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Conectividad y bienestar en Oldham County

Este capítulo explora cómo la expansión de la fibra óptica de AT&T ha revolucionado la vida en Oldham County, Kentucky, mejorando la eficiencia en sectores como la agricultura. Además, se discuten temas de ciberseguridad y educación financiera, junto con la conmovedora historia de Keiko, la ballena orca, y su impacto en quienes la cuidaron.

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But look,
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any death is unacceptable and we should all be saddened from it and try to prevent that from happening. But 100 people died just last month in Texas because of the inhumane policies. We always focus on- Because of open borders, because of open borders, because we're not stopping narco traffickers and the human smugglers because we're not addressing root causes in places like the Northern Triangle. And so this, we should be upset about all of this and 5.5 million people coming into the country illegally is unacceptable. Last year there was a drowning case, two drowning cases a couple of weeks ago, but last year 141 people drowned in the Rio Grande River and nobody was talking about that. The policies of Joe Biden are the ones that are inhumane. He needs to start treating human smugglers like terrorist organizations. We also need to be addressing the fentanyl issue. I think fentanyl is a precursor element of a weapon of mass destruction. We should be treating fentanyl with that level of focus. And we need to be working with our allies throughout Central and South America. Something that Joe Biden has been incapable of doing. Oh, and by the way, Donald Trump was pretty terrible at that. So these are the things that we need to be doing. And also these are the conversations we should be having. And this is why Americans are sick and tired of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden and all their legal baggage because there's a lot more issues we should be addressing that we haven't had the chance to do. Congressman Wilherg, always good to see you, sir. Thanks so much for being here in studio.
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Coming up next, the president's attorney general picks a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden. What is that going to look like? House Oversight Committee Democrat Congressman Dan
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Goldman of New York will join me
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next. Welcome back to State of the Union. I'm Jake Tapper, a special counsel and election year trial. I'm talking, of course, about Hunter Biden after the collapse of his plea talks with the Justice Department and the naming of his special counsel to investigate him. Joining me now is member of the House Oversight Committee Democrat, Congressman Dan Goldman of New York, Congressman Goldman. Thanks so much for joining us. So Attorney General Garland said that he believed it was in the public interest to a point U.S. Attorney David Weiss as special counsel overseeing the Hunter Biden probe. Do you agree? Is it in the public interest? Well I defer to the attorney general's determination on this. What we now know is that David Weiss, the Trump appointed U.S. Attorney in Delaware, was right all along. That he did have ultimate authority. And when he requested special counsel status, because the plea agreement has broken down and he may have to charge Hunter Biden in outside of his own district, which he requires additional authority to do, he got it. And this is just another reflection of the true independence of this Department of Justice. A Trump appointed U.S. Attorney is investigating the president's son. That is pretty remarkable. And you don't hear from the other side a respect for the fact that Joe Biden has stayed out of this investigation. And so I defer to Merrick Garland and David Weiss. If Hunter Biden has committed crimes, he should be charged with them. I'm a Democrat saying that. You don't hear any currently elected Republicans saying that if Donald Trump committed crimes, he should be charged with them and held accountable. And that's a critical distinction that the public needs to understand. So House Republicans say, and we kind of heard a Will, former Congressman Will, heard say something similar just now, hey, U.S. Attorney Weiss, he may be a Trump appointee, but he also is the one that signed off on this slap on the wrist, sweetheart deal. Their words not mine. When it came to Hunter Biden being charged with two misdemeanors in a diversion program instead of full felony charges. Therefore, Speaker McCarthy and other Republicans say, David Weiss can't be trusted to be the special counsel. What do you say to that? Well, no one knows what the evidence is. So when they say this is a sweetheart deal, they are blowing smoke because they have no idea. And so this is, to my mind, having been a federal prosecutor for 10 years, not at all a sweetheart deal, this is something that is routinely treated in a civil way through civil penalties, not criminally. And yet Hunter Biden was charged with crimes. This is a five-year investigation. They looked at everything. We know that from testimony in the Oversight Committee. They had foreign bank records. They had domestic bank records. They had hundreds of thousands of documents. And this is ultimately what they thought they could charge. Now in the ordinary course, you would not give immunity for other conduct than what is charged. But this is not the ordinary course because you have a petty, vindictive bully running as the president on the Republican Party who will use revenge and weaponize the Department of Justice to potentially charge Hunter Biden. So even though I'm sure Hunter Biden has confidence that David Weiss will not charge him with additional crimes, they have no confidence that if Donald Trump wins, that he would weaponize the Department of Justice to charge Hunter Biden, go back and charge him. And that's why this plea agreement has broken down because of the threat of Donald Trump's weaponization of the Department of Justice if he were to become president. You said that President Biden had a state out of that I know you meant in terms of interfering with the Department of Justice, but I want to play something that the president said in an interview just a
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few months ago. My son's done nothing wrong. I trust him.

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