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Speaker 2: happened there last night? Hey, good morning, folks, welcome in.

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Speaker 2: I went to bed before this Houston Steelers game last night,

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Speaker 2: thirty to six. Woo. I just woke up to that

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Speaker 2: score this morning. Sorry, Steelers fans, not trying to pick

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Speaker 2: I valued more than the game. I'll just put it

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Speaker 2: to you that way. No offense to Houston or to Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 2: Just I had to get some sleep. But nevertheless, I

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Speaker 2: that thing last night. Whoa you know? Doungee said fast

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Speaker 2: Eddy Tony Dungee said he thinks this whole guy's playing

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Speaker 2: on Monday night things not fair to either one of

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Speaker 2: those teams, and that in fact, this whole postseason thing,

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Speaker 2: the fact that it used to be three three games

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Speaker 2: rest instead of now trying to reschedule it and squeeze

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Speaker 2: it into a Monday. You agree with that or disagree

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Speaker 2: with that. None of these teams should have a short

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Speaker 2: their season. I kind of saw it his way. I mean,

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Speaker 2: Dungee's not loose lipped. He generally well thinks his opinions

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Speaker 1: As a coach, I can understand where he's coming from.

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Speaker 1: But as a consumer, I like the three day swing.

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Speaker 2: That's just it these guys. Now, that's the big debate.

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Speaker 2: Is it about a commodity for you or guys that

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Speaker 2: But these guys are human beings, they say. But then

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Speaker 2: Now, I have a feeling you're just a little sore

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Speaker 1: As a lifelong Eagles fan, yes, I would. If we

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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen. Anyway, glad to be here with you.

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Speaker 2: Sorry I wasn't with you yesterday. Thanks to Mark Davis

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Speaker 2: for sitting in. I know you were in great hands.

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Speaker 2: Sorry I missed you, But you know I had the

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Speaker 2: of you in this audience that's steal really, But Chris,

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Speaker 2: it's so good for their socialization. I'll pay for a

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Speaker 2: And what do we find when they're out of school

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Speaker 2: I just I please, please, a little public service announcement

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Speaker 2: It's just unique because typically people that have really positive

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Speaker 2: He's one of a few dozen here in the winter.

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Speaker 2: It's really unusual. But we're going to see how it goes.

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Speaker 2: Public as you? I go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa.

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Speaker 2: In that group of forty five percent, it's people like me,

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Speaker 1: Actually, have a weird take on this. I'm more proud

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Speaker 2: his voters like you and me. By the way, I'll

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Speaker 2: remind you, whether you're a pro lifer, you're somebody who

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Speaker 2: didn't want to wear a stupid mask or take a shot.

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Speaker 2: Nobody has been more bullied than Donald Trump and many

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Speaker 2: of us who supported him. And now now Republicans are

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Speaker 2: in total control of Washington, and a lot of them

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Speaker 2: dare sit around and wring their hands.

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Speaker 10: And go, gosh, Trump's mean. I wish he wouldn't be

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Speaker 10: so mean. I don't like the optics of this.

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Speaker 2: Shut the hell up. I don't have time for this,

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Speaker 2: and neither does Donald Trump. Thank goodness. You know Iran

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Speaker 2: is freaking out right now, and for good reason. Why

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Speaker 2: because of how Donald Trump handled himself in places like Venezuela.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you remember this or no. I

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Speaker 2: know this audience does forgive me. I've been frosted and

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Speaker 2: just champing at the bit to get back here to

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Speaker 2: talk about this because I know this audience remembers it.

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump in twenty twenty four came through Philadelphia, And

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Speaker 2: it was at that time, as he was still a candidate,

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Speaker 2: that he and I vis did briefly and it was

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Speaker 2: one of the prouder moments that I've had as a

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Speaker 2: talk show host talking with somebody like the President of

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Speaker 2: the United States, within candidate, former president soon to be

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Speaker 2: president of the United States, because I brought something to

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Speaker 2: his attention ed that nobody else was talking about at

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Speaker 2: the time, and he said, so and this is how,

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Speaker 2: By the way, you know that Donald Trump's a really

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Speaker 2: bright guy who actually does know his stuff and pays

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Speaker 2: close attention. He's out on the campaign trail and he

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Speaker 2: is He's talking about anything and everything wherever he goes.

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Speaker 2: He never knows exactly who's going to hit him with

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Speaker 2: what You've got to be so up on so many things.

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Speaker 2: He goes out to California, he's talking about water tables

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Speaker 2: and water supply and brush fires. You know, you could

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Speaker 2: be talking about wind farms, you could be talking about

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Speaker 2: any number of things. He gets to Philadelphia and one

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Speaker 2: of the things that I asked him, you remember the

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Speaker 2: question ed by chance, and it was a question specific

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Speaker 2: that he said, you know what, nobody's asked me that

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Speaker 2: before until now, do you remember what it was about?

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Speaker 1: Was it about you?

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Speaker 2: Okay if you don't.

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Speaker 1: Was it about Ukraine?

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Speaker 2: It was about specifically Russia had subs floating around off

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Speaker 2: the coast, not far off the coast of Florida. You

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Speaker 2: remember that?

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Speaker 1: I do, yes, I do, m M.

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Speaker 2: And he looked at me and I thought, either I

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Speaker 2: don't know, he was ticked or like, why are you

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Speaker 2: asking if I can't talk about that right now? And

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Speaker 2: he's because I had made the point that what we

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Speaker 2: learned was that Chinese. And first of all, we'd had

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Speaker 2: the Chinese spy balloon not too terribly long ago. Remember

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Speaker 2: eight days China had a spy balloon fly over this country.

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Speaker 2: Do you remember that? Does anybody remember that? Add do

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Speaker 2: you remember that?

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Speaker 1: Of course absolutely yes.

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Speaker 2: Were people comfortable with that? I wasn't comfortable with that.

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Speaker 2: I don't know about you. But this thing just drifted

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Speaker 2: and floated, taking who knows what, and the husk just said,

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Speaker 2: let's just let it. It'll be fine. They don't shoot

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Speaker 2: it down until it gets over the water of South Carolina.

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Speaker 2: It floats over our airspace for eight days, nothing happened,

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Speaker 2: and then we come to find out that we have

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Speaker 2: Chinese and Russian vessels floating in the waters near Alaska,

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Speaker 2: and floating in the water is not too far off

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Speaker 2: of Florida. They're the incursion of these Russian and Chinese

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Speaker 2: vessels and flying into our airspace in Alaska. They kept

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Speaker 2: buzzing us flying and I was saying to myself, how

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Speaker 2: is this tolerable? How are Americans not up in arms

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Speaker 2: over this? How are members of Congress not up in

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Speaker 2: arms over this? And the only body, the only person

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Speaker 2: that seemed to be up in arms over it was

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump. And I asked him about it, and he said,

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Speaker 2: you know, that's a great question. You know, nobody's asked

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Speaker 2: me about that. Thank you, And he went on to

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Speaker 2: opine about the matter at hand. My point in bringing

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Speaker 2: all this up is Donald Trump then talks about Greenland,

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Speaker 2: and people start to belly ache about the way he

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Speaker 2: answers it. They don't like that he's mean when he

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Speaker 2: talks about Greenland. Well, he knows that Greenland is strategically important.

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Speaker 2: Here's Trump talking a little about this Denmark and whether

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Speaker 2: they're going to hand over Greenland and do business with

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Speaker 2: us or not. Number thirty and it should make the.

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Speaker 3: Deal because Greenland does not want to see Russia or

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Speaker 3: China take over.

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Speaker 1: They don't go there.

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Speaker 2: It's very far away.

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Speaker 10: From Greenland and Greenland basically their defense is two dog sleds.

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Speaker 1: Do you know the you know what their defense is,

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Speaker 1: two dog sleds.

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Speaker 2: He's having a little fun there. Russia and China at

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Speaker 2: present are bobbing around in the waters of Greenland. They

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Speaker 2: want do you know the rare earth minerals that have

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Speaker 2: not even been tapped in Greenland lots. It's huge. It's

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Speaker 2: also strategically incredibly important to us. And what we can't

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Speaker 2: have and as Trump has said, we cannot have Russia

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Speaker 2: and China making that their new marina where they pull

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Speaker 2: up and just do whatever they please. Can't have it,

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Speaker 2: much like you can't have them doing business Iran and

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Speaker 2: Russia and China doing business in Venezuela, the don Roe doctrine.

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Speaker 2: This is a president that's finally wakened up and said,

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Speaker 2: you know what, we're We're not just gonna sit around

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Speaker 2: and wait for our enemies to start encroaching on our turf.

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Speaker 2: And if Denmark's not gonna help, well we're gonna have

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Speaker 2: to start flexing some muscle. I don't know about you

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Speaker 2: but I actually like somebody with backbone. I like some strength.

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Speaker 2: I'm tired of the GOP.

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Speaker 10: I don't know. Maybe if we're just maybe we can

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Speaker 10: plight our way out of it.

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Speaker 2: More in a minute, so President Trump says, US presidence

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Speaker 2: in Greenland is not enough. We need the ownership title.

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Speaker 2: I don't know exactly how this gets there. I don't

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Speaker 2: know what it means. I don't know what the flex is.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what the taunting is. I don't know

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Speaker 2: what the teasing is. They got a couple of dog sleds.

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Speaker 2: I know it irritates people. I know they call it

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Speaker 2: bullying and it's ghosh. But the fact of the matter

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Speaker 2: is the conversation is a serious. When we talked to

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Speaker 2: Seb Gorka about this last week, I said, is he serious?

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Speaker 2: He says, was it serious to buy Alaska? I mean, now,

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Speaker 2: all these years later, do people sit around and go, boy,

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Speaker 2: we were really ham fisted. We shouldn't have bought Alaska.

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Speaker 2: Who says that today? Who says it today? I thought

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Speaker 2: a lot about pointing out Alaska. Ed do many people

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Speaker 2: lament that we own Alaska? To day?

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Speaker 1: It was vitally important. I don't think of America without Alaska,

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Speaker 1: of course, yeah.

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Speaker 2: But I mean it's like, and I think today, if

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Speaker 2: it ever were to be that we would acquire Greenland,

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Speaker 2: I think there would be a day, you know, long

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Speaker 2: after we're gone, where people wouldn't imagine a time where

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Speaker 2: we didn't at least have interests in control of Greenland.

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Speaker 2: It's strategically important. And I was just look, most of

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Speaker 2: us don't sit around and think about Greenland. I get it,

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Speaker 2: it was never on your radar. But guess who's radar

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Speaker 2: It's on Trump's? Why because you have Chinese and Russian

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Speaker 2: interests floating around it, effectively making them our neighbors. Same

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Speaker 2: with Venezuela, same damn thing. Those guys are trading oil,

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Speaker 2: they're doing business, they're setting up base camp basically to

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Speaker 2: our south. We're effectively being surrounded by some of the

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Speaker 2: globes worst people that do not mean us well on

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Speaker 2: our own block. Do you allow it or don't you?

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Speaker 2: And just because you and I aren't sitting around thinking

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Speaker 2: about Greenland, Trump, it's not supposed to have a bigger picture.

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Speaker 2: Of course he does.

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Speaker 5: So.

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Speaker 2: Trump says that a military presence on Greenland is not sufficient.

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Speaker 2: He wants to have ownership of the Arctic Island. Trump

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Speaker 2: says defenses on the massive island controlled by Denmark cannot

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Speaker 2: repel a challenge from rival nations. Meanwhile, in Iran, they're

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Speaker 2: starting to freak out. What began on December twenty eighth,

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Speaker 2: This demonstrations in downtown Tehran driven to run away inflate,

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Speaker 2: have driven rather runaway inflation and the rival sharp depreciation

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Speaker 2: against the dollar. It's now moved beyond a protest wave

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Speaker 2: and become a nationwide movement, now entering its third week.

