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Speaker 2: All right, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show. It is

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Speaker 2: February eighteenth, twenty twenty six, Blake, Welcome, Howdy, Happy morning.

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Speaker 2: Last night on Capitol Hill, the senior Trump political command

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Speaker 2: briefed its core team on the mid terms. This is

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Speaker 2: reporting from Mark Calprin, a frequent guest on this show,

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Speaker 2: and I'm reading from an ex account that he has

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Speaker 2: given to awesome. Great reporting from Mark Halprin.

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Speaker 3: I like his Uh, he's got it here. It was

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Speaker 3: a meeting at the Capitol Hill Club, so that's where

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Speaker 2: The group is served chicken and steak.

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Speaker 3: Very Halpern detail there get great out food, gets the

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Speaker 2: It was a two hour program starting around five point thirty.

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Speaker 2: This is a veteran group, not panicked or shaken, he says,

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Speaker 2: They're about seventy to five to one hundred people in

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Speaker 2: Howard Lucknick RFK, Sean Duffy, along with their most senior aides.

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Speaker 2: The meeting not the president, not the president. The meeting

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Speaker 2: was hosted by Susie Wiles, who spoke briefly, the polster

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Speaker 2: and strategist Tony Fabrizio, who Charlie loved presented with about

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Speaker 2: twenty five slides on the data of what voters care about,

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Speaker 2: the demographics, the issues, the messages that resonate, and what

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Speaker 2: do not. The economy will be The economy will be

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Speaker 2: the issue in the election. He said, messages that break through.

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Speaker 2: Banning stock trading for Congress. That's a message that breaks let's.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is economic messages that get through the most,

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Speaker 3: is what he's saying here. So, yeah, banning stock trading

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Speaker 2: I think this is worth hovering though for just a second. Again,

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Speaker 2: this is Tony Fabrizio, one of the most famed, respected

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Speaker 3: Was this the guy I remember when Charlie on election night,

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Speaker 3: Charlie would be texting back and forth with like an

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Speaker 3: That's so interesting because it's not really a thing that

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Speaker 2: There is such a hunger in tackling the corruption and

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Speaker 2: It's not GDP, it's not even according to Tony Fabrizio,

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Speaker 3: We didn't read that he actually says apparently Fabrizio in

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Speaker 2: Let's read these again. Banning stock trading for Congress, get

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Speaker 2: One thousand percent. And by the way, if you think

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I want we have a minute here. They're targeting

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Speaker 2: this Pootomac story as the Pootomac, not the Potomac, because

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Speaker 2: I know, it's terrible. So here's the thing. There's multiple

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Speaker 4: The River George Washington called the Nation's River is tonight

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Speaker 5: So you can see some of the toilet paper and

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Speaker 4: environmental damage are staggering, with E. Coli levels more than

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Speaker 2: I think they could fix it.

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Speaker 3: They could just take a box of light kitchen matches

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Speaker 3: it's already been a month. This is a it's a

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Speaker 3: But yes, six months, nine months. And you know when

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Speaker 3: you know, ultimately, it's now just the sewage river.

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Speaker 2: It's the sewage river, it's the Potomac. And now President

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Speaker 5: I've swam right here.

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Speaker 4: Would you swim here again?

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Speaker 3: Not for a while.

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Speaker 2: All right, So here is where it gets interesting. D

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Speaker 5: You know, when I arrived at DC Water, this was

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Speaker 5: It was predominantly you know, white male at the top.

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Speaker 5: But this is a that's you know, more than seventy

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Speaker 2: Well, now they have a river filled with poop.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so how did that work out? Yeah? So, okay,

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Speaker 3: they used to be a bunch of white men running it,

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Speaker 2: Well, and the fact that this was going for four

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Speaker 2: There were telling me that the river that flows by

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Speaker 2: They have Ecoli levels at ten thousand times.

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Speaker 3: Now now you definitely can't. But even before you were always.

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Speaker 2: Told here is a general observation because white men get

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Speaker 2: it's like acceptable testible to attack us.

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Speaker 3: But you have genocidal fantasm.

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Speaker 2: Set the record straight. Though white men create rock Western civilization,

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Speaker 2: they settled this continent. They built the most successful, functional,

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Speaker 2: Most places on planet Earth have rivers filled with poop.

