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Speaker 3: Story number one.

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Speaker 2: What's easier than actually fighting crime? Well, if you're a Democrat, apparently,

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Speaker 2: We now know that is exactly what was happening in Washington, DC.

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Speaker 2: The US Attorney judge Andine said that DC authorities were

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Speaker 2: That's right, the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia,

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Speaker 2: the uncovering of these manipulated crime stystics make clear that

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Speaker 2: Since crimes were actually higher than reported, his crime fighting

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Speaker 2: what we all knew. The left wing DC police chief

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Speaker 4: Fox Led a House Overside Committee now releasing a report

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Speaker 5: Those House Overside Committee Republicans say the bottom line of

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Speaker 6: That claim coming from a new House Oversight Committee report

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Speaker 6: Capitol Hill, Bill well John.

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Speaker 5: Republicans on the House Oversight Committee say their investigation concluded

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Speaker 5: That included a former commander who's currently suspended for allegedly

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Speaker 1: I don't see any evidence of that if the claim is,

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Speaker 6: You, yeah, I another Before everything changed in this summer, we

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Speaker 2: None of us had any of that to peg it to.

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Speaker 2: So the DC Police chief manipulating the crime data, artificially

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Speaker 3: Now story number two, President.

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Speaker 2: Trump has made it very clear that he believes that

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Speaker 2: Fetnolm is a national security threat. It is killing in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, the Sentence for Disease Control and Prevention

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Speaker 2: report an estimated total of about eighty thousand overdose deaths

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Speaker 2: in the country, with some forty eight thousand of those

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Speaker 2: due to synthetic opioids. The executive order set ilicit fetanyl

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Speaker 2: is closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic and

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Speaker 2: that it threatens our national security and fuel is lawlessness

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Speaker 2: in our hemisphere and at our borders. The FETANL classification

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Speaker 2: ties in with the Trump administration's war against alleged narco terraces,

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Speaker 2: which has included a military campaign targeting drug smuggling boats

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Speaker 2: with strikes that have left nearly ninety people dead since

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Speaker 2: early September. While Trump argues that destroying each of the

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Speaker 2: more than twenty intercepted vessels saves twenty five thousand American lives,

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Speaker 2: the left is furious that the president would actually go

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Speaker 2: after boats carrying cocaine and fetnyl and other synthetic opioids

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Speaker 2: driving the overdose crisis. Leave it to the Democratic Party

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Speaker 2: to defend the terrorists instead of protecting American citizens. Trump

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Speaker 2: is a coming to strikes with a massive military build

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Speaker 2: up as well in the Caribbean that includes the world's

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Speaker 2: largest aircraft carrier and a slew of other warships, while

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Speaker 2: a string of US military aircraft have flown along Venezuela's

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Speaker 2: While Trump and his administration say the target of the

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Speaker 2: military build up is drug trafficking, Venezuela as radical narco

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Speaker 2: terrorist leader Maduro, is accusing Washington of using narcotics smuggling

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Speaker 2: as a pretext for what he says is regime change

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Speaker 2: in Caracas. The United States has sought to link the

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Speaker 2: two issues, and Donald Trump is leading on it, accusing

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Speaker 2: Maduro of leading the alleged Cartel of the Sons, which

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Speaker 2: is declared to narco terrorist organization, and now offering a

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Speaker 2: fifty million dollar reward for information leading to Maduro's capture.

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Speaker 2: So this is yet again another campaign promise that has

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Speaker 2: now turned into reality. President Trump said he was going

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Speaker 2: to do everything he could to keep Americans safe from fetnol,

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Speaker 2: and this is one step forward in classifying the drug

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Speaker 2: in a way that now allows him even more authority

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Speaker 2: to go after those that are selling it, those that

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Speaker 2: are shipping it, and those that are producing it.

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