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Speaker 2: Nice to be with you in person. I love it

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Speaker 2: when we get to do this once a week. You

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Speaker 2: had a very interesting weekend, and I think this conversation

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Speaker 2: what people are about to see is very foreshadowing of

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Speaker 2: the presidential election and the conversation that many Americans are

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Speaker 2: going to be having. There's this thing called Tripfest down

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Speaker 1: I love what I.

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Speaker 2: Get to watch you do these things because I know

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Speaker 2: how much you enjoy it. But there was real dialogue

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Speaker 2: and a real conversation that's important for the country. And

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Speaker 2: one of the things about this was you got to

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Speaker 2: talk about issues like school choice, which was incredible.

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Speaker 3: Well that's right.

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Speaker 4: So on Saturday, I was up in Austin and the

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Speaker 4: event Tripfest they do every year. It's hosted by the

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Speaker 4: Texas Tribune, which is a Texas political and news organization,

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Speaker 4: and they have lots of different elected officials. They have

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Speaker 3: National media comes down.

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Speaker 4: They've had Hillary Clinton down there, they had they had

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Speaker 4: The Weekend has his Libfest instead of trip Fest because

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Speaker 4: it's accurate. It skews heavily left, and most of the

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Speaker 3: But it gives you a chance.

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Speaker 4: And actually, while I was there, I took the point

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Speaker 3: Hey, listen, thank you for coming. Yeah. You know, I

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Speaker 4: At the outset how we don't talk to each other enough,

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Speaker 4: the left. And in fact I told them I said,

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Speaker 4: all right, it'll kill you to do this, but subscribe

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Speaker 4: lot of issues. And here's the first where I brought

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Speaker 4: unfortunately lags behind on school choice. I'm a passionate defender

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Speaker 4: I think it is the civil rights issue of the

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Speaker 4: Sixty seventy eighty percent of them support it. So I

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Speaker 3: Well, my view is, don't trap kids.

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Speaker 2: I gotta say, I really do believe school choice is

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Speaker 4: Look, I agree. I think the momentum behind choice is mass.

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Speaker 4: If kids get an education, many of those problems largely

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Speaker 3: And it's There are a lot of issues in public life.

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Speaker 3: Have always had school choice.

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Speaker 4: If you're at a wealthy jurisdiction. An example I use.

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Speaker 1: What is your.

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Speaker 2: Advice for those that are running in this presidential election

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Speaker 1: It was a do not touch issue. It was leave

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Speaker 2: It was two debates that we had on that campaign,

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Speaker 2: And then the second one was school choice in school vouchers.

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Speaker 2: It was like, we don't go there, that's third rail.

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Speaker 2: And I remember fighting, going, this is something we should

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Speaker 1: You just have to explain it.

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Speaker 2: Are we winning now where this is no longer that

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Speaker 4: So I got to say, I'm you and I have

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Speaker 4: And I still remember that debate when Bob Dole was

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Speaker 4: Say this is the basic divide. Every time there's a

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Speaker 3: And I'll give a stat again.

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Speaker 4: Look, this is an audience who I think has their

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Speaker 4: They said, every year, firearms are used defensively to stop

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Speaker 4: If you want to stop crime, go after the criminals,

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about it. Another big issue. We got to

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Speaker 2: I can't believe that the audience couldn't even clap in

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Speaker 3: That don't look Rich Liberals like school choice. If you're

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Speaker 3: You don't have another option.

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Speaker 4: You can't move to a safer place where the criminals

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Speaker 2: They laugh, they act like you're making it up. The

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Speaker 4: The numbers are staggering. George Soros has spent literally millions

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Speaker 2: Just two weeks ago, there's an African American young way

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Speaker 4: Take a look, so twice the Democrats have taken up

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Speaker 1: I get it. It's you're saying it's not it's not

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Speaker 4: So the Democrats said the bill was was to codify Row.

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Speaker 4: bill would do. The bill that was voted on in

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Speaker 4: the Senate is a bill that would effectively strike down

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Speaker 4: every single state restriction on abortion, so it would legalize

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Speaker 4: abortion up until the moment of birth. It would legalize

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Speaker 4: partial birth abortion.

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Speaker 1: Democrats disputed.

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Speaker 4: It would it would strike down parental notification and parental consent.

