New Year's Resolutions plus Minnesota Shooting, Riots & Fraud
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Ted and Ben discuss their New Year's resolutions for 2020 and what they are looking forward to in the new year. They also talk about the work that Compassion International is doing to impact the lives of children around the world through letters and letters of support.
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Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
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It's so nice to have you with us on the radio wherever you are around the country.
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And this is our first show in the new year for many on the radio that are listening.
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And Senator, so let's have a little fun with New Year's resolutions.
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I don't know if I have three, but we're going to have those for you in a minute.
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All right, Senator, so you've got three New Year's resolutions.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say that of my New Year's resolutions, I'm going to be
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I do not know what they are, but I'm just going to see if we are aligned on this.
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So number one in 2026, I'm going to lose some weight.
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You know, when I graduated from college, I was a buck 35, 135 pounds.
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We've got several guys that are trying to lose weight together.
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And so my objective over the next 12 months is drop those 30 pounds and be at 206 one
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How are you going to, what's your plan for this?
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We're going to talk over the course of the year about how to do that and what's working
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We're going to have some of those conversations over the course of the year on the podcast.
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The objective, which I've decided on, is to drop 30.
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And so we'll see if we can do that and get to that point.
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My second resolution is actually related to my first, which is that I am doing a dry January.
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As you know, Ben, I enjoy red wine with dinner.
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The problem is it's like injecting calories straight in your gut.
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And so if you want to drop some weight, having wine with dinner is not conducive to that.
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And so I've decided for the month of January, I'm going to go dry.
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And I'll tell you just a few days into it, I'm already feeling I'm sleeping better and
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I mean, at the end of the day, it's a lot healthier way to live.
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And then resolution number three is I am committing to myself that I am going to read the Bible
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That's something I've done at different periods of my life.
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When our girls were younger, we would do devotion at night with them.
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So we read through the Bible, the New Testament with them.
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Every night we would read and talk about it and pray together.
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And, you know, when you're being a parent, that gives you an excuse to do so.
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But life pulls you a million different directions.
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And sometimes it eats away at the time you would have to otherwise just sit down and study
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And so I'm making a commitment to myself also that every day I'm going to read the Bible.
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And those three things together, I think, are really – they have me excited about
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2026 because I think all three of them are the right thing to do for this year ahead.
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The Bible one, that's cool because I literally tried a couple different times.
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And life gets busy to do that one-year Bible where you read every day and you read the
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And I got through it a couple times where it was like you get about halfway and then
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But the idea of just reading it every day, I actually will take that challenge with you.
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I will actually commit to getting on board with that one.
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The 33%, by the way, I was right because my weight – so my weight journey, I was – you
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I went to the doctor, scared the living snot out of me.
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See, that's – I'm glad I didn't look as bad as you just said, right?
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And my goal for this year is I want to put back muscle on because I've been so focused
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So I'm going to work out lifting weights with a neighbor three days a week at least,
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just weights, do the other stuff I've been doing.
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But I put on a shirt yesterday to kind of motivate me.
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I swear to you, it's this far in front of my chest.
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I got rid of all the other clothes, but I didn't want to go backwards.
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I was like, all right, I can do this this year.
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I'm allergic to sulfa drugs, which means red wine gives me the worst headache in the world.
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It's probably the biggest blessing God's ever given me because I've never cared.
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Like two sips and I feel like I want to die of red wine.
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But I'm 66% in with you, but I'll encourage you on the other 33%.
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Well, look, it's a journey, and I expect that a lot of our listeners are making your own commitments in a new year.
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And maybe the resolutions Ben and I are doing are resolutions you'll decide to do in your own life.
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Maybe you're already skinny and in great shape, and so that's not a resolution you need to make.
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But maybe there's some other aspect of your life that it's a chance to think about, you know, what you want this next year, 2026, to be, to make a real investment in your own quality of life, in your wife or your husband or your kids and your family.
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You know, I think all of that really, really matters.
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And, you know, both of us are dads, and I think both of us – look, I'm facing – Caroline is 17.
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She's a senior in high school, so we're getting ready to have one leave the house, which is a terrifying moment.
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We just got a couple of years until she's gone, too.
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I'll tell you, the first day we're an empty nester, I'm going to go into the girls' room and probably just cry and miss them.
