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Eric Adams: “They had mothers and families placed on FBI watch lists…”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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You place mothers on FBI watch lists because you all wrote about what they're being taught to children in school. Wait, what is that? Yeah. You know, They had mothers and families placed on FBI watch lists, terrorist watch lists, because of their advocacy around some of the things that they're teaching their children in school. They wanted to call them terrorists. I'm telling you, you got to see what that Justice Department and a lot of people want to ignore what. You know, they talk about my case. (1:04:02–1:04:14)

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Reiterates that mothers and families were placed on FBI terrorist watch lists due to advocacy about school teachings.

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