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Speaker 3: It's a Twitter account called Josie Versus Josie. That's j

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Speaker 2: They can't do that.

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Speaker 3: They should, we should do regime change on that.

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Speaker 2: We can try to change go that far. You know,

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Speaker 2: that's a fake poll. Wait to see what comes out tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: So now we have a new poll and I'm struggling

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Speaker 2: to get the number here it is four fifty. So

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Speaker 2: put up the new one. I think this is for Emerson.

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Speaker 2: Did a poll Steve Hilton's actually at seventeen percent. In

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Speaker 2: December he was down at twelve percent. So if you

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Speaker 2: go to the left side of that graph. He is

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Speaker 2: now pulled ahead as the top poll receiving most favorable

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Speaker 2: of all the candidates. This one has Swallwell, Yeah, Eric

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Speaker 2: Swalwell as number two, Chad Bianco the other Republican at

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Speaker 2: number three.

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Speaker 3: Also they're both at fourteen, so effectively for.

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Speaker 2: Secondly tied for second. Top two advance Porter Styer, Sarah

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Speaker 2: via Ragosa, and then undecided is still a huge chunk

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Speaker 2: because you know it's early.

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Speaker 3: If we were to get if we were to get

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Speaker 3: it where just two Republicans are the nominees in California

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Speaker 3: for the governorship, that would be that would possibly be

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Speaker 3: the funniest thing I've seen in the state level politics.

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Speaker 2: It basically would be a literal coup. We would take

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Speaker 2: over the state well without further ado. One of those

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Speaker 2: men and apparently the leading candidate for the governor of

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Speaker 2: the state of California, Steve Hilton, joins us. Now, Steve,

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Speaker 2: congratulations on these new breaking law results. You are at

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Speaker 2: seventeen percent. I mean this massively crowded field, so to

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Speaker 2: get to seventeen is a huge accomplishment. Welcome back to

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Speaker 2: the show. Tell us what it means.

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Speaker 3: It's great to be with you guys.

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Speaker 6: Always fun, and I really appreciate the way you laid

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Speaker 6: all that out there exactly right. We've got this ridiculous

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Speaker 6: top two system, and there is a crazy scenario as

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Speaker 6: you're just mentioning, where you could get two Republicans in

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Speaker 6: the top two. That's theoretically possible, but in practice it's

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Speaker 6: not gonna happen because the Democrat machine is not just

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Speaker 6: going to surrender California. And right now they get there's

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Speaker 6: another thing that's happened, which is as well as the

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Speaker 6: existing candida that have been in the race for a while,

469
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Speaker 6: people like I can barely say their names without laughing

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Speaker 6: that these are the these are as the president would say,

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Speaker 6: they're not sending.

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Speaker 3: Their best when you think about the Democrats.

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Speaker 6: Eric Swolwell, Katie Porter, the billionaire climate fanatic, Tom Steyer. Well,

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Speaker 6: on top of that, you got another one now, a

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Speaker 6: guy called Matt Mayhan.

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Speaker 2: He is the mayor of San Jose.

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Speaker 6: No one's really heard of him, but he's got big

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Speaker 6: tech money behind him and they that's going to propel

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Speaker 6: him up. He's got a lot of money. And the

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Speaker 6: other on the other side of it, the unions, they

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Speaker 6: always get behind one candidate they're going to pick their puppet,

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Speaker 6: as it were, and it looks to me like they're

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Speaker 6: getting behind Eric swoalwell. So within a couple of weeks

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Speaker 6: even maybe it certainly put within months.

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Speaker 3: You will get two very well.

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Speaker 6: Funded Democrats moving up, purely because of all the money

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Speaker 6: that the government, unions and the tech community you're putting in.

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Speaker 6: So the real risk actually is that we get two

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Speaker 6: Democrats in the top two. That's what I'm really concerned about.

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Speaker 6: And then, of course the chance for change in California

491
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Speaker 6: is gone, and it has a massively negative impact on

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Speaker 6: the other races in California. If there's no Republican in

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Speaker 6: the governor's race, you can forget about any of the

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Speaker 6: congressional seats in California that are in play that we

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Speaker 6: absolutely need to protect the House majority. You can forget

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Speaker 6: about voter ID which is on the ballot.

