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Speaker 1: And I think there's a new voice going to come

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Speaker 3: For years or very Americans have seen powerful insiders dodge

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Speaker 3: You've got the predatory class versus the normies. Which one

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Speaker 3: ordinary American, And whether you lean right or left, it's

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Speaker 3: understandable that people feel skeptical when the Epstein files expose

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Speaker 3: connections between the wealthy and the very influential, yet few

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Speaker 3: and this is a Reuter's IPS poll, and it shows

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Speaker 5: People are angry, and rightly so, because there have been

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Speaker 5: this was, and I've said this since Donald Trump won

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Speaker 5: Look Trump's caught up in this Epstein stuff, and whether

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Speaker 5: its own account for sure, but it is part of

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Speaker 5: This isn't a Democrat versus Republican issue. It's not a

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Speaker 3: According to the poll, seventeen percent say that the statement

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Speaker 3: half of Americans say the files lowered their trust in

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Speaker 2: Well and actuality.

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Speaker 5: That is actually an interesting statement because the trust was

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Speaker 5: So for us to lower the trust below the toilet,

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Speaker 3: According to this poll, many people seem the Justice Department

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Speaker 3: this morning the arrest of Andrew Moultbatten Windsor, formerly known

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Speaker 5: You've got one thing of all the gross, nasty stuff

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Speaker 3: He's already been stripped of his royal titles and his roles.

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Speaker 4: I also think a lot of people on the right

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Speaker 3: So the Chicago Bears and Indiana lawmakers, they revealed a

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Speaker 5: Yeah, if you are familiar when you drive on eighty

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Speaker 2: But if the Bears end up moving here, you know,

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Speaker 5: This is coming so quick update on this. So there

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Speaker 2: This morning, we were.

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Speaker 3: So the Bears have indicated they would invest two billion

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Speaker 6: The House, excellent conversations with the Chicago Bears, and we're

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Speaker 6: Seeing a new standard for event experience, event day Experiences,

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Speaker 3: Okay, he says, new tax revenue. Something you have to

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Speaker 2: But the funding will come from a.

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Speaker 5: And then they do you know, you can turn those off.

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Speaker 5: ultimately it is our responsibility. It's not easy to get

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Speaker 5: to me, this is all about personal responsibility, because today's

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Speaker 2: Are going to be about.

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Speaker 5: They're going to be about controlling your speech and controlling

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Speaker 5: This is not the area that we want to go down.

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Speaker 3: So lawyers were showing some internal metadocuments that suggest that

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Speaker 5: Look, this is a product design issue, and again slippery

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Speaker 5: So you're going to tell me next we're going to

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Speaker 3: So conservatives have long said that it's families, not big tech,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and look, there's a bill that's been sitting in

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Speaker 2: In this case, it's not easy to do this.

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Speaker 3: Polling shows that a majority of American voters, though, do

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Speaker 3: getting sticky, and hit everyday Americans at the pomp and

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Speaker 3: we were told that Iran's nuclear capabilities were destroyed last summer,

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Speaker 3: and really makes me question if people are pushing Trump

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Speaker 3: towards war with Iran despite his better instincts. I mean,

445
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Speaker 3: this is the guy who's creating the Board of Peace Right.

446
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Speaker 3: He brags constantly about the wars that he has ended.

447
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Speaker 3: So what's going on here? Who's behind this? Is that

448
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Speaker 3: the warhawks? Is that the Trump administration? Is this a

449
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Speaker 3: chemistry issue because of the light crude oil that i

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Speaker 3: Ran has? Is this about freedom? Is it about the

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Speaker 3: Iranian people? Is it about instability in the Middle East?

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Speaker 5: I'm sure all of those things are about it. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: all of those are contributing factors. In fact, Donald Trump

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Speaker 5: in the last few minutes just came out and spoke

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Speaker 5: about this. He issued a new ten day ultimatum to

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Speaker 5: Iran on a peace deal or else hill unleash bombing.

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Speaker 5: So this is kind of a pretty important part of

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Speaker 5: this because there's been a lot of discussion in the

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Speaker 5: last twenty four to forty eight hours that this build

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Speaker 5: up in the Middle East is pretty much complete. We've

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Speaker 5: got two carrier battlegroups that are in the Middle East

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Speaker 5: right now. There's been a lot of tanker planes. There's

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Speaker 5: been reports of B two stealth bombers that have been

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Speaker 5: sent to the region, and people were talking about, oh,

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Speaker 5: we should look at an attack on Iran here, you know,

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Speaker 5: in the next day, maybe by the end of the weekend.

