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Speaker 1: from the Relief Actor Studio inside the Beltweigh I'm Hugh Hewitt,

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Speaker 1: Good Wednesday to you. President Trump has just posted a

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Speaker 1: true social following his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyaho. I

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Speaker 1: want to read it to you. I have just finished

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Speaker 1: meeting with Prime Minister in net Yaho of Israel and

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Speaker 1: various of his representatives.

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Speaker 2: It was a very good meeting.

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Speaker 1: The tremendous relationship between our two countries continues. There is

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Speaker 1: nothing definitive reached other than I insisted that negotiations with

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Speaker 1: Iran continue to see whether or not a deal can

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Speaker 1: be consummated. Consummated if it can, and let the Prime

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Speaker 1: Minister know that will be a preference. If it cannot,

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Speaker 1: we will just have to see what the outcome will be.

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Speaker 1: Last time Iran decided they were better off not making

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Speaker 1: a deal, and they were hit with midnight hammer. That

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Speaker 1: did not work out well for them. Hopefully this time

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Speaker 1: they will be more reasonable and responsible. Additionally, we discussed

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Speaker 1: the tremendous progress being made in Gaza and in the

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Speaker 1: region in general. There is truly peace all in caps

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Speaker 1: in the Middle East. Thank you for your attention to

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Speaker 1: this matter, President Trump.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Earlier today, before that happened, I wrote a column for

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Speaker 1: The Washington Examiner because I think, as the headline says,

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Speaker 1: President Trump's choice is to be in a pile with

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Speaker 1: Truman and Reagan or one with Carter and Obama.

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Speaker 2: ED reads this way, only.

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Speaker 1: A military intervention at this point could level the playing field.

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Speaker 1: Exiled Iranian Crown Prince Raza pau la Ville declared Monday,

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Speaker 1: this is the reason why the Iranian people have been

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Speaker 1: angernxiously awaiting the action that the President has promised he

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Speaker 1: will do and support the Iranian people.

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Speaker 2: That will help, That help will arrive.

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Speaker 1: Jeff hang in there and they have the Son of

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Speaker 1: the Lake shot continued, and they hope that this president

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Speaker 1: will stay true to the word he is always demonstrated,

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Speaker 1: and that he's no Barack Obama. Also on Monday, Professor

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Speaker 1: Daniel Schiftan of Haifa University, Israel's Henry Kissinger invoked the

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Speaker 1: same name. Obama asked about President Donald Trump's grasp of

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Speaker 1: the complex and often dark corners of the Middle Eastern conflict.

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Speaker 1: Shift tan and Trump have the right instincts, and mostly

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Speaker 1: what he did in the Middle East was very helpful

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Speaker 1: for the region. Think of the Aberkhamacorde shift and said,

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Speaker 1: think of the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of

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Speaker 1: Israel and the support he had for Israel when Israel

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Speaker 1: not only needed to assert its power not only to

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Speaker 1: destroy the terrorists, but also to deserve any immediate next step.

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Speaker 1: But so far this pillar of Israeli national security establishment concluded,

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Speaker 1: Trump's instincts about the Middle East have been correct. He

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Speaker 1: was certainly not the kind of naive president that we

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Speaker 1: add in. Jimmy carteron in Barack Obama, the exile Crown

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Speaker 1: within an hour of each other, brought up unprompted former

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Speaker 1: President Obama in the context of addressing what President Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump should order America's military to do regarding Iran's Arsenal

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Speaker 1: LA ballistic missiles, its nuclear weapons program, and the one

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand members of the Iran of the

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Speaker 1: Islamic Revolutionary Guard Court. Neither the Iranian exile prince nor

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Speaker 1: the Israeli scholar wants Trump to blink. Neither believes that

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Speaker 1: he has yet. But the President will hear from the

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister today that to accept any agreement from the

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Speaker 1: Mullahs that Ward's office strike from America's massive naval armada

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Speaker 1: and probably at least one Ohio class submarine equipped with

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Speaker 1: a surrender by Trump, crashing the US deterrence he is restored.

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Speaker 1: After the disastrous presidencies of Obama and Biden, Neither of

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Speaker 1: the prior presidents can escape the defining records, neither Carter

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Speaker 1: nor Obama. For Obama that was the absurd and dangerous

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Speaker 1: joint comprehensive plan of action, and for Joe Biden, who

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Speaker 1: was the US precipitous, calamitous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Both decisions

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Speaker 1: about whom history will deliver devastating verdicts about their time

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Speaker 1: in office. They both blinked, and they both had their

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Speaker 1: knees bucked. The US enemies advanced, and those two were treated.

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Speaker 2: That's it.

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Speaker 1: That's what I wrote today in the DC Examiner, the

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Speaker 1: choice between before Trump, because history has a way of

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Speaker 1: treating every post war president by sorting them into piles.

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Speaker 1: A pile beginning with Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, and

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Speaker 1: a pile beginning with Obama and Biden. Everything else fades

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Speaker 1: away except the president's record of stewardship of America's national security.

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Speaker 1: Carter is not a punchline because of the sweater speech

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Speaker 1: or the gas lines, but because the Iyatola Hummani made

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Speaker 1: repeatedly taunted and insulted, Trump, now ordered the development and

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Speaker 1: release of an artificial intelligence video of attacks on the

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Speaker 1: USS Abraham Lincoln over the past weekend in a desperate

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Speaker 1: attempt to scare Trump away from ordering the US military

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Speaker 2: Of those videos and other bluffs.

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Speaker 1: The massacre of more than thirty five thousand, mostly young

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Speaker 1: Iranian protesters. That's a diversion from blustering from Iran, intended

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Speaker 1: to divert attention from the Iranians and what they have

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Speaker 1: already done. Trump has worded Secretary hug Seth and Joint

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Speaker 1: chiefs of Staff Chairman Dan Kane have overseen a massive

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Speaker 1: buildup of American firepower in the region around Iran.

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Speaker 2: They cannot not use it.

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Speaker 1: It's the equivalent of his everything that we did before,

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Speaker 1: it isn't one and before the invasion of Iraq before

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Speaker 1: two thousand and three. Admiral Mark Montgomery, retired Rear Admiral

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Speaker 1: said on this program Monday, we have a window for

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Speaker 1: striking Iran. It's three months. The admiral cited the need

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Speaker 1: the Lincoln's got to go back and refuel and rest

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Speaker 1: up after three months. He also suggested we not strike

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Speaker 1: during Ramadan. That's from March Seventhebruary seventeenth to March nineteenth,

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Speaker 1: But there's a lot of time after March nineteenth. Patience

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Speaker 1: on the part of US hawks is required. It's unlikely

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Speaker 1: that confronted with a choice of be like Reagan or

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Speaker 1: the defining moment of the last two terms of Trump.

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Speaker 1: Reagan plus is how Senator Lindsey Graham described Trump's second term.

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Speaker 1: The whole world in history will see, So will China

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Speaker 1: and Russia, Xijinping and Putin will see. If Trump blinks,

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Speaker 1: we have to hope that Netanyahu will be greeted warmly.

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Speaker 1: We now know that he has been not left to

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Speaker 1: as he was by Team Obama during the years of

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Speaker 1: the Locusts in the US. If Trump cares for the

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Speaker 1: Iranian people and histories forever judgment, he will strike Iran

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Speaker 1: when the time and the tides are exactly right, just

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Speaker 1: as he did with Operation Midnight Hammer an absolute result.

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Speaker 1: That's my Washington Examiner column today. I've posted a couple

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Speaker 1: of times this morning at my ex account. I hope

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Speaker 1: tomorrow in Fox News just so we're perfectly clear. I

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Speaker 1: don't think the president has a choice. I don't think

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Speaker 1: that because I don't think the Iranians will capitulate. I

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Speaker 1: mean they could. They could capitulate, they could run, they

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Speaker 1: could give up the missiles. Hamoni and his son might

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Speaker 1: what you do with one hundred and fifty thousand igher

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Speaker 1: GC people who went out in the streets and slaughtered,

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Speaker 1: absolutely slaughtered thirty five thousand Iranians, mostly young people, mostly

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Speaker 2: They did it.

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Speaker 1: Run them over with cars, trucks, armored vehicles, and now

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Speaker 1: they're killing them in hospitals, good reliable reports. There's no

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Speaker 1: dealing with this regime like Neville Chamberlain dealing with Hitler.

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Speaker 1: He never figured it out until it was too late.