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Speaker 2: Avoid it on that, Steve, actually, because we had Calvert

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Speaker 2: on the show giving us the update where we stand

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Speaker 2: on that right.

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Speaker 6: Now, fantastic, it's qualified for the ballot. We've got more

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Speaker 6: than enough signatures. It's been led by Can has been

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Speaker 6: great on it in front of mine, Carl Demayo has

503
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Speaker 6: been really working hard. I've been on the road getting

504
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Speaker 6: signatures as well. It's qualified for the ballot. This is huge.

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Speaker 6: It's not just huge in its own right because it

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Speaker 6: helps stop the cheating. It actually is a big part

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Speaker 6: of why I believe we can really win this year

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Speaker 6: because voter ID. Of course, as we know, it's popular

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Speaker 6: across the board, even in California, even among California Democrats

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Speaker 6: there's a majority for vote Trid. But of course it's

511
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Speaker 6: really popular with Republicans. That means it's gonna really help

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Speaker 6: the turnout in November and then a midterm as you know,

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Speaker 6: that's what it's all about, getting your voters out. And

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Speaker 6: so it's one of the main reasons I think we

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Speaker 6: can actually win this year, truly win in November. And

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Speaker 6: I like me, Governor, is vote rid being on the ballot.

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Speaker 2: Well, and listen, there is. I mean, there is probably

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Speaker 2: no politician in the United States so loathed and so

519
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Speaker 2: marked save for like AOC and ilhan Omar as Eric Swawah.

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Speaker 2: I mean this, the fact to see his name ahead

521
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Speaker 2: of Katie Porter shocked me actually, because yeah, Katie Porter

522
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Speaker 2: has got a terrible bedside manner. She's terrible to her staff.

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Speaker 2: She's mean, uh, but you know she's a little like

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Speaker 2: Eric Swawell.

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Speaker 3: I mean, so we have to weigh the possibility that

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Speaker 3: she may, if the race is close, simply eat Eric Swawah.

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Speaker 2: You do not have to chime in on any of

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Speaker 2: this if you don't want to, Uh, Steve.

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Speaker 6: Hilton, Well, I won't say well, I won't say one thing,

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Speaker 6: which is I can't decide between them. What is what

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Speaker 6: is my preference? You know, Katie Porter with the endless

532
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Speaker 6: opportunity for mashed potato jokes, or Eric Swolwell with the

533
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Speaker 6: with the with the you know, possibilities for fang fang.

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Speaker 3: Well, we found.

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Speaker 2: There's flatulating on camera, there's fang fang. And now the

536
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Speaker 2: new one is his erotic poetry. He's given Stacy Abrams

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Speaker 2: a run for her money. Was once pendagraphic, I will

538
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Speaker 2: charged college poem, boasting of lovers kissing till vans imploded

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Speaker 2: and exploded with blood rolled down our chins.

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Speaker 3: Okay, formless and magnificent. A flurry of limbs and nails.

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Speaker 3: I guess you know, a flurry of limbs and nails.

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Speaker 3: All of bad poetry. He was he was nineteen. I

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Speaker 3: guess all of us were cringe once, but it is

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Speaker 3: very funny.

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Speaker 6: So right now I'm gonna I think I'm going to

546
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Speaker 6: stick to saying my plan is for three dollar gas

547
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Speaker 6: in California because we're gonna end the Democrats climate insanity.

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Speaker 3: That's my response to that.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, what are you seeing resonating on the on

550
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Speaker 2: the campaign trail, because we just got this interesting report

551
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Speaker 2: from Mark Halprin talking on the national level. They want

552
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Speaker 2: to see banning stock trading, they want to see price

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Speaker 2: transparency at hospital. So fabrizios giving the President and the

554
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Speaker 2: administration these these messaging line items that will pierce the noise.

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Speaker 2: Right what's piercing the noise in California.

