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Speaker 1: Up next The Truth with Lisa Booth part of the

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Speaker 1: game Welcome back to the Truth with Lisa Booth. So

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Speaker 1: the Biden administration is learning the hard way that you

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Speaker 1: don't mess with Texas. On this episode of the Truth

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Speaker 1: with Lisa Booth, I sit down with Texas Attorney General

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Speaker 1: Kent Paxston to discuss the Lone Star States legal fight

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Speaker 1: against this administration's authoritarian assault on our freedoms. From vaccine

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Speaker 1: mandates to the border crisis. The Biden administration is showing

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Speaker 1: it doesn't care about your liberty or the rule of law.

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Speaker 1: It only cares about power, plain and simple. This is

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Speaker 1: a crucial moment for our country and we can't afford bystanders.

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Speaker 1: Attorney General Paxton is well aware of what's at stake,

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Speaker 1: and that's why the gloves are off in the Lone

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Speaker 1: Star State. Don't miss this episode and this interview with

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Speaker 1: the Attorney General of Texas, Kent Paxton. YEA, So, it's

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Speaker 1: such an honor to have of the Texas Attorney General

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Speaker 1: Ken Paxton on this episode. Probably the second greatest state

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Speaker 1: in the nation. I am biased as a New Floridian

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Speaker 1: and sir, but I really appreciate you joining the show

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Speaker 1: at least thanks fornd the on and Florida is not bad.

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Speaker 1: We love Florida. In sects, We're still going to claim

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Speaker 1: number one, but we like Florida too. A matter of fact,

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Speaker 1: I think it's critical that Florida and Texas are sticking together.

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Speaker 1: We take on the federal government and so many other

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Speaker 1: important issues together. I agree, sir. We were lucky to

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Speaker 1: be into the greatest states in the nation, you know, sir,

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Speaker 1: I was looking at some of the images coming out

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Speaker 1: and they're absolutely unreal. I mean, we're seeing a migrant

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Speaker 1: camp with over fourteen thousand people. Many of these individuals

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Speaker 1: came from Haiti. I mean, it's just complete and utter lawlessness.

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Speaker 1: How did it get this bad? I always say a

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Speaker 1: pictures worth a thousand works. This is this is started

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Speaker 1: the day that Joe Biden became president, when he told

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Speaker 1: the world, Hey, we're had an forcing immigration laws. You

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Speaker 1: can come and we won't deport you. That was the message.

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Speaker 1: It was clear, it was simple. It was in complete

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Speaker 1: violation of federal law. It was in complete violation of

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Speaker 1: this constitutional role. And and this is what it's been

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Speaker 1: like it's just this finally we get a visual for

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Speaker 1: the rest of America to see what Texas and Arizona

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Speaker 1: and other states have been dealing with since the very beginning.

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Speaker 1: But this is what is happening over This is a

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Speaker 1: small segment of those coming. It just so happens that

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Speaker 1: they they've all congregated in one area. But that's that's

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Speaker 1: like almost a daily amount of people coming across. Because

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Speaker 1: there's over two hundred thousand people a month that are

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Speaker 1: ago it was like, you know, one fourth of that.

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Speaker 1: You look at a city like del Rio, for for example,

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Speaker 1: I think it's a city of thirty five thousand people.

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Speaker 1: I read and there are over fourteen thousand at their doorsteps.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, what impact does this have on a

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Speaker 1: in general, Who's you know right there in the fight

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Speaker 1: obviously is a border state. Yeah, so I've been to

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Speaker 1: McAllen and other cities are all alone the border. It's

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Speaker 1: all the same. They're overwhelmed. It puts tremendous pressure on

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Speaker 1: higher instance of human trafficking, bet in all other type

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Speaker 1: the United States. You know, the irony of all of

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Speaker 1: this is we've got a president who on September nine

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Speaker 1: not vaccinate all these different things. So he's obviously a

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Speaker 1: complete hypocrite. But you know, as we look at some

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Speaker 1: of these mandates impacting companies with over huttered employees, federal

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Speaker 1: actions legal? Well, first of all, you bring up a

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Speaker 1: a president to order anybody to get a vaccine. You know,

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Speaker 1: why do you think Democrats so embrace open borders? What's

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Speaker 1: behind that? They may all have some differing reasons, but

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Speaker 1: it's a very insidious reason, but I think it's true.

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Speaker 1: And he also wants to have these people here voting

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Speaker 1: see is something like California. It's a one party state

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Speaker 1: run everything as if there is no real election. How

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Speaker 1: much correlation is there between you know, Texas COVID numbers

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Speaker 1: They're not detained, they just disappear. And that's happening, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's a global immigration crisis. I we people coming from

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Speaker 1: We wouldn't know it. Uh, they're not vetted, they're just released,

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Speaker 1: What's your response to this doctor and his violation of

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Speaker 1: General of Texas, Kent Paxxton. So you have taken on

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Speaker 1: some of the censorship we've seen. And how much impact

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