WEBVTT - The U.S. Report | 19 December

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<v Speaker 1>This is the US Report with James Morrow.

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<v Speaker 2>Good evening and welcome to the program. Here's what's coming

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<v Speaker 2>up tonight. White House Chief of Staff Susie Wilds gives

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<v Speaker 2>a bizarre interview to a left wing Hollywood scandal rag

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<v Speaker 2>tell me why, plus a bizarre murder of Brown University

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<v Speaker 2>was in a political hit job against a rising young

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<v Speaker 2>Republican star. And it turns out we're not the only

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<v Speaker 2>ones who are big fans. And yes I am being

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<v Speaker 2>sarcastic of the view you will not want to miss

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<v Speaker 2>only in America this week. But first terror comes to

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<v Speaker 2>Australia with last Sunday's horrific terrorist attack at Bondai Beach,

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<v Speaker 2>the worst terrorist attack on Australian soil, claiming fifteen lives,

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<v Speaker 2>tearing great risks into the fabric of Australian society and

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<v Speaker 2>putting Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albinizi very much on the spot.

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<v Speaker 2>And while this is not a show about Australian politics,

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<v Speaker 2>I mean this is the US Report after all, I

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<v Speaker 2>thought it would be worthwhile after what has just happened

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<v Speaker 2>to look not just at Anthony Albanesi's shockingly poor leadership

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<v Speaker 2>since the attack, and essentially going to ground to avoid

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<v Speaker 2>the anger of the community. But the way he and

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<v Speaker 2>his labor government have handled everything from anti Semitism to

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<v Speaker 2>international relations since October seventh, and look at that. Let's

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<v Speaker 2>examine that in comparison to how another leader, Donald Trump

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<v Speaker 2>has managed these issues. Now, and I know many people

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<v Speaker 2>pick this up in the US, so I think I

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<v Speaker 2>will start with Albanesi, the Australian Prime Minister and his

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<v Speaker 2>government so that Americans know just what is going on

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<v Speaker 2>down under. I'll give you a few examples. Back in

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<v Speaker 2>October twenty twenty three, when Hamas terrorists busted through the

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<v Speaker 2>security defense separating Israel from Gaza and went on the

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<v Speaker 2>rampage of rape and murder and arsenin kidnapping. Anthony Albanizi well,

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<v Speaker 2>he was up in the deserts of the Northern Territory

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<v Speaker 2>campaigning for his Aboriginal Voice to Parliament referendum. As the

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<v Speaker 2>news came in from overseas, Albanzi stayed in the desert

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<v Speaker 2>and it wasn't until the following Wednesday when Albanzi was

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<v Speaker 2>shamed by the Jewish community and members of the media,

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<v Speaker 2>including myself, into visiting a Melbourne synagogue which he popped

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<v Speaker 2>into on the way to a fundraiser. Meanwhile, at the

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<v Speaker 2>same time, as Foreign Minister Petty Wong urged Israel to

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<v Speaker 2>exercise restraint. Compare this to Donald Trump, Well, he was

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<v Speaker 2>not president at all at the time. He wasn't even

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<v Speaker 2>the Republican nominee when the October seventh attacks happened. But

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<v Speaker 2>still he didn't miss He issued a blistering statement that said,

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<v Speaker 2>among other things, that Israel quote has every right to

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<v Speaker 2>defend itself with overwhelming force, and once an offs, Trump

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<v Speaker 2>did everything he could do help Israel and combat anti

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<v Speaker 2>Semitism at home in the US. When Kafia klad idiots

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<v Speaker 2>occupied campuses and vandalized buildings and threatened Jewish students and

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<v Speaker 2>American universities, Trump threatened to cut off the school's funding

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<v Speaker 2>if they didn't deal with the problem. By contrast, Albanesi's

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<v Speaker 2>labor government stood by universities in Australia as they were

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<v Speaker 2>forced to set up safe rooms to hide Jewish students

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<v Speaker 2>in twenty first century Australia, not nineteen thirty nine Berlin. Meanwhile,

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<v Speaker 2>when it comes to foreign policy, the two administrations, the

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<v Speaker 2>two governments could not be more different. Let's compare Albanesi

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<v Speaker 2>and Trump when it comes to Israel and Palestine. Here's

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<v Speaker 2>what Anthony Albanizi did.

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<v Speaker 3>Australia will recognize the stite of Palestine. Australia will recognize

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<v Speaker 3>the rode up the Palestinian people to a stite of

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<v Speaker 3>their own, predic heide it on the commitments Australia has

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<v Speaker 3>received from the Palestinian authority.

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<v Speaker 2>That's right. Albanese made the decision to recognize Palestine. In

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<v Speaker 2>an interview with my sky lead Sky News colleague sharing

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<v Speaker 2>Markson that went to air Friday morning, Israeli Prime Minister

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<v Speaker 2>Benjamin Netna, who called out the predictably dangerous consequences.

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<v Speaker 4>Do you think Australia the Albanesi government's premature recognition of

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<v Speaker 4>a Palestinian state, it's anti Israel rhetoric, often criticizing Israel

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<v Speaker 4>more than Hamas. Also, as you just said, refusal to

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<v Speaker 4>act on hate chance. Did all of this fuel the

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<v Speaker 4>anti Semitism that we've seen and indirectly lead to the

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<v Speaker 4>attack in Bondai?

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<v Speaker 5>Look, I think that after October seventh, governments that recognized

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<v Speaker 5>and called for a Palestinian state basically rewarded Hamas and

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<v Speaker 5>rewarded the savage murder of Jews. That's how it was

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<v Speaker 5>interpreted in the Islamic the radical Islamic quarters. The message

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<v Speaker 5>that was heard by this action was kill Jews, you'll

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<v Speaker 5>get rewarded.

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<v Speaker 2>And as for Trump, well, he went the other way

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<v Speaker 2>and decided to bring peace and get the hostages home.

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<v Speaker 6>And after so many years of unceasing war and endless danger,

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<v Speaker 6>today the skies are calm, the guns are silent, the

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<v Speaker 6>sirens are still, and the sun rises on a holy

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<v Speaker 6>land that is finally at peace, a land and a

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<v Speaker 6>region that will live God willing in peace for all eternity.

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<v Speaker 2>And who can ever forget that remarkable trip that Donald

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<v Speaker 2>Trump made to address the kanesseant in Israel. By the way,

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<v Speaker 2>remember Penny Wong, who I mentioned before, when she went

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<v Speaker 2>to Israel herself, guess what, she wouldn't even visit the

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<v Speaker 2>kibbutzs in southern Israel that were shot up and burned

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<v Speaker 2>to hell by hamas I did myself last year. And

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<v Speaker 2>it was an eye opener. Oh and as far as

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<v Speaker 2>last Sunday's terror attack in Sydney, Trump was right out

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<v Speaker 2>there on the front foot.

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<v Speaker 7>Likewise, in Australia, as you know, that was a terrible attack.

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<v Speaker 7>Eleven dead, twenty nine badly wounded, and that was an

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<v Speaker 7>anti Semitic attack, obviously, and I just want to pay

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<v Speaker 7>my respects to everybody.

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<v Speaker 2>And he called out the jew hatred in no uncertain terms.

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<v Speaker 8>People of Australia and especially all those affected by the

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<v Speaker 8>horrific and anti Semitic terrorist attack.

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<v Speaker 2>And that's exactly what it is.

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<v Speaker 8>Antisemitic that took place on a Hanka celebration in Sydney.

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<v Speaker 2>What a terrible, terrible thing we don't learn.

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<v Speaker 8>We joined in mourning all of those who were killed

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<v Speaker 8>and were praying for the swift recovery of the wounded.

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<v Speaker 2>Meanwhile, Alban Easy, well, he has been all but m

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<v Speaker 2>i A assiduously avoiding the Jewish community after more than

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<v Speaker 2>two years of growing anti semitism, marches, vandalism, arson and worse.

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<v Speaker 2>He has avoided the funerals of victims and as far

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<v Speaker 2>as I know, has not gone to see any of

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<v Speaker 2>the Jews who were wounded in the attack in hospital.

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<v Speaker 2>But he couldn't hide forever because he did get an

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<v Speaker 2>earful not at a synagogue, but at an interfaith service

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<v Speaker 2>at Sydney's Saint Mary's Cathedral. Quite the compare and contrast,

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<v Speaker 2>Albanizi won reelection at last year's Australian federal election by

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<v Speaker 2>playing on fears of Trump and painting himself as the

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<v Speaker 2>guy who would stand up to the terrible Orange Man. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>when it comes to the Middle East, to Israel and

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<v Speaker 2>to keeping anti Semitism from spiraling out of control, it's

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<v Speaker 2>hard to say who would take Albanese's approach over Trump's. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>this is our last show for twenty twenty five. Don't worry,

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<v Speaker 2>We're coming back big in the new year. So I

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<v Speaker 2>thought we should have a quick look back at the

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<v Speaker 2>last year, year one, term two of the Donald Trump presidency.

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<v Speaker 2>And I mean there is a lot to look back on,

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<v Speaker 2>a lot we may have even forgotten. Remember Trump coming

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<v Speaker 2>in hot into the White House promising a new golden age.

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<v Speaker 9>The golden Age of America begins right now. From this

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<v Speaker 9>day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again

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<v Speaker 9>all over the world. We will be the envy of

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<v Speaker 9>every nation, and we will not allow ourselves to be

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<v Speaker 9>taken advantage of any longer.

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<v Speaker 2>And who else remembers what a big star Trump got

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<v Speaker 2>off to issuing directives and orders and sometimes holding stadium

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<v Speaker 2>rallies to sign executive orders in front of cheering crowds,

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<v Speaker 2>even getting up to toss ceremonial signing pens into the audience.