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Speaker 6: So we're on the road. I mean, you can see

557
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Speaker 6: it behind me because this is I'm on the road

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Speaker 6: with that. We call it the Califordable Tour because it's

559
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Speaker 6: all of these Everything is the most expensive in California

560
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Speaker 6: than anywhere else on the country. So my plan is, incredibly,

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Speaker 6: you've got to end the Democrat climate crusade, so you

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Speaker 6: get three dollar gas, cut electric bills, and hot We

563
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Speaker 6: have the highest gas prices in the country, even though

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Speaker 6: we have abundant oil reserves higher than Hawaii. In the

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Speaker 6: middle of the Pacific Ocean. We have the highest electric

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Speaker 6: bills everywhere apart from Hawaii. These are the concerns. Tax

567
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Speaker 6: is the highest in the country, every rent, housing, all

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Speaker 6: of these things, you know, Charlie used to talk about.

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Speaker 6: And that's one of the things that so resonates, of course,

570
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Speaker 6: for all of us, is that simple American dream, you know,

571
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Speaker 6: get married, raise a family, buy your own home, a

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Speaker 6: good decent life. They've made that impossible in California. It's

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Speaker 6: actually those simple things. Three dollar gas, cut your electric

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Speaker 6: bills in half, your first one hundred grand tax free,

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Speaker 6: a home you can afford to buy. That's really what

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Speaker 6: people are responding to. And I think that's and the

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Speaker 6: Democrats have no answer, like literally nothing to say about

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Speaker 6: any of that. And the idea that we're just going

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Speaker 6: to have more of the same of this nonsense in

580
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Speaker 6: California is just unthinkable. So that's why I'm sure we.

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Speaker 2: Can win the regulatory burden, especially on gas. The refinery

582
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Speaker 2: situation didn't just say refinery just shut down. My family

583
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Speaker 2: in Nevada was telling me gas and Nevada spiked because

584
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Speaker 2: of refinery shut down in California. And now there's a

585
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Speaker 2: report out of Bloomberg that gasoline starve California is turning

586
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Speaker 2: to fuel from the Bahamas. This is this just came

587
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Speaker 2: out from Bloomberg. Gasoline starve, California's turning to fuel from

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Speaker 2: the bah Where's we need? California is so inept they

589
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Speaker 2: need fuel from the Bahamas. All right, Steve, here's a

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Speaker 2: question for you. Are you and Chad talking? Are you

591
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Speaker 2: as like, what's it going to take to unite the

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Speaker 2: clans consolidate the field? You don't. You can answer however

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Speaker 2: you want, but it seems to.

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Speaker 3: Me we do.

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Speaker 6: We got to avoid splitting the vote.

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Speaker 2: That's really important.

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Speaker 6: Otherwise we could end up with two Democrats and that's

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Speaker 6: an absolute calamity. So the truth is that for months now,

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Speaker 6: actually I've been made I've made it clear. My door

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Speaker 6: is open. I'm building a team to get this done.

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Speaker 6: It's never actually been done like this in California. I've

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Speaker 6: got a running mate for Lieutenant Governor Gloria Romero. Michael

603
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Speaker 6: Gate's a fantastic fighter running with me for attorney general.

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Speaker 6: He was the city attorney in Huntington Beach work for

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Speaker 6: the Trump administration with Harmeiat Dillon and the Justice apartment.

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Speaker 6: Herb Morgan running for state Controller. We've set up cal

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Speaker 6: Doje to find the fraud. So I'm building a team already,

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Speaker 6: and I love Chad to be part of that. I

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Speaker 6: don't see any interest on his side.

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Speaker 2: Steve Hilton for Governor, Charlie kirkendors, Steve Hilton for Governor,

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Speaker 2: We're behind you one hundred percent, my friend, keep going,

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Speaker 2: Thank you, keep going.

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Speaker 3: effort all of that is heading from Europe from the

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Speaker 3: United States, like you get that long term build up

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Speaker 3: that would let them have sustained action against the country.

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Speaker 2: Exactly so, more than one hundred and fifty US military

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Speaker 2: cargo flights have moved weapons, systems and ammunitions to the

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Speaker 2: Middle East. Just in the past twenty four hours. Another

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Speaker 2: fifty fighter jets, F thirty five's, F twenty twos and

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Speaker 2: F sixteen's headed to the region. So what they say

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Speaker 2: is between the lines is stand up with Iran has

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Speaker 2: gone on so long many Americans are likely numb to it.

