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Speaker 2: The signal on the Signal app that was included in

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Speaker 1: What we've done is we've put out an advisory on

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Speaker 2: Because there's risk to that app, there are. Okay, General

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Speaker 2: Cruz DoD also issued a warning about vulnerabilities to the

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Speaker 2: Signal app recently. Correct. That's correct. Okay, Director Gabbard, you

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Speaker 2: were on this signal text chain in question.

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Speaker 4: Correct?

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Speaker 2: Yes, as was mister Whitcoff, the administration's lead negotiator with

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Speaker 2: the Russians.

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Speaker 2: Yes, And at the time mister Whitcoff was actually in

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Speaker 5: I was not aware of that.

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Speaker 2: Director gabberd you were also traveling during this discussion, correct?

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Speaker 5: I was traveling through the Asia Pacific region. I don't

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Speaker 2: to you that there is about to be a military operation? Yes,

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Speaker 2: The Office of the Director of National Intelligence classification guide says,

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Speaker 2: They have in fact done so, haven't they, Yes, including

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Speaker 2: We I'll help you out. This is an essay three

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Speaker 2: Are you familiar with this? Next system?

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Speaker 2: I spent my life in service to this country. I

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Speaker 12: I think it's important for us to report on the

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Speaker 13: So let's talk about the critical role of public media.

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Speaker 13: During his first term, President Trump's own Department of Homeland

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Speaker 13: twenty eight without Objection so ordered, And Madam chair I

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Speaker 4: Without Objection so ordered.

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Speaker 13: In the report, FEMA encouraged quote the use of public

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Speaker 4: Reporting the murder of.

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Speaker 8: Can you please repeat the question for me in Congressman.

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Speaker 13: Which one is more of a threat reporting the murder

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Speaker 13: And isn't it true that in Borrow, Alaska is the

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Speaker 13: And isn't it true that without these stations broadcast, Americans

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Speaker 13: So, in your opinion, what eliminating funding for stations in

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Speaker 8: It would hurt Americans.

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Speaker 13: In fact, Georgia Public Broadcasting serves as the official distributor

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Speaker 13: DOJ agenda isn't about government efficiency. It's about breeding corruption

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Speaker 13: They don't care about public safety, they don't care about

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Speaker 4: To come for you, miss Mayor, and I just want to.

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Speaker 13: Clarify you did not work for NPR when those statements.

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Speaker 13: And to be clear, free speech is not about whatever

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Speaker 13: We need to stop playing because that's what y'all are

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Speaker 7: Thank you, Edam chair ms maher who is Uri Berliner?

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Speaker 7: MPR is MPR.

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Speaker 6: Biased, Congressman. I have never seen any instance of never

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Speaker 7: Now, well, miss mister Berliner in his story. A couple

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Speaker 7: Award winning journalists who worked twenty five years at MPR.

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Speaker 7: Mister Berlinner, was he lying when he wrote.

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Speaker 6: We don't track that information about our journal eighty seven

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Speaker 7: And you say MPR is not biased? How about the

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Speaker 7: Berliner again, he wrote on the Trump Russia story, he wrote,

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Speaker 7: at NPR, we hitched our wagon to Trump's most visible antagonists,

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Speaker 3: That accurate.

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Speaker 7: Those sound accurate. But then he said, when the Muller

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Speaker 7: How about this story. October twenty twenty, New York Post

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Speaker 12: moin them more or less?

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Speaker 5: Clearly there is strategic competition taking place. I'll withhold my

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Speaker 5: personal view to look at anfilm.

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Speaker 12: I was asking for your director of view, not your

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Speaker 12: personal view. And then additionally, we have ended Voice of America,

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Speaker 12: which provided accurate, unbiased news in our opinion. Meanwhile, at

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Speaker 12: Petersburg University has announced that it's open eleven Russian language

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Speaker 12: centers across Africa that pay special attention to the promotion

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Speaker 12: of traditional Russian spiritual and moral values. Director Gabber, Is

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Speaker 12: Russia a friend or a foe? Are they our friend

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Speaker 12: or our adversary?

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Speaker 6: They are an adversary, thank you.

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Speaker 12: I believe that this reckless cuts make terrorism and our

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Speaker 12: influence in Africa, which is on the front lines of terrorism,

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Speaker 12: a real threat to us, and we need to be

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Speaker 12: careful of it.

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Speaker 6: Director Patel.

