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Speaker 6: Well, these fraudsters, and you're right, Minnesota nice made it

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Speaker 1: For those of you that listen on radio, He's governed

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Speaker 1: down to this. Facing a torrent of threats and taunts

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Speaker 1: Never have I seen anything like this he actually tried

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Speaker 7: This is a decision that I make and make with

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Speaker 1: We all note. I think it's appropriate. We're here today,

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Speaker 1: the war.

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Speaker 7: That's being waged against Minnesota.

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Speaker 7: We have a ridiculous surge of apparently two thousand people

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Speaker 7: today is January sixth. There's no debate what happened. The

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Speaker 1: And you know, report both sides of this.

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Speaker 7: Well, you know, he said he really didn't, and courts

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Speaker 7: convicted four hundred of them and he pardoned them. No,

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Speaker 7: he did that. He did that, and that's today. And

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Speaker 7: it's clear that we also saw today he implemented. Five

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he doesn't have testicles, but if he did,

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Speaker 1: I'd say what a set. Did he actually just say

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Speaker 1: it's January sixth, in which he led an insurrection five

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Speaker 1: then did some fill in work. I mean like I've

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Speaker 1: been talking to Dan since Dan was known as the

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Speaker 1: former secret service guy for Barack Obama, and Dan and

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Speaker 1: I have been professional friends for a long time. Then,

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Speaker 1: as you know, Dan famously went to join Cash Pattel

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Speaker 1: at the FBI for a year and came under withering

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Speaker 1: attack from people like Miranda Divine and others that the it

440
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Speaker 1: was chaos and blah blah blah. There was a dust up.

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Speaker 1: They said he was going to resign, and he didn't.

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Speaker 1: And now he has left. But it seems amicable. Right.

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Speaker 1: Do you get the impression that Dan left under duress

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Speaker 1: or of his own accord? It didn't seem ugly ed

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Speaker 1: to me, did it to you?

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Speaker 6: Not?

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Speaker 9: That I can tell?

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And it was a goodbye, like they said, thanks,

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Speaker 1: thanks a lot. It was any time you get to

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Speaker 1: leave an employer and they say goodbye and thanks for

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Speaker 1: your service, and you get to say goodbye, it's been

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Speaker 1: a pleasure. That's an amicable parting. Doesn't happen often in

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Speaker 1: our business, by the way, So anyway Dan gets to

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Speaker 1: do that, they say he's going to return to a show.

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Speaker 1: He returned to social media yesterday. Did you read some

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Speaker 1: of this head? I did?

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Speaker 9: Yes, yes, I did.

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Speaker 1: I love it to me and it occurred to me.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner,

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Speaker 1: and I should have. And the only reason I'm breaking

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Speaker 1: what I think is going to be my New Year's

463
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Speaker 1: resolution in not talking about other shows is this. I

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Speaker 1: think it's an important observation I'm about to make here,

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Speaker 1: and it may not be one you considered. Maybe you did,

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Speaker 1: maybe you didn't. I think there's a reason Dan Bongino

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Speaker 1: left the FBI. And some say, well, it was his family,

468
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Speaker 1: or there was consternation or whatever. I think it's something else.

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Speaker 1: I think it's strategic and truth be told. If if

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Speaker 1: I had my bet to place on this, Dan Longino

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Speaker 1: left the FBI because of the powerful microphone. He vacated

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Speaker 1: in doing so, in joining the FBI, he left a

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Speaker 1: very very powerful microphone and a very very large audience,

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Speaker 1: a large Mega audience that vociferously supports this president. As

475
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Speaker 1: Harry Enton's numbers just laid out and they his audience

476
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Speaker 1: was kind of just you know, the people that were

477
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Speaker 1: rabbied for Dan Bongino were kind of out there floating

478
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Speaker 1: around consuming other shows. What has bubbled up coincidentally, fast

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Speaker 1: Eddie in the year that not even year that Dan

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Speaker 1: Bongino has left the scene as one of the most

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Speaker 1: dominant voices in digital media. What has bubbled up over

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Speaker 1: the last.

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Speaker 2: Months, Oh, I mean a big, a large amount of

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Speaker 2: people with conspiracy theories with you know, internal fight like

485
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Speaker 2: saying they really know what's happening in Mega and they don't.

486
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Speaker 1: Pseudo attacks on Trump, about saying Trump's name outright.

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Speaker 9: Perfect, Yep, that's exactly it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, casting doubt on Trump, casting doubt on the White House,

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Speaker 1: casting doubt of the administration, throwing conspiracy at administrate, telling

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Speaker 1: their larger audiences, Hey, you know, this guy may not

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Speaker 1: be the guy we said we thought you should vote

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Speaker 1: for this guy that we stumped for all over the country.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he's not. They have been sowing seeds of discord

494
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Speaker 1: and complaint, these malcontents who literally use Donald Trump to

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Speaker 1: build themselves up over the last couple of years, since

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Speaker 1: Dan Bongino left the scene as one of the top

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Speaker 1: podcasters in the world, all of a sudden, bubbling to

498
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Speaker 1: the surface were these former MAGA stars and Trump stars

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Speaker 1: who've decided to tell you and their large audiences, he's

500
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Speaker 1: no damn good. You shouldn't trust him, He's lost his way.

501
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Speaker 1: What a failure he is. I saw two supposed dominant

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Speaker 1: names out there yesterday on a podcast conversation, a clip

503
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Speaker 1: that rolled across my social im mediate time about what

504
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Speaker 1: an epic, colossal failure Trump was, What a failure he's been,

505
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Speaker 1: What a disappointment he's been. I've seen more and more

506
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Speaker 1: of that lately, and so it occurred to me yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Dan Vongino returns to social media and he starts blasting,

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Speaker 1: I mean folks blasting, And I'm going to read you

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Speaker 1: one of his posts here in a little bit, but

510
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Speaker 1: suffice to say he's not mincing any words. He didn't

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Speaker 1: name any names specifically. He did lockhorns a little bit

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Speaker 1: with Matt gets yesterday and a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: back and forth, but he didn't really speak names per se,

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Speaker 1: but I think we know who he's talking about. And

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Speaker 1: he basically said, I've been on the inside. I know

516
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Speaker 1: who these people are, I know what they're trying to do.

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Speaker 1: I've also been watching quietly and biting my tongue while

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Speaker 1: all these people from the sidelines on their podcasts have

519
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Speaker 1: been carping at President Trump and those of us from

520
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: the inside. Well, guess what. I'm no longer restrained. I

521
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 1: can tell you not only what I saw on the inside,

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Speaker 1: but I can now go to war for this president

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Speaker 1: in a very public way, in a way that I

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Speaker 1: couldn't before. And I'm coming at any body who's challenging

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Speaker 1: the integrity of this president and this presidency and what's

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Speaker 1: being accomplished. I'm going to challenge them directly, and I'm

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Speaker 1: going to take them on, and I'm reasserting my dominance

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Speaker 1: effectively as the top conservative podcaster out there. That was

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Speaker 1: Dan Mangino's essential declaration of war. And so it hit

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Speaker 1: me yesterday, could it be that the White I don't

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Speaker 1: know this, this is pure speculation, fast that he could

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Speaker 1: it be that the White House said, Dan, we love you,

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Speaker 1: thanks for your service here at the FBI, but I

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Speaker 1: think we need you more back behind that microphone.

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Speaker 2: Is that possible, Ed, I think you're onto something, Sarah. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I think it's very possible.

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Speaker 9: Uh huh.

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Speaker 1: The way he came out with a blow torch yesterday

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Speaker 1: and said, I'm putting down the marker right now. All you,

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Speaker 1: all you people that I've been friends with, and you said,

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Speaker 1: we're friends with MAGA and you were trying. We were

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Speaker 1: all on the same team before I left and went

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Speaker 1: to the FBA for a couple of months. I'm back

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00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 1: and I've been watching you and I've been listening to you,

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Speaker 1: and now we're going to have it out right here

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Speaker 1: and right now. And he made the point, the very

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Speaker 1: specific point that none of these people, if you've noticed,

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Speaker 1: and you said it earlier, Ed, none of these people,

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Speaker 1: these malcontents who've been doubting the president and his strategy

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Speaker 1: on any front, none of them actually have the balls

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Speaker 1: to take Donald Trump on directly. Have you noticed that

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Speaker 1: Dan made that point yesterday. None of them have called

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Speaker 1: the big dog out themselves.

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Speaker 9: Oh yes, it's yeah.

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Speaker 1: Bongino's back and he is, he's ready, he's loaded for

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Speaker 1: bear morn a minute, hang on. Good to be with

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Speaker 1: you Central Pei friends. That's what we're looking at this morning,

558
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Speaker 1: live on the Salem News Channel. Reggie Bardeau her funeral,

559
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Speaker 1: big celebration of her life. There of course, telephone number

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Speaker 1: eight five five Stigaul, how you reach us today? The

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Speaker 1: Harball being sacked out there in Baltimore, fast eddies. That

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Speaker 1: surprise you, Jim Harbaugh no longer coach of the Baltimore Ravens.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it surprises me. But you know, I think he's

564
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Speaker 2: gonna find success wherever he goes. I mean, that's a

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Speaker 2: heck of a free agency.

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Speaker 1: His agent. Harball's representative said yesterday that seven teams have

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Speaker 1: called him, and Adam Shefter says as of right now

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Speaker 1: there are only seven teams, Baltimore being one of them

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Speaker 1: without coaches, which says to me, then, I mean, if

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Speaker 1: the agent's telling the truth, there's there's a team that's

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Speaker 1: yet to fire their coach that's already calling him up,

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Speaker 1: which is kind of interesting, right.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's the I mean think of like silly seasons

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Speaker 2: and the different coaches that make their way through Oh

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Speaker 2: my gosh, I mean, Jim Harball's an a.

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Speaker 9: He's a stud. He'll be fine.

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Speaker 1: I admire and the harball put out a statement yesterday.

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Speaker 1: It's worth threeading. I won't read it all here, but

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Speaker 1: of course they're deeply faith based family, the Harball's, and

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Speaker 1: I would recommend you read it. I think he's an admiral,

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Speaker 1: admirabal guy. I like the Harballs a lot, setting the

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Speaker 1: teams they represent a side. Okay, let me read to

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Speaker 1: you what Bongino wrote yesterday on social media, because it

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Speaker 1: it was really quite good. And as I thought about

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Speaker 1: why he came out roaring yesterday. He's left the FBI,

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Speaker 1: he's returning to the microphone, and he came out roaring,

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Speaker 1: I thought, why is he doing this? He did that

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Speaker 1: time abou Venezuela. You know he's that time about Tim Walls.

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00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 1: He came out thundering on this. Let me add this

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Speaker 1: from the jump, so there's no confusion. I started in

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Speaker 1: this movement as a candidate during the Tea Party movement,

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Speaker 1: and I began my political commentary career shortly thereafter. I

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00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,080
Speaker 1: helped build this movement, and I sure as hell am

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Speaker 1: not going to let it get hijacked by a group

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Speaker 1: of black pillars, life losers, grifters and bums. We are

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Speaker 1: a movement guided by truth, writes Bongino. The essence of

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00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 1: conservative ideology is the preservation of eternal truths. We are

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Speaker 1: not the latest thing group. We are not political cannibals.

