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Speaker 1: Speaking from the Oval Office during the ninetieth anniversary of

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Speaker 1: the Social Security Act, President Trump stated that his administration

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Speaker 1: has now successfully kicked nearly two hundred and seventy five

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Speaker 1: also mentioned having removed about two point four million names

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Speaker 1: of individuals that were over one hundred and twenty years old.

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Speaker 2: That's what the record state.

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Speaker 1: The Social Security Administration has reportedly updated records for individuals

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Speaker 1: no longer holding legal status, but details remain unclear on

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Speaker 1: whether those individuals had been actively receiving benefits. President Trump

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Speaker 1: framed this action as part of a broader effort to

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Speaker 1: protect Social Security from fraud, waste, and abuse, contrasting it

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Speaker 1: with the previous administration, which he claimed failed to address

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Speaker 1: a massive issue. Here's the President, in his own words

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Speaker 3: Nearly two hundred and seventy five thousand illegal aliens off

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Speaker 3: of the Social Security system. These are people, many of

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Speaker 3: them have already left the country. And what that's doing

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Speaker 3: is making the system strong. It's making it strong. Biden

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Speaker 3: never kicked anybody off. Everybody joined. We cleared twelve point

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Speaker 3: four million names listed in the Social Security database over

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Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty years of age.

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Speaker 4: Think of the one hundred and.

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Speaker 3: Thirty five thousand people listed who were over one hundred

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Speaker 3: So somebody's getting those payments, and we're after that. Last month,

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Speaker 3: I signed one big beautiful bill and allowed no tax

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Speaker 3: on Social Security for our great seniors. Okay, so how's

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Speaker 3: that not bad?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 3: No tax on social Security for our seniors. And to

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Speaker 3: protect our benefits, we've already kicked nearly two hundred seventy

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Speaker 3: five thousand illegal aliens off of the Social Security system.

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Speaker 3: These are people, many of them have already left the country,

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Speaker 3: and yet we were sending them checks all the time,

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Speaker 3: and two hundred and seventy five thousand, and that number

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Speaker 3: is now even larger than that. Frankness, its unbelievable job.

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Speaker 3: And what that's doing is making the system strong. It's

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Speaker 3: making it strong. Biden never kicked anybody off. Everybody joined,

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Speaker 3: and we're carrying out historic deportations to remove many more

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Speaker 3: illegals committing social security fraud. It's the social security fraud

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Speaker 3: that was taking place at levels that nobody's ever seen.

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Speaker 3: We cleared twelve point four million names listed in the

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Speaker 3: Social Security database over one hundred and twenty years of age.

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Speaker 4: Think of that.

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Speaker 3: So we had twelve point four million names where they

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Speaker 2: Is that right?

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Speaker 4: That's a hell of a statement.

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Speaker 3: I have a feeling then that's I'm really gonna really

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Speaker 3: didn't happen to it. So you have twelve point four

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Speaker 3: million names listed in the Social Security datamas that were

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Speaker 3: over one hundred and twenty years of age, meaning you

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Speaker 3: were breaking records because I've never heard of anybody at

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Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty five. There were nearly one hundred

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Speaker 3: So somebody's getting those payments and we're after that.

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Speaker 1: I love how the President said there, we're looking into that.

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Speaker 2: What does that mean?

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Speaker 1: In translation, if you've been cashing these checks, the federal

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Speaker 1: government is coming after you. Now, let's talk about what

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Speaker 1: active benefit recipients mean. There is a confirmation now that

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Speaker 1: there's many individuals that were simply outdated in their information

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Speaker 1: The Social Security administration is now trying to figure out

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Speaker 1: how how to deal with all of these individuals and

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Speaker 1: the claims that two hundred and seventy five thousand people

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Speaker 1: Trump's announcement frames these individuals, many of them as quote,

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Speaker 1: illegal immigrants, and that's another part of why the left

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Speaker 2: On legal immigrants.

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Speaker 1: Earlier in twenty twenty five, the administration said, Hey, we're

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Speaker 1: going to do everything we can to make sure that

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Speaker 1: those that are deserving of the benefits receive them. But

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Speaker 1: what we're not going to do is hand out money

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Speaker 1: to illegal immigrants and anyone that walks into a government office.

