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In the dead of night, with only five senators
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Present on the floor and no one there to object.
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The senate rushed through a dhs funding bill
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That deliberately left ice and cbp unfunded.
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There was all this talk about staying
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Through the easter recess, never getting this done.
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No, they've all left.
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Well, here's the only problem.
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House republicans,
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It seems like, are signaling to senate republicans.
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You better get a return ticket.
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Better come back to dc because i don't think that
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They are going to fund this.
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I don't think they're going to pass this bill.
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So the only way that it passes,
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Which is a possibility, is if a bunch of democrats
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Get on board with it.
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So we're going to see how this plays out.
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But exactly my thought failure theater.
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Once again, we have weak leadership in the senate.
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You know, i do want to give some
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Sort of grace to the good guys in the senate,
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Because when you have 53 votes, that may seem like a lot.
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It's not a lot because of the darn filibuster.
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And all it takes is three squishy people.
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And it's it's a it's a frustration.
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But i'm not even going to say
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Because of the filibuster, the filibuster exists to
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Protect the majority from votes it doesn't want to take.
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I agree that is why it exists.
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The filibuster,
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The primary beneficiary
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Of the filibuster
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Are people like mitch mcconnell, people
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Like john thune, who want a ready made
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Excuse for why they haven't delivered on anything
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Their party has run on and promised in 20 years,
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Because we've been getting
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Promises of serious immigration reform for 20 years.
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We've gotten getting promises on all manner of things,
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Election reforms, all of that.
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And then they just go, oh, well, you know, unfortunately,
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We just can't pass this until you give us
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Really, we're going to probably need like 64 votes
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Because, you know, you lose a republican here and there.
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Well, we're never going to get 64 senators.
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It's not the 1930s.
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Yeah.
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And i mean, you want to depress turnout for the midterms.
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This is exactly how you do it.
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I'm telling you,
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This is a five alarm fire for anybody who will listen,
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Whether it's in the admin leadership.
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You are depressing turnout.
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You've got joe rogan calling you a bunch of dorks,
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Enthusiasm waning.
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You've got an iran situation where you've got reports now
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From axios that we're preparing potentially
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Up to 10,000 more troops to send it to the middle east.
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If you are not going to deliver on domestic policy promises
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That you ran on, that people voted for you on,
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You are going to lose those voters.
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It is that simple.
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So senate republicans
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Pass the save america act, do whatever it takes.
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You are destroying
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The chances of republicans in the midterms.
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You're absolutely destroying the chances.
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And why not?
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If we're going to do all the work to send you
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To washington to get simple things
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Done, common sense legislation done,
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And you cannot find a way
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And all you do is raise excuse after excuse.
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Then don't be surprised when people don't
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Show up for you.
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Don't be surprised when the people online
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That used to cheer you on
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And get out the vote for you
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Get so frustrated that they don't want to do it anymore.
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We are at that point where it's
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Going to be impossible to make the case for you
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If you don't get certain basic things done
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And you're leaving people
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Like us on this show completely holding the bag.
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So i encourage
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House republicans deny, reject this awful
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Deal, get back to work, do whatever it takes.
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I don't care if you can't sleep for a month and a half.
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That's your job.
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And if you don't do it, you're you're dooming everybody.
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You're dooming the country.
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You're dooming western civilization
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Because not only
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Are the republicans the last bastion of anything
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Sensible and good, potentially in america,
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The conservative movement in the united states
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Is the last bastion of hope and freedom
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For the entire western civilization.
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The stakes could
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Literally not be higher.
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I don't know, can you make the case?
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Can you make the case to send these guys back
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When they can't even go?
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I mean, simple things.
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But in general, the frustrating thing with politics is
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You think of
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I like to make the comparison to professional sports
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Because it's something americans actually care about.
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And when you have a nfl team and it's during the season,
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Like how hard, how hard is your team expected to work?
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They're expected to practice pretty intensely.
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They're expected to take for allen iverson pretty seriously.
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Yeah.
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And if you and if you don't,
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You tend to like, wash out on your team.
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And i just feel like the stakes for the country
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Are pretty high.
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And it would make a lot of
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Sense to have lawmakers be pretty committed
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To being there all the time and getting things done.
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And if you don't want to do it,
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We can replace you with a lawmaker who will do that.
