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Speaker 1 (00:01):
We now have letters that it meant that Facebook and Zuckerberg, Yes,
they were working with the government to kill stories that
the government didn't want you to know about that they
thought would interfere with the outcome of the election, which
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was making sure that Joe Biden won last time. Mark
Zuckerberg now admitting that Facebook killed the Hunter Biden laptop
story after the FBI warned of what they described as
quote unquote Russian disinformation. Now, to be clear, the FBI
knew the laptop was real. So what this means is
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the FBI lied deliberately and purposely because they didn't want
Donald Trump to be president of the United States of America. Again,
the Meta CEO met as the coming of the owners
Facebook and Instagram revealed that Facebook killed the Hunter Biden
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laptop story after the FBI warned of a quote potential
Russian disinformation operation and acknowledged that it shouldn't have demoted
the story. In a letter to Representative Jim Jordan, the
chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Zuckerberg wrote that after
being warned by the FBI about a possible Russian disinformation
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operation regarding President Joe Biden's family, Facebook went to went
on to kill an article from The New York Post.
In response to that article about corruption allegations about the
Biden family, Facebook sent the story to fact checkers and
had it temporarily demoted.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
It's since been made clear that the reporting was not
Russian disinformation, and in retrospect quote, we shouldn't have demoted
the story, Zuckerberg added in the letter. We've changed our
policies and processes to make sure this doesn't happen again.
For instance, we no longer temporarily demote things in the US.
While waiting for fact checkers to get back to us,
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the House Judiciary Committee putting out a tweet saying Mark
Zuckerberg just admitted three things. Number One, the Biden Harris
administration pressured Facebook to censor Americans. Number two, Facebook censored Americans.
Number three, Facebook throttled the Hunter Biden laptop story. Zuckerberg's
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admission comes after Breitbart News political editor Emma Joe Morris
had previously testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the
Weaponization of the Federal Government that the FBI had knowledge
that the Hunter Biden laptop was reel prior to December
twenty nineteen, long before she had published a story about
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it in October of twenty twenty, so almost a year later,
and the FBI knew that the Hunter Biden laptop was real.
They straight up lied to the American people to influence
an election so that their candidate would win, not the
candidate the people chose. This is why we talk about
the deep state and the corruption of the deep state
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and just how bad it actually is. The Meta CEO
explained that the FBI had warned about a possible Russian
disinformation operation, specifically about the Biden family, and after seeing
a New York Post article about the corruption allegations involving
the Biden family, the company quote demoted it. Now, to
be clear, we all know that Hunter Biden's laptop story
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was damning, and we also know that Zuckerberg, the guy
who owns Meta, who owns Facebook and Instagram, gave incredible
amounts of money to the Democratic Party. So the question
is did he do this on purpose or did he
do it because of the information from the government. I
think it was both. I think he wanted a reason
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to not have Donald Trump win. Emma Joe Morris and
her testimony in front of the Judiciary Committee was something
that was powerful because it called.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Them out on their lives. And I want you to
hear part of what she had to say.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
What do you think about the fact that the FBI,
in response to Twitter told him it was real, then
they covered that up or stopped no further comment into
Facebook with this, billions of users said no comment, We're
not going to tell you.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yeah, I know, we know that the FBI knew that
it was real. They knew it was real since not
just December twenty nineteen, when, which is when the subpoena
that I published is from, which was in the original
story the thanks for the meeting with your father from
Ukraine story. We published the subpoena and they had already
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confirmed though which we would learn later, They had already
confirmed that the laptop was real and the quote not
manipulated in any way quote in November.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
In November, they already knew it was real. They knew
it for a year. They had confirmed that the laptop
was real. They just knew it could sway the election
and they didn't want that to happen. The FBI knew
they were lying to the American people. The Biden administration
or Biden's team knew they were lying to the American people.
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The Democrats knew they were lying to the American people.
The Deep State knew they were lying to the American people.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Twenty nineteen, a month before they actually obtained the laptop
to keep, which is when they got they gave that
subpoena to John Paul mac Isaac, the owner of the
Max store where Hunter Biden forgot the laptop. And I
think that's something that gets glazed over in this reporting.
I'm so familiar with it it's nauseating, which is that
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Jim Baker was the deputy council at Twitter. And if
that name doesn't sound familiar, I'll remind you all who
that is. He's the former deputy council of the FBI. Like,
are we supposed to all sit here and pretend that
he didn't know what that subpoena was when he saw
it in the New York Post. I mean, let's not
insult our intelligence here and the intelligence of the American people.
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Obviously he knew what it was.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Point well taken, miss Morris, and my time's expired. But
what we have always understood, in all likelihood was true.
Yet we now have yet one more piece of evidence
from the folks at the FBI that they interfered. Cooney
interfered in twenty sixteen. Was a director right himself who
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interfered in twenty twenty.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
We still need to Nune.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
You listen that testimony, and the FBI warned us again,
that's the alibi that f that Facebook kept going back to. Right, Well,
the FBI warned us about this potential Russian disinformation operation
about the Biden family and Barisma and the lead up
to the twenty twenty election. Zuckerberg wrote in his letter
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that fall, when we saw a New York Post story
reporting on corruption allegations involving then Democratic presidential nominee Joe
Biden's family, we went that story to We went with
that story to fact checkers to review and temporarily demote
it while waiting for a reply.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Despite the FBI.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Being aware of the laptop and frequently communicating with Twitter
and Facebook officials before the twenty twenty election, When Morris
first reported on the laptop, Twitter and Facebook both censored
the story and Americans sharing the story on there on
the basis that it could be Russian disinformation. So this
letter from Zuckerber just says, yeah, we screwed you guys.
