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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Freedom Hunt. Great to have you with

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Speaker 1: me here as always today, thank you so much for joining.

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Speaker 1: Some breaking news and I'll be giving you updates as

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Speaker 1: supposedly serious pieces about how, oh we're following the Trump

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Speaker 1: Mueller probe and look what happens here, look what happens there.

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Speaker 1: Then they'll tweet out something about how you know it's oh,

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Speaker 1: my sources are saying that it's just a matter of

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Speaker 1: time before it all comes crumbling down, and you know

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Speaker 1: they're going to be marching people out of the White

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Speaker 1: House and handcuffs. And not for collusion with Russia. They're not.

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Speaker 1: I mean maybe for some dressed up minor infraction rights.

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Speaker 1: As I like to talk to you about here, mallem

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Speaker 1: prohibitum as opposed to mallem In say mallem prohibitum bad

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Speaker 1: because the government says it's bad. Mallem In say bad

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Speaker 1: because it's actually just bad, working with Russia to destroy

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Speaker 1: the electoral the integrity of the electoral process, to over

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Speaker 1: you know, to essentially nullify the election. And yeah, that

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Speaker 1: would be mallem and say that would be bad. But

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Speaker 1: that's not what happened, right, So they're not gonna get

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Speaker 1: anybody of that because that's not reality. They may get

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Speaker 1: somebody though on mallem prohibit um government making you sit

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Speaker 1: down answer enough questions. You know. Look, I hated all

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Speaker 1: the stuff that I'd fill out when I was in government,

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Speaker 1: all the different forms everything. I'm like, oh, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think this is right. And you know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: you do your best. It's kindly filling out your taxes.

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Speaker 1: There's so much stuff. And like I said, if they

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Speaker 1: want to get you, they'll get you. If they want

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Speaker 1: to get you, they'll get it. And if they want

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Speaker 1: to let you off, they'll let you off. Right. That's

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Speaker 1: that's the scary part about our current federal crime code.

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Speaker 1: You know, if you're Hillary, they'll they'll twist themselves in

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Speaker 1: pretzels and you'll get away with it. I'm amazing, I

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Speaker 1: can do anything. I'm Hillary. And it's true. If you're

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Speaker 1: a politically delicious target, then they'll just throw the book

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Speaker 1: at you. I mean, then you're gonna get crushed. And

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Speaker 1: that doesn't mean you have to be famous. By the way,

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Speaker 1: it just means you have to serve a political purpose.

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Speaker 1: So it could be nobody knows. It can be some

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Speaker 1: nobody that gets caught up in this Muller probe and

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, we're going to be told that

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Speaker 1: this is really important and it's you know, symbolic of

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Speaker 1: the good work that Muller's doing here. By the way,

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Speaker 1: Muller and call me your friends. Don't we think that

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Speaker 1: that should be an issue in all this? I would

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Speaker 1: think it would be. But I also want to know

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Speaker 1: why this doesn't expand to the investigation to Hillary's emails.

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Speaker 1: If if it's about the election and the integrity of

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Speaker 1: the election, shouldn't it also be about the DOJ's treatment

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Speaker 1: of Hillary Clinton's emils. Shouldn't Muller have to look at

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Speaker 1: that too? Why not? If not? Why not? I'd like

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Speaker 1: an explanation of that. And as I said, if Mueller's

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Speaker 1: not going to look at them, maybe they should have

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Speaker 1: pointed a special counsel you don't see how to see

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Speaker 1: how they like it on their side and get the DOJ,

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Speaker 1: you know, to have have Rosen Steam and Deputy Attorney

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Speaker 1: General appoint a special counts. Actually, it could just be Sessions.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't have to be Rosen because there's nothing new with Russia, right,

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Speaker 1: Just do the Hillary email. Look into that whole thing.

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Speaker 1: We've already been told about the FBI director that there was,

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Speaker 1: if not foul play, certainly funky play. Something. Something doesn't

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Speaker 1: smell right with the whole thing. So why not, I say,

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Speaker 1: I say go for it. But anyway, back to my

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Speaker 1: discussion with my buddy on the street today as he

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Speaker 1: was smoking a cigarette working on some projects construction stuff

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Speaker 1: in New York. He's just like, man, I'm tired of it,

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Speaker 1: you know. And I was looking at I'm like, you know,

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Speaker 1: I was going to get my coffee in the morning.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, I'm tired of it too. It

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Speaker 1: just reaches a point now where until they have something,

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Speaker 1: I kind of just want people to shut up about it,

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Speaker 1: you know, I just don't really now, I know you

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Speaker 1: might see me, Well, Buck, why are you talking about

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Speaker 1: it now? If we don't push back against the innuendos

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Speaker 1: and u and the rumor mill and all the other

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Speaker 1: stuff that's out there, well then people start to take

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Speaker 1: it as truth and it'll have the political impact and

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Speaker 1: the political effect that the Democrats wanted to and I

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Speaker 1: don't want that, So we've got to shoot this stuff

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Speaker 1: down as it pops up. But I also just feel like,

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Speaker 1: you know that the media, the media really has overplayed

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Speaker 1: its hand here. I And the great thing is now

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Speaker 1: because the Internet, we can just pull up what they've

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Speaker 1: said in the past, and and it's it's not going

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Speaker 1: to go away. That there were that there was a

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Speaker 1: mass hysteria that overtook most of the newsrooms for this country,

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Speaker 1: or at least the big ones, and people really should

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Speaker 1: have their their their credibility cards should be revoked. Would

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Speaker 1: call it that we're gonna hit a break your team

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Speaker 1: eight four four nine hundred buck eight four four nine

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Speaker 1: hundred two eight two five. I want to talk to

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Speaker 1: you about the Philando Castile verdicts BECAU as they've released

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Speaker 1: the dash cam video and have some thoughts on that.

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Speaker 1: Discuss he also Russia and US tensions escalating a bit,

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Speaker 1: and maybe we'll talk about some other stuff. Also a

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Speaker 1: case the media does not want to discuss anymore because

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Speaker 1: it's not a hate crime, it's quote road rage, but

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Speaker 1: involves an illegal alien. They don't really talk about that,

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Speaker 1: and much more. Stay with me week and I spoke

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Speaker 1: to you about it or a verdict over the last week,

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Speaker 1: I should say. In the Filando Castile case, officer Geronimo

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Speaker 1: Yanaz fired seven shots at Filando Castile while he was

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Speaker 1: in his car last year. He killed him and people

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Speaker 1: could see the aftermath of this on Facebook live. His

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Speaker 1: girlfriend was in the car. There was also a child

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Speaker 1: in the back seat. And the video, the dash cam

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Speaker 1: video has just been released. After the UH, the jury

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Speaker 1: returned a verdict of not guilty. They acquitted him on

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Speaker 1: manslaughter charge. We have some of the audio the further

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Speaker 1: from the critical moments of the exchange that became fatal.

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Speaker 1: This is just as a warning here. This is tough

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Speaker 1: to listen to and uh even tougher when you watch it.

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Speaker 1: You can watch the video. UM, but here is what

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Speaker 1: the exchange that led to the gun led the officer

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Speaker 1: pulling out his gun and shooting seven shots fatally UM

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Speaker 1: at Castile. This is how it went. Play it okay, firearm, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I don't reach for it. Then don't pull it out,

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Speaker 1: don't pull it out. Um. It keeps saying don't reach

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Speaker 1: for it, don't reach for it, and uh. The woman

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Speaker 1: in the in the car with him is his girl.

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Speaker 1: Castile's girlfriend is yelling out, you just shot him and

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Speaker 1: he wasn't reaching for He wasn't reaching for a gun.

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Speaker 1: Now there's some there's some backstory to this that's necessarily.

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Speaker 1: I know. I spoke to you earlier, and it strikes

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Speaker 1: me as uh, this is this is tough. Uh, it's

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Speaker 1: a tragedy. Castile should not have been should not have

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Speaker 1: been shot and killed. And I feel very badly for

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Speaker 1: his family, for his girlfriend, for the childers in the

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Speaker 1: back seat. But there's a distinction to be made between

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Speaker 1: someone should not have been killed and someone is guilty

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Speaker 1: of manslaughter form of murder. In this case, the officer,

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Speaker 1: Officer yanez now yan As believed. Officer yan Has believed

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Speaker 1: that he was pulling over somebody who may have been

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Speaker 1: involved in a recent armed robbery in the area. That's

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Speaker 1: what he told investigator, so he was on alert. He also,

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Speaker 1: as he approached the vehicle, smelled marijuana. Didn't say anything

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Speaker 1: about that initially because he didn't want to escalate the confrontation.

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Speaker 1: There was another officer, it should be not on the

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Speaker 1: scene who was assisting on the other side of the vehicle.

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Speaker 1: You can see all of this. We will put the

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Speaker 1: video on for those of you listening, will put it

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Speaker 1: up on Facebook because I think it's important. This is

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Speaker 1: evidence if you want to really know what happened here,

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Speaker 1: because by the way, I think, now that this dash

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Speaker 1: cam video is out there, you will see a renewed

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Speaker 1: push of activism and possibly protests that extend beyond the

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Speaker 1: extend beyond the area of Minnesota and Minneapolis because this

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Speaker 1: is this is it's difficult to watch because you know

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Speaker 1: that this is a tragic really a tragic misunderstanding is

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Speaker 1: what led to the shooting. At least here's part of

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Speaker 1: the problem you have. As I said, marijuana, Look, that's

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Speaker 1: not that doesn't mean the officers in any jeopardy, but

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Speaker 1: it did. It did possibly affect Castile's ability to respond

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Speaker 1: in a fashion that made would make the officer feel

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Speaker 1: comfortable in the course of the exchange, meaning that he's

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Speaker 1: you know, he's speaking clearly, he was obeying verbal commands

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Speaker 1: as a person who wasn't under the influence of marijuana would.

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Speaker 1: But the words I have a gun on me. Now,

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Speaker 1: Castile was a concealed carry permit holder. But he's supposed

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Speaker 1: to say, as I understand it, I am a concealed

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Speaker 1: carry holder, not I have a gun on me. Saying

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Speaker 1: I have a gun on me to a police officer

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Speaker 1: in this circumstance, I understand how people would You could

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Speaker 1: see this one of two ways. You could say, well,

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Speaker 1: if he had ill intent towards the officer, if he

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Speaker 1: was trying to be aggressive, he wouldn't announce that he

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Speaker 1: has a firearm on him. But you also have to

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Speaker 1: see it from the other side of it, which is

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Speaker 1: this officer has pulled over someone he believes as an

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Speaker 1: armed robbery suspect. He doesn't know this person, and he

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Speaker 1: is told he's told I have a gun on me

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Speaker 1: by this individual, and then he says don't and it's castile.

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Speaker 1: Was reaching for his concealed carry identification, but he's reaching

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Speaker 1: for something. He said he has a has a gun

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Speaker 1: on him, and the officer pulls out his firearm and

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Speaker 1: shoots him. Now, I still think that you know, the

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Speaker 1: officer um was too fast on the trigger with this.

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Speaker 1: But I also know that a lot of my former

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Speaker 1: police friends in college, the MYPD would probably say, well, yeah, buck,

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Speaker 1: but you've never you've never pulled somebody over who's under

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Speaker 1: the influence tells you he has a gun, and you're

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Speaker 1: worried that he's a robbery suspect that doesn't maybe doesn't

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Speaker 1: want to go away for ten or fifteen years, which

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Speaker 1: which would be a fair comment to make in terms

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Speaker 1: of you know, I don't know what that's like, and

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Speaker 1: I'm not in that situation. Day in and day out,

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Speaker 1: traffic stops are very dangerous as far as the percentages

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Speaker 1: go for when officers may be attacked, and so you know,

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Speaker 1: this is it's it's tough. I've seen well intentioned, thoughtful

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Speaker 1: and reasonable analysis from people that take both sides of

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Speaker 1: this that this looks like it isn't it is manslaughter.

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Speaker 1: I don't think anybody believes the officer Yannas just wanted

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Speaker 1: to kill Castile for no reason. But there also has

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Speaker 1: to be accountability for a police officer putting on the uniform,

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Speaker 1: carrying around a firearm and acting in a way that

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Speaker 1: was in this case too hasty and cost a man

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Speaker 1: his life. So it's when you see the dash camp

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Speaker 1: member the dash dash Camp footage was just released, and

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Speaker 1: it's the jury saw this and they found him. They

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Speaker 1: found the officer not guilty. I think that this was

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Speaker 1: The tragic moment here is when he says I have

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Speaker 1: a gun and then starts reaching for something. Because there

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Speaker 1: was a lack of communication between Castile and the officer,

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Speaker 1: the officer needed to hear I'm a concealed carry holder.

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Speaker 1: I'm letting you know that. For your safety, Officer, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna keep my hands on the wheel and obey your commands.

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Speaker 1: But if Castile's under the influence of marijuana and he's

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Speaker 1: reaching for something, the officer is scared and was in

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Speaker 1: fear for his Remember that's the standard for police, right

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Speaker 1: were you in a reasonable fear for your safety for

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Speaker 1: your life? The jury clearly thought so. But none of

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Speaker 1: this is to say that it's not. It's a tragedy

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Speaker 1: no matter what I feel like. I said, I feel

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Speaker 1: really terrible for Castile's family, for the girlfriend who was

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Speaker 1: next to him, and for the kid in the back

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Speaker 1: seat who witnessed this whole thing. But he's watched the

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Speaker 1: dash cam video. I wonder what your thoughts are on

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Speaker 1: this team eight four four nine hundred Buck, let me know.

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Speaker 1: That's Bucksexton dot com. The buck is back. I see

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Speaker 1: a lot of different networks are planning special coverage of

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Speaker 1: the special election. We got polls closed in Georgia. The

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Speaker 1: sixth congressional seat is hanging in the balance. Here is

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Speaker 1: one seat in Congress. There's a lot of congressmen running around,

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Speaker 1: but there's one seat that is open. Here. The whole

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Speaker 1: nation is well, at least the whole media wants the

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Speaker 1: nation to be fixated on the outcome here. As soon

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Speaker 1: as we get some numbers. If we get numbers, we

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Speaker 1: will certainly let you know. But polls have closed in

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Speaker 1: Georgia for the sixth most most expensive congressional race in history.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, you can be sure that the

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Speaker 1: tone and maybe even the description from the Democrats, if

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Speaker 1: this guy John Assof beats Karen Handel, you can be

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Speaker 1: sure that this will be that they'll they'll trot out

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Speaker 1: all the usual historical, historical analogies or battles. You know,

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Speaker 1: they they'll say this is this was the Trump is

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Speaker 1: UM's waterloo, or you know, the beginning of the beginning,

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Speaker 1: of the end of the beginning, or something. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it wouldn't be Waterloo, because that would be a really

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Speaker 1: big deal. But you know they're going to say something.

