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Speaker 1: here's the Big Weekend pod. I'm Hugh Hewett. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for listening. Big line up today, John ellis of course

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Speaker 1: with the news items of great import that you may

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Speaker 1: have missed this week. Be following it up with Eli Lake.

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Speaker 1: We'll be talking about Iron, as I will be with

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Speaker 1: Matt Continei and Ben Dominicic as well. Look at a possible,

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Speaker 1: as I said on America Reports yesterday John Roberts, possible

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Speaker 1: that Iron will capitulate and simply say, hey, we're going

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Speaker 1: to open up the kimono, Come get our missiles, come

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Speaker 1: get our uranium. It's what Kadafi did in two thousand

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Speaker 1: had marched up to Bagdad Kadafi saw what the United

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Speaker 1: States military could do, and he said, okay, out come

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Speaker 1: get all my bad stuff, and we did go and

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Speaker 1: get all of his bad stuff. Could the Iranians make

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't think actually a regime is capable of doing that.

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Speaker 1: But could a new regime put a bullet in the

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Speaker 1: to go down with this ship.

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Speaker 2: These people are crazy. Yeah, that's possible, but it.

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Speaker 1: Would be a new regime, Like there's a new regime

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Speaker 1: in Venezuela that is cooperating with President Trump and the

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Speaker 1: rest of the administration in the transition to something new

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Speaker 1: people of Venezuela. That transition undeterminate yet how long it

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Speaker 1: will go. But I'll talk with all my guests about

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Speaker 1: that today. Plus Japan takes a Chinese shipping boat. We'll

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Speaker 1: start there with John Ellis on this big weekend pod.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening, Glory and even Graves in America.

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Speaker 1: I hope your Valentine's Day weekend is off to a

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Speaker 1: good start. I'm starting the program today with John Allis,

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Speaker 1: founder and editor in chief of News Items, your morning

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Speaker 1: newsletter on everything that's important in the world. Get rid

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Speaker 1: of everything else. You can stick with news items and

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Speaker 1: be well read. John, I had no idea until you

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Speaker 1: sent me the note that we got a little crisis

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Speaker 1: brewing in the South China Sea. I didn't know that

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister Takaichi had won a thumping, big victory last Sunday,

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Speaker 1: did not know that Japan had seized a Chinese fishing

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Speaker 1: How goes that situation, Well.

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Speaker 3: It's interesting.

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Speaker 4: I think it's the most important story of the day,

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Speaker 4: and it may, you know, become more important as the

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Speaker 4: day's passed. But if you go back to November, Takeishi

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Speaker 3: China could go to Japan. Whatever.

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Speaker 4: She then last weekend was elected her party got a

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Speaker 1: I would also add to what into her newly elected status.

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Speaker 4: It's a fairly bold move and one I think that well.

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Speaker 4: One is that caffeine reduces your risk of Alzheimer's, and

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Speaker 4: it's a huge study conducted over forty three years. Two

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Speaker 1: Hope that might be why the number came in today.

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Speaker 4: Sorry about that reduces your risk of dementia and you know,

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Speaker 4: The second is that if you if you keep engaged intellectually,

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Speaker 4: it reduces your risk of dementia by forty percent. So

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Speaker 4: the advice is to start reading, start writing, and start

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Speaker 1: And well, I work with Dwayne every day, so I'm

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Speaker 3: I didn't get to the small print.

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Speaker 4: I was so excited about the first paragraph that I

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Speaker 1: Now you have to explain to me the AI story

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a research group called METR and they built

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Speaker 4: That it has enormously positive implications because if genetics is

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Speaker 1: In the absence of an agreement, everyone goes fast as

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Speaker 1: you can, which may lead to why people are so gloomy.

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Speaker 1: The poll that you brought from Pew about the percentage

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Speaker 4: John ellis, Yeah, it was actually a gallup pole. But

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Speaker 4: it is truly discouraging because people in the US are

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Speaker 3: Think we are.

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Speaker 1: Is exuberance always been lower among the younger than it

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Speaker 1: Of one stair at a time I got my books.

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Speaker 1: Discouraging the Pew Pole does not surprise me. That's the

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Speaker 1: low confidence in journalism to act in the best interest

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Speaker 1: in public Fifty seven percent express low confidence in journalism

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Speaker 2: I kind of actually surprised it's that high.

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Speaker 4: John Well, I think you know this is not this

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Speaker 4: is not news, right, I mean, we've been watching this

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Speaker 4: it's I think the reason that it's not higher is

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Speaker 4: it because people have found their own news sources, which

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Speaker 4: Hugh hewittt like the Hugh Hewitt Show. So from from

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Speaker 3: But that's you know, that's not news.

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Speaker 1: Do they ever do you ever get feedback from them

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Speaker 1: it's because you cover the waterfront quickly, but I'm not sure.

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Speaker 4: That because it's you know, they can get a pretty

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Speaker 1: All right, last story you sent me, Switzerland is joining

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Speaker 1: going to hold a referendum. I'm not sure when it's

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Speaker 4: I think of a very strong reaction to immigration across Europe.

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Speaker 1: And Italy deployed its navy today saying stop introduce all

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Speaker 1: John Ellis from news Items, Thank you. If you want

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Speaker 1: news items, just go to Google news items. Sean Ellis

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Speaker 1: substack and you'll find it. Thank you, John, I'll be right.

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Speaker 1: I'm Hugh Hewett, joined now by Eli Lake of the

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Speaker 1: Free Press, where he was writing about the Kurds inside

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Speaker 1: of Iran today. Eli, good to see you. Follow Eli

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Speaker 1: at x on exit Eli Lake. Yesterday, the President said

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Speaker 1: take my chemical take my skates. That's really the only

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Speaker 5: What do you think, Well, I agree with you.

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Speaker 6: I think it's slightly different than what happened with Kadaffi.

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Speaker 6: Kadaffi was responding to the invasion of Iraq and the

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Speaker 6: there was a deal. It was done first through intelligence,

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Speaker 6: Trump is basically offering a kind of lifeline, albeit a

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Speaker 6: problem is he began twenty twenty six by promising to

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Speaker 6: Where we are at this moment, I have very.

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Speaker 1: Clear feeling eli, which is, if the President follows through,

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Speaker 2: Possible, it is not likely.

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Speaker 1: And then I think it is very likely that he's

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Speaker 6: Well, this is again I want to What I want

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Speaker 2: That's the problem.

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Speaker 6: They did kill in the tens of thousands, lots of

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Speaker 6: I have not heard any I mean, it could be

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Speaker 5: When Trump talks.

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Speaker 6: About the deal, he talks about nuclear he talks about missiles.

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Speaker 6: He meets with net and Yahoo, but we don't hear.