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That's what we did. We screwed every American. We influenced
an election, We altered and changed the outcome of an election.
We knew we were going to be a part of it.
We knew that what we were doing. The FBI knew,
and our council at Facebook came from the FBI, knew
that we were screwing everyone. We were picking a winner
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and we were picking a loser. And we decided that
we were the best ones to depict who the president
would be, not the American people. That is what Mark
Zuckerberg did. That is what Facebook did. That is what
X did or Twitter back then, I should say did.
That's what the media did. And when he says, oh,
we were just trying to protect the American people, know
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he had counsel. His lead council at Facebook was former
FBI at the highest level, who knew the laptop was real.
Here's the payoff. Okay, if you can pick the president
uned it's America. Is it worth it to five years
later have to put out a letter that says, hey, sorry,
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we made a bad choice. When we influence an altered
an election outcome. Probably, I mean, if you're Zuckerberg, and
you spent hundreds of millions of dollars influencing the election,
and then you get to suppress a story in silence,
a story that you know is real, the FBI know
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is real, your counsel knows is real at Facebook, and
you get to do it because you don't want it
to influence the outcome of an election. Was it worth
it if five years later you might have to write
a letter to Congress saying, Okay, we did that.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
It is Facebook so big that even conservatives are going
to say, I can't just like shut it down. Right,
it's too big to fail now.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
If you're running for office, you desperately need to be
able to reach people on social media where they are.
And they're on Facebook, they're on TikTok, right, they're on Instagram.
They own the marketplace. They don't have to worry that
you're going to boycott them, because if you're running for
office and you're Republican, you have to use that platform.
Otherwise you are running a campaign with a massive disadvantage
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because you're not able to reach people. Congressman Davison on
Mornings with Maria on Fox Business Channel, saying this a
moment ago about what this means for this country.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
So now Mark Zuckerberg is admitting what we all knew
to be true when it was happening. If you wrote
anything against the government's narrative about COVID and taking the
vaccine and getting another booster or whatever it was that
you had to do, you were canceled and you were
attacked on social media and they actually censored your information.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
So he admits it. Now, up, Yeah, that's the question.
I think that's the thing.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
Look, the Oversight Committee, Jim Jordan's given more subpoenas than
every other chairman combined. We've exposed all kinds of things
on the Weaponization Committee.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
The government clearly is being.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
Weaponized as against ordinary citizens in COVID, against the most
credential doctors. They couldn't even express the sent You had
governors saying here's what we were doing, and that was
being taken down.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
From big tech platforms.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
That was all considered a conspiracy theory until Elon Musk
bought Twitter now x and now finally you see Mark
Zuckerberg years after the fact, just ahead of the election, saying, oh, yeah,
we were actually doing all the things that we said
we weren't doing the Disinformation Governance Board. We called it
the Ministry of Truth. Never got shut down. They're exposing
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here's how it operates.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Yeah, I mean, I just you know, at the time,
everyone suspected this, and now he's admitting it. Do you
expect that Kamala Harris and her team are going to
continue this censorship of information against the American people should
she get back into the White House as president.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Yeah, I mean, that's clearly part of the program.
Speaker 7 (11:57):
And know what you're seeing now is it's safe to
go after Joe Biden. Before you couldn't acknowledge anything. Frankly,
Dean Phillips was really the only Democrat who broke ranks
and said, yeah, I'm not going to go along with that.
But look how they went after him when he said,
you know, we should actually have a primary because I
don't think Joe Biden can serve another term. They used
all of the controlled media to target Dean Phillips. Now
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it's okay to say those things, and Kamala Harris was
in on all of it, and all of our disinformation
people were part of the part of the playbook.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Believe part of the playbook. I love the way that
he described that there. This is just straight up part
of the playbook, and admitting it now is something where
I think I think Zuckerberg, by the way, is just
hedging his bets.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
That's what I really think it boils down to.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
He realizes there's a pretty good chance now that Republicans
may win and there could be some real accountability that
has to come his way. Fox News put it this way, saying,
the White House pressured Meta to censor COVID nineteen and
Hunter Biden content. In other words, your tax dollars were
going to people in the government who then decided what
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you could or could not see, hear, or know or
understand or be reported on whatever they didn't like. They
just went to the big tech sensors and said, hey,
don't do this, stop this, don't do this, don't do that.
Take a listen to this.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Good morning.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
And the reason that we know about this letter that
Mark Zuckerberg sent to Jim Jordan is because Jim Jordan
posted it. So about COVID censorship, Mark Zuckerberg writes in
twenty twenty one, senior officials of the Biden administration, including
those from the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for
months to censor certain COVID nineteen related content, including humor
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and satire, and expressed significant frustration when.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
We did not meet their demands.