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So you've got a few more years until that happens, but my guess is you're going to feel the same sentiment.
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All right, Senator, I want to get into Minnesota and what happened in Minnesota.
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There is a rallying cry because of a woman who tried to run over an ICE agent that she is somehow a victim,
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and the left is wanting to have a civil war over this.
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You have the mayor there telling ICE agents to literally get the F out.
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You have civil war, the words being used by the governor.
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They're seizing on this like it's an opportunity to derail ICE and law enforcement.
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It is truly sick and shocking to witness what we're watching right now.
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You're right, and what we're witnessing in Minnesota is the natural culmination of several years of just increasingly heightened rhetoric from Democrats,
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demonizing ICE agents, demonizing Border Patrol, demonizing law enforcement, just attacking them.
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And we have Democrats who call ICE agents Nazis.
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And listen, as you know, I was on the ground in Dallas within minutes of when the deranged shooter in Dallas opened fire at ICE agents there
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because he had listened to all of the left's horrible anti-ICE rhetoric.
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We're seeing acts of violence over and over and over again.
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And listen, what happened in Minneapolis, anytime someone dies in an interaction with law enforcement, it's tragic.
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But I will say, look, this woman had a very easy way to avoid fatal consequences,
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which is when law enforcement detains you, you follow the instructions of law enforcement.
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If you're pulled over at the side of a road and law enforcement pulls you over, you follow their instructions,
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and you don't drive your vehicle, in this case a big SUV, right at law enforcement because that, look, that potentially can be fatal.
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And I have to say it's systematically true that if someone attacks law enforcement,
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you see instances where sometimes someone is pulled over and they reach for and try to grab a police officer's taser or his weapon.
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And an awful lot of those instances end up with a fatality because if you present what could be a deadly threat to a law enforcement officer,
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in many, many instances, that's going to be the last thing you do.
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And unfortunately, this woman, I'm sure if she could go back in time, she would have changed her behavior.
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But the decision she made in that split second cost her life.
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And now we're seeing Democrats deliberately stoking the fire and just pouring gasoline on the divisions and anger.
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And it's incredibly cynical and incredibly harmful what they're doing.
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It's so sad to see them look at this almost like an opportunity to score political points.
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It was like, yes, we've got someone that's passed away.
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We can now seize on this, make our political statements.
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It is a tragedy, as you said earlier, that this woman died.
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But you gave this law enforcement individual no other choice.
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When you have a car coming right at you, and thank goodness, by the way, if you watch the video, there was some ice on the street there.
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If there wouldn't have been the ice there, there's a very good chance he'd be dead right now.
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It gave him the moment to be able to defend himself that he may not have had otherwise.
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And I think that's the part about this that I look at it, and I'm like, no one wins in this situation.
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But you don't get to go out there when you don't like law enforcement and just decide, I don't have to listen to them or I can run them over.
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And they said, Christine Holmes said it yesterday, more than 100 incidences of people using their cars to go at ice agents in the last 30 days.
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This is happening all over the country because the left has organized for this exact reason.
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Yeah, and look, any time there's an officer-involved shooting, there will be an investigation.
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So they'll go and examine the facts after the facts, and then that's the way law enforcement operates any time you've got particularly a shooting involving a fatality.
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But it is amazing that this particular ICE agent, Christy Noem, the DHS secretary, said, had previously, in recent months, been hit by a car previously and dragged behind a car.
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So this is the second time this very same agent faced this threat.
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And we are seeing the extreme left that are threatening ICE.
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They are, in extreme cases, shooting at ICE agents and using their cars as weapons.
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And I just wish you would see even a couple of Democrats demonstrate some restraint, demonstrate some prudence, and not just – all right, the mayor of Minneapolis.
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Here was his calm, sober reflections on where to go from here.
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Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite.
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Long-term Minneapolis residents that have contributed so greatly to our city, to our culture, to our economy,
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It's on you to make sure that further damage, further loss of life and injury is not done.
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I never thought I'd see a day where I would witness a mayor be so political after something like this happens to tell law enforcement who were just sent in to do their job, to enforce the laws of the land, to get the F out, and then say it's their fault.
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That is, I'm physically sick listening to and watching Jacob Fry.
