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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Truth.

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Speaker 2: With Lisa booth Well, we get to the heart of

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Speaker 2: the issues that matter to you Today. I'm joined by

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Speaker 2: Senator Marsha Blackburn to break down the latest on the

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Speaker 2: immigration fight.

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Speaker 1: President Trump's borders are.

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Speaker 2: Tom Homan announced that they will pull seven hundred enforcement

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Speaker 2: officials for Minnesota after officials there agreed to cooperate a

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Speaker 2: mass deportations.

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Speaker 1: So did the rioters win? We'll ask her about that.

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Speaker 2: We're also going to dive into Senator Blackburn's Fraud Accountability Act,

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Speaker 2: aimed at the porting and denaturalizing fraudsters like those who

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Speaker 2: have been exploiting systems in Minnesota. That's an important bill

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Speaker 2: we'll talk about. Can she get some bipartisan support on that? Also,

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Speaker 2: Tennessee and is still reeling from Winter Storm Fern. Many

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Speaker 2: still don't have power.

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Speaker 1: Why is that? What's going wrong in the state of Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: All of that and more with Senator Marshall Blackburn.

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Speaker 2: Well, Senator Marshall Blackburn, it's always an honor to have

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Speaker 2: you on the show.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you making the time.

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Speaker 3: I'm delighted to join you as always.

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Speaker 2: You know, Senator, I'm sure you saw the news about

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Speaker 2: Tom Homan. President Trump's porters are announcing that seven hundred

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Speaker 2: immigration enforcement officials will be withdrawing from Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: On did the rioters win?

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Speaker 3: I don't think the rioters won. What Tom Homan is doing,

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Speaker 3: he has achieved the victory, Lisa, because now they're going

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Speaker 3: to be able to go get these bad actors. They're

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Speaker 3: in the jail, and with local law enforcement working with Ice,

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Speaker 3: then you're not going to need a team of fifteen

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Speaker 3: to go apprehend someone. You're going to be able to

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Speaker 3: go with a team of two. So it makes sense

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Speaker 3: that they would deploy resource is elsewhere. You know, take

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Speaker 3: a look at what we've done in Memphis and compare that.

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Speaker 3: You have had better than a dozen federal agencies working

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Speaker 3: in Memphis for the last one hundred and twenty days,

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Speaker 3: and they have cut the violent crime rate in half.

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Speaker 3: That's a great thing. They've made over sixty five hundred arrests.

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Speaker 3: These are people that have committed robbery and murder, aggravated assault,

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Speaker 3: their child predators and pedophiles and just really bad bad people.

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Speaker 3: And so they have also been able to rescue one

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Speaker 3: hundred and forty eight children. They've taken fifteen hundred weapons,

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Speaker 3: illegal weapons off the street. And they've done it because

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Speaker 3: you've got a mayor and a police chief that is

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Speaker 3: working with all of these federal agencies, the Tennessee National Guard,

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Speaker 3: the Tennessee Highway Patrol, and this has been a concerted

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Speaker 3: effort where you have had participation and cooperation at every

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Speaker 3: single step. So that's what success looks like. You've not

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Speaker 3: seen that in Minneapolis, and what Tom Homan would like

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Speaker 3: to see is working with your local law enforcement. So

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Speaker 3: getting that cooperation, being able to do these apprehensions in

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Speaker 3: the jail, make them targeted, not be out having to

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Speaker 3: go into the community. It really changes the work that

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Speaker 3: they'll do there in the city.

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Speaker 1: You know, Senator President Trump's.

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Speaker 2: You know, obviously Congress has reached a deal in funding.

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Speaker 2: President Trump will take care of that. But it spins

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Speaker 2: off the DHS funding, which I worry that it's handing

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Speaker 2: leverage to the left. You know, they want to see

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Speaker 2: some reforms with ICE more specifically, obviously they've taken aim

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Speaker 2: at ICE in federal law enforcement officials, so why spin

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Speaker 2: it off, you know, why give them that kind of leverage.

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Speaker 3: It was important to get five of the six appropriations

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Speaker 3: and get onto a Trump budget. Now we in the

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Speaker 3: Big Beautiful bill did funding for ice for the next

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Speaker 3: five years. Also in the DHS funding bill, the cr

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Speaker 3: spends more money on ice than the funding bill does.

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Speaker 3: So I don't know what they were thinking there. They're

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Speaker 3: saying they want body cameras. Well, the funding for that

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Speaker 3: was in the bill that was a bipartisan negotiated bill. So, Lisa,

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Speaker 3: their little come apart they had over the DHS funding

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Speaker 3: really doesn't make a lot of sense. And I think

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Speaker 3: now they're trying to scramble and say, you know, what

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Speaker 3: they want, which they're having a hard time articulating because

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Speaker 3: the CEAR spends more money on ice than the appropriations

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Speaker 3: bill did, and their big thing about body cameras were

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Speaker 3: already included in the bill. So what we do know

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Speaker 3: is this, the American people, on a bipartisan basis, by

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Speaker 3: a vast majority, want to see criminal illegal aliens removed

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Speaker 3: from the country, removed from their communities, removed from their

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Speaker 2: You know, I hear you, and I agree with the

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Speaker 2: body cameras, and I actually think the body cameras are

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Speaker 2: a good idea to I think it's good for Americans

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Speaker 2: to see how our federal law enforcement officers are treated

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Speaker 2: by the public.

