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🗓️ 16 May 2025
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The FBI arrests alleged child predators. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hires a new top vaccine official to replace Dr. Peter Marks. And the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) effort has hit a new milestone, as well as a new legal snag.
Let’s go through a full update on today’s episode of Facts Matter.
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0:00.0 | And now let's begin today's discussion by talking about the FBI, or more specifically, what the FBI has been up to recently. |
0:08.6 | Earlier this month, you had Pam Bondi and Cash Patel, the respective heads of the Department of Justice and the FBI. |
0:15.8 | They came out to give a joint press conference wherein they announced the arrest of 205 individuals suspected |
0:22.4 | of targeting children for sex crimes. |
0:24.5 | This historic, unprecedented nationwide operation led to the arrest of 205 child sex predators. |
0:35.5 | Furthermore, besides the 205 suspects who were arrested, this operation also resulted in 115 |
0:42.3 | children actually getting rescued. |
0:44.3 | The operation was called Operation Restore Justice, and here is how the Department of Justice |
0:50.3 | on their website described it. |
0:52.3 | Operation Restore Justice, a coordinated enforcement effort to identify, track, and arrest |
0:58.4 | child sex predators. |
1:00.0 | The operation resulted in the rescue of 115 children and the arrests of 205 child sexual abuse |
1:07.1 | offenders in the nationwide crackdown. |
1:09.5 | The coordinated effort was executed over |
1:11.5 | the course of five days by all 55 FBI field offices. Then, in terms of the types of men |
1:18.5 | who were arrested, as well as what those men were actually getting into, the statement from |
1:22.8 | the Department of Justice continues as follows. Quote, those arrested are alleged to have |
1:27.3 | committed various |
1:28.2 | crimes, including the production, distribution, and possession of child sexual abuse material, |
1:34.2 | online enticement, and transportation of minors and child sex trafficking. In Minneapolis, for example, |
1:40.1 | a state trooper, an army reservist, was arrested for allegedly producing child sexual abuse material |
1:45.5 | while wearing his uniforms. In Norfolk, Virginia, an illegal alien from Mexico is accused of |
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