They're at war for the American mind. That's why you have TikTok out there. That's why you have

Deep Seek. That's why you have the China Daily. They're out there trying to control information

and your perception of reality. Abe Hamaday is a Republican congressman from Arizona,

who is recently elected for his first term. His first bill seeks to ban the widespread

distribution of the China Daily in the House of Representatives. It's propaganda by a foreign

government that's trying to influence the highest echelons of the United States government. It's

unacceptable. This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yankee Kelleck.

Congressman Abe Habadeh.

Such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders.

Thank you for having me.

Well, first of all, congratulations on being elected.

I understand you're in the district where the TSM

factories have been built in Arizona, which is quite

fitting for our discussion today.

Right.

You're working on a bill which is a China Daily Ban, first out of the blocks.

Why?

Well, my first day elected, my first day in office here on Capitol Hill, I walk in, you know, we see the typical newspapers, right, Washington Post, Politico, which have their own sets of issues. But I look and I see the China Daily News and I was reading through some of it. And you have to be pretty discerning to actually discover that it was owned by the Communist Chinese Party and that they're registered foreign agents.

So I had my team look into that.

It's just fascinating to see the level of influence that the communist Chinese have in our government.

And I think it's unacceptable and we should ban it, at least

for to be publicly distributed into the halls of Congress. I think a lot of people would say,

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