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Speaker 6: And we talked about the terror proxies, but what about

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Speaker 6: I think the end goal has to be the end

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Speaker 2: Well, I give you that.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I agree, but el I've heard a

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Speaker 2: It's like Sophocle.

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Speaker 1: He will not know how good the day has been

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Speaker 1: I don't think he can bring those people back to life.

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Speaker 1: I don't blame them that the regime killed them and

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Speaker 5: Well?

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Speaker 6: Agree that now you're getting into something else, which is

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Speaker 6: a kind of regime death wish? I believe they are.

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Speaker 6: I think they're apocalyptic. And then the second thing is

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Speaker 2: You have the innerset.

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Speaker 6: Actors in place and the military positioning in place to

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Speaker 6: is that the regime was cratering. They had lost popular legitimacy.

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Speaker 2: At this point.

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Speaker 6: Even the act of negotiations is reflected back to the

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Speaker 6: That's going to take some time. I understand that. And

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Speaker 5: Moas we hold all the cards, they have zero leverage.

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Speaker 1: And the regime did it, and they did something I

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Speaker 7: Do you.

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Speaker 2: I hope he can.

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Speaker 6: I think there was I think in I think reprisals

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Speaker 5: But they do have to go.

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Speaker 6: And I'm just worried that even if we got a

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Speaker 6: of the regime is still in my view of failure.

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Speaker 1: Well, I agree, but I don't think. I don't think

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Speaker 5: Eli.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because if that is, then trumps gerald in a

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 6: Yes, And I think the good The difference between Trump

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Speaker 6: That was something that was Obama's big weakness. He at

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I agree. And if you ever played Jackson Open,

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Speaker 1: trust the Wynn poker. H the Iranians doing Jackson Open.

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Speaker 1: Well keep talking about it every week because Eli and

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Speaker 1: I have gotten there's no other story that's important in

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Speaker 1: the world. Maybe the Chinese fishing boat, the Japanese cities

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Speaker 1: this morning, but all other story is this close. Stay

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Speaker 1: tuned in America. Thank you, Eli Lake, follow him at

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Speaker 1: Eli Lake, and read them in the Free Press.

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Speaker 2: Stay tune. Welcome back to America.

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Speaker 1: I'm Hugh Hewett, joined now by Wall Street Journal columnist

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Speaker 1: Matt Continetti. Matt also has domestic policy studies at the

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Speaker 1: American Enterprise Institute, and in his column this week for

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Speaker 1: Republicans need three things before November. Sustained economic growth. I

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Speaker 5: See, Absolutely, Hugh. I mean, this administration has a great

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Speaker 1: He has also made the Secretary of the Treasury a

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Speaker 1: And I think Scott Besson deserves headline billing because he's

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Speaker 5: Yeah, this Secretary Beson's a great ambassador for the administration,

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Speaker 5: and he made the rounds today with the latest inflation numbers.

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Speaker 5: You know, this has been the story of the Trump

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Speaker 5: presidency so far, is that the tariffs aren't showing up

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Speaker 5: in the overall inflation data, and so the economic cost

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Speaker 5: of the tariffs and the tariffs are attacks, so there's

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Speaker 5: always a cost is showing itself in other ways. And

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Speaker 5: so Secretary of Besting can say, look, inflation is lower

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Speaker 5: than expected, and meanwhile GDP growth is above expectations, quite

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Speaker 5: considerable growth coming out of the last quarter. And the

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Speaker 5: job a situation, the job picture in January was really

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Speaker 5: out of left field in terms of the jobs created.

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Speaker 5: And so that's a great story any administration wants to have.

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Speaker 5: Now it's not enough, i think for the midterms, because

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Speaker 5: if you recall, the economy was going gangbusters in twenty

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Speaker 5: eighteen as well, and in fact, at that time, the

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Speaker 5: economy was President Trump's best issue. He had high ratings

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Speaker 5: on the economy, which he does not enjoy today. But

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Speaker 5: in twenty eighteen, you had a growing economy, you had

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Speaker 5: Trump being rated very highly on the economy. The Democrats

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Speaker 5: still won the House of Representatives, so that's where that

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Speaker 5: second item in my list comes in a dramatic event.

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Speaker 5: Something that puts the Democrats on their heels and allows

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Speaker 5: Trump and the rep Republicans to display leadership and vision

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Speaker 5: late in the election is critical, I think for Republican

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Speaker 5: performance in the campaign.

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Speaker 1: Matt Contney, this will carry over into the break, So

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Speaker 1: I encourage everyone to go and listen to the Big

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Speaker 1: Weekend pod as well to hear the second part of this,

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Speaker 1: and then Matt will be buck on the other side.

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Speaker 2: Would you think that either one.

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Speaker 1: Or two retirements on the Supreme Court this June or

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Speaker 1: early July would or even announced earlier, would set the

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Speaker 1: Republicans up for an enthusiasm burst. You can't get a

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Speaker 1: higher one hundred percent turnout and the Democrats are there.

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Speaker 1: So what do you think a Supreme Court vacancy or

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Speaker 1: two would do for the GOP?

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Speaker 5: Well, I do think of vacancy and a fight over

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Speaker 5: the Supreme Court would be something that could mobilize Republican

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Speaker 5: voters in the fall and add to their enthusiasm. And

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Speaker 5: we have historical president for this. Again, I'll go back

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Speaker 5: to the twenty eighteen example, Hugh, the Kavanaugh hearings and

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Speaker 5: the way in which now Justice Kavanaugh was treated by

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Speaker 5: the mainstream media and buy the Democrats on the Senate

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Speaker 5: Judiciary Committee infuriated Republicans and to I think, really defend

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Speaker 5: Trump and go out and support Republican Senate candidates in

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Speaker 5: twenty eighteen, I think the Kavanar hearings are a reason

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Speaker 5: that Republicans held on to the Senate despite losing the

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Speaker 5: House in twenty eighteen. And so fight over the Constitution,

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Speaker 5: a fight over jurisprudence about what type of direction we

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Speaker 5: want the country to go in, that is something that

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Speaker 5: would galvanize Republican views. And it's a consideration I think politically, though,

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Speaker 5: I think the Justices make their decisions on different considerations.

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Speaker 1: Oh they do, and yeah, we don't know. And I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying they should go. It's up to two justices

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Speaker 1: and their spouses. But I'll be back with Matt Continentty

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Speaker 1: to talk about some sacred saws that can be added

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Speaker 1: to that during the burk. I'm back with Matt Continety

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Speaker 1: in the bridge segment between our two over the year segments. Matt,

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Speaker 1: I've been peddling the idea that if you really want

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Speaker 1: to make Democrats stand up and go crazy, President Trump

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Speaker 1: would nominate either for a retirement by Justice Thomas or

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Speaker 1: win by Justice Alito.

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Speaker 2: Eileen Cannon, the.

