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Speaker 5: Thank you, mister Chair.

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Speaker 12: Welcome and congratulations on your nomination to be the next

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Speaker 12: And in this role, you'll be responsible for over one

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Speaker 13: Or the NIP and the MIP as we call them here.

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Speaker 12: It's a position of great importance and significance to our

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Speaker 14: That is troubling to me in so many ways.

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Speaker 12: Not only do you think that someone who disvold secrets

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Speaker 5: We're going to go back to cal We're going to

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Speaker 15: I've been unanswered by the FBI in recent times. That

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Speaker 4: Even manutes first round? Is that right? Minutes? Three minutes

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Speaker 4: the second round, mister Patel, go hit it.

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Speaker 10: I'm not going to go through all the things that

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Speaker 16: Thank you, mister chairman, Thank you, mister Vice chairman. We

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Speaker 16: welcome back Senator Richard Burr, the former chairman of this

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Speaker 6: We're going to go to Bobby Kennedy's real quickly. Can't

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Speaker 17: Mothers, unequivocally and without callification that the measles and hepatitis

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Speaker 18: Senator, I am not going into the agency with any that's.

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Speaker 18: No if the data is there, I will absolutely do that.

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Speaker 18: Then I will be the first person if you show

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Speaker 17: Now, what concerns me is that you've cast out on

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Speaker 17: I've been out of the game. I've been in Congress

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Speaker 17: That responsibility, that you never acquainted yourself with anything that

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Speaker 17: not cause autism.

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Speaker 18: Not only will I do that, but I will apologize

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Speaker 18: for any statements that misled people otherwise.

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Speaker 8: Thank you.

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Speaker 18: Next, Now, I just want to pledge you and I

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Speaker 18: will never stick on a point.

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Speaker 13: If somebody shows me data it says I'm wrong.

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Speaker 18: I know that that's an interpretation people have, but it's

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Speaker 18: absolutely wrong. Lience driven and evidence driven.

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Speaker 17: I think the concern is how persuadable people are. But

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Speaker 17: let me go on, because I have limited time. I

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Speaker 17: will hold myself to the same five minutes. Yesterday, Senator

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Speaker 17: Bennett and Finance asked you if you had once previously

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Speaker 17: made statements that lime disease was created as a military.

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Speaker 8: Bioweapon, and you said you may have said that once.

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Speaker 17: Do you still believe that lime disease was created as

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Speaker 17: a military bioweapon.

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Speaker 18: I've never believed that, Senator. What I just said is

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Speaker 18: that if we should always follow the evidence, there were

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Speaker 18: three books suggesting.

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Speaker 13: That I have not read them through.

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Speaker 18: What I've said is we should always follow evidence, no

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Speaker 18: matter what it says. So I never have said that

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Speaker 18: definitively lime disease was created in a biolab.

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Speaker 17: Okay, next again, this will be kind of a yes

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Speaker 17: or note. Do you commit that you will revise any

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Speaker 17: DC recommendations only based on peer review, consensus, based widely

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Speaker 17: accepted science, in other words, not personal beliefs or the

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Speaker 17: beliefs of any single person that you or your department

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Speaker 17: may identify.

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Speaker 18: Absolutely, Senator, I am not. I am not going to

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Speaker 18: go into HHS and impose my preordained opinions on anybody

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Speaker 18: at HHS. I'm going to empower the sciences at HHS

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Speaker 18: to do their job and make sure that we have

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Speaker 18: good science that's evidence pays, that's replicatable, where the the

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Speaker 18: raw data.

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Speaker 8: Is almost out of time.

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Speaker 17: So let me get to another question, right, do you

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Speaker 17: promise that FDA will not deprioritize our delay review and

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Speaker 17: our approval of new vaccines, and that vaccine review standards

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Speaker 17: will not change from historical norms.

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Speaker 18: We will have the best vaccine standards with safety studies,

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Speaker 18: and I will if.

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Speaker 17: That's That's a little bit of a different answer than

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Speaker 17: the question I ask, because what is the best could

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Speaker 17: be in the eyes of the beholder. So let me

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Speaker 17: read again, promise that the FDAY will not deprioritize our

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Speaker 17: delay review and our approval of new vaccines, and that

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Speaker 17: vaccine review standards will not change from historical norms.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 17: Great, with that, I will set a good example, and

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Speaker 17: I yield my time to like you, remember, thank you,

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Speaker 17: Chairman Cassidy. And I'm going to do what I very

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Speaker 17: rarely do is actually follow up on a question with

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Speaker 17: Center to Cassidy, there have been is I understand that

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Speaker 17: dozens of studies done all over the world that make

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Speaker 17: it very clear that vaccines do not cause autism. Now

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Speaker 17: you've just said if I heard correctly, well, if the evidence.

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Speaker 7: Is there, the evidence is there, that's it. Vaccines do

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Speaker 7: not cause autism. Do you agree with that?

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Speaker 18: As I said, I'm not going to go into HHS

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Speaker 18: with any pre orday.

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Speaker 7: I answer you a simple question, Bobby, studies all over

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Speaker 7: the world say it does not.

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Speaker 18: What do you think, a senator, if you show me

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Speaker 18: those is I will absolutely well, as I promise to

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Speaker 18: Jim and Casey, I will.

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Speaker 7: That is a very troubling response, because the studies are there.

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Speaker 7: Your job was to I've looked at those studies as

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Speaker 7: an applicant for this job. All right, let me ask

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Speaker 7: you another question about this, one about COVID. Scientists with

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Speaker 7: the Ale School of Public Health and University of Maryland

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Speaker 7: have estimated that the COVID vaccine saved three million lives

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Speaker 7: and prevented eighteen million hospitalizations. President Trump, someone who I

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Speaker 7: do not often agree with, has said that the COVID

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Speaker 7: vaccine was quote one of the greatest miracles of the ages.

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Speaker 8: That's Donald Trump.

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Speaker 7: But Bobby, you had a very different perspective at a

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Speaker 7: time when thousands of Americans would die from COVID every week.

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Speaker 7: In May of twenty twenty one, you petition the Putin

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Speaker 7: Drug Administration to revoke the emergency youse of COVID vaccines.

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Speaker 5: We're going to go back, Brian Will.

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Speaker 1: This is not the only instance of a person who

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Speaker 1: received President Trump's clemency committing another crime. Peter Schwartz was

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Speaker 1: mentioned this morning on the radio thirty eight Criminal Convictions

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Speaker 1: thirty eight. He'd been sinced to fourteen years in prison.

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Speaker 1: He was released because of the President's unconditional clemency that's

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Speaker 1: given to him as well. So I guess my question

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Speaker 1: is this, was President Donald Trump wrong to you have

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Speaker 1: blanket clemency to the January sixth defendants.

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Speaker 15: Thank you, Ranking Member. A couple of things on that one.

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Speaker 15: The power of the presidential part is just that the.

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Speaker 1: President, Lineman, I can see he has the authority. I'm

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Speaker 1: asking was he wrong to do it?

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Speaker 15: And as we discussed in our private meeting, Senator, I

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Speaker 15: have always rejected any violence against law enforcement, and I

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Speaker 15: have including in that group is specifically addressed any violence

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Speaker 15: against law enforcement on January sixth, and I do not

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Speaker 15: agree with the commutation of any sentence of any individual

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Speaker 15: who committed violence against law enforcement.

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Speaker 1: So do you think that America is safer because these

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Speaker 1: sixteen hundred people have been given an opportunity to come

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Speaker 1: out of serving their sentences and live in our communities?

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Speaker 15: Again, Senator, I have not looked at all sixteen hundred

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Speaker 15: individual cases. I have always advocated for imprisoning those that

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Speaker 15: cause harm to our law enforcement and civilian communities. I

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Speaker 15: also believe America is not safer because President Biden's commutation

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Speaker 15: of a man who murdered two FBI agents, Agent Kohlers

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Speaker 15: and William's family deserve better than that have the man

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Speaker 15: that point blank range fired a shotgun into their heads

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Speaker 15: and murdered them released from prison. So it goes both ways.

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Speaker 1: Leonard Pelletier was in prison for forty five years. He's

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Speaker 1: eighty years old, and he was a sentenced to home confinement,

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Speaker 1: so he's not free as you might have just suggested.

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Speaker 15: He killed two FBI agents.

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Speaker 2: That's true, he.

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Speaker 1: Did, and he went to prison for it and should have.

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Speaker 1: My question to you, though, is do you think America

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Speaker 1: is safer because President Trump issued these pardons to sixteen

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Speaker 1: hundred of these criminal defendants, many of whom violently assaulted

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Speaker 1: our police in.

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Speaker 13: The Capitol Center.

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Speaker 15: America will be safe when we don't have two hundred

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Speaker 15: thousand drug overdoses in two years. America will be safe

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Speaker 15: when we don't have fifteen fifty homicides in a jat.

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Speaker 3: You just won't answer the question.

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Speaker 1: I am going to say, I don't think we're safer

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Speaker 1: it Matthew Shuttle or Matthew Huddle was sent back to Indiana.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we're safer with Peter Schwartz. I could

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Speaker 1: go through a long list of individuals, some of the

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Speaker 1: were one in the states members this committee. Let me

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Speaker 1: move to another topic topic if I can tell me

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Speaker 1: about your J six choir.

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Speaker 3: What is that?

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Speaker 15: Well, it's not my choir. It's simply a recording that

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Speaker 15: was utilized to raise funds for families in need of

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Speaker 15: nonviolent offenders.

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Speaker 3: Who sings on this recording? I don't know, Senator, what

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Speaker 3: did you have to do with it?

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Speaker 15: Simply to raise funds to assist families of nonviolent offenders

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Speaker 15: whose kids needed college education payments and whose rent needed

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Speaker 15: being paid.

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Speaker 1: My understanding is that the performers on this J six

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Speaker 1: choir were the rioters who are in prison.

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Speaker 15: I'm not aware of that, sir. I didn't have anything

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Speaker 15: to do with the recording.

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Speaker 3: You weren't aware of who made the recording. No, center,

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Speaker 3: that's interesting.

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Speaker 1: Did you receive any money for selling copies of that

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Speaker 1: music or that recording?

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Speaker 15: Absolutely not.

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Speaker 8: Okay.

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Speaker 3: You do have a foundation, though, do you not.

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Speaker 15: I'm very out of the Cash Foundation. At one point

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Speaker 15: three million dollars, we've given the families a need across

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Speaker 15: this country, including active duty service members, police officers, putting

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Speaker 15: kids in college, and helping people in disaster relief areas

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Speaker 15: rebuild their homes and their communities.

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Speaker 3: One to o LC are you familiar with that?

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Speaker 13: Sorry one?

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Speaker 8: And LLLC?

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Speaker 15: I believe Senator you're referring to the LLC that one

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Speaker 15: of the individuals has his private business with.

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Speaker 3: Is it part of the Cash Foundation anyway.

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Speaker 15: Only in that one of the members of the board

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Speaker 15: has that LLC for his outside business.

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Speaker 2: Andrew Ellis believe that's his name.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Do you know how much was paid to

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Speaker 1: him from your charitable work?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 15: Like any other charity, we had to go out and

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Speaker 15: fundraise something I'm sure every member of this committee is

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Speaker 15: familiar with and we use digital marketing campaigns, and I

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Speaker 15: believe we paid a digital marketing company through one to

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Speaker 15: oh a quarter million dollars to raise five hundred thousand

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Speaker 15: dollars which we gave away to families in need, like

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Speaker 15: when hurricanes struck Florida, Texas and North Carolina.

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Speaker 1: We will be going through the details of your foundation

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Speaker 1: and the expenditures, with the questions for a record that

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Speaker 1: the Chairman has mentioned a chance to answer those under oath.

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Speaker 1: Mister Ptell, you frequently associated with and sometimes praised extremist figures,

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Speaker 1: with the well documented histories of racism, anti semitism, conspiracies,

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Speaker 1: and the like. In September of twenty twenty three, you

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Speaker 1: appeared with Laura Lumer at an event promoting your book

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Speaker 1: This One. Here you shared a photo of yourself in

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Speaker 1: Lumer in which you held her book and she held yours.

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Speaker 1: Just a few months before this event, Miss Lumer posted

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Speaker 1: on x that the September eleven terrorist attacks were quote

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Speaker 1: an inside job. Around that time, she accused Florida's First Lady,

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Speaker 1: Casey Desantus, of exaggerating her cancer diagnosis to gain voter sympathy.

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Speaker 4: Aneber.

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Speaker 1: My Republican colleagues on this committee of criticized Miss Lumber's extremism.

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Speaker 1: One of my colleagues described her as a quote crazy

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Speaker 1: conspiracy theorist who regularly utters disgusting garbage. Another called her

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Speaker 1: really toxic. Giving all of this, why did you associate

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Speaker 1: with Miss Lumer?

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Speaker 15: Center? As you can see, I took a photograph with

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Speaker 15: an individual who at showed up at a book event.

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Speaker 15: I don't believe I'm guilty by association, and I certainly

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Speaker 15: don't believe that an individual who was the first minority

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Speaker 15: to serve as a Deputy Director of National Intelligence for

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Speaker 15: this country is a racist in any way, And I

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Speaker 15: detest any conjecture to the contrary.

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Speaker 3: Are you familiar with a Stu Peters? Is that name?

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Speaker 3: Ring a Belle? I'm sorry, are you familiar with mister

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Speaker 3: Stu Peters? Not?

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Speaker 2: Off the top of my head.

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Speaker 1: He made eight separate appearances on his podcast. He promoted

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Speaker 1: outrageous conspira theories and worked with a prominent neo Nazi.

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Speaker 1: There are more ten nugent It goes on, list goes on.

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Speaker 1: I'm just asking when it comes to your association with individuals.

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Speaker 1: Why are so many of them in this category?

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Speaker 15: My association, as you loosely define it, is by appearing

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Speaker 15: in media over a thousand times to take on people

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Speaker 15: who are putting on conspiracatorial theories and to devote them

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Speaker 15: of their false impressions and to talk to them about

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Speaker 15: the truth. That is something that I will always continue

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Speaker 15: to fight for.

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Speaker 13: Senator Senator Graham, thank you.

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Speaker 19: We'll eventually talk about the FBI. That's the job you're

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Speaker 19: up here for. All right, have you ever been subject

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Speaker 19: to Ray Bobby as an individual?

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Speaker 20: And condolences to those who were killed in last night's

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Speaker 20: horrific crash, Senator Warner, Senator Moran, our condolences and prayers

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Speaker 20: are with you and all of your constituents. Again, Chairman

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Speaker 20: Cotton and Vice Chairman Warner and all of the members

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Speaker 20: of the Committee. It's an honor to be here before

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Speaker 20: you today. I've appreciated the opportunity to meet with so

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Speaker 20: many of you and address your questions and concerns before

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Speaker 20: today's hearing. I know they've gone, but I'm grateful to

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Speaker 20: Senators Burr and Ernst for their trust and their confidence

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Speaker 20: and taking time to join us here today. To my

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Speaker 20: husband Abraham, my family, friends, fellow veterans, Medal of Honor recipients,

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Speaker 20: and patriots.

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Speaker 14: Thank you for your love and support.

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Speaker 20: I'm honored and grateful to President Trump for his trust

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Speaker 20: and confidence and nominating me to serve our country as

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Speaker 20: the Director of National Intelligence at a time when trust

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Speaker 20: in the intelligence community, unfortunately is at an all time low.

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Speaker 20: Chuck Schumer admitted a few years ago, quote, you take

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Speaker 20: on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday

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Speaker 20: at getting back at you. Faulty, inadequate, or weaponized intelligence

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Speaker 20: have led to costly failures and the undermining of our

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Speaker 20: national security and God given freedoms enshrined in the Constitution.

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Speaker 20: The most obvious example of one of these failures is

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Speaker 20: our invasion of Iraq based upon a total fabrication or

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Speaker 20: complete failure of intelligence. This disastrous decision led to the

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Speaker 20: deaths of tens of thousands of American soldiers and millions

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Speaker 20: of people in the Middle East, mass migration, destabilization, and

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Speaker 20: undermining of the security and stability of our European allies.