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Speaker 1: I've watched quietly from inside while doing the job I

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Speaker 1: was hired to do. But I'm back now and it's

601
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Speaker 1: time to restore balance to the force. As we get

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Speaker 1: ready to make some announcements about the future of the show,

603
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 1: I also want to warn the haters and the zeroes.

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Speaker 1: We've been at this a long time. We live for

605
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Speaker 1: this stuff. This isn't our first, second or tenth rodeo.

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00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 1: We've seen a lot of dip excrements come and go.

607
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 1: We revel in making you angry enough to show your asses.

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Speaker 1: It's glorious. We've got midterms coming up and there's no

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00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 1: time for bull excrement. This administration is cooking and real

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Speaker 1: change simmers. If you're spending your entire day bitching and

611
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Speaker 1: whining about three quarters of the term still to go,

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Speaker 1: then please find the exits. There's no time for it,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not calling he said. It's not infighting when

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Speaker 1: you xcize a cancer, killing the host. It's outfighting because

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Speaker 1: you're not part of any movement I'm familiar with, looking

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Speaker 1: forward to big things ahead. Can't wait to tell you

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Speaker 1: what it's all about. That's from Dan Bongino yesterday on x.

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Speaker 1: He then a little later said something about that post

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Speaker 1: that I wanted to share with you that I thought

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Speaker 1: was insightful too. He said, the support from the for

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Speaker 1: the Trump administration in the working world is strong again.

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Speaker 1: Back to the vaudevillian's numbers there on CNN yesterday. People

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Speaker 1: are tired of the endless bull excrement from the black

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Speaker 1: pillar chicken little grifters. Watch their tactics and once you

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00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 1: see them, you'll never unsee them. They use a couple

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00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 1: of different tactics to bull excrement you. First, they overload

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Speaker 1: you with information, but they unm you with evidence. Here's

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Speaker 1: an example of what I mean. They'll try to convince

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Speaker 1: you that John Smith robbed the bank, so the data

630
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Speaker 1: download on you and lose you in all the chaos.

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Speaker 1: They'll tell you things that might be true but isn't

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Speaker 1: actually evidence of anything. They'll tell you John was in

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Speaker 1: the bank that day, that John knew someone who worked there,

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Speaker 1: that John was arrested ten years ago for a misdemeanor.

635
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:25,720
Speaker 1: They won't tell you that the fingerprints, video, and DNA

636
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Speaker 1: of the thief matches someone else. Solid investigators sift through

637
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 1: chaotic information and mind the evidence. Gems. Charlatan's and morons

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00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 1: do the opposite. Second, writes Bongino, black pillars will rarely

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Speaker 1: take on the president directly. This is what I'm just

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00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: talking about. A minute ago. They know they'll get destroyed

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00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 1: by the Boss and wind up in the political graveyard

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00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,880
Speaker 1: of egomaniacs who thought they could take the president on

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Speaker 1: with bull excrement. As a proxy fight, they try to

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Speaker 1: pick off his allies, knowing many of them are limited

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Speaker 1: in the ways they can fight back. Well, I'm back now,

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Speaker 1: Welcome in looking live at Daytona Beach, Florida this morning

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Speaker 1: on the Salem News Channel, listening on one oh four

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Speaker 1: point five FM there in Daytona Beach, Wrod, Thanks for

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Speaker 1: choosing the Stickgall Show to get your day started. Our

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Speaker 1: Chris Stigall dot com. If you're not following on X

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Speaker 1: by the way, come on board. I'm going to try.

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Speaker 1: I'm making it a point this year, in addition to

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Speaker 1: But in addition to that, I'm going to try to

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Speaker 1: more hard fought, thoughtful time sharing my thoughts and commentary

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Speaker 1: on X. I do quite a bit now on the

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Speaker 1: Harrum Society, but I don't. I just didn't make time.

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Speaker 1: We were so busy last year launching the new show.

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Speaker 1: I just didn't have the bandwidth to sit down and

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Speaker 1: constantly keep posting on X. In fact, I really kind

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Speaker 1: But I'm going to try to get back to it

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six. So if you want to follow along,

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Speaker 1: Chris Stigall, C, HRI, S, S, T, I, G A,

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Speaker 1: l L. And all the social media, by the way,

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Speaker 1: the Horum Society, where today I kick off a three

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Speaker 1: part series on the Donroe Doctrine. And if you've heard

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Speaker 1: President Trump talk about the Donroe doctrine, what is it exactly?

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Speaker 1: I I moved to try to unpack it a little

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Speaker 1: bit now, the Monroe Doctrine for people that don't know.

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Speaker 1: I decided to just quickly look this up because it

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Speaker 1: are a lot of people who don't know what this

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Speaker 1: is a parody of. When he says the Donro doctrine,

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Speaker 1: what does he mean, Well, he's talking originally about the

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Speaker 1: Monroe doctrine, and by definition, I just wanted to read

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Speaker 1: the textbook definition of the Monroe doctrine here, established in

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Speaker 1: eighteen twenty three by James Monroe, that warned European powers

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Speaker 1: asserting Americans were closed to new European colonies and any

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Speaker 1: such attempt would be seen as a hostile act, and

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Speaker 1: in return, the United States pledged to stay out of

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Speaker 1: European conflicts and internal affairs there, creating separate spheres of

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Speaker 1: The Monroe Doctrine goes all the way back to eighteen

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Speaker 1: twenty three. So President Trump is doing a version of

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Speaker 1: this that he calls the Donroe doctrine. Little play on words.

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Speaker 1: Every serious presidency reveals a doctrine named or not. President

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Speaker 1: Trump's second term reveals this one. A coherent fusion of

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Speaker 1: timeless American instincts. America first piece through strength and the

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Speaker 1: recognition that prosperity and security are inseparable, and he calls

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Speaker 1: it the Donro Doctrine. This vigorous update to the eighteen

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Speaker 1: twenty three warning from James Monroe against foreign meddling in

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Speaker 1: the Western Hemisphere. Trump has declared, as he just did

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Speaker 1: this last weekend, we've superseded it by a lot, and

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Speaker 1: now we're going to call it the Donro doctrine instead

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Speaker 1: of the Monroe doctrine. And at its heart, it's very simple.

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Speaker 1: Free societies endure only when power defends commerce. Trade fosters alignment,

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Speaker 1: Alignment demands security. Security requires power, and power left unused

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Speaker 1: does not remain neutral. It gets replaced. So the Donroad

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Speaker 1: Doctrine treats domestic growth, trade, and military strength as continuous systems,

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Speaker 1: not separate policies. Now look, critics dismiss Trump as merely transactional,

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Speaker 1: as if that's some kind of flaw. I don't think

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Speaker 1: it is. Transactions, keep relationships, honest, charity that's just voluntary.

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Speaker 1: But trade, that's essential. And trade, I don't have to

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Speaker 1: tell you, only works when rules are enforced. Trade only

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Speaker 1: works when the trade lanes remain open. Well, that logic

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Speaker 1: has to start at home. So after years of drift,

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Speaker 1: the American economy is again treated to a strategic thinking.

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Speaker 1: We're being treated as an asset. The American economy is

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Speaker 1: reward risk and productivity, deregulation unleashing capital innovation growth. We

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Speaker 1: can't grow if we can't deter you hear me. A

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Speaker 1: nation cannot grow if it can't also be strong and

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Speaker 1: deter Energy dominance drives this point abundant US energy production.

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Speaker 1: It slashes inflation as we're seeing now. It stabilizes allies

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Speaker 1: as we're seeing now. It denies adversaries leverage as we're

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Speaker 1: seeing now. Oil, whether you like it or not, is

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Speaker 1: embedded in everything, and we're not getting away from it

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Speaker 1: anytime soon. Oil is everything, shipping, food, manufacturing, defense, and

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Speaker 1: of that liquid gold. Inflation becomes a geopolitical weapon. American

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Speaker 1: scale ends that aircity, lower energy prices, stabilized markets, ease

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Speaker 1: then there's tariffs that complete the whole picture. Used under

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Speaker 1: article to authority. As I've established here, before. These aren't walls,

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Speaker 1: trade from places like China. On enforced trade isn't free,

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Speaker 1: it's tribute. Domestic strength, in other words, is foreign policy.

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Speaker 1: Domestic strength is foreign policy. It funds military readiness, it

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Speaker 1: secures supply chains, and it sustains a deterrence over time.

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Speaker 1: Just look to our south. The original Monroe doctrine aimed

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Speaker 1: to prevent hostile powers from turning geographic proximity into strategic pressure.

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Speaker 1: Decades of neglected neglecting this country undermined that vision, allowing

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Speaker 1: Venezuela to collapse into a narco state that exported drugs

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Speaker 1: and mass migration and chaos, and it served as a

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Speaker 1: US even a little bit. Russia, Chinese, Iran proxies all

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Speaker 1: operating out of that hub, that hornet's nest called Venezuela.

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Speaker 1: This instability did not remain contained, as you know. It

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Speaker 1: spilled north here, It distorted global energy markets, It overwhelmed

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Speaker 1: US borders. It supercharged the cartel violence here and abroad.

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Speaker 1: So the Donro doctrine it brought clarity where denial had failed.

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Speaker 1: Failed states don't stay local, do you hear me? A

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Speaker 1: failed Venezuela does not stay in Venezuela. What happens in

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Speaker 1: Vegas stays in Vegas. Not with failed states. Failed states metastasize.

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Speaker 1: They create instability, and instability that attracts adversaries that spills

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Speaker 1: across borders. Venezuela had become exactly that, a hostile foothold

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Speaker 1: threatening this country's security and this country's commerce. And so

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Speaker 1: Trump responded with decisive but restrained force, surgical strikes, disruption

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Speaker 1: of criminal networks, removal of the regime's leadership, not the

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Speaker 1: entirety of the regime, just it's leadership. No endless wars,

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Speaker 1: no occupation, no nation building. The goal was not conquest,

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Speaker 1: as I said yesterday. It was restoration, reasserting boundaries, eliminating

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Speaker 1: foreign proxies, and giving the hemisphere room to breathe. And

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00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:46,920
Speaker 1: the results speak for themselves. Steadier energy markets, reduced migration pressure,

857
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 1: and the elimination, most importantly, of adversarial staging grounds. Commerce

858
00:48:55,600 --> 00:49:00,720
Speaker 1: thrives when partners are truly sovereign, not puppets of Russia

859
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 1: or China or Iran. The same logic that reclaimed. Our

860
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:15,319
Speaker 1: hemisphere now turns north. The Arctic was awakened. Retreating sea

861
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 1: ice is transforming that region now and its unlocking shorter

862
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:22,839
Speaker 1: shipping lanes like the Northern Sea Route record traffic through

863
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:27,920
Speaker 1: there in twenty twenty five, including expanded Chinese container voyages.

864
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:33,440
Speaker 1: That's exposing vast rare earth mineral deposits in Greenland advancing

865
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 1: toward production amid Western efforts to counter China's dominance and

866
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:43,960
Speaker 1: revealing critical military corridors for missile trajectory, surveillance and power projection.