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Speaker 1: And the left.

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Speaker 2: But he's also said things like he wants to get

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Speaker 2: the masks removed for ICE, and we know that there

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Speaker 2: has been bounties based on the heads of our federal

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Speaker 2: law enforcement that assaults so dramatically up as well as

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Speaker 2: threats against ICE as well. Is that something you think

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Speaker 2: Republicans would sign off on?

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Speaker 1: Is that something? Is that a win?

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Speaker 3: No? And we even have my legislation that makes it

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Speaker 3: a federal offense to docks federal law enforcement. They are

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Speaker 3: not in the covered person's list right now, and wearing

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Speaker 3: a mask is something that federal law enforcement does regularly,

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Speaker 3: and you cannot remove the mask, and you cannot have

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Speaker 3: these individuals put in harm's way and then have them docked.

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Speaker 3: So no, you're not going to see that. So we

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Speaker 3: may want to add the doxing legislation to this discussion.

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Speaker 3: The Fraud Act, the Fraud Accountability Act that I have

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Speaker 3: that would require the deportation or triggered naturalization of individuals

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Speaker 3: that are here on visas work permits, that have legal

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Speaker 3: permanent residency, people that have had a naturalized citizenship. If

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Speaker 3: they're going to defraud your local state and federal government,

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Speaker 3: if they are going to defraud individuals in this country,

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Speaker 3: then they would be subject to a deportation denaturalization.

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Speaker 2: Hearing, Well, that was going to be my next question

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Speaker 2: about your Fraud Accountability Act, because it is important. I mean,

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Speaker 2: we're seeing the American people get scammed in state like Minnesota,

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Speaker 2: up to potentially nine billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: We know it's how.

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Speaker 2: Oppening elsewhere in the country as well, like California and Maine.

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Speaker 1: Do you think you could get bipartisan support for it?

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Speaker 3: We should get bipartisan support. Fighting fraud should be a

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Speaker 3: bipartisan issue. And right now what we've seen is the

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Speaker 3: Democrats have said they would rather their protect illegal aliens

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Speaker 3: then fund DHS, who also, by the way, thirty five

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Speaker 3: percent of their budget is FEMA. And states like Tennessee

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Speaker 3: are recovering right now from a horrific ice storm, a

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Speaker 3: generational type storm. Eleven days after this thing, we still

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Speaker 3: have people that don't have power, So do they really

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Speaker 3: want to do that and protect illegal aliens more than

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Speaker 3: they're going to protect US citizens? So I think it's

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Speaker 3: something they're going to have to think about.

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Speaker 2: How do they not have power? Why do you think

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Speaker 2: that is what's going wrong?

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Speaker 3: Well, es Nashville Electric Service, which provides for Metro Nashville,

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Speaker 3: Davidson County, plus about five of the surrounding counties. Portions

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Speaker 3: of those counties, they just have focused on DEI. They

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Speaker 3: cut the tree trimming budget, and of course we are

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Speaker 3: a beautiful state with rolling hills and valleys, and we've

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Speaker 3: got lots of beautiful hardwood trees and rocky soil, and

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Speaker 3: they just they cut the tree trimming budget by about

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Speaker 3: thirty percent a third, and then they focused on DIEI

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Speaker 3: training and did one hundred and two DEI seminars in

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Speaker 3: twenty three and early twenty four.

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Speaker 2: Well, Senator, I think I've told you this before, but

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Speaker 2: I went to the University of Tennessee, so I'm very

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Speaker 2: familiar with your With Tennessee. It is a beautiful state

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Speaker 2: full of amazing people. So we're praying for Tennesseeans as

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Speaker 2: power gets restored, and pray that it happens sooner than later.

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Speaker 1: Because it's cold and it's dangerous and I have power.

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Speaker 2: Senator marsh Or Blackburn, it's always an honor to have

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Speaker 2: you on the show. I look forward to having you

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Speaker 2: on again soon. Thanks for making the time to be

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Speaker 2: with you. Thank you that was Senator Marsha Blackburn. Appreciate

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Speaker 2: her for taking the time to come on the show.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate you guys at home for listening every Tuesday and Thursday,

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Speaker 2: but you can listen throughout the week. I also want

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Speaker 2: to thank my producer, John Cassio for putting the show together.

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Speaker 1: Until next time,