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Speaker 20: The rise of isis, strengthening of al Qaeda and other

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Speaker 20: Islamus jihadist groups, and strengthening Iran here are just a

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Speaker 20: few other examples. The American people elected Donald Trump as

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Speaker 20: their president not once, but twice, and yet the FBI

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Speaker 20: and intelligence agencies were politicized by his opponents to undermine

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Speaker 20: his presidency and falsely portray him as a puppet of

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Speaker 20: Putinafaisa was used illegally to obtain a warrant to spy

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Speaker 20: on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page, using a Clinton campaign

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Speaker 20: funded false dossier as their so called evidence. Biden campaign

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Speaker 20: advisor Tony Blinken was the impetus for the fifty one

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Speaker 20: former senior intelligence officials letter dismissing Hunter Biden's laptop as disinformation,

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Speaker 20: specifically to help Biden win the election. Former d and

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Speaker 20: I James Clapper lied to this committee in twenty thirteen

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Speaker 20: denying the existence of programs that facilitated the mass collection

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Speaker 20: of millions of Americans phone and Internet.

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Speaker 14: Records, yet was never held accountable.

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Speaker 20: Under John Brennan's leadership, the CIA abused its power to

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Speaker 20: spy on Congress to dodge oversight, lied about doing it

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Speaker 20: until he was caught, and yet has never been held responsible.

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Speaker 20: Under Biden, the FBI abused its power for political reasons

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Speaker 20: to try to surveil Catholics who attend traditional Latin mass

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Speaker 20: labeling them as quote unk quote radical traditionalist Catholics. Personally,

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Speaker 20: just twenty four hours after I criticize Kamala Harris and

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Speaker 20: her nomination, I was placed on a secret domestic terror

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Speaker 20: watch list called Quiet Skies. Sadly, there are more examples.

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Speaker 20: The bottom line is this, this must end. President Trump's

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Speaker 20: reelection is a clear mandate from the American people to

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Speaker 20: break this cycle of failure and the weaponization and politicization

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Speaker 20: of the intelligence community and begin to restore trust in

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Speaker 20: those who've been charged with the critical task of securing

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Speaker 20: our nation. If confirmed as d and I, I will

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Speaker 20: do my very best to fulfill this mandate and bring

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Speaker 20: leadership to the intelligence community with a laser like focus

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Speaker 20: on our essential mission ensuring the safety, security, and freedom

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Speaker 20: of the American people. As the President's principal Intelligence Advisor,

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Speaker 20: I'll begin by leading by example, checking my own personal

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Speaker 20: views at the door, and admitting to delivering intelligence that

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Speaker 20: is collected, analyzed, and reported without bias, prejudice, or political influence.

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Speaker 14: I enlisted in.

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Speaker 20: The Army because of the horrific terrorist attack on September

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Speaker 20: eleventh and volunteered to deploy to Iraq in two thousand

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Speaker 20: and five, where I served in a medical unit. After

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Speaker 20: nearly twenty two years in uniform with three combat deployments

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Speaker 20: to the Middle East and Africa, I'm now a lieutenant

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Speaker 20: colonel in the US Army Reserve, where I serve as

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Speaker 20: a battalion commander of soldiers in Oklahoma, Missouri, and Arkansas.

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Speaker 20: I served in Congress for eight years on the Homeland Security,

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Speaker 20: Foreign Affairs, and Armed Services Committees, and it's my experience in

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Speaker 20: the military and in the halls of Congress that have

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Speaker 20: given me a deep understanding of the complex challenges that

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Speaker 20: our nation faces in both roles, engaging with world leaders

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Speaker 20: in both roles, being privy to highly classified intelligence, so

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Speaker 20: I know firsthand how essential, accurate, unbiased, and timely intelligence

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Speaker 20: is to the President, to Congress, and to our war fighters.

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Speaker 20: I also know the heavy cost of intelligence failures and abuses.

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Speaker 20: Senator Collins, you led the creation of O d n

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Speaker 20: I specifically to address those intelligence failures.

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Speaker 5: We're going to go We're going to go to Bobby

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Speaker 5: Kennedy short quickly.

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Speaker 14: But why did you apologize to her?

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Speaker 13: Then I apologize for something else?

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Speaker 21: H Well, That's not my understanding.

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Speaker 14: Are there?

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Speaker 21: Let me just ask.

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Speaker 18: All you have to read is the text which she

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Speaker 18: published is not for that.

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Speaker 14: That is not how I've read it.

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Speaker 21: Are there any other instances where you have made sexual

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Speaker 21: advances towards an individual without their consent?

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Speaker 14: Just yes or not?

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Speaker 13: No?

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Speaker 21: No, mister Kennedy. Uh you you said that you're going

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Speaker 21: to stay to NIH scientists. God bless you all. Thank

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Speaker 21: you for your public service. We're going to give infectious

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Speaker 21: disease and break for eight years. Excuse me, you said

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Speaker 21: you were You just said, thank you for your service

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Speaker 21: to our federal employees. You want to give infectious disease

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Speaker 21: a break? That's a quote. Will you support the development

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Speaker 21: and a distribution of vaccines for the Avian flu?

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Speaker 22: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Or no?

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Speaker 13: Well I for the avian fluw yes.

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Speaker 14: My time's almost up.

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Speaker 21: But having read a lot and listened a lot, I

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Speaker 21: just want to remind all my colleagues that by voting

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Speaker 21: to confirm mister Kennedy, we would be telling our constituents

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Speaker 21: he's worth listening to. That alone could get people killed

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Speaker 21: before even lists the finger, because he does not even

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Speaker 21: need the levers of power to influence people. As we

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Speaker 21: saw in Samoa.

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Speaker 14: All he needs is a.

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Speaker 21: Megaphone to affirm his views by voting to confirm him

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Speaker 21: as our highest health official. We should not mince words

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Speaker 21: about what that would mean when babies die from whoope

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Speaker 21: cough because parents weren't.

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Speaker 14: Sure if the vaccine was safe.

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Speaker 21: We will have to look them in the eye when

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Speaker 21: measles sweeps through school, then hospital nursing lords.

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Speaker 14: Will this be worth it?

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Speaker 21: There are political realities, we all get that, but there's

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Speaker 21: also right and wrong, fact and fiction, and there's also

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Speaker 21: people staying healthy or dying pointlessly from diseases we can

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Speaker 21: prevent because they thought Congress took its job vetting our

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Speaker 21: healthcare secretary.

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Speaker 14: Seriously, thank you, miss Chairman.

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Speaker 8: We're going to now go out of order. We're going

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Speaker 8: to go to Senator Marshall. He would like to be

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Speaker 8: able to view.

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Speaker 17: The press conference regarding the tragedy on the plane from

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Speaker 17: Wichital Senator Marshall.

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Speaker 22: Well, thank you, mister Chairman, and thank you.

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Speaker 6: Okay, we're going to go back to Let's go back

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Speaker 6: to Tulsa. Let's go to Tulsi Gabbert, back to Tulsa Gabbert.

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Speaker 6: As you see, we're juggling a lot of balls here

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Speaker 6: trying get the most intense moments.

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Speaker 14: Two and my love for our country.

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Speaker 20: Those who oppose my nomination imply that I am loyal

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Speaker 20: to something or someone other than God, my own conscience,

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Speaker 20: and the Constitution of the United States, accusing me of

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Speaker 20: being Trump's puppet, Putin's puppet, Assad's puppet, a Guru's puppet,

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Speaker 20: Modi's puppet, not recognizing the absurdity of simultaneously being the

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Speaker 20: puppet of five different puppet masters. The same tactic was

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Speaker 20: used against President Trump and failed. The American people elected

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Speaker 20: President Trump with a decisive victory and mandate for change.

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Speaker 5: Let's go. The fact goes back to cash Ptel getting grilled.

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Speaker 23: Proven themselves willing to do violence on Trump's call. In

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Speaker 23: only ten days, some are already back committing crimes. We've

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Speaker 23: also tried as a committee together to address the dangers

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Speaker 23: of illicit drug sales over the internet, and I assume

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Speaker 23: we're all against murder for hire. But Trump also just

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Speaker 23: pardoned a dark web operator sentenced to life in prison

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Speaker 23: for trafficking illegal drugs online and accused of soliciting murders

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Speaker 23: for hire. Those pardons, as mister Patel has said, are

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Speaker 23: a mistake, but they are also a signal that we

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Speaker 23: are entering a strange and dangerous time.

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Speaker 5: That is the context for today's hearing.

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Speaker 23: Warnings that the FBI could become Trump's enforcer, use the

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Speaker 23: powers of law enforcement to stifle speech and dissent, punish

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Speaker 23: political rivals of either party, and hand out free passes

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Speaker 23: get out of jail free cards to violence supporters are

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Speaker 23: warnings we should heed. Here are some warnings of this

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Speaker 23: nominees Trump administration colleagues. Former Attorney General Bill Barr said,

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Speaker 23: this nominee has virtually no experience that would qualify him

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Speaker 23: to serve at the highest level of the world's pre

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Speaker 23: eminent law enforcement agency end quote, and we would never

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Speaker 23: be able to command the respect necessary to run the

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Speaker 23: day to day operations of the bureau.

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Speaker 5: That's for the deputy position.

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Speaker 23: Former CIA Director Gina Haspell was reported threatening to resign

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Speaker 23: rather than have this nominee serve under her. John Bolton,

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Speaker 23: Trump's former national security advisor, said I didn't think he

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Speaker 23: was qualified. I was forced to hire him, Trump's deputy.

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Speaker 4: National security advisor.

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Speaker 23: The nominee's former supervisor, said his ideas are ludicrous. He's

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Speaker 23: absolutely unqualified for this job. He's untrustworthy and it's an

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Speaker 23: absolute disgrace to even consider an individual of this nature.

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Speaker 23: That's from Republican appointees who worked with him. And here's

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Speaker 23: what this nominee himself has said about using his office

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Speaker 23: to prosecute journalists. Will go out and find the conspirators,

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Speaker 23: not just in government, but in the media. We're gonna

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Speaker 23: come after you, whether it's criminally or civilly. Is that

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Speaker 23: a correct quotation, mister Patel.

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Speaker 15: Senator, That's a partial quotation, but it's correct. In part.

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Speaker 23: Regarding his publication of his enemies list, mister Patel proclaimed

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Speaker 23: the man hunt starts tomorrow and reposted a video depicting

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Speaker 23: him taking a chainsaw to his political enemies. Is that

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Speaker 23: you cash? Patel retruthed reposting that at the top of

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Speaker 23: that page.

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Speaker 15: Senator, I had nothing to do with the creation of that.

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Speaker 4: Is that you reposting?

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Speaker 13: It was my question and that's me At the top.

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Speaker 23: You said FBI agents were responsible for the violence on

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Speaker 23: January sixth, and I quote you here, beyond a reasonable doubt,

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Speaker 23: is that what you said?

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Speaker 15: That's completely incorrect, And I appreciate the opportunity to address that.

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Speaker 23: I'll give you an opportunity in writing, but this is

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Speaker 23: my time now have it. An inspector attorney general investigation

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Speaker 23: found that that was false, and you said we should

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Speaker 23: impeach judges who rule against Donald Trump, who are, in

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Speaker 23: your words, political terrorists. When this nominee tries to explain

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Speaker 23: all this away, keep one thing in mind. He's testified

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Speaker 23: under oath before a Colorado judge who presided over a

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Speaker 23: Trump case in which he was a witness, and the

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Speaker 23: judge found, and I'm quoting here, he was not a

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Speaker 23: credible witness. His testimony is not only illogical, but completely

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Speaker 23: devoid of any evidence in the record that's.

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Speaker 13: From a judge.

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Speaker 23: This is a dangerous time and I ask all my

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Speaker 23: colleagues to consider whether these plain comments by this person

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Speaker 23: and by his own Trump administration colleagues should be given

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Speaker 23: a blind eye, just overlooked, or whether, like the warnings

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Speaker 23: of pardoning violent January sixth offenders, their warnings to be heeded.

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Speaker 23: There is an unfathomable difference between a seeming facade being

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Speaker 23: constructed around this nominee here today and what he has

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Speaker 23: actually done and said in real life when left to

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Speaker 23: his own devices. Conduct shows character, and if you look

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Speaker 23: at history.

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Speaker 5: You see the danger.

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Speaker 23: Of security chiefs in authoritarian regimes becoming.

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Speaker 13: The tools of political power.

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Speaker 23: The characteristics that they often show are that they are vengeful,

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Speaker 23: that they are grandiose, that they are in temperate, that

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Speaker 23: they are partisan and blindly loyal, and that they are servile.

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Speaker 13: And won't say no.

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Speaker 23: I'm afraid that the history of this nominee's conduct raises

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Speaker 23: those warnings, and I yield my one second.

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Speaker 10: Back before Senator Cornyn, you said you'd like to explain something,

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Speaker 10: I forget the point he made.

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Speaker 4: Do that now if you want.

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Speaker 15: To simply this Senator in the collective, all of those

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Speaker 15: statements are taken out of grotesque context. And anyone that

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Speaker 15: thinks my sixteen years of service is an exemplar on

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Speaker 15: how I would proceed if confirmed as FBI is intentionally

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Speaker 15: putting false information into the public ether and creating more

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Speaker 15: public discourse. The only thing that will matter if I'm

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Speaker 15: confirmed as a director of the FBI is a de weaponized,

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Speaker 15: depoliticized system of law enforcement, completely devoted to rigorous obedience

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Speaker 15: of the Constitution and a singular standard of justice.

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Speaker 10: Before I call on Senator Karna, I'd like to say

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Speaker 10: that we've heard about the January sixth pardons. I think

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Speaker 10: it's important that we remind people at the same time

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Speaker 10: of some pardons by the previous end administration. Thomas Sanders,

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Speaker 10: a kidnapper who murdered a twelve year old girl named

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Speaker 10: Lexus and her mother Swell and Roberts, Adrian Peeler connedi

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Speaker 10: drug Kingpenn who was convicted in the death of an

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Speaker 10: eight year old boy and his mother, Leonard Peltire that's

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Speaker 10: already been referred to that murdered two FBI agents, and

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Speaker 10: even Director Ray at that time. Former Director Ray said

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Speaker 10: that that shouldn't have happened. And Judge Michael Conahan, who

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Speaker 10: took kickbacks for wrongly sending juveniles for profit detention centers,

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Speaker 10: and Alex Saab who laundered illicit proceeds for narcotics terrorists

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Speaker 10: Nicholas Madero and was a key connection between Wala and

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Speaker 10: Iran and five family members of his own family.

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Speaker 4: President Biden did that, Senator.

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Speaker 11: Welcome, mister Prittel. Do you believe America is an exceptional nation.

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Speaker 15: It's the greatest nation.

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Speaker 11: Your family went through a lot to get here, they

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Speaker 11: sure did, and your life story is I think a

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Speaker 11: great example of people pursuing the American dream. Do you

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Speaker 11: believe what a large part of what makes America an

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Speaker 11: exceptional nation is the rule of law.

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Speaker 15: It is one of the fundamental precepts that determines that.

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Speaker 2: And why is that.

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Speaker 15: Because without a singular application of a rule of law,

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Speaker 15: we go back to the Uganda that my father fled.

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Speaker 24: An Idia means studies.

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Speaker 13: It depends the what's your number?

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Speaker 18: It completely depends on the kind of study you're talking about? Randomized?

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Speaker 18: Is our observational study?

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Speaker 24: Is it safe to us that a hundred studies that

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Speaker 24: are replicable and peer reviewed is enough?

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Speaker 18: Well, it could be one study if it was a

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Speaker 18: powerful enough study.

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Speaker 24: The most widely used medication, abortion drug, mifipristone, has been

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Speaker 24: FDAA approved for nearly twenty five years. More than one

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Speaker 24: hundred studies have confirmed that ninety nine percent of patients

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Speaker 24: who took the abortion pill had no complications. So with

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Speaker 24: all of that, I can only conclude that you would

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Speaker 24: commit to keep this science backed and proven medication on

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Speaker 24: the market and accessible for women.

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Speaker 5: Is that correct?