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Speaker 1: I don't believe Trump's that man. I don't believe President

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Speaker 1: Trump is going to get taken by these people. I

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Speaker 1: think the build up takes time. As Admiral Montgomery said,

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Speaker 1: he got briefed on the exposure of our troops and

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Speaker 2: They can hit Diego, Garcia.

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Speaker 1: in Kosovo. That's within range. They could try a bunch

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Speaker 1: of things. But I think they flooded the zone with

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Speaker 1: defensive things. I think they flooded the zone. They being

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of radicals at ninety two million

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Speaker 1: obliterated the nuclear program. So everything he says in a

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Speaker 1: the presidency will be doomed to fail. If he doesn't strike,

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Speaker 1: through one of those two visa via Iran. Which one

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Speaker 1: do you think he'll go through?

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Speaker 3: That's an interesting question.

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Speaker 4: I have been under the impression that the Reagan door

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Speaker 2: Oh, I think he did. I think it is.

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Speaker 4: It's been curious to see this aborted pressure that was

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Speaker 3: Human rights intervention, not necessarily.

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Speaker 4: A right to protect Susan powers philosophy.

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Speaker 3: But something more akin to the notion.

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Speaker 4: That the United States has values that it is willing

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Speaker 4: to defend those values with military force against adversaries who

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Speaker 4: are pre eminent threats to US national security, indeed global,

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Speaker 4: a pre existing hostile relationship that seems almost doctrinal. I'm

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Speaker 4: pretty easy to follow considering the president's moves in addition

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Speaker 4: to the strikes on the nuclear program and the Solemani strike,

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Speaker 4: but the strike on Bashar Assad's Syria in retaliation for

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Speaker 4: a lesser extent, the raid that captured Nicholas Muduro. So

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Speaker 4: all that made a lot of sense to me. But

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Speaker 4: the delay, which I think was attributable initially to the

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Speaker 4: is far less explicable today because the diplomatic process that

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Speaker 4: is going nowhere, I think you and I both agree,

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Speaker 4: is going nowhere there's nothing to talk about, is still ongoing.

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Speaker 2: Well, I do have a good explanation for you.

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Speaker 1: I had a we were Admiral Mark Montgomery on Monday,

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Speaker 1: I want to agree with you so often, but you

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Speaker 4: Noah, listen, this is beside the point, because maybe we

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Speaker 3: This is kind of my thing with Cuba.

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Speaker 4: That's basically been our proposition with Iran. And we knew

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Speaker 3: We knew that that was the strategy.

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Speaker 1: And they're going and they have three hundred missiles and

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Speaker 1: But I don't think anything matters if in three months

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Speaker 3: That is, if not.

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Speaker 4: Reliable at least dedicated to a proposition that you want

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Speaker 2: I have a different goal. We got to be prepared.

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Speaker 1: My goal is it is troy the missile armaments, the

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Speaker 1: And I think the president was trying to stop the

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Speaker 1: But if it get done in the end, I'm happy,

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Speaker 3: Noah, yeah, no, that would be it would be good.

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Speaker 4: The threat from the Iranian regime will persist as long

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Speaker 4: they will all act in defense of their interests. China

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Speaker 3: Be a long one.

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Speaker 4: The president should be prepared for the prospect that this

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Speaker 4: We need to reignite these protests and that's going to

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Speaker 3: That's going to be a comprehensive campaign.

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Speaker 1: It took seventy eight days to push Melisovich to stop

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Speaker 1: about that. Before coming up, Thank you, Nosc Rothman State,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back in America. I'm Hugh Hewett. Sarah C. Bedford is

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Speaker 1: the head of the Investigations Unit at the Washington Examiner.

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Speaker 2: Sarah, good to see you.

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Speaker 1: I began the program today by reading my Washington Examiner

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Speaker 2: What do you think? Well?

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Speaker 5: I think there might have been some expectation or hope,

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Speaker 6: With Natan Yahoo, Trump would say, you know what, We're

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Speaker 5: But there's a counter argument to be made that by

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Speaker 6: If that is in fact his goal, and there are

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Speaker 5: He's moved military assets into the area, he hasn't taken

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Speaker 6: In fact, he's sort of been ramping up threats against Iran.

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Speaker 5: So that's very much something that I think a lot

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Speaker 1: Now, let me ask you about the Save Act, which

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Speaker 5: Well, perhaps Massey has sort of made the calculation that

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Speaker 5: it's sort of incomprehensible why any Republican would vote against this,

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Speaker 6: Don't fight for the things they say they support.

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Speaker 1: Where you need sixty votes, and the filibuster is not

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Speaker 1: Is there any other way besides the nuclear option to

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Speaker 5: Well, a lot of conservatives are talking about why not

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Speaker 6: I mean, they could offer amendments. There could be a

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Speaker 5: But you know, some conservatives who really want to see

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Speaker 1: And Matt, I'm just not persuaded because the talking phil

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Speaker 1: Let me talk to you about what's going to happen

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Speaker 1: in a shutdown of just the Department of Homeland Security.

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Speaker 1: It's not shutting down ICE. By the way, I'd like

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Speaker 1: to correct everyone out there. ICE has been fully funded

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Speaker 1: for years to come in the one big beautiful bill,

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Speaker 1: so the ICE agents will still be on the street.

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Speaker 1: But TSA, our friendly neighborhood airport security family is going

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Speaker 1: to get not paid that the Coast Guard. Are the

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Speaker 1: Democrats really going to do this, Sarah Bedford?

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Speaker 5: It's funny leadership is out there sort of saying that

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Speaker 5: there's absolutely no world in which they give another.

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Speaker 6: Penny to DHS unless they get these.

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Speaker 5: Really aggressive demands met by the Trump administration over how

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Speaker 5: the DHS should be run. But you have to wonder

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Speaker 5: if some of those Centrists or endangered Democrats who voted

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Speaker 5: to and the shutdown in the fall might be tempted

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Speaker 5: to do back at least a CR to buy more

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Speaker 5: time for negotiations and sort of kick this hand down

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Speaker 5: the road a little bit more. Senator Jackie Rosen, for example,

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Speaker 5: some of those senators who because we're uncomfortable with the

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Speaker 5: length of the last shutdown and might really not want

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Speaker 5: to be vulnerable to attacks that they shut down FEMA

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Speaker 5: and TSA and all of these really crucial agencies. Win

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Speaker 5: as you mentioned, ICE is already funded, so Republicans might

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Speaker 5: be able to put pressure on those vulnerable Central Democrats

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Speaker 5: for a CR, but a deal by Friday that fully

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Speaker 5: fund STHs does not look like it's realistic at this point.

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Speaker 1: So they're going to shut down TSA and FEMA. If

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Speaker 1: you were going to design a shutdown intended to do

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Speaker 1: political damage to your own party, to your own party

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Speaker 1: and nobody else, could you design a more perfect shutdown

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Speaker 1: than one that only inconveniences air travelers and people suffering

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Speaker 1: major disasters. It's really the stupidest thing I've seen the

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Speaker 1: Democrats do.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I would be shocked if this lasted anywhere near

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Speaker 5: as long as the one in the fall, which also

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Speaker 5: sort of had Democrats holding out for some really unrealistic

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Speaker 5: demands at the time that didn't seem sort of related

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Speaker 5: to the task of appropriations, right They had a healthcare

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Speaker 5: ask back then. Now they want to basically overhaul the

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Speaker 5: way the entire immigration system works, overfunding to things like

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Speaker 5: FEMA and TSA when ICE is already funded. So that's

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Speaker 5: not the debate that they're having right now. The last

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Speaker 5: shutdown didn't work out very well for Democrats, it would

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Speaker 5: be hard to see this one working out well. So

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Speaker 5: you got to wonder if Schumer's secretly hoping that some

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Speaker 5: of those centrist Democrats will come in and save him

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Speaker 5: by voting at least for a stop gap funding.

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Speaker 1: Now. I hope the Republicans don't go for the CR

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Speaker 1: the continuing resolution bails them out, but it doesn't. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't embarrass them. And this is really the dumbest thing

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Speaker 1: I've seen. People need to fly, and people impacted by

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Speaker 1: natural disasters need relief.

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Speaker 2: Now there is no natural death.

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Speaker 1: Are you aware of an natural disaster depending upon FEMA

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Speaker 1: relief right now?

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Speaker 6: Not at this current moment. I don't want to drink it.

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Speaker 1: No, I don't think so either, And so I got

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Speaker 1: a little bit of time. But the air how long

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Speaker 1: does it take for the airplane network to start to

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Speaker 1: feel it?