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<v Speaker 2>Right away, Donald Trump set about fixing the border mess

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<v Speaker 2>that was a big success, and cleaning up government with

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<v Speaker 2>Elon Musk, which turned into a slightly bizarre partnership that

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<v Speaker 2>produced mixed results but also exposed the utter corruption of

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<v Speaker 2>the Washington Aid establishment. Now there were, of course the

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<v Speaker 2>Liberation Day tariffs that confused much of the world, but

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<v Speaker 2>which did not bring about ruin or depression, and which

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<v Speaker 2>actually do seem to be bringing manufacturing back to America.

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<v Speaker 2>More than that, Trump exposed the green energy scam for

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<v Speaker 2>what it was, hit the brakes on the force transition

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<v Speaker 2>to electric cars, and yes, restored an American confidence that

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<v Speaker 2>had taken a terrible battering under Biden. And in the

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<v Speaker 2>last twenty four hours, Donald Trump gave a speech reeling

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<v Speaker 2>off some of his achievements. It was a sometimes combative address,

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<v Speaker 2>selling the last year's achievements.

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<v Speaker 10>Soon, we will host the World Cup and the Olympics,

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<v Speaker 10>both of which I got. But most importantly, we will

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<v Speaker 10>celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration

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<v Speaker 10>of Independence. There could be no more fitting tribute this

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<v Speaker 10>epic milestone than to complete the comeback of America that began.

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<v Speaker 2>Just one year ago.

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<v Speaker 10>When the world looks at us next year, let them

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<v Speaker 10>see a nation that is loyal to its citizens, faithful

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<v Speaker 10>to its work, is confident to its identity, certain to

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<v Speaker 10>its destiny, and the envy of the entire globe.

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<v Speaker 2>Trump also had a bit to say on the economy.

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<v Speaker 10>Have a look the night after eleven months, our border

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<v Speaker 10>is secure, inflation has stopped, wages are up, prices are down.

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<v Speaker 10>Our nation is strong, America is respected, and our country

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<v Speaker 10>is back stronger than ever before. We're poised for an

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<v Speaker 10>economic boom the likes of which the world has never seen.

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<v Speaker 2>And at least as far as inflation is concerned, that's

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<v Speaker 2>not bluster. Even CNN has conceded that inflation is coming down.

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<v Speaker 11>You can see the annual rate of inflation down a

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<v Speaker 11>little bit. In November. It was at three percent the

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<v Speaker 11>last time we got a reading. Now it is ticked down,

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<v Speaker 11>cooling slightly to two point seven percent.

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<v Speaker 2>Indeed, this Harvard professor was shocked, though he had some

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<v Speaker 2>trouble just be careful here containing his excitement.

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<v Speaker 12>I mean, I was surprised there was a better number

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<v Speaker 12>than anyone was expecting. Look, inflation has been very high.

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<v Speaker 12>It stayed high, it has not been coming down. But

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<v Speaker 12>you know, people were expecting it to be above three percent.

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<v Speaker 12>It was well below three percent. I mean, I think

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<v Speaker 12>the President will take this as good news.

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<v Speaker 2>Could you believe his excitement? But this Wisconsin driver, well

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<v Speaker 2>he was a good deal more abiliate about petrol prices.

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<v Speaker 2>I snuck on me a little bit.

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<v Speaker 13>I didn't recognize, and then when I did, I was like,

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<v Speaker 13>oh wow, the gas quastions are going down.

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<v Speaker 14>I can't say I remember being this low.

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<v Speaker 2>There were a huge number of other announcements in the speech,

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<v Speaker 2>including what Trump says are going to be massive tax

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<v Speaker 2>cuts coming for middle class Americans next year, and American

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<v Speaker 2>soldiers are getting well, let me let him tell you.

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<v Speaker 10>Because of tariffs. Along with the just passed one big

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<v Speaker 10>beautiful bill tonight, I am also proud to announce that

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<v Speaker 10>more than one thousand, four hundred fifty thousand, think of this,

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<v Speaker 10>one million, four hundred and fifty thousand military service members

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<v Speaker 10>will receive a special we call Warrior Dividend before Christmas

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<v Speaker 10>so Warrior Dividend in honor of our nations founding in

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<v Speaker 10>seventeen seventy six, we are sending every soldier one thousand,

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<v Speaker 10>seven hundred and seventy six dollars.

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<v Speaker 2>Seventeen seventy six. Get it. Meanwhile, while Trump's approval is

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<v Speaker 2>net negative by nine points according to the Real Clear

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<v Speaker 2>Politics Average polls, the Democrats, for their part, well, they're

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<v Speaker 2>in the toilet, and let's check it again on CNN

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<v Speaker 2>to see what they're saying, because yeah, you know, we

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<v Speaker 2>got to go to all this, right.

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<v Speaker 15>How are voters feeling about Democrats right now?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 16>I mean Democrats and the minds of the American public

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<v Speaker 16>are lower than the dead sea. What are we talking

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<v Speaker 16>about here, Well, let's take a look the net approval

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<v Speaker 16>rating for Democrats in Congress. You said to Kate Balwin,

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<v Speaker 16>the lowest ever look at us overall, they are fifty

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<v Speaker 16>five points underwater. They're approval rating at south of twenty percent.

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<v Speaker 2>Lower than the dead sea. You gotta love that guy.

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<v Speaker 2>But hey, it's not bad for Republicans. But next year

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<v Speaker 2>there is going to be a massive hill to climb

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<v Speaker 2>for the GOP to hold onto Congress. My prediction is this.

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<v Speaker 2>The Democrats are going to throw everything they've got at Trump. Law,

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<v Speaker 2>fair impeachment, government shutdowns, you name it, anything to distract

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<v Speaker 2>from the left's own messaging, which time and again is

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<v Speaker 2>a loser with the American people. Well, joining me now

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<v Speaker 2>is former White House Chief of Staff and senior advisor

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<v Speaker 2>of Bondi Partners, Mulvany Mitck. Thanks so much for coming

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<v Speaker 2>on the program, Welcome to the US support, and a

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<v Speaker 2>very merry Christmas to you. It's kind of start out

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<v Speaker 2>though this week talking about a little bit of grim news.

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<v Speaker 2>Of course, I just spoke in my editorial length about

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<v Speaker 2>the difference in the approaches between Donald Trump and our

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<v Speaker 2>own Prime Minister here, Anthony Albanizi, on the issue of

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<v Speaker 2>Israel and anti Semitism and so on. We've just had

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<v Speaker 2>this horrific shooting in Bondai this past week, but also

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<v Speaker 2>a couple of very disturbing anti Semitic attacks in New

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<v Speaker 2>York and California, where somebody was stabbed in New York,

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<v Speaker 2>a house with Hanika decorations was shot up in Los Angeles.

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<v Speaker 2>I'd love to ask you about this. I wish I

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<v Speaker 2>didn't have to, but with this rise in anti Semitism.

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<v Speaker 2>Can you talk about the difference between how Trump approaches

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<v Speaker 2>these things and maybe what you know about how we

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<v Speaker 2>do things in Australia and whether or not that Trump

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<v Speaker 2>approach is a stronger, better way to deal with things,

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<v Speaker 2>and especially to make sure that the Jews of America

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<v Speaker 2>don't feel like they're being left out on their own,

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<v Speaker 2>as so many of them feel right now in Australia.

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<v Speaker 17>Yeah, I think it's a really good question, James, and

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<v Speaker 17>is how I approach the answer. The one thing about

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<v Speaker 17>Donald Trump is he's not afraid to just talk about stuff.

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<v Speaker 17>He's not He's not going to hide behind issues. He's

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<v Speaker 17>not going to hide behind political correctness. If he believes

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<v Speaker 17>that there's an anti semitism problem in the United States,

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<v Speaker 17>he's going to talk about He's going to say that

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<v Speaker 17>and say and we're going to have to fix it.

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<v Speaker 17>It's in stark contrast what we're seeing out of the

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<v Speaker 17>alban Easy government since the since the shooting on Bandai Beach,

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<v Speaker 17>where you know, effectively what we're hearing over here at

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<v Speaker 17>least is that the Australian government is taking the position

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<v Speaker 17>that the gun control laws are really the problem, and

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<v Speaker 17>that's really not an anti Semitism thing. So it's just

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<v Speaker 17>that that's one of the big differences here. Say what

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<v Speaker 17>you want to about Donald Trump, and I've heard all

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<v Speaker 17>the criticisms, but he's not afraid to to sort of

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<v Speaker 17>be black and white when when issues are black and white,

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<v Speaker 17>anti Semitism is real and it's wrong. It'd be nice

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<v Speaker 17>if more leaders around the world would be as definitive

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<v Speaker 17>and speak with such moral clarity.

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<v Speaker 2>Absolutely right, Mick, that it's very correct too. It's the

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<v Speaker 2>gun control, that's what they're trying to do. Fake it

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<v Speaker 2>all out as that make that the big number one issue.

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<v Speaker 2>But moving back to more sort of just American American

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<v Speaker 2>politics too. We've just finishing up a year of the

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<v Speaker 2>Trump two point zero presidency. You know, I spoke at

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<v Speaker 2>length about this before. I would love though, and also

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<v Speaker 2>the big speech he gave just you know, stem Winder

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<v Speaker 2>at the end of the year here, but I love

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<v Speaker 2>you to give it to a straight as somebody used

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<v Speaker 2>to work for Trump. How do you think Donald Trump

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<v Speaker 2>has done this past year? Better than you expected? Worse?

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<v Speaker 2>And what do you reckon some of the challenges are

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<v Speaker 2>coming up four and twenty twenty six.

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<v Speaker 17>Yeah, I think it's been a real good year. I

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<v Speaker 17>don't think it's been as good a year as they

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<v Speaker 17>think it has been. Trump got asked the other day

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<v Speaker 17>how the economy is doing, and he said it was

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<v Speaker 17>a plus plus plus plus plus, it was five pluses.

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<v Speaker 17>That's just Donald Trump being Donald Trump. But it's not accurate.

