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Speaker 1: Well, Happy New Year everyone. In twenty twenty five, officially

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Let's take a look at the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five year interview and what I am hoping for

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Speaker 1: in the year twenty twenty six, plus the Zori Mount

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Speaker 1: Donnie Apocalypse begins in New York City. All of that

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Speaker 1: in more today's episode of The Josh Ammershow most of

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Speaker 1: the show, we'll be talking about twenty twenty five, what happened,

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Speaker 1: how the media totally botched it. Looking back on January twenty,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, all the premonitions of how fascism is coming,

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that. We'll talk about what I hope

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Speaker 1: to see in this brand new year in the calendar

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. But first, the Zorimumdanni era officially begins

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Speaker 1: in New York City. Goodness gracious, what a spectacle that

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Speaker 1: Zori Mountdanni in his early thirties, the first Muslim mayor

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Speaker 1: And my god, that was something of an inaugural address

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Speaker 1: Zorimdani promises to get rid of the frigidity of the freezing,

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Speaker 1: the coldness of individualism and replaced with the warmth of collectivism. Well.

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Speaker 1: As a lot of folks have pointed out subsequently on

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Speaker 1: social media and elsewhere, the warmth of collectivism is something

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Speaker 1: virtually ubiquitously always was a euphemism for literal tyranny, you know.

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Speaker 1: I ask those who survived the Soviet gulex how the

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Speaker 1: warmth of collectivism felt. Ask those who survived the concentration

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Speaker 1: camps of World War Two, how the warmth of collectivism felt.

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Speaker 1: Those who set sail from Cuba on a raft and

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Speaker 1: It's a simply astonishing cling. It's astonishing how someone can

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Speaker 1: say this and not know the obvious, clear connotations of

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Speaker 1: such a statement. As Governor on DeSantis put it on

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Speaker 1: X quote the warmth of collectivism that always requires coercion

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Speaker 1: which is collectivism on steroids, is the deadliest ideology in

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Speaker 1: the history of ideologies. Nazi's been Fascism were absolutely murderous.

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Speaker 1: a point that Dennis Prager has often made over the years.

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Speaker 1: What in the world is going to happen to New

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Speaker 1: Is is not going to run away from this issy.

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Speaker 1: He said in his normal address that he was elected

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Speaker 1: God helped New Yorkers over these past few years, because frankly,

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Speaker 1: possible wealth tax. A one time wealth tax specifically for

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Speaker 1: an extraordinary gamble that Democrats are taking and making Zoramzani

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Speaker 1: the planet because it doesn't exist, and putin, for God's sake,

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Speaker 1: break this guy's bank account, break them. You gotta get

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Speaker 1: this piece still done. It's so frustrating that it hasn't.

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Speaker 1: It's a pure killing field, a pure killing field there

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Speaker 1: in the Dombasque region of eastern Europe. It is so

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Speaker 1: incredibly sad, it is so incredibly frustrating. Both of these countries,

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Speaker 1: frankly Ukraine and Russia, They're going to take decades and

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Speaker 1: decades and decades to recover from this. Obviously I care

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Speaker 1: more about Ukraine than Russia. Not that Ukraine is staunchy

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Speaker 1: pro Western, but they are at least closer to our

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Speaker 1: interest certainly than Russia. Is there get this deal done

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Speaker 1: sooner or rather than later. How about China? China is

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Speaker 1: always in my mind. I am very much a China

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Speaker 1: centric guy when it comes to my geopolitical outlook, in

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Speaker 1: my foreign policy role view, China to me is the first, second, third, fourth,

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Speaker 1: and fifth the greatest threats when it comes to the

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Speaker 1: United States. And now is at the time mister President

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Speaker 1: to go soft on China. Just a few weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: Trump Paddock at a somewhat earning phone call actually with

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Speaker 1: the young precocious Prime Minister of Japan's Sunai Takichi, who

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Speaker 1: just took power in late October, is very well lighte

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Speaker 1: has soaring improver rings with young Japanese in particular. There

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Speaker 1: and Trump had a somewhat troubling phone call with primers

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Speaker 1: for Takaichi. You see, I am happy to criticize Trump,

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Speaker 1: I disagree with him. And on this phone call to Takaichi,

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Speaker 1: Trump basically said that you should tone down your rhetoric

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Speaker 1: because Takaichi was threatening potential Japanese military action in response

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Speaker 1: to China taking Taiwan. And Trump had said, I toned

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Speaker 1: down a little bit there, and I appreciate the instincts.