Speaker 8 (13:48):
I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret
that we were not more outspoken about it on that point.
A few minutes ago, a White House official told us,
when confronted with a deadly pandemic, administration encouraged responsible actions
to protect public health and safety. Our position has been
clear and consistent. We believe tech companies and other private
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actors should take into account the effects their actions have
on the American people while making independent choices about the
information they present.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
And that's not all.
Speaker 8 (14:22):
Zuckerberg is also writing about Hunter Biden censorship. He says,
when we saw a New York Post story reporting on
corruption allegations, including involving then Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's family,
we sent that story to fact checkers for review and
temporarily demoted it while we were waiting for a reply.
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Its since been made clear that the reporting was not
Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we should not have demoted
the story. I asked President Biden about this at the time.
His team was apparently trying to censor this hunter content.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
They did the stories from the fall of al Shuster.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
Yes, he said, yes, yes, yes, shot love you man,
you're a one horse pony.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
And we've still never heard anybody from the White House
come out to admit what we all now know that
it was not Russian disinformation, despite what President Biden said,
they're at the end of twenty twenty and what his
team told us once they took office in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 10 (15:33):
Back to you, hey, mister one horse pony, just reminding
us of those sound bites. So even I think over
a year in office, you asked Jensaki about the same thing,
and they stuck to their guns. They said absolutely it
was Russian disinformation. So that was apparently just their line.
Speaker 8 (15:53):
Yes, and they continued to treat that letter that was
signed by a couple dozen former Intel agents who we're
talking about their opinions of Russian disinformation. That remained the
gospel here and again we know that this is not
Russian disinformation, but we've never actually heard anybody correct that
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the way that Mark Zuckerberg did with this letter.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
All right, thanks so much, Peter.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Now here's the question, what is this going to change.
All right, that's a really important question. What is it
going to change? Could anything change from this litigation? It
could change moving forward, because now we have an admission
that the federal government was working with big tech journalists
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and everyone else to silence and shut up opinions, to
bury stories, and to shut down stories that were unflattering
to them. Representative Greg Murphy talking about Zuckerberg this morning.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Saying, this, your reaction to what has gone on here
played out exactly many of us expected it to that. Yes, Facebook, and.
Speaker 9 (17:11):
You know Zuckerberg, I think finally get I think Zuckerberg's
finally getting tired of being pulled before Congress. But what
you see, and you pointed out the Harris's deputy chief
was doing this, is that we're seeing a repeated pattern
of government censorship.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
We saw this during the pandemic.
Speaker 9 (17:28):
You know, we haw Fauci come up with a monolithic
view there's only one way to treat one disease, and
it's destroyed medicine. I will tell you that's so much
censorship going on in medicine. And if people will not
wake up and see what the future with a Harris
administration would hold, you know, again, the identity politics has
assumed the entire part of the campaign. But we saw
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suppression after suppression after suppression, and there's no reason whatsoever
to think that this would not continue under a president,
under a Harris presidency.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yeah, there is no reason to leave that this wouldn't
happen again. I agree with that. I think they would
absolutely do this again if they had to.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Why wouldn't they do it again?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
This also, by the way, goes back to RFK Junior,
and he revealed when he was talking to Glenn back
about the Democrats betrayals that led to his Trump endorsement.
And this is very much on the same theme as
this letter from Facebook to Congress. I want you to
listen carefully to what he had to say to Glenn.
Speaker 11 (18:32):
You know, you don't risk your life for things you
don't believe in, and you've had secret Service pulled from
you now by this administration, which I think is reprehensible.
How uncomfortable are you with that decision?
Speaker 12 (18:49):
I'm you know, I'm okay, I'm doing Listen, I'm going
to do what I'm going to do. My life is
in God's hands. I'm going to and I'm okay. If
you know I'm going to do what I'm going to do,
whether I have that or not. You know, I think
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if they the fact that they that they would not
give me See Service protection for so long is troubling
for our country because it's part of the weaponization of
the agencies, the politicization of the agencies. With my father
became Attorney General in nineteen sixty one, early nineteen sixty one,
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his first week in office, he called all of the
division chiefs, the branch chiefs, the Department of Justice together
and he said, the one thing that we're never going
to do is ask if somebody if it defend potential defenders,
Republican or Democrat. The country needs to know that that
justice is blind, that our institutions are not partisan. And
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that's what makes America really great is that government is
you know, these institutions are supposed to be purged of
political right.
Speaker 11 (20:05):
Please, the reason why I ask you about the Secret
Service is you didn't just leave the party and run
against Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. Now you've taken the
real extremist position to endorse Donald Trump. What pushed you
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into that move?
Speaker 5 (20:28):
What? Why? Why?
Speaker 11 (20:31):
What scares you about the Kamala Harris victory that would
move you to endorse Donald Trump.
