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Speaker 1: The White House briefing has begun. Tony Katz, Tony Katz today,

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Speaker 1: good to be with you. Let's bring it to Caroline Levitt,

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Speaker 1: White House Press Secretary.

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Speaker 2: In the country and as much of the country feels

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Speaker 2: the impacts of that winter storm, President Trump continues to

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Speaker 2: monitor the situation closely, and he has remained in constant

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Speaker 2: contact with FEMA and emergency responders. President Trump also quickly

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Speaker 2: approved twelve federal emergency disaster declarations within twenty four hours

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Speaker 2: for the states of Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi,

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Speaker 2: North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, enabling

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Speaker 2: these states to access critical federal resources to supplement their

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Speaker 2: response efforts if needed. These declarations will help state led

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Speaker 2: efforts of turning power back on, clearing roads for emergency services,

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Speaker 2: and keeping communities safe.

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Speaker 1: The White House.

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Speaker 2: Will continue to correspond directly with governors and local officials

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Speaker 2: in coming days, especially in those states that were harshly

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Speaker 2: impacted by this storm. I would also like to address

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Speaker 2: the chaotic scenes in Minnesota over the weekend. Nobody in

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Speaker 2: the White House, including President Trump, wants to see people

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Speaker 2: getting hurt or killed in America's streets. This includes Renee Good,

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Speaker 2: Alex Pretty, the brave men and women of federal law enforcement,

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Speaker 2: and the many Americans who have been victimized at the

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Speaker 2: hands of illegal alien criminals. Saturday shooting remains under active

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Speaker 2: investigation by Homeland Security investigations and the FBI. The Customs

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Speaker 2: in Border Protection is also conducting their own internal review.

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Speaker 2: As President Trump said yesterday, the administration is reviewing everything

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Speaker 2: with respect to the shooting, and we will let that

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Speaker 2: investigation play out. But let's be clear about the circumstances

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Speaker 2: which led to that moment on Saturday. This tragedy occurred

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Speaker 2: as a result of a deliberate and hostile resistance by

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Speaker 2: Democrat leaders in Minnesota. For weeks, Governor Waltz and the mayor,

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Speaker 2: Jacob Fry and other elected Democrats were spreading lies about

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Speaker 2: federal law enforcement officers who are risking their lives daily

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Speaker 2: to remove the worst criminal illegal aliens from our streets, murderers, rapists, pedophiles,

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Speaker 2: human traffickers, and gang members. Governor Waltz and Mayor Fry

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Speaker 2: have shamefully blocked local and state police from cooperating with

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Speaker 2: ICE actively inhibiting efforts to arrest violent criminals. They have

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Speaker 2: also used their platforms to encourage left wing agitators to stalk, record, confront,

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Speaker 2: and obstruct federal officers who were just trying to lawfully

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Speaker 2: perform their duties, which has created dangerous situations threatening both

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Speaker 2: these officers and the general public in Minnesotans alike. This

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Speaker 2: is precisely what unfolded in Minneapolis on Saturday morning. Obstructing

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Speaker 2: federal law enforcement and inciting violence against is wrong and illegal.

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Speaker 2: This used to be a universally accepted position in the

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Speaker 2: United States. Amid the hysteria, we must remember how we

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Speaker 2: got here to this moment today and what this Democrat

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Speaker 2: opposition is about. Former President Joe Biden and the Democrats

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Speaker 2: opened America's borders for four years, inviting tens of millions

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Speaker 2: into our country, among them violent criminals who terrorized American

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Speaker 2: communities and have inflicted devastating permanent pain and harm on

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Speaker 2: law abiding Americans and their families. Yet we never saw

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Speaker 2: outrage from Democrats or their allies in the liberal media

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Speaker 2: over these horrifying crimes against US citizens. Absolutely true pain

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Speaker 2: of American angel families was ignored and dismissed because it

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Speaker 2: undermined the Democrat narrative. Innocent Americans like Jocelyn Nungree, Lake

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Speaker 2: and Riley and Rachel Morin are just a few of

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Speaker 2: the many victims savagely murdered by illegal alien criminals.

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Speaker 1: The progressive left supports illegal immigrants and does not support citizens.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely true. We can see that, we have data on that,

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Speaker 1: we have a story on that, and it should be

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Speaker 1: told again and again.

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Speaker 2: Carrying children in New Jersey and fractured the skull of

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Speaker 2: an eight year old innocent child. President Trump promised accountability

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Speaker 2: to these American families by securing the border, supporting every

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Speaker 2: illegal alien who has committed crimes, especially and most importantly,

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Speaker 2: violent crimes. Nearly eighty million Americans voted for him to

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Speaker 2: deliver on that very promise, and he is as the

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Speaker 2: duly elected president. The President is fulfilling the will of

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Speaker 2: the people by arresting and removing these threats from our

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Speaker 2: country in cities from Los Angeles to New York and yes, Minneapolis.

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Speaker 2: Yet Democrat leaders of Minnesota with sanctuary city policies have

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Speaker 2: actively defied federal immigration law and the will of the people,

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Speaker 2: and as a result of that defiant defiance, two Minnesotas

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Speaker 2: Tim Walt's state. It is President Trump's hope and wish

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Speaker 2: in demand for the resistance in chaos to end today.