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Speaker 1: Astute judge from South Florida who ruled correctly that Jack

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Speaker 1: Smith had no constitutional warrant for the position he was in.

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Speaker 1: How do you think Democrats would respond to Judge Cannon's nomination?

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Speaker 5: Well, they go gaga. There's no question about that. I mean,

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Speaker 5: let's not forget the Democrats will pose any Supreme Court

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Speaker 5: nominee that President Trump throws up. And that's why people

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Speaker 5: should be wondering about the prospect of potential retirement among

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Speaker 5: a Republican appointed justice at the end of this term.

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Speaker 5: Because say that the election does go overwhelmingly in the Democrats'

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Speaker 5: direction and they win not just the House but also

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Speaker 5: the Senate. I happen to think Democratic victory in the

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Speaker 5: Senate is unlikely at the moment, but let's just say

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Speaker 5: it happens. Well, that means that President Trump will get

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Speaker 5: no Supreme Court appointments for the rest.

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Speaker 2: No judicial appointments, Matt, I don't.

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Speaker 5: Probably no cabinet appointments either, right right, it will stop.

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Speaker 5: So so that's a you know, that's a consideration. And

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Speaker 5: again I'm not sure that justice is thinking those terms,

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Speaker 5: and so as a Canon nomination I think would galvanize Republicans,

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Speaker 5: it would galvanize Democrats. Let's remember, you know, Judge Cannon

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Speaker 5: was also I think involved in striking down the Biden

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Speaker 5: vaccine mandate which was unconstitutional as well and the mask

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Speaker 5: the mask mandate on planes. So she has I think

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Speaker 5: of you, of freedom, individual liberty that many Conservatives would

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Speaker 5: support if she were nominated to the High Court.

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Speaker 1: And there are lots about Judge Strauss up there in

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Speaker 1: minnesot Cold Land. There's Mulsa Bar in Kentucky. There's David Hoe,

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Speaker 1: Judge Hoe down in Texas. There are a lot of

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Speaker 1: great first term Trump judges who have added six years

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Speaker 1: to their resumes on the Appeals Court bench. I'm just

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Speaker 1: toying with the Eileen Cannon, but any of them would

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Speaker 1: ignite the Republicans, I think because Democrats could I guess

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Speaker 1: there's a question, and I don't want to give you

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Speaker 1: an answer in the form of a question. Could the

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Speaker 1: Democrats resist the bait Matt and not trash a nominee.

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Speaker 5: No, no, you is the Democrats can't resist any bait

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Speaker 5: right now. I mean, look at what they're shutting down

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Speaker 5: the government again this weekend, even though ICE is already funded.

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Speaker 5: So we're having a second government shutdown, partial affected the

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Speaker 5: Department of Homeland Security, which just happens to include besides ICE, FEMA,

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Speaker 5: the Coast Guard, and the TEMP Transportation Security Authority TSA.

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Speaker 5: And the Democrats are doing it why because of their

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Speaker 5: left wing base. It's demanding resistance to Trump at all costs,

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Speaker 5: and that means taking grabbing any date that they see

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Speaker 5: before it.

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Speaker 1: We'd have code pink twenty four to seven throughout a

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Speaker 1: nomination process. And that's a promise, not a prediction. I'll

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Speaker 1: be right back when Matt Connetty stay tuned. Clargan back

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Speaker 1: in America. I'm huit joined by Matt Connetti. He had

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Speaker 1: AEI in the Wall Street Journal. Matt, time to turn

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Speaker 1: to Iran. I was talking with Eli Lake before you

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Speaker 1: joined us about how long the president has to settle debts,

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Speaker 1: and I think he is indebted to the people of Iran.

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Speaker 2: I think he made promises.

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Speaker 1: The Crown Prince of Iran was on this program Monday

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Speaker 1: and said President Trump promised help is on the way.

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Speaker 1: So unless they capitulate like Kaddafi did in two thousand

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Speaker 1: and three and four, and that would probably mean the

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Speaker 1: general's removing Hamini and someone something like that, which I

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Speaker 1: can't imagine. Trump has to hit them very, very hard,

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Speaker 1: or it's a shadow over his entire presidency. Do you

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Speaker 1: agree with that assessment?

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Speaker 5: Well, I do agree that if Trump fails to enforce

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Speaker 5: the red line that he drew, it will affect the

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Speaker 5: rest of his presidency, not just in the way that

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Speaker 5: we think about his presidential performance, but it will affect

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Speaker 5: the way that America's adversaries see President Trump see our

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Speaker 5: position in the world. You know, the deterrent is a

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Speaker 5: capability plus the will to use it. And if President

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Speaker 5: Trump ends up not having the will to use our

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Speaker 5: capabilities to enforce the lines he drew, that is, don't

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Speaker 5: kill your own people, stop enriching uranium, and limit your

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Speaker 5: ballistic missiles, and no longer support these terrorist proxies, then

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Speaker 5: it won't just be the Mullahs that take notice. It

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Speaker 5: will also be Vladimir Putin. It will also be Shi

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Speaker 5: Jimping in the People's Republic of China, Kim Jong Lunan

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Speaker 5: in North Korea. They'll all see an opportunity and they'll

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Speaker 5: begin to probe America's defenses. I think it's very important

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Speaker 5: that President Trump enforced the Redline, and I think what

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Speaker 5: we're seeing now, Hugh, is America moving our assets into position.

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Speaker 5: Kind of Remember, it's capability plus will. So if the

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Speaker 5: will is there, that means we have to have the capability,

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Speaker 5: not just the capability to strike Iran, but also the

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Speaker 5: capability to defend against a raring and retaliation. That takes time.

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Speaker 5: And we were having the second aircraft carrier now moving

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Speaker 5: to the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea. That will

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Speaker 5: take time. And in the meantime, of course, we're replenishing

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Speaker 5: our air defenses and putting other offensive platforms into the

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Speaker 5: region as well. So I think this will play out

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Speaker 5: over the coming weeks. President Trump this week said that,

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Speaker 5: you know, a month or so, that probably just around

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Speaker 5: the amount of time it takes for that second carrier,

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Speaker 5: which I believe is the Ford Carrier Group, the largest

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Speaker 5: carrier in the world, to get in place, and for

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Speaker 5: everyone there on board and in the affiliate vessels to

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Speaker 5: have operational readiness.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 1: Admiral Montgomery brought me up as a civilian this week.

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Speaker 1: He said, takes the two weeks after a carrier arrives

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Speaker 1: on station to get operationally ready to do what they

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Speaker 1: really want to do if they can, if they have

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Speaker 1: the time to take. They want to take the time

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Speaker 1: to get ready.

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Speaker 2: So he said a month or.

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Speaker 1: So yesterday on Thursday, and I take that strategic confusion again.

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Speaker 1: He said everything, but he's also last question on I run.