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Speaker 2: That would be maybe not. I wouldn't say the base

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Speaker 2: is numb to it. The what they're getting at is

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Speaker 2: this is a bigger build up than we had last summer,

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Speaker 2: than we've had at other times.

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Speaker 3: And yet this is the fourth segment of the hour.

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Speaker 3: It's not what we led the show with. We haven't

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Speaker 3: really been talking about it. It's been in the background,

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Speaker 3: compared to shut down in Washington, compared to the ice stuff,

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Speaker 3: compared to basically a lot of other issues. And there's

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Speaker 3: no I think if you were to say, if we

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Speaker 3: were to if Trump were to go on air and

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Speaker 3: say we're launching a regime change war against Iran. I

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Speaker 3: think a lot of people would be wondering why it's

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Speaker 3: happening now. Last summer there was actual war between Iran

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Speaker 3: and Israel. There alchimists going on.

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Speaker 2: Their argument would be that there is this mass uprising

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Speaker 2: and then the regime came in crushed it. We're talking

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Speaker 2: with tens of thousands of dead protesters, which is obviously horrendous,

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Speaker 2: but there's horrendous things that happened all over the world. Now,

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Speaker 2: the pro Iran lobby would say, this is the time

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Speaker 2: you could push them over the top, et cetera, et cetera.

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Speaker 2: So this is what's interesting here, the timeline. The Israeli government,

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Speaker 2: which is pushing for a maximalist scenario targeting regime change

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Speaker 2: as well as Iran's nuclear missile programs, is preparing for

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Speaker 2: a scenario of war within days, according to two Israeli officials.

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Speaker 2: Some US sources tell Axios that the US might need

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Speaker 2: more time. Senator Lindsay Grant this is the part what

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Speaker 2: got my perked my ears right up. Senator Lindsay Graham

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Speaker 2: said strikes could still be weeks away, but others say

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Speaker 2: the timeline could be shorter. This is what it says,

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Speaker 2: the boss is getting fed up. Some people around him

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Speaker 2: warnt against going to war the RAM, But I think

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Speaker 2: there is a ninety percent chance we see kinetic action

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Speaker 2: in the next few weeks, one Trump advisor said. And

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Speaker 2: what is prompting a lot of this is that there

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Speaker 2: has been attempted Iran US diplomatic negotiations going on, and

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Speaker 2: there is no evidence of a diplomatic breakthrough of Iran

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Speaker 2: on the horizon. But there's more and more evidence that

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Speaker 2: war is in fact now imminent.

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Speaker 3: We should know that the president has done this a

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Speaker 3: few times. We had the long build up in Venezuela.

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Speaker 3: I feel like everyone thought we were going to topple

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Speaker 3: that government and then instead he just yoinked out Maduro

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Speaker 3: and instead you have much just kind of a much

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Speaker 3: friendlier relationship with essentially the same government.

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Speaker 2: Still. Yeah, in all reports from Venezuela, to be fair,

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Speaker 2: you even have former General Petraeus, retired General Petraeus praise

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Speaker 2: Trump's handling of Venezuela, which is interesting. And all reports

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Speaker 2: indicate that it's going well. Now, there's gonna be bumps

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Speaker 2: along the road, there's no doubt in a country that large,

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Speaker 2: and that's been that chaotic for that long. There's gonna

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Speaker 2: be bumps along the road. But that is one scenario

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Speaker 2: that seems to be going well. And that was ahead

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Speaker 2: of a snake operation. Right, you take out Maduro, you

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Speaker 2: provide an olive branch to the rest of the government.

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Speaker 2: Seems to go well. Maybe he could pursue a similar thing.

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Speaker 3: Maybe I would be skeptical of that. Now, as they

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Speaker 3: always say, like who runs around it's as they would say,

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Speaker 3: you know Sean Hannity voice, like the Mullahs in Iran,

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Speaker 3: it is you have the Ayatola, but the Iatolas and

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Speaker 3: a really old guy who's a cleric. He's it's not

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Speaker 3: a cult of personality around one guys.

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Speaker 2: It is a guy who loves to tweet.

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Speaker 3: It is a theocratic regime. I mean they they're strong

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Speaker 3: enough that they had military forces who could crush a

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Speaker 3: large uprising in the country.

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Speaker 2: You would.

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Speaker 3: And also it's a much more I think, ideologically hostile regime.

