. This is a place that

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Speaker 1: can be changed.

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Speaker 11: The President, to his credit, has done so with the

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Speaker 11: surge and the federal enhancement. That's all it takes. Look,

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Speaker 11: you don't need to be a rocket scientist to fight crime.

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Speaker 11: You'll make criminals accountable. You make sure you have a

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Speaker 11: prosecutor or understands a mission, and then you change it

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Speaker 11: so that people can have businesses, they can live in

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Speaker 11: the district, the kids can be.

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Speaker 1: Safe going to school.

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Speaker 11: I want to lock up these young kids, these crews

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Speaker 11: who are part of the gangs that go out with guns.

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Speaker 11: Everybody's got a gun shooting at each other. That killed

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Speaker 11: an intern who was working in Congress. I mean those

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Speaker 11: kids who got the hell beat out of him. But

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Speaker 11: for the grace of God, a cop drove by, he

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Speaker 11: might have been killed as well.

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Speaker 1: Look, this is all it takes. I love the job.

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Speaker 1: I love what I do.

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Speaker 11: Crime is down, more, violent crime more than thirty percent,

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Speaker 11: homicides down sixty percent.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we have changed the landscape in the district.

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Speaker 4: You're seeing these criminal justice policies, though, manifest themselves negatively

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Speaker 4: all over the country. Anywhere you have radical f local

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Speaker 4: politicians in charge, they immediately move to reduce.

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Speaker 3: Penalties on crime. Even in the district of Columbia.

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Speaker 4: What is the deal like if you're below a certain age,

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Speaker 4: they basically don't prosecute you, even if you commit serious crimes.

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Speaker 11: Well, they believe that there's something about your prefrontal loan

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Speaker 11: is not developed. Let me tell you something. If somebody

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Speaker 11: gets shot by a fifteen year old shoot, that shooting

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Speaker 11: is the same. It doesn't matter how old the person

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Speaker 11: was and pulled the trigger. That's why I believe that

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Speaker 11: we've got to lower the age of accountability. Only Congress

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Speaker 11: can change that law. I think the DC Council has

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Speaker 11: lost it. They've lost it for years. They've got something

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Speaker 11: called the u Thre Rehabilitation Act, They've got the Incarcerational

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Speaker 11: Production Act. I don't know what these people are thinking,

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Speaker 11: but they brought on the highest crime rates, they brought

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Speaker 11: on the highest murder rate, and we are turning that

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Speaker 11: around totally because of the President.

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Speaker 4: So there's been remarkable improvement on your watch in the

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Speaker 4: District of Columbia.

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Speaker 3: That's year one.

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Speaker 4: What can we expect out of your office year two?

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Speaker 4: What are your priorities in the next twelve months.

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Speaker 11: Well, obviously to continue to fight crime, to get the

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Speaker 11: laws changed.

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Speaker 1: But let me tell you what people don't.

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Speaker 11: Talk about is the international aspect of my office, Scott,

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Speaker 11: the truth is we've got the pan Am one oh

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Speaker 11: three Lockerbie bombing case coming up in July of this year.

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Speaker 11: The fuselage was just brought over from Europe to the

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Speaker 11: United States. We've got the Capital murder case, the two

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Speaker 11: Israelis who worked at the embassy. They were shot within

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Speaker 11: a few minutes of me coming here. We've got the

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Speaker 11: National Guard shooting case.

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Speaker 1: That is my case. We've got a lot of cases.

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Speaker 1: By the way, you know all those venezuela and vessels.

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Speaker 11: Who do you think wrote the warrants to take those

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Speaker 11: vessels down? To give the United States the ability to

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Speaker 11: go on those vessels? My office, we have an incredible

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Speaker 11: office it and we're going to continue to fight the fight.

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Speaker 4: That is Judge Janine Piro. She is the United States

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Speaker 4: Attorney for the District of Columbia.

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Speaker 3: She's like the batman right.

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Speaker 4: Now of the Department of Justice in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 4: If you want criminals taking off the street, you hire

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Speaker 4: Judge Janine.

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Speaker 3: We're wrapping up. That's the end of the second hour.

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Speaker 4: We've been at the White House all day, one year

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Speaker 4: in office for Donald Trump. I hope you enjoyed it.

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Speaker 4: Common sense for the American people is back tomorrow. Thanks

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Speaker 4: for listening.