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Speaker 1: I want to go to Japan and China. I think

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Speaker 1: what he's created are the conditions for what Admiral Montgomery

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Speaker 1: called strategic confusion, not ambiguity, but confusion. And we really

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Speaker 1: can't we really can't judge what he's done here until

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Speaker 1: it's over. And I'm going to stick to that point.

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Speaker 1: We don't really know if he's erased the redline or not,

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Speaker 1: or he's gone Obama or not until those ships are withdrawn.

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Speaker 2: I agree.

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Speaker 5: I agree that Trump always leaves his options open. Trump

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Speaker 5: would prefer a deal. He's asking things that this Iranian government,

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Speaker 5: this deacratic dictatorship that has waged war against the United

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Speaker 5: States since it came to power in nineteen seventy nine,

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Speaker 5: they're not going to agree to it. And so the

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Speaker 5: moment of decision will come, but it might not come

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Speaker 5: for a few more weeks.

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Speaker 1: Did you play poker as a young man? Now, have

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Speaker 1: you ever played jack? So open trips to win.

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Speaker 5: I've played a few hands of poker, but I'm not

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Speaker 5: going to Blackjack is more my game.

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Speaker 2: Hugh, Well, Jackson opened, even though the odds.

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Speaker 5: Are against him blackjack, blackjack, I still prefer it poker

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Speaker 5: for whatever reason.

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Speaker 1: Well so do I, and that's the only thing I

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Speaker 1: know how to play, So that's why I prefer it.

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Speaker 1: I'd lose at blackjack, but Jack's to open. The Iranians

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Speaker 1: don't have jacks. They don't have anything they can give

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Speaker 1: or their regime will collapse. And so either the generals,

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Speaker 1: I think it's really the generals do it, or we

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Speaker 1: do it now. Matt earlier today, John Ellis brought me

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Speaker 1: up to be on this. Japan sees a Chinese fishing

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Speaker 1: but within their exclusive economic zone. We do not have

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Speaker 1: a carrier in the South China Sea. We do have

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Speaker 1: a big deck. The Tripoli is there that George Washington

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Speaker 1: is in Yokuska. They're homeport in Japan, but they're not

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Speaker 1: patrolling right now. They were patrolling until December. Do you think,

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Speaker 1: I mean, what do you think is the worst case

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Speaker 1: scenario for China Japan right now.

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Speaker 5: Well, the worst case is always a conflict between these

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Speaker 5: two powers that would drag in the United States, obviously,

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Speaker 5: because of our very important alliance with Japan. You know,

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Speaker 5: the Chinese so called fishing fleets have been harassing our

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Speaker 5: allies for over a decade. What's interesting here is, you know,

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Speaker 5: the Japanese Prime Minister Hue Prime Minister Takeichi just had

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Speaker 5: a tremendous victory in the Japanese Parliament and has done

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Speaker 5: one of the largest majorities ever enjoyed by her party,

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Speaker 5: the ld which has been the ruling party of Japan

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Speaker 5: since the Second World War. And of course Takeichi is

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Speaker 5: disliked intensely by Beijing because she is a Japanese nationalist,

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Speaker 5: because she is a strong supporter of the Democratic governor

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Speaker 5: government in Taiwan, and because she believes that Japan needs

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Speaker 5: to re arm and expand its defenses. It already has defenses,

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Speaker 5: and we help with them. And so I wonder whether

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Speaker 5: this probing by the Chinese fishing vessel was a part

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Speaker 5: of a test of Takeiichi to kind of remind her. Interesting,

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Speaker 5: even though she has this tremendous political victory, that she

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Speaker 1: I don't think she I think I'm not sure I

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Speaker 1: can call her Asia's Thatcher yet. But she is a

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Speaker 1: China Hawk, and I can't imagine that she's going to

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Speaker 1: go wildly do you imagine? I just don't see it happening.

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Speaker 5: No, she's not you know Thatcher as an Iron Lady.

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Speaker 5: Takiichi is the Iron Maiden because she used to play

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Speaker 5: drums in a metal band. Oh, she's a fascinating Yes,

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Speaker 5: she's a fascinating figure. She spent time in the United States,

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Speaker 5: and you know she was a protege of Shinzo Abbe,

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Speaker 5: who is very much in Shinzo Abbe's mold, someone who

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Speaker 5: believes in Japan's power, strength, wants to re energize the

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Speaker 5: Japanese economy. And of course Abe had a tremendously important

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Speaker 5: relationship with Trump, and I think Takeiichi and Trump are

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Speaker 5: on the way to re establishing that type of personal

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Speaker 1: In the second watch that space. Wait the Iron Maiden

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Speaker 1: would be terrific. Wait the Iron Lady and the Iron Maiden.

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Speaker 1: That's a good one. Matt Conteney, thank you. As always

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Speaker 1: Ben Pod this week you would have heard is America?

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Speaker 1: I don't read novels very often. Ben Dominicic, welcome. I

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Speaker 1: have a completely unexpected turn. Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition.

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Speaker 1: But Ben, when you show up, nobody but I know

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Speaker 1: that I can ask you about sports?

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Speaker 2: Right? Are you an NBA fan?

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Speaker 7: I am, but I paid more attention to basically once

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Speaker 7: the playoffs start, especially at this particular moment. I mean,

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Speaker 7: I'll wait for your question, but especially at this time

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Speaker 7: of year when you see so many teams tanking well

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Speaker 7: this time of.

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Speaker 2: Year is also when you see teams going all in.

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Speaker 1: And the Cavaliers, my club has been since they got

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Speaker 1: started in the seventies, they've only won once twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 1: been ten years, and they went all in, trading Darius

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Speaker 1: Garland for the Beard James Harden, and Cleveland is on fire.

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Speaker 2: Ben.

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Speaker 1: He made his home debut against the Wizards, the hapless

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Speaker 1: Wizards who are thanking, and he's lit up the first

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Speaker 1: three games. And I just want to know what you

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Speaker 1: think of the Beard because Cleveland and I am now

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Speaker 1: in love with the guy and I've kind of all

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Speaker 1: he's been a West guy mostly. He was with Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: and Brooklyn for a while, but mostly it was thunder

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Speaker 1: and rockets and stuff like that. Now the Clippers, what

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Speaker 1: do you think of the Beard?

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Speaker 7: Well, first of all, I have to say it's a

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Speaker 7: bold statement to say Cleveland is on fire. I'm giving

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Speaker 7: it some context. No, you went on fire. And the

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Speaker 7: truth is I am actually a longtime fan of James Harden.