Speaker 12 (20:37):
Yeah, I mean, aren't pulling. From the beginning was saying
that we were hurting Donald Trump much more than we
heard the Democrats. So our all in consistently showed that
about fifty seven sixty percent of our voters would vote
for Trump if I left. And so it was odd
at President Trump and the Republican Party never really attacked me,
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and you know it was not trying to keep me
off of ballots. They weren't deploying you know, private investigators
to dig up every be secured about publicize, which is
when the Democrats had this this uh you know, this
entire organization that was that was designed to destroy me,
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the character assass and me and to keep me off
the ballot. But I actually it was ironic because I
actually heard the Trump organization. I heard the Republican Party
much more when it became clear to me that I
was not going to be allowed on the debating stage
and the mainstream media had successfully stone wall things. So
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you know, I gave two live interviews on the major
networks in sixteen months. Rosborough had thirty four interviews in
ten months. I only had two live interviews on the abies,
the NBC, CBS, MSNBC, and CNN, and so I was
being stonewalled there. I was not going to be allowed
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on the painting stage, and that really was my path
to victory. I could not talk to most Americans. So
it became clear to me that we did not have
a clear path to the White House, and that advice
stayed in the race, that the likelihood was that my
presence in the race would get the Vice President Harris elected.
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Harris from me is if you looked at her speech
during the Democratic Convention, you know it was a deep
state speech she had. She was preceded weirdly by CIA
officials who were speaking Democratic election and military officials, and
it was a meacon speech. I was found more wars
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and more wars and more wars, and is the only
policy she's really defined yourself as. And I think we're
so close to World War three right now, We're so
close to nucleared change with the Russians. And then the
Trump administration, the Trump President Trump reached out to me
immediately after his shooting and we began talking. We had
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a series of meetings by telephone and in person in
the Minneapolis and Marlaco and talked about the things that
surprised me that we had in common. That he wants
to and the Ukraine or immediately he wants to protect
children's health, he wants to and the censorship. And those
are the three principal reasons that I got in the race.
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And he asked me, you know, not only to join
this election, but to help him in his administration to
make sure they're able to accomplish some of those goals
that and to start to do a unity part where
I would be we would be able to criticize each
other on the issues on which we disagree, but continue
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to work for greater good on the issues that really
unite Americans.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Well, let me just hit pause here and analyze some
of what he just said. Did you notice the part
where we go back to Ross pro He's like when
Ross Borrow ran, the media would interview him and allowed
him to speak to the people. That was not the
case here at all, Like, not even close to how
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things went down.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
With RFK.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
They basically banned him from the airwaves. That's a very
important data point here, right if you as a media
and I also go back and say, look at it
from a different perspective as well. Look at all the
yahoos that they put on CNN, like all the talking
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heads that are on CNN. Look at all the talking
heads they put on every day on.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
MSNBC.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Look at all the talking heads they put on the
Sunday morning shows for their roundtables on CBS and NBC
and ABC. They they have truly no problem at all
putting just barely competent, mostly random people on TV, and
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especially on the left, like they'll put you know, anti
gun people like that kid at Hogue or whatever his
name is on TV more than they'll put on a
third party candidate if they believe that that third party
candidate is going to hurt them, right, if that third
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party candidate they believe eve is going to take away
from their power. You are put on the bookshelf. You
are silenced. We put you on the bookshelf. And that's
a problem. But it also influences the campaign in such
a mighty way, and they they know that that's why
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they're doing it. Hey, r FK has got some pulling
that we don't like. We are afraid that he might
take some votes from our candidate we've chosen. We've chosen
Joe Biden at the time, then we'll switch to KM
if we have to, or whoever we decide, which is
exactly what they did as well. And that's the ballgame.
(26:43):
Like that that I mean, that is the ballgame. And
it worked flawlessly when they when they do this, So
why would you stop right now? This is happening and
what we're supposed to have as a free country with
a free press and freedom of speech. That is the
part that should be concerning to everyone that's listening right now.
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This is supposed to be a country where you can
run for office, and when you run for office, this
is a country where you're supposed to have a fair
chance of getting your voice out there. We're not supposed
to be picking winners and losers and benching people that
have ideas. Now, this is not obviously endorsement of RFK.
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I'm just saying, you look at where how did Ross
Perro get a platform. He got a platform because there
was enough people that liked what he was saying. He
got a platform because there was enough people that listened
to him that liked what he said. So you look
at it from that perspective, Ross Parrot did a lot
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of interviews. As RFK Junior just mentioned, he did a
lot of big interviews. You may remember one of his
biggest was with a guy by the name of Larry King,
and he did that one hour interview you and and
there was a lot of things that he said during
that interview that people clicked with, and then his campaign really.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Exploded after that.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
I look at that, and I see it, and what
it tells me is that we are no longer living
in in a in.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
A free political world.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
You go back to what I said I told you
earlier about Facebook putting out this letter and this this
letter admitting, Yeah, we totally.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Hijacked the last election.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
We suppressed the story that we knew was a good
story that our lead counsel at Facebook worked the FBI,
he knew it was a legit story. Yeah, we screwed you, guys.