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Speaker 1: They'll they'll they'll overstate the importance of this because it

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Speaker 1: helps their cause to make this. If the Democrat wins,

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Speaker 1: this bigger referendus possible, by the way, if it's even close,

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Speaker 1: because this tends to be a red predominantly Republican district.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I completely disagree with the notion of

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Speaker 1: Republicans as the reds and Democrats as blue. Maybe worth

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Speaker 1: talking to you about another time, but this is just

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Speaker 1: this was actually foisted on us by the media, and

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Speaker 1: relatively recently, just a few decades ago. When you think

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Speaker 1: about it, Republicans should be blue, Democrats much closer socialists,

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Speaker 1: much closer to the workers parties of the world and

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Speaker 1: all that read. Oh, they should definitely be read Kami

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Speaker 1: read for the Democrats, blue for the Republicans. That's the

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Speaker 1: way it should be. But they've just like that. They

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Speaker 1: call themselves liberal, right to throw us off from the

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Speaker 1: fact that their status. They're not liberals at all. They're

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Speaker 1: nothing liberal about these people. But I digress. But yees, sir,

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Speaker 1: If if us off wins this is this is Waterloo,

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Speaker 1: this is Thermopoli, this is Midway. I don't know, pick

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Speaker 1: a Actium, a major battle from history, even though this

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Speaker 1: is a minor, right, but they're going to blow it

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Speaker 1: out of proportions, what I'm saying. And if if he

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Speaker 1: loses by a pretty substantial margin, well then this is

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Speaker 1: like I don't know, some war involving you know, Azerbaijan

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Speaker 1: from the eighties or something, then it's a little battle

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Speaker 1: that nobody remembers or has heard about. So that's what

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Speaker 1: We'll keep an eye on the sixth Congressional District and

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Speaker 1: we'll see what's going on there. Because you know, why not,

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Speaker 1: right this is this is where narratives are shaped. My

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Speaker 1: friends in the in the newsrooms across the country that

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Speaker 1: are going to pretend the one congressional seat going this

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Speaker 1: way or the other is a bell weather for the

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Speaker 1: rest of the country, which of course it isn't, but

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Speaker 1: it's more fun to pretend it is. And so why

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Speaker 1: way on the lines I do, especially if I ever

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Speaker 1: got any team buck law enforcement out there that has

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Speaker 1: or former law enforcement, or just anybody with an opinion,

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Speaker 1: But particularly if you're a current or former law enforcement.

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Speaker 1: You have some thoughts on the Philando Castile dash cam

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Speaker 1: video that was just released. It's it's tough to watch. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's you know, you see a man losing his life

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Speaker 1: and he shouldn't have lost his life. The question is

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Speaker 1: does the police officer Yanas have criminal culpability for it?

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's gonna live with this for the rest

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Speaker 1: of his life, and I promise you he did not.

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Speaker 1: He did not intend to that day, did not want to,

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Speaker 1: and does not feel good I would imagine at all

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Speaker 1: about anything that happened that day. I mean, I'm not

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Speaker 1: the man. I can't speak directly for his state of mind,

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Speaker 1: but I would assume that he feels terrible about the

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Speaker 1: whole thing. Um, But was he criminally culpable for it?

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Speaker 1: We've got a bunch of calls up on the board.

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Speaker 1: Let's take some Josh in North Carolina. What's ups the

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Speaker 1: Philando cast deal incident? Um, the Philando cast deal made

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Speaker 1: a series of mistakes. If you're a concealed carry permit holder,

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Speaker 1: you and you have weed in the car, that's not kosher,

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Speaker 1: that's not okay. Um, yeah, you can't. You can't be

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Speaker 1: in possession of a firearm and have and have illegal drugs. Right,

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Speaker 1: That's that's a specific federal offense, I believe, unto itself

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Speaker 1: exactly right. And also he's been through the class. He

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Speaker 1: had known better than the reach for what for his

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Speaker 1: his his identification or his card or whatever. Maybe he

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Speaker 1: was high, maybe he wasn't. Having said that, I think

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Speaker 1: the officer as a as a pining planet, potentary object

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Speaker 1: of the state, should be held to a high standard.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the officer didn't see a weapon presented. He

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Speaker 1: could have waited that other second. There's a reason he

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Speaker 1: has a bulletproof vest on it. I'm not disparaging anybody,

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Speaker 1: but he's serving protect I mean, I see where he

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Speaker 1: would have been. I see where a citizen would have

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Speaker 1: been in enough fear to fire their weapon. But I

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Speaker 1: think the representative of the state should have some restraint. Josh,

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Speaker 1: if I'm ask are you a CCW guy, I'm not.

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Speaker 1: I mean I live in an open carry state. Oh right, okay,

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Speaker 1: good call. So I'm just wondering what the specific training

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Speaker 1: is for the class in Minnesota. I mean, I imagine

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Speaker 1: because when you think about it, telling police officer, I

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Speaker 1: have a gun is not a good way to de escalate.

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Speaker 1: It's in fact, I think it could be seen by

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Speaker 1: the officer as an immediate escalation. Right to say. What

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Speaker 1: you would want to say is I'm a concealed carry

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Speaker 1: holder officer, I have a legal firearm on me, and

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to be clear about that. But as

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Speaker 1: we pointed out, we once you add weed into the

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Speaker 1: equation and a misunderstanding. But I you know this, there's

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Speaker 1: there's there's a little bit of there. There are missteps

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Speaker 1: here on both sides. I think that much is clear.

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Speaker 1: A man shouldn't have lost his life as a result

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Speaker 1: of this. The question is where does the culpability lot?

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Speaker 1: Is there criminal culpability here? And Joshua, where do you

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Speaker 1: come down on that? Yeah, you're exactly what I mean.

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Speaker 1: I think we're an agreement on about the way it

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Speaker 1: shakes out, but the criminal culpability, Uh, I don't know, man,

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Speaker 1: because I mean, you know what I mean from our interactions.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm leary of the state and I feel

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Speaker 1: like the representative the state should be helped. I think

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Speaker 1: manslaughter is not is not um off the table, but

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Speaker 1: apparently you know, Yeah, look, I think I think it's

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Speaker 1: a close I think it's a closer call than than

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Speaker 1: the well, I think it's a pretty close call. How

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Speaker 1: much that much I will say. But Josh North, Carolina, man,

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Speaker 1: good to talk to you. Thank you, Sir Scott in

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Speaker 1: Florida on WFLA, what's up Scott, hey man. We love

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Speaker 1: your show here, we love our president here. Man, we're

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Speaker 1: rooting for HM one hundred percent. We want to see

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Speaker 1: an investigation stop. As far as the cop shooting the guy, man,

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Speaker 1: I don't think he should have done that. It's terrible. Um.

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Speaker 1: I think it boils down to training. He didn't see

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Speaker 1: a gun, didn't see the man, you know, aggressively trying

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Speaker 1: to do anything. Yeah, the officer, the officer kept I

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Speaker 1: mean he clearly he was. He was tense during this

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Speaker 1: whole exchange. And you know, he drew he drew down

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Speaker 1: quickly and fired and and you know it's I can

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Speaker 1: imagine the officer maybe did feel that he was under threat.

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Speaker 1: But then it turns into the question that becomes was

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Speaker 1: that a reasonable belief under the circumstances. Then did the

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Speaker 1: officer do everything possible de escalate short of lethal force?

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Speaker 1: And and you know, not not clear to me. I

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Speaker 1: would have had this. This is a this is a

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Speaker 1: tough one. It's tough. Yeah, you know, yeah, rock and roll.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Scott. I appreciate that shield time man, thank you.

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Speaker 1: This this is you know. But by the way, though,

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Speaker 1: I will say that the idea that you have to

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Speaker 1: see a weapon before you would engage with lethal force,

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Speaker 1: I don't think that that's a fair standard for the officers.

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Speaker 1: If somebody says, I've got a gun in my pocket

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna grab it and I'm gonna shoot. Now,

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Speaker 1: of course that's not what happened here, but I'm just

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Speaker 1: saying so we can understand if somebody says, I've got

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Speaker 1: a gun in my pocket, I've got a gun in

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Speaker 1: my pocket, and you know this, this could come up,

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Speaker 1: for example, with a suicide by cop situation, which again

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Speaker 1: that's not what Philando Castile was. But I'm just saying,

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Speaker 1: when what is the standard for do you have to

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Speaker 1: see a weapon before you engage with lethal force? If

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Speaker 1: somebody were to say I've got a gun in my pocket,

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Speaker 1: the officer says, take your hands out of your pockets.

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Speaker 1: Take your hands out of your pockets, and you quickly

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Speaker 1: pull your hands out and the officer believes that you've

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Speaker 1: got a firearm there, and he shoots. I think I

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Speaker 1: think he's on solid ground with use of force. If again,

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Speaker 1: if you've told him I have a gun in my pocket,

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Speaker 1: right and and you move quickly and the officer thinks

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Speaker 1: that you're drawn down on him, you know, to say, well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: to wait till you see the you know, the the

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Speaker 1: end of the firearm itself. I mean that that could

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Speaker 1: be the last thing that officer ever sees. So but look,

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Speaker 1: it's it's tough. And the the dash cam, I will

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Speaker 1: say for me, the two you know, the the dash

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Speaker 1: cam footage is very tough, tough to watch. But also

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Speaker 1: it does not does not look good for the officer.

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Speaker 1: If I were on that chair with I thought, oh,

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Speaker 1: this does not this does not look this whole exchange

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Speaker 1: does not look good. But also Castile saying I've got

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Speaker 1: a gun on me, and then there's kind of an

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Speaker 1: exchange back and forth. It's not totally clear what's being

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Speaker 1: said by Castile to the officer saying I've got a

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Speaker 1: gun on me. Was that was not the right choice

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Speaker 1: of words under the circumstances. But that again doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: the man should have been shot. I'm just saying it

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Speaker 1: was a I believe it led to a series of

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Speaker 1: escalations and misunderstandings that and Castile lost his life as

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Speaker 1: a result. All right, I want to switch gears here

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Speaker 1: and talk a bit about the policies that we could

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Speaker 1: be focused on that there probably should be dealing with,

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Speaker 1: and then we'll talk about Russia escalation, some national security

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Speaker 1: topics to hit on, and much more so a team.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back, stay with me. The polls have

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Speaker 1: closed in all but two precincts as I'm live with

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Speaker 1: you now on air here in Georgia sixth district. The

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Speaker 1: other two remaining open until seven thirty pm, so just

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Speaker 1: a few minutes they will close. There were some problems

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Speaker 1: with the voting there, but they're just keeping open extra

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Speaker 1: thirty minutes. So there is that. Now, let's talk about

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Speaker 1: By the way, Mitch McConnell, Merchant McConnell. He says that

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Speaker 1: there will be a discussion draft coming out on healthcare.

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Speaker 1: Let's hear it. I expect to have a discussion draft

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Speaker 1: on Thursday, and we will go to the bill obviously

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Speaker 1: once we get a CBO score, likely next week. And

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Speaker 1: we've been told that healthcare is completely essential and necessary

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Speaker 1: for the later on passing something on taxes, right that,

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Speaker 1: first you gotta do healthcare, then there'll be some savings

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Speaker 1: that will help pay for taxes. By the way, I

849
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:08,239
Speaker 1: never like this formulation of paying for tax cuts. I

850
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:12,920
Speaker 1: don't really understand why we accept that discussion of it.

851
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:19,400
Speaker 1: TA tax cuts are taking from people. There's no established okay,

852
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Speaker 1: level of tax cuts. That is the only level of

853
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Speaker 1: tax I mean sorry, level of taxation. That's the only

854
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Speaker 1: level of taxation. So I don't like that that formulation.

855
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Speaker 1: But I digress. But Speaker Ryan, speaking of taxes. Speaker

856
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Speaker 1: Ryan today was talking some bold talk. You know, he's

857
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:43,440
Speaker 1: he's out there saying that they're gonna get this, They're

858
00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:49,279
Speaker 1: gonna get tax reform done, saith the Ryan. You will

859
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:52,719
Speaker 1: hear the tax reform is coming along one day, Then

860
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:55,360
Speaker 1: you will hear the tax reform is dead. Then you

861
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:57,680
Speaker 1: will hear that it's back on track. Then you will

862
00:50:57,719 --> 00:51:01,000
Speaker 1: hear that it's on life support. Sometimes you will hear

863
00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:03,520
Speaker 1: this the same week. Sometimes you'll hear this in the

864
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 1: same day. Heck, sometimes you will hear this in the

865
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Speaker 1: same hour. Do not be surprised by any of this.

866
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 1: I am here to tell you we are going to

867
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Speaker 1: get this done in twenty seventeen, now, is that? But

868
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 1: is that? You know, Paul Ryan reminds me a little

869
00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:25,959
Speaker 1: of the character Chris Treger from Parks and rec who's

870
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 1: like super healthy and into running and sort of like

871
00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 1: Paul Ryan's will into p ninety X and working out

872
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:32,400
Speaker 1: and stuff and is kind of upbeat and happy. And

873
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:36,239
Speaker 1: that's a good thing. But is that just kind of

874
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:39,040
Speaker 1: happy talk from Paul Ryane? Is that just supposed to

875
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:43,080
Speaker 1: inspire confidence? But there's really nothing to it? Well, he

876
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:46,479
Speaker 1: did give us also some specifics today. I think tax

877
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 1: reform matters a whole lot. I think it should matter

878
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:50,040
Speaker 1: to all of us, matter to you, matter to me.

879
00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:53,719
Speaker 1: Taxes are too high. The tax code is preposterous, It

880
00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:57,719
Speaker 1: is too complicated. It's unfair special interests of carved out

881
00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:00,840
Speaker 1: all kinds of little goodies for themselves, and it is

882
00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:05,280
Speaker 1: the single largest monument to government intrusion in our daily lives,

883
00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 1: to social engineering under the guise of fairness. It is

884
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:15,440
Speaker 1: not progressive, even in a true sense of wealth redistribution.

885
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:17,839
Speaker 1: If it was a truly progressive tax code, it would

886
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:21,000
Speaker 1: not be on income. It would be on assets. Oooh,

887
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:23,839
Speaker 1: I know, by the way, that would shay everyone that

888
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 1: right now is on the left. Who's ah, I know

889
00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 1: how the taxes or in taxes are great or whatever.

890
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:31,440
Speaker 1: It's because they've made so much money that they're essentially

891
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 1: living off of assets they've already accumulated, so it doesn't

892
00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:38,120
Speaker 1: matter their expenses are covered. In fact, they're probably just

893
00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:42,719
Speaker 1: getting richer while covering their expenses from the income off

894
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 1: of assets and investments as opposed to income that they

895
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:50,960
Speaker 1: are trying to build up over time into an asset

896
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:55,239
Speaker 1: that will produce for them down the line, i e.

897
00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:58,799
Speaker 1: The money that you get paid for wages that's taxed right,

898
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:00,560
Speaker 1: that's sacks of the time. But so you can live

899
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:04,120
Speaker 1: in a ten million dollar house and or ten million

900
00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:07,759
Speaker 1: dollar mansions somewhere and you're making and maybe maybe even

901
00:53:07,760 --> 00:53:10,759
Speaker 1: your investments are taxed at the long term capital gains rate.