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And instead
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We just have these barnacles on the american body politic.
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They have basically allowed congress to become this
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Inert entity that never passes anything useful.
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And repeatedly disappoints.
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I think the question i'm asking and everyone asking is, wait,
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I thought
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The entire justification for the one big beautiful bill
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Last summer was, oh, it has this unprecedented
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Funding for ice and water security.
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And then i actually, six months later, democrats in
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The minority can just kind of make you reverse tack on that.
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And i also would
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I would be remiss if i didn't mention that a lot of the guys
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Who are stampeding towards giving the democrats
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Everything they want on this
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Are also the same ones who are the source
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Of so much of our other political difficulties.
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They're the ones
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Who are the most avid that, oh, we need boots on the ground
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In iran.
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We need to, like, have maximal intervention there.
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Well, whether that's a good idea
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Or not,
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It's pretty clear that's going to be politically
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A politically difficult sell in the midterms.
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And so you're stacking all these things
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On top of each other. and what do they have to offer?
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Basically just that democrats are evil and bad,
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Which they are.
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But people are going to vote for them.
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If you are not offering a good alternative,
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If you want to depress turnout in the midterms,
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Keep doing the same thing.
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Keep doing the exact same thing that you're doing right now.
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Because right now i'm looking at a situation
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Where we have chapter presidents
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And they're tabling all over the country,
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And they can't defend these actions.
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They're getting, approached by by liberals
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That are calling out the hypocrisy of this garbage.
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And guess what?
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There's some truth to it.
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Make it so that we have something
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To argue that actually holds weight.
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Make it
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So that we have something to defend
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That actually is worth defending,
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Because right now we're just getting failure theater.
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We're getting no results.
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We're getting nothing that makes sense.
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Nothing at all.
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So go back, go to work,
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Go back to dc, show us you care.
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Exhaust yourself on the floor.
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Faint in the middle of the floor
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In the middle of the speech.
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Because you've been doing it so long, i don't care.
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Do something.
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Do something.
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We're not
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Getting our domestic agenda passed.
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And on top of that it seems like
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You know
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We're marching into potential of boots on the ground
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And now we've got the 82nd airborne mobilize
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Probably already there.
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We've got some marines being mobilized.
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Now. axios has a new report of up to 10,000 troops
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Being mobilized.
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Thousand additional.
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All right, i want to he's going to break it down.
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I want to hear your thoughts.
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Yeah.
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It's well, it's just it's all again.
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This is one of the toughest conflicts to cover because
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President trump has an unusual negotiating style.
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So he's constantly signaling he might escalate.
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He might de-escalate.
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Iran is difficult to read because a lot
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Of their leaders are dead.
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They're often, you know, running a double game.
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And on top of that, you just have
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You have different media operations.
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It's very clear, for example, that israel
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Is more hawkish overall than president trump is.
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And so, like,
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They want to egg him on to extend the war, escalate
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The war others are trying to pull.
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So there's all sorts of maneuvers going on.
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And the truth is we don't know exactly what the plan is.
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But it does seem like,
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To be frank, we are taking steps towards
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A course of action that we warned about,
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The very day that the first strike started
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When it was a saturday.
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And we talked about it here,
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Which is at that time it was a purely aerial campaign.
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And we said,
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We have to worry about whether you start
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Getting into this pattern of steady,
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Step by step escalation, where they say
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If you send
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In a few of these troops and take a few of these places,
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That's going to resolve it.
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So now we're
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It's almost everyone's talking, oh, they might take car
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Island, they might take these other
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I would say this is exactly how this happens.
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Yes. this is how you're you're the history buff here.
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Yeah.
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Do you see parallels?
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And i'm not saying there are, but let's just
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And i think this is a completely different situation.
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I'm not saying what i'm about to say.
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I'm just drawing a slight parallel.
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Vietnam. vietnam.
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It started with a few advisers and a few and a few.
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And then it was eventually i think we peaked
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At about 800,000 soldiers. yeah.
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And there was a draft.
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It was. yes, but this is we're not getting close to that.
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No, no, no. to pick a more comparable one.
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Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan started with no u.s.
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Troops involved other than a handful
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Of special forces forces.
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They helped the northern alliance overthrow the taliban.
