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Speaker 1: My name is Charlie Kirk.

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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back our two of The Charlie Kirk Show.

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Speaker 3: We have Rich Barris, the People's pundit, founder of Big

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Speaker 3: Data poll joining US. Now, I tweeted something yesterday welcome Rich.

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Speaker 3: I tweeted something yesterday from Harry Enton from CNN, and

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Speaker 3: I saw you get into the comments, and I was like,

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Speaker 3: I gotta give my boy Rich hud cause I would

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Speaker 3: I When I tweeted it, I was like, I thought

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Speaker 3: about you in the back of my head. I was like,

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Speaker 3: I know Rich is going to totally disagree, but I

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Speaker 3: kind of disagree with you a little bit. That can

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Speaker 3: make for a fun conversation. So Harry Enton is saying

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Speaker 3: that there is no rift in MAGA, that President Trump

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Speaker 3: was at eighty four percent of approval rate within the

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Speaker 3: GOP or his bass previous Trump voters. Now he's at

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Speaker 3: eighty five percent. Six months goes by, he goes up

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Speaker 3: one percentage point, which is nominal, obviously, but at least

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Speaker 3: it's not going the other way. It's going presumably up.

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Speaker 3: And this is after Venezuela, you know, which raised some

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Speaker 3: questions about our foreign policy. Maga's America first, So how

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Speaker 3: does this jive with that whole vibe? So Rich, tell

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Speaker 3: me why Harry Entton is wrong? What am I missing?

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Speaker 3: The floor?

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Speaker 4: Is yours so first, and for folks, maybe this was

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Speaker 4: the easiest way to explain it. And as always, by

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Speaker 4: the way, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 3: Come.

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Speaker 4: Think about the MAGA coalition like a simple Ven diagram,

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Speaker 4: all right, Republican does not equal MAGA and MAGA does

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Speaker 4: not equal Republican. If you looked at it like a

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Speaker 4: Ven diagram, you would see in the middle, you know,

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Speaker 4: all of the various groups that come together.

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Speaker 5: But MAGA is actually made up of several.

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Speaker 4: Different groups of people. One, you're gonna have those hardcore Republicans.

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Speaker 4: They're Republicans, they vote Republican no matter what, and they

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Speaker 4: also vote MAGA, and Trump has won the argument even

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Speaker 4: with them. And then you have a smaller group of

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Speaker 4: Republicans that they're not MAGA. And by the way, I mean,

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Speaker 4: we have some public figures that pretend like they are,

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Speaker 4: but in truth in the they've been voting Democrat for

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Speaker 4: But they're overwhelmed and they're like more than offset by

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Speaker 4: a group of independents and even a small sliver of

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Speaker 4: come out for America. And I don't even know if

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Speaker 4: MAGA is the right way to say it anymore, Andrew,

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Speaker 4: because we've had this like debate over MAGA versus America First,

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Speaker 4: So the messaging is getting muddled there. But for all

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Speaker 4: the time that we have been tracking it, it's you know,

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Speaker 4: in theory, you know, this is Donald Trump's vision of

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Speaker 4: America First, right, And I know we're debating what that

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Speaker 4: means right now, right even with the President off doing

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Speaker 4: things that other people disagree with. But Harry Enton, I

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Speaker 4: would warn all of you he is a prime actor

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Speaker 4: in what has long been a use of public polls

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Speaker 4: every single.

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Speaker 3: Hold on, hold on, Rich Now, I remember Harry Enton

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Speaker 3: in the run up to the twenty twenty four election

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Speaker 3: that issue. And I so I'm just saying that maybe

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Speaker 3: remember him, like candidly. It was Charlie's Twitter feed. It

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Speaker 3: was just like clip after clip after clip, and it

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Speaker 5: He's manic.

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Speaker 4: He goes back and forth on a twenty four hour

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Speaker 4: basis the video that you the video that you reposted.

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Speaker 4: Not twenty four hours before, he had just posted another

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Speaker 4: video about how awful the strike polled and the public,

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Speaker 4: and then he went back immediately after and did another

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Speaker 4: video within a day of which is the one.

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Speaker 5: That you posted.

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Speaker 4: This is what they do, guys, all right, and think

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Speaker 4: about it in terms of COVID, because it's like one

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Speaker 4: of the best examples of what the media does and

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Speaker 4: people like we call them Ovia the election mafia, right,

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Speaker 4: so Harry Enton, Nate Silver, or the Larry Sabadah at

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Speaker 4: the Crystal Ball, these guys we've long called on our

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Speaker 4: side the election mafia. And what they'll do is they'll

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Speaker 4: understate somebody like Trump's great, They'll understate Trump's approval rating

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Speaker 4: way below where it really is, and then when he

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Speaker 4: does something stupid that they like, they'll jack is approval

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Speaker 4: rating up, like COVID shut down the government, right, and

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Speaker 4: then all of a sudden you'll get polls. You know,

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Speaker 4: Trump's had a majority approval for the first time ever

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Speaker 4: in his administration. They did this in the first administration

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Speaker 4: and it was not the smart political thing to do.