Like that's the simplest way I can put it. Yeah,
we screwed you, guys. We straight up screwed you. We
knew we were screwing you. We're good with it. We're
totally fine with it. That's just what we do. It's
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We now have letters that it meant that Facebook and Zuckerberg, Yes,
they were working with the government to kill stories that
the government didn't want you to know about that they
thought would interfere with the outcome of the election, which
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was making sure that Joe Biden won last time. Mark
Zuckerberg now admitting that Facebook killed the Hunter Biden laptop
story after the FBI warned of what they described as
quote unquote Russian disinformation. Now, to be clear, the FBI
knew the laptop was real. So what this means is
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the FBI lied deliberately and purposely because they didn't want
Donald Trump to be president of the United States of America. Again,
the Meta CEO met as the coming of the owners
Facebook and Instagram revealed that Facebook killed the Hunter Biden
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laptop story after the FBI warned of a quote potential
Russian disinformation operation and acknowledged that it shouldn't have demoted
the story. In a letter to Representative Jim Jordan, the
chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Zuckerberg wrote that after
being warned by the FBI about a possible Russian disinformation
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operation regarding President Joe Biden's family, Facebook went to went
on to kill an article from The New York Post.
In response to that article about corruption allegations about the
Biden family, Facebook sent the story to fact checkers and
had it temporarily demoted.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
It's since been made clear that the reporting was not
Russian disinformation, and in retrospect quote, we shouldn't have demoted
the story, Zuckerberg added in the letter. We've changed our
policies and processes to make sure this doesn't happen again.
For instance, we no longer temporarily demote things in the US.
While waiting for fact checkers to get back to us,
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the House Judiciary Committee putting out a tweet saying Mark
Zuckerberg just admitted three things. Number One, the Biden Harris
administration pressured Facebook to censor Americans. Number two, Facebook censored Americans.
Number three, Facebook throttled the Hunter Biden laptop story. Zuckerberg's
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admission comes after Breitbart News political editor Emma Joe Morris
had previously testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the
Weaponization of the Federal Government that the FBI had knowledge
that the Hunter Biden laptop was reel prior to December
twenty nineteen, long before she had published a story about
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it in October of twenty twenty, so almost a year later,
and the FBI knew that the Hunter Biden laptop was real.
They straight up lied to the American people to influence
an election so that their candidate would win, not the
candidate the people chose. This is why we talk about
the deep state and the corruption of the deep state
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and just how bad it actually is. The Meta CEO
explained that the FBI had warned about a possible Russian
disinformation operation, specifically about the Biden family, and after seeing
a New York Post article about the corruption allegations involving
the Biden family, the company quote demoted it. Now, to
be clear, we all know that Hunter Biden's laptop story
(03:47):
was damning, and we also know that Zuckerberg, the guy
who owns Meta, who owns Facebook and Instagram, gave incredible
amounts of money to the Democratic Party. So the question
is did he do this on purpose or did he
do it because of the information from the government. I
think it was both. I think he wanted a reason
(04:09):
to not have Donald Trump win. Emma Joe Morris and
her testimony in front of the Judiciary Committee was something
that was powerful because it called.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Them out on their lives. And I want you to
hear part of what she had to say.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
What do you think about the fact that the FBI,
in response to Twitter told him it was real, then
they covered that up or stopped no further comment into
Facebook with this, billions of users said no comment, We're
not going to tell you.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yeah, I know, we know that the FBI knew that
it was real. They knew it was real since not
just December twenty nineteen, when, which is when the subpoena
that I published is from, which was in the original
story the thanks for the meeting with your father from
Ukraine story. We published the subpoena and they had already
(05:07):
confirmed though which we would learn later, They had already
confirmed that the laptop was real and the quote not
manipulated in any way quote in November.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
In November, they already knew it was real. They knew
it for a year. They had confirmed that the laptop
was real. They just knew it could sway the election
and they didn't want that to happen. The FBI knew
they were lying to the American people. The Biden administration
or Biden's team knew they were lying to the American people.
(05:43):
The Democrats knew they were lying to the American people.
The Deep State knew they were lying to the American people.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Twenty nineteen, a month before they actually obtained the laptop
to keep, which is when they got they gave that
subpoena to John Paul mac Isaac, the owner of the
Max store where Hunter Biden forgot the laptop. And I
think that's something that gets glazed over in this reporting.
I'm so familiar with it it's nauseating, which is that
(06:11):
Jim Baker was the deputy council at Twitter. And if
that name doesn't sound familiar, I'll remind you all who
that is. He's the former deputy council of the FBI. Like,
are we supposed to all sit here and pretend that
he didn't know what that subpoena was when he saw
it in the New York Post. I mean, let's not
insult our intelligence here and the intelligence of the American people.
(06:32):
Obviously he knew what it was.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Point well taken, miss Morris, and my time's expired. But
what we have always understood, in all likelihood was true.
Yet we now have yet one more piece of evidence
from the folks at the FBI that they interfered. Cooney
interfered in twenty sixteen. Was a director right himself who
(06:54):
interfered in twenty twenty.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
We still need to Nune.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
You listen that testimony, and the FBI warned us again,
that's the alibi that f that Facebook kept going back to. Right, Well,
the FBI warned us about this potential Russian disinformation operation
about the Biden family and Barisma and the lead up
to the twenty twenty election. Zuckerberg wrote in his letter
(07:21):
that fall, when we saw a New York Post story
reporting on corruption allegations involving then Democratic presidential nominee Joe
Biden's family, we went that story to We went with
that story to fact checkers to review and temporarily demote
it while waiting for a reply.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Despite the FBI.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Being aware of the laptop and frequently communicating with Twitter
and Facebook officials before the twenty twenty election, When Morris
first reported on the laptop, Twitter and Facebook both censored
the story and Americans sharing the story on there on
the basis that it could be Russian disinformation. So this
letter from Zuckerber just says, yeah, we screwed you guys.