867
00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:51,480
Speaker 1: Russia continues remilitarizing Soviet era bases, despite Ukraine and their

868
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:56,600
Speaker 1: strains in China aggressively advances its polar Silk Road, deploying

869
00:49:56,600 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 1: ice breakers, research vessels, and infrastructure partnerships. Most of us

870
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:03,319
Speaker 1: don't even know the stuff's going on. President Trump does.

871
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 1: Vacuums here are not going to stay empty. Great power

872
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:12,239
Speaker 1: competition is intensifying over these roots. America already relies on

873
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:17,400
Speaker 1: Greenland for irreplaceable missile warnings and surveillance. The only unresolved

874
00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:19,960
Speaker 1: question now is whether political language is going to catch

875
00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 1: up to strategic reality. I think the Donroe Doctrine answers

876
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:27,880
Speaker 1: this too. I'll tell you why hang on? So, speaking

877
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:31,320
Speaker 1: of thinking and thoughtfulness, where was I the Donroe doctrine

878
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:34,080
Speaker 1: talking about Greenland? Now you may have heard yesterday, and

879
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 1: I think there was a lot fast Eddie. Does it

880
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:38,879
Speaker 1: do you get upset when you hear them talking about

881
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:43,200
Speaker 1: Greenland taking over Greenland or storming into Greenland or this business?

882
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:44,440
Speaker 1: Does that gets you wound up?

883
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:48,000
Speaker 2: Actually, that would be something that would normally do so

884
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:50,799
Speaker 2: not even from the first time he said it, it

885
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:51,839
Speaker 2: hasn't wound me up.

886
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 1: He's that first of all, Can we install understand he's

887
00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:58,840
Speaker 1: not going to send the military in to seize Greenland? Okay?

888
00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:02,560
Speaker 1: Do you understand he's not that that's ridiculous. He's making

889
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 1: the point though, as I just said, in the don

890
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 1: Road Doctrine era in which we find ourselves, there is

891
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:12,040
Speaker 1: a strategic reason for this that you and I may

892
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:13,440
Speaker 1: not have been paying a lot of attention to. I

893
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:17,120
Speaker 1: don't think about Greenland. You don't think about Greenland. People

894
00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:20,240
Speaker 1: like Marco Rubio and Donald Trump have to think about Greenland.

895
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 1: The region is transforming there quickly. We already have military

896
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:29,480
Speaker 1: interests there. Certainly, the shipping lanes are a huge issue there.

897
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:32,600
Speaker 1: The northern Sea route has record traffic. As I said,

898
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:38,280
Speaker 1: Chinese container ships, rare earth mineral deposits. This is big.

899
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:41,800
Speaker 1: It's a big effing deal. As the old Husk former

900
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 1: president said, whether you know it or not, we're in

901
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:50,600
Speaker 1: a cold war with China. We're in a race with China.

902
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:54,840
Speaker 1: And then of course there's Russia, who we know is wiley.

903
00:51:55,840 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 1: We're talking about critical minerals, critical military corridors for missile trajectories, surveillance,

904
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 1: power projection. So Russia continues remilitarizing. As I said, China

905
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:16,800
Speaker 1: is aggressively advancing. They're sending ice breakers and research vessels

906
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:21,040
Speaker 1: and infrastructure partnership partnerships up there to secure economic and

907
00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:25,760
Speaker 1: strategic footholds. So vacuums here are not going to stay empty.

908
00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:32,000
Speaker 1: As I said, great power competition is intensifying over roots

909
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 1: and resources and dominance in Greenland. This is a huge

910
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:44,000
Speaker 1: global pivot point. America already relies on Greenland for irreplaceable

911
00:52:44,080 --> 00:52:51,320
Speaker 1: missile warnings and surveillance. The only unresolved question is political language.

912
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:54,600
Speaker 1: Is it going to catch up to the strategic realities

913
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:57,319
Speaker 1: that I just laid out. So the Donro doctrine it

914
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 1: answers that by formalizing response deeper integration to secure open navigation,

915
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:11,799
Speaker 1: Western norms, and critical resources against authoritarian chokeholds. Formal integration

916
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:16,160
Speaker 1: is an empire building. It's the mature acknowledgment that responsibility

917
00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 1: already exists in practice. Donro isn't seeking grandeur, its stability.

918
00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:27,279
Speaker 1: American leadership is not vanity. Its obligation to lead, to

919
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:31,840
Speaker 1: lead militarily and economically before our rivals fill the void.

920
00:53:32,239 --> 00:53:34,600
Speaker 1: We can't ignore it, we can't deny it. We got

921
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 1: to act first. With a story today, how Venezuela's oil

922
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:41,600
Speaker 1: could shake up world's supply. I'm sure they're y upset

923
00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:44,799
Speaker 1: about this. Oil markets have remained relatively calm since the

924
00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:48,840
Speaker 1: ouster of President Maduro of Venezuela Saturday, reflecting how the

925
00:53:48,880 --> 00:53:53,080
Speaker 1: country's influence as a global energy player has dwindled in

926
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:56,440
Speaker 1: recent years. Despite sitting on what is ranked as the

927
00:53:56,440 --> 00:54:01,799
Speaker 1: world's largest untapped oil reserves, Venezuela has little clout because

928
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:05,960
Speaker 1: of a combination of domestic political tumult, economic turbulence, and

929
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:09,919
Speaker 1: punishing sanctions imposed by the US. But in the long

930
00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:14,960
Speaker 1: term and under the right circumstances, Venezuela could attract investment

931
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:18,960
Speaker 1: and emerge as a force in oil markets once again

932
00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:22,520
Speaker 1: because they can produce large amounts of what is known

933
00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:27,520
Speaker 1: as extra heavy oil. Even a modest revival of Venezuelan's industry,

934
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:31,360
Speaker 1: Venezuela's industry has the potential to shake up oil markets

935
00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:37,160
Speaker 1: and reduce gasoline prices. Oh no, that all sounds terrible.

936
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:40,040
Speaker 1: Daniel Turner, our great friend is who we thought of

937
00:54:40,080 --> 00:54:42,480
Speaker 1: when we heard this story. And now Trump is bringing

938
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:45,800
Speaker 1: millions of those barrels to our north, he announced yesterday.

939
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:48,319
Speaker 1: Daniel is the founder and executive director of Power the

940
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:52,320
Speaker 1: Future Daniel Turner PTF on X. Happy New year, Daniel.

941
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 1: Great to be with you. Chris, Good morning to you.

942
00:54:57,880 --> 00:55:00,839
Speaker 1: This news lands on you. U. How the last time

943
00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:03,160
Speaker 1: you and I talked, we talked about energy and AI

944
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:06,399
Speaker 1: and all of these facilities that are being built around

945
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:09,920
Speaker 1: the country and draining energy from our system. And you

946
00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:12,200
Speaker 1: were not convinced that that was a net positive for

947
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:16,040
Speaker 1: the folks, that is, the average American who needs their

948
00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:22,680
Speaker 1: energy supplies to be plentiful and Chi, how about this move? Yeah?

949
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:27,200
Speaker 11: And you know, and that previous conversation stays because electricity

950
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:30,080
Speaker 11: is distinct, right, and we don't use a ton of

951
00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:33,080
Speaker 11: oil to produce electricity. You need oil to produce the

952
00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:36,120
Speaker 11: things that produce electricity, but we still have a grid

953
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:39,560
Speaker 11: problem nationwide. The interesting thing about this New York Times

954
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:44,240
Speaker 11: story is that they dismiss the stability to in oil

955
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:51,400
Speaker 11: markets as just Venezuela as irrelevance, rather than command America's dominance.

956
00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 11: You know, Venezuela's irrelevance is to a certain extent true.

957
00:55:55,880 --> 00:55:58,279
Speaker 1: But this would be like, I don't know.

958
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:01,400
Speaker 11: This is like like the Summer Olympics kicking off and

959
00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:05,040
Speaker 11: someone saying, hey, everybody, the Zambian delegation didn't make it.

960
00:56:05,080 --> 00:56:05,960
Speaker 1: What's that going to do?

961
00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:08,040
Speaker 11: It's like, well, you know what, America is going to

962
00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:10,759
Speaker 11: win anyway, So what do we really care if these

963
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:14,560
Speaker 11: athletes don't show or do show. American energy dominance is

964
00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:16,640
Speaker 11: what stabilizes world markets.

965
00:56:16,719 --> 00:56:17,640
Speaker 1: And if you're in the.

966
00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:20,840
Speaker 11: Oil and gas space, just think fifteen years ago. I

967
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:23,839
Speaker 11: had ten years ago a headline like this, oil would

968
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:28,120
Speaker 11: have skyrocketed fifteen to twenty dollars a barrel overnight. That

969
00:56:28,320 --> 00:56:32,920
Speaker 11: was the instability and the fluctuation in markets based on geopolitics.

970
00:56:33,080 --> 00:56:36,239
Speaker 11: What you have now is an American energy dominance agenda

971
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 11: that world markets aren't spooked anymore, and that's pretty remarkable. Yeah,

972
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:44,520
Speaker 11: there's a lot of long term strategic a play here.

973
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:48,840
Speaker 11: I am very very hawkish when it comes to oil.

974
00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:52,360
Speaker 11: I want to retire the phrase no blood for oil.

975
00:56:52,440 --> 00:56:54,080
Speaker 11: Of course, I don't want to see the spilling of

976
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:59,239
Speaker 11: American blood ever, but I want oil. No blood for

977
00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:02,920
Speaker 11: oil is as alpha Mooricans stupid, as diversity as our strength,

978
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:05,880
Speaker 11: right and hippie slogans are going to get us killed.

979
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:09,640
Speaker 11: Control the oil, control the world. And if America takes

980
00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:12,600
Speaker 11: over then as well as oil markets. If we take

981
00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:16,720
Speaker 11: over Iran's oil markets next, then that means our enemies

982
00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:19,440
Speaker 11: like China don't get that oil, and that is good

983
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:24,000
Speaker 11: for the world. So no blood for oil, No blood, Yes, oil,

984
00:57:24,320 --> 00:57:26,520
Speaker 11: one hundred percent, everything for oil.

985
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:32,439
Speaker 1: Ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force,

986
00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:36,320
Speaker 1: quite frankly sometimes when it's necessary and oil, and we

987
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:40,120
Speaker 1: need both, and so you need dominance and you need oil,

988
00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:44,440
Speaker 1: and Trump is flexing on both fronts. It's just we

989
00:57:44,520 --> 00:57:46,360
Speaker 1: can live in a world where we can pretend that

990
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:48,959
Speaker 1: China doesn't want it first and isn't making a play

991
00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:51,960
Speaker 1: for it or not. And the SAME's going on with Greenland, right, Daniel,

992
00:57:52,240 --> 00:57:54,920
Speaker 1: the rare earth minerals, the lip lanes are closing of

993
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:56,280
Speaker 1: the last segment on Greenland.

994
00:57:56,280 --> 00:58:00,000
Speaker 11: Absolutely, we can pretend that China and Russia aren't investing there,

995
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:02,560
Speaker 11: and we can pretend that, oh yeah, let's have them

996
00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:05,240
Speaker 11: get the strategic medals and minerals and then we'll just

997
00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:09,720
Speaker 11: buy it. And that is that sort of libertarian naivete.

998
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:12,560
Speaker 11: And I hate the dunk on our libertarian friends, but

999
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:15,920
Speaker 11: they have imbued a lot of Republicans and a lot

1000
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:19,560
Speaker 11: of the right with this idea that trade solves everything.