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Speaker 5: And now Trump is kind of pumping the brakes on

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Speaker 5: that a little bit. And just literally minutes ago issued

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Speaker 5: a new ten day ultimatum to a Ran. So that

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Speaker 5: would that ultimatum would then expire on March first.

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Speaker 3: So it does seem like the US is going to

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Speaker 3: maintain some maximum pressure both economically and militarily until Tyran

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Speaker 3: either collapses or compromises strategically and they got to give

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Speaker 3: in something.

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Speaker 5: This is the big question here, is this just negotiating

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Speaker 5: with Donald Trump or is he ready to pull the

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Speaker 5: trigger and actually attack Iran. So, I mean, look back

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Speaker 5: to previous things we talked about. We were talking about Greenland

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Speaker 5: a month ago, and you know, Donald Trump was talking

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Speaker 5: about how he would not take military action off the table,

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Speaker 5: and then ultimately they you know, settled on an agreement

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Speaker 5: that worked for Donald Trump. And going back to Maduro

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Speaker 5: and Venezuela and We had the military build up there

484
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Speaker 5: and people thought, oh, this is just Donald Trump, he's

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Speaker 5: just negotiating.

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Speaker 2: Nope, that one turned out to be true. We went

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Speaker 2: in and took Maduro.

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Speaker 5: So there's a lot of questions as to what Donald

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Speaker 5: Trump is going to do in this specific situation.

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Speaker 2: I know that makes a lot of world leaders nervous.

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Speaker 3: Well, it also makes the global energy markets very unstable

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Speaker 3: as well. You've got the Straight of Remouves, which is

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Speaker 3: a key choke point. Twenty percent of the world's oil

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Speaker 3: traffic goes flows through there, so any disruption there is

495
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Speaker 3: going to obviously affect global supply.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, this is the single largest US buildup of American

497
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Speaker 5: might in the Persian Gulf region since the Second Iraq

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Speaker 5: War in two thousand and three.

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Speaker 2: So all signs seem to be pointing there.

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Speaker 5: And look, I hope that we end up with the negotiation.

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Speaker 5: I don't want the United States to bomber ran That's

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Speaker 5: not what I'm for. That's not what Donald Trump ran

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Speaker 5: on when he was going up for election in twenty

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Speaker 5: twenty four. Now we've got ten days and hopefully cooler

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Speaker 5: heads will prevail and we can get some sort of

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Speaker 5: negotiated deal.

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Speaker 2: And not have to resort to military.

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Speaker 3: Actually, you also have to look at these headlines. It's

509
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Speaker 3: you've got the Wall Street Journal, Iran is getting ready

510
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Speaker 3: for war with the US. Axios. Trump moves closer to

511
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Speaker 3: major war with Iran. It's like they're pushing it. They're

512
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Speaker 3: just so fingers crossed wanting it to happen. And then

513
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Speaker 3: you've got the former Secretary of State Pompeo, and he

514
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Speaker 3: said that they know the Iranian regime isn't going to

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Speaker 3: give up its ballistic missiles, or its support for terrorism,

516
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Speaker 3: or its efforts to obtain nuclear weapons. So Donald Trump

517
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Speaker 3: has to find a solution.

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Speaker 10: You'll recall before Operation Midnight Hammer, as well as before

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Speaker 10: the strike that was taken against Iran which took out

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Speaker 10: Solimani in the first Trump administration, there was no notice.

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Speaker 10: They came at a time that was unexpected, lots of preparation,

522
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Speaker 10: but it wasn't the case that the President made an

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Speaker 10: announcement that said negotiations are over, We're about to strike.

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Speaker 2: Actually did it.

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Speaker 10: I suspect that's what we'll see this time as well.

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Speaker 10: I've seen the comments from the Iranian foreign minister. That's

527
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Speaker 10: all just silliness. There is apparently no overlap in rnt's

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Speaker 10: willingness to actually concede on ballistic missiles, on their proxy forces,

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Speaker 10: or even on nuclear Enrichmond. President Trump won't take a

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Speaker 10: bad deal. I'm convinced of that. That means more pressure

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Speaker 10: from the Israelis and from the United States of America.

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Speaker 3: We move our focus now to raising the next generation.

