National Crime Roundup

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All right, time for our National
Crime update.

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And there's all kinds of things
to keep our eyes on here,

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America today, Jim Watkins,
Michael Letts is on the line,

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CEO and founder of Invest
usa.org.

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Hey, Michael, how are you?
And I did all the talking

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yesterday.
So I know today, just starting

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off the day we had two major
arrests of a large cachet of

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felony migrants, I guess that's
the way to put it in San

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Antonio, a major bust there, and
also Chicago.

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So it sounds at least just
starting things off on that

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front.
Everything is proceeding and the

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home and his team are doing what
they're doing best, which is,

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you know, rounding up these
criminals, right?

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That's correct.
You know, we have made a

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commitment to doing that, of
course, been an awful lot of

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opposition from the left, but we
have not stopped in any form or

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fashion.
In fact, you know, there has

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been a request now from
Christie, from the secretary of

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Homeland Security and the
president has endorsed it, to go

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ahead and bring in National
Guard troops to make sure we can

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speed up this process.
We're picking up hundreds at a

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time.
You said, wow, that's a

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tremendous amount.
But consider the billions that

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came in.
There's still a pretty good

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disparity there.
So and quite frankly, you

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remember our main objective has
been to get the criminal element

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off the street first and
foremost.

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And we're still on that aspect
of it.

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Yes, we have picked up some who
are not criminals or just, I

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mean, they're criminals because
they're here illegally, but they

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haven't committed any other
crime.

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But that has been more of a
happened to be the wrong place

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at the wrong time instead of
being targeted, because I

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actually targeted those that are
only here illegally just yet.

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We're targeting first those that
are here illegally that have

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committed Major Crimes.
And yeah, it's a long list.

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It's going to take a little
while.

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And that's why we've done what I
have suggested for quite some

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time, that we're going to have
to tie in with the military

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personnel to get this job done.
For those on the left that are

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saying, oh, we're going to a
dictatorship, tyrant state, no,

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this is just a temporary
assignment, temporary measure so

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we can maintain control and make
our states, the streets safe

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again.
It won't take long, Jim, but we

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have to make sure that we have
the upper hand.

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And not a bunch of activist
judges that are getting in the

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way of, of what we're trying to
accomplish here, which is

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cleaning up the streets from
people who broke in and they

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have not very good intent.
I have heard something come

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across my desk yesterday.
You want to comment on it?

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But I understand that two of the
largest cartels and I think

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there's about 5 major drug
cartels South of the border

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specifically in Mexico and two
of them are merging having one.

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Can you give any insight into
that what that's about?

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Well, quite frankly, you know, I
told you initially this was a

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few months ago when you taking
action on the border because of

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the fact that they had
threatened American citizens and

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carried through on some of
those.

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And we said we were not going to
tolerate their threat on

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American lives or having
armaments and ordinances that it

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just hundreds of feet across the
river that are aimed and pointed

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in America.
So we do not advertise you won't

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see it anywhere but covert
operations were taken and those

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were eliminated.
But remember, I warned that once

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we, our process is not to just
to disengage or or to messed up

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their operation, but it's to
eliminate them.

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When I told you we did the
elimination that there would be

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those after the fact that want
to try to pull together and take

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over the reins.
You know, the new reins, that's

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what you're seeing now because
of the fact that we have been so

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successful, their fire challenge
are not as big as they were.

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They're devoid of leadership.
And so that's what we've been

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targeting.
And quite frankly, now they're

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trying to put themselves
together to become a stronger

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force.
They counter what we're doing,

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but quite frankly, they're doing
two things to counter.

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Again, this is a concern.
They're trying to merge

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together.
And of course we can handle

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that.
We can handle the force aspect.

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But the second thing they're
doing now is they're flying to

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Canada and they're coming into
the Canadian border because of

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the fact that Canada is not
enforcing its commitments to the

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United States to help monitor
the borders and to help provide

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security to keep illegals from
coming across.

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So that's going to be a big
concern.

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You know, I mean, that's
Canadian borders, a lot bigger

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than the southern border.
And it's a lot more sparse as

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well.
And of course, we know the

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Canadians, like you say, they're
soft on crime when it comes to

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illegal border crossings.
There was something that I saw

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also come across my desk.
I don't know if you've picked up

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on it, but it's a lot of
criticism right now towards Pam

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Bondi.
There's a sense of frustration

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in the country that we're
hearing about all these

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investigations and files and
everything, but they're not

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seems to be any attention
grabbing headlines on notable

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people who are being arrested
for crimes.

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We know that, but we suspect
that they committed.

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So what's tying Pam Pam Bondi's
hands right now?

