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Speaker 1: This is ballance of power. On Bloemberg's TV, the governor

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Speaker 1: of Texas says businesses continue to flock to his state

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Speaker 1: even after frightening tightening rather rules around reproductive rights. Here's

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Speaker 1: what Greg Abbott had to say about abortion, the border,

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Speaker 1: and the twenty twenty four race with Bloomberg's Julie Fine.

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Speaker 2: You know some view to Texas social policies is very controversial,

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Speaker 2: including its near abortion band. Have you had any companies

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Speaker 2: tew you point blank, we're not coming and some of

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Speaker 2: our employees don't want to be there because of that.

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Speaker 3: No one is raising any concerns about any policies in

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Speaker 3: the state of Texas. The opposite is really true. The

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Speaker 3: opposite is the people that are coming there, the businesses

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Speaker 3: that are moving there, say that the quality of life

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Speaker 3: is far better. In fact, there was a recent report

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Speaker 3: that came out of the Dallas Federal Office saying that

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Speaker 3: people are purposefully choosing to move to the state of

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Speaker 3: Texas because the quality of life is better in the

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Speaker 3: state of Texas.

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Speaker 2: So you're not one company has said to you this

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Speaker 2: concerns us none at all.

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Speaker 3: And to the opposite, we have more companies moving to

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Speaker 3: Texas now than ever before.

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Speaker 2: I want to return to the migrants here in New

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Speaker 2: York City. Mayor Adams has repeatedly warned of rising costs

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Speaker 2: to house and to care for them. Was your intention

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Speaker 2: in starting Operation Loan? Start to get democratic cities like

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Speaker 2: New York and the federal government to do something to

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Speaker 2: put pressure on them with the border, Like, what's the

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Speaker 2: endgame here?

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Speaker 3: So that was not the intention at all. The beginning

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Speaker 3: game was to relieve the burden that was placed on

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Speaker 3: small Texas towns on the border. Eagle Pass population twenty

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Speaker 3: eight thousand. This past week they had ten thousand migrants

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Speaker 3: coming to the town. One third of the population of

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Speaker 3: Eagle Pass was occupied by migrants, and then del Rio, etc.

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Speaker 3: And then working with them, they said listen, we need help.

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Speaker 3: And that's what led to the bussing operations to Washington,

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Speaker 3: d C. New York, Chicago, LA and elsewhere.

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Speaker 2: But you specifically targeted democratic cities. We don't see them

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Speaker 2: going frequently to very red cities in red states. You

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Speaker 2: specifically targeted them.

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Speaker 3: Well, what we did, first of all, before anybody gets

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Speaker 3: on a bus and goes anywhere they go voluntarily, they

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Speaker 3: self identify what city they want to go to. So

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Speaker 3: the New York is purposefully chosen by the migrants as

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Speaker 3: a location to go to point one, But point two,

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Speaker 3: the only place that they are typically going to are

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Speaker 3: cities that self identify as sanctuary cities, which may be

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Speaker 3: one of the reasons why some of the migrants choose

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Speaker 2: So you're saying, these migrants come off the bus and say,

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Speaker 2: take me to New York. Are they given an option

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Speaker 2: of democratic, blue or cities.

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Speaker 3: They are given an option about anywhere they want to go,

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Speaker 3: and the number one choice of where they wanted to

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Speaker 3: go New York City.

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Speaker 2: So they're not given a list of seven eight cities.

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Speaker 3: They're not given specific lists that they were given opportunities

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Speaker 3: tell us where you want to go, and they choose

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Speaker 3: New York, Chicago and other war cities that they've heard

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Speaker 3: of before or they may have family contacts in.

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Speaker 2: So are their buses then going to cities that we

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Speaker 2: don't know of, like Miami or in redder States.

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Speaker 3: So right now there may not be, but because of

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Speaker 3: the increase in the number of people coming across the border,

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Speaker 3: there likely will be new destinations that people would be

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Speaker 2: Those will include Red cities and red states.