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Speaker 2: Did you hear how they're communicating? Now? I tell you what,

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Speaker 2: We're in a new era. Have you heard how Iranians

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Speaker 2: are communicating and getting the video and everything that you're

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Speaker 2: seeing online of the protests in the streets. They've been

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Speaker 2: shutting down their internet services in Iran. They've been trying

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Speaker 2: to block all communication and all information in and out

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Speaker 2: of Iran. No cable and that's sort of thing. Do

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Speaker 2: you hear other communicating Elon Musk starlink? Yeah? And I

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Speaker 2: tell you, when it's all said and done, history is

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Speaker 2: going to reward Elon Musk richly, this man and these

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Speaker 2: inventions like starlink allowing people to communicate without government inter experience,

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Speaker 2: and they're trying as fast as they can to jam

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Speaker 2: all these starlink signals too. But Iran is about to topple.

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Speaker 2: They're very very close. And now what's Trump done. Trump's

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Speaker 2: announced a twenty five percent tariff on any country that

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Speaker 2: trades with Iran, period full stop squeezing, squeezing. He took

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Speaker 2: out their nuclear facility. They're using stuff like starlink to

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Speaker 2: allow these people to communicate. And now they're going to

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Speaker 2: start punishing any nations that are doing business with them

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Speaker 2: with tariffs, and they're going to keep it up. Trump's

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Speaker 2: got all the leverage. That's what this is about. Ultimately.

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Speaker 2: I wrote about it Friday at town Halls. A matter

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Speaker 2: of fact, it's a leverage game. Venezuela, Greenland, the tariffs,

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Speaker 2: it all fits into a long term strategy to protect America.

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Speaker 2: Caroline said it yesterday, and it's all about leverage. Trump

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Speaker 2: has it. There are a lot of people that are

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Speaker 2: very uncomfortable with a president and a country the United

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Speaker 2: States having leverage. I for one, am not. I like

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Speaker 2: the United States being the strong men on the global stage.

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Speaker 2: I like it a lot. Actually, sorry if that makes

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Speaker 2: you uncomfortable. Maybe you can move to Greenland. Yes, I

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Speaker 2: When he proclaimed I don't have to do anything, I says,

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Speaker 2: Anytime you hear an American say, or anytime you hear

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Speaker 2: I don't actually want to hear a liberal ever say

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Speaker 2: in my opinion, when a liberal says that, it means

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Speaker 2: to want to diminish and demean and undercut what it

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Speaker 2: means to be an American at every term. And yet

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Speaker 2: when we have a debate like we're having with Immigration

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Speaker 2: and Customs Enforcement right now, they thump their chest and

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Speaker 2: they say, I'm an American. I don't have to listen

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Speaker 2: to ICE.

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Speaker 1: No, you do have to follow the law. You cannot

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Speaker 2: That's right, you do have to follow the law, of course,

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Speaker 2: But to say you're proud to be an American and

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Speaker 2: the work Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is doing to protect

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Speaker 2: the very meaning of the words. You just uttered. Are

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Speaker 2: you proud of the country or aren't you? Does being

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Speaker 2: an American mean something to you or doesn't it you

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Speaker 2: see to Donald Trump, making America great again and defending

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Speaker 2: our borders and defending your sovereignty as a citizen, that

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Speaker 2: matters to him most, defending our shores, defending our homeland,

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Speaker 2: making sure we are the strongest, biggest, baddest fighting force.

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Speaker 2: That were lethal peace through strength, of course, not looking

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Speaker 2: to conquer, not looking to jail, not looking to indiscriminately punish,

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Speaker 2: but yes, looking to flex, reminding people were strong. This

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Speaker 2: excites people. Republicans don't excite people. People like Pete Hegsath

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Speaker 2: excite people down in Texas on his Arsenal of Freedom tour.

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Speaker 2: Listen to Pete Hegsath, the Secretary of War, talking to

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Speaker 2: some of the military men and women down there. Fort

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Speaker 2: Worth is where he was speaking yesterday. He stopped by

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Speaker 2: he went to Lockheed Martin. It's pretty interesting because we

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Speaker 2: know that in Iran, for instance, SpaceX is being used

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Speaker 2: at present for people on the ground, the protesters, to communicate,

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Speaker 2: the outside world and showing images of what's happening on

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Speaker 2: involved in this. So our national defense working with new

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Speaker 2: creative way in which to help topple these evil regimes

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Speaker 2: without us having to set a foot on the ground

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Speaker 2: Secretary of warpete Haggs at number twenty four.

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Speaker 7: Distractions in the debris. No more dei, no more dudes

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Speaker 2: We're done with that.

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Speaker 7: We're unleashing the warfighter to be ready, trained, disciplined, accountable,

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Speaker 2: See, this is what Americans want. This is what it

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Speaker 2: means to be an American. If you look at something

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Speaker 2: like President Trump's move on Venezuela and the oil there,

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Speaker 2: it's been widely misunderstood and it's mocked as some kind

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Speaker 2: of crude oil grab or short term tactic, and it

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Speaker 2: is neither. What we're watching, of course, is leverage. Its

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Speaker 2: leverage used deliberately as a national strategy. Trump has always

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Speaker 2: thought in terms of leverage, always long before politics. While

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Speaker 2: building a real estate empire, he learned a very simple truth.

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Speaker 2: Power comes from eliminating your own weaknesses while exposing your opponents.

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Speaker 2: Dependencies control the pressure points, and negotiations change. That is

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Speaker 2: how he defines his foreign policy too. As far as

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Speaker 2: reopening Venezuelan oil under an American firm looks like an

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Speaker 2: energy decision, but in reality, it's monetary policy in disguise.

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Speaker 2: Oil priced and settled in US dollars is the backbone

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Speaker 2: of our financial power as Americans. Global demand for dollars

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Speaker 2: keeps interest rates lower and supports massive borrowing, and gives

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Speaker 2: Washington leverage over world markets. The petro dollar system. It's

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Speaker 2: not a slogan, it's infrastructure, and for years China and

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Speaker 2: Russia sought to escape it. Venezuela was central to that effort.

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Speaker 2: China bought most of its crude at steep discounts, often

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Speaker 2: outside the dollar system, using all these shadow fleets to

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Speaker 2: bypass sanctions. Beijing loaned tens of billions secured against future deliveries,

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Speaker 2: gaining leverage over energy, currency, and geopolitics all at the

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Speaker 2: same time. And then Trump single handedly collapsed that arrangement.

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Speaker 2: Under the new structure, Russia and China can still buy

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Speaker 2: Venezuelan oil, Yes, but only through our companies, on our

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Speaker 2: terms and in our dollars. Every barrel sold. It now

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Speaker 2: strengthens the dollar instead of weakening it. The same supply

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Speaker 2: that once fueled d dollarization, if you will, now reinforces

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Speaker 2: the very system designed to stop it. That's not sanctions,

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Speaker 2: that is leverage reversed. The move reaches even further because

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Speaker 2: Venezuela holds untapped rare earth deposits critical for semiconductors, AI

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Speaker 2: defense systems, electric vehicles, advanced manufacturing. China dominates rare earth

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Speaker 2: processing today because it locked up supply early and turned

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Speaker 2: dependency into pressure. Trump understands dependency as weakness. It is

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Speaker 2: we cannot be dependent, So instead of reacting later, he's

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Speaker 2: closing future pressure points now. And that very same logic

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Speaker 2: explains what we were just talking about in Greenland. Greenland

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Speaker 2: is not about van it's not about preaming, it's not

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Speaker 2: about conquest or prestige. It's about control. Control of Arctic

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Speaker 2: shipping lanes, control of missile defense geography, control of energy access,

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Speaker 2: rare earth resources. As the ice retreats, New routes are opening,

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Speaker 2: and whoever governs them influences global trade, energy flows, supply

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Speaker 2: chain stability, all of it. And that influence is not abstract, folks.

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Speaker 2: It shows up as higher or lower prices for you

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Speaker 2: and me at the checkout line. So if you leave

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Speaker 2: something like Greenland ambiguous, you're surrendering leverage. Securing it removes

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Speaker 2: yet another vulnerability. Tariffs sit at the very center of

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Speaker 2: this philosophy. It's a rebalance of trade, and it makes

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Speaker 2: dependence costly, and it makes our domestic production attractive. It

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Speaker 2: brings investment and jobs back home, addressing decades of offshoring

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Speaker 2: that hollow out our manufacturing. Tariffs also create what more

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Speaker 2: leverage to negotiate. Countries have to choose between paying duties

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Speaker 2: or building factories. Here seen together, these moves from a

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Speaker 2: single system all in one. Tariffs, rebalancing trade, protecting jobs,

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Speaker 2: oil protecting the dollar, minerals protecting industry, geography, protecting security.

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Speaker 2: You see it Trump does. Each one of these things

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Speaker 2: reduces dependence, Each one of these things increases options. Each

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Speaker 2: one of these things forces adversaries to negotiate from weaker positions.

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Speaker 2: By the way, they're all weaker as they negotiate with us.

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Speaker 2: This is the opposite of chest thumping and recklessness. Its

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Speaker 2: long term risk management business. For decades, America accumulated vulnerabilities

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Speaker 2: and trade imbalances, supply chain dependence, currency exposure, unsecured sea lanes,

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Speaker 2: and it was called globalization. Well, Trump saw all that

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Speaker 2: as a vulnerability. He saw it for what it was,

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Speaker 2: leverage frittered away. Well, now he's taking back that leverage.

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Speaker 2: Leverage is not a short term strategy anymore than the

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Speaker 2: Louisiana purchase with short term strategy, or purchasing Alaska. The

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Speaker 2: media prefers to portray Trump as impulsive because the alternative

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Speaker 2: is uncomfortable admitting that he understands power structurally, not rhetorically.

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Speaker 2: Leverage is not domination, its freedom. Monte Caroline Levitt on

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Speaker 2: leverage yesterday, if you would please number twenty eight, PAULI,

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Speaker 2: what I will.

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Speaker 11: Tell you is that what the Iranian regime is saying

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Speaker 11: publicly is quite different from the messages they are sending

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Speaker 11: to the United States and the Trump administration privately. President Trump,

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Speaker 11: as for him, he has always expressed that diplomacy is

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Speaker 11: the first option. Who has been, always will be. However,

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Speaker 11: he is unafraid to use the lethal force and might

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Speaker 11: of the United States military if and when he deems

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Speaker 11: that necessary. And nobody knows that better than the Iranian regime.

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Speaker 11: The greatest leverage the regime had just several months ago

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Speaker 11: was their nuclear program, which President Trump and the United

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Speaker 11: States military totally obliterated through Operation Midnight Hammer. And so

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Speaker 11: what President Trump will do next, only he knows. So

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Speaker 11: the world will have to keep waiting and guessing, and

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Speaker 11: we will let him decide. I'm certainly not going to

861
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Speaker 11: broadcast any future options or decision from the president on

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00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 11: national television.

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00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 2: Again, the media is desperate to portray Trump as impulsive,

864
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:02,399
Speaker 2: that he doesn't think this stuff, because they're very uncomfortable

865
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 2: with the alternative admitting that he actually really does structurally,

866
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 2: not just rhetorically. He understands power like a boss. He

867
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:19,759
Speaker 2: sees weakness where others just see it as norms. He

868
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:26,280
Speaker 2: views leverage again, not as domination, but as freedom of action.