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Speaker 4: You're saying, but I want to say something that's important

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Speaker 4: to understand. If you look at national polling, that view

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Speaker 4: is an extreme and radical view. Nine percent of Americans

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Speaker 4: agree with that view, and every single Senate Democrat voted

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Speaker 2: I mean, Sier, you listen to the status, You listen

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Speaker 2: to what you said.

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Speaker 1: He didn't want to hear it.

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Speaker 2: The audience doesn't want to hear it, and they don't

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Speaker 2: want to hear what's actually in the bill that you

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Speaker 4: They just yell it's not true. No, no, no, it's

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Speaker 4: not true. And yet it is the view over and

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Speaker 4: over again of elected Democrats. And the hate when you

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Speaker 4: pointed out. Reporters hate when you pointed out. Activists hate

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Speaker 4: when you pointed out because Republicans are supposed to be

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Speaker 3: And what I said earlier at Tripfest I said.

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Speaker 4: Listen, abortion, people disagree, people disagree strongly, and the Supreme

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Speaker 2: illegal immigrants coming across the border into Texas and what

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Speaker 2: it's happening around the country. Seeing this debate change very

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Speaker 2: because it's go outside, go anywhere in Texas. You can

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Speaker 2: see the difference in how the state's changing because of

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Speaker 2: so many illegal immigrants come across the border. Were they

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Speaker 2: willing to have a different dialogue this.

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Speaker 3: Year, Not not remotely.

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Speaker 4: Unfortunately, left wing college students live in an ivory tower.

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Speaker 4: These are the same college students that think school choice

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Speaker 4: there's no need for it, that think the Second Amendment

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Speaker 4: is unnecessary and we should disarm people that want to

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Speaker 4: see unlimited abortion on demand because they're being indoctrinated. Look,

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Speaker 4: they're nineteen twenty year olds are being indoctrinated, So on

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Speaker 4: immigration that their only view as open borders is mandated

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Speaker 4: by justice, and so they.

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Speaker 3: Don't want to hear the people who are hurt.

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Speaker 4: They don't want to hear the suffering, they don't want

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Speaker 4: to hear the death that comes from open borders because

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Speaker 4: it's inconsistent with their political narrative.

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Speaker 1: Take a look at this video. It's interesting and.

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Speaker 4: It's a problem that is man made. This is one

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Speaker 4: of the important things to say. So if you look

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Speaker 4: at press talking points, one of the talking points that

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Speaker 4: you see from the White House is well, the border

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Speaker 4: is just not solvable. The problem with that is that

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Speaker 4: is objectively false. When Joe Biden came into office, he

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Speaker 4: inherited the lowest rate of illegal immigration in forty five years.

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Speaker 4: And this crisis was caused by three specific decisions. Number one,

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Speaker 4: it was caused the first week in office. Biden immediately

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Speaker 4: halted construction of the border wall. Number two, he reinstated

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Speaker 4: the failed policy of catch and release, so that when

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Speaker 4: people are apprehended, they're given a court date sometime in

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Speaker 4: the future, they're let go and the vast majority of

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Speaker 4: them are never seen again. And number three, he pulled

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Speaker 4: out of the incredibly successful remain in Mexico Agreement.

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Speaker 3: Now, what was remain in Mexico.

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Speaker 4: Remain in Mexico was an international agreement the United States

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Speaker 4: negotiated with Mexico that said that when people cross illegally

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Speaker 4: into Mexico, typically from Central or South America, that they

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Speaker 4: would remain in Mexico while their US asylum case was preceding.

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Speaker 1: And it worked.

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Speaker 4: It worked incredibly well, so much so that we saw

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Speaker 4: the lowest rate of illegal immigration in forty five years.

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Speaker 4: Biden came in his first week in office, he ripped

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Speaker 4: that agreement to shreds and we right now have the

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Speaker 4: highest rate ever recorded. Seven point two million people have

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Speaker 4: crossed illegally since Biden became president, and it is utterly indefensible.

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Speaker 5: I want to move on to one, one or two

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Speaker 5: topics before we go to audience questions.

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Speaker 1: Here, Let's just think about how silent he was.

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Speaker 2: It's like, let's move on again, right, don't want to

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Speaker 2: talk about the facts. And if you look at the

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Speaker 2: numbers since Joe Biden took office, you have seven point

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Speaker 2: five million illegal immigrants that have crossed the border, including

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Speaker 2: one point five million guidaways to escape border patrol and

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Speaker 2: vanished into the country.

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Speaker 1: In Friday, there was a dump of new data.