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Speaker 12: One of the benefits of being here kind of in

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Speaker 12: the middle is I get to hear other people's testimony

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Speaker 12: and the questions that are asked. I know that mister

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Speaker 12: Carson asks you questions specifically about the counter Terrorism Division,

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Speaker 12: and we know that there has been some open source

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Speaker 12: reporting that says that individuals within that division have been

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Speaker 12: removed or been moved, not necessarily fired, but moved.

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Speaker 6: Do you know if that is correct.

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Speaker 16: I don't have any personal information on that, but people

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Speaker 16: within the CTD compose on it, which is a large

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Speaker 16: component the FBI move all the time.

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Speaker 6: And have they been moved?

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Speaker 12: Is are you able to get that information to us

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Speaker 12: whether they have or not been moved.

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Speaker 16: I'll go back to my team and see who has

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Speaker 16: been moved. If you have a particular interest we'll share

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Speaker 16: with you.

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Speaker 12: Of course, we have an interest in counter Terrorism Division

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Speaker 12: and movement of individuals within that because one of the

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Speaker 12: other things I'm concerned about is you have stated I

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Speaker 12: believe in other areas that the disbandment of certain sections

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Speaker 12: of the FBI related to intel and breaking up components.

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Speaker 12: Can you explain to us how you intend to do

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Speaker 12: that or what you would like to do and.

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Speaker 16: Why My intention is to reprioritize counter intelligence authorities and

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Speaker 16: cyber capabilities to focus on violent crime and national security.

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Speaker 8: And that's what I'm doing. Generalman, this time has expired.

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Speaker 9: Thank you the general woman from Missouri, Madam Ambassador Ms Wigner, Hi, thank.

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Speaker 4: You, mister Chairman.

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Speaker 7: I think all of you for being here and for

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Speaker 7: your continued service to our Let's.

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Speaker 11: Go back to Let's go back to the PBS.

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Speaker 8: We get a minute, we got Tim Burchet. Let's hear

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Speaker 8: Birchet to.

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Speaker 14: The gentleman from California, mister Conna for five minutes.

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Speaker 17: Thank you, Madam Charon, thank you for allowing me to

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Speaker 17: wave on to the committee. Mister Gonzalez. I read with

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Speaker 17: interest your testimony. It was so angry, so I thought

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Speaker 17: i'd try to lighten things up.

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Speaker 7: A little bit.

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Speaker 17: Who are three of your favorite characters on Daniel Tiger

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Speaker 17: or what episodes do you are your favorites?

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Speaker 8: Represent Conna. Thank you very much for the opportunity to

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Speaker 8: lighten up.

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Speaker 7: Again.

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Speaker 11: I think I'm taking a time machine here Sesame Street went.

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Speaker 17: To Daniel Tiger. Do you have some favorite characters?

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Speaker 11: Oh, the owl bro Conna, our favorite democrat populist. So

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Speaker 11: trying to lighten up. We're not looking to light enough today.

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Speaker 11: Let's go back to this. I tell you what, We've

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Speaker 11: a break here.

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Speaker 8: Right there.

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Speaker 11: You just saw it once again. That's the non voting

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Speaker 11: member from the Virgin Islands. Very smart. She's on MSNBC

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Speaker 11: a lot. She does not actually get a vote on

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Speaker 11: the committee. So she's a non voting member of Congress

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Speaker 11: from the Virgin Islands. Even she's thrown in with it.

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Speaker 11: She has a Democrat, but she's thrown in. You see

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Speaker 11: the targeting of Pete Hegseath. Let this be a lesson

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Speaker 11: for the rest of the day. Pete Hexath, by the way,

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Speaker 11: has put out a Both Pete and a Waltz have

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Speaker 11: both put out tweets and they're honkering down. No war plans,

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Speaker 11: no classified information, no locations, no names of everything.

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Speaker 8: We'll put them up after we come back from a break.

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Speaker 11: Want to thank Real America's Voice for our coverage this morning,

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Speaker 11: virtually commercial free for two hours. We wanted you to

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Speaker 11: get a full flavor of particularly House intel as they

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Speaker 11: come in for a kill shot on direct to Ratcliffe

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Speaker 11: of the CIA and Tulci Gabbard d n I. They're

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Speaker 11: trying to take this situation of this reporter Goldberg who

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Speaker 11: released this right before the committee started. As you can tell,

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Speaker 11: this whole thing is a set up. Honestly, I think

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Speaker 11: it would have been smart to just cancer these hearings

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Speaker 11: and say we're gonna happen in thirty days. The threats

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Speaker 11: are the major threats are not going to go away

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Speaker 11: the report to take some of the steam off of this.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 11: It's a setup, ambush, complete, total ambush, total ambush. And

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Speaker 11: you've seen it live for the last two days, so

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Speaker 11: you see it with your own eyes and you see

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Speaker 11: how the Democrats come in. The White House is hunkered down,

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Speaker 11: Waltz is hunkered down, Pete Hegsith's in the Pacific talking

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Speaker 11: to the INDO Pacific Command.