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We talked about before how he dances with glee, waving the Somali flag, and the massive fraud that has happened he has presided over and profited from.
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And here he is, you know what, this woman, a 37-year-old woman, she's a mother of three, look, she was there in part because of rhetoric like that, because of rhetoric attacking ICE.
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And by the way, this woman, she was married to another woman.
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Apparently her wife was there videoing the entire incident.
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That is a level of radicalization, and it is radicalization the Democrats have caused, they want, and they're deliberately inflaming that passion.
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Senator, let's go back to just the rhetoric that is coming out of the left,
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and we're going to talk about the Governor Walz in a moment.
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But there's been also, I think, a very back law enforcement mentality that's been clear across the entire Trump administration.
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I'm glad that's their line, and they're not backing down from ICE doing their job.
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President Trump has the back of ICE, has the back of Border Patrol agents and law enforcement.
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You know, I view my job as having the back of law enforcement.
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And I'll tell you, as I travel the country, I see, whether it's Border Patrol agents or ICE agents or sheriffs or local police,
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and I tell them all the time, I just say, thank you, and it's my job to have your back.
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And that's a big part of why President Trump was reelected in 2024,
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is law enforcement were tired of having elected politicians who threw them under the bus at any excuse.
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And a lot of people across the country were tired of politicians who were letting violent criminals into this country
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This week, J.D. Vance, the vice president, did a press conference at the White House.
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Here's what he had to say about the shooting that happened in Minneapolis.
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Is there a risk with you describing her as a deranged leftist, talking about very specific facts of these events,
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Are you preempting a thorough investigation by drawing such conclusions?
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And have you received any information beyond the videos we've seen publicly
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about this individual, her specific acts that has informed your point of view?
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Well, first of all, the Department of Justice is going to investigate this.
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The Department of Homeland Security is already investigating this.
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But the simple fact is, what you see is what you get in this case.
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You have a woman who is trying to obstruct a legitimate law enforcement operation.
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You have a woman who aimed her car at a law enforcement officer and pressed on the accelerator.
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while also recognizing that it's a tragedy of her own making
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and a tragedy of the far left who has marshaled an entire movement,
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a lunatic fringe, against our law enforcement officers.
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I think what is clearly happening here, and it's going to keep on happening
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you know what, you don't have to agree with our immigration policies.
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You don't have to agree with what the president or the vice president believe about immigration enforcement.
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Instead, what some of them are doing, what some of them are doing is encouraging people
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to get violent with our law enforcement officials.
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It's sad that you have to have that type of clarity,
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If you don't like something, you can vote and change,
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but you don't just get to make up the rules and target people you disagree with.
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Well, and more and more, the left is condoning violence, violence on a partisan basis.
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And let me be clear, violence is always, always wrong, whether I agree with your politics
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And we're seeing on the left, more and more, we've seen the poll numbers of growing numbers
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of people on the left think violence is justified, think violence is justified against Donald Trump,
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think violence is justified against Elon Musk, and think violence is justified against ICE.
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And it's fundamentally wrong, and the Democrats are deliberately pushing this.
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And listen, I will say, for this woman, she had complete control to avoid this happening.
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And any time you interact with law enforcement, I believe you should interact respectfully
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and understand, look, if a police officer pulls you over on the road,
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that officer every day, it is potentially a deadly encounter for that officer.
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And every year, you have officers who are shot and killed on the side of the road by some
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They don't know when they're coming up to the driver's side.
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In most instances, they have no idea who they're going to encounter.
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I'll tell you, you know, again, you and I are parents.
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When your kids start driving with my kids, what I tell them is if you get pulled over,
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pull over, put the car in park, and put your hands on 10 and 2 on the steering wheel.
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On the steering wheel, visible, because the officer coming up doesn't know if you have
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a firearm, doesn't know if you're a deadly threat.
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And by the way, the officer sees your hands at 10 and 2 and realizes you're showing the
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The officer comes and says, let me see your, you know, license and registration.
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It's a good idea to tell the officer, okay, my license is in my wallet.
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So the officer doesn't think you're reaching for a gun beneath the seat or something.
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It's the advice that every responsible parent I know gives their child that don't put yourself
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in a position where law enforcement has reason to be afraid.
