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Speaker 2: I hope you had a great holiday with friends and family.

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Speaker 2: And then my phone started, What the Heck's that we

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Speaker 2: carpet bombed Iran on a Saturday morning? Do you remember?

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Speaker 2: I do Night Hammer, Yes, of course, Operation Midnight Hammer.

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Speaker 2: It was an overnight success, done within hours, everybody out

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Speaker 2: don't know how many of you were actually listening to Saturday.

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Speaker 2: I was in rapt attention listening to this entire detailed

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Speaker 2: all of that stuff. But let's just before we pivot

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Speaker 2: this was unbelievably executed. The surgical nature of these strikes,

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Speaker 2: It's dazzling. Here's just some of it. General John Daniel

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Speaker 7: At ten forty six pm Eastern time last night, the

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Speaker 7: And there's simply no match for American military might. As

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Speaker 2: I mean, just let that sink in if for some

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Speaker 2: the American media more than anything is that this is

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Speaker 2: now the second successful surgical strike carried out by the

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Speaker 2: and Joint Chiefs Chair General Raisin Kine. This is now

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Speaker 2: the second time they have pulled one over on them

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Speaker 2: let them know. This is what really fast, Eddie. Can

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Speaker 2: It's like, well he didn't. He was like, oh, nobody

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Speaker 2: But apparently they did know about it. As the report

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Speaker 2: goes over at town Hall from Matt Vespa, President Trump's

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Speaker 2: raid on Venezuela took months of preparation. CEEIA had assots

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Speaker 2: his movements. Delta Force built a replica safe house to

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Speaker 2: how effective Pete Hegseth and the Department of War have

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Speaker 2: become in keeping their mission focused and secret. That hasn't

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Speaker 2: been done. And I don't know how long airstrikes against

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Speaker 2: yet the press learned about it early and did something

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Speaker 2: not like they knew days in advance. They knew hours before.

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Speaker 3: He's still in place, the defense minister who has deep

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Speaker 3: If you are taking out the Narco terrorist regime.

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Speaker 10: Armada remains poised in position, and the United States retains

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Speaker 2: So President Trump effectively declaring, we're the captain. Now, this

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I absolutely want to know what the communist mayor

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Speaker 8: Lindsey Graham would have been in Marco Rubio's place all

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Speaker 2: And this notion, why didn't you take out everyone who's

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Speaker 2: ideology that is not compatible with capitalism, with free markets.

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Speaker 2: Venezuela is not that far removed from a form of

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Speaker 2: government very similar to ours. Do you know that did

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Speaker 2: you know that? Has anybody told you that you should

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Speaker 2: know that? If you don't, it's not that long ago

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Speaker 2: that Venezuela was quite prosperous and a democracy and a

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Speaker 2: soft capitalist democracy. So they want to return to that.

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Speaker 2: And the people of Venezuela, by the way, are elated

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Speaker 2: about this. Did you see the celebrations in the streets.

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Speaker 2: Did you see the dancing in the streets. And I'll

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Speaker 2: tell you who's most freaked out about what just went

443
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Speaker 2: down Iran. And in fact, I got a story in

444
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Speaker 2: front of me that all the big dogs in Iran

445
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 2: have already got their exit hatch strategy right now to

446
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Speaker 2: run to Russia in case Trump decides to get up

447
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:49,120
Speaker 2: Ay and do it to them too. They're freaked out,

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Speaker 2: you know, people in the streets of Iran right now,

449
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Speaker 2: like they're getting nervous in Iran because they have been

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Speaker 2: watching what's going on in Venezuela. Leadership in Iran is wondering,

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Speaker 2: is this are we next? The people of Iran are

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Speaker 2: damned green within the that the Venezuelan's had been freed. Now.

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Speaker 2: Of course, the difference again with the Middle East is

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Speaker 2: Iran has never known democratic rule. Iran has never known

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Speaker 2: a free market. Venezuela has twenty five thirty years ago.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't that long ago, just like Cuba used to

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Speaker 2: be a thriving island until taken over by a bunch

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Speaker 2: of despots. Much like mad Manny by the way, who

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Speaker 2: from the Pit of Hell said, the warmth of collectivism

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Speaker 2: will be chosen over rugged individualism. I mean, that's the

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Speaker 2: scary thing. The guy running New York is Maduro. The

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Speaker 2: guy running New York are the castros of Cuba. That's

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Speaker 2: where he wants to You understand that he wants to

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Speaker 2: take New York and this country to where Venezuela was

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Speaker 2: seventy two hours ago. So we're not at war. Venezuela

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Speaker 2: is no the Middle East. Also, this is not unconstitutional.

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Speaker 2: This was not unconstitutional. Article two powers are very very

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Speaker 2: clear here. I went over this over the weekend, but

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Speaker 2: I'm going to do it again. Maduro has been indicted

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Speaker 2: by grand jury here in the United States for drug trafficking.

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Speaker 2: He's a fugitive of justice. He is not recognized as

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Speaker 2: a legitimate leader by the United States. There is precedent

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Speaker 2: for this, by the way, under Article two of the

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Speaker 2: United States Constitution, the president, as commander in chief, holds

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Speaker 2: broad authority to deploy military forces to protect vital national

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Speaker 2: interests without prior congressional declaration of war, which we're not

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Speaker 2: at precedents, Here's a list Reagan's eighty three Grenada invasion

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Speaker 2: to safeguard American lives and counter regional threats. Bush's eighty

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Speaker 2: nine Panama operation to arrest Noriega on drug charges and

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Speaker 2: restore order there, Clinton's nineteen ninety four Haiti intervention to

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Speaker 2: stem a refugee crisis and drug flows. Now in Venezuela's case,

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Speaker 2: the Maduro regime and their deliberate export of massive amounts

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Speaker 2: of drugs, killing over one hundred thousand Americans annually, combined

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Speaker 2: with state orchestrated release of criminals and gang members across

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Speaker 2: the border, constitutes sustained hostile assaults on the United States.

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Speaker 2: That alone fully justifies unilateral executive action to neutralize the source,

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Speaker 2: just as past presidents did when confronting similar threats in

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Speaker 2: our hemisphere and internationally. Article fifty one of the UN

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Speaker 2: Charter preserves the inherent right of self defense against armed attacks,

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Speaker 2: a right not limited to traditional invasions but extending to

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Speaker 2: modern hybrid threats where a state weaponizes non state actors

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Speaker 2: or policy to inflict grave harm. Venezuela's regime has been

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Speaker 2: indicted as a narco terror enterprise. They actively facilitate deadly

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Speaker 2: flows of migrant surges and drugs across our borders, acting

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Speaker 2: as a proxy, and it demands immediate proportionate response. No

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Speaker 2: Security Council approval is required when daily lives are lost.

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Speaker 2: This mirror's post nine to eleven. Presidents, by the way

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Speaker 2: in which the United States invoked Article fifty one against

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Speaker 2: nonstate threats harbored by failing states, rendered intervention rather than aggression,

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Speaker 2: a lawful defense of the homeland. And I remind everyone

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Speaker 2: that Maduro stole the election in Venezuela. Go back and

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Speaker 2: research this. If you don't know this, you should. Even

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Speaker 2: the Biden administration, even the Husk said, so, they stole it.

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Speaker 2: He's not the legitimate president. He's never There was a

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Speaker 2: fifty million dollar bounty on the guy's head. The Venezuelan

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Speaker 2: people in the world know the truth. Maduro lost the

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Speaker 2: election in twenty twenty four. Blincoln, the Secretary of State

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Speaker 2: back then under the Husk, said that in a statement.

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Speaker 2: He said the United States rejects the National Electoral Council's

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Speaker 2: fraudulent announcement that Maduro won the presidential election and does

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Speaker 2: not recognize Maduro as president of Venezuela. The guy has

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Speaker 2: been warned repeatedly it didn't have to go this way,

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Speaker 2: and frankly it did. And by the way, yes, was

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Speaker 2: it not just about drugs but about oil too? Yes

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Speaker 2: it was, and the president didn't hide that. You know,

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Speaker 2: I keep hearing the non interventionalist critics saying this isn't

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Speaker 2: about drugs, this is about oil. Yeah, it's about oil too.

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Speaker 2: We invested a hell of a lot in the Western

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Speaker 2: hemisphere to pump that oil, and they stole it. We're

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Speaker 2: taking it back for a minute, just to kind of

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Speaker 2: close the loop on this. Democrats, in no way are

522
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Speaker 2: genuinely upset about what President Trump has done with Maduro here.

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Speaker 2: They're upset that a guy like Maduro isn't allowed to

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Speaker 2: carry on the way they'd like to carry on here

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Speaker 2: in the United States, like Mamdanni. It's noteworthy Maduro, by

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Speaker 2: the way, was hosting the Chinese delegation when this invasion

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Speaker 2: took place. So this was as much a message for

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Speaker 2: the desperates around the world, like Russia, like Iran, like

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Speaker 2: chinaf around and find out the bottom line. The Maduro

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Speaker 2: regime qualifies as a narco state because US federal courts

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Speaker 2: have indicted Maduro and his top generals under the Narco

532
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Speaker 2: Terrorism Statute. They were fugitives of the law. It's that simple.

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Speaker 2: So the justification for going in and executing a law

534
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Speaker 2: enforcement operation is there. That's what you have to know.

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Speaker 2: A narco terrorist country using oil to fund them that

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Speaker 2: we've invested in is not acceptable. It's the straight up

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Speaker 2: exporting of death tons of cocaine, flooding in, killing thousands

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Speaker 2: of Americans yearly, and funding the activity with stolen oil.

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Speaker 2: Stolen bottom line, nobody gets a pass on stealing, nobody

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Speaker 2: gets a pass on poisoning our streets. President Trump has

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Speaker 2: proven to be one of the most humane leaders in history.

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Speaker 2: This guy has broken broker nearly a dozen different Middle

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Speaker 2: East peace deals. He's pushed hard to end the bloodshed

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Speaker 2: in Ukraine, and now he's ripped Maduro in this narco

545
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Speaker 2: regime at its root, ripped it right out of the ground.

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Speaker 2: It is a relentless mission to stop innocent people from dying.

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Speaker 2: That is all Trump has very simply said, from the

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Speaker 2: very beginning, the Democrat Party has never had a problem

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Speaker 2: with how Venezuela was being run. They allowed Venezuela to

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Speaker 2: import drugs and murderers into our country, just like they

551
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Speaker 2: allowed to attempt on Donald Trump's life. As far as

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Speaker 2: I'm concerned, and without Doze, we wouldn't even begin to

553
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Speaker 2: understand the depth of their fraud and their theft here

554
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Speaker 2: at home. Is it a trillion? Is it more? Probably?

555
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Speaker 2: The Democrat Party is a depraved criminal organization, just the

556
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Speaker 2: same as Maduro. As far as I'm concerned, look at Mamdani.

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Speaker 2: President Trump is wielding power like nobody before him. He's

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Speaker 2: you do however you get here. They are chasing via

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Speaker 2: helicopter down the street, the armed car taking Maduro to

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Speaker 2: court this morning, Ed we got the overhead bronco chase,

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Speaker 2: just like we used to watch when Al Collings was

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Speaker 2: driving OJ down the interstate. They're doing it with Maduro today.

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Speaker 8: That's amazing. I just think of the irony here. Oh

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Speaker 8: my gosh, he's gonna be purp walked right or he was,

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Speaker 8: Oh yeah, had some weird hat. They put him in

658
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Speaker 8: some weird It's so funny. They put him in like

659
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Speaker 8: three different costumes already you know, always handcuff, but he's

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Speaker 8: he was in a jumpsuit. One he got like a

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Speaker 8: Mickey Mouse hat on. I don't know, it's weird.

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Speaker 2: I've never seen so many outfit changes for a fugitive.

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Speaker 2: But anyway, here to discuss it, our great friend, first

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Speaker 2: guest of the New year. I could think of nobody better.

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Speaker 2: Nobody's smarter to kick off twenty twenty six than our

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Speaker 2: friend John Hayward, national Security deputy editor at Breitbart. He

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Speaker 2: follows things like this closely has for a long while. John,

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Speaker 2: Happy New Year, Happy New Year to you.

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Speaker 12: It's too bad this all happened after Christmas because the

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Speaker 12: Majuro dress up dolls would have been a big hit

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Speaker 12: under the Christmas treets.

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Speaker 2: I've never seen so many costume changes. All right, Look,

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Speaker 2: here's what I need to know from you. For people

674
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 2: that say, and many of them are, just because Trump

675
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:54,879
Speaker 2: did this, and had Biden done it, it wouldn't be an issue.

676
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Speaker 2: We wouldn't even be discussing it because Trump did it.

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Speaker 2: There is this constant refrain that you know, we had

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Speaker 2: no doubt you sought on social media once if you

679
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 2: didn't see it a thousand times, We had no business

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Speaker 2: doing this. Leave poor Maduro alone. Where the hell does

681
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Speaker 2: President Trump get off? You can't just go snatch your leader.

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Speaker 2: You can't. You can't. Well, Rubio is pretty well laid

683
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 2: out why we did it, and then you here's the

684
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Speaker 2: second part. This wasn't about drugs. It was about oil,

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Speaker 2: to which I say, yeah, President Trump was actually pretty

686
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 2: clear that it was about oil. So let's just start

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Speaker 2: first with your interpretation of what happened. Is it legal?

