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Speaker 1: let me get this buck train back on the tracks here,

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Speaker 1: because I was talking about I was talking about the

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Speaker 1: politics that you see after, during and after a natural disaster,

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Speaker 1: and it was a window into the mindset of the left,

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Speaker 1: the climate change stuff. I don't know how much time

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Speaker 1: I'll have to get into that today, or not. I've

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Speaker 1: been meaning to. But the short version is that the

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Speaker 1: arguments for hurricanes as evidence of climate change are so

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Speaker 1: flimsy as to be laughable. But the people that make

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Speaker 1: them are completely uh psychotic with how much they believe it.

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Speaker 1: And you're hearing more about about how uh they want

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Speaker 1: to punish politicians that aren't that don't believe in climate change.

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Speaker 1: And you saw really horrible stuff. And and I saw this.

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Speaker 1: This was on the on the Bill mar Show where

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Speaker 1: I was in the audience on Friday. I was just

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Speaker 1: there because s c Cup is a is a dear

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Speaker 1: friend and I was supporting her. And Molly had never

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Speaker 1: seen the show, so I was there. You'll notice they've

449
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Speaker 1: never had me on the show. To this day, they

450
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Speaker 1: know about me. Uh. They've had a lot of people

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Speaker 1: on the show that I think make much less interesting

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Speaker 1: guests than me, who are conservatives, but they've never had

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Speaker 1: me on the show. And at this point, given that

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Speaker 1: it's been a few years and they've interviewed me and

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Speaker 1: they know all about me, I got a figure they

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Speaker 1: never will um, which is fine. You know, there are

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Speaker 1: a lot of not on the on the show. But

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Speaker 1: I gotta think I wonder why that is. I wonder

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Speaker 1: what it is about Bill Moore. People all know me,

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Speaker 1: and yet they never invite me on the show invited

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Speaker 1: and the show that I wouldn't see him, and they

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Speaker 1: had they invited what's the guy's name with the red sweater.

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Speaker 1: I can't even remember, but I was sitting there the

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Speaker 1: once bow ken bone, right, ken bone? Isn't that right?

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Speaker 1: They had the red sweater guy there. I was like, wow,

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Speaker 1: I have and I'm just like a normal guy, and

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Speaker 1: don't listen to me on politics. And I'm not trying

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Speaker 1: to be mean, but the guys up there and he says,

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Speaker 1: don't listen to me. I'm just an average guy. And

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Speaker 1: then we get to hear him talk for twenty minutes

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Speaker 1: about politics with Bill Maher one on one like I'm

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Speaker 1: getting a lecture from this guy's I love it. I

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Speaker 1: think that we really did a more centrism and to

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Speaker 1: come back to the center. And I thought, you said,

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Speaker 1: don't listen to me, I'm gonna have some tips for

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Speaker 1: public speaking. Later on in the show that I that

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Speaker 1: I it's not only tips so much as lessons learned

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Speaker 1: from my end of things. And we have that viral

479
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Speaker 1: video or audio there's a radio show viral audio of

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Speaker 1: this guy from a silent You have to stay with

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Speaker 1: me to the end of the show today because we've

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Speaker 1: got some great stuff planned for you. It's gonna be amazing.

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Speaker 1: But on the Bill mar Show, you saw this, this

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Speaker 1: willingness to celebrate the destructive power of the storm as

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Speaker 1: something that is a punishment for political enemies. You know

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Speaker 1: that there were jokes made about about Rush, to whom

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Speaker 1: I am forever grateful for giving me the honor of

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Speaker 1: filling in for him a few times. They were they

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Speaker 1: were making jokes and I'm sitting the audience, and it

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Speaker 1: was uncomfortable for me. I mean, I look, I had

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Speaker 1: no part of it, but I just happened to be there.

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Speaker 1: And they're making jokes about how Rush had to evacuate

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Speaker 1: his home, and they're making and you've seen others out

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Speaker 1: there too, you know, the the leftist comedians in the

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Speaker 1: world about how look what happened to Houston. You know,

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Speaker 1: maybe if they believed in climate changes wouldn't have happened, though,

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Speaker 1: I mean, really horrific, vile stuff. And I should note that,

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Speaker 1: you know, not that it matters at all, but Houston

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Speaker 1: actually votes Democrat. Predominantly, so you know, it's just these

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Speaker 1: people are not just um unthinking and unfeeling, but they're

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00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 1: also idiots on top of that, and making really bad

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Speaker 1: arguments that are really nasty and vicious. And you've seen

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Speaker 1: a lot of that, and I am always on the

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Speaker 1: lookout for it because it distresses me when I see

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Speaker 1: conservatives and like, I can't speak about random people. I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about people who have followings, who have influenced in

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Speaker 1: the conversation, who have their own TV shows. There are

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Speaker 1: people like that. You know this guy who's Michael Ian

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Speaker 1: Michael Ian Black, right is he He's a guy's got

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Speaker 1: like two million Twitter followers, right, just insane stuff about

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Speaker 1: climate change, really nasty, horrible stuff about climate change. I mean,

512
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Speaker 1: just just maniacs stuff. And he's got two million Twitter followers.

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Speaker 1: I'm not talking again. This isn't the comment section. These

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Speaker 1: are the supposed luminaries of the left, or if not luminaries,

515
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 1: at least the celebrities of the left, and on climate change,

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00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 1: they've been just they've used the hurricanes for this argument

517
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Speaker 1: and it's just nonsense. It's such low level trash from them,

518
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Speaker 1: and at a time when people are really suffering, and

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Speaker 1: bad things are happening to really good people, tens of thousands,

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Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands, like millions of people. I mean, think

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Speaker 1: about what what a uh a disruption in your life?

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Speaker 1: It is to abandon your home and just the anxiety

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Speaker 1: of what's going to happen to my home? You know what?

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Speaker 1: What if people always think okay, well maybe the flooding

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Speaker 1: on the first floor, but what if power lines get

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Speaker 1: knocked down and there's a fire. You know what if

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Speaker 1: a tree gets knocked down and puts a huge hole

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Speaker 1: in my living room basically totals my house. Right, These

529
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Speaker 1: are the real concerns of people out there, But there

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Speaker 1: is at its or something well, because it really has

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Speaker 1: no central moral guide and compass. American progressivism has a nastiness.

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Speaker 1: It pretends to be all of it's all about emotions,

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Speaker 1: but it's not about kindness. And that's why you see

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00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 1: people with such large followings and such influence in the

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Speaker 1: conversation who could just be so mean. That's why you

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Speaker 1: see a cartoon showing, you know, secessionist Texans making stupid

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Speaker 1: comments about the federal government as they're being airlifted from

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00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: the flood or whatever. You know, that that just that

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00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 1: cartoon that really was a window into the mind of

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Speaker 1: the people in d C who make a lot of

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Speaker 1: the calls about the news cycle and about what you read,

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Speaker 1: what you see, what you hear. That's what they think

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00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 1: of other parts of the country. And they're so stupid

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Speaker 1: as to make a cartoon like that. That's not only

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00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 1: cruel and disgraceful, but also just ignorant. Right, I mean

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Speaker 1: not only I mean Houston. Houston is a is the

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Speaker 1: uh the hotbed of secession, anti government, right wing extremism.

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00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 1: It's so dumb as to be almost beyond well, almost

549
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 1: beyond worthy of any any kind of comment. But these

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00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 1: these are not randoms. These are not just people posting

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00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 1: on the web. These are people with followings. These are

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00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 1: people with um influence in the conversation. That's what I

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00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 1: find so distressing. I don't even get into the anti

554
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 1: government stuff that they're saying comes from her. You know

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00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: that the hurricanes show. But I got used. You can

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00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:30,480
Speaker 1: tell I had a little bit um hot and bothered there.

557
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna bring it. I'm gonna bring it back

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Speaker 1: to neutral. I'm gonna recharge my battery. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: the Freedom Hunt buck Sexton here with you all, team um.

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Speaker 1: Biggest story on Drudge right now. The main banner on

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Speaker 1: the Drudge Report is uh, well, the title is waiver

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Speaker 1: issued so construction of border wall can begin. Here's some

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00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,479
Speaker 1: of the text from the story which just went up

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Speaker 1: as I. Okay, maybe it went up a little earlier

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Speaker 1: than when I came on here, but I went out

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Speaker 1: pretty close when I came on air. The Department of

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Speaker 1: Homeland Security has issued a waiver to waive certain laws.

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Speaker 1: Regulate issued a waiver to waiver certain laws, regulations, and

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Speaker 1: other legal requirements to ensure the expeditious construction of barriers

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Speaker 1: in the vicinity of the international border near Calexico, California.

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Speaker 1: The waiver was first published in the Federal Register today. Uh.

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Speaker 1: This waiver is pursuant to authority granted to the Secretary

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Speaker 1: of Homeland Security by Congress and covers a variety of environmental,

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Speaker 1: natural resource, and land land management laws. The Department is

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Speaker 1: actually okay, bloty blaby bla more and more stuff here,

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Speaker 1: so they're making it possible for more. Waivers are making

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Speaker 1: it possible for more construction on a border wall near Calexico.

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Speaker 1: In California. So does this mean now that this is

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Speaker 1: DHS right, So this comes within the executive branch. This

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Speaker 1: would seem to be perhaps I'm getting ahead of myself.