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<v Speaker 17>They've had a good year. The economy is in decent shape,

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<v Speaker 17>but there are issues to deal with. The affordability crisis

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<v Speaker 17>is real. Inflation, while it's down again today, is still

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<v Speaker 17>well above the two percent target. So things are trending

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<v Speaker 17>in the right direction. But Trump is you know, the

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<v Speaker 17>Trump team is running around like they've already won the game.

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<v Speaker 17>And that's a real dangerous sort of attitude to have

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<v Speaker 17>going into twenty twenty six, because they have some real

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<v Speaker 17>severe headwinds just institutionally going into the midterms next November.

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<v Speaker 17>Keep in mind that usually the party in power in

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<v Speaker 17>the White House loses seats in the first off by election,

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<v Speaker 17>So that's what they're facing it and they're going to

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<v Speaker 17>have to do better in twenty twenty six.

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<v Speaker 7>Or else.

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<v Speaker 17>They do stand the chance of significant losses next November.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and that means they've really only got nine or

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<v Speaker 2>ten months to get that agenda out there and bedded

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<v Speaker 2>down next year. But Rick also another topic this week,

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<v Speaker 2>and I was so glad you were coming on this

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<v Speaker 2>week because you're a former chief of staff and the

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<v Speaker 2>current chief of staff to Donald Trump. Susie Wiles, she's

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<v Speaker 2>just done this wild interview with Andy Fair. Now, you

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<v Speaker 2>were the chiefs staff at the end of the forty

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<v Speaker 2>five presidency. What did you make of this interview where

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<v Speaker 2>Wiles said Trump had the personality of an alcoholic called JD.

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<v Speaker 2>Van's a conspiracy theorist talked about all sorts of other

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<v Speaker 2>issues like deportation. Did she think she was going to

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<v Speaker 2>get a fair hearing or was there some forty chess

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<v Speaker 2>involved in her doing this series of interviews.

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<v Speaker 17>I still think we're going to hear a lot about

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<v Speaker 17>this story before it's over, and it's gotten a lot

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<v Speaker 17>of international attention. You can imagine people calling me in

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<v Speaker 17>the last couple of days wanting to talk about it.

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<v Speaker 17>Here's a couple of different insights on it. Number One,

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<v Speaker 17>it's not really making news to say that Donald Trump

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<v Speaker 17>has an alcoholic personality. He uses that same language about himself,

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<v Speaker 17>just in private, not in public.

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<v Speaker 2>JD.

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<v Speaker 17>Vance Will will laugh and call himself a conspiracy theorist.

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<v Speaker 17>So when Susie said those things to the reporter, it's

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<v Speaker 17>highly likely that he simply took them out of context.

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<v Speaker 17>I could say five or six really nice things about

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<v Speaker 17>you and at the end and go, yeah, but you know,

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<v Speaker 17>sometimes he's hard to deal with, and if that's the

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<v Speaker 17>only thing they print, it makes it look like it's

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<v Speaker 17>much worse than it is. All of that being said,

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<v Speaker 17>I still don't understand why the interview took place at all.

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<v Speaker 2>Plains it.

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<v Speaker 17>Arrogance would explain it, but she's not an arrogant person.

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<v Speaker 17>Naivete would explain it, but she's not a naive person.

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<v Speaker 17>The only thing that I can come back with, James

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<v Speaker 17>is that I think the President probably wanted her to

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<v Speaker 17>do it. Chris Whipple, the reporter, is famous for writing

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<v Speaker 17>books about chiefs of staff, and Susie Wiles is the

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<v Speaker 17>first female chief chief of staff, and my guess is

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<v Speaker 17>Trump probably encouraged her to talk about this as a

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<v Speaker 17>way to sort of lay the foundation for her historic

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<v Speaker 17>role in the federal government. I'm not sure it was

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<v Speaker 17>a great idea, but it's certainly not the end of

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<v Speaker 17>the world. It's not going to cost her her job.

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<v Speaker 17>The media is blowing it way out of proportion. My

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<v Speaker 17>guess is it'll be gone by the time this time

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<v Speaker 17>next week.

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<v Speaker 2>I cannot believe you, Vick so cynical saying that the

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<v Speaker 2>media is blowing something out of proportion about the Trump

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<v Speaker 2>Whitehouse paris the thought and rue of the day. Hey,

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<v Speaker 2>we can't talking every week when we get together about Venezuela.

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<v Speaker 2>And this week there was a further escalation year, a

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<v Speaker 2>blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and exiting Venezuela.

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<v Speaker 2>This follows, of course, the caizeuar of that oil tanker,

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<v Speaker 2>a bunch of hits on those drug boats. When is

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<v Speaker 2>this going to come to some sort of head one

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<v Speaker 2>way or the other, Because I feel like we're in

0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:26.080
<v Speaker 2>this kind of phony war at the moment, but where

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<v Speaker 2>it goes next still feels very odd. Can you give

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<v Speaker 2>us any insight as to the potential strategy here, because

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<v Speaker 2>I think a lot of people are waiting for this

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<v Speaker 2>to actually either turn into something or just go away.

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<v Speaker 17>Yeah, you and I are start on the same page.

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<v Speaker 17>I don't think it's going away. One of the things

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<v Speaker 17>that Susie wils did see in the interview, by the way,

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<v Speaker 17>was that the plan was to continue to bomb the

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<v Speaker 17>drug boats until Maduro just said uncle, and I guess

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<v Speaker 17>that means leave office. I think that's how it's being interpreted.

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<v Speaker 17>I think now that Trump is in, he can't just leave.

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<v Speaker 17>He has to do something. I don't know how he

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<v Speaker 17>claims victory and pulls all the military out. I think

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<v Speaker 17>it's being reported now is the largest naval armada in

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<v Speaker 17>history in the Caribbean. You don't bring that kind of

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<v Speaker 17>firepower down there and not use it. So something has

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<v Speaker 17>to give. If it's really regime change, then they're going

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<v Speaker 17>to have to stay down there until they get their

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<v Speaker 17>regime change. But I have no idea what the administration

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<v Speaker 17>is doing. The same circumstances that exist today existed when

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<v Speaker 17>I was the chief of staff, and we never would

0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:26.800
<v Speaker 17>have contemplated military action Venezuela because Trump never would have

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<v Speaker 17>wanted it. So if you're confused about it about this,

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<v Speaker 17>don't feel bad because a lot of people, including his

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<v Speaker 17>former chief of staff, are as well.

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<v Speaker 2>Fair enough, and you know, personally, just sitting down here

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<v Speaker 2>in Australia, I'd rather see some of those ships in

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<v Speaker 2>the Pacific. But hey, I've no, Admiral Nimitz. Another story

0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:45.960
<v Speaker 2>which caught my eye just before we went to air here,

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<v Speaker 2>and just to go back to this whole question of

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<v Speaker 2>what's going to happen next year, the Democrats now say

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<v Speaker 2>that they are going to run candidates at every state

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<v Speaker 2>and congressional seat in the state of Texas. Now. I

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<v Speaker 2>think this is very interesting strategy here because it suggests

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<v Speaker 2>to me that they feel a confident but be that

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<v Speaker 2>they are looking to do something where they force the

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<v Speaker 2>Republicans to stretch and resources and tie up manpower in

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<v Speaker 2>dollars across this entire huge state. Does this suggest that

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<v Speaker 2>there's a confidence among the Democrats despite the Democrats polling,

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<v Speaker 2>as I mentioned at the start of the show, really

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<v Speaker 2>appallingly and far worse than Donald Trump as a party.

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<v Speaker 17>Look, the Democrats been looking at Texas now for twenty

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<v Speaker 17>years as a prize they think they can get, and

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<v Speaker 17>they don't get close. They've got a really, really weak

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<v Speaker 17>candidate for the Senate race, a House member who is

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<v Speaker 17>polling extraordinarily poorly. She's going to win the Democrat primary

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<v Speaker 17>because she's a progressive leftist, but she's going to get

0:22:43.960 --> 0:22:47.119
<v Speaker 17>waxed in the Senate race. So, look, it's the smart

0:22:47.119 --> 0:22:49.320
<v Speaker 17>thing to do. If I'm running the Democrat Party, I'm

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<v Speaker 17>going to try and get candidates in all the races.

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<v Speaker 17>That just the smart thing to do. Make people spend money.

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<v Speaker 17>But just because you put a name on a ballot

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<v Speaker 17>doesn't mean you're viable. So I'll worry about this more

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<v Speaker 17>when I see the quality of the can that it's

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<v Speaker 17>ceasemearly polling. Do I think there'll be some tail winds

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<v Speaker 17>behind Democrat candidates in twenty twenty six in the midterms, Yes,

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<v Speaker 17>I do. In fact, with the election work today that

0:23:08.480 --> 0:23:10.960
<v Speaker 17>Republicans would lose control of the House, I think almost

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<v Speaker 17>for sure. But there's a long way between that set

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<v Speaker 17>of circumstances and the Democrats being really, really viable in

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<v Speaker 17>one of the reddest states in the nation.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. No, look, that's fair enough, Mick Hey. Also, just finally,

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<v Speaker 2>before I elect you go, really interesting story here that

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<v Speaker 2>Ford is moving to basically acts electric vehicle production, shifting

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<v Speaker 2>resources back to petrol gasoline powered cars. How much of

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<v Speaker 2>this here is due to the Trump administration's policies around

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<v Speaker 2>changing fuel standards and not forcing people into evs And

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<v Speaker 2>does this suggest then that the US auto market is

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<v Speaker 2>making market is going to start to be able to

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<v Speaker 2>once again fight back against all of those very heavily

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<v Speaker 2>subsidized Chinese evs, which we are seeing flooding America and

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<v Speaker 2>well not America now but also Australia.

