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ng this but I thought I saw Jonathan Turley say that there's no obvious crime with the January 6 committee. They might have been liars. They may have not done their due diligence. They may have been unethical. They might have been immoral. They might have been bad in a whole range of ways, which is what I saw. They seemed like very, very bad people in terms of what they were doing to the country.…
← Previous segment →y of them are not being supervised? Maybe 10 to 30 million. So yes, it's bad that there are half a million children that we don't know what's happening with them. That's bad. It could be very bad. It's also true that we have 73 million who are not watched that much. Do you know what your kids are doing on the phone? Do you know who they're texting? Do you know what they're doing after school for two hours before you see them again? Children are largely unsupervised all the time. And the trouble that they're getting in, even if they have a proper parent, they're still largely unsupervised. So yes, it's a very worrisome problem that half a million children are unaccounted for. But if you don't know what percentage of them are absolutely fine, you don't really know how big the problem is.
Now you can say of course if there's even one child who's a victim that's too many and you'd be right. But if you want to understand the story in context I would ask the following question. And I don't know the answer so this is just the question you would ask. Is the danger to the half million comparable, better or worse than every citizen who's under 18? Because they all have access to infinite trouble. They all have the potential to be victims of just damn near anything. And I don't know. I mean what if we found out again if there's even one person being a victim it's too many and we all agree on that. But what if we looked into it and the half a million missing, it was just bad paperwork and that almost nobody is being trafficked? I don't know that that's the
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case by the way. But here's my general warning. I always tell you that when you hear a number without a percentage it's propaganda. And when you hear a percentage without the raw number it's propaganda. And when you hear any number and not the larger context to which it belongs, yes, propaganda. Now it's good propaganda. I think it's good propaganda because he's trying to get the country to pay mo…
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