July 29, 2025
NYC Shooter - A Wake Up Call
National Security and Law Enforcement expert Michael Letts on the Manhattan Shooter and what we know so far, including the growing concern of "Incels" being recruited as terrorists across the U.S.
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have on the Newsmaker line our
national security expert,
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Michael Letts, who joins us.
He is the CEO and founder of
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Invest USA.
We'll talk about that just a
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moment.
But of course, everybody is
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watching with the tragedy
unfolding in New York City on
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Monday night where a crazed
gunman walks into a high rise of
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my brother-in-law actually I
think works in that building or
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next door for an international
bank.
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And Michael, let's what can you
tell us?
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What's the latest on the
suspect?
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Any possible motive?
What do you know?
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Well, we know on the suspect he
is a immigrant.
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Now we're checking more that his
status is illegal or not from
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the standpoint, you know, just
because you're an immigrant,
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sometimes, you know, you're here
on a visa and you oversee that
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visa.
That's being researched as we
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speak now.
He's from Thailand.
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And quite frankly, here's what's
interesting concerning this
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situation is he had grievances
in the note in his pocket was
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that he had grievances with the
NFL.
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It's kind of scratching my head
on that.
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And he was a football player.
No, he wasn't an NFL player.
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He wasn't even a great college
player, but he played in high
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school and they had diagnosed
him, said he'd get some
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neurological damage, perhaps
from being, you know, hit on the
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field more than once or hit hit,
you know, head injury, etcetera,
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etcetera.
So anyways, he chose, he was
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residency was in Vegas.
He chose to load up his car with
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an M4 and plenty of ammo, plenty
of other weapons, is a BMWA
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black BMW and drove straight
through to the location where
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the NFLS at.
And I've been in that building
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many, many times.
NFLS have been supporters of
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invest in the past.
And I will tell you when he got
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there, there is a security guard
there and there was an off duty
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officer.
The officer, the officer lost
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her life.
But here's one of the ones I
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want to stress is here you have
somebody double parked getting
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out, walking across the Plaza
and going to the entrance
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carrying M4.
You have to be vigilant folks.
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You have to can't let your guard
down.
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And obviously, those two
personnel would have been armed.
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Of course, the problem is in New
York, that's one of the most gun
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control areas in the country.
This goes to prove time and time
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again, Jim, that gives the gun
control as we know it just
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simply doesn't work.
What works best is making sure
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people can defend themselves,
protect themselves, their
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children and their families.
But he was able to, of course,
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once he got into the lobby, he
shot a few there, then went from
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floor to floor, not going in and
shooting from floor to floor,
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going to the owners floor that
we don't know if the owner was
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one of the victims yet or not.
We're still working on that.
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But they shot himself after he
killed 4.
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He was the 5th assailant to they
shot himself with his weapon.
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Now here's the other Anderson
thing that's frustrating for New
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York City.
The officers having to respond
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do not have active shooter vest.
And of course he had a long
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range rifle.
They were a decisive
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disadvantage when they got
there, but they were able to
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counter that with their SWAT
team be responding as well, who
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do have the active shooter vests
and able to.
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Of course, when they went to
take him out, he was already
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dead.
He'd already finished the job.
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So but it gets to an issue.
You know, we just two days
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before had the stabbing 11
people stabbed in Walmart in
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Michigan.
Of course, Michigan has very
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strong anti gun laws as well.
Folks, we're living in some very
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different times.
People now have a total little
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mindset because of our
educational system.
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We trained generations that
there's no right and wrong that
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we've posted all over TikTok.
If anybody wants to doubt my
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word, go to TikTok to be shocked
in 30 seconds.
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Every fight is posted now.
You know, they're encouraging
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any knock him out, bang him over
the top of the head.
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You know, I think the girls,
guys hit girls, etcetera.
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We have just really spiraled
downhill.
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And I was asked on a show this
morning, what's the solution to
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full?
First of all, we have to have
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accountability.
Of course, in this situation,
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accountability was taking a shot
himself.
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But we have to send a message to
America that we will not
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tolerate injustice.
This is why it's so important
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that we accomplish the missions
of what we're doing in the
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administration now, according
people, whether it is the former
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President of the United States,
Barack Obama, Bill Clinton,
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Hillary Clinton, or our heads of
state, whether it's bureaucratic
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heads of departments, form of
FBI directors, etcetera.