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Speaker 3: I'm going to with.

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Speaker 18: President Trump has not chosen a policy, and I will

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Speaker 18: implement his policy.

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Speaker 24: So regardless of the studies, regardless of the data, regardless

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Speaker 24: of the science you've been talking about, Show me the data,

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Speaker 24: show me the studies.

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Speaker 13: Well, if you that policy, Senator.

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Speaker 24: Regardless of what the science says.

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Speaker 13: The Senator, the devil is the details.

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Speaker 18: If you're telling me ninety nine percent of women that okay,

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Speaker 18: but one percent died, I would say that is not

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Speaker 18: a better.

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Speaker 14: Additional studies show I know, but you're.

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Speaker 13: Not showing me.

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Speaker 18: I need those details from this study before I can't

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Speaker 18: buy a pig in a poke.

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Speaker 13: Show me what the study.

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Speaker 8: Says's let's move on next. It would be a Senator Mullen.

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Speaker 14: Thank you, mister Kennedy for being here.

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Speaker 3: You know we have fortunate.

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Speaker 5: Gone to Tulsie Gabbard being grilled by Warner friendship.

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Speaker 14: Remember the seven oh.

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Speaker 12: Two is critical to our national security. Sixty percent of

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Speaker 12: the president's daily be sixty percent information President Trump gets

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Speaker 12: every day, and PDB will come from this. You've had

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Speaker 12: a long history of opposing seven o two, many members

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Speaker 12: of Congress have. But one of the things you've actually

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Speaker 12: done that not many have is not to reform it.

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Speaker 12: But you actually so you wanted to repeal it. But

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Speaker 12: now whether it's you know, confirmation conversion or whatever you

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Speaker 12: call seven O two vital, and I'm quoting because of

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Speaker 12: significant visor reforms have been enacted since you left Congress,

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Speaker 12: Miss Gabbard. What are the reforms that have led you

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Speaker 12: to now support seven O two in.

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Speaker 20: The short time that I have, Senator, I will just

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Speaker 20: note that my actions in legislation and Congress were done

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Speaker 20: to draw attention to the egregious civil liberties violations that

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Speaker 20: were occurring at that time.

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Speaker 12: Is Gabbarge some of the Gabbard? I ask you a question.

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Speaker 12: Please give me the courtesy of respawning. You said the

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Speaker 12: reforms now make you support it. What can you cite

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Speaker 12: which reforms?

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Speaker 20: There are a number of reforms to include in the

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Speaker 20: new law.

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Speaker 14: Right that all of you and your wisdoms. My time

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Speaker 14: is getting short, but I got to just tell you.

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Speaker 12: After the reforms were passed into law in April of

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Speaker 12: twenty four, you went on Joe Rogan's podcast in May,

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Speaker 12: the bill is now law and you said, quote, this

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Speaker 12: bill took an already bad problem and made it many,

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Speaker 12: many times worse.

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Speaker 13: Again.

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Speaker 14: In my mind, this is a question of judgment.

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Speaker 5: Seven or two is critical.

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Speaker 12: I appreciate this late conversion, but I'm not sure I

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Speaker 12: buy it because you've had such a consistent position. Again,

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Speaker 12: I know my colleague's going to raise these but rather

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Speaker 12: than standing up the dictators like Putin and Asade, you've

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Speaker 12: sometimes amplified as talking points. I mean, I just do

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Speaker 12: not understand how you can blame NATO for Putin's brutal

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Speaker 12: invasion of Ukraine, and when Aside used chemical weapons against

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Speaker 12: his own people, he didn't condemn me. And I can

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Speaker 12: go through all the quotes you actually questioned Americans intelligence.

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Speaker 12: Now you mentioned a lot about trust, you know, And

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Speaker 12: one of the things that I'm so proud on this

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Speaker 12: committee is my friend center Verse said, we always follow

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Speaker 12: the truth. I say in this committee. The most valuable

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Speaker 12: work I do in this and we have a bipartisan

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Speaker 12: approach to intelligence. I think we have worked to try

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Speaker 12: to keep the intelligence community and earn their trust and

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Speaker 12: frankly earn the trust to the American people. But I, respectfully, ma'am,

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Speaker 12: I just don't believe, on your judgment and credibility issues

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Speaker 12: that this is the appropriate role that you take going forward.

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Speaker 13: Thank you, mister Chairman.

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Speaker 14: Sent Or Collins, Thank you, mister Chairman.

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Speaker 25: Miss Gabbard, Edward Snowden does stand out as having done

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Speaker 25: particularly grave harm to our national security by revealing top

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Speaker 25: secret information, including sensitive sources and methods. That's jeopardizing agents

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Speaker 25: in the field. So let me ask you a question.

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Speaker 25: If confirmed, would you support or recommend a pardon or

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Speaker 25: any kind of clemency for Edward Snowden.

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Speaker 20: Thank you for the question, Senator Collins. If confirmed as

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Speaker 20: the Director of National Intelligence, my responsibility would be to

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Speaker 20: ensure the security of our nation's secrets and would not

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Speaker 20: take actions to advocate for any actions related to Snowden.

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Speaker 14: So the answer is no, correct. Correct.

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Speaker 25: In twenty twenty, you introduced the Protect Brave whistle Blowers Act,

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Speaker 25: which would amend the esbianad Jack to make it more

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Speaker 25: difficult to prosecute individuals who reveal classified informationarticular, the bill

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Speaker 25: would allow individuals to disclose even top secret information, as

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Speaker 25: long as it's not done with the specific intent to

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Speaker 25: injure the United States or advantage any foreign nation.

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Speaker 14: Your bill would also have created.

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Speaker 25: An affirmative defense if public disclosure of classified information were

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Speaker 25: made for several reasons, one of which was.

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Speaker 14: To expose gross waste of funds.

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Speaker 25: I strongly oppose this legislation, which would hamper our ability

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Speaker 25: to prosecute people who give our adversaries classified information. So

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Speaker 25: let me ask you this, Ms. Gabbert. Do you still

1049
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Speaker 25: support providing individuals who have access to top secret information

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Speaker 25: with the ability to make their own decisions regarding whether

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Speaker 25: that information should be publicly disclosed, even though disclosure may

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Speaker 25: cause tremendous harm to our country or our allies.

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Speaker 20: Senator, we cannot and should not have individual vigilantes within

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Speaker 20: the intelligence community making their own decisions about how and

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Speaker 20: where and when to expose our nation's secrets. The intent

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Speaker 20: of the legislation that you have pointed out was pointed

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Speaker 20: towards ensuring due process for those who are charged under

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Speaker 20: the Espionage Acting.

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Speaker 26: On the record, these claims made in that statement were

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Speaker 26: rejected by courts, including by Republican judges.

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Speaker 22: Is that correct?

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Speaker 15: I don't have enough of the facts in front of

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Speaker 15: me to make that sense.

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Speaker 26: I will put that statement on the record, but I

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Speaker 26: think everyone in this committee, including the Republican members, knows

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Speaker 26: that these statements were rejected by courts. You were asked

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Speaker 26: about the police officers in the Capitol who testified in

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Speaker 26: the January six hearings and you accuse them of lying.

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Speaker 22: Is that correct or not correct?

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Speaker 15: I don't think that's accurate.

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Speaker 26: Okay, Joe Pecked Podcast, March twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 22: We'll put it on the record. I was there.

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Speaker 26: The police officers were heroes that day. Did you post

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Speaker 26: on your personal social media account in May of twenty

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Speaker 26: twenty four? January sixth never an insurrection cowards and uniforms exposed.

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Speaker 22: They broke the chain of command.

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Speaker 15: I believe you're referencing a post that was shown in

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Speaker 15: part earlier.

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Speaker 13: I don't have it in front of me.

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Speaker 26: You posted it, and it was on your account, and

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Speaker 26: we will again put that out there once more as

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Speaker 26: we go on. I don't want to lose any more

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Speaker 26: time on this, but every one of these there's a

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Speaker 26: record of it, and you haven't answered. You promoted a

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Speaker 26: COVID vaccine, reverse soul or DETOC supplement, one scientist said,

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Speaker 26: I quote, none of these substances in any form would

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Speaker 26: minimize side effects from a COVID nineteen vaccine that is

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Speaker 26: praying on innocent people. Did you perform clinical trials before

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Speaker 26: you made that claim.

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Speaker 15: I'm not a doctor, so no.

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Speaker 22: But you did.

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Speaker 26: Promote this supplement and told people that it would reverse

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Speaker 26: or mitigate the side effects from COVID vaccine.

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Speaker 15: Did I give people an opportunity to make an independent

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Speaker 15: choice for what's best for their families.

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Speaker 22: Yes, you did that last year, correct.

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Speaker 15: I don't have it in front of me against Senator

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Speaker 15: mister Patel.

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Speaker 26: The FBI tackled some of the most complex threats that

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Speaker 26: we face. Terrorists, hostile foreign powers, violent gains, fentanyl, criminal organizations.

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Speaker 26: Your mission, though, has been to go after people. I've

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Speaker 26: looked at it, I've read this stuff.

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Speaker 22: Yes or no? When Trump wins? Did you say this?

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Speaker 26: When Trump wins in twenty twenty four and is in

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Speaker 26: power in twenty twenty five, we can prosecute them referring

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Speaker 26: to Justice Department officials for an actual Rico statue violation

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Speaker 26: for criminally organizing the United States government to break the

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Speaker 26: law to rig presidential elections.

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Speaker 22: Did you say that gifts or no?

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Speaker 15: And Senator you're reading a partial statement, so I'm unable

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Speaker 15: to fully respond.

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Speaker 26: Hey again, we'll put it on the record X twenty

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Speaker 26: two Report Podcast twenty. That is from I'll get you

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Speaker 26: the date. About a year ago. One of the names

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Speaker 26: on your list was Bill Barr you. Charmon Grassley has

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Speaker 26: called him one of the most capable cabinet.

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Speaker 22: Officials I've ever been able to vote for.

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Speaker 26: Senator Graham has said I have nothing but total respect

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Speaker 26: and admiration for the job done by William Barr as

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Speaker 26: Attorney General of the United States.

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Speaker 22: Is Bill Barr on your list of whatever you want

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Speaker 22: to call them?

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Speaker 26: You know we've been referred to as an enemy's list,

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Speaker 26: you've called them deep state after serving his country as

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Speaker 26: the Attorney General of the United States. Is he on

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Speaker 26: your list because of a personal vendetta?

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Speaker 15: Well, it's not whatever we want to call it, Senator,

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Speaker 15: with all due respect, it's not an enemy's list. That

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Speaker 15: is a total mischaracterization.

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Speaker 22: I ask you, and I.

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Speaker 26: Actually use the words you use for the list, which

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Speaker 26: was deep state, Right, that's what you put it as

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Speaker 26: the Attorney General of the United States. Is it because

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Speaker 26: of a personal vendetta that he's on the list?

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Speaker 22: You're under oath.

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Speaker 26: I have no personal vendet against Okay, he said about you,

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Speaker 26: you would never be able to command the respect necessary

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Speaker 26: to run the day to day operations of the Bureau.

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01:09:32,520 --> 01:09:34,280
Speaker 22: That was actually in writing in his book.

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Speaker 26: He had virtually about you no experience that would qualify

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Speaker 26: you to serve at the highest level of the world's

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Speaker 26: pre eminent law enforcement agency, and that your appointment is

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Speaker 26: noted by Senator Durbin as deputy director to the FBI.

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Speaker 26: Would happen over his dead body? Is it yes or no?

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01:09:50,720 --> 01:09:52,519
Speaker 26: Why you would put him on the list of deep

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Speaker 26: state as a former attorney general Trump Attorney General of

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Speaker 26: the United States because he wouldn't break the law for

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Speaker 26: Donald Trump?

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Speaker 22: Is that why?

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Speaker 15: Absolutely?

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Speaker 26: As you know, he repeatedly told the President in no

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Speaker 26: uncertain terms that he did not see evidence of fraud

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01:10:06,720 --> 01:10:09,880
Speaker 26: that would have affected the outcome of the election. Did

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Speaker 26: you say in February of twenty twenty one that the

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Speaker 26: election stuff was never my job and I stayed all

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Speaker 26: of it all.

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Speaker 22: I stayed out of that stuff.

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Speaker 15: Again, I don't know what comment you're referring to, but

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Speaker 15: I'm sure you're reading a piece of.

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Speaker 26: Something you set it on pushback on a podcast. Is

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01:10:25,920 --> 01:10:28,599
Speaker 26: it true though, that in December of twenty twenty you

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01:10:28,680 --> 01:10:32,240
Speaker 26: reached out to the Trump acting Deputy Attorney General and

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Speaker 26: asked him to investigate a conspiracy theory claiming that people

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Speaker 26: in Italy had used military technology and satellites to remotely

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01:10:40,080 --> 01:10:43,479
Speaker 26: tamper with voting machines in the US and switch votes

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Speaker 26: for Trump from Biden to from Trump to Biden.

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Speaker 22: Is that true?

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Speaker 26: What was the date that was out of? December of

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Speaker 26: twenty twenty.

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Speaker 15: I was chief of staff to the Department of Defense.

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Speaker 15: So I don't believe that's accurate.

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Speaker 26: Anyway, that came out of testimony before Congress. We'll give

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Speaker 26: it to you. Have you referred to the media as

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Speaker 26: the most powerful enemy of the United States that they

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01:11:07,720 --> 01:11:08,479
Speaker 26: have ever seen?

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Speaker 22: Is that right?

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Speaker 2: Again?

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Speaker 15: You're reading a quote I take as.

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Speaker 26: Two twenty three, twenty four. You said, we're going to

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Speaker 26: come after the people in the media who lied about

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Speaker 26: American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig the elections. We're

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Speaker 26: going to come after you, whether it's criminally or civilly.

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Speaker 22: Is that something you said.

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01:11:28,479 --> 01:11:30,360
Speaker 15: That's a partial statement of what I said.

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Speaker 22: Deeve Bannon's podcast.

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Speaker 26: You also said you would put the entire fake news

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Speaker 26: mafia presscorps on your list.

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Speaker 22: Is that correct? Is that what you said?

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Speaker 13: I don't have that in front of me.

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Speaker 26: Denny Johnson's podcast A twenty one, twenty three. You have

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Speaker 26: said that the FBI, including today you said that they

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Speaker 26: remain utterly corrupt.

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Speaker 22: This is an agency with.

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Speaker 26: Agents who have taken down terrorists, taken down bake robbers,

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Speaker 26: taken down on crime. And you wrote that the FBI

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Speaker 26: has become so thoroughly compromised that it will remain a

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Speaker 26: threat to the people unless drastic measures are taken. Do

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Speaker 26: you know that under Chris Ray's leadership, he took over

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Speaker 26: at a very difficult time. We all know that appointed

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Speaker 26: by President Trump, that during his tenure the applications to

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Speaker 26: the FBI has in fact tripled. Do you think people

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Speaker 26: would be applying to that agency like in those numbers

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Speaker 26: if they thought it was so corrupt.

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Speaker 15: The American public's trust and it is at forty that's

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Speaker 15: an all time low.

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Speaker 26: Did you say that the FBI headquarters should be shut

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Speaker 26: down and reopened as a museum of the deep state?

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Speaker 15: So, Chairman, are we allowed to go an extra time?

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Speaker 10: Let's see you get a second round before I call

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Speaker 10: on Saturday.

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Speaker 26: Could he just answer the question if he said that

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Speaker 26: the FBI headquarters where they investigate cybercrime and terrorism shut

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Speaker 26: down and open as a deep state a museum. Did

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Speaker 26: he say at the headquarters should be shut down mister

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01:13:02,479 --> 01:13:05,680
Speaker 26: chair deserve an answer to that question. He's asking to

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01:13:05,680 --> 01:13:08,200
Speaker 26: be head of the FBI, and he said that their

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Speaker 26: headquarters should be shut down.

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Speaker 9: Mister Chair Parliamentary Inquiry.

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Speaker 10: You've got anything you want to say, mister Prattel before

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Speaker 10: I go on to senat early.