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Speaker 2: It does.

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Speaker 1: The air traffic controllers are not shut down here, right department,

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Speaker 1: They're in transportation, So just TSA. How long does it

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Speaker 1: take for TSA to start getting the blue flue?

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Speaker 5: It didn't take very long, you know you're talking about Yeah,

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Speaker 5: the FAA, the air traffic controllers are under a different agency,

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Speaker 5: but the same principle would apply, right if workers aren't

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Speaker 5: getting paid. It did not take very long for that

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Speaker 5: to start to have a real impact on people's air travel.

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Speaker 5: It was just a week or two until you started

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Speaker 5: to feel it, and you know, after a month it

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Speaker 5: was really unbeariable to the point.

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Speaker 6: Where Democrats caved.

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Speaker 5: This isn't something that I think a lot of Democrats

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Speaker 5: probably want to be messing with heading into you know,

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Speaker 5: spring break season, winter breaks season.

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Speaker 1: But will see, oh yeah, oh yeah, boy, when people

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Speaker 1: began missing the airplanes because they're known at the TSA checkpoint,

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Speaker 1: because of Democrats shutting down TSA because they're mad at ice,

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Speaker 1: they're going to start to wonder about Chuck Schummer follow

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Speaker 1: Sarah ceed Bedford on X at Sarah ceed Bedford follow

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Speaker 2: You hew it.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the third hour of today's program. I hope

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Speaker 1: you're watching on the sale of News channel because I

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Speaker 1: got a great guest. I went to a great event

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Speaker 1: last night, the one Small Step event sponsored by Standing Together.

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Speaker 1: One of the sponsors are Standing Together as my sponsor,

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Speaker 1: Americans for Prosperity, and.

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Speaker 2: It was a great event.

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Speaker 1: Four great pairs like Guy Benson and Tom Emmer stole

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Speaker 1: the show because Guy, I hate him, is very funny.

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Speaker 1: And then Katie Pablick and Glenn Youngkin really hit home

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Speaker 1: run Emily Sidel and Keith Kroc Keith is running on

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Speaker 1: the America two fifty event. And then I had a

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Speaker 1: wonderful conversation with Sean Alexander. But then Emily side Out

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Speaker 1: went up there and just killed it, crushed it like

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Speaker 1: she did in the green room before. So I asked

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Speaker 1: her to join me today to go back over that Emily,

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Speaker 1: first of all, first class event last.

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Speaker 2: Night, and you killed it at the end.

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Speaker 1: And I want people to understand why they need to

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Speaker 1: go to a two fifty toolkit, why they need to

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Speaker 1: take one small step, and what it is about the

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Speaker 1: One Small Step campaign.

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Speaker 2: I thought it very inspiring in the.

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Speaker 1: Green room with Guy when you were laying out for

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Speaker 1: so lay it out for people that way.

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Speaker 7: Okay, I'll do my best. So the highlight here is

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Speaker 7: that we cherish freedom in this country, but freedom just

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Speaker 7: doesn't self sustain. People have to defend freedom at all times.

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Speaker 7: And one of the more troubling things that we're seeing

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Speaker 7: happening in the country right now is that increasingly people

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Speaker 7: are feeling like their voices don't matter, that the American

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Speaker 7: dream is out of reach. People's pride in being an

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Speaker 7: American is at an all time low. These are flashing

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Speaker 7: warning signs about the future of the American experiment. But

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Speaker 7: I don't think and the argument that I was making

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Speaker 7: last night at the close of the program is that

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Speaker 7: those flashing warning signs aren't happening in a vacuum. They're

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Speaker 7: happening over the period of time that we are seeing.

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Speaker 7: The growth of the size and scope of government shoots

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Speaker 7: straight up into.

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Speaker 2: The right on a graph.

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Speaker 7: And so if that is, if you think about it

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Speaker 7: that way, as government gets bigger and bigger, it takes

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Speaker 7: away decision making and it takes away agency from individuals.

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Speaker 7: And I think that that is actually why people are

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Speaker 7: starting to feel like their voice doesn't matter, why the

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Speaker 7: American dream is out of reach, because they don't feel

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Speaker 7: like they're in control of their own destiny.

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Speaker 1: Now from Dennis Pregraamily, I want to tell you what

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Speaker 1: Dennis said, as the government gets bigger, the citizen gets smaller.

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Speaker 1: And I thought, I'm sure Dennis is listening right now,

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Speaker 1: but he would say that, I mean maybe once a week.

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Speaker 1: As government gets bigger, citizens get smaller. And that's the

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Speaker 1: point you were making.

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Speaker 2: Lie. It just resonated with me.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, And so once mole step is about people taking

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Speaker 7: some of that agency and that power back. And it

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Speaker 7: might feel daunting, right, like it's just too big of

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Speaker 7: a challenge to tackle. And so we're saying we don't

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Speaker 7: have to go from zero to one hundred, just take

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Speaker 7: one small step, and then from there you can see

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Speaker 7: how everybody taking these seemingly small and independent steps actually together.

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Speaker 7: That's what really drives big change. And that's at the

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Speaker 7: heart of being a grassroots organization, which as you know, AFP.

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Speaker 1: Is and people saying what is one small step? I

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Speaker 1: can give them a hundred of them. One of them

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Speaker 1: is if you can join Americans for Prosperity local chapter

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Speaker 1: and they'll put you to work. If you don't know

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Speaker 1: what to do, just find AFP and Americans for Prosperity

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Speaker 1: and they'll put you to work.

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Speaker 2: But you can go to a school.

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Speaker 1: Board meeting, you can go to a city council meeting,

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Speaker 1: you can ask to be on a town council board.

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Speaker 1: They're always vacancies pretty much in every city Emily. I've

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Speaker 1: discovered that over the years. If you want to be

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Speaker 1: involved in local government, it's very easy to get involved.

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Speaker 1: But the key thing I took away it isn't about

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Speaker 1: making this audience louder. It's amount making it smarter and

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Speaker 1: better prepared to engage in preserving, protecting, and expanding freedom,

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Speaker 1: not louder, better.

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Speaker 7: Right, right, and understanding our country more deeply too, the history.

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Speaker 7: You know, people are feeling more and more disconnected from

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Speaker 7: our history, and so the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary

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Speaker 7: of our country's founding gives us an opportunity to revisit

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Speaker 7: the founding ideals that our founding fathers put in place,

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Speaker 7: not as sort of high falutin as my mom would say,

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Speaker 7: or as these lofty principles or distant sort of concepts.

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Speaker 7: They were giving these these these principles as things that

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Speaker 7: we had to protect in order to be successful in

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Speaker 7: this American experiment in the first place. And so generation

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Speaker 7: after generation has had to renew our commitment to protecting

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Speaker 7: these principles. And now that's that charge falls to us.

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Speaker 1: Now, it's not nostalgia. That's what I want people. Now,

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Speaker 1: it's fine, the celebration is fine, but it's not nostalgia.

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Speaker 1: It's not about the good old day. It's about creating

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Speaker 1: the next two hundred and fifty years. I kind of

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Speaker 1: got excited about this last night because is anyone else

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Speaker 1: doing this? I know LIBRA is involved with you on this.

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Speaker 1: There's a veterans organization. Is it spreading well?

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Speaker 2: It is.

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Speaker 7: People are getting really excited about it. So if anybody

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Speaker 7: wants to get involved, and you know, if you are

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Speaker 7: involved with Concerned Veterans for America, you're already in this.

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Speaker 7: If you're involved with the Libre Institute or the Libre

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Speaker 7: Initiative in Hispanic and Latino communities across the country, you

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Speaker 7: already have a leg up on getting involved in this.

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Speaker 7: And then obviously Americans for prosperity is driving on this

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Speaker 7: as well. But this is an invitation to anybody and

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Speaker 7: everybody who wants to learn more about these principles, really

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Speaker 7: make them tangible in their lives, how how they can

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Speaker 7: defend them. Be inspired by the stories of other people

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Speaker 7: who have taken one small step and then and then

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Speaker 7: ultimately find their first step too. You mentioned a ton

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Speaker 7: of great ones, but you know, sometimes it's just coming

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Speaker 7: into a field office and you don't even have to

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Speaker 7: talk to anybody. You can write postcards to encourage people

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Speaker 7: to go vote and take civic action. You can take

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Speaker 7: one small step at a time until you get to

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Speaker 7: a place where you see the impact of the work

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Speaker 7: that you're doing, and then from there it's just a

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Speaker 7: snowball effect because once you know that you can have

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Speaker 7: an impact on the future of our country, you never

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Speaker 7: want to stop now.