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Speaker 8: Is hunkered down.

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Speaker 11: We're gonna take a short commercial break where return.

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Speaker 8: In the war room in just a moment.

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Speaker 18: We will put it God we rejoiced most down, Yes

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Speaker 18: or no.

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Speaker 19: No, I'm going to answer that. I think that's an

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Speaker 19: offensive line of question. The answer is no. I find

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Speaker 19: it interesting that you.

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Speaker 17: Want to know.

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Speaker 19: I'm going to answer you answer a question you want

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Speaker 19: to answer No, Listen, you don't want to focus on

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Speaker 19: the good work that the CIA is doing, that the

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Speaker 19: intelligence community.

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Speaker 20: Director, I want to reclaim my time. Director, I reclaimed

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Speaker 20: my time here. I have huge respect for the CIA,

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Speaker 20: huge respect for men and women in uniform. But this

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Speaker 20: was a question that's on the top of minds of

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Speaker 20: every American. Right he stood in front of a podium

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Speaker 20: and Europe holding a drink, So of course we want

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Speaker 20: to know if his performance is compromised. If you were

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Speaker 20: people were asking if the General Austin was compromised because

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Speaker 20: of a heart issue.

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Speaker 19: Was his performance compromised because of a successful right, mister,

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Speaker 19: I bring my do you want to know? You want

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Speaker 19: to talk about accepting response?

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Speaker 8: Do you think you read exclaim my time.

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Speaker 19: Responsibility for a successful strike to make Americans safer?

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Speaker 8: I wanted to us on I reclaim my time. So

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Speaker 8: here's the thing, this is serious.

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Speaker 20: As somebody we've been briefed in this committee about using

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Speaker 20: signal one of the things they basically said, the most

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Speaker 20: secure phone call, the least secure text messaging. And we

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Speaker 20: know that your people are Russians, Chinese are on your.

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Speaker 9: Phone as times expired, gentlemen from Virginia, mister Kline, thank you.

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Speaker 7: Mister Chairman.

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Speaker 21: I'm going to give the director the ability to respond

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Speaker 21: without being interrupted by his question.

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Speaker 8: I appreciate that.

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Speaker 19: Congressman. I guess you know, just a general reflection here

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Speaker 19: again that for the last two days, members of the

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Speaker 19: intelligence community have been asking questions about a signal messaging

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Speaker 19: group and not asking questions from Democrats, either in the

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Speaker 19: Senate or the House, on China, Russia, Iran and the

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Speaker 19: real threats that are going on to the United States.

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Speaker 19: And you can say that you care about the good

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Speaker 19: work that agencies are doing like the CIA, and that

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Speaker 19: you care about one hundred and forty stars on the wall,

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Speaker 19: but no one's asked me about my second day on

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Speaker 19: the job here where I lit the fuse that led

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Speaker 19: to a foreign government participating with us to capture one

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Speaker 19: of the senior planners of the Abbygate bombing that killed

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Speaker 19: thirteen Americans, And in the process, we worked with a

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Speaker 19: government that previously hadn't so that hadn't cooperated with US

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Speaker 19: on counter terrorism matters, or the fact no one has

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Speaker 19: focused on that. Within an hour of that taking place,

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Speaker 19: I was on the phone with Director Patel, and a

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Speaker 19: few hours later with Attorney General Bondi working together the

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Speaker 19: IC and the FBA, I working together to bring this

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Speaker 19: person home in less than a week. Unprecedented success for

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Speaker 19: the intelligence community and the law enforcement community. Exactly representative

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Speaker 19: of the kind of work that we should be doing

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Speaker 19: and the kind of work that an oversight committee should

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Speaker 19: be asking about. But instead we're getting questions about whether

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Speaker 19: or not someone has drinking habits. And I just wish

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Speaker 19: and an annual threats hearing where the American people want

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Speaker 19: to hear about threats that that's what we would be

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Speaker 19: talking about. Thanks for the opportunity to clarify absolutely.

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Speaker 21: Director, I want to thank you and all the people

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Speaker 21: who work with you, and all the witnesses and the

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Speaker 21: men and women, the brave men and women who are

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Speaker 21: putting their lives on the line each and every day

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Speaker 21: for this country and.