902
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:16,359
Speaker 1: So what's that fifteen percent twenty percent of forget? While

903
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:18,920
Speaker 1: somebody else is you know, living hand in mouth and

904
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:20,960
Speaker 1: they're just there or you know, in a major city

905
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:22,680
Speaker 1: like San Francisco or something, and they're making you know,

906
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:24,680
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty grand, you're in the same tax bracket.

907
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:28,160
Speaker 1: That's if it was truly about fairness. That's not fair, right.

908
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:32,400
Speaker 1: The tax code is unjust. It is I will just

909
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:35,000
Speaker 1: say it is an unjust tax code. It is not fair,

910
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:37,839
Speaker 1: it is not right, it's not clear, and it could

911
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:39,640
Speaker 1: be made better. They tell us they want to make

912
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 1: it better. Well, Ryan gave us some specifics on that. First,

913
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 1: we will eliminate harmful, burdensome taxes, including the death tax

914
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:53,200
Speaker 1: and the alternative minimum tax. Next, we will clear out

915
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:57,080
Speaker 1: special interest carve outs and expensive deductions and focus on

916
00:53:57,160 --> 00:54:01,640
Speaker 1: keeping those that make the most sense, home ownership, charitable,

917
00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:06,800
Speaker 1: giving retirement savings. We will consolidate the existing seven brackets

918
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:10,960
Speaker 1: into three, double the standard deduction, and simplify things to

919
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:13,440
Speaker 1: the point that you can do your own taxes on

920
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:16,880
Speaker 1: the form the size of a postcard, this instead of

921
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:21,880
Speaker 1: the ten forty form. Wouldn't that be nice? Taxes on

922
00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:26,520
Speaker 1: a postcard? He says everybody. At what point do we

923
00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:30,600
Speaker 1: get to hold them all accountable for the promises? At

924
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:33,480
Speaker 1: what point do we say that enough is enough? If

925
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:35,759
Speaker 1: they're just not if they're not going to perform, I'm

926
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:38,600
Speaker 1: not going to listen. If they're not going to follow through,

927
00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:42,439
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear it. They have the House,

928
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:44,600
Speaker 1: they have the Senate, they have the presidency. The Republican

929
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:47,880
Speaker 1: Party is in full political control. Okay, they don't have

930
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:51,640
Speaker 1: a supermajority, but let's be realistic here. If they can't

931
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:54,920
Speaker 1: do this now, they're never going to do this. If

932
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:56,759
Speaker 1: they can't do this now, we're going to have to wait.

933
00:54:57,840 --> 00:54:59,600
Speaker 1: Who knows how long I mean, and who knows that

934
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 1: they're a lot have a supermajority. I mean, this is

935
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:07,239
Speaker 1: just it's just nonsensical at this point. So we have

936
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:11,920
Speaker 1: Ryan saying it will get done. I think, you know,

937
00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:14,319
Speaker 1: the House is starting to feel a little bit of

938
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:17,080
Speaker 1: the heat because you've got a lot of people that

939
00:55:17,160 --> 00:55:20,399
Speaker 1: have jobs in the House of Representatives that promised big

940
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:24,080
Speaker 1: things to get elected or to get reelected, and maybe

941
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:25,840
Speaker 1: now they're up for reelection. And what are they going

942
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:28,800
Speaker 1: to tell their constituents right now? If you're a Republican

943
00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:32,680
Speaker 1: member of Congress, what's your take home for those when

944
00:55:32,719 --> 00:55:34,440
Speaker 1: you when you go home over the recess, assuming they

945
00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:38,200
Speaker 1: don't work through the recess, which has been raised as

946
00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:41,680
Speaker 1: a possibility because people are so annoyed at how little

947
00:55:41,719 --> 00:55:43,680
Speaker 1: has gotten done, what do you tell what do you

948
00:55:43,680 --> 00:55:46,280
Speaker 1: tell your constituency you say, Oh, we passed a repeal

949
00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:48,680
Speaker 1: and replace bill for Obamacare. Okay, well the Senate wouldn't

950
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:51,839
Speaker 1: even touch it. How good could it have been? Oh

951
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:55,400
Speaker 1: well that's the Senate's fault. Well you know what exactly

952
00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:59,040
Speaker 1: are we paying you guys for? You start to fall back. Also,

953
00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:03,160
Speaker 1: I think into the argument that maybe gridlock is maybe

954
00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:05,560
Speaker 1: gridlock isn't just the status quo that we should be

955
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:08,239
Speaker 1: upset about. Maybe maybe gridlock is just the way it's

956
00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:11,080
Speaker 1: going to be, in the way it should be the

957
00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:14,440
Speaker 1: best we can That's the true limited government? Are the

958
00:56:14,520 --> 00:56:19,040
Speaker 1: limitations in government ability as a result of gridlock? I'd

959
00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 1: like to think that I'd like to take that as

960
00:56:21,239 --> 00:56:24,920
Speaker 1: a possible out here because of all the frustrations I

961
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:27,800
Speaker 1: have with the Republican Party right now. But then you

962
00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:33,920
Speaker 1: look at regulatory agencies and the size the federal criminal Code,

963
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:36,959
Speaker 1: and the growth and bureaucracy in the state, and you say, well,

964
00:56:37,360 --> 00:56:41,800
Speaker 1: the problem is even if the legislature is not doing

965
00:56:42,120 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 1: much to speak of that benefits American people, or the

966
00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:48,560
Speaker 1: government's still so big that we're suffering anyway. Right, So

967
00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:51,080
Speaker 1: you could have Congress not even show up and do

968
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:53,200
Speaker 1: anything for six months, and there's still a lot that

969
00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:55,440
Speaker 1: government's doing that we don't want it doing, and governments

970
00:56:56,719 --> 00:56:59,840
Speaker 1: growing in one way or another, expanding its mandates and

971
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:05,359
Speaker 1: getting bigger and more intrusive and burdens. It's burdens. We

972
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:08,920
Speaker 1: are all having to deal with this in our different ways,

973
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:12,719
Speaker 1: whether in our businesses or professional lives, and it needs

974
00:57:12,719 --> 00:57:15,279
Speaker 1: to stop. I wanted to do switch gears come out

975
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:16,480
Speaker 1: up here and talk to you a bit about what

976
00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:21,480
Speaker 1: I see as the escalation with Russia, or at least

977
00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:22,880
Speaker 1: the way the media is writing about it. We had

978
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Speaker 1: a plane come pretty close to a Russian plan come

979
00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:30,480
Speaker 1: pretty close to a US plane, and so everyone's saying, oh,

980
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:34,800
Speaker 1: saber rattling Russia, trying to trying to show it's tough side. Well,

981
00:57:35,440 --> 00:57:37,040
Speaker 1: we'll get into what that really means and what it

982
00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 1: doesn't and much more coming up here in just a

983
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Speaker 1: few minutes. Teams stay with me. The Freedom Hunt rocks

984
00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:59,000
Speaker 1: online too. You can hang out with Team Buck anytime.

985
00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:01,800
Speaker 1: Plus can plus the news and analysis go to buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton dot com. Buck Sexton dot com, that's buck Sexton

987
00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:11,200
Speaker 1: dot com, Shields High Dam. I want to get into

988
00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:16,160
Speaker 1: a bit of latest in national security reporting and analysis

989
00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 1: going on today. So let's do a buckbrief. You are

990
00:58:21,080 --> 00:58:25,400
Speaker 1: now entering the Freedom hot Tanital Operation Center. All sense

991
00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:29,880
Speaker 1: of programs Musky Caps strictly need to know Team Buck

992
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:35,560
Speaker 1: is cleared and ready for the buckbrief. Escalating tensions with

993
00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:43,080
Speaker 1: Russia major headline across the news news sites in the

994
00:58:43,120 --> 00:58:49,240
Speaker 1: last twenty four hours. And also the US reportedly shot

995
00:58:49,280 --> 00:58:55,080
Speaker 1: down and armed Iranian drone That was report that was,

996
00:58:55,080 --> 00:58:58,480
Speaker 1: according to Fox News here, advancing on coalition forces in

997
00:58:58,680 --> 00:59:05,080
Speaker 1: southern Syria earlier today. So Fox rites here that the

998
00:59:05,160 --> 00:59:09,080
Speaker 1: armed pro Regime UAV was shot down by a US

999
00:59:09,160 --> 00:59:13,240
Speaker 1: F fifteen Strike Eagle after it displayed hostile intent and

1000
00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:16,800
Speaker 1: advanced on coalition troops. Remember we had this drone shot down,

1001
00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:21,240
Speaker 1: this Iranian drone shot down today, and then there was

1002
00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:26,360
Speaker 1: an Assad regime plane manned aircraft shot down the day

1003
00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:31,600
Speaker 1: before that. So this airspace over Syria is getting getting

1004
00:59:31,640 --> 00:59:36,560
Speaker 1: pretty pretty tight these days. The Russians have said that

1005
00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:41,400
Speaker 1: they may consider planes west of the Euphrates River to

1006
00:59:41,520 --> 00:59:46,160
Speaker 1: be a well to be possible targets, that they may

1007
00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:48,840
Speaker 1: at least follow them as possible targets. They did not

1008
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:53,360
Speaker 1: say they would shoot them down. But that is obviously

1009
00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:56,600
Speaker 1: the kind of rhetoric that puts people on edge who

1010
00:59:56,600 --> 01:00:00,360
Speaker 1: are both the ones engaged in the military operation in

1011
01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:04,160
Speaker 1: Syria and also those who are responsible for those out there,

1012
01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:09,040
Speaker 1: either in the sky or on the ground. So here's what. Oh,

1013
01:00:09,080 --> 01:00:13,120
Speaker 1: by the way, there was also this story about a

1014
01:00:13,240 --> 01:00:19,800
Speaker 1: Russian fighter over the Baltics that got too close to

1015
01:00:20,120 --> 01:00:22,560
Speaker 1: or got with I think it was within five feet

1016
01:00:23,520 --> 01:00:28,640
Speaker 1: was the initial reporting of a plane of a US plane.

1017
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:33,280
Speaker 1: So look, the Russians, this is not anything new. They're

1018
01:00:33,320 --> 01:00:37,760
Speaker 1: they're testing the limits. It's understood that the Russians, the

1019
01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:42,360
Speaker 1: Russian military will see, well, we'll see how far it

1020
01:00:42,360 --> 01:00:44,000
Speaker 1: can go in some of these areas, and then it

1021
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:50,520
Speaker 1: will decide to pull back. But here's where things can

1022
01:00:50,520 --> 01:00:56,000
Speaker 1: get I think complicated very quickly. The Russians are not

1023
01:00:56,040 --> 01:01:00,000
Speaker 1: going to go the Russians are. Yeah, the Russian plane

1024
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:02,479
Speaker 1: and Russian jet came within five feet of a US

1025
01:01:02,600 --> 01:01:06,640
Speaker 1: Air Force reconnaissance aircraft over the Baltic Sea, according to

1026
01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:11,560
Speaker 1: ABC News here, and it was deemed an unsafe encounter,

1027
01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:14,000
Speaker 1: meaning it's too close here. Even if he didn't want

1028
01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:17,160
Speaker 1: to cause some sort of midair collision that could happen,

1029
01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:20,040
Speaker 1: and that could have fatal consequences for a really either pilot.

1030
01:01:20,560 --> 01:01:25,480
Speaker 1: So the Russians are being agitators here. Russian military is

1031
01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:29,480
Speaker 1: trying to trying to stir up some tension and some trouble.

1032
01:01:30,080 --> 01:01:32,880
Speaker 1: I don't think the Russians are about to send in

1033
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:36,400
Speaker 1: an armored division to a Baltic state, which is an

1034
01:01:36,480 --> 01:01:39,200
Speaker 1: Article five covered NATO country, which means it's part of

1035
01:01:39,240 --> 01:01:44,240
Speaker 1: the Collective Defense provision under the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

1036
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Speaker 1: I don't think the Russians are going to do that.

1037
01:01:46,920 --> 01:01:51,000
Speaker 1: I've no belief whatsoever that that's going to happen anytime soon.

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01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:53,560
Speaker 1: And I think we can separate out, by the way,

1039
01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:58,120
Speaker 1: the Syrian theater of war from what's going on on

1040
01:01:58,160 --> 01:02:01,640
Speaker 1: the Russian periphery. Right, Let's why don't I actually deal

1041
01:02:01,680 --> 01:02:06,200
Speaker 1: with with the Syrian aspect first, so we know that

1042
01:02:06,520 --> 01:02:09,960
Speaker 1: the Russians have talked some pretty tough game after we

1043
01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:12,800
Speaker 1: shot down Assyrian regime. Jet I mentioned that to you

1044
01:02:12,920 --> 01:02:16,200
Speaker 1: yesterday when I was doing the show up in Boston.

1045
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Speaker 1: And the Russians are clearly invested in keeping the Assad

1046
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Speaker 1: regime going, and this means that they have a forward

1047
01:02:29,400 --> 01:02:34,880
Speaker 1: operating base for Russian military and naval assets, and they

1048
01:02:34,920 --> 01:02:38,560
Speaker 1: also have a greater influence on what's going on in

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Speaker 1: the Middle East, and they just it's a projection of

1050
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Speaker 1: power issue. And also Putin, who I saw her today,

1051
01:02:44,240 --> 01:02:47,080
Speaker 1: does not get great marks from the Russians for his

1052
01:02:47,200 --> 01:02:50,400
Speaker 1: handling of the Russian economy, although I'm sure it's true.

1053
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Speaker 1: Well maybe it's a little different in Russia because of

1054
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:56,680
Speaker 1: the control of the state wields over major industries and

1055
01:02:58,040 --> 01:03:03,520
Speaker 1: supposedly private cancerns that do the Kremlin's bidding. But Putin

1056
01:03:03,560 --> 01:03:05,560
Speaker 1: probably gets more blame and more credit for the economy

1057
01:03:05,600 --> 01:03:08,480
Speaker 1: than he deserves, depending on how you look at it. Right,

1058
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Speaker 1: he does get credit for the creation really of a

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Speaker 1: Russian middle class, because while he's been the president, there

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01:03:14,600 --> 01:03:17,520
Speaker 1: has been the there has been a Russian middle class,

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Speaker 1: whereas obviously before the really the two thousands came along,

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Speaker 1: this was just not the case. And much of that

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01:03:26,360 --> 01:03:29,840
Speaker 1: was built by well, much of that dealt with oil revenue,

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01:03:29,880 --> 01:03:33,600
Speaker 1: and now that's collapsed, but or it's a fraction of

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01:03:33,640 --> 01:03:35,560
Speaker 1: what it was because of oil prices right now, but

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Speaker 1: still gets credit for it. Putin gets credit for the

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Speaker 1: creation of a Russian middle class from at least some Russians.