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Speaker 1: I was talking to my guest interview with Shawn Alexander,

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Speaker 1: NFL MVP, big time Super Bowl star. You know everybody

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Speaker 1: knows Shawn Alexander, they don't know that.

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Speaker 2: He is more popular.

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Speaker 1: Afterwards, Yeah, it's fourteen children. I loved your comment. You

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Speaker 1: had two and you're exhausted. But Sean and his wife

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Speaker 1: have a lot of optimism. But he told the story

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Speaker 1: he read for a school body president six times and

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Speaker 1: he had a teacher encourage him in junior high. You know,

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Speaker 1: you got to come back from injuries. Everyone's got a backstory.

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Speaker 1: Your one small step might be encouraging someone else who's

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Speaker 1: younger to actually do a campaign. It's the most effective

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Speaker 1: way to get someone involved in politics for them to

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Speaker 1: get a dictated age eighteen.

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Speaker 2: And that's my experience.

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Speaker 1: I love people to be an AFP volunteer and I

658
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Speaker 1: don't think there's any age limit on being an AFP volunteer.

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Speaker 2: Is there? Oh?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely not.

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Speaker 7: If you show up to a field office, you're going

662
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Speaker 7: to see kids coming over from their classes at the

663
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Speaker 7: end of a high school day and making a phone

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Speaker 7: calls or gearing up to go out door knocking. And

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Speaker 7: you're going to see folks who are well into their

666
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Speaker 7: eighties who are making phone calls or writing those postcards

667
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Speaker 7: that I mentioned, or just there and helping to organize

668
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Speaker 7: the troops. It's a multi generational effort and I think

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Speaker 7: that's what makes it special.

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Speaker 1: And that's why again, go to a two five ozho

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Speaker 1: toolkit dot com, a two fifty toolkit dot com and

672
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Speaker 1: you can get involved. What we also did last night

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Speaker 1: was talk about founding principles, which is I'm a sucker

674
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Speaker 1: for that. I teach conlaw, so I do it every year,

675
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Speaker 1: and I'm not teaching this semester, so I'm getting I've

676
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Speaker 1: got a little addiction that needs to be fed here.

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Speaker 1: But you guys were talking about the basics last night,

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Speaker 1: the very bedrock principles behind the declaration. You want to

679
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Speaker 1: run through them?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, we were talking, Well, we talked a lot about

681
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Speaker 7: the pursuit of happiness, and because that was the theme.

682
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Speaker 7: Every month we have a different theme, and so pursuit

683
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Speaker 7: of happiness was last night's theme. But I think at

684
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Speaker 7: a high level, what we're talking about here are the basics,

685
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Speaker 7: you know, freedom, opportunity, dignity, rule of law, limited government,

686
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Speaker 7: and civic duty. And honestly, one of the things that's

687
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Speaker 7: really stuck with me in some of the conversations that

688
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Speaker 7: I've been having with folks is that if you think

689
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Speaker 7: about liberty, liberty doesn't work without responsibility and civic duty

690
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Speaker 7: is it is the bedrock that this American experiment lives

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Speaker 7: or dies on. And so that's a big part of

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Speaker 7: why one small step is action oriented because it's not

693
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Speaker 7: just talking about these principles. It's not just the rhetoric.

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Speaker 7: It's also about making sure that people can take action

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Speaker 7: on them and defund them.

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Speaker 1: Now, coming up after you in the next segment is Smug.

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Speaker 1: He's on once a month comforiy We Smug coming up,

698
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 1: and we were talking trash about Smug. I was talking trash.

699
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Speaker 1: You were being nice about him, but I was talking trash.

700
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Speaker 1: He's very upset about the Olympic athletes who are trash

701
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Speaker 1: in the country. And we'll talk about that after we

702
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Speaker 1: talk about your Philadelphia event. But tell people about these

703
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Speaker 1: big events and where they find out about him, because

704
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Speaker 1: there was a lot of fun last night, and that

705
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia event I think sold out in like a minute.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't even to sail.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 7: That's because the Ruthless guys were going to be there,

709
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Speaker 7: and they always sell out an event, that's for sure.

710
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Speaker 7: But look, you go to a two toolkit dot com,

711
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 7: you're going to get connected to all of these things.

712
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Speaker 7: We've got marquee events like the one that we did

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Speaker 7: in Philadelphia in January, like the one that we're about

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Speaker 7: to do in Springfield, Illinois. This month. We're having those

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Speaker 7: monthly all across the country, literally coast to coast, and

716
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Speaker 7: so there's certainly going to be one that is near you.

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Speaker 7: But we're also doing a ton of events that are

718
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Speaker 7: celebrating and talking about these principles in our field offices

719
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Speaker 7: on a daily basis. So if you go to a

720
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Speaker 7: two fifty toolkit dot com, you can get connected to

721
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Speaker 7: all of that information and show up and figure out

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Speaker 7: see see what your one small step can be.

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Speaker 1: This is about purpose. The future is participatory. It's a

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Speaker 1: birthday with purpose. To get involved in the birthday. Just

725
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Speaker 1: don't go to the fireworks show though they're great, big crop,

726
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:51,320
Speaker 1: they're great, but I want people to get involved. A

727
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Speaker 1: two fifty toolkit dot com. Emily side Out, thank you,

728
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Speaker 1: even though you stole the show last night. Thank you anyway,

729
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Speaker 1: coming up, Smug, Thank you in America. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: America as promised. Comfortably Smug joins me, he of the

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Speaker 1: Ruthless podcast, Smug.

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Speaker 2: I got to tell you last night.

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Speaker 1: We were talking about you behind your back at the

734
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Speaker 1: Americans for Prosperity Then and Together event in DC, and

735
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Speaker 1: Emily Sidell was telling me that you and the fellows

736
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Speaker 1: put on a show in Philadelphia.

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Speaker 2: It was sold out. It was wild, it was great fun.

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Speaker 1: And I said, well, it's not fair because his demo

739
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Speaker 1: runs from eighteen to brit Hume. Because Britt and I

740
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: were talking about you guys last week and he said

741
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Speaker 1: he listens to every podcast. He said, you're a rollicking show.

742
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Speaker 1: It's not really fair. My demo is basically that the

743
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Speaker 1: top of the bell curve is fifty five, and so

744
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Speaker 1: your demo begins at eighteen. It's not really fair.

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Speaker 8: Well, we would our show wouldn't even exist if you

746
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Speaker 8: hadn't led the way for all of us on the

747
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Speaker 8: conservative side. Thanks so much for having me on here.

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Speaker 2: It's good to have you. But tell us about the

749
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Speaker 2: event because it was wild to listen to. But Emily

750
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Speaker 2: said in person it was even more fun.

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Speaker 8: I mean, it was tremendous. The crowd was enormous, The

752
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 8: venue was terrific, and we had Jaws. We had Dwarski

753
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Speaker 8: there with us, which sound safety I don't think you

754
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Speaker 8: could find. Yeah, you can find a bigger star. And

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Speaker 8: it was tremendous. It was a celebration of America, for

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Speaker 8: America to fifty. It was It was great crowd, I

757
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Speaker 8: think a lot of folks got inspired to take one

758
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Speaker 8: small step and get involved. The best way to celebrate

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Speaker 8: America's two and fiftieth is to help ensure we have

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Speaker 8: another two and fifty years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I loved hearing Jaws and Ron Juwarski played for

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Speaker 1: the Penguins when I was a kid, and so hearing

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Speaker 1: him on the program was great fun. But Smug, I

764
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Speaker 1: listened to your show yesterday about the Olympics. I'm torn

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Speaker 1: between being one hundred percent with you in a little

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Speaker 1: bit with John. First of all, it's not all easy

767
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Speaker 1: on all Olympians. We saw Skier go down the downhill yesterday.

768
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Speaker 1: Roll that tape for Smug to see going down the

769
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Speaker 1: downhill and he takes a flag right here, coming up

770
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Speaker 1: in the groin and right here, boom and he died.

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Speaker 1: So so it's not easy being an Olympian. You should

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Speaker 1: hear the audio, Smug. Nevertheless, when I heard those dufust

773
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Speaker 1: kids and they're just ignorant, they're ignorant, I had steam

774
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Speaker 1: coming on my ears because you ought to take a

775
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Speaker 1: Civics class before you put the flag on your chest

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Speaker 1: and represent the United States. So I'm not sure I

777
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Speaker 1: want to ban them all, but you're rooting against the

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Speaker 1: whole team.

