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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the Mark Simon Show on sevent ten.

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Speaker 2: Woo Hey, it's Wednesday. It's two days until spring begins,

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Speaker 2: two days away. Hey, we got a lot to get to.

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Speaker 2: We'll get to this. We'll get to this Joe Knt

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Speaker 2: who quit and what his future is. We'll get to

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Speaker 2: the oscars. The ratings are down. Take a look at why.

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Speaker 2: We'll get to a crazy uh moron Zamdami mo zoron

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Speaker 2: mam dami Uh. He's offended a lot of people yesterday

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Speaker 2: with his crazy rant at the Saint Patrick's Day breakfast.

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Speaker 2: We'll get to the Guthrie case, some developments there no

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Speaker 2: nothing about finding her, but some other things. We'll get

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Speaker 2: to the ran of course, and a whole lot more so.

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Speaker 2: Mark Wayne Mullen is being confirmed today. The hearings are today.

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Speaker 2: He's been nominated to replace Tulsey Gabbart. Now they'll bloody

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Speaker 2: him up a little in these hearings, because that's what

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Speaker 2: you do in a hearing. They'll ask him how he

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Speaker 2: made how he became so wealthy while in office. Well,

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Speaker 2: that's every one of them sitting there. They'll pick on

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Speaker 2: some other things, but he'll get confirmed. He's a senator

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Speaker 2: one reason he was appointed is the way things are

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Speaker 2: right now that these Senate committees will not confirm any

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Speaker 2: Trump nominee, So you got to pick a senator because

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Speaker 2: he's one of them. They won't turn down one of

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Speaker 2: their own, though, they'll confirm one of their own. And

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Speaker 2: Mark Wayne Mullen has been very good at making friends

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Speaker 2: in the House, in the Senate, He's been known for that,

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Speaker 2: having lunch with people on both sides of the aisle,

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Speaker 2: going to the gym with people on both sides of

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Speaker 2: the aisle. So it'll drag on for a while, but

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Speaker 2: they will confirm him later today. The Warren I ran

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Speaker 2: some good developments overnight. We killed Asmiel Katib, Actually Israel

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Speaker 2: did it. He was the Iran Minister of Intelligence, but

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Speaker 2: he's believed to be the actual guy who oversees Rand's

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Speaker 2: entire global terror apparatus. Sleeper cells, hesbola hoodies, all that

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Speaker 2: sort of stuff. Killed him last night in a bombing raid.

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Speaker 2: He's gone. Two people were killed in a missile strike

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Speaker 2: on Ramot Gan it's near Tel Aviv. That's in Israel retaliation.

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Speaker 2: Now here's the other thing. We've been escalating. The bombing.

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Speaker 2: You don't hear as much about it, but it's actually

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Speaker 2: been much more intense. In fact, yesterday we started dropping

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Speaker 2: five thousand pound penetrator bombs, bunker buster bombs that go

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Speaker 2: deep underground. We've been using them to take out mountains,

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Speaker 2: take out underground missile sites that are way underground, especially

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Speaker 2: along the coast. Those are the ones that particularly threatened

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Speaker 2: the straits of Hormusa. We took a bunch of those

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Speaker 2: out last night. All good developments, a lot of good

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Speaker 2: stuff happened in there. Allies still refused to come in

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Speaker 2: and help. Off the record, any general will tell you

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Speaker 2: as far as the Allies coming in, there's absolutely no

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Speaker 2: military value to them coming up. There's nothing militarily we

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Speaker 2: could use for any of them. The only reason to

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Speaker 2: get them to come in is just for the optics,

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Speaker 2: just symbolically. It looks good to have a coalition, so

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Speaker 2: we don't need them militarily for anything. In fact, they

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Speaker 2: might actually slow things down sometimes when you put together

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Speaker 2: these coalitions. It happened in Iraq. It sometimes slows things down,

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Speaker 2: lack of communication between different countries' forces getting in the

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Speaker 3: So.

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Speaker 2: Military wise better without the Allies. It was just a

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Speaker 2: symbolic thing, So we'll see. The president was asked, is

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Speaker 2: this going to be another Vietnam? A ridiculous question, of course.

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Speaker 1: Because the Uranian regime is built sky news.

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Speaker 4: If you put boots on the grounds.

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Speaker 1: In round, it will be another Vietnam.

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Speaker 2: Are you afraid of them?

