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Speaker 1: In a major federal action today, the Trump administration has

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Speaker 1: gone after the Biden era medicaid funding system that has

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Speaker 1: become ground zero for what Donald Trump has called a

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Speaker 1: war on fraud. Vice President JD. Vance, tasked by President

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Speaker 1: Trump with leading a nationwide crackdown on government fraud, and

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Speaker 1: Doctor Oz, the head of the Centers for Medicare and

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Speaker 1: about two hundred and fifty nine point five million in

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Speaker 1: medicaid reimbursement to the state of Minnesota. Now, that's more

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Speaker 1: than a quarter of a billion dollars that the federal

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Speaker 1: government had planned to send a Minnesota for medicaid spending,

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Speaker 1: and it's being paused until the state can prove that

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Speaker 1: it's properly policing the program and preventing taxpayer dollars from

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Speaker 1: being wasted or flat out stolen. A joint press conference,

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Speaker 1: Vance said the move is aimed squarely at ensuring Minnesota

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Speaker 1: takes its obligation seriously to be good stewards of the

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Speaker 1: American people's tax money. Here's doctor Oz in a major

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Speaker 1: move to stop corruption in Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: There is a fraud scheme in Minnesota where criminals soon

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Speaker 2: to be criminals pay moms one thousand dollars roughly in

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Speaker 2: order to enroll their children as being autistic, falsely dishonestly

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Speaker 2: claiming their children are autistic. They then bill Medicaid as

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Speaker 2: that already happened millions of dollars for services that were

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Speaker 2: never rendered, never delivered by a qualified staff member. These

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Speaker 2: schemes disproportionately involve immigrant communities. They're insulated, they're able to

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Speaker 2: organize efforts, and sometimes they don't understand what's going on,

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Speaker 2: and ultimately diverse resources away from kids who truly have autism,

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Speaker 2: because if every kid in the neighborhood has autism, then

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Speaker 2: nobody has autism in terms of how you can manage them.

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Speaker 2: There was one behavioral and by the way, these kids,

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Speaker 2: they carry that diagnosis of autism the rest of their lives.

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Speaker 2: Their mom made a bad decision. The kid pays the

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Speaker 2: price for the rest of their life. There's one behavioral

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Speaker 2: health organization, Mister Vice President of Minnesota. They received delivered

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Speaker 2: in a half million dollars in Medicaid payments, but the

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Speaker 2: top biller, the top biller submitted four hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: days where they claimed they were working more than twenty

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Speaker 2: four hours a day. I mean even in the White House,

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Speaker 2: that's tough. It's hard to work more than twenty four

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Speaker 2: hours a day. How it didn't get picked up is

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Speaker 2: shocking to us at CMS. There are other red flags

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Speaker 2: in Minnesota, including hundreds of beneficiaries receiving treatment linked to

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Speaker 2: one location, which was impossible physically to be true. We

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Speaker 2: had eight beneficiaries in one of these substance use disorder centers,

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Speaker 2: eight who were already dead, but the center was still

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Speaker 2: billing us. Not only did they let the person pass,

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Speaker 2: they kept building for it. That's the level of average

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Speaker 2: for talking about so CMS is done paying and chasing.

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Speaker 2: We don't think jail sentences are the right way out.

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Speaker 2: These criminals flee the country, many are foreign nationals. Instead

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Speaker 2: of launching the largest action against fraud that we'd ever taken,

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Speaker 2: the money's not going to ever leave the building again,

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Speaker 2: and we're going to start dreaming the swamp of the

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Speaker 2: crooks that have inhabited it and are defrauding us. They

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Speaker 2: are three bold actions. The first, for many of you

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Speaker 2: may be the most important is we're going, for the

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Speaker 2: first time take a massive action to defer funds to

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Speaker 2: a state. Let's start with this Medicaid program in Minnesota,

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Speaker 2: which serves pregnant women. Medicaid tastes care of our children.

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Speaker 2: Fifty three percent of kids are born in the poverty.

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Speaker 2: They are supported through Medicaid, disadvantaged seniors, individual disabilities. Is

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Speaker 2: unponderable that you would take advantage of these precious programs.

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Speaker 2: Yet they are putting it at risk, all of it

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Speaker 2: by stealing the money. So it's our due to preserve Medicaid.

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Speaker 2: And what we're going to do is identify the scameras,

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Speaker 2: which we have done in Minnesota. We've identified that they've hijacked.

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Speaker 2: In particular, a certain part of the Minnesota Medicaid system

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Speaker 2: said differently, and I'll just put the numbers out there.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be two hundred and fifty nine million

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Speaker 2: dollars of deferred payments from Medicaid to Minnesota, which we're

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Speaker 2: announcing as I speak to Governor Wilson his team. That's

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Speaker 2: based on an audit the last three months of twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty five restated a quarter billion dollars is not going

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Speaker 2: to be paid this month to Minnesota for its Medicaid claims.

