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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So this story is another big story again. This is
a story. I just saw this yesterday. I thought it,
Wait a minute, is this the same story and I'm
reading the same No, it's another one. They've caught another one,
a Wuhan researcher arrested in Detroit for smuggling in biological
materials to the University of Michigan. And anybody that sees
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this story, it's gotta make you scratch your head again
and say, what in the world why are we continuing
to allow this to happen. Mike Rogers is running for Senate,
He's watching this very closely. I can tell you I
appreciate you taking the time to join.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Us today justin always good to be on Thanks for.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Having me this story again, it's like groundhog.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Day here it is. And if you recall last year,
they had five Chinese nationals who are students at University
of Michigan who got in the car and drove up
to Gaylord to do you know, at cam grayl excuse
me to film and take pictures of training exercises where
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the US Army was training Taiwanese soldiers how to defend themselves.
And so again there's obviously that's a big incident. Most
of them fled back to China. Then you have now
the second round of people who were caught trying to
bring biotoxins back to the university from China. That could
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have devastating impacts on our crops, so both economically damaging
and of course to our food supply damaging. And it's
very very concerning.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
You know, I don't think most people really understand the
serious nature or something like this. And I get it.
I mean, we're just trying to live our lives, right,
but this type of thing is happening all the time,
and law enforcement does a great job to make sure
that it doesn't and we've seen who knows how much
had happened over the last four years, but we've seen
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couple of big bust here recently, and I think it's
just maybe it's just one of those things that reminds
us of how vigilant we got to stay.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Absolutely then I do think we're going to have to
raise the bar on security checks for students from countries
that are, you know, prone to cause us some trouble.
China be in one of them, I mean how many
times and this is from the Wuhan region and the
Wuhan labs. We all know what disruption that caused in
our lives in twenty twenty, twenty one, twenty two. And
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these are researchers who are paid for sponsored by the
Communist Party of China. And so you start, you know,
you start doing the math here and you go, you know,
at some point these become clues and we need to
have to take I think, a different stance on this,
and it just keeps happening and if we don't do something.
And what was scary according to the public reports that
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the students were talking amongst themselves about how easy it
was to get this stuff in, which tells you not
the first time that they have brought this stuff in.
And this is one university. This is University of Michigan.
We're paying attention because it's two of them. There are
lots of great research universities around the country that have
people coming in and out all the time. How much
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have we missed and what are they getting ready to do?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, that's a fair point. As you mentioned, this is
just one university, one location, one small dot on the map.
And you know, I'm just reminded. Look, I know when
President Trump was going to trade negotiations and pretty heavy
trade negotiations with China back in twenty nineteen at those times.
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What was going on then? And then you just blink
and here we have this virus. Now you mentioned Wuhan.
It's funny because you would you would be called a
wacky tenfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorist for even mentioning that
back then. But now we're watching it happen right here
in Michigan. It seems like every day, Hey, we got
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on the story about this and and this is something
that folks are are very concerned about. Can I shift
gears a little bit? I want to ask you a
little bit about what's happening out in LA right now
with these riots and you know, just just complete disarray, chaos.
President trying to restore law and order. And you've seen this,
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I mean the videos. They're throwing chunks of rock and
massive things off the overpasses onto the police cars and
things like that. I mean, just this is just insane
what we're watching on television.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yes, and they're that's assault number one number two. You know,
you get hit in the head with a frozen water bottle,
that's you know, chucked at at any any velocity whatsoever,
you can be seriously harmed. Yeah, and then they're throwing
rocks and concrete bricks. Uh. The city of Police department
is down over two thousand police officers because they've treated
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their police officers so bad. In Los Angeles, they can't
get people hired. This is an assault. They're carrying Venezuelan
flags and Mexican flags. At some point, you have to
establish law and order, and so you know, the governor
getting his feelings hurt because the National Guard has to
come in and protect these agents who are enforcing the law.
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Going after violent criminals who are here illegally is just nonsense.
Matter of fact that you know, the Democrat was a
new fetterman from Pennsylvania even came out and said, this
is ridiculous. This is not for you, This is not
freedom to speak. Even the one Democrat came to his
senses and said, this is nuts. We should be on
the side of law enforcement and getting control out there
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in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah, it's obvious, and I think it as we saw
polling yesterday early that came out before the weekend, even
all of this took place, and apparently you know this
this Trump's position. President's position on this is very popular
with the American people. I can't imagine popular it's going
to be after seeing what we see in this weekend.
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We'll keep an eye on all of it. Mike Rogers
running for Senate here in Michigan. And of course, if
folks want to catch up with you, I know you're
on the trail. You're shaking hands, kissing babies and doing
all the call ins. We appreciate you doing that. What
where can films find.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
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Speaker 1 (06:32):
We appreciate it, Thank you, sir,