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<v Speaker 17>I think you're letting the Trump You're seeing the Trump

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<v Speaker 17>team do what a good conservative Republican would want them

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<v Speaker 17>to do, which is to get out of the business

0:24:06.600 --> 0:24:11.560
<v Speaker 17>of manipulating the markets. If Americans want electric vehicles, American

0:24:11.600 --> 0:24:15.200
<v Speaker 17>companies and foreign companies are going to make them. What

0:24:15.240 --> 0:24:18.040
<v Speaker 17>we had was a giant perversion or distortion of the

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<v Speaker 17>market over the course of the last ten years, with

0:24:19.760 --> 0:24:24.920
<v Speaker 17>the government essentially used tax policy to social engineers said look,

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<v Speaker 17>we know you don't really want an electric car, but

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<v Speaker 17>here we're going to make you buy them by changing

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<v Speaker 17>the rules that makes it harder and more expensive to

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<v Speaker 17>have but petrol cars gas powered cars, and then give

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<v Speaker 17>the subsidies for the EV's like Eve's makes sense. I

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<v Speaker 17>own one of them on an island that's only three

0:24:40.440 --> 0:24:42.800
<v Speaker 17>miles long down in Florida. That makes sense there. If

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<v Speaker 17>you live in Montana, they make zero sense at all.

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<v Speaker 17>So I'm glad to see the Trump administration getting back

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<v Speaker 17>to some free market forces here. I wish they would

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<v Speaker 17>do it in other places as well.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'd like to see Australia take a page out

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<v Speaker 2>of that book when it comes to evs versus petrol

0:24:58.800 --> 0:25:01.240
<v Speaker 2>cars as well. But you know, you live and learn anyway.

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<v Speaker 2>Mick Malvannie, thanks so much for joining me at a

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<v Speaker 2>very merry Christmas to you and all the Malvenny's.

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<v Speaker 17>To you as well, James, Merry Christmas.

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<v Speaker 2>Thanks Nick. Now stick around because after the break, Joe

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<v Speaker 2>Kanca is here to talk about the latest FBI follies.

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<v Speaker 2>But remember those dividends the president was going to pay

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<v Speaker 2>the soldiers I talked about a moment ago, seventeen hundred

0:25:19.640 --> 0:25:23.920
<v Speaker 2>and seventy six American dollars apiece. Well, apparently well off

0:25:24.000 --> 0:25:29.000
<v Speaker 2>lefty commentators are dissing the move because, well, according to them,

0:25:29.240 --> 0:25:31.520
<v Speaker 2>what could you buy for seventeen hundred.

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<v Speaker 18>Dollars and he can promote seventeen seventy six costs all

0:25:34.960 --> 0:25:36.560
<v Speaker 18>he want and giving out a check that worked for

0:25:36.640 --> 0:25:39.760
<v Speaker 18>him the first time, seventeen seventy six. That's less than

0:25:39.800 --> 0:25:41.800
<v Speaker 18>a rent check in DC. I don't even know what

0:25:41.880 --> 0:25:42.920
<v Speaker 18>the impact of that is going.

0:25:42.920 --> 0:25:47.360
<v Speaker 2>To be, less than a rent check in DC. How

0:25:47.440 --> 0:25:49.080
<v Speaker 2>out of touch can you be? You know what? I

0:25:49.119 --> 0:25:52.440
<v Speaker 2>think that lady is just miserable because she lives in DC.

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<v Speaker 2>Stick around Joe Kancha after the break and discuss Dan

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<v Speaker 2>bon Gino stepping down from the FBI in a tick.

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<v Speaker 2>Welcome back to the program, and I'm thrilled now to

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<v Speaker 2>be joined by I'm a good friend Fox News contributor

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<v Speaker 2>Joe Koncha. Joe, welcome to the program. Thanks so much

0:26:12.880 --> 0:26:16.200
<v Speaker 2>for joining me, and a very merry Christmas to you

0:26:16.280 --> 0:26:18.680
<v Speaker 2>and the Concha clan. I want to ask you, first

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<v Speaker 2>of all about this story about Dan Bongino. He has

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<v Speaker 2>resigned from his role in the FBI. At the FBI

0:26:25.680 --> 0:26:29.920
<v Speaker 2>after just nine months, seems a bit odd looking at

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<v Speaker 2>it from the outside. What can you tell us?

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<v Speaker 19>Well, I've known Dan for years, having worked with him

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<v Speaker 19>at Fox. He's a guy who's very principal, a man

0:26:39.200 --> 0:26:43.000
<v Speaker 19>of his word, and he probably just saw something internally.

0:26:43.000 --> 0:26:45.440
<v Speaker 19>And I can't unfortunately break any news for you here

0:26:45.600 --> 0:26:48.639
<v Speaker 19>at this point, James, or really give you anything to

0:26:48.680 --> 0:26:51.000
<v Speaker 19>go with tangibly. But I think in the end he

0:26:51.040 --> 0:26:54.879
<v Speaker 19>was frustrated, probably with the bureaucracy as far as the

0:26:54.920 --> 0:26:58.199
<v Speaker 19>government in general, the FBI in general, and said, you

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<v Speaker 19>know what, I'm not here to do what I thought

0:27:00.800 --> 0:27:03.800
<v Speaker 19>I could do. I'll go back to podcasting, thank you

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<v Speaker 19>very much, and try to make an influence there. But

0:27:06.440 --> 0:27:08.560
<v Speaker 19>I mean, if he left, it was probably for a

0:27:08.640 --> 0:27:09.280
<v Speaker 19>very good reason.

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<v Speaker 2>Well I'll tell you what, Joe, he wouldn't be the

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<v Speaker 2>first person to leave the private sector, find government work

0:27:14.200 --> 0:27:16.119
<v Speaker 2>isn't for him and decide to take a walk. But

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<v Speaker 2>I want to talk also about some of the stuff

0:27:19.040 --> 0:27:21.400
<v Speaker 2>that happened in this crazy year, because it has been

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<v Speaker 2>an absolutely nuts twenty twenty five. I was looking back

0:27:25.200 --> 0:27:27.600
<v Speaker 2>over everything that happened. You wrote a great piece though,

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<v Speaker 2>for the Washington Examiner. I urged everybody to check this out,

0:27:30.920 --> 0:27:36.000
<v Speaker 2>where you outlined some of the most uncovered and misreported stories,

0:27:36.080 --> 0:27:39.280
<v Speaker 2>basically big lies that got pushed out there this year.

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<v Speaker 2>He named the slaughter of Nigerian Christians and dogs, decline

0:27:42.480 --> 0:27:46.000
<v Speaker 2>of gas prices, and I RAN's nuclear capability as just

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<v Speaker 2>a few of these tell us about how we have

0:27:47.840 --> 0:27:50.439
<v Speaker 2>been gas lit by so much of the media and

0:27:50.480 --> 0:27:52.840
<v Speaker 2>the narrative this year. As we start to look at

0:27:52.840 --> 0:27:54.920
<v Speaker 2>all of these twenty twenty five retrospectives.

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<v Speaker 19>Oh well, well thanks for the kind words. Yeah, look,

0:27:58.440 --> 0:28:01.280
<v Speaker 19>there's gaslighting and then there's no even putting any gas

0:28:01.400 --> 0:28:04.800
<v Speaker 19>or any light on the story. And that was the

0:28:04.800 --> 0:28:08.440
<v Speaker 19>point of my column, where five stories that absolutely should

0:28:08.480 --> 0:28:10.520
<v Speaker 19>have been covered a heck of a lot more were

0:28:10.560 --> 0:28:13.399
<v Speaker 19>not intentionally not because we missed it, like we missed

0:28:13.440 --> 0:28:15.840
<v Speaker 19>Biden's cognitive decline, whe he's shaking hands with the air

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<v Speaker 19>and having conversations with world leaders who have been dead

0:28:18.480 --> 0:28:21.359
<v Speaker 19>for literally decades, or forgetting the name of his cabinet members.

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<v Speaker 19>You know, this was something where, for instance, in Nigeria,

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<v Speaker 19>I would think that there would be more coverage of

0:28:28.200 --> 0:28:31.320
<v Speaker 19>a situation where up to one hundred thousand Christians have

0:28:31.440 --> 0:28:35.639
<v Speaker 19>been slaughtered since twenty twenty nine, so two thousand and

0:28:35.760 --> 0:28:38.480
<v Speaker 19>nine seventy five hundred this year alone. That's an average

0:28:38.480 --> 0:28:42.200
<v Speaker 19>of thirty five Nigerian Christians per day of being murdered,

0:28:42.720 --> 0:28:45.680
<v Speaker 19>executed in essence, and the world barely hears about it

0:28:45.760 --> 0:28:48.800
<v Speaker 19>until Donald Trump talks about it. So that was one

0:28:48.800 --> 0:28:51.320
<v Speaker 19>big story. Gas prices here in the United States are

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<v Speaker 19>at a five year low. I mean, that is something

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<v Speaker 19>that is pretty remarkable considering that Trump comes in drill,

0:28:57.160 --> 0:28:59.920
<v Speaker 19>baby drill, and suddenly prices go down. Go figure, that's

0:29:00.040 --> 0:29:02.000
<v Speaker 19>how these things work. And I could go down the

0:29:02.000 --> 0:29:05.320
<v Speaker 19>line as far as other stories, including the US taking

0:29:05.360 --> 0:29:10.160
<v Speaker 19>out Iran's nuclear capabilities at four dah in that country,

0:29:10.360 --> 0:29:13.720
<v Speaker 19>flying that mission, not losing one US life, as far

0:29:13.760 --> 0:29:16.320
<v Speaker 19>as carrying it out, and now Iran can't threaten the West,

0:29:16.320 --> 0:29:19.880
<v Speaker 19>blackmail the West in that capacity. And then obviously the

0:29:19.960 --> 0:29:23.000
<v Speaker 19>US southern border being closed by Donald Trump without one

0:29:23.000 --> 0:29:26.040
<v Speaker 19>piece of legislation, just by rhetoric and a new president

0:29:26.120 --> 0:29:28.760
<v Speaker 19>being in we went from twelve to fifteen million coming

0:29:28.760 --> 0:29:31.200
<v Speaker 19>into this country to essentially zero. I think that's the

0:29:31.240 --> 0:29:33.280
<v Speaker 19>story of the year and possibly the decade, James.