688
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Speaker 2: Is it justifiable? Are you glad it happened?

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Speaker 12: John Heyward, Well, this gets to the heart of my

690
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 12: big criticism of the UN for my whole life, is

691
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Speaker 12: that it has no standards. It will let a dictator

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Speaker 12: like Maduro who is not the legitimate president of Venezuela.

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Speaker 12: Mark Rubia was very clear on that Maduro lost the

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Speaker 12: election and then he overthrew it because he's a dictator.

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Speaker 12: So what businesses do UN have or anybody of telling

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Speaker 12: us he's the legitimate head of state of Venezuela.

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Speaker 5: No, he isn't.

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Speaker 12: And that should be a message to all these tinpot

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Speaker 12: dictators that if you cling to power with techniques like that,

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Speaker 12: you're not safe, you're not legitimate, and nobody should deal

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Speaker 12: with you that way. Why does the UN let the

702
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 12: Taliban darken its doorstep. They're not the legitimate rulers of Afghanistan.

703
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 12: They took power in a coup. But that's the big

704
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:16,839
Speaker 12: problem with the international order as it stands. They tell

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Speaker 12: us that whatever dirtball strongman won the last battle in

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Speaker 12: the streets of the city's capital is now the leader

707
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Speaker 12: of the country and is untouchable. And Trump has given

708
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Speaker 12: the light to that, and I say, hurrah, it's a

709
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Speaker 12: great thing that Trump has punctured that idea. And you know,

710
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Speaker 12: when it comes to taking oil, it's not just about oil,

711
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 12: and it's not just about the money you can get

712
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Speaker 12: from it. It's about the power that you get from oil.

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Speaker 12: China has been helping Venezuela refine its oil. Iran has

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Speaker 12: been helping them because the idiot socialists of Venezuela destroyed

715
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Speaker 12: their own retired refining capacity by privatizer nationalizing it. And

716
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Speaker 12: oil is power, oil is money, oil is influence. That

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00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 12: threat had to be removed from our doorstep, and I

718
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Speaker 12: think President Trump and Secretary of State Rubio laid out

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Speaker 12: a great case for doing it.

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Speaker 2: We can't be apologetic about the fact that we are

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Speaker 2: the global superpower. We're top of the heap, and when

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Speaker 2: it comes to the Western hemisphere, there can be no

723
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Speaker 2: doubt this is our neighborhood. I like to say, we're

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Speaker 2: president of the Holmes Association, right, And there's some people

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Speaker 2: that don't like that statement, but it's nonetheless true. John.

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Speaker 2: We have to flex when it comes to this hemisphere,

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Speaker 2: at least well, yeah.

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Speaker 12: We have the Monroe Doctrine, which President Trump has rechristened

729
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,880
Speaker 12: the Donro Doctrine in the speech that he gave. And

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Speaker 12: that's all about keeping these malevolent powers out of our doorsteps.

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Speaker 12: It matters that has Bola did everybody know? Has Bola

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Speaker 12: had a presence in Venezuela. They're huge in Venezuela. A

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Speaker 12: bunch of Lebanese migrated to Venezuela years ago.

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Speaker 5: Has Bola came with them. They have a lot of

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Speaker 5: power there.

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Speaker 12: There's always been stories that they're hand in glove with

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Speaker 12: Venezuela and state security. We can't tolerate that, especially after

738
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Speaker 12: the October seventh atrocities against Israel. We can't tolerate threats

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Speaker 12: like that in our backyard. And Trump is sending a

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Speaker 12: clear message to the bad actors and to their dark angel, China.

741
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Speaker 12: China is the patron of all these states. And on

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Speaker 12: the day that Trump went to get Nicholas Maduro, all

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Speaker 12: that Chinese junk that they had sold Venezuela from military

744
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Speaker 12: hardware fell on its face, was completely useless. And it's

745
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Speaker 12: not going to completely terrify the Chinese military. It'll give

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Speaker 12: them food for thought. But every other bad actor out

747
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Speaker 12: there that's sitting on a Chinese arsenal just found out

748
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Speaker 12: that it's useless if the United States comes calling. And

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Speaker 12: Russia's hardware didn't work so hot and Iran last year either,

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Speaker 12: So that's great that the bad actors of the world

751
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Speaker 12: are being shown up as paper tigers.

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Speaker 2: John Hayward at Bright Bart There is a bit of

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Speaker 2: information today coming from the White House that Venezuela is

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Speaker 2: sitting on some three hundred and three billion barrels of oil,

755
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Speaker 2: just sitting on it. And that's I guess what we

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Speaker 2: know of, maybe not even what we've extracted from the ground,

757
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Speaker 2: or at least what they can see or know of

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Speaker 2: in their capacity. So the notion that this is about oil,

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Speaker 2: it does matter. We poured a ton of investment, private capital,

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Speaker 2: and I assume our government was some of that as well,

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Speaker 2: and President Trump was pretty clear, you don't get to

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Speaker 2: steal it. Number One, they weren't producing it at the

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Speaker 2: levels that they should have and the global supply needs,

764
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Speaker 2: so there's going to be a forced production. But also

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Speaker 2: taking back what's ours private investment. Public investment came from

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Speaker 2: us to get their oil supply up and running in

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Speaker 2: the first place.

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Speaker 5: True, Yes, absolutely.

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Speaker 12: I think it's also important to send a message to

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Speaker 12: these socialist regimes that you can't just nationalize what isn't

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Speaker 12: yours and steal it, you know, and eventually the rightful

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Speaker 12: owners will come calling and demand their equipment back. Venezuela's

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Speaker 12: oil production right now is about a quarter of what

774
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Speaker 12: it was at its peak, of what it could be,

775
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Speaker 12: and that's all because these socialist idiots destroyed their refining capacity.

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Speaker 12: Iran has been refining their oil for them, which is

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Speaker 12: what the deal is with these tankers that we keep

778
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Speaker 12: intercepting out in the ocean that are busting sanctions. It's

779
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Speaker 12: ferrying oil from Venezuela to Iran to be refined. There's

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Speaker 12: no reason to let our have a piece of that

781
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Speaker 12: oil wealth and that oil power either. That was Barack

782
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 12: Obama's idiotic foreign policy that gave Iran all that money,

783
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Speaker 12: all that wealth, all that oil cash was back in

784
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:12,879
Speaker 12: their pockets, and look what they did with it. They

785
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:16,280
Speaker 12: wrought havoc across the entire Middle East. They sponsored terrorism

786
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Speaker 12: around the world. They became one of the world's preeminent

787
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Speaker 12: malevolent actors with all the money Barack Obama gave them

788
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Speaker 12: from oil Donald Trump shut that off, and now look

789
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Speaker 12: what's happening. The Iranian regime is collapsing, and the fall

790
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Speaker 12: of Venezuela might just bring them down. People in Iran

791
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 12: are embolden, they're in the streets, they're demanding their freedom

792
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:36,799
Speaker 12: after all these years. And a big part of the

793
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 12: reason for that is because they don't have all that

794
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Speaker 12: oil money backing them up anymore. Thanks to Donald Trump,

795
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Speaker 12: no thanks to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's analogous at all, but I'll love

797
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 2: to hear your analysis of why you think it is

798
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 2: or is not analogous. To say, doing this in Venezuela

799
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Speaker 2: is the same mistake we made in Iraq Afghanistan, you

800
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Speaker 2: would say to that one.

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Speaker 12: I certainly hope not. But the mistake in Iraq was

802
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Speaker 12: made after the invasion. That's when we stayed forever and

803
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:11,320
Speaker 12: we did nation building, and we exposed our troops to

804
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:14,880
Speaker 12: years of murder and attacks from Iran. Remember Iran was

805
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 12: behind all of that, you know, So hopefully that will

806
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:20,359
Speaker 12: not be the mistake made here. Early indications are it's

807
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:23,840
Speaker 12: a lot different. Venezuelan people were glad to see Maduro gone.

808
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 12: If we do end up earning the country, it'll just

809
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:29,760
Speaker 12: be temporarily. Now. President Trump said that Mikado, the Nobel

810
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Speaker 12: Prize winner who wanted to run for president last time

811
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 12: and would have won if she had, she can't be

812
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:37,880
Speaker 12: the president right now because she didn't win an election.

813
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Speaker 12: She's not the legitimate elected leader of Venezuela, which is,

814
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Speaker 12: you know, logical thing to say. So hopefully what we're

815
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Speaker 12: going to do is run the place as long as possible.

816
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Speaker 12: It's going to be Marco Rubio's seventh job. Remember he's

817
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:50,440
Speaker 12: already got six jobs. Now he's going to be the

818
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Speaker 12: temporary acrus governor of Venezuela. And hopefully that only lasts

819
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 12: a few months, happy or whatever it takes to get

820
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Speaker 12: a legit election, clean election one Mikado will probably we

821
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Speaker 12: win and then she can take over.

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Speaker 2: And the difference between in my opinion, you tell me

823
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Speaker 2: my opinion. The biggest difference is you're talking about the

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Speaker 2: Middle East and a bunch of frankly Muslim theocracies that

825
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:20,760
Speaker 2: have not known capitalism, they have not known democratic rule,

826
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Speaker 2: and Venezuela has, and they're not that far removed from it.

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Speaker 2: Is that one of the biggest differences. It is to me.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, absolutely, Venezuela has the infrastructure, it has the traditions.

829
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Speaker 12: It used to be a devout Christian country. It used

830
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Speaker 12: to be a democracy, you know, it used to be prosperous.

831
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Speaker 12: It can be all those things again. It's only been

832
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Speaker 12: a socialist nightmare for a couple of generations. Now that's reversible,

833
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:44,399
Speaker 12: so is Iran. Iran was in much better shape before

834
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Speaker 12: these Islamist maniacs took over in nineteen seventy nine. Nineteen

835
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Speaker 12: seventy nine, you know, it's not that long ago. It's

836
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Speaker 12: possible to bring Iran back. They want to come back.

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Speaker 12: Look at the Iranian people in the streets, throwing away

838
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Speaker 12: their mandatory head rags and dancing in the streets. Is

839
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Speaker 12: their regime crumbles. Iran wants to be a civilized nation again.

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Speaker 2: And don't you think this scent I'm reading the Iahtola

841
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:07,359
Speaker 2: and others. They've already got their exit planned. Families are

842
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 2: already scattering around the world like they're freaked out now

843
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 2: that Trump may do to the Eyetola what he just

844
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Speaker 2: did to Maduro. I don't think that's true, but they're scared.

845
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:19,839
Speaker 12: Yeah, I don't think it's true either. But I'm glad

846
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:21,719
Speaker 12: they're scared of it. I'm glad they're thinking about it.

847
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,920
Speaker 12: That's useful that it's made their regime nervous, it's emboldened

848
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Speaker 12: their people. There's a rumor that the Iatola Comane already

849
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 12: has his exit strategy worked out. He's going to flee

850
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Speaker 12: to Moscow if the revolution gets any worse. It is

851
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 12: a revolution now. The protesters have weapons. They've attacked Islamic

852
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:40,040
Speaker 12: Revolutionary Guard COOREP based, which is a terrorist organization that

853
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 12: keeps an iron fist on power and around. So it

854
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:45,280
Speaker 12: is becoming a revolution. It's not just a protest anymore.

855
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Speaker 12: And we should nourish and do everything we can. Don't

856
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Speaker 12: let those people get murdered, and Trump saity won't. But

857
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 12: other than that, let's let nature take its course in Iran.

858
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:54,239
Speaker 12: And I think it will.

859
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:57,239
Speaker 2: That's thanks to President Donald Trump. It's undeniable. John. Hey,

860
00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:58,880
Speaker 2: we'd happy new Y're thank you, my friend. Great to

861
00:45:58,880 --> 00:45:59,400
Speaker 2: see you again.

862
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:02,240
Speaker 12: Happy to hear you two and everyone.

863
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 2: Oh that reminds me. I gotta tell you about the

864
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:07,480
Speaker 2: great Christmas gift they got. That's Wayne Newton. You guys

865
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 2: are listening to the Midnight idol on radio stations all

866
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 2: over the country. Those of you watching on the Salem

867
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 2: News Channel, you see the southern tip of Manhattan where

868
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 2: the Maduros are being escorted. As we speak live this morning,

869
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:24,759
Speaker 2: the Maduros are being walked into the New York courthouse

870
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 2: for their first appearance in court, wearing matching jumpsuits. It's

871
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 2: very nice ed I think it's if you aren't able

872
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 2: to see it. A lot of helicopters hovering overhead watching

873
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 2: the Maduros and matching jumpsuits being escorted into the courtroom.

