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Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, and good night. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the Aaron Mullin Show. It is jam packed for you.

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Speaker 1: We are talking about how Americans treat their law enforcement officers,

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Speaker 1: snowball bombing in New York City and your mayor thinks

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Speaker 1: it's funny. No, also, will the President of Israel sue

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Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson, a very very good lawyer, has offered to

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Speaker 1: handle the case for free plus of course State of

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Speaker 1: US sponsor. I just read a shocking statistic. Newsweek reported

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Speaker 1: that fifty one percent of retirement age adults now expect

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Speaker 1: you're dreaming of. Of course, we have the State of

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Speaker 1: the Union speech by President Donald Trump. Now I have

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Speaker 1: covered this in real time as it was happening. We've

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Speaker 1: got a separate clip for you includes my feedback and

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Speaker 1: the highlights from my perspective. You can click on this

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Speaker 1: link here if you're listening on the podcast. It's a

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Speaker 1: separate podcast, the one just before this one, so make

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Speaker 1: sure you check it out after, of course you listen

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Speaker 1: or watch this incredible episode. It is huge. Now Iran

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Speaker 1: the latest the CIA. This is incredible by the way,

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Speaker 1: they have directly reached out to the Iranian people telling

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Speaker 1: them how to set up a secure channel to provide

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Speaker 1: intelligence and information to the US. Wow, this was unexpected.

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Speaker 1: The countdown is on. We are literally on the brink

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Speaker 1: now timeline wise, Remember the Indian Prime Minister is in

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Speaker 1: Israel right now. He's got a two day visit the

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Speaker 1: twenty fifth and twenty six. There is no way in

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Speaker 1: hell that an attack will occur whilst he's in town,

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Speaker 1: because the first thing the Islami Creagian will do, because

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Speaker 1: Israel is a closer and easier target than the US

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Speaker 1: is retaliate towards Israel. There's no way they'll do anything.

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Speaker 1: And I'm talking about the Americans here, of course, with

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Speaker 1: their very strong ally Israel. Whilst he is on the ground,

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Speaker 1: it just won't happen. So the next couple of days

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Speaker 1: should be clear. We watch, though, and any excitement that

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Speaker 1: you might pick up in my voice when I talk

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Speaker 1: about a potential strike is not because I'm a warmonger.

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Speaker 1: It's not because I think the thought of bombing in

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Speaker 1: other country is exciting. This regime of terrorists, they're evil,

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Speaker 1: vile killers. Their people deserve freedom, and the world deserves

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Speaker 1: to be free of the terror that they spread. The

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Speaker 1: lives that they take, Western lives, not just Iranian lives,

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Speaker 1: but Western lives. That is why I get excited about it,

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Speaker 1: because the people of Iran deserve their country back. Now,

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Speaker 1: talking about what people deserve, Erica Kirk does not deserve

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Speaker 1: what Candace is dishing up right now. Of course, so

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Speaker 1: I've heard to Candace Owen's she reaches new levels of

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Speaker 1: vulgar every single day. This could be. This is a

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Speaker 1: whole new load. This is disgusting. Have a quick listen

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Speaker 1: or watch to this little promotional clip that she's put

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Speaker 1: out regarding Erica Kirk. Erica Kirk has been named the

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Speaker 1: CEO of Turning Point, USA. My husband's dead, Like, I'm

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Speaker 1: not trying to be morbid, but he's done. It's weird

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Speaker 2: Excited describes your.

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Speaker 1: Husband's funeral as the event of the century.

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Speaker 2: Merch a.

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Speaker 1: We have fifty thousand plus hot borders.

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Speaker 3: Nobody knows why she's out there in a glittering pantsuit

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Speaker 3: in a recreated tent that her husband tragically was murdered in,

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Speaker 3: throwing merch out.

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Speaker 1: Everyone leaves differently, so if someone's acting weird, don't read

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Speaker 1: into that.

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Speaker 4: Zionists, the Prime Minister of Israel all lied through their

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Speaker 4: teeth about Charlie Kirk.

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Speaker 1: Her operation was in Constanta, the epicenter of Romania's trafficking scandals.

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Speaker 3: We were conversations that have with a fifteen year old

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Speaker 1: Eight point six million dollars to their own show company.

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Speaker 2: What is going on?

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Speaker 1: My aunt used to tell me, never do something that

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Speaker 1: Evil's not a strong enough word when it comes to

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Speaker 1: act in a way that you think is appropriate. There

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Speaker 1: just because you think maybe a mannerism is a little

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Speaker 1: cope in different ways. She's also having to try to

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Speaker 1: inspire people around her. You know, it's okay to provide

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Speaker 1: commentary and to try and say, oh, this or this

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Speaker 1: free speech absolutely. But what Candae is doing here is

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Speaker 1: not that she's trying to insinuate that the wife of

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Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk was involved in his murder. A couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks ago, she said that if it was the opposite

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Speaker 1: That is disgusting. It is okay. Erica is in the

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Speaker 1: public eye. She fronts a big organization, She's a big girl.