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Speaker 15: Simply this, if the best attacks on me are going

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01:13:18,880 --> 01:13:22,280
Speaker 15: to be false accusations and grotesque mischaracterizations, the only thing

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Speaker 15: this body is doing is defeating the credibility of the

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Speaker 15: men and women at the FBI. I stood with them

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Speaker 15: here in this country in every theater of war we have.

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01:13:31,600 --> 01:13:33,679
Speaker 15: I was on the ground in service of this nation,

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Speaker 15: and any accusations leveled against me that I would somehow

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01:13:37,960 --> 01:13:42,360
Speaker 15: put political bias before the constitution are grotesquely unfair. And

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Speaker 15: I will have you reminded that I have been endorsed

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Speaker 15: by over three hundred thousand law enforcement officers to become

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Speaker 15: the next director of the FBI. Let's ask them, mister Chairman.

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Speaker 26: I am quoting his own word from September of twenty

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Speaker 26: twenty four.

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Speaker 22: It is his own words. It is not conspiracy.

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Speaker 26: It is what mister Patel actually said himself.

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Speaker 10: Fax matter, you'll forget that you had three minutes in

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01:14:09,439 --> 01:14:11,479
Speaker 10: the next round to say what you just said.

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Speaker 22: Okay, I'll say him again.

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Speaker 4: Okay before I call leasy.

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01:14:16,040 --> 01:14:18,960
Speaker 9: Chair just parliamentary inquiry and it was on time. It

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01:14:19,000 --> 01:14:21,360
Speaker 9: wasn't disputing any of the debate. But I intend to

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01:14:21,439 --> 01:14:23,800
Speaker 9: keep to my seven minutes, and I appreciate you keeping

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01:14:23,840 --> 01:14:26,360
Speaker 9: everyone to it. If we go over, can we have

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01:14:26,400 --> 01:14:28,960
Speaker 9: that decrement against the time in the second round.

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01:14:30,360 --> 01:14:31,719
Speaker 2: If a member goes over.

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Speaker 9: That was actually ten minutes, mister chair I'm not sure

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01:14:35,360 --> 01:14:38,280
Speaker 9: that I want to sometimes faster.

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01:14:38,400 --> 01:14:41,680
Speaker 10: You get things done here just letting people shout, and

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01:14:43,240 --> 01:14:44,439
Speaker 10: that it does to shut them up.

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Speaker 4: Mister chair You're a wise man, mister chair. Thank you,

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01:14:46,920 --> 01:14:47,679
Speaker 4: mister chairman.

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Speaker 10: Mister chairman, before we go to LEAs chairman, Yes, what

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01:14:51,760 --> 01:14:52,200
Speaker 10: do you want?

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Speaker 27: I love this guy, mister chairman, and I'm like Senator

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01:15:01,400 --> 01:15:02,960
Speaker 27: tell us, I mean, if we're going to start this,

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01:15:04,439 --> 01:15:06,759
Speaker 27: I don't I want an extra three minutes.

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Speaker 4: Well, now, my.

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01:15:08,040 --> 01:15:10,679
Speaker 27: Friend, Senator Carpenter, I'm not three minutes.

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01:15:10,720 --> 01:15:14,360
Speaker 10: So you hear what you're saying is the chairman wasn't

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01:15:14,400 --> 01:15:16,800
Speaker 10: a very good chairman, but not shutting her up. But

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Speaker 10: I've gone through this before and I think I know

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01:15:20,600 --> 01:15:21,519
Speaker 10: how to handle it and get it.

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01:15:21,640 --> 01:15:24,840
Speaker 27: I think I think your star spangled asstome Chairman. I

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01:15:24,960 --> 01:15:27,000
Speaker 27: just want to say that for the record. But if

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01:15:27,040 --> 01:15:29,479
Speaker 27: you're going to let somebody over there go three minutes

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01:15:29,680 --> 01:15:31,479
Speaker 27: or I won't my extra three minutes.

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Speaker 2: Well let's see.

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Speaker 10: Let's see if it's abused by anybody else before we

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01:15:34,960 --> 01:15:35,839
Speaker 10: make that dec.

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Speaker 27: I'm just telling you I'm going to abuse it.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm not going to let you abuse it.

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Speaker 8: You're a good man, Chairman.

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Speaker 10: Before I go to Lee, I want to put a

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01:15:45,680 --> 01:15:50,400
Speaker 10: record statement in the record from fifty six former FBI

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Speaker 10: agents wrote to this committee to support this nominee.

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Speaker 4: Quote.

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Speaker 10: Never has the FBI face such an urgent and compelling

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01:15:59,640 --> 01:16:04,040
Speaker 10: need of her comprehensive reform as it does today. Mister

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01:16:04,080 --> 01:16:09,439
Speaker 10: Patel has proven he possesses the breadth of experience required

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Speaker 10: to address these challenges.

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Speaker 28: As you said, you never said that, and I'm not

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01:16:13,400 --> 01:16:15,160
Speaker 28: asking you to explain what you said.

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Speaker 4: I didn't say.

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Speaker 28: Didn't you didn't say that, Centat're.

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Speaker 18: Not saying I had said the other question.

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Speaker 28: That's fine, you're doubling down on that you said. Senator

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Speaker 28: Warnock also asked you if you compared America's vaccine campaign

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Speaker 28: to the Nazi death camps and the Holocaust.

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Speaker 4: Again, you said yesterday, you.

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Speaker 2: Didn't say that.

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Speaker 13: I did not say that.

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Speaker 4: I did not say that.

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Speaker 28: Senator Bennett asked you yesterday if you had made an

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Speaker 28: allegation that AIDS is a different disease in Africa than

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Speaker 28: it is in America. On that when you said you

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Speaker 28: didn't recall, having had a day to think about it,

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Speaker 28: do you recall saying that AIDS is a different disease

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Speaker 28: in Africa that it is in the United States.

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Speaker 18: I looked up that passage in my book and found

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Speaker 18: that indeed, the diagnostics for AIDS are very different in

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Speaker 18: Africa than in the United States. That the list of

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Speaker 18: symptoms is almost completely different.

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Speaker 28: So let me just I'll submit this for the record.

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Speaker 28: But having denied the first two statements, let me just

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Speaker 28: read what you said. You said in twenty thirteen. Is

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01:17:31,760 --> 01:17:34,479
Speaker 28: it hyperbole to say that the people who run our

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01:17:34,560 --> 01:17:37,679
Speaker 28: vaccine programs should be in jail. They should be in jail.

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Speaker 28: To me, this is like Nazi death camps. Look at

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Speaker 28: what it does to the families who participate in the

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Speaker 28: vaccine program. I can't tell why somebody would do something

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Speaker 28: like that. I can't tell you why ordinary Germans participated

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01:17:53,000 --> 01:17:56,360
Speaker 28: in the Holocaust. I can't tell you what was going

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Speaker 28: on in their minds. With respect to the pedophilia scandal,

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Speaker 28: you said, the pedophilia scandal in the Catholic Church is

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Speaker 28: a perfect metaphor for what's happening in the United States,

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Speaker 28: the vaccine program. It's the same reason we had a

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Speaker 28: pedophilia scandal in the Catholic Church, because people were able

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Speaker 28: to convince themselves that the institution of the church was

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Speaker 28: more important than these little boys and girls who were

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Speaker 28: being raped. I don't disagree with Senator Malin. I don't

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Speaker 28: want an HHS secretary that's not going to question science.

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Speaker 28: I think it's important to question science. But you're not

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01:18:32,040 --> 01:18:36,280
Speaker 28: questioning science. You've made up your mind. You've spent your

1324
01:18:36,520 --> 01:18:43,200
Speaker 28: entire career undermining America's vaccine program. You make these purposeful

1325
01:18:43,280 --> 01:18:49,920
Speaker 28: comparisons to those that are administering the vaccine program, to

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01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:54,439
Speaker 28: the Nazi executioners, to the people who covered up the

1327
01:18:54,479 --> 01:18:58,160
Speaker 28: Catholic Church's pedophilia scandal, because you have made a decision

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01:18:59,040 --> 01:19:04,120
Speaker 28: that there is a comparison, that there is evil in

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01:19:04,160 --> 01:19:07,040
Speaker 28: the vaccine program, as there was evil in the pedophilia

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01:19:07,120 --> 01:19:11,120
Speaker 28: scandal and the Nazi death camps. You aren't exploring science.

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01:19:11,240 --> 01:19:14,360
Speaker 28: You have made up your mind. You've spent your entire

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01:19:14,479 --> 01:19:17,639
Speaker 28: career trying to undermine these programs. There is the reason

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01:19:17,680 --> 01:19:21,560
Speaker 28: that these statements, these incredibly aggressive, over the top statements,

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01:19:21,600 --> 01:19:25,640
Speaker 28: matter to us, is because it just isn't believable that

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01:19:25,720 --> 01:19:29,120
Speaker 28: when you become secretary, you are all of a sudden

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01:19:29,200 --> 01:19:33,599
Speaker 28: going to be consistent with science. People who have spent

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01:19:33,640 --> 01:19:37,519
Speaker 28: their career saying these kinds of things, running the kinds

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01:19:37,520 --> 01:19:39,920
Speaker 28: of campaigns that you have run, don't all of a

1339
01:19:39,960 --> 01:19:42,800
Speaker 28: sudden change their stripes. And so, mister Chairman, I will

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01:19:43,439 --> 01:19:45,760
Speaker 28: submit these statements, and.

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01:19:45,800 --> 01:19:48,000
Speaker 2: I respond to that surgestion.

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01:19:50,680 --> 01:19:54,280
Speaker 18: My statement about the Catholic journey is almost identical the

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01:19:54,360 --> 01:20:00,200
Speaker 18: findings of the Government Oversight Investigation Committee, an investigation the

1344
01:20:00,280 --> 01:20:03,960
Speaker 18: CDC's vaccine program in two thousand and threes. Enator Burton

1345
01:20:04,080 --> 01:20:07,240
Speaker 18: was chairman of that committee, and he said that the

1346
01:20:07,720 --> 01:20:11,760
Speaker 18: uh that's certain individuals in that program had written off

1347
01:20:11,800 --> 01:20:17,960
Speaker 18: at generation of kids because of quote misplaced institutional loyalty

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01:20:18,000 --> 01:20:22,080
Speaker 18: to the CDC and because entanglements with the drug company.

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Speaker 13: So let me finish, Let me finish what I'm.

1350
01:20:25,280 --> 01:20:27,720
Speaker 18: Saying, Queen, you make some grave vacuums agents.

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01:20:27,479 --> 01:20:31,600
Speaker 28: Pedophilia to the administer to the Administration of Vaccines.

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01:20:31,840 --> 01:20:35,599
Speaker 13: You know it wasn't pedophilia. It was a perfect metaphor.

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01:20:35,760 --> 01:20:37,960
Speaker 18: Well, if you have one in thirty six kids who

1354
01:20:38,000 --> 01:20:43,840
Speaker 18: has neurological injuries, and if that is, you know, linked.

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01:20:43,520 --> 01:20:45,000
Speaker 13: That's a perfect we should study.

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01:20:45,320 --> 01:20:46,360
Speaker 4: Is it a perfect metaphor.

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01:20:46,640 --> 01:20:49,840
Speaker 18: It's not a perfect metaphor, but there's no metaphor that's perfect.

1358
01:20:50,040 --> 01:20:52,799
Speaker 18: But I am pro vaccine. I am going to support

1359
01:20:52,840 --> 01:20:56,400
Speaker 18: the vaccine program. I want kids to be healthy, and

1360
01:20:56,479 --> 01:20:58,640
Speaker 18: I'm coming in here to get rid of the conflicts

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01:20:58,640 --> 01:21:01,720
Speaker 18: of interest within the agency. Make sure that we have

1362
01:21:01,800 --> 01:21:04,960
Speaker 18: gold standard evidence based science. And if you show me

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01:21:05,000 --> 01:21:07,120
Speaker 18: where I'm wrong, and they'll show me a single statement

1364
01:21:07,160 --> 01:21:10,120
Speaker 18: I made about science that is erroneous.

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Speaker 8: Thank you, Senator Hawley, Thank you.

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Speaker 13: Very much, mister Chairman of Mister Kennedy, welcome.

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01:21:17,840 --> 01:21:21,439
Speaker 16: I enjoyed our conversation last month in our office, and

1368
01:21:21,520 --> 01:21:22,920
Speaker 16: thank you for remembering as you do.

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01:21:23,320 --> 01:21:24,800
Speaker 14: I met with people.

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Speaker 6: We're going to cut to the White House briefing room.

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Speaker 6: President Trump is coming out. I give brief remarks thing

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01:21:29,200 --> 01:21:32,400
Speaker 6: about the tragedy last night. But then I think he's

1373
01:21:32,400 --> 01:21:34,519
Speaker 6: gonna take questions. This could be a wild one. I'm

1374
01:21:34,520 --> 01:21:36,160
Speaker 6: going to go to the White House, President United.

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Speaker 29: States, their families please, thank you very much.

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01:22:08,000 --> 01:22:10,120
Speaker 30: I speak to you this morning in an hour of

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01:22:10,320 --> 01:22:16,320
Speaker 30: anguish for a nation. Just before nine pm last night,

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01:22:16,360 --> 01:22:20,120
Speaker 30: in American Airlines, regional jet carrying sixty passengers and four

1379
01:22:20,200 --> 01:22:24,639
Speaker 30: crew collided with an Army black Hawk helicopter carrying three

1380
01:22:24,680 --> 01:22:28,320
Speaker 30: military service members over the Potomac River in Washington, DC,

1381
01:22:29,479 --> 01:22:34,160
Speaker 30: while on final approach to Rega national airport. Both aircraft

1382
01:22:34,280 --> 01:22:38,439
Speaker 30: crashed instantly and were immediately submerged into the icy waters

1383
01:22:38,479 --> 01:22:39,320
Speaker 30: of the Potomac.

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01:22:40,120 --> 01:22:43,120
Speaker 2: Real tragedy. The massive search.

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01:22:42,840 --> 01:22:46,920
Speaker 30: And rescue mission was underway throughout the night, leveraging every

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01:22:46,960 --> 01:22:48,480
Speaker 30: asset at our disposal.

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01:22:48,520 --> 01:22:50,680
Speaker 2: And I have to say the local, state.

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01:22:50,560 --> 01:22:55,680
Speaker 30: Federal military, UH including the United States Coast Guard in particular,

1389
01:22:55,760 --> 01:22:59,720
Speaker 30: they'd done a phenomenal job, so quick, so fast it

1390
01:22:59,760 --> 01:23:05,200
Speaker 30: was it was mobilized immediately. The work has now shifted

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01:23:05,240 --> 01:23:08,759
Speaker 30: to a recovery mission.

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01:23:08,880 --> 01:23:10,960
Speaker 2: Sadly, there are no survivors.

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01:23:12,439 --> 01:23:15,599
Speaker 30: This was a dark and excruciating night in our nation's

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01:23:15,680 --> 01:23:19,479
Speaker 30: capital and in our nation's history and a tragedy of

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01:23:19,920 --> 01:23:25,320
Speaker 30: terrible proportions. As one nation, we grieve for every precious

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01:23:25,640 --> 01:23:29,800
Speaker 30: soul that has been taken from us so suddenly, and

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01:23:30,320 --> 01:23:33,679
Speaker 30: we are a country of really we are in mourning.

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01:23:34,080 --> 01:23:35,720
Speaker 2: This is really.

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Speaker 30: Shaken a lot of people, including people very sadly from

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01:23:38,920 --> 01:23:42,479
Speaker 30: other nations who were on the flight, for the family

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01:23:42,720 --> 01:23:46,040
Speaker 30: members back in Wichita, Kansas, Here in Washington, de Sea,

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01:23:46,080 --> 01:23:50,840
Speaker 30: and throughout the United States, and in Russia. We have

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01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:54,920
Speaker 30: a Russia contingents of very talented people. Unfortunately we're on

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01:23:54,960 --> 01:23:58,400
Speaker 30: that plane, very very very sorry about that. Whose loved

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01:23:58,439 --> 01:24:01,679
Speaker 30: ones were board the pass jud jet, we can only

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01:24:01,720 --> 01:24:06,200
Speaker 30: begin to imagine the agony that you're all feeling. Nothing

1407
01:24:06,240 --> 01:24:09,840
Speaker 30: worse on behalf of the first Lady, myself and three

1408
01:24:09,960 --> 01:24:13,639
Speaker 30: hundred and forty million Americans. Our hearts are shattered alongside yours,

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01:24:13,640 --> 01:24:16,720
Speaker 30: and our prayers are with you now and in the

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01:24:17,120 --> 01:24:17,840
Speaker 30: days to come.