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Speaker 2: The Biden administration announced two hundred and thirty two, nine

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Speaker 2: hundred and seventy two illegal immigrants were encountered at the

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Speaker 2: southern border in August. That's the thirtieth straight month center

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Speaker 2: of the worst border crisis in history, and the highest

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Speaker 2: total for that month in Department of Homeland Security history.

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Speaker 1: That is how bad it is.

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Speaker 2: And if you take a look at the graft that

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Speaker 2: was released on Friday by the Border Patrol custom Border,

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Speaker 2: this is what it looks like. And I I want

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Speaker 2: to get your reaction to now, this is just the encounters,

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Speaker 2: and you can explain the difference for people between encounters

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Speaker 2: and godaways.

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Speaker 4: So encounters are where border patrol agents actually encounter someone,

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Speaker 4: they stop someone, they turn them in. A got away

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Speaker 4: is they see someone and they take off, so they

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Speaker 4: don't actually apprehend them. They but they know that they

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Speaker 4: are there. They just got away. And let let's go

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Speaker 4: back to this chart because I want to walk it through.

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Speaker 4: So if you look at the August numbers, all right,

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Speaker 4: August of twenty twenty, there were forty nine hundred and

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Speaker 4: twenty nine encounters.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot.

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Speaker 4: Although it was the lowest in forty five years. One

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Speaker 4: year later, August of twenty twenty one, it goes from

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Speaker 4: forty thousand to two hundred and thirteen thousand, five hundred

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Speaker 4: and ninety three. So August of twenty twenty there were

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Speaker 4: fifty thousand and fourteen encounters. Now that's a lot, but

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty was the lowest rate of illegal immigration in.

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Speaker 3: Forty five years.

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Speaker 1: So is the president then?

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Speaker 3: That would be Donald.

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Speaker 1: Trump, just making sure everybody knows that.

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Speaker 4: So fifty and twenty twenty one year later, August of

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty one, two hundred and nine thousand, eight hundred

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Speaker 4: and forty so it's increased four hundred percent. First year

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Speaker 4: Biden's in office August of twenty twenty two, two hundred

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Speaker 4: and four thousand and eighty seven, So it stays up

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Speaker 4: four x where it was under Trump. And how about

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Speaker 4: August of twenty twenty three, they just released the numbers

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Speaker 4: two hundred and thirty two thousand, nine hundred and seventy two.

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Speaker 4: It's nearly five hundred percent where it was in August

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Speaker 4: of twenty twenty. And if you look at this chart,

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Speaker 4: that same ratio is there every single month. October November

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Speaker 4: December January Februy. All the way through you see numbers

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Speaker 4: that are about a quarter of what they are now,

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Speaker 4: a four x increase. And that's what happens when you

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Speaker 4: have open border democrats who empower the cartels and among

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Speaker 4: other things, make billions of dollars for the cartels in

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Speaker 4: human trafficking, in drug trafficking, not concerning themselves with the

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Speaker 4: death and suffering and misery that results from.

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Speaker 2: There's a civil war the Democratic Party right now over

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Speaker 2: the immigration issue. We're seeing, you know, Mayor Adams come out,

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Speaker 2: the Governor of New York come out, and it's hard

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Speaker 2: to just overlook what's happening at the border. There was

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Speaker 2: an interesting Fox report that I think put it in

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Speaker 2: perspective for people, and I wanted to make sure we

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Speaker 2: played it in the video pod. And many people are

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Speaker 2: listening to this right now. They're listening on audio only.

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Speaker 2: You can go watch the video that we're about to

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Speaker 2: do on YouTube, all right, because we're doing this one

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Speaker 2: with video and audio. Go look at it, because this

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Speaker 2: is something that should go viral and people should see.

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Speaker 1: Yep, take a look at this.

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Speaker 5: I can tell you that early this morning, an eagle

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Speaker 5: pass we witnessed one of the largest mass illegal crossings

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Speaker 5: we have ever seen in the last two and a

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Speaker 5: half years of covering our southern border. We'll get right

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Speaker 5: to this video. Take a look at this stunning footage.

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Speaker 5: Border patrol sources telling us just after midnight about two thousand,

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Speaker 5: five hundred migrants crossed illegally into Eagle So you can

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Speaker 5: see this lengthy line of them stretching from shore to

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Speaker 5: shore in the river. This video perspective coming from the

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Speaker 5: Mexican side of the river in Piedros Negros, one of

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Speaker 5: our contacts over there shooting this video as they essentially

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Speaker 5: bum rushed Eagle Pass.