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Speaker 1: you're allowed to what you should never be able to

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Speaker 1: do because it is not based in truth or fact.

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Speaker 1: Whatsoever is insinuate she was somehow involved in her husband,

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Speaker 1: the father of her children's death. That is what makes

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Speaker 1: this vile. Not having an opinion on how she grieved.

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Speaker 1: similar vein Tucker Carlson his interview with the US Ambassador

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Speaker 1: to Israel, mister Huckabee Wow, where he said this about

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Speaker 3: So astuk could be Were you aware that this email

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Speaker 3: suggests that the president, the current president of Israel, Isaac Herzog,

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Speaker 3: went to Epstein's island. Kern's president of Israel, current president

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Speaker 3: I you know, President Herzog going very well, apparently was

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Speaker 3: that Pedo Island. That's what it says in the disclosure,

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Speaker 3: And so I just want to say clearly, I'm sorry

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Speaker 3: to imply that I knew something I didn't know. Of course,

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Speaker 3: I don't know that Isaac Herzog was on the island. Yes,

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Speaker 3: he is listed as a visitor to Pedo Island. But

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Speaker 3: I don't know that, and I didn't mean to suggest

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Speaker 1: Clearly worried because what he tried to say and what

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Speaker 1: behind the scenes that back this whole theory up regarding

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Speaker 1: the President and his involvement with Ebstein complete gobbage. By

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Speaker 1: the way, well, guess what, a very good lawyer who

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Speaker 1: knows the president has offered to do the defamation case

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Speaker 1: for free, and he joins me. Now, Marzell, first of all,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining me here on the

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Speaker 1: Aaron Mullin Show. It's such an honor to have you.

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Speaker 5: Well, the honor is all mine, Aarin, thank you very

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Speaker 5: very much for having me.

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Speaker 1: Bless you now. You caught my eye a while ago

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Speaker 1: on X and your content is brilliant. So to my audience,

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Speaker 1: make sure you follow Mark. But something in particular caught

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Speaker 1: my eye recently, and that was an offer you made

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Speaker 1: to the President of Israel. Could you tell my audience

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Speaker 1: what you have offered to do for free?

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Speaker 4: Well, I want to make sure that everybody is familiar

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Speaker 4: with the interview that our ambassador Mike could be had

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Speaker 4: with Tucker Carlson just a couple of days ago, in

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Speaker 4: which Tucker Carlson repeatedly accused President Hertzog of visiting Jeffrey

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Speaker 4: Epstein's island, famous island in the Bahamas.

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Speaker 5: And uh, it's now.

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Speaker 4: Been proven beyond any any cavil any doubt that that

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Speaker 4: the President could never visit it and could never have

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Speaker 4: visited And at the times that Tucker Carlson was referred to,

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Speaker 4: the President was here in Israel and was clearly not

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Speaker 4: And so uh and therefore defamatory, that it's a libel.

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Speaker 4: So what I said on Twitter was listen, President Hertzog,

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Speaker 4: who I happened to know and respect greatly, if you

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Speaker 4: want to sue this miscreant, Tucker Carlson for for what

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Speaker 4: he said about you in this interview and which you

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Speaker 4: which you Tucker Carlson with Tucker Carlson repeated time and

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Speaker 4: time again without any shame, I'm prepared to represent you

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Speaker 4: in my lawfulm is prepared to represent you free of charge,

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Speaker 4: pro bono.

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Speaker 1: And now have you had back from the President regarding

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Speaker 1: this offer, Well, I think the.

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Speaker 4: President, who himself as a very accomplished attorney and comes

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Speaker 5: I don't think it's not my own.

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Speaker 4: To to get down in the in the mud, so

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Speaker 4: to speak with Tucker Carlson.

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Speaker 5: I mean, he just has too much class.

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Speaker 4: But if he decides to, I'll be seeing him shortly,

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Speaker 4: and if he decides to take me up by my offer,

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Speaker 4: I would be delighted to represent him.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I'd really enjoy, Mark, and that

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Speaker 1: would be the discovery particularly on the side of Tucker Carlson,

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Speaker 1: it would be worth that alone, we could we could

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Speaker 5: I suspect I fully agree with you.

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Speaker 4: I think it would be fascinating to probe into it,

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Speaker 4: and if we could do it with a deposition like

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Speaker 4: they have before trial, like they have in the United States,

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Speaker 4: it would be a real, real exciting, a real exciting experience.

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Speaker 4: But let's see, let's see what happens.