869
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:33,400
Speaker 2: And it's just true. It's axiomatic. Great nations they fail

870
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:39,280
Speaker 2: when they become dependent, but if they're able to keep leverage,

871
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 2: they endure. You always want to have the better cards,

872
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 2: You always want to be holding the better hand. You

873
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:47,800
Speaker 2: never want to be in a place where you're bluffing

874
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 2: with a weaker hand, and Trump understands that instinctively. There's

875
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 2: a single thread that runs through Donald Trump's entire career,

876
00:46:59,719 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 2: both private and now in public as President of the

877
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Speaker 2: United States, and so many still miss this. It's the

878
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:12,280
Speaker 2: word Caroline just used. Leverage, removed dependence, control, pressure points,

879
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 2: keep options open. Even dosee fits that pattern. It's not

880
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:22,680
Speaker 2: about weaponizing government. It's about deweaponizing, defanging all the fraud

881
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:27,680
Speaker 2: that outside forces used as leverage against the taxpayer and

882
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:33,360
Speaker 2: against government. History someday, I think, just as we were

883
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 2: talking about with Alaska, history someday is going to see

884
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:39,919
Speaker 2: this moment in time this last year or two or more,

885
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:45,839
Speaker 2: not as an oil deal or some land discussion. They're

886
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:49,320
Speaker 2: going to see it as a point when this country quietly,

887
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:55,759
Speaker 2: but forcefully and firmly avoided a checkmate on the global stage.

888
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 2: More in a minute. It's been a while since we've

889
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 2: caught up with our friend Tim Myrtal. He was an

890
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 2: advisor to the Trump team in twenty twenty four and

891
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:08,400
Speaker 2: before that in their first campaign. He wrote a fantastic book,

892
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:10,400
Speaker 2: Swing Hard. In case you hit it my escape from

893
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 2: addiction and shot at redemption. On the Trump campaign, he

894
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 2: has been one of our go to favorites for analysis,

895
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Speaker 2: and back in twenty twenty four, Tim Murtall was one

896
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Speaker 2: of the few, I will say, who was as optimistic

897
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:27,560
Speaker 2: and a bolliant consistently a lot of nattering nay bobs,

898
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 2: including me at times, that thought the corruption's just too

899
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 2: big to overcome. Tim, but you kept soldiering on and

900
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:35,239
Speaker 2: said nope, we got this thing, and you were right.

901
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:38,200
Speaker 2: Good morning, welcome back, morning, Chris.

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Speaker 6: Good to see you again.

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Speaker 12: I hope, you know, I hope that relief factor that

904
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Speaker 12: you were just promoting there, I might check that out

905
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Speaker 12: to help me get through the Eagles loss of now

906
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Speaker 12: forty eight hours ago.

907
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Speaker 2: So very bad. But I appreciate you staying that.

908
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:53,480
Speaker 12: You know what, I was optimistic about the win in

909
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:56,480
Speaker 12: twenty twenty four because I saw all the internal polling,

910
00:48:56,719 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 12: and you know, we told the press that we were ahead,

911
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 12: that Trump was ahead in all seven battleground states. And

912
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:04,359
Speaker 12: on election night, a reporter down in West Palm Beach,

913
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 12: a reporter walked up to me from the New York

914
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Speaker 12: Times and said.

915
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Speaker 6: Did you guys see this?

916
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 12: Because you know, it was over at like ten o'clock

917
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Speaker 12: at night or even earlier, which was nobody expected that,

918
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Speaker 12: you know, calling a victor that night, and this reporter

919
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:16,960
Speaker 12: walked up to me and said, did you see this coming?

920
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 12: Did you guys know this was going to happen? And

921
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:21,439
Speaker 12: I said, look, we told you guys that if Tony

922
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:23,719
Speaker 12: Fabrizio's numbers were right, that the president was going to

923
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Speaker 12: win and it was not going to be particularly close. Well,

924
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 12: Tony was right. Would you think we were lying? You know,

925
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:32,480
Speaker 12: it's like they didn't want to believe it. Do you

926
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Speaker 12: see just in the other side I knew about polling,

927
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Speaker 12: doesn't mean that we are.

928
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Do you see anything? I mean, I don't. Again,

929
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:42,160
Speaker 2: I don't want to be Pollyanna, but do you see

930
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:45,160
Speaker 2: anything about the traditional thinking heading into the fall and

931
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:49,759
Speaker 2: the midterms? Again? Traditional wisdom is no way Republicans can

932
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Speaker 2: hang onto the House. Are you a traditional wisdom guy? There? No?

933
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Speaker 12: No, I don't get me wrong. It's difficult because you know,

934
00:49:57,239 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 12: when one party controls the White House, the messaging for

935
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:03,200
Speaker 12: the already out of power becomes fairly easy. In the midterms,

936
00:50:03,239 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 12: you just pick anything that you don't like and make

937
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 12: it the guy in the White House's fault. That's pretty

938
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:10,319
Speaker 12: obvious strategy. It may not be honest all the time,

939
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:13,480
Speaker 12: but that's the obvious strategy. And I see that the

940
00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:16,799
Speaker 12: Democrats and the national news media are hopping up and

941
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Speaker 12: down because they think they've got the winning message this

942
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Speaker 12: time around heading into the midterms. They think the buzzwords

943
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Speaker 12: of affordability and healthcare are going to carry the day.

944
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Speaker 12: And what they're hoping, Chris, is that no one across

945
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Speaker 12: this country realizes that if healthcare sucks and things generally

946
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 12: across the board costs too much, that it's the Democrat's fault,

947
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 12: and by God, they should not be allowed to be

948
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 12: the ones to come back in and try to fix

949
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:43,560
Speaker 12: the mess that.

950
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Speaker 6: They wholly created.

951
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:45,920
Speaker 2: My word.

952
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Speaker 6: So I think that there is an opportunity.

953
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Speaker 12: If they've already decided those are the messaging points affordability

954
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Speaker 12: and healthcare, then I think that plays on Donald Trump's

955
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Speaker 12: playing field, because he's got a winning answer on both

956
00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:01,560
Speaker 12: of those things, I truly believe, part particularly because it

957
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:03,399
Speaker 12: was the Democrats, when they had a chance to get

958
00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:06,560
Speaker 12: under the hood, that screwed all that stuff up, So

959
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:07,160
Speaker 12: they can't.

960
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:08,960
Speaker 6: Be allowed and also fix it man.

961
00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 2: I am really curious about what you're saying there, Tim,

962
00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:14,719
Speaker 2: because it seems this is my impression. You tell me

963
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:18,080
Speaker 2: if you think I'm wrong here. I think on affordability,

964
00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:20,680
Speaker 2: what's happening is all of a sudden, we're looking under

965
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:22,800
Speaker 2: the hood of all these NGOs and all of this

966
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 2: government money flowing into places like Minnesota. It feels like

967
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:29,359
Speaker 2: they're wanting to run away from these audits and all

968
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:32,040
Speaker 2: of the fraud. And when we talk about affordability and

969
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:36,120
Speaker 2: taxpayer and reforming Medicare and Medicaid and so like, they're

970
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:40,600
Speaker 2: stealing money and funneling money and laundering money. And I

971
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 2: think they want to run from it. And I think

972
00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:46,399
Speaker 2: that's why we're back to Minnesota. Woman Renee Good, God

973
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:48,680
Speaker 2: bless her, and look, nobody. We don't want anybody to

974
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 2: die ever, but Renee Good is the Maryland Man of

975
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:57,880
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. They need these kind of empathy, these

976
00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:01,239
Speaker 2: points of sympathy, these mascots, these margin to make Trump

977
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:03,359
Speaker 2: look like an Olger. You think that's where they're going

978
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:05,120
Speaker 2: instead of talking about funds.

979
00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:07,359
Speaker 12: Well, I mean they as they always want to try

980
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:10,080
Speaker 12: to pick somebody to wrap their arms around, to try

981
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:12,319
Speaker 12: to oppose President Trump. And I think that if the

982
00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:17,120
Speaker 12: Minnesota situation had not happened, you would see Democrat senators

983
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:20,120
Speaker 12: going to visit Maduro in lock up in New York

984
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:22,480
Speaker 12: and wrap their arms around Maduro because he was their

985
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:25,520
Speaker 12: hero until Minnesota happened, you know.

986
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:28,399
Speaker 6: And if you want to talk about affordability.

987
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:30,440
Speaker 12: And scandal and looking the other way when people are

988
00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:33,319
Speaker 12: stealing the taxpayers blind, I mean, if you saw that

989
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 12: clip from the mayor of Seattle when the local reporter

990
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:39,480
Speaker 12: from Komo TV and Seattle asked her, Hey, you know

991
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:43,160
Speaker 12: all this healthcare fraud and the Somali fraud and all

992
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:45,600
Speaker 12: that stuff in Minnesota, you may have that kind of

993
00:52:45,640 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 12: stuff going on in Seattle. Are you going to investigate?

994
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:50,480
Speaker 12: And she just flatly, without even elaboration, she just said no,

995
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:54,520
Speaker 12: because the worst thing you can do to a leftist

996
00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:57,480
Speaker 12: is call a leftist a racist. And that's what they're

997
00:52:57,520 --> 00:52:59,840
Speaker 12: afraid of if they go invested. That's why Tim Wallas

998
00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:02,719
Speaker 12: did look into the Somalis in Minnesota because he didn't

999
00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:03,800
Speaker 12: want to be called a racist.

1000
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:06,280
Speaker 2: You know that's true. You know that's true.

1001
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:08,040
Speaker 12: That's the only reason they let him get away and

1002
00:53:08,040 --> 00:53:11,400
Speaker 12: they needed the votes is this enough.

1003
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:15,440
Speaker 2: To undo them or hamstring them a little bit, or

1004
00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:18,480
Speaker 2: not or like they Obviously, it's whoever's most animated. Tim

1005
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:20,880
Speaker 2: we all understand this. It's just who's animated. And with

1006
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:23,920
Speaker 2: Trump not on the ballot, he's the most animating figure

1007
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:27,560
Speaker 2: Republicans have ever seen. Can we animate voters for Republicans

1008
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:28,240
Speaker 2: without Trump?

1009
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:32,920
Speaker 12: Well, people definitely turn out in great numbers when he

1010
00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:35,359
Speaker 12: himself is on the ballot. But we also have no

1011
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:37,920
Speaker 12: better cheerleader, I think, in the history of the Republican

1012
00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:40,800
Speaker 12: Party than Donald Trump. When have you ever seen anyone

1013
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:44,400
Speaker 12: able to marshal the support of the masses of people

1014
00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:47,040
Speaker 12: who see the world the same way as Donald Trump?

1015
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:47,799
Speaker 2: There has never been.

1016
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:49,600
Speaker 12: A figure like that in the Republican Party as long

1017
00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 12: as I've been alive. I don't think, and I really

1018
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:54,960
Speaker 12: truly think that Democrats are because you know, they stand

1019
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:57,719
Speaker 12: in front of, they go in front of all these

1020
00:53:57,760 --> 00:54:01,319
Speaker 12: adoring media figures, the regular Sunday shows, most of them

1021
00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:04,080
Speaker 12: are all nothing but just the places for Democrats. Like

1022
00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:07,480
Speaker 12: if you have Adam Schiff on the show or Chris

1023
00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 12: Miller I'm sorry, Chris Murphy from the Connecticut and you

1024
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:14,160
Speaker 12: don't ask them questions about Look, dude, how can you

1025
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:15,799
Speaker 12: go out there and say this stuff when you have

1026
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:18,200
Speaker 12: said X, Y and Z about other things in the

1027
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 12: past that are and they never challenge them on those things.