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Speaker 1: Which makes total sense, and that is exactly why the

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Speaker 1: President said, in his words, two hundred and seventy five

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Speaker 3: Be if it's we've already kicked nearly two hundred and

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Speaker 3: seventy five thousand illegal aliens off of the Social Security system.

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Speaker 3: These are people, many of them have already left the country,

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Speaker 3: and two hundred and seventy five thousand and that numbers

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Speaker 3: now even larger than that. Frank, It's unbelievable. And what

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Speaker 3: that's doing is making the system strong. It's making it strong.

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Speaker 1: It's making the system strong. Now what does the president

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Speaker 1: mean by that, Well, we all know that Social Security

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Speaker 1: is going bankrupt. Why because there's more people that are

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Speaker 1: getting money than are paying into it. Part of that

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Speaker 1: is because of age expectancy. We continue, through modern medicine

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Speaker 1: to extend life far longer than many people believe that. Well,

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Speaker 1: seniors were going to live. Now, that's great news, right,

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Speaker 1: because people are living longer. The problem is the system

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Speaker 1: And that's why the President's like, well, how do we

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Speaker 1: fix that. Well, if you can get two hundred and

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Speaker 1: Social Security benefits, that's one massive step in the right direction. Now,

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Speaker 1: on this ninety anniversary, one of the biggest things I

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Speaker 1: think that's just interesting to me is how the media

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Speaker 1: some amazing program. In reality, it's actually a disaster and

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Speaker 1: has been for decades and decades. Just the rate of

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Speaker 1: private sector. Yet this is what we do with our

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Speaker 1: government dollars. There's a lot of money that's paid in,

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Speaker 1: there's clearly a lot of waste, fraud and abuse. But

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Speaker 1: it's one of those programs that the media always loves

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Speaker 1: great thing. So the Today's Show they decided to celebrate

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Speaker 1: the ninetieth anniversary, and here's their jolly report.

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Speaker 5: Today marks ninety years since the signing of the so

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Speaker 5: Social Security Act never actually said it out loud, and

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Speaker 5: all these decades later, sixty nine million Americans rely on

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Speaker 5: we called on CNBC's senior Personal Finance correspondent Sharon Epperson

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Speaker 5: to answer some of the big questions about Social Security.

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Speaker 6: Social Security marked to say out now that I realize it,

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Speaker 6: so good morning social Security.

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Speaker 5: I know it can be complicated. I know I pay

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Speaker 5: break it down for us.

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Speaker 6: Well, it's guaranteed income. It is an income stream financial

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Speaker 6: protection for people who are retired, for their survivors and

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Speaker 6: for disabled Americans. And a lot of people don't understand, well,

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Speaker 6: how is it funded. It's funded by you by payroll

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Speaker 6: taxes that you've put into it, and you're able to

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Speaker 6: get these benefits for your lifetime after you start claiming

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Speaker 6: them in retire The thing that people need to know

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Speaker 6: is when to claim them, and what that is is

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Speaker 6: your full retirement age. It's not the same as Medicare,

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Speaker 6: and it may differ depending on what year you were born,

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Speaker 6: So for most people it's between the ages of sixty

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Speaker 6: six and sixty seven. You could take your retirement benefits

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Speaker 6: early as well as early as age sixty two and

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Speaker 6: The other thing to keep in mind is this is

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Speaker 6: guaranteed money, but it does increase over time based on

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Speaker 6: the cost of living. So that cost of living increase

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Speaker 6: this year is two and a half percent, it should

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Speaker 6: go up next year.

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Speaker 2: The COLA the cola and.

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Speaker 7: This year there are some big changes.

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Speaker 2: Can you walk us through those?

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Speaker 6: So some of the big changes are the fact that

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Speaker 6: there are no longer to be payper checks for your

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Speaker 6: retirement checks direct deposit, direct deposit. You've got to enroll

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Speaker 6: in that. Go to the Social Security website if you're

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Speaker 6: not already enrolled there and make sure that you know.

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Speaker 6: If you're turning sixty five this year, you were born

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Speaker 6: in nineteen sixty, that does not mean you're at the

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Speaker 6: full retirement age. You can't collect Social Secure at least

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Speaker 6: not the full benefit. You have to wait till sixty seven.