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Speaker 2: Did I get you right? On ruthless one.

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Speaker 8: I'm a firm believer in using collective punishment as a

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Speaker 8: way to get the group to police itself for so long,

782
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Speaker 8: you know, especially for folks on the left who want attention,

783
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Speaker 8: they see this kind of like anti America advocacy as

784
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Speaker 8: a cheek coade to get attention, because that's really what

785
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Speaker 8: they're after. They're trying to either signal to people, look

786
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Speaker 8: at me, I'm so nice, I'm as virtuous as the

787
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Speaker 8: rest of you, you know, left wing lunatics, or they're

788
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Speaker 8: just trying to get a microphone their face and getting

789
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Speaker 8: rewarded by journalists who say, well, you said you hated America,

790
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Speaker 8: tell me more. But it completely ignores the honor that

791
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Speaker 8: they have representing the United States, of having the American

792
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Speaker 8: flag on your chest, competing for the United States of America,

793
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Speaker 8: competing for the country which allowed you to pursue your dreams.

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Speaker 8: Because the fact of the matter is the reason America

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Speaker 8: has been so successful in the Olympics, in sports, and

796
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Speaker 8: all avenues of life globally is because of the opportunity

797
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Speaker 8: that it provides. It's why everyone in the world wishes

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Speaker 8: they could be in America. And for these people who

799
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Speaker 8: were so fortunate to grow up in America and be

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Speaker 8: allowed all the benefits as a competitor of being in

801
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Speaker 8: America to then attack America. It makes no sense to me, disrespectful,

802
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Speaker 8: and I think any pressure that we can put on

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Speaker 8: the entire team to self police and to make it

804
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Speaker 8: known that listen, you are being given a distinct honor

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Speaker 8: and privilege of being able to be on the world

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Speaker 8: stage representing America, and you should take that seriously and

807
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:19,760
Speaker 8: you should be grateful for that because so many people

808
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Speaker 8: in this country and around the world wishes they could

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Speaker 8: have an opportunity like these individuals were given.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I was hoping and I'm still hoping, And I have

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Speaker 1: seen some of the athletes with flags. Some of them

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Speaker 1: are great patriots, some of them very touching. To see

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Speaker 1: the kid who lost his parents in the airplane crash

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Speaker 1: in DC last year. There are a lot of touching stories.

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Speaker 1: And these morons, I mean, they were really dumb smuck.

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Speaker 1: Did you know it was a boy and a girl.

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Speaker 1: They couldn't put a coherent sentence together if you had

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Speaker 1: a ski pole.

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Speaker 2: At their groin. They could not do it.

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Speaker 1: They were not ready to They made no sense, they

822
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Speaker 1: were up talking and half sentence. So I really do

823
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Speaker 1: think maybe young athletes don't get the school enough.

824
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Speaker 2: Did you think any of them were educated?

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Speaker 8: Well, I think there's certainly, you know, we saw even

826
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Speaker 8: at the Super Bowl where there's this kind of like

827
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Speaker 8: a pressure of like, oh, don't you know it's cool

828
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Speaker 8: to kind of like hate America and make a statement

829
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Speaker 8: about it when we just had an election and clearly

830
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Speaker 8: the vast majority of the US population loves and supports

831
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Speaker 8: this country. We've already had that argument completed. But the

832
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Speaker 8: fact of the matter is is that you have these

833
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Speaker 8: idiots chirp up and say, oh, you know, it's kind

834
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Speaker 8: of hard to like America these days, when at the

835
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Speaker 8: same time that's the country that has given them the

836
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Speaker 8: opportunity to compete. But further, really interesting thing to me

837
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Speaker 8: is that whenever you get on the world stage, there's

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Speaker 8: these journalists who are very excited to try to find

839
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Speaker 8: an American willing to say, oh, wow, America's bad. It's

840
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Speaker 8: strange how they'd never ask any of the Chinese athletes

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Speaker 8: how they feel about the Weager concentration camps. If they're

842
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Speaker 8: familiar with what happened in Tianaman Square. It's like only

843
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Speaker 8: American athletes are there to humor.

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Speaker 1: It would be attack we had a Chinese athlete. How

845
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Speaker 1: do you feel about Jimmy Lai's conviction on Sunday night?

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Speaker 1: You're free to come and compete, but it provided you

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Speaker 1: don't answer my question, you won't be removed, but if

848
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Speaker 1: you do, will never see you again.

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Speaker 2: That do you think an American thing? Dummies know anything

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Speaker 2: about that, and.

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Speaker 8: They're so ill informed. And that's the thing is, you

852
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Speaker 8: are being given this platform, you're to be allowed to

853
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Speaker 8: speak to the public, and to use that platform to

854
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Speaker 8: bash the country that allowed you to have this opportunity

855
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Speaker 8: in the first place makes no sense. They should be

856
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Speaker 8: so grateful for that, for that opportunity. I mean, we've

857
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Speaker 8: seen such a rich history of American olympians who've achieved

858
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Speaker 8: such great things, and it really feels like over the

859
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Speaker 8: past ten to fifteen years, this attempt to go full

860
00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:01,359
Speaker 8: in on anti America sentiment domestically is where you see

861
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:03,840
Speaker 8: it the worst. But then to be overseas, where you know,

862
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 8: our differences when it comes to politics should end when

863
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:09,480
Speaker 8: you get to the border, when you're outside of the United States.

864
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Speaker 8: We're all representing America together. For them to choose that

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Speaker 8: as the venue to air their attacks on America is unforgivable.

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Speaker 2: No, I want to.

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Speaker 1: Switch back to a two fifty tool kit dot com

868
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Speaker 1: because Emily with just don I want to know you know,

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Speaker 1: I understood you guys rolled up in limos and that

870
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Speaker 1: you had escorts in and out. Am I As she

871
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Speaker 1: was telling me that you just rolled up in big

872
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Speaker 1: black SUVs and there was security everywhere, you know. I

873
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:36,720
Speaker 1: got there in an uber and I had to trudge

874
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 1: through the snow. I'm just thinking that maybe you guys

875
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 1: are getting big, really big. I'm afraid the band's going

876
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:44,720
Speaker 1: to break up. It's like the Beatles. I'm afraid something's

877
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:48,000
Speaker 1: going to happen. Is the creative still working? Is it

878
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:48,759
Speaker 1: still fin.

879
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 8: One hundred percent? This team will never break up. And

880
00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:53,800
Speaker 8: I wish we could get like a limo or something

881
00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:58,160
Speaker 8: that The day we had our event in Philadelphia was

882
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 8: like the same week as the snow oat storms hit,

883
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:04,360
Speaker 8: so our flight and then our train was canceled, so

884
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:05,920
Speaker 8: we had to just hop into a car and go

885
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:10,080
Speaker 8: from DC to Philly. And thank goodness, we're there. We

886
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:11,960
Speaker 8: were able to get there in time and just had

887
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:12,839
Speaker 8: a wonderful time.

888
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:15,400
Speaker 1: Is that what Emily tells me, You're like the Beatles

889
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:18,440
Speaker 1: on the Ed Sullivan Show that they had teenage girls

890
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 1: out there getting it, not Ashbrook, I can mean they

891
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 1: feel like a star.

892
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:24,239
Speaker 8: To made us feel like a star.

893
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 3: That crowd was amazing.

894
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:27,800
Speaker 2: Smug always good to see you.

895
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,880
Speaker 1: Go and listen to Ruthless podcast where Smug unloads on

896
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 1: the Olympians. Rightly so, but all of them can be

897
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 1: found Roothless podcasts on X Smug can be found that

898
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 1: comfort will be Smug Come right back for the Hammer.

899
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:45,280
Speaker 1: Mt Hammer is next on the Neo Hewitt Show, Welcome

900
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:46,120
Speaker 1: Back to Me, My Time?

901
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 2: Who Hewitt?

902
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:50,719
Speaker 1: Mary Katherine Ham is the host of the Getting Hammered podcast,

903
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 1: which she co hosts with Vic Mattis.

904
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 2: She joined me once a week.

905
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:56,120
Speaker 1: Mary Catherine, I'm going to ask you to stay a

906
00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:57,880
Speaker 1: little bit longer because I'm going to begin by just

907
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 1: bagging on Guy Benson. I hate working with Guy Benson.