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No one can be held above the law
because you create a 2 tiered
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justice system.
And here's what we need to make
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sure we emphasize.
When you have a 2 tiered justice
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system, you have total
disrespect for the law.
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Nobody respects it and actually
despise it.
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If you go and treat people
differently for the same crime,
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nobody respects it anymore.
We've gotten to that point.
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Now we have to take measured
steps to turn the mindset and
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the image back around.
And then the second thing we
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have to do is folks understand
this.
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You said it before on this show.
We'll say it again, if you want
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to make sure that you are able
to defend yourself, your spouse,
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your children, your
grandchildren, you better be
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prepared to do so.
We cannot, nor do we have the
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capability to put one cop or one
person all across the country.
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It simply doesn't work that way.
Make sure you can defend
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yourself.
Make sure you know how to use
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it.
Make it a family event.
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Let's teach respect for the law
once again.
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Michael Letts, that's the CEO in
Vest usa.org, which is an
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organization that provides
bulletproof vest law enforcement
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officers.
So he knows a thing or two about
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that.
I thought it was interesting on
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a couple of notes, Hakeem
Jeffries out there saying that
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this is just another example of
gun violence disregarding the
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person.
It's also a new sort of
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homegrown terrorist.
I guess you could call.
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Have you heard of the in cells,
the in cell theory these are you
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want to elaborate?
We talked with a psychiatrist on
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the last edition of America
Today.
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But elaborate on what, what law
enforcement is seeing out there
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with these in cells.
Well.
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Here's what we've got with the
in cells.
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Let's just go back.
Let's step back a little bit.
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First of all, you had all these
foreign entities wanted to
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overthrow America, couldn't do
it ever get boots on the ground.
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So they decided to create
sleeper cells or terror cells
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with it and they began to
recruit.
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And how did they recruit?
They recruited by taking
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American citizens and expressing
having them have their
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frustrations with the
government.
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The government's lied to you.
See how they mis abuse you, they
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mistreat you, etcetera,
etcetera.
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And this is where the young
sales began to come from.
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So instead of becoming a
terrorist, foreign domestic,
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foreign terrorist cell full of
nothing but illegal immigrants
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or foreigners, etcetera, they've
done a great job of recruiting.
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And where did they get the
recruiting from?
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They go to our campuses, Jim,
because of the fact we've
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allowed them to be there.
We've allowed them to have a
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blanket card to be able to
influence and to be able to fan
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fire and plant ideals and
ideology.
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Among the most vulnerable are
young people coming through with
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carte blanche because of the
fact that they were smart
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enough.
They just donated big dollars to
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the universities, got their own
programs, and we could be
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influenced.
Now we're beginning to see the
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consequences that we have
terrorist cells all across the
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country, domestic and foreign.
And quite frankly, there's not
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really a whole lot of
distinction between that word
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domestic, domestic and foreign
anymore.
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Most of our terrorist cells have
some foreign influence, but
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they've done a great job of
recruiting American young
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people, American people who are
disenchanted.
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And where do they get the
disenchantment from?
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Flip all the news for one
evening.
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I bet you won't be able to take
it very long.
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You'll see exactly where the
disenchantment comes from.
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And the mainstream media is
pushing together propaganda,
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America's evil, America's bad,
and they're helping degenerate
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the recruits for these terrorist
cells that we have all across
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the country.
We know Jim, we have over 120
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carousels all across the country
so far and more growing.
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You know, I saw a meme of a
woman who said that every time
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she sees the American flag, she
gets angry.
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And that displays, I think, a, a
good example of someone who's
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been taught to hate their own
country because all they're
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getting is that we've done this,
we do that.
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And right now, you know, with
the Rage Against the
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Palestinians, which we'll save
for another day.
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You're right.
I, I, I think there are a lot of
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disenchanted young men out
there.
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They, it's a different ball game
that it was when you and I were
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growing up.
There were more opportunities.
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I'm not saying there aren't any
opportunities, but certain
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segments, certain demographics
are being told they don't matter
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anymore.
And sometimes this can come back
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as we saw with Koburger and
others like him.
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So it's something that makes us,
it reminds us to be more
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village.
And hang on, Michael, let's
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we're going to continue our
conversation.
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We need to get caught up on the
Epstein files and that whole
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debacle.
And then what's the other big
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story?
Well, of course, the corruption
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with Obama and where that's at.