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It was basically air power and a few special forces guys.
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And then after that happened, this was 2001, 2002.
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We have that george w bush era.
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Well, you know, we have this obligation
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Towards nation building.
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So we start sending a few thousand soldiers,
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Then we're taliban on their repeated,
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We're training them, we're building schools.
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And then by the time you get to obama, they're
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They're selling this idea.
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Well, we need a troop surge in afghanistan.
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And if we do a troop surge,
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That'll be able to we didn't get an order.
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Yeah, like we did in iraq.
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And it actually worked better in iraq because it
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At least had a much more clear objective.
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And, you know, it's a more urban society.
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But in afghanistan, they just kind of threw money
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At the problem,
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Threw troops at the problem, but they didn't fix
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The fundamental issue of how do we define
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What are what's our objective?
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What does victory actually look like?
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How do we get there?
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It was just sort of have troops there get in fights
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With the taliban and hope it works out.
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And what we have to worry about
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Is there certainly are factions within our own government
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That would just love to see an iraq style conflict with iran.
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They might they won't say that, but they'd love to see it.
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And what they'll sell to people is this line of,
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Oh, you know.
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Yeah, if you if you send a few troops here,
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That's, that's going to make the regime collapse.
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And when it doesn't, they'll,
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You know, it's like a heroin dealer
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And they'll say, and you're then you're already one more.
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So you might as well like see it all the way through.
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So just do a little bit more and then just oh,
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We're almost there.
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We promise.
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Just if you could add this little element here.
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And this is why regime change in the middle
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East is so fraught.
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And i get it.
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The the they want the people to rise up.
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They want the marching in the streets.
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I think that was kind of one of these indicators
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That helped lead to this escalation.
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And i want to just give president trump is due here.
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He has not shown any indication
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Through past operations to be
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Into the idea of a long, drawn out quagmire.
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He's not that kind of president.
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We're getting indications earlier in the week
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That where there was positivity
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That this was going to be wrapping up soon,
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But now we're getting indications
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It could be 10,000 more combat troops in the middle east.
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And we have this report from reuters exclusive.
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Now it's reuters.
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So take it with a grain of salt.
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But i've been hearing similar things.
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So it's fascinating.
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Us can only confirm about a third of iran's missile
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Arsenal is destroyed. sources say.
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Well, that's problematic.
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Now, maybe the answer to that is that the military has taken
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Out a bunch of their ability to shoot said missiles.
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So, okay, so maybe that's a good thing.
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The point is, i've been hearing similar rumors
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That there is stockpile leftover that,
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You know, we don't know about all of this to say
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You we are creating the conditions where you got
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Apparently gas in los angeles is over $8 a gallon.
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Now, a los angeles does some of this harm to themselves.
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But what is it like five in phoenix right now?
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Yeah, five bucks.
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And yeah, there's places where it's higher, places
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Where it's lower.
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That's going to just be a drag.
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If you want to hear about low numbers with hispanics,
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That's going to be one of them.
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All right.
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That's going to be one of the driving factors here.
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A year ago, if you wanted to lay out a situation
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For electoral disaster for the republican party,
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It would include open ended, expensive war
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In the middle east with with few,
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Or little focus ostensibly now this
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There is things happening behind the scenes.
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We're not trying to black people here.
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There's a lot of good that has been done,
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But we're not talking about it enough
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Because we've got a war in iran,
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And now we might be sending ground troops.
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The exact thing that we sort of promised the country
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Was not going to happen under president trump.
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What's what's so sad is we actually genuinely
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Have a lot to be proud of.
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Domestic, totally, in fact, constant new stuff.
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It's like texas has texas isn't giving licenses to illegals.
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We just didn't.
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We just didn't naturalized a couple of criminals
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Naturalizing citizens.
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We're sending ice agents to break up these, companies
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That only employ illegals.
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We've done great stuff on the border.
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We're suing medical schools. there's fraud too much.
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They're actually doing tons of great stuff.
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We're in the focus about it. the focus will be on that.
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If the focus is not overseas, we'll be right
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Back.
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Back.
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Jonathan cho is an absolute legend.
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We love this guy.
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He does great work out in the field.
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And, doing work for turning
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Point usa, usa frontline reporter.
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It's been working with cam higby
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And a lot of others exposing fraud in california.