908
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:02,839
Speaker 1: We did it again last night.

909
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:05,359
Speaker 2: He let off. He's the laid off hitter.

910
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:08,759
Speaker 1: He just kills it, got the crowd laughing, and you

911
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:11,760
Speaker 1: know then I'm the clean up hitter. You know, people

912
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 1: in DC lead these events, so they're about half empty

913
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 1: at the end, and they're all talking about guy.

914
00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:17,839
Speaker 2: But don't you hate working with him?

915
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 9: Well, I'm usually on stage with him, so I'm just

916
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:23,280
Speaker 9: mooching off of that energy.

917
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:23,799
Speaker 2: You see.

918
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:26,440
Speaker 9: That's how you got to play it. And also you

919
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 9: guys are both great and you got to talk to

920
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 9: an NFL legend. I mean, incredible stuff last night.

921
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 3: I was there by the way.

922
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:32,520
Speaker 9: I didn't catch it.

923
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:35,680
Speaker 2: Oh I didn't see you, But wasn't guy amazing.

924
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 1: I was out there on the sidelines watching him, and

925
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:40,040
Speaker 1: he brings this amazing energy.

926
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 2: I wonder. I'm seventy years old, so I don't have

927
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:44,800
Speaker 2: that kind of energy. But did I ever have that

928
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:45,600
Speaker 2: kind of energy?

929
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:48,880
Speaker 3: He just sort of like, Pops, Yes, yes, you do,

930
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:49,840
Speaker 3: you have it.

931
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:51,399
Speaker 6: Now you did a great job.

932
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:52,879
Speaker 2: Well it was great fun.

933
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:54,960
Speaker 1: Mary Catherine, I want to tetch you about the big

934
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 1: meeting at the White House today. I think there are

935
00:47:57,200 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 1: two doors in front of President Trump. I've said this

936
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: many times today. One is Mark Truman Reagan. One is

937
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:06,920
Speaker 1: Mark Carter Obama Biden. With regards to Iran, which one

938
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 1: do you think he's going to walk through.

939
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:15,160
Speaker 9: Oh, my guess would be the bellicost one, because I

940
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:19,879
Speaker 9: think he cares about his threat credibility and I think

941
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 9: he pictures it differently than a Reagan right who would

942
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:27,120
Speaker 9: have a more global security concern. But I think Trump's

943
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:32,800
Speaker 9: probably top concern is that his threat credibility be maintained.

944
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 9: And I think that is what is at risk here

945
00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:38,480
Speaker 9: when we're talking about Iran, because he was pretty explicit

946
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:41,640
Speaker 9: and if he does the redline thing like Obama, that

947
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 9: doesn't end well.

948
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 1: Now. I had the Iranian Crown Prince on Paolavi on Monday.

949
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:52,960
Speaker 1: He said President Trump promised. That was kind of ratcheting

950
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:55,719
Speaker 1: up the rhetoric for the Crown Prince to do. I

951
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:59,959
Speaker 1: think they're getting desperate. Do you think when he said,

952
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 1: I think the President Trump when he said President Trump promised,

953
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 1: what do you think he's trying to convey to the

954
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:06,160
Speaker 1: White House.

955
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:11,640
Speaker 9: I mean, look, I think it's very clear that well,

956
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:14,440
Speaker 9: they should be in a place of desperation. I mean,

957
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 9: when tens of thousands of people are being murdered, I mean,

958
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 9: this is you have to appeal in the best way

959
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:22,560
Speaker 9: that you can appeal. And so I think he is

960
00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:26,680
Speaker 9: saying that something can work here, but it needs support.

961
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:29,640
Speaker 9: I know it's very tricky because so many there isn't

962
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:33,000
Speaker 9: exactly like a shadow government for Iran. Right, you don't

963
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:35,520
Speaker 9: know where this goes next. But I do think that

964
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:39,239
Speaker 9: the President several times said if they do what they

965
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:41,080
Speaker 9: have done, which has murdered all these people, that he

966
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 9: would that help would be on the way, that he would.

967
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 2: That's the line.

968
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 1: I wasn't going to prompt you, but that's the line.

969
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:51,200
Speaker 1: Help is on the way. It's very hard to walk

970
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 1: away from help is on the way. If help doesn't

971
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:56,400
Speaker 1: show up in a very visible way, it's like tattooed

972
00:49:56,480 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 1: on Trump and he'll never get away from it. If

973
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:02,960
Speaker 1: he takes a deal, or if he doesn't do anything

974
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:05,680
Speaker 1: or says we did a cyber attack, it will haunt

975
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 1: his presidency.

976
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:08,120
Speaker 2: It's over effectively, I think.

977
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 9: I think it will haunt him. I'm well, I'm not

978
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:14,800
Speaker 9: sure if it will haunt him personally. He has a

979
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:17,320
Speaker 9: way of sort of spinning onto the next thing. But

980
00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:19,719
Speaker 9: I think it matters a great deal. And like I said,

981
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:23,400
Speaker 9: I think he's interested in preserving his own credibility when

982
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:26,439
Speaker 9: it comes to being a guy who will take action

983
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:30,400
Speaker 9: when he says he's going to and he was pretty

984
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 9: clear about that. And also, what is the point of

985
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:35,959
Speaker 9: a deal, Like we've done the deal before, the deal

986
00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:38,319
Speaker 9: doesn't help the deal.

987
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:39,040
Speaker 2: I don't worry.

988
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:41,600
Speaker 1: I don't worry about the negotia. I told someone earlier today,

989
00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:44,960
Speaker 1: that's all chaff. I don't care what happens between now

990
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:47,920
Speaker 1: and the strikes because it's all misdirection from the master

991
00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:50,280
Speaker 1: of that. But I do matter about the end result.

992
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 1: And Mark Montgomery, the admirals said they got about three

993
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:55,399
Speaker 1: months on station with the Lincoln before they wear down

994
00:50:55,440 --> 00:50:57,319
Speaker 1: and don't lose their sharpness and have to come home

995
00:50:57,360 --> 00:50:59,200
Speaker 1: because it gets It's too long to be an on

996
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:02,919
Speaker 1: station and in a strike pose. But I do think

997
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:07,920
Speaker 1: when someone relies on you, have you ever actually disappointed

998
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 1: your kid? Have they ever had a valid reason for

999
00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 1: saying you said Disneyland and we didn't go to Disneyland

1000
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:13,360
Speaker 1: kind of stuff.

1001
00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:15,680
Speaker 2: It's very damning sometimes it happens.

1002
00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:20,440
Speaker 9: Yes, you know, I have this problem because I'm not

1003
00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:22,799
Speaker 9: great at schedules. You might have noticed, Hugh having worked

1004
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:24,399
Speaker 9: with me over the years, and so I will drop

1005
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:25,840
Speaker 9: a ball every now and then, and I have to

1006
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:28,920
Speaker 9: just I just have to man up and apologize to

1007
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:31,000
Speaker 9: my children when that happens. But you know, the stakes

1008
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:33,560
Speaker 9: are not quite as high when it's just an extracurricular activity.

1009
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,720
Speaker 1: Well, when I say haunt, I mean like Obama haunted

1010
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:39,960
Speaker 1: by the red line. That's why we will Trump be

1011
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:42,640
Speaker 1: as haunted as Obama is by the red line if

1012
00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:44,520
Speaker 1: he doesn't do what we expect him to do.

1013
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 9: I think it has the potential for that. Our news

1014
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:52,400
Speaker 9: cycle moves so quickly now that I think the potential

1015
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:54,759
Speaker 9: for haunting is less than it used to be. But

1016
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 9: I think it will matter, and it will matter when

1017
00:51:57,000 --> 00:51:59,360
Speaker 9: the next bad guy wants to pull something, because he

1018
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:01,239
Speaker 9: will say, well, he said he was going to do it,

1019
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:04,200
Speaker 9: and he didn't. That's the part that sticks around.

1020
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:06,320
Speaker 1: That was probably going to be the first chapter of

1021
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:08,959
Speaker 1: every book written about Trump for the next twenty five years.

1022
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 1: What he does in the next three months, don't go

1023
00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 1: anywhere America. Mary Catherine's coming back because I have to

1024
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: complain to someone about how cold it is here. Stay tuned.

1025
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 1: I'm back with Mary Catherine. Hand but Catherine all weekend.

1026
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:21,840
Speaker 1: All week I've been sounding like Beaker. You remember Beaker.