(08:04):
That's what we did. We screwed every American. We influenced
an election, We altered and changed the outcome of an election.
We knew we were going to be a part of it.
We knew that what we were doing. The FBI knew,
and our council at Facebook came from the FBI, knew
that we were screwing everyone. We were picking a winner
(08:27):
and we were picking a loser. And we decided that
we were the best ones to depict who the president
would be, not the American people. That is what Mark
Zuckerberg did. That is what Facebook did. That is what
X did or Twitter back then, I should say did.
That's what the media did. And when he says, oh,
we were just trying to protect the American people, know
(08:47):
he had counsel. His lead council at Facebook was former
FBI at the highest level, who knew the laptop was real.
Here's the payoff. Okay, if you can pick the president
uned it's America. Is it worth it to five years
later have to put out a letter that says, hey, sorry,
(09:09):
we made a bad choice. When we influence an altered
an election outcome. Probably, I mean, if you're Zuckerberg, and
you spent hundreds of millions of dollars influencing the election,
and then you get to suppress a story in silence,
a story that you know is real, the FBI know
(09:30):
is real, your counsel knows is real at Facebook, and
you get to do it because you don't want it
to influence the outcome of an election. Was it worth
it if five years later you might have to write
a letter to Congress saying, Okay, we did that.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
It is Facebook so big that even conservatives are going
to say, I can't just like shut it down. Right,
it's too big to fail now.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
If you're running for office, you desperately need to be
able to reach people on social media where they are.
And they're on Facebook, they're on TikTok, right, they're on Instagram.
They own the marketplace. They don't have to worry that
you're going to boycott them, because if you're running for
office and you're Republican, you have to use that platform.
Otherwise you are running a campaign with a massive disadvantage
(10:12):
because you're not able to reach people. Congressman Davison on
Mornings with Maria on Fox Business Channel, saying this a
moment ago about what this means for this country.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
So now Mark Zuckerberg is admitting what we all knew
to be true when it was happening. If you wrote
anything against the government's narrative about COVID and taking the
vaccine and getting another booster or whatever it was that
you had to do, you were canceled and you were
attacked on social media and they actually censored your information.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
So he admits it. Now, up, Yeah, that's the question.
I think that's the thing.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
Look, the Oversight Committee, Jim Jordan's given more subpoenas than
every other chairman combined. We've exposed all kinds of things
on the Weaponization Committee.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
The government clearly is being.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
Weaponized as against ordinary citizens in COVID, against the most
credential doctors. They couldn't even express the sent You had
governors saying here's what we were doing, and that was
being taken down.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
From big tech platforms.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
That was all considered a conspiracy theory until Elon Musk
bought Twitter now x and now finally you see Mark
Zuckerberg years after the fact, just ahead of the election, saying, oh, yeah,
we were actually doing all the things that we said
we weren't doing the Disinformation Governance Board. We called it
the Ministry of Truth. Never got shut down. They're exposing
(11:35):
here's how it operates.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Yeah, I mean, I just you know, at the time,
everyone suspected this, and now he's admitting it. Do you
expect that Kamala Harris and her team are going to
continue this censorship of information against the American people should
she get back into the White House as president.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Yeah, I mean, that's clearly part of the program.
Speaker 7 (11:57):
And know what you're seeing now is it's safe to
go after Joe Biden. Before you couldn't acknowledge anything. Frankly,
Dean Phillips was really the only Democrat who broke ranks
and said, yeah, I'm not going to go along with that.
But look how they went after him when he said,
you know, we should actually have a primary because I
don't think Joe Biden can serve another term. They used
all of the controlled media to target Dean Phillips. Now
(12:19):
it's okay to say those things, and Kamala Harris was
in on all of it, and all of our disinformation
people were part of the part of the playbook.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Believe part of the playbook. I love the way that
he described that there. This is just straight up part
of the playbook, and admitting it now is something where
I think I think Zuckerberg, by the way, is just
hedging his bets.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
That's what I really think it boils down to.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
He realizes there's a pretty good chance now that Republicans
may win and there could be some real accountability that
has to come his way. Fox News put it this way, saying,
the White House pressured Meta to censor COVID nineteen and
Hunter Biden content. In other words, your tax dollars were
going to people in the government who then decided what
(13:07):
you could or could not see, hear, or know or
understand or be reported on whatever they didn't like. They
just went to the big tech sensors and said, hey,
don't do this, stop this, don't do this, don't do that.
Take a listen to this.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Good morning.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
And the reason that we know about this letter that
Mark Zuckerberg sent to Jim Jordan is because Jim Jordan
posted it. So about COVID censorship, Mark Zuckerberg writes in
twenty twenty one, senior officials of the Biden administration, including
those from the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for
months to censor certain COVID nineteen related content, including humor
(13:42):
and satire, and expressed significant frustration when.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
We did not meet their demands.
Speaker 8 (13:48):
I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret
that we were not more outspoken about it on that point.