0:29:33.160 --> 0:29:35.200
<v Speaker 2>And maybe the lesson from all of that is, hey,

0:29:35.200 --> 0:29:37.959
<v Speaker 2>you know what, you can just do things now. On

0:29:38.000 --> 0:29:41.200
<v Speaker 2>an unhappier note, though, I want to talk Joe about

0:29:41.240 --> 0:29:43.720
<v Speaker 2>this story I have been following myself the last week.

0:29:43.840 --> 0:29:47.800
<v Speaker 2>This shooting at the Brown University campus in Providence, Rhode Island.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a crazy story because the shooter is still on

0:29:51.400 --> 0:29:54.719
<v Speaker 2>the run. Apparently they've issued a warrant for somebody's arrest,

0:29:54.840 --> 0:29:58.440
<v Speaker 2>but they haven't given us the name. There were cameras

0:29:58.480 --> 0:30:01.120
<v Speaker 2>on campus, but they were disabled because they didn't want

0:30:01.280 --> 0:30:05.480
<v Speaker 2>ice ages to use them. This all seems very suspicious,

0:30:05.560 --> 0:30:07.840
<v Speaker 2>especially when you consider that one of the victims was

0:30:07.880 --> 0:30:10.520
<v Speaker 2>a rising star head of the College Republicans. What can

0:30:10.560 --> 0:30:12.800
<v Speaker 2>you tell us about this very strange case.

0:30:13.520 --> 0:30:15.280
<v Speaker 19>Oh yeah, I was on the air for seven hours

0:30:15.280 --> 0:30:17.480
<v Speaker 19>on Fox News when this broke over the weekend, co

0:30:17.560 --> 0:30:20.200
<v Speaker 19>hosting what's called the Big Weekend Show, and I just

0:30:20.280 --> 0:30:23.440
<v Speaker 19>kept thinking over and over again that, oh man, the

0:30:23.520 --> 0:30:26.360
<v Speaker 19>fact that this could be a shooter in a mask.

0:30:26.720 --> 0:30:30.040
<v Speaker 19>And then there are eight hundred cameras at Brown University,

0:30:30.040 --> 0:30:32.240
<v Speaker 19>apparently not many in this part of the building where

0:30:32.240 --> 0:30:35.280
<v Speaker 19>he carried out this shooting, where he appeared to be

0:30:35.320 --> 0:30:38.719
<v Speaker 19>targeting somebody, because again, on a Saturday, at four o'clock

0:30:38.760 --> 0:30:41.640
<v Speaker 19>in the afternoon, the last thing you expect is that

0:30:41.680 --> 0:30:44.840
<v Speaker 19>there is a review session for a final exam going

0:30:44.840 --> 0:30:47.440
<v Speaker 19>on in one of the buildings. Saturday is usually a

0:30:47.480 --> 0:30:50.240
<v Speaker 19>day where either you're a student, you're studying your dorm,

0:30:50.240 --> 0:30:53.360
<v Speaker 19>a library, or doing other you know, fun things. So

0:30:53.400 --> 0:30:55.600
<v Speaker 19>the fact that the shooter knew this went to that

0:30:55.640 --> 0:30:57.840
<v Speaker 19>building somehow got access because you've got to swipe your

0:30:57.880 --> 0:31:00.800
<v Speaker 19>way in, so may have had some help in capacity

0:31:01.040 --> 0:31:02.280
<v Speaker 19>and then in the cover.

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<v Speaker 16>Of night was able to get away.

0:31:04.400 --> 0:31:07.800
<v Speaker 19>Yeah, they appear to have found somebody now. But again

0:31:08.000 --> 0:31:11.040
<v Speaker 19>it's the non transparency that's really a big issue here.

0:31:11.080 --> 0:31:13.000
<v Speaker 19>This appears to be so political now at this point

0:31:13.040 --> 0:31:15.800
<v Speaker 19>in terms of protecting the identity of the shooter and

0:31:15.880 --> 0:31:18.760
<v Speaker 19>not talking about the fact that a girl who was

0:31:19.120 --> 0:31:22.760
<v Speaker 19>the head of the Republican club at Brown was gunned

0:31:22.800 --> 0:31:24.960
<v Speaker 19>down as one of the two victims that died. This

0:31:25.040 --> 0:31:27.120
<v Speaker 19>appears to be targeted, and it appears to be that

0:31:27.160 --> 0:31:28.440
<v Speaker 19>person that was the target.

0:31:28.840 --> 0:31:31.480
<v Speaker 2>And it's just appalling to me that the authorities have

0:31:31.600 --> 0:31:33.920
<v Speaker 2>just been, you know, running so much cover on this.

0:31:34.000 --> 0:31:35.800
<v Speaker 2>It's just bizarre. And I hope that they catch this

0:31:35.840 --> 0:31:37.800
<v Speaker 2>guy and we find out more about this soon. Hey,

0:31:38.240 --> 0:31:39.960
<v Speaker 2>now we got to look forward into the new year

0:31:40.520 --> 0:31:44.680
<v Speaker 2>twenty five. It has been reported, and I don't see

0:31:44.760 --> 0:31:46.920
<v Speaker 2>the reason not to think so there's gonna be another

0:31:46.960 --> 0:31:49.360
<v Speaker 2>government shutdown as early as next month due to the

0:31:49.440 --> 0:31:53.440
<v Speaker 2>ongoing stalemate over this time health insurance subsidies. Tell me,

0:31:53.800 --> 0:31:56.040
<v Speaker 2>are we likely to see another the US government shutdown

0:31:56.120 --> 0:31:58.640
<v Speaker 2>in January? And more to the point, is this part

0:31:58.680 --> 0:32:02.080
<v Speaker 2>of a calculating strategy buy the Democrats to throw as

0:32:02.160 --> 0:32:05.640
<v Speaker 2>many roadblocks and logs across the tracks and everything else

0:32:05.920 --> 0:32:09.200
<v Speaker 2>for Trump to make him and the Republicans look bad

0:32:09.280 --> 0:32:11.040
<v Speaker 2>and chaotic before the midterms.

0:32:11.960 --> 0:32:17.440
<v Speaker 19>James, I'll answer your second question first. Yes, obviously Democrats

0:32:17.440 --> 0:32:20.120
<v Speaker 19>don't care about the people that they are supposed to represent,

0:32:20.160 --> 0:32:23.360
<v Speaker 19>whether that be military members not getting paid, federal workers

0:32:23.520 --> 0:32:26.600
<v Speaker 19>not being paid, snap benefits not being given out to

0:32:26.640 --> 0:32:28.800
<v Speaker 19>those who need it most, as far as will they

0:32:28.840 --> 0:32:31.760
<v Speaker 19>eat tonight or will they not? So they figured it

0:32:32.000 --> 0:32:35.400
<v Speaker 19>worked for them, I guess during the last government shutdown,

0:32:35.400 --> 0:32:37.400
<v Speaker 19>this will be part of the strategy once again. And

0:32:37.440 --> 0:32:40.800
<v Speaker 19>the irony is that Republicans will vote to reopen the

0:32:40.800 --> 0:32:43.400
<v Speaker 19>government over and over again, Democrats will reject it, and

0:32:43.400 --> 0:32:45.400
<v Speaker 19>then the media will say that it's actually Republicans that

0:32:45.440 --> 0:32:48.400
<v Speaker 19>are at fault. So Democrats know in the United States

0:32:48.480 --> 0:32:50.920
<v Speaker 19>that the media will work with them hand in glove

0:32:51.160 --> 0:32:54.240
<v Speaker 19>as far as pushing a narrative that is absolutely false,

0:32:54.440 --> 0:32:56.640
<v Speaker 19>and it's all in an effort to get back power

0:32:56.920 --> 0:32:59.640
<v Speaker 19>in November twenty twenty six during those midterms, and if

0:32:59.640 --> 0:33:01.880
<v Speaker 19>you could try to sideline the Trump economy, and it's

0:33:01.880 --> 0:33:04.240
<v Speaker 19>going to explode next year with the big beautiful bill

0:33:04.280 --> 0:33:07.440
<v Speaker 19>coming into play, Trump tax cuts being permanent, no tax

0:33:07.480 --> 0:33:10.560
<v Speaker 19>on tips. More drill, baby drill. The only way they

0:33:10.600 --> 0:33:13.160
<v Speaker 19>could win is by basically trying to trip up the

0:33:13.160 --> 0:33:16.080
<v Speaker 19>government and its progress and to root against Trump and

0:33:16.080 --> 0:33:18.880
<v Speaker 19>to root against America's success. That's how Democrats get back

0:33:18.880 --> 0:33:22.080
<v Speaker 19>into power. And that's the party that says they're protecting democracy.

0:33:22.760 --> 0:33:23.000
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

0:33:23.160 --> 0:33:25.440
<v Speaker 19>No, not based on their actions, that does not appear

0:33:25.480 --> 0:33:25.920
<v Speaker 19>to be the case.

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<v Speaker 5>James.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, it's not democracy, it's our democracy. You remember that show.

0:33:29.400 --> 0:33:31.280
<v Speaker 2>That's what they always talk about. But do you think

0:33:31.280 --> 0:33:33.040
<v Speaker 2>they might even go so far as to trying to

0:33:33.120 --> 0:33:36.240
<v Speaker 2>launch another impeachment effort against the president next year?

