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Speaker 1: Lie from Baal Heartland and the crossroads of America.

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Speaker 2: It's Tony Katz today.

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Speaker 3: So we've got the continued reaction from the State of

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Speaker 3: the Union, and the reaction is very clear. Democrats don't

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Speaker 3: know how to react, they don't know how to deal

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Speaker 3: with the situation in the room. I think there's a

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Speaker 3: State of the Union, and Democrats, I think have realized

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Speaker 3: that they've got a problem from this. Tony Katz, Tony

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Speaker 3: Katz today, Good to be here, Good to be with you.

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Speaker 3: Ed Marcy joins me right now from hotair dot com

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Speaker 3: where he is the coappo to Touty Coppo. I want

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Speaker 3: to get into the State of the Union, but can

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Speaker 3: I get to something you wrote first. You are over

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Speaker 3: there at hot air dot com and you write a

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Speaker 3: piece about rats on sunken drugs show, which is one

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Speaker 3: of the great headlines of all time, regime Coppos turning

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Speaker 3: former on Nicholas Maduro.

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Speaker 2: Also from the State of the Union.

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Speaker 3: We've got people not happy that Nicholas Maduro was captured.

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Speaker 3: You've got people still thinking that somehow this was ill timed,

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Speaker 3: ill mannered, or illegal. But what is it that we're

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Speaker 3: hearing regarding people who are part of the regime turning

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, it's interesting because these are people who

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Speaker 1: are this case has been developed over several years against

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Speaker 1: Nicholas Maduro, that's been going on for a long time,

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Speaker 1: and we already have a couple of the you know,

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Speaker 2: They went out.

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Speaker 1: They want to cut a deal. Now that they have Maduro,

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Speaker 1: now that we have a duro, they have information that

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Speaker 1: they can trade, and so that's what they're trying to do.

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Speaker 1: This is exactly how the FBI and the Department of

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Speaker 1: Justice build cases in organized crime cases, and that's what

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Speaker 1: directly said this. You know, no buffers, you know, like

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Speaker 1: You won't have that with these people because they dealt

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Speaker 1: directly with Maduro. Now, the question is, as it always

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Speaker 1: do they really have the goods? And just like any

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Speaker 1: other case, this is a criminal case. It's going to

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Speaker 1: be tried in federal court. You have to have evidence

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Speaker 1: that corroborates testimony from co conspirators. In these types of cases,

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Speaker 1: some corroboration of that evidentiary corroboration. My guess is that

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Speaker 1: the FBI probably has all it needs to uh ex meme.

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Speaker 1: The Department of Justice has all it needs to prosecute Maduro.

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Speaker 1: But all this helps, and it certainly puts pressure on

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Speaker 3: Does it put pressure on Delsa Rodriguez, the current vice

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Speaker 3: on others in the regime, because we still haven't gotten

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Speaker 2: But does it put pressure that way?

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Speaker 3: Does it get Is there a thought that's going to

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Speaker 3: we can't work with you, Rodriguez, We can't work with

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Speaker 2: Look at what you did, which they've done a lot

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Speaker 1: I think that what it does is it might make

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Speaker 1: I think it puts pressure that way, and I think

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Speaker 1: I mean, it just makes sense to try that first.

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Speaker 1: We've made the point by grabbing Maduro. Everybody now there

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Speaker 1: Also in light of Cuba withdrawing its security force, ultimately

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Speaker 3: On what happened with this boat out of Florida and

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Speaker 3: By golly you right, Trump moved the needle last night.

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Speaker 3: And I make the same point that Trump did move

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Speaker 1: So first off, you have to understand the context of

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Speaker 3: Let's let's make it a little more I'll use the

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Speaker 1: Yes, again, this is a bit. It was a vision statement.

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Speaker 2: I was in the room. I was on the backside.

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Speaker 3: I'm behind Trump for the day of the Union, which,

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Speaker 3: We're Spamberger and Democrat, the Democrat counterprogramming.

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Speaker 3: Stay right there? Ed Morrissey from hot air dot Com.

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Speaker 2: Today.

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Speaker 3: A lot of people are going to be talking about

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Speaker 3: Part of this is within Vidio, right, those chips are

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Speaker 2: An opportunity for America. I'm Tony Katz. This is Tony

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Speaker 3: The Democrats decided to counter program the State of the Union.

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Speaker 3: Tony Katz, Tony Kats Today. Good to be here, Good

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Speaker 2: Ed Morrissey returns from hot air dot Com.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know we were going to get into this, Ed,

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Speaker 3: There right next to the word swamp, he's there. Swamp

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Speaker 3: is clear, And here is Robert de Niro looking like

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Speaker 3: someone forgot his pudding cup at the old folks home.