1028
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:25,839
Speaker 12: Democrats are not, I believe, not actually tested. You know,

1029
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:28,680
Speaker 12: they really cannot believe that there are other people out

1030
00:54:28,719 --> 00:54:30,239
Speaker 12: there in the world who don't see things the way

1031
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:32,320
Speaker 12: they are because they never meet them, they.

1032
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:34,719
Speaker 2: Never ever talk to them. The bubble that.

1033
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:36,360
Speaker 6: Surrounds these people is astounding.

1034
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:40,239
Speaker 2: Really, you've been watching Tim Murtaw by the way, you've

1035
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:43,680
Speaker 2: been watching what's going on in California. I refuse to believe.

1036
00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:46,080
Speaker 2: I mean that we were just talking last week about

1037
00:54:46,120 --> 00:54:48,560
Speaker 2: the fires. Not a thing's been done. People are so

1038
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:50,840
Speaker 2: angry in southern California about their homes being burned to

1039
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:54,399
Speaker 2: the ground not being rebuilt a year later. But Prop

1040
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:56,719
Speaker 2: fifty newsoms out there trying to make a play to

1041
00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:59,360
Speaker 2: be the candidate. I'm just not convinced of anyone in

1042
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:02,440
Speaker 2: the Democrat part. He's got the stuff, can he weather

1043
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:04,759
Speaker 2: and make his doing it?

1044
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:07,600
Speaker 12: I don't know if the Democrats, and if you just

1045
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:10,720
Speaker 12: look at the way that the Democratic Party virtue signals

1046
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:13,560
Speaker 12: and everything, I just find it hard to believe that

1047
00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:17,040
Speaker 12: their party apparatus is going to nominate a white guy

1048
00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:19,480
Speaker 12: from California. I just find it hard to believe that

1049
00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:22,279
Speaker 12: their party will produce a candidate like Gavin Newsom. He

1050
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:24,800
Speaker 12: I think he would be an awesome candidate to run against.

1051
00:55:25,239 --> 00:55:29,839
Speaker 12: The guy is frankly detestable and he has run California

1052
00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:32,000
Speaker 12: into the ground out there. And Prop fifty, I hope

1053
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 12: we get a chance to talk about healthcare here for

1054
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:35,120
Speaker 12: a few I don't know how long my segment's going

1055
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:38,280
Speaker 12: out here, but healthcare is part of the affordability argument

1056
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:40,640
Speaker 12: that's going to be going on. And Prop forty eight

1057
00:55:40,680 --> 00:55:43,360
Speaker 12: and Gavin Newsom figure into it mightily. I don't know

1058
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:45,680
Speaker 12: if anybody's really aware of this. You know, Prop fifty

1059
00:55:45,719 --> 00:55:48,600
Speaker 12: out in California, which was the effort to redraw the maps,

1060
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:51,000
Speaker 12: had passed, and now California is going to redraw the

1061
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:55,120
Speaker 12: maps and kick Republicans out of Congress in California.

1062
00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:57,080
Speaker 6: That's the goal, that's what they're going to do.

1063
00:55:57,120 --> 00:56:00,200
Speaker 12: They're going to remove Republican members of Congress who repent

1064
00:56:00,239 --> 00:56:02,440
Speaker 12: people in California, just get rid of them and replace

1065
00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:03,520
Speaker 12: them with Democrats.

1066
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Speaker 6: That's the plan out there.

1067
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Speaker 12: And who do you think helped bankroll the public relations

1068
00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:12,200
Speaker 12: campaign who contributed heavily to the campaign to push and

1069
00:56:12,239 --> 00:56:16,320
Speaker 12: pass Prop forty eight, are good friends the health insurance companies,

1070
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 12: led of course by United Health, which is the largest

1071
00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:22,839
Speaker 12: health insurance company in the world, and it's the eighth

1072
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:26,560
Speaker 12: largest company of any kind in the world. And Democrats

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Speaker 12: have been doing everything for the last number of decades,

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Speaker 12: with Democrats in Congress funneling billions. Some would say it

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Speaker 12: adds up to trillions of dollars of taxpayer money to

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Speaker 12: health insurance companies that got everything that they wanted in Obamacare.

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Speaker 12: All that money that you're paying for Obamacare straight to

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Speaker 12: the insurance companies. They got everything they wanted in the

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Speaker 12: Inflation Reduction Act, poorly named as it was under Joe Biden,

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Speaker 12: billions more straight to the health insurance companies, all Democrats

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Speaker 12: voting for that. Not a single Republican vote anywhere to

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Speaker 12: be found on either one of those things. To repay

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Speaker 12: the favor they donated and bankrolled the effort to pass

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Speaker 12: Prop fifty to get rid of Republicans in Congress, I mean,

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Speaker 12: it is just a relationship from hell. As far as

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Speaker 12: insurance companies.

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Speaker 6: My goodness, do.

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Speaker 2: You think ultimately big insurance wants Obamacare or does not

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Speaker 2: want I was always under the impression it was not

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Speaker 2: favorable to them to be forced to cover everybody, or

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Speaker 2: you think that's the opposite.

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Speaker 12: Well, well, the part of the reason why Obamacare is

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Speaker 12: breaking down is because young healthy people who really were

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Speaker 12: required to be in the marketplace paying their own premiums

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Speaker 12: in order to pay for the expensive metal care medical

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Speaker 12: care of seniors who were involved in the pool as well. Well,

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Speaker 12: the young people never used the healthcare, so they stopped

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Speaker 12: buying it. So Obama and everybody knew what that would happen.

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Speaker 12: Obamacare as a concept broke down, And I frankly don't

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Speaker 12: think that. I mean, if you put the screws to

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Speaker 12: them and made them tell the truth, I don't think

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Speaker 12: healthcare CEOs really give a rip what the apparatus is

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Speaker 12: so long as the buckets of billions keep headed their way. Truly,

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Speaker 12: why would they care if it's Obamacare billions, if it's

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Speaker 12: the Inflation Reduction Act billions. Now, Democrats, the Obamacare is

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Speaker 12: the convenient vehicle. That's why Democrats always come for these

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Speaker 12: subsidies and they.

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Speaker 2: Say, oh, we need these subsidies.

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Speaker 12: That's billions more straight to the healthcare company. So President

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Speaker 12: Trump is right to take all this stuff on. He's

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Speaker 12: got the insurance company CEOs coming into the OA office

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Speaker 12: at some point near in the future. The CEOs will

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Speaker 12: be on Capitol Hill on January twenty second, I believe,

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Speaker 12: and the Republicans on the Hill are going to put

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Speaker 12: it to him. How come health insurance coverage keeps getting

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Speaker 12: worse and why does it keep getting more expensive?

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Speaker 6: That's the answer.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the question that it's never gotten cheaper Affordable

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Speaker 2: Care Act. It's not more affordable, it's never been. Tim

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Speaker 2: Murtall all over it. Get his book please. It's a

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Speaker 2: great one. It's victory over addiction as much as it

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Speaker 2: is politics. Swing hard in case you hit it. Tim Murtaugh,

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Speaker 2: A pleasure, my friend. Happy New Year to you.

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Speaker 13: Good to see again, Happy near to you. Thanks Chris

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Speaker 13: the Street tough. Scott besn't there, take it, don't retaliate.

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Speaker 13: He's still on the ground. I don't know if he's

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Speaker 13: left Minnesota. He may still be there.

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Speaker 2: I think he's at a Hampton in lurking in the

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Speaker 2: Bushes waiting to pounce on anybody that gives him trouble

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Speaker 2: talking about this fraud in Minnesota Number twenty six.

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Speaker 9: We just want the facts, we want to see where

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Speaker 9: they lead, and we want to put the bad guys

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Speaker 9: in jail. And this is all about incentives and one

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Speaker 9: of the other problems. What I would say is the

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Speaker 9: third problem. Here are the incentives. You can steal hundreds

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Speaker 9: of thousands, millions of dollars, and under the Minnesota walls,

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Speaker 9: you might not even get jail time. You might get

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Speaker 9: a series of paroles. So what's the incentive. You just

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Speaker 9: have a bad file down at the courthouse, but you've

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Speaker 9: got ten million dollars in the bank. The plenty of

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Speaker 9: people who would take that incentive all day. But I

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Speaker 9: can tell you that we have the ability to bring

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Speaker 9: in IRS enforcement, and they don't. They don't monk you around.

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Speaker 9: So the incentive is going to be to stop this.

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Speaker 9: There he is street tough, Scott Besson. I think this

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Speaker 9: fraud in Minnesota. You know there's a video going around

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Speaker 9: I just saw this morning of Michelle Bachman, the former

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Speaker 9: congressman from Minnesota. She's been sounding the alarm for years

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Speaker 9: on the pass throughs of Minnesota government taking federal funds

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Speaker 9: and sending it off to these NGOs as shell companies,

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Speaker 9: and the American public is seeing it. In the era

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Speaker 9: of fraud to go undetected unless politicians wanted to go undetected.

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Speaker 9: And I think the taxpayers see it.

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Speaker 2: By the way, I'll just throw in the ICE stuff

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Speaker 2: while we're at it, I think, and maybe you think

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Speaker 2: I'm wrong on this, because all of the animation and

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Speaker 2: the ICE agents are murderers. I understand that your tendency.

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Speaker 2: If you can assume a lot of mainstream media, or

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Speaker 2: my gosh, they're mad. They're so mad about this Renee

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Speaker 2: good woman. Oh they're animated. Oh I'm scared. You know

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Speaker 2: what I still believe about the American public. I still

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Speaker 2: Sorry she lost her life, but she was trying to

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Speaker 2: as I told you earlier, taking my son to college.

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Speaker 2: see you in the new year. How are you good morning?

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Speaker 4: Just sent a kid off to college myself, so here

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Speaker 4: we go.

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Speaker 2: You know what that feels like then? Yeah, it's it's fun.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you enjoy it or does it

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Speaker 2: make you win some.

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Speaker 4: Well, this is her her second year. It was a

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Speaker 4: little harder last year.

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Speaker 8: It's sad to see him go, but it's great to

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Speaker 8: see them come back and have the kids all reconnect.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're doing well. Right, they tell us

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Speaker 2: you're doing well. If the kids are excited to go

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Speaker 2: off and leave the nest and do their own thing.

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Speaker 2: If they're clinging to the door and you know, crying

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Speaker 2: as they as you leave, that you've not probably done

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Speaker 2: as well as you'd like.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, they should be a little more mature by that point.

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Speaker 8: But it's good to see when they're happy to come home,

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Speaker 8: and you know, we'll.

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Speaker 4: See us good luck with this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, amen. Well, look, I we brought you in this

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Speaker 2: morning because it sounds like the Supreme Court's getting ready

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Speaker 2: to finally. It feels like we've been talking about this

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Speaker 2: for a good long while. In fact, I even thought

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Speaker 2: it had been before the Court before, but it seems

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Speaker 2: like for the very first time in a sincere way,

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Speaker 2: the Court is going to take up this issue of

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Speaker 2: men playing women's sports and whether states can have a

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Speaker 2: say in this or not. Is that about right? This

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Speaker 2: is the first kind of definitive case regarding this before

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Speaker 2: the Court.

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Speaker 8: That's why we recently had the case in Tennessee about

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Speaker 8: whether miners had to be allowed to have sex change

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Speaker 8: surgeries and cross sex hormones, and the Court said no,

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Speaker 8: this a state can choose not to allow that for miners,

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Speaker 8: and now this is a similar question, but for sports.

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Speaker 8: It's not saying states have to say only girls in girls' sports,

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Speaker 8: even though I.

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Speaker 4: Think that makes a lot of sense.

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Speaker 8: It's saying, ken states even make this choice, or does

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Speaker 8: the Constitution forbid it? I think it's pretty clear the

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Speaker 8: answers know the Constitution says nothing that forbids a women's

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Speaker 8: sports for being for women.