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Speaker 6: So this is the time to figure out does it

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Speaker 6: make sense to take it now or take it later.

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Speaker 6: There are calculators on the Social Security Administration website that

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Speaker 6: you can go to. My favorite is going to the

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Speaker 6: one that's my Social Security account because you get your

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Speaker 6: earnings and you get to get an estimate of what

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Speaker 6: it will look like sixty two all the way to

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Speaker 6: seventy what's your monthly benefit will be.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it interesting how they're not telling you the reality

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Speaker 1: of the situation. Now, let's just celebrate it. It's wonderful,

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Speaker 1: it's amazing, there's no issues. Why are they doing this

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Speaker 1: because they don't want to change anything. They don't want

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Speaker 1: to admit that's a broken system. They don't want to

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Speaker 1: emit there's waste fraud abuse that happened under the Biden administration,

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Speaker 1: and they don't want to admit that many Americans are

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Speaker 1: getting a terrible deal on the money that they're giving

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Speaker 1: the government when it comes to return a rate on return.

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Speaker 1: why did the President make these accusations, Well, a DC

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Speaker 1: There it is folks morning, Joe Scarborough scorching Democrats on

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Speaker 7: We've been talking so much about the numbers, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: And yet Democrats and most of the media are still

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Speaker 2: This is the problem right now.

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Speaker 4: There was a lot of deception from the President there.

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Speaker 1: fuel new allegations of political bias yet again against Google,

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Speaker 1: which was accused also by Elon Musk and March of

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Speaker 1: interfering to help Democrats thousands of times every election season.

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Speaker 1: Critics including Donald Trump, have accused Google of manipulating search

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Speaker 1: results specifically to hurt Republicans, and even of suppressing information

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Speaker 1: of the assassination attempt against Trump last year. The company,

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Speaker 1: of course, toned any wrongdoing. When reached for comment on Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: Google spokesman said the company's email filter protections are in

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Speaker 1: variety of signals, like whether a user has previously marked

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Speaker 1: an email as spam and applied quote equally to all senders,

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Speaker 1: regardless of political ideology. The Gmail Google statement says, well,

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Speaker 1: guess what. In twenty twenty two, a study by the

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Speaker 1: North Carolina State University found that Gmail flagged fifty nine

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Speaker 1: percent more Republican fundraising emails as spam than Democratic ones

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Speaker 1: during the lead up to the twenty twenty presidential election.

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Speaker 1: We observe that the spam filter algorithms of different email

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Speaker 1: services indeed exhibited biases towards different political affiliations. The researchers

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Speaker 1: said at the time. Targeted Victory said its first informed

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Speaker 1: Google about the issue on June thirtieth, after receiving lots

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Speaker 1: of complaints from its clients. The company initially deflected by

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Speaker 1: blaming local settings for the email issues. According to the memo,

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Speaker 1: so yet again, here we are, and this is what's

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Speaker 1: actually happening. We have big tech pushing the scales in

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Speaker 1: favor of the radical left and doing everything they can

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Speaker 1: to undermine even Donald Trump while he's president. This time,

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Speaker 1: you may ask yourself, how do they really know that

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Speaker 1: there's a bias in this way? While the consulting firms

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Speaker 1: tests involve sending identical emails through Gmail, with the only

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Speaker 1: difference being that one contained a when read donattion link

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Speaker 1: and the other contained an act Blue link, So the

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Speaker 1: same exact wording, same exact email. The only difference was

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Speaker 2: That's it.

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Speaker 1: In fact, the memo states quote, the only difference between

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Speaker 1: the two emails was the link ActBlue delivered to the

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Speaker 1: email accounts when Red got flagged.

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Speaker 2: That is not a coincidence.

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Speaker 1: This held true even for major accounts, including Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: and at least stephonic links compared to DNC links.

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Speaker 2: After weeks of back.