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Speaker 3: This is an horrifying image from a guy who's supposed

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Speaker 3: to be the greatest actor of our generation. He looks

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Speaker 3: like the guy who was an extra on the ad

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Speaker 3: for something about shingles.

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Speaker 1: Well, first, off. We know that the strategy doesn't work

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Speaker 1: because they this is it's same strategy they ran in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four and they lost. They were arguing that

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Speaker 1: Trump was uniquely disqualified for office and that if you

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Speaker 1: loved your country, you couldn't possibly vote for Trump, and

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Speaker 1: Trump ended up winning the popular vote, not just the

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Speaker 1: electoral college, but also the popular vote. It didn't work.

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Speaker 1: Voters didn't want to be told that Donald Trump was disqualified.

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Speaker 1: They felt that Kamala Harris was I guess disqualified in

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Speaker 1: the way just they didn't vote for her, and they

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Speaker 1: haven't learned a lesson. The whole thing yes yesterday or

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Speaker 1: two days ago with the State of the Union responses

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Speaker 1: was a botch strategy from the beginning. The reason why

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Speaker 1: you had, prior to the last couple of times you

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Speaker 1: had one official response is because that's really the only

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Speaker 1: way that you can even possibly compete with the imperial trappings,

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Speaker 1: which I hate, by the way, of the State of

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Speaker 1: the Union address, I've always hated that. It's the optics

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Speaker 1: of it are just simply inconquerable, and it's meant to

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Speaker 1: be inconquerable. So any State of the Union official response

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Speaker 1: is already off with a pretty big disadvantage. But when

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Speaker 1: you start having all of these different competing responses and

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Speaker 1: counter programming and stuff like that, it makes everybody look

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Speaker 1: like an ankle biter. But any including span Burger's response,

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Speaker 1: We'll get to span Burger's in response in a second.

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Speaker 1: I don't disagree that it is very hard to compete

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Speaker 1: with the state of the union and the pomp and

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Speaker 1: the circumstance and everything else.

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Speaker 2: This is the Democrats.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it helps to try. I mean, really, it helps

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Speaker 1: to at least try.

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Speaker 2: Look at this people dressed up as.

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Speaker 1: Frogs representative for Organ's third congressional district.

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Speaker 3: They're standing behind the sign that it doesn't say America,

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Speaker 3: it says Defiance dot Org. And she's holding this woman

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Speaker 3: is holding an American flag next to these these inflatable

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Speaker 3: people in inflatable frog costumes. And the Democrats said, make

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Speaker 3: it happen. That's the part that one cannot square the

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Speaker 3: circle on that.

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Speaker 1: We would have laughed at that if it had happened

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Speaker 1: at a seapack. I mean, do you remember the seapack

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Speaker 1: where where they had they had the dolphin chasing around

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Speaker 1: Romney's guys. It was the two thousand and seven seatpack

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Speaker 1: thought that that was pretty it was funny, but it

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Speaker 1: was lame, right and and h I free that it

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Speaker 1: was Ron Paul's group. I think that did that because

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Speaker 1: Romney had flipped on something and so they were trying

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Speaker 1: to call him flippy. We were there, I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: that's where that belongs. Right, This is not supposed to

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Speaker 1: be you know, it's not supposed to be a costume

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Speaker 1: show when you're competing against the State of the Union address.

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Speaker 1: These people are not serious people. These people are idiots,

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Speaker 1: they're fools, and they're demonstrating this and all of this

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Speaker 1: goes to undercut whatever official response you're actually going to provide.

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Speaker 3: By the way, you can find this story, Brad Schlager

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Speaker 3: has written over at hot Air's sister site, red state

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Speaker 3: or RedState dot com is where you can find that.

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Speaker 3: I go back to the the the consultants for the

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Speaker 3: political left. Now we disagree in some of them are

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Speaker 3: virulence people, but a bunch of them are not dumb

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Speaker 3: people to disagreement in politics. They're trying to figure out

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Speaker 3: how to manage this progressive communist wing that they have

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Speaker 3: grown and they built. And we should be clear, we

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Speaker 3: have had drinks with these people. There has been hangouts

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Speaker 3: with these people. There is there's a real difference in policy,

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Speaker 3: but they know when things are are over the edge

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Speaker 3: and nutty.

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Speaker 2: And that's my point.

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Speaker 3: How possibly could this have been allowed to have happened?

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Speaker 3: Don't they know that this is not what professionals do

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Speaker 3: giraffes and inflatable frogs. So I look at this, and

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Speaker 3: I watch this, and you can like, we could shrug

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Speaker 3: our shoulders and be like, well they tried. My point

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Speaker 3: to you is that this isn't trying, This isn't close.

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Speaker 3: This is a belief that we are past the lowest

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Speaker 3: common denominator on our way down.