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Speaker 5: It exposed him politically.

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Speaker 4: Then when that vulnerability hits, they'll crash him into the

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Speaker 4: thirties and the right falls for it. All.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fair. So would you would you? Would you

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Speaker 3: say rich though that Trump's uh, I guess his political

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Speaker 3: backing from his supporters is pretty like resilient, it's pretty stable,

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Speaker 3: but it's been challenged in this first year and even

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Speaker 3: even with the Venezuela strike in new ways. I think,

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Speaker 3: you know, because again, foreign policy seems to be the

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Speaker 3: hot button topic right It's like we don't want to

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Speaker 3: focus on it, We're want to focus domestically. And then

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Speaker 3: when we do, everybody scared of the neo con intervention,

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Speaker 3: at right now? So Harry Enton says that actually the

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Speaker 3: strike is more popular than we previously thought.

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Speaker 4: What do you think it's Historically it's basically the most

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Speaker 4: unpopular military action that of its kind. Grenada had eighty

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Speaker 4: administration in response to what we now probably you know,

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Speaker 4: almost assuredly, no, we're false flag attacks right so historically

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Speaker 4: compared to others, including Iran last year, by the way,

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Speaker 4: which was very even you know, very evenly divided among

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Speaker 3: Where is this that according to your numbers, Rich, it's

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Speaker 4: It's negative. It's not horribly negative, but it is negative.

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Speaker 4: And the reason why and this is where, like you know,

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Speaker 4: a Republicans should like snap out of this like haese

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Speaker 4: that they're in. Democrats are never gonna believe anything that

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Speaker 4: the Trump administration says that Nicholas Maduro did. We're asking

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Speaker 4: people not just about the strike, but whether or not

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Speaker 4: they even believe the charges against Nicholas Maduro. And Democrats

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Speaker 4: don't even believe the charges. So this idea that you

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Speaker 4: could get into a solid majority who opposes this is ridiculous.

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Speaker 4: I hate to say it, but we're actually really close

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Speaker 4: to the Washington Post Andrew, unlike everybody else, we didn't

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Speaker 4: drop the numbers right away, and there's a reason for that.

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Speaker 5: The war drums at the time they're beating.

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Speaker 4: War propaganda is always one of the most powerful forms

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Speaker 4: of propaganda you can get. And when you initially pulled,

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Speaker 4: you will get the strongest level of support. Typically then

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Speaker 5: It happened with Iran as well.

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Speaker 4: Iran initial even in some polls the strikes against Iran's

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Speaker 4: nuclear facilities were pretty popular, not a and we I

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Speaker 4: think we were right and they were wrong. But you

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Speaker 4: can even see in those polls that no, we're more

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Speaker 4: favorable to that. It dips over time. So we didn't

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Speaker 4: want to snap poll it. We wanted to get an

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Speaker 4: accurate reflection of how the public digested everything. The question

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Speaker 4: is what comes after this, so people are going to

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Speaker 4: be okay, and this is what And just so people understand,

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Speaker 4: my own personal views are very different from what I

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Speaker 4: think the you know, the how I think the public

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Speaker 4: own personal view is if you can get a if

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Speaker 4: you can get a guy like that out of there

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Speaker 4: Andrew with a limited strike like this, you know, in

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Speaker 4: a limited operation, Intel led operation, get him out of

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Speaker 4: there and then bring the regime to heal, take the

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Speaker 4: gold in the oil go ahead, because we're forty trillion

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Speaker 4: dollars in debt and you need to back the Petro dollar.

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Speaker 4: That's my view. That's Rich Barriss's view. That's not the

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Speaker 4: public view. Unfortunately, they're like they have PTSD over this, brother,

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Speaker 4: you understand, like they have PTSD over this.

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Speaker 5: And the administration sold it like garbage.

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Speaker 1: This was the easiest sell.

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Speaker 4: Look, they stole oil a few years ago, you know, Joe.

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Speaker 4: You know the Democrats were too you know, George Bush

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Speaker 4: actually was the wiener here, but they were too weak

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Speaker 4: to do anything about it. I'm not I'm taking it

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Speaker 4: back because China and Iran can't have it, period, end

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Speaker 5: And we're not going to nation bill. That's what we're

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Speaker 5: gonna do. Don't give the.

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Speaker 4: Public some garbage rehatch version of the failed War on drugs,

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Speaker 4: which they laugh at and think is ridiculous. Don't and

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Speaker 4: don't insult their intelligence like that. Come out and just

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Speaker 4: say be the strong man that you were elected to be.

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Speaker 4: You know, we talked about this at the conference quite

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Speaker 4: a bit, and especially voters under forty five, they don't

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Speaker 4: care if he acts like a Franco.

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Speaker 5: They don't care. They want it.

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Speaker 4: They want so be that guy and don't exp you know,

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Speaker 4: that's it. I'm not gonna explain myself. I personally want Greenland.