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Speaker 1: No one wants trying to take Taiwan. It would be

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Speaker 1: a disaster. But the way to prevent that, the time

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Speaker 1: tested method of preventing that is always piece through strength.

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Speaker 1: You double down on your allies, you double down on Taiwan,

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Speaker 1: Japan to an extent, the Philippines, certainly South Korea, ideally India,

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Speaker 1: but that's a more complicated hold out aside. For today,

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Speaker 1: Japan is a core part of America's counter China strategy

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Speaker 1: in the Indo Pacific. Just this past Monday, China engaged

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Speaker 1: in the largest live fire military exercise around Taiwan in

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Speaker 1: the entire history of Shijimping's Armory, the People's Liberation Army.

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Speaker 1: They had a full scale naval blockade that they simulated there.

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Speaker 1: China is terrifying to me. This is not often discussed,

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Speaker 1: but the unfortunate reality is that when the US military brass,

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Speaker 1: when the top ranking brass, when they actually do wargame

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Speaker 1: simulation between the US and Taiwan, the excuse me, between

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Speaker 1: the US and China usually over Taiwan. When they actually

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Speaker 1: do these war game simulations, they usually not usually, but

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Speaker 1: they oftentimes have the US losing. It's basically a coin

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Speaker 1: for US to who actually wins that simulated war game.

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Speaker 1: That's a terrifying reality that most people don't talk about.

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Speaker 1: So what you really want to do is avoid that

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Speaker 1: situation at all costs. That means heavily relying on our allies.

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Speaker 1: It means trying to economically decouple from China as much

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Speaker 1: as possible, try to get as many companies as many

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Speaker 1: supply chains, especially the National Security Crew supply chains get

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Speaker 1: them the heck out of China, Get them the heck

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Speaker 1: out of China friendly authoritarian countries, Get them closer to

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Speaker 1: our own hemisphere, and get them closer to at least

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Speaker 1: to our own allies in Southeast Asia. Get them out.

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Speaker 1: Twenty twenty six is going to be a crucial year

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Speaker 1: when it comes to US China relations. Trump usually says

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Speaker 1: all the right things on China. My only concern is

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Speaker 1: whether or not he is going to act in a

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Speaker 1: way that is fully on those right things, at least

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Speaker 1: when it comes to Alice that japanis president. The key

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Speaker 1: here is to double down like never before, stinking with

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Speaker 1: foreign policy or just warmer moments. How about this venezuel

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Speaker 1: and standoff. My goodness, gracious, I didn't see this one coming.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you saw this one coming either. The

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Speaker 1: Trump goal in Venezuela primarily seems to be to stop

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Speaker 1: the flow of drugs into the nation and into North

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Speaker 1: America more generally. The secondary goal does seem to be

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Speaker 1: regime change. I'm not saying the goal is US imposed

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Speaker 1: regime change. That's not the goal. But it should be

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Speaker 1: obvious that while US imposed regime change has a very

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Speaker 1: checkered track record and should generally be avoided. It should

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Speaker 1: be equally clear that there are some regimes throughout the

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Speaker 1: world that are good of the United States and some

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Speaker 1: that are bad. That's not a very sophisticated point. In fact,

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Speaker 1: it really ought to be obvious. The Islamic theocracy in Iran,

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Speaker 1: for instance, is bad for the United States, and they

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Speaker 1: are currently protesting in Iran. The President has announced that

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Speaker 1: he's ready to support the protesters. Is a live situation.