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Even if you're not a threat, don't give them reason to be afraid.
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He said to me so clearly, he said, I want to make it clear.
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If they're wrong, you get to go to court, but you always make sure you do not argue and
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And if you've been wronged, that's why we have a judge.
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But the left is now saying, if you don't like them for whatever reason, you don't have to
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And if you don't like a law, instead of going in and actually voting and trying to change
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And by the way, Ben, at lunch Thursday, several of the senators were talking about exactly this
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Although what he said is you should put your hands at nine and three instead of 10 and
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I don't know if that's a Utah thing or what exactly that means.
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But my dad always said, he's like, if you, he said, when you get pulled over, cross your
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hands on the top of the steering wheel, because it's showing that you're not trying to grab
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And I'm like, every time I do it, almost 99% of the time, law enforcement always said to
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I rolled down all four windows because if they come on the left side of the right, I don't
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want them to have to worry about anything with me.
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They've had a hard enough day and they've done this.
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And like you said, they walk up to a traffic stop.
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And I wish we lived in a society where that was like the common denominator now.
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When you do that, you can see law enforcement kind of just, you know, take an extra breath
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and OK, this is this is not going to be confrontational.
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And listen, the reason that didn't happen is this woman didn't want to deescalate.
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This woman was there to provoke a confrontation with law enforcement.
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She was there because the rhetoric on the left was is stand up and fight ice.
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She may have just think had thought she was fleeing.
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But but the officer, if you drive a vehicle right at somebody, particularly an officer
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who's already been run over once just a few months ago by some another leftist, you are
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And if you pose a real and present threat to law enforcement, that predictably can result
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By the way, side note, just I was talking to me in law enforcement.
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And they said, would you please just remind people that we will charge you with major
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crimes as a deadly weapon if you use your car to hit somebody?
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You will go to jail for that, whether you're going after law enforcement or an innocent person.
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And I think that's the important point for people to remember.
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If I was in front of that car, I could easily have been run over.
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That's why we have laws in the books that say you cannot use your car as a deadly weapon.
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And if you do, you will be charged with major crimes.
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It's sad that we even have to have this conversation.
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But the governor, by the way, Senator, he's not backing down.
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The same disgraced governor because of the scandal that's happened in Minnesota.
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He's now out there calling like this, in essence, a civil war, trying to ratchet things
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up instead of bring down the temperature, which is also, I think, really sick.
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And by the way, you remember back in 2022 that the man in Waukesha, Wisconsin, who drove
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his SUV into a Christmas parade and murdered multiple people, did so very deliberately using
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it as a deadly weapon and killing children, killing the elderly.
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And the grotesque irony is that he had previously used his car as a deadly weapon against, if
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Uh, and, and, and he had been charged with it and then let out of jail on a nominal, I
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think it was a $500 bond, uh, because you had one of those George Soros prosecutors who
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lets people go and they let him out of jail for, for attempting to kill someone with, with
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And he went out to the Christmas day parade and committed mass murder.
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Senator, I want to go back to this, the rhetoric here.
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And we mentioned the governor earlier, uh, the governor, Tim Waltz is now a disgraced
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He had to drop out of his reelection campaign because of the fraud that is just continuing
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to grow in the dollar amount and the different sectors of the government.
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I'm not sure there's any sector in Minnesota that wasn't involved in fraud and corruption
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We're seeing it in transportation, childcare, the list goes on and on, but the governor now
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seems to think this is like a moment to seize on.
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And he's now wanting to go to war with the federal government.
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Look, the, the, the Democrat politicians in Minnesota are in crisis right now because this
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Somali fraud, it is the worst instance of fraud that has ever been uncovered in American
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$9 billion and counting massive theft from the taxpayers.
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It is so bad that Tim Waltz, I mean, remember like 12 minutes ago, the Democrats said he
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was going to be vice president of the United States and, and now he's, he's ended his campaign
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for reelection even as governor because I look, I think he's facing potentially very real criminal
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liability for the fraud that unfolded under his leadership.
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And, and, and it is, and, and, and Waltz and, and, and the mayor in Minneapolis that they're
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I think there's an entire array of Democrats who are responsible.
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And, and one of the reasons why they are so eager to, to foment riots.