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Speaker 7: Oh who is who I has gotten to see multiple times,

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Speaker 7: you know, in person, and look, the truth is that

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Speaker 7: his limitation has always been a physical one and not

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Speaker 7: a mental one. He's a very smart player, and when

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Speaker 7: he wants to get going, he can get going. And

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Speaker 7: the real question is just whether you know he's able

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Speaker 7: to hold up once you get to the playoffs, because

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Speaker 7: I think that this is you know, look, this is

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Speaker 7: a moment where there's a lot of action in the

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Speaker 7: East and there's a lot of things that I think

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Speaker 7: that the you know, people frankly are disappointed in how

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Speaker 7: Orlando has turned out. They're disappointed, and you know a

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Speaker 7: number of different clubs that they thought would be doing better.

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Speaker 7: And I think that, you know, this could be a

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Speaker 7: year where you have a team surprise and breakthrough. And

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Speaker 7: as for the Wizards, yes, they are definitely tanking, though

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Speaker 7: the Anthony Davis and Trey Young acquisitions are ones that

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Speaker 7: make me hopeful if they are able to stay healthy,

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Speaker 7: and that is an incredible heavy.

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Speaker 1: If so that's when they when Darius Garland got traded,

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Speaker 1: everyone was saying, oh lucky, he's ten years younger than

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Speaker 1: hard and maybe the young man doesn't play, he's hurt

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Speaker 1: all the time because he's small.

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Speaker 7: You can't yeah, no, he's not. And you can't evaluate

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Speaker 7: a player on hope. You know, I'm sure only had

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Speaker 7: plenty of them come through in Washington who you evaluate

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Speaker 7: that way, and you just have to at a certain

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Speaker 7: point you have to say, are we serious about this

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Speaker 7: or not? And so I like the hard and move

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Speaker 7: and I think that there is an opportunity here, perhaps

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Speaker 7: in the East to really, you know, make make some

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Speaker 7: noise in the year when certain places have underperformed expectation.

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Speaker 1: So let me that's my first step on the diving

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Speaker 1: board is step number two about sports. Cleveland is very

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Speaker 1: excited about this. The Guardians have got said, you know,

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Speaker 1: we have the Browns, and the Browns are disaster, but

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Speaker 1: they got a new coach. But they're very excited. And

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Speaker 1: it brings me back to the Washington Post's decision to

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Speaker 1: close their sports page. Now, if they really want to

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Speaker 1: reinvigorate the paper, they have to reverse that decision, don't they.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I pay to Cleveland dot Com a ridiculous

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Speaker 1: am I remember about this for Fox News this week.

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Speaker 2: I subscribe to them.

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Speaker 1: I get their verticals on the calves of the Browns,

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Speaker 1: Ohio State and the Guardians. The only way the Post

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Speaker 1: can actually turn it around is to go heavy into

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Speaker 1: Washington DC sports.

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Speaker 2: There. They even have the University of Maryland in the

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Speaker 2: Big Ten.

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Speaker 1: Now they've got George, they got hoops, they got UVA

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Speaker 1: planning for maybe getting in James Madison looks like it's interesting.

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Speaker 1: What do you think then do they change their mind?

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Speaker 7: I think that there's I think there are two things

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Speaker 7: that have to happen. One is I actually think they

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Speaker 7: need to expand you mentioned James Madison. The Washington Post

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Speaker 7: is for years essentially treated anything that's outside of Northern

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Speaker 7: Virginia as if it's a foreign country. You know, they

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Speaker 7: didn't they didn't cover Virginia Tech as as much as

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Speaker 7: they should have.

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Speaker 5: They don't.

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Speaker 7: They'll cover what goes on with you know, when UVA

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Speaker 7: was something that was a little bit of an exception

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Speaker 7: because it's a basketball tem But the truth is that,

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Speaker 7: you know, when the jam you run was happening, they

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Speaker 7: did almost nothing in terms of their coverage of it

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Speaker 7: because they're more they were more addicted to these stories.

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Speaker 7: And and Andrew Styles over at the Free Beacon did

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Speaker 7: a fantastic roundup of like of like twelve of them

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Speaker 7: that over the past couple of years that are just

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Speaker 7: ridiculous injections of politics into sports. So I think you

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Speaker 7: have to step one is you have to expand you

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Speaker 7: have to cover these different teams that are outside of

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Speaker 7: the of the Beltway area. But you also, I think,

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Speaker 7: have to be serious about we are in the business

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Speaker 7: of sporting news. We are talking about the games, we

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Speaker 7: were talking about the trades, we were talking about what's

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Speaker 7: going on. We are not using sports as a lens

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Speaker 7: to look into the American psyche as it relates to

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Speaker 7: gender and sex and raise.

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Speaker 2: They're doing fan service. They need to do fan service.

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Speaker 7: That's and not the kind of fans who don't care

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Speaker 7: about sports, but they've basically been catering to for the

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Speaker 7: last several years. And it's why this decision was easy,

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Speaker 7: because essentially you're killing in an opinion section which is

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Speaker 7: they need to understand in order to move forward and look,

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Speaker 7: I think that that would be an enormous benefit to

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Speaker 7: the Posts and to having the paper set on a

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Speaker 7: good role going forward. They need to appreciate how important

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Speaker 7: this is. And I will say one more thing, and

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Speaker 7: I say this with all due respect our British friends,

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Speaker 7: there's been you know, a real importation from the UK,

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Speaker 7: including in the in the Post, you know, in terms

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Speaker 7: of their in terms of their leading folks and across

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Speaker 7: media generally, a lot of folks have come over in

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Speaker 7: the last couple of years. One thing that they don't

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Speaker 7: get American sports. And that's something that I think that

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Speaker 7: they don't quite rock as much as they ought to

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Speaker 7: as something that was a centerpiece of American discourse. But

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Speaker 7: they have to change the approach that has been used

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Speaker 7: by these lefties who just wanted to I mean, I

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Speaker 7: don't know if you've seen this today, even Sarah Spain,

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Speaker 7: you know, going after jd Vance for you know, seeing him,

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Speaker 7: just seeing him carrying his kid at the Olympics, and she's, oh, no,

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Speaker 7: I didn't.

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Speaker 2: I'm not reading the paper. I don't I don't subscribe

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Speaker 2: to that.

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Speaker 7: Well that's that's she's doing it on X. But the

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Speaker 7: but the point is just that like those are the

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Speaker 7: kind of people you've had covering sports. That doesn't make

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Speaker 7: sense anymore. You can't get away with that anymore. We're

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Speaker 7: not interested in it. The market has spoken, and you can't,

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Speaker 7: you know, let them write a notpbed occasionally in the

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Speaker 7: New York Times, which also is a lot of people

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Speaker 7: who don't really care about sports reading it and and

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Speaker 7: leave that leave the sports sections alone. When it comes

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Speaker 7: to Indian injecting this type of politics into literally every

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't want them to go hire David Campbell,

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Speaker 1: who's the Cleveland dot com sports editor and the genius.

