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Speaker 3: I want to talk about, you know, what this political

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Speaker 3: because they put they put thirty million on you, right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was.

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Speaker 2: I was taken aback by that. I was telling the

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Speaker 3: So all right, they put they put they put thirty

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Speaker 3: million on you. So what does this mean? Break this

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Speaker 3: how big money is really influencing elections.

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Speaker 1: No, absolutely, especially in congressional elections. So one quick point

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Speaker 1: of clarification, the election is not weeks away, it's actually

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Speaker 1: vote everyone who's watching. So, when you run for office

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Speaker 1: at any level, you got to raise money to run

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Speaker 1: When you run for Congress, the most that someone can

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Speaker 1: Yes, so APAC stands for and I want to get

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Speaker 1: That's who APAC is. They are targeting me and spending

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Speaker 2: How do you combat that?

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Speaker 1: how you combat it. They got money, we got people.

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Speaker 1: This is the many versus the money, and most of

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Speaker 1: The challenge is they have all the money, and they

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Speaker 4: With hindsight being twenty twenty, do you regret making some

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and no, I don't regret it at all. I'm

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Speaker 1: If I'm not there fighting for justice like racial justice,

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Speaker 3: So let me ask you this. Okay, So three points

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Speaker 1: Three point eight billion a year plus plus let me

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Speaker 1: So during my first term we annually, no matter what,

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Speaker 1: But my first term, Hama sent rockets to attack Israel

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Speaker 5: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child

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Speaker 5: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.

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Speaker 5: Do what's right, leave now. Under President Trump, America's laws,

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Speaker 5: border and families will be protected.

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Speaker 4: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security,