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Speaker 2: Now that's a million rather a quarter billion dollars of money.

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Speaker 2: That's your money, it's your taxpayer money. And these home

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Speaker 2: and community based services, which again are services that are

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Speaker 2: typically things you would do for your family, but for

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Speaker 2: whatever reason, your family's not there to provide them, are

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Speaker 2: you'll see these problems happening in your state, which is

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Speaker 2: why Minnesota is not alone, although they're the first to

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Speaker 2: receive this action. These high growth areas of fraud are

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Speaker 2: difficult to police, so we require the states to take

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Speaker 2: of Minnesota and make sure they are responsive to our requests.

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Speaker 2: We did what any honest and patient focused agency would do.

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Speaker 2: We have notified the state and that we will give

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Speaker 3: We're going to hold.

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Speaker 2: It and only release it after they propose an act

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Speaker 2: on a comprehensive corrective action plan to solve the problem.

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Speaker 2: If Minnesota fails to clean up the systems, the state

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Speaker 2: will rack up a billion dollars of deferred payments this year.

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Speaker 2: Governor Walls has sixty days sixty days, sir, to respond

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Speaker 2: to our letter. And if providers and beneficiaries are worried

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Speaker 2: about getting their money in services, please call your governor.

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Speaker 2: These are services the governor has already paid for. We

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Speaker 2: are just not reimbursing the state. To make it clear,

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Speaker 2: there is a rainy day fund in Minnesota, so we

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Speaker 2: are very confident that people will not be hurt in Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: This is not a problem with the people in Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: It's a problem with the leadership of Minnesota and other

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Speaker 2: states who do not take Medicaid preservation.

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Speaker 1: Seriously, you listen to doctor Oz there and he lays

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Speaker 1: it out perfectly exactly who they're at war with. It

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Speaker 1: is not the people in Minnesota. It is those in

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Speaker 1: charge of Minnesota. They're allowing this to happen. Vice President JD.

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Speaker 1: Van's putting it this way. But first, I want to

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Speaker 1: I want to go back to.

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Speaker 3: Vice President JD. Van's putting it this way.

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Speaker 4: We're announcing today that we have decided to temporary temporarily

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Speaker 4: halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that are going to

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Speaker 4: the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the

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Speaker 4: State of Minnesota takes its obligations seriously to be good

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Speaker 4: stewards of the American people's tax money. Now, what is

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Speaker 4: this going to mean. What this means is that, first

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Speaker 4: of all, the providers on the ground in Minnesota have

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Speaker 4: actually already been paid. The state has paid those providers

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Speaker 4: the money. What we're doing is we are stopping the

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Speaker 4: the state government takes its obligations seriously to stop the

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Speaker 4: fraud that's being perpetrated against the American taxpayers.

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Speaker 1: Now, the Vice President and doctor officially halting a quarter

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Speaker 1: Wallats in the City of Minnesota is massive. They're cutting

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Speaker 1: off the cash. This is massive because of the fraud,

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Speaker 1: they're saying, the governor, open your books, show us, do

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Speaker 1: an investigation, make sure we understand exactly what's happening here.

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Speaker 1: And if you can show that the money's not going

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Speaker 1: to massive fraud, fine you can have the money. This

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Speaker 1: is exactly, by the way, what so many Americans were

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Speaker 1: Trump is now doing it right now in real time

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Speaker 1: to Minnesota. We have to talk about the dramatic and

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Speaker 1: deadly international incident that's unfolding right now, one that has

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Speaker 1: shaken nerves across Washington, Miami, and Havana. The Cuban Coast

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Speaker 1: Guard opening fire on a US registered speedboat, killing four

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Speaker 1: attempt inside its territorial waters. We're going to walk you

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Speaker 1: through everything. We know what Cuba is now claiming, as

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Speaker 1: also for our national security. Now Florida registered speedboat flying

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Speaker 1: terrorist purposes. Now again, this is coming from Cuba's government.

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Speaker 1: The authorities also released names of several of those on board,

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Speaker 1: The US government has not independently verified any of what

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Speaker 5: This morning, we were made aware by Cuban authorities of

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Speaker 5: an incident off the coast of Cuba. We immediately began

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Speaker 5: to look into it. As it stands now, the Department

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Speaker 5: of Homeland Security, the Coast Guard, others are involved. The

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Speaker 5: majority of the information we still possess is what Cuban

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Speaker 5: We have our embassy on the ground in Havana working

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Speaker 5: this as we speak, asking for access to the people

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Speaker 5: that were on those vessels, if they were American citizens

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Speaker 5: or permanent residents. According to the Cuban regime, boat was

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Speaker 5: registered in Florida. We're tracking that down. We will know shortly,

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Speaker 5: and we won't quickly, many more facts about this incident.