1027
00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:27,400
Speaker 1: That's what I've been sounding like because it is so

1028
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:30,960
Speaker 1: cold now it's turned today, it started to turn like

1029
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:33,960
Speaker 1: I know, stop with the beaker. I want you to

1030
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:38,279
Speaker 1: confirm for the audience not in the Beltway, that this is,

1031
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:41,360
Speaker 1: in fact colder than it's ever been in Virginia.

1032
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:45,839
Speaker 9: I think that is true, especially for such a sin

1033
00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:49,879
Speaker 9: sustained time. Certainly since I've been here. There was one

1034
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:52,960
Speaker 9: summer when my oldest was one, or one winter when

1035
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:55,000
Speaker 9: my oldest was one that was very rough, but I

1036
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:57,000
Speaker 9: don't think it was for this long. And I know

1037
00:52:57,080 --> 00:52:59,040
Speaker 9: I'm a Southerner, so I'm a whimp. But like, listen

1038
00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 9: to Hugh, because Hugh, you spend time in Ohio.

1039
00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:02,040
Speaker 3: He knows what cold is.

1040
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:04,520
Speaker 9: It is it's legit cold. And now I feel like

1041
00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:07,520
Speaker 9: twenty nine degrees is a vacation, which is so sad.

1042
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:10,920
Speaker 1: Become one of you, Yeah it's Ohio weather, or now

1043
00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:13,719
Speaker 1: this is spring in Ohio. But I can go out

1044
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:17,279
Speaker 1: tonight and not free. But on Tuesday night I walked

1045
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:19,000
Speaker 1: out the door with a friend to go On Monday night,

1046
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:22,320
Speaker 1: I walked out the friend to go to dinner in Virginia,

1047
00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:24,759
Speaker 1: and it was like getting slapped in the face. And

1048
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:27,720
Speaker 1: then I began to think about people with kids aka

1049
00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:32,799
Speaker 1: the Ham family, because they can't go out right, are

1050
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:35,880
Speaker 1: you just are they tearing sockets off the wall and

1051
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:37,920
Speaker 1: throwing knives at the at targets?

1052
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:39,279
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1053
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:41,560
Speaker 9: Okay, so we do take them out, but we have

1054
00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:45,920
Speaker 9: to maintain the snow gear in a rational way somewhere

1055
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:47,200
Speaker 9: in the house, which is very hard. And then you

1056
00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:49,239
Speaker 9: have to actually bundle them up, which is hard. You

1057
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:51,279
Speaker 9: know what the real problem is is the dog. Because

1058
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:52,320
Speaker 9: he's a Belgian Melanoi.

1059
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:53,160
Speaker 3: He is a working dog.

1060
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:55,960
Speaker 9: He needs lots of exercise, but we cannot take him

1061
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:58,640
Speaker 9: out in the snow creek because he can't sprint, and

1062
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:01,000
Speaker 9: that he's gonna hurt himself. That poor guy has been

1063
00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:05,480
Speaker 9: losing his mind. The toddlers thus far have been relatively sane.

1064
00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:08,000
Speaker 9: They're also big kids now they're not really toddlers.

1065
00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:10,400
Speaker 2: But you know what I'm saying, last question on this

1066
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:11,560
Speaker 2: topic and then I'll let it go.

1067
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:14,080
Speaker 1: I just wanted I wanted proof of life or proof

1068
00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:16,600
Speaker 1: of cold from Mary Catherineham. I'm not making this up.

1069
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 1: Is that one of my sons had pipes burst in

1070
00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:23,160
Speaker 1: the house, so they'll be moving into my house. I

1071
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:25,000
Speaker 1: won't be coming back. When I thought I was coming

1072
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:27,799
Speaker 1: back because they've got to take care. Did you lose

1073
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:30,640
Speaker 1: any pipes? Did you have any friends who lost any pipes?

1074
00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:32,960
Speaker 1: Because I don't think Virginia houses are built for this stuff.

1075
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:36,040
Speaker 9: We're not, yes, and we're also not prepared to do

1076
00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:38,520
Speaker 9: all the hacks like you have to google everything, like

1077
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 9: how do you take care of your house in the cold.

1078
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:42,080
Speaker 3: But we have come out thus far.

1079
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:45,759
Speaker 9: Okay, everything is safe, and I'm excited for you to

1080
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:48,560
Speaker 9: get to I guess hang out with your family in

1081
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:49,960
Speaker 9: a very close manner in the near show.

1082
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:52,000
Speaker 1: Oh no, we're not coming. Oh gosh, I would never

1083
00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:54,839
Speaker 1: do that. Grandkids are fine for two days. I don't

1084
00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:56,520
Speaker 1: know if your parents feel the same way as I do,

1085
00:54:56,640 --> 00:54:59,080
Speaker 1: but they're wonderful for two days. They're okay for two

1086
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:01,920
Speaker 1: days and you're thinking your back begins to hurt. Are

1087
00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:02,879
Speaker 1: your mom and dad that way?

1088
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:03,239
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1089
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it can take a toll.

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Speaker 9: They're very they're very rambunctious, and they're very large.

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Speaker 3: At this point.

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Speaker 2: So that's it.

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Speaker 1: So that's that's what my rule is. Two days great,

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Speaker 1: two days okay, and then two days I can't move.

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Speaker 1: Mary Catherine am thank you getting hammered coming out tomorrow

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Speaker 2: Thank you Mary, Catherine be Well, thank you, Hio, you Hewett.

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Speaker 1: You've heard me talk a lot about Consumer Cellular, how

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Speaker 1: That's because Consumer Cellular uses the same towers as the

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Speaker 1: data for sixty dollars a month. That's an addition to

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Speaker 1: the second month totally free using promo code Q and

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Speaker 1: are you tired of your wireless company telling you have

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Speaker 1: to talk to an AI robot, download an app, or

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Speaker 1: Horizon pay ten dollars to talk to someone when paying

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Speaker 1: your bill?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? No thanks.

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Speaker 1: Consumer Cellular ranks number one for network coverage and customer

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Speaker 1: satisfaction according to ACSI.

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Speaker 2: Whether you're switching.

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Speaker 1: Online or over the phone, you'll be working with an

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Speaker 1: actual human being based right here in the US. So

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Speaker 1: switch and get your second month free plus two unlimited

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Speaker 1: lines of sixty dollars.

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Speaker 2: If you're over fifty, go to consumer silar dot com slash.

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Speaker 1: Hu promo Hugh, or call one hundred eight, or call

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Speaker 1: one eight hundred four one one forty four fifty four,

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Speaker 1: one eight hundred four one one forty four to fifty four.

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Speaker 1: That's one eight hundred four one one forty four to

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Speaker 1: fifty four. And don't forget my code is Hugh well Man.

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Speaker 3: Got his hostess Bowery, he got his bones.

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Speaker 1: What do you say bogging back in America? That music

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Speaker 1: mean Jim Garretty is in the house. Follow him on exit.

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Speaker 1: Jim Garretty read him in the Washington Post, get his

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Speaker 1: morning jolt from National Review, and be very leary about

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Speaker 1: his boys.

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Speaker 2: Jim.

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Speaker 1: I was out trundling in California last week up a

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Speaker 1: pretty steep hill, and then to my surprise, I ran

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Speaker 1: into this little guy, a robot in the middle of nowhere.

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Speaker 1: Just absolutely it's it's a science experiment.

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Speaker 8: Got mad.

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Speaker 1: It's not a delivery robot. I don't know what he

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Speaker 1: was doing up there. I mean, it's nowhere, there's nothing there.

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Speaker 1: It can't be a delivery robot. Any garrity boy associated

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Speaker 1: with this robot, I thought maybe you were spying on me.

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Speaker 10: No, this does not look like one that is involved

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Speaker 10: in the robotics competition that my younger son is involved in.

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Speaker 10: It would be involved in an intake to scoop up

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Speaker 10: volleyball type size yellow balls and some sort of shooter

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Speaker 10: to shoot it up into a basket. That is part

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Speaker 10: of the the competition for this year, which will be this.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't have arms, it didn't, it can't shoot, so that's

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Speaker 2: not you.

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Speaker 10: However, it's probably a scout Hue, a scout by Skynet,

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Speaker 10: and it is there's going to be a terrible surprising.