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01:24:18,040 --> 01:24:21,000
Speaker 2: We'll be working very very diligently in the days to come.

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01:24:21,040 --> 01:24:24,000
Speaker 30: We're here for you to wipe away the tears and

1413
01:24:24,080 --> 01:24:26,760
Speaker 30: to offer you our devotion, our love, and our support

1414
01:24:27,400 --> 01:24:32,160
Speaker 30: is great support. In moments like this, the differences between

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01:24:32,200 --> 01:24:35,759
Speaker 30: Americans fade to nothing compared to the bonds of affection

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01:24:35,880 --> 01:24:39,240
Speaker 30: and loyalty that unite us all, both as Americans and

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01:24:39,280 --> 01:24:43,439
Speaker 30: even as nations. We are one family, and today we

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01:24:43,520 --> 01:24:45,120
Speaker 30: are all heartbroken.

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01:24:45,200 --> 01:24:47,120
Speaker 2: We're all searching.

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01:24:46,720 --> 01:24:53,240
Speaker 30: For answers That icy Potomac was a cold, cold night,

1421
01:24:54,120 --> 01:24:58,400
Speaker 30: cold water. We're all overcome with the grief for many

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01:24:58,439 --> 01:25:01,320
Speaker 30: who have so tragically Para will no longer be with

1423
01:25:01,439 --> 01:25:04,680
Speaker 30: us together, we take solace in the knowledge that their

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01:25:04,760 --> 01:25:07,800
Speaker 30: journey ended not in the cold waters of the Potomac,

1425
01:25:07,800 --> 01:25:11,280
Speaker 30: but in the warm embrace of a loving God. We

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01:25:11,400 --> 01:25:14,320
Speaker 30: do not know what led to this crash, but we

1427
01:25:14,400 --> 01:25:17,559
Speaker 30: have some very strong opinions and ideas, and I think

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01:25:17,600 --> 01:25:21,479
Speaker 30: we'll probably state those opinions now because over the years

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01:25:21,479 --> 01:25:24,280
Speaker 30: I've watched as things like this happen and they say, well,

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01:25:24,320 --> 01:25:27,840
Speaker 30: we're always investigating, and then the investigation three years later

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01:25:27,880 --> 01:25:30,919
Speaker 30: they announce it. We think we have some pretty good ideas.

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01:25:31,800 --> 01:25:34,360
Speaker 30: But we'll find out how this disaster occurred and will

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01:25:34,520 --> 01:25:39,519
Speaker 30: ensure that nothing like this ever happens again. The FAA

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01:25:39,600 --> 01:25:42,960
Speaker 30: and the NTSB and the US military will be carrying

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01:25:43,000 --> 01:25:48,480
Speaker 30: out a systematic and comprehensive investigation. Our new Secretary of Transportation,

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01:25:49,000 --> 01:25:54,439
Speaker 30: Sean Duffy, his second day on the job when that happened.

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01:25:56,240 --> 01:25:59,479
Speaker 30: It's a rough one. We'll be working tirelessly. He's a

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01:25:59,520 --> 01:26:02,799
Speaker 30: great general. The whole group is, these are great people,

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01:26:03,560 --> 01:26:07,559
Speaker 30: and they are working tirelessly to figure out exactly what happened.

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01:26:08,439 --> 01:26:12,560
Speaker 30: We will state certain opinions, however. I'm also immediately appointing

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01:26:12,640 --> 01:26:18,000
Speaker 30: an acting Commissioner to the FAA, Christopher Rochelieu, a twenty

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01:26:18,160 --> 01:26:23,120
Speaker 30: two year veteran of the agency. Highly respected, Christopher, Thank

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01:26:23,160 --> 01:26:26,280
Speaker 30: you very much, appreciate it. We must have only the

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01:26:26,360 --> 01:26:29,320
Speaker 30: highest standards for those who work in our aviation system.

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01:26:29,360 --> 01:26:34,479
Speaker 30: I changed the Obama standards from very mediocre at best

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01:26:34,520 --> 01:26:35,480
Speaker 30: to extraordinary.

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01:26:36,439 --> 01:26:38,840
Speaker 2: You remember that only the.

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01:26:38,880 --> 01:26:45,600
Speaker 30: Highest aptitude have to be the highest intellect and psychologically

1449
01:26:45,640 --> 01:26:50,480
Speaker 30: superior people were allowed to qualify for air traffic controllers.

1450
01:26:51,600 --> 01:26:54,840
Speaker 2: That was not so prior to getting there.

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01:26:54,920 --> 01:26:58,559
Speaker 30: When I arrived in twenty sixteen. I made that change

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01:26:58,640 --> 01:27:00,800
Speaker 30: very early on because I always felt this was a

1453
01:27:00,920 --> 01:27:03,840
Speaker 30: job and other jobs too, but this was a job

1454
01:27:03,880 --> 01:27:08,879
Speaker 30: that had to be superior intelligence and we didn't.

1455
01:27:08,640 --> 01:27:09,960
Speaker 2: Really have that, and we had it.

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01:27:11,040 --> 01:27:14,800
Speaker 30: And then when I left office and Biden took over,

1457
01:27:14,920 --> 01:27:20,760
Speaker 30: he changed them back to lower than ever before. I

1458
01:27:20,800 --> 01:27:25,400
Speaker 30: put safety first. Obama, Biden and the Democrats put policy first,

1459
01:27:25,760 --> 01:27:32,200
Speaker 30: and they put politics at a level that nobody's ever seen.

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01:27:32,520 --> 01:27:34,040
Speaker 2: Because this was the lowest level.

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01:27:34,600 --> 01:27:39,960
Speaker 30: Their policy was horrible and their politics was even worse. So,

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01:27:40,040 --> 01:27:42,400
Speaker 30: as you know, last week, long before the crash, I

1463
01:27:42,479 --> 01:27:46,479
Speaker 30: signed an executive order restoring our highest standards for air

1464
01:27:46,520 --> 01:27:49,719
Speaker 30: traffic controllers and other important jobs throughout the country.

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01:27:49,760 --> 01:27:51,479
Speaker 2: So it was very interesting.

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01:27:51,439 --> 01:27:58,200
Speaker 30: About a week ago, almost upon entering office, I signed

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01:27:58,280 --> 01:28:02,800
Speaker 30: something last week that was an executive board are very

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01:28:02,800 --> 01:28:05,960
Speaker 30: powerful one restoring the highest standards of air traffic controllers

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01:28:06,640 --> 01:28:10,439
Speaker 30: and others. By the way, then my administration will set

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01:28:10,479 --> 01:28:13,439
Speaker 30: the highest possible bar for aviation safety. We have to

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01:28:13,439 --> 01:28:16,880
Speaker 30: have our smartest people. It doesn't matter what they look like,

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01:28:17,880 --> 01:28:21,800
Speaker 30: how they speak, who they are matters intellect, talent, the

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01:28:21,840 --> 01:28:26,160
Speaker 30: word talent. They have to be talented, naturally talented geniuses.

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01:28:27,640 --> 01:28:29,639
Speaker 2: You can't have regular people doing that job.

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01:28:29,680 --> 01:28:32,799
Speaker 30: They won't be able to do it, but will restore

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01:28:32,840 --> 01:28:34,439
Speaker 30: faith in American air traveler.

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01:28:35,160 --> 01:28:36,320
Speaker 2: Have more to say about that.

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01:28:36,400 --> 01:28:40,680
Speaker 30: I do want to point out that various articles that

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01:28:40,800 --> 01:28:46,639
Speaker 30: appeared prior to my entering office, and here's one, the

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01:28:46,880 --> 01:28:51,639
Speaker 30: FAA's diversity push includes focus on hiring people with severe

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01:28:51,800 --> 01:28:54,480
Speaker 30: intellectual and psychiatric disabilities.

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01:28:56,320 --> 01:28:57,240
Speaker 2: That is amazing.

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01:28:57,840 --> 01:29:01,640
Speaker 30: And then it says FAA says people with severe disabilities

1484
01:29:01,640 --> 01:29:05,599
Speaker 30: a most underrepresented segment of the workforce, and they want

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01:29:05,600 --> 01:29:08,519
Speaker 30: them in and they want them they can be air

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01:29:08,560 --> 01:29:09,560
Speaker 30: traffic controllers.

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01:29:09,640 --> 01:29:11,519
Speaker 2: I don't think so. This was.

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01:29:13,040 --> 01:29:16,920
Speaker 30: In January fourteenth, so that was a week before I

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01:29:17,040 --> 01:29:20,480
Speaker 30: entered office. They put a big push to put diversity

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01:29:21,040 --> 01:29:28,400
Speaker 30: into the FAA's program. Then another article the Federal Aviation Administration,

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01:29:28,560 --> 01:29:29,680
Speaker 30: This was before.

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01:29:29,360 --> 01:29:31,720
Speaker 2: I got to office.

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01:29:32,280 --> 01:29:38,000
Speaker 30: Recently, second term, the FAA is actively recruiting workers who

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01:29:38,280 --> 01:29:44,080
Speaker 30: suffer severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems, and other mental and

1495
01:29:44,120 --> 01:29:48,479
Speaker 30: physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled

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01:29:48,479 --> 01:29:52,320
Speaker 30: out on the agency's website. Can you imagine these are

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01:29:52,360 --> 01:29:57,639
Speaker 30: people that are I mean, actually their lives are shortened

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01:29:57,720 --> 01:29:59,760
Speaker 30: because of the stress that they have.

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01:30:00,800 --> 01:30:00,920
Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 30: Brilliant people have to be in those positions, and their

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01:30:05,320 --> 01:30:08,559
Speaker 30: lives are actually shortened, very substantially shortened because of the

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01:30:08,600 --> 01:30:12,160
Speaker 30: stress where you have many, many planes coming into one target,

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01:30:13,360 --> 01:30:17,000
Speaker 30: and you need a very special talent and a very

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01:30:17,000 --> 01:30:21,080
Speaker 30: special genius to be able to do it. Targeted disabilities

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01:30:21,080 --> 01:30:24,000
Speaker 30: are those disabilities that the federal government, as a matter

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01:30:24,000 --> 01:30:28,000
Speaker 30: of policy, has identified for special emphasis and recruitment and hiring.

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01:30:28,479 --> 01:30:30,840
Speaker 2: The FAA's website states.

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01:30:30,680 --> 01:30:38,720
Speaker 30: They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy,

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01:30:38,840 --> 01:30:43,760
Speaker 30: severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability, and dwarfism.

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01:30:44,160 --> 01:30:47,760
Speaker 2: All qualify for the position of.

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01:30:49,200 --> 01:30:53,040
Speaker 30: A controller of aeroplanes pouring into our country, pouring into

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01:30:53,479 --> 01:30:55,519
Speaker 30: a little spot, a little dot on the map, a

1513
01:30:55,560 --> 01:31:01,600
Speaker 30: little runway. The initiative is part of the faas Diversity

1514
01:31:01,640 --> 01:31:03,000
Speaker 30: and Inclusion Hiring Plan.

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01:31:03,080 --> 01:31:03,599
Speaker 2: Think of that.

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01:31:03,640 --> 01:31:08,160
Speaker 30: The initiative is part of the FAA's Diversity and Inclusion

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01:31:08,240 --> 01:31:12,639
Speaker 30: Hiring Plan, which says diversity is integral to achieving FAA's

1518
01:31:12,760 --> 01:31:15,120
Speaker 30: mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel.

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01:31:15,160 --> 01:31:16,920
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I don't think so. I think

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01:31:16,920 --> 01:31:18,360
Speaker 2: it's just the opposite.

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01:31:18,960 --> 01:31:23,240
Speaker 30: The FAA website shows that the agency's guidance and diversity

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01:31:23,320 --> 01:31:27,800
Speaker 30: hiring were last updated on March twenty third of twenty two.

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01:31:27,840 --> 01:31:30,400
Speaker 30: They wanted to make it even more so. And then

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01:31:30,439 --> 01:31:34,200
Speaker 30: I came in and I assume maybe this is the reason.

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01:31:34,400 --> 01:31:39,960
Speaker 30: The FAA, which is overseen by Secretary Pete Buddhachek.

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01:31:40,479 --> 01:31:42,200
Speaker 2: A real winner. That's the guy. He's a real winner.

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01:31:42,240 --> 01:31:44,720
Speaker 30: Do you know badly everything's run since he's run this

1528
01:31:44,880 --> 01:31:46,160
Speaker 30: Department of Transportation.

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01:31:46,960 --> 01:31:50,840
Speaker 2: He's a disaster. He was a disaster as a mayor.

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01:31:51,360 --> 01:31:54,479
Speaker 30: He ran his city into the ground, and he's a

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01:31:54,520 --> 01:31:57,080
Speaker 30: disaster now. He's just got a good line of bullshit.

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01:31:58,760 --> 01:32:03,880
Speaker 30: The Department of Transport his government agency charged with regulating

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01:32:03,920 --> 01:32:07,719
Speaker 30: civil aviation. Well he runs it forty five thousand people

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01:32:07,720 --> 01:32:10,560
Speaker 30: and he's run it right into the ground with his diversity.

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01:32:11,720 --> 01:32:16,000
Speaker 30: So I had to say that it's terrible. Then it's

1536
01:32:16,800 --> 01:32:20,040
Speaker 30: a group within the FAA. Another story determined that the

1537
01:32:20,080 --> 01:32:24,800
Speaker 30: workforce was too white, that they had concerted efforts to

1538
01:32:26,600 --> 01:32:31,320
Speaker 30: get the administration to change that and to change it immediately.

1539
01:32:31,720 --> 01:32:32,479
Speaker 2: This was in the.

1540
01:32:32,360 --> 01:32:37,040
Speaker 30: Obama administration, just prior to my getting there, and we

1541
01:32:37,080 --> 01:32:41,000
Speaker 30: took care of African Americans, Hispanic Americans, we took care

1542
01:32:41,040 --> 01:32:43,760
Speaker 30: of everybody at levels that nobody's ever seen before.

1543
01:32:43,800 --> 01:32:45,040
Speaker 2: It's one of the reasons I want.

1544
01:32:46,000 --> 01:32:49,360
Speaker 30: But they actually came out with a directive too white,

1545
01:32:49,520 --> 01:32:50,759
Speaker 30: and we.

1546
01:32:50,640 --> 01:32:53,000
Speaker 2: Want the people that are competent.

1547
01:32:53,640 --> 01:32:56,640
Speaker 30: But now we mourn and we pray and would like

1548
01:32:56,760 --> 01:32:59,080
Speaker 30: to ask all Americans to join me in a moment

1549
01:32:59,120 --> 01:33:01,439
Speaker 30: of silence as we ask God to watch over those

1550
01:33:01,479 --> 01:33:03,040
Speaker 30: who have lost their lives.

1551
01:33:02,680 --> 01:33:05,920
Speaker 2: And bring comfort to the loved ones.

1552
01:33:05,960 --> 01:33:09,240
Speaker 30: And I just want to say, God bless everyone in

1553
01:33:09,280 --> 01:33:14,080
Speaker 30: this room. This has been a terrible, very short period

1554
01:33:14,080 --> 01:33:17,280
Speaker 30: of time. We'll get to the bottom of it. So

1555
01:33:18,200 --> 01:33:20,479
Speaker 30: we also the same thing. We've seen it many times.

1556
01:33:20,479 --> 01:33:24,040
Speaker 30: I've had the honor of hearing tapes.

1557
01:33:24,840 --> 01:33:27,880
Speaker 2: Types are scary, very scary tapes.

