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Speaker 1: Right stateside, Richard Arlold morning.

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Speaker 2: To you, Good morning, Mike.

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Speaker 1: They are flowing thick and fast. These appointments are they?

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Speaker 2: They Siddly are now and the President elect knows how

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Speaker 2: to get the headlines, no doubt about that either. Trump

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Speaker 2: is rolling out these names in rapid fire for the

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Speaker 2: cabinet picks with an oil industry executive, Climate de Nia,

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Speaker 2: Chris Right as Energy Secretary and R k Junior for

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Speaker 2: Health and Human Services the other day. Still it is

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Speaker 2: the choice of Matt Gates' for Attorney in General, the

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Speaker 2: chief justice officer of the country that still is drawing

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Speaker 2: the most flat. Gates, of course, quit the Congress last week,

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Speaker 2: just two days before there was to be a vote

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Speaker 2: on whether an Ethics Committee investigation should be released into

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Speaker 2: those accusations that Gates had sex with a seventeen year

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Speaker 2: old high school girl who attended one of these supposed

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Speaker 2: sex and drug parties at Gates is said to have

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Speaker 2: taken part in. Speaker Mike Johnson says he wasn't sure

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Speaker 2: if that report should be given over to senators who

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Speaker 2: are called on to have confirmation hearings for the Attorney

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Speaker 2: general's role. Then the Speaker went off for dinner at

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Speaker 2: Trump's Mara Lago resorting. He came back surprise with exactly

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Speaker 2: the opposite point of view.

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Speaker 1: Wh stick to the tradition and not release a report

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Speaker 1: on a foreign member of the House because it would

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Speaker 1: open a dangerous pendor's block.

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Speaker 2: Keep it all secret, says to speaker, at least a

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Speaker 2: current speaker who got the job. Of course, after a

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Speaker 2: foot the speaker was ousted in a campaign led by

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Speaker 2: the aforementioned Matt Gates. Kevin McCarthy says.

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Speaker 3: Give you the truth why I'm not speaker.

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Speaker 4: It's because one person, a member of Congress, wanted me

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Speaker 4: to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a

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Speaker 4: seventeen year old.

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Speaker 2: Well, some of the details are starting to come out.

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Speaker 2: Despite all of the political maneuvering Congressman Tony Gonzalez, Senator

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Speaker 2: Mark Wwaye Mullen, and Fox News commentator Dagan McDowell on Gates,

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Speaker 2: all of them Republicans say, in part.

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Speaker 3: This, I served with some real scumbacks.

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Speaker 4: Look, Matt Gates, he paid miners to have sex with

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Speaker 4: them at drug parties.

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Speaker 3: We had all seen the videos he was showing on

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Speaker 3: the House floor that all of us had walked away

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Speaker 3: of the girls that he had slept with. He'd brag

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Speaker 3: about how he would crush ed madicine and chase it

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Speaker 3: with with an energy drink so he could go all night.

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Speaker 4: I would compare him to that toddler that we've all

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Speaker 4: seen at the family barbecue in toilet paper. What shoving

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Speaker 4: shoving cheerios up his nose.

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Speaker 2: Well, there's a raged opinion for you from Mary's esteem

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Speaker 2: for Maccolda's been time. ABC News here is reporting that

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Speaker 2: the seventeen year old is telling her story to some

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Speaker 2: others outside the political world. She's known in a twenty

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Speaker 2: cent for multiple days, multiple days of testibity before the

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Speaker 2: ethics panel. So I would guess there's a lot. Well,

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Speaker 2: it's going to emerge now since last week R. F.

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Speaker 2: Kennedy Junior has been chosen for Health Secretary. He is,

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Speaker 2: of course a prominent anti vaxer Trump aide Howard Lutnik,

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Speaker 2: whom Elon Musk now is pushing to have the Treasury roll.

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Speaker 2: Was us on CNN the other day if there was

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Speaker 2: any chance, any chance of Kennedy being chosen as Health secretary?

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Speaker 2: Of course, dot he said, laughing when apparently he meant,

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Speaker 2: you know, of course, RFK has a colorful history, including

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Speaker 2: dumping the bear carcass in Central Park and Zone. Kennedy

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Speaker 2: believes childwood vaccines can cause autism. He's pledged to remove

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Speaker 2: fluoride from drinking water. Well Pete hegsins, the Trump peak

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Speaker 2: for Defense secretary has been found to have paid a

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Speaker 2: settlement to a woman who accused him of sexual assault.

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Speaker 2: Senator Marke Wayne Mullen says he is, for the moment

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Speaker 2: a supporter of the Fox News former morning show. On

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Speaker 2: the weekend's co host, he says of the situation that

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Speaker 2: he's facing now.

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Speaker 3: But as of right now, I start with yes, But

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Speaker 3: can I be moved off of that? I'm sure.

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Speaker 2: So here's a solid endorsement for you.

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Speaker 1: And then we come to a man who, as far

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Speaker 1: as we know, doesn't have a new job, but he's

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Speaker 1: got a pile of trouble. This is Al Rudy.

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Speaker 2: Big pile of trouble, once known as America's Mayor, New

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Speaker 2: York Mayor Rudy New York Mayor Rudy Giuliaiani has hit bottom.

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Speaker 2: He's just been required to hand over to two volunteer

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Speaker 2: election workers from twenty twenty, Ruby Freeman and San Moss

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Speaker 2: some of his personal property on a court order that

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Speaker 2: includes his shares in his Upper East Side apartment in

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Speaker 2: New York City, a blue merced Is convertible once owned

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Speaker 2: by Lauren McCall that he'd been driving, and some luxury watches,

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Speaker 2: including one owned by his grandfather. The court ordered him

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Speaker 2: to pay in all one hundred and fifty million dollars US.

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Speaker 2: So let me see that means he still owes about

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Speaker 2: one hundred and forty eight million.

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Speaker 1: See Wednesday Richard Arnold state. So, by the way, as

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Speaker 1: I alluded to Ryan earlier on well Worth, having get

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Speaker 1: access to the Sydney Morning Herald Trump won headlined Trump won,

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Speaker 1: the celebration started, then the trouble began. It's very good,

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Speaker 1: but it's got eighteen people who don't want to be

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Speaker 1: named for obvious reasons. But they're inside maryl Argo at

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Speaker 1: the moment. As I mentioned last week, they're sick of Elon.

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Speaker 1: This is within the Trump camp. They're sick and tired

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Speaker 1: of Elon, who's crazy, crazier than the rest of them.

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Speaker 1: But the eighteen people speaking on anonymity or under anonymity,

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Speaker 1: their main concerns gates. Their claim is that the campaign

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Speaker 1: itself was well run. It was slicker than last time,

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Speaker 1: noticeably slicker than last time, run by better people. But

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Speaker 1: the moment they won, Trump went nuts and he starts

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Speaker 1: firing off names left, right and center, one of which

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Speaker 1: is Gates. And the problem is that one of the

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Speaker 1: people quoted here says they cannot name more than twenty

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Speaker 1: Senators who would even think of voting for Gates, so

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Speaker 1: that nomination's dead in the water because they argue that

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Speaker 1: some senators still take their job seriously. But it's a

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Speaker 1: good piece, well worth looking up. If you from got time.

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