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Speaker 1: We'll see. It's very rare, particularly when it comes to Tucker,

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Speaker 1: for him to walk back something or to front foot

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Speaker 1: something akin to an apology, which he did. And I've

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Speaker 1: shown my audience before our interview. I've shown them the

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Speaker 1: subsequent clip where he said that's the sixted He looked

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Speaker 1: like a complete idiot. That's a legal term. I have

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Speaker 1: no doubt. I'd love to know from a legal perspective

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Speaker 1: whether that then completely eliminates the opportunity to take legal

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Speaker 1: we learned this during you know, post October seven. The

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Speaker 1: headline goes a million miles. The retraction on some obscure

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Speaker 1: end the opportunity for legal action, does it.

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Speaker 4: Tucker doing that, You're absolutely right eron You must you

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Speaker 4: must have a law agree you sound.

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Speaker 1: I've had a little bit of experience with deformation and

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Speaker 1: it was very unpleasant, my friend, very unpleasant.

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Speaker 1: I love that.

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Speaker 4: And I thank you Erin, thank you for your for

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Speaker 4: your support and and and the millions of your viewers.

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Speaker 4: I can't begin to tell you how how important and

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Speaker 4: that is your prayers and your support for us here

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Speaker 4: in Israel. And we pray for you. I mean, you've

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Speaker 4: been through through your own travails at Mondo Beach and

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Speaker 4: so on.

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Speaker 5: And the Royal.

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Speaker 4: Commission that I understand has just been appointed in Australia.

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Speaker 4: We we are with you. We're all together because I

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Speaker 4: think we're all fighting for the same thing.

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Speaker 1: I tell you what. It can be a little bit

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Speaker 1: lonely on the right side of history, but there ain't

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Speaker 1: nowhere else I'd rather be mark alongside you guys there

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Speaker 1: and bless you God, bless you brilliant people. Bless you

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Speaker 1: stay safe, and we might check back in if things

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Speaker 1: get a little the next few days. I'd love to

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Speaker 1: and lots of time.

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Speaker 5: Bring my wife Robin on.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I think she's superior. And I was gaffed that

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Speaker 1: you didn't sit in your seat and take your place.

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Speaker 5: Okay, next time we got her.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you. Now, I'm sure plenty of you

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Speaker 1: have seen the images of people throwing snowballs. And by

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Speaker 1: the way, again, I'm from Australia, so snow is not

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Speaker 1: really my area of expertise. They can be hard, they

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Speaker 1: can hurt, they can be icy. The Mayor of New

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Speaker 1: York has said that, ah, this is just kids throwing snowballs.

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Speaker 1: It's a snowfighter, so cute, so fun. From the videos

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Speaker 1: that I've seen, it looks like a snowball fight.

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Speaker 4: I think that there were two officers who were facing

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Speaker 4: lacerations on their face. Of those who built it them.

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Speaker 2: Look, I've seen the videos of this snowball fight.

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Speaker 1: I think that it was a snowball fight. No, these

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Speaker 1: officers were not partaking in a snowball fight. And these

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Speaker 1: were not kids either. It was disgusting and what it

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Speaker 1: says to me is that the standards of how you

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Speaker 1: treat law enforcement in America have fallen to such new lows.

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Speaker 1: It is vile. And I tell you why, because the

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Speaker 1: rhetoric that surrounds law enforcement, whether it be police, FBI, ICE,

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Speaker 1: is disgusting. It's being weaponized, it's being politicized. It used

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Speaker 1: to be off limits. The people who were willing to

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Speaker 1: risk their lives to protect their fellow countrymen, they used

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Speaker 1: to be off limits. You can criticize policy, you can

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Speaker 1: criticize the deceis of politicians, absolutely, but the people themselves

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Speaker 1: used to be off limits because both sides understood that

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Speaker 1: what they did matted, and how they were treated matted,

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Speaker 1: and how they were spoken about publicly, the discourse matted.

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Speaker 1: Not anymore, the Democrats have gone so low here, making

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Speaker 1: them into a target. So it's not just about snowballfer

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Speaker 1: it's about how they are treated. It's about how ICE

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Speaker 1: officers are treated. It's about how police are treated. Now,

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Speaker 1: I've spoken to a man called Merlin Lofton who is

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Speaker 1: the head of the Fallen Officers Foundation, and he does

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Speaker 1: not hold back here. He says, they are going to

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Speaker 1: walk and can you blame them? Watch Sergeant Merlin Lofton,

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Speaker 1: twenty five year veteran. First of all, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for your service.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with morale, my friend, you would have these

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Speaker 1: conversations day in day out. Where does it sit when

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Speaker 1: it comes to law enforcement offices in America right now?

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Speaker 6: Well, airing law enforcement officers we put on our badge,

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Speaker 6: gun and uniform every day to do a job for

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Speaker 6: the United States of America and any citizens abroad, and

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Speaker 6: we try to go with the most the highest morale possible.