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Speaker 2: That's what this tells me. Fault and that frightens the

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Speaker 2: crap out of me.

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Speaker 1: It's a cult. It has become a cult. It is

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Speaker 1: a belief system. And there are different aspects of this cult.

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Speaker 1: And look, there's culta elements all through politics. It always

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Speaker 1: has been. There was a huge cult around personality, cult

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Speaker 1: around Barack Obama, where you know, you had people making

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Speaker 1: kids sing hosannas to Barack Obama while he was still

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Speaker 1: running the first time for president, people naming schools after him.

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Speaker 1: There's there's some cultish elements around Donald Trump too, But

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Speaker 1: this is an entire party that sort of bought into

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Speaker 1: the anti Donald Trump cult. It's sort of like an

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Speaker 1: anti cult, and they're sort of locked into this here

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Speaker 1: to where they can't see outside of it. One of

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Speaker 1: the very few people who can is John Fetterman, and

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Speaker 1: he was on Fox News yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Morning basically saying the same thing that Donald Trump said.

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Speaker 1: How can you not stand for the mother of Arena Zarotzka,

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Speaker 1: How can you not stand for the for the men

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Speaker 1: and women who are being honored during Donald Trump's speech,

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Speaker 1: You know, you don't have to applaud for everything if

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Speaker 1: you disagree, don't you know, don't applaud, don't stay up,

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Speaker 1: but certain things you stand up for. And he was nonplused.

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Speaker 3: I guess, did you see his pelling numbers?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I haven't seen his poety.

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Speaker 3: Polling numbers are so underwater that there is no way at.

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Speaker 2: This moment for him to win a primary.

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Speaker 3: And you know that Democrats are going to throw every

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Speaker 3: dollar at him against him that they possibly can. He

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Speaker 3: can't win a primary, and he's popular with the Republicans

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Speaker 3: who won't vote.

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Speaker 2: For him in a general. So he is in that

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Speaker 2: he is.

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Speaker 3: In a a a a right now, a political no

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Speaker 3: man's land, because he had the audacity to shake Trump's hand,

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Speaker 3: and he is the audacity to say, hey, can we

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Speaker 3: not be crazy even if we disagree on policy.

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Speaker 1: I suspect, though, that Pennsylvanians might be inclined to send

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Speaker 1: John Fetterman back, he might eventually be inclined across the

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Speaker 1: aisle too.

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Speaker 2: No, he's not. That's not it's not.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I don't think so. But you know,

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Speaker 1: people do really things, and it would it would not

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Speaker 1: be the first time a Pennsylvania senator has done that

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Speaker 1: in order to in order to stay Okay.

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Speaker 2: Bob Casey, I've got a one.

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Speaker 3: I got a well, Arlen Spector, I'm thinking O good Lord,

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Speaker 3: Arlen Spector. I went, Bob Casey, I gotta I gotta five.

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Speaker 3: I got some real stuff. I mean, what are we

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Speaker 3: betting here? He's not dollar gentleman's one dollar. He's not

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Speaker 3: doing about it. He's not feel right.

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Speaker 2: I think you're right. I think you're right.

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Speaker 1: People do funny things though sometimes when when when they

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Speaker 1: need to survive politically. I do think you're right. I

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Speaker 1: think he's too committed to the policies of what you

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Speaker 1: would call the old Democrat Party, which is clearly where

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Speaker 1: he identifies, the working class policies and that sort of thing.

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Speaker 1: But I think if Democrats shive him in the back,

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Speaker 1: he may not feel a loyalty to them in the future.

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Speaker 2: You you think he can mount an independent run.

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Speaker 1: And guess that might be get we might I'm a

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Speaker 1: been more likely. Yeah, you know, I wonder how if

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Speaker 1: he ran as an independent. I wonder how hard Republicans

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Speaker 1: would run against him too. They may not be inclined

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Speaker 1: to stick a whole lot of resources in a race

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Speaker 1: where he's running independently. And I'm thinking of Lieberman in

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Speaker 1: Connecticut who had to run independently when Ned Lamont beat

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Speaker 1: him in the primary and ended up ended up winning

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Speaker 1: the general election as a result.

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Speaker 3: Well, I will tell you that I would make the

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Speaker 3: assumption that he does not switch parties. I would want

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Speaker 3: the Republicans to run somebody, because I believe you have

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Speaker 3: to run sure, of course, all the time.

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Speaker 2: You have to run hard.

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Speaker 3: But it's really interesting to think because Western Pennsylvania Democrats

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Speaker 3: and Western Pennsylvania very different than Center State and very

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Speaker 3: different than Philadelphia in their philosophy, you could really really

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Speaker 3: hurt the Democratic Party going into twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: Eight when he is up.