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Speaker 3: And this out of Florida, You've got Governor Ronda Santis

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Speaker 3: and he made this announcement about thousands of teachers in

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Speaker 3: that state completing an American Civics course.

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Speaker 11: Well, so we launched a Civic Seal of Excellence program

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Speaker 11: for teachers, and it's a training course that you do.

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Speaker 11: It's fifty hours, you take it online. We've got great

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Speaker 11: scholars from around the country that are teaching different subjects

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Speaker 11: on this. We've had twenty one thousand t teachers participate

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Speaker 11: and earn the Civic Seal of Excellence. And when they do,

542
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Speaker 11: they get a three thousand dollars bonus. And so you know, look,

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Speaker 11: maybe some of them would have taken it without the

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Speaker 11: bonus offered, but that was an enticement. So we've got

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Speaker 11: a lot of teachers that are doing it so now

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Speaker 11: and ninety some percent of the teachers that go through

547
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Speaker 11: the program say it's been very, very positive. So we've

548
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Speaker 11: been able. You know that twenty one thousand, that's like

549
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Speaker 11: sixty million dollars in bonuses to teachers who are now

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Speaker 11: able to really be strong in the classroom on these

551
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Speaker 11: key things.

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Speaker 3: So you've got a little bit of incentive there for

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Speaker 3: these teachers to take this American Civics course a three

554
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Speaker 3: thousand dollars bonus. But what it's doing, it's going to

555
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Speaker 3: see a surge in pro us teachings in that state.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the hopeful outcome on this.

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Speaker 5: And I mean it sounded kind of surprising there when

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Speaker 5: he talked about it, because you think, oh, three thousand

559
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Speaker 5: dollars a teacher. Yeah, twenty one thousand took it, and

560
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Speaker 5: the state of Florida ended up spending sixty six million

561
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Speaker 5: dollars in bonuses to have these teachers take this extra training.

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Speaker 5: I'm willing to give Ron Desantas a little leeway on

563
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Speaker 5: this because you know, what we're doing currently in general

564
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Speaker 5: with our schools in America not really working or certainly

565
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Speaker 5: at the point where we can do better. So I'm

566
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Speaker 5: open to new and outside of the box ideas like

567
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Speaker 5: giving teachers bonuses for taking this type of training. He

568
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Speaker 5: didn't go into specific details. I'd like to see some

569
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Speaker 5: metrics about performance on this. How did it.

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Speaker 3: Really pass or fail?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 5: How did it really move the needle? Did it accomplish

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Speaker 5: what we wanted to accomplish? Because if this is kind

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Speaker 5: of a test market idea to see if this type

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Speaker 5: of concept, giving teachers bonuses for extra training, that sort

576
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Speaker 5: of thing takes off, that's great, But is it really

577
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Speaker 5: accomplishing what we want to accomplish?

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Speaker 3: Is that really destroying the leftist in donation?

579
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Speaker 5: I think that that question is still yet to be

580
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Speaker 5: answered out there, and before all sorts of states start

581
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Speaker 5: spending tens of millions of dollars in programs like this,

582
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Speaker 5: let's find out if it works first.

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Speaker 3: The end of the day, it is the responsibility of

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Speaker 3: the parents to ensure that the schools that their children

585
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Speaker 3: are going to are teaching what they want their children

586
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Speaker 3: to learn. Got to be active, got to be involved.

587
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Speaker 3: Marco Rubio, he was at a town hall and he

588
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Speaker 3: said the role of schools is to teach, the role

589
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Speaker 3: of parents is to raise.

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Speaker 12: It's neither the government nor the school's job. To raise children.

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Speaker 3: It's they're there to teach.

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Speaker 12: If parents raise children, strong families raise children, and that's

593
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Speaker 12: what we need to be supporting. So from our role,

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Speaker 12: I don't want the federal government involved.

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Speaker 3: In our schools.

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Speaker 12: I don't want the federal government threatening our schools. I

597
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Speaker 12: don't want the federal government government holding leverage over their head.

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Speaker 12: If the federal government wants to help pay for school

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Speaker 12: lunches is long, Yeah, that's fine, but don't put strings

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Speaker 12: attached like they're doing now, which is, if you don't

601
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Speaker 12: let boys play against girls in sports, we're going to

602
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Speaker 12: take away your school lunch money. I'm against that. We

603
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Speaker 12: should stop that. We should always be against that. And

604
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Speaker 12: that's what we should be doing at the federal level

605
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Speaker 12: is ensuring that we are not bullying states into adopting

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Speaker 12: policies that, at the end of the day turn these

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Speaker 12: places from schools into doctrination centers. We don't want that,

608
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Speaker 12: we don't need that.

