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Speaker 2: John Justice on Twin Cities News Talk.

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Speaker 1: Our three. Thanks for hanging out on the show this morning.

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Speaker 1: Very pleased to welcome to Twin Cities News Talk from

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Speaker 1: the Department of Health and Human Services, a General Counsel

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Speaker 1: Mike Stewart. Good morning, sir, Thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: coming on this morning.

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Speaker 3: Hey, good morning, Thanks for having me. John.

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Speaker 1: For those that may be sort of unfamiliar with you

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Speaker 1: and your role within HHS, can you give us the, uh,

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Speaker 1: the brief version of what it is that you do

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Speaker 1: within the Health and Human Services.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'll say there's been a big realignment in terms

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Speaker 3: of what we do and hopefully you can hear me. Okay,

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Speaker 3: if I can pick up the phone. But I'm a

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Speaker 3: I'm a former United States attorney, so the first one

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Speaker 3: ever for those folks who love law enforcement, that that

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Speaker 3: was my background and I was the US attorney, first

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Speaker 3: one ever to be appointed and asked to lead the

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Speaker 3: Office of General Counsel for HHS, and my background, largest

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Speaker 3: medicaid fraud prosecution in the history of Westst Virginia, prosecuted

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Speaker 3: over half the state Supreme Court and it was just prescient.

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Speaker 3: It was credit to President Trump and Secretary Kennedy for

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Speaker 3: being able to see that fraud was going to be

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Speaker 3: a serious problem during the course of this next four years,

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Speaker 3: and we're lined up to focus on it. There's never

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Speaker 3: been a greater focus on an aggressive anti fraud campaign

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Speaker 3: in the agency's history. And in fact, I just brought

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Speaker 3: in another former US attorney, Scott Brady from the Western

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Speaker 3: District of Pennsylvania. If you remember the terrible Tree of

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Speaker 3: not the last one. You're going to hear announcements over

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Speaker 3: the next few weeks, the next few months, as we

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Speaker 3: bring more US attorneys under this effort to try to

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Speaker 3: to point out to your listeners, this didn't happen overnight.

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Speaker 3: What's happening in Minnesota didn't happen yesterday, right. It happened

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Speaker 3: under Keith Ellison and Governor Waltz And they've been sitting

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Speaker 3: there since twenty nineteen, and the documents are clear this

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Speaker 2: So let me start here.

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Speaker 1: There's a piece out of Alpha News this morning, and

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Speaker 1: again we're talking with the General Counselor for the Department

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Speaker 1: of Health and Human Services, Mike Stewart, and they raised

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Speaker 1: the question of these mass resignations within the US Attorney's Office.

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Speaker 1: They right, The US Attorney's Office was recently decimated after

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Speaker 1: the office's top fraud prosecutor resigned in January, along with

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Speaker 1: other federal prosecutors. The Minnesota Star Tribune has reported that

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Speaker 1: even more federal prosecutors have resigned. They raised the question, Mike,

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Speaker 1: of with Joe Thompson resigning and the other resignations that

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Speaker 1: we've seen, the question about the government's ability to prosecute

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Speaker 1: fraud in Minnesota. Can you fill in the gaps here

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Speaker 1: about these federal investigations into our fraud and whether or

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Speaker 1: not there is a legitimate concern with these resignations within

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Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on this?

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Speaker 3: So here's what I'm I can tell you very clearly

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Speaker 3: on this. The day after those resignations, I was at

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Speaker 3: Attorney This won't slow us down at all. I'm sure

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Speaker 3: those people were fine, But if they don't have the

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Speaker 3: and I've put lots of people behind bars for corruption

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Speaker 3: I've worked special grand injuries before. I'm meeting later today

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Speaker 3: And I'll say this that I have lots of questions.

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Speaker 3: The documents are clear, going back to twenty nineteen. It's

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Speaker 3: what's happened. It's a shn Minnesota nice is being taken

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Speaker 3: advantage of by fraudsters. Have been ripping off the people

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Speaker 3: put it this way, Judgment day is coming, and I

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Speaker 3: A big shake up is coming, and I think the

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Speaker 1: We keep saying, because you know, and it's in farm speculation.

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Speaker 1: And again talking with a Department of Health and Human

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Speaker 2: But this is just tipp of the iceberg.