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Speaker 1: Honestly, I was a little bit worried about letting turning

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Speaker 1: my back to it when I went by it. I'm

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Speaker 1: faster than it though, Jim Now very serious stuff. Bb

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Speaker 1: net Andaos spent a lot of time at the White

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Speaker 1: House today. There are two doors in front of Donald Trump,

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Speaker 1: one Mark Truman Reagan, one Mark Carter Obama Biden. Which

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Speaker 1: one do you think he's going to walk through? Visa

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Speaker 1: the Iran oh I really wanted to be the first one.

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Speaker 10: You had said that March fifteenth was the in your

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Speaker 10: mind kind of the internal deadline. I would note this

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Speaker 10: morning marks thirty days since Trump jumped on truth social

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Speaker 10: and said to the Iranian protesters.

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Speaker 2: Keep it up.

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Speaker 10: Help is on the way, Miga make Iran great again,

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Speaker 10: is what I assume that stood for. Look, I think

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Speaker 10: you know, I would be perfectly happy to see the

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Speaker 10: US government take some action that would end up resulting

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Speaker 10: in the collapse of the regime.

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Speaker 2: A month ago, it really looked like this regime was in.

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Speaker 10: Really rough shape and there might be a popular uprising

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Speaker 10: that would topple it from power. I feel like last

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Speaker 10: thirty days have not gone well.

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Speaker 3: For the resistance.

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Speaker 10: It's been a hell of a lot of people killed.

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Speaker 10: Different estimates will give you a number.

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Speaker 2: We're talking.

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Speaker 10: We're talking of five figures sum right, could be.

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Speaker 2: In the big round.

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Speaker 1: Prince of Iran on Monday, and he said the minimum

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Speaker 1: number now that they confirm thirty six thousand, five hundred,

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Speaker 1: but he fears it may go over forty thousand and

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Speaker 1: they continue to kill.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, this is I don't know if the opportunity to

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Speaker 10: topple the regime has gotten better in the last month.

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Speaker 10: I fear that there's been enough of a crackdown now.

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Speaker 10: I point out that what spurred these uprising the economic problems,

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Speaker 10: the rapid devaluing of the Iranian currency. That is probably

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Speaker 10: that problem hasn't been solved. So in some ways, the

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Speaker 10: Iranian regime, even if it manages to tamp down all

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Speaker 10: these protests, is probably back to square one. It's still

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Speaker 10: going to have those problems. But as I said, look,

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Speaker 10: if it's saying, oh, we needed time to move an

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Speaker 10: aircraft carrier, now this's talk about a second aircraft carrier

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Speaker 10: group moving to the Middle East. I understand that, but

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Speaker 10: I really prefer if the President thought about these things

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Speaker 10: before he jumped on Truth's social and it was on

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Speaker 10: your program a couple days earlier where he said, if

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Speaker 10: they kept killing the protests, we were going to react

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Speaker 10: in some way.

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Speaker 1: There is as one good defensive him, Jim, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to make it, which is he was trying to stop

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Speaker 1: the massacre because he was speaking of the regime because

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Speaker 1: the internet was cut off. They weren't really responding to

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Speaker 1: Trump's call to go out in March, but he was

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Speaker 1: trying to communicate.

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Speaker 2: With the regime we were.

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Speaker 1: Admiral Mark Montgomery was on the program same day as

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Speaker 1: the Razor Pola VI. He said, look, the Lincoln needed

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Speaker 1: to get there and needed two weeks on station. They

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Speaker 1: have a three week loiter capability, three month loiter capability,

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Speaker 1: then they got to lead. So the window is open

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Speaker 1: for three months. He does not want to strike in Ramadan,

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Speaker 1: and he's not afraid of the fleet, though the bases

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Speaker 1: have a little bit of exposure. I think if the

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Speaker 1: president waits three months, he's gone through the door marked Obama,

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Speaker 1: do you agree with me?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, And I'll be honest, like I do feel like

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Speaker 10: the clock is ticking that I don't feel like things

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Speaker 10: are getting necessarily better for those but the other things.

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Speaker 10: We've sent Witkoff out to have meetings with the Iranians,

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Speaker 10: and apparently we want to reach a nuclear deal with

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Speaker 10: a regime that has broken almost every treaty it's ever signed.

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Speaker 10: To me, the problem is not necessarily just the Iranian

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Speaker 10: nuclear program or it's sponsorship sponsorship of other terror groups.

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Speaker 10: So the problem is the regime itself. There is no

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Speaker 10: way we can reach a deal with this regime that

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Speaker 10: we can trust them and that they're probably going to

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Speaker 10: hold their word to So to me, if we have

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Speaker 10: an opportunity to get, you know, knock these guys off

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Speaker 10: and have somebody anybody come along, I think I would say, hey,

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Speaker 10: go ahead and take that.

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Speaker 2: I'm with you. But I can.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we can guarantee regime change, Jim. I'm

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Speaker 1: made a very realist here. I think we can can

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Speaker 1: create a lot of dust where there was a missile program.

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Speaker 1: I think I can hit a lot of IRGC barracks.

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Speaker 1: We might be able to kill Hamani, but there are

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand irgcs with machine gun. I

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Speaker 1: don't know that they'll ever. I asked the shot, not

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Speaker 1: the shot at Crown Prince. There's can you topple the regime?

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Speaker 1: And it's up to the people of Iran. We can't

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Speaker 1: do that, but we can create the conditions. Everything by

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Speaker 1: the way, Wick Cough, Jared Kushner, everything else to me

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01:02:10,440 --> 01:02:13,680
Speaker 1: is chaff. It's all smoking mirrors. Tell me what has

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Speaker 1: happened by I said March fifteenth. Originally that admiral corrected

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Speaker 1: me back to the end of April for the window

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Speaker 1: if in the end he hammers Iran. I think it's

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Speaker 1: the most important day of his presidency or weeks or

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Speaker 1: months of his presidency. Greed disagree.

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Speaker 10: I would agree that at least it's definitely up there,

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Speaker 10: and I think that one of the best days of

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Speaker 10: Trump's presidency in his first year was the strike on

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Speaker 10: the Iranian nuclear program, resolving an issue that multiple presidents

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Speaker 10: had said they were going to take care of but

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Speaker 10: had not really taken much care of. Maybe you could

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Speaker 10: put the release of the hostages from Israel on that category,

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01:02:47,760 --> 01:02:50,480
Speaker 10: competing for the best day, but in the end, first

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Speaker 10: of all, your original deadline to you. I just like

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Speaker 10: the idea of saying, beware the eyes of March Marshall.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know it was that. I didn't know it

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Speaker 1: was Ramadan. The Admiral said, we don't do stuff in Ramaban.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why, but he said we don't.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, but just kind of this generally. I also don't

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Speaker 10: like the President of the United States going out and

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Speaker 10: saying help is on the way and then saying, oh,

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Speaker 10: I meant I was going to send whitcoll That's not

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Speaker 10: everybody knows. That was not what he would em meand

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Speaker 10: at that time. Now it doesn't necessarily have to be

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Speaker 10: air strikes. You can do cyber you can do various

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Speaker 10: communication jamming, you can do various.

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Speaker 2: Other steps that are designed Not enough for me, right,

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Speaker 2: not enough for me.

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Speaker 10: I was gonna say, like, I'd like to see a

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Speaker 10: heck of a lot more. And I think that was

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Speaker 10: like Pompeo or somebody was saying, well, surely we're doing

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Speaker 10: something behind the scenes. I'd like to believe that. And

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Speaker 10: I understand if a program is covert or classified, you kind.

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Speaker 2: Of have to keep it coding.

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Speaker 10: But the idea of trust us, like we said we

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Speaker 10: were going to do something. You can't see anything that

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01:03:44,600 --> 01:03:47,320
Speaker 10: we're doing, but trust us we're doing it. That's asking

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Speaker 10: the American public of the world to take a lot

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Speaker 10: on faith.

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Speaker 1: That does not restore American deterrence, which is in the

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Speaker 1: balance right now. I think the Trump presidency is in

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Speaker 1: the balance. I'm one of these people very clear, you

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Speaker 1: only get one or two days even in eight years

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Speaker 1: that matter. Like when Margaret Thatcher told George H. W. Bush,

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Speaker 1: don't go wobbly. You didn't have to tell the fighter

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Speaker 1: pilot that.

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Speaker 2: But President Trump can't go wobbly and he can't go

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Speaker 2: behind the scene.

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Speaker 1: And Jim Garretty, make sure your boys are keeping their

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Speaker 1: robots out of my neighborhood.

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Speaker 2: And now I'm worried about it.

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