1001
00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:22,560
Speaker 11: And if China develops those medals and minerals and we

1002
00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:25,520
Speaker 11: buy it from China, then they'll become our friend. And

1003
00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:28,640
Speaker 11: friends who trade don't go to war. And that's just

1004
00:58:28,760 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 11: absolute stupidity. Right, China dominates a lot of these industries.

1005
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:34,880
Speaker 11: And what is China do with that wealth?

1006
00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:35,080
Speaker 1: Right?

1007
00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:37,320
Speaker 11: Have they made the world a better and safer place?

1008
00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:42,040
Speaker 11: Or do they continue to steal American ip international intellectual property?

1009
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:44,800
Speaker 11: Do they continue to enslave two and a half three

1010
00:58:44,920 --> 00:58:48,680
Speaker 11: million religious and ethnic minorities in their state?

1011
00:58:48,840 --> 00:58:49,000
Speaker 1: Right?

1012
00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:49,200
Speaker 12: Right?

1013
00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:54,400
Speaker 11: You know, China's growth in economic dominance has made the

1014
00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 11: world a worse place. Quite frankly. So, yeah, we can

1015
00:58:57,800 --> 00:59:01,040
Speaker 11: pretend that, you know, we can turn a blind eye

1016
00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:03,960
Speaker 11: to Venezuela or Greenland and that the world will be fine,

1017
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:06,520
Speaker 11: but it won't. If our enemies get their hands on

1018
00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:09,160
Speaker 11: those things, then we're going to have to fight them eventually.

1019
00:59:09,280 --> 00:59:11,840
Speaker 1: Right, the same people who say.

1020
00:59:11,680 --> 00:59:13,360
Speaker 11: Like, oh, we don't want boots on the ground, we

1021
00:59:13,400 --> 00:59:15,480
Speaker 11: don't want this, we don't want that, But then they

1022
00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:18,960
Speaker 11: also want to have our military in the South China

1023
00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:21,680
Speaker 11: Sea to protect Thailand. Right, they want to have our

1024
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:28,000
Speaker 11: military in the Mediterranean, in the Suez Canal. So you

1025
00:59:28,040 --> 00:59:30,800
Speaker 11: know what, I'd rather just control the world's resources and

1026
00:59:30,880 --> 00:59:32,280
Speaker 11: keep our military at home.

1027
00:59:33,480 --> 00:59:39,640
Speaker 1: Daniel. The oil companies themselves, the American oil investors and

1028
00:59:39,680 --> 00:59:43,720
Speaker 1: the private sector that did a great deal of developmental

1029
00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:48,840
Speaker 1: infrastructure building before Venezuela became the narco terrorist state that

1030
00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:52,280
Speaker 1: it became. Trump spoke of them quite a bit, and

1031
00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:56,720
Speaker 1: I've heard it said many many times billions were stolen. Effectively,

1032
00:59:56,960 --> 00:59:59,520
Speaker 1: Maduro and Chavez before them came in and just just

1033
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:03,640
Speaker 1: stole American assets, much of a private sector. So when

1034
01:00:03,680 --> 01:00:05,520
Speaker 1: Trump says the private sector is going to come in

1035
01:00:05,560 --> 01:00:09,240
Speaker 1: and start pumping the soil, is is that restitution. How

1036
01:00:09,240 --> 01:00:11,400
Speaker 1: are we to view that because you know, instinctively, a

1037
01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:13,640
Speaker 1: lot of people bristle because we're all supposed to hate

1038
01:00:13,640 --> 01:00:16,280
Speaker 1: big oil and big American companies, right, So how do

1039
01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:20,240
Speaker 1: you talk about this? Yeah, and it is a great point.

1040
01:00:20,240 --> 01:00:21,920
Speaker 11: And I love the fact that the President said, when

1041
01:00:21,960 --> 01:00:25,680
Speaker 11: these companies reimburse themselves, then the people of Venezuela will

1042
01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:26,480
Speaker 11: begin to profit.

1043
01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:28,640
Speaker 1: Right. He was making it clear this is not charity

1044
01:00:28,960 --> 01:00:29,400
Speaker 1: going in.

1045
01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:33,120
Speaker 11: I saw someone repost an interview with the great philosopher

1046
01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:35,840
Speaker 11: May he rest in peace, Milton Friedman back in the

1047
01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:38,480
Speaker 11: early two thousands, and it was at the launch of

1048
01:00:38,240 --> 01:00:41,720
Speaker 11: the Iraq War, the Gulf War there, and he talked

1049
01:00:41,720 --> 01:00:45,840
Speaker 11: about privatizing the military industry the excuse me, the oil

1050
01:00:45,840 --> 01:00:49,080
Speaker 11: industry in those countries, and saying, if you are able

1051
01:00:49,080 --> 01:00:51,880
Speaker 11: to bring in investment and privatize it, well, then the

1052
01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:55,080
Speaker 11: state won't control it anymore, and then the people will

1053
01:00:55,400 --> 01:00:58,760
Speaker 11: will have a sense of greater democracy and share in

1054
01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:02,000
Speaker 11: their country because they want their industry to thrive.

1055
01:01:02,080 --> 01:01:04,040
Speaker 1: They don't want their dictators to become rich.

1056
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:07,439
Speaker 11: Of course, Milton was always too smart for a lot

1057
01:01:07,440 --> 01:01:09,640
Speaker 11: of the Republican Party and for a lot of the right,

1058
01:01:10,400 --> 01:01:13,240
Speaker 11: So we listen to these libertarian morons who have gotten

1059
01:01:13,240 --> 01:01:18,520
Speaker 11: this embroiled in more war. So no, I think American industry,

1060
01:01:18,560 --> 01:01:22,200
Speaker 11: with the safeguards of American military, going in there, rebuilding,

1061
01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:27,040
Speaker 11: reimbursing themselves, and then letting Venezuela Venezuelan companies run this

1062
01:01:27,160 --> 01:01:30,400
Speaker 11: industry and re benefits and hire local people.

1063
01:01:30,960 --> 01:01:31,560
Speaker 1: That's great.

1064
01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:33,360
Speaker 11: And then you know what the ultimate win is the

1065
01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:36,120
Speaker 11: Venezuelan's here are all going to go back home, right,

1066
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:39,600
Speaker 11: And that's good too, Right, And then people, if they

1067
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Speaker 11: want to flee Colombia, maybe they'll go to Venezuela. Right,

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Speaker 11: Maybe they won't wind up in my neighborhood and vote

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Speaker 11: for Zoran mom Dami when they get their illegal citizens.

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Speaker 11: You're right, maybe they'll stay in South America.

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Speaker 1: And that's a good thing.

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Speaker 11: I want Venezuela to be thoroughly, thoroughly Venezuelan, and I

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Speaker 11: don't want New York City to be Venezuela.

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Speaker 1: I want New York City to be New York.

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Speaker 11: So let's keep the Venezuelans there. So you know, remember

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Speaker 11: Kamala was sent to South America to study the net

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Speaker 11: root of migration, and she blamed it on climate change.

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Speaker 11: These morons, right, you blame it on crap like this.

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Speaker 11: You blame it on dictators who are destroying their countries.

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Speaker 1: I don't want regime change. I don't want to run countries.

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Speaker 11: But I want American stability, and that includes South America.

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Speaker 1: So to be clear, American oil companies would have a

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Speaker 1: great deal to do with this transition. They would go down,

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Speaker 1: they would reinvest, they would create the infrastructure to pull

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Speaker 1: the oil out of the ground, creating much more oil

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Speaker 1: on the market. Thus, as we know, supply demand, more

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Speaker 1: supply brings prices down, and this is a good thing. Ultimately,

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Speaker 1: this fifty million, thirty to fifty million barrels Trump says,

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Speaker 1: we're bringing home. What does that do globally to the marketplace?

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Speaker 1: How should we think about that? Gas prices are falling

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Speaker 1: precipitously this year, by the way they are. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think that fifty million.

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Speaker 11: I would be surprised if he put sus straight in

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Speaker 11: the petroleum reserve with Joe Biden drained. Remember, and we

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Speaker 11: still have to replenish around five hundred million barrels of

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Speaker 11: oil little by little. So I think that's a good

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Speaker 11: sort of building up our stock of strategic reserve. What

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Speaker 11: what Venezuela produces right now is not going to have

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Speaker 11: a major impact for US domestically because their their industry

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Speaker 11: private sector that's going to build it back. It's because

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Speaker 11: the government doesn't know how to do Jack squat, right.

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Speaker 11: I think President Trump has a little bit of his

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Speaker 11: frustration with just the way a lot of the world

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Speaker 11: has treated America. We built the world's oil industry, right.

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Speaker 11: We built Venezuela, We built the Middle East, we built

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Speaker 11: we built the the the Russian Czar before before Stalin

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Speaker 11: industry was built by Americans. Americans went around the world

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Speaker 11: turned it.

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of Americans.

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Speaker 11: that and they used it against us. So this time, yeah,

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Speaker 11: we'll help you, but we're not doing it out of

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Speaker 1: Daniel Turner, great conversation to kick off this new year.

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Speaker 1: We love having you. We'll see it very soon.

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Speaker 1: hear about this Hilton hotel kerfuffle in Minneapolis? Speaking of so,

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Speaker 1: Trump sent like two thousand agents where DHS has into

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Speaker 1: the area and they came across this one particular hotel there,

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Speaker 1: I think it was a Hampton in in suburban Minneapolis

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Speaker 1: or something, and they said, well, who you with? They said, oh,

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Speaker 1: Homeland Security or here for a room, and they said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're not letting anybody that's working for the government check

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Speaker 1: in here. And they said, well why turns out the

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Speaker 1: owner of this and I didn't know this. Actually, did

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Speaker 1: you know this? That they're like franchises like anything else?

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Speaker 1: I didn't. I just learned this because of this transaction.

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Speaker 1: Did you know that, like the Hampton in your suburb

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Speaker 1: is often or can be a franchise, So like fast Eddie,

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Speaker 1: you could own yourself a Hampton Inn and slap the

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Speaker 1: Hilton brand on it, and it could actually be your hotel,

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Speaker 1: I guess, like a McDonald's franchise or anything else. I

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Speaker 1: didn't know that, did you No?

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Speaker 9: I didn't.

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Speaker 2: I Actually I'm surprised and impressed because that sounds like

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Speaker 2: a good idea.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, So if this thing doesn't work out, maybe

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Speaker 1: we can take up being innkeepers. But anyway, so this

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Speaker 1: guy's running his Hampton in there in Minneapolis, and he says,

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Speaker 1: I don't want any Feds here. I don't want anybody

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Speaker 1: staying in my hotel. No, you're not welcome here. Well,

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Speaker 1: Hilton's bell got wrung about this because the news was

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Speaker 1: it on tape Nope, We're not renting to anybody that's

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Speaker 1: doing your work. Hilton comes out and they said, hey

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Speaker 1: in the email, after further investigation, we have found him

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Speaker 1: a work connected with your name, and we will be

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Speaker 1: canceling your upcoming reservation, said the guy that owned the hotel.