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Speaker 1: You know, the form speculation has been telling us that

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Speaker 1: we've seen these numbers grow in terms of the amount

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Speaker 1: does that ring true to you as well? With what

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Speaker 2: And is there a timeframe on that?

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Speaker 1: Because people want accountability is probably the biggest thing that

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Speaker 3: So I'm one of those books have great confidence in

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Speaker 3: the Department Justice. I did good things there. We broke records,

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Speaker 3: But using the grand jury to be able to investigate

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Speaker 3: protecting bad actors, fraudsters, schemers, and those folks have been

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Speaker 1: We let you go again with AHHS on General Counsel

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Speaker 1: Mike Stewart at the end of the year, I had

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Speaker 1: seeing is investigations across the country revealing that it's not

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Speaker 1: Is this ringing true for you? And what you guys

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Speaker 3: So there's no doubt there was large amounts of fraud

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Speaker 3: most other places at least hid the fraud a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Minnesota is the first place and only place we've seen

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Speaker 3: was happening. My goodness. Twenty nineteen, I point this out again.

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Speaker 3: Twenty nineteen, the revelations of this became clear. Why was

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Speaker 3: Why did it take this long? These folks knew what

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Speaker 1: Department of Health and Human Services General Counsel Mike Stewart,

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Speaker 1: thank you for the time this morning. If you make

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Speaker 3: Great, thank you very much for having me and I'll

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Speaker 1: He's organizing resistance, resistance training aimed at actively opposing the

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Speaker 6: Morning, John, The caucus system is a real good place

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Speaker 3: Why would constitutional observers be needed a caucus party to

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Speaker 2: Illegals are not able to vote, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't make any sense. What the Democrats are doing

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Speaker 7: And we have several ongoing investigations, and remember what was

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Speaker 1: As I mentioned regarding the blockade taking place in Minneapolis.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flan again, she has denied

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Speaker 8: Thankfully every state does not have this problem. I don't

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Speaker 10: Well there. I don't know if you've noticed.

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Speaker 2: That's it, and.

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Speaker 1: This is what I hope ICE continues to do here locally.

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Speaker 1: We know how long those blockades ended up staying up

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Speaker 2: I just wanted to come through and see what's up again.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how I would react Honestly, I know

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Speaker 11: the individuals you're.

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Speaker 12: Going and just took out here wearing the kind of

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Speaker 12: black block covering their faces.

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Speaker 2: They have this kind of block.

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Speaker 13: Gave here where they're stopping some vehicles.

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Speaker 11: Actually, Derek, you could point down there are actually stopping

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Speaker 11: this vehicle and they checked the out of state places

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Speaker 11: to see if they're ICE. And what's interesting is this

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Speaker 11: moment to go down there, we have an Uber drivers

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Speaker 11: from Somali. It's clearly not ICE, and they say that

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Speaker 11: in their database that that vehicle was popping up as

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Speaker 11: an ICE vehicle, So we were questioning them about this

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Speaker 11: database that they're using. Obviously there's the type of network

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Speaker 11: or communication.

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Speaker 2: According to the local lawenforcement.

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Speaker 9: Hasn't even come any stop.

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Speaker 11: So A just gonna keep shoot some of this to

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Speaker 11: check it out.

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Speaker 1: So with this, you also have and I'll get into

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Speaker 1: I'll get into more of this here in just a moment,

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Speaker 1: But you have Ryan Winkler, Minnesota House candidate, admitting to

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Speaker 1: organizing resistance training aimed at actively opposing the federal government today.

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Speaker 14: At the same time that ICE was sitting outside my house,

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Speaker 14: I was hosting a resistance training. We've advertised it publicly,

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Speaker 14: and we had two hundred people in a room in

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Speaker 14: Golden Valley, Minnesota, trying to figure out ways to actively

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Speaker 14: resist an authoritarian federal government. Do I know that ICE

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Speaker 14: was outside my house because we were having a public

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Speaker 14: event designed.

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Speaker 2: To resist what they're doing? In minute, No, I don't

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Speaker 2: know that, but I suspect that.

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Speaker 14: And that's the kind of dystopian, messed up America that

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Speaker 14: we are living in under this administration, and that is

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Speaker 14: why we have to fight back. And I will not

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Speaker 14: be intimidated, none of us in Minnesota should be intimidated.