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Speaker 6: But in the current political environment, we get a lot

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Speaker 6: of blowback that's really unwarranted from us doing our job

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Speaker 6: that specified in our standard operating procedures and we try

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Speaker 6: to uphold the law in the United States, and a

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Speaker 6: lot of that blowback actually comes from political representatives that

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Speaker 6: are supposed to be on our side. So that makes

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Speaker 6: a very dangerous environment for law enforcement officers to do

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Speaker 6: our job.

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Speaker 1: How does it feel as someone in law enforcement who

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Speaker 1: wakes up every morning knowing that the choices they've made

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Speaker 1: could have them killed day and day out. They are

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Speaker 1: willing to give their life in service of their fellow citizens.

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Speaker 1: That would be hard enough with the support of your

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Speaker 1: political leaders. How much harder does it make when they're

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Speaker 1: taking put chucks publicly or questioning your integrity when what

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Speaker 1: you are doing is the job that you are paid

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Speaker 1: to doing, that you do because you care deeply.

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Speaker 6: That's absolutely correct, Aaron, you said it perfectly. Law enforcement

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Speaker 6: officers go to work every day willing to lay down

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Speaker 6: their life for the protection of others, and these are

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Speaker 6: people they don't even know. Already this year, we've had

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Speaker 6: fourteen law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty

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Speaker 6: in the United States.

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Speaker 2: Five of those were by gunfire.

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Speaker 6: And when I tell you political rhetoric from our leaders

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Speaker 6: have an effect on the community, those are not just you.

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Speaker 2: Know, soft words.

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Speaker 6: They lay very hard at the feet and the heart

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Speaker 6: of law enforcement officers because we are the ones that

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Speaker 6: have to deal with the blowback that a lot of

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Speaker 6: the politicians are creating against law enforcement.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we're getting that.

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Speaker 6: Called names like you know, gaes Bo and Nazis and

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Speaker 6: things like that. Even our ICE agents are getting called

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Speaker 6: that for trying to do their job.

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Speaker 1: I know that you probably don't want to get overly political,

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Speaker 1: and I understand that. But some of the things coming

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Speaker 1: out of the mouths of Democrats I considered to be criminal,

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Speaker 1: and it used to be that that would be off limits.

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Speaker 1: You can question policies, you can take, have a crack

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Speaker 1: at the opposition, But to ever put into doubt in

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Speaker 1: the minds of your people the integrity of those who

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Speaker 1: are charged with keeping them safe, that is a whole

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Speaker 1: other ballgame. I haven't seen to this extent before. Have

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Speaker 1: you seen it to this level before? Where you are,

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Speaker 1: it feels like it's open slaughter on you and your people.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, Aaron, I've never seen it to this

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Speaker 6: level before. As a matter of fact, Aaron, that's part

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Speaker 6: of the reason the ICE agents made the decision to

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Speaker 6: wear a mask, because it can affect not just them,

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Speaker 6: it can affect their families. There are kids that are

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Speaker 6: in school, them trying to go to church, and people

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Speaker 6: showing up at the church and actually protesting in a

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Speaker 6: place that's supposed to be for worshiping the Lord or

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Speaker 6: for you know, religion.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is what law.

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Speaker 6: Enforcements facing nowadays, and it's absolutely crazy. We've never seen

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Speaker 6: an environment like this, and Aaron, I tell you, is

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Speaker 6: getting more and more dangerous for law enforcement officers to

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Speaker 6: do their jobs.

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad you brought up the family aspect because again,

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Speaker 1: and it's similar to what I said to preface the

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Speaker 1: last question. It's hard enough being married to someone who

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Speaker 1: leaves the house and you know deep within they could

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Speaker 1: lose their life that day. But it's a sacrifice you

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Speaker 1: are willing to make, and you make that sacrifice as

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Speaker 1: a family as well. To then be targeted by people

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Speaker 1: because he or she is doing a job like ice

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Speaker 1: is insane. What happens, what happens next? How many more

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Speaker 1: of your officers need to die or be heard or

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Speaker 1: have their families harassed for people up there to wake

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Speaker 1: up and realize that at the cold face the impact

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Speaker 1: that they're having and their words are having and their

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Speaker 1: behavior is having.

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Speaker 6: Absolutely words have a great impact on law enforcement officers.

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Speaker 6: I mean, but you know, law enforcement officers, nobody wants

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Speaker 6: to die. I mean, we go to work and we

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Speaker 6: train to live to protect. Nobody wants to die. But

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Speaker 6: if we have to. I mean, if we have to

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Speaker 6: lay our life down, then we understand you know, what

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Speaker 6: the job is that we actually you know, go in

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Speaker 6: to job to do every day.

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Speaker 2: We understand that.

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Speaker 6: However, the rhetoric makes it incredibly more difficult.

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Speaker 2: It makes it, you know.

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Speaker 6: Incredibly more should I say, it makes the people want

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Speaker 6: to hurt us instead of help us.