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Speaker 2: That's why President Trump spoke with Governor Walsh directly this morning,

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Speaker 2: and he has outlined a clear and simple path to

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Speaker 2: restoring law and order in Minnesota. Number one. Governor Waltz

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Speaker 2: Mayorfry and all Democrat leaders should turn over all criminal

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Speaker 2: illegal aliens currently incarcerated in their prisons in jails to

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Speaker 2: federal authorities, along with any illegal aliens with active warrants

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Speaker 2: or known criminal histories for immediate deportation. State and local

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Speaker 2: law enforcement must agree to turn over all illegal aliens

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Speaker 2: who are arrested by local police. And then, thirdly, local

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Speaker 2: police must assist federal law enforcement in apprehending, in detaining

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Speaker 2: illegal aliens who are wanted crimes, especially violent crimes. And

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Speaker 2: if done here for I implement these common sense, cooperative

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Speaker 2: measures that I will add have already been implemented in

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Speaker 2: nearly every single other state across the country, customs and

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Speaker 2: border patrol will not be needed to support ICE on

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Speaker 2: the ground in Minnesota, ICE in local law enforcement can

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Speaker 2: peacefully work together, as they are effectively doing in so

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Speaker 2: many other states and jurisdictions. Additionally, President Trump is calling

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Speaker 2: on the United States Congress to immediately pass legislation ending

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Speaker 2: sanctuary cities once and for all. American cities should be

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Speaker 2: safe sanctuaries for law abiding citizens only, not for dangerous

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Speaker 2: illegal alien criminals who broke our nation's laws and do

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Speaker 2: not belong here. We hope Governor Walls will continue, will

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Speaker 2: do the right thing and continue to work with President

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Speaker 2: Trump to keep the American people safe. Following their call

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Speaker 2: this morning, we.

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Speaker 1: Don't know what would make me think that Governor Tim

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Speaker 1: Walls actually cares, What would make me think that he

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Speaker 1: would do anything that would sacrifice his position with the left?

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Speaker 1: Was anything asked for? That's so nuts. And yes, it

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Speaker 1: is these left leaning places, these left leaning cities, these

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Speaker 1: left leaning states, these sanctuary cities, these sanctuary states that

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Speaker 1: are the ones that are the issue because they start

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Speaker 1: with a premise that the law should not be followed.

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Speaker 1: So the argument should be, what are you doing help

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Speaker 1: us get rid of these people are here illegally and

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Speaker 1: we won't need all these people here. We won't need

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Speaker 1: them to be here, and they won't do that either.

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Speaker 1: And this goes to something that Ari Fleischer said, remind

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Speaker 1: me to get to that. I'll get to you what

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Speaker 1: Ariri Fleischer put on Twitter. My response to.

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Speaker 2: It, a country unable to deport criminals who enter it

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Speaker 2: illegally is no country at all. The Open Border's agenda

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Speaker 2: of Kamala Harris, Tim Walls and the Democrats was already

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Speaker 2: on the ballot on November fifth, twenty twenty four, and

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Speaker 2: it was resoundingly rejected. President Trump will never back down

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Speaker 2: from his promise to deport violent, criminal illegal aliens and

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Speaker 2: make America safe again, and he welcomes all cooperation in

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Speaker 2: that effort. With that, I will answer your questions in

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Speaker 2: Jordan Conrads and why don't you kick us off today?

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Speaker 3: Thank you for being here, Caroline do Georgan Conrad's with

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Speaker 3: Kwait called I have a few questions first with respect

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Speaker 3: with respects the shooting in Minneapolis. We're saying massive outrage

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Speaker 3: from the mainstream media in the left, but I'm just wondering,

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Speaker 3: where was that outrage when Ashley Babbitt an Air Force veterans.

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Speaker 1: It's a cheat a question, Matt, you know the answer

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Speaker 1: ask you questions.

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Speaker 3: We know this spread to you in the US counsel.

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Speaker 2: Well, you raised a very important point which I also

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Speaker 2: believed that I just raised as well in those opening remarks,

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Speaker 2: in that there has no doubt been selective outrage by

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Speaker 2: the liberal biased media and picking and choosing victims and

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Speaker 2: highlighting their stories. And as I've said, President Trump does

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Speaker 2: not want any Americans to lose their lives in the

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Speaker 2: He believes what happened on Saturday is a trag But

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Speaker 2: every life is equal to President Trump, and that's why

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Speaker 2: the lives of Lake and Riley and Jocelyn Unger continue

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Speaker 2: to matter to him and be an utmost priority to

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Speaker 2: him to this very day. And it's unfortunate that we

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Speaker 2: over the tragic deaths of those innocent American women.

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Speaker 1: To be honest, because.

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Speaker 2: Tragedy that took place on Saturday.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I want to get your response to this. The

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Speaker 3: Arizona Attorney General, just days before this shooting in Minneapolis,

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Speaker 3: she seemingly encouraged rioters to go out shoot and kill

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Speaker 3: ICE agents. And I'll quote her here. She said, if

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Speaker 3: you reasonably believe your life's in danger, and you're in

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Speaker 3: the house, or in your car, or on your property,

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Speaker 3: you can defend yourself with legal force. And she said

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Speaker 2: Such dangerous rhetoric, as I pointed out, is exactly what

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Speaker 2: has brought us to this position today.

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Speaker 1: Where you have the rhetoric of the Attorney General of

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Speaker 1: Arizona notwithstanding and it was pretty gross, the idea that

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Speaker 1: you have the right to protect and defend yourself. I

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Speaker 1: absolutely wholeheartedly agree with one thousand percent. I agree with

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Speaker 1: My support of the Second Amendment doesn't change my support

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Speaker 1: of the ability of the citizen to be able to

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Speaker 1: be free from abuses of the government hasn't changed at all.

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Speaker 1: When the citizen puts themselves in the way of the

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Speaker 1: government doing the job that they were elected to do

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Speaker 1: by the people, laws on the books. Well, then that

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Speaker 1: changes the calculus.

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Speaker 3: For sure.

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Speaker 1: And people are here illegally, well, is it their constitution