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Speaker 2: Ryan Winkler, You're a clown. You're a clown.

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Speaker 1: You know. I call them insurrectionists because what is an insurrection.

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Speaker 1: It's a resistance that's organized against what the authority of

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Speaker 1: the United States towards, laws making normal law enforcement essentially impractical.

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Speaker 1: And yet these anti ICE or insurrections, those setting up

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Speaker 1: the blockades, those protesting Ryan Winkler, They're living out a

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Speaker 1: real world fantasy. They've all been told for so long

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Speaker 1: that Trump is an authoritarian that they are now partaking

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Speaker 1: in a self fulfilling prophecy, their own prophecy. Is this

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Speaker 1: the final phase of Trump arrangement syndrome? This is where

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Speaker 1: we are now. They invented this fight against a phantom

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Speaker 1: force of oppression. ICE isn't coming for Ryan Winkler. Ice

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Speaker 1: isn't coming for the individuals in his training session. All

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Speaker 1: the while, they're creating their own dystopian nightmare on the streets,

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Speaker 1: the very thing that they say ICE is doing, profiling individuals,

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Speaker 1: checking their ideas.

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Speaker 2: We saw that your plate said that you were an

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Speaker 2: ICE vehicle. I'm just coming up here to find out

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Speaker 2: what's up with that. Who the hell are you again?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: How I would respond when faced with that situation.

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Speaker 2: I really really don't. Let's get to some of your thoughts.

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Speaker 13: So where does this go? John? They run my plate,

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Speaker 13: they get my address, they why not all my information,

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Speaker 13: and they don't like my political views, so they come

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Speaker 13: to my house or ask me, maybe kill me, Robney,

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Speaker 13: take my house over, because you know they're the righteous ones.

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Speaker 13: Where does this end? John? Where is the governor and

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Speaker 13: where is law enforcement?

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Speaker 1: I know, and again this usually needs to like the

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Speaker 1: response from our leaders. They only react if they feel

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Speaker 1: like their political capital is in jeopardy. So at this point,

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Speaker 1: unless these blockades specifically are being dismantled, at this point,

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Speaker 1: it's really going to take some horrific incident between individuals

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Speaker 1: moving through these areas and an average citizen and something

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Speaker 1: horrific happening before our government response. Keith Ellison continuing to

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Speaker 1: push the baseless lies about ICE. Listen to the way

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Speaker 1: that he describes them, just based off of what I've

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Speaker 1: been talking about over the course of the past fifteen minutes.

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Speaker 2: This is your Attorney general.

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Speaker 4: Chip around ten to twelve percent of all of America's

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Speaker 4: immigration agents right here, right now, looking for something to do, harassing,

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Speaker 4: bullying people, do all kinds of horrible things. And what

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Speaker 4: we're saying is that this massive escalation is about punishing Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: When was the last new video that you saw of

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Speaker 1: Ice involved with anybody here locally? I follow this on

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Speaker 1: a daily basis. I spend hours. It's unhealthy, but it's

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Speaker 1: part of the job. I spend hours on x looking

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Speaker 1: for audio. It's one of the best sources of you know,

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Speaker 1: of news to kind of find out what's happening before

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Speaker 1: it happens and the stories are written. And I can

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Speaker 1: tell you there's been no new videos of anything of

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Speaker 1: what Ellison is claiming.

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Speaker 2: What else is claiming beyond the two shooting incidents.

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Speaker 1: Three shooting incidents essentially, but what Ellison is saying here,

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Speaker 1: beyond those, there hasn't been any further examples of that.

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Speaker 1: But what we have seen is everything that I'm talking

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Speaker 1: about now, these checkpoints taking place, the bullying, the profiling,

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Speaker 1: these yahoo's on the streets looking for something to do.

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Speaker 1: He's describing the insurgence.

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Speaker 4: Not around ten to twelve percent of all of avant

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Speaker 4: immigration agents right here right now looking for something to do, harassing,

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Speaker 4: bullying people.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: Yahoo's standing around looking for something to do, live action

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Speaker 1: role playing, acting like they're part of some resistance, playing

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Speaker 1: out some fantasy that I love movies as much as

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Speaker 1: the next person, but I also know the difference between

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Speaker 1: fantasy and reality.