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Speaker 2: And we need the public's help in order to do

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Speaker 2: effective policing.

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Speaker 6: You know, contrary to the popular belief, ninety percent of

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Speaker 6: the public actually support law enforcement.

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Speaker 2: The actually support us.

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Speaker 6: However, when politicians start using certain words and calling us

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Speaker 6: Nazis and things like that, that starts to go down

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Speaker 6: just a little bit, and we can't afford that margin

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Speaker 6: of discipro We can't afford it because that's when law

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Speaker 6: enforcement officers start getting killed. That's where law enforcement officers,

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Speaker 6: you know, your families start you know, being foundlies of

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Speaker 6: the falling. And we don't want we don't want any

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Speaker 6: more of that anymore.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. I mean, I mean, what you would love, ideally

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Speaker 1: is for your organization not to exist.

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Speaker 6: You know, I would love it forever if there was

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Speaker 6: no need for the National Filling Officers Foundation. But unfortunately,

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Speaker 6: as I said before, we've already had fourteen die and

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Speaker 6: fourteen families to feel the heartbreak of losing their hero

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Speaker 6: already in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: When you go out and about I mean, and I

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Speaker 1: don't think it's just because of my own experience or

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Speaker 1: having a father who is in the army or my

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Speaker 1: daughter's father who is a policeman. Currently, I look at

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Speaker 1: place and I smile and I thank them, and I

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Speaker 1: just have this immense respect. And it's also not fear,

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Speaker 1: because fear is the wrong word, you know. I think

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Speaker 1: it's not fear, but it's such a heightened respect that

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Speaker 1: I would never be rude. I would never do anything

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Speaker 1: I thought would make their jobs harder. You know, I

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Speaker 1: feel a little bit anxious when I see them, because

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Speaker 1: you know, that's the level of respect and the way

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Speaker 1: in which I view what they do and how important

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Speaker 1: they are, Whereas I feel like with a lot of

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Speaker 1: young people that's completely lost. I look at some of

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Speaker 1: the interactions and some of these protesters, they're not protesters,

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Speaker 1: they're criminal agitators in a lot of different circumstances who

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Speaker 1: are The way they speak to them is horrific, The

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Speaker 1: way they get in their face and then you wonder

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Speaker 1: why things occur that have horrific outcomes. These guys are heightened,

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Speaker 1: they're on edge that they're under attack, not just from

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Speaker 1: the criminals that they're chasing, but from these other people

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Speaker 1: who are trying to stop them from chasing the actual criminals.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's going to end in disaster, and it

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Speaker 1: already has.

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Speaker 2: That's absolutely correct erin.

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Speaker 6: I mean, back in the nineties, I could tell it

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Speaker 6: was starting to change because politicians were starting to go

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Speaker 6: on the attack against law enforcement. And then came the

635
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Speaker 6: defund the police movement, and then came the shootings right

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Speaker 6: after it, and the police officers dine and the people

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Speaker 6: that used to support us, all of a sudden, they

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Speaker 6: don't support us anymore.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 6: Those are the things that we every day have to address,

641
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Speaker 6: we have to go against, and we shouldn't have to.

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Speaker 2: We are for the people.

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Speaker 6: We are here to chase the bad guy and put

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Speaker 6: the bad guys in jail.

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Speaker 2: We're not like you.

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Speaker 1: Eye your community. We have people.

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, we are a part of the community. We are

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Speaker 6: your neighbors. We are you know, we are the ones

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Speaker 6: you see in the grocery store. But unfortunately, nowadays, when

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Speaker 6: you go to the grocery store. If somebody see that

651
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Speaker 6: badge or gun, you're more likely to get in a fight,

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Speaker 6: somebody more likely start talking very negatively about you. And

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Speaker 6: that's not what it's supposed to be. That's not what

654
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Speaker 6: we're hit for. That's not what the badge is there for.

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Speaker 6: The badge is there to protect and serve with honesty

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Speaker 6: and integrity.

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Speaker 2: And that's what law enforcement.

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Speaker 6: That's what we still stand for if we're allowed to

659
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Speaker 6: do our jobs. But that's something that's getting, as you

660
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Speaker 6: said before, more difficult to do, more difficult to stay

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Speaker 6: alive community that we're trying to protect.

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Speaker 1: Merlin, When do you see people just say, why the

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Speaker 1: hell would I sign up for this? Or if I've

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Speaker 1: been there for twenty years, I can give another five

665
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Speaker 1: years like you have. Or this is way too hard,

666
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Speaker 1: I don't get paid enough. You know, it used to

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Speaker 1: be an honorable job. Now I feel like I'm demonized.

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00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 1: I'm going somewhere else. When do we start to lose

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Speaker 1: all the people that we need to keep Americans safe?

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Speaker 1: Because I can't imagine why anyone would stay and do it.

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Speaker 1: Your heroes, but you're being treated like dirt.