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Speaker 2: Last night, you saw that there was another video also

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Speaker 2: in viral, and that was a train coming towards America

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Speaker 2: filled with people. And it's like the cartails that figured out, Hey,

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Speaker 2: they're not gonna stop us. In fact, the more that

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Speaker 2: we send the more likely it is to be successful.

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Speaker 2: We can just bum rush the border and this administration

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Speaker 2: will not stop us.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, let's put these these numbers in context. So, as

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Speaker 4: we've discussed on the pod before, Mayor Adams in New

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Speaker 4: York has said that New York is City isn't a

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Speaker 4: crisis they've had one hundred and ten thousand illegal immigrants.

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Speaker 4: He says that one hundred and ten thousand illegal immigrants

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Speaker 4: is destroying New York City. I want to focus on

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Speaker 4: Eagle Pass where where if you watch that video you

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Speaker 4: just saw the people crossing. Eagle Pass is a small

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Speaker 4: town on the southern border on the Rio Grande River.

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Speaker 4: It has a population of about twenty eight thousand people,

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Speaker 4: so it's a little town. On one single day last week,

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Speaker 4: more than four thousand illegal immigrants came into Eagle Pass

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Speaker 4: on one day. Now four thousand people in town of

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Speaker 4: twenty eight thousand people is about fourteen percent of the population.

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Speaker 4: About fourteen percent of the population of the city came

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Speaker 4: illegally into Eagle Pass on one day. What would that

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Speaker 4: be in New York City? New York City has a

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Speaker 4: population of about nine million people. If fourteen percent of

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Speaker 4: New York City came into New York on one day,

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Speaker 4: that would be one million, two hundred and sixty thousand

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Speaker 4: people invading New York on a single day. Mayor Adams says,

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Speaker 4: one hundred and ten thousand people over two and a

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Speaker 4: half years is a crisis destroying the city. Well, how

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Speaker 4: would he feel about one million, two hundred and sixty

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Speaker 4: thousand people entering the city on a single day. That's

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Speaker 4: what Eagle Pass saw on one day last week. And

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Speaker 4: you know what they saw thousands more the next day

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Speaker 4: and the next day and the next day and the

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Speaker 4: next day. And these Democrats do not give a damn.

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Speaker 2: Border Patrol Union put out a very interesting tweet and

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Speaker 2: this is what they said as they put this out.

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Speaker 2: It said, from September first through the twentieth, the Biden

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Speaker 2: administration or the release of more than one hundred thousand.

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Speaker 2: This to order the release of one hundred thousand legal

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Speaker 2: border crashers, enough to double the population of sees like Uma, Arizona.

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Speaker 2: Think about what Biden is doing to this country with

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Speaker 2: his out of control border policies.

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Speaker 1: How many millions more?

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Speaker 2: That's not like exaggeration when they say Border Patrol Union

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Speaker 2: saying how many millions more, that's a very accurate sit

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Speaker 2: because there are millions.

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Speaker 4: Look, they're at seven and a half million, and Joe

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Speaker 4: Biden and Kamala Harris and Chuck Schumer and Alejandro may

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Speaker 4: orcus and every Senate Democrat and just about every congressional

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Speaker 4: Democrat they want seven and a half million, to go

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Speaker 4: to ten million, to go to two million, to go

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Speaker 4: to fifteen million. They want as many as possible. And

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Speaker 4: by the way, if you don't believe me that they

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Speaker 4: want as many as possible, take a look at the

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Speaker 4: Governor of New York, Governor Hochel back in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 4: so just two years ago, where she is explicitly inviting

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Speaker 4: as many as possible to come to New York.

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Speaker 1: Take a look.

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Speaker 6: So our message the world is, send us your people,

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Speaker 6: send us those who need the cloak of comfort that

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Speaker 6: we can demonstrate as New Yorkers.

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Speaker 7: With big hearts and open arms, and we'll provide.

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Speaker 6: A safe have and particularly for these Afghan refugees, we're

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Speaker 6: so proud that are here. We have already seventy five

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Speaker 6: hundred Afghans living here already, and we expect to have

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Speaker 6: another eighteen hundred more. And we send a message from

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Speaker 6: day one, we'll take as many as you want to

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Speaker 6: have us have come to New York State because it's

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Speaker 6: a huge point of pride for us, and we'll support

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Speaker 6: them to build a whole new life.