1558
01:33:29,760 --> 01:33:34,280
Speaker 30: You had a airliner coming in American Airlines.

1559
01:33:34,920 --> 01:33:36,880
Speaker 2: He was doing everything right, he.

1560
01:33:36,880 --> 01:33:39,240
Speaker 30: Was on track, he was the same track as everybody

1561
01:33:39,240 --> 01:33:41,559
Speaker 30: else they came in. It's probably the same track as

1562
01:33:41,560 --> 01:33:43,400
Speaker 30: they've had for twenty five years or more.

1563
01:33:44,240 --> 01:33:48,000
Speaker 2: He's coming in the path and for some.

1564
01:33:47,840 --> 01:33:52,679
Speaker 30: Reason, you had a helicopter that was at the same

1565
01:33:52,760 --> 01:33:57,040
Speaker 30: height obviously when they hit, but pretty much the same

1566
01:33:57,120 --> 01:34:02,880
Speaker 30: height and going at an angle that was unbelievably bad.

1567
01:34:03,760 --> 01:34:08,080
Speaker 30: When the air traffic controller said do you see you

1568
01:34:08,080 --> 01:34:10,680
Speaker 30: know he's talking about do you see him? But there

1569
01:34:10,720 --> 01:34:13,760
Speaker 30: was very little time left when that was stated, and

1570
01:34:13,800 --> 01:34:17,719
Speaker 30: then also he said follow him in. And then almost

1571
01:34:17,880 --> 01:34:22,320
Speaker 30: immediately after that, you know, seconds after that, there was

1572
01:34:22,360 --> 01:34:24,960
Speaker 30: the crash that took place. Well, you follow them in.

1573
01:34:25,000 --> 01:34:30,200
Speaker 30: That means like everything's fine, follow him in. You had

1574
01:34:30,200 --> 01:34:35,960
Speaker 30: a pilot problem from the standpoint of the helicopter, I mean,

1575
01:34:36,120 --> 01:34:38,840
Speaker 30: because it was visual. It was a very clear night.

1576
01:34:39,880 --> 01:34:43,160
Speaker 30: It was cold, but clear and clear as you could be.

1577
01:34:44,640 --> 01:34:49,400
Speaker 30: The American Airlines plane had lights blazing. They had all

1578
01:34:49,479 --> 01:34:52,280
Speaker 30: their landing lights on. I could see it from the

1579
01:34:52,360 --> 01:34:54,720
Speaker 30: Kennedy Center tape. We had a tape up on the

1580
01:34:54,760 --> 01:34:57,760
Speaker 30: Kennedy Center that seems to be the primary thus far.

1581
01:34:57,760 --> 01:34:59,160
Speaker 2: I'm sure we'll see other tapes.

1582
01:34:58,920 --> 01:35:02,559
Speaker 30: Because it's such an area where there a lot of cameras,

1583
01:35:02,720 --> 01:35:06,400
Speaker 30: a lot of cameras looking up into the air, into space,

1584
01:35:07,080 --> 01:35:09,519
Speaker 30: so we'll probably see many other shots of it before

1585
01:35:09,680 --> 01:35:11,440
Speaker 30: too much time goes by.

1586
01:35:11,880 --> 01:35:13,040
Speaker 2: But we had.

1587
01:35:14,520 --> 01:35:18,360
Speaker 30: A situation where you had a helicopter that had the

1588
01:35:18,400 --> 01:35:21,439
Speaker 30: ability to stop. I have helicopters. You can stop a

1589
01:35:21,479 --> 01:35:22,879
Speaker 30: helicopter very quickly.

1590
01:35:23,600 --> 01:35:25,280
Speaker 2: It had the ability to go up or down.

1591
01:35:25,720 --> 01:35:30,120
Speaker 30: It had the ability to turn, and the turn it

1592
01:35:30,160 --> 01:35:35,599
Speaker 30: made was not the correct turn, obviously, and it did

1593
01:35:36,160 --> 01:35:38,760
Speaker 30: somewhat the opposite of what it was told. We don't

1594
01:35:38,800 --> 01:35:40,880
Speaker 30: know that that would have been the difference because the

1595
01:35:40,920 --> 01:35:44,320
Speaker 30: timing was so tight, it was so it was so little,

1596
01:35:44,439 --> 01:35:46,120
Speaker 30: there was so little time to think.

1597
01:35:46,680 --> 01:35:49,920
Speaker 2: But what you did have is you had vision the

1598
01:35:50,439 --> 01:35:52,360
Speaker 2: helicopter had vision of the plane.

1599
01:35:52,680 --> 01:35:54,799
Speaker 30: Because you had vision of it all the way, perfect

1600
01:35:54,920 --> 01:35:57,920
Speaker 30: vision of it all the way from at Kennedy Center

1601
01:35:57,960 --> 01:35:59,200
Speaker 30: where the tape was taken.

1602
01:36:00,439 --> 01:36:01,080
Speaker 2: And for some.

1603
01:36:00,960 --> 01:36:05,240
Speaker 30: Reason there weren't adjustments made. Again, you could have slowed

1604
01:36:05,280 --> 01:36:08,240
Speaker 30: down the helicopter substantially. You could have stopped the helicopter.

1605
01:36:08,360 --> 01:36:10,000
Speaker 30: You could have gone up, you could have gone down.

1606
01:36:10,040 --> 01:36:12,160
Speaker 30: You could have gone straight up, straight down, you could

1607
01:36:12,160 --> 01:36:15,560
Speaker 30: have turned, you could have done a million different maneuvers.

1608
01:36:15,720 --> 01:36:21,040
Speaker 30: For some reason, it just kept going and then made

1609
01:36:21,040 --> 01:36:25,160
Speaker 30: a slight turn at the very end, and there was

1610
01:36:25,200 --> 01:36:29,240
Speaker 30: by that time it was too late. They shouldn't have

1611
01:36:29,240 --> 01:36:32,120
Speaker 30: been at the same height, because if it was at

1612
01:36:32,160 --> 01:36:34,240
Speaker 30: the same height, you could have gone under it or

1613
01:36:34,280 --> 01:36:38,360
Speaker 30: over it, and nobody realized or they didn't say that

1614
01:36:38,400 --> 01:36:39,400
Speaker 30: it's at the same height.

1615
01:36:40,280 --> 01:36:41,519
Speaker 2: At the same height, it.

1616
01:36:41,479 --> 01:36:43,320
Speaker 30: Would still wouldn't have been great, but you would have

1617
01:36:43,320 --> 01:36:45,280
Speaker 30: missed it by quite a bit. Could have been a

1618
01:36:45,360 --> 01:36:47,920
Speaker 30: thousand feet higher, it could have been two hundred feet lower,

1619
01:36:48,600 --> 01:36:50,719
Speaker 30: but it was exactly at the same height, and somebody

1620
01:36:50,760 --> 01:36:53,360
Speaker 30: should have been able to point that out. So all

1621
01:36:53,400 --> 01:36:55,160
Speaker 30: of this is going to be studied, but it just

1622
01:36:55,240 --> 01:36:58,840
Speaker 30: seems to me, from a couple of words that I

1623
01:36:59,000 --> 01:37:04,320
Speaker 30: like to use, the words common sense, some really bad

1624
01:37:04,360 --> 01:37:09,000
Speaker 30: things happened, and some things happened that shouldn't have happened.

1625
01:37:09,560 --> 01:37:13,799
Speaker 30: So you had a helicopter going in an identical direction.

1626
01:37:14,479 --> 01:37:16,280
Speaker 2: You had a helicopter that was at the.

1627
01:37:16,200 --> 01:37:20,280
Speaker 30: Exact same height as somebody going in essentially the opposite direction.

1628
01:37:21,360 --> 01:37:23,439
Speaker 30: You had a plane that was following a track, which

1629
01:37:23,479 --> 01:37:27,479
Speaker 30: is a track that every other plane followed. And I

1630
01:37:27,520 --> 01:37:30,320
Speaker 30: don't imagine I know I've heard today that they might

1631
01:37:30,400 --> 01:37:32,840
Speaker 30: have been following the preceding plane, which was pretty close,

1632
01:37:33,080 --> 01:37:36,599
Speaker 30: but not that close the preceding plane, But you wouldn't

1633
01:37:36,600 --> 01:37:38,360
Speaker 30: have even been able to see that because of the

1634
01:37:38,400 --> 01:37:40,439
Speaker 30: direction that the helicopter was coming in.

1635
01:37:40,680 --> 01:37:46,360
Speaker 2: So you had a confluence of bad decisions.

1636
01:37:45,840 --> 01:37:51,439
Speaker 30: That were made, and you have people that lost their lives,

1637
01:37:52,160 --> 01:37:57,240
Speaker 30: violently lost their lives. We're going to take a few questions.

1638
01:37:57,240 --> 01:38:00,400
Speaker 30: I'd like to ask our new Secretary of Transfer Vitation,

1639
01:38:00,800 --> 01:38:04,120
Speaker 30: to say a few words. John Duffy, great gentleman, just started.

1640
01:38:05,000 --> 01:38:08,760
Speaker 30: It's not your fault, and I know you agree with

1641
01:38:08,800 --> 01:38:13,599
Speaker 30: me very strongly on intellect and even psychological well being

1642
01:38:13,840 --> 01:38:15,360
Speaker 30: of the air traffic control.

1643
01:38:15,400 --> 01:38:16,680
Speaker 2: It's such an important.

1644
01:38:16,280 --> 01:38:21,000
Speaker 30: Position, and I think I can't emphasize stronger. I changed

1645
01:38:21,040 --> 01:38:24,640
Speaker 30: it when I first ran, and twenty sixteen I changed it.

1646
01:38:25,120 --> 01:38:28,280
Speaker 30: We had the highest standard that you could have, and

1647
01:38:28,320 --> 01:38:33,439
Speaker 30: then they changed it back. That was biden to a

1648
01:38:33,560 --> 01:38:35,320
Speaker 30: standard you just I read it to you. That was

1649
01:38:35,360 --> 01:38:38,640
Speaker 30: from one of your papers. One of the people in

1650
01:38:38,680 --> 01:38:42,200
Speaker 30: this room, Map actually wrote that. And then I changed

1651
01:38:42,240 --> 01:38:49,120
Speaker 30: it back a few days ago, and unfortunately that was

1652
01:38:49,960 --> 01:38:52,760
Speaker 30: we'll see. We don't know that necessarily it's even the

1653
01:38:52,760 --> 01:38:55,320
Speaker 30: controller's fault. But one thing we do know, there was

1654
01:38:55,360 --> 01:38:57,599
Speaker 30: a lot of vision and people should have been able

1655
01:38:57,640 --> 01:39:00,360
Speaker 30: to see that. You know, at what point do you stop?

1656
01:39:00,360 --> 01:39:02,280
Speaker 30: At what point do you say, wow, that plane's getting

1657
01:39:02,439 --> 01:39:04,840
Speaker 30: a little bit close. So this is a tragedy that

1658
01:39:05,520 --> 01:39:06,519
Speaker 30: should not have happened.

1659
01:39:06,800 --> 01:39:11,360
Speaker 2: Please you, Thank you, mister President.

1660
01:39:11,400 --> 01:39:15,120
Speaker 31: And I would just note the President's leadership has been

1661
01:39:15,160 --> 01:39:21,759
Speaker 31: remarkable during this crisis. We've had a whole of government response, local, state, federal,

1662
01:39:22,240 --> 01:39:26,400
Speaker 31: and when you see that kind of cooperation, it begins

1663
01:39:26,680 --> 01:39:29,040
Speaker 31: with the leadership in this body. So thank you for that,

1664
01:39:29,080 --> 01:39:31,759
Speaker 31: mister President. You make our jobs a lot easier.

1665
01:39:32,960 --> 01:39:33,559
Speaker 13: You made an.

1666
01:39:33,439 --> 01:39:38,000
Speaker 31: Important point that when we deal with safety, we can

1667
01:39:38,080 --> 01:39:42,120
Speaker 31: only accept the best and the brightest in positions of

1668
01:39:42,200 --> 01:39:45,880
Speaker 31: safety that impact the lives of our loved ones, our

1669
01:39:45,920 --> 01:39:48,320
Speaker 31: family members, and I think you make a really important

1670
01:39:48,320 --> 01:39:50,400
Speaker 31: point on that, mister President. That is the motto of

1671
01:39:50,439 --> 01:39:54,000
Speaker 31: your presidency, the best and the brightest, the most intelligent

1672
01:39:54,080 --> 01:39:56,800
Speaker 31: coming into these spaces. I want to take a moment

1673
01:39:56,840 --> 01:40:00,599
Speaker 31: and extend my condolences to the families of the loved ones.

1674
01:40:01,840 --> 01:40:04,599
Speaker 31: We commit to them that we are going to get

1675
01:40:04,600 --> 01:40:08,120
Speaker 31: to the bottom of this investigation, not in three years,

1676
01:40:08,160 --> 01:40:10,800
Speaker 31: not in four years, but as quickly as possible with

1677
01:40:10,880 --> 01:40:13,840
Speaker 31: the NTSB who is here today, as well as the FAA.

1678
01:40:14,400 --> 01:40:18,759
Speaker 31: What happened yesterday shouldn't have happened. It should not have happened.

1679
01:40:19,280 --> 01:40:23,080
Speaker 31: And when Americans take off in airplanes, they should expect

1680
01:40:23,080 --> 01:40:27,479
Speaker 31: to land at their destination. That didn't happen yesterday. That's

1681
01:40:27,479 --> 01:40:31,920
Speaker 31: not acceptable, and so we will not accept excuses. We

1682
01:40:31,960 --> 01:40:36,680
Speaker 31: will not accept passing the buck. We are going to

1683
01:40:36,680 --> 01:40:40,839
Speaker 31: take responsibility at the Department of Transportation and the FAA

1684
01:40:40,960 --> 01:40:43,000
Speaker 31: to make sure we have the reforms that have been

1685
01:40:43,160 --> 01:40:46,760
Speaker 31: dictated by President Trump in place to make sure that

1686
01:40:46,840 --> 01:40:49,599
Speaker 31: these mistakes do not happen again. And again, I want

1687
01:40:49,600 --> 01:40:53,320
Speaker 31: to thank you for your leadership, mister President, and I

1688
01:40:53,320 --> 01:40:55,360
Speaker 31: appreciate that the confidence you placed in me.

1689
01:40:55,520 --> 01:41:03,240
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Pete with ACA, well, thank you

1690
01:41:03,240 --> 01:41:04,799
Speaker 2: mister President. Again.

1691
01:41:04,920 --> 01:41:07,680
Speaker 32: I want to echo what the Transportation Secretary said about

1692
01:41:07,720 --> 01:41:10,479
Speaker 32: your leadership. From the moment we found out about this,

1693
01:41:10,520 --> 01:41:12,160
Speaker 32: we were in contact with the White House trying to

1694
01:41:12,240 --> 01:41:15,360
Speaker 32: determine exactly what happened. I would echo it as well,

1695
01:41:15,439 --> 01:41:16,040
Speaker 32: no excuses.

1696
01:41:16,040 --> 01:41:17,120
Speaker 2: We're going to get to the bottom of this.

