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My name is Jenna, and this is Smarter News.

Well, I'll tell you what, when I woke up this morning,

I was not expecting to see Connor McGregor at the White House, which is exactly what happened today, St. Patrick's Day. Connor McGregor, as some of you may already know, is a very famous UFC fighter, who is Irish. And he had a couple words to actually share with the American people. I'm not going to delay. It's going to get

it's real serious real quick. But let's just go there right away. This is Conn McGregor speaking in the

press briefing room on Monday morning, March 17th. Let's take a listen. What is going on London,

Ireland, is a travesty. Our government is the government of zero action with zero accountability.

You know, our money is being spent on overseas issues that is nothing to do with the Irish people.

The illegal immigration racket is running ravage on the country.

There are rural towns in Ireland that have been overrun in one swoop, that have become a minority in one swoop.

So issues need to be addressed.

And the 40 million Irish Americans, as I said, need to hear this because if not, there will be no place to come home and visit.

Okay.

Some people might shrug this off as a UFC fighter in the White House.

I've heard some folks talk about

UFC. That's the ultimate fighting championship, the league of mixed martial arts that's grown in

popularity in America and sort of like dismissed it. Like, oh, these UFC fighters, you know,

the head of the UFC, Dana White, was the person who introduced President Trump at the Republican

National Convention.

So there's been like this, what's going on between mixed martial arts and jih Tzu

and the White House and all of these things?

You know, this is where you see the intersection of sports and politics that can be very,

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