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Speaker 1: Open arms and big hearts. In twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 4: And she also said will take as many as you

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Speaker 4: want to have come to New York, please come. So

726
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Speaker 4: that is the approved talking point of left wingers. Now

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Speaker 4: fast forward to twenty twenty three, same governor.

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Speaker 3: Here's what she says this year.

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Speaker 7: It certainly will, because about forty one percent of the

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Speaker 7: people in our shelters today are from Venezuela. They are

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Speaker 7: lily from around the world, West Africa, South and Central America.

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Speaker 7: They're coming from all over. But we have to let

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Speaker 7: the word out that when you come to New York,

734
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Speaker 7: we're not going to have more hotel rooms. We don't

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Speaker 7: have capacities. So we have to also message properly that

736
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Speaker 7: we're at our limit. If you're going to leave your country,

737
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Speaker 7: go somewhere else. But the smarter thing is to apply

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Speaker 7: for asylum before you leave your country, and then you'll

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Speaker 7: have a different experience when you arrive.

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Speaker 2: If you're going to leave your country, center go somewhere else.

741
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Speaker 2: Down that we're at our limit. We're at our limit.

742
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Speaker 1: We have no more hotel rooms for you.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, look at the numbers.

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Speaker 4: So in twenty twenty one, she was saying, we have

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Speaker 4: seventy five hundred afar and we expect another eighteen hundred

746
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Speaker 4: more Okay, So if they're talking seven eight nine thousand,

747
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Speaker 4: that we're good one hundred and ten thousand, Oh crap,

748
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Speaker 4: we're at our limit. We said eighteen hundred, we didn't

749
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Speaker 4: say one hundred and ten thousand. Well what do you

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Speaker 4: think about seven and.

751
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Speaker 3: A half million?

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Speaker 4: The utter hypocrisy and mind you you know, you know

753
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Speaker 4: what name she didn't say Joe Biden. Yeah, she didn't

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Speaker 4: say Kamala Harris, she didn't say Chuck Schumer. If New

755
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Speaker 4: York is at its limit, doesn't New York State have

756
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Speaker 4: two US Senators?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Isn't one of them the Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer.

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Speaker 2: Who could do something on this, actually legislation or introduce legislation.

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Speaker 4: And not only does he not introduce legislation, he votes

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Speaker 4: against anything to secure the border. He demonizes any effort

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Speaker 4: to secure the border. He embraces the open borders that

763
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Speaker 4: are destroying New York City, and even the Democrats who

764
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Speaker 4: are calling it out, they don't dare call out their

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Speaker 4: fellow Democrats. Instead, they blame as I love, you know,

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Speaker 4: Mayor Adams who said some madman in Texas, Greg Abbott. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I'm still I'm still offended that he wasn't talking about me.

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Speaker 4: But the hypocrisy is massive because New York's Democrat governor

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Speaker 4: is not saying stop secure the border, stop the invasion.

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Speaker 4: She's saying, please don't send them to New York, send

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Speaker 4: them to Red States. Make other people deal with them

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Speaker 4: so I can continue to virtue signal. By the way,

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Speaker 4: did you notice also in that press interview it was

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Speaker 4: a little Stepford wives that that that that that both

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Speaker 4: she and the woman interviewing are wearing the exact same

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Speaker 4: white suit. Yeah, it was just kind of a little

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Speaker 4: freaky look, and I'm not sure what was going on there.

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Speaker 1: I love everybody asked me about it.

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Speaker 2: You really believe there's bias in the media, And I'm like, yes,

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Speaker 2: I really do.

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Speaker 1: Like I love when I'm traveling, you get it to

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Speaker 1: all the time.

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Speaker 2: People come up and they kind of want to antagonize, like,

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Speaker 2: there's not bias media. If you were a decent person

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Speaker 2: in the media, when she said go somewhere else, any journalist,

786
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Speaker 2: the initial response would been, will governor where else where?

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Speaker 2: What is this somewhere where else? Is that another state?

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Speaker 2: Are you telling me to go to another country? There

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Speaker 2: was no follow up.

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Speaker 4: There on at all, No no, no, because there's no

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Speaker 4: response to that, go somewhere else what they mean. And

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Speaker 4: actually the Biden White House said that go to Texas.