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Speaker 5: No, I'm not afraid of I'm really not afraid of anything.

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Speaker 2: It's a day fourteen or it's two weeks. I'd hardly

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Speaker 2: call that another Vietnam, which was twelve years. Two weeks

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Speaker 2: is not twelve years. Big difference. And boots on the

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Speaker 2: ground the only boots on the ground. They do have

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Speaker 2: marine strike forces that have come in, twenty five hundred

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Speaker 2: of them. There may be an occasion where they need

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Speaker 2: to go ashore from an amphibious crap. Just go ashore,

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Speaker 2: quick raid, literally twenty minutes in and out. That's the

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Speaker 2: things are going well. We did kill two days ago

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Speaker 2: the leader of the country after the Ayahtola, and he

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Speaker 2: that never actually took place. The real leader has been

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Speaker 2: Ali Larjani. He was killed earlier this week and people

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Speaker 2: We knew he was the new leader, and he's one

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Speaker 2: of the most brutal, awful terrorist leaders of the whole

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Speaker 2: Iranian government. But he took over. He was the leader,

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Speaker 2: and he had the arrogance to just walk down the

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Speaker 2: So he's gone. That's the end of that. It's just

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Speaker 2: getting better and better over there. Now, you heard about

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Speaker 2: this guy in the Trump administration who quit. His name

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Speaker 2: is Joe Kent. Joe Kent was the National counter Terrorism

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Speaker 2: Center Director. Now this sounds very imposing, this title, but

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Speaker 2: this is what they do in the swamp. They come

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Speaker 2: up with these titles. Joe Kent has been a big

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Speaker 2: Trump supporter. He's been a big supporter of going after Iran,

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Speaker 2: of taking out Iran. He has said this for years.

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Speaker 2: He has been saying for years that Iran is a

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Speaker 2: major threat, the biggest sponsor of terrorism. He's pushed going

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Speaker 2: after Iran for years. So he suddenly quit saying it

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Speaker 2: was wrong to go after Iran. Why the contradictory stuff.

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Speaker 2: Who knows. Who knows what goes through his head. He's

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Speaker 2: got a history of just being wrong on everything. He's

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Speaker 2: also got a history of appearing to be very antisemitic

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Speaker 2: anti Israel. I think that's the thing here in this

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Speaker 2: He always wanted to go after I Ran and get

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Speaker 2: rid of them. But in this case it's Israel really

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Speaker 2: leading the charge, Israel doing eighty percent of the military work,

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Speaker 2: Israel being the biggest beneficiary of all of this. I

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Speaker 2: think that's what really offended Joe Kent. He's always blaming

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Speaker 2: Israel for everything. You remember the Gulf War, not the

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Speaker 2: Iraq War, the Gulf War. I remember when we had

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Speaker 2: to liberate Kuwait from Sodom Hussein. That was the George

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Speaker 2: hw Bush War. In the Gulf War, this same Joe

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Speaker 2: Kent kept yelling and screaming we were only doing this

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Speaker 2: because of Israel. This was Israel that made us do it. Well,

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Speaker 2: if you just check the record book back in the

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Speaker 2: Gulf War, Israel totally opposed the Gulf War. Israel begged

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Speaker 2: us not to do it. Israel at the time thought

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Speaker 2: it was more important to go after Iran. Israel thought

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Speaker 2: we were fighting the wrong fight. So Joe Kent has

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Speaker 2: a history of contradictory stuff, history of anti Semitic kind

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Speaker 2: of nonsense. He's a great military veteran, eleven combat tours,

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Speaker 2: and people that know him and know his history say

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Speaker 2: it was very, very sad to watch him end his

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Speaker 2: career in this anti semitic rant that he put out yesterday,

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Speaker 2: leaving even Mitch McConnell, who's no fan of Donald Trump,

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Speaker 2: Mitch McConnell pointing out Joe kent't testified before the Senate

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Speaker 2: one year ago that Iran and its terror proxy's threatened

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Speaker 2: US service members. It was the biggest threat he testified

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Speaker 2: about the threat. McConnell goes on to say the virulent

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Speaker 2: just incapable of upholding these plays. Just it's his charges

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Speaker 2: are baseless, incendiary, and McConnell went on, remember this is

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Speaker 2: a real swamp guy, McConnell. Isolationists and anti Semites have

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Speaker 2: no place in either party and do not deserve places

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Speaker 2: of trust in our government. So he's gone now he's

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Speaker 2: a very good looking guy, although kind of a I

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Speaker 2: good looking. I assume the reason he's doing all this

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Speaker 2: on CNN or MSNBC, and if you're suddenly attacking Trump

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Speaker 2: like crazy, you instantly get on there. He'll be on

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Speaker 2: every show in the world for the next few days.

