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Speaker 3: the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got two big

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Speaker 2: Story number one.

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Speaker 3: Democrats, we are now learning are looking not only to

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Speaker 4: people have been convicted for acts of violence related to Antifa.

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Speaker 4: It's in the indictment. You don't got to believe me

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Speaker 4: or you everybody can go read the public indictment. And

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Speaker 4: it didn't just happen there. It happened in Copcity in Georgia,

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Speaker 4: where we had to go rearrest everybody because the state

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Speaker 2: So we did.

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Speaker 4: And it's not a creation or manufacturing of information it exists.

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Speaker 4: It's just a willingness that you and I and this

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Speaker 4: know this, but wait till you see what's coming in

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Speaker 4: the next month or two. On the funding streams related

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Speaker 4: to this. You and I had launched a serious investigation.

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Speaker 4: We had said, these organizations don't operate alone, don't operate

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Speaker 4: in silence. They operate with the heavy, heavy stream of funding.

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Speaker 4: And we started looking into it and guess what, Dan,

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Speaker 4: we found them.

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Speaker 3: We found them now. To be clear, Patel did not

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Speaker 3: identify specific donors, organizations, or financial mechanisms, but said more

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Speaker 3: details could emerge in the coming months as the investigation continues.

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Speaker 3: The FBI director said agents are examining whether funding has

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Speaker 3: flowed through US based nonprofit groups. Let me say that again,

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Speaker 3: whether funding has flowed through US based nonprofit groups, meaning

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Speaker 3: some of this money could actually be coming from overseas.

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Speaker 3: There's also some groups that have tax exempt status as

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Speaker 3: well as possible foreign sources. He emphasized that investigators are

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Speaker 3: focused on tracing financial support tied to acts of violence,

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Speaker 3: specifically and not constitutionally protected protest activity. Go back to

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Speaker 3: Bureau has already brought that he said, we're connected to

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Speaker 3: protest incidents in multiple states now under his leadership. He

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Speaker 3: on July the fourth of last year. Patel also cited

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Speaker 3: The director said the FBI has elevated the issue internal

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Speaker 3: on identifying financial backers of protests related violence. Tracking Antifa

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Speaker 3: has become so important that the bureau he set establish

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Speaker 3: has long been described by participants and many analysts as

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Speaker 3: that has complicated past law enforcement efforts. They did this

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Speaker 3: for describing Antifa, as they said, an idea quote unqong quote.

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Speaker 3: It's not an idea when actual action follows the idea.

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Speaker 3: In September of twenty five, Trump also signed that executive

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Speaker 3: order declaring Antifa a domestic terrorist organization after first raising

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Speaker 3: current approach relies solely on intelligence and financial investigation, similar

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Speaker 3: to those used in other counter terrorism probes. He did

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Speaker 3: not announce new charges tied specifically to the alleged funding networks,

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Speaker 3: but clearly There's a lot more of this story coming

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Speaker 3: very soon, and it also goes back to what was

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Speaker 3: said five months ago at the White House. Donald Trump

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Speaker 3: had a clear mandate on this issue. In cash, Bettel

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Speaker 3: and Dan Bongino made sure to pay off on that

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Speaker 3: mandate so the American people got exactly what they voted for.

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