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Speaker 1: I know. People say that's unfair, and Bucket's crazy, and

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01:03:43,280 --> 01:03:46,040
Speaker 1: Putin's terrible, he's dictary. I get all that, but he

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01:03:46,080 --> 01:03:48,600
Speaker 1: gets creation, the gets credit for some creation of Russian

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Speaker 1: middle class. But they also don't think he's doing a

1072
01:03:50,040 --> 01:03:51,680
Speaker 1: great job of the commune. So what did he do.

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01:03:52,240 --> 01:03:55,040
Speaker 1: It's got a fine ways to project Russian power and

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01:03:55,120 --> 01:03:58,960
Speaker 1: to show that he stands up for the Russian for

1075
01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:02,760
Speaker 1: Russian interests abroad. And one means of doing that is

1076
01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:08,240
Speaker 1: projecting Russia as defenders of friends i e. The Asad

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01:04:08,280 --> 01:04:13,920
Speaker 1: regime in this case, and also a determined enemy of terrorism.

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01:04:14,640 --> 01:04:16,640
Speaker 1: They would say the Islamic State. But most of the

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Speaker 1: Russian air sorties that we know of have been not

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Speaker 1: against ISIS fighters in Syria, but in fact against other

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01:04:22,360 --> 01:04:27,720
Speaker 1: rebel groups on the ground. So the Russians in Syria

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01:04:27,920 --> 01:04:33,360
Speaker 1: have this interest in Assad. And as we expand more

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01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:37,160
Speaker 1: we have US military on the ground assisting the Kurdish

1084
01:04:37,200 --> 01:04:40,840
Speaker 1: militia as it is retaking Rocca and surrounding areas. It

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01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:45,000
Speaker 1: is taking away all of the land that it can,

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01:04:45,120 --> 01:04:48,520
Speaker 1: at least taking away territory from the Islamic State. But

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01:04:48,640 --> 01:04:51,280
Speaker 1: as it does this. That also means that we are

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01:04:51,320 --> 01:04:55,480
Speaker 1: getting closer to regime held areas, and we've been operating

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01:04:55,560 --> 01:04:58,840
Speaker 1: under this defeat isis don't worry about ASSAD policy. I

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01:04:58,840 --> 01:05:02,080
Speaker 1: don't know how long that's go to be sustainable as

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01:05:02,120 --> 01:05:04,480
Speaker 1: a policy. I don't know how long that we can

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01:05:04,520 --> 01:05:09,000
Speaker 1: continue with that, meaning that at some point, what do

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01:05:09,040 --> 01:05:10,880
Speaker 1: we do when Asad says I want I want that

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01:05:10,960 --> 01:05:14,200
Speaker 1: land back, and the Russians say, Assad is the sovereign

1095
01:05:14,200 --> 01:05:16,800
Speaker 1: of Sirius. Syria is a country that is recognized by

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01:05:16,800 --> 01:05:21,400
Speaker 1: the international community. We've kicked out the terrorists. Now it's

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01:05:21,440 --> 01:05:23,560
Speaker 1: you know, we need to have some framework in place.

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01:05:23,600 --> 01:05:25,960
Speaker 1: Some Okay, I hit on more that I know yesterday,

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01:05:25,960 --> 01:05:30,480
Speaker 1: but just to recap some of it. But what if

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01:05:30,520 --> 01:05:35,600
Speaker 1: the Russians to send a message, drop a bomb and

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01:05:36,120 --> 01:05:38,600
Speaker 1: it kills a bunch of the militia that our troops

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01:05:38,640 --> 01:05:40,240
Speaker 1: are working with, And what if it's really close to

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01:05:40,240 --> 01:05:44,640
Speaker 1: our troops? God forbid, what if it actually hits any

1104
01:05:44,640 --> 01:05:50,240
Speaker 1: of our military assets, any of our military personnel, our soldiers.

1105
01:05:52,760 --> 01:05:57,200
Speaker 1: What's the response. And you can see that now things

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01:05:58,640 --> 01:06:03,840
Speaker 1: are aligned in such a way that a dramatic escalation,

1107
01:06:04,200 --> 01:06:08,840
Speaker 1: even based on an initial miscalculation is very real, and

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01:06:08,960 --> 01:06:14,120
Speaker 1: the Russians see this as sending a message for all

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01:06:14,120 --> 01:06:16,360
Speaker 1: of the other conflicts are involved in as well. Right, So,

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01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:19,840
Speaker 1: if if let's say, a Russian a Russian plane gets

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01:06:19,880 --> 01:06:24,760
Speaker 1: too close to the US military on the ground, or

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01:06:24,920 --> 01:06:27,919
Speaker 1: it's believed it's threatening US aircraft and we shoot one down,

1113
01:06:29,360 --> 01:06:31,400
Speaker 1: do we really think the Russians will not retaliate in

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01:06:31,440 --> 01:06:33,480
Speaker 1: some way? They may do it in a way that

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01:06:33,520 --> 01:06:38,280
Speaker 1: it's not, oh, not obvious that it comes from the Russians,

1116
01:06:38,280 --> 01:06:41,200
Speaker 1: but we would perhaps know which would seem to be

1117
01:06:41,200 --> 01:06:44,960
Speaker 1: a very Russian approach to this, and that will be

1118
01:06:44,960 --> 01:06:48,400
Speaker 1: a real test of the administration. But it's not clear

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01:06:48,440 --> 01:06:50,240
Speaker 1: to me at least what we're willing to do and

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01:06:50,400 --> 01:06:54,800
Speaker 1: not do in Syria other than yes, we'll defend our forces, okay,

1121
01:06:55,640 --> 01:06:58,000
Speaker 1: but to what extent we go to defend the Kurdish

1122
01:06:58,000 --> 01:07:00,800
Speaker 1: militia on the ground that we're working with. Would we

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01:07:01,880 --> 01:07:03,880
Speaker 1: shoot down I mean, this is the question you really

1124
01:07:03,920 --> 01:07:08,320
Speaker 1: have to ask. Would we shoot down a Russian warplane

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01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:14,880
Speaker 1: that was en route to what we believe drop a

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01:07:15,400 --> 01:07:17,680
Speaker 1: drop a bomb, for example, on a position held by

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01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:21,520
Speaker 1: Kurdish militia that we are working with against the Islamic state.

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01:07:21,520 --> 01:07:26,280
Speaker 1: Will we shoot down that Russian plane that gets that

1129
01:07:26,360 --> 01:07:29,640
Speaker 1: gets scary pretty quickly. I think now, I don't think

1130
01:07:29,640 --> 01:07:33,080
Speaker 1: the Russians would respond by, you know, saying they're gonna

1131
01:07:33,160 --> 01:07:35,440
Speaker 1: like march on New York City or something, obviously, but

1132
01:07:35,520 --> 01:07:39,640
Speaker 1: it would cause a major diplomatic incident, and it would

1133
01:07:40,240 --> 01:07:42,280
Speaker 1: raise tensions in all the different places where we have

1134
01:07:43,880 --> 01:07:47,320
Speaker 1: we have interests that conflict with the Russians, and there's

1135
01:07:47,320 --> 01:07:50,040
Speaker 1: plenty of them. This brings me out of the Baltics,

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01:07:50,080 --> 01:07:54,280
Speaker 1: where currently there's a major NATO operation under way, and

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01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:58,040
Speaker 1: here's the concern with the Baltics. I think if the

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01:07:58,120 --> 01:08:02,120
Speaker 1: Russians can create a pretext to cut off one or

1139
01:08:02,200 --> 01:08:07,120
Speaker 1: all of the Baltic states Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, If the

1140
01:08:07,200 --> 01:08:10,240
Speaker 1: Russians could create a pretext, which by the way, in

1141
01:08:10,560 --> 01:08:12,600
Speaker 1: polls you see of countries around the world, those were

1142
01:08:12,600 --> 01:08:15,760
Speaker 1: like some of the most pro American countries that there are,

1143
01:08:15,760 --> 01:08:18,960
Speaker 1: at least they have been traditional historically. They're like at

1144
01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:23,240
Speaker 1: Albania in the late nineties level pro American where they're

1145
01:08:23,280 --> 01:08:26,559
Speaker 1: just like America is number one. We love America. But

1146
01:08:26,680 --> 01:08:31,000
Speaker 1: those countries, if the Russians created some pretexts. Let's say

1147
01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:35,519
Speaker 1: that there was an emergency of you know, I don't know,

1148
01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:39,759
Speaker 1: a terrorist attack against Russian speakers in or a hasta

1149
01:08:39,840 --> 01:08:42,719
Speaker 1: situation involving Russian because there was a Russian speaking minority

1150
01:08:43,000 --> 01:08:46,600
Speaker 1: specifically in Latvia, I mean in all these countries, but

1151
01:08:46,720 --> 01:08:52,240
Speaker 1: you know, in Latvia, and they were to Rushi in sorry,

1152
01:08:52,280 --> 01:08:54,880
Speaker 1: they were to Russian, but they were to move in

1153
01:08:54,960 --> 01:08:58,679
Speaker 1: quickly and say that they were assisting that Russian speaking

1154
01:08:58,720 --> 01:09:01,720
Speaker 1: minority in Latvia for humanitarian purposes, and they said it

1155
01:09:01,760 --> 01:09:03,679
Speaker 1: was a you know, at similar to what we've seen

1156
01:09:03,760 --> 01:09:05,600
Speaker 1: in Ukraine where they've gotten away with a lot of this.

1157
01:09:05,680 --> 01:09:11,040
Speaker 1: By the way, would our response, of course, diplomatically would

1158
01:09:11,040 --> 01:09:13,519
Speaker 1: be very severe and we would say we would you know,

1159
01:09:13,760 --> 01:09:17,879
Speaker 1: this will not stand. But if they raised the cost

1160
01:09:18,040 --> 01:09:21,479
Speaker 1: of real action such that it's high enough that we

1161
01:09:21,520 --> 01:09:24,200
Speaker 1: don't want to do it, but their aggression is not

1162
01:09:24,360 --> 01:09:31,480
Speaker 1: so blatant that it requires a massive NATO Article five counterstrike,

1163
01:09:32,479 --> 01:09:34,760
Speaker 1: do you think the Russians could could get away with it?

1164
01:09:34,960 --> 01:09:39,200
Speaker 1: Meaning you think they could have a de facto stealth

1165
01:09:39,439 --> 01:09:42,960
Speaker 1: occupation of I don't know, part of a Baltic state,

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01:09:43,680 --> 01:09:46,679
Speaker 1: and if they did it quickly enough and bloodlessly enough,

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01:09:47,800 --> 01:09:51,559
Speaker 1: and made it obvious to us that any military response

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01:09:51,600 --> 01:09:57,960
Speaker 1: to them would be met with a much stronger military response, right,

1169
01:09:57,960 --> 01:10:01,599
Speaker 1: so that they promised that there'd be a rapid escalation. Um,

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01:10:02,200 --> 01:10:04,600
Speaker 1: you know, would they then be able to do what

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01:10:04,640 --> 01:10:07,320
Speaker 1: they've done in other places in uh, you know, in

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01:10:07,320 --> 01:10:12,240
Speaker 1: in Ossetia, in Ukraine, in Crimea, where they've they have

1173
01:10:12,400 --> 01:10:17,520
Speaker 1: violated international norms, They have engaged in cross border international

1174
01:10:17,520 --> 01:10:22,320
Speaker 1: aggression with only diplomatic and economic consequences but really no

1175
01:10:22,400 --> 01:10:25,320
Speaker 1: military consequences to speak of, except from maybe the state

1176
01:10:25,360 --> 01:10:29,000
Speaker 1: that's been violated. But those have been not a particularly

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01:10:29,080 --> 01:10:32,760
Speaker 1: major for Russia obviously. So you know, another way to

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01:10:32,800 --> 01:10:36,760
Speaker 1: think of this is, you know, if somebody walks down

1179
01:10:36,800 --> 01:10:38,920
Speaker 1: the street. Let's se wearing a baseball cap. Someone's walking

1180
01:10:38,920 --> 01:10:41,479
Speaker 1: on the street and some guy grabs your grabs your

1181
01:10:41,520 --> 01:10:44,680
Speaker 1: hat off your head. Obviously that's aggression, but he says, look, look,

1182
01:10:44,760 --> 01:10:48,960
Speaker 1: I just want the hat. But you know, we can

1183
01:10:49,000 --> 01:10:52,559
Speaker 1: walk away now, or you can you can try to

1184
01:10:52,920 --> 01:10:54,320
Speaker 1: you know, you can try to fight me for it,

1185
01:10:54,360 --> 01:10:56,920
Speaker 1: but is it really worth it for a hat? Now?

1186
01:10:57,000 --> 01:10:58,800
Speaker 1: Some of you might say, you're darn right, buck, that

1187
01:10:58,840 --> 01:11:02,680
Speaker 1: guy's going to get a you know, we're gonna go fisticuffs, pugilists,

1188
01:11:02,920 --> 01:11:06,439
Speaker 1: We're gonna go after we go after them. But you know,

1189
01:11:06,560 --> 01:11:08,120
Speaker 1: you might say, yeah, I mean it's like a five

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01:11:08,160 --> 01:11:10,320
Speaker 1: dollar hat. I fine, you know, i'ma let him get

1191
01:11:10,320 --> 01:11:13,080
Speaker 1: away with it, right, because the cost of the response

1192
01:11:14,000 --> 01:11:16,400
Speaker 1: is too high based on the initial encourasion. Now, I

1193
01:11:16,400 --> 01:11:18,639
Speaker 1: know some people would say, well buck any any violation

1194
01:11:18,680 --> 01:11:22,439
Speaker 1: and NATO Article five means that NATO's got to jump

1195
01:11:22,439 --> 01:11:25,080
Speaker 1: in action. Yeah, but it's never that obvious. You know,

1196
01:11:25,120 --> 01:11:26,960
Speaker 1: the Russians are not going to roll in with the

1197
01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:29,720
Speaker 1: Russian Federation flag all over everything and a bunch of

1198
01:11:29,720 --> 01:11:32,479
Speaker 1: big tanks and say, you know, and be mowing down

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01:11:32,600 --> 01:11:34,400
Speaker 1: Latvians in the street and everything. You know, this isn't

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01:11:34,400 --> 01:11:36,120
Speaker 1: the old Soviet Union. They're not going to do that.