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Speaker 1: This would seem to be an indicator that there was

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Speaker 1: some desire on the part of the Trump administration to

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Speaker 1: start moving with wall stuff. What was we had on

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Speaker 1: the show, um earlier in the week one of our guests,

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Speaker 1: I forget which one it was now saying guests, I

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00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 1: have so many fantastic guests, some of them some of

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Speaker 1: them blend together, but saying that he thought the only

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Speaker 1: place where we would where you would not be able

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00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 1: to see a policy retreat from Donald Trump, the only

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Speaker 1: place where you could really expect that would be on

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Speaker 1: the wall. That if he ever says, you know what,

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Speaker 1: the wall is just not gonna happen. Then even his

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Speaker 1: most ardent supporters, even those who just refused to back

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Speaker 1: down an inch despite everything. Who was it? Thank you?

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Speaker 1: It was Michael Govern the New York Post. I had forgotten, Um,

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Speaker 1: that's where that's where the if you will, the wall

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00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 1: is where the line is drawn. And I think that

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Speaker 1: may be true. I think that would be a difficult

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00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:14,799
Speaker 1: place because everything, with everything else there's some degree of negotiation, right,

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Speaker 1: tax reform, negotiation, repeal and replace. I don't know, that's

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00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 1: pretty straightforward. If that hasn't happened, So that's not that's

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00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:24,839
Speaker 1: it's not so good. You know, it's not so good.

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Speaker 1: But on the wall, you're either building a wall, you're not.

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Speaker 1: It is a pretty binary thing. It's either yes or no. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're nay. And I would have to think that somehow

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00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:42,760
Speaker 1: Trump is going to push for this. But I should

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Speaker 1: also note and maybe you'll have to get into more

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Speaker 1: detail about this in the next coming up your right

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Speaker 1: after the break that there was there was reporting today

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Speaker 1: that Trump does not expect that there that there will

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Speaker 1: not be any walls, poecific funding or language in whatever

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Speaker 1: Congress comes up with within this six month window to

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Speaker 1: address the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program DOCCA. If

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Speaker 1: they're not going to use DACA as leverage to get

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Speaker 1: a wall, when are they going to get a wall.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be watching this one closely. I'm I'm starting

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Speaker 1: to get a little bit uneasy with the whole idea

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Speaker 1: of like, well, you know, it's really early on and

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Speaker 1: get okay, but there are some some signs here that

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Speaker 1: we can look at. There are some early data points

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Speaker 1: that when you connect them, when you connect the dots,

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Speaker 1: when you look at what's going on, you've got to

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Speaker 1: start thinking. Okay, so Trump was never going to be

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Speaker 1: the hard line conservative media said that he was to

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00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 1: try and scare people. But now I think you'd have

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Speaker 1: to start to say that Trump just defies political ideological

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Speaker 1: categorization and that at the end of the day, he's

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00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:08,520
Speaker 1: just gonna be Trump. Trump will be Trump. He's back

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Speaker 1: with you now because when it comes to the fight

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Speaker 1: for truth, the fuck never stops. Buck Sexton here, team.

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Speaker 1: whenever you want, however you want. So just putting that

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Speaker 1: I can listen to Bucket. He's on in my area,

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Speaker 1: be like, oh, oh, I'm sorry. Do you have a smartphone?

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Speaker 1: Do you have WiFi or cell service? You can listen

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Speaker 1: to buck Sex of American Now? Is it an amazing

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Speaker 1: country we live in? Uh? Also, I I wish I

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Speaker 1: had insights to offer you about the iPhone X and eight.

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Speaker 1: I don't really other than to say that the description

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Speaker 1: sounds like I mean, this does sound like the opening

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Speaker 1: sequence of like a Terminator movie or something. It's a

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Speaker 1: little scary. Here's what they say about the iPhone X.

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Speaker 1: The iPhone X is a new smartphone from Apple, etcetera, etcetera.

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Speaker 1: The phone will feature an all glass designed YadA YadA,

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Speaker 1: the A eleven bionic chip with neural engine Q one,

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Speaker 1: wireless charging, and an improved rear camera with dual optical

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Speaker 1: image stabilization. It yeah, um, that's a A one or

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Speaker 1: a A one like this, that's a steak sauce right,

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Speaker 1: a eleven bionic chip. That's uh, that sounds scary. That

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Speaker 1: sounds like if I get a little if I get

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Speaker 1: appliances against me or something which I should note it

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Speaker 1: could happen in the future. You add AI artificial intelligence

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Speaker 1: to the Internet of Things, the I O T, which

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Speaker 1: is the connectivity and the sensors deployed to all kinds

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Speaker 1: out with some technology knowledge. Then bad things can happen.

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Speaker 1: Then then scary things can happen. Um, so there is

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Speaker 1: that I have our friend. I'm I got a little

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Speaker 1: feeling it's one of these days where I'm just just

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Speaker 1: letting a rip um. Ben Dominant will be joining us

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Speaker 1: in just a few minutes, and I want to give

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Speaker 1: him a lot of time to discuss a couple of

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Speaker 1: topics with us. So I'm gonna go into a break

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Speaker 1: here in just a few But before I do so,

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Speaker 1: I just want to note that they're taking this whole

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Speaker 1: whole single payer thing. The Democrats are very seriously and

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Speaker 1: the New York Times has a p I know. I look,

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Speaker 1: I read the Wall the papers I subscribed to, the

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Speaker 1: New York Times, Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.

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Speaker 1: I read all of them. I mean, not not all

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Speaker 1: of every paper, obviously, but I'm saying those are the

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Speaker 1: papers that I newspapers that I read. I probably shouldn't

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Speaker 1: be supporting them financially. But if I'm gonna tear apart

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Speaker 1: the Times in the Post, I've got to have access

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Speaker 1: to the Times in the Post. Anyway. This Times piece

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Speaker 1: says that there's been a jump in support among Democrats. No, no,

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Speaker 1: I guess that's not really surprising at all for a

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Speaker 1: government run health care system. It's now, uh sixty of

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Speaker 1: Democrats support a government run healthcare system. Um, so that's

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Speaker 1: that's pretty astonishing. Um. That's that and support overall for

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Speaker 1: a government run healthcare system. I should note that to

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Speaker 1: get to single pair, it's not like all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden you just don't have any bills. There would have

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Speaker 1: to be massive transformations in the actual existing healthcare system.

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Speaker 1: And what happens to insurance companies? What what purpose do

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Speaker 1: they serve? And and at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: this is just gonna it will just be ruinously expensive.

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Speaker 1: I mean, tot taxes on the middle class will have

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Speaker 1: to skyrocket, taxes on everybody, will have everyone who pays

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Speaker 1: taxes at least which is half the country only or

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Speaker 1: I think it's less than half the country. Now, their

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Speaker 1: taxes are all going to really go up. And if

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Speaker 1: you think that you're gonna get good healthcare when the

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Speaker 1: government is paying the bills, I got news for you

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Speaker 1: that is that is not the case. Um. But you

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Speaker 1: don't think that you know that this is a terrible idea,

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Speaker 1: But Democrats are gonna go with it. It like them

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Speaker 1: like minimum wage. It sounds appealing the reality the truth

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Speaker 1: behind single payer. By the time we figure it out,

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Speaker 1: it'll be Democrats in power for so long that we

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Speaker 1: won't even remember what it's like to have a discussion

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Speaker 1: about a free market and healthcare. That's the plan. This

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Speaker 1: is one of the built in failures, unfortunately, of a

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Speaker 1: republic like ours. And that accountability is an imperfect thing,

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Speaker 1: and that's putting it mildly. And if you are able

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Speaker 1: to gain the system such that whoever makes certain decisions

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Speaker 1: now will never be around to be held accountable for

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Speaker 1: them in the future, and the political party just maintains

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Speaker 1: its power. You know, you never throw out the guys

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Speaker 1: who are doing the bad stuff. You never managed to

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Speaker 1: get to a better system of governance because there's there's

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Speaker 1: no real accountability. And on single payer with Democrats, that's

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Speaker 1: what will happen. Just like by the time, by the

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Speaker 1: time we really see how terrible Obamacare would have been,

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Speaker 1: no one will blame Obama for it anymore. Welcome back, team,

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Speaker 1: but care with you in the Freedom Hunt. We've got

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Speaker 1: Ben Dominic on the line as our guest right now.

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Speaker 1: He is the publisher of The Federalist and host of

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Speaker 1: the Federalist Radio Hour. You can read his latest on

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Speaker 1: the Federalist dot com. Mr Donald's great to have you back, sir.

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Speaker 1: Great to be with you as always. Buck. Uh So,

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Speaker 1: I have to I have to confess I do not

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Speaker 1: know anything about uh this person, Jamille Hill. But I

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Speaker 1: see you've written a piece on Jamil Hill. What is

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Speaker 1: going on here? So so Jamal Hill is Jamal pardon me?