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, absolutely, Aaron and all of those things you said

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Speaker 6: I've heard before. I've heard from younger officers. I'm hearing

674
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Speaker 6: it from older officers. I'm hearing officers want to retire

675
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Speaker 6: because they feel like they're getting disrespected. They're putting their

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Speaker 6: lives on the line, and they no longer they get

677
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 6: they hit that wall or burnout, you know, the job

678
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:51,239
Speaker 6: as difficult as it is, but now they're getting hated for.

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Speaker 2: Putting on the uniform.

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Speaker 6: Every day they're getting you know, people are coming up

681
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Speaker 6: to their houses, bamming on their doors, attacking them at home,

682
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Speaker 6: following them home on things like that, and they're worried

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Speaker 6: about their families.

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Speaker 2: Where do we get here? How do we get here?

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Speaker 2: I tell you how we get here now.

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Speaker 6: I don't like to be political, especially when I'm talking,

687
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Speaker 6: you know, out of representation for the National Falling Office Foundation,

688
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 6: but a lot of leaders brought us to this, you know, crossroads,

689
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Speaker 6: you know, and they've they've really put.

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Speaker 2: Police, you know, in a very very tough situation.

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00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:26,799
Speaker 6: They've politicized law enforcement work, you know, and and it

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Speaker 6: should never get like that. Should it should be out

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Speaker 6: of bounds.

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Speaker 2: But now they put it very much in bounds.

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Speaker 6: And that's that that's really affecting the profession. That's and

696
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Speaker 6: it's getting harder and harder to recruit people to come

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Speaker 6: do honorable work that's you know, that's supposed to be

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Speaker 6: to support the community, to you know, to really really

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Speaker 6: you know, late honor to our country.

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Speaker 2: It's getting harder to recruit people to do that.

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Speaker 1: What would you say not only to everyday Americans, but

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Speaker 1: to the is in positions of power in leadership who

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Speaker 1: are constantly politicizing this issue and contributing to the demonization

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Speaker 1: of law enforcement. What would you say to them now.

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Speaker 6: Well, one thing I want now is law enforcement is

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Speaker 6: your free We're willing to lay our lives down for

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Speaker 6: people we don't even know.

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Speaker 2: You know, these are moms, these are dads, these are brothers,

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Speaker 2: these are sisters that put.

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Speaker 6: On their uniform every day to do a job to

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Speaker 6: protect the United States of America and abroad. It's not

712
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Speaker 6: just in America. It's feeling this, They're feeling it worldwide.

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Speaker 6: All over North America. Law enforcement officers are getting attacked

714
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Speaker 6: and it needs to stop. What I say to the

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Speaker 6: politician to tone it down, stop attacking police officers. The

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Speaker 6: very same person that you call when people want yes

717
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,239
Speaker 6: when people want to come knocking at your door, when

718
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Speaker 6: gun may want to break in your house and shoot

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Speaker 6: you just because they don't like the way you voted

720
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Speaker 6: in Congress or in your state, in your state political offices.

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Speaker 6: We are the people that you call to be the

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Speaker 6: hero that you hired us to be. Let us do

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Speaker 6: that without demonizing the badge and demonizing the individual. Because

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Speaker 6: behind that badge, as we said before, it's a mother,

725
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Speaker 6: is a father, is ay brother, it's ay sister.

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Speaker 2: It's a child behind every.

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Speaker 6: Badge, And I think that needs to be remembered the

728
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Speaker 6: next time someone wants to say something negative about police

729
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 6: officers worldwide, they're the ones that's gonna come run to

730
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Speaker 6: your aid when everybody else run away.

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Speaker 1: So beautifully put and something that just sprung to mind

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Speaker 1: that we haven't touched on yet is in the moment

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Speaker 1: something's happening, police have to act, and they rely on

734
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Speaker 1: training and they rely on instinct, and they're so good

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Speaker 1: at their jobs. But I can't imagine anyone now being

736
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Speaker 1: in a position where they don't have a moment of

737
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Speaker 1: doubt where they're pausing and thinking, am I going to

738
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Speaker 1: be in trouble?

739
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Speaker 3: For?

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Speaker 1: Am I gonna get it wrong? Am I gonna be

741
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Speaker 1: ostracized in front of the world. Is a politician going

742
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Speaker 1: to question whether or not I made the right choice?

743
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Speaker 1: And look, everyone has to be accountable. I get that,

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Speaker 1: But we also kind of afford to have our police

745
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Speaker 1: questioning whether or not we're going to have their back

746
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Speaker 1: when they have to act in circumstances none of us

747
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Speaker 1: could even imagine that side is significant too, isn't it

748
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Speaker 1: given the rhetoric and what's being said is when they

749
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Speaker 1: need to make a tough decision to keep people safe,

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Speaker 1: what if they pause and they hesitate because they think

751
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Speaker 1: I don't want to be thrown to the wolves. That's

752
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Speaker 1: not a big deal.