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Speaker 4: Don't explain yourself over Greenland. We have the colonize space

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Speaker 4: and the United States has to lead that effort.

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Speaker 5: Guess what we need Greenland to do?

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Speaker 4: It tough, end of story. And you don't even have

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Speaker 4: to do that when military action so and the public

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Speaker 4: wuldn't even care. I don't think that much about that

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Speaker 4: because the question of what comes next is less of

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Speaker 4: a you know, a very concerning question, right, I mean,

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Speaker 4: you can leave people in charge there that obviously Western

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Speaker 4: values hold our same belief systems, right, have.

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Speaker 5: Been in the international order for a long time.

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Speaker 4: So there's no there's a less of a danger of this,

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Speaker 4: this crisis in destabilization.

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Speaker 5: So again, I think.

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Speaker 3: That's I think that's all said. I think that's well said.

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Speaker 6: I just want to I guess I want to ask

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Speaker 6: Harry Nton and others, they directly manipulate the polls to

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Speaker 7: How do they do it?

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Speaker 3: This a lot of independent editorial decisions too, But yeah,

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Speaker 3: go ahead, Rich, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I mean, the fact is that my industry is completely

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Speaker 5: Or whatever poll he's talking about, you better.

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Speaker 4: Look damn close at what he's citing and where he's

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Speaker 4: That will never happen on CNN. Right, So go back

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Speaker 4: But even if we were to, the evidence built up

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Speaker 3: We want our oil back. I'm not making excuses for it. Iran, China, Russia,

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Speaker 3: Right, there is countries getting invaded rich that's the time.

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Speaker 3: I would love to build this out from a data standing.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, if you if you look at what just.

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Speaker 3: It's resurgent. Thank you, Rich Beharsh, You're the man.

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Speaker 3: We are waiting on Secretary Pete HeiG Seth to join us.

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Speaker 3: We are busy, busy man. We're monitoring the feed. I

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Speaker 3: will see him as soon as he sits down. Got

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Speaker 3: the video up there. As soon as he sits down,

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Speaker 3: we're gonna take him. You've sent over a lot of questions.

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Speaker 3: Blake has been filtering through them. We've added them to

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Speaker 3: the list. We're gonna get it, get as many of

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Speaker 3: them as we can. Yeah, So Secretary, he obviously a busy,

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Speaker 3: busy man. Lots of questions about Venezuela, lots of questions about, uh,

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Speaker 3: what's going on with Greenland. There's been rumors that the

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Speaker 3: US is open to military force to take Greenland and

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Speaker 3: how how else do you want to put that? But

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Speaker 3: we Blake, why don't you set up the next clip

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Speaker 3: for us here?

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Speaker 6: But also well, we'll have us ready to go so

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Speaker 6: we can ask him about it once he sits down.

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Speaker 6: But there's this big obviously, there's been a lot of

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Speaker 6: stuff about Greenland after the Venezuela thing, because there's chatter

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Speaker 6: which the administration is encouraged that okay, we're we're flexing

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Speaker 6: our muscle in this hemisphere. Could that mean will make

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Speaker 6: a bid for Greenland? And there's debate whether it be

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Speaker 6: just seizing it or now there's also back room we

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Speaker 6: really just want to buy it.

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Speaker 7: All of that. Anyway, this's got a lot.

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Speaker 6: Of attention because Denmark's Prime minister reacted to this and

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Speaker 6: basically said if the US goes after Greenland. An effect

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Speaker 6: of this is it's going to be the end of

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Speaker 6: the NATO alliance.

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Speaker 7: Let's play too forty six.

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Speaker 9: Firstly, I believe that the American President should be taken

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Speaker 9: seriously when he says that he wants Greenland. But I

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Speaker 9: also want to make it clear that if the United

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Speaker 9: States chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops,

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Speaker 9: that is, including our NATO and thus the security that

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Speaker 9: has been provided since the end of the Second World War.

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Speaker 9: I believe in democracy, and I believe in the international rules.

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Speaker 9: Of course, I also believe that you do not change

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Speaker 9: borders by force, either one way or another. It is

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Speaker 9: not only the position of Denmark and the Danish Kingdom,

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Speaker 9: fortunately of Europe too. So I hope that the people

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Speaker 9: will also take note of the once again significant ARU

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Speaker 9: support so that we are receiving.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, after which Trump truthed that America will always support

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Speaker 3: and have NATO's back, even if they never have our back,

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Speaker 3: and after he bragged that he got them to spend

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Speaker 3: two percent to five percent GDP, which is fair, which

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Speaker 3: is that's what we've wanted.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Absolutely, Like I think I think it's worth because

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Speaker 6: I think some people have responded to this with some

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Speaker 6: chest thumping, like there's a lot of attitude. I think

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Speaker 6: this is part of what Stephen Miller said when he

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Speaker 6: was on CNN. He said, Denmark can't stop us from

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Speaker 6: taking it, which is true. But some people have actually

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Speaker 6: just embrace On X mostly people have embraced this attitude

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Speaker 6: of that's all that matters is whether they can stop

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Speaker 6: us or not, and that that's all it reduces to.