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Speaker 1: We'll see where it goes. But all these hotspots are connected, China, Russia,

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Speaker 1: Raw and Venezuela. They're all allied, they're all friendly with

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Speaker 1: one another. And right here in our own hemisphere, right here,

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Speaker 1: when it comes to our own two hundred plus year

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Speaker 1: foreign policy doctrine of the Monroe doctrin of caring mostly

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Speaker 1: about our own backyard of Latin America, of the Western hemisphere,

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Speaker 1: here we should care about the fate of hostile regimes

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Speaker 1: in our own backyard. We should care abow what happens

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Speaker 1: to the Chavez Maduro socialist leptopocracy in Caracas. That's not

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Speaker 1: to say that we want to send them the hundred

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Speaker 1: first airborne now, of course not we want to stop

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Speaker 1: the floe drugs and ideally, ideally pressure Maduro to a

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Speaker 1: point where he takes the Vlamnir pun escape patch that

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Speaker 1: Bashra al Asad previously took from Damascus in Syria when

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Speaker 1: he abdicated after al Shara was approaching. They are December

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four and he fled to Moscow where he's

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Speaker 1: currently living a very lavish lifestyle under Vlaminpune's protective bosom.

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Speaker 1: That's what we should hope for Maduro Venezuela. Is that

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Speaker 1: gonna happen, I don't know, but certainly it is very

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Speaker 1: much on my wish list. Turned out just a little

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Speaker 1: bit to the domestic front, and there's all sorts of

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Speaker 1: things on the domestic front that I have plenty of

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Speaker 1: hope for. The first thing to jump out there, and

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Speaker 1: we've talked about it recently, is this burgeoning, massive smallly

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Speaker 1: fraud scandal in in Minneapolis, in Minnesotma. Generally one of

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Speaker 1: the lord was astounding fraud scandals in the history the

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Speaker 1: United States. And what I wrote in my syndicated column

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Speaker 1: on Friday, but I said, I said, this become a

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Speaker 1: test case for whether the rule of law still applies

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Speaker 1: when politics gets uncomfortable. By the way, what this reminds

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Speaker 1: me of this question is to whether the rule of

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Speaker 1: law still applies when the politics gets uncomfortable. It reminds

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Speaker 1: me of the of the Hunter Biding prosecutions. The gun

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Speaker 1: prosecution in Delaware for Hunter Biden two years ago, and

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Speaker 1: then the tax prosecution in California recalled that he was

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Speaker 1: found guilty. He was found guilty and before he was

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Speaker 1: pardoned and now read to fashed by his father. So

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Speaker 1: the rule bill actually did apply there until it didn't.

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Speaker 1: Funny how that works. But back to our Somali situation. Here,

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Speaker 1: justice means following the facts I wrote in my column

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Speaker 1: wherever they lead, recovering stolen taxpayer dollars and holding wrongdoers

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Speaker 1: and the betters legally accountable without fear or favor to wit.

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Speaker 1: On the subject of a betters, what did Governor Tim Walts,

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Speaker 1: Attorney General Keith Ellison, representative of ilan Omar, and other

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Speaker 1: prominent Minnesota politicians know and when did they know it? Moreover,

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Speaker 1: what did Kamala Harris know she picked Tim Wallis as

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Speaker 1: a runing mamee for goingness sake there? On the one hand,

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Speaker 1: maybe Kamala Harris's vetting team was so epically incompetent they

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Speaker 1: missed it. What does that say? On the other hand,

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Speaker 1: maybe they saw it and said, Eh, no, big deal, whatever,

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Speaker 1: He's fine. What in the world does that say, especially

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Speaker 1: as Kamala increasingly eyeballs a possible twenty twenty eight run,

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Speaker 1: as if anyone in the world wants that this is

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Speaker 1: serious stuff. Billions of dollars, billions of dollars. I mean,

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Speaker 1: how utterly incompetent does the Biden era government look getting

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Speaker 1: defraud on this scale by a bunch of of idiots,

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Speaker 1: Idiots who, according to these Nick Shirley YouTube videos, came

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Speaker 1: and spelled the word learning right. I mean, I don't

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Speaker 1: know if y'all saw that this video about this learning

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Speaker 1: center of Minneapolis there it is missing the letter ends,

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Speaker 1: so it says leering center. These idiots who barely even

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Speaker 1: know the English language, defrauded all of us because it's

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Speaker 1: our taxpayer dollars. It is out. It's an outrageous scandal.