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Speaker 6: I'm sorry I spoke over you there. But what is

754
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Speaker 6: very valid and that doubt, that moment.

755
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Speaker 2: Of hesitation that exists, and that has.

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Speaker 6: Gotten law enforcement officers killed because you don't have but

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Speaker 6: a fraction of a second to react in a deadly

758
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Speaker 6: forced situation, and that very doubt could be the difference

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Speaker 6: between life or death. And it has been, it has

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Speaker 6: been in the past, it has been, it will be

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Speaker 6: in the future. Because of the political environment that law

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Speaker 6: enforcement officers are forced to do their job within that's

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Speaker 6: why that doubt exists, and that doubt, unfortunately, is causing

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Speaker 6: law enforcement officers to get hurt and some to lose

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Speaker 6: their lives.

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Speaker 2: You're exactly right.

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Speaker 1: Is President Trump a friend of law enforcement? Have you

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Speaker 1: seen a president who's had your back in a bigger

769
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Speaker 1: way than President Trump?

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Speaker 6: President Trump as a friend of law enforcement. I mean,

771
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Speaker 6: he supports law enforcement, he supports military.

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Speaker 2: He is the lawman of lawmen.

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Speaker 6: He's the only one that would come out and support

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Speaker 6: us through think and thin, while everybody else it is,

775
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Speaker 6: you know, talking their talk against us, want to score

776
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Speaker 6: political points. He's with us through think and thin, and

777
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Speaker 6: that's why we support him as he support us, even

778
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 6: though he also feels the things that we feel, which

779
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Speaker 6: is the blowback from the community. As we saw at

780
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Speaker 6: one thirty am Washington time, someone again tried to come

781
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Speaker 6: on his property to do harm to our president.

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Speaker 1: And this is the thing, isn't it. It's so heightened

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Speaker 1: at the moment. A final question, Merlin, you look at

784
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:04,400
Speaker 1: this renewed culture of assassination. Everyone is so on edge.

785
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: You've got the rhetoric which is not helping. You've got

786
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:10,319
Speaker 1: the politicization, the demonization of law enforcement, You've then got

787
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Speaker 1: this situation in Iran at the moment where this huge

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Speaker 1: buildup of US military assets in that region, the biggest

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Speaker 1: since the start of the Iraq War. It is heightened

790
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Speaker 1: at the moment. Everyone is on edge, which is a

791
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Speaker 1: recipe for disaster if people don't feel supported.

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Speaker 2: That's absolutely correct.

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Speaker 6: And with you touching on Iran, that's a very valid

794
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Speaker 6: point because we have a lot of Iranians living right

795
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Speaker 6: here in the United.

796
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 2: States, and some of them are illegal.

797
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 6: Now do you really want, you know, illegals running around

798
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Speaker 6: in the United States from other countries and we are

799
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Speaker 6: about to go to war with their home country.

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Speaker 2: Think about it.

801
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Speaker 1: There are proxies. There are Islamic regime of around proxies

802
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 1: already on the ground in America. There is a bounty

803
00:41:55,600 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 1: on President Trump's head. They benefit from chaos in America absolutely.

804
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Speaker 6: Absolutely, So please support law enforcement. That's for everybody just

805
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 6: listening to your podcast.

806
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 2: Please support law.

807
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:09,840
Speaker 6: Enforcement because we are the only ones you can call

808
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 6: when the heat is really on.

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Speaker 1: You are a hero, Merlin, and you speak so beautifully

810
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:18,440
Speaker 1: and passionately and authentically, and you're such I now know

811
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Speaker 1: why my very good friend Trey handed the baton to you.

812
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time, thank you for

813
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 1: your passion, Thank you for fighting for I think the bravest,

814
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:29,880
Speaker 1: most courageous members of our community. They deserve our support.

815
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Speaker 1: We'll continue to fight for them here and I'd love

816
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Speaker 1: to have you back on it some stage as well.

817
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Thank you, well, my loves. Is

818
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 1: time now for a little bit of fan feedback, and

819
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Speaker 1: let's have a look a couple of spicy bits of

820
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 1: commentary back this way, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Let

821
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Speaker 1: me have a look here now, this lovely person, doctor

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Speaker 1: David Hilton. He's a doctor, guys, so what he says

823
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Speaker 1: must be factual. He says Aaron Mullin is only fans

824
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 1: for boomers. I mean again, I'm torn. Only fans would

825
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:12,759
Speaker 1: infer that I'm a little bit hot, you know. For

826
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 1: boomers though, might infer that I am past my best

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Speaker 1: but I'm a little old. Or are they old and

828
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:23,880
Speaker 1: they just like me because I'm so young? No, probably

829
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Speaker 1: the first i'd say, given it's meant to be an insult,

830
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Speaker 1: But thank you, doctor David Hilton. Beautiful. What he says

831
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Speaker 1: regarding Trump Tower and Gold Coast looks like the Gold

832
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:34,280
Speaker 1: Coast isn't as woke as you'd think. Yeah, we will see.