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Speaker 1: But there are there got to be people around who

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Speaker 1: know how to do sports journalism and do it well,

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Speaker 1: because everybody I know in my world love sports, even

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Speaker 1: if they're left.

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Speaker 7: You Lucas Tomlinson and my colleague and I text about

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Speaker 7: sports on a daily basis, and when it comes to

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Speaker 7: the Washington decisions and everything related all to the leagues,

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Speaker 7: and you know, he's absolutely as die hard into this

876
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Speaker 7: as I am. And I'm sure that we would love

877
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Speaker 7: to have an actual local section that was paying attention

878
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Speaker 7: to things that mattered in terms of the franchisees as

879
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:54,960
Speaker 7: opposed to, you know, again, injecting politics into every piece

880
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Speaker 7: of coverage that you possibly can. Leave them leave that

881
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Speaker 7: worldwide leader.

882
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Speaker 2: By the way, my triple.

883
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Speaker 1: Jump off of the board now is to the Olympics

884
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Speaker 1: and it will take us into the break and we'll.

885
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Speaker 2: Talk about Iran afterwards. I have watched very.

886
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Speaker 1: Little Olympics because of one reason. There's too much Olympics

887
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Speaker 1: I mean, they're everywhere broken into eight minute segments, and

888
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Speaker 1: there's not NBC News primetime at seven pm you can

889
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Speaker 1: catch the most important events with.

890
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Speaker 2: All the glitz. Do you think they killed the Olympics.

891
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Speaker 1: I don't know what their viewership is like, but it's

892
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Speaker 1: it's like a buffet course that is never ending.

893
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that there's there's a bit. It's just

894
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Speaker 7: oversaturation and it's hard to cover all this, you know,

895
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Speaker 7: to pay attention to all the storyline. I'll confess that

896
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Speaker 7: because of the kid, the love of the little now

897
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Speaker 7: almost six week old, you know, I've paid less attention

898
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Speaker 7: to this Olympics than I normally do. Because I like

899
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Speaker 7: the Olympics. I think it's great to see America go

900
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Speaker 7: up into the Olympics and kick ass. But the thing

901
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Speaker 7: that is the thing that I think is really you know, difficult,

902
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Speaker 7: is you never really know what you're watching. It bounces

903
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Speaker 7: around quite a lot, and I really wish that they

904
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Speaker 7: would give it to us in a bit more of

905
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Speaker 7: a package where we would have, you know, something more

906
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Speaker 7: that we can that we can see and follow. I

907
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Speaker 7: will say though, that the primary complaint against the Olympics

908
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Speaker 7: was lodged by the five year old in the house

909
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Speaker 7: who wanted to watch a movie or something, and my

910
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Speaker 7: wife informed her that, know, in this house, we root

911
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Speaker 7: for the United States of America. And so that's what

912
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Speaker 7: happened for Mecca.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a shared experience.

914
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Speaker 1: It's a shared experience that most Americans like, but it's

915
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Speaker 1: not a shared experience anymore when it's fragmented. So the

916
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Speaker 1: shared experience of watching an ice skater fall or America

917
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Speaker 1: win beat the Russians in nineteen eighty, that's not there.

918
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Speaker 7: So I think just they made a huge program and

919
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Speaker 7: if you have not seen it, you should watch this

920
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Speaker 7: Netflix documentary on the on the nineteen eighty USA team

921
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Speaker 7: because and this I think that they did a poor

922
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Speaker 7: job of advertising it, because it has a ton of

923
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Speaker 7: new footage, of footage that has never been seen before

924
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Speaker 7: of the game. And it's really just something that I

925
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Speaker 7: think is is, you know, I recommend to everybody that

926
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Speaker 7: I know to watch, even even just as a historical

927
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Speaker 7: document and you know, you get different shots of Herb Brooks,

928
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Speaker 7: you get different shots of you know, key plays that

929
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Speaker 7: we're in it, and you look at that was obviously

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Speaker 7: an incredibly shared experience in America, as you as you had,

931
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Speaker 7: you know, people able you know who did not know

932
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Speaker 7: that it had happened learning about it, and so I

933
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Speaker 7: think this is also just one of these uh, this

934
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Speaker 7: is one of these eras where we have such an

935
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Speaker 7: oversaturation of some of these things, often motivated by just

936
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Speaker 7: being able to do ad sales during them, as NBC

937
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Speaker 7: has done quite successfully, and and that I think leads

938
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Speaker 7: to some of that fragmentation that you're talking about.

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Speaker 1: I'll be right back during the break with Ben Dominics.

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Speaker 1: We're going to talk about the Big Ben podcast. The

941
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Speaker 1: lead story, has Trump lost in America? I don't think

942
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Speaker 1: some that will have been talked about that. We'll be

943
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Speaker 1: back on the other side and talk Aaron, So don't

944
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Speaker 1: go anywhere they tuned to.

945
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Speaker 2: The k Huge Shots. I'm back with Ben Dominic s.

946
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Speaker 1: Ben, I thought you were opening at the Big Ben podcast,

947
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Speaker 1: which was very provocative this week, where you asked as

948
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Speaker 1: president and Trump lost the country and then I watched

949
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Speaker 1: him go down to Fort Bragg and get the enormous

950
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Speaker 1: reception that the commanders in chief got. I think he's

951
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Speaker 1: lost belue America, but I don't think he's lost right.

952
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Speaker 1: America is just a question he turns up in November.

953
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: I think that the big question though Hugh is whether

955
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Speaker 7: he is losing, and this is something where he got

956
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Speaker 7: in good news today obviously on the inflation figures, whether

957
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Speaker 7: he has lost the key portion of his coalition, which,

958
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Speaker 7: as you know, is difficult to get to the polls

959
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Speaker 7: when it comes to mid terms of working class Americans.

960
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Speaker 7: I know that you probably saw if you have, If

961
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Speaker 7: you haven't, who you will the AOC clip from Munich

962
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Speaker 7: where she's talking about so today, you know, she went

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Speaker 7: to Munich, which is interesting.

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Speaker 2: So she's running for president. She's running.

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Speaker 7: It's another sign as I think she's running for president.