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Speaker 1: So this screenshot has been shared well Hilton, the corporate

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Speaker 1: Hilton responded and said Hilton Hotels serves as welcoming places

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Speaker 1: for all. This hotel is independently owned and operated and

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Speaker 1: the actions referenced are not reflective of Hilton values. We

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Speaker 1: confirm that Hilton works with government, law enforcement, and community

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Speaker 1: and inviting to everyone. As of last night, a guy

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Speaker 1: they're still taking Hilton Honnors points and doing reservations through

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Speaker 1: their system. Hilton says they disconnected this guy from their system.

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Speaker 1: Now look for me. You know a corporation like Hilton

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Speaker 1: that's as big as it is and dealing now apparently

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Speaker 1: they said, we condemned the guy. Uh, we were not

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Speaker 1: for this. That's good enough for me. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if it is for you, Eddie or not. People are like,

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Speaker 1: I want the hotel shut down, and I want Hilton

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Speaker 1: to and Hilton, I actually don't feel like attacking Hilton

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Speaker 9: I do too.

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 2: I know we're trying to, you know, go after one another,

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Speaker 4: Chris, Happy New Year, God bless you and thinks the

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Speaker 4: very warm and generous introduction is always my friends.

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Speaker 1: Of course, we're always thrilled to tap into your wisdom,

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Speaker 1: particularly from a legal perspective. Before we get into the

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Speaker 1: reason I invited you, I hate to do a ropodope

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Speaker 1: because I asked you earlier to come on if you

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Speaker 1: wouldn't mind to talk about kind of the prosecution of

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Speaker 1: Nicholas Maduro. But I would be remiss if I didn't

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Speaker 1: ask you your opinion of what's going on in Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: because we're sitting on something I don't know if similar fraud.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure there is, and many people believe it's far

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Speaker 1: worse and bigger in places like California, But I don't

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Speaker 1: think anybody really understood the volume of fraud in a

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Speaker 1: place like Minnesota, the Upper Midwest. I'm billions of dollars.

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Speaker 1: How do you read the entirety of that. We're seeing

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Speaker 1: judges in addition, you know, who are resigning over the

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Speaker 1: issue and that sort of thing. What can you tell

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Speaker 1: us about it from a legal point of view? What

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Speaker 1: do you think is coming?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So the first thing to note about this story, Chris,

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Speaker 4: is that it didn't come out of nowhere for those

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Speaker 4: of us who follow these things closely, because a lot

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Speaker 4: of the underlying cond of most of it, in fact,

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Speaker 4: goes back to the COVID nineteen emergency Biden era payments

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Speaker 4: that were made to try to prop up businesses during

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Speaker 4: the pandemic. So this content has been going on for many,

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Speaker 4: many years now. It's a fascinating story to me, Chris,

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Speaker 4: insofar as it shows the power of certain activists, certing

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Speaker 4: journalistic activists to bring a story that was kind of

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Speaker 4: hovering on the periphery of the national conversation, and then

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Speaker 4: to bring it to the forefront of the conversation, ultimately

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Speaker 4: resulting in the political scalp. The self immolation, if you will,

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Speaker 4: of Tim Walls was very nearly our Vice president. I

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Speaker 4: was speaking here of people like Chris Rufo, the amazing

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Speaker 4: investigative journalist and activists, really was the first one to

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Speaker 4: bring this story back to national prominence. Then was totally

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Speaker 4: exploded to the next level by Nick Shirley, the YouTuber

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Speaker 4: and podcast are and various others there. It's a tremendous,

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Speaker 4: tremendous story, and I think it's a warning sign for

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Speaker 4: Democrat politicians about the perils of catering to the far left,

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Speaker 4: because that's how Tim Walls found himself in this position.

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Speaker 4: Chris tim Walls found himself in this position because for

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Speaker 4: years as this was fairly well known, if you're willing

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Speaker 4: to scratch a little below the surface, it was not

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Speaker 4: exactly hidden there. He had his usual media betters, the

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Speaker 4: Minneapolis Star Tribune, various other papers that just said, oh,

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Speaker 4: this is just a republican, racist, Islamophobic thing, and Tim

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Speaker 4: Walls played into that. He doubled and tripled down, and

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Speaker 4: now ultimately he's been hoisted on his own guitards such

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Speaker 4: that he's ultimately and his political career essentially. So it's

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Speaker 4: a remarkable warning sign, I think as to the dangers

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Speaker 4: of going all in from the left wing intersectional narrative,

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Speaker 4: but from an American taxpayer perspective, Chris.

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Speaker 1: I want justice.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you know how many major scandals can the

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Speaker 4: American people endure without even a modicum of accountability. I know,

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Speaker 4: Secretary Percent that the Treasury Department is currently looking into

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Speaker 4: financial crimes that were likely in to Gate are likely

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Speaker 4: committed here Cash Betel. The FBI has announced that there's

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Speaker 4: been now close to sixty convictions almost one hundred indictments

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Speaker 4: overall for the sprawling schemes. This is going to go

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Speaker 4: on for a very long time, but ultimately the American

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Speaker 4: people deserve some some real justice, up to and potentially

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Speaker 4: including the elected official class.

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Speaker 1: There's a judge in the middle of the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: Hennepin County Judge Sarah West granted a judgment of acquittal

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Speaker 1: for a guy, overturning a unanimous jury verdict which had

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Speaker 1: convicted him of charges connected to a company he owned

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Speaker 1: in which he had been involved in a seven point

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Speaker 1: two million dollar fraud case. The Minnesota Judicial Branch told

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Speaker 1: Newsweek that neither West nor court staff were able to

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Speaker 1: comment on the case. West and the case have re

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Speaker 1: emerged as a focal point and the debate over alleged

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Speaker 1: large scale fraud in Minnesota. Judges potentially involved in this.

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Speaker 1: Is that what we're to gather from this story, or

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Speaker 1: we can't go that far.

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Speaker 4: Look, it certainly would not be much of an extrapolation.

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Speaker 4: You know, judges are not necessarily the most innocent, angelic

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Speaker 4: cherubic actors in the world all the time, right, I mean,

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Speaker 4: we have this this similar situation. Yeah, I mean speaking

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Speaker 4: of the Upper Midwest, Chris, let's just hop across the

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Speaker 4: border from Minnesota to Wisconsin. We have this whole story

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Speaker 4: in Wisconsin of this state judge who was abetting the

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Speaker 4: attempted absconding and escaping of the illegal alien in her

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Speaker 4: very core room. And she's being prosecuted and likely has

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Speaker 4: going to end up serving many years of her life

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Speaker 4: in a jail cell as well. So judges are far

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Speaker 4: of medicine there. And I think certainly in this case,

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Speaker 4: the hend of Been County judge that you're referring to

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Speaker 4: here certainly has a lot of questions to answer, certainly,

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Speaker 4: if nothing else.

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Speaker 1: Also, quickly, just because it's a funny story, it's an

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Speaker 1: international story. It's not funny, haha, funny Over the subject matter.

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Speaker 1: I suppose France has convicted ten people for insulting Brigitte Macrone.

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Speaker 1: Ten people found guilty in France of cyber bullying Josh Hammer.

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Speaker 1: Now again, I think the bridgitk Macrone thing is I'm

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Speaker 1: confounded with people's fascination with her. I don't really understand it,

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Speaker 1: but it's become a thing for people. I mean, that

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Speaker 1: is something we ought to take seriously because the UK

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Speaker 1: is doing this too. Speech we're seeing increasingly criminalized across

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Speaker 1: Europe and we've really got to be careful about that here.

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Speaker 4: You know, Chris, about a year and a half ago

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Speaker 4: you mentioned the UK. In the UK, there was a

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Speaker 4: terrible tragedy where there was a dance studio, I believe

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Speaker 4: for teenagers, and the dance studio in southern England was

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Speaker 4: slaughtered by someone who I believe was the child of

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Speaker 4: Rwandan refugees or something close to those lines there, and

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Speaker 4: there was a whole kind of Midsummer crisis where then

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Speaker 4: the Muslim community in the UK riot, and then there

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Speaker 4: was a counter riot and I put up a tweet

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Speaker 4: and I'm on my show that Josh hammershow I started

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Speaker 4: speaking about two tier here, two tier here because Cure Starmer,

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Speaker 4: the Prime Minister is somewhat infamous for having this two

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Speaker 4: tier system of justice, and Chris, I kick you not.

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Speaker 4: A friend of mine who was a very prominent lawyer

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Speaker 4: in London messaged me and said you should take this down.

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Speaker 4: And I said, what in the world are you talking about.

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Speaker 4: He said, Josh, you have no idea how or really,

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Speaker 4: and defamation law has gotten here in the UK. You

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Speaker 4: could absolutely be dragged into court here for tweeting about

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Speaker 4: two tier here Starmer, and I ultimately refuse to do it.

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Speaker 4: I said, this is Ludicris. My point is evidently reasonable.

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Speaker 4: I'm not going to take this down. But a lot

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Speaker 4: of these European countries, especially these Western European countries that

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Speaker 4: once were the cradle of Western liberty, have tended to

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Speaker 4: really kind of give up on the free speech norms

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Speaker 4: that have sustained them for hundreds of years. The Trump

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Speaker 4: administration and Chris, to their great credits, you know, including

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Speaker 4: JD Vance's speech in Munich, Germany last February, they've been

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Speaker 4: hitting this very, very hard, trying to bring the European

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Speaker 4: countries back in line with frankly, their own values, their

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Speaker 4: own values that they really developed in that America kind

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Speaker 4: of took to the next level. It's totally crazy France

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Speaker 4: at UK. At some point you have to wonder whether

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Speaker 4: these countries are even going to be continued, will still

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Speaker 4: be called France or England fifty years from now they

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Speaker 4: continue to go down this cultural rabbit hole that they

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Speaker 4: have willingly put themselves in.

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Speaker 1: Josh Hammer, host of The Josh Hammer Show ten o'clock

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Speaker 1: tonight on the Salem News Channel and catch a show anytime.

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Speaker 1: You can subscribe to it and catch the podcast version

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Speaker 1: if you don't watch it, Josh, the Maduro case is

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Speaker 1: pretty ironclad, isn't it. I was reading Jonathan Turley's kind

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Speaker 1: of summary of charges against him. He says, it's pretty devastating.

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's much question of the doubt, or

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Speaker 1: there's much doubt I should say, or question about what

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Speaker 1: Maduro and his wife are charged with having done. Maybe

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Speaker 1: I'll start with for people that say there's something illegal

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Speaker 1: or improper about the way they were seized and brought

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Speaker 1: to justice, what would you say about that? Sure?

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Speaker 4: So the key points here is to understand the Maduro

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Speaker 4: is not actually or was not, the legitimately recognized international

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Speaker 4: head of Venezuela. If Venezuela was a truly first World

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Speaker 4: country like a European country, or why not to Japan.

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Speaker 4: And if he was the truly undisputed leader, then of

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Speaker 4: course you cannot just go in and do what the

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Speaker 4: United States did. But three successive administrations from Trump one

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Speaker 4: Biden Harris through Trump I have not recognized mcdureau as

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Speaker 4: the legitimate leader. And by the way, don't just take

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Speaker 4: the United States's word for the very liberal government of

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Speaker 4: Canada Prime Minister Carney north of our border. The Canadians

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Speaker 4: did not recognize the Maduro government as being legitimate either. Frankly,

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Speaker 4: neither did the Eurocrats the European Union.