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Jonathan cho you can find him at the cho show on x.
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I recommend you follow this guy.
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He's doing, like i said, amazing work.
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Welcome to the show.
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Hey, guys.
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How are you doing? doing great.
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So you have been doing, some investigative
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Journalism, the real stuff, out in california.
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Why don't you set the stage for us?
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And we got a bunch of clips here.
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Yeah, well, this is now been going on for two weeks.
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It's a joint investigation with multiple independent
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Journalists, including james o'keefe.
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Our own savannah hernandez, brandon dray, as well
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As, muckrakers,
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Anthony rubin and cam higby, as you mentioned.
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And we've been essentially doing a swarm on la's skid row.
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This is a human dumping ground.
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Homeless drug addicts.
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And what we've uncovered is that ballot petition
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Gatherers are now paying
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These people on the streets for their signatures
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For all kinds of what we believe is voter fraud.
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So let's go ahead and play
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One of these clips that you have, provided.
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Joe, just because i think it's shocking when you see it
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Actually play out.
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You mean this is real evidence?
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Sot ten registering people to vote in exchange for money.
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Cam higbee and i went undercover and witnessed
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Multiple instances of ballot initiative workers.
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I want to get five bucks.
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I heard i can get five bucks for paying cash
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To homeless drug addicts for their signatures.
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Here's a petition a felony level crime.
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According to california law, every single homeless person on
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Skid row that we ask is aware that this is happening.
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But this guy took it to another level.
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Oh my. okay, i'll put them.
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You know, you register to vote no.
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He wanted us to sign these
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Initiatives using other people's
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Names and home addresses.
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My name john lockwood.
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No, don't
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You put that name, which is identity fraud, another felony.
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Is this right, brother? when i showed hesitation.
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Listen to what he had to say.
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Is it a conflict with your moral?
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Walk us through what? what was happening there?
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Jonathan cho.
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So, as you could tell, cam and i were essentially hanging
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Around, the corner of san pedro and seventh and skid row,
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And we see a group of guys with clipboards.
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And on those clipboards are the ballot initiatives.
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And they were intentionally targeting
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Homeless drug addicts.
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We walked up to them, and out of nowhere
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They say, hey, do you want a sign?
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And, you know, i say, sure.
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They asked me if i'm registered to vote
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Because that's their minimum requirement.
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Clearly, i say no, but it didn't matter.
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Instead, i, i proceed to try and sign my actual name.
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I say my name is john and they're like,
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No, no, no, no, we don't want you to sign john.
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And then he asked me, do you have a conscience?
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Essentially, do you have a conscience?
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What was happening was that not only
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Were they having me sign this ballot initiative for money,
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They were having me sign under someone else's name.
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So not only are the homeless drug addicts, the victims here,
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There are actual victims of identity fraud.
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So then you you actually interviewed.
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It looks like a whistleblower that knows
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Something about this, saturnine.
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Their name or somebody else's name?
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Well,
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I ask you some questions, like what is reasonable?
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And if they remember, i'm like, okay, then i like,
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I just let them go, you know what i mean?
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And then i'm saying, well, if they don't remember,
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Are they from the state, the, the game where you guys give
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Us, they'll give us, you know, a list of names.
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I'm not list, but them write on a piece of paper or whatever.
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And i just gave it to them,
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You know, so when they pull the people's names,
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They get it from the, the, registration office.
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Like, they pay a lot of money for the registration of
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Is it like a voter registration or something?
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Yeah.
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Not a it a voter registration office.
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Oh, they get it right from the state from now.
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It's. whoa.
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This is crazy.
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Like the level of organization and coordination,
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The fact that this is so many people seem to know about it.
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We're just now finding out that this is a thing.
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Yeah.
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So many things going on over there
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In that whistleblower interview.
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First of all, these bad actors are using the danger
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And risk of going into skid row as cover.
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They know city and state officials aren't going to go
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In. there's barely any law enforcement.
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So again, they've been operating with total impunity.
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So this has not been going on for just the last two weeks.
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It's been going on for years,
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According to people on the ground.
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That whistleblower was also alleging that there were
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Democrats involved in this, along with gang bangers.
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I'm talking about local la gang bangers,
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And this is where it got really murky and sensitive.