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Speaker 1: That's fine? Of the of the six o'clock ESPN Sports Center,

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Speaker 1: the you know, Marquee show, obviously of of ESPN and

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Speaker 1: just the other night, she went on a bit of

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Speaker 1: a rant in the middle of Monday night football on

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Speaker 1: Twitter where she started to essentially go after Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: and his supporters of all things. That was actually inspired

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Speaker 1: by a conversation that I think began because people were

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Speaker 1: arguing about Kid Rock and whether he was inappropriate or

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Speaker 1: a white supremacist or something like that. She weighed in

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Speaker 1: with a bunch of tweets calling Trump a white supremacist,

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Speaker 1: saying that he was elevated only because he was a

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Speaker 1: white supremacist and a white person, and said a bunch

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Speaker 1: of other pretty nasty things. And uh, there was some

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Speaker 1: blowback for it, as you might expect from a lot

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Speaker 1: of people who were demanding that, you know, she justified

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Speaker 1: what she was saying and things like that. ESPN, however,

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Speaker 1: as you know, has been very defensive of their anchors

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Speaker 1: ability to weigh in on anything political that they want

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Speaker 1: to say, as long as it comes from the left.

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Speaker 1: Um as they've been a little more uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: preventive when it comes to their staff are saying things

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Speaker 1: that lean right. And so in this case, they put

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Speaker 1: out a statement that doesn't even amount to a slap

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Speaker 1: on the wrist. They basically said, we we've discussed the

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Speaker 1: matter with Jamal and she agrees that was inappropriate. Was

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Speaker 1: the statement they put out this afternoon. Buck, We're talking

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Speaker 1: about somebody who was elevated to co hosting the six

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Speaker 1: pm hour of ESPN, and he has fan as you know,

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Speaker 1: has been a place that has seen a pretty significant

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Speaker 1: decline in ratings in recent years and a lot of

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Speaker 1: people not just cutting the cord, but you know, not

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Speaker 1: wanting to get it anymore. And the argument that the

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Speaker 1: ESPN folks advance is that this, you know, has to

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Speaker 1: do with just people you know, watching games on mobile

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Speaker 1: devices and not really you know, tuning into the channel anymore.

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Speaker 1: I would argue that it's actually because of people like

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Speaker 1: Jamal Hill don't just make everything political when they have

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Speaker 1: the opportunity, but make for pretty boring television. And if

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Speaker 1: you tune into that hour, I would argue, you see

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Speaker 1: a set that looks like it hasn't changed in essentially

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Speaker 1: twenty years, and something that looks a lot like local television,

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Speaker 1: but with two fairly boring co hosts who spend a

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Speaker 1: lot more time politically posturing than they do talking about sports,

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Speaker 1: which is what most people turn into ESPN to see

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Speaker 1: I think that. And I'm not somebody who watches a

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Speaker 1: lot of sports, so I'll put that out. I do watch,

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Speaker 1: but I certainly don't watch commentary about sports. I don't.

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Speaker 1: That's just not it's that's not my thing. I mean

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Speaker 1: for for folks who love that by all means. But

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Speaker 1: you know what, I when I hear that there as

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Speaker 1: a radio guy, here are people listening to a three

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Speaker 1: hour long radio show about a sporting event, I just

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Speaker 1: I don't know it. It doesn't it doesn't appeal to me.

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Speaker 1: I feel like the leftist tell though that we see

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Speaker 1: from a lot of the sports commentary at is a

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Speaker 1: relatively new thing. But and it's also there's a kind

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Speaker 1: of unabashed quality to it all, like like this is

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Speaker 1: it's now out there. They don't care, They're fine with it.

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Speaker 1: ESPN is fine with it. Where do you think this

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Speaker 1: came from? I mean, it's not like all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden there are there are progressives in our midst to

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Speaker 1: decide they wanted to get into sports. Do you can

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Speaker 1: you identify the shift? What happened? So there are a

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Speaker 1: couple of things that happened. I think most of all, though,

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Speaker 1: what we're actually seeing Hererick Buck is a bias among

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Speaker 1: among media types who think that their audience is like them. So,

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Speaker 1: for instance, if you talk to a media type who

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Speaker 1: works at ESPN, I've interviewed a couple on on my

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Speaker 1: own radio show, they'll say things like, well, nobody really

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Speaker 1: watch his highlights anymore. They just they just you know,

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Speaker 1: watch those on Twitter. They don't, they don't really want

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Speaker 1: to see those anymore. They want to see commentary. Well,

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Speaker 1: the truth is most people don't use Twitter. Know that. Actually,

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Speaker 1: actually most Americans don't use it, you know, and and

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Speaker 1: certainly some do, and when they do, they might look

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Speaker 1: for highlights there. But the fact is that lots of

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Speaker 1: people like to see highlight shows, and that's what ESPN

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Speaker 1: sort of built their whole model on. The other problem

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Speaker 1: that they have really is that on on the sort

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Speaker 1: of virtue signaling side. The fact is that most of

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Speaker 1: these reporters came come from backgrounds where they went to Northwestern,

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Speaker 1: they went to see Heracuse, they went to a lot

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Speaker 1: of different, you know, schools that are known for their

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Speaker 1: journalism programs. They have left to center views. I think

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Speaker 1: the difference now is that with the advent of social media.

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Speaker 1: They have a new opportunity to express those views in

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Speaker 1: ways that get an immediate response from the viewers and

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Speaker 1: from people online, and that this response often frustrates them,

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Speaker 1: makes them angry, makes them double down, Which is what

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Speaker 1: you'll see if you look back and see which amount

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Speaker 1: Hill was writing last night. She she was kind of

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Speaker 1: doubling down on this idea. You know, well, no, it's

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Speaker 1: not just that he's wrong, it's that he's it's not

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Speaker 1: just that he's unfit. It's that he's a white supremacist,

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Speaker 1: and he's supported by white supremacists and surrounded by white supremacists.

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Speaker 1: And I think that what that really equates to is

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Speaker 1: it's a virtue signaling for them to their colleagues about

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Speaker 1: how brave they are, you know, for standing up for

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Speaker 1: what they believe in. But the fact is, you know, Buck,

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Speaker 1: when you know ten twenty years ago, before the advent

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Speaker 1: of social media, you wouldn't have really been able to

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Speaker 1: tell the politics of anybody who was talking about sports

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Speaker 1: on TV. You wouldn't necessarily know, you know, you might.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I have a gentle event because this is

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Speaker 1: what I think some of the folks, even at CNN

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Speaker 1: and MSNBC don't understand is that you can't have Jim

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Speaker 1: Acosta or Jim Shooto or anyone else at the network's name,

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Speaker 1: Jim who's a big correspondent, tweeting about you know how

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Speaker 1: Trump is an idiot at nine AM, and then going

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Speaker 1: on a news broadcast at six PM. And I want

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Speaker 1: to be treated as a nonpartisan, independent journalist. It doesn't work.

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Speaker 1: You're a hundred percent correct. Imagine the attitude that would

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Speaker 1: have had. Obviously one of the most famous duos in

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Speaker 1: in the in the history of ESPN as is Keith

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Speaker 1: Overman and Kenny Maine. Okay, they would host as Sports

857
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Speaker 1: Center together. They were very funny, Uh, they were very biting.

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Speaker 1: You didn't know you could have paid attention and figured

859
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Speaker 1: out that Keith Olberman was a liberal. Okay, But imagine

860
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Speaker 1: if Keith Olderman at that time had Twitter, had had

861
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Speaker 1: the ability to sort of come off a set at

862
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Speaker 1: ESPN and then start ranting and raving about politics and

863
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:31,920
Speaker 1: his particular views. The fact that he didn't protected his

864
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Speaker 1: ability to be a sportscaster who could be enjoyed by

865
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Speaker 1: right and left a light. And I think right now

866
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:39,080
Speaker 1: the fact that there is no barrier, there is no

867
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Speaker 1: filter for that sort of thing. It doesn't just hurt

868
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Speaker 1: the business of sports, it does, as you say, also

869
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Speaker 1: hurt our ability to take any of these people seriously

870
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:49,480
Speaker 1: when they try to pretend like they don't have a

871
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Speaker 1: particular viewpoint and then spend the rest of their day

872
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: complaining about the President, or about the Republican Party or

873
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Speaker 1: about the President's supporters. Were speaking of Ben Dominic He's

874
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Speaker 1: the publisher of The Federalist, host of the Federalist Radio.

875
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Speaker 1: Our Federalists one of my favorite sites. I commended to

876
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 1: all of you should go check it out. If you're

877
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Speaker 1: not already bookmarking in your browser, you should. Ben. You're

878
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Speaker 1: a guy who can cover a lot of grounds, so

879
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Speaker 1: I want to take advantage of that if I can

880
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Speaker 1: for a moment here your take on the deal that

881
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Speaker 1: Trump struck with Pelosi and Schumer. What is it okay?

882
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Speaker 1: So to back up a step is step Thank you

883
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Speaker 1: first of all for saying those nice things about the Federalists,

884
00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 1: but about in May, at the Federalists, I actually wrote

885
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Speaker 1: a piece that argued that Donald Trump needed to pivot

886
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:36,480
Speaker 1: to the middle in order to save himself from impeachment.

887
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Speaker 1: And the argument that I had at the time was essentially,

888
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Speaker 1: Democrats are going to run in and whether whether they

889
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:44,200
Speaker 1: admit it or not, they will if they take the

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Speaker 1: House attempt to impeach President Trump. And they don't even

891
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:50,320
Speaker 1: really need a justification. It's just that they're they're hardcore.