1201
01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:42,840
Speaker 1: But could they send in some combat force that's or

1202
01:11:42,840 --> 01:11:45,160
Speaker 1: could there be a combat force in Latfia that's claiming

1203
01:11:45,160 --> 01:11:49,439
Speaker 1: there's a breakaway republic and effectively the Eastern Ukraine playbook

1204
01:11:49,439 --> 01:11:53,160
Speaker 1: in a Baltic state that would complicate matters very quickly. Yeah,

1205
01:11:53,200 --> 01:11:55,439
Speaker 1: I think that's real, man. I think the Baltic states

1206
01:11:55,439 --> 01:11:57,000
Speaker 1: are worried about that. That's why we have, you know,

1207
01:11:57,439 --> 01:12:01,000
Speaker 1: ongoing military operations and training and everything else. So why

1208
01:12:01,040 --> 01:12:04,200
Speaker 1: we're flying planes, you know, in each other's airspace, getting

1209
01:12:04,240 --> 01:12:07,240
Speaker 1: real those planes are getting snuggly with each other. Well

1210
01:12:07,280 --> 01:12:10,080
Speaker 1: too snug dangerous today what the Russians did. What the

1211
01:12:10,160 --> 01:12:12,200
Speaker 1: Russians did five feet of it within five feet of

1212
01:12:12,200 --> 01:12:17,200
Speaker 1: the US plane. So reason to be concerned here, not

1213
01:12:17,280 --> 01:12:20,719
Speaker 1: reason to panic, but because I think there's the panic

1214
01:12:20,760 --> 01:12:23,920
Speaker 1: button with Russia. Is just it's that's becoming a knee

1215
01:12:23,960 --> 01:12:26,080
Speaker 1: jerk response right anytime anything comes up with the Russia.

1216
01:12:26,120 --> 01:12:28,080
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Oh wait, by the way, we've got

1217
01:12:28,120 --> 01:12:31,000
Speaker 1: Karen Handle at fifty one percent to John assofs forty

1218
01:12:31,040 --> 01:12:35,400
Speaker 1: eight percent with okay, less than one percent of very little.

1219
01:12:35,560 --> 01:12:37,599
Speaker 1: Just give a little update here on the race fifty

1220
01:12:37,640 --> 01:12:41,400
Speaker 1: one to forty eight with less than one percent reporting,

1221
01:12:41,520 --> 01:12:47,000
Speaker 1: So that doesn't really make a make much of a difference.

1222
01:12:47,160 --> 01:12:48,800
Speaker 1: I think, wait, no, that's can't be less that can't

1223
01:12:48,800 --> 01:12:53,400
Speaker 1: be less than one percent, is it? Well? Anyway, tight

1224
01:12:53,479 --> 01:12:57,680
Speaker 1: race in the sixth district, A sixth district team, We've

1225
01:12:57,680 --> 01:12:59,560
Speaker 1: got more. We'll be right back to stay with me.

1226
01:13:08,240 --> 01:13:10,880
Speaker 1: The media is nasty. I don't I don't have to

1227
01:13:12,640 --> 01:13:15,080
Speaker 1: tell you that you already know that, but it is worth,

1228
01:13:15,160 --> 01:13:17,920
Speaker 1: I think, just adding more evidence to the pile when

1229
01:13:17,960 --> 01:13:25,960
Speaker 1: we have it. The left leftist website Salon Salon dot com,

1230
01:13:26,000 --> 01:13:30,040
Speaker 1: which just piles digital crap upon digital crap and calls

1231
01:13:30,040 --> 01:13:37,240
Speaker 1: it a masterpiece on a daily basis, they criticized, Well,

1232
01:13:37,240 --> 01:13:39,439
Speaker 1: that's that's not even right way to say it. They mocked.

1233
01:13:40,560 --> 01:13:47,679
Speaker 1: They ridiculed Auto Warmber, who, as we know now is dead.

1234
01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:50,519
Speaker 1: I told us to you yesterday when the news broke

1235
01:13:51,160 --> 01:13:57,080
Speaker 1: returned from North Korea after clearly being tortured, and who

1236
01:13:57,160 --> 01:14:01,200
Speaker 1: knows the terrors, the horrors that he was put through

1237
01:14:01,320 --> 01:14:07,920
Speaker 1: by that just vile and vindictive and depraved regime. But

1238
01:14:08,200 --> 01:14:12,639
Speaker 1: Warmbier was returned and then died despite all of the

1239
01:14:12,680 --> 01:14:17,080
Speaker 1: efforts of a medical community in this country to try

1240
01:14:17,120 --> 01:14:20,800
Speaker 1: to save him. And you had Salon dot Com while

1241
01:14:20,920 --> 01:14:24,080
Speaker 1: Warmier was in custody writing quote, this might be America's

1242
01:14:24,120 --> 01:14:27,840
Speaker 1: biggest idiot frat boy, meet the UVA student who thought

1243
01:14:27,840 --> 01:14:30,800
Speaker 1: he could pull a prank in North Korea. Now, when

1244
01:14:30,800 --> 01:14:34,960
Speaker 1: they wrote that, they didn't know that Warmbier was going

1245
01:14:35,000 --> 01:14:38,640
Speaker 1: to come back essentially be handed back dead to his

1246
01:14:38,720 --> 01:14:41,600
Speaker 1: family and to America as a US citizen, this is

1247
01:14:41,600 --> 01:14:45,080
Speaker 1: one of ours. But they knew that he was in

1248
01:14:45,080 --> 01:14:50,840
Speaker 1: custody of a homicidal, maniacal and evil regime. And they

1249
01:14:51,160 --> 01:14:55,680
Speaker 1: but because he's white and male and went to Uva,

1250
01:14:55,840 --> 01:15:00,439
Speaker 1: he's a quote idiot frat boy. And what bunch of

1251
01:15:00,479 --> 01:15:06,200
Speaker 1: just gutless, little quizzling cowards over at salon all these places.

1252
01:15:06,240 --> 01:15:09,880
Speaker 1: You know, they just they're so brave behind their little keyboards.

1253
01:15:11,080 --> 01:15:17,280
Speaker 1: But you see a nasty streak that is widespread in

1254
01:15:17,320 --> 01:15:21,960
Speaker 1: these leftist media outlets that it just can't be explained

1255
01:15:21,960 --> 01:15:28,800
Speaker 1: by anything other than there's something really emotionally driven and childish,

1256
01:15:28,880 --> 01:15:35,320
Speaker 1: and I dare say un Christian about progressive media outlets.

1257
01:15:36,120 --> 01:15:38,479
Speaker 1: There's something And you know, I know some of them say, oh, buck,

1258
01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:41,840
Speaker 1: but what about you know what about all those Marxist

1259
01:15:41,880 --> 01:15:44,160
Speaker 1: Catholics running around? Yeah? I know it trusts me as

1260
01:15:44,160 --> 01:15:47,080
Speaker 1: a boarders raise catholic as The discussion we could have

1261
01:15:47,120 --> 01:15:50,760
Speaker 1: another time. But the left is is there's a nastiness.

1262
01:15:51,400 --> 01:15:53,840
Speaker 1: And you know, Larry Wilmore, the unfunny comedian on the

1263
01:15:54,160 --> 01:15:57,000
Speaker 1: on the Comedy Central, one of many unfunny comedians on

1264
01:15:57,080 --> 01:16:00,080
Speaker 1: Comedy Central. Have you noticed how many unfunny comedians, and

1265
01:16:00,120 --> 01:16:01,639
Speaker 1: there are that are still paid a lot of money

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Speaker 1: and given big platforms, but you know they're really just

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Speaker 1: political pundits. They're just political pundit who don't know very much.

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Speaker 1: That's what Willmore and John Stewart and you know you

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Speaker 1: get on the list that you know, John Oliver. There

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Speaker 1: are people that just make dirty jokes for political propaganda.

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Speaker 1: The Freedom Hunt rocks online too. You can hang out

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Speaker 1: with Team buck anytime. Plus get plus the latest news

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Speaker 1: and analysis. Stood up buck Sexton dot com, buck Sexton

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Speaker 1: dot com. That's buck Sexton dot com. Shields High. So

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Speaker 1: there's this huge company called Uber that some of you,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure use yourselves, and I'm guessing most, if not

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Speaker 1: all of your are quite familiar with it. And it

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Speaker 1: has a massive valuation and it's worth many, many, many

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Speaker 1: billions of dollars, and it is trying to change really

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Speaker 1: the future of transportation now just on a technology and

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Speaker 1: jobs run. I think it's going to be fascinating to

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Speaker 1: watch what happens. The same forces that are really making

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Speaker 1: retail a job that right now is ten percent of

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Speaker 1: the workforce, that's going to be getting smaller and smaller

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Speaker 1: all the time. And I think also those who work

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Speaker 1: in the grocery side of of commerce are going to

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Speaker 1: be seeing those jobs dwindle as Amazon took out Whole

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Speaker 1: food or acquired or should say Whole Foods. And this

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Speaker 1: technology is changing all this very rapidly, and there are

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Speaker 1: many jobs that exist today that will might exist in

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Speaker 1: the future. You think about all that. There are hundreds

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Speaker 1: of thousands of people in the country that make a

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Speaker 1: living driving people and driving people in goods in one

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Speaker 1: way or another. And if that all becomes automated and

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Speaker 1: uses technology driverless technology, people are gonna have to find

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Speaker 1: job doing something else. I know. People say, oh, well,

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Speaker 1: they'll move into the healthcare industry, or they'll move into

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Speaker 1: something else. Not entirely clear what that will be just yet.

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Speaker 1: And this is not an evolution in a business model.

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Speaker 1: This is a dramatic change. But so Uber has big

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Speaker 1: plans for the future. And there are others out there too,

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Speaker 1: and it's that's trying to partner up with major companies,

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Speaker 1: including auto manufacturers, because it is it is reliant, it

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Speaker 1: will be reliant increasingly on these outside partnerships. But Uber's

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Speaker 1: got a problem. Uber has now acquired a reputation for

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Speaker 1: being a company that is sexist, right is rampant. Their

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Speaker 1: accusations of a rampant sexism at Uber and the most

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Speaker 1: recently the case that's gotten some attention here, it's just

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Speaker 1: an example of how you know, now we you just

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Speaker 1: one little comment, one little comment, and you're in a

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Speaker 1: world of trouble. Doesn't matter who you are anymore. Uh,

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Speaker 1: if you're if you're a white male, you're in a

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Speaker 1: lot of trouble. And this this is from UM, the

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Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal from what was this just a few

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Speaker 1: days ago? David Bonderman, who is a billionaire investor. This

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Speaker 1: guy's has a has a storied career on Wall Street.

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Speaker 1: He was at a gosh, he was at a meeting

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Speaker 1: of Uber's board. UM, and he has had to resign

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Speaker 1: from the board. He had he lost his lost his

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Speaker 1: board seed. He was in a meeting of Uber's board

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Speaker 1: to discuss the Now look, I get it. He's there

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Speaker 1: to discuss the company's culture of sexism and decided to

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Speaker 1: make an ill advised and ill advised remark. Ah. This guy, um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he just I can imagine as soon as he said

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Speaker 1: and he probably realized that was not smart. He's resigned

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Speaker 1: from the board because He has said that his comments

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Speaker 1: were well, careless, inappropriate, and inexcusable. So he was sitting

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Speaker 1: on this board and Ariana Huffington Darlink, I sit on

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Speaker 1: many boards. I get paid so much money to sit

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Speaker 1: around and tell people about wellness and health and beating stress.

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Speaker 1: She's this. I don't know what she's good at, particularly

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Speaker 1: other than just being in the right place at the

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Speaker 1: right time, and a lot of self promotion and self

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Speaker 1: and branding. I don't know, not someone I would listen

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Speaker 1: to for political analysis or economic analysis or anything else

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Speaker 1: on any issue. But and the stories about her that

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Speaker 1: I've I've read about and also heard from people I

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Speaker 1: know at the huffing In Post about her imperiousness and

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Speaker 1: just completely at let everybody just part like the sea

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Speaker 1: for me when I come, and I want nobody to

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Speaker 1: look at me like they're unhappy, because I want everybody

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Speaker 1: to be very smiley, because I am the CEO. She is, yeah,

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Speaker 1: just walking around. She moved people in the office so

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Speaker 1: that they would be sitting along after they had layoffs.

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Speaker 1: At Huffingon Post when she was there, she moved people

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Speaker 1: so that there were more people on her route to

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Speaker 1: her office that she would show up to you know

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Speaker 1: whatever because you didn't like that there were empty chairs

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Speaker 1: because of the firings, right, I mean, so these are

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Speaker 1: the kind of things that they deal with. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the stories about you know are on the Huffington and

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Speaker 1: how this massive website gets built up and it still

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Speaker 1: was somehow supposed to be about her, even though it

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Speaker 1: was a news website, but it was always somehow also

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Speaker 1: supposed to be about her. And you couldn't criticize friends

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Speaker 1: of Ariana on the site. That was also a thing

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Speaker 1: that would come up. So no, no journalistic integrity. But anyway,

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Speaker 1: I digress. But she's on the board to clean up

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Speaker 1: their culture. Um this uh, this leftist progressive socialite is

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Speaker 1: on the board. And I look, I know she's been

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Speaker 1: very successful. I can't I can't dispute that certainly got

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Speaker 1: a lot more, a lot more cash in the bank

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Speaker 1: than old mister Sexton over here does a lot more.

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Speaker 1: This makes me sad on the inside. But she she's

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Speaker 1: sitting there in this meeting with this private equity guy

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Speaker 1: and she said, quote, when there's one woman on the board,

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Speaker 1: it's much more like there'll be a second woman on

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Speaker 1: the board. And this guy Bonderman jumped in and said, quote, Actually,

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Speaker 1: what it shows is that it's much more likely to

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Speaker 1: be more talking. So he stepped he stepped in it here.

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Speaker 1: And now of course everyone's saying, I see, even at

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Speaker 1: the board level, there's all of this sexism, and as

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Speaker 1: I think we could all I mean a sexist comments, go.

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Speaker 1: This was a pretty This was on the milder end.

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Speaker 1: But given that Uber has had there's allegations of you know,

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Speaker 1: senior management propositioning younger employees during company time on company

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Speaker 1: you know hardware, you know, on their computers. I mean

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Speaker 1: it just they got problems, right, you had the president

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Speaker 1: just resign, but you're getting these stories out there. So anyway,

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Speaker 1: he had this the president of Uber resigned after just

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Speaker 1: six months on the job, and that just happened. Well

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Speaker 1: that that happened in March. Pardon me, the president resigned

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Speaker 1: in March after six months on the job. So there's

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Speaker 1: been all this problem with morale, the sexual rasment allegations.

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Speaker 1: So they bring in Arianna Huffington to fix it. I

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Speaker 1: just want to be like, so what is that? What

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Speaker 1: is her expertise here? So you bring an Aria Huffing

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Speaker 1: to have a prominent female that's on your board. That's

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Speaker 1: going to change the culture at at Uber. And from

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Speaker 1: what I understand that the culture at the Huffington Post

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Speaker 1: became everybody was disposable except Arianna Huffington. That's what the

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Speaker 1: culture is going to be. See, that's the reality of

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Speaker 1: what it was. What they're gonna tell you was, oh,

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Speaker 1: you know they had Na. I saw them. I was

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Speaker 1: over Huffington Post a few times. They did the nap

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Speaker 1: rooms and you know, yoga studio whatever. I mean that

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Speaker 1: that was not the reality over there. It was around's

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Speaker 1: world and everybody else was living in it. And you know,

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Speaker 1: she was the The solopsism of this woman, meaning the

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Speaker 1: sun revolves around her. The sallipsism of Arianna Huffington was

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Speaker 1: astonishing from what I'm told by first person accounts. But

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Speaker 1: she gets brought in because a major company that could

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Speaker 1: be changing the future transportation, there's allegations of sexism. So

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Speaker 1: you bring an Aria on Huffington because she's gonna fix it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I just you know. And then this guy

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Speaker 1: who actually has real expertise in private equity and might

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Speaker 1: be useful for Uber says something dumb and he has

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Speaker 1: to resign. This is just the this is the corporate

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Speaker 1: world we live in these days, my friends, political correctness

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Speaker 1: first and foremost, and always just the way that it is.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna hit a quick break. Team will be right

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Speaker 1: back to stay with me, all right, everybody, welcome back.