874
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 2: It's early, by the way, right at it at seven

875
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:43,719
Speaker 2: almost seven thirty in the morning. They got them up

876
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:45,880
Speaker 2: and at it early. Huh. That might be the biggest

877
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:49,359
Speaker 2: torture they face, is being awakened at this hour. Good

878
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 2: for the other. So they're going in together as a couple,

879
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:57,279
Speaker 2: the Maduroys, I should say that. I guess they've been

880
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:01,719
Speaker 2: in terms of the tran it sounds like they left

881
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:04,319
Speaker 2: one vehicle, then they were put into another, and then

882
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 2: there now they're put into a helicopter and then they're

883
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:07,760
Speaker 2: going to be flown to the southern tip of Manhattan,

884
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:10,799
Speaker 2: if I'm correct. So there's a lot of transferring of

885
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:14,319
Speaker 2: these guys. Okay, Bobby, if you can kill your microphone,

886
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Our phone number is eight five five

887
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:20,359
Speaker 2: stigall if you want to get in here today and

888
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you. So

889
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 2: you heard a little Wayne Newton, a little midnight idle

890
00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:28,879
Speaker 2: bumping in here this morning. So I'm sitting around mind

891
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:30,880
Speaker 2: in my own business, and then an email pops it

892
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 2: up right before Christmas. I think it might have been

893
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:36,880
Speaker 2: on Christmas Day or Christmas Eve. I'm not entirely sure.

894
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 2: You ever heard a cameo? Ed you know what a

895
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:44,120
Speaker 2: cameo is? I do, Yes, I do. I've played around

896
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:47,040
Speaker 2: with it a little bit myself in the past. It's fascinating.

897
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 2: Cameo is a function online where you can basically go

898
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:54,759
Speaker 2: find assuming they're participating. Now they have to be participating.

899
00:47:55,160 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 2: A celebrity, an athlete, an actor, singer, whatever that are famous,

900
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 2: if they're willing to participate, will craft messages for you

901
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:07,359
Speaker 2: personally if you pay them, and they get to set

902
00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:09,239
Speaker 2: their own price. So I don't even know what this

903
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:12,759
Speaker 2: costs exactly, but every celebrity or every notable person that

904
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 2: wants to participate, you pay them and they will cut

905
00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:21,399
Speaker 2: the message that you craft for the recipient that can

906
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:23,719
Speaker 2: be yourself. You can have you know, an athlete make

907
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:26,600
Speaker 2: a message for you if you want. Now this was

908
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:29,919
Speaker 2: a dear friend of mine named Rich and Rich sent

909
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:32,520
Speaker 2: me one of the coolest Christmas gifts ever that popped

910
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:34,800
Speaker 2: up on my phone on Christmas Eve. Here it is

911
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:37,359
Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen. I've been able to and I only

912
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 2: met him once. I've been to see a show five times,

913
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:42,000
Speaker 2: The Midnight Idol Wayne Newton.

914
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 13: Hey, Chris, Marry Christmas to you and your family. Now

915
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:51,160
Speaker 13: I'm told that you're one of my biggest fans and

916
00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:56,759
Speaker 13: actually means the world. Can me were moultenship buses and well,

917
00:48:57,239 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 13: it isn't always easy gift a privilege to step in

918
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:06,120
Speaker 13: front of an audience and lift people love. I hear

919
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:12,400
Speaker 13: you love the rat pack America and the craft of entertaining.

920
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 5: It's just like I do.

921
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:18,279
Speaker 14: That tells me a lot about you. So let me

922
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:23,399
Speaker 14: say this now that I'm your biggest fan. Hey, God

923
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:28,400
Speaker 14: bless you this Christmas with joy, peace, laughter and a

924
00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:33,359
Speaker 14: home fool with love. Now I hear your name your

925
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:38,719
Speaker 14: dogs Dan Frank, So I'll just ask what do I

926
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:42,160
Speaker 14: have to do to get the next one's name?

927
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 8: Queen?

928
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:47,319
Speaker 5: How about that?

929
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:47,640
Speaker 15: Ed?

930
00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:50,160
Speaker 2: Is that not cool? I only played that half a

931
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 2: million times over the holiday to everybody that would stop

932
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 2: and watch it. How cool? Wayne Newton? There you go?

933
00:49:57,560 --> 00:49:59,920
Speaker 8: Well, thank you Rich, because I didn't get to do

934
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:02,839
Speaker 8: deliver online. I didn't deliver Wayne Newton before Rich did.

935
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:04,960
Speaker 8: But God bless Midnight Idol.

936
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:07,879
Speaker 2: Well again, to be fair, you don't pay. We don't

937
00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:12,400
Speaker 2: pay guests to appear on the show. Rich paid Wayne

938
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:15,760
Speaker 2: to do that for us, So I appreciate however it comes.

939
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:20,040
Speaker 2: I'm grateful, but we don't pay gas on the Stagall Show. Now,

940
00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 2: if they want to advertise, that's a different matter. But

941
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:24,359
Speaker 2: we've yet to bribe a guest to come on the show.

942
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:26,439
Speaker 2: If they don't want to come on. We've invited Wayne

943
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:28,960
Speaker 2: a thousand times and so far it's not worked out.

944
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:30,520
Speaker 2: We'll try it in twenty twenty six and see if

945
00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:32,240
Speaker 2: we can't get it. If I have to go to Vegas,

946
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 2: I'll go if I have to. Yeah, it was a

947
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:39,279
Speaker 2: short helicopter ride for the Maduros. They drove them to

948
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:41,759
Speaker 2: the helicopter, lifted to the helicopter, flew them over the

949
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:44,920
Speaker 2: river there and landed in the southern tip of New

950
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:48,160
Speaker 2: York where they're now. Oh, there we are. We have

951
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:50,200
Speaker 2: it there on the Salem News channel. If you're watching us,

952
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:52,560
Speaker 2: thanks for listening on great stations all over the country.

953
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:56,640
Speaker 2: They're in New York. Nine to seventy am. The answer.

954
00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 2: They landed the Maduros did the helicopter there on the tarmac,

955
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:02,800
Speaker 2: just over the river at the southern tip of Manhattan.

956
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:07,759
Speaker 2: Now they're escorting them to the federal courthouse there. So

957
00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:11,719
Speaker 2: and yet another jumpsuit, another outfit. That guy has more

958
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 2: changes of clothes than I do. And I go shopping.

959
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:19,799
Speaker 2: He's not even allowed to shop anyway. Eight five fives

960
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:21,400
Speaker 2: to Gulls the telephone number if you want to get

961
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:23,319
Speaker 2: into your happy New Year, and Merry Christmas to you.

962
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:26,320
Speaker 2: It is still Christmas. By the way, Eddie and I

963
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 2: were talking during the break. He did remind me quickly.

964
00:51:28,239 --> 00:51:31,879
Speaker 2: I just wanted to say, my lovely wife. Every year

965
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:35,160
Speaker 2: she gets frustrated because I'm pretty good at giving gifts.

966
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 2: I must say I'm pretty good at getting I'll brag

967
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:41,799
Speaker 2: on myself. I know how to surprise her. I listen,

968
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:44,440
Speaker 2: she thinks I don't but throughout the year I make

969
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:46,759
Speaker 2: little mental notes, I tuck it away, and then just

970
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:49,319
Speaker 2: when she doesn't expect it on Christmas. But Braham, there's

971
00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:52,040
Speaker 2: that thing she mentioned back in March. I'm good at that, ed.

972
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:56,279
Speaker 2: That's one of my gifts is giving gifts, listening and

973
00:51:56,320 --> 00:52:00,440
Speaker 2: knowing what people want. So every year she gets fromrustrated

974
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:03,040
Speaker 2: that I end up dazzling her with some kind of

975
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:06,200
Speaker 2: cool gift and she never feels like she can really

976
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:08,720
Speaker 2: step up to the plate. This year, she thought she'd

977
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:09,440
Speaker 2: done it.

978
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 5: And she did.

979
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:14,040
Speaker 2: She got a very impressive I had wanted a coffee maker,

980
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:17,400
Speaker 2: a specific kind of coffee maker that makes buy the

981
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:21,840
Speaker 2: cup freshly ground bean coffee. I've never done that before,

982
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:24,880
Speaker 2: and I thought, well, that's high falutin and nonsensical. I

983
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:26,680
Speaker 2: normally just brew a pot of coffee and drink it.

984
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:28,880
Speaker 2: But I don't like brewing a full pot of coffee

985
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:31,160
Speaker 2: all the time. And I thought, if there's something out

986
00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:33,440
Speaker 2: there that grinds it by the cup, might try that.

987
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:34,440
Speaker 5: Well there is.

988
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:38,799
Speaker 2: But they're a fortune. He says, you're very expensive. Oh yeah,

989
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:41,920
Speaker 2: and Christine, that's what she surprised me was she got

990
00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:44,279
Speaker 2: me one of those things. And she was so proud

991
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:47,000
Speaker 2: of it, and I opened at Christmas morning she haha,

992
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:52,720
Speaker 2: gotcha surprise. And then I took her outside and introduced

993
00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:56,040
Speaker 2: her to my gift, which if you follow on social

994
00:52:56,040 --> 00:52:58,359
Speaker 2: media you might have seen it. My wife, God bless

995
00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:01,880
Speaker 2: her has been driving a mini van since twenty twelve

996
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:04,440
Speaker 2: that has two hundred and thirty five thousand miles on

997
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:07,719
Speaker 2: it fast Eddy. That's how the Stigall clan drives cars.

998
00:53:07,760 --> 00:53:11,080
Speaker 2: Two hundred thirty five thousand miles and cooking. It was

999
00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:13,640
Speaker 2: doing okay, but I started, you know, guilt was starting

1000
00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 2: to sit in, you know, and frankly it was becoming

1001
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:18,200
Speaker 2: a road hazard, I think. And so I decided we

1002
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:20,840
Speaker 2: got to do something about this, and so I decided

1003
00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:23,120
Speaker 2: to surprise her with a vehicle that she'd been eyeing.

1004
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:26,960
Speaker 2: And so I took her out there and did the

1005
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:29,520
Speaker 2: red bow on the car and the whole thing, and again,

1006
00:53:29,680 --> 00:53:31,479
Speaker 2: if you're curious, you could see it on social media.

1007
00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:35,560
Speaker 2: I posted it over the holiday and she she was

1008
00:53:35,680 --> 00:53:38,200
Speaker 2: very happy. But after a couple of minutes set in,

1009
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:41,480
Speaker 2: she goes, you did it again? She thought she had

1010
00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:43,640
Speaker 2: it with the coffee maker, and then I then I

1011
00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:46,320
Speaker 2: gave her the new ride it was a good Christmas.

1012
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 2: That's awesome, man. You did the bow and everything. Plus

1013
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:51,879
Speaker 2: I did. I even I asked the dealer, I said,

1014
00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:53,560
Speaker 2: how do I get one of those big boat those

1015
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:57,880
Speaker 2: big bows? You should know those aren't cheap, those guys

1016
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:00,920
Speaker 2: and they take them back. You should also know that

1017
00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:03,200
Speaker 2: like the dealers, they want them back because they're not cheating.

1018
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:05,600
Speaker 2: They buy those things and you can put it on,

1019
00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:10,160
Speaker 2: but then they take them back. Anyway, Mary, Christmas, and

1020
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:12,600
Speaker 2: I hope yours was as much fun and cool as

1021
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 2: ours was. At the house our great friend erin Maguire.

1022
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:17,080
Speaker 2: I know she's feeling great. She got one of the

1023
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:23,000
Speaker 2: great gifts. Another postseason appearance by her Buffalo Bills. As

1024
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:24,880
Speaker 2: I was looking at the schedule for the weekend ahead.

1025
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 2: Aaron McGuire is featured in a segment We call Mondays

1026
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:30,520
Speaker 2: with McGuire, Happy twenty twenty six and Happy New Year, Aaron,

1027
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:31,279
Speaker 2: good morning.

1028
00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:34,800
Speaker 15: Happy twenty twenty six, Happy New Year, and may God

1029
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:37,200
Speaker 15: willing this be the year the Buffalo Bills win a

1030
00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:37,800
Speaker 15: Super Bowl.

1031
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:43,719
Speaker 2: They take on the Jacksonville Jaguars at one o'clock on Sunday.

1032
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:45,000
Speaker 2: Are you sweating that one?

1033
00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:48,120
Speaker 15: I am the Jacksonville Jaguars are probably one of the

1034
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:50,719
Speaker 15: best hottest teams in the league right now. They've what

1035
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:53,239
Speaker 15: won seven straight or something like that. They're very good.

1036
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 15: This is a formidable team. But Josh Allen, I feel

1037
00:54:57,040 --> 00:54:59,800
Speaker 15: it in me. We're getting demon mode. It's gonna happen.

1038
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:03,240
Speaker 15: He's gonna play like a freak. James Cook, the leading

1039
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:06,040
Speaker 15: rusher in the NFL, is a Buffalo Bill. I don't

1040
00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:08,919
Speaker 15: want to be optimistic as a Bills fan, but I'm optimistic.

1041
00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:13,479
Speaker 2: Well, I'm with you all the way. What I don't

1042
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:16,239
Speaker 2: want to see is the Denver Broncos succeed. I just

1043
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 2: I don't want to see the AFC West guy, I

1044
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:18,759
Speaker 2: can't see that.

1045
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:21,920
Speaker 15: Yeah, we're right there. I don't want to Patriots, So

1046
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:23,480
Speaker 15: let's go No Bills.