1697
01:41:19,520 --> 01:41:21,720
Speaker 32: We first and foremost from the Defense Department, want to

1698
01:41:21,760 --> 01:41:25,439
Speaker 32: pass our condolences to the sixty four souls and their

1699
01:41:25,479 --> 01:41:30,160
Speaker 32: families that were affected by this. Never should happen, and

1700
01:41:30,200 --> 01:41:34,439
Speaker 32: certainly the three service members, the three soldiers, a young captain,

1701
01:41:35,280 --> 01:41:38,479
Speaker 32: staff sergeant and c W two Chief Warrant Officer donor

1702
01:41:39,000 --> 01:41:43,320
Speaker 32: routine annual retraining of night flights on a standard corridor

1703
01:41:43,920 --> 01:41:49,080
Speaker 32: for a continuity of government mission. The military does dangerous things,

1704
01:41:49,080 --> 01:41:52,880
Speaker 32: it does routine things on the regular basis. Tragically, last

1705
01:41:52,960 --> 01:41:55,479
Speaker 32: night a mistake was made, and I think the President

1706
01:41:55,600 --> 01:41:59,679
Speaker 32: is right there was some sort of an elevation issue

1707
01:42:00,320 --> 01:42:02,840
Speaker 32: that we have immediately begun investigating at the DoD and

1708
01:42:02,960 --> 01:42:07,400
Speaker 32: Army level. ARMYCID is on the ground investigating top tier

1709
01:42:07,680 --> 01:42:11,559
Speaker 32: aviation assets inside the DoD are investigating, sir, to get

1710
01:42:11,560 --> 01:42:13,160
Speaker 32: to the bottom of it so that it does not

1711
01:42:13,240 --> 01:42:16,000
Speaker 32: happen again, because it's absolutely unacceptable. But I want to

1712
01:42:16,040 --> 01:42:20,800
Speaker 32: echo what Transportation Detectory and you, mister President said, because

1713
01:42:20,800 --> 01:42:23,800
Speaker 32: it pertains to the DoD as well. We will have

1714
01:42:23,840 --> 01:42:27,320
Speaker 32: the best and brightest in every position possible. As you

1715
01:42:27,320 --> 01:42:30,880
Speaker 32: said in your inaugural, it is color blind and merit

1716
01:42:30,920 --> 01:42:35,080
Speaker 32: based the best leaders possible, whether it's flying blackhawks and

1717
01:42:35,120 --> 01:42:39,920
Speaker 32: flying airplanes, leading platoons, or in government. The era of

1718
01:42:40,600 --> 01:42:44,599
Speaker 32: DEI is gone at the Defense Department, and we need

1719
01:42:44,600 --> 01:42:47,200
Speaker 32: the best and brightest, whether it's in our air traffic control,

1720
01:42:47,680 --> 01:42:50,960
Speaker 32: or whether it's in our generals, or whether it's throughout government.

1721
01:42:51,000 --> 01:42:53,040
Speaker 32: So thank you for your leadership and courage on that, sir,

1722
01:42:53,320 --> 01:42:54,320
Speaker 32: and we'll stand by you on it.

1723
01:42:54,479 --> 01:42:56,320
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. JD.

1724
01:42:56,400 --> 01:43:03,040
Speaker 33: Eclips Well, thank you, miss President for your leadership. I

1725
01:43:03,080 --> 01:43:05,519
Speaker 33: just want to reemphasize something the President said, and you've

1726
01:43:05,520 --> 01:43:08,519
Speaker 33: heard from the Secretary of Transportation and of Defense. There

1727
01:43:08,560 --> 01:43:10,439
Speaker 33: really was a whole of government response. We were all

1728
01:43:10,479 --> 01:43:12,439
Speaker 33: on the phone, we were all communicating yesterday, trying to

1729
01:43:12,439 --> 01:43:15,200
Speaker 33: get to the bottom of this immediately, but also try

1730
01:43:15,200 --> 01:43:18,719
Speaker 33: to communicate with the American people about what happened. Something

1731
01:43:18,720 --> 01:43:22,080
Speaker 33: the President said that I think bears re emphasizing, which

1732
01:43:22,120 --> 01:43:24,720
Speaker 33: is that when you don't have the best standards in

1733
01:43:24,760 --> 01:43:27,479
Speaker 33: who you're hiring, it means on the one hand, you're

1734
01:43:27,520 --> 01:43:29,640
Speaker 33: not getting the best people in government, but on the

1735
01:43:29,680 --> 01:43:32,360
Speaker 33: other hand, it puts stresses on the people who are

1736
01:43:32,400 --> 01:43:35,200
Speaker 33: already there. And I think that is a core part

1737
01:43:35,280 --> 01:43:37,320
Speaker 33: of what President Trump is going to bring and has

1738
01:43:37,360 --> 01:43:40,439
Speaker 33: already brought to Washington, d C. Is we want to

1739
01:43:40,520 --> 01:43:42,679
Speaker 33: hire the best people because we want the best people

1740
01:43:42,720 --> 01:43:44,519
Speaker 33: at air traffic control, and we want to make sure

1741
01:43:44,560 --> 01:43:47,120
Speaker 33: we have enough people at air traft control who are

1742
01:43:47,160 --> 01:43:48,719
Speaker 33: actually competent to do the job.

1743
01:43:49,040 --> 01:43:50,240
Speaker 2: If you go back to just some of.

1744
01:43:50,160 --> 01:43:52,960
Speaker 33: The headlines over the past ten years, you have many

1745
01:43:53,080 --> 01:43:55,600
Speaker 33: hundreds of people suing the government because they would like

1746
01:43:55,640 --> 01:43:57,679
Speaker 33: to be air traffic controllers, but they were turned away

1747
01:43:57,720 --> 01:44:01,080
Speaker 33: because of the color of their skin. Policy ends under

1748
01:44:01,080 --> 01:44:04,320
Speaker 33: Donald Trump's leadership because safety is the first priority of

1749
01:44:04,320 --> 01:44:05,240
Speaker 33: our aviation industry.

1750
01:44:05,320 --> 01:44:06,240
Speaker 8: Thank you, mister President.

1751
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Speaker 26: You on pi on Dei and the claims that you've made.

1752
01:44:11,640 --> 01:44:14,880
Speaker 26: Are you saying this crash was somehow caused and the

1753
01:44:14,920 --> 01:44:18,439
Speaker 26: result of diversity hiring, and what evidence have you seen

1754
01:44:18,680 --> 01:44:19,719
Speaker 26: to support these planes?

1755
01:44:19,800 --> 01:44:22,040
Speaker 30: It just could have been. We have a high standard.

1756
01:44:22,160 --> 01:44:25,640
Speaker 30: We've had a much higher standard than anybody else. And

1757
01:44:25,800 --> 01:44:28,240
Speaker 30: there are things where you have to go by brain power,

1758
01:44:28,280 --> 01:44:28,599
Speaker 30: you have.

1759
01:44:28,600 --> 01:44:30,800
Speaker 2: To go by psychological.

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01:44:31,880 --> 01:44:36,120
Speaker 30: Quality, and psychological quality is a very important element of it.

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01:44:36,160 --> 01:44:38,880
Speaker 30: These are various, very powerful tests that we put to

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01:44:39,000 --> 01:44:42,000
Speaker 30: use and they were terminated by Biden, and Biden went

1763
01:44:42,000 --> 01:44:45,640
Speaker 30: by a standard that's the exact opposite. So we don't know,

1764
01:44:45,720 --> 01:44:47,880
Speaker 30: but we do know that you had two planes at

1765
01:44:47,880 --> 01:44:50,519
Speaker 30: the same level. You had a helicopter and a plane

1766
01:44:50,720 --> 01:44:53,760
Speaker 30: that shouldn't have happened. And we'll see, we're going to

1767
01:44:53,800 --> 01:44:54,320
Speaker 30: look into that.

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01:44:54,400 --> 01:44:55,040
Speaker 2: We're going to see.

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Speaker 30: But certainly for an air traffic controller, we want the brightest, smartest,

1770
01:45:00,680 --> 01:45:05,960
Speaker 30: the sharpest, we want somebody that's psychologically superior, and that's

1771
01:45:05,960 --> 01:45:06,840
Speaker 30: what we're going to have.

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01:45:06,960 --> 01:45:10,639
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, please go ahead. Resident.

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Speaker 34: You mentioned at the top of the prison that there

1774
01:45:12,720 --> 01:45:16,519
Speaker 34: were several Russian nationals on the flight. Yes, Will the

1775
01:45:16,640 --> 01:45:22,280
Speaker 34: US government be willing to facilitate the transfer of their remains.

1776
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Speaker 34: Consider yes, there is no direct travel between the country.

1777
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Speaker 3: We've already been.

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Speaker 30: In contact with Russia and the entries. Yes, we will facilitate.

1779
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Speaker 2: Please go ahead, Thank you, mister President.

1780
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Speaker 12: Uh.

1781
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Speaker 35: The situation in the Democrat Republic of the Como is

1782
01:45:40,560 --> 01:45:44,720
Speaker 35: getting worse even no President John Larezo has been mediating

1783
01:45:45,080 --> 01:45:48,120
Speaker 35: the conflict between Gwanda and the Democrat Republic of the

1784
01:45:48,160 --> 01:45:51,320
Speaker 35: com because it wants to bring peace and stability. The

1785
01:45:51,400 --> 01:45:54,120
Speaker 35: situation is really bad right now. I want to hear

1786
01:45:54,160 --> 01:45:56,800
Speaker 35: from this president if you have any plan in the

1787
01:45:56,840 --> 01:45:59,160
Speaker 35: future to bring peace in the Democrats.

1788
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Speaker 2: To make a question about and it is a very

1789
01:46:01,479 --> 01:46:02,240
Speaker 2: serious problem.

1790
01:46:02,320 --> 01:46:04,360
Speaker 30: I agree, but I don't think it's appropriate right now

1791
01:46:04,400 --> 01:46:05,080
Speaker 30: to talk about it.

1792
01:46:05,080 --> 01:46:06,479
Speaker 2: But it is a very serious problem.

1793
01:46:07,960 --> 01:46:10,080
Speaker 36: And yet know the names of the sixty seven people

1794
01:46:10,120 --> 01:46:13,559
Speaker 36: who were killed, and you are blaming Democrats and DEI

1795
01:46:13,640 --> 01:46:16,920
Speaker 36: policies and air traffic control and seemingly the member of

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Speaker 36: the US military who was flying that black Hawk helicopter.

1797
01:46:19,520 --> 01:46:21,800
Speaker 36: Don't you think you're getting ahead of the investigation right now?

1798
01:46:21,920 --> 01:46:22,880
Speaker 2: I don't think so at all.

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Speaker 30: I don't think were the names of the people you

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Speaker 30: mean the names of the people that are on the plane,

1801
01:46:28,720 --> 01:46:30,400
Speaker 30: you think that's going to make a difference.

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01:46:30,280 --> 01:46:32,519
Speaker 2: Are for their family. They are a group of people

1803
01:46:32,560 --> 01:46:35,120
Speaker 2: that have lost their lives. If you want a list

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01:46:35,160 --> 01:46:36,479
Speaker 2: of the names, we can give you that.

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01:46:36,520 --> 01:46:39,200
Speaker 30: We'll be giving that very soon with in coordination with

1806
01:46:39,240 --> 01:46:43,200
Speaker 30: American Airlines. We're in coordination very strongly obviously with the military.

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Speaker 30: But I think that's not a very smart question.

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Speaker 2: I'm surprised coming from you. Please, thank you, Thank you President.

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01:46:50,920 --> 01:46:51,920
Speaker 19: Trying to think for being here.

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Speaker 36: Based on your analysis so far, do you have a

1811
01:46:54,520 --> 01:46:57,360
Speaker 36: sense of who is at fault, if it was the plane,

1812
01:46:57,400 --> 01:46:59,960
Speaker 36: the helicopter, air traffic control, and can you, as Shu,

1813
01:47:00,040 --> 01:47:02,080
Speaker 36: sure people that it is safe to fly in.

1814
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Speaker 2: And out of DC. Well, I've given you the analysis,

1815
01:47:04,680 --> 01:47:05,880
Speaker 2: and the analysis was.

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01:47:07,479 --> 01:47:11,160
Speaker 30: Who's paced to envision. You had a lot of people

1817
01:47:11,240 --> 01:47:13,840
Speaker 30: that saw what was happening. You had some people that

1818
01:47:14,320 --> 01:47:17,479
Speaker 30: knew what was happening. Uh, there was some warnings, but

1819
01:47:17,479 --> 01:47:19,599
Speaker 30: the warnings were given very very late. You know, those

1820
01:47:19,720 --> 01:47:22,599
Speaker 30: warnings were given very late. It was almost as they

1821
01:47:22,600 --> 01:47:24,280
Speaker 30: were given a few seconds later there.

1822
01:47:24,160 --> 01:47:27,280
Speaker 2: Was the crash. It should have been brought up earlier.

1823
01:47:28,760 --> 01:47:33,519
Speaker 30: But the people and the helicopter should have seen where

1824
01:47:33,520 --> 01:47:37,280
Speaker 30: they were going. I I can't imagine people with UH

1825
01:47:38,520 --> 01:47:44,200
Speaker 30: twenty twenty vision not seeing, you know, what's happening up there. Again,

1826
01:47:44,240 --> 01:47:47,000
Speaker 30: they shouldn't have been at the same height you're going

1827
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Speaker 30: with in reverse directions or sideway directions, obviously you wanna

1828
01:47:52,000 --> 01:47:53,960
Speaker 30: be at different heights. I see it all the time

1829
01:47:53,960 --> 01:47:55,960
Speaker 30: when I'm flying I s you have planes going in

1830
01:47:55,960 --> 01:47:58,639
Speaker 30: the opposite They were always lower, we're higher or there.

1831
01:47:59,800 --> 01:48:03,599
Speaker 30: So if somehow there's a screw up, there's not going

1832
01:48:03,640 --> 01:48:05,640
Speaker 30: to be a tragedy. It'll be close, but you know,

1833
01:48:05,800 --> 01:48:07,439
Speaker 30: there's never going to be a tragedy if you're at

1834
01:48:07,439 --> 01:48:10,320
Speaker 30: a different elevation. For whatever reason, they were at the

1835
01:48:10,320 --> 01:48:15,200
Speaker 30: same elevation. And also from the American Airline Center, he's

1836
01:48:15,360 --> 01:48:17,679
Speaker 30: along the track that every plane is along.

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01:48:19,040 --> 01:48:22,240
Speaker 2: You see what was a helicopter doing in that track?

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01:48:22,920 --> 01:48:26,320
Speaker 30: Very sad, but visually somebody should have been able to

1839
01:48:26,360 --> 01:48:29,800
Speaker 30: see and taken that helicopter at a play and they

1840
01:48:29,800 --> 01:48:32,280
Speaker 30: should have been at a different height.

1841
01:48:33,800 --> 01:48:36,639
Speaker 2: Thank you said you mentioned the Russians bubble on board

1842
01:48:36,680 --> 01:48:37,200
Speaker 2: that plane.

1843
01:48:37,400 --> 01:48:39,080
Speaker 8: What other nationalities were on boards?

1844
01:48:39,120 --> 01:48:40,719
Speaker 2: Dot? Possible there were a couple of others.

1845
01:48:40,720 --> 01:48:42,479
Speaker 30: We're going to be announcing it in about an hour.

1846
01:48:42,560 --> 01:48:47,320
Speaker 30: We have some very specific information. We're calling the countries.

1847
01:48:47,360 --> 01:48:49,280
Speaker 30: We've spoken to most of them, but there were some

1848
01:48:49,400 --> 01:48:51,360
Speaker 30: other countries represented.

1849
01:48:52,600 --> 01:48:58,400
Speaker 2: A president I have not known not about this on

1850
01:48:58,520 --> 01:48:59,080
Speaker 2: your exact board.

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01:48:59,160 --> 01:49:00,519
Speaker 28: You've already issued in secutive order.

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01:49:00,560 --> 01:49:03,960
Speaker 37: You say, well, restore aviation safety, right, this crash happened

1853
01:49:04,000 --> 01:49:04,519
Speaker 37: after that?

1854
01:49:05,320 --> 01:49:08,320
Speaker 2: Was the executive order successful? And what more you need to change?

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01:49:08,600 --> 01:49:10,960
Speaker 30: People say, well, you know, we issued it three days

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01:49:11,000 --> 01:49:14,000
Speaker 30: ago and we were in the process of making those changes.

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01:49:14,040 --> 01:49:15,519
Speaker 2: This is this is.

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Speaker 30: Something that should have been done a long time ago. Actually,

1859
01:49:20,080 --> 01:49:22,400
Speaker 30: my original orders should have never been changed, and I

1860
01:49:22,400 --> 01:49:24,000
Speaker 30: think maybe you wouldn't have had this problem.

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Speaker 4: Maybe thank you.

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Speaker 38: We see, like everyday life, that's very often that those

1863
01:49:31,560 --> 01:49:35,919
Speaker 38: diversity highers cause some type tissues, as you just mentioned.