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Speaker 1: In Brussels.

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Speaker 4: It was the official opinion of the European Union itself

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Speaker 4: that Madua was the illegitimate leader because he fraudulently rigged

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Speaker 4: arguably multiple elections going back to the twenty eighteen election,

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Speaker 4: but a minimum the twenty twenty four election, which he

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Speaker 4: legitimately lost to had moved to a Gonzales So properly viewed,

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Speaker 4: Madua was essentially a Venezuelan civilian who was properly indicted

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Speaker 4: and had a fifty million dollar bounty on his head

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Speaker 4: in American.

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Speaker 1: Courts of law.

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Speaker 4: So he was a fugitive of justice of the American

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Speaker 4: legal system, and he was not entitled to the absolute

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Speaker 4: immunity that a legitimate sovereign head of state is entitled

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Speaker 4: to under long standing international law and norms. It it

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Speaker 4: really is, as the administration refers to, a law enforcement

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Speaker 4: operation now because the nature of who he is and

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Speaker 4: where he was living and his compound guarded by Iranian

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Speaker 4: has Bola Cuban military hands. Because the nature of that,

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Speaker 4: it required the US Army, Delta Force and various other

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Speaker 4: military paramilitary actors to go in to physically extract him.

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Speaker 4: But that does those details do not turn this into

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Speaker 4: necessarily a military operation. Chris, There's been a lot of

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Speaker 4: chatter about the declared war controversy here. I reject the

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Speaker 4: premise because it's not a military action. It's a law

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Speaker 4: enforcement operation.

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Speaker 1: At score. He's Josh Hammer. You can't miss him. You

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Speaker 1: can't miss his show. Subscribe so you don't miss it,

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Speaker 1: or watch it every night ten pm Eastern on the

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Speaker 1: Salem News Channel. Josh Happy new You're good, see him

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Speaker 1: a friend, Thank you, Happy neacres, thank you. McDonald's has

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Speaker 1: been hit with another lawsuit. You know McDonald's seems to be,

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Speaker 1: for whatever reason, target of the silliest things. Years ago,

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Speaker 1: the infamous, the very famous cup of coffee in the

1489
01:23:01,520 --> 01:23:04,599
Speaker 1: lap lawsuit that I think actually paid a woman pretty well,

1490
01:23:04,640 --> 01:23:06,800
Speaker 1: if memory serves, Eddie, Am I remember that correctly, the

1491
01:23:06,840 --> 01:23:09,439
Speaker 1: woman dumped the hot coffee. This was decades ago now probably,

1492
01:23:09,479 --> 01:23:12,240
Speaker 1: but and it's why to this day you read on

1493
01:23:12,280 --> 01:23:16,200
Speaker 1: the side of a coffee cup caution hot. Someone dumped

1494
01:23:16,200 --> 01:23:18,240
Speaker 1: a hot cup of coffee on their lap. She sued

1495
01:23:18,320 --> 01:23:20,479
Speaker 1: McDonald's for not having a little and tight and made

1496
01:23:20,479 --> 01:23:22,519
Speaker 1: a mint, if memory serves, And I don't think that

1497
01:23:22,640 --> 01:23:23,360
Speaker 1: was overturned.

1498
01:23:23,600 --> 01:23:25,280
Speaker 9: Wow to two point eight million?

1499
01:23:26,240 --> 01:23:29,120
Speaker 1: Yeah who? And of course, not too long ago we

1500
01:23:29,160 --> 01:23:32,360
Speaker 1: talked about the story in Philadelphia of the Panera the

1501
01:23:32,439 --> 01:23:36,479
Speaker 1: lady who drank the highly highly charged caffeinated drink from

1502
01:23:36,479 --> 01:23:42,080
Speaker 1: Panera and she had a heart condition and they said, well,

1503
01:23:42,120 --> 01:23:46,520
Speaker 1: you didn't label this highly caffeinated, that her heart would explode,

1504
01:23:46,680 --> 01:23:49,479
Speaker 1: and that she should use caution if she had some

1505
01:23:49,520 --> 01:23:51,600
Speaker 1: sort of medical event and died. And they're claiming the

1506
01:23:51,680 --> 01:23:55,240
Speaker 1: drink at Panera not labeled correctly. I think she won

1507
01:23:55,400 --> 01:23:59,200
Speaker 1: a massive lawsuit of memory serves, millions of dollars so

1508
01:23:59,320 --> 01:24:01,519
Speaker 1: I have no doubt out and back, by the way,

1509
01:24:01,520 --> 01:24:04,440
Speaker 1: if memory serves just Panera, are they not owned by McDonald's,

1510
01:24:05,040 --> 01:24:08,680
Speaker 1: which that I could be wrong about. I might be

1511
01:24:08,680 --> 01:24:11,559
Speaker 1: confusing them with Subway or something. I don't they all

1512
01:24:11,640 --> 01:24:15,600
Speaker 1: merge together and own one another. Yeah, No, Panera is

1513
01:24:15,640 --> 01:24:19,439
Speaker 1: on its own. Okay, but yeah, but yeah, I think

1514
01:24:19,479 --> 01:24:23,120
Speaker 1: that McDonald's is the reason that Chipotle started. I think

1515
01:24:23,120 --> 01:24:24,920
Speaker 1: they were one of the best, right Chipotle, Lester, I

1516
01:24:24,960 --> 01:24:29,320
Speaker 1: think you're right so specifically this Fox Business story McDonald's

1517
01:24:29,360 --> 01:24:32,719
Speaker 1: now it is not PhD weight loss friendly. I'll mind

1518
01:24:32,720 --> 01:24:36,840
Speaker 1: you that said, and I make no apologies for this

1519
01:24:37,080 --> 01:24:40,719
Speaker 1: unpopular opinion. You will never rob me of my joy

1520
01:24:40,720 --> 01:24:42,640
Speaker 1: and delight in this product. I don't care what you

1521
01:24:42,680 --> 01:24:45,519
Speaker 1: think of me. Spare me your emails and your hostile

1522
01:24:46,439 --> 01:24:49,080
Speaker 1: posts on x or social media. I don't want to

1523
01:24:49,120 --> 01:24:50,280
Speaker 1: hear it. I don't want to hear from you. I

1524
01:24:50,280 --> 01:24:54,679
Speaker 1: don't need your condemnation or judgment. I enjoy the McRib,

1525
01:24:55,760 --> 01:24:58,400
Speaker 1: got it. I'm not making apologies for it. You are

1526
01:24:58,439 --> 01:25:03,320
Speaker 1: never going to take it from me. I enjoy the McRib.

1527
01:25:03,920 --> 01:25:08,400
Speaker 1: Now you say to me, but Chris, it's garbage meat.

1528
01:25:08,800 --> 01:25:15,479
Speaker 1: It's not even rib meat. It's some patty pressed into

1529
01:25:15,479 --> 01:25:18,839
Speaker 1: a shape that's made to look like rib bones. That's gross.

1530
01:25:18,920 --> 01:25:22,400
Speaker 1: And I say, I already told you you're not going

1531
01:25:22,439 --> 01:25:25,240
Speaker 1: to steal my joy. I enjoy the McRib and I

1532
01:25:25,240 --> 01:25:27,120
Speaker 1: will continue to eat it. And I don't care what's

1533
01:25:27,160 --> 01:25:28,840
Speaker 1: in it, or what it's made over, what it should

1534
01:25:28,840 --> 01:25:30,960
Speaker 1: look like or doesn't look like. I don't care. I

1535
01:25:31,080 --> 01:25:34,240
Speaker 1: just enjoy it. And when it's McRib season, you can

1536
01:25:34,280 --> 01:25:37,400
Speaker 1: bet you'll find me in the drive through. Now, I

1537
01:25:37,479 --> 01:25:40,560
Speaker 1: was behaving this year, and I didn't have a McRib,

1538
01:25:40,680 --> 01:25:44,040
Speaker 1: not once. And when I tried some sort of cosmic force,

1539
01:25:44,200 --> 01:25:46,360
Speaker 1: I went literally to do with McDonald's over Christmas break

1540
01:25:47,520 --> 01:25:49,000
Speaker 1: and I said I'd like to order a McRib and

1541
01:25:49,000 --> 01:25:51,640
Speaker 1: the lady said, we're not serving those any longer. They

1542
01:25:51,680 --> 01:25:54,839
Speaker 1: still have the sign displayed. But so, for whatever reason anyway,

1543
01:25:54,880 --> 01:25:58,479
Speaker 1: there are now four plaintiffs suing McDonald's in the Northern

1544
01:25:58,479 --> 01:26:01,760
Speaker 1: District Court of Illinois that mcgrib does not contain any

1545
01:26:01,840 --> 01:26:05,640
Speaker 1: actual pork rib meat at all. That is, in fact,

1546
01:26:06,920 --> 01:26:11,200
Speaker 1: not a rib. A pork rib sandwich, to which I say, yes,

1547
01:26:11,280 --> 01:26:15,120
Speaker 1: and black coffee is hot. Oh, that's right. We're looking

1548
01:26:15,160 --> 01:26:18,360
Speaker 1: at the dome there, the orb the what do they

1549
01:26:18,360 --> 01:26:18,600
Speaker 1: call that?

1550
01:26:18,760 --> 01:26:18,840
Speaker 2: Ed?

1551
01:26:18,880 --> 01:26:20,920
Speaker 1: There in Las Vegas on the Salem News Channel. We're

1552
01:26:20,920 --> 01:26:24,559
Speaker 1: watching it. Yeah, the Sphere that's where you're going, isn't

1553
01:26:24,560 --> 01:26:26,559
Speaker 1: it for your big birthday party? You're a big forty

1554
01:26:26,840 --> 01:26:29,080
Speaker 1: fast Eddie turns forty years old to day. We have

1555
01:26:29,160 --> 01:26:31,040
Speaker 1: a birth We share a birthday weeknd and I do

1556
01:26:31,479 --> 01:26:34,360
Speaker 1: mine Monday and then EDGs is on Wednesday. That's how

1557
01:26:34,400 --> 01:26:37,439
Speaker 1: I don't forget the executive producer's birthday because it's always

1558
01:26:37,439 --> 01:26:40,759
Speaker 1: two days after mine. Happy birthday, ed Thank you very much, Chris,

1559
01:26:41,040 --> 01:26:43,559
Speaker 1: truly forty years old and you're going to spend your

1560
01:26:43,560 --> 01:26:47,479
Speaker 1: fortieth year kicking off at the Sphere in Vegas watching

1561
01:26:47,600 --> 01:26:49,479
Speaker 1: you want to tell the people that didn't hear this

1562
01:26:49,600 --> 01:26:51,240
Speaker 1: last year, this shameful admission.

1563
01:26:51,560 --> 01:26:54,080
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, so in nineteen ninety nine, I did not

1564
01:26:54,160 --> 01:26:57,439
Speaker 2: get to go to the Into the Millennium tour.

1565
01:26:57,240 --> 01:26:58,479
Speaker 9: By the Backstreet Boys.

1566
01:26:59,240 --> 01:27:01,720
Speaker 2: So they brought it back five years later and it's

1567
01:27:01,760 --> 01:27:05,080
Speaker 2: now this life changing event for all.