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I mean, look, they are rooting for a replay of the Black Lives Matter and, and the Antifa
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They are rooting for, for violence because they want to energize their voters and get
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Here's Tim Waltz, the governor, and here was his response calling for all out war.
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We've never been at war with our federal government.
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Uh, I think in this case that the national guard is, is their main mission.
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Um, when he said that and it went viral, I'm like, let me get this straight.
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You have a governor who is in a crisis situation.
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I'm talking about the Christ on the ground, whose job is to back law enforcement.
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And his job is also to ratchet down the rhetoric.
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And he's like, maybe this is an opportunity for a civil war.
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He's saying that Minnesota is at war with the United States federal government.
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Um, yeah, and listen, if you, if you're an angry left-wing radical, you already hate ICE.
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Um, and then you hear the elected Democrat governor say, Minnesota is at war with the federal government.
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Um, that is Democrats very deliberately calling to violence.
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It is not, we disagree over policy with the federal government.
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And I think a huge part of this is, is a CYA instinct.
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And I want you to listen, the House of Representatives had a hearing on the fraud in, in Minnesota.
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By the way, I'm going to be chairing a hearing on the same topic in just a couple of weeks.
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So we'll cover that, uh, in, in verdict when that happens.
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He's, he's cross-examining this, this left-wing witness from Minnesota.
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Let me ask you, does large-scale Somali immigration make Minnesota stronger or weaker?
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Do you know what percentage of Somali-headed households in Minnesota are on food stamps?
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Do you know what that number is for native Minnesota-headed households?
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There's a big difference between 54 percent and seven percent, is there not?
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What, what percentage of Somali-headed households in Minnesota are on Medicaid?
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Do you know what that number is for Minnesota native households?
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Again, you're using the phrase Minnesota native households, but the majority-
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Let me ask you one more, and then we can go on to that.
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What, what percentage of Somali-headed households are on welfare in general?
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What about, let me just ask you, after 10 years of being in the United States, what percentage
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of Somali-immigrant households are on, continue to be on welfare?
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So even after 10 years, 78 percent of Somali-immigrant households continue to be on welfare.
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Do you know what that number is for native Minnesota-headed households?
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When you're using the phrase native Minnesotans, the majority of Somali Minnesotans are as
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It's only 8,000 of the 108,000 Somali-immigrant households.
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And nevertheless, the welfare usage is astoundingly different.
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Let me ask you again, does that make Minnesota stronger or weaker?
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Again, I'd like the opportunity to answer the question here.
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So again, the majority of Somali Minnesotans are born in the United States, as I understand
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Well, what percentage of working-age Somalians who have been in the U.S. for 10 years or
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more, 10 years or more, how many of them speak English very well?
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Like, the way that he handled that, it's the reason why you're good friends with him.
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It's the reason why we played it, because he's just laying out the reality of the situation
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on the ground, and how we got to a point where virtually every government program in Minnesota
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has been compromised by the Somali community in this way, where they could grab money and
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He had a rough primary and a bunch of primary opponents.
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Actually, his father-in-law is Dinesh D'Souza, who's a good friend.
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And I endorsed Brandon early, went and campaigned with him, and he overcame a ton of money coming
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And part of what I told the voters of Texas is, listen, if y'all elect Brandon, he's
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going to go and fight for you and make you proud.
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You know, I want to make a point about the back and forth, because that weaselly Minnesota
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lefty witness, he kept saying, well, the majority of Somalians are born in America.
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And the guy says, well, they have a bunch of anchor babies.
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In other words, we bring over Somali immigrants.
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And because of birthright citizenship, which is a really foolish policy, and my hope is
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that the Supreme Court will side with President Trump in ending it.
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And Brandon's saying, all right, how about the person who heads the household?
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And the person who heads the household are these Somali immigrants.
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And I tell you, the stat that was really powerful was 10 years later.
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The Democrats did it deliberately, and they did it to buy votes.
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They were importing votes to vote for Democrats.
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They allowed them to commit fraud, to steal $9 billion, and then to bundle those votes for
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the Democrats, to bundle cash for the Democrats.
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And it's why Tim Walton, Jacob Frey, and so many other Democrats are trying to enrage the left
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about this shooting with ICE because they want to cover up from the incredible theft and fraud
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