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Speaker 2: He'll be on Morning Joe and The View, and Jimmy

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Speaker 2: I guess he hopes to get a TV job out

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Speaker 2: of money doing that. It's pretty good. Hey, the oscars, Now,

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Speaker 2: everybody's trying to figure this out. You know, they got

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Speaker 2: these betting markets, polymarket, those kind of stuff, these prediction marks.

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Speaker 2: It's all amateur's betting, and they bet on everything. They

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Speaker 2: bet on politics, they bet on the oscars. Everybody is

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Speaker 2: looking at this. It seems in the betting markets they

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Speaker 2: got right every single category, every single win everything, They

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Speaker 2: but at the last couple days the betting got absolutely

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Speaker 2: everything right. Now that never happened, So they're worried there

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Speaker 2: might might have been some kind of leak. You know,

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Speaker 2: those votes are tabulated by an accounting firm and they

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Speaker 2: usually come in the locked briefcase with the guy's handcuffed

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Speaker 2: to it. But starting to worry somebody leaked something at

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Speaker 2: how else could these betting markets be so accurate? Hey,

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Speaker 2: the Savannah Guthrie case, you don't hear about it anymore.

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Speaker 2: The Nancy Guthrie case, you just don't hear about it.

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Speaker 2: Nothing on the news, hardly anything for days and days.

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Speaker 2: And people have noticed that the top reporters covering this

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Speaker 2: this is this case. They've all left town. The last

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Speaker 2: great sign for the Now there's still a federal agents

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Speaker 2: there looking as far as the sheriff's office, they've been

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Speaker 2: bumbling from the beginning. Who knows what they're doing. In fact,

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Speaker 2: there's now the sheriff Nanos, who is the bumbling Barney

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Speaker 2: would actually be a great idea to do it. Hey,

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Speaker 2: speaking of the OSCARS, ratings were not good. They haven't

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Speaker 2: been good in a while. You know, if you go

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Speaker 2: back twenty five years, the OSCARS got about fifty seven

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Speaker 2: fifty eight sixty million people watching Sunday Night. It wasn't

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Speaker 2: fifty seven million, it was eighteen million. It's way down,

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Speaker 2: I don't know what this does to Conan O'Brien. They

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Speaker 2: were pretty high on him, but it dropped nine percent

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Speaker 2: this year. It may not be his fault. The problem

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Speaker 2: is two problems. One, nobody wants to watch these award

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Speaker 2: way people watch stuff has changed. Nobody watches an award

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Speaker 2: show for three hours. They're not going to sit there

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Speaker 2: for three hours watching one award show. They'll binge watch

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Speaker 2: eighty four million went to their phones or online and

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Speaker 2: watched little bites of it, which is what I did.

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Speaker 2: I didn't watch the actual show, but later later, I

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Speaker 2: just went to YouTube, watched the opening monologue, watched a

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Speaker 2: Just that, and that's what most people did. Only eighteen

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Speaker 2: million watched the show. One hundred and eighty four million

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Speaker 2: watched the clips, which is up, by the way, up

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Speaker 2: forty two from last year. So it's just the way

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Speaker 2: people do stuff now. They're not going to sit there.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes people do that, even with sports, you know, they

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Speaker 2: don't watch the whole game. They just look at their

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Speaker 2: No, you're absolutely right. Thoon is one useless guy. Anytime

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Speaker 7: Fagi?

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Speaker 7: Hi Mark. I have a question, why can't we pass

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Speaker 7: And also, why can't they pass that if they prevent

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Speaker 2: You're absolutely right. Where are you in Long Island.

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Speaker 7: I'm on Bayville.

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Speaker 2: Bayville are right next to Jackie.

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Speaker 7: Martlin, right, I know, and Billy Joe. We used to

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Speaker 7: Yes, yes, yes, it's a beautiful town. Yeah, it's gonna

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Speaker 4: Oh, I'm great.

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Speaker 3: I love your show.

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Speaker 4: Mark. I just have a question about the voter ID.