1568
01:27:04,960 --> 01:27:08,160
Speaker 1: To see, and I will be there and just so

1569
01:27:08,240 --> 01:27:14,440
Speaker 1: everyone understands, to my knowledge, he has always been a heterosexual.

1570
01:27:15,320 --> 01:27:17,600
Speaker 1: He's married to a woman, he has a son, with

1571
01:27:17,680 --> 01:27:23,960
Speaker 1: that woman. Nothing about you suggests otherwise, with the exception

1572
01:27:24,120 --> 01:27:27,559
Speaker 1: of you maybe being the only male in the sphere

1573
01:27:27,600 --> 01:27:30,960
Speaker 1: in February watching the Backstreet Boys.

1574
01:27:31,800 --> 01:27:33,840
Speaker 9: That's right, Chris, I am the biggest.

1575
01:27:33,520 --> 01:27:34,800
Speaker 1: With a bunch of middle aged women.

1576
01:27:35,400 --> 01:27:38,680
Speaker 2: Yes, I am the biggest heterosexual Backstreet Boys fan in

1577
01:27:38,720 --> 01:27:39,120
Speaker 2: the world.

1578
01:27:40,560 --> 01:27:43,439
Speaker 1: Now, this is quite a gift, to be fair, we're

1579
01:27:43,439 --> 01:27:45,920
Speaker 1: having a little fun. But to be fair, these tickets

1580
01:27:45,920 --> 01:27:46,479
Speaker 1: ain't cheap.

1581
01:27:47,200 --> 01:27:47,559
Speaker 9: They're not.

1582
01:27:47,680 --> 01:27:50,040
Speaker 2: My family pulled off a big one this time, and

1583
01:27:50,080 --> 01:27:53,439
Speaker 2: it was my aunt, my mom, my sister, and my wife.

1584
01:27:53,439 --> 01:27:57,479
Speaker 9: They they really this was this was a joint effort

1585
01:27:57,760 --> 01:27:58,200
Speaker 9: to do this.

1586
01:27:59,120 --> 01:28:01,759
Speaker 1: When is this? When is the trip February? Right, early February.

1587
01:28:01,840 --> 01:28:03,400
Speaker 9: Yep, the show is February fifth.

1588
01:28:04,040 --> 01:28:07,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, is that a Is it a weekend? A week night?

1589
01:28:07,840 --> 01:28:10,280
Speaker 2: That's a Thursday night and there so they have a

1590
01:28:10,320 --> 01:28:13,160
Speaker 2: residency there during that week and they added the second

1591
01:28:13,240 --> 01:28:15,800
Speaker 2: leg because last year was so successful.

1592
01:28:15,720 --> 01:28:18,479
Speaker 1: So they added this are you going to be this

1593
01:28:18,880 --> 01:28:23,280
Speaker 1: sphere thing? It's if you've not seen the photos of it,

1594
01:28:23,320 --> 01:28:25,320
Speaker 1: I must say, it's an impressive thing. And I the

1595
01:28:25,320 --> 01:28:28,320
Speaker 1: first thing I think to myself, I am just I

1596
01:28:28,360 --> 01:28:32,920
Speaker 1: get overwhelmed at heights. I don't. It freaks me out.

1597
01:28:33,040 --> 01:28:36,680
Speaker 1: And they project the entirety of the building inside is

1598
01:28:36,720 --> 01:28:40,120
Speaker 1: a projection screen, like over your head and completely surround,

1599
01:28:40,160 --> 01:28:41,799
Speaker 1: so they can make it look like you're just floating

1600
01:28:41,800 --> 01:28:44,200
Speaker 1: through space or air or whatever. And if you're sitting

1601
01:28:44,280 --> 01:28:48,040
Speaker 1: up high arena style seating, I'm spending most of the

1602
01:28:48,080 --> 01:28:51,080
Speaker 1: time thinking I'm falling. I mean, that's that's just you know,

1603
01:28:51,160 --> 01:28:53,200
Speaker 1: that's where my mind goes. That doesn't bother you Where

1604
01:28:53,240 --> 01:28:54,320
Speaker 1: you seated in the thing.

1605
01:28:54,520 --> 01:28:57,639
Speaker 2: That I'm not sure of. I don't know how this

1606
01:28:57,680 --> 01:29:00,280
Speaker 2: thing works or where, but we did. I know it

1607
01:29:00,320 --> 01:29:03,680
Speaker 2: was like an official package through the group and the

1608
01:29:03,760 --> 01:29:06,519
Speaker 2: hotel on the Sphere, so like it's it's legit.

1609
01:29:06,600 --> 01:29:08,240
Speaker 9: So I'm hoping somewhere good.

1610
01:29:08,720 --> 01:29:10,800
Speaker 1: Does the Sphere have a hotel as well? I didn't

1611
01:29:10,800 --> 01:29:12,840
Speaker 1: know that. I thought it was his own standalone thing.

1612
01:29:13,000 --> 01:29:14,400
Speaker 9: So it's the Venetian.

1613
01:29:14,560 --> 01:29:16,960
Speaker 2: You walk, it's just about a mile, but there is

1614
01:29:17,000 --> 01:29:19,280
Speaker 2: something that connects the Venetian to the Sphere.

1615
01:29:20,160 --> 01:29:22,840
Speaker 1: Oh I didn't know that. All right, Well, I can't wait.

1616
01:29:22,920 --> 01:29:25,599
Speaker 1: You'll have some photos and maybe you'll tell us what

1617
01:29:25,640 --> 01:29:27,639
Speaker 1: you see when you get back in early February.

1618
01:29:27,680 --> 01:29:29,600
Speaker 9: Absolutely it's going to be exciting.

1619
01:29:29,200 --> 01:29:32,479
Speaker 1: Then, right, thank you well, Happy birthday. I mean, look,

1620
01:29:33,840 --> 01:29:36,639
Speaker 1: I laid bare my love of mickrib I guess each

1621
01:29:36,680 --> 01:29:39,880
Speaker 1: man carries his own secret chame min a sandwich yours.

1622
01:29:40,800 --> 01:29:44,519
Speaker 1: The Backstreet Boys, yes, sir, The Dow Jones and SMP

1623
01:29:44,920 --> 01:29:52,880
Speaker 1: hit new highs yesterday, booming, and this is one of

1624
01:29:52,920 --> 01:29:55,599
Speaker 1: those things that President Trump, I know, continues to feel

1625
01:29:55,600 --> 01:29:59,679
Speaker 1: great frustration over. People love to say, well, that's fine

1626
01:29:59,680 --> 01:30:04,360
Speaker 1: for investors. I mean that's I don't know what percentage

1627
01:30:04,400 --> 01:30:06,479
Speaker 1: of the country has money tied to some kind of

1628
01:30:06,520 --> 01:30:11,120
Speaker 1: investment vehicle. But to slough that off and say, well, yeah,

1629
01:30:11,120 --> 01:30:14,400
Speaker 1: but houses are still too expensive. No, that's a given.

1630
01:30:15,120 --> 01:30:17,639
Speaker 1: Inflation is falling. He's going to replace a fed chair

1631
01:30:17,720 --> 01:30:21,880
Speaker 1: this year. I am extraordinarily excited about what's coming. But again,

1632
01:30:21,960 --> 01:30:23,280
Speaker 1: if you have a four to oh one k, if

1633
01:30:23,280 --> 01:30:27,240
Speaker 1: you're invested in any way, the market is on fire.

1634
01:30:27,439 --> 01:30:34,280
Speaker 1: US auto sales rise two percent last year. Now that's remarkable.

1635
01:30:34,360 --> 01:30:37,320
Speaker 1: Sales of new cars in the United States rose, defying

1636
01:30:37,360 --> 01:30:40,759
Speaker 1: extraordinary disruptions all year in an industry where black swan

1637
01:30:40,840 --> 01:30:45,759
Speaker 1: events have become routine. Automakers sold sixteen point two million

1638
01:30:46,000 --> 01:30:49,920
Speaker 1: vehicles in the US last year. That's up almost three

1639
01:30:49,960 --> 01:30:54,479
Speaker 1: percent from twenty twenty four. Several car companies on Monday

1640
01:30:54,520 --> 01:30:57,040
Speaker 1: reporting strong December sales to close out the year. I

1641
01:30:57,080 --> 01:31:01,599
Speaker 1: happen to have been one of them. I have a friend,

1642
01:31:01,720 --> 01:31:04,000
Speaker 1: a dear friend, who is a car dealer, and he says,

1643
01:31:04,040 --> 01:31:08,320
Speaker 1: I it's if there's economic trouble out there, I don't

1644
01:31:08,320 --> 01:31:10,280
Speaker 1: know it. I'm having one of my best years ever,

1645
01:31:10,320 --> 01:31:13,519
Speaker 1: he said in twenty twenty four. So here again, we

1646
01:31:13,560 --> 01:31:16,080
Speaker 1: saw holidays spending through the roof. We see the market

1647
01:31:16,120 --> 01:31:18,320
Speaker 1: through the roof. We see car sales continuing to go

1648
01:31:18,360 --> 01:31:21,519
Speaker 1: through the roof. So if there's economic tu molden struggle

1649
01:31:21,560 --> 01:31:25,600
Speaker 1: out there, I'm not saying it's not real. I'm not

1650
01:31:25,640 --> 01:31:28,439
Speaker 1: saying what your battling isn't real. I'm just saying I'm

1651
01:31:28,479 --> 01:31:31,360
Speaker 1: not sure that the full picture is being told. And

1652
01:31:31,439 --> 01:31:35,120
Speaker 1: President Trump sees this data and he's like, and we're

1653
01:31:35,160 --> 01:31:39,280
Speaker 1: getting killed on the economy. How is that possible? How

1654
01:31:39,320 --> 01:31:42,400
Speaker 1: am I getting blamed and pushed back for the economy.

1655
01:31:42,520 --> 01:31:47,280
Speaker 1: I mean, there's more to be done, don't misunderstand. But

1656
01:31:47,320 --> 01:31:50,320
Speaker 1: in fact he's delaying tariffs. I have this story today

1657
01:31:50,320 --> 01:31:53,759
Speaker 1: from the Washington Times. Trump delays big tariffs on furniture,

1658
01:31:54,080 --> 01:31:58,800
Speaker 1: kitchen and bathroom cabinets for one year. The administration will

1659
01:31:58,880 --> 01:32:02,040
Speaker 1: keep the twenty five percent tariff Trump imposed on these

1660
01:32:02,160 --> 01:32:04,840
Speaker 1: products in September, but it held off on plans to

1661
01:32:04,840 --> 01:32:08,000
Speaker 1: increase the levees to fifty percent on cabinets and vanities

1662
01:32:08,040 --> 01:32:12,800
Speaker 1: thirty percent on upholstered furniture as of January first. The

1663
01:32:12,920 --> 01:32:15,560
Speaker 1: order says the United States continues to engage in productive

1664
01:32:15,600 --> 01:32:20,120
Speaker 1: negotiations with trade partners to address trade reciprocity and national security.