1047
00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:26,840
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a big matchup and the Philadelphia Eagles,

1048
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:30,200
Speaker 2: by the way, this is going to be a fascinating

1049
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:32,799
Speaker 2: matchup to the forty nine Ers head to Philadelphia, So

1050
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:36,920
Speaker 2: that's going to be one to watch on Sunday. There

1051
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:38,640
Speaker 2: are a lot of great matchups. Actually, this is gonna

1052
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:41,799
Speaker 2: be a very interesting postseason. But anyway, Aaron, look, here's

1053
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:44,919
Speaker 2: what's fascinating to me. Is President Trump pulls off this

1054
00:55:45,719 --> 00:55:50,880
Speaker 2: unbelievable seizure of the Maduros and apparently no one on

1055
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:53,400
Speaker 2: Capitol Hill, as I understand that even Mike Johnson and

1056
00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:56,759
Speaker 2: John Thune knew about it. Is that extraordinary or not

1057
00:55:56,920 --> 00:55:57,600
Speaker 2: politically in.

1058
00:55:57,560 --> 00:56:01,080
Speaker 15: Your view, that is extraordinary fact that this was kept

1059
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:05,439
Speaker 15: so tight lift everybody knows the government is famous for leaks,

1060
00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:08,040
Speaker 15: and Capitol Hill is the leakiest place in the world.

1061
00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:11,520
Speaker 15: I remember sitting in conference meetings when I worked in

1062
00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:14,400
Speaker 15: the House for Kevin McCarthy and in real time watching

1063
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:16,600
Speaker 15: reporters being able to tweet what was happening in the

1064
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:20,200
Speaker 15: room because members so freely talk. Now, obviously the Speaker

1065
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:24,400
Speaker 15: and Leader Thun are a different don't leak in that fashion.

1066
00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:26,799
Speaker 15: But the fact that they felt the need to keep

1067
00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:31,160
Speaker 15: this out of the Congressional read in early shows one

1068
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:33,359
Speaker 15: how tactically important they thought that would be.

1069
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:34,960
Speaker 1: And two, now.

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Speaker 15: It leads the White House to have to go up

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Speaker 15: to the Hill this week and give a full readout

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Speaker 15: and briefing to all the members of Congress, and Mike

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Speaker 15: Johnson and Leader Thune both put out supportive statements.

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Speaker 1: So it is a big deal that the leaders weren't

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Speaker 1: read in.

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Speaker 15: However, given Capitol Hills propensity for conversation, it doesn't surprise.

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Speaker 2: Me anything about this operation. From a political point of view.

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Speaker 2: You see as a nagad right now. Democrats do what

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Speaker 2: Democrats always do. But you know, I was just kind

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Speaker 2: of refamiliarizing myself with history. When Bush did it with Noriega,

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Speaker 2: for instance, Bush Senior, it was widely applauded by both

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Speaker 2: Democrats and Republicans at that time. But that was a

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Speaker 2: different time. So what do you make of this one?

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Speaker 15: I think now the political calculus on this for Republicans

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Speaker 15: is keeping the party together because now the President Trump

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Speaker 15: has said we will be leading Venezuela. The administration needs

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Speaker 15: to suss out what that actually means. Does it mean

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Speaker 15: that there will be United States troops in Venezuela helping

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Speaker 15: maintain the government while that happens. That could be a

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Speaker 15: very big fracture point within the Republican Party. On the

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Speaker 15: Democrat side, politically, they've been screaming for years, whether it's

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Speaker 15: Chris Murphy who doesn't have standards because all he has

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Speaker 15: are double standards, or Chuck Schumer, who everybody was screaming

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Speaker 15: about getting Madu out of power and holding him accountable.

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Speaker 15: You see, for Democrats now they're saying, sure, maybe the

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Speaker 15: operation ultimately led to what we wanted, but we don't

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Speaker 15: think this was constitutional. I only give it a matter

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Speaker 15: of days and probably today until Democrats start defending Maduro.

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Speaker 15: They can never help themselves with these kind of things.

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Speaker 15: So politically speaking, there are factions within each party right

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Speaker 15: now that are going to find it difficult, one on

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Speaker 15: the Democrat side to support the common sense of taking

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Speaker 15: out a narco terrorist regime, illegitimate regime leader and holding

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Speaker 15: him accountable in the United States, and the possibility of

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Speaker 15: the covernment having to run another country and what that

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Speaker 15: looks like.

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Speaker 1: Those are politically perilous within each party.

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Speaker 2: So here we are twenty twenty six, and you know,

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Speaker 2: not that people aren't in politics always thinking about the

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Speaker 2: next election, but looming now officially is November of this year.

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Speaker 2: And as I read from readline dot com, they've identified

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Speaker 2: what they called seventeen seventeen toss up congressional districts as

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Speaker 2: rated by Cook Political Report. Any rate is that where

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Speaker 2: you are with this right now in terms of the

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Speaker 2: House makeup, are there seventeen or more toss up districts

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Speaker 2: right now. And if by toss up, does that mean

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Speaker 2: could go the Republicans' way and if so, bolster their

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Speaker 2: margins and the pickups by the way of new seats.

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Speaker 2: Texas and some other states have given some new Republican seats.

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Speaker 2: So what's the map there so far?

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Speaker 1: I think that math's probably close to accurate.

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Speaker 15: You're definitely with redistricting efforts now that's going on around

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Speaker 15: the country, we really don't know yet what the final

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Speaker 15: number is going to look like for these swing toss

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Speaker 15: up seats, ones that maybe went for Kammala or one

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Speaker 15: for Trump, but now with.

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Speaker 1: Redistricting, the margins look different.

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Speaker 15: On the ability to win those, I think you are

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Speaker 15: looking at less than twenty competitive real true races in

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Speaker 15: the country.

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Speaker 1: It used to be one hundreds over one hundred, right.

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Speaker 15: You used to see these big lists that either the

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Speaker 15: Democrat National Committee woul put out or the Republican National

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Speaker 15: Committee of these target rates. But one this country is

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Speaker 15: so closely divided, it really is nominal. How fifty to

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Speaker 15: fifty this country is right now, And so those couple

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Speaker 15: of extra seats, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if this

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Speaker 15: competitive race number doesn't actually come down as we get

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Speaker 15: closer to November, as the final set of redistricting comes

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Speaker 15: through and we find out where the final races are

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Speaker 15: going to be.

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Speaker 1: If all of.

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Speaker 15: That suss is out that way, I think you could

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Speaker 15: be looking at less than ten true competitive swing races.

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Speaker 1: And when Republicans.

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Speaker 15: Only hold small majority in the House, it makes it

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Speaker 15: that much harder to maintain. But all of this together,

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Speaker 15: the Senate map is very favorable to Republicans, and a

1149
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Speaker 15: stronger top of the ticket, stronger gubernatorial candidates, stronger Senate

1150
01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:47,919
Speaker 15: candidates does help down ballot as well. So a good

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Speaker 15: Senate map does help the House. But those again, that

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Speaker 15: number of competitive races I think is only going to

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Speaker 15: get smaller.

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Speaker 2: If Donald Trump asked you, Aaron, what do I do

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Speaker 2: to excite the Republican and base and get him to

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Speaker 2: turn out this fall and help me keep my margins

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Speaker 2: in the House. What's the number one thing he can do?

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Speaker 2: I asked to Rumfers. Is it prosecuting lawbreakers, bringing justice

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Speaker 2: to the abusers of the previous administration? Is it boosting

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Speaker 2: the economy? Is it is it doing away with the

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Speaker 2: filibuster Most of at least the Harumfers in my audience

1162
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Speaker 2: say they want justice, they want Pambondi to start putting

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Speaker 2: people in leg irons. I hear that a lot. Do

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Speaker 2: you agree with that assessment? Is that what we need

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Speaker 2: to see to excite the Republican base.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's right.

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Speaker 15: Republicans have been calling for justice on any number of

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Speaker 15: levels for years, whether it was the weaponization of the

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Speaker 15: Department of Justice against parents and calling them terrorists, whether

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Speaker 15: it is what has clearly been rampant fraud in Minnesota.

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Speaker 15: And we might get news today that Tim Walls might

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Speaker 15: not be running for reelection. There's a little bit of

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Speaker 15: possible reporting on that today. There's so much rampant fraud

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Speaker 15: and corruption across the country.

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Speaker 1: Republicans do want.

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Speaker 15: That accountability, and with the midterms coming up, the way

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Speaker 15: to keep that base excited, Yes, this is absolutely one

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Speaker 15: of them. But they also need to get excited about

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Speaker 15: defending Donald Trump this midterm race. If these are Republicans

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Speaker 15: or low propensity voters who only show up when Trump

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Speaker 15: is on the ballot, they need to keep that in

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Speaker 15: mind going into the midterms, because if Democrats flip the

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Speaker 15: House of Representatives, it's all impeachment it's all investigations, it's

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Speaker 15: all inquiries. It is going to be an absolute banana

1185
01:02:34,240 --> 01:02:38,160
Speaker 15: Republic in the House trying to get again impeach Donald

1186
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Speaker 15: Trump and not getting anything done on the economy, on healthcare.

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Speaker 15: I can guarantee you if Democrats get back in the House,

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Speaker 15: that's southern border, they're going to try to open it again.

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Speaker 15: They're not going to be successful, but you better believe

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Speaker 15: they're going to try that again. When you look at

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Speaker 15: this in all of its totality, Republicans need to be animated.

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Speaker 15: Yes on the economy, Yes on Trump delivering justice, but

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Speaker 15: also on defending him because these are his voters a

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Speaker 15: lot of the time, especially those low propensity ones. If

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Speaker 15: they want to make sure that Donald Trump can continue

1196
01:03:07,640 --> 01:03:10,320
Speaker 15: to deliver for the American people, they've got to make

1197
01:03:10,320 --> 01:03:12,479
Speaker 15: sure they go out and vote for the Republican because

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Speaker 15: that'll stop those investigations.

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Speaker 2: She's Aaron Maguire, the brilliant Republican strategist. Go Bills. We'll

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Speaker 2: see you next Monday. Thanks Aaron Ornament.

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Speaker 11: You know this.

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01:03:21,120 --> 01:03:24,680
Speaker 2: Minnesota welfare fraud that Aaron brought up a little while

1203
01:03:24,680 --> 01:03:27,720
Speaker 2: ago that popped a lot while we were away, and

1204
01:03:28,680 --> 01:03:31,080
Speaker 2: you should know it didn't grow because no one noticed.

1205
01:03:31,560 --> 01:03:33,920
Speaker 2: It grew because no one was allowed to talk about it.

1206
01:03:34,560 --> 01:03:38,480
Speaker 2: Whistleblowers actually ended up making it public for everybody, but

1207
01:03:38,520 --> 01:03:44,160
Speaker 2: federal investigators estimate billions billions were stolen from child nutrition

1208
01:03:44,280 --> 01:03:48,000
Speaker 2: and medicaid and autism therapy and housing and welfare programs,

1209
01:03:48,320 --> 01:03:51,600
Speaker 2: and it was all funneled through ghost daycares and shell nonprofits.

1210
01:03:52,080 --> 01:03:55,720
Speaker 2: The money went to luxury cars and overseas properties. Thanks

1211
01:03:55,760 --> 01:03:57,880
Speaker 2: to whistleblowers, that's the only reason we know about it,

1212
01:03:59,280 --> 01:04:07,040
Speaker 2: and it vanished. Why in tightly knit clan based communities,

1213
01:04:07,200 --> 01:04:10,160
Speaker 2: exposing a cousin or associate isn't a civic duty, It's

1214
01:04:10,160 --> 01:04:14,440
Speaker 2: a betrayal, and so the instinct wasn't learned in Minnesota.

1215
01:04:14,480 --> 01:04:17,400
Speaker 2: It comes from places where survival depends on blood loyalty,

1216
01:04:17,480 --> 01:04:21,200
Speaker 2: not neutral institutions. So when clans come before the law,

1217
01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:26,280
Speaker 2: fraud becomes commonplace. And here's the part that Democrats don't

1218
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Speaker 2: want discussed. The Somali community in Minnesota. It's a reliable

1219
01:04:30,520 --> 01:04:35,560
Speaker 2: Democrat voting block, and in return, Democrat leadership shielded this fraud.

1220
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Speaker 2: Tim Walls shielded this fraud slow walking audits, minimizing losses,

1221
01:04:40,840 --> 01:04:46,040
Speaker 2: smearing scrutiny as racists. What began is clan silence amongst

1222
01:04:46,040 --> 01:04:51,080
Speaker 2: Somali's became party silence, then policy, and one tribal code

1223
01:04:51,160 --> 01:04:54,720
Speaker 2: was absorbed into another. Democrats in Washington, d C. Run

1224
01:04:54,880 --> 01:04:59,560
Speaker 2: that very same playbook. They just wear better clothes. Intelligence

1225
01:04:59,600 --> 01:05:03,840
Speaker 2: official don't bury the Hunter Biden laptop to protect national security.

1226
01:05:03,880 --> 01:05:08,160
Speaker 2: They bury it to protect their political tribe. Loyalty replaced

1227
01:05:08,160 --> 01:05:12,440
Speaker 2: the truth, Party interest replaced public duty. That same reflex

1228
01:05:12,920 --> 01:05:17,240
Speaker 2: explains why voters cling to leaders whose policies actively harm them,

1229
01:05:17,920 --> 01:05:22,200
Speaker 2: Why fentanyl ravaged towns vote blue, Why corruption in California

1230
01:05:22,240 --> 01:05:28,360
Speaker 2: is excused, why election irregularities are waived away the Jersey Democrat.