0:33:37.080 --> 0:33:39.840
<v Speaker 19>Yes, if they gain back power and we have House

0:33:39.840 --> 0:33:44.440
<v Speaker 19>Speaker Jakim Jeffries, it will be impeachment and perpetuity for

0:33:44.520 --> 0:33:47.560
<v Speaker 19>Donald Trump during his final two years in office. That

0:33:47.600 --> 0:33:50.400
<v Speaker 19>creates chaos. Chaos is a ladder, and then they hope

0:33:50.400 --> 0:33:53.400
<v Speaker 19>they could use that ladder to get either Kamala Harris,

0:33:53.440 --> 0:33:56.640
<v Speaker 19>who's now the pole leader as far as getting the

0:33:56.640 --> 0:34:01.080
<v Speaker 19>Democratic nomination, getting her into power finally, or Gavin Newsom

0:34:01.160 --> 0:34:05.280
<v Speaker 19>or even AOC. Yeah, that's the thing. Create chaos and

0:34:05.320 --> 0:34:08.000
<v Speaker 19>then hope that within that chaos, you can gain back

0:34:08.040 --> 0:34:10.960
<v Speaker 19>power instead again doing what's right for the country, and

0:34:11.040 --> 0:34:13.279
<v Speaker 19>that doesn't appear to be the Democrats playbook right.

0:34:13.160 --> 0:34:15.560
<v Speaker 2>Now, doesn't look to have been that for quite a

0:34:15.640 --> 0:34:17.759
<v Speaker 2>long time. Joe Koshah, thanks so much as always for

0:34:17.840 --> 0:34:20.520
<v Speaker 2>joining me at the US support and have a great

0:34:20.600 --> 0:34:23.359
<v Speaker 2>Christmas in New Year. Merry Christmas happening here, sir.

0:34:23.360 --> 0:34:24.439
<v Speaker 19>We'll see in twenty twenty six.

0:34:24.719 --> 0:34:26.920
<v Speaker 2>Hey, is it time for a break already? That's okay.

0:34:26.960 --> 0:34:29.480
<v Speaker 2>We'll be doing the jingle bell rock with Alex style

0:34:29.520 --> 0:34:32.120
<v Speaker 2>when we come back. But first. There's been a lot

0:34:32.120 --> 0:34:35.440
<v Speaker 2>of controversy over the Trump administration's plan to make America

0:34:35.480 --> 0:34:38.640
<v Speaker 2>healthy again by making it so you can't buy junk

0:34:38.680 --> 0:34:43.800
<v Speaker 2>food with food stamps. Amazingly, not everyone thinks this is

0:34:43.840 --> 0:34:46.440
<v Speaker 2>a great idea. Check out this, lady.

0:34:46.840 --> 0:34:48.800
<v Speaker 5>It's not even cool, Like, why do I do this?

0:34:49.120 --> 0:34:51.320
<v Speaker 18>What's the point of foot stamps if it's just for

0:34:51.640 --> 0:34:52.280
<v Speaker 18>real food.

0:34:52.440 --> 0:34:55.640
<v Speaker 20>Hannimore believes she and other Snap recipients should be able

0:34:55.680 --> 0:34:58.120
<v Speaker 20>to go into the grocery store and buy whatever they like,

0:34:58.280 --> 0:35:01.759
<v Speaker 20>Doda candy, prepackaged se It's prepared desserts, and juice with

0:35:01.960 --> 0:35:04.480
<v Speaker 20>less than half of natural fruit or vegetable juice in

0:35:04.520 --> 0:35:07.640
<v Speaker 20>it will not be allowed to be purchased on snap carts.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know what Trump is doing. I don't know

0:35:09.840 --> 0:35:13.440
<v Speaker 2>what's going on. Yeah, I don't think she does. But

0:35:13.520 --> 0:35:15.640
<v Speaker 2>that Trump, I guess, is such a meeting. He's not

0:35:15.880 --> 0:35:19.120
<v Speaker 2>even letting them eat cake stick around. Alex Stein will

0:35:19.200 --> 0:35:22.160
<v Speaker 2>join us to discuss more revelations about the Biden administration's

0:35:22.200 --> 0:35:33.120
<v Speaker 2>war on Trump after the break Well. Joining me now

0:35:33.160 --> 0:35:36.560
<v Speaker 2>is a great friend of the program and comedian Alex Stein. Alex,

0:35:36.600 --> 0:35:38.880
<v Speaker 2>thanks so much for joining me on the US Report.

0:35:38.920 --> 0:35:42.200
<v Speaker 2>A very merry Christmas, Happy New Year to you and everybody.

0:35:42.280 --> 0:35:43.400
<v Speaker 2>Are you in Texas today?

0:35:44.600 --> 0:35:47.319
<v Speaker 21>I am in Texas. It's a beautiful winter. It's not

0:35:47.400 --> 0:35:50.759
<v Speaker 21>too cold, but it's very nice. No, no snow. We

0:35:50.760 --> 0:35:52.279
<v Speaker 21>don't really get a lot of snow here, but the

0:35:52.320 --> 0:35:54.560
<v Speaker 21>weather is. It's beautiful because at least I'm not burning

0:35:54.640 --> 0:35:56.680
<v Speaker 21>up in the Texas sun right now, So I love it.

0:35:56.840 --> 0:35:59.400
<v Speaker 2>That's fantastic. Hey, there's so much news to talk about

0:35:59.480 --> 0:36:03.080
<v Speaker 2>this week, and it was fascinated by this little story

0:36:03.120 --> 0:36:05.719
<v Speaker 2>in the New York Post that found that back in

0:36:05.760 --> 0:36:09.080
<v Speaker 2>twenty twenty two, it turned out that the Biden White

0:36:09.120 --> 0:36:12.400
<v Speaker 2>House was coordinating with the Department of Justice over that

0:36:12.640 --> 0:36:15.600
<v Speaker 2>raid on mar A Lago. Now I find this absolutely

0:36:15.640 --> 0:36:18.759
<v Speaker 2>fascinating because I also just played a little while ago

0:36:18.800 --> 0:36:21.719
<v Speaker 2>a clip of Kamala Harris saying, oh, no, no, no,

0:36:21.760 --> 0:36:23.920
<v Speaker 2>there was no coordination between the White House and the

0:36:23.960 --> 0:36:26.400
<v Speaker 2>Department of Justice when it came to the Epstein files,

0:36:26.400 --> 0:36:29.080
<v Speaker 2>and that's why we didn't release them. Feels to me

0:36:29.239 --> 0:36:32.359
<v Speaker 2>like they're being caught out as being actually a very

0:36:32.400 --> 0:36:35.279
<v Speaker 2>politicized Justice Department, as we suspected.

0:36:36.920 --> 0:36:39.319
<v Speaker 21>Yes, James, this is where I'm a little worried we

0:36:39.440 --> 0:36:42.239
<v Speaker 21>have them dead to rights that basically this whole entire

0:36:42.360 --> 0:36:44.919
<v Speaker 21>rate of mar Lago is just a dog and pony show,

0:36:45.200 --> 0:36:46.920
<v Speaker 21>and now we have evidence. We even have left this

0:36:47.040 --> 0:36:51.240
<v Speaker 21>congressman and senator saying that this search was not official,

0:36:51.320 --> 0:36:55.200
<v Speaker 21>unauthorized and using all the typical dictionary words that we know.

0:36:55.280 --> 0:36:57.480
<v Speaker 21>We hear these politicians say these, you know, big words.

0:36:57.800 --> 0:36:59.680
<v Speaker 21>But I want to see somebody go to jail. I

0:36:59.680 --> 0:37:02.239
<v Speaker 21>want to see somebody arrested in handcuffed for doing an

0:37:02.239 --> 0:37:04.239
<v Speaker 21>illegal rate on our president. Like I'm happy that they

0:37:04.280 --> 0:37:06.439
<v Speaker 21>tell us all this after the fact, but I want

0:37:06.440 --> 0:37:08.160
<v Speaker 21>to see I don't want to see anybody get hurt,

0:37:08.200 --> 0:37:10.120
<v Speaker 21>but I want to see some people go down for

0:37:10.200 --> 0:37:11.800
<v Speaker 21>their crimes against America.

0:37:11.880 --> 0:37:13.960
<v Speaker 2>Well where is all that up to? Because I mean,

0:37:14.000 --> 0:37:16.680
<v Speaker 2>you know, every time the Trump administration starts to push

0:37:16.760 --> 0:37:18.960
<v Speaker 2>back against the people who did all these sorts of things,

0:37:19.040 --> 0:37:21.719
<v Speaker 2>you know, the press starts screaming, oh, you know, it's

0:37:21.880 --> 0:37:26.040
<v Speaker 2>retribution against his enemies. There's a bunch of other sort

0:37:26.040 --> 0:37:28.200
<v Speaker 2>of cases on foot around this, but I haven't actually

0:37:28.239 --> 0:37:31.360
<v Speaker 2>seen any kind of results on any of them. And

0:37:31.560 --> 0:37:34.319
<v Speaker 2>tells me that if the Democrats get back into power

0:37:34.360 --> 0:37:36.080
<v Speaker 2>at some point, they're just gonna do the same thing again.

0:37:38.640 --> 0:37:40.520
<v Speaker 14>And for Donald Trump.

0:37:40.640 --> 0:37:42.640
<v Speaker 21>One thing of Donald Trump, I think this is probably

0:37:42.640 --> 0:37:45.120
<v Speaker 21>one of his few weaknesses, is that even though Donald

0:37:45.160 --> 0:37:48.000
<v Speaker 21>Trump is a conservative is right landing, Donald Trump wants

0:37:48.000 --> 0:37:48.960
<v Speaker 21>to be liked by everybody.

0:37:49.000 --> 0:37:50.319
<v Speaker 14>He wants to be liked by the left.

0:37:50.320 --> 0:37:52.480
<v Speaker 21>So I think that's why sometimes he actually, you know,

0:37:52.560 --> 0:37:55.080
<v Speaker 21>he lays off the gas, he pumps the brakes, when

0:37:55.080 --> 0:37:57.600
<v Speaker 21>he has the metaphorical kill shot, or he has you know,

0:37:57.640 --> 0:38:00.239
<v Speaker 21>the nuclear weapon that could end all of this, he

0:38:00.239 --> 0:38:02.120
<v Speaker 21>doesn't drop it because he likes to have mercy on

0:38:02.760 --> 0:38:05.920
<v Speaker 21>his opponent. So I think that makes him admirable, but sometimes,

0:38:06.040 --> 0:38:07.319
<v Speaker 21>you know, I want to see a guy get in

0:38:07.360 --> 0:38:10.759
<v Speaker 21>there and really kind of destroy the enemy that is

0:38:10.800 --> 0:38:12.640
<v Speaker 21>trying to attack us every single day.