1665
01:32:20,160 --> 01:32:23,439
Speaker 1: The president thinks the tariffs will rejuvenate US furniture making

1666
01:32:23,840 --> 01:32:26,519
Speaker 1: in places like North Carolina, though he's shown a willingness

1667
01:32:26,520 --> 01:32:31,320
Speaker 1: to adjust his levees based on negotiations with affected countries

1668
01:32:31,479 --> 01:32:36,720
Speaker 1: and industries, so that's a big one. He wants to

1669
01:32:36,720 --> 01:32:40,080
Speaker 1: see more furniture making happen here, hence the tariffs. It's

1670
01:32:40,080 --> 01:32:42,479
Speaker 1: like so many other products. He's trying to onshore work here.

1671
01:32:42,520 --> 01:32:45,400
Speaker 1: But he understands in the short term, people buying chairs

1672
01:32:45,439 --> 01:32:48,840
Speaker 1: at the big box store or whatever. He doesn't want

1673
01:32:48,840 --> 01:32:52,080
Speaker 1: those to go up precipitously, so he's willing to take

1674
01:32:52,080 --> 01:32:57,240
Speaker 1: a pause on that. U Haul reports that Americans continue

1675
01:32:57,240 --> 01:33:01,360
Speaker 1: to flee high tax states From Americans for tax reform,

1676
01:33:01,439 --> 01:33:04,439
Speaker 1: you All released its annual Growth Index today, which shows

1677
01:33:04,439 --> 01:33:08,160
Speaker 1: Americans continue to move away from high tax states in

1678
01:33:08,200 --> 01:33:11,879
Speaker 1: favor of low tax and no income tax states. Three

1679
01:33:11,920 --> 01:33:15,760
Speaker 1: of the top four states attracting movers have no personal

1680
01:33:15,960 --> 01:33:19,360
Speaker 1: income tax. Does that surprise you. My brother and sister

1681
01:33:19,400 --> 01:33:21,960
Speaker 1: in law just announced they're packing up from Illinois and

1682
01:33:22,040 --> 01:33:27,080
Speaker 1: moving to where one of these three states? Fast Eddy, where, Oh, Tennessee,

1683
01:33:27,760 --> 01:33:30,519
Speaker 1: Tennessee is exactly right. They're packing their bags and they're

1684
01:33:30,520 --> 01:33:33,000
Speaker 1: headed to Marshall Blackburn's Tennessee. I told my in laws,

1685
01:33:33,040 --> 01:33:35,160
Speaker 1: I said, I'll be interviewing your governor with regularity. I

1686
01:33:35,200 --> 01:33:37,880
Speaker 1: expect Marsha Blackburn probably going to be the next governor

1687
01:33:37,960 --> 01:33:41,200
Speaker 1: Tennessee unless something unforeseen happens. But that's one of the

1688
01:33:41,240 --> 01:33:45,560
Speaker 1: three states. Texas, Florida, and Tennessee are the three of

1689
01:33:45,600 --> 01:33:48,880
Speaker 1: the top four states attracting movers no personal income tax there.

1690
01:33:48,880 --> 01:33:53,080
Speaker 1: California ranked dead last. It shouldn't surprise US imposes the

1691
01:33:53,160 --> 01:33:56,600
Speaker 1: highest top personal income tax rate in the nation. The

1692
01:33:56,800 --> 01:34:00,960
Speaker 1: ten best ranked states in the index have significantly lower

1693
01:34:01,000 --> 01:34:05,599
Speaker 1: personal income tax rates than the indexas ten worst ranked

1694
01:34:05,920 --> 01:34:08,240
Speaker 1: states the ten best Do you want to know them?

1695
01:34:08,240 --> 01:34:10,439
Speaker 1: You want to go through this list quick. Here are

1696
01:34:10,439 --> 01:34:16,040
Speaker 1: the ten best states for personal taxes Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: South Carolina, Washington State, believe it or not, huh, Arizona, Idaho, Alabama,

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Speaker 1: and Georgia. So Washington is the only blue state that's

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Speaker 1: rated as a top ten best state on taxes. That

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Speaker 1: kind of I'm sure you people that listen in Washington

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Speaker 1: will probably have something to say about that. But the

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Speaker 1: ten worst ranked states again is, according to Americans for

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Speaker 1: Tax Reform. Ten worst, in no particular order, Michigan, Connecticut, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Massachusetts,

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Speaker 1: New York No shocker Gardens state, New Jersey. Just across

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Speaker 1: the state from Pennsylvania border Illinois and California. So my

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Speaker 1: in laws are the classic exam this. They're leaving one

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Speaker 1: of the highest tax states and they're moving to one

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Speaker 1: of the top three lowest tax states. They're voting with

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Speaker 1: their feet, as it said. Speaking of California. A year

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Speaker 1: after the Palisades Fire, Los Angeles is still burning with anger.

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Speaker 1: A year after the Palisades and Eaten fires savaged southern California.

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles still burning with frustration and anger at revelations

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Speaker 1: about the failure to prevent those fires and at the

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Speaker 1: myriad of problems of the fire recovery. One of the

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Speaker 1: biggest scandals I think ever to people in that particular

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Speaker 1: part of the country, that particular part of the state,

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01:35:38,600 --> 01:35:41,920
Speaker 1: is the fact that President Trump is on videotape. I mean,

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Speaker 1: of all the many, many things he just opines about,

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Speaker 1: this was one. There is video of President Trump campaigning

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Speaker 1: in California talking about that place being a tinderbox and

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01:35:52,120 --> 01:35:55,880
Speaker 1: what a disaster their water policy is, way back when,

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Speaker 1: like a presidential candidate visiting California had more foresight that

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Speaker 1: a massive fire was coming than the current governor. By

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Speaker 1: the way, the idea that that guy is going to

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Speaker 1: be the next president's of joke, not a chance. Brown

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Speaker 1: University has retained former federal prosecutor Zachary Cahuna as it

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Speaker 1: bolsters its legal team in the aftermath of last last

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Speaker 1: years shooting I should say that killed two students and

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01:36:24,680 --> 01:36:29,679
Speaker 1: wounded nine others. Brown works routinely with outside counsel whose

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01:36:29,720 --> 01:36:33,799
Speaker 1: expertise complements that of the university's Office of General counsel.

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Speaker 1: The decision to lawyer up comes after Brown faces increased

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Speaker 1: scrutiny over its security policies. In the wake of the shooting.

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Speaker 1: Emergency sirens never sounded after the attack. Campus services took

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Speaker 1: twenty minutes to send out an alert to students. Students

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01:36:48,240 --> 01:36:51,640
Speaker 1: then received a flurry of alerts that repeatedly conveyed incomplete

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01:36:51,680 --> 01:36:55,720
Speaker 1: and inaccurate information, not to mention, no cameras. In one

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Speaker 1: of the most prestigious, well funded universities in the country,

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Speaker 1: Brown is going to be paying a great deal of

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Speaker 1: money to the dead and wounded's family. There no doubt

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Speaker 1: about it. Eight five five s to goll the telephone

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Speaker 1: number quick break more In a minute on The Stagall Show,

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Speaker 1: John Stuart basically to Mark Kelly's face, called him a hypocrite.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate this every now and again. John Stuart, much

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01:37:22,760 --> 01:37:25,800
Speaker 1: like Bill Maher, not afraid to call a spate dis bade.

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01:37:25,840 --> 01:37:28,400
Speaker 1: Here give me number sixty four. Here here's John Stewart

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Speaker 1: calling out Mark Kelly's hypocrisy on this notion that the

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Speaker 1: military may have disobeyed order or should have disobeyed orders,

1748
01:37:35,600 --> 01:37:37,400
Speaker 1: because they may have broken the law on taking out

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Speaker 1: Maduro it's not complicated.

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Speaker 3: If a reasonable person would think that this thing that

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Speaker 3: they are asking me to do is illegal, you have

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Speaker 3: an obligation.

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Speaker 9: It's not an option.

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Speaker 3: You have an obligation not to follow those orders.

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Speaker 1: So are the boat strikes illegal?

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Speaker 3: Well, so I've been asking this question for a long time.

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Speaker 3: I'm on the Arm Services and the Intelligence Committee. They

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Speaker 3: have some complicated legal rationale forty pages of why these

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Speaker 3: are legal.

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Speaker 1: It's questionable at best.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, that's my At first it was fetanyl,

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Speaker 3: then it was cocaine, then it was about regime change,

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01:38:15,160 --> 01:38:18,840
Speaker 3: then it was about oil. So but what I'm do

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Speaker 3: You see my point?

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Speaker 1: Your point? I don't.

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Speaker 3: But at that point, our point is to members of

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Speaker 3: the military who don't get reminded of this offense. When

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Speaker 3: something is clearly unlawful, you have an obligation not to

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Speaker 3: follow those orders. It's a pretty simple thing. And we've

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Speaker 3: seen in our history multiple times when even under those circumstances,

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Speaker 3: members of the military have done stuff that was clearly

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Speaker 3: over the line.

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Speaker 9: We did not want that to happen.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Stuart said, are the boat strikes illegal? Under Obama?

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Speaker 1: They did extra judicial killings through drone strikes. John Stewart

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Speaker 1: makes the point, and it's a valid point because, look,

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Speaker 1: it's the Donroe doctrine. It's what I write about today

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Speaker 1: at the Rum Society. Leadership is tough. Tough decisions have

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01:39:15,320 --> 01:39:17,000
Speaker 1: to be made. And I know that there are people

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01:39:17,000 --> 01:39:19,519
Speaker 1: that would have you convinced and are telling you that

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Speaker 1: taking out Maduro in Venezuela doesn't serve our interests, or

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01:39:25,400 --> 01:39:28,280
Speaker 1: they think it's a joke that Greenland is very much

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01:39:28,439 --> 01:39:32,679
Speaker 1: of strategic interest because those that wish US harm, those

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01:39:32,720 --> 01:39:36,640
Speaker 1: that want to grow globally and become a dominant superpower

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01:39:36,720 --> 01:39:40,719
Speaker 1: like China, they're doing it. They were doing business with China,

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01:39:40,760 --> 01:39:43,880
Speaker 1: They're doing business in Africa, they're doing business in Greenland.

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump sees it. It's the Donroe doctrine. It's not

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Speaker 1: about grandeur, it's not about puffery. It's about stability. As

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Speaker 1: I said earlier, American leadership is not about vanity through

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01:39:59,280 --> 01:40:04,599
Speaker 1: strength or orl vanity. Even it's obligation to lead, lead

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01:40:04,640 --> 01:40:07,920
Speaker 1: economically and lead militarily, and to do so before our

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01:40:08,040 --> 01:40:12,160
Speaker 1: rivals do it for us. Denying responsibility does not make

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01:40:12,320 --> 01:40:17,000
Speaker 1: that responsibility vanish. You can't seed the field to Russia.

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Speaker 1: Or China, or whoever acts first. I am so thrilled

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Speaker 1: we have a president who's willing to act first on

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Speaker 1: our behalf. That's maga, see you tomorrow. So that's a

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Speaker 1: wrap for another Christagall Show podcast. Thanks for committing to

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01:40:29,439 --> 01:40:32,360
Speaker 1: it listening to it all the way through. You're a fighter.

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Speaker 1: I like that about you. Hope you'll leave it a

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Speaker 1: five star review and a written review. Apple Podcasts, Spotify.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you next time here on The Christagall Show Podcast.

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