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Speaker 3: That's actually the way Marxism works.

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Speaker 12: They use the schools to indoctrinate and to tell the kids,

611
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Speaker 12: don't listen to your parents, listen to us. We can't tolerate,

612
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Speaker 12: we won't allow it. That's what they want to do,

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Speaker 12: and that would destroy our country.

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Speaker 3: I thought we were getting rid of the Department of

615
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Speaker 3: Education though. I mean, these are all strong words. They're

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Speaker 3: great when families are strong, children thrive, simple, clear, correct, concise,

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Speaker 3: But where's the consistent that's the missing element.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think that this.

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Speaker 5: Is one of those situations where you're not going to

620
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Speaker 5: be able to change the way the government redistributes money

621
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Speaker 5: from the federal government to the local states overnight. But

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Speaker 5: I did like Marco Rubio's message there and again it

623
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Speaker 5: goes back to personal responsibility, and it's what I was

624
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Speaker 5: just saying, you know, a few minutes ago about the

625
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Speaker 5: lawsuit versus Meta. Don't blame Meta. If your kids get

626
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Speaker 5: addicted to social media. You're the parent.

627
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Speaker 2: You've got to run that household.

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Speaker 5: It's your responsibility to raise your kids, and don't be

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Speaker 5: blaming these outside resources. And Marco Rubio basically said the

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Speaker 5: same thing. When it comes to schools, parents need to

631
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Speaker 5: be in charge. Parents are responsible for raising children. It's

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Speaker 5: schools jobs to teach children.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're listening to ninety three WIBC. I used to

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Speaker 3: be one. They would call, they would ask my opinion.

635
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Speaker 3: I would tell them and then one day they just

636
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Speaker 3: stop calling. So I decided to go on the radio

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Speaker 3: and give my opinion. The Gallup Pole is what I'm

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Speaker 3: talking about. And they decided they're going to stop giving

639
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Speaker 3: presidential approval ratings. This after eighty eight years, so they

640
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Speaker 3: just they're just gonna stop doing it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and this has been causing a lot of speculation

642
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Speaker 5: because it does seem odd the Gallup Pole has been

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Speaker 5: doing this presidential approval rating for eighty eight years, and

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Speaker 5: now all of a sudden, they're just going to stop.

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Speaker 5: And so, of course because and Gallup released a statement about.

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Speaker 3: This, and it was just we're gonna shift their focus.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, corporate word salad about broader are ongoing.

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Speaker 3: Search on issues and conditions, a.

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Speaker 5: Broader, ongoing effort to align all of Gallup's public work

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Speaker 5: with its mission. Yeah, that's just a bunch of corporate

651
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Speaker 5: word salad there. But it is interesting because Gallup does

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Speaker 5: an incredible amount of business with the federal government. Oh

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Speaker 5: and various federal government agencies like the Department of Veteran Affairs,

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Speaker 5: the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Navy.

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Speaker 2: So keep in mind, we all think of Gallup as.

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Speaker 5: The poll people. They just do polls, but they're a

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Speaker 5: lot bigger company than just polls. They offer employee training,

658
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Speaker 5: they're a big data company, and so they you know,

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Speaker 5: package that data up and sell it to various private

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Speaker 5: and public institutions. But there has been a lot of

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Speaker 5: speculation that it's entirely possible that the Trump administration was

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Speaker 5: not happy with some of his poll ratings.

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Speaker 3: In the Gallup Pole lately, and then suddenly they said,

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Speaker 3: we're not going to do individual political figures anymore.

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Speaker 5: Right, And so there's and again it's all speculation at

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Speaker 5: this point, but certainly some people are talking about that

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Speaker 5: it may have been the federal government talking about canceling

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Speaker 5: some of these contracts that they have with Gallup in

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Speaker 5: exchange for no longer doing the presidential poll, which that

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Speaker 5: seems to be I mean, if you lean toward conspiracy theories,

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Speaker 5: that's probably like, oh, of course, that's why they're caunseling it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, gotta protect that federal contract.