0:38:12.760 --> 0:38:13.400
<v Speaker 14>Metaphorically.

0:38:13.880 --> 0:38:16.640
<v Speaker 2>That's right, that's right, Absolutely, go in there and salt

0:38:16.680 --> 0:38:18.719
<v Speaker 2>the earth. But what are you going to do? We

0:38:18.760 --> 0:38:22.880
<v Speaker 2>get what we get. Hey, also about this, there's another

0:38:22.960 --> 0:38:26.319
<v Speaker 2>story here. A crazy lefty has gone viral after a

0:38:26.400 --> 0:38:29.960
<v Speaker 2>tirade against a Target employee or targe, as I like

0:38:30.000 --> 0:38:32.920
<v Speaker 2>to say, simply for wearing one of those Charlie Kirk

0:38:33.000 --> 0:38:35.080
<v Speaker 2>freedom pie shirts. Let's have a little bit of a

0:38:35.160 --> 0:38:35.680
<v Speaker 2>look at this.

0:38:37.160 --> 0:38:40.040
<v Speaker 18>Stupid No, why the do you wear that?

0:38:40.080 --> 0:38:41.480
<v Speaker 12>You're at work at Target.

0:38:41.800 --> 0:38:44.760
<v Speaker 20>That's not a Target shirt, it's not a plain red shirt.

0:38:46.160 --> 0:38:47.240
<v Speaker 12>You support a racist.

0:38:48.040 --> 0:38:50.480
<v Speaker 18>The opinion is he's the facist and you support him.

0:38:50.560 --> 0:38:53.640
<v Speaker 4>Yes, you're a pinion and you shouldn't a You should

0:38:53.640 --> 0:38:54.759
<v Speaker 4>not be allowed to wear that.

0:38:55.560 --> 0:39:01.560
<v Speaker 1>This is going to be taken above your That's insane, Alex.

0:39:01.640 --> 0:39:06.359
<v Speaker 2>It amazes me how much the word freedom can trigger people.

0:39:07.600 --> 0:39:09.080
<v Speaker 14>Or just Charlie in general.

0:39:09.200 --> 0:39:10.759
<v Speaker 21>You know, I'm in Texas right now, but I'll be

0:39:10.840 --> 0:39:13.640
<v Speaker 21>going to Amfest this weekend where we'll be celebrating you know,

0:39:14.360 --> 0:39:17.520
<v Speaker 21>turning point and obviously celebrating Charlie's life.

0:39:17.520 --> 0:39:18.840
<v Speaker 14>But when you see these people.

0:39:18.719 --> 0:39:21.840
<v Speaker 21>That actually get pleasure out of making an elderly woman

0:39:21.840 --> 0:39:24.160
<v Speaker 21>that's working at Target trying to pay her bills and

0:39:24.200 --> 0:39:25.560
<v Speaker 21>she likes to represent America.

0:39:25.680 --> 0:39:26.640
<v Speaker 14>She loved Charlie.

0:39:26.640 --> 0:39:28.560
<v Speaker 21>It gave her joy, just like that girl probably likes

0:39:28.560 --> 0:39:31.080
<v Speaker 21>Taylor Swift or you know, this person likes Bad Bunny.

0:39:31.120 --> 0:39:34.200
<v Speaker 21>I don't like their politics, but I don't dislike somebody

0:39:34.200 --> 0:39:36.600
<v Speaker 21>because they like them, And so that's what these people do.

0:39:36.640 --> 0:39:40.440
<v Speaker 21>It's like she literally attacks an innocent elderly woman because

0:39:40.480 --> 0:39:43.200
<v Speaker 21>this woman likes Charlie Kirk. But these people are disgusting

0:39:43.520 --> 0:39:46.520
<v Speaker 21>and they make you pass these fake purity tests and

0:39:46.520 --> 0:39:50.520
<v Speaker 21>if you fail them by liking Charlie Kirk, they will

0:39:50.520 --> 0:39:52.960
<v Speaker 21>go and post you online and try to embarrass you.

0:39:53.160 --> 0:39:55.600
<v Speaker 14>But it always works. The good guys always win in

0:39:55.640 --> 0:39:55.879
<v Speaker 14>the end.

0:39:55.840 --> 0:39:57.680
<v Speaker 21>Because now the Target employee has one hundred and fifty

0:39:57.760 --> 0:40:01.120
<v Speaker 21>thousand dollars gifts and go, I right check. So she's

0:40:01.160 --> 0:40:02.839
<v Speaker 21>gonna be able to go on a great vacation. So

0:40:03.360 --> 0:40:05.399
<v Speaker 21>it all worked out of the end thankfully in this one.

0:40:05.560 --> 0:40:07.919
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well look that's good. But I love these people

0:40:07.960 --> 0:40:11.720
<v Speaker 2>who accuse the right of spreading division of sprading division themselves.

0:40:11.800 --> 0:40:14.319
<v Speaker 2>But hey, let's also have a go over to New

0:40:14.400 --> 0:40:18.160
<v Speaker 2>York City, of my old hometown, where Mayor elect zorad

0:40:18.280 --> 0:40:22.839
<v Speaker 2>Mam Donnie seems to have some interesting explanations for his

0:40:23.040 --> 0:40:26.320
<v Speaker 2>policy where he wants to introduce free.

0:40:26.160 --> 0:40:29.200
<v Speaker 1>Bus rides across the city. Have a look, he made

0:40:29.280 --> 0:40:32.279
<v Speaker 1>five bus routes free in New York City. When we

0:40:32.320 --> 0:40:34.920
<v Speaker 1>made those bus routes free, after a year, assaults on

0:40:35.000 --> 0:40:37.960
<v Speaker 1>bus drivers dropped by thirty eight point nine percent on

0:40:38.040 --> 0:40:40.479
<v Speaker 1>the bus driver the bus drivers because unlike the train,

0:40:40.960 --> 0:40:44.200
<v Speaker 1>the act of fare collection on the bus happens on

0:40:44.239 --> 0:40:51.759
<v Speaker 1>the bus, and bus drivers and unions have shared anecdotally

0:40:51.800 --> 0:40:56.760
<v Speaker 1>that about fifty percent of assaults happen around the fair box.

0:40:57.280 --> 0:41:00.160
<v Speaker 1>So when you eliminate the farebox, you make for a

0:41:00.280 --> 0:41:03.680
<v Speaker 1>safer experience for the bus driver for everyone on the bus.

0:41:03.760 --> 0:41:07.080
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Alex cleared this up for me. Did he just

0:41:07.160 --> 0:41:10.600
<v Speaker 2>say that the great thing under his policy will be

0:41:10.640 --> 0:41:13.200
<v Speaker 2>that when you take the bus in New York City,

0:41:13.200 --> 0:41:15.759
<v Speaker 2>you are much more likely now to be sitting next

0:41:15.760 --> 0:41:19.200
<v Speaker 2>to somebody who is so violent and unhinged in deranged

0:41:19.239 --> 0:41:22.280
<v Speaker 2>that they would punch a bus driver over the fair.

0:41:23.760 --> 0:41:26.399
<v Speaker 14>Yeah. No, seriously, his math wasn't that great.

0:41:26.440 --> 0:41:29.960
<v Speaker 21>So he said if they give free bus fare, that

0:41:30.040 --> 0:41:33.320
<v Speaker 21>the bus drivers only have a thirty nine percent chance

0:41:33.360 --> 0:41:34.239
<v Speaker 21>of getting assaulted.

0:41:34.400 --> 0:41:36.120
<v Speaker 14>She'l tell me even if they pay, they have a

0:41:36.160 --> 0:41:39.319
<v Speaker 14>sixty percent chance. I don't understand this math.

0:41:39.600 --> 0:41:41.719
<v Speaker 21>It seems like these bus drivers are going to get

0:41:41.800 --> 0:41:44.279
<v Speaker 21>assaulted either way, whether the bus is free or not,

0:41:44.320 --> 0:41:46.080
<v Speaker 21>because it looks like the break is a fifty to fifty.

0:41:46.120 --> 0:41:48.840
<v Speaker 21>So all I'm saying is New York City is America's

0:41:48.880 --> 0:41:51.880
<v Speaker 21>greatest city. I think Mom Donnie is probably going to,

0:41:52.680 --> 0:41:55.560
<v Speaker 21>you know, obviously make the city worse. But I do

0:41:55.640 --> 0:41:57.719
<v Speaker 21>not think that he can actually break a city like

0:41:57.760 --> 0:41:59.640
<v Speaker 21>New York because New York's bigger than me. It's bigger

0:41:59.680 --> 0:42:02.160
<v Speaker 21>than you, bigger than Mom Donnie. So he's definitely gonna

0:42:02.360 --> 0:42:05.120
<v Speaker 21>make it worse for New York. Just like the earth,

0:42:05.160 --> 0:42:07.120
<v Speaker 21>as much as we damage it, it'll come back bigger

0:42:07.160 --> 0:42:07.640
<v Speaker 21>and stronger.

0:42:07.680 --> 0:42:08.799
<v Speaker 14>I truly believe you know.

0:42:08.960 --> 0:42:12.280
<v Speaker 2>That's been my experience with New York my entire life, Alex.

0:42:12.360 --> 0:42:15.120
<v Speaker 2>But finally, before I let you go to maybe head

0:42:15.160 --> 0:42:16.760
<v Speaker 2>up to grape Vine and look at all the Christmas

0:42:16.760 --> 0:42:19.359
<v Speaker 2>decorations there. I want to get your reaction to this.

0:42:19.560 --> 0:42:23.400
<v Speaker 2>Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was asked what the biggest

0:42:23.440 --> 0:42:27.680
<v Speaker 2>threat was to America, Islamophobia or Trump, have a look

0:42:27.719 --> 0:42:27.960
<v Speaker 2>at this.