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Speaker 1: We got our friend David Harsanye on the line. He

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Speaker 1: is senior editor at The Federalist and a nationally syndicated columnist.

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Speaker 1: His latest, Republicans aren't sabotaging Obamacare, it's failing on its own.

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Speaker 1: Mister Harsanye, do please explain. Wow, I've noticed that recently,

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Speaker 1: over the last couple of weeks, there's been a lot

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Speaker 1: of talk about how the GOP, in particular Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: is sabotaging Obamacare, and you know, it's sort of picked

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Speaker 1: up and now these things work in concerts, so all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, everyone's using the word, and everyone's going

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Speaker 1: with this idea, and in essence, what they're saying is

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Speaker 1: that the Republicans, because of uncertainty with their bill and

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Speaker 1: with the way they're treating Obamacare, have sort of undermine

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Speaker 1: the exchanges in the states and chased away insures and

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Speaker 1: so on. I think that's not the case. I think

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Speaker 1: that there's plenty of evidence that this was going on

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Speaker 1: without any help from the Republicans. And when Republicans are

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Speaker 1: confronted with these facts, though, David, they don't seem to

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Speaker 1: be making a very good public case for why it

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Speaker 1: is that they should be acting on Obamacare. And I

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Speaker 1: think it's in part because they're not sure how they

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Speaker 1: want to deal with Obamacare. They all the Republicans seem

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Speaker 1: to be on the same sheet of music about it

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Speaker 1: is Obamacare bad? But why is it bad? How do

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Speaker 1: we fix? They don't seem as clear on that, right.

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Speaker 1: So there's two things here. You know, in I think

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Speaker 1: two years ago, or maybe it was twenty sixteen, the

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Speaker 1: House sued over cost sharing reductions, which are like you know,

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Speaker 1: basically subsidies to the insurance companies and these exchanges. And

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Speaker 1: because Obamacare never had the spending mechanism in the bill,

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Speaker 1: so they just simply gave money. So the House won,

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Speaker 1: and it's illegal, right, So you know, Congress has every

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Speaker 1: right not to give these subsidies, and they could destroy

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Speaker 1: Obamacare tomorrow, all the exchanges if they felt like it,

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Speaker 1: which they don't want to do because Republicans have never

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Speaker 1: made a good argument against Obamacare. Other than Obamacare stinking right.

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Speaker 1: Obamacare stinks, but they have never really come up with

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Speaker 1: a coherent plan that they could sell to Americans. So

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Speaker 1: that there are two things here. One is Obamacare's dying anywhere,

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Speaker 1: but yet Republicans don't seem to have any kind of

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Speaker 1: inkling as to what to do about it. And I'm

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Speaker 1: nervous that in their little secret bill that's going on

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Speaker 1: right now, they're essentially going to save the infrastructure of

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Speaker 1: Obamacare rather than destroy the whole thing and start from scratch,

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Speaker 1: which I think is almost almost the worst outcome in

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Speaker 1: any ways, when we can let it die and do

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Speaker 1: something better. What do you think about the secrecy right

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Speaker 1: now with the Senate version of the Obamacare bill of

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Speaker 1: the Senate, Republicans aren't talking a lot about what's going

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Speaker 1: to be different, what they're changing, And this has become

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Speaker 1: a common talking point for Democrats, and I know that's

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Speaker 1: been the justification that they've put forward for why they're

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Speaker 1: trying to slow down Senate business and just make things

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Speaker 1: more complicated in general for all Senate processes, because they're

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Speaker 1: saying there's not transparency here, But why aren't there members

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Speaker 1: of the Senate, why aren't there Republican members of the

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Speaker 1: Senate who are standing forward and saying, look, we've seen

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Speaker 1: the House bill. Here's what we're trying to do right now.

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Speaker 1: That would be good. I just what are we paying

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Speaker 1: these guys to do. I'm of two minds here. If

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Speaker 1: they were constructing a bill that I thought was really

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Speaker 1: going to be a great a repeal bill that was

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Speaker 1: going to be wonderful before it simply because the way

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Speaker 1: that the Democrats passed Obamacare, I'm willing to give Republicans

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01:29:09,400 --> 01:29:13,639
Speaker 1: leeway in their own efforts to repeal what Democrats did,

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01:29:13,680 --> 01:29:18,200
Speaker 1: which was a bunch of trickery, a bunch of fake transparency,

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01:29:18,600 --> 01:29:22,360
Speaker 1: you know, and fake hearings that completely discounted one of

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Speaker 1: the political parties and created this great havoc that I

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01:29:25,720 --> 01:29:28,200
Speaker 1: think we're still dealing with. So I would be open

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Speaker 1: to that. I understand why they're doing it. They're doing

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01:29:30,640 --> 01:29:32,639
Speaker 1: it because they saw what happened to the House. Every

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01:29:32,680 --> 01:29:35,639
Speaker 1: idea that leaks out every there's no safe space when

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01:29:35,640 --> 01:29:38,240
Speaker 1: you're talking about this, right, So every idea that you

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01:29:38,280 --> 01:29:40,840
Speaker 1: throw out there, Democrats are going to jump on it.

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01:29:40,880 --> 01:29:43,400
Speaker 1: They're going to say, come up with some report that

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Speaker 1: says it's going to kill X many, you know, ten

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Speaker 1: million children, whatever it is, and they don't want to

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Speaker 1: deal with any of that. Problem for me here is

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01:29:51,160 --> 01:29:53,360
Speaker 1: that I just sense that it's not good. If it's

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01:29:53,400 --> 01:29:55,880
Speaker 1: more liberal and more water down than the House build,

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01:29:55,880 --> 01:29:58,080
Speaker 1: then it's just going to be something terrible anyway. So

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01:29:58,520 --> 01:30:00,880
Speaker 1: for me, that's the bigger problem with I'm a conservative.

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01:30:01,479 --> 01:30:04,760
Speaker 1: I think also because so much of Obamacare's coverage expansion

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01:30:05,240 --> 01:30:10,080
Speaker 1: has to do with Medicaid instead of the broader insurance market,

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01:30:10,240 --> 01:30:13,000
Speaker 1: and because it's it's it's individual, it's it's people buying

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Speaker 1: individual plans and Medicaid expansions, it doesn't affect much. It

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Speaker 1: has not had the same impact on employer provided plans,

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Speaker 1: although it has had effects on it. It's just they're

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Speaker 1: they're more hidden from public view. I think that's why

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01:30:25,800 --> 01:30:29,600
Speaker 1: Democrats are able to still be favorably disposed towards this,

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01:30:29,680 --> 01:30:34,720
Speaker 1: because everyone that I know, including real leftist progressives who

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01:30:34,840 --> 01:30:38,519
Speaker 1: in a moment of person to person honesty, will share

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01:30:38,520 --> 01:30:41,960
Speaker 1: their thoughts on Obamacare, agrees that Obamacare plans for the

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01:30:42,000 --> 01:30:44,960
Speaker 1: most part, are pretty terrible. I mean, if you get

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01:30:45,000 --> 01:30:47,360
Speaker 1: a disease that would have bankrupted you and you just

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01:30:47,360 --> 01:30:50,080
Speaker 1: so happen to have had an Obamacare plan. Maybe you

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01:30:50,080 --> 01:30:52,960
Speaker 1: think Obamacare is a good thing, but that's a tiny

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01:30:53,040 --> 01:30:56,040
Speaker 1: percentage of people. There are ways to help those people

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Speaker 1: without putting everybody else on Obamacare. And overall, Obamacare plans

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01:31:00,479 --> 01:31:02,040
Speaker 1: from the people I know who are on them, are

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01:31:02,080 --> 01:31:05,720
Speaker 1: just bad. They're really expensive, and they're crappy because there's

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01:31:05,720 --> 01:31:08,680
Speaker 1: no real competition in those individual markets. I mean, I

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01:31:08,800 --> 01:31:11,960
Speaker 1: forgot how many counties now. Is that essentially, you know,

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01:31:12,000 --> 01:31:16,640
Speaker 1: a monopoly. There's one one company, you know so, and

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01:31:16,760 --> 01:31:19,120
Speaker 1: because of all the rules and all the regulations, there's

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01:31:19,120 --> 01:31:22,040
Speaker 1: no real competition. And obviously this is a complicated problem.

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01:31:22,080 --> 01:31:24,760
Speaker 1: It's not wouldn't be easy to fix anyway. But when

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01:31:24,800 --> 01:31:29,000
Speaker 1: Obamacare passed, they did not focus in the you know,

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01:31:29,120 --> 01:31:31,920
Speaker 1: they talked about expanding coverage, obviously to the people who

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01:31:31,920 --> 01:31:33,680
Speaker 1: didn't have it, but it was supposed to be about

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Speaker 1: a lot of other things. And now what is it about.

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01:31:36,479 --> 01:31:40,439
Speaker 1: It's about that. It's about taking away welfare from people.

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01:31:40,520 --> 01:31:43,639
Speaker 1: So I would be much happier if they said, listen,

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Speaker 1: we're going to provide some sort of help and welfare

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Speaker 1: program for this, you know, people who can't afford it,

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Speaker 1: But for everyone else. We're going to create a more

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01:31:51,200 --> 01:31:53,639
Speaker 1: vibrant free market system to let them have the kind

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01:31:53,680 --> 01:31:57,799
Speaker 1: of plans they want. But Republicans are very scared because

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01:31:57,840 --> 01:32:00,360
Speaker 1: whenever you take insurance away from one person, obviously it's

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01:32:00,360 --> 01:32:05,799
Speaker 1: a political liability, and you know, and they don't they

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01:32:05,840 --> 01:32:07,519
Speaker 1: don't have the guts to deal with it. And frankly,

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01:32:07,560 --> 01:32:10,400
Speaker 1: they don't have a president who really is for the

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01:32:10,479 --> 01:32:12,160
Speaker 1: kind of free market plan at least that I would

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01:32:12,160 --> 01:32:13,479
Speaker 1: like to see them, and the kind of plan they

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01:32:13,520 --> 01:32:15,760
Speaker 1: were talking about. I mean, let's be honest here. They

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01:32:15,800 --> 01:32:18,520
Speaker 1: have majorities in both houses, and they have the presidency,

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01:32:18,880 --> 01:32:21,640
Speaker 1: probably in large part due to Obama. Carry it was

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01:32:21,680 --> 01:32:24,920
Speaker 1: their biggest issue. And yet now what you know, what

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01:32:24,960 --> 01:32:27,240
Speaker 1: are they doing? They're not even talking about it. We're

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01:32:27,240 --> 01:32:30,000
Speaker 1: speaking to David Harsanyi. He's a senior enter at the Federalists.

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01:32:30,000 --> 01:32:32,280
Speaker 1: Going to check out his latest at the Federalist dot com.

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01:32:32,400 --> 01:32:37,720
Speaker 1: Is also a nationally syndicated columnist. Everyone, David, the congressional

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01:32:37,760 --> 01:32:41,920
Speaker 1: sixth district. The results are coming in tonight. We won't

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01:32:41,960 --> 01:32:45,360
Speaker 1: know for a little while what those results are, but

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01:32:45,439 --> 01:32:49,120
Speaker 1: they closed the polls at seven pm. What do you

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01:32:49,200 --> 01:32:52,760
Speaker 1: think about mister asof and all the national attention on

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01:32:52,800 --> 01:32:54,760
Speaker 1: that this is the third time there's been Actually there's

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01:32:54,760 --> 01:32:56,840
Speaker 1: another special election that no one's paying attention to because

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01:32:56,840 --> 01:32:59,240
Speaker 1: the Republicans definitely gonna win. But this is the third

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01:32:59,240 --> 01:33:01,360
Speaker 1: one where there's an it's going to be close. It's

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01:33:01,400 --> 01:33:03,640
Speaker 1: because of Trump. It's because of the Trump effect, and

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01:33:03,760 --> 01:33:07,800
Speaker 1: you know it's negative. What do you think, Well, if

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01:33:07,280 --> 01:33:10,160
Speaker 1: OsO loses, it'll be because of the candidate or the

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01:33:10,240 --> 01:33:13,920
Speaker 1: rain or something, and it'll be it'll be done. And

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01:33:13,960 --> 01:33:17,400
Speaker 1: then if if he wins, it'll be everything that it'll

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01:33:17,400 --> 01:33:19,400
Speaker 1: tell us everything we need to know about the country,

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01:33:19,479 --> 01:33:22,320
Speaker 1: the presidency. It'll be a repudiation of the entirety of

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01:33:22,320 --> 01:33:24,559
Speaker 1: the Republican Party for all of its existence. I think

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01:33:24,960 --> 01:33:29,120
Speaker 1: that's right, that's how it works. So it all depends. Obviously,

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01:33:29,160 --> 01:33:31,479
Speaker 1: it's going to be close, and I think what I

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01:33:31,520 --> 01:33:33,760
Speaker 1: love is even if they lose, actually it'll even if

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01:33:33,800 --> 01:33:37,240
Speaker 1: Democrats lose, it'll be like it was much closer than expected.

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01:33:37,360 --> 01:33:40,960
Speaker 1: This is shows a trend, the trajectory so further than

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01:33:41,000 --> 01:33:44,240
Speaker 1: so on. You know, I don't know, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: just I think that we put way too much importance

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01:33:46,720 --> 01:33:49,920
Speaker 1: into these things, and I don't think special elections, at

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01:33:50,000 --> 01:33:52,760
Speaker 1: least from what I've read, seemed that important. So I

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01:33:52,760 --> 01:33:56,240
Speaker 1: think we should treat them as the House election that

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01:33:56,280 --> 01:33:58,080
Speaker 1: they are. And there's many of them to come. So

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Speaker 1: I was like, it's funny that people will people hate

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01:34:00,280 --> 01:34:04,120
Speaker 1: Congress but like they're congressman. I would think that familiarity

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01:34:04,160 --> 01:34:07,200
Speaker 1: would breed contempt there, right, Like, if you're somebody who

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01:34:07,400 --> 01:34:10,839
Speaker 1: has a really low view of Congress in general, shouldn't

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01:34:10,840 --> 01:34:14,559
Speaker 1: you probably realize that the you know, whoever your congressman is,

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01:34:14,960 --> 01:34:17,200
Speaker 1: is just trying to do whatever you have to do

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01:34:17,320 --> 01:34:20,080
Speaker 1: to make you and your congressional district feel like he's

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01:34:20,080 --> 01:34:21,920
Speaker 1: not one of the bad guys or of gals. But

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01:34:21,960 --> 01:34:24,800
Speaker 1: he probably is. I'm happy you brought that up. I've

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01:34:24,800 --> 01:34:26,880
Speaker 1: written about this often, and I wrote about it. I've

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01:34:26,880 --> 01:34:29,160
Speaker 1: been writing about it for years. Congress is one of

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Speaker 1: the most popular places on earth. Everyone. You know, when

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01:34:32,479 --> 01:34:35,559
Speaker 1: you look at the favorability rating of the institution, Yeah,

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01:34:35,640 --> 01:34:38,839
Speaker 1: it's always low, or it's been low for years. Everyone

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01:34:38,880 --> 01:34:41,360
Speaker 1: hates everyone else's congress person, but they don't hate their

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01:34:41,360 --> 01:34:44,559
Speaker 1: own congressman. They vote for that person year in and

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01:34:44,680 --> 01:34:47,599
Speaker 1: year out, every two years. There's such a little turnover.