966
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Speaker 7: She's not running for Senate. She's running for president, and

967
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Speaker 7: that I think is But one of the things that

968
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Speaker 7: she started leading with was about having a coalition that

969
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Speaker 7: they basically it sounds like half Hillary Clinton on one

970
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Speaker 7: hand when it comes to the Globe and then half

971
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Speaker 7: at home mom Donnie and basically you know, affordability. We

972
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Speaker 7: need to be this working class coalition, warrying warrying about

973
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Speaker 7: oligarchs by the way to Munich, which is pretty funny,

974
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Speaker 7: and and then and saying that we needed She was

975
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Speaker 7: asked by one of the people there about whether we

976
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Speaker 7: ought to have a wealth tax, and she said that

977
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Speaker 7: needs to be a priority. That kind of language is

978
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Speaker 7: actually what upper crust sort of lefties think is an

979
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Speaker 7: affordability message. It's not an actual affordability message. And if

980
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Speaker 7: you look consistently the kind of reports that were coming

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Speaker 7: out after November of last year from from the you know,

982
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Speaker 7: the different Democrat super packs, they all indicated that basically,

983
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Speaker 7: what people want to hear within that demo, which again

984
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Speaker 7: went for Donald Trump and went in mass and delivered

985
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Speaker 7: a big victory for him, what they want to hear

986
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Speaker 7: about is affordability. They feel like things should have gotten

987
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Speaker 7: cheaper since he got back into office, and they and

988
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Speaker 7: they care about those things as a priority. They don't

989
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Speaker 7: really care about hearing about the you know how insulting

990
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Speaker 7: it is. She she went after the Trump administration, for instance,

991
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Speaker 7: for forgetting Maduro, describing it as kidnapping a head of state,

992
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Speaker 7: which I mean, actually quite the stretch. But I think

993
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Speaker 7: that this is the situation where again she's running for president.

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Speaker 7: Put that in your calci bet now.

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Speaker 1: But I think let me ask you that have you

996
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Speaker 1: ever heard her give a serious interview on national security?

997
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Speaker 7: I have never heard once, of course not and and

998
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:37,560
Speaker 7: she's treated by kid gloves, you know, she in terms

999
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Speaker 7: of the way that the media acts towards her, and

1000
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Speaker 7: I think we have to expect that that will continue.

1001
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Speaker 7: And so look, you are going to end up with

1002
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Speaker 7: the situation here where the President could lose a significant

1003
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Speaker 7: portion of his coalition that the Republican Party needs to

1004
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Speaker 7: show up in order to have a competitive November. Otherwise

1005
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Speaker 7: they get swamped. The Democrats take at least the House

1006
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Speaker 7: and they just turn the next two years into a

1007
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Speaker 7: complete craft show of investigations and impeachments.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's going to happen. I think we're gonna lose

1009
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Speaker 1: the House. But I'll come back on the other side

1010
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Speaker 1: with Ben, and we're going to talk about how did

1011
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:08,839
Speaker 1: the Republicans chiefs turn out?

1012
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Speaker 2: Standby Welcome Back in America.

1013
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Speaker 1: I'm Hugh Hewitt, and I'm temporarily stunned because during the break,

1014
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Speaker 1: Ben Dominic's told me that AOC went to the Munich

1015
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Speaker 1: Security Conference, which is with the Reagan Defense Conference and

1016
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Speaker 1: the Halifax Conference, the big three national security conferences around

1017
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Speaker 1: the country. The Nixon Foundation does one as well in DC,

1018
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Speaker 1: but the one up in Halifax out west in Munich.

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Speaker 1: They're the Big three and I can't imagine AOC at

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Speaker 1: a security conference. Ben just explain to our Steelers fans

1021
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Speaker 1: what that means, because I agree.

1022
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Speaker 3: With you what it means.

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Speaker 7: What it means is that AOC wants the attention of

1024
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Speaker 7: the world. And the way that she framed herself by

1025
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Speaker 7: the way to this global audience was essentially as someone

1026
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Speaker 7: not who didn't want to tear down the system, but

1027
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Speaker 7: kind of restore an older system of of you know,

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Speaker 7: using using all the normal catchphrases of global order and

1029
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Speaker 7: the like. She basically depicted the Trump administration as agents

1030
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Speaker 7: of chaos when it came to the global affairs, particularly

1031
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Speaker 7: in our own hemisphere, you know, citing the Greenland example,

1032
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Speaker 7: citing the Venezuela example, you know, citing you know, some

1033
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Speaker 7: of this other you know, saber rattling and the like.

1034
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Speaker 7: What what she really means, of course, when she says

1035
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Speaker 7: something like that is she wants to China run global

1036
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Speaker 7: order in my opinion, but that's just my opinion. The

1037
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Speaker 7: thing is, I think that when she goes on to

1038
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Speaker 7: a stage like that, she knows she's going to be

1039
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Speaker 7: treated with kids loves, by the by the international folks,

1040
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Speaker 7: they're not going to be judging her right off the bat,

1041
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Speaker 7: and she can basically give this message as one where

1042
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Speaker 7: you know, again she is depending on which polling numbers

1043
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Speaker 7: you look at, she's third currently in terms of the

1044
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Speaker 7: ranking of the Democratic potential presidential candidate. You can debate

1045
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Speaker 7: about where she is, but she's definitely third, with Newsom

1046
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Speaker 7: and of course Kamala Harris hanging around as one and two,

1047
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Speaker 7: depending on the ployee that you're looking at. I think

1048
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Speaker 7: she is fully intend to run for president.

1049
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Speaker 5: I think she wants to.

1050
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Speaker 7: Depict herself as being this future is female candidate, but

1051
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Speaker 7: from a younger generation. And I think that she wants

1052
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Speaker 7: to basically become someone who could go up against the vance.

1053
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Speaker 7: I mean Rubio was there as well this year, of course,

1054
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Speaker 7: go up against you know, potentially a Rubo and depict

1055
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Speaker 7: them as being chaotic figures, where she's a return to

1056
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Speaker 7: normalcy on the international level. And that's a savvy political move.

1057
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Speaker 7: I think it's the kind of.

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Speaker 1: There's no downside to her running for president, there's none.

1059
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Speaker 1: She doesn't she didn't get stuck in the Senate where

1060
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Speaker 1: she's one hundred out of one hundred. She gets either

1061
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Speaker 1: she gets it the brass ring, or she makes a

1062
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Speaker 1: gazillion dollars and she becomes her own thing. So there's

1063
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Speaker 1: no downside to it. It's almost inevitable that she runs.

1064
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Speaker 1: And I think she's going to win because she got

1065
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Speaker 1: chops on stage and the President has said to me

1066
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Speaker 1: on the show, Oh, she's got a lot of sparkle.

1067
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Speaker 1: But we'll have to see how she does in an interview.

1068
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Speaker 1: She does not do interviews, Ben, and I don't know

1069
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Speaker 1: whether or not she can do the comments.

