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We discuss the latest news with Florida Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna. Topics include the GAO report on the assassination attempt, concerns over cognitive issues in elected officials, the Jeffrey Epstein files, and the Supreme Court's immigration law decision. #AnnaPaulinaLuna #Politics #USPolitics #Congress #Florida #Trump #Biden #Immigration #SupremeCourt #News
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For more, let's bring in Florida
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Congresswoman and member of the House
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Oversight Committee, Anna Paulina Luna.
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Congresswoman, welcome.
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Hey, how are you doing?
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Great. Great. So, I want to get your
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reaction to the breaking news of the
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moment, this report from the GAO into
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the assassination attempt one year ago.
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What's your reaction particularly to the
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part where senior senior level Secret
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Service agents received intelligence of
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a possible threat about 10 days before
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the assassination attempt?
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This type of negligence, in my opinion,
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is not accidental. It's intentional. I,
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as you know, I am actually the chairman
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of the declassification of federal
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secrets. And I've investigated one of
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the most uh famous assassinations in US
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history. That's a JFK assassination. And
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in my opinion, the way that this was
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handled, not to mention, if you recall,
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I was actually able to directly
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interview the Secret Service director
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when she testified to Congress. And we
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had whistleblowers that came forward to
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Senator Holly's office and stated that
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Secret Service never even met with local
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law enforcement. That angle in which the
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president was shot from was actually
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left in my opinion open and this reeks
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of an inside job. You know, um I'm going
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to say it. I will tell you that they had
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plans for him to be dead, but God had
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other plans and President Trump is
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blessed because of it. What is your
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assessment of where things stand in the
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House Oversight Committee after the
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Ashley Williams testimony and after
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President Biden's doctor pled the fifth
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earlier this week?
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Um, it is no no um question to me that
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Biden was suffering from some form of
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cognitive issues. Remember, I was the
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only member of Congress to go after
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Meritt Garland and actually try to hold
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him in inherent contempt for hiding
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those her tapes. Um, I will tell you
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that this is just confirmation of
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something that we knew all along. And I
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will also tell you that when my um
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district was actually hit by hurricanes
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that I was able to then talk to
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President Biden at the time, but it
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doesn't mean that he wasn't suffering
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from issues. And what I will tell you is
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that this type of thing can't happen
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again in the future. I do think that
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there should be some form of cognitive
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test that should be released to the
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public for elected officials, not just
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the president, but for members of
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Congress, because on both sides, we've
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had members that have served for too
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long, sometimes um obviously suffering
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from those issues. And because of the
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nature of our job, you have to make sure
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that a you are able to a be there
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mentally, but also two that you are able
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to make decisions. Remember, we have the
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ability to vote on war. And god forbid
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this happens sometime again in the
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future. We can't afford these types of
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mistakes to happen. Mental decline is a
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very real thing when you get older in
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age.
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To another hot topic, there's clearly
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friction between Attorney General Pam
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Bondi and Deputy FBI Director Dan Bonino
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over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein
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files. What's your assessment of that?
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And I think many of us were expecting we
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would get a lot more details about those
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files in a public release.
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Um, you know, Deputy Director Bonino is
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an American patriot and I really hope
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that he stays the deputy director at the
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FBI. I think to lose him would be a loss
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for the entire nation. What I will also
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tell you though is I believe the reason
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why Americans are so frustrated with
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this process is because of the way um
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that there has been conflicting
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information out of the Department of
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Justice. And so what I'm going to be
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doing along with my task force is
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requesting information not pertaining to
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victims, not pertaining to CSAM that
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should be out there for the American
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people to decide. But I will say that
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the way that the administration rolled
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out the JFK files of which by the way
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there has been groundbreaking
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discoveries in those rollouts is
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literally the gold standard for
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declassification and there is uh trust
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in transparency and so I will encourage
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them to continue to do that.
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The Trump Justice Department is now
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investigating two people who
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investigated President Trump, John
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Brennan and James Comey. What are your
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expectations in terms of that work?
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Well, it appears and and this is
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something that is not just my opinion,
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but the opinion of many intelligent
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investigators that the way that that
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whole thing rolled out did indeed wreak
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of a setup. And what I will also tell
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you is that those people being in such
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high positions of power for them to be
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grossly abusing civil rights of American
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citizens, they should be held
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accountable. And I think that there's
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going to be very serious investigation
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and I I also believe legal charges
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against them for what they did to the
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president. But not just the president. I
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think that they grossly exploited the
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system as as a whole. We will follow
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that. This week, the United States
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Supreme Court blocked Florida's new
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immigration law that would make it a
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crime to enter Florida after entering
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the country illegally. Are you
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disappointed with the conservative
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Supreme Court?
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Um, I can tell you that I've been
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disappointed with the Supreme Court on
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many issues. Ultimately, that's their
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ruling. But I will tell you this, it is
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grossly irresponsible for people to
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continue to encourage illegal
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immigration. It hurts people on both
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sides. We just saw a few days ago, you
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saw there was the ICE raid in
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California. There were children that
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were actually working on those farms.
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But it's not the first time that
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children have been caught being
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exploited in massive corporate farming
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operations. It also happened at Purdue
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and Tyson chicken farms where minors
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were actually caught working in the
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slaughter houses. And so, it's time that
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Congress serve as a deterrence and
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increase the mandatory punishment for
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some of these corporations that are
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hiring child migrants. I will also tell
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you, look, I am the first
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Mexican-American elected representative
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from the state of Florida to the House
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of Representatives. And to think that
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this whole argument has become a focused
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on race and b um if you supposedly want
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border security, you're all of a sudden
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xenophobic and racist, I condemn that
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thought because what I will tell you is
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that Barack Obama had the very same
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perspective. Yet, you're not seeing the
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name calling and the protesting that's
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taking place today.
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We'll have to leave it there.
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Congresswoman Anna and Luna, thank you
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so much for your time today. Great to
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see you.
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Thank you very much.
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