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Speaker 3: And also it plays into a national presidential where Pennsylvania

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Speaker 3: is up for grabs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Look, I mean, we can do the politics of this

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Speaker 1: all day long. He doesn't have to worry about it

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Speaker 1: for another year or so. But yeah, I think that

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Speaker 1: he's very clearly being isolated in his own party now.

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Speaker 1: And I think not just on this, but also on Israel,

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Speaker 1: also on.

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Speaker 2: Oh, Israel starts at all. Israel absolutely kicks this whole thing.

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Speaker 1: That's where it started. It started with Israel, but it's progressed.

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Speaker 1: This is a guy who really wants to be an

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Speaker 1: old school senator. And this is not the old school

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Speaker 1: Senate any longer. It hasn't been for a while, unfortunately, But.

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Speaker 2: This is what he wants.

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Speaker 1: He wants to be an old school senator and he

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Speaker 1: wants to do it honorably. And I think he's running

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Speaker 1: out of runway on that. Frankly, unfortunately, I think he's

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Speaker 1: running out of runway on that, and I feel bad

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Speaker 1: for him about that. I actually have a lot of

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Speaker 1: respect for this guy, much more respect than I did

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Speaker 1: when he first started running together. I thought he was

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Speaker 1: just an out, outright, you know, crazy eyed progressive, and

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Speaker 1: it turns out that this guy has got He's a

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Speaker 1: mench I think is the best way to put He

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Speaker 1: just turns to.

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Speaker 3: Be aware A jet of code with him. Ed Morrissey,

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Speaker 3: hotair dot Com. I appreciate you taking the time to

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Speaker 3: be with us. More is coming up, I'm Tony Katz.

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Speaker 3: Finally an arrest you mean with Epstein. No, no, not

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Speaker 3: with Epstein. I'll take that as well. But I'm happy

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Speaker 3: to see that Larry Summers, you know, has to lose

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Speaker 3: his job, although he gets to wait until the end

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Speaker 3: of the school year. Tony Katz, Tony Katz today, good

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Speaker 3: to be with you, the Harvard professor, Larry Summers, former

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Speaker 3: Treasury secretary, all connected with Epstein and what he gets

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Speaker 3: to work out the rest of the school year. He

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Speaker 3: doesn't have to be thrown out immediately. Okay, fantastic, wonderful, terrific. No,

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Speaker 3: this is an arrest from the people throwing snowballs at cops.

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Speaker 2: In New York.

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Speaker 3: Remember there was a big snowball fight and the police

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Speaker 3: showed up and be like, hey, what's going on.

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Speaker 2: I don't mind snowball fights.

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Speaker 3: But then they started throwing snowballs at cops, as if

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Speaker 3: cops are just supposed to take that crap. Because it

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Speaker 3: wasn't just some kind of fun loving thing. It was

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Speaker 3: a full on attack on cops and it was gross.

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Speaker 3: And Mo'm Donnie's like, I just I just saw a

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Speaker 3: snowball fight. I don't know the problem, Mom, Donnie is

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Speaker 3: a gross commie. A twenty seven year old arrested on

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Speaker 3: Thursday in connection to the snowball attack on the police.

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Speaker 3: Now there's a question as to what charges he faces.

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Speaker 3: This is a guy who was arrested for attempted robbery

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Speaker 3: in a subway less than three weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, he seems nice.

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Speaker 3: The police Commissioner Jessica Tish described it as criminal disgrace,

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Speaker 3: while meaning the whole incident good. This is important stuff

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Speaker 3: because it's about if I can throw snowballs at them,

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Speaker 3: what else can I do? And the cop is just

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Speaker 3: supposed to take it. You see them walking down the

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Speaker 3: street and people are just throwing snowballs at them. It's

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Speaker 3: a humiliation ritual, it's an obscenity. And Mom, Donnie has

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Speaker 3: nothing to say about it because he hates the cops.

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Speaker 3: He hates law enforcement. He's a bad guy, and the

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Speaker 3: million people who voted for him, they're bad people. So

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Speaker 3: five million New Yorkers have to come out for elections

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Speaker 3: and make sure these.

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Speaker 2: People never win.

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Speaker 3: And as long as they stay home, they deserve every

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Speaker 3: damn thing they get. The people who voted for Mom

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Speaker 3: Donnie should have the snowballs thrown at them.

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Speaker 2: And who knows what was in those snowballs.

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Speaker 3: I mean, this could might as well be like the

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Speaker 3: Philadelphia Eagles fans throwing snowballs. It's Sanna a bunch of savages.

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you what. I'm glad people are going to jail.

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Speaker 3: I think it's excellent. Well, they've been arrested. I hope

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Speaker 3: they go to jail, and I hope New York learns

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Speaker 3: this lesson. Don't vote for commies. It's a really easy

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Speaker 3: lesson to learn.

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