So we'll continue in just a
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moment.
Michael let's he is the CEO and
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founder of Invest usa.org.
And we'll continue this
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conversation in just a moment.
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America Today continues and we
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have on the Newsmaker line our
national security expert,
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Michael Letts, who joins us.
He is the CEO and founder of
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Invest USA.
We'll talk about that just a
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moment.
But of course, everybody is
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watching with the tragedy
unfolding in New York City on
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Monday night where a crazed
gunman walks into a high rise of
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my brother-in-law actually I
think works in that building or
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next door for an international
bank.
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And Michael, let's what can you
tell us?
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What's the latest on the
suspect?
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Any possible motive?
What do you know?
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Well, we know on the suspect he
is a immigrant.
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Now we're checking more that his
status is illegal or not from
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the standpoint, you know, just
because you're an immigrant,
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sometimes, you know, you're here
on a visa and you oversee that
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visa.
That's being researched as we
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speak now.
He's from Thailand.
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And quite frankly, here's what's
interesting concerning this
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situation is he had grievances
in the note in his pocket was
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that he had grievances with the
NFL.
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It's kind of scratching my head
on that.
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And he was a football player.
No, he wasn't an NFL player.
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He wasn't even a great college
player, but he played in high
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school and they had diagnosed
him, said he'd get some
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neurological damage, perhaps
from being, you know, hit on the
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field more than once or hit hit,
you know, head injury, etcetera,
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etcetera.
So anyways, he chose, he was
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residency was in Vegas.
He chose to load up his car with
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an M4 and plenty of ammo, plenty
of other weapons, is a BMWA
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black BMW and drove straight
through to the location where
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the NFLS at.
And I've been in that building
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many, many times.
NFLS have been supporters of
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invest in the past.
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there, there is a security guard
there and there was an off duty
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officer.
The officer, the officer lost
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her life.
But here's one of the ones I
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want to stress is here you have
somebody double parked getting
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out, walking across the Plaza
and going to the entrance
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carrying M4.
You have to be vigilant folks.
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You have to can't let your guard
down.
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And obviously, those two
personnel would have been armed.
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Of course, the problem is in New
York, that's one of the most gun
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control areas in the country.
This goes to prove time and time
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again, Jim, that gives the gun
control as we know it just
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simply doesn't work.
What works best is making sure
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people can defend themselves,
protect themselves, their
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children and their families.
But he was able to, of course,
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once he got into the lobby, he
shot a few there, then went from
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floor to floor, not going in and
shooting from floor to floor,
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going to the owners floor that
we don't know if the owner was
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one of the victims yet or not.
We're still working on that.
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But they shot himself after he
killed 4.
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He was the 5th assailant to they
shot himself with his weapon.
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Now here's the other Anderson
thing that's frustrating for New
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York City.
The officers having to respond
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do not have active shooter vest.
And of course he had a long
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range rifle.
They were a decisive
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disadvantage when they got
there, but they were able to
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counter that with their SWAT
team be responding as well, who
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do have the active shooter vests
and able to.
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Of course, when they went to
take him out, he was already
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dead.
He'd already finished the job.
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So but it gets to an issue.
You know, we just two days
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before had the stabbing 11
people stabbed in Walmart in
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Michigan.
Of course, Michigan has very
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strong anti gun laws as well.
Folks, we're living in some very
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different times.
People now have a total little
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mindset because of our
educational system.
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We trained generations that
there's no right and wrong that
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we've posted all over TikTok.
If anybody wants to doubt my
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word, go to TikTok to be shocked
in 30 seconds.
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Every fight is posted now.
You know, they're encouraging
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any knock him out, bang him over
the top of the head.
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You know, I think the girls,
guys hit girls, etcetera.
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We have just really spiraled
downhill.
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morning, what's the solution to
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full?
First of all, we have to have
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accountability.
Of course, in this situation,
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accountability was taking a shot
himself.
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But we have to send a message to
America that we will not
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tolerate injustice.
This is why it's so important
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that we accomplish the missions
of what we're doing in the
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administration now, according
people, whether it is the former
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President of the United States,
Barack Obama, Bill Clinton,
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Hillary Clinton, or our heads of
state, whether it's bureaucratic
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heads of departments, form of
FBI directors, etcetera.
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No one can be held above the law
because you create a 2 tiered
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justice system.
And here's what we need to make
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sure we emphasize.