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Speaker 5: There are literally dozens and dozens of polling companies that

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Speaker 5: do presidential approval ratings, and so Gallup going away really

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Speaker 5: isn't going to change that. We're still going to get

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Speaker 5: tons of presidential approval polls. Out, just not ones by Gallup.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but the thing is that Gallup has always been

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Speaker 3: one of the more trusted measures. That's true, presidential approval,

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Speaker 3: that's true, and now it's being shelved just at a

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Speaker 3: time when trust in institutions is very shaky.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: And obviously there's plenty of instances in other areas where

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Speaker 5: the Trump administration has flexed its months muscle and use

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Speaker 5: leverage over both international governments and private organizations, and this,

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Speaker 5: you know, on the surface, kind of looks like that

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Speaker 5: could be another example of that.

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Speaker 3: For they started doing polling in the nineteen thirties and

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Speaker 3: it began with FDR and it has since been considered

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Speaker 3: one of the most cited measures of public opinion for generations.

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Speaker 3: And now they're rebranding. That's fine, but it does feel

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Speaker 3: a little bit like they're just abandoning this historic tool

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Speaker 3: which has really helped anchor political accountability.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: And the fact that they've got millions in government contracts

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Speaker 5: associated with this, federal government contracts associated this, it just

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Speaker 5: doesn't pass the smell test for me, that's for sure.

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Speaker 3: I have to question it. That's my job. Air Force

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Speaker 3: one getting a new paint scheme, they're rolling out new colors,

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Speaker 3: and some people are saying it's because it's Donald Trump

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Speaker 3: championing this because he wants them painted in his favorite colors. Okay,

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Speaker 3: you heard me say his favorite colors. What colors the

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Speaker 3: Air Force won going to be?

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Speaker 5: Oh, they've talked about it, said it's going to be red, white, gold,

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Speaker 5: and navy blue. Donald Trump nothing he loves more than gold,

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Speaker 5: both the physical item and the color.

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Speaker 3: Does it need a paint job?

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Speaker 2: Look, it's kind of disappointed.

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Speaker 3: Addition, the old subtle baby blue.

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Speaker 5: It's an icon I mean, it's an iconic image. Air

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Speaker 5: Force one is just that iconic image. It's the seven

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Speaker 5: forty seven with the bubble at the top, and it's

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Speaker 5: got that light blue kind of that North Carolina baby

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Speaker 5: blue that's on the top and then white below. That's

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Speaker 5: been the color scheme for air Force one for decades

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Speaker 5: and decades, Yeah, going way back.

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Speaker 2: And now if you saw Trump's plane that he.

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Speaker 5: Used when he was campaigning in twenty twenty four, I

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Speaker 5: have a feeling that it's gonna look like that. Probably

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Speaker 5: won't say Trump on the side like Trump's private plane.

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Speaker 2: Did, but it was everything else Trump.

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Speaker 3: It was.

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Speaker 5: It was a lot of navy blue, not that you know,

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Speaker 5: the type of blue that we're accustomed to seeing as

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Speaker 5: part of the American flag.

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Speaker 2: That's more of a royal blue.

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Speaker 5: The Trump plane had a much darker navy blue to it,

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Speaker 5: but it was also red, white, and gold. So if

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Speaker 5: you want to get an idea of what air Force

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Speaker 5: one might look like, maybe google some pictures of Trump's

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Speaker 5: campaign plane, because it did incorporate all of those colors

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Speaker 5: like they're going to be now incorporating on air Force One.

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Speaker 3: The repainting is also going to include some smaller executive jets,

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Speaker 3: which are used for high ranking officials when they fly.

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Speaker 3: And if you're wondering, great, how much does this cost?

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Speaker 3: Guess what? These aircrafts they get regular repainting all the

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Speaker 3: time anyway, So they just decided, you know what, we're

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Speaker 3: going to repaint it. Let's just they say they're celebrating

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Speaker 3: the flag with it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and look, I like the iconic image of Air

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Speaker 5: Force one.

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Speaker 2: If it were me, I wouldn't change it.

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Speaker 5: But look, I got a lot of problems with Donald

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Speaker 5: Trump in a lot of areas. But if he wants

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Speaker 5: to paint Air Force one a different color, let him

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Speaker 5: have this one.

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Speaker 2: It's not something worth getting all tent out of shape about.

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Speaker 3: Thanks to the Dude Jim. Also Big mac Kevin, nice

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Speaker 3: job today. Thank you for listening today. This is ninety

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Speaker 3: three WIBC all It