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Speaker 3: Well, see, it depends on where the migras choose.

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Speaker 2: You do say you blame President Biden for the current

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Speaker 2: border situation. You've said that, you said his policies. Isn't

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Speaker 2: there blame to go around though when you look at

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Speaker 2: former presidents haven't solved this border crisis. Congress hasn't solved

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Speaker 2: this border crisis, Republican and Democrat.

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Speaker 3: To be clear, that all the laws that are needed

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Speaker 3: already in place. That was proven by President Trump years ago.

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Speaker 3: When Trump was still president, we had the lowest illegal

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Speaker 3: Mexico policy, the Title forty two policy, the end of catching, release,

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Speaker 3: and building the border wall. When Biden was elected president,

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Speaker 3: he eliminated all of those policies and sent a message

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Speaker 3: to the entire world the border is open and he

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Speaker 3: was not going to do anything to stop people from

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Speaker 3: crossing the border illegally. All of what we are dealing with,

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Speaker 3: whether it be in Texas or in New York, is

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Speaker 3: a result of Joe Biden's open border policies. And I

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Speaker 3: need to add this to be clear to your audience,

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Speaker 3: and that is of all the migrants in New York City,

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Speaker 3: Texas busts only about ten percent of the people here.

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Speaker 3: Joe Biden sent the rest of them here.

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Speaker 2: So you know, President Biden, while you say he is

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Speaker 2: saying that it's open border policies, he has never said

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Speaker 2: the words the border is open. And again, do you

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Speaker 2: think there's enough you know, blame to go round between

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Speaker 3: What he has said is you come here illegally, We're

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Speaker 3: not going to send you back. That is messaging of

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Speaker 3: open border policies. He has provided the magnet for people

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Speaker 3: to come here, which is the opposite of what Trump did.

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Speaker 3: Trump sent a message that if you come here, we're

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Speaker 3: going to send you back. If you try to come here,

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Speaker 3: you're going to have to remain in Mexico. Because Joe

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Speaker 3: Biden eliminated all of that. He said, basically, the border

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Speaker 3: is open, We're going to do nothing to stop you.

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Speaker 3: Julie gets worse. This was visual on TVs across the country.

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Speaker 3: Texas erected razor wire Constantina barriers, preventing migrants from entering

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Speaker 3: Texas illegally. Joe Biden's border patrol went and cut those wires,

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Speaker 3: pulled them apart, opened them up allowing thousands of migrants

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Speaker 3: to enter Texas illegally.

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Speaker 2: But when you talk about you get to the buoys

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Speaker 2: and you get to the barbed wire, I mean, is

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Speaker 2: that a humane way to treat people?

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Speaker 3: So, first of all, the buoys had never harmed anybody.

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Speaker 3: They were built in a way to ensure they don't

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Speaker 3: harm anybody. What the wires do They repel people from

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Speaker 3: entering and then discourage them from entering.

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Speaker 2: We've talked a little bit about the former president. Senator

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Speaker 2: Cornyan has said Republicans should look for another candidate because

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Speaker 2: he doesn't believe that former president can win. Do you agree?

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Speaker 2: And I know you haven't endorsed in the primary, will you?

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Speaker 1: So?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I will be endorsing in the primary at the

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Speaker 3: right time. That said, I think that any Republican can

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Speaker 3: beat Joe Biden. Joe Biden is more underwater than any

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Speaker 3: president in American history. He is disfavored even by people

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Speaker 3: in the Democrat Party and by independence and of course Republicans.

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Speaker 3: They're angry about what's going on on the border. They're

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Speaker 3: equally angry about the inflation caused by the Biden administration

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Speaker 3: policies and Biden economics is disfavored in the United States.

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Speaker 3: Look at the average American and the way their pocketbook

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Speaker 3: has been impacted, and they are rightfully angry at Joe

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Speaker 3: Biden's policies.

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Speaker 1: It was the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, speaking with

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Texas Bureau chief Julie Fine earlier today