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Speaker 6: And I guess I would caution people from going really

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Speaker 6: far down that rabbit hole. First of all, it's not

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Speaker 6: ever been America's way, even when we were, you know,

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Speaker 6: the global unquestioned superpower, not in declined anyway. It's not

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Speaker 6: been our way to just bully weaker nations, to beat

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Speaker 6: them up.

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Speaker 3: That's not.

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Speaker 6: Really a great long term play for America. Like what's

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Speaker 6: greatly been to America's benefit historically is a lot of

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Speaker 6: nations far weaker than us have been willing to work

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Speaker 6: with us, have been willing to just.

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Speaker 7: Accede to our leadership.

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Speaker 6: And that led us in a dumb way where we

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Speaker 6: just started to put other countries interests first over ours,

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Speaker 6: where we just did dumb things where we're funneling endless

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Speaker 6: foreign aid to crappy countries that don't like US and

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Speaker 6: are taking advantage of US. But I don't think you

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Speaker 6: swing back the other way and you just, for example,

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Speaker 6: dissolve NATO because you feel like making your image on

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Speaker 6: a mat bigger.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 3: I mean, listen, I think you have to ask the question,

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Speaker 3: how would we acquire Greenland? You've got to involve the people. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 3: it should be done by vote. I think you know.

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Speaker 7: I think the way you do it is you where

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Speaker 7: you buy it. You just make the pitch.

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Speaker 6: I think one thing that's been an issue is we've

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Speaker 6: been it's almost been too attractive to just again chess

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Speaker 6: thump and say like, oh we could easily do it,

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Speaker 6: which we could. But I think the way you make

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Speaker 6: it a long term play is you point out it

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Speaker 6: is a win win. You can say Denmark, you just

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Speaker 6: talk about how Denmark is a great ally. They actually

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Speaker 6: have been. They have spent money, They've ponied up for Ukraine,

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Speaker 6: whereas other countries haven't. They sent troops to Afghanistan. They

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Speaker 6: had more troops die per capita in Afghanistan than I

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Speaker 6: think any of our allies. And they've been a good

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Speaker 6: ally to us, and they're also the European country that

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Speaker 6: restricts immigration. They're good on a lot of ways. And

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Speaker 6: so we talk about how Denmark is a great ally,

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Speaker 6: and Denmark has taken on this burden of supporting Greenland.

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Speaker 3: Well, they spend four billion dollars A yea, they spend

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Speaker 3: a ton of money.

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Speaker 6: It's not really a very profitable endeavor in any way,

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Speaker 6: a big welfare sink for them. They spend a lot

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Speaker 6: on this, and for us it would be a far

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Speaker 6: more trivial amount of money to spend. So we could

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Speaker 6: increase the amount of money, so we can say it's

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Speaker 6: good for Greenland, we can develop you more, we can

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Speaker 6: give you more money. It's good for Denmark, you're getting

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Speaker 6: this off of your books. And it's good for America

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Speaker 6: because we have a long term certainty of owning Greenland,

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Speaker 6: we have that long term military security. We can potentially

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Speaker 6: develop the natural resources with more resources. Is that's the

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Speaker 6: pitch you make?

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Speaker 3: When when?

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Speaker 7: When when? For everyone involved?

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Speaker 3: And then we get our oil lands back in Venezuela

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Speaker 3: we're talking about. And by the way, we have secretary

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Speaker 3: right on the show tomorrow, Energy Secretary of the United States.

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Speaker 3: So we're gonna be talking all about Venezuelan oil. What's

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Speaker 3: at stake? What could we benefit from, how much money

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Speaker 3: could we make, how much money would be would flow

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Speaker 3: back into the hands of the Venezuelan people. We are

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Speaker 3: monitoring the situation. Secretary of Headsets should be sitting down

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Speaker 3: in just a second, Blake. What are some of the

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Speaker 3: questions that people want to ask? Secretary Headsets?

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Speaker 6: Someone really wanted to know, what are your thoughts on

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Speaker 6: the Russian sending a submarine to assist the Russian flighted

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Speaker 6: oil tank.

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Speaker 3: Wasn't much because the I think, you know what, I

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Speaker 3: believe that the Russian submarine, by the way I've looked

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Speaker 3: into this, was basically doing surveillance ahead of where they

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Speaker 3: actually this tanker evaded a blockade, probably with the help

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Speaker 3: of addition resources provided by the Russian.

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Speaker 6: I like this question from Evan. What is the Department

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Speaker 6: of War done to correct shipbuilding problems in the US Navy.

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Speaker 6: We've covered that. We had a guest on at the

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Speaker 6: start of the year. We're not building ships very well.

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Speaker 6: When America won World War Two, we could famously build

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Speaker 6: a ship in a single day. We did it once

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Speaker 6: as a publicity stunt. We built a liberty ship from

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Speaker 6: nothing to finished vessel twenty four hours fast, and we.