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Speaker 2: These people don't.

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Speaker 1: Co opting symbols from Star Wars for crying out loud,

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Speaker 1: we're a part of the resistance.

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Speaker 2: There are a bunch of buffoons.

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Speaker 1: Yes, if you are listening and you are an anti

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Speaker 1: is insurgents and you've been insurgent and you've been a

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Speaker 1: part of any of this, you're a buffoon.

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Speaker 15: Hey, John, great show as always. I want to add

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Speaker 15: to that talk backs or comment. I'm on Facebook. I'm

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Speaker 15: in my neighborhood Facebook.

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Speaker 2: Group chat with all these old.

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Speaker 15: Weirdos, leftists or crazy. But they're cracking down on hotels

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Speaker 15: and saying that they check plates. There's comments of guys saying, hey,

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Speaker 15: I have receipts of checking plates.

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Speaker 2: Can I report this?

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Speaker 15: This seems quite illegal? Like how are they doing this

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Speaker 15: and why it's so crazy? Thanks for the help.

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Speaker 1: I have a story and I'll have to get to

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Speaker 1: it on tomorrow's show because we don't have time today.

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Speaker 1: Good night Ice, But first some rage against the machine

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Speaker 1: demonstrators and the roving makeshift rock band keep up feds

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Speaker 1: at night at area hotels. Do they take themselves seriously?

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Speaker 1: I think some of them don't. I think some of

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Speaker 1: them are just getting off on all of this. Again,

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Speaker 1: it's it's like real world, live action role playing. You've

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Speaker 1: seen the videos of the marchers looking all tough as

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Speaker 1: they do their chance with their coordinated outfits. These jerks,

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Speaker 1: these bullies, running plates, profiling individuals as if there's some

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Speaker 1: sort of citizen.

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Speaker 2: Force.

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Speaker 1: You know, this is what narratives like violence interrupters brings you.

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Speaker 1: They all suddenly become their own violence interrupters. But I

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Speaker 1: don't think they realize the danger they're putting themselves in

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Speaker 1: by doing all of this.

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Speaker 9: John, I'd just like to point out that you are

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Speaker 9: the Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled checkpoints are unconstitutional.

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Speaker 16: So the leftists who scream civil rights are in the

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Speaker 16: process of violating everybody who disagrees with them civil rights

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Speaker 16: by prohibiting free travel that they're entitled to.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, the most nefarious part about these checkpoints is is

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Speaker 12: that's unlawful detention. They are illegally detaining people with zero authority,

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Speaker 12: and the cops are doing nothing. The government's doing nothing.

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Speaker 12: At some point, somebody's gonna say we're done with this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's that's my concern. My concern.

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Speaker 1: Is that somebody's gonna end up getting hurt in all

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Speaker 1: of this because of these because of these idiots. Let

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Speaker 1: me sneak in this comment here this clip. It fits

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Speaker 1: with the theme Democrat candidates are now openly promising to

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Speaker 1: punish Republicans for voting for Trump if they win again.

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Speaker 2: There are all such bogus threats.

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Speaker 1: There's no legal standing whatsoever for what these jerks are claiming.

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Speaker 1: It's costing individuals their jobs. There was another idiot nurse yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Will I followed this whole thing unfold as it unfolded

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Speaker 1: yesterday posted a video up online about this.

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Speaker 2: Another nurse.

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Speaker 1: Played a clip of an individual talking about ice agents

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Speaker 1: getting injured where it was appropriate to go and injure

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Speaker 1: an ice agents so they bleed the most I'm not

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Speaker 1: even kidding. Then this nurse in their scrubs talks about

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Speaker 1: how they work in the cardio wing of the hospital

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Speaker 1: dealing with emergency situations and the veins within their legs

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Speaker 1: and people who just bleed out, insinuating that he would

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Speaker 1: allow this to happen. So as the videos went viral,

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Speaker 1: he then posted again, claiming that, oh no, the bots

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Speaker 1: are out to get me. No, it was real world

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Speaker 1: individuals concern that you're going to hurt somebody.

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Speaker 2: And then what happened, Oh he got fired. I thank

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Speaker 2: the good Lord Amine.