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01:34:47,760 --> 01:34:51,680
Speaker 1: So this idea that Congress is unpopular makes people you

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01:34:51,720 --> 01:34:53,840
Speaker 1: know on Twitter feel good, but it's just it's kind

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01:34:53,880 --> 01:34:56,200
Speaker 1: of a myth. It's not that important, just as for instance,

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01:34:56,200 --> 01:34:58,800
Speaker 1: favorability ratings of the president aren't that important. I mean,

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01:34:58,800 --> 01:35:01,639
Speaker 1: they mean something, But what matters is the choice. At

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01:35:01,640 --> 01:35:03,599
Speaker 1: some point does a choice and who do you hate

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01:35:03,680 --> 01:35:06,560
Speaker 1: or love more? And that's what matters. So you know,

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Speaker 1: and indeed I do. David David Arsagi, everybody, Senior editor

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Speaker 1: at The Federalist. David always great to have you, sir,

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for having

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Speaker 1: me team eight four four nine hundred two eight two

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Speaker 1: five eight four four nine hundred buck. If you would

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Speaker 1: like to light up our lines, please do. We are

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Speaker 1: going to be rolling into a quick break. We'll be

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01:35:30,240 --> 01:35:36,679
Speaker 1: coming back with much more. Stay with it. It came

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01:35:36,760 --> 01:35:40,439
Speaker 1: on the heels of an attack in London on Muslim

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01:35:40,479 --> 01:35:46,400
Speaker 1: worshippers outside a mosque. It was a brutal murder of

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01:35:46,600 --> 01:35:51,600
Speaker 1: a young Muslim woman in Virginia, and all of the

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01:35:51,640 --> 01:35:57,920
Speaker 1: initial media coverage of it suggested that this had to

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01:35:57,920 --> 01:36:02,559
Speaker 1: be this must be a hate crime, and that was

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Speaker 1: the initial assessment. That was how it was. That was

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Speaker 1: how it was positioned on ABC News, a hate crime

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01:36:11,360 --> 01:36:14,200
Speaker 1: question mark. All they had to go on at the

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01:36:14,240 --> 01:36:19,280
Speaker 1: time was that a young Muslim girl had disappeared and

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01:36:19,320 --> 01:36:23,960
Speaker 1: then was found murdered, and the assumption the media ran

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01:36:24,080 --> 01:36:27,120
Speaker 1: with was that this had to be an anti Muslim

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01:36:27,240 --> 01:36:30,839
Speaker 1: act of bigotry, and that was where all the initial

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01:36:30,880 --> 01:36:36,400
Speaker 1: coverage was pointing. We have since found out more and

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01:36:37,040 --> 01:36:42,960
Speaker 1: the case is chilling. It is a brutal murder, but

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01:36:43,120 --> 01:36:49,200
Speaker 1: the alleged perpetrator was not engaged in a hate crime.

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01:36:49,800 --> 01:36:53,840
Speaker 1: He was just engaged in an act of evil violence.

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01:36:54,520 --> 01:36:57,840
Speaker 1: And what the media doesn't particularly want to focus on

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01:36:57,960 --> 01:37:03,920
Speaker 1: as they cover this story worry is that initially, when

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01:37:03,920 --> 01:37:06,360
Speaker 1: it was thought of as a hate crime, they were

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01:37:06,360 --> 01:37:11,519
Speaker 1: going to I'm sure plaster the name and background of

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01:37:11,600 --> 01:37:15,080
Speaker 1: the perpetrator all over every broadcast a newspaper in the

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01:37:15,120 --> 01:37:19,799
Speaker 1: country because if fits a narrative anti Muslim bias. Remember,

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01:37:19,840 --> 01:37:23,840
Speaker 1: this happened just after this murder occurred, just after the

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01:37:24,720 --> 01:37:29,920
Speaker 1: vehicle attack by a deranged moron in London running over

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01:37:30,560 --> 01:37:35,439
Speaker 1: Muslims outside of a mosque, So they were positioned for

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01:37:35,479 --> 01:37:39,720
Speaker 1: this to be a follow on bigotry hate attack to

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01:37:39,880 --> 01:37:42,760
Speaker 1: that and the media was all ready to go with it.

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01:37:42,800 --> 01:37:45,839
Speaker 1: They were asking question marks, could this be a hate crime?

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01:37:46,479 --> 01:37:48,920
Speaker 1: It turns out that the police have made it very

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01:37:49,000 --> 01:37:53,040
Speaker 1: clear that this was in fact an act of road

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01:37:53,200 --> 01:37:59,719
Speaker 1: rage turned in to murder, and the perpetrator who killed

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01:37:59,720 --> 01:38:05,519
Speaker 1: this this young girl was in fact an illegal alien

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01:38:05,720 --> 01:38:10,679
Speaker 1: living in this country working in construction, twenty two years old.

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Speaker 1: The perpetrator is Darwin Martinez Torres. He is from Sterling, Virginia. He,

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01:38:17,120 --> 01:38:22,080
Speaker 1: according to police, got into an argument with some teenagers

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01:38:22,240 --> 01:38:27,040
Speaker 1: who were walking and some were biking, and he I

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01:38:27,080 --> 01:38:29,000
Speaker 1: suppose one of them to pull over or get out

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01:38:29,040 --> 01:38:31,519
Speaker 1: of the way, and they didn't, and so he ran

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01:38:31,600 --> 01:38:33,960
Speaker 1: his car up onto the curb and scattered the group

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01:38:34,000 --> 01:38:36,439
Speaker 1: and then followed them. And there was a group about

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01:38:36,479 --> 01:38:40,840
Speaker 1: fifteen teens and he tracked one of them down. The

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Speaker 1: one that he was able to get his hands on,

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01:38:44,760 --> 01:38:53,679
Speaker 1: tragically was Nabra or Hassanin. And he had a baseball

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01:38:53,760 --> 01:38:58,880
Speaker 1: bat and he beat this young girl to death with

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01:38:58,960 --> 01:39:02,360
Speaker 1: a bat. He beat her to death and then move

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01:39:02,479 --> 01:39:05,719
Speaker 1: the body and try to hide it in a pond.

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01:39:06,760 --> 01:39:13,320
Speaker 1: So this is as a brutal, evil act of violence.

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01:39:14,320 --> 01:39:16,719
Speaker 1: They're saying that it's road rage now, and in fact

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01:39:16,720 --> 01:39:19,240
Speaker 1: it's The New York Times writes road rage is cited

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01:39:19,240 --> 01:39:23,320
Speaker 1: in killing of a Muslim girl in Virginia. What I

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01:39:23,360 --> 01:39:26,840
Speaker 1: find so interesting from the media angle, and look, this

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01:39:26,920 --> 01:39:31,120
Speaker 1: is just a story. This is a murder story. If

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01:39:31,120 --> 01:39:34,360
Speaker 1: there's a political angle to it, it's not hate crime,

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01:39:34,520 --> 01:39:37,879
Speaker 1: which the media was prepared for and in fact pushing

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01:39:37,920 --> 01:39:41,000
Speaker 1: as an angle before the facts were in. It's why

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01:39:41,160 --> 01:39:44,719
Speaker 1: is in a violent twenty two year old illegal alien

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01:39:45,479 --> 01:39:49,439
Speaker 1: in a position to bludgeon a young girl, Muslim or otherwise,

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01:39:49,840 --> 01:39:53,519
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, bludgeon a young girl to death with a

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Speaker 1: baseball bat in the first place. If we're going to

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01:39:56,640 --> 01:39:59,120
Speaker 1: have a political takeaway from this, if there's something that

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01:39:59,200 --> 01:40:02,960
Speaker 1: we should no beyond just the basic facts of the case,

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01:40:03,120 --> 01:40:07,519
Speaker 1: it's why was an illegal in a position to commit

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Speaker 1: such a horrific act. You're going to tell me that

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01:40:10,600 --> 01:40:14,800
Speaker 1: there was no opportunity, there was no meaningful chance for

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Speaker 1: the state to take this obviously violent individual and depoured

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Speaker 1: him from the country. I mean, I'm wondering what his

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Speaker 1: criminal record, if anything, is still waiting to see if

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01:40:27,240 --> 01:40:32,559
Speaker 1: there's more. But it's not being investigated as a hate crime,

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01:40:32,560 --> 01:40:36,200
Speaker 1: which means that it will be far less, far less

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01:40:36,240 --> 01:40:40,840
Speaker 1: coverage of it. They are calling it road and rage.

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01:40:41,840 --> 01:40:44,640
Speaker 1: But onto the way that they describe this, by the

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01:40:44,680 --> 01:40:47,400
Speaker 1: way that the politics of how the news media writes

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01:40:47,439 --> 01:40:51,560
Speaker 1: about a murder, because remember, initially it was murder of

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01:40:51,640 --> 01:40:54,040
Speaker 1: Muslim girl. Was it a hate crime question mark? No,

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01:40:54,120 --> 01:40:56,360
Speaker 1: it turns out it wasn't. It was just an angry

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01:40:56,439 --> 01:41:00,160
Speaker 1: illegal from El Salvador who beat a girl. He had

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Speaker 1: a girl and beat her to death of the baseball bet.

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01:41:02,040 --> 01:41:04,800
Speaker 1: She didn't do anything at all. He just wanted to

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01:41:04,880 --> 01:41:08,559
Speaker 1: kill somebody because there was some exchange of words with

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Speaker 1: a group of people she was with on the street.

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Speaker 1: This isn't really even road rage. It's just rage. It's

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Speaker 1: just rage that Darwin Martinez Torres acted upon in this

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01:41:21,800 --> 01:41:28,400
Speaker 1: horrific and barbaric fashion and killed Nabra Hassinen for absolutely

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01:41:28,400 --> 01:41:30,920
Speaker 1: no reason whatsoever and then tried to hide the body.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is real, sociopathic, if not psychopathic stuff

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Speaker 1: from this Al Salvador and illegal. But I should note

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Speaker 1: that the way that they write about this, and I

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01:41:44,520 --> 01:41:48,960
Speaker 1: here's an NBC News headline man charged with the murder

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Speaker 1: of Muslim teen who disappeared on way to mosque. Just man, huh,

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Speaker 1: just man. You'll see a lot of that. Not Al

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Speaker 1: Salvador in illegue gal alien bludgeons Muslim girl to death,

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Speaker 1: which is a more descriptive and more accurate headline. No,

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01:42:06,520 --> 01:42:12,080
Speaker 1: it's just men, not even illegal alien bludgeons Muslim girl

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Speaker 1: to death. They specify the victim because the victim in

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01:42:16,240 --> 01:42:21,000
Speaker 1: this case falls into a special victim class that is

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Speaker 1: a Muslim, but they will not specify the perpetrator, and

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Speaker 1: in fact, many of the news reports seem to go

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01:42:27,840 --> 01:42:32,479
Speaker 1: to some considerable length to avoid giving any details about

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01:42:32,479 --> 01:42:37,320
Speaker 1: the perpetrator's background or anything else anything else about it.

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01:42:38,880 --> 01:42:41,639
Speaker 1: They just give his name and it's usually buried some

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Speaker 1: paragraphs down, Darwin Martinez Torres. They also in the New

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01:42:48,920 --> 01:42:52,519
Speaker 1: York Times version of this reporting right the following. While

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Speaker 1: the incident has yet to be labeled a hate crime,

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01:42:56,040 --> 01:42:59,360
Speaker 1: right now in America, black Muslim women, especially those from

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01:42:59,400 --> 01:43:03,839
Speaker 1: marginalized communities, are continuously targeted and attacked with malicious intent.

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01:43:06,160 --> 01:43:10,880
Speaker 1: The organizers Women's Initiative for Empowerment wrote on Facebook, this

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01:43:10,960 --> 01:43:13,040
Speaker 1: murder is yet another wake up call and the chain

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Speaker 1: of events of Muslim women viciously attacked and hate crimes

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Speaker 1: across the country. So the New York Times cites this

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Speaker 1: activist group, Women's Initiative for Self Empowerment. I guess I'd

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01:43:23,960 --> 01:43:28,439
Speaker 1: never heard of it before, in order to talk about

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Speaker 1: hate crimes against Muslims, even though this isn't a hate

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01:43:30,960 --> 01:43:33,400
Speaker 1: crime against a Muslim. There's no evidence whatsoever this was

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Speaker 1: a biased crime based on anything that the police have

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01:43:35,880 --> 01:43:39,760
Speaker 1: seen yet. And if it was a crime, it would

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01:43:39,800 --> 01:43:46,360
Speaker 1: be a Central American Latino beating to death a Muslim

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01:43:46,920 --> 01:43:53,560
Speaker 1: girl Muslim teenager. So again, this doesn't fall into a

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01:43:53,680 --> 01:43:57,120
Speaker 1: narrative that most of the media wants to spend much

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01:43:57,160 --> 01:44:00,360
Speaker 1: time on. But the New York Times goes even further.