A few minutes ago, a White House official told us,
when confronted with a deadly pandemic, administration encouraged responsible actions
to protect public health and safety. Our position has been
clear and consistent. We believe tech companies and other private
(14:10):
actors should take into account the effects their actions have
on the American people while making independent choices about the
information they present.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
And that's not all.
Speaker 8 (14:22):
Zuckerberg is also writing about Hunter Biden censorship. He says,
when we saw a New York Post story reporting on
corruption allegations, including involving then Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's family,
we sent that story to fact checkers for review and
temporarily demoted it while we were waiting for a reply.
(14:43):
Its since been made clear that the reporting was not
Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we should not have demoted
the story. I asked President Biden about this at the time.
His team was apparently trying to censor this hunter content.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
They did the stories from the fall of al Shuster.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
Yes, he said, yes, yes, yes, shot love you man,
you're a one horse pony.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
And we've still never heard anybody from the White House
come out to admit what we all now know that
it was not Russian disinformation, despite what President Biden said,
they're at the end of twenty twenty and what his
team told us once they took office in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 10 (15:33):
Back to you, hey, mister one horse pony, just reminding
us of those sound bites. So even I think over
a year in office, you asked Jensaki about the same thing,
and they stuck to their guns. They said absolutely it
was Russian disinformation. So that was apparently just their line.
Speaker 8 (15:53):
Yes, and they continued to treat that letter that was
signed by a couple dozen former Intel agents who we're
talking about their opinions of Russian disinformation. That remained the
gospel here and again we know that this is not
Russian disinformation, but we've never actually heard anybody correct that
(16:16):
the way that Mark Zuckerberg did with this letter.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
All right, thanks so much, Peter.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Now here's the question, what is this going to change.
All right, that's a really important question. What is it
going to change? Could anything change from this litigation? It
could change moving forward, because now we have an admission
that the federal government was working with big tech journalists
(16:44):
and everyone else to silence and shut up opinions, to
bury stories, and to shut down stories that were unflattering
to them. Representative Greg Murphy talking about Zuckerberg this morning.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Saying, this, your reaction to what has gone on here
played out exactly many of us expected it to that. Yes, Facebook, and.
Speaker 9 (17:11):
You know Zuckerberg, I think finally get I think Zuckerberg's
finally getting tired of being pulled before Congress. But what
you see, and you pointed out the Harris's deputy chief
was doing this, is that we're seeing a repeated pattern
of government censorship.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
We saw this during the pandemic.
Speaker 9 (17:28):
You know, we haw Fauci come up with a monolithic
view there's only one way to treat one disease, and
it's destroyed medicine. I will tell you that's so much
censorship going on in medicine. And if people will not
wake up and see what the future with a Harris
administration would hold, you know, again, the identity politics has
assumed the entire part of the campaign. But we saw
(17:49):
suppression after suppression after suppression, and there's no reason whatsoever
to think that this would not continue under a president,
under a Harris presidency.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yeah, there is no reason to leave that this wouldn't
happen again. I agree with that. I think they would
absolutely do this again if they had to.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Why wouldn't they do it again?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
This also, by the way, goes back to RFK Junior,
and he revealed when he was talking to Glenn back
about the Democrats betrayals that led to his Trump endorsement.
And this is very much on the same theme as
this letter from Facebook to Congress. I want you to
listen carefully to what he had to say to Glenn.
Speaker 11 (18:32):
You know, you don't risk your life for things you
don't believe in, and you've had secret Service pulled from
you now by this administration, which I think is reprehensible.
How uncomfortable are you with that decision?
Speaker 12 (18:49):
I'm you know, I'm okay, I'm doing Listen, I'm going
to do what I'm going to do. My life is
in God's hands. I'm going to and I'm okay. If
you know I'm going to do what I'm going to do,
whether I have that or not. You know, I think
(19:10):
if they the fact that they that they would not
give me See Service protection for so long is troubling
for our country because it's part of the weaponization of
the agencies, the politicization of the agencies. With my father
became Attorney General in nineteen sixty one, early nineteen sixty one,
(19:34):
his first week in office, he called all of the
division chiefs, the branch chiefs, the Department of Justice together
and he said, the one thing that we're never going
to do is ask if somebody if it defend potential defenders,
Republican or Democrat. The country needs to know that that
justice is blind, that our institutions are not partisan. And
(19:56):
that's what makes America really great is that government is
you know, these institutions are supposed to be purged of
political right.
Speaker 11 (20:05):
Please, the reason why I ask you about the Secret
Service is you didn't just leave the party and run
against Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. Now you've taken the
real extremist position to endorse Donald Trump. What pushed you
(20:26):
into that move?
Speaker 5 (20:28):
What? Why? Why?
Speaker 11 (20:31):
What scares you about the Kamala Harris victory that would
move you to endorse Donald Trump.