1231
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Speaker 2: It means more than the scoreboard. This isn't about race,

1232
01:05:32,640 --> 01:05:38,680
Speaker 2: of course, It's about tribes versus the truth. When allegiance

1233
01:05:38,880 --> 01:05:45,040
Speaker 2: becomes sacred, corruption becomes inevitable and untouchable, When a government

1234
01:05:45,080 --> 01:05:48,160
Speaker 2: survives only by lying to its people, the problem is

1235
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Speaker 2: no longer policy, it's evil. Our differences with Democrats aren't

1236
01:05:53,640 --> 01:05:58,400
Speaker 2: about tone or temperament or partisan disagreement. It just isn't.

1237
01:05:58,440 --> 01:06:02,080
Speaker 2: What we're witnessing from the Democrats right now, in real time,

1238
01:06:03,200 --> 01:06:07,600
Speaker 2: is the sustained use of deceit to gain and hold power.

1239
01:06:08,160 --> 01:06:13,480
Speaker 2: That's not politics, folks, it's not persuasion. It's not a

1240
01:06:13,520 --> 01:06:19,920
Speaker 2: different worldview. It's evil, plain and simple. When someone knowingly

1241
01:06:20,040 --> 01:06:26,400
Speaker 2: lies to win votes, sympathy, obedience, or silence, they're not mistaken.

1242
01:06:27,160 --> 01:06:31,480
Speaker 2: They're abusing your trust. And when that abuse becomes systemic,

1243
01:06:32,760 --> 01:06:37,400
Speaker 2: when institutions and media and government offices exist to maintain

1244
01:06:37,560 --> 01:06:43,160
Speaker 2: the lie, people get hurt, people die. That's not rhetoric,

1245
01:06:44,200 --> 01:06:50,160
Speaker 2: that's reality. Look around, Venezuelan's dancing in the streets right now,

1246
01:06:50,560 --> 01:06:55,520
Speaker 2: Iranians threatening their top leadership, roiling in the streets right now.

1247
01:06:55,880 --> 01:06:59,479
Speaker 2: Not because they suddenly discovered capitalism or read a white

1248
01:06:59,480 --> 01:07:03,720
Speaker 2: paper on free markets. They're dancing because a liar lost power,

1249
01:07:05,440 --> 01:07:10,320
Speaker 2: a collectivist who spent decades selling justice and equality while

1250
01:07:10,520 --> 01:07:15,200
Speaker 2: the people were starving, and as country fell, they knew

1251
01:07:15,440 --> 01:07:19,400
Speaker 2: something many Americans have been trained to forget. Living under

1252
01:07:19,520 --> 01:07:25,880
Speaker 2: lies is a form of violence. Collectivism always begins with promises,

1253
01:07:26,320 --> 01:07:29,680
Speaker 2: that pit of hell, lie the mayor, the new mayor

1254
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Speaker 2: of New York, the warmth of collectivism, warmth, fairness, protection.

1255
01:07:34,440 --> 01:07:39,640
Speaker 2: It always ends the same way, though collectivism, ration, cards, informants, prisons, graves.

1256
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Speaker 2: The only way it survives is through deceit. You cannot

1257
01:07:44,280 --> 01:07:47,280
Speaker 2: force millions of people to surrender their agency without lying

1258
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Speaker 2: to them first. That's why the truth is treated as treason.

1259
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Speaker 2: In collectivist systems, NGOs become laundrymats instead of charities. That's

1260
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Speaker 2: why questioning the near is labeled as dangerous. We can

1261
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Speaker 2: do something about this, but it's going to take all

1262
01:08:08,680 --> 01:08:14,320
Speaker 2: of us engaged this year backing President Trump and Republican

1263
01:08:14,360 --> 01:08:17,080
Speaker 2: reforms moren a minute. Hey, everybody's trying to save money

1264
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Speaker 2: where they can. If you buy your own health insurance

1265
01:08:19,640 --> 01:08:22,160
Speaker 2: or if you're on Obamacare, you know how expensive those

1266
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Speaker 2: premiums are getting. It's why I've sent my own parents,

1267
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Speaker 2: my personal friends, and my colleagues to John Ruhlman and

1268
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Speaker 2: his team at US medical Plan dot Com. John works

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Speaker 2: with one hundred different private health insurance companies across the

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Speaker 2: country to find you the very best coverage at the

1271
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Speaker 2: very best rates. My own parents saved four hundred dollars

1272
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Speaker 2: a month each on their Medicare supplemental health insurance premiums

1273
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Speaker 2: reaching out to John Rouman and US medical Plan dot Com.

1274
01:08:46,360 --> 01:08:48,599
Speaker 2: I have a friend in between jobs. She reached out

1275
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Speaker 2: to US Medical Plan to replace her Cobra insurance rates.

1276
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Speaker 2: Saved six hundred dollars a month. A personal friend who

1277
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Speaker 2: buys his own families health insurance out of pocket, I

1278
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Speaker 2: send him to John and now he's saving a thousand

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Speaker 2: dollar dollars a month. Listen, folks, this is one of

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Speaker 2: You know there he is. Hey, Good morning, folks, Welcome

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Speaker 2: in on this Monday, Happy New Year, Welcome back to

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Speaker 2: the unbelievable start of twenty twenty six. And Maduro and

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Speaker 2: his wife being escorted in a prison jumpsuit Southern District

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Speaker 2: Court of Manhattan where there will be a federal court.

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Speaker 2: I guess it is in the southern tip of Manhattan.

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Speaker 2: I should say they were escorted from van to helicopter

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Speaker 2: landed there in the southern tip of Manhattan, and now

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Speaker 2: they're on their way to a court of law and

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Speaker 2: I got to tell you whether it's in Caracas or

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Speaker 2: whether it's in Minnesota. We also hear today Tim Walls

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Speaker 2: is probably not going to be running for reelection in Minnesota,

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Speaker 2: and that's probably wise for him. I was going over

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Speaker 2: this in the last hour in the previous segment, this

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Speaker 2: fraud going on in Minnesota. It's not exclusive to Minnesota,

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Speaker 2: of course, but it's all about lies, and it's all

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Speaker 2: about deceit. It's whether it's in Caracas or whether it's

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Speaker 2: in Minneapolis. It's it's a line we can't step over.

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Speaker 2: When a lie is told for power, it is not

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Speaker 2: just a policy disagreement. It is sabotage. It treats human

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Speaker 2: beings not as thinking adults, but as raw materials to

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Speaker 2: be managed, and it strips people of agency, the warm

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Speaker 2: embrace of collectivism it claims to protect them. It's a lie.

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Speaker 2: It's evil wearing the mask of good. And we should

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Speaker 2: say it plainly, lying like this is just evil, and

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Speaker 2: not because it's theatrical, but it does exactly what evil

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Speaker 2: always does. It disguises itself as virtue while feeding on

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Speaker 2: the damage it causes. Sunlight is the greatest disinfectant, as

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Speaker 2: they say, and it terrifies these systems because transparency all

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Speaker 2: always collapses the grift truth restores agency. People stop complying

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Speaker 2: once they see clearly. That's why we see whistleblowers punished,

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Speaker 2: Skeptics are smeared. Accountability is endlessly deferred. Darkness is not

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Speaker 2: a side effect, it's the habitat. Venezuelans are not erupting

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Speaker 2: in enjoy this morning because a politician lost an election.

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Speaker 2: They erupted because a lie has finally been cracked, and

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Speaker 2: with it the machinery of control. And that should tell

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Speaker 2: us all something. We cannot reform what we refuse to name.

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Speaker 2: We cannot stop deceit. If we keep calling it spin

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Speaker 2: or messaging or narrative framing. We can't heal a country

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Speaker 2: while insisting that lies told for power are just another opinion.

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Speaker 2: They aren't. It's dark, it's sinister, it's evil. And the

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Speaker 2: people dancing in the streets in Caracas know exactly why.

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Speaker 2: The people that are roiling in the streets of Iran

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Speaker 2: know exactly why. Victoria Coates, former Deputy National Security advisor

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Speaker 2: to President Trump, author of the Battle for the Jewish State,

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Speaker 2: How Israel and America can win, She knows exactly why

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Speaker 2: thrilled the kick off twenty twenty six with your brilliant insights. Victoria,

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Speaker 2: Happy New Year and congrats, by the way I understand,

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Speaker 2: are in order. Your daughter got married over the weekend.

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Speaker 2: How cool she did.

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Speaker 6: It's absolutely a wonderful way to start out twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 6: She married her Hillsdale College sweetheart, and it just was

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Speaker 6: a great day for our family.

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Speaker 2: Oh. I love that. I just love hearing it. You

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Speaker 2: must have I don't know how you viewed. I mean,

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Speaker 2: having been in the room for some really high profile

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Speaker 2: and important things, you had to have been impressed. I

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Speaker 2: don't know what your mood must have been as this

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Speaker 2: was unfolding during a great time in your family. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it was a I don't know, how do you feel

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Speaker 2: when you watch things like this unfold? I'm curious.

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Speaker 6: Well, a lot of things happened very early Saturday morning

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Speaker 6: for us, this being.

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Speaker 5: One of them.

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Speaker 6: But you it's when you're in the government and you're

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Speaker 6: serving a leader like President Trump and you know he

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Speaker 6: decides he's going to take this kind of decisive action.

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Speaker 6: You know, it really is impressive to watch then that

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Speaker 6: whole apparatus that's supporting him, so everybody at the Department

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Speaker 6: of War, everybody at the Department of State coming together

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Speaker 6: to support, you know, an extraordinary thing that only the

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Speaker 6: United States can do. And that's a really important aspect

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Speaker 6: of this is you know, China is not sending in

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Speaker 6: people to remove hostile dictators. They can't do things like this,

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Speaker 6: but the United States can.

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Speaker 5: And so that.

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Speaker 6: Demonstration of capability is one of the most important things

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Speaker 6: here because it sends that message to everybody else, from

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Speaker 6: Vladimir Putin to the Supreme leader of Iran, that you've

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Speaker 6: got you've got to take the United States seriously, particularly

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Speaker 6: when we have strong leadership.

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Speaker 2: Do you think that this has something to do with

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Speaker 2: or was it all already underway? What's going on in

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Speaker 2: the streets of Iran right now? We hear that there's

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Speaker 2: great uprising there, and in fact, leadership there is already

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Speaker 2: planning exit strategies, high tailing it to Russia if need be.

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Speaker 2: Are they nervous that Trump may try to pull this

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Speaker 2: off there too? Not that I think he should or will,

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Speaker 2: but I wonder if they're nervous about the possibility.

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Speaker 1: Well, they have to be.

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Speaker 6: And that's really the point here is that this puts

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Speaker 6: all sorts of bad actors on notice that this could

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Speaker 6: happen to them, and I do think it is coincidental.

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Speaker 6: What happened is happening in Iran, but they are related

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Speaker 6: because the strike on Iran in June is what ultimately

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Speaker 6: has led to these protests in Iran, because the leadership

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Speaker 6: is shown to be feckless and completely incompetent, and then

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Speaker 6: they've had they've had an economic crisis not dissimilar to

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Speaker 6: what's happening in Venezuela, in which their currency has lost

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Speaker 6: all of its value. They can't supply food and water anymore,

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Speaker 6: and so that is what is.

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Speaker 1: Led to these protests.

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Speaker 6: But in terms of their then vulnerability, I think that

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Speaker 6: is very real.

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Speaker 2: I think it a completely unfair criticism.

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Speaker 5: That.

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Speaker 2: Never mind liberals in the left or Democrats, I'm talking

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Speaker 2: about those that would be supposedly Trump backers or voters

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Speaker 2: when they say Trump's launching wars, these are not wars.

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Speaker 2: He striking Iran was not a war launched. This was

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Speaker 2: not a war launched in Venezuela. How do you characterize

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Speaker 2: what Venezuela is and our stay there? How long ought

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Speaker 2: it be? I mean, if you were in the room,

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Speaker 2: what would you say about our stay there now the

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Speaker 2: what now factor. People are trying to liken this to

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Speaker 2: Iraq or Afghanistan. I don't see any parallels there either,

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Speaker 2: simply because of ideologies number one and theocracies. I think

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Speaker 2: that matters a lot. But why are these different? What

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Speaker 2: would you say?

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Speaker 6: No, it's completely different. And interestingly, Saturday, January third was

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Speaker 6: the five six year anniversary of President Trump's strike on

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Speaker 6: Costan Solemany and that same predictions were made were made

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Speaker 6: then that he was going to drag us into war,

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Speaker 6: that there was going to be, you know, escalation and

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Speaker 6: horrible repercussions for what had happened taking out the head

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Speaker 6: of the U of the IRGC cuts force. So but

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Speaker 6: he what he prefers, what President Trump prefers are these

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Speaker 6: targeted strikes that he didn't show capability and create deterrence.