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Speaker 7: Could literally build ship. We could build ships.

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Speaker 6: Faster than the Japanese and the Germans could sink them.

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Speaker 6: And now China can build ships faster than we would be.

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Speaker 7: Able to sink them.

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Speaker 6: Well, that's certainly true, probably faster than we could build

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Speaker 6: the missiles that would blow them up.

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Speaker 7: And they can build missiles faster than us.

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Speaker 3: It's not so we're going to be asking about these

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Speaker 3: seized vessels. We're going to be asking about, you know,

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Speaker 3: what is the military obligation in Venezuela to if we're

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Speaker 3: going to be running Venezuela, is there a military obligation

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Speaker 3: and what is the extent of that obligation. We're going

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Speaker 3: to be asking about. You know, do we have proof

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Speaker 3: that Iran, China, Russia are still on the ground in Venezuela.

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Speaker 3: Are they fomenting descent? Are they fomenting factions? You know,

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Speaker 3: we're gonna be talking about Greenland and if we can

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Speaker 3: get to it, we're gonna find out how many push

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Speaker 3: ups and pull ups Secretary of Hegseth can do, which

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Speaker 3: is what everybody wants to know obviously Blake and I

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Speaker 3: just want to remember, remind everybody one thing here, Secretary.

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Speaker 3: So we did a flash pole, well straw pole at Amfest.

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Speaker 3: So for our thirty one thousand attendees of Amfest, we

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Speaker 3: asked them who was the most popular secretary? We have

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Speaker 3: that that graphic. I believe Secretary of Heagseth was our

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Speaker 3: most was the most popular cabinet secretary in Trump's administration,

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Speaker 3: according to our attendees at America Fest, which should tell

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Speaker 3: you something.

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Speaker 6: Eighty three percent strong approval and only zero point six

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Speaker 6: percent strong disapproval.

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Speaker 3: That's a pretty that's a pretty favorable crab. However you

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Speaker 3: want to slice it u So again we looks like

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Speaker 3: we're getting some activity here. We will have Secretary Hegseth

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Speaker 3: on a just a second from an undisclosed location. What

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Speaker 3: other questions you want us to ask the secretary email

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Speaker 3: us Freedom at Charliekirk dot com. Freedom at Charliekirk dot com.

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Speaker 3: I also want to know where our recruitment is at.

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Speaker 3: So there's been a lot of headlines made about the

634
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Speaker 3: recruiting numbers coming out of the US military that they

635
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Speaker 3: are through the roof. I want to know exactly where

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Speaker 3: those numbers are at all? Right, So email us your

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Speaker 3: questions Freedom at Charliekirk dot com. Freedom at Charliekirk dot com.

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Speaker 3: By the way, breaking news there there is video now

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Speaker 3: of the shooting incident out of Minneapolis involving an ICE agent.

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Speaker 3: It does appear that the woman was attempting to ram

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Speaker 3: the Ice agent. That video is now circulating online. I

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Speaker 3: would show it to you, except we are still eagerly

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Speaker 3: awaiting the secretary. So, Blake, what else you got for us?

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Speaker 6: Uh, well, we were going to do this after, but

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Speaker 6: we might be going right up against the end of

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Speaker 6: the show here. President Trump has announced he's going to

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Speaker 6: be pursuing new measures not clear yet, but to make

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Speaker 6: it easier for a single family home. He says, for

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Speaker 6: a long time, buying and owning a home was considered

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Speaker 6: the pinnacle of the American dream. It was a reward

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Speaker 6: for working hard and doing the right thing. But because

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Speaker 6: of the record high inflation of Joe Biden and the Democrats,

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Speaker 6: the American dream is increasingly out of reach for many people,

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Speaker 6: especially younger Americans. For that reason, I am immediately taking

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Speaker 6: steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more single

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Speaker 3: Secretary Pete Hegseth, Department of War, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 3: It's great to see you.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. Appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: Secretary, we'll get right into it. Two tankers have been

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Speaker 3: boarded and apprehended by the US military. A senior Russian

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Speaker 3: lawmakers quoted as saying, this is outright piracy. What do

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Speaker 3: you call these actions?

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Speaker 1: Outright accountability? Actual enforcement? There's been a long time illicit

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Speaker 1: activity emanating from Venezuela around the world.

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Speaker 10: Really, the Dark fleet's a global enterprise, but Venezuela has

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Speaker 10: used it to transport sanctioned oil, flagless vessels that enrich

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Speaker 10: the regime. And we have said a oil blockade is

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Speaker 10: in full effect around Venezuela to ensure that that oil

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Speaker 10: on the Dark Fleet doesn't make it anywhere. So there

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Speaker 10: was one vessel that attempted to move toward Venezuela and

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Speaker 10: when we put the blockade and turned around.

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Speaker 1: So we've been pursuing that one for a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 10: Frankly, just a reminder that we will follow you, and

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Speaker 10: when we have the opportunity, when sure.

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Speaker 1: You are, we seize that vessel.