892
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Speaker 1: He's Trump really wants them to do it, exactly, He's

893
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump. That's the justification. Um. And so my argument

894
00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:59,000
Speaker 1: was actually that, you know, if we look back historically,

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Speaker 1: there's a situation for a president that actually compares a

896
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Speaker 1: lot to Donald Trump, and that's Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton,

897
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Speaker 1: in his first year in office, had struggled with the

898
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Speaker 1: health care issue. He had a special prosecuted by mid

899
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:14,560
Speaker 1: middle of the year that was looking into his a

900
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:17,759
Speaker 1: bunch of different things related to his situation. There was

901
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Speaker 1: a real backlash against his election in a lot of

902
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Speaker 1: different ways, and you had a White House that was

903
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:24,040
Speaker 1: that had a lot of upheaval, that had a bunch

904
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Speaker 1: of different staffers come in and out in the going months.

905
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Speaker 1: That led to obviously a wave election in damaged him.

906
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Speaker 1: But the fact is that after that election, Bill Clinton changed,

907
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:39,200
Speaker 1: He triangulated. He decided he was going to work with

908
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Speaker 1: Republicans on some issues, and Democrats on other issues. As

909
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:45,640
Speaker 1: you know, Donald Trump is really an independent politically, He's

910
00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 1: not truly a Republican, he's not truly a Democrat. He's

911
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:49,920
Speaker 1: been all over the map on a lot of different

912
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Speaker 1: things in his career. He knows Chuck Schumer. He gets

913
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Speaker 1: along with Chuck Schumer. They're both from the boroughs, and

914
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Speaker 1: I think that when you look at their relationship, they're

915
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Speaker 1: a lot closer personally than Paul Ryan and Mitch connell

916
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Speaker 1: are to Trump. Ryan and McConnell came to Trump in

917
00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:05,840
Speaker 1: back in January and they said, we'll have a repeal

918
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Speaker 1: bill on your desk by easter, We'll have a tax

919
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:11,160
Speaker 1: bill on your desk by August, and then we'll spend

920
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Speaker 1: the latter part of the year on infrastructure. Obviously, they

921
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Speaker 1: haven't delivered on any of those things. And so for

922
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Speaker 1: a guy who's a political neophype like Trump, he looks

923
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:20,680
Speaker 1: around and basically says, hey, if I can't trust you

924
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Speaker 1: guys to get stuff done, maybe I should work with

925
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Speaker 1: the other people. And I think in this situation that's

926
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Speaker 1: thoroughly logical. Now. The problem, of course, is, you know,

927
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Speaker 1: for Trump he's going to need to be able to

928
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:32,880
Speaker 1: cut deals with Democrats that Republicans will also still be

929
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Speaker 1: able to support. That's not necessarily going to be the

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Speaker 1: best policy for the country, Buck, I think that that's

931
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Speaker 1: going to leave you a lot of things I'm going

932
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Speaker 1: to dislike. But if it turns out to be politically

933
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Speaker 1: feasible for Trump to do that, and I think it

934
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Speaker 1: probably is, it's actually gonna be something that's probably going

935
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Speaker 1: to help him have a lot more effective presidency and

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Speaker 1: prevent him from being in a position where Democrats can

937
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Speaker 1: afford to be aligned against it. I would love to

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Speaker 1: see what would happen, Buck, if if tomorrow the President

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Speaker 1: came out and announced that he was going to support

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Speaker 1: hike in the minimum wage but also a work requirement

941
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Speaker 1: for every welfare program that we have in the country.

942
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Speaker 1: That would be a very difficult vote for a lot

943
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Speaker 1: of Democrats to take, because of course they're opposed that

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Speaker 1: those work requirements, But the minimum wage hike has been

945
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Speaker 1: something that they've been beating, you know, the drum on

946
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Speaker 1: for ages, and it's the sort of thing that Trump

947
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Speaker 1: alone among Republican you know, presidential candidates in this past cycle,

948
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Speaker 1: could potentially offer them because of things that he said

949
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Speaker 1: in the past. So I don't know if it'll work out,

950
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 1: but I think that in terms of his own success,

951
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Speaker 1: it's not an illogical move on his part, and even

952
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Speaker 1: if it's made out of animosity towards Ryan and McConnell,

953
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Speaker 1: it does make some political sense. Then one more for you,

954
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Speaker 1: and uh, I appreciate you calling in here. Ben's from

955
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Speaker 1: the Federalist everybody where he is the publisher, Ben H.

956
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:47,279
Speaker 1: What would it take for Trump's real base, his original

957
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Speaker 1: supporters back in the very beginning of the primary, when

958
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:52,319
Speaker 1: there were what seventeen candidates and people that have been

959
00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:54,120
Speaker 1: with him all along and really believe, what do you

960
00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:57,439
Speaker 1: think it would take in terms of policy for them

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00:53:57,480 --> 00:54:01,600
Speaker 1: to finally say, well, that's not okay. I think that

962
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Speaker 1: it would take a couple of things. I think one, h,

963
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Speaker 1: you know, one aspect would be and I think that

964
00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:08,520
Speaker 1: this should not be underestimated, is if he actually gets

965
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Speaker 1: us involved in a war. I think a lot of

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Speaker 1: his supporders, you know, viewed him as someone who would

967
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Speaker 1: prevent something like that, who would who would end wars,

968
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Speaker 1: and not you know, he'd get us involved in new ones.

969
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:20,360
Speaker 1: I also think that they would have a different attitude

970
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:23,040
Speaker 1: towards him. Frankly, if he stopped being the kind of

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Speaker 1: force against what they view as political correctness and the

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Speaker 1: and the forces that are involved there, I think that

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Speaker 1: would actually feel a lot of people off. A telling

974
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:33,640
Speaker 1: factor from this past week was the fact that you

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Speaker 1: saw Betsy devas the Education Secretary, come out and roll

976
00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:39,400
Speaker 1: back a number of things that announced that she was

977
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 1: going to be rolling back a number of things related

978
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Speaker 1: to President Obama's Title nine policy. They didn't get that.

979
00:54:44,560 --> 00:54:46,799
Speaker 1: That didn't get a lot of blowback or attention in

980
00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:49,400
Speaker 1: the media, but it's a significant factor, and it's one

981
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:51,719
Speaker 1: of those things that I think flows into his whole

982
00:54:51,760 --> 00:54:55,760
Speaker 1: conversation about about freedoms that relate to speech and issues

983
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:58,040
Speaker 1: like that on not just on campuses, but in the

984
00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:01,239
Speaker 1: public square. That's something that I think keeps his loyalists

985
00:55:01,239 --> 00:55:04,400
Speaker 1: so close to him, and frankly, it's this is always

986
00:55:04,400 --> 00:55:07,000
Speaker 1: a binary. As much as people dislike Trump, or as

987
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:10,439
Speaker 1: they dislike some of these other Republican candidates, the fact

988
00:55:10,520 --> 00:55:12,319
Speaker 1: is that they look across at the other party, They

989
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:14,399
Speaker 1: look at what they're being told. They look at people

990
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:16,560
Speaker 1: like Jamal Hill who say that anybody who supports the

991
00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 1: president as a white supremacist, and they say, well, guess what,

992
00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:20,879
Speaker 1: I'm not going to go along with you, then I'm

993
00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:23,279
Speaker 1: supposed to vote for your person now because they think

994
00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:25,719
Speaker 1: that I'm racist. That's That's something that I think is

995
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:28,040
Speaker 1: so fundamental to what's going on right now. As long

996
00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:31,120
Speaker 1: as Democrats continue to wrap themselves in this identity politics

997
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:35,080
Speaker 1: that says that anything traditionalist, anything patriotic, is in support

998
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:37,960
Speaker 1: of something evil and racist, then they're never going to

999
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:40,440
Speaker 1: be able to make inroads with the kind of people

1000
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:44,920
Speaker 1: who were frankly decisive voters for President Obama twice and

1001
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:47,720
Speaker 1: then for President then for Donald Trump in the last selection.

1002
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Speaker 1: Ben Dominic of the Federalists, go check out the Federalist

1003
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Speaker 1: dot com. Ben, thanks so much for your your time

1004
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:54,960
Speaker 1: to anybody. Appreciate it. Great to be with you. As always, Buck,

1005
00:55:55,040 --> 00:56:02,239
Speaker 1: take care, He's holding the line for America is back.

1006
00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:08,040
Speaker 1: We are facing a couple of very difficult obstacles. First,

1007
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:13,160
Speaker 1: the other side has dedicated propaganda channels, that's what I

1008
00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:17,320
Speaker 1: call Fox News. It has outlets like bright Bart and

1009
00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:21,120
Speaker 1: you know, crazy info Wars and things like that. In

1010
00:56:21,120 --> 00:56:24,319
Speaker 1: this particular election, it was aided and embedded by the

1011
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:27,920
Speaker 1: Russians and the role that Facebook and other platforms played.

1012
00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:31,719
Speaker 1: We are late to that. You know, we did not

1013
00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 1: understand how a reality TV campaign would so dominate the

1014
00:56:38,160 --> 00:56:41,800
Speaker 1: media environment. I think the Democrats can do a lot,

1015
00:56:41,960 --> 00:56:45,920
Speaker 1: but they are still going to face a very difficult

1016
00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:48,120
Speaker 1: media environment, and we've got to figure out how we're

1017
00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:51,520
Speaker 1: going to break through. I mean, obviously, more podcasts, more

1018
00:56:51,719 --> 00:56:55,319
Speaker 1: other ways of communicating so voices can be heard and

1019
00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:58,600
Speaker 1: real positions can be understood, is part of it. But

1020
00:56:58,719 --> 00:57:02,120
Speaker 1: we're still at a disadvanta. Here we have Hillary Clinton

1021
00:57:02,320 --> 00:57:05,680
Speaker 1: explaining to us that she lost the election because there

1022
00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:11,760
Speaker 1: aren't enough liberal media outs out there. Wow, she is brazen.