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Speaker 2: So what plan did you have?

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Speaker 38: Are we going to see some fire? Are you going

1866
01:49:40,240 --> 01:49:43,559
Speaker 38: to find some of those diversity higher in the federal government?

1867
01:49:43,640 --> 01:49:45,240
Speaker 38: What's plan do you have?

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01:49:45,280 --> 01:49:47,320
Speaker 30: I would say the answer is yes, we've found that

1869
01:49:47,360 --> 01:49:52,160
Speaker 30: people aren't mentally competent. You see the language, the language

1870
01:49:52,160 --> 01:49:55,839
Speaker 30: is put out by them, and if you see that.

1871
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to bore you by reading it again.

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01:49:58,439 --> 01:50:01,000
Speaker 30: But these are not people that we should be doing

1873
01:50:01,040 --> 01:50:03,679
Speaker 30: this particular job. They'd be very good for certain jobs,

1874
01:50:03,720 --> 01:50:06,000
Speaker 30: but not people that should be doing this particular job.

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01:50:08,320 --> 01:50:13,320
Speaker 19: The President you've today blamed the diversity elements, but then

1876
01:50:13,400 --> 01:50:14,400
Speaker 19: told us.

1877
01:50:14,680 --> 01:50:16,719
Speaker 2: That you weren't sure that.

1878
01:50:16,800 --> 01:50:20,280
Speaker 7: The controllers made any mistake, and then said perhaps the

1879
01:50:20,320 --> 01:50:22,760
Speaker 7: helicopter pilots were the ones.

1880
01:50:22,520 --> 01:50:26,799
Speaker 2: Who made the mistake. It's all under investigations. I understand that.

1881
01:50:26,800 --> 01:50:29,040
Speaker 2: That's why I'm trying to figure out how you can

1882
01:50:29,040 --> 01:50:29,400
Speaker 2: come to.

1883
01:50:29,360 --> 01:50:32,280
Speaker 12: The conclusion right now that diversity had something to do

1884
01:50:32,360 --> 01:50:33,520
Speaker 12: with this crash.

1885
01:50:33,320 --> 01:50:37,800
Speaker 30: Because they have common sense, okay, and unfortunately a lot

1886
01:50:37,840 --> 01:50:38,519
Speaker 30: of people don't.

1887
01:50:39,880 --> 01:50:41,559
Speaker 2: We want brilliant people doing this.

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01:50:41,560 --> 01:50:44,640
Speaker 30: This is a major chess game at the highest level

1889
01:50:44,960 --> 01:50:48,599
Speaker 30: when you have sixty planes coming in during a short

1890
01:50:48,640 --> 01:50:51,080
Speaker 30: period of time, and they're all coming in different directions,

1891
01:50:51,560 --> 01:50:55,920
Speaker 30: and you're dealing with very high level computer computer work

1892
01:50:56,280 --> 01:50:59,360
Speaker 30: and very complex computers. And one of the other things

1893
01:50:59,400 --> 01:51:02,960
Speaker 30: I will tell you is that the systems that were built.

1894
01:51:03,000 --> 01:51:05,800
Speaker 2: I was going to rebuild the entire system, and.

1895
01:51:05,760 --> 01:51:07,880
Speaker 30: Then we had an election that didn't turn out the

1896
01:51:07,880 --> 01:51:08,559
Speaker 30: way it should have.

1897
01:51:09,280 --> 01:51:11,879
Speaker 2: But they didn't build the systems properly.

1898
01:51:12,000 --> 01:51:14,799
Speaker 30: They spent a lot of money renovating a system, spending

1899
01:51:14,880 --> 01:51:17,080
Speaker 30: much more money than they would have spent if they

1900
01:51:17,080 --> 01:51:19,760
Speaker 30: bought a new system for air traffic controllers, meaning the

1901
01:51:20,400 --> 01:51:24,040
Speaker 30: computerized systems. There are certain companies that do a very

1902
01:51:24,040 --> 01:51:26,679
Speaker 30: good job. They didn't use those companies. They use companies

1903
01:51:26,720 --> 01:51:28,479
Speaker 30: that should not have been doing it.

1904
01:51:28,800 --> 01:51:31,000
Speaker 2: So I think this. I think it's very important to

1905
01:51:31,080 --> 01:51:31,840
Speaker 2: understand that.

1906
01:51:32,240 --> 01:51:35,680
Speaker 30: For some jobs, and not only this but air traffic controllers,

1907
01:51:36,080 --> 01:51:39,640
Speaker 30: they have to be at the highest level of genius.

1908
01:51:40,240 --> 01:51:44,040
Speaker 37: Okay, I want to ask you about the ice skaters

1909
01:51:44,040 --> 01:51:46,360
Speaker 37: in a moment, because the US Ice Skating Committee was affected.

1910
01:51:46,360 --> 01:51:48,639
Speaker 37: The first of I can the site of FAA taxtually

1911
01:51:48,720 --> 01:51:51,720
Speaker 37: read is real. But the implications that this policy is

1912
01:51:51,800 --> 01:51:54,400
Speaker 37: newer than it stems from efforts that began under present

1913
01:51:54,439 --> 01:51:58,519
Speaker 37: by nor the Transportation Secretary Pete Bootage Edge is demonstrably false.

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01:51:58,520 --> 01:52:01,559
Speaker 37: It's been on the Fastide. No, it's on the website,

1915
01:52:01,560 --> 01:52:03,760
Speaker 37: the FA's website. He was there at twenty thirteen. It

1916
01:52:03,800 --> 01:52:05,680
Speaker 37: was there for the entirety what I read. It was

1917
01:52:05,720 --> 01:52:08,080
Speaker 37: there for the entirety of your administration too. So my

1918
01:52:08,160 --> 01:52:10,720
Speaker 37: question is why didn't you change the policy during your

1919
01:52:10,760 --> 01:52:11,920
Speaker 37: first administration.

1920
01:52:11,520 --> 01:52:12,040
Speaker 2: Did change you.

1921
01:52:12,160 --> 01:52:14,920
Speaker 30: I changed the Obama policy and we had a very

1922
01:52:14,920 --> 01:52:17,760
Speaker 30: good policy, and then Biden came in and he changed it.

1923
01:52:18,080 --> 01:52:20,760
Speaker 30: And then when I came in two days three days ago,

1924
01:52:20,800 --> 01:52:22,760
Speaker 30: I signed a new order bringing.

1925
01:52:22,439 --> 01:52:28,960
Speaker 2: It to the highest level of intelligence. Okay, exactly right.

1926
01:52:29,680 --> 01:52:31,080
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Sorry.

1927
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Speaker 34: You mentioned that a vision was probably the problem.

1928
01:52:35,479 --> 01:52:36,880
Speaker 2: That was an issue in this crash.

1929
01:52:37,400 --> 01:52:39,640
Speaker 32: There's been some reports that one of the pilots and

1930
01:52:39,680 --> 01:52:42,400
Speaker 32: that had the helicopter maybe using night vision equipment.

1931
01:52:42,479 --> 01:52:44,680
Speaker 2: Is there any arrogation? We don't know. We're going to

1932
01:52:44,880 --> 01:52:45,720
Speaker 2: know that pretty soon.

1933
01:52:46,439 --> 01:52:49,280
Speaker 30: It may change your view plan if you do have

1934
01:52:49,320 --> 01:52:52,280
Speaker 30: the night vision, So it's very possible that could have happened.

1935
01:52:53,080 --> 01:52:54,840
Speaker 2: That would be that would be maybe a.

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Speaker 30: Reason why you wouldn't actually see as well as on

1937
01:52:58,080 --> 01:53:05,160
Speaker 30: a clear night you can see sometimes better without it.

1938
01:53:05,240 --> 01:53:07,919
Speaker 36: Is it helpful to have your secretary of Transportation confirmed?

1939
01:53:07,960 --> 01:53:10,679
Speaker 36: And does this intensify your interest in getting other nominees

1940
01:53:10,720 --> 01:53:14,479
Speaker 36: confirmed quickly? What is it helpful to have your secretary

1941
01:53:14,479 --> 01:53:17,880
Speaker 36: of transportation confirmed? And does this intensify your interest in

1942
01:53:17,920 --> 01:53:20,000
Speaker 36: getting other nominees confirmed quickly as well?

1943
01:53:19,880 --> 01:53:23,880
Speaker 30: For sure, we want fast confirmations and the Democrats, as

1944
01:53:23,920 --> 01:53:26,120
Speaker 30: you know, are doing everything they can to delay them.

1945
01:53:26,160 --> 01:53:27,719
Speaker 2: They've taken too long.

1946
01:53:28,240 --> 01:53:32,240
Speaker 30: We're we're struggling to get very good people that everybody

1947
01:53:32,240 --> 01:53:34,920
Speaker 30: knows they're going to be confirmed, but we're struggling to

1948
01:53:34,960 --> 01:53:37,120
Speaker 30: get them out faster.

1949
01:53:37,240 --> 01:53:38,960
Speaker 2: We want them out faster. It's a good question.

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01:53:39,040 --> 01:53:44,680
Speaker 30: Actually, we've been pushing Sean. Everyone knows Sean for a

1951
01:53:44,680 --> 01:53:47,160
Speaker 30: long time. He got many, many Democrat votes. But they

1952
01:53:47,640 --> 01:53:49,400
Speaker 30: want to take as long as they can. They ask

1953
01:53:49,560 --> 01:53:53,000
Speaker 30: questions like some of the questions that Peter would ask

1954
01:53:53,320 --> 01:53:56,360
Speaker 30: that we're totally irrelevant and not very good questions. But

1955
01:53:56,439 --> 01:53:58,080
Speaker 30: they want to just keep it going. They want to

1956
01:53:58,160 --> 01:54:01,320
Speaker 30: keep it going as long as possible. I was honored

1957
01:54:01,479 --> 01:54:03,559
Speaker 30: actually that you got so many Democratic books.

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01:54:03,600 --> 01:54:10,679
Speaker 2: That was really good. It was really But I applied

1959
01:54:10,720 --> 01:54:12,960
Speaker 2: to but I applied to meet with the two families.

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Speaker 38: And second question, is he an impression that need to

1961
01:54:16,240 --> 01:54:19,920
Speaker 38: training that was on during that time, the training that

1962
01:54:20,000 --> 01:54:21,919
Speaker 38: the helicopter was involving.

1963
01:54:22,400 --> 01:54:23,800
Speaker 2: Is it anything you can tell us about it?

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Speaker 30: You don't know.

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Speaker 2: These are the things that will come up with the investigation.

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Speaker 2: You don't know.

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Speaker 30: But the helicopter obviously was in the wrong place at

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Speaker 30: the wrong time and a tragedy occurrent place.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead.

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Speaker 39: As the president, you've been critical of the current regulations

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Speaker 39: and you've called for big reforms at f A A.

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Speaker 2: I'm curious or what if I made the reforms? What

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Speaker 2: is your message days ago? I made?

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Speaker 39: Yes, sir, What is your message then to the American

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Speaker 39: public in the weeks and months ahead?

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Speaker 13: Should they be all hesitant to fly?

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Speaker 39: And if you could, Claire, I perhaps something that the

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Speaker 39: Defense Secretary said when he said that this helicopter went

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Speaker 39: on a continuity of government mission.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 30: I don't know what that uh, what that refers to.

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Speaker 30: But they were practicing. They were they do that, they

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Speaker 30: call it practicing, and they were uh, and that's something

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Speaker 30: that should be done. It's only continuity in the sense

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Speaker 30: that we want to have very good people and that

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Speaker 30: has to be uh, in continuity, and that's what they

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Speaker 30: refer to. But it was basically practiced, and it was

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Speaker 30: a practice that worked out very very badly on his destordy.

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Speaker 16: The first question, should people be hesitant to fly right now?

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Speaker 2: No, not at all. I've not hesitated to fly.

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Speaker 30: I this is something that it's been many years that

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Speaker 30: something like this has happened.

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Speaker 2: And the collision is just.

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Speaker 30: Something that we don't expect ever to happen again. We

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Speaker 30: are going to have the highest level people. We've already

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Speaker 30: hired some of the people that you've already hired for

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Speaker 30: that position long before we knew about this. I mean

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Speaker 30: long before from the time I came in. We started

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Speaker 30: going out and getting the best people because I said,

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Speaker 30: it's not it's not appropriate what they're doing.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a tremendous mistake.

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Speaker 30: You know, they like to do things and they like

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Speaker 30: to take them too far, and this is sometimes what

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Speaker 30: ends up happening. Now with that, I'm not blaming the controller.

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Speaker 30: I'm saying there are things that you could question, like

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Speaker 30: the height of the helicopter, the height of the plane

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Speaker 30: being at the same level and going in opposite directions.

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Speaker 2: It's not a positive.

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Speaker 30: But no, we're already hiring people. Flying is very safe.

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Speaker 30: We have the safest flying anywhere in the world, and

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Speaker 30: we'll keep it that way.

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Speaker 2: Thank you all very much, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 5: Okay, welcome back.

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Speaker 6: The President United States with a just absolutely incredible press

2015
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Speaker 6: conference about this tragedy last night, kind of threw down hard.

2016
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Speaker 5: His theories of the case of what happened.

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Speaker 6: Looked like he's got questions about air traffic controllers. Also

2018
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Speaker 6: has a question about why the night vision training by

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Speaker 6: the United States Army and the Apache helicopter. We have

2020
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Speaker 6: Brian Glenn's there and Natalie Winners were there for the briefing. Also,

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Speaker 6: let's go back. We're going to punch out here in

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Speaker 6: a couple of minutes with the war room. Hopefully we

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Speaker 6: got different channels, go to Grace and we got the

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Speaker 6: Rumble channel, the ghet Our channel. We tried to show

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Speaker 6: as much of the hearings as possible. The President was

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Speaker 6: there approximately for thirty five minutes. At the press briefing.

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Speaker 6: He had the Secretary Transportation Duffy, Head of the Pentagon,

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Speaker 6: Pete Hegsith, He had the Vice President of Stage jd Vance,

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Speaker 6: I'll step up say a few words, and then took questions.

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Speaker 5: After his statement, he.

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Speaker 6: Saw the the presses back into the feeding frenzy of

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Speaker 6: you know, President Trump's first term. He saw it right there,

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Speaker 6: the hand to hand combat. Let's be brutally frank about

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Speaker 6: what's going on at Capitol Hill on the Senate side,

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Speaker 6: cash Pttel. They're coming at can Hard, They're coming at

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Speaker 6: Bobby Kennedy hard. They're coming at Tulci Gabbert hard. The

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Speaker 6: Democrats right here trying to do two things. Number One,

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Speaker 6: they hope to knock down these appointments because they don't

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Speaker 6: want President Trump to have his team and particularly a

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Speaker 6: team of disruptors, which all three of these are today.

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Speaker 5: But remember what they're also.

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Speaker 6: Trying to do is get them on the record certain

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Speaker 6: policies to basically make sure they've constrained what these folks

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Speaker 6: can do when they take over the departments. They don't

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Speaker 6: want Bobby Kennedy doing what Bobby Kennedy has done historically.

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Speaker 6: They don't want Tulci Gabbert with kind of her opinions

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Speaker 6: and thoughts about intelligence and deconstructing the intelligence community. They

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Speaker 6: don't want Cash Mattel with what he feels has to

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Speaker 6: be done at the FBI.

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Speaker 5: So it's a two prong approach.

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Speaker 6: Number one, to ding them up enough to get them

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Speaker 6: to actually get what I call the fourth Republican debl

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Speaker 6: and it came very close to Pete the inside storing

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Speaker 6: that was very close. They're going to try to do

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Speaker 6: that because they feel they got Mkowski, they got Collins,

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Speaker 6: they get McConnell, all they need is one more they

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Speaker 6: get one more.

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Speaker 5: G eighties vote.

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Speaker 6: Vice President Advance's vote cannot cannot change it. The second

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Speaker 6: thing they're trying to do is to make sure they

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Speaker 6: limit the field of action that these cabinet sectors can

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Speaker 6: this tragedy last night shows we need to get a

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