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Speaker 2: Is this any different in your view? Just and I'm

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Speaker 2: asking your opinion, But we've seen roversus wait overturned and

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Speaker 2: send back to the state. Some have speculated that marriage

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Speaker 2: maybe next, although others have said the Court's probably not

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Speaker 2: going to have an appetite to take that up. But

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Speaker 2: is this kind of in line with that, men playing

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Speaker 2: women's sports, gay marriage, abortion? In your view? There's nothing

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Speaker 2: in the Constitution that talks about governing any of that.

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Speaker 8: Absolutely, although here it's obviously even an easier case because

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Speaker 8: thankfully we now have an originalist Supreme Court. We don't

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Speaker 8: have a court that's making stuff up like they were

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Speaker 8: doing in Row, that's making the mistakes like they were

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Speaker 8: making an Oberga Fell. So it's very simple when you

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Speaker 8: look at this on a clean slate, there's not even

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Speaker 8: the question of should we overturn this should It's like, no,

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Speaker 8: it's not in there. We're not going to make up

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Speaker 8: words in the Constitution that aren't there. And thank god

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Speaker 8: we have a court finally. It took many years to

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Speaker 8: get there, but we finally have a court that recognizes

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Speaker 8: that simple truth.

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Speaker 2: I know you're not here to discuss this, but I

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Speaker 2: would just quickly ask and if you would rather not,

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Speaker 2: because that's not why we brought you here. I'm just

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Speaker 2: curious when we talk about tariffs. The Supreme Court's going

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Speaker 2: to play a very important role in President Trump's economic policy,

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Speaker 2: and tariff's a biggie. Do you have any sense of

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Speaker 2: win and how that might shake out as well?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, based on the arguments, it's hard to say. I

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Speaker 8: would say there's a decent chance that they're going to

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Speaker 8: find that Trump does not have the authority to do

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Speaker 8: this tariffs ass he's done them, at least so far.

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Speaker 4: They're very concerned about.

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Speaker 8: Having opening the door to any old emergency that whatever

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Speaker 8: future president also might come up with, whether it's calling

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Speaker 8: climate change an emergency or something like that. But we

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Speaker 8: really don't know the answer to that. We won't know

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Speaker 8: it maybe till June. They might be moving faster on

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Speaker 8: this case, but fast in Supreme Court time, it's like

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Speaker 8: dog years.

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Speaker 4: Probably it will take till June. On a bit important

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Speaker 4: case like this.

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Speaker 2: They do consider structurally, don't they what it would mean

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Speaker 2: that all the revenue that's already been derived from the tariffs,

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Speaker 2: What that means if you rule them wholly unconstitutional. There's

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Speaker 2: probably something to be said about having to give money

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Speaker 2: back perhaps, and that's a mess.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it definitely could get things very complicated. And it's

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Speaker 8: not clear sure whether the Supreme Court how much they

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Speaker 8: would weigh internet in the first instance, or whether that

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Speaker 8: would be something that first would have to go back

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Speaker 8: to the lower courts and they would have to decide

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Speaker 8: how is this going, how are repayment's happening, and then

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Speaker 8: who knows, maybe that.

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Speaker 4: Question works its way back to the Supreme Court.

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Speaker 8: So all of this becomes very complicated, could theoretically take

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Speaker 8: a lot of time.

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Speaker 2: And they also are very very important when it comes

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Speaker 2: to judicial lower court power and what has been at

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Speaker 2: every turn, not Congress certainly, but this president's agenda has

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Speaker 2: largely been thwarted by federal judges. And I know the

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Speaker 2: Court has had some say in that so far the

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Speaker 2: Supreme Court. That is, do you anticipate more of the

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Speaker 2: Supreme Court coming down one way or the other on

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Speaker 2: some of the way these federal judges, these lower court

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Speaker 2: judges have ruled against the president's administration.

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Speaker 8: Well, what we've seen so far is a lot of

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Speaker 8: emergency petitions that the Court has granted in the administration's favor,

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Speaker 8: by and large, saying, hey, these lower courts, obviously there's

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Speaker 8: a role for hearing these cases, but we have to

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Speaker 8: not jump in and just try to enjoin everything that

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Speaker 8: an administration is doing. We have to make sure the

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Speaker 8: courts are acting based on law and not based on

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Speaker 8: their own political persuasions. So a lot of those cases

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Speaker 8: haven't really been decided finally by the Supreme Court. But

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Speaker 8: what we've seen so far is them stepping in trying

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Speaker 8: to stem the lower court abuses where they're reaching out

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Speaker 8: and trying to block far more activity than they have

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Speaker 8: the authority to do. But it does take a long

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Speaker 8: time for the case on the merits to come all

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Speaker 8: the way through the court.

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Speaker 2: I know you're a constitutionalist. Carrey Severino, President of JCN

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Speaker 2: Judicial Network dot Com at JCN Severino on X. But

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Speaker 2: it's it's very clear, and it's been true for a while.

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Speaker 2: I think even the late Justice Scalia lamented it. Congress

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Speaker 2: seems to be almost muted, almost sidelined, almost infirm. It

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Speaker 2: seems like we have just come to a place where

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Speaker 2: it's the executive versus the judiciary, and that's it. It's

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Speaker 2: almost as though the legislative branch doesn't exist. Is that

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Speaker 2: your sense of it. It's kind of depressing, actually.

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Speaker 8: I think a key part to trying to make Article

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Speaker 8: one great again, you know, to try to get Congress

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Speaker 8: doing its job, is for courts to step back and

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Speaker 8: not try to, you know, legislate from the bench. That's

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Speaker 8: kind of you know, even circling it back to the

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Speaker 8: cases they're going to be argued today. What happened here

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Speaker 8: is we have twenty seven states now that have made

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Speaker 8: decisions whose legislators who were elected by the people, said hey, these.

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Speaker 4: Are the laws we want.

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Speaker 8: We want to protect women's sports, we want to protect

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Speaker 8: these young women for fair competition and safety as well,

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Speaker 8: and the people are asking the courts to overturn that,

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Speaker 8: to step in where the legislature has spoken. It's a

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Speaker 8: key role of the courts not to just step into

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Speaker 8: every single debate because someone has asked them to do that,

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Speaker 8: but to say, hey, is this something that's in the

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Speaker 8: proper province of the legislature. And sometimes it's going to

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Speaker 8: be frustrating because you know, in this one, I think

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Speaker 8: the legislature has had it right. They have some really

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Speaker 8: common sense laws, but the courts can sometimes being asked

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Speaker 8: to step back and say, hey, you know what, we're

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Speaker 8: not going to rewrite this law that maybe is out

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Speaker 8: of date, that maybe is badly written in the first place.

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Speaker 8: And when they stop acting that then I hope will

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Speaker 8: light the fire under Congress to do its job, which is, okay,

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Speaker 8: now you guys have to fix this law. If you

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Speaker 8: don't like the way that that's coming out, you need

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Speaker 8: to fix it. Don't come running to the courts asking

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Speaker 8: us to rewrite something that you did a sloppy job

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Speaker 8: han the first time around.

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Speaker 2: And when it comes to election integrity, this is another

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Speaker 2: huge one, and I think people look to the Supreme

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Speaker 2: Court to come in and fix. When you talk about

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01:12:53,120 --> 01:12:56,400
Speaker 2: you know, people improperly voting, illegally voting, people on voter

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Speaker 2: roles that shouldn't be redistricting, you know it's the court generally,

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Speaker 2: Am I correct? The Supreme Court generally says, look, that's

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Speaker 2: between you guys and your local legislatures to figure out

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Speaker 2: on balance. Is that about right?

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Speaker 8: That's true in a lot of cases, and I think

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Speaker 8: it may be maybe come true and even more cases.

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Speaker 8: And if the reason redistricting case goes the way that

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Speaker 8: I think it may. There's been a lot of people

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Speaker 8: who will constantly try to overturn redistricting based on various

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Speaker 8: federal laws and trying to get courts more involved in

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01:13:29,160 --> 01:13:31,519
Speaker 8: micromanaging that than they ought to be in terms of

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Speaker 8: the different states. I think the Supreme Court is starting

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01:13:33,640 --> 01:13:36,120
Speaker 8: to realize this is a fool's errand we can't be

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Speaker 8: micromanaging every single one of these things.

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Speaker 4: And you know, we live in a democracy.

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Speaker 8: The truth is in a lot of cases, the backstop

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01:13:44,280 --> 01:13:47,600
Speaker 8: is you get the government you deserve in a democracy.

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Speaker 8: We need to go out there and make sure we're

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Speaker 8: electing people who are going to pass the kinds of

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Speaker 8: laws that we agree with. The Court isn't here and

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01:13:54,320 --> 01:13:58,360
Speaker 8: isn't going to be able to fix every error that's

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01:13:58,400 --> 01:14:01,520
Speaker 8: made by a legislature or everything that's just bad policy,

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01:14:01,680 --> 01:14:03,240
Speaker 8: that's not their job to come up with what the

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Speaker 8: right policy is. It's our job as citizens to go

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01:14:05,680 --> 01:14:08,240
Speaker 8: out there and vote for people who will pass the

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Speaker 8: laws that we think best protect liberty.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to know who your state senators and

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01:14:13,360 --> 01:14:15,639
Speaker 2: your state representatives are. Just the same as we talk

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Speaker 2: about the federal folks on Capitol Hill. You got to

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Speaker 2: know who's running in your state capital as well. Carrie Severarino,

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Speaker 2: Judicial Network dot Com. I always appreciate your analysis. Thank

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Speaker 2: you so much for your time this morning.

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Speaker 4: Thanks, have a great day.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that I believe this from the Daily Signal,

1441
01:14:32,920 --> 01:14:35,759
Speaker 2: but I'll read it to you. Nonetheless, just one part

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Speaker 2: of the MAHA movement doesn't resonate with voters. Republican House

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01:14:41,360 --> 01:14:46,439
Speaker 2: candidates in purple districts who support changing the childhood VAS

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01:14:46,880 --> 01:14:51,080
Speaker 2: schedule could pay the price in the midterms. That's according

1445
01:14:51,120 --> 01:14:56,920
Speaker 2: to new data from President Trump's go to polster Fabrizio Ward.

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01:14:58,200 --> 01:15:00,519
Speaker 2: In the districts that will decide control of the House

1447
01:15:00,560 --> 01:15:04,879
Speaker 2: of Representatives next year, Republican and Democrat candidates who support

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01:15:05,160 --> 01:15:10,879
Speaker 2: eliminating long standing VAX requirements will pay a price in

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Speaker 2: the elections. This is from a memo obtained by the

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01:15:14,800 --> 01:15:19,640
Speaker 2: Daily Signal Fabrizio Award. His polling firm surveyed one thousand

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01:15:19,800 --> 01:15:24,200
Speaker 2: voters in thirty five of the most competitive congressional districts

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01:15:24,280 --> 01:15:36,479
Speaker 2: and their attitudes on recommended shots. The recommend Amandamandalinda let

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01:15:36,479 --> 01:15:43,240
Speaker 2: eleven rather than seventeen shots for children. The generic congressional

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01:15:43,280 --> 01:15:46,720
Speaker 2: ballot in the thirty five most competitive districts was a

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01:15:46,760 --> 01:15:51,360
Speaker 2: statistical dead heat, with Democrats holding a two point edge.

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01:15:52,040 --> 01:15:55,920
Speaker 2: Fast Eddy question, do you think people are going to

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Speaker 2: vote Republican or Democrat dependent upon their childhood vaccine HM

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Speaker 2: schedule status?