0:42:30.000 --> 0:42:33.560
<v Speaker 15>I think we have to focus, quite frankly, on if

0:42:33.560 --> 0:42:36.880
<v Speaker 15>we're worried about the threats of American values, on the

0:42:36.920 --> 0:42:38.120
<v Speaker 15>person who's in the White House.

0:42:38.600 --> 0:42:41.719
<v Speaker 2>I mean, we have a come on, really, we're going

0:42:41.800 --> 0:42:42.239
<v Speaker 2>come on.

0:42:42.280 --> 0:42:44.600
<v Speaker 15>Yeah, I'm going there because we have a president who

0:42:44.760 --> 0:42:50.880
<v Speaker 15>has completely undermined our democracy, who has has So you don't.

0:42:50.680 --> 0:42:54.040
<v Speaker 1>See is you don't see jiha, you don't see is

0:42:54.239 --> 0:42:55.000
<v Speaker 1>it a problem?

0:42:55.800 --> 0:43:00.640
<v Speaker 15>What I don't see is it as a single lens problem.

0:43:01.680 --> 0:43:05.160
<v Speaker 2>So Jihad or Trump, She'll go with jihab, Is that right?

0:43:06.440 --> 0:43:09.839
<v Speaker 21>I mean, absolutely ridiculous in Islamophobia. Obviously, you guys had

0:43:09.840 --> 0:43:12.120
<v Speaker 21>a terrible attack of Bondie Beach. You know, those are

0:43:12.160 --> 0:43:14.719
<v Speaker 21>two people that father and son went and killed a

0:43:14.719 --> 0:43:17.600
<v Speaker 21>bunch of Vinis at people celebrating Hanukkah. And here in America,

0:43:17.719 --> 0:43:20.440
<v Speaker 21>you know, I'm in Dallas, Texas, and Plano, a suburb

0:43:20.440 --> 0:43:23.600
<v Speaker 21>of Dallas, has one of the biggest Muslim communities in America.

0:43:23.719 --> 0:43:27.560
<v Speaker 21>Building right in my backyard. So there is an Islamification

0:43:27.640 --> 0:43:30.640
<v Speaker 21>of America. We do have freedom of religion, but we

0:43:30.680 --> 0:43:33.840
<v Speaker 21>don't have freedom of other countries coming in here and

0:43:33.840 --> 0:43:35.920
<v Speaker 21>taking over cities like the Somalians are doing.

0:43:36.000 --> 0:43:39.160
<v Speaker 14>So I'll just tell you this, a lot of Islamic people.

0:43:38.880 --> 0:43:40.680
<v Speaker 21>Are great, a lot of them are nonviolent, but when

0:43:40.719 --> 0:43:44.440
<v Speaker 21>it comes to threatening America's values or our way of life,

0:43:44.880 --> 0:43:48.160
<v Speaker 21>you're much more likely to be affected by a Islamic

0:43:48.239 --> 0:43:50.640
<v Speaker 21>terrorist and you are Donald Trump. And she's just being

0:43:51.320 --> 0:43:53.480
<v Speaker 21>she's just being naive, or she's just trying to do

0:43:53.520 --> 0:43:55.520
<v Speaker 21>that to actually just she's lying, that's what she's doing.

0:43:55.560 --> 0:43:57.120
<v Speaker 21>She knows that Donald Trump is not a bigger threat

0:43:57.120 --> 0:43:58.840
<v Speaker 21>than is the Islamification of America.

0:43:58.920 --> 0:44:02.720
<v Speaker 14>So she's just plowing blank lying about Donald Trump.

0:44:03.080 --> 0:44:05.280
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, no, that's right, Alex, And I reckon that she's

0:44:05.560 --> 0:44:07.279
<v Speaker 2>going for a headline. But yes, thank you for conn

0:44:07.280 --> 0:44:11.600
<v Speaker 2>words about the alleged attackers there on Bontai Beach last Sunday.

0:44:11.600 --> 0:44:13.040
<v Speaker 2>It was a terrible event. But thank you so much,

0:44:13.200 --> 0:44:14.520
<v Speaker 2>Alex for your time, and we'll see you in the

0:44:14.560 --> 0:44:16.520
<v Speaker 2>new year. Can it be that time already only in

0:44:16.560 --> 0:44:19.440
<v Speaker 2>America is coming up? After the break But first, I know,

0:44:19.560 --> 0:44:22.480
<v Speaker 2>if you were like me, you're wondering what side dishes

0:44:22.520 --> 0:44:25.959
<v Speaker 2>you're gonna serve at your big holiday feast. Well, here's

0:44:26.000 --> 0:44:29.960
<v Speaker 2>an idea. A Kamala word salad is always a great

0:44:30.239 --> 0:44:34.280
<v Speaker 2>palate cleanser. Here the would have been president is explaining

0:44:34.320 --> 0:44:37.280
<v Speaker 2>why if the Epstein files were so bad for Trump,

0:44:37.760 --> 0:44:42.080
<v Speaker 2>the Biden administration never released them, why didn't they come

0:44:42.080 --> 0:44:43.359
<v Speaker 2>out during your administration?

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<v Speaker 13>To give you an answer that will not satisfy your curiosity,

0:44:47.440 --> 0:44:52.400
<v Speaker 13>I will tell you we perhaps to our damage, but

0:44:52.600 --> 0:44:56.359
<v Speaker 13>we strongly and rightly believed that there should be an

0:44:56.440 --> 0:45:01.319
<v Speaker 13>absolute separation between what we wanted as an administration in

0:45:01.400 --> 0:45:05.960
<v Speaker 13>what the Department of Justice did. We absolutely adhere to that,

0:45:06.560 --> 0:45:09.520
<v Speaker 13>and it was right to do that. The Justice Department

0:45:09.560 --> 0:45:14.000
<v Speaker 13>would make its decisions independent of any political or personal

0:45:15.040 --> 0:45:19.200
<v Speaker 13>vendetta or concern that we may have, and that's the

0:45:19.200 --> 0:45:19.960
<v Speaker 13>way it worked.

0:45:20.800 --> 0:45:22.600
<v Speaker 2>Well, I'll tell you what, I'm just laughing at the

0:45:22.640 --> 0:45:25.200
<v Speaker 2>idea of the Biden White House being at arm's length

0:45:25.239 --> 0:45:28.880
<v Speaker 2>through the Justice Department. Hilarious. Now stick around, because Only

0:45:28.880 --> 0:45:38.480
<v Speaker 2>in America is next. Welcome back to the program, and

0:45:38.560 --> 0:45:40.880
<v Speaker 2>now it's time for a little segment. We like to

0:45:41.200 --> 0:45:49.600
<v Speaker 2>call only in America. Well, let's see out the year

0:45:49.719 --> 0:45:53.120
<v Speaker 2>with a little fun spot about our favorite chat show.

0:45:53.200 --> 0:45:55.640
<v Speaker 2>You know what I'm talking about. It's The View, and

0:45:55.719 --> 0:45:58.480
<v Speaker 2>it seems like we're not the only fans of the program.

0:45:58.520 --> 0:46:01.120
<v Speaker 2>It is also a hit with whoever is writing the

0:46:01.200 --> 0:46:05.160
<v Speaker 2>popular TV drama The Landman, which is all about the

0:46:05.200 --> 0:46:09.000
<v Speaker 2>West Texas oil game. Have a look at this.

0:46:10.800 --> 0:46:13.799
<v Speaker 5>What do you need? I don't know what to do?

0:46:14.600 --> 0:46:18.399
<v Speaker 16>Whatever you want to read a book?

0:46:18.160 --> 0:46:18.760
<v Speaker 2>Talk shows?

0:46:18.800 --> 0:46:20.000
<v Speaker 21>You don't like The View or something?

0:46:21.000 --> 0:46:21.799
<v Speaker 5>What's the View?

0:46:22.640 --> 0:46:23.640
<v Speaker 14>A bunch of pissed.

0:46:23.400 --> 0:46:26.960
<v Speaker 10>Off millionaires about how much they hate millionaires and Trump

0:46:27.000 --> 0:46:28.200
<v Speaker 10>and Man and you and.

0:46:28.040 --> 0:46:30.080
<v Speaker 5>Me and everybody else. They got to be up their

0:46:30.120 --> 0:46:30.720
<v Speaker 5>ass about.

0:46:30.800 --> 0:46:35.480
<v Speaker 2>It's pretty funny, will sound funny? I ain't joke fin

0:46:35.600 --> 0:46:37.279
<v Speaker 2>It's like a part in charge by you know.

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<v Speaker 18>What I mean?

0:46:38.719 --> 0:46:42.319
<v Speaker 5>That don't sound funny either. It depends on your proximity

0:46:42.360 --> 0:46:42.839
<v Speaker 5>to the fart.

0:46:44.160 --> 0:46:46.080
<v Speaker 2>I don't think it's even as funny as that. But

0:46:46.440 --> 0:46:49.560
<v Speaker 2>love to see everybody having fun with that show. And hey,

0:46:49.840 --> 0:46:52.759
<v Speaker 2>that's all from me for this week and this year.

0:46:52.960 --> 0:46:55.200
<v Speaker 2>But don't worry. The US Report will be back in

0:46:55.440 --> 0:46:58.560
<v Speaker 2>January for what is going to be a massive one

0:46:58.960 --> 0:47:01.960
<v Speaker 2>in US politics. Until then, a huge thank you to

0:47:02.000 --> 0:47:04.320
<v Speaker 2>my producer Tom and the whole Sky News team, and

0:47:04.440 --> 0:47:06.919
<v Speaker 2>we wish you a merry Christmas, a happy New Year,

0:47:06.920 --> 0:47:10.640
<v Speaker 2>and for our Jewish friends is Hanukkah. Remember light always

0:47:10.680 --> 0:47:15.320
<v Speaker 2>wins out over darkness. Bye bye,