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Speaker 10: Which we did, and then there was another one inside

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Speaker 10: closer to Venezuela and waters this morning at the same

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Speaker 10: time simultaneously that we also confiscated.

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Speaker 1: So this is an ongoing effort. It's in full effect.

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Speaker 10: The pressure is on, and as Marco has laid out,

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Speaker 10: we're working with the.

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Speaker 1: Venezuelan government to ensure.

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Speaker 10: That the there's a new way by which they can

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Speaker 10: process that oil, partnering with the United States, and we're

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Speaker 10: going to continuing enforce it this blockade as necessary.

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Speaker 6: So far, as Secretary, we haven't had any US boots

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Speaker 6: on the ground in Venezuela, but President Trump has said

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Speaker 6: We're going to run the country in some capacity. Is

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Speaker 6: there any possibility that that will take place, and if so,

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Speaker 6: how many what could that situation look like.

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Speaker 10: Well, I think in these cases what the President is

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Speaker 10: so good about is we're not closing doors here, We're

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Speaker 10: not opening doors. We're not revealing to anybody what we

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Speaker 10: will or will not do. Strategic ambiguity is a really

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Speaker 10: important thing. Leverage properly it creates opportunities that did not

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Speaker 10: exist before. Just like that raid on Maduro that no

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Speaker 10: one in the world anticipated. The most sophisticated raid maybe

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Speaker 10: that's ever happened in military history, changed the entire dynamic.

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Speaker 10: We didn't talk about whether something like that was possible.

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Speaker 10: So what happens next depends a lot on the decisions

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Speaker 10: that are made inside Caracas and by leadership.

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Speaker 1: The block CAID remains in.

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Speaker 10: Full effect, the strikes on Narco, terrace and boats full effect.

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Speaker 10: The pressure continues to ensure that they work with the

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Speaker 10: United States to ensure that that oil and Marco made

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Speaker 10: it clear.

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Speaker 1: The President put out a statement yesterday.

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Speaker 10: Thirty to fifty million barrels of oil to be brought

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Speaker 10: to the United States to be processed, to be used

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Speaker 10: properly by the Venezuelans to ensure that that transition happens.

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Speaker 1: The way that it should.

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Speaker 10: You could see scenarios where, hey, maybe we reopen the

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Speaker 10: embassy and you have got marines there to guard the embassy.

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Speaker 10: You could look at scenarios where there's cooperation. But I

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Speaker 10: wouldn't foreclose anything, and I think it's important not to

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Speaker 10: foreclose anything to make sure that the outcome is one

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Speaker 10: that benefits the interests of the United States in our

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Speaker 10: own hemisphere. This is the Donroe doctrine. This is you know,

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Speaker 10: Russia Iran, Cuba. Others had their tentacles all over Venezuela

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Speaker 10: to exploit it and also to leverage their opportunity to

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Speaker 10: be closer to us and pull those energy assets out.

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Speaker 1: We're flipping the script, putting.

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Speaker 10: America first, trolling our hemisphere, and that action taken on

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Speaker 10: Nicholas Mdurea was the starve it, but it's certainly.

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Speaker 8: Not the end.

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Speaker 3: Secretary, you watched the raid happen live as it was happening,

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Speaker 3: and you mentioned that this is the most sophisticated raid

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Speaker 3: of its kind, probably in who knows living memory. What

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Speaker 3: was it like watching it it happened, the apprehension of

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Speaker 3: Madua and his wife, Like, what's the memory that stands

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Speaker 3: out from that moment?

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Speaker 10: The memory that stands out the most for me was

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Speaker 10: watching the drone feed at the end when you could

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Speaker 10: see the I won't reveal the exact number, but the

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Speaker 10: helicopters leaving Venezuelan territory over the water and they looked

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Speaker 10: like little ants, little dots on their way out of

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Speaker 10: the country. They have Maduro and his wife, indicted individuals

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Speaker 10: and all the Americans are out safely. We had some wounded,

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Speaker 10: but no Kia. That was the enduring image because everything

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Speaker 10: in between. You know, yes, these are the best of

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Speaker 10: the best, they're trained for it. In fact, the commanders said,

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Speaker 10: they've never been more supported, They've never felt like they've

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Speaker 10: had better intelligence, they've never had clearer and better authorities,

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Speaker 10: They've never been given everything that they need. That's one

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Speaker 10: of the things we're very proud of here at the

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Speaker 10: War Department. We're going to support our fighters, back them

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Speaker 10: up one hundred percent, give them whatever they need, give

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Speaker 10: them the authorities and rules of engagement to be successful.

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Speaker 10: And they had all of that. Still the enemy on

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Speaker 10: the other side gets a vote, and it was a

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Speaker 10: contested raid, even with the sophistication that went into it.

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Speaker 10: And we watched them hover over, we watched the actions

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Speaker 10: on We watched, you know, Venezuelan man pads get shot

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Speaker 10: while they could potentially try to shoot at helicopters, and

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Speaker 10: it was all in real time. But it wasn't until

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Speaker 10: we saw those birds float now that any of us

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Speaker 10: could really exhale the courage it took for the President

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Speaker 10: to authorize it.