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Speaker 1: Not anybody I would know. I don't believe that.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: I have a hard time with it too. I think

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Speaker 2: the immunization schedule saying that kids should only take eleven

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Speaker 2: of these recommended shots instead of seventeen of these recommended shots,

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01:16:23,760 --> 01:16:25,439
Speaker 2: that there are people out there that would say I

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01:16:25,479 --> 01:16:28,960
Speaker 2: can't vote for anyone who doesn't insist my child take

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Speaker 2: all seventeen shots. I don't know. This strikes me as strange.

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Speaker 2: I'm just going to say I am not for telling

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Speaker 2: anybody what to do with their physical health or with

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01:16:40,760 --> 01:16:42,960
Speaker 2: their kids health. You know, your kids are yours, They're

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Speaker 2: a gift from God. You should steward and shepherd your

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Speaker 2: kids as you see fit, prayerfully and through council with

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Speaker 2: doctors and medical professionals. I'm not here to tell you

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01:16:51,920 --> 01:16:54,519
Speaker 2: how to do your business, of course, but it seems

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Speaker 2: strange to me. And even during the press conference last week,

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Speaker 2: Marty McCarey and the others, they all say the same thing.

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Speaker 2: They were very clear, if you want to inject your

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Speaker 2: kid with every shot known to man by all means

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01:17:07,840 --> 01:17:10,920
Speaker 2: you're not prohibited. You see. This is what bothers me

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Speaker 2: so much on balance about people talking about the Maha movement.

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01:17:16,000 --> 01:17:21,240
Speaker 2: Every time RFK Junior or Jay Boticharia or doctor Oz

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01:17:21,560 --> 01:17:23,639
Speaker 2: or any of the others come out and say, hey,

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01:17:23,680 --> 01:17:26,360
Speaker 2: we think maybe you ought to take a second look

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01:17:26,400 --> 01:17:28,920
Speaker 2: at this. We think maybe this isn't quite what we

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Speaker 2: thought it was. Maybe taking that shot, not eating that thing,

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01:17:33,120 --> 01:17:36,559
Speaker 2: or eating that thing or whatever. Maybe we should pump

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01:17:36,640 --> 01:17:38,320
Speaker 2: the brakes and take a second look at it. We

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01:17:38,400 --> 01:17:41,000
Speaker 2: have different data that says that might not be right.

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Speaker 2: And you know what I think it is. I think

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Speaker 2: that there are just a hell of a lot of

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01:17:45,640 --> 01:17:48,920
Speaker 2: people that just feel tremendous guilt and or fear, and

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01:17:48,960 --> 01:17:52,479
Speaker 2: they like that all knowing hand of government to tell

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Speaker 2: them what they must eat or what they shouldn't eat,

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Speaker 2: or what they must inject in their system, or what

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01:17:56,640 --> 01:17:58,840
Speaker 2: they must not And they're very uncomfortable if they're given

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01:17:58,920 --> 01:18:01,719
Speaker 2: more choice over the matter. I think too many people

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01:18:01,920 --> 01:18:04,720
Speaker 2: like to be told by the government how to manage themselves.

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Speaker 2: And I don't understand that they are sick. They are

1498
01:18:12,960 --> 01:18:15,719
Speaker 2: convinced that Donald Trump picked up the phone and told

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01:18:15,760 --> 01:18:19,080
Speaker 2: the Department of Justice to go after too late. Now, listen,

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01:18:19,960 --> 01:18:22,000
Speaker 2: you can only have it one of two ways. This

1501
01:18:22,080 --> 01:18:25,160
Speaker 2: only works one way or the other. Donald Trump is

1502
01:18:25,200 --> 01:18:28,479
Speaker 2: on the phone and constantly demanding that Pam Bondy do everything,

1503
01:18:29,320 --> 01:18:32,439
Speaker 2: or he's not really dealing with her at all and

1504
01:18:32,479 --> 01:18:34,080
Speaker 2: not talking about her at all. There's a Wall Street

1505
01:18:34,160 --> 01:18:36,680
Speaker 2: journal piece today that says Trump's running around ticked off

1506
01:18:36,720 --> 01:18:38,840
Speaker 2: at Bondi because she's not working fast and Edie, it

1507
01:18:38,880 --> 01:18:41,599
Speaker 2: can't be both, right, It can't be both. I mean,

1508
01:18:41,600 --> 01:18:43,840
Speaker 2: it's got to be one of the other. He can't

1509
01:18:43,920 --> 01:18:46,559
Speaker 2: both be yelling at Pam Bondi every minute to do

1510
01:18:46,600 --> 01:18:48,760
Speaker 2: this and do that, and go after Jerome Powell and

1511
01:18:48,880 --> 01:18:51,040
Speaker 2: throw him and Jaalen do that, and then on the other.

1512
01:18:51,080 --> 01:18:53,599
Speaker 2: There's a report that says they're not talking and he's very,

1513
01:18:53,680 --> 01:18:56,080
Speaker 2: very disappointed that she's not acting fast enough. So which

1514
01:18:56,200 --> 01:18:56,439
Speaker 2: is it?

1515
01:18:58,080 --> 01:19:00,000
Speaker 1: I can't can't be either, right.

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01:19:00,439 --> 01:19:04,240
Speaker 2: It's got to be one or the other. So anyway,

1517
01:19:04,280 --> 01:19:06,880
Speaker 2: here's let me play for you. Here. Here's a reporter

1518
01:19:07,200 --> 01:19:11,040
Speaker 2: asking Caroline Levitt yesterday if the DOJ was directed by

1519
01:19:11,080 --> 01:19:13,680
Speaker 2: Donald Trump to go after too late Jerome Powell, the

1520
01:19:13,680 --> 01:19:17,720
Speaker 2: FED Chair. He's now apparently being investigated the looking under

1521
01:19:17,720 --> 01:19:20,760
Speaker 2: the hood at statements he made about the renovations at

1522
01:19:20,800 --> 01:19:24,080
Speaker 2: FED headquarters being over budget. Take a listen, this is

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01:19:24,160 --> 01:19:25,800
Speaker 2: number twenty nine, PAULI.

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01:19:28,080 --> 01:19:32,320
Speaker 8: Did the President ever direct you J officials open and investigation?

1525
01:19:32,439 --> 01:19:33,240
Speaker 4: And how No?

1526
01:19:34,360 --> 01:19:38,360
Speaker 11: And can you reassure the American public that he's longstanding

1527
01:19:38,439 --> 01:19:41,879
Speaker 11: criticisms and public comments about how.

1528
01:19:41,880 --> 01:19:43,960
Speaker 10: I had nothing to do with the look?

1529
01:19:44,160 --> 01:19:47,080
Speaker 11: The President has every right to criticize the FED chair.

1530
01:19:47,600 --> 01:19:49,200
Speaker 4: He is a First Amendment right, just like.

1531
01:19:49,160 --> 01:19:49,680
Speaker 2: All of you do.

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01:19:50,160 --> 01:19:52,679
Speaker 11: And one thing for sure, the President's made it quite

1533
01:19:52,680 --> 01:19:55,280
Speaker 11: clear is Jerome Powell is that at his job. As

1534
01:19:55,360 --> 01:19:57,599
Speaker 11: for whether or not or not Jerome Powell is a criminal,

1535
01:19:57,640 --> 01:19:59,600
Speaker 11: that's an answer. The Department of Justice is going to

1536
01:19:59,600 --> 01:20:01,880
Speaker 11: have to find out, and it looks like they intend

1537
01:20:01,880 --> 01:20:02,519
Speaker 11: to find that out.

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01:20:04,160 --> 01:20:05,960
Speaker 2: We bring in our good friend Steve Moore from the

1539
01:20:05,960 --> 01:20:10,080
Speaker 2: Committee to Unleashed Prosperity. He is a Trump economic advisor

1540
01:20:10,120 --> 01:20:12,920
Speaker 2: formerly still has his ear regularly, has written a great

1541
01:20:12,920 --> 01:20:15,679
Speaker 2: book called The Trump Economic Miracle. He's at the Committee

1542
01:20:15,680 --> 01:20:18,439
Speaker 2: to Unleash Prosperity. That hotline newsletter shows up in your

1543
01:20:18,479 --> 01:20:21,920
Speaker 2: email every single day for free if you subscribe. So Steve, oh,

1544
01:20:22,000 --> 01:20:24,679
Speaker 2: good morning. What do you make of this? The DOJ

1545
01:20:25,200 --> 01:20:27,960
Speaker 2: looking at Jerome Powell. I'm reading today that there are

1546
01:20:27,960 --> 01:20:32,160
Speaker 2: some Republicans who are very upset and very concerned. Naturally,

1547
01:20:32,200 --> 01:20:34,400
Speaker 2: it's making them upset. What do you say?

1548
01:20:35,040 --> 01:20:36,599
Speaker 6: Good morning, Chris Well.

1549
01:20:36,640 --> 01:20:40,479
Speaker 3: It is a big story, and I think I'll give

1550
01:20:40,520 --> 01:20:42,800
Speaker 3: you some of my thoughts on this. First of all,

1551
01:20:43,280 --> 01:20:46,719
Speaker 3: Jerome Powell has to go. He's been a very bad

1552
01:20:46,920 --> 01:20:50,760
Speaker 3: bed chairman, and Trump is right that he has got

1553
01:20:50,760 --> 01:20:53,200
Speaker 3: to go. He's been, as you just said, too late

1554
01:20:53,240 --> 01:20:57,880
Speaker 3: on interest rates. He's financially incompetent. With what happened with

1555
01:20:58,000 --> 01:21:03,000
Speaker 3: that two and a half billion dollarhal the Fed is building.

1556
01:21:03,360 --> 01:21:06,360
Speaker 3: You know, it's outrageous that they would waste that much money.

1557
01:21:06,360 --> 01:21:06,920
Speaker 6: Trump is right.

1558
01:21:06,960 --> 01:21:09,559
Speaker 3: He said, I could have built this for you know,

1559
01:21:10,120 --> 01:21:12,920
Speaker 3: saving two billion dollars if I were running the show.

1560
01:21:14,120 --> 01:21:18,519
Speaker 3: He is also the most political FED chairman maybe ever,

1561
01:21:19,640 --> 01:21:23,960
Speaker 3: and part of his agenda is driven by his dislike

1562
01:21:24,080 --> 01:21:25,519
Speaker 3: and maybe even hatred of Trump.

1563
01:21:25,640 --> 01:21:29,160
Speaker 6: So that's it is important that he goes now. He's

1564
01:21:29,200 --> 01:21:29,599
Speaker 6: going to be.

1565
01:21:29,560 --> 01:21:31,920
Speaker 3: Done in four months, Chris, we will be rid of

1566
01:21:31,960 --> 01:21:34,160
Speaker 3: this guy in four months, regardless of what happens.

1567
01:21:34,760 --> 01:21:36,840
Speaker 6: I think Trump is overplaying his hand here.

1568
01:21:36,960 --> 01:21:40,040
Speaker 3: I think the idea of having the Justice Department go

1569
01:21:40,160 --> 01:21:43,200
Speaker 3: after him right now, I think is a bad look

1570
01:21:43,240 --> 01:21:48,360
Speaker 3: for the Republicans. Go after him after he's gone and

1571
01:21:48,400 --> 01:21:51,160
Speaker 3: so him out, wait him out, put your guy in.

1572
01:21:51,560 --> 01:21:54,720
Speaker 3: I like Kevin Hassett, I love Kevin Walsh. I think

1573
01:21:54,760 --> 01:21:58,519
Speaker 3: both of them would be excellent FED shares. But this

1574
01:21:58,600 --> 01:22:00,840
Speaker 3: is not the argument we want, not right now, and

1575
01:22:01,040 --> 01:22:02,640
Speaker 3: I think it's been problematic.