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Quite frankly, there's a number
of aspects and she has kind of

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set herself up for some
criticism from the standpoint,

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you know, initially she was on
the news every day and we

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discovered this corruption and
we're going to take a look at

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this, take a look at that.
Of course it gets American

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people excited, but what she
failed to do is to tell you how

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long it takes to go from
identifying something to getting

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it a open file, getting it
investigated by the agency, the

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Bureau, who's who you're talking
about.

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Remember, most of these agencies
are kind of short press now

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because we've had such
correction, we've had to let a

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lot of people go and so don't
have enough personnel to begin

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with.
And then she took a firm

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position.
We don't move anything forward

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until we have every T crossed,
every I dotted.

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That delays things even further.
Well, the American public says

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we're tired of things being
delayed.

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We've heard that on a previous
administration.

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You delay them until we forget
about them, and we're just not

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going to tolerate that anymore.
So she has left herself open to

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the criticism by doing that.
And quite frankly, my position

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has been all along, if we have
enough information to move with

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a grand jury, we need to convene
the grand juries, issue

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indictments.
We can always modify and add and

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amend indictments.
But quite frankly, it's time to

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get the ball rolling because the
American people need to

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understand that we're going to
see some action, and they don't

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right now, quite frankly, Jim.
Yeah, we don't need a dragnet,

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we just need one or two to send
the message.

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I do want to ask you 2 questions
here. 1 is on Bruce Springsteen

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and then other on the P Diddy.
So got about two minutes on on

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the Diddy trial.
It sounds like it almost looks

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like a lover's spat and the the
crimes that he's being charged

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with, prostitute, sex
trafficking and maybe extortion

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and some others.
But the case doesn't seem to be

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moving in that direction.
It's more about his drug abuse

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and and her whether or not she
was truly against a lot of the

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things that they were doing.
It doesn't seem to be zeroing in

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on the sex trafficking part.
It's more like a relationship

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spat that I'm watching.
What's your take on that?

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And then answer that first.
Well, quite frankly, that is the

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perception that we are allowing
to be given.

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But if you'll notice, we're
getting a lot of information on

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the sex trafficking.
We're just not disclosing it yet

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because we have to cross vet it
and verify.

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Last thing you want to do is
accuse or even put out

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information on sex trafficking
and it not be accurate.

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But no, I mean, you know, I know
the general public will perceive

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it that way because that's what
the mainstream media is picking

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up on all of you.
They don't want the sex

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trafficking discussed either.
Why are we not pushing back to

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make sure?
I don't know that there is not

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the headline.
This is the headline because

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we're having an event all this
first and we are betting it.

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And quite frankly, I am pleased
to tell you we are gathering

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more information.
The American public has any idea

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that we are gathering and it's
going to be devastating all.

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Right.
Well, I know I can count on you

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for that.
And then finally, Bruce

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Springsteen's outspout and, you
know, all kinds of stuff.

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Nonsense.
Now the president supposedly is

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investigating him.
What?

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What is he being investigated
for?

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And is it legitimate or is it
just that, you know, don't make

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fun of the president or I'll
come after you?

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What is it?
No, it's legitimate.

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I mean, you know, and quite
frankly, I'm glad you mentioned

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that because we'll have to have
discussions to make sure the

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public clearly understands.
If you've got the question, Jim,

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there are a lot of other people
that has a question.

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It's not Bruce Springsteen,
Springsteen.

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I mean, Springsteen starting
criticism now.

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I'm doing it to it.
It's the fact that what happened

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during the Harris campaign, she
paid entertainers for

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endorsements.
And that's a violation of the of

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the Election Commission rules.
You can't do that.

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Yes, I can hire you, Jim, to
complete a ban.

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I cannot hire you to endorse me.
And the fees that they are being

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charged were 10 times more than
what they would charge normally

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break concerts.
So we're investigating.

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Why did you charge so much?
And you know, that's well,

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where, where will it lead?
Obviously that's probably a

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little harder to prove that you
know you aren't just being paid

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to entertain, that you're being
paid to endorse.

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Yeah, well, also Beyoncé.
Beyoncé and a whole list of

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other people too.
Yeah, I mean, you can't.

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So that's.
That's right.

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It's not just Bruce that's being
taken a look at.

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It's the whole campaign, Harris
campaign.

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All right, well, listen, we're
out of time, but we'll see you

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back here in 24 hours.
Invest usa.org is his

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organization.
Michael, we'll talk to you in 24

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hours.
Have have a good day.

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You do the same game.
God bless.

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God Bless America.
We keep chipping away.

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We're going to get victory.