1023
00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:15,520
Speaker 1: I almost respected, if I didn't despise it so much.

1024
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:19,560
Speaker 1: But she has this book out, uh, which is called

1025
00:57:19,560 --> 00:57:21,480
Speaker 1: What Happened, as I've been talking about on the show.

1026
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:23,880
Speaker 1: And we have somebody who's joining us now who has

1027
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:27,120
Speaker 1: been reading through the book and can discuss that as

1028
00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:29,880
Speaker 1: well as some other issues of politics. Right now, Sarah

1029
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:32,320
Speaker 1: Westwood is on the line. She's a White House correspondent

1030
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:34,959
Speaker 1: for the Washington Examiner. Sarah, great to have you back,

1031
00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:39,000
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. Okay, this book, What Happened? Tell

1032
00:57:39,040 --> 00:57:42,160
Speaker 1: me about it? What's in it? Well, this is kind

1033
00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:46,760
Speaker 1: of Hillary Clinton's way of starting to rehabilitate her image

1034
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:50,360
Speaker 1: after what was clearly a devastating loss for her personally

1035
00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:53,600
Speaker 1: for her party. It's kind of a mix of these

1036
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:57,480
Speaker 1: personal justifications of why she chose to be evasive on

1037
00:57:57,640 --> 00:58:01,200
Speaker 1: things like for Wall Street speeches or the Clinton Foundation,

1038
00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:06,400
Speaker 1: and also casting blame on the Democratic Party, on Senator

1039
00:58:06,440 --> 00:58:09,560
Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders on the media, like if the snippet you

1040
00:58:09,680 --> 00:58:13,560
Speaker 1: just played on President Trump himself, And a lot of

1041
00:58:13,560 --> 00:58:18,080
Speaker 1: people have taken this to be this blame game book

1042
00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 1: where she's going through and she's laying responsibility at the

1043
00:58:22,240 --> 00:58:25,440
Speaker 1: feet of everyone who cost her the election without really

1044
00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:29,240
Speaker 1: fully acknowledging the role that her own flaws played in

1045
00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:32,360
Speaker 1: losing the election. And as far as Democrats go, there

1046
00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:35,040
Speaker 1: are not a whole lot of them in elected office

1047
00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:37,080
Speaker 1: right now who seemed to be excited that this is

1048
00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:40,840
Speaker 1: coming out, because she's a deeply unpopular figure still and

1049
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 1: her presence on the national stage doesn't really help them

1050
00:58:43,720 --> 00:58:46,120
Speaker 1: sort out the divisions they have in their party right now.

1051
00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:48,800
Speaker 1: What can you tell me about the blame that's being

1052
00:58:48,880 --> 00:58:51,680
Speaker 1: thrown at the burn that's been getting a lot of headlines,

1053
00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:56,040
Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders getting some some rough stuff in this book

1054
00:58:56,040 --> 00:58:59,720
Speaker 1: from Hillary Clinton and from her book tour Well Luring.

1055
00:58:59,760 --> 00:59:03,240
Speaker 1: Clin is making the argument that some Democrats agree with

1056
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:06,840
Speaker 1: that Bernie Sanders paved the way for Donald Trump to

1057
00:59:07,080 --> 00:59:12,040
Speaker 1: use his successful Crooked Hillary attacks by introducing this narrative

1058
00:59:12,120 --> 00:59:16,440
Speaker 1: that she was somehow with holding something nefarious from her

1059
00:59:16,600 --> 00:59:19,880
Speaker 1: paid speeches to Wall Street when she refused to release

1060
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Speaker 1: the transcripts that started during the Democratic primary. But he didn't.

1061
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Speaker 1: Senator Bernie Sanders chose deliberately not to go after Hillary

1062
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Speaker 1: Clinton for her emails. He waged what I think a

1063
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Speaker 1: lot of people considered to be a very issues based campaign. Uh.

1064
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Speaker 1: And she highlights the fact that he is an independent,

1065
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Speaker 1: he's not a registered Democrat, he's never really claimed to

1066
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Speaker 1: be a member of the Democratic Party, making the argument

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Speaker 1: that he didn't get into the Democratic primary to elevate

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Speaker 1: And she said, ultimately that wasn't helpful to her chances.

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Speaker 1: We're speaking to Sarah West What she is a White

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Speaker 1: House correspondent for the Washington Examiner. Uh, Sarah, tax reform

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Speaker 1: is an issue that's getting a lot of attention now

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Speaker 1: because it's the major policy agenda item that the Trump

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Speaker 1: administration says is up next. We have not seen a

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Speaker 1: lot of success on the legislative front with this White

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Speaker 1: House so far, but it is still early. What can

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Speaker 1: you tell us about where things stand on tax reform

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Speaker 1: and the possibilities of getting Democrats to come along well. Tonight,

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Speaker 1: President Trump is making an overture to Democrats in the

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Speaker 1: Senate that he'll need to get on board by inviting

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Speaker 1: three of them, along with three Republicans to the White

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Speaker 1: House for dinner. He's been making these overtures to Democrats

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Speaker 1: who are vulnerable in ten who are up for reelection

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Speaker 1: in states where Trump is popular, who might need to

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Speaker 1: to be really the key here. Remember that at the

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Speaker 1: end of September, which is coming up really soon, Republicans

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Speaker 1: will lose their ability to pass tax reform using just

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Speaker 1: to do one votes. So no matter what happens, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna need to get eight Democrats on their side. President

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Speaker 1: Trump is just starting that pivot a little bit earlier

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Speaker 1: than I think Republicans expected him to, and he's starting

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Speaker 1: to try to make his case to those Democrats. Sara

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Speaker 1: Hugaby Sanders said as much earlier today, most everyone can

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Speaker 1: agree that Americans should keep more of their money than

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Speaker 1: the government. They spend it certainly far better than the

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Speaker 1: government can. And I think that's something that is a

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Speaker 1: common goal that a lot of people want to come

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Speaker 1: together on. I think by nature of them sitting down

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Speaker 1: with the president, that's a very good first start. Then

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Speaker 1: the President, I think is demonstrated both in his business

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Speaker 1: world and as president, that he can make deals, and

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Speaker 1: that's certainly what he's looking to do, and he's gonna

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Speaker 1: work hard to make sure that we get the best

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Speaker 1: deal possible on tax reform. What would a deal look

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Speaker 1: like though with Democrats? I mean, what do we have

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Speaker 1: any sense of that? I assume the Democrats are already

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Speaker 1: trying to, you know, set the table here a bit.

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Speaker 1: What would they need to go forward with a tax cut? Well,

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Speaker 1: that that very question was put to Sarah Sanders today

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Speaker 1: and she couldn't quite answer it and noticed that what

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Speaker 1: she was talking about there was a tax cut, it

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Speaker 1: was not tax reform, which is what Republicans have been

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Speaker 1: pushing for, to make fundamental changes to the tax code

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Speaker 1: that makes filing your taxes easier. That closed some of

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Speaker 1: the loopholes, and that's often politically unpopular because it involved,

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Speaker 1: uh getting at what Democrats would characterize as tax cuts

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Speaker 1: for the rich or for corporations, even though it's making

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Speaker 1: structural changes to the tax code. And so because of that,

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Speaker 1: I think the White House seems to be setting it

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Speaker 1: side right now just on getting a tax cut for

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Speaker 1: the middle class or people who could really use it,

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Speaker 1: and not necessarily focusing on the tax reform that was

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Speaker 1: originally the goal of Republicans once they got control of

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Speaker 1: all three branches of government. Any word, by the way,

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Speaker 1: on the looming border battle, I mean, I see here

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Speaker 1: main header on drawge waiver issued so construction of border

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Speaker 1: battle can begin. While the problem is that it's not

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Speaker 1: clear how hard the White House is going to fight

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Speaker 1: for funding for the border wall or some of these

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Speaker 1: other immigration enforcement priorities when it comes to a DOCA

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Speaker 1: protections bill. I know it's it's been out there that

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Speaker 1: President Trump has asked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer if

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Speaker 1: this is something he'd be willing to consider. But it's

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Speaker 1: really difficult to see some of these further left politicians

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Speaker 1: voting for anything that cracks down on illegal immigration even

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Speaker 1: as part of the package. I think you're right. I

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Speaker 1: think it's gonna be too hard for the Democrats to

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Speaker 1: swallow that one. Sarah West what everybody? She is a

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Speaker 1: White House correspondent for the Washington Examiner. Read her latest

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Speaker 1: on Washington Examiner dot com. Sarah, great stuff. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: coming by. Thank you. You are now entering the Freedomhow

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Speaker 1: Technical Operations Center. All sensitive programs must be kept strictly.