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Speaker 1: It has nothing to do with racism, as Tim Waltz

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Speaker 1: ineptively and impotently shouts, it has to do fundamentally at

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Speaker 1: this point with pursuing justice and the big question is

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Speaker 1: now this, it's not just this? How many more? How

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Speaker 1: many more times do we have to get to this point? There?

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Speaker 1: From Russia Gates in twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen to twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: the two tier system of justice during COVID nineteen. Do

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Speaker 1: you all remember how the Black Lives Matter anarchists had

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Speaker 1: a medical dispensation to protest in public, but churchgoers Jews

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Speaker 1: trying to get a a minion a synagogue they couldn't

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Speaker 1: go because it was too unhealthy. But the BLM protesters

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Speaker 1: could look to their hearts content. No accountability for any

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Speaker 1: of that, No accountability for the hundred bind of laptop,

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Speaker 1: the fifty one deep stage spooks, Brendon Clapp or all

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Speaker 1: the rest of the clown brigade who signed on to

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Speaker 1: that letter. No accountability for the Democrat Law Fair complex,

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Speaker 1: ah so frustrating well, the Joe Biden DOJ and the

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Speaker 1: or accomplices that the stain local level did is unforgivable.

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Speaker 1: Unforgivable so called special counsel Jack Smith. So called because,

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Speaker 1: as Clarence Thomas wrote in his concurring opinion in The

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Speaker 1: New York for Trump case year and a half ago,

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Speaker 1: he was never legitimately appointed as special counsel in the

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Speaker 1: first place. So called special counsel Jack Smith working under

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Speaker 1: a tran geal Merrick Garlands clearly working hand in glove

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Speaker 1: with New York Traange General Tiss James, with Alvin Bragg

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Speaker 1: and Fannie Willis at the local level, the DA's in

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Speaker 1: New York City and in Atlanta, Georgia. No accountability none

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Speaker 1: for the Democrat lawfair complex. My Article three project colleague

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Speaker 1: Mike Davis has correctly even calling for years now for

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Speaker 1: the FEDS to indict on eighteen US Coach Session two

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Speaker 1: forty one, which is a criminal conspiracy, among others, to

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Speaker 1: deprive others of their legitimate constitutional rights. Jack Smith can

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Speaker 1: and should absolutely be charged under that. So, whether it's that,

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Speaker 1: whether it's Somali fraud, we need justice, We need accountability.

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Speaker 1: The more you go and you go and you get

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Speaker 1: no accountability for real, real bad things for which we

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00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:11,360
Speaker 1: need accountability. The more the people start to lose faith

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Speaker 1: in their government, the more they lose the ability to

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Speaker 1: take a face value and to believe that which they

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Speaker 1: are told by narrative institutions. And this is that it's

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Speaker 1: a recipe for society to go to hell in a

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Speaker 1: hand basket. You want to restore trust, You want to

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Speaker 1: restore a mutual trust between we the people and the government. There,

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Speaker 1: get justice for the Democrat law fire complex, Get justice

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Speaker 1: for the Smay fraud. All the above also on my

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Speaker 1: wish list affordability and house and costs. How cauld not

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Speaker 1: be look the four point three percent GDP number from

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Speaker 1: Q three twenty twenty five fantastic. On the other hand,

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Speaker 1: I saw this poll recently from the American Research Group.