When you have a 2 tiered justice
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system, you have total
disrespect for the law.
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Nobody respects it and actually
despise it.
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If you go and treat people
differently for the same crime,
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nobody respects it anymore.
We've gotten to that point.
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Now we have to take measured
steps to turn the mindset and
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the image back around.
And then the second thing we
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have to do is folks understand
this.
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You said it before on this show.
We'll say it again, if you want
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to make sure that you are able
to defend yourself, your spouse,
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your children, your
grandchildren, you better be
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prepared to do so.
We cannot, nor do we have the
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capability to put one cop or one
person all across the country.
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It simply doesn't work that way.
Make sure you can defend
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yourself.
Make sure you know how to use
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it.
Make it a family event.
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Let's teach respect for the law
once again.
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Michael Letts, that's the CEO in
Vest usa.org, which is an
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organization that provides
bulletproof vest law enforcement
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officers.
So he knows a thing or two about
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that.
I thought it was interesting on
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a couple of notes, Hakeem
Jeffries out there saying that
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this is just another example of
gun violence disregarding the
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person.
It's also a new sort of
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homegrown terrorist.
I guess you could call.
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Have you heard of the in cells,
the in cell theory these are you
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want to elaborate?
We talked with a psychiatrist on
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the last edition of America
Today.
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But elaborate on what, what law
enforcement is seeing out there
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with these in cells.
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Here's what we've got with the
in cells.
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Let's just go back.
Let's step back a little bit.
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First of all, you had all these
foreign entities wanted to
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overthrow America, couldn't do
it ever get boots on the ground.
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So they decided to create
sleeper cells or terror cells
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with it and they began to
recruit.
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And how did they recruit?
They recruited by taking
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American citizens and expressing
having them have their
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frustrations with the
government.
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The government's lied to you.
See how they mis abuse you, they
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mistreat you, etcetera,
etcetera.
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And this is where the young
sales began to come from.
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So instead of becoming a
terrorist, foreign domestic,
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foreign terrorist cell full of
nothing but illegal immigrants
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or foreigners, etcetera, they've
done a great job of recruiting.
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And where did they get the
recruiting from?
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They go to our campuses, Jim,
because of the fact we've
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allowed them to be there.
We've allowed them to have a
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blanket card to be able to
influence and to be able to fan
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fire and plant ideals and
ideology.
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Among the most vulnerable are
young people coming through with
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carte blanche because of the
fact that they were smart
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enough.
They just donated big dollars to
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the universities, got their own
programs, and we could be
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influenced.
Now we're beginning to see the
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consequences that we have
terrorist cells all across the
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country, domestic and foreign.
And quite frankly, there's not
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really a whole lot of
distinction between that word
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domestic, domestic and foreign
anymore.
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Most of our terrorist cells have
some foreign influence, but
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they've done a great job of
recruiting American young
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people, American people who are
disenchanted.
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And where do they get the
disenchantment from?
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Flip all the news for one
evening.
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I bet you won't be able to take
it very long.
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You'll see exactly where the
disenchantment comes from.
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And the mainstream media is
pushing together propaganda,
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America's evil, America's bad,
and they're helping degenerate
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the recruits for these terrorist
cells that we have all across
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the country.
We know Jim, we have over 120
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carousels all across the country
so far and more growing.
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You know, I saw a meme of a
woman who said that every time
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she sees the American flag, she
gets angry.
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And that displays, I think, a, a
good example of someone who's
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been taught to hate their own
country because all they're
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getting is that we've done this,
we do that.
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And right now, you know, with
the Rage Against the
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Palestinians, which we'll save
for another day.
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You're right.
I, I, I think there are a lot of
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disenchanted young men out
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They, it's a different ball game
that it was when you and I were
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growing up.
There were more opportunities.
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I'm not saying there aren't any
opportunities, but certain
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segments, certain demographics
are being told they don't matter
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anymore.
And sometimes this can come back
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as we saw with Koburger and
others like him.
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So it's something that makes us,
it reminds us to be more
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village.
And hang on, Michael, let's
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we're going to continue our
conversation.
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We need to get caught up on the
Epstein files and that whole
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debacle.
And then what's the other big
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story?
Well, of course, the corruption
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with Obama and where that's at.
So we'll continue in just a
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moment.
Michael let's he is the CEO and
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founder of Invest usa.org.
And we'll continue this
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conversation in just a moment.
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