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Speaker 1: The sheer courage and competency of.

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Speaker 10: Our men and women in the military. Those those assaulters

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Speaker 10: that extraction force.

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Speaker 1: Incredible, the best in the world.

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Speaker 10: They did went downtown without being heard, without being seen,

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Speaker 10: with no notice, distracted that indicted individual and brought them

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Speaker 10: back to the United States. Only the United States of

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Speaker 10: America could do this mission, second to none, no doubt.

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Speaker 3: And you even saw that on CNN, mister Secretary, where

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Speaker 3: they were You had analysts saying that even China and

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Speaker 3: Russia were looking at this going like, Wow, this is incredible.

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Speaker 3: So to your point, they've never felt that. Your men

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Speaker 3: and women in the military have never felt more support,

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Speaker 3: more backup. I mean, I know this is hard to quantify,

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Speaker 3: but you came in with a mandate to make the

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Speaker 3: military more lethal, the lethality you said it again and again, fitness, excellence, meritocracy.

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Speaker 3: You know two part question, where are we at now?

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Speaker 3: How much more excellent? How much more lethal are we

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Speaker 3: now than when you took over? And I also I'm

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Speaker 3: curious about where recruitment stands right now for the US military.

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Speaker 10: Well, we've always had great Americans, right our job has

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Speaker 10: been to unleash them, to allow them to do their

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Speaker 10: job without tinkering in the way they operate, without more

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Speaker 10: burdensome rules of engagement, without more political caveats while actually

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Speaker 10: giving them the authorities we need.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of that.

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Speaker 10: Emanated the speech I gave it quantico to generals and

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Speaker 10: senior enlisted saying, I'm putting commanders back in charge. It's

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Speaker 10: not my job to tell that extraction force exactly how.

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Speaker 1: To do it.

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Speaker 10: It's my job to get them what they need, insure

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Speaker 10: their standards are clear, they able to execute at the

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Speaker 10: highest possible level, and unleash them to do what they

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Speaker 10: do best. I mean, that's the reflections I've gotten back

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Speaker 10: from not just special operators, but conventional units, just saying

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Speaker 10: it's a new environment, it's a new vibe, a new

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Speaker 10: aura inside the military where we feel empowered to be

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Speaker 10: the warriors that were supposed to be. We've always been

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Speaker 10: that way, but other things have held us back. There've

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Speaker 10: been political correctness, or prerogatives or dei or new priorities

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Speaker 10: were emphasized, and we didn't feel like we were fully

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Speaker 10: supportive supported not anymore.

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Speaker 1: And you mentioned the recruiting numbers.

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Speaker 10: That's why last year was the most historic recruiting numbers

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Speaker 10: we've seen in decades. This year is even beyond that.

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Speaker 10: So far, guys, the recruiting numbers are surpassing.

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Speaker 1: So far and FY twenty six what they were last year,

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Speaker 1: because the spirit continues. The word is get out.

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Speaker 10: This is a military you want to be in. President

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Speaker 10: Trump has your back, the Secretary has your back. We're

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Speaker 10: training better than ever before in what we do, and

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Speaker 10: we've got historic financing to make sure we've got the

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Speaker 10: weapons to do it.

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Speaker 1: But also we're focusing.

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Speaker 10: On barracks and quality of life for the men and

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Speaker 10: women who serve, raising pay.

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Speaker 1: That's the way it should be. Put in the troops first,

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Speaker 1: and that's been our focus.

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Speaker 6: Speaking of the troops under you, yesterday you announced you're

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Speaker 6: going to seek a reduction in Mark Kelly, Senator Mark

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Speaker 6: Kelly's rank as a result of his statements about possibly

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Speaker 6: defiant orders. One of our viewers, Elizabeth, has asked us

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Speaker 6: she's wondering, She says, why not bring charges against him?

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Speaker 7: She wonders how you reach that decision.

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Speaker 10: Well, we went through the regular process and we have

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Speaker 10: evaluated those statements, not just that one video, which was

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Speaker 10: incredibly reckless. He knew exactly what he was doing. By

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Speaker 10: the way, he was the senior member of that video.

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Speaker 10: He's the only one we have jurisdiction over because he's retired,

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Speaker 10: he's receiving a pension money from the government, which means

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Speaker 10: he's still subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

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Speaker 10: And watching the I don't know hissy fit that he's

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Speaker 10: been throwing ever since shows us just how over the

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Speaker 10: target we are. He knew exactly what he was saying.

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Speaker 10: He understands the rules, he understands he's still subject to

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Speaker 10: U se him Jay, he understood the doubt and uncertainty

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Speaker 10: he was putting into the process by vaguely alluding to

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Speaker 10: illegal orders but never never pointing to what that would

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Speaker 10: mean underneath the Trump So he knew, and he understands,

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Speaker 10: and the reaction underscores how serious this action is. Reducing

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Speaker 10: a rank or pay is a serious administrative action that

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Speaker 10: sends real seals that we take these things incredibly seriously.