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Speaker 2: All right, let me give you some good advice. Stop

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Speaker 2: Stop talking to her. Everybody has a driver's license. Everybody

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Speaker 2: Everybody does everywhere. Hey, when we come back to brilliant

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Speaker 1: I'm terrific. Thank you for having me on.

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Speaker 2: Mark, Hey, great to have you. The Fed the decision

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Speaker 1: They'll probably do nothing.

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Speaker 5: And you know, I've been thinking about this a lot,

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Speaker 5: You know, you just had Congress come together in a

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Speaker 5: It's more rates. Mortgage rates are too high. The Fed

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Speaker 1: The answer is zero.

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Speaker 5: So oil prices are high obviously because of the war,

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Speaker 5: And yes, that's going to feed into all kinds of products, petrochemicals, plastics, fertilizers,

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Speaker 5: et cetera. Does it have anything to do with interest

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Speaker 1: That is a fact.

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Speaker 5: So you know, I think the two issues are totally separate.

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Speaker 5: I think the FED should acknowledge that. I hope they do,

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Speaker 5: and they set the stage for lower interest rates as

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Speaker 5: the year goes on, because we do have a pretty

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Speaker 5: sluggish employment market right now. There is their dual mandate,

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Speaker 5: as you well know, they're supposed to be watching the

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Speaker 5: jobs market and inflation.

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Speaker 1: And what we really need to.

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Speaker 5: Do is to get Kevin warsh in there as head

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Speaker 5: of the FED. It's not a guarantee that he's going

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Speaker 5: to lead the FED and lowering rates, but it's sure

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Speaker 5: a pretty good bet that Jay Powell isn't going to

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Speaker 5: do that. And we have this absurd to me situation

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Speaker 5: where Janine Piro, who I like and admire very much,

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Speaker 5: is hanging on to what I think is a completely

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Speaker 5: flimsy and inconsequential pursuit of J. Powell is supposedly having

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Speaker 5: mismanaged or possibly even crookedly managed the building of the

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Speaker 5: FED headquarters. For heaven's sakes, get rid of this, get

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Speaker 5: rid of it, get rid of Tom Tillis's objection to

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Speaker 5: getting the Kevin Worst nomination through, and let's start over

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Speaker 5: with a new, better, more efficient, and more up to

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Speaker 5: date Federal Reserve, which is what has to happen.

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Speaker 3: Well, J.

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Speaker 1: Powell, long run. Yeah, no, apologies, J.

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Speaker 3: Powell.

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Speaker 2: Building the new FED building for what should have cost

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Speaker 2: six hundred million ends up costing three billions of definite,

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Speaker 2: definite mismanagement there. But you're right, yeah, court case.

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Speaker 1: Is going to go criminal. No, he's not a criminal.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think he's an ineffectual FED chair and

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Speaker 5: obviously a very ineffectual overseer of a construction project. But

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Speaker 5: if every construction manager in Washington, DC who oversaw a

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Speaker 5: cost overrun went to jail, you know, the streets would

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Speaker 5: be a lot lighter.

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Speaker 1: Let's just say that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, But you know, if you can't manage the construction

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Speaker 2: of a building. If you're that unaware, if you're that bumbling,

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Speaker 2: why should you manage the American economy?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, so let's get rid of him. And the

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Speaker 5: only way we're going to get rid of him is

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Speaker 5: by replacing him. And we can't replace him now because

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Speaker 5: we have a you know, a Republican supposedly Republican said

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Speaker 5: who's saying he won't further the nomination unless they drop

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Speaker 5: these charges. So this is sort of easy in my head.

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Speaker 5: We want Jay Powell out, get rid of this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, when would we get a new FED chairman? As

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Speaker 2: it may that a new federmans And yes, we get

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Speaker 2: a new FED chairman. J Powell can stay on the

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Speaker 2: FED board, correct.

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Speaker 5: He can for I think it's two and a half

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Speaker 5: more years after that. Oh okay, well, I mean the

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Speaker 5: question is will he do that? I'm not sure that

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Speaker 5: he will. Is not very I mean this is true

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Speaker 5: in corporate world too. It's not very much fun to

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Speaker 5: see the top role and then hang around to sort

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Speaker 5: of see what happens next. That generally speaking, is not

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Speaker 5: a recipe for success.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Save Act, it makes perfect sense to everybody

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Speaker 2: in America. You got to show your driver's license, your

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Speaker 2: photo ID to vote. You got to do that to

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Speaker 2: enter any building in Manhattan. You got to show that

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Speaker 2: to buy prescriptions for a million things. Uh so, what

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Speaker 2: do you think will.