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Speaker 7: I don't think require her to do it. I think

1071
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Speaker 7: she's going to skate. And this is the thing that's

1072
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Speaker 7: you know, happens so frequently with her. Again, she represents

1073
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Speaker 7: herself as being this candidate who appeals to the working class,

1074
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Speaker 7: and you can't think of a less working class friendly

1075
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Speaker 7: policy than something like the Green New Deal. I mean,

1076
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Speaker 7: that's just it's a complete opposite. And yet she never

1077
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Speaker 7: gets asked about that. The idea that she is going

1078
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Speaker 7: is going to skate into this role is something that

1079
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Speaker 7: I certainly believe, and I would be scared if I

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Speaker 7: was Gavin Newsome that she could have the kind of

1081
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Speaker 7: of inspiring appeal that he is, This kind of slick California,

1082
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Speaker 7: you know, Silicon Valley back, you know Reid Hoffman backed

1083
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Speaker 7: candidate or something like that. You know, is going to

1084
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Speaker 7: seem like She's going to make him seem like the corporatist,

1085
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Speaker 7: you know, billionaire friend much older, Yeah, much older. And

1086
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Speaker 7: I think that that's something that has real resonance in

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Speaker 7: in America, where you know, no offense view that the

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Speaker 7: millennials are in charge right now, you know we are.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're going to skip right past these Actually

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Speaker 1: you cannot offend me because I'm seventy. I know what happens,

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Speaker 1: and I'm looking at Gavin, and Gavin's on my side

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Speaker 1: of the divide.

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Speaker 2: He's not on your side of the divide.

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Speaker 7: Well, but again, I maintain the most gen x thing

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Speaker 7: that ever happened is to not have a president like

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Speaker 7: we looked around and we decided, nah, I will not

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Speaker 7: do that. So it's the thing that I think is

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Speaker 7: going to be very interesting going forward. Look at the

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Speaker 7: way that she is covered versus the way that JD

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Speaker 7: dances covered, because they are essentially I think that they

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Speaker 7: are headed on a collision course.

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Speaker 1: And I think, now I've been talking about I got

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Speaker 1: to get this in because I've been talking about Iran

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Speaker 1: with Matt Contenenny and Eli Lake.

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Speaker 2: I don't have to cover it with you, but I

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Speaker 2: do want to cover with you.

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Speaker 1: Takaichi the new prime minister who just went overwhelmingly a

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Speaker 1: week ago huge majority in the DAT in Japan, and

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Speaker 1: today her security forces went out and nabbed the Chinese

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Speaker 1: fishing vessel inside their exclusive economic zone. It's a Conney

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Speaker 1: says we should call her the Iron Maiden. I said,

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Speaker 1: maybe she'll be Asia's Asia's Thatcher, and Kantene said, no,

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Speaker 1: she's the Iron Maiden, not the Iron Lady, because I

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Speaker 1: didn't know she was in a heavy metal band. What

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Speaker 1: do you think of her and what do you think

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Speaker 1: of this this crisis in the South China Sea.

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Speaker 7: I think that this is going to be a real

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Speaker 7: test for us in terms of the alliances that we

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Speaker 7: have in the region, and it could be something that

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Speaker 7: could spawn I mean, it's very rare that something like

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Speaker 7: this happens without after action, after effect Domino's falling. I'll

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Speaker 7: be curious to see how she handles it. I do

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Speaker 7: think that you know, she's someone to watch, but you know,

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Speaker 7: in an era when we have seen so much praise

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Speaker 7: directed at UH directed at North Korea of all places,

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Speaker 7: for having a female air name. That was a big

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Speaker 7: trend among a lefty twitter. Why can't we have a

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Speaker 7: female air named You know, here in the United States,

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Speaker 7: don't people look to you know, women politicians who are

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Speaker 7: actually good at what they're doing. You know, why don't

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Speaker 7: Why don't she serious?

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Speaker 1: And we just talked about AOC not doing any national

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Speaker 1: security interviews. Ever, she that's what she made her bones on.

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Speaker 1: She's a China Hawk.

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Speaker 7: Yes, yeah, And I think that this is I mean,

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Speaker 7: this is obviously a test case. But the truth is

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Speaker 7: that we we should be applauding this in the West

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Speaker 7: in terms of having someone in that job who understands

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Speaker 7: the real threat that China represents and is not too

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Speaker 7: scared to confront it. But look, you know, these these

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Speaker 7: are the kind of questions I would like to see

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Speaker 7: AOC asking, as opposed to should we have a wealth tax?

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Speaker 1: You know, we asked AOC if we asked her what

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Speaker 1: the Hunan Island incident was, would she have a clue?

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Speaker 2: Do you think she'd have a clue?

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Speaker 7: You know, I don't. I'm not a big fan of,

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Speaker 7: like of basic tests in order to run for office

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Speaker 7: or to get that job. But I kind of wish

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Speaker 7: that we made all of the all of the you know,

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Speaker 7: folks who did this do some form of political jeopardy

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Speaker 7: just for the sake of just, oh, you know, where

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Speaker 7: do you you know? What part of the world do

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Speaker 7: you think? You know? Afghanistan is in? How about that?

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Speaker 7: To start with?

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't believe in gotcha's, but I do

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Speaker 1: believe that before you become president. And you know, famously,

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump told me he know more about terrorists on

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Speaker 1: day one when he became president, and I didn't. Sure enough,

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Speaker 1: he took it out more. He's taken out more terrorists

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Speaker 1: than any other president on one on one basis.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't.

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Speaker 1: But I I just wonder if she doesn't really have

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Speaker 1: any kind of evidence, any kind of grasp of the

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Speaker 1: complexity of what she aspires to speak on it.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's some humility in its a real problem.

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Speaker 7: I think it's a real problem. But I think that

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Speaker 7: the other problem that we need to understand is she

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Speaker 7: has a political career that is built on vibes and

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Speaker 7: social media that works in this era. It's going to

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Speaker 7: raise a ton of money for She's going to have

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Speaker 7: a ton of energy, and I think that Republicans should

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Speaker 7: not underestimate her. And that's you know, something that we've

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Speaker 7: seen happened four where they thought that certain people could

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Speaker 7: come up. I mean, I remember the talk about Barack Obama.

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Speaker 7: How are they gonna k oh, yeah.

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Speaker 2: I'm guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, and well well but.

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Speaker 7: See, I think at the time you can defend yourself

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Speaker 7: because that seemed like a very unlikely scenario. But sometimes

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Speaker 7: the nation is a couple of rungs ahead I guess,

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Speaker 7: or a couple of months behind where you think they are,

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Speaker 7: and they are very vulnerable in an era like think

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Speaker 7: about it this way, in an era in which education

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Speaker 7: scores have plummeted. Not everybody's Mississippi, Hugh, And I say,

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Speaker 7: that's a proud a child with Mississippi.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I agree.

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Speaker 1: I was in the Qweight Center when Obama gave his

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Speaker 1: speech in two thousand and four, and I was impressed,

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Speaker 1: but I wasn't thinking he could be president. So that

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Speaker 1: just tells you what four years can do. But he

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Speaker 1: also is a Harvard log guy, and she has not

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Speaker 1: well Ben dominant. She's given us a lot to think about.

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Speaker 1: Follow Ben a be dominant on X Listen to the

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Speaker 1: Big Ben podcast you hear most Fridays when we are lucky.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Ben,