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Speaker 10: So he's got the time by statute or by directive

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Speaker 10: to reply. We'll review after that, but this is I

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Speaker 10: don't think anybody should should minimize how significant this is.

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Speaker 10: We don't do it without understanding that. And we're following

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Speaker 10: up by the book and we'll see what happens.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, my brother who's in the military said that This

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Speaker 3: is a pretty massive demoralization for him. I mean, this

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Speaker 3: is a getting demoted in your retirement is pretty big, Secretary.

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Speaker 3: Last question here, Oh, I want to say first, I

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Speaker 3: want you to know that you were our most popular

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Speaker 3: We did a straw pole at America Fest and thirty

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Speaker 3: one thousand people we gave it to all of them.

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Speaker 3: They said that you are their most their favorite cabinet

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Speaker 3: secretary in the Trump administration. So I just I want

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Speaker 3: you to know that. There's other questions about how many

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Speaker 3: pull ups you can do? How many push ups, but

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Speaker 3: we're going to skip that for the interest of time.

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Speaker 3: But I'm sure that that had some influence in your

902
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Speaker 3: favorable marks there. I want to end it with this,

903
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Speaker 3: and we should. This is the Charlie Kirk Show. You

904
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Speaker 3: were friends with Charlie. Charlie fought like tooth and nail

905
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Speaker 3: to get you over the finish line in your confirmation.

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Speaker 3: I think he'd be very proud of you, mister secretary.

907
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Speaker 3: You've done a tremendous job and we're proud of you.

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Speaker 3: What do you remember about him and what do you

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Speaker 3: want the world to know about your friend that maybe

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Speaker 3: they don't from your POV.

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Speaker 1: Give me chills.

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Speaker 10: I wouldn't be in this position right here without Charlie Kirk,

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Speaker 10: with a probably without the Charlie Kirk Show, without his platform,

914
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Speaker 10: without his courage.

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Speaker 1: Throughout the confirmation battle.

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Speaker 10: He was always right there, hold the line, don't give in.

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Speaker 1: We've got your back, and the wind that put in

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Speaker 1: my sales.

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Speaker 10: I mean, he and Donald Trump Junior and others just

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Speaker 10: unrelenting in backing me up.

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Speaker 1: So I wouldn't be here without him. Listen.

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Speaker 10: He was the thermometer and the thermostat of our movement,

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Speaker 10: and you understand what that means.

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Speaker 1: He understood what was going.

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Speaker 10: On round around the country, and he understood how to

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Speaker 10: ensure we were calibrating correctly to make sure make America

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Speaker 10: great Again or America First was moving in the right direction.

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Speaker 1: But he did it because he had listened.

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Speaker 10: He was a true believer on every front and politically

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Speaker 10: of what he believed in his own Christian faith and

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Speaker 10: how he lived that out.

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Speaker 1: And he wasn't about praise for Charlie Kirk.

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Speaker 10: He was about the country and Christ and the cause

934
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Speaker 10: and doing everything he could do advance it.

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Speaker 1: He never cared whether it was his name in the headline.

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Speaker 1: So he backed people up.

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Speaker 10: He backed President Trump up, he backed me up, he

938
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Speaker 10: backed the other members of the cabinet up, and created

939
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Speaker 10: the opportunity for us to do exactly what we should do,

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Speaker 10: which is what we said we would do, which President

941
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Speaker 10: Trump appointed us to do, which is, you know, peace

942
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Speaker 10: through strength America.

943
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Speaker 1: First, bring the warrior ethos back to the military.

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Speaker 10: All the things Charlie cared about, you guys care about

945
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Speaker 10: we're doing so. I wouldn't be here without him. We

946
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Speaker 10: think of him every single day. I love him. His wife, Erica,

947
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Speaker 10: is incredible. Anything we will do here at the War Department,

948
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Speaker 10: and just just grateful to live in such a country

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Speaker 10: that produces men like Charlie Kirk.

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Speaker 3: Well, God bless you. We're grateful to live in a

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Speaker 3: country that produces men like you, Secretary. And thank you

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Speaker 3: for making the time. I know you're busy, you got

953
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Speaker 3: a heart out, get onto your next thing. We pray

954
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Speaker 3: for you, We support you, have your back one hundred percent.

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Speaker 3: We'll see you soon.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, guys, appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: God bless you. All Right, the Secretary, we got to

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Speaker 3: we gotta go. I'm proud of us, amount of time,

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Speaker 3: I'm proud of us. It was it was delayed, complicated business.

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Speaker 6: Thank you for everyone who sent them in. I know

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Speaker 6: we only got to a couple of them unfortunately.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, but we appreciate it. Keep sending us emails.

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Speaker 3: Freedham at charliekirk dot com. We will see you tomorrow.

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Speaker 5: For more on many of these stories and news you

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Speaker 5: can trust, go to Charliekirk dot com.