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Speaker 3: I mean it's a religious religious extremists. It's not even

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Speaker 3: just kind of calmness. It is full more apocalyptic time.

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Speaker 2: Probably the most aggressive from a messaging standpoint, regime in

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Speaker 2: the world against the America.

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Speaker 3: Exactly and so I don't think it's the sort of

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Speaker 3: thing where you could helicopter out one guy and they'd

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Speaker 3: be much friendlier. I think it is the sort of

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Speaker 3: thing where if you were going to go in, you

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Speaker 3: would have to overthrow the government and install a new one.

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Speaker 3: And at that point you're risking more US troops. It's

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Speaker 3: a more expensive operation no matter what happens.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 3: And we were just talking at the top that the

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Speaker 3: goal is to pivot towards domestic stuff, message on the economy,

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Speaker 3: message on drug prices. I think it would be difficult

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Speaker 3: to mix that with this sort of war unless President

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Speaker 3: Trump was highly confident it could be a rapid, decisive

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Speaker 3: operation with no permanent US foot.

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Speaker 2: Do you remember what Trump said during the Twelve Day war.

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Speaker 2: He said, we could have taken the Etola out. We

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Speaker 2: had his location, We could have done it. He opted

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Speaker 2: not to then. So it's an interesting thing to keep

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Speaker 2: it them back in your mind that he we have

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Speaker 2: the capabilities, certainly to do it from a military standpoint.

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Speaker 2: The question is, and would you can see how.

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Speaker 3: They may have even been selling the president on this

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Speaker 3: that For example, a lot of people US included were

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Speaker 3: very concerned last summer this would escalate into a quagmire.

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Speaker 3: And instead they said, no, we can do one strike,

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Speaker 3: they won't detect it, there will be no losses, and

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Speaker 3: it'll succeed. And they did that with the strikes. Similar

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Speaker 3: thing in Venezuela. I think a lot of people would

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Speaker 3: have said, this is a very risky operation where a

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Speaker 3: lot of soldiers could be killed, and instead total success,

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Speaker 3: no US losses, and we took them all out and

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Speaker 3: they were completely, you know, completely humiliating for the regimes

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Speaker 3: such that they basically had to submit to us because

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Speaker 3: they're worried we could blow them all the smitherings with

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Speaker 3: no losses. So you can sort of see how the

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Speaker 3: people who are most concerned that an intervention would become

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Speaker 3: a quagmire have we should just say it. They have

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Speaker 3: been incorrect, and the people who've said we can do

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Speaker 3: this easily with no losses have been correct several times. Then, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I have to offer that caveat that if you do

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Speaker 3: that over and over, eventually you do get unlucky. And

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Speaker 3: you only have to get unlucky once, and we're in

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Speaker 3: another five ten year mess.

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Speaker 2: So the Iatola was just looking at his Twitter feed,

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Speaker 2: you know, and you gotta imagine this is playing into

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Speaker 2: President Trump's psychology here, because you don't threaten America when

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Speaker 2: President Trump is president and basically get away with it.

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Speaker 2: Americans say, come negotiate with us about your nuclear energy,

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Speaker 2: and the result, by the way, nuclear energy, it's not

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Speaker 2: just energy you guys want. We know better and the

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Speaker 2: result would be that you won't have that energy. There

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Speaker 2: is no need to negotiate. But if a negotiation were

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Speaker 2: to take place, predetermining its outcome is misguided and stupid approach.

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Speaker 2: That's Ayatola Kameaneemeani.

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Speaker 3: Here's another one. Yeah, go ahead, Well we have another

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Speaker 3: tweet four to seventy three where he says the president

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Speaker 3: keeps saying they have the strongest military force in the world,

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Speaker 3: the strongest military force the world may at times be

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Speaker 3: struck so hard that it cannot get up again. Which, yeah, man,

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Speaker 3: they really love to broadcast these. Every era of war

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Speaker 3: or every Middle Eastern war is like threatened total annihilation

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Speaker 3: of all enemies die.

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Speaker 2: One last thing, Iran has tried to kill President Trump.

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Speaker 2: That's going on in the back of his head too.

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Speaker 2: Don't forget that.

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Speaker 3: For more on many of these stories and news you

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