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Speaker 6: Oh hell yeah.

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Speaker 1: So this candidate here, Susannah Caratassos stating in a now

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Speaker 1: deleted video, what she wants to see happen once Trump

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Speaker 1: is no longer in office.

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Speaker 17: When this is all over and Trump is gone and

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Speaker 17: Democrats are back in charge and we're rebuilding everything. The

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Speaker 17: punishment for MAGA for voting Trump three times needs to

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Speaker 17: be that they lose their internet access for four years,

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Speaker 17: that they cannot post videos or comments on social media

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Speaker 17: for four straight years, so that none of us are

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Speaker 17: subjected to their lives and misinformation while we are rebuilding

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Speaker 17: the chaos that they caused the whole world, and America

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Speaker 17: gets to be without their bs online for four straight years.

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Speaker 2: Can we all agree to this?

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Speaker 1: No? And you she doesn't even stand by it because

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Speaker 1: she ended up deleting the video. I went on Newsmax yesterday.

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Speaker 1: It was actually a lengthy hit. Quite enjoyed it, and

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Speaker 1: it was their left versus right deal. I do have

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Speaker 1: some positive news to share. Matt Lieberman I think is

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Speaker 1: his name. Don't know what state he's from cause there's

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Speaker 1: an office, But there was a move by one of

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Speaker 1: the borough presidents in New York City to remove Newsmax

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Speaker 1: from inside of the cabs because he doesn't like what

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Speaker 1: news Mac says. Says this misinformation right, and they were

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Speaker 1: wondering if Zohron Mom Dannie was going to get on

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Speaker 1: board with this. We actually agreed that it's censorship and

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Speaker 1: it's stupid. I was pleasantly surprised that you can still

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Speaker 1: have some bipartisan agreement taking place. All right, let's wrap

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Speaker 1: on this. I want to sneak in this talkback really quick.

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Speaker 9: They must get a lot of government assistance to essentially

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Speaker 9: cosplay revolutionaries, but it makes you warm there.

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Speaker 2: These people have jobs.

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Speaker 1: Well, we're going to be talking about this at length tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Liz Collin from Alpha News will be joining us in

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Speaker 1: this segment on tomorrow show, and we'll get into the

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Speaker 1: Minnesota anti ice activists. According to the story from Alpha

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Speaker 1: News and Daily Caller getting three point three million from

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Speaker 1: Sorrow's back to charities. But during an interview with Fox nine,

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy flann again running for Senate, denied

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Speaker 1: allegations that she was involved in the signal chat group

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Speaker 1: that coordinated the anti ice protests and donations, saying that

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Speaker 1: it's ridiculous. An independent journalist Cam Higby posted on social

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Speaker 1: media screenshots of signal chats that he claimed were infiltrated

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Speaker 1: from a group that had the sole intention of tracking

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Speaker 1: down federal agents, impeding, assaulting, and obstructing them. Within the group,

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Speaker 1: Willetenant Governor Peggy Flanagan allegedly wrote under an alias planned Southside,

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Speaker 1: according to Higbee's post, that she has gone and denied this.

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Speaker 2: It's ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: That's not me, and I would just say that the

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Speaker 1: way that I'm showing up for my neighbors is we

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Speaker 1: are getting mutual aid to groceries and families.

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Speaker 2: Who need it.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So she denies it, but she may have inadvertently

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Speaker 1: caused a headache for the DFL by denying, because by

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Speaker 1: denying her involvement in the single chat, is that not

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Speaker 1: an admission that if she were involved it would be

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Speaker 1: an issue. And what does that mean for legislators like

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Speaker 1: Brat Tabke, Alex Falconer who've been actively working against ice

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Speaker 1: Stocking Wrench, Ryan Winkler. Boy, this legislative session is going

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Speaker 1: to be a partisan disaster, but entertaining to watch. Let's

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Speaker 1: call and we'll join us on tomorrows show. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for hanging out today. If you missed any

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Speaker 1: portion of today's broadcast, check out the podcast. It'll be

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Speaker 1: available up on the iHeartRadio app in mere moments and

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Speaker 1: I'll talk to you guys tomorrow morning, just after six o'clock.

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Speaker 1: Have yourself a fantastic Tuesday, Bah,