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Speaker 5: prepared to respond accordingly. I'm not going to speculate. I'm

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Speaker 5: we're going to find out exactly what happened here, and

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Speaker 6: to undocumented to you know, non citizen in person to

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Speaker 6: migrant to you know, they get into all this stuff,

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Speaker 6: but really it's erasing the difference between an American and

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Speaker 6: everybody else. And so if you can erase that in

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Speaker 6: our language, you start to that distinction in the minds

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Speaker 6: of well not just Americans, but the whole world. And

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Speaker 6: it's a way of dissolving our sovereignty in real time.

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Speaker 6: I mean, it's deeply subversive what they do. And that's

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Speaker 6: why in one of the latter chapters of Manufacturing Delusion

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Speaker 6: available now, and I hope everyone goes and gets a

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Speaker 6: copy because it is a bestseller, and I want it

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Speaker 6: to be a massive bestseller. They'll see that this manipulation

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Speaker 6: of language goes to something much more insidious than just oh,

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Speaker 6: democrats like to have their way on TV, or Democrats

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Speaker 6: are hissy about language. They're trying to shape understanding. They're

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Speaker 6: trying to shape belief, They're trying to control minds with

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's where you look at this speech

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Speaker 1: and part of what the President I think was trying

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Speaker 1: to lay out was and go back to the simple issue.

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Speaker 1: If it's the economy, stupid, right, it's such an important

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Speaker 1: point to make. The President was trying to make that

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Speaker 1: clear to the American people, Hey, we are way better

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Speaker 1: off now than we were when the last guys were

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Speaker 1: in charge.

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Speaker 3: Never ever ever forget that.

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Speaker 1: And he was also some of the things he's enacted

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Speaker 1: are just now becoming a reality that people are seeing.

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Speaker 1: No tax on tips has just been enacted. No tax

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Speaker 1: in overtime has just been enacted. I mean, we're not

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Speaker 1: even talking about a quarter of the year of people

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Speaker 1: experiencing what that does and how it can change their

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Speaker 1: life and keeping more of their own hard earned dollars.

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Speaker 1: I feel like the President actually did a really good

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Speaker 1: job of selling and reminding people of where we were

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Speaker 1: and where we are now.

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Speaker 6: Of course, and it's been an amazing first year. All

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Speaker 6: the key indicators and numbers on the economy speak to that,

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Speaker 6: and so it's a fun place for Trump and for

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Speaker 6: his cabinet and the administration to be in. I mean,

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Speaker 6: it's a joyful place one year in to look at

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Speaker 6: all the accomplishments. But I also think, of course, there's

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Speaker 6: a setting of expectations, which is that now this has

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Speaker 6: to continue on into year too, and we can't think

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Speaker 6: of this as a two year presidency, as in, we

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Speaker 6: can't allow the midterms to just slip away and then

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Speaker 6: all of a sudden you have the styming of the

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Speaker 6: Trump agenda, and you have these crazy people, which is

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Speaker 6: what Trump called them, and I think in many cases,

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Speaker 6: maybe most cases, of the Democrats assembled there, that is true.

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Speaker 6: You have these crazy people who because they are so

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Speaker 6: personally invested in this, almost like they've been made to

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Speaker 6: be crazy, like their delusions have been manufactured. Manufacturing Delusion

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Speaker 6: is a fantastic book that will explain to you how

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Speaker 6: this happens. You know. You notice, by the way, Ben,

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Speaker 6: when you're selling a book, you have to absolutely be

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Speaker 6: you have to be prelent us. You cannot give, you

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Speaker 6: cannot relent. But no, really, the Democrat Party, I think,

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Speaker 6: has gone into a place where it is incapable of

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Speaker 6: moderation or reform, and so people just need to be

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Speaker 6: prepared for the empire to strike back and the maniacs,

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Speaker 6: you know, the inmates, to be running the asylum again

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Speaker 6: if they win these midterms. So the stakes are very high.

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Speaker 2: Mind.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so maybe a good friend of mine, Buck Sex,

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Speaker 1: and the author of the Manufacturing Delusion, how the Left

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Speaker 1: uses brainwashing and doctrination and propaganda against you.

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Speaker 3: I want to end on a final.