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He didn't want to name anything,
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Any of the the actual gangs or the people behind it,
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Because he was afraid for his own safety and life.
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He took an enormous risk talking to us.
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At the same time, he's one of the few
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Now that are starting to flip
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Because he's had a crisis of conscience.
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Because once we got the footage of all of this undercover
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Signature gathering happening, you know, cash for ballots,
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He kind of started to realize he's in big trouble.
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He's either going to get outed one way or the other,
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So he might as well talk right now.
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So he's let us, you know, to a lot of evidence,
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We have a lot of this on camera.
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So it's not really up
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To, local officials and state officials.
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Governor gavin
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Newsom, attorney general, rob bonta to finally take action.
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And they've said they've started an investigation,
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But we don't have any timelines for arrests or charges. now.
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Well, i think that that's a pattern
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We've seen over and over.
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You can produce a lot of evidence.
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And as long as it's in the state's hands,
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They can say, oh, it's under investigation.
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And then you can just
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Play it out, draw it out, and eventually nothing happens.
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I mean, it's california.
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They're professionals at this.
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I can't i'll be blunt.
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I can't imagine that a system
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That organized with that many people in on it
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Exists without them having pretty high confidence.
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No one's ever going to do anything about it.
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It's just like the hospice fraud
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That's happening a few miles to the north of skid row, where
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When you have 70 fraudulent hospices in a single building,
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They are operating with the assumption
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The state knows what we're doing
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And they don't care.
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Yeah, that line, total impunity stands out.
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Cho because it just feels like
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The problems in this state are so huge and it's so vast
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And there's so many people corrupt and corrupted
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Within the system that nobody's going to be held
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Accountable, is what it feels like.
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Yeah. blake.
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Andrew, that's what we're concerned about.
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This one party
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Rule, controlling every aspect of this investigation.
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And again, this has now been going on for two weeks.
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James o'keefe's crew and and the rest of the independent
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Journalists, we're calling ourselves
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The citizen justice league.
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We're going to put out
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A video, a story, every single day,
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Until someone gets arrested and we see charges.
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But that's the concern right now.
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How long is it going to take
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To actually, you know, bring somebody, to account,
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Even after presenting all of this evidence?
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Well, we got more footage here, so i want to play it.
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This is a california democrat lawmaker.
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Oh, let me just play the clip.
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I know who's saying it. 11.
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Our team immediately notified authorities, including
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Governor gavin newsom and attorney general rob bonta.
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They do not have that authority.
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They responded by saying this would be investigated.
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These people are just continuing the cycle of harm
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And suffering on these people
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So they can manipulate them for political gain. out.
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That's sort of been what i've been thinking
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This whole time is of taking
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Advantage of drug addicts, the mentally ill, the homeless,
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Impoverished, the desperate,
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And they're just using them and
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Pawns in this sort of, like you said, one party rule state
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To further entrench your own power.
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So this is the this is the big rub, right?
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That you're asking
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California democrats to investigate something
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That's not in their best interest to to snuff out.
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Yeah, this is happening.
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And i don't know if you guys have
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Personally been to skid row.
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You guys have seen the images for years now.
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I've been there.
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Yeah. it's guys then.
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You know, it's the entire area.
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Again as i refer to it as a human dumping ground.
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It's also where
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All of the social service agencies, non-profits
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Funded by taxpayers are concentrated and based.
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So all of this is happening right there.
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And these non-profits,
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What i call and referred to as homeless inc,
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They're they allegedly
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Are supposed to be there to take care
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Of these vulnerable men and women.
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But my question is, how have they allowed this
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To go on for so many years now without sounding the alarm?
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So it's not just the lawmakers here,
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Who need to be held to account or or law enforcement,
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But we've got to be asking questions about the others
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In the area who i believe are in on this grift.
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Jonathan cho, tp, usa front lines.
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Great job.
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I'm excited to see this coalition of these journalists
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Coming together.
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And i know you
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Guys have plans to do this repeatedly throughout the year.
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So, keep up the great work.
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Jonathan cho tpo safe front lines.
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Check them out on x at show,
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Which is a great, great handle.
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Thanks, jonathan. we'll talk to you soon. thanks.
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Thanks for amplifying this, guys. take care.
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Jonathan Choe: March 30, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today

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