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Speaker 5: It ever have to do it to snow under mayor

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Speaker 5: Mom Danie have two means of identification?

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Speaker 1: Mark No. One.

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Speaker 5: I also think very few people are challenging. Certainly nobody

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Speaker 5: on the right is challenging the need for voter ID.

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Speaker 1: The problem now is they sort.

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Speaker 5: Of gunked up this bill with issues that they knew

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Speaker 5: that Democrats were going to have a hard time voting for,

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Speaker 5: like transgender you know, letting boys play in girls' sports

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Speaker 5: and all these things. I agree with everything in the bill,

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Speaker 5: but my view is that they should have I think

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Speaker 5: they should junk the whole thing and have a one

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Speaker 5: issue bill on the floor.

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Speaker 1: The one issue is voter ID.

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Speaker 5: Make Democrats vote against something that eighty plus percent of

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Speaker 5: the country applauds. And I really think that is the

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Speaker 5: way to pass this. And frankly, the Republicans in Congress

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Speaker 5: need a few wins right now. They need to actually

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Speaker 5: pass some things to have the President sign it, and

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Speaker 5: let's have voter ID. And if you want to complicate

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Speaker 5: it a little bit by having the registration a proof

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Speaker 5: of citizenship. I applaud that as well. I know Democrats

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Speaker 5: have all kinds of objections to that. Dick Blumenthal just

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Speaker 5: came out and said he didn't know where his birth

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Speaker 5: certificate was, and I tweeted back that if he doesn't

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Speaker 5: know where his passport is, then he's really got a

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Speaker 5: cognitive problem. But you know, I think there we could

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Speaker 5: have this bill simpler, better and again make it clear

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Speaker 5: to the American public what's in it. Now you've got

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Speaker 5: all this other stuff, and I think that was a

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Speaker 5: huge mistake.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: You know, a while back, I wasn't sure where my

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Speaker 2: birth certificate was and I went online and there's about

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Speaker 2: ten thousand sites that you can go to that will

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Speaker 2: get you over you get a copy, get a replacement

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Speaker 2: birth certificate in two weeks. It's easy to do. So, yes, hey,

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Speaker 2: this Joe Kent, this counter terrorism whatever he is, who

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Speaker 2: quit and protest? How long before we see him as

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Speaker 2: a host on MSNBC or CNN.

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Speaker 5: Ahha, Probably that could happen. Although he is I think

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Speaker 5: emerging as a bit of a wing nut. And what

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Speaker 5: I mean by that is he's really on the far

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Speaker 5: reaches of this sort of Israeli conspiracy, plus you know,

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Speaker 5: anti Semitism, right in league with people like Tucker Carlson,

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Speaker 5: Megan Kelly and so forth, who think this whole war

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Speaker 5: is about Israel. And I have to say, mark, of

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Speaker 5: all the presidents we've had in recent times, or even

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Speaker 5: political leaders, the idea that Donald Trump is being led

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Speaker 5: by the nose by a foreign ally Benjamin at Yahu,

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Speaker 5: is so ludicrous to me. I don't know anybody who

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Speaker 5: is more self determined, let us say, than Donald Trump, right,

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Speaker 5: I mean, and completely does what he wants to do

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Speaker 5: when he wants to do it, et cetera. Joe Kent, yes,

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Speaker 5: is now a darling of the left because he's come

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Speaker 5: out critical of the war. But you know, look at

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Speaker 5: what he said in interview. It is just two years

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Speaker 5: ago about Iran being a major threat to this country.

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Speaker 5: It's really almost impossible for me to believe. By the way,

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Speaker 5: a couple of years ago he was talking about maybe

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Speaker 5: running for office. I have to think some of this

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Speaker 5: is maybe in preparation for some attempt to run for office.

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Speaker 5: I don't know, obviously, I don't know, but I think

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Speaker 5: it's incredibly phony baloney. And you know that's the kind

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Speaker 5: of heroes the left have right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very interesting. Well, everybody read Liz Peak's columns, watch

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Speaker 2: it's very good stuff. You go to lizpeak dot com,

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Speaker 2: lizpeak dot com, Liz Peak, thanks for being with.

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Speaker 1: Us, Thank you for having me. Mark, take care.

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