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Speaker 6: That then bad actors are going to be emboldened to

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Speaker 6: do terrible things. And during mind administration, what we saw

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Speaker 6: was every bad actor around the world emboldened to do

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Speaker 6: terrible things, be it invade Ukraine, be it the fall

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Speaker 6: of Afghanistan. All this weakness then embolden's others to do

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Speaker 6: things that are not in our national security interests. But

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Speaker 6: if you do execute these kinds of very targeted strikes,

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Speaker 6: you can you can establish that de terrence, put them

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Speaker 6: back in their box, and they don't do bad things

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Speaker 6: to America. So I don't understand that argument. It's coming

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Speaker 6: from both the right and the left, that oh, my goodness,

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Speaker 6: you know, Donald Trump's going to drag us into a

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Speaker 6: regional war. I think absolutely the opposite is the case.

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Speaker 6: He's preventing the regional war.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't think anyone in the Western hemisphere

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Speaker 2: wants to go to war with the United States. I

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Speaker 2: see no evidence of that. I can't even imagine it.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying someone wouldn't try, but Venezuelans don't seem hostile.

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Speaker 2: And now Margaret Brennan and others Victoria said things like, well,

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Speaker 2: you left a bunch of other guys down there, you

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Speaker 2: didn't take them all, to which Marco Rubio correctly said,

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Speaker 2: what are you suggesting this surgical strike taking the head

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Speaker 2: of the snake out and his wife wasn't enough. We

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Speaker 2: needed to round up five, six, you know, or half

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Speaker 2: a dozen people. Not realistic was his first charge. But okay,

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Speaker 2: what of this, well, the other the other goons around

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Speaker 2: Maduro are still in place. What do you say about.

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Speaker 6: That, Well, I do think this is going to be

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Speaker 6: a process. And one other interesting aspect of what's happening

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Speaker 6: in Latin America is that we're seeing a shift towards

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Speaker 6: more responsible conservative governments, starting with the election of Malay

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Speaker 6: in Argentina. But we are also seeing it in Bolivia

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Speaker 6: because one of the things that had kept Maduro and

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Speaker 6: Chavs before him in power for low these many years

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Speaker 6: was the fact that they essentially had a henchman in

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Speaker 6: Avo Morales that the then president of Bolivia. Bolivia now

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Speaker 6: has a conservative government. They've recognized. I mean, they're reaching

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Speaker 6: out to Israel, They're going to move their embassy to Jerusalem.

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Speaker 6: I mean, this would have seemed shocking five years ago,

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Speaker 6: but we were having this kind of much more conservative

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Speaker 6: shift in Latin America, much more pro American. So that's

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Speaker 6: happening around Maduro. So I don't know that you have

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Speaker 6: to get rid of everybody in the region. And then

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Speaker 6: in terms of the folks that are still in place

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Speaker 6: in Caracas, I think this is what the Trump administration

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Speaker 6: wants this to happen. Legally, they want the transition of

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Speaker 6: power to the Vice President, who is not a good

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Speaker 6: person by any stretch of the imagination. But what they

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Speaker 6: want to get to are the kind of elections we

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Speaker 6: had in July of twenty twenty four, where the people

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Speaker 6: of Venezuela are able to chart their own course and

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Speaker 6: then they can make that change that we've seen more

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Speaker 6: broadly in the region.

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Speaker 2: You've been in the room for a lot of these

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Speaker 2: important decisions, Victoria Coats, If you don't mind, I would

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Speaker 2: love to hold you over for another segment because I

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Speaker 2: think it's important. As I read all this criticism, particularly

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Speaker 2: from those on our side, I want to talk about

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Speaker 2: what makes President Trump tick. What is vision here is,

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Speaker 2: as you understand it, A lot of discussions about Marco

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Speaker 2: Rubio and JD. Vance in this conversation too. So when

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Speaker 2: we get back, we'll unpac more of that with Victoria Coats,

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Speaker 2: former deputy National Security Advisor to President Trump, author of

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Speaker 2: The Battle for the Jewish State. More in a minute

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Speaker 2: on Mister gall Show, We're back with Victoria Coachs, the

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Speaker 2: former Deputy National Security Advisor Victoria Tim Walls. I know

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Speaker 2: it seems maybe strange to bring him up, but I

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Speaker 2: only do because this rampant fraud we've seen with the

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Speaker 2: Somali community there. I hear Zoron Mandami in New York say,

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Speaker 2: the warmth of collectivism will replace rugged individualism. We have

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01:21:15,920 --> 01:21:22,599
Speaker 2: some really deep problems domestically that I think actually mirror

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01:21:22,880 --> 01:21:25,920
Speaker 2: what are being toppled internationally. That's my point. So that's

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Speaker 2: how I'll bring it home to you and see what

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Speaker 2: you say.

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Speaker 15: Now.

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Speaker 6: I think what we have here is an issue of corruption,

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Speaker 6: and important to remember, Tim Waltz could be the Vice

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01:21:35,880 --> 01:21:39,080
Speaker 6: President of the United States right now if the American

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Speaker 6: people hadn't had the good sense to reject that kind

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Speaker 6: of collectivism that he and Kamala Harris represented in the

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Speaker 6: twenty twenty four election, he could be a one heart

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Speaker 6: beat away from the presidency. And he oversaw this unbelievably

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Speaker 6: corrupt exploitation of our system during primarily COVID, where you

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01:22:00,240 --> 01:22:02,960
Speaker 6: have these bad actors who were able to take to

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01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:05,680
Speaker 6: exploit the system, to take all of that money that

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Speaker 6: President Biden was just throwing around during the COVID crisis,

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Speaker 6: and that they took advantage of it, and they were

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Speaker 6: able to in this corrupt scheme you siphon off those

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Speaker 6: US taxpayer dollars. That's a national security problem, and so

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Speaker 6: I think that's why it demands our attention, and we

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01:22:24,439 --> 01:22:27,280
Speaker 6: have to get after all of the other aspects of

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01:22:27,320 --> 01:22:31,000
Speaker 6: our federal government that are being exploited and that are

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01:22:31,400 --> 01:22:34,880
Speaker 6: raft with corruption. And so yes, I think this is

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Speaker 6: a major issue for us.

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Speaker 2: A lot of people are talking about the future Marco Rubio,

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01:22:39,400 --> 01:22:43,320
Speaker 2: jd Vance and the don Roe doctrine as he calls it.

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Speaker 2: The moment you've been in the room, as I said,

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Speaker 2: and with a couple of minutes, I know it's going

1530
01:22:48,680 --> 01:22:52,320
Speaker 2: to be tough maybe to summarize, but the Trump vision

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01:22:53,840 --> 01:22:57,479
Speaker 2: his role globally, the United States role globally, he doesn't

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01:22:57,479 --> 01:23:00,120
Speaker 2: want to be involved in forever wars are necessarily and

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01:23:00,160 --> 01:23:02,680
Speaker 2: regime changes. What are we watching And as we look

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Speaker 2: at the future after Donald Trump, what are we watching?

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Speaker 2: What do you think he's setting up or not?

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Speaker 6: Well, I think the President just has a very clear

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01:23:10,840 --> 01:23:12,840
Speaker 6: vision of what is in the best interests of the

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Speaker 6: American people. And he doesn't have that vision in a

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Speaker 6: way that then is exclusive. It's not that he doesn't

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01:23:18,920 --> 01:23:21,960
Speaker 6: care about other people around the globe, but he knows

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Speaker 6: that the promotion and the protection of the United States

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Speaker 6: is the best thing he can do for the global community.

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Speaker 6: We are the big power for good. We are the

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Speaker 6: ones who don't go in and try to conquer other

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Speaker 6: people and then exploit them. We go you know, we're

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01:23:35,960 --> 01:23:37,880
Speaker 6: trying to make the world a better place so that

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Speaker 6: we can be more prosperous and secure. So interesting that

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Speaker 6: you mentioned the Vice president and the Secretary of State. JD.

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Speaker 6: Vance is known to be a more sort of I

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01:23:49,160 --> 01:23:52,799
Speaker 6: wouldn't call him an isolationist, but he's very reserved about

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01:23:52,840 --> 01:23:57,080
Speaker 6: the use of American power. Secretary of State Rubio is

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01:23:57,120 --> 01:24:01,559
Speaker 6: somebody who's a more classic Republican hawk. But what's important

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01:24:01,600 --> 01:24:04,160
Speaker 6: for President Trump is he wants both those voices in

1554
01:24:04,200 --> 01:24:06,160
Speaker 6: the room. He wants to hear from both of them.

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01:24:06,360 --> 01:24:08,960
Speaker 6: He wants to know what they think, what their approach is,

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01:24:09,200 --> 01:24:11,640
Speaker 6: and then he's going to make his decision, and so

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01:24:12,240 --> 01:24:15,360
Speaker 6: he wants a range of views. And that's always been

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01:24:15,600 --> 01:24:18,320
Speaker 6: always been the case. So I think the American people

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01:24:18,680 --> 01:24:21,240
Speaker 6: have said at the ballot box that they trust him

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Speaker 6: then to chart that course for us. And what he's

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Speaker 6: shown during this first year of his second term is

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Speaker 6: he is willing to use American power in some ways

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01:24:30,680 --> 01:24:34,240
Speaker 6: unprecedented cases like the strike on irun like what just

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Speaker 6: happened in Venezuela to further those interests.

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Speaker 5: But he's going to do it in a way.

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Speaker 6: That will not get us dragged into another forever war

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Speaker 6: situation like Irakra or Afghanstan.

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Speaker 2: Victoria Coach is the woman that was in the room

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Speaker 2: for many, many of these discussions of the first Trump term.

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Speaker 2: It's why we love having her in the room for

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Speaker 2: our discussions and thankful for her insights as the former

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Speaker 2: Deputy National Security Advisor to President Trump. Battle for the

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Speaker 2: Jewish State, How Israel and America Can Win is the

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Speaker 2: best selling book she's most recently authored. Victoria, great to

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01:25:06,400 --> 01:25:09,000
Speaker 2: see you. Congratulations again to your daughter, and happy New.

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Speaker 1: Year, thanks Chris. Happy New Year to you.

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Speaker 2: Senator Dave McCormick on deck More a minute. Eagles fans

1578
01:25:19,360 --> 01:25:21,840
Speaker 2: in the postseason, Good Morning Philadelphia is a M nine

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01:25:21,920 --> 01:25:26,880
Speaker 2: ninety answer our flagship station. Beautiful look at Center City,

1580
01:25:27,120 --> 01:25:30,680
Speaker 2: getting ready for some postseason football. The forty nine ers

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01:25:31,280 --> 01:25:33,760
Speaker 2: come to South Philly. He's coming on. You're nervous about that?

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01:25:33,920 --> 01:25:36,240
Speaker 2: Ed or no? You're good or nervous?

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01:25:36,240 --> 01:25:36,919
Speaker 8: Not the Niners.

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01:25:37,240 --> 01:25:39,720
Speaker 2: They could go off, but I just.

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01:25:39,840 --> 01:25:41,599
Speaker 8: The Niners scared me more three years ago.

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Speaker 2: Now I'm not that scared. We're fine. Well, I wonder

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Speaker 2: what our next guest thinks about it. He represents the

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01:25:48,680 --> 01:25:52,360
Speaker 2: great state of Pennsylvania, along with John Fetterman, who, by

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Speaker 2: the way, also yet again kind of surprises many people

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01:25:57,439 --> 01:26:00,800
Speaker 2: when he was giving his full throated support for the

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Speaker 2: seizure of the Maduros the strike in Caracas over the weekend.

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Speaker 2: Dave McCormick, I know, supported it too, and he's the

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Speaker 2: United States Senator also representing Pennsylvania. You should also know,

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Speaker 2: if you don't know this about Dave McCormick, he's a

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01:26:13,920 --> 01:26:16,360
Speaker 2: West Point grad. He's a combat veteran. He served in

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Speaker 2: the eighty second Airborne and so, first of all, Senator,

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Speaker 2: I don't say it enough, thanks for your service, and

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Speaker 2: happy New Year to you. Good morning, Happy.

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Speaker 5: New year, Chris. Good to see you.

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Speaker 2: You were watching all of this in real time with

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Speaker 2: the rest of us, and as I understand it, no one,

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01:26:32,160 --> 01:26:34,360
Speaker 2: including the guy that runs the house in the Senate

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01:26:34,400 --> 01:26:37,519
Speaker 2: even knew what was going down. Was your first inkling

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01:26:37,520 --> 01:26:39,200
Speaker 2: of what was happening the same as the rest of

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01:26:39,280 --> 01:26:41,280
Speaker 2: us watching it on cable news or getting it on

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Speaker 2: our phones.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 16: I mean, obviously, I think there was a growing expectation

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Speaker 16: that there might be some sort of additional military action,

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Speaker 16: but I was not informed in advance. But I have

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Speaker 16: to say, stepping back, I think this was a remarkable

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Speaker 16: military operation. As you say, I was in the eighty

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Speaker 16: second Division. I was in the eighty second Airport Division

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01:27:02,800 --> 01:27:06,679
Speaker 16: when the military went into Panama in nineteen eighty nine,

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01:27:07,280 --> 01:27:10,520
Speaker 16: a similar sort of mission. This was remarkably well executed

1616
01:27:10,560 --> 01:27:15,919
Speaker 16: across armada of naval ships, the air Force, the military.

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01:27:16,120 --> 01:27:19,320
Speaker 16: I was in touch with General Kine after the fact.