1576
01:22:03,520 --> 01:22:05,800
Speaker 2: You know what bothered me, I will say in this

1577
01:22:05,840 --> 01:22:09,040
Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal piece, Steve O the one thing Lisa Rakowski,

1578
01:22:09,120 --> 01:22:13,200
Speaker 2: the Republican from Alaska, said, after speaking with chair Pal

1579
01:22:13,439 --> 01:22:16,800
Speaker 2: this morning, it's clear the administration's investigation is nothing more

1580
01:22:16,840 --> 01:22:20,320
Speaker 2: than an attempt at coercion. If the Department of Justice

1581
01:22:20,320 --> 01:22:23,479
Speaker 2: believes an investigation into chair Pal is warranted based on

1582
01:22:23,560 --> 01:22:28,800
Speaker 2: cost project overruns, which are not unusual, then Congress needs

1583
01:22:28,800 --> 01:22:32,960
Speaker 2: to investigate the Department of Justice. On its face, it

1584
01:22:33,040 --> 01:22:36,400
Speaker 2: bothers me that we're supposed to just be okay with

1585
01:22:36,560 --> 01:22:39,080
Speaker 2: cost overruns of an agency that we're not allowed to

1586
01:22:39,200 --> 01:22:42,759
Speaker 2: police as taxpayers. I don't accept what she just said.

1587
01:22:43,880 --> 01:22:46,000
Speaker 3: A great point. I couldn't agree more. You know that

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01:22:46,240 --> 01:22:48,559
Speaker 3: I do believe in FED independence. I think it is

1589
01:22:48,600 --> 01:22:52,840
Speaker 3: important for our financial markets that we have an independent FED.

1590
01:22:53,439 --> 01:22:56,040
Speaker 3: But going back to what I just said before, Chris,

1591
01:22:56,080 --> 01:23:00,519
Speaker 3: it's also important that we have a competent FED. And

1592
01:23:00,840 --> 01:23:03,639
Speaker 3: he is incompetent in terms. He's the one who gave

1593
01:23:03,720 --> 01:23:06,160
Speaker 3: us twenty one percent inflation under Biden.

1594
01:23:06,560 --> 01:23:08,200
Speaker 6: That should be a fireable offense.

1595
01:23:08,240 --> 01:23:11,680
Speaker 2: He see what you think he's This is a really

1596
01:23:11,720 --> 01:23:14,559
Speaker 2: important question because I've had some people just vehemently They

1597
01:23:14,640 --> 01:23:17,080
Speaker 2: first of all, they remind you Trump appointed him, and

1598
01:23:17,120 --> 01:23:20,080
Speaker 2: then second they'll say he is doing independent work, this

1599
01:23:20,200 --> 01:23:23,080
Speaker 2: is not a political job. But there are other people

1600
01:23:23,120 --> 01:23:25,920
Speaker 2: that firmly believe this guy is a Democrat. He is

1601
01:23:26,160 --> 01:23:30,480
Speaker 2: a politician. He's playing politics, and he is being obstinate

1602
01:23:30,479 --> 01:23:32,679
Speaker 2: for the sake of being obstinate. So where do you fall?

1603
01:23:33,680 --> 01:23:34,840
Speaker 6: You know what he's doing right now?

1604
01:23:34,880 --> 01:23:38,120
Speaker 3: And the irony of this whole story is that Jerome

1605
01:23:38,200 --> 01:23:43,120
Speaker 3: Powell is accusing Trump of politicizing the FED. And there's

1606
01:23:43,160 --> 01:23:45,679
Speaker 3: been no chairman in the history of the FED who's

1607
01:23:45,720 --> 01:23:48,920
Speaker 3: been more political than Jerome Powell. I mean, he's running

1608
01:23:48,920 --> 01:23:51,719
Speaker 3: to the press every day. I look what Donald Trump?

1609
01:23:51,720 --> 01:23:57,200
Speaker 3: Did you know he's playing the victim here now, Revan saying, look, yeah,

1610
01:23:57,280 --> 01:24:01,080
Speaker 3: we probably When does he ever apologized to the taxpayers

1611
01:24:01,080 --> 01:24:02,880
Speaker 3: for spending two and a half billion dollars for a

1612
01:24:02,960 --> 01:24:05,320
Speaker 3: tas mccon hall. He is not cleaned house.

1613
01:24:05,800 --> 01:24:06,160
Speaker 6: Did you know?

1614
01:24:06,200 --> 01:24:09,080
Speaker 3: There are two hundred and fifty PhD economists over at

1615
01:24:09,080 --> 01:24:11,439
Speaker 3: the FED and these are the same people who said

1616
01:24:11,920 --> 01:24:14,720
Speaker 3: last year their prediction was the economy would grow a

1617
01:24:15,320 --> 01:24:18,120
Speaker 3: little less than two percent. We grew the last nine months,

1618
01:24:18,120 --> 01:24:20,960
Speaker 3: we've grown at four percent. Their forecast this year is

1619
01:24:21,000 --> 01:24:25,080
Speaker 3: for one point nine percent economic growth. We could easily

1620
01:24:25,080 --> 01:24:28,160
Speaker 3: grow at four or five percent growth. He's been wrong, wrong, wrong,

1621
01:24:28,240 --> 01:24:30,560
Speaker 3: You're right, he's been too late on policy.

1622
01:24:30,760 --> 01:24:31,519
Speaker 6: He's got to go.

1623
01:24:31,840 --> 01:24:34,000
Speaker 3: But my advice, because I know Donald Trump listens to

1624
01:24:34,040 --> 01:24:35,800
Speaker 3: your show, mister president.

1625
01:24:35,800 --> 01:24:36,639
Speaker 6: Just wait him out.

1626
01:24:36,720 --> 01:24:39,519
Speaker 3: He's going to be gone in four months, and let

1627
01:24:39,560 --> 01:24:41,479
Speaker 3: him out the door, and then let's get somebody in

1628
01:24:41,520 --> 01:24:42,000
Speaker 3: there who.

1629
01:24:41,880 --> 01:24:42,800
Speaker 6: Knows what they're doing.

1630
01:24:43,080 --> 01:24:45,599
Speaker 3: But there has been a lot of pulah baloo about

1631
01:24:45,600 --> 01:24:48,960
Speaker 3: this whole thing about criminally investigating him, and maybe when

1632
01:24:48,960 --> 01:24:51,240
Speaker 3: he's gone and out of office, that might be the

1633
01:24:51,320 --> 01:24:54,160
Speaker 3: time to really investigate what they did and why they

1634
01:24:54,160 --> 01:24:54,479
Speaker 3: did it.

1635
01:24:55,960 --> 01:24:58,720
Speaker 2: Steve Oher was driving down the interstate taking my son

1636
01:24:58,800 --> 01:25:03,160
Speaker 2: to college yesterday and gas prices close to me two

1637
01:25:03,240 --> 01:25:08,240
Speaker 2: dollars and seven cents a gallon. Wow, And I've seen

1638
01:25:08,280 --> 01:25:10,759
Speaker 2: it in Iowa as low as like a dollar eighty something.

1639
01:25:10,840 --> 01:25:14,839
Speaker 2: So for the seventh straight week, gas prices have faded.

1640
01:25:16,240 --> 01:25:18,120
Speaker 2: How do we read this exactly?

1641
01:25:19,120 --> 01:25:20,200
Speaker 6: It's a beautiful picture.

1642
01:25:20,520 --> 01:25:23,720
Speaker 3: You know what we've always used gas prices is the

1643
01:25:23,760 --> 01:25:26,200
Speaker 3: proxy for what's happening with inflation?

1644
01:25:26,360 --> 01:25:26,519
Speaker 6: Right?

1645
01:25:26,560 --> 01:25:28,160
Speaker 3: How much do you have to charge to fill up

1646
01:25:28,200 --> 01:25:31,240
Speaker 3: your tank? And you know, a friend of mine just

1647
01:25:31,360 --> 01:25:37,599
Speaker 3: from Colorado just sent me a text and a picture

1648
01:25:37,720 --> 01:25:40,760
Speaker 3: of her gas pump outside of Denver. They paid a

1649
01:25:40,800 --> 01:25:44,040
Speaker 3: dollar seventy nine a gallon. So this is pretty amazing.

1650
01:25:44,080 --> 01:25:46,479
Speaker 3: What we're seeing right now, and it is a result

1651
01:25:46,520 --> 01:25:49,320
Speaker 3: of trying. Look, this didn't happen by accident, Folks.

1652
01:25:49,479 --> 01:25:49,920
Speaker 6: We have a.

1653
01:25:49,880 --> 01:25:54,080
Speaker 3: President who is drill, baby, drill, and contrasts that, Chris,

1654
01:25:54,200 --> 01:25:56,200
Speaker 3: do you remember the first thing that Joe Biden did

1655
01:25:56,280 --> 01:26:02,840
Speaker 3: when he came into office, he babe plugged. Yeah, he

1656
01:26:02,920 --> 01:26:05,439
Speaker 3: killed the Keystone pipeline. He tried to destroy our own

1657
01:26:05,479 --> 01:26:07,720
Speaker 3: gas industry, and of course then the gas prices went

1658
01:26:07,760 --> 01:26:09,920
Speaker 3: went up. The first thing Trump did when he came

1659
01:26:09,960 --> 01:26:13,240
Speaker 3: into office was deregulated. Get the government off the back.

1660
01:26:13,520 --> 01:26:17,880
Speaker 3: And what's really ironic about this story, Chris, is now

1661
01:26:17,920 --> 01:26:18,960
Speaker 3: you have democrats.

1662
01:26:19,080 --> 01:26:21,120
Speaker 6: I swear to god, some Democrats are.

1663
01:26:21,040 --> 01:26:25,519
Speaker 3: Saying, oh, these low gas prices are economically destabilizing. Oh

1664
01:26:25,560 --> 01:26:27,360
Speaker 3: what do they want gas prices to go back up

1665
01:26:27,360 --> 01:26:28,400
Speaker 3: to four dollars a gallon?

1666
01:26:31,160 --> 01:26:35,080
Speaker 2: Stuff? Trump, I know, the Trump. Here's what's starting to

1667
01:26:35,080 --> 01:26:37,920
Speaker 2: get a little strange, though. You are seeing some unanimity

1668
01:26:37,920 --> 01:26:42,479
Speaker 2: amongst some Republicans, some Democrats with Trump, people like Elizabeth Warren.

1669
01:26:42,479 --> 01:26:45,520
Speaker 2: In fact, here's the headline from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity,

1670
01:26:45,960 --> 01:26:51,720
Speaker 2: the Elizabeth Warren Trump credit card price controls. Do tell

1671
01:26:51,800 --> 01:26:54,040
Speaker 2: Stebo well, I don't like this idea.

1672
01:26:54,200 --> 01:26:56,280
Speaker 6: You know, I don't like the idea of put it.

1673
01:26:56,360 --> 01:27:00,679
Speaker 3: We have a near universal application of credit cards today

1674
01:27:00,680 --> 01:27:02,960
Speaker 3: in America. Used to be credit cards really just to

1675
01:27:02,960 --> 01:27:06,599
Speaker 3: play things of you know, very wealthy people and upper

1676
01:27:06,640 --> 01:27:10,160
Speaker 3: middle class people. Now we've democratized credit, which has been

1677
01:27:10,160 --> 01:27:13,439
Speaker 3: a good thing. Even many low income people have access

1678
01:27:13,479 --> 01:27:17,880
Speaker 3: to you know, instant credit with their plastic card. Now

1679
01:27:18,080 --> 01:27:21,519
Speaker 3: the problem is if people if people don't pay their

1680
01:27:21,520 --> 01:27:24,960
Speaker 3: credit card bills, you do get charged a big penalty

1681
01:27:25,040 --> 01:27:25,360
Speaker 3: for that.

