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Speaker 2: I want to talk about, you know, what this political

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Speaker 2: funding situation really is and who's really moving a needle

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Speaker 2: because they put they put thirty million on you, right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was.

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Speaker 1: I was taken aback by that. I was telling the

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Speaker 1: guys right before the shows they have an ad that's

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Speaker 2: So all right, they put they put they put thirty

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Speaker 2: million on you. So what does this mean? Break this

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Speaker 2: down and layman term for the people to understand. You know,

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Speaker 2: how big money is really influencing elections.

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Speaker 3: No, absolutely, especially in congressional elections. So one quick point

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Speaker 3: of clarification, the election is not weeks away, it's actually

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Speaker 3: days away. So the first day of early voting is

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Speaker 3: this Saturday. So that's Saturday, June fifteenth, literally six days away,

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Speaker 3: and so we're treating the first day of early voting

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Speaker 3: as as election day. So please get out there and

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Speaker 3: vote everyone who's watching. So, when you run for office

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Speaker 3: at any level, you got to raise money to run

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Speaker 3: your campaign. So that money goes towards paying staff, it

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Speaker 3: goes towards getting flyers and palm cards, posters, banners, mailers

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Speaker 3: to people's homes, advertisement, it goes to a variety of things.

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Speaker 3: When you run for Congress, the most that someone can

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Speaker 3: donate to your campaign it's thirty three hundred dollars for

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Speaker 3: the primary and another thirty three hundred for the general

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Speaker 3: if you win the primary. But there are organizations that

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Speaker 3: work outside of your campaign that are called super packs

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Speaker 3: and cfors. Those c fours can raise an unlimited amount

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Speaker 3: which operate on the campaign's behalf. So in my race,

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Speaker 3: when you talk about that thirty million dollar number, most

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Speaker 3: who is running against me. That is not his campaign money.

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Speaker 3: His campaign money can be anywhere from like a couple

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Speaker 3: and he spends that for flyers and mailers and ads.

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Speaker 3: But then if you have a C four or superpack

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Speaker 3: which is what's happening in this race. Most of that

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Speaker 3: And this is more money than they have ever spent

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Speaker 2: So, okay, so let's get let's get straight to the point.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he said today though, so.

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Speaker 2: Well, Nate, So a pack, Yes, who is a pack?

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Speaker 2: For the audience, and why would a pack spend thirty

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Speaker 3: Yes, so APAC stands for and I want to get

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Speaker 3: this right. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, they are

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Speaker 3: one issue organization Israel. They support the State of Israel,

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Speaker 3: and their lobbying in Congress goes to ensure that Israel

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Speaker 3: continues to receive three point eight billion dollars a year

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Speaker 3: That's who APAC is. They are targeting me and spending

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Speaker 3: so much money against me because I called for a

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Speaker 3: fighting to end the genocide and the famine that is

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Speaker 3: they have members of Congress doing that, they are targeting

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Speaker 3: So they don't just fund congressional races, they fund state races,

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Speaker 3: county races, local races, et cetera. They've been around for

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Speaker 3: sixty years advocating for Israel and Israel only, and they've

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Speaker 3: pledged to spend one hundred million dollars this election cycle.

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Speaker 3: But the majority of that going towards your boy, Congressman Bowmen.

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Speaker 4: Of what they're going to know, they're willingending you, which

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Speaker 4: is and I mean when we talk about wealth and

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Speaker 4: will have a conversation with that, I'm sure, But we

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Speaker 4: don't have super PACs. And that's something that we've had

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Speaker 4: plenty of conversations about even educating people on what they are,

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Speaker 4: how to form them, and how to figure out what

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Speaker 1: When you hear those type of numbers, thirty million, which

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Speaker 1: capital on a local well, we could not a local election,

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Speaker 1: but a regional election, right, right, how do you combat that?

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Speaker 3: Is it? Hey?

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Speaker 1: I need to raise more. We have to become strategic

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Speaker 1: because I've seen their ads every morning. I see your

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Speaker 1: ads too, right, I love I love like when it's

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Speaker 1: like you're going back to the schools and education is part.

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Speaker 4: Of the campaign. How do you combat that?

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Speaker 1: Like, what's the strategy to run against somebody that seems

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Speaker 1: to have capital that's almost pretty extensive, I want to

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Speaker 1: say unlimited, but very extensive.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, No, just to give you some more context, before

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Speaker 3: I answer your question. So they spent ten million on

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Speaker 3: spent on broadcasts all year. So literally within a four

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Speaker 3: which is complete misinformation and disinformation and propaganda, not accurate

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Speaker 3: at all. But that gives you an idea. Comparing it

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Speaker 3: have an incredible field operation and ground game that literally

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Speaker 3: goes door to door. And so for us, we spend

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Speaker 3: a lot of time and effort on our field operation.

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Speaker 3: We spend money on field to make sure we are

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Speaker 3: knocking doors in particular areas. But then we also have

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Speaker 3: how you combat it. They got money, we got people.

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Speaker 3: This is the many versus the money. And most of

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Speaker 3: For example, they support the permanencies fire, They support you know,

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Speaker 3: me wanting to fight to bring that three point eight

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Speaker 3: entrepreneurship opportunities, affordable housing, affordable childcare, fully funding schools, et cetera,

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Speaker 3: et cetera. Most of the American people are with us.

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Speaker 3: The challenge is they have all the money, and they

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Speaker 3: also have media infrastructure in place where they can, you know,

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Speaker 3: quickly pivot and weaponize something I said or did against

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Speaker 3: us as well, which is part of what they're doing

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Speaker 5: With hindsight being twenty twenty, do you regret making some

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Speaker 5: of the statements that you did and maybe that could

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Speaker 5: have prevented the attack. Do you feel as if, no

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Speaker 5: matter what was stated, they were going to attack you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and no, I don't regret it at all. I'm

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Speaker 3: If I'm not there fighting for justice like racial justice,

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Speaker 3: at all. And as a matter of fact, in my opinion,

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Speaker 3: this time. This is an example of us carrying on

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Speaker 3: the legacy of our ancestors who fought and died for

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Speaker 3: I mean, look at what happened during the sixties, with

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Speaker 3: of my responsibility, I think, as you know, not just

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Speaker 3: doing this, and I actually take it as a badger

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Speaker 3: honor that they're spending more money than they ever spend

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Speaker 3: history to get me out of office.

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Speaker 2: So let me ask you this. Okay, So three points

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Speaker 2: eight billion, you said, goest Israel.

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Speaker 3: Three point eight billion a year plus plus let me

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Speaker 3: just add real quick before you asked your question. Plus whenever,

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Speaker 3: like whenever something occurs out of the ordinary. A pac

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Speaker 3: writes a bill for Congress to appropriate more money for Israel.

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Speaker 3: So during my first term we annually, no matter what,

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Speaker 3: if everything's quiet, calm, three point eight billions already earmarked.

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Speaker 3: But my first term, Hama sent rockets to attack Israel

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Speaker 3: and Israel had to use some of this I am

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Speaker 3: don't defense resources. And right after that, Apak wrote a

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Speaker 3: bill so that we could send an additional billion to

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Speaker 3: Israel on top of the three point eight billion. Right

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Speaker 3: now with the attacks happening in Gaza right now, we

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Speaker 3: we got it. That's how it goes.

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Speaker 6: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child

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Speaker 6: Do what's right, leave now. Under President Trump, America's laws,

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Speaker 6: border and families will be protected.

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Speaker 5: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security,