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Speaker 1: I believe the name of the poster was that showed them. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: roughly sixty five per seven Americans say that their household

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Speaker 1: financial situation today is actually worse off than it was

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Speaker 1: a year ago. That's no good, that's no bueno. That

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Speaker 1: is a recipe, unfortunately, for Republicans to lose the ballot

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Speaker 1: box come November twenty twenty six, and that itself would

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Speaker 1: be bad. Not because Republicans are amazing, but they're certainly

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Speaker 1: better than the alternative. And if Democrats retake the House,

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Speaker 1: what you would see for the final two years of

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Speaker 1: the Trump presidency is just the impeachment show all over again.

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Speaker 1: Does anyone in the world want the impeachment show all

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Speaker 1: over again. No, I don't think so. So you got

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Speaker 1: to fix these affordability and really above all housing costs issues.

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Speaker 1: Housing policy is going to have to expand supply, not

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Speaker 1: contract it when it comes to assessment fees, when it

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Speaker 1: comes to zoning incentives there. You know, a lot of

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Speaker 1: this happens at the state and local level. Work with

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Speaker 1: red state governors to San Dias in Florida, ab in Texas,

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Speaker 1: bill Ley in Tennessee, these leading red stay governors have

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Speaker 1: to work on the cost of lettings. A lot of

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Speaker 1: this in just being easier at at a local level.

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Speaker 1: So if I were in the White House legislative a

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Speaker 1: fair shop, I would be on the phone every day

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Speaker 1: with red state governor legislative teams, with red state legislature

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Speaker 1: leaders in general, trying to work on affordability on housing costs.

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Speaker 1: What the Feds can definitely do is make it try try.

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Speaker 1: I know it's target, I know it's haar, but try

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Speaker 1: to get the federal budget into a place that is

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Speaker 1: reasonable or at least close to reasonable. The less you

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Speaker 1: can overspend when it comes to budgets, the less likely

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Speaker 1: the Federal Reserve will have to be to raise interest

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Speaker 1: rates and therefore raise mortgage rates as well, and certainly

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Speaker 1: as someone who's looking to buy a home for the

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Speaker 1: first time there that would really go a long way,

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Speaker 1: not just for me, but I think for many other

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Speaker 1: Americans as well. There it's the number one thing that really,

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Speaker 1: really really could help Republicans and could help could help

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump at the ballot box in general come November two.

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Speaker 1: The twenty six is affordability, cost of housing, cost of living.

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Speaker 1: All of this is really really really important stuff. Finally,

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Speaker 1: I would be remiss if we didn't talk at least

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Speaker 1: a little bit about the courts and about the U.

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Speaker 1: S Supreme Court. There are some major cases pending now

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Speaker 1: at the US Supreme Court. There is the tariff case,

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Speaker 1: which is basically whether or not the Trump recipcal tariffs

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Speaker 1: are legitimate or are statutory legitimate under this late Jimmy

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Speaker 1: Carter era late nineteen seventies statute that is the legal

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Speaker 1: basis for now at least of Secretaries of Treasery Secretary

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Speaker 1: Besent implementing these recipil tariffs. That is currently pending there.

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Speaker 1: There is a crucial separation of powers case, the Slaughter case,

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Speaker 1: comes to whether or not the FTC and various other

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Speaker 1: new deal eras so called independent agencies are actually constitutionally legitimate.

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Speaker 1: These are the agencies that are quasi executive quasi legislative

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Speaker 1: according to the Supreme Court's own case law opinions there

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Speaker 1: and therefore many of their leaders must can only be

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Speaker 1: removed for cause and things like that. It's total mess

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Speaker 1: fundamentally from a separation power perspective, you're in our one

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Speaker 1: the Congress, you're an article to the executive branch, you're

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Speaker 1: an Article three judiciary, or you're currently in no branch

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Speaker 1: at all. You're in no man's lands. These so called

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Speaker 1: independent agencies are very much in the latter. They are

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Speaker 1: in no man's land. The Court has a crucial opportunity