833
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Speaker 1: We will see. There's still some hurdles to overcome there,

834
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 1: but we will see. I've got message from an anonymous person,

835
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Speaker 1: an email, and this is more for the Australian audience

836
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Speaker 1: because I'll there my past. But he says, Hi, I

837
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Speaker 1: know Aeron isn't reading this whole. I am, but I

838
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:48,360
Speaker 1: urge the person that is to show erin this apology

839
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Speaker 1: and more so praise. Years ago, when Aaron was on

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Speaker 1: the Footy Show, I was one of the people she

841
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:54,959
Speaker 1: called out for harassing her with comments like she doesn't

842
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:58,319
Speaker 1: belong there. I've toughened up significantly since then. Clearly, if

843
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: I called you out for saying that, Although I maintain

844
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Speaker 1: I never threatened her daughter, when she went on sixty

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Speaker 1: minutes and exposed that, I felt sick. Yes, that was

846
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Speaker 1: very vile when it came to my child. That was

847
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:10,040
Speaker 1: the hard part of all of that. Yes, I was

848
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:12,359
Speaker 1: ashamed of my part. I thought I was just being misogynistic.

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Speaker 1: I sincerely apologize. I've watched Aaron in the media the

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Speaker 1: past few years since COVID and I'm actually so proud

851
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:19,400
Speaker 1: of her. Courage, critique and intellect. She speaks so professionally

852
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 1: and clearly. I admire Errand's message. A while back she

853
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:24,880
Speaker 1: spoke about men's mental health and rights, and recently the

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Speaker 1: shape of Australian politics. I just want to say thank

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Speaker 1: you anyway. I appreciate that very much. I actually really do.

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Speaker 1: It's so interesting thinking back to that time in my

857
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Speaker 1: life when I mean, I was it felt at the time,

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Speaker 1: I was attacked mercilessly as the first woman in Australia

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Speaker 1: to host different kind of sporting shows and different sporting events.

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Speaker 1: I look back now and the Errand that exists today

861
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:48,920
Speaker 1: would not have given a tinker's cuss, but the Errand

862
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:52,359
Speaker 1: that existed back then was deeply affected by it. It's

863
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 1: very interesting, but I feel like now I'm able to

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Speaker 1: cope with this space because of what I went through

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Speaker 1: back then. So in some ways I'm grateful. But I

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Speaker 1: think for me, the part that that I will never

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Speaker 1: understand is when my child is brought into it and

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Speaker 1: there are physical threats. There were threats of I won't

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Speaker 1: even say but sexual violence against a two. You know,

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Speaker 1: it was vile, So that side of it was awful,

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Speaker 1: but the other less intense stuff has helped me prepare

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Speaker 1: for this world that I exist in now, so I

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Speaker 1: am grateful for it. Someone said, in response to my

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Speaker 1: Megan markle clip, you do look and sound dim enough

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Speaker 1: to not know that regarding champagne being put in the fridge.

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Speaker 1: Yet they've spelt not knot awkward when you're calling me

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Speaker 1: dim slash dumb, I would get the spelling right. Just

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Speaker 1: a side note, and another doctor, doctor Annie, has said

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Speaker 1: on X you are above this, and that was my

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Speaker 1: joke regarding Megan Michael's massive revelation that we should put

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Speaker 1: champagne in the fridge, And I said, no, I kind

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Speaker 1: of like mine, like toilet water lukewarm, obviously being sarcastic.

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Speaker 1: My friends, we can be multi dimensional here. I can

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Speaker 1: talk about war in the Middle East. I can stand

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Speaker 1: up for Western civilization, and I can take the mickey

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Speaker 1: and believe you me, I take the mickey out of

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Speaker 1: myself more than anyone else. And if we can't laugh,

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Speaker 1: what's the point. So now I'm not above that. I

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Speaker 1: didn't commit a cardinal's sin. I took the mickey out

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Speaker 1: of someone in public life who had put online a

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Speaker 1: very obvious tip. So no, I completely own that and

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Speaker 1: I will continue to have a laugh because we need

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Speaker 1: to otherwise, what is the point. I love you all.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you check out the State of the Union

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Speaker 1: clip if you haven't. What's that already? We'll have weekend

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Speaker 1: episode will be on the Salem News Channel over the

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Speaker 1: weekend as well Saturday and Sunday one pm, and then

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Speaker 1: back next week. But you can. You can be with

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Speaker 1: us all the time. Socials YouTube podcast. Make sure you follow, rate, share,

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Speaker 1: click all the other things. Love you all, We'll see

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Speaker 1: you see