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Speaker 1: Subject of foreign policy. You talk about this in your

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Speaker 1: book and being in the CIA back in the day,

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Speaker 1: I think it's really interesting to see what's happening across

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Speaker 1: the border, the southern border in Mexico right now. You

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Speaker 1: have two top people now that have been killed not

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Speaker 1: just one, but another one after that, the top lieutendant

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Speaker 1: of the finance guy, all things money of this cartel

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Speaker 1: was also taken out. We've been told there's a question

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Speaker 1: about what other cartels be targeted. There's four major ones

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Speaker 1: in Mexico. Only one of the four has been targeted

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Speaker 1: by the government so far in a major way. Who

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Speaker 1: will be next? Will there be a next? And then

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Speaker 1: you've got what's happening in Cuba, Venezuela and also in Iran.

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Speaker 1: I get your take on all that real quick before

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Speaker 1: I let you go.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, well, the death of really the targeted killing of

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Speaker 6: El menshow taken out by the Mexican military, And my

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Speaker 6: understanding is a bit like the bin Laden situation. This

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Speaker 6: was a military strike. This was much less like a

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Speaker 6: traditional law enforcement operation than you'd see in other contexts.

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Speaker 6: But this is most meaningful because it's the beginning, perhaps

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Speaker 6: of an expanded true war on drugs across the border

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Speaker 6: in Mexico. Look, we have a Secretary of War Pete Hegseth,

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Speaker 6: who is overseeing strikes, effectively drone strikes on drug boats

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Speaker 6: in the Caribbean. I mean this is warlike stuff. I

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Speaker 6: mean these are military moves kinetic strikes that are being taken,

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Speaker 6: and if we expand that into Mexico, we go after

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Speaker 6: the head of the snake when it comes to the

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Speaker 6: fentanyl poisoning of so many tens of thousands of Americans

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Speaker 6: every year. Now, the other side of this, though, is

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Speaker 6: that those cartels in Mexico have a lot of these ciicarios.

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Speaker 6: They're assassin you know, hitmen, gunmen. They have a lot

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Speaker 6: of money to throw around, and it's going to get

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Speaker 6: very messy. I think if we try to go in

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Speaker 6: and go in heavy, but that may be a price

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Speaker 6: that the administration is willing to pay, certainly using special

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Speaker 6: operations and more technological and tactical moves against important cartel targets.

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Speaker 6: So because what we have been doing obviously hasn't worked.

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Speaker 6: So that's the you know, this idea that we're going

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Speaker 6: to have, you know, like free needle clinics like they

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Speaker 6: have in San Francisco or these things, or decriminalization or something. No,

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Speaker 6: people are going to die in large numbers, and the

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Speaker 6: cartels are making too much money from this and it

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Speaker 6: needs to be stopped, and Trump's willing to stop it.

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Speaker 6: So I think that they are going to by the way,

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Speaker 6: they're effectively taking something that you mentioned. My time in CIA,

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Speaker 6: I was in the counter terrorism center there. They're taking

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Speaker 6: what we've learned fighting al Qaeda and fighting these dispersed

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Speaker 6: terror cells of the Jihattist variety, particularly in the Least,

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Speaker 6: but everywhere from the Philippines to South Asia to all

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Speaker 6: over the place to East Africa and West Africa. They're

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Speaker 6: taking that model, I think, and going to apply those tactics, techniques,

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Speaker 6: and procedures to how we go after the cartels in Mexico.

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Speaker 6: And if they do that, you're gonna have a lot

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Speaker 6: more elemento like funerals going on for the narcos.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt. Final thing on this, and this is

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Speaker 1: breaking as you and I are doing this. There's video

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Speaker 1: now that's come out and it's being reported now that

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Speaker 1: Democratic Representative Rashid Telib was actually chanting while the Republicans

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Speaker 1: it looks like we're turning USA. She was chanting kkk

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Speaker 1: kkk while everyone else in the House chamber chanted USA.

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Speaker 3: I got to get your response to the action of that.

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Speaker 6: Book, Well, she's a vile more on, nothing surprising about

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Speaker 6: it at all, to be honest with you. The fact

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Speaker 6: that anyone votes for her just shows you how depraved

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Speaker 6: and stupid a lot of democrats are. And with that,

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Speaker 6: my friend, I will say, people need to go get

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Speaker 6: Manufacturing Delusion, a book that will explain why democrats are

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Speaker 6: so debraved, so depraved and insane. I will give you

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Speaker 6: the science behind it, my friends, Manufacturing Delusion. Get the book.

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Speaker 3: There it is. Grab it, buck Sexon. Always a pleasure.

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Speaker 1: Manufacturing delusion how the Left uses brainwashing and doctrination and

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Speaker 1: propaganda against you. Grab it wherever you get your books

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Speaker 1: or on Amazon right now as well. Always a pleasure,

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Speaker 1: my friend. Congrats, I'm a bestseller and we'll have you

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Speaker 1: back again real soon