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Speaker 16: It was an extraordinary military operation. I think it sent

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01:27:23,120 --> 01:27:26,120
Speaker 16: a message to the Western hemisphere into the world. Number one,

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01:27:27,000 --> 01:27:29,520
Speaker 16: the American military is the most superior, the most exceptional

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01:27:29,520 --> 01:27:32,800
Speaker 16: in the world. Number two, if President Trump says he's

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01:27:32,840 --> 01:27:36,160
Speaker 16: going to do something, you should expect he very well

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01:27:36,160 --> 01:27:39,280
Speaker 16: may do it. He's not bluffing. And number three, do

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01:27:39,520 --> 01:27:42,920
Speaker 16: not do things that hurt America's interest or kill Americans,

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Speaker 16: like be a transshipment a drug narco terrorist state that's

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01:27:48,640 --> 01:27:51,760
Speaker 16: killing kids in Pennsylvania or killing kids in America. I

1627
01:27:51,800 --> 01:27:53,920
Speaker 16: think those are the messages that rang loud and clear

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Speaker 16: across across the globe.

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Speaker 2: So Senator, having experienced eighty nine, I went back and

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01:28:00,680 --> 01:28:02,760
Speaker 2: kind of refreshed my memory on it. I was a

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01:28:02,880 --> 01:28:04,880
Speaker 2: kid then, so I really wasn't up to snuff on

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01:28:04,920 --> 01:28:06,640
Speaker 2: what was going on. You just making the point that

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01:28:06,760 --> 01:28:07,120
Speaker 2: too much?

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01:28:07,360 --> 01:28:08,200
Speaker 5: Are you making the point?

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Speaker 16: You much younger, Chris, I was, That's what my wife said.

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Speaker 5: The wife says, I don't really remember. I was in

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01:28:14,720 --> 01:28:19,400
Speaker 5: elementary school.

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01:28:18,000 --> 01:28:20,400
Speaker 2: That's right. I was, but a weep up. But I

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01:28:20,439 --> 01:28:22,559
Speaker 2: did go back and look at the politics of the matter,

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01:28:22,760 --> 01:28:26,480
Speaker 2: and as I read it back then, Democrats and Republicans

1641
01:28:26,640 --> 01:28:30,639
Speaker 2: were unified in their support of what Bush Senior had done.

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01:28:31,040 --> 01:28:33,760
Speaker 2: There was robust support for taking.

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Speaker 5: An amazing hour. Yeah, I mean I remember it. At

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01:28:36,160 --> 01:28:36,479
Speaker 5: the time.

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Speaker 16: I was a lieutenant, not a peep out of the opposition.

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01:28:40,120 --> 01:28:43,440
Speaker 16: Here here were the facts. Twenty seven thousand troops deployed.

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01:28:44,479 --> 01:28:47,519
Speaker 16: It was ten days of combat on the ground to

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01:28:47,960 --> 01:28:53,040
Speaker 16: encircle Norieg and eventually get him twenty three killed in action. Sadly,

1649
01:28:53,080 --> 01:28:57,040
Speaker 16: America is killed in action during the operation. A Senate

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01:28:57,160 --> 01:29:01,240
Speaker 16: majority and House majority that was democratic, where both leaders

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01:29:01,280 --> 01:29:06,519
Speaker 16: came out and affirmed and supported President bus Bush's actions.

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Speaker 2: So we lost, we lost personnel in that operation. The

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01:29:11,160 --> 01:29:14,160
Speaker 2: democratic approval of what happened, Yeah.

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Speaker 5: That's exactly right.

1655
01:29:14,600 --> 01:29:17,320
Speaker 16: We lost twenty three Americans and we had democratic approval,

1656
01:29:17,479 --> 01:29:21,000
Speaker 16: which tells you the following. The case here couldn't have

1657
01:29:21,000 --> 01:29:26,360
Speaker 16: been more clear. The Democrats are playing politics with this issue.

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01:29:26,400 --> 01:29:30,080
Speaker 16: This is something that the American people should applaud. It's

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Speaker 16: fighting for their interests, saving American lives. The Venezuelan people

1660
01:29:34,720 --> 01:29:40,800
Speaker 16: are delighted that this illegal, unelected dictator is now out

1661
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Speaker 16: of the picture, and this lays the groundwork for a

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Speaker 16: new Venezuela. And I think when the President talks about that,

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Speaker 16: I mean there's sort of four things that I see

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Speaker 16: as what he's saying. Number One, Venezuela can no longer

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Speaker 16: be a transhipment a drug narco terrorist state. Number Two,

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01:29:57,680 --> 01:30:03,000
Speaker 16: it can no longer be place of refuge for Iran

1667
01:30:03,360 --> 01:30:06,839
Speaker 16: and others that may seek to do America harm. Number Three,

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01:30:07,320 --> 01:30:13,200
Speaker 16: we need to rejuvenate and rebuild the oil industry in Venezuela.

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Speaker 16: The Venezuelans need to take the lead on that with

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Speaker 16: our help. Venezuela has seventeen percent of the oil reserves

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Speaker 16: in the world and only exports about one percent.

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Speaker 5: So this is a huge strategic asset and question.

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Speaker 16: And number four, there needs to be a path to

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Speaker 16: democracy where the Venezuelan people can set the path forward.

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Speaker 5: So that's I think the agenda, and that's going to

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01:30:35,800 --> 01:30:36,160
Speaker 5: be hard.

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Speaker 16: You know, we've learned the hard way, Chris, that this

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01:30:39,320 --> 01:30:41,400
Speaker 16: second part may be harder than the first part, and

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01:30:42,040 --> 01:30:44,880
Speaker 16: I think we need to enter it with humility even

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Speaker 16: as we push on those objectives.

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Speaker 2: Senator Dave McCormick joins US Senator of Pennsylvania just to

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Speaker 2: kind of put a ball on this. Do you have

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01:30:52,960 --> 01:30:57,840
Speaker 2: any misgivings that members of Congress, including Soon and the

1684
01:30:57,880 --> 01:31:01,200
Speaker 2: Speaker were not informed in advanced Does that bother you

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01:31:01,360 --> 01:31:02,640
Speaker 2: or does that set well with you? Or how do

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Speaker 2: you feel about that?

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Speaker 16: Well, it doesn't bother me. I was not informed, But

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Speaker 16: but the Congress is like a sieve. And you know,

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01:31:11,080 --> 01:31:13,760
Speaker 16: if I was a young lieutenant kicking down a door

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Speaker 16: in Caracas, and I knew that this was in the

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Speaker 16: hands of five hundred people in the Congress, where somebody

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Speaker 16: might leak it and put my.

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Speaker 5: Life in harm's way, I wouldn't. I wouldn't.

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Speaker 16: I wouldn't be in favor of that so I support

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01:31:28,320 --> 01:31:30,479
Speaker 16: that degree of secrecy for this kind of operation.

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Speaker 5: You know, I know a number of the key people

1697
01:31:33,360 --> 01:31:34,519
Speaker 5: are very much in the loop.

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01:31:34,880 --> 01:31:37,600
Speaker 16: Key Chairman of the Committee's Tom Cotton, for example, on

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01:31:37,680 --> 01:31:40,680
Speaker 16: the Intel Committee, was is deeply engaged on this. So

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Speaker 16: I think we're going to get a chance now this week,

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Speaker 16: probably today and tomorrow to get a much more foolsome

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01:31:47,960 --> 01:31:50,639
Speaker 16: update on the path ahead and what exactly occurred.

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Speaker 5: But I think this was handled brilliantly.

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Speaker 2: So let's talk about this. Because you're very familiar with this,

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01:31:55,840 --> 01:31:58,880
Speaker 2: you're up on it all. You understand the dynamics at play.

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01:32:00,040 --> 01:32:02,400
Speaker 2: A lot of the American public, including people that voted

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01:32:02,439 --> 01:32:05,680
Speaker 2: for you and President Trump that supports you, they just

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01:32:05,720 --> 01:32:08,920
Speaker 2: want to know what the end goal is. And it's

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01:32:09,040 --> 01:32:11,960
Speaker 2: hard to say with specificity. I understand because it's so new.

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Speaker 2: But when people here, we're in charge of Venezuela, now,

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01:32:16,920 --> 01:32:18,960
Speaker 2: you know, that gets a lot of creative juices flowing

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Speaker 2: from both sides. They start to imagine Afghanistan or Iraq

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Speaker 2: or something. And I don't Again I've made the point

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Speaker 2: this morning. I don't think they're analogous. But let's talk

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01:32:28,120 --> 01:32:31,760
Speaker 2: specifical about this oil business. President Trump laid it out.

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01:32:31,800 --> 01:32:36,439
Speaker 2: We're bringing in private investment, private oil people to get

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Speaker 2: this stuff out of the ground at a high rate

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Speaker 2: of speed. We invested a lot there, so we feel

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01:32:42,720 --> 01:32:45,600
Speaker 2: justified in injecting ourselves to make this happen. Have I

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Speaker 2: got that about right?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? I think so so well.

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Speaker 16: First of all, I think I think we need to

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Speaker 16: approach this with humility, as I said, And the reason

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01:32:55,400 --> 01:33:00,519
Speaker 16: I'm very comfortable with the overall agenda here is that

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Speaker 16: when I campaign and President Trump campaign on America first

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Speaker 16: and in particular on stopping the flow of these drugs

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Speaker 16: into our communities. This was a big part of it

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Speaker 16: to go after these narco cartels. And so that's what

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Speaker 16: happened here. In terms of the oil, as I said,

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Speaker 16: this is a huge strategic asset in our western hemisphere.

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01:33:21,160 --> 01:33:28,040
Speaker 16: The government took over expropriated private property American companies, and

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Speaker 16: what's happened is the oil industry has gone into a nosedive.

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Speaker 16: It used to produce about four million barrels a day

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Speaker 16: in the seventies. It's producing about six hundred thousand barrels

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Speaker 16: a day today. So this is a huge asset to

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Speaker 16: be unlocked for the Venezuelan people.

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Speaker 5: This is their source of wealth creation for the future,

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Speaker 5: but it's.

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Speaker 16: Also a hugely important asset in the Western hemisphere to

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01:33:53,080 --> 01:33:54,439
Speaker 16: support America's interests.

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Speaker 5: And I don't mean that with America having.

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Speaker 16: Control, but that asset being developed in a way that's

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01:33:58,800 --> 01:34:02,040
Speaker 16: not supporting Iran in China and Russia, but in a

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Speaker 16: way that's supporting American interest So I think bringing private

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Speaker 16: sector back in there, having a government that's more conducive

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01:34:09,920 --> 01:34:13,920
Speaker 16: to outside investment, and getting next generation technology is a

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01:34:14,000 --> 01:34:17,240
Speaker 16: very reasonable goal. But it's going to take a while,

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Speaker 16: and in the end, the Venezuelan people have to be

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Speaker 16: driving the train.

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Speaker 5: But I do think this is very much.

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Speaker 16: Consistent with the President's goal of not only stopping the

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Speaker 16: flow of illegal drugs, but also taking advantage of energy

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01:34:31,080 --> 01:34:35,760
Speaker 16: dominance to make sure that America remains at the forefront

1754
01:34:35,880 --> 01:34:38,840
Speaker 16: of the AI revolution and global.

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Speaker 2: Leadership, stabilizing the Western hemisphere, making sure people don't want

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01:34:43,760 --> 01:34:47,120
Speaker 2: to run out of Venezuela as they have by the millions,

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01:34:47,240 --> 01:34:51,559
Speaker 2: creating havoc, stabilizing it, making it economically robust. It used

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Speaker 2: to be. It's not that long ago that they were

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01:34:53,240 --> 01:34:57,280
Speaker 2: an economic powerhouse under themselves. So you're basically, if I've

1760
01:34:57,280 --> 01:34:59,879
Speaker 2: got this right, if I oversimplify it, you tell me, senator,

1761
01:35:00,120 --> 01:35:04,439
Speaker 2: we're forcing commerce, We're forcing free market ideals back into

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Speaker 2: a place that used to have them, so that their

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01:35:06,320 --> 01:35:09,799
Speaker 2: economy can can take off and they can sustain themselves

1764
01:35:09,840 --> 01:35:14,720
Speaker 2: again and have wales. But the global community, including us,

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Speaker 2: will have access to oil that we've maybe been more

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Speaker 2: dependent on others for that places like Venezuela could provide

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01:35:23,560 --> 01:35:24,080
Speaker 2: us instead.

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Speaker 16: Is that about absolutely well, that's that's absolutely right. Just

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Speaker 16: to put it in perspective, there's thirty one million people

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Speaker 16: in Venezuela, eight million people left, twenty five percent of

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01:35:33,600 --> 01:35:36,519
Speaker 16: the population left, eighty percent of the people are in

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01:35:36,600 --> 01:35:41,519
Speaker 16: dire poverty. So this is the path for Venezuela achieving

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Speaker 16: the prosperity and the opportunity for its economy right now. However,

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01:35:45,840 --> 01:35:50,519
Speaker 16: make no mistake, Venezuela is supporting Cuba. Venezuela is supporting

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Speaker 16: Russia and China, adversaries of the United States. Venezuela is

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01:35:55,520 --> 01:35:59,240
Speaker 16: supporting Iran. So it's not just having the benefit of

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Speaker 16: increased production and helping America and our Western allies with

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01:36:04,520 --> 01:36:09,400
Speaker 16: a broader agenda it's not. It's also a goal of

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01:36:09,479 --> 01:36:13,760
Speaker 16: not being a place of refuge and support for those

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Speaker 16: that run against America's interests, and right now, that's what

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01:36:16,200 --> 01:36:18,320
Speaker 16: Venezuela and it's not only fall off a cliff, but

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Speaker 16: what limited capacity it has is helping our adversaries.