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Speaker 1: Need to know Team Buck is cleared and ready for

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Speaker 1: the buck brief war game can often be a deeply

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Speaker 1: unsettling and even terrifying exercise. The case of North Korea

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Speaker 1: these days, and the options that the US has on

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Speaker 1: hand to deal with this belligerent nuclear power on the

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Speaker 1: Korean Peninsula is no exception to that. In fact, some

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Speaker 1: of the options that we might have to consider in

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Speaker 1: the future are exactly the kind of things that keep

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Speaker 1: the most grizzled veteran Pentagon analysts and think tank wanks

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Speaker 1: up late at night wondering about what the future of

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Speaker 1: this world will really be. Now, I don't mean to

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Speaker 1: overstate the case. There is an overwhelming likelihood that North

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Speaker 1: Korea will continue in some form of status quo for

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Speaker 1: the months ahead and probably even years. But in order

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Speaker 1: to understand the full scope and and all of the

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Speaker 1: possibilities on the Korean peninsula, let's look at the various

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Speaker 1: options for link with North Korea you just had. Earlier

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Speaker 1: this week, the U N Security Council pass a resolution

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Speaker 1: that would enhance the already very strict sanctions on the

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Speaker 1: so called Hermit Kingdom. Now. Initially, NICKI Haley, the U

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Speaker 1: S Ambassador to the United Nations, had wanted there to

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Speaker 1: be a complete embargo on all oil to North Korea.

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Speaker 1: North Korea relies on China for a large portion of

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Speaker 1: its oil and at least of its of its liquid

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Speaker 1: fossil fuels, and the idea here is that if you

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Speaker 1: were to completely cut off that supply, it is very

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Speaker 1: possible that you would have major economic dislocations inside North Korea,

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Speaker 1: and also you might get Pyongyang's attention because it needs

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Speaker 1: fossil fuels. Uh liquid fossil fuels not just for its vehicles,

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Speaker 1: but also in manufacturing processes and for its war machine

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Speaker 1: in general. UH. We didn't get a full embargo, though.

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Speaker 1: The UN Security Council has China and Russia on it

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Speaker 1: as permanent members, with the ability to veto, and so

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Speaker 1: there had to be some back room negotiating. There will

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Speaker 1: be a limitation put upon North Korean exports and that

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Speaker 1: will hurt hard currency reserves inside of North Korea, which

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Speaker 1: may get Kim Jong lan's attention at some level. And

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Speaker 1: we did not get a complete freeze of all of

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Speaker 1: Kim Jong len's assets abroad, which also NICKI Haley had

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Speaker 1: wanted from the get go. But so there are there

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Speaker 1: are some aspects of this that we can be pleased about.

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Speaker 1: But we also need to understand that while it's a

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Speaker 1: win in the diplomacy column for the Trump administration, it

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Speaker 1: is very unlikely to be enough. It is uh not

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Speaker 1: going to be the case that this will alone change

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Speaker 1: the trajectory of the North Korean militaristic hyper militaristic project

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Speaker 1: of achieving nuclear weapons that are well nuclear devices that

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Speaker 1: go on top of I C b ms which would

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Speaker 1: allow them to hit the US mainland. So what are

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Speaker 1: the I should also note, and this is just an

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Speaker 1: interesting aside, that even if China had gone forward with

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Speaker 1: China said we will shut off all oil, all oil

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Speaker 1: exports to North Korea. North Korea has substantial coal deposits,

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Speaker 1: and there's reason to believe that they already have the

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Speaker 1: them fill up the shortfall in uh in gas in

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Speaker 1: There there is a process through which they could do that,

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Speaker 1: and they probably could do that insufficient and with a

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Speaker 1: and even if it wasn't entirely made up for, well,

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Speaker 1: this is a country that has been dealing with deprivation

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Speaker 1: of all kinds for decades. And we should note that

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Speaker 1: the suffering of North Korea, while we think that it

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Speaker 1: are a besieged people. But we also have to keep

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Speaker 1: in mind the ideology of the North Korean state as

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Speaker 1: we look at all these different options. U n. Security

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Speaker 1: Council is ratching up the pressure. That's good. There are

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Speaker 1: a number of places where more can be done, and

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Speaker 1: I think the Trump administration will do more in order

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Speaker 1: North Korea when it comes to their military programs, their

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Speaker 1: nuclear programs, their missile tests, And that won't stop them,

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Speaker 1: but it may at least slow things down. They may

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Speaker 1: make Kim Jong un think twice about some of his actions,

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Speaker 1: which keep in mind, recently was talking about firing missiles

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Speaker 1: as I've been telling you, the North Korean regime is

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Speaker 1: for decades. So then we get into what would we

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Speaker 1: do in response. Now, if there were a North Korean

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Speaker 1: if we would wait to figure that out. The response,

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Speaker 1: the retaliatory response would be tremendous. But what if North

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Speaker 1: Korea engaged in a slower offensive that wasn't based on

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Speaker 1: nuclear weapons. How how quickly would we escalate and to

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Speaker 1: what degree would we be willing to escalate on say,

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Speaker 1: last month. There's a think tank piece on attitudes towards

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Speaker 1: the use of nuclear weapons, and I wrote about this

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Speaker 1: on the Hill dot com today under the title Americans

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Speaker 1: provocative title. I I make no I make no bones

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Speaker 1: to read the rest of the piece. And what I

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Speaker 1: other side, but that doesn't even really make that much

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Speaker 1: difference in terms of the morality to play in a

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Speaker 1: Republicans that were polled in this survey, would be willing

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Speaker 1: to use force missile strikes, perhaps even up to and

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Speaker 1: including nuclear strikes, although that was not specified. Missile strikes

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Speaker 1: to kill a hundred thousand civilians to protect twenty thousand

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Speaker 1: U S soldiers. A near majority forty eight percent. According

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Speaker 1: to this in this International Security Journal study, almost half

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Speaker 1: would be willing to kill two million civilians to protect

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Speaker 1: twenty thousand US troops. Now, if you're gonna kill two

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Speaker 1: million civilians, it stands to reason that you'd be willing

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Speaker 1: to use a nuclear weapon to accomplish that, Although that

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Speaker 1: is an extrapolation from the act will exercise we're talking

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Speaker 1: about here, this actual think tank piece. But the American

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Speaker 1: is not what I think some think tankers and others

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Speaker 1: have believed for a long time. There is a nuclear taboo.

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Speaker 1: They call it. This is what they refer to This

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Speaker 1: is how they refer to it in international relations circles,

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Speaker 1: and the nuclear taboo is essentially that nuclear weapons are

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Speaker 1: so terrible that there's almost no reason, no rationale that

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Speaker 1: anyone can come up with, short of existential self defense,

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Speaker 1: that anyone would use nuclear weapons. But if you were

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Speaker 1: to push that a bit further, I think what you

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Speaker 1: see is that, depending on the circumstances, the US and

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Speaker 1: other countries with nukes may in fact feel threatened enough

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Speaker 1: have a well, not just a massive aerial strike, but

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Speaker 1: even a nuclear strike to disable the enemy's war fighting

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01:13:05,479 --> 01:13:08,519
Speaker 1: capability and to protect our troops and our people. So

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01:13:08,720 --> 01:13:11,960
Speaker 1: it's really a philosophical question. But I think that it's

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01:13:11,960 --> 01:13:14,080
Speaker 1: far too easy for us to just suggest that we

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01:13:14,200 --> 01:13:19,000
Speaker 1: have all these nukes and would never use them. If

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01:13:19,439 --> 01:13:21,880
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Kim Jong un loaded up a

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01:13:21,880 --> 01:13:24,680
Speaker 1: bunch of v X gas and was pointing it at

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Speaker 1: thirty thousand US troops across the d m Z. Are

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01:13:29,360 --> 01:13:32,200
Speaker 1: we really so sure that we wouldn't respond to that

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01:13:32,360 --> 01:13:36,960
Speaker 1: imminent threat with a nuclear retaliation or at least a

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Speaker 1: massive military retaliation that would result in tens of thousands,

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Speaker 1: perhaps hundreds of thousands of casualties. These are difficult questions,

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01:13:46,520 --> 01:13:50,559
Speaker 1: and I understand that, and it's not something that I

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01:13:50,920 --> 01:13:53,559
Speaker 1: by any means want to spend too much time thinking about.