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Speaker 1: And forth with Google, the Coming support team acknowledge that

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Speaker 1: links to when Red were deemed suspicious and flagged with

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Speaker 1: a red warning banner alerting users that it was potentially

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Speaker 1: suspicious or unsafe to click on that. According to a

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Speaker 1: screenshot of a July twenty second email, this should alarm

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Speaker 1: every campaign and every election committee that relies on email

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Speaker 1: to connect with voters. The memo continue to state, So

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Speaker 1: here we are yet again in twenty twenty five, and

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Speaker 1: we have clearly this interaction with Google, clearly caught flagging

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Speaker 1: GOP fundraiser emails as suspicious and clearly tipping the scales

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Speaker 1: to the Democratic Party or Democratic Radical causes. So the

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Speaker 1: question now is what can Congress or the President do

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Speaker 1: to change this and make sure that it doesn't keep happening. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you've got a Gmail account, you also have to

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Speaker 1: ask yourself this question, what emails are you not getting?

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Speaker 1: And if you do have a Gmail account, is it

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Speaker 1: time to move somewhere else? Remember, you're very valuable to Google.

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Speaker 1: All of your search history and your Gmail account, it's

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Speaker 1: all tied to your data. That data is what makes

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Speaker 1: them hundreds of billions of dollars. And it's also the

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Speaker 1: same company that's influencing your search engine responses, which brings

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Speaker 1: me to another example of how radical they've become. I

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Speaker 1: want to take you back to January of twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 1: the RNC file, the complaint that Google's spam filters were

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Speaker 1: biased against conservatives. Yes, that also happened, and it's pretty

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Speaker 1: clear that when you googled certain things, they wanted you

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Speaker 1: to see bad information on conservatives, and when you googled

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Speaker 1: certain things, they only wanted you to see good things

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Speaker 1: about the Democrats. So imagine you think you're googling something

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Speaker 1: and you're actually getting back in response, massive political bias.

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Speaker 1: In its letter, the FEC side of Google's public statements

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Speaker 1: claiming that it's reason for spam filtering, including blocking malware,

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Speaker 1: phishing attacks and scale. That was not the real problem

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Speaker 1: then either, which goes back to why are we even

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Speaker 1: in this situation? It is because big tech is doing

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Speaker 1: everything they can to tip the scales. Cato Institute, for example,

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Speaker 1: talked about how if you just googled President Donald Trump,

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Speaker 1: it would actually show you news about Kamala Harris. But

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Speaker 1: if you googled Kamala Harris, it didn't show you any

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Speaker 1: negative news about her and nothing about Donald Trump. Why

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Speaker 1: would they do that because they were trying to make

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Speaker 1: sure that Kamala Harris became the president, and they wanted

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Speaker 1: to make sure that Donald Trump was someone you didn't like.

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Speaker 1: So here it is in black and white. You now

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Speaker 1: know that if you keep using Google, you're helping support

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Speaker 1: this bias. If you keep using Gmail, you are helping

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Speaker 1: them become rich, and you're supporting this bias. And if

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Speaker 1: you are using email right now, with Gmail, there's a

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Speaker 1: very good chance that important emails you may want to

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Speaker 1: see are being flagged or put into your spam on purpose,

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Speaker 1: specifically so you do not see them. And more importantly,

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Speaker 1: this is altering and changing the outcome of elections because

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Speaker 1: if every email the Democrats want to send shows up

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Speaker 1: in your inbox, if you're a liberal, and every Republican

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Speaker 1: email that Republicans want to see is going to spam.

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Speaker 1: And it's all about fundraising, Who do you think is

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Speaker 1: going to raise more money? Email is steel one of

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Speaker 1: the top ways to raise money in political campaigns, and

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Speaker 1: it is obvious that Donald Trump knows, and so do

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Speaker 1: many other Republicans that this is now what Google is doing,

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Speaker 1: and this is why we all need to be advocating

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Speaker 1: for Congress to get their hands dirty on this issue.

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Speaker 1: And big tech shouldn't be picking winners and losers when

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Speaker 1: it comes to emails they're being sent to you. And

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Speaker 1: more importantly, they should have to be honest about what

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Speaker 1: they've already done, be transparent about what they've done. And

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Speaker 1: that's exactly what I hope Republicans are going to do

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Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill. Don't forget share this podcast please with

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Speaker 1: your family and your friends wherever they are, and I

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Speaker 1: will see you back here tomorrow