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Speaker 8: To the habit because we're going to run out of

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Speaker 11: That's been client that we had on the on TV

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Speaker 11: is Congressman Jimmy Gonzalez previously from He's from Chinatown and

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Speaker 11: guess I'm not inner City, LA, but the famous Boil

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Speaker 11: Heights and Chinatown, Jimmy Gonzalez, and I told you that

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Speaker 11: targeting Pete Hexath would Congressman Gonzalez asked, had Pete Heggs

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Speaker 11: has been drinking while he was on that text chamber,

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Speaker 11: which means that Pete Hegxas was drinking on the job

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Speaker 11: because I was during a strike and you saw finally

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Speaker 11: with Ratcliffe, and I really appreciate the director of the

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Speaker 11: CIA finally had enough that hit Ratcliff's trip wire. After

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Speaker 11: two days he fired back hard. I think the administration

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Speaker 8: Afternoon. I don't think Mike Waltz is the target. It's

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Speaker 8: clearly Pete Hegseth.

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Speaker 11: This audience doesn't need to be reminded of the effort

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Speaker 11: this audience put in on that fixed band its fixed

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Speaker 11: bannets Thursday when everybody had to get up on it

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Speaker 11: to save Pete hexas nomination. When they were trying to

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Speaker 11: run Pete Hexath out of town for these allegations that

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Speaker 11: came from I don't know very women about drinking and

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Speaker 11: other issues. Pete Hexa has done a terrific job so

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Speaker 11: far as Secretary of Defense. He's at in the Indo

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Speaker 11: Pacific Command right now. Give an amazing talk yesterday to everybody.

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Speaker 11: Get him motivated about the threat of the Chinese Commis Party,

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Speaker 11: as Captain Fanel tells us, and he's correct, Keep the

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Speaker 11: main thing, the main thing, and Pete Hexath is doing this. Okay,

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Speaker 11: we're going to turn over to Charlie Kirk Show now

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Speaker 11: on Real America's Voice. Charlie is going to pick up

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Speaker 11: with his coverage. We're going to be back in five

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Speaker 11: to seven. We've got a lot more that you didn't

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Speaker 11: hear in the PBS. They're trying to defund NPR and

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Speaker 11: PBS outrageous responses I think from PBS's management today, trying

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Speaker 11: to essentially just kick the can down the road. We'll

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Speaker 11: get more of that also, much more coming out of Intel.

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Speaker 11: Pete Hexas just put up a tweet, he's honkering down.

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Speaker 11: Mike Waltz put up a tweet, he's honkering down. The

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Speaker 11: going to the mattresses on this are just not going

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Speaker 11: to sit there and be punching bags for these radical democrats.

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Speaker 11: The courts are also involved. We told us that's going

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Speaker 11: to happen, so so much going on. We're going to

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Speaker 11: be back at We're gonna be back at five o'clock tonight.

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Speaker 11: We're going to turn you over to Charlie Kirk. Jack

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Speaker 8: Gruber. Eric Bowling will be back at five o'clock.

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Speaker 11: Want to thank our sponsors are particularly Birch Gold.

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Speaker 8: Make sure you go birch gold dot com.

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Speaker 11: And this is heating up right now, all everything about

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Speaker 11: the reconciliation, build, the taxes, the budget, all of it.

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Speaker 11: Make sure you go to birch gold dot com. Slash

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Speaker 11: bennon end of the dollar Empire. Most importantly, get to

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Speaker 11: Phillip Patrick and the team. Ask them, hey, you know

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Speaker 11: what the price of gold is is over three thousand bucks?

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Speaker 11: How to get there and where it's going? Were the

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Speaker 11: forces driving that? That's what you need to know. We're

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Speaker 11: not here to give you a fish. We're here to

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Speaker 11: help teach you how to fish converging factors so as

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Speaker 11: you can use your own human agency. And by the way,

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Speaker 11: couldn't have been a better compliment. At the top of

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Speaker 11: Vice Chairman Hyms saying the war room posse. When they

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Speaker 11: get involved, things happen, and folks, we're gonna have to

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Speaker 11: get involved in this morning.

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Speaker 8: Also going to have a live report from Florida.

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Speaker 11: Six issues down there, also in Wisconsin, and talk about

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Speaker 11: Pennsylvania lost a Senate seat last night.

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Speaker 8: All at five o'clock tonight. We'll see you back in

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Speaker 8: the war Room. Continue on now, Charlie Kirk, I find

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Speaker 12: It offensive for you at