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Speaker 1: in the Slaughter case to overturn this awful nineteen thirties

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Speaker 1: era press nd called Humphrey's executive and once and for

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Speaker 1: all rule correctly that independent agencies are neither. They are

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Speaker 1: neither independent nor agencies. They're garbage, They're in constitutional they

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Speaker 1: should be kicked to the dust benef history. Fortunately, my

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Speaker 1: predictions at the Court does have the votes to do

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Speaker 1: the right thing on that particular case, the question where

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Speaker 1: I'm really not sure as to whether or not there

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Speaker 1: actually are the votes, and to be very candem, actually

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Speaker 1: leaning towards predicting that unfortunately there are not the votes

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Speaker 1: to do the right thing here. That's birthrightslationship. This is

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Speaker 1: one of the earliest exective orders that Don Trump signed

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Speaker 1: last January twentieth. Long standing issue that Trump is passion

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Speaker 1: on when it comes to birthrightsliationship for the children of

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Speaker 1: legal aliens, the issue that I've been passionate by myself

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Speaker 1: for a year and years. Why because it matters when

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Speaker 1: you tell people that you can cross the border illegally

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Speaker 1: in the eighth month independency, ninth month pop out of baby,

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Speaker 1: the baby gets all mastership. What an incentive, what an

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Speaker 1: incentive for the trafficking rings, for the car tells, for

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Speaker 1: birth tourism, all this, and it's not. It is not

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Speaker 1: constitutionally required. It's just not. It's absolutely not. The words

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Speaker 1: in fourteen Ammen subject to this jurisdiction thereof makes that

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Speaker 1: very clear. You know. This amendment, the forty men was

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Speaker 1: ratified in eighteen sixty eight. In the nineteen twenties, Congress

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Speaker 1: passed the Indian Scissage Acts a statute that for the

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Speaker 1: very first time granted statutorially birthright resizenship to the children

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Speaker 1: of American Indians. Why because prior to that, it was

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Speaker 1: clear and obvious to everyone in politics and the law

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Speaker 1: that subject to the jurisdics and thereof, in the fourthy

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Speaker 1: Meendment clause, the language necessarily precluded the children of American Indians.

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Speaker 1: So how in the world with the children of illegal aliens,

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Speaker 1: people whose first act here are to beIN a crime,

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Speaker 1: how can they be included? It's outrageous, egregious as a

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Speaker 1: policy matter, in illegal matter. Unfortunately, I hate to say it.

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Speaker 1: I don't think the votes are there. I see Clarence

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Speaker 1: Thomas voting correctly. I see Sam Leadov voting correctly. Beyond that,

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Speaker 1: it is a pure vote counting game. Maybe gorses, maybe

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Speaker 1: calvam a Baarrett. I don't know. Look, I really really

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Speaker 1: hope I'm wrong, because this is important of this is very,

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Speaker 1: very very important stuff from a cultural perspective, from a

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Speaker 1: rule of law perspective, from a security perpective. There it's

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Speaker 1: crucial to court. Guess that's right, So man up, pin up,

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Speaker 1: and rise the occasion. There Again, I hope I'm wrong.

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Speaker 1: But unfortunately, I just don't see it happening again. Folks.

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Speaker 1: I hope that you had a wonderful New Year's Eve,

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Speaker 1: hope that you had a great start to your year

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six as well. If you're not already doing so,

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Speaker 1: make make sure to go ahead and like and subscribe

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Speaker 1: via Newsweek's YouTube page, available also via the Sale News

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Speaker 1: Channel starting this Monday. By the way, this coming Monday,

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Speaker 1: starting at ten pm on weeknights, you will see at

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Speaker 1: Josh Hammer's show on the actual Sale News Channel every weeknight.

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Speaker 1: That is really exciting. We are so very excited for that.

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Speaker 1: But for now, I hope you have a great weekend, folks.

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Speaker 1: Josh Hammer is signing off with you again on Monday,