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01:44:00,920 --> 01:44:04,240
Speaker 1: The FBI reported last year that attacks against American Muslims

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Speaker 1: had surged in twenty fifteen, driving an overall increase in

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Speaker 1: hate crimes against all groups. There were two hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty seven reports of assaults, attacks on mosques, and other

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Speaker 1: hate crimes against Muslims in twenty fifteen, a jump of

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01:44:17,320 --> 01:44:22,320
Speaker 1: about sixty seven percent over twenty fourteen. Okay, this is

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01:44:22,360 --> 01:44:26,320
Speaker 1: in reporting about the Nabra hassan and murder, which police

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01:44:26,320 --> 01:44:28,400
Speaker 1: have said is not a hate crime. So why are

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01:44:28,400 --> 01:44:31,000
Speaker 1: the Times and the Washington Post. Why are they citing

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01:44:31,000 --> 01:44:34,720
Speaker 1: activist groups about hate crimes? Why am I reading statistics

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01:44:35,000 --> 01:44:39,880
Speaker 1: about anti Muslim hate crimes? They just want to talk

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01:44:39,920 --> 01:44:43,360
Speaker 1: about this. It's obvious that they want to quote raise awareness,

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01:44:44,160 --> 01:44:45,880
Speaker 1: even though it has nothing to do with the subject

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01:44:45,920 --> 01:44:48,040
Speaker 1: at hand. There is no reason to believe right now

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Speaker 1: whatsoever based on the facts that Nabra Hassanen was murdered

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01:44:52,160 --> 01:44:56,160
Speaker 1: by Darwin Martinez Torres, allegedly not yet proven in a

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01:44:56,240 --> 01:44:59,439
Speaker 1: court of law, because of anything other than the fact

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01:44:59,439 --> 01:45:05,160
Speaker 1: that he was a rage full maniac. And if we're

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01:45:05,200 --> 01:45:08,240
Speaker 1: going to be forced to read statistics about anti Muslim

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01:45:08,320 --> 01:45:11,960
Speaker 1: bias crimes, let's just delve into them for a second,

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01:45:11,960 --> 01:45:15,479
Speaker 1: shall we. The FBI reported in twenty fifteen this is

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01:45:15,520 --> 01:45:20,559
Speaker 1: supposed to be a shocking increase two hundred, two hundred

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01:45:20,560 --> 01:45:25,880
Speaker 1: and fifty seven reports of assaults, attacks on mosques, and

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01:45:26,000 --> 01:45:30,080
Speaker 1: other hate crimes all together in twenty fifteen. Two hundred

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01:45:30,080 --> 01:45:32,320
Speaker 1: and fifty seven attacks on mosques. So I mean that

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01:45:32,360 --> 01:45:35,840
Speaker 1: includes graffiti, right, That includes somebody who leaves bacon on

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01:45:35,880 --> 01:45:39,439
Speaker 1: the step of a mosque and thinks that's funny. Two

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01:45:39,560 --> 01:45:44,160
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty seven assaults that includes verbal assault. We

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01:45:44,240 --> 01:45:47,400
Speaker 1: are a country of three hundred and twenty million people.

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01:45:48,320 --> 01:45:51,880
Speaker 1: There were about two hundred and fifty total anti Muslim

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01:45:51,880 --> 01:45:57,040
Speaker 1: biased crimes including these are just reports, not even necessarily

1753
01:45:57,080 --> 01:46:00,360
Speaker 1: and as we know, there are fake reports that are

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01:46:00,400 --> 01:46:04,559
Speaker 1: sometimes that are sometimes filed and you can just read

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01:46:04,560 --> 01:46:06,080
Speaker 1: about them in the news media. You know, a woman

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01:46:06,080 --> 01:46:07,960
Speaker 1: says that she was attacked by Trump supporters on the

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01:46:08,000 --> 01:46:09,920
Speaker 1: subway in New York are out to be a total lie.

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01:46:11,160 --> 01:46:13,880
Speaker 1: So let's say it's two fifty. Let's say maybe the

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01:46:13,920 --> 01:46:17,080
Speaker 1: real number of actual assaults is more like two hundred.

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01:46:17,680 --> 01:46:22,040
Speaker 1: There are thirty thousand assaults approximately in New York City alone.

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01:46:22,680 --> 01:46:28,120
Speaker 1: Every year. There are two hundred bias crimes. Remember, not murders,

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01:46:28,120 --> 01:46:31,360
Speaker 1: not vicious violent attacks, just biased crimes of any kind

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01:46:31,680 --> 01:46:34,559
Speaker 1: against the Muslim community in America. And the New York

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01:46:34,600 --> 01:46:37,439
Speaker 1: Times thinks they need to raise awareness about this. I mean,

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01:46:37,439 --> 01:46:39,400
Speaker 1: there's no excuse for being mean to somebody because of

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01:46:39,400 --> 01:46:41,760
Speaker 1: their religion or their appearance, ever, and I think it's

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01:46:41,960 --> 01:46:44,280
Speaker 1: terrible and I would call it out and I would

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01:46:44,320 --> 01:46:48,400
Speaker 1: defend any member of any marginalizer minority community if it

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01:46:48,439 --> 01:46:51,439
Speaker 1: was ever done in front of me or but let's

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01:46:51,439 --> 01:46:55,080
Speaker 1: not overstate the problem, my friends. Two hundred and fifty

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01:46:56,400 --> 01:46:58,599
Speaker 1: three and twenty million people in the country, two hundred

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01:46:58,600 --> 01:47:02,679
Speaker 1: and fifty reports of assaults. I mean that is America

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01:47:02,720 --> 01:47:05,559
Speaker 1: should give itself an award for tolerance when it comes

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01:47:05,600 --> 01:47:09,080
Speaker 1: to the Islamic community. That's the truth. That's the truth,

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01:47:09,479 --> 01:47:12,240
Speaker 1: and we are never allowed to say that out loud.

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01:47:12,520 --> 01:47:15,479
Speaker 1: You know, we're always told about Islamophobia, and you know

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01:47:15,520 --> 01:47:17,560
Speaker 1: all the Islamophobia that's out there. Now, what are we

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01:47:17,600 --> 01:47:19,800
Speaker 1: gonna do about it? And here you just have an

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01:47:19,800 --> 01:47:23,520
Speaker 1: illegal I mean, the story here really is illegal aliens

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01:47:23,560 --> 01:47:26,160
Speaker 1: that are able to murder people that shouldn't be in

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01:47:26,160 --> 01:47:28,439
Speaker 1: the country in the first place. It's not a hate

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01:47:28,439 --> 01:47:30,559
Speaker 1: crime story. They're saying it's a road rage story because

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01:47:30,560 --> 01:47:32,160
Speaker 1: it doesn't fit their narrative. And then they want to

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01:47:32,200 --> 01:47:34,639
Speaker 1: talk about hate crimes anyway. I mean, the media agenda

1785
01:47:34,720 --> 01:47:37,280
Speaker 1: is just so obvious. All right, we'll take a quick break,

1786
01:47:37,280 --> 01:47:46,040
Speaker 1: your team, we'll be right. I wanted to follow up.

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01:47:46,200 --> 01:47:49,599
Speaker 1: I think this is a great stuff. So I told

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01:47:49,600 --> 01:47:56,680
Speaker 1: you yesterday about the Mattal v. Tam Supreme Court decision. Now,

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01:47:56,720 --> 01:47:59,880
Speaker 1: this was a rock band called That of Asian American

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01:48:00,120 --> 01:48:03,479
Speaker 1: they call themselves the Slants, which is a common slur

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01:48:03,680 --> 01:48:08,160
Speaker 1: for Asian Americans, and they're trying to h take that

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01:48:08,320 --> 01:48:14,800
Speaker 1: term back, to take away it's destructive, disparaging power and

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01:48:14,960 --> 01:48:21,000
Speaker 1: and sort of reown the term for themselves. And eight

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01:48:21,080 --> 01:48:25,280
Speaker 1: oh Supreme Court said, sorry, you can't. You can't make determinations.

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01:48:25,320 --> 01:48:30,280
Speaker 1: The government can't make determinations based on what's offensive. And

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01:48:30,600 --> 01:48:33,320
Speaker 1: this is an important win for free speech. As I said,

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01:48:33,320 --> 01:48:36,559
Speaker 1: it doesn't change everything, but at least now there are

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01:48:36,560 --> 01:48:38,840
Speaker 1: other cases I think that will be influenced by this.

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01:48:39,520 --> 01:48:44,240
Speaker 1: And hate speech is not something that is outside the

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01:48:44,280 --> 01:48:47,799
Speaker 1: protection of the First Amendment. I think that's that's pretty clear.

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01:48:48,200 --> 01:48:50,639
Speaker 1: Just because something is offensive, it does not make it

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01:48:51,120 --> 01:48:55,480
Speaker 1: not protected speech. Um. And this was a worthwhile reminder,

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01:48:55,560 --> 01:48:58,040
Speaker 1: I think, for the progressive left at this point in time.

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01:48:58,800 --> 01:49:02,240
Speaker 1: But there were two of the amazing responses to it

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01:49:02,280 --> 01:49:06,200
Speaker 1: from the New York Times the Washington Post. The first

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01:49:06,240 --> 01:49:09,760
Speaker 1: one I have to say is that the New York

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01:49:09,800 --> 01:49:16,120
Speaker 1: Times wrote the following, The decision is likely to help

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01:49:16,120 --> 01:49:20,679
Speaker 1: the Washington Redskins, who lost their trademark protections in twenty

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01:49:20,720 --> 01:49:24,679
Speaker 1: fourteen after years of complaints from Native American groups at

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01:49:24,680 --> 01:49:29,280
Speaker 1: the time, this page supported the Trademark Office's decision, and

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01:49:29,360 --> 01:49:33,040
Speaker 1: we still regard the Redskins name as offensive based on

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01:49:33,120 --> 01:49:38,440
Speaker 1: this case. However, we've since reconsidered our underlying position. Okay,

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01:49:39,040 --> 01:49:44,880
Speaker 1: this is The New York Times in a pretty straightforward fashion, saying, oh, yeah,

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01:49:44,920 --> 01:49:48,040
Speaker 1: you know, the First Amendment does mean that there can

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01:49:48,080 --> 01:49:51,360
Speaker 1: be offensive stuff too. This is the New York Times.

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01:49:52,600 --> 01:49:56,880
Speaker 1: I mean, they don't even understand the First Amendment. Isn't

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01:49:56,920 --> 01:49:59,960
Speaker 1: that Isn't that astonishing? Shouldn't we just take a moment

1818
01:50:00,040 --> 01:50:08,200
Speaker 1: gonna say, wow, they were in favor. Remember sodomyor Kagan Ginsburg.

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01:50:08,520 --> 01:50:10,800
Speaker 1: They all went with the conservatives on the quarter. This

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01:50:10,880 --> 01:50:14,800
Speaker 1: was eight. Oh, this wasn't even close. You can't get

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01:50:14,840 --> 01:50:19,200
Speaker 1: anybody to say that offensive speech is not protected under

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01:50:19,200 --> 01:50:22,560
Speaker 1: the First Amendment and that the government can make distinctions

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01:50:22,640 --> 01:50:27,280
Speaker 1: about offensive speech and the protections that it affords its citizens.

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01:50:28,960 --> 01:50:31,080
Speaker 1: I mean, if you can't get sodomyor to sign on

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01:50:31,160 --> 01:50:33,800
Speaker 1: for this, you can't get anybody to sign on for

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01:50:33,840 --> 01:50:37,639
Speaker 1: this from the left right, I mean or Ginsburg. And

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01:50:38,720 --> 01:50:40,840
Speaker 1: I just think we should take note of the fact

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01:50:40,880 --> 01:50:43,439
Speaker 1: that The New York Times really doesn't believe in the

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01:50:43,439 --> 01:50:46,080
Speaker 1: First Amendment and this was some kind of reminder and

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01:50:46,120 --> 01:50:49,600
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, yeah, toats, we changed our position on

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01:50:49,680 --> 01:50:54,720
Speaker 1: that one. My bad. You know, stuff happens whatever. Yeah,

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01:50:54,760 --> 01:50:58,719
Speaker 1: I guess stuff does happen New York Times. So that's

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01:50:59,080 --> 01:51:01,680
Speaker 1: that's interesting to me to be sure that it's a

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01:51:01,680 --> 01:51:05,639
Speaker 1: reminder that The New York Times is not in fact

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01:51:06,200 --> 01:51:09,479
Speaker 1: about freedom or free speech, even when I mean, they

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01:51:09,479 --> 01:51:13,360
Speaker 1: won't even really defend the First Amendment. They only do it.

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01:51:13,360 --> 01:51:15,080
Speaker 1: They only defend it when they're like it. But the

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01:51:15,120 --> 01:51:21,280
Speaker 1: best of all is the Washington Post will write about

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01:51:21,360 --> 01:51:24,280
Speaker 1: the Slants the name of this band in this case,

1840
01:51:24,920 --> 01:51:30,000
Speaker 1: but is unwilling to write the Redskins. Quote. This is

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01:51:30,000 --> 01:51:32,240
Speaker 1: from the bottom of the Washington Post editorial in response

1842
01:51:32,280 --> 01:51:35,760
Speaker 1: to again the Supreme Court case yesterday eight zero Matal v.

1843
01:51:35,920 --> 01:51:39,519
Speaker 1: Tam Quote. This is strong medicine, both in terms of

1844
01:51:39,520 --> 01:51:42,280
Speaker 1: the support it offers free speech and in terms of

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01:51:42,280 --> 01:51:45,120
Speaker 1: what it requires of those who do take offense at

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01:51:45,120 --> 01:51:48,240
Speaker 1: expressions likely to enjoy court protection as a result of

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01:51:48,240 --> 01:51:53,640
Speaker 1: this opinion, specifically the Washington football team's name, which was

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01:51:53,760 --> 01:51:58,040
Speaker 1: also the subject of a suit against its trademark. The answer,

1849
01:51:58,080 --> 01:52:00,960
Speaker 1: in our view, is to redouble all lawful efforts to

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01:52:00,960 --> 01:52:04,240
Speaker 1: get that name changed, even if a federal lawsuit probably

1851
01:52:04,280 --> 01:52:08,080
Speaker 1: can't be one of them. As the court's decision reminds us,

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01:52:08,120 --> 01:52:12,599
Speaker 1: constitutional and decent are not the same thing. They will

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01:52:12,680 --> 01:52:18,120
Speaker 1: not write Redskins, but the Washington Post will write Slants,

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01:52:20,080 --> 01:52:22,200
Speaker 1: which is the name of this band, which now we

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01:52:22,240 --> 01:52:24,439
Speaker 1: can all say, because we understand the First Amendment, they're

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01:52:24,439 --> 01:52:26,600
Speaker 1: allowed to have it federally protected. It's the name of

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01:52:26,640 --> 01:52:31,400
Speaker 1: the band, that's what they chose. But they won't write Redskins.

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01:52:31,840 --> 01:52:35,120
Speaker 1: They won't write it. The Washington football team name also

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01:52:35,160 --> 01:52:37,280
Speaker 1: the subject of a suit. I mean, they clearly left

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01:52:37,280 --> 01:52:41,040
Speaker 1: it out on purpose. So even when writing about the

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01:52:41,080 --> 01:52:45,320
Speaker 1: First Amendment, the Washington Post is unwilling to express its

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01:52:45,360 --> 01:52:50,840
Speaker 1: own usage of the First Amendment freely. You can't make

1863
01:52:50,840 --> 01:52:52,800
Speaker 1: this stuff up, everybody. I mean, these are the two

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01:52:52,800 --> 01:52:55,559
Speaker 1: biggest newspapers in the country, tons of money behind them.

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01:52:56,760 --> 01:52:58,679
Speaker 1: They don't even stand. They don't even stand for freedom

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01:52:58,680 --> 01:53:01,439
Speaker 1: of the press. Really says a lot, doesn't it. All right,

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Speaker 1: more show coming for you later on this week. Let

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