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Speaker 2: Do you feel comfortable, Senator, for the better minute to

1784
01:36:24,400 --> 01:36:27,760
Speaker 2: go that we'll be able to figure out that. It's

1785
01:36:27,800 --> 01:36:30,160
Speaker 2: a dance I understand, and a tough needle to thread,

1786
01:36:31,080 --> 01:36:34,599
Speaker 2: extracting ourselves and putting leadership in place that won't turn corrupt.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, I'm cautious. I want to be humble here. I

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01:36:41,600 --> 01:36:43,479
Speaker 16: think we should be humble here. I've got a lot

1789
01:36:43,520 --> 01:36:46,040
Speaker 16: of confidence in this team. But this is a tough net.

1790
01:36:46,080 --> 01:36:48,759
Speaker 16: Phase two tough, so we need to enter it with humility.

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Speaker 16: It's going to be imperfect. There's going to be a

1792
01:36:50,720 --> 01:36:53,519
Speaker 16: fits and starts, but I think the President's got the

1793
01:36:53,560 --> 01:36:56,640
Speaker 16: right agenda on protecting America's interest, stopping the flow of

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01:36:56,720 --> 01:36:59,960
Speaker 16: drugs and unlocking the potential of Venezuela for the venicez

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01:37:00,120 --> 01:37:02,360
Speaker 16: On people and for its for its neighbors.

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Speaker 2: Do you force an election or let them handle that?

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Speaker 16: Eventually, there's got to be an election, and I think

1798
01:37:09,240 --> 01:37:11,519
Speaker 16: sooner rather than later, but it's gonna it's gonna take

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01:37:11,520 --> 01:37:13,320
Speaker 16: a bit of time, I think, to lay the groundwork

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Speaker 16: for that.

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Speaker 5: But uh, you know we're we're for.

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Speaker 2: Freedom, yeah, Senator, that what's going on in Iran right now?

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01:37:21,000 --> 01:37:22,840
Speaker 2: I mean that that could be the next domino to fall.

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01:37:22,960 --> 01:37:25,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, unbelievable. And and I want to just I know

1805
01:37:26,000 --> 01:37:27,160
Speaker 5: you got to run, but I want to.

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Speaker 16: Just contrast in one sentence, the difference between the feeble

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01:37:33,000 --> 01:37:37,439
Speaker 16: uh words or lack of of statement by President Obama

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01:37:37,479 --> 01:37:41,519
Speaker 16: when the same thing happened with the clarity of President

1809
01:37:41,560 --> 01:37:44,799
Speaker 16: Trump's support for those people that are fighting for their freedom.

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01:37:44,920 --> 01:37:47,600
Speaker 16: And I think, uh, that's what that's what we should be.

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Speaker 16: America stands for freedom. That doesn't mean we're gonna parachute

1812
01:37:50,920 --> 01:37:53,760
Speaker 16: into Tehran, but we stand for freedom and we should

1813
01:37:53,800 --> 01:37:54,599
Speaker 16: say that loud and clear.

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Speaker 2: Senator Dave McCormick. A pleasure to kick off the year

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Speaker 2: with you, sir.

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Speaker 5: Happy by the way, you didn't you didn't mention the

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01:38:00,120 --> 01:38:02,040
Speaker 5: Steelers last night. I'm going to let that go, Chris,

1818
01:38:02,080 --> 01:38:03,160
Speaker 5: but that was pretty big game.

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01:38:03,080 --> 01:38:08,559
Speaker 2: Too, see you, Senator. Thanks a lot. Well. As I

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Speaker 2: wrap up today, this is the first show back of

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01:38:11,200 --> 01:38:13,880
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six, and this has sort of become a

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01:38:13,920 --> 01:38:15,840
Speaker 2: tradition of mine. I know, for those of you that

1823
01:38:15,880 --> 01:38:18,960
Speaker 2: are new to this show and are not haven't been

1824
01:38:19,000 --> 01:38:21,720
Speaker 2: regular listeners to this show, I've been doing this for

1825
01:38:21,760 --> 01:38:25,519
Speaker 2: a long time locally, for the most part, my friends

1826
01:38:25,560 --> 01:38:28,120
Speaker 2: in Philadelphia and before that, my friends in Kansas City.

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Speaker 2: I've been a local radio host for a long time,

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01:38:30,840 --> 01:38:34,760
Speaker 2: and for the vast majority of that long stretch of

1829
01:38:34,800 --> 01:38:38,879
Speaker 2: my radio career, I was also an extraordinarily heavy drinker,

1830
01:38:39,800 --> 01:38:44,160
Speaker 2: probably textbook alcoholic. Truth be told. And the reason I

1831
01:38:44,200 --> 01:38:49,880
Speaker 2: bring this up is today is and I don't say

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01:38:49,880 --> 01:38:53,400
Speaker 2: this for any kind of applause or notes, although they're

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01:38:53,400 --> 01:38:56,439
Speaker 2: always appreciated, but that's not why I share this. Today

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01:38:56,439 --> 01:39:01,200
Speaker 2: happens to be my birthday. And the reason I note

1835
01:39:01,200 --> 01:39:02,960
Speaker 2: that today is my birthday again is not for the

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01:39:03,000 --> 01:39:05,160
Speaker 2: applause or the emails or anything like that. It's to

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01:39:05,200 --> 01:39:07,800
Speaker 2: let you know that it also marks my seventh year

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01:39:07,840 --> 01:39:14,160
Speaker 2: of sobriety. And there's a very specific reason for this date,

1839
01:39:14,479 --> 01:39:19,280
Speaker 2: and it's because I found myself in worship seven years

1840
01:39:19,320 --> 01:39:24,559
Speaker 2: ago this week and I heard a sermon straight from

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01:39:24,560 --> 01:39:26,559
Speaker 2: scripture John chapter five. And I don't know if you

1842
01:39:26,600 --> 01:39:28,400
Speaker 2: know the story, but it's the man at the Pool

1843
01:39:28,400 --> 01:39:33,760
Speaker 2: of Bethesda. It's the story of Jesus going to a

1844
01:39:33,800 --> 01:39:37,719
Speaker 2: site where it's believed a healing pool existed to help

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01:39:38,200 --> 01:39:42,160
Speaker 2: people with various ailments. And this one ailing man for

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01:39:42,280 --> 01:39:44,120
Speaker 2: years and years and years had been lying on a

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01:39:44,160 --> 01:39:48,479
Speaker 2: mat and when Jesus approached him and basically asked him,

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01:39:48,560 --> 01:39:51,000
Speaker 2: I'm shorthanding this, what's wrong? And he said, well, I'm

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01:39:51,000 --> 01:39:53,519
Speaker 2: trying to get well. I'm trying to get to this pool,

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01:39:53,520 --> 01:39:55,960
Speaker 2: but I keep getting shoved out of the way. He's

1851
01:39:56,040 --> 01:39:58,519
Speaker 2: sitting around, he's depressed, he's trapped, he's feeling sorry for

1852
01:39:58,600 --> 01:40:02,719
Speaker 2: himself that he can't move. And I heard the sermon

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01:40:02,800 --> 01:40:06,920
Speaker 2: on this particular story, this particular day, seven years ago,

1854
01:40:08,200 --> 01:40:11,280
Speaker 2: when Jesus said to this man, take up your mat

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Speaker 2: and walk. If you want to get well. Do you

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01:40:14,400 --> 01:40:15,960
Speaker 2: believe in me? Do you want to walk with me?

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01:40:16,080 --> 01:40:18,360
Speaker 2: Do you want to get well? Then take up your

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01:40:18,360 --> 01:40:22,400
Speaker 2: mat and walk. And I can't explain it to anyone

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01:40:22,439 --> 01:40:24,599
Speaker 2: who's not experienced it, but I just want you to

1860
01:40:24,640 --> 01:40:27,559
Speaker 2: know that I believe you can't experience it. And that

1861
01:40:27,760 --> 01:40:32,400
Speaker 2: is the stirring of the Holy Spirit. If you're addicted

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01:40:32,439 --> 01:40:35,840
Speaker 2: to something, if you're battling something, if you carry with

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01:40:35,920 --> 01:40:39,800
Speaker 2: you a shame or a secrecy that you've not been

1864
01:40:39,840 --> 01:40:43,880
Speaker 2: able to manage on your own, that's the dirty little secret,

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01:40:43,960 --> 01:40:46,160
Speaker 2: that's the lie. You can't manage it on your own,

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01:40:47,840 --> 01:40:51,559
Speaker 2: but you can manage it with Jesus Christ. And the

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01:40:51,600 --> 01:40:54,960
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit came to me that day seven years ago

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Speaker 2: when I finally just broke down in tears and said,

1869
01:40:58,240 --> 01:41:00,840
Speaker 2: I am in the grips of alcohol and I cannot

1870
01:41:00,960 --> 01:41:04,080
Speaker 2: kick it. I can't do it myself. I need your help.

1871
01:41:04,600 --> 01:41:06,559
Speaker 2: I was trying to do everything right, had my kids

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01:41:06,560 --> 01:41:09,360
Speaker 2: in church, I was at church years and years, but

1873
01:41:09,400 --> 01:41:12,360
Speaker 2: it wasn't working. I couldn't kick it on my own

1874
01:41:13,080 --> 01:41:17,120
Speaker 2: until I finally surrendered. I surrendered my heart to Christ,

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01:41:17,280 --> 01:41:19,320
Speaker 2: and I surrendered my addiction to Christ, and I said,

1876
01:41:19,320 --> 01:41:23,360
Speaker 2: please take this from me. And that day, that day

1877
01:41:23,439 --> 01:41:26,479
Speaker 2: was the first day of a seven year stretch of

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01:41:26,520 --> 01:41:30,679
Speaker 2: sobriety that continues to this day. And it is only

1879
01:41:30,760 --> 01:41:36,080
Speaker 2: because of the love of Christ and his word touching

1880
01:41:36,120 --> 01:41:39,920
Speaker 2: my heart and coming into my life, and the profound

1881
01:41:40,040 --> 01:41:45,840
Speaker 2: change it has made in my life is unmistakable, and

1882
01:41:45,960 --> 01:41:49,280
Speaker 2: it's almost difficult to articulate. But I will tell you this,

1883
01:41:49,360 --> 01:41:53,800
Speaker 2: The second part of that John chapter five story for

1884
01:41:53,880 --> 01:41:56,400
Speaker 2: me is actually maybe the more challenging part now, because

1885
01:41:56,680 --> 01:42:01,240
Speaker 2: it wasn't just take up your mat and walk, which

1886
01:42:01,320 --> 01:42:03,400
Speaker 2: that day I was able to seven years ago with

1887
01:42:04,040 --> 01:42:07,599
Speaker 2: the Lord's help. But it's now go forward and sin

1888
01:42:07,720 --> 01:42:10,519
Speaker 2: no more. That's the second half of that story. Go

1889
01:42:10,600 --> 01:42:14,680
Speaker 2: forth and sin no more. I'm still a sinner. I

1890
01:42:14,720 --> 01:42:17,040
Speaker 2: sin every day. I don't say this to you again

1891
01:42:17,160 --> 01:42:19,760
Speaker 2: for a parade or for applause or for out of

1892
01:42:19,840 --> 01:42:22,280
Speaker 2: boy's And I don't say it to sound sanctimonious. If

1893
01:42:22,280 --> 01:42:25,400
Speaker 2: you're out there struggling, I say it because I still struggle,

1894
01:42:25,400 --> 01:42:28,240
Speaker 2: and I still battle with sin. But the one thing

1895
01:42:28,280 --> 01:42:30,960
Speaker 2: that I want to do is remind you that there's

1896
01:42:31,000 --> 01:42:34,799
Speaker 2: a way out of it. And it's actually pretty easy.

1897
01:42:35,400 --> 01:42:38,640
Speaker 2: It's surrendering your heart and your life to Christ and

1898
01:42:38,680 --> 01:42:43,559
Speaker 2: saying I am a sinner. I can't do it alone, Jesus,

1899
01:42:43,560 --> 01:42:46,439
Speaker 2: I need your help. And if you're willing to do that,

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Speaker 2: if you're willing to confess that sin and repent and

1901
01:42:49,560 --> 01:42:53,439
Speaker 2: walk with him, he can move mountains, He can change

1902
01:42:53,439 --> 01:42:56,759
Speaker 2: the direction of your life. Get yourself in a Bible

1903
01:42:56,760 --> 01:43:02,240
Speaker 2: based church. Surround yourself with people that are people of

1904
01:43:02,320 --> 01:43:05,679
Speaker 2: the Word, that read the book, that read God's Word.

1905
01:43:06,920 --> 01:43:09,760
Speaker 2: Stay in prayer and you're going to have a much

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01:43:09,800 --> 01:43:15,639
Speaker 2: better twenty twenty six. Good to see you back tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: So that's a wrap for another Christiagall Show podcast. Thanks

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Speaker 2: for committing to it listening to it all the way through.

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