Speaker 12 (20:37):
Yeah, I mean, aren't pulling. From the beginning was saying
that we were hurting Donald Trump much more than we
heard the Democrats. So our all in consistently showed that
about fifty seven sixty percent of our voters would vote
for Trump if I left. And so it was odd
at President Trump and the Republican Party never really attacked me,
(20:59):
and you know it was not trying to keep me
off of ballots. They weren't deploying you know, private investigators
to dig up every be secured about publicize, which is
when the Democrats had this this uh you know, this
entire organization that was that was designed to destroy me,
(21:23):
the character assass and me and to keep me off
the ballot. But I actually it was ironic because I
actually heard the Trump organization. I heard the Republican Party
much more when it became clear to me that I
was not going to be allowed on the debating stage
and the mainstream media had successfully stone wall things. So
(21:47):
you know, I gave two live interviews on the major
networks in sixteen months. Rosborough had thirty four interviews in
ten months. I only had two live interviews on the abies,
the NBC, CBS, MSNBC, and CNN, and so I was
being stonewalled there. I was not going to be allowed
(22:10):
on the painting stage, and that really was my path
to victory. I could not talk to most Americans. So
it became clear to me that we did not have
a clear path to the White House, and that advice
stayed in the race, that the likelihood was that my
presence in the race would get the Vice President Harris elected.
(22:34):
Harris from me is if you looked at her speech
during the Democratic Convention, you know it was a deep
state speech she had. She was preceded weirdly by CIA
officials who were speaking Democratic election and military officials, and
it was a meacon speech. I was found more wars
(22:57):
and more wars and more wars, and is the only
policy she's really defined yourself as. And I think we're
so close to World War three right now, We're so
close to nucleared change with the Russians. And then the
Trump administration, the Trump President Trump reached out to me
immediately after his shooting and we began talking. We had
(23:22):
a series of meetings by telephone and in person in
the Minneapolis and Marlaco and talked about the things that
surprised me that we had in common. That he wants
to and the Ukraine or immediately he wants to protect
children's health, he wants to and the censorship. And those
are the three principal reasons that I got in the race.
(23:47):
And he asked me, you know, not only to join
this election, but to help him in his administration to
make sure they're able to accomplish some of those goals
that and to start to do a unity part where
I would be we would be able to criticize each
other on the issues on which we disagree, but continue
(24:10):
to work for greater good on the issues that really
unite Americans.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Well, let me just hit pause here and analyze some
of what he just said. Did you notice the part
where we go back to Ross pro He's like when
Ross Borrow ran, the media would interview him and allowed
him to speak to the people. That was not the
case here at all, Like, not even close to how
(24:39):
things went down.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
With RFK.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
They basically banned him from the airwaves. That's a very
important data point here, right if you as a media
and I also go back and say, look at it
from a different perspective as well. Look at all the
yahoos that they put on CNN, like all the talking
(25:06):
heads that are on CNN. Look at all the talking
heads they put on every day on.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
MSNBC.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Look at all the talking heads they put on the
Sunday morning shows for their roundtables on CBS and NBC
and ABC. They they have truly no problem at all
putting just barely competent, mostly random people on TV, and
(25:37):
especially on the left, like they'll put you know, anti
gun people like that kid at Hogue or whatever his
name is on TV more than they'll put on a
third party candidate if they believe that that third party
candidate is going to hurt them, right, if that third
(25:58):
party candidate they believe eve is going to take away
from their power. You are put on the bookshelf. You
are silenced. We put you on the bookshelf. And that's
a problem. But it also influences the campaign in such
a mighty way, and they they know that that's why
(26:20):
they're doing it. Hey, r FK has got some pulling
that we don't like. We are afraid that he might
take some votes from our candidate we've chosen. We've chosen
Joe Biden at the time, then we'll switch to KM
if we have to, or whoever we decide, which is
exactly what they did as well. And that's the ballgame.
(26:43):
Like that that I mean, that is the ballgame. And
it worked flawlessly when they when they do this, So
why would you stop right now? This is happening and
what we're supposed to have as a free country with
a free press and freedom of speech. That is the
part that should be concerning to everyone that's listening right now.
(27:06):
This is supposed to be a country where you can
run for office, and when you run for office, this
is a country where you're supposed to have a fair
chance of getting your voice out there. We're not supposed
to be picking winners and losers and benching people that
have ideas. Now, this is not obviously endorsement of RFK.
(27:29):
I'm just saying, you look at where how did Ross
Perro get a platform. He got a platform because there
was enough people that liked what he was saying. He
got a platform because there was enough people that listened
to him that liked what he said. So you look
at it from that perspective, Ross Parrot did a lot
(27:49):
of interviews. As RFK Junior just mentioned, he did a
lot of big interviews. You may remember one of his
biggest was with a guy by the name of Larry King,
and he did that one hour interview you and and
there was a lot of things that he said during
that interview that people clicked with, and then his campaign really.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Exploded after that.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
I look at that, and I see it, and what
it tells me is that we are no longer living
in in a in.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
A free political world.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
You go back to what I said I told you
earlier about Facebook putting out this letter and this this
letter admitting, Yeah, we totally.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Hijacked the last election.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
We suppressed the story that we knew was a good
story that our lead counsel at Facebook worked the FBI,
he knew it was a legit story. Yeah, we screwed you, guys.
Like that's the simplest way I can put it. Yeah,
we screwed you, guys. We straight up screwed you. We
knew we were screwing you. We're good with it. We're
totally fine with it. That's just what we do. It's
(28:57):
our job, by the way, to make sure everybody here's
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