1682
01:27:25,720 --> 01:27:27,799
Speaker 6: But that's the way the game works.

1683
01:27:27,800 --> 01:27:29,920
Speaker 3: And you know, the credit card companies lose a lot

1684
01:27:29,960 --> 01:27:32,479
Speaker 3: of money when people don't pay their credit card bills.

1685
01:27:32,560 --> 01:27:36,040
Speaker 3: And so if you put in place this new limit

1686
01:27:36,680 --> 01:27:39,240
Speaker 3: on what they can charge, what will happen is if

1687
01:27:39,240 --> 01:27:42,880
Speaker 3: fewer and fewer low income people will have access to credit,

1688
01:27:43,160 --> 01:27:45,400
Speaker 3: the companies will just say we're not issuing credit cards

1689
01:27:45,439 --> 01:27:48,519
Speaker 3: to them any longer. So it's a bad idea, you know,

1690
01:27:48,800 --> 01:27:50,760
Speaker 3: As I said in our hotline yesterday, and I hope

1691
01:27:50,760 --> 01:27:54,040
Speaker 3: your listeners pay close attention to this. One of the

1692
01:27:54,080 --> 01:27:58,559
Speaker 3: first rules of economics, Chris. The first rule is price

1693
01:27:58,840 --> 01:28:01,840
Speaker 3: and wage controls are always a bad idea, and the

1694
01:28:01,880 --> 01:28:05,719
Speaker 3: second rule of economics is politicians always forget the first role.

1695
01:28:08,640 --> 01:28:11,240
Speaker 2: Mortgage rates have fallen below six percent for the first

1696
01:28:11,240 --> 01:28:14,080
Speaker 2: time in years Stevo. President Trump has been saying something

1697
01:28:14,160 --> 01:28:16,639
Speaker 2: kind of interesting. He's acknowledging we've got to do something

1698
01:28:16,680 --> 01:28:19,120
Speaker 2: about it. But what intrigued me was a few weeks

1699
01:28:19,160 --> 01:28:22,000
Speaker 2: ago he said, we got to do something about affordability

1700
01:28:22,000 --> 01:28:24,880
Speaker 2: of housing. However, we don't want it to come at

1701
01:28:24,880 --> 01:28:27,719
Speaker 2: the cost of people who currently own homes. He's mindful

1702
01:28:27,760 --> 01:28:30,640
Speaker 2: that it could erode and eat at those of us

1703
01:28:30,640 --> 01:28:34,440
Speaker 2: who own homes our equity. So I hadn't really considered

1704
01:28:34,479 --> 01:28:37,519
Speaker 2: that before. He certainly is. How do you read what

1705
01:28:37,560 --> 01:28:38,839
Speaker 2: his plans are for housing?

1706
01:28:39,680 --> 01:28:41,679
Speaker 3: Right? Well, listen, I mean for a lot of people

1707
01:28:42,680 --> 01:28:45,640
Speaker 3: watching and listening to your show right now, most a

1708
01:28:45,680 --> 01:28:46,840
Speaker 3: lot of us are homeowners.

1709
01:28:47,040 --> 01:28:49,960
Speaker 6: Do you own your home, Chris, I do, yes.

1710
01:28:49,880 --> 01:28:52,640
Speaker 3: Okay, So do you want your home to rise or

1711
01:28:52,680 --> 01:28:53,880
Speaker 3: fall in value?

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Speaker 2: Of course, rise and hold.

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Speaker 6: A lot of the rise, right, a lot of your equity.

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Speaker 3: For most Americans, the main equity they have and wealth

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Speaker 3: is in their home. So what I'm saying is, you know,

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Speaker 3: rising home values benefit people who have a home, but

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Speaker 3: you know, for people trying to buy a home, you.

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Speaker 6: Know that's like my kids. Then then it's a tough thing.

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Speaker 3: But I always say, look, if you want following home prices,

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Speaker 3: go to Detroit, you know, or go to you know,

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Speaker 3: some of these blue states where the people are leaving

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Speaker 3: and you can find a cheap home. The biggest obstacle,

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Speaker 3: in my opinion, to h to getting home prices down

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Speaker 3: and to building affordable housing is local governments that have

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Speaker 3: all sorts of zoning restrictions.

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Speaker 6: I'm building new houses.

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Speaker 2: And so Steve, if I could interrupt you, the Wall

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Speaker 2: Street Journal has a piece today New York State is

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Speaker 2: loosening environmental rules to speed up home building.

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Speaker 6: To your about time, well that's great news.

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Speaker 3: I mean, there's so many restrictions on building houses that

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Speaker 3: it that it makes it really difficult for builders to

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Speaker 3: build affordable house. I was saying, but look the bottom

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Speaker 3: line here, Chris, we have a booming economy right now.

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Speaker 6: This is a strong economy as I've seen in ten years.

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Speaker 3: I think you're going to see inflation headed the two

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Speaker 3: percent bed target.

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Speaker 6: You're going to get a lot of new job growth.

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Speaker 3: In twenty twenty six, and I was on with Larry

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01:30:16,960 --> 01:30:21,000
Speaker 3: Kudlow yesterday on his show, and we both agree we

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Speaker 3: could see five percent economic growth in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 3: That's what happens when you put a pro growth, pro

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Speaker 3: business president in the Oval Office.

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Speaker 2: Steve Moore, our chief economist, always love to check in.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, my friend, seeing on.

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Speaker 6: My pace this morning. Things are going well, see you,

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Speaker 6: Steve bo Okay take that.

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Speaker 2: The Heritage folks have released a new report Heritage Foundation,

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Speaker 2: outlining a plan to save the American family. The report,

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Speaker 2: titled Saving America by Saving the Family, a Foundation for

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01:30:58,479 --> 01:31:01,280
Speaker 2: the next two hundred and fifty years, encapsulates how policy

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01:31:01,320 --> 01:31:04,600
Speaker 2: and culture can solve what the organization expects will be

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01:31:04,640 --> 01:31:08,439
Speaker 2: a bipartisan issue, and that is saving the deteriorating American family.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I would say the only disagreement I have

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01:31:12,040 --> 01:31:16,240
Speaker 2: there is that it's a bipartisan issue saving a deteriorating

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01:31:16,280 --> 01:31:18,479
Speaker 2: American family. I think the American left loves the idea

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01:31:18,520 --> 01:31:22,280
Speaker 2: of a deteriorating American family. The nuclear family is the

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01:31:22,320 --> 01:31:27,759
Speaker 2: single biggest enemy of the American left anyway. Heritage Foundation

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01:31:28,160 --> 01:31:30,960
Speaker 2: shared the dire numbers if we stay on this trajectory

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Speaker 2: of declining marriage rates and particularly of declining fertility rates.

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Speaker 2: Where we're at one out of fifty nine. That replacement rate,

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01:31:39,720 --> 01:31:42,760
Speaker 2: as you no doubt know, is two to one. By

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Speaker 2: early as twenty fifty, demographically speaking, the United States will

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Speaker 2: have passed the point of no return in which its

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01:31:49,200 --> 01:31:55,759
Speaker 2: population can reproduce itself. One Heritage solution involves the federal

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01:31:55,840 --> 01:31:58,960
Speaker 2: child tax Credit, which Roberts reminds is a policy the

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Speaker 2: Heritage Foundation many years ago. The report calls for reversing

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01:32:03,160 --> 01:32:07,120
Speaker 2: the child tax credit to incentivize marriage rather than reward

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Speaker 2: single parents. I mean, first of all, parenthood has to

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Speaker 2: be normalized, one man and one woman producing children, and

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Speaker 2: then educating those children, taking responsibility for those children. Also

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Speaker 2: making it affordable, making it affordable so that parents can

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Speaker 2: actually raise their children without killing themselves over two jobs.

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Speaker 2: I know it's not everybody's deal to stay at home

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Speaker 2: and teach child and raise a child, but unless you

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Speaker 2: empower half of that married couple to feel like they

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Speaker 2: can stay home and help raise the child, it's going

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01:32:47,160 --> 01:32:50,439
Speaker 2: to be an uphill climb for sure, Bill Maher. The

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Speaker 2: Golden Globes were apparently I don't watch, is this right?

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01:32:53,640 --> 01:32:56,000
Speaker 2: The Golden Globes were Sunday fast Eddy. All the celebrities

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Speaker 2: came out.

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Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, indeed.

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01:32:58,760 --> 01:33:00,599
Speaker 2: Now, why does Bill Maher usually go to these things?

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01:33:00,640 --> 01:33:02,200
Speaker 2: Or was he up for an award or do you know?

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Speaker 1: I don't know that he was up for an award maybe,

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01:33:05,479 --> 01:33:08,960
Speaker 1: but he's you know, he's still part of the Hollywood

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Speaker 1: culture there.

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Speaker 2: He's still in it, I know, and he wants to be.

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Speaker 2: He's a leftist. He likes Hollywood, he loves living out

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01:33:15,000 --> 01:33:18,960
Speaker 2: there in southern California. I saw Wanda Sykes said, Bill Maher,

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01:33:19,040 --> 01:33:22,960
Speaker 2: you've you've you've had so much to say for so long.

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01:33:23,000 --> 01:33:25,240
Speaker 2: How about you say a little less or something like that. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: here's mar talking about this Renee Good story in Minneapolis,

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Speaker 2: number thirty four.

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Speaker 12: The Sike's also wearing a Bee Good pin for Renee Good,

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01:33:35,040 --> 01:33:37,680
Speaker 12: obviously and trying to use this platform for activism.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel that's effective or now.

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Speaker 14: Come on, we're just there for show business today. You know,

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01:33:46,240 --> 01:33:48,280
Speaker 14: it was a terrible thing that happened, and it shouldn't

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Speaker 14: have happened, and if they didn't act like such thugs,

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Speaker 14: it wouldn't have had to happen.

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Speaker 2: But I don't need to wear a pin about it. Oh,

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01:33:56,880 --> 01:34:00,719
Speaker 2: You're not supposed to say that the pin is everything.

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01:34:01,439 --> 01:34:04,599
Speaker 2: If you don't show solidarity by wearing the pin, then

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01:34:04,600 --> 01:34:08,800
Speaker 2: what good is it? You know, there's a clip of

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Speaker 2: a Minneapolis man out there being hailed as a hero

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01:34:11,400 --> 01:34:14,599
Speaker 2: for running over to this officer before he was almost

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01:34:14,640 --> 01:34:19,240
Speaker 2: run over and actually praying, praying over the law enforcement

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01:34:19,240 --> 01:34:21,720
Speaker 2: folks and praying over others who are actually doing this work,

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01:34:21,760 --> 01:34:23,680
Speaker 2: saying we asked for your protection and your blessing to

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Speaker 2: help keep him safe. There's only two ways to see this.

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Speaker 2: The American public, they say, is split. I don't believe

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Speaker 2: it until I see polling on it, which I have,

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01:34:32,520 --> 01:34:34,679
Speaker 2: and it reminds me of Maryland man. We kept hearing

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01:34:34,680 --> 01:34:37,799
Speaker 2: about how outrageous it was. We were treating the Maryland man,

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Speaker 2: same with Renee Good. I haven't seen any polling on it.

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Speaker 2: I have a funny feeling though the American public know

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Speaker 2: who the good guys are in this story. We'll see tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: So that's a wrap for another Christa Gaucial podcast. Thanks

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Speaker 2: for committing to it, listening to it all the way through.

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Speaker 2: You're a fighter. I like that about you. Hope you'll

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