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Speaker 4: Send them all to Texas because they hate Texas and

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Speaker 4: they figure if they invade Texas with enough people, they'll

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Speaker 4: flip it blue. And you know what, if the cities

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Speaker 2: You mentioned Eagle Pass, and you're starting to see some

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Speaker 2: getting some airtime on places like CNN, and they're doing

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Speaker 2: an amazing job telling their story now because they've been

826
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Speaker 2: bombarded with illegal immig And again you compared it to

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Speaker 2: New York City as you did a moment ago, and

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Speaker 2: it should make you angry, But imagine being a mayor.

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Speaker 2: You're being invaded every twenty four hours with thirty forty

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Speaker 2: fifty six percent of your entire population with illegal immigrants

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Speaker 2: are come across and now they're draining on your economy.

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Speaker 2: They're not helping your economy, they're draining your economy, and

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Speaker 2: they're begging for help.

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Speaker 1: And look at what he had to say on CNN.

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Speaker 8: This is definitely a very serious situation for the city

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Speaker 8: of Eagle Pass. We're a city of about twenty eight

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Speaker 8: to thirty thousand people, and the last couple of days

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Speaker 8: we've had in excess of five thousand people cross from

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Speaker 8: Piadras Negadas, Mexico into Eagle Past, Texas. It's become a

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Speaker 8: big concern for the community. A lot of people are frustrated,

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Speaker 8: a lot of these people are being loose in the community,

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Speaker 8: walking around, and it's just a big concern for the

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Speaker 8: City of Eagle Pass, not only safety wise, but also

844
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Speaker 8: our local economy is taking a hit because because of

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Speaker 8: this crisis, we've had to shut down bridge and a

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Speaker 8: one our international bridge, which so many millions of dollars

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Speaker 8: glow through this bridge. We depend on the tolls of

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Speaker 8: the people that pay those bridge tolls, and it's just

849
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Speaker 8: an emergency situation. That is why as mayor for the

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Speaker 8: City of Eagle Pass, I decided to declare a state

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Speaker 8: of emergency for our city because We've never seen this before.

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Speaker 8: This is not normal, and we shouldn't have to be

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Speaker 8: going through a situation like this in the United States

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Speaker 8: or here in Egle Pass, Texas.

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Speaker 1: No, you shouldn't.

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Speaker 2: No, you shouldn't. For by the way, that was on CNN.

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Speaker 2: You just heard Aaron Burnett say no, you shouldn't.

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Speaker 4: So I want to pull that screen up again. Don't

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Speaker 4: play the video, but just pull the screen up again.

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Speaker 4: I want to ask you what letter is missing from

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Speaker 4: the screen.

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Speaker 1: It's a trick question. I'm ready, go ahead.

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Speaker 3: So it says at the bottom Mayor Rolando Salinas.

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Speaker 1: Oh the D or the R?

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Speaker 3: And what is he?

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Speaker 4: He's a Democrat and they didn't put the democrats. CNN

867
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Speaker 4: didn't want to tell you. This is a Democrat who's

868
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Speaker 4: calling what's going on so miraculous. There's not a little

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Speaker 4: D after his name, which they usually do. CNN knows

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Speaker 4: how to do that. Yeah, it's always up there, It

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00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,880
Speaker 4: is always up there. Until they realize this is counter

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Speaker 4: to the narrative. You've got an Hispanic Democrat, Holy crap

873
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Speaker 4: in South Texas saying this is an emergency.

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Speaker 3: This is not normal. No, no, no, no, we can't have

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Speaker 3: that Let's have people assume he's a Republican.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's make sure they don't think he's a Democrat.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Look South Texas, most of the elected officials are Democrats,

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Speaker 4: and I cannot tell you how many of them have

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Speaker 4: said if my party nationally supports open borders, I can't

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Speaker 4: be a part of that because you cannot see what

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Speaker 4: is happening on the border and defend it. Nobody does.

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Speaker 4: There is nobody who sees it day to day in

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Speaker 4: reality and says this is a good outcome, this is

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Speaker 4: a humane outcome.

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Speaker 3: It is indefensible.

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Speaker 4: It's an emergency, and it's a man made emergency that

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Speaker 4: Joe Biden the Democrats want to have happen, and they

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Speaker 4: want to make it worse to tomorrow. And you know

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Speaker 4: they do because the policies they're following are designed to

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Speaker 4: make it worse tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: That's why I love doing this pod, especially with video

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Speaker 2: and we have our new pod on Saturday, which is

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Speaker 2: a weekend reviewer from the stories you may have missed.

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