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01:13:53,880 --> 01:13:56,120
Speaker 1: But when we're looking at the crisis and the Korean Peninsula,

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01:13:56,120 --> 01:13:58,200
Speaker 1: I think we do have to consider that all options

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01:13:58,200 --> 01:14:04,720
Speaker 1: on the table may mean just that he's back with

1297
01:14:04,840 --> 01:14:07,559
Speaker 1: you now, because when it comes to the fight for truth,

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01:14:07,920 --> 01:14:12,360
Speaker 1: the fuck never stops. Hey, Tim, it's Buck Sexton. I

1299
01:14:12,439 --> 01:14:17,519
Speaker 1: know that I could be accused of buck splaining here

1300
01:14:17,840 --> 01:14:21,000
Speaker 1: or man splaining. Perhaps I know that this may be

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01:14:21,120 --> 01:14:23,600
Speaker 1: a moment where I could be criticized for trying to

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01:14:24,400 --> 01:14:28,599
Speaker 1: protect the patriarchy in some way. But I saw this

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01:14:28,720 --> 01:14:33,280
Speaker 1: piece and it is really worthwhile and it's important, and

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01:14:33,479 --> 01:14:36,960
Speaker 1: I don't care that it's not politically correct. I don't

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01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:42,559
Speaker 1: care that the feminist liberal left would decry it. For

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01:14:42,600 --> 01:14:46,760
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of reasons, it's important. There are young

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01:14:46,800 --> 01:14:49,519
Speaker 1: people who listened to the show, including a whole bunch

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01:14:49,560 --> 01:14:54,439
Speaker 1: of college aged men and women. And for female college

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01:14:54,479 --> 01:14:59,360
Speaker 1: age listeners, this is a must read, a must read

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01:14:59,479 --> 01:15:03,839
Speaker 1: piece in the Wall Street Journal. It was written by

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01:15:04,080 --> 01:15:09,200
Speaker 1: Jennifer Bercera's and she's just a lawyer and a writer

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01:15:09,439 --> 01:15:13,160
Speaker 1: in Boston. And here's what she writes, straight talk for

1313
01:15:13,240 --> 01:15:17,360
Speaker 1: college women, be prudent about alcohol, and know that school

1314
01:15:17,360 --> 01:15:20,960
Speaker 1: administrators don't have your interests at heart. Let me give

1315
01:15:20,960 --> 01:15:24,040
Speaker 1: you some of what Mr Serra's writes in the piece. Quote,

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01:15:24,280 --> 01:15:28,320
Speaker 1: Dear female members of the class of one, now that

1317
01:15:28,360 --> 01:15:31,640
Speaker 1: you've set up your rooms and purchased your course materials,

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01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:35,559
Speaker 1: it's time for some straight talk about sexual assault. If

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01:15:35,600 --> 01:15:38,080
Speaker 1: you follow the news, you've probably heard that one and

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01:15:38,160 --> 01:15:42,160
Speaker 1: four of you will be sexually assaulted on campus before graduation.

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01:15:42,880 --> 01:15:46,439
Speaker 1: Don't panic. Your parents did not drop you and your

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01:15:46,439 --> 01:15:50,200
Speaker 1: belongings in a crime zone. Claims of a campus rape

1323
01:15:50,200 --> 01:15:54,639
Speaker 1: crisis are wildly inflated, and a little common sense will

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01:15:54,680 --> 01:15:58,880
Speaker 1: go a long way toward keeping you safe. The assertion

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01:15:58,960 --> 01:16:01,799
Speaker 1: that nearly a core of all college women are sexually

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01:16:01,800 --> 01:16:05,719
Speaker 1: assaulted is based on surveys that ask vaguely worded questions

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01:16:05,760 --> 01:16:10,599
Speaker 1: about behavior ranging from an unexpected kiss to rape. In

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01:16:10,640 --> 01:16:14,920
Speaker 1: analyzing the responses, those who lump all such conduct into

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01:16:14,960 --> 01:16:19,519
Speaker 1: a catch all category of sexual assault deliberately create a

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01:16:19,600 --> 01:16:22,559
Speaker 1: false impression in order to promote their view of the

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01:16:22,600 --> 01:16:26,360
Speaker 1: campus as a rape culture. The truth is, you are

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01:16:26,439 --> 01:16:29,040
Speaker 1: far less likely to be raped than women your age

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01:16:29,040 --> 01:16:33,440
Speaker 1: who are not in college. The Justice Department estimates approximately

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01:16:33,479 --> 01:16:36,640
Speaker 1: one in fifty three college women will be victims of

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01:16:36,720 --> 01:16:41,120
Speaker 1: rape or sexual assault, an unacceptable number, but hardly an

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01:16:41,120 --> 01:16:44,519
Speaker 1: epidemic and end quote. So then she goes into what

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01:16:44,560 --> 01:16:47,960
Speaker 1: the campuses are doing about this, after stating and it's

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01:16:48,080 --> 01:16:51,679
Speaker 1: very important that we all know this, that rape culture

1339
01:16:51,960 --> 01:16:56,800
Speaker 1: is really a terrible lie, that the campus rape epidemic

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01:16:57,400 --> 01:17:01,840
Speaker 1: is a an instance of politically motivated hysteria, not based

1341
01:17:01,840 --> 01:17:05,800
Speaker 1: in the facts, built upon a tremendous amount of dishonesty.

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01:17:06,320 --> 01:17:11,519
Speaker 1: But there is the very real possibility for any young

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01:17:11,560 --> 01:17:14,840
Speaker 1: woman on a college campus of a sexual assault, of

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01:17:14,840 --> 01:17:17,920
Speaker 1: of a rape, and it is much more likely to

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01:17:18,000 --> 01:17:22,559
Speaker 1: be an acquaintance rape than a stranger. And so if

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01:17:22,600 --> 01:17:26,120
Speaker 1: we're going to try to help young women navigate this

1347
01:17:26,479 --> 01:17:31,200
Speaker 1: culture of drinking and hook up culture on campus, I

1348
01:17:31,240 --> 01:17:34,360
Speaker 1: think it's time that we speak honestly about the best

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01:17:34,400 --> 01:17:38,240
Speaker 1: ways to approach this. And this is not and the

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01:17:38,280 --> 01:17:40,080
Speaker 1: author of this piece makes this point as well, But

1351
01:17:40,120 --> 01:17:42,040
Speaker 1: I've been saying this for some time. It's not about

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01:17:42,080 --> 01:17:46,160
Speaker 1: victim blaming. There's no excuse for sexual assault. There's no

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01:17:46,240 --> 01:17:48,360
Speaker 1: excuse for rape. It is a felony. It is a

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01:17:48,360 --> 01:17:52,760
Speaker 1: serious crime and should be punished as such. This is

1355
01:17:52,800 --> 01:17:55,559
Speaker 1: not don't wear a short skirt. This is not don't

1356
01:17:55,560 --> 01:17:58,080
Speaker 1: go to parties. This is not don't drink at parties.

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01:17:58,160 --> 01:18:03,559
Speaker 1: It's just guideline that will keep women not just safer

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01:18:03,760 --> 01:18:07,400
Speaker 1: on campus, but I think make them happier. And I

1359
01:18:07,479 --> 01:18:11,439
Speaker 1: am somebody who is a proponent of enjoying yourself in school.

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01:18:11,880 --> 01:18:15,280
Speaker 1: I am not a puritan. I'm not somebody who pretends

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01:18:15,320 --> 01:18:19,320
Speaker 1: that I didn't do a lot of partying and probably

1362
01:18:19,320 --> 01:18:21,519
Speaker 1: a bit too much drinking in my day in college.

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01:18:22,040 --> 01:18:25,920
Speaker 1: And I've always enjoyed going out on dates. But I've

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01:18:26,280 --> 01:18:29,400
Speaker 1: had girlfriends in my life, I've had people that I

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01:18:29,479 --> 01:18:33,679
Speaker 1: was building a relationship with. I have not been somebody

1366
01:18:33,760 --> 01:18:40,720
Speaker 1: who was a proponent of this blackout party. Make out

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01:18:40,800 --> 01:18:43,840
Speaker 1: with whomever is near to you and see what happens.

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01:18:44,439 --> 01:18:46,559
Speaker 1: And that's what goes on a lot of these campuses.

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01:18:46,600 --> 01:18:50,679
Speaker 1: So here here's some of the advice that is written

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01:18:50,680 --> 01:18:53,800
Speaker 1: this Wall Street journal piece. And I agree this is

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01:18:53,840 --> 01:18:55,720
Speaker 1: written by a woman, but I am endorsing it. I

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01:18:55,760 --> 01:18:59,680
Speaker 1: agree wholeheartedly with this. Here are the bullet points. Do

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01:18:59,760 --> 01:19:02,760
Speaker 1: not get drunk and go home with someone you don't know.

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01:19:04,080 --> 01:19:07,840
Speaker 1: Very simple, but very good advice. Not just because you

1375
01:19:08,880 --> 01:19:14,880
Speaker 1: uh put yourself at a higher risk for a sexual assault,

1376
01:19:14,960 --> 01:19:19,240
Speaker 1: which statistically is true, but because it's just not smart

1377
01:19:19,280 --> 01:19:24,240
Speaker 1: decision making. It's not going to lead to In many cases,

1378
01:19:24,280 --> 01:19:26,599
Speaker 1: sometimes it'll be fine. I know people that have gotten

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01:19:27,000 --> 01:19:31,400
Speaker 1: completely you know, off their off their butts drunk and

1380
01:19:31,479 --> 01:19:34,080
Speaker 1: the first time they were ever together, that's how it was,

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01:19:34,160 --> 01:19:36,360
Speaker 1: and now they're married and have kids. Okay, so I'm

1382
01:19:36,400 --> 01:19:38,519
Speaker 1: not saying that it means that something bad is going

1383
01:19:38,560 --> 01:19:42,760
Speaker 1: to happen, but just in the aggregate or overall. If

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01:19:42,760 --> 01:19:46,240
Speaker 1: you're looking at decision making, do not go home drunk

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01:19:46,280 --> 01:19:49,960
Speaker 1: with someone you don't know. It's just it's just good advice.

