China Must Be Held Accountable for COVID-19 Pandemic, Arkansas Attorney General Says

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🗓️ 23 June 2020

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Eighteen state attorneys general have signed onto a letter requesting that Congress investigate China’s role in the coronavirus pandemic. One of the signatories of the letter, Leslie Rutledge, the attorney general of Arkansas, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss why and how China should be held accountable. She also discusses the Supreme Court's decision last week on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and more.

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Tuesday, June 23rd. I'm Virginia Allen.
0:10.3	And I'm Rachel Del Judas. Leslie Rutledge is the Attorney General of Arkansas.
0:15.0	She joins me on the Daily Signal Podcast to discuss a letter she signed onto with
0:20.0	17 other Republican Attorneys General to Congress requesting an investigation into China
0:25.8	in the coronavirus and much more.
0:28.4	Don't forget if you're enjoying this podcast please be sure to leave a review or a five-star rating on Apple
0:33.8	podcasts and encourage others to subscribe.
0:36.8	Now under our top news. Controversy over widespread distribution of mail-in ballots for the November election continues.
0:52.5	On Monday, President Trump tweeted, because of mail-in ballots, 2020 will be the most rigged election
0:59.7	in our nation's history unless this stupidity is ended.
1:04.0	We voted during World War I and World War II with no problem, but now they are using COVID
1:10.3	in order to cheat by using mail-ins.
1:13.0	States across America are expanding their ability to vote by mail in November
1:17.0	due to concerns that visiting the polls might be dangerous in the case of a resurgence of COVID-19 during flu season.
1:26.0	Attorney General William Barr joined Fox News Sunday morning futures over the weekend
1:31.8	and expressed his concern over widespread mail and voting.
1:35.6	I'm also worried about undermining the public confidence in the integrity of the elections that the thing we have going for us, especially when there's intense
1:44.6	division in the country, is that we have peaceful transfers of power and our way of resolving
1:49.3	it is to have an election. But when state governments start adopting these practices like mail-in
1:57.6	ballots that open the floodgates of potential fraud, then people's confidence in the outcome of the election is going
2:07.4	to be undermined.
2:08.4	And that could take the country to a very dark place if we lose confidence in the outcomes of our
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