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01:19:50,520 --> 01:19:55,519
Speaker 1: Another one, uh reject the hook up culture. And this

1387
01:19:55,640 --> 01:20:00,559
Speaker 1: is not so much an issue of preventing sex yourual assault,

1388
01:20:00,560 --> 01:20:03,200
Speaker 1: although that does play a role in this as well

1389
01:20:03,240 --> 01:20:06,880
Speaker 1: as it is. Women will be happier when they on

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01:20:07,000 --> 01:20:09,960
Speaker 1: campus when they hold the men around them to a

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01:20:10,040 --> 01:20:14,080
Speaker 1: certain standard. She writes in this piece, sex without trust

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01:20:14,120 --> 01:20:17,400
Speaker 1: and commitment often ends poorly. It may sound old fashioned,

1393
01:20:17,439 --> 01:20:19,639
Speaker 1: but it's really common sense. If you don't know someone

1394
01:20:19,680 --> 01:20:21,920
Speaker 1: well and you're unsure whether you can trust him, is

1395
01:20:21,960 --> 01:20:24,040
Speaker 1: it really a good idea to be alone with him

1396
01:20:24,080 --> 01:20:27,679
Speaker 1: in a state of partial undress. It's just good advice.

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01:20:27,720 --> 01:20:31,360
Speaker 1: Another one, be self confident. It's okay to meet a

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01:20:31,360 --> 01:20:34,439
Speaker 1: guy around the keg or the pong table, but hold

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01:20:34,479 --> 01:20:38,160
Speaker 1: out for a real, real date. You deserve it, young

1400
01:20:38,240 --> 01:20:41,439
Speaker 1: ladies who are listening, I like, I was a resident

1401
01:20:41,479 --> 01:20:44,040
Speaker 1: counselor in college as well as a guy who partied

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01:20:44,080 --> 01:20:46,400
Speaker 1: a lot. I've seen this from all the different sides,

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01:20:47,200 --> 01:20:49,559
Speaker 1: and people would say at Amherst when I was there,

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01:20:49,600 --> 01:20:53,559
Speaker 1: which now seems like it was eons ago. Uh, the

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01:20:53,680 --> 01:20:56,960
Speaker 1: dating is dead at Amherst. Well, I had a very

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01:20:57,000 --> 01:21:00,559
Speaker 1: serious girlfriend at Amherst, and we had a great time together,

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01:21:00,920 --> 01:21:04,280
Speaker 1: and I took her out on dates. She was my girlfriend.

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01:21:04,439 --> 01:21:07,680
Speaker 1: I knew her family, I knew her siblings, and I

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01:21:07,720 --> 01:21:10,559
Speaker 1: treated her with respect. I treated her as my friend,

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01:21:10,640 --> 01:21:15,080
Speaker 1: and yes, she was a romantic partner. Every single young

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01:21:15,120 --> 01:21:18,960
Speaker 1: woman listening to the show right now, I advise you

1412
01:21:19,160 --> 01:21:22,280
Speaker 1: to demand all of those things from somebody that you

1413
01:21:22,320 --> 01:21:25,160
Speaker 1: were going to be physical with. I'm not I'm not

1414
01:21:25,760 --> 01:21:28,160
Speaker 1: here moralizing. I'm not telling you you know you gotta

1415
01:21:28,200 --> 01:21:30,720
Speaker 1: wait till marriage. I'm not preaching absence or any of that.

1416
01:21:31,240 --> 01:21:35,200
Speaker 1: I am just saying that you should demand respect and

1417
01:21:35,280 --> 01:21:39,840
Speaker 1: a relationship from somebody that you plan on being physically

1418
01:21:39,920 --> 01:21:44,280
Speaker 1: involved with. It's it's just going to nine times out

1419
01:21:44,280 --> 01:21:47,000
Speaker 1: of ten make you happier in the end. In my experience,

1420
01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:49,719
Speaker 1: which is all that I can speak from, people would

1421
01:21:49,720 --> 01:21:52,800
Speaker 1: say dating is dead at Amherst College. That was not true.

1422
01:21:52,840 --> 01:21:56,559
Speaker 1: That was a self justifying lie that people would spread

1423
01:21:56,600 --> 01:21:58,800
Speaker 1: all over the place so that they could feel like

1424
01:21:58,880 --> 01:22:02,599
Speaker 1: their behavior was no realized, but dating was not dead.

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01:22:02,720 --> 01:22:05,640
Speaker 1: Some of us chose to actually have girlfriends and or

1426
01:22:05,720 --> 01:22:10,559
Speaker 1: boyfriends and go about things in a slightly more old

1427
01:22:10,560 --> 01:22:13,599
Speaker 1: fashioned way. I'm not all that old fashioned, but when

1428
01:22:13,680 --> 01:22:17,000
Speaker 1: it comes to these issues, there's a lot of wisdom

1429
01:22:17,160 --> 01:22:19,320
Speaker 1: in the older folks. And I know everyone who's listening,

1430
01:22:19,320 --> 01:22:24,320
Speaker 1: who's you know, thirty five, which is my age and above,

1431
01:22:24,520 --> 01:22:26,640
Speaker 1: probably is shaking their head in agreement with most of

1432
01:22:26,680 --> 01:22:29,800
Speaker 1: this because they've seen it, because they know, they know,

1433
01:22:30,040 --> 01:22:32,360
Speaker 1: And I get it. When you're twenty two and you're

1434
01:22:32,439 --> 01:22:36,600
Speaker 1: you know, nineteen, it feels like it's also new and exciting,

1435
01:22:36,600 --> 01:22:38,160
Speaker 1: and you want to be liked and you want to

1436
01:22:38,160 --> 01:22:41,280
Speaker 1: be cool, and I understand all those pressures. But that's

1437
01:22:41,280 --> 01:22:43,200
Speaker 1: why a piece like this in the Wall Street Journal

1438
01:22:43,240 --> 01:22:45,240
Speaker 1: from a woman who is just talent it like it

1439
01:22:45,320 --> 01:22:49,840
Speaker 1: is is so helpful. So be self confident, ask for

1440
01:22:49,920 --> 01:22:54,120
Speaker 1: a real date, spend time with people. You can make

1441
01:22:54,160 --> 01:22:56,840
Speaker 1: your own decisions about how fast or how far you go,

1442
01:22:56,960 --> 01:23:00,000
Speaker 1: but make sure that the person is actually a person

1443
01:23:00,000 --> 01:23:05,080
Speaker 1: and that sees you as a person. Um. Here's another

1444
01:23:05,520 --> 01:23:08,720
Speaker 1: another bit of advice she gives. Buy or beware if

1445
01:23:08,760 --> 01:23:11,320
Speaker 1: you decide to participate in the hook up culture. Go

1446
01:23:11,360 --> 01:23:14,120
Speaker 1: in with your eyes open. Promises made in the heat

1447
01:23:14,160 --> 01:23:17,240
Speaker 1: of passion are meaningless. Suitors will promise the moon to

1448
01:23:17,320 --> 01:23:19,679
Speaker 1: get you into bed. Many of them will want nothing

1449
01:23:19,720 --> 01:23:22,040
Speaker 1: to do with you the next day, which will leave

1450
01:23:22,080 --> 01:23:25,720
Speaker 1: you feeling humiliated and exploited. That doesn't make you a

1451
01:23:25,800 --> 01:23:31,120
Speaker 1: rape victim, it makes you naive. Uh. Guys will lie

1452
01:23:31,160 --> 01:23:33,680
Speaker 1: to get girls into bed. This is nothing new. This

1453
01:23:33,800 --> 01:23:36,840
Speaker 1: is not a surprise to any of you. But it's

1454
01:23:37,520 --> 01:23:40,160
Speaker 1: in the moment when someone saying things and they're hearing

1455
01:23:40,200 --> 01:23:44,320
Speaker 1: all the right things. They people forget this, especially younger

1456
01:23:44,400 --> 01:23:48,880
Speaker 1: people who college aged and they just feel like this

1457
01:23:48,960 --> 01:23:51,200
Speaker 1: is the one or there's so much passion here it

1458
01:23:51,240 --> 01:23:54,360
Speaker 1: has to be right. Slow it down, Slow it down.

1459
01:23:54,400 --> 01:23:57,760
Speaker 1: Next bit of advice, be clear about your wishes. If

1460
01:23:57,800 --> 01:24:00,799
Speaker 1: you do not want to do something, say so clearly.

1461
01:24:01,280 --> 01:24:03,960
Speaker 1: You are an adult and you have free will and

1462
01:24:04,000 --> 01:24:06,599
Speaker 1: moral agency. You have a right to say no at

1463
01:24:06,600 --> 01:24:09,880
Speaker 1: any stage, but do not expect your partner to infer

1464
01:24:10,000 --> 01:24:13,120
Speaker 1: reluctance from your demeanor. Only you know what makes you

1465
01:24:13,240 --> 01:24:16,320
Speaker 1: uncomfortable and is up to you to articulate it. This

1466
01:24:16,400 --> 01:24:20,240
Speaker 1: woman is a lawyer and she's making very clear that

1467
01:24:20,080 --> 01:24:23,679
Speaker 1: that the boundaries should be clear from anybody who's engaging

1468
01:24:23,680 --> 01:24:27,479
Speaker 1: in sexual conduct. If you're gonna be doing that stuff,

1469
01:24:28,080 --> 01:24:30,479
Speaker 1: as a lot of people on campuses, a lot of

1470
01:24:30,479 --> 01:24:33,280
Speaker 1: college as people are, you're if you're old enough to

1471
01:24:33,320 --> 01:24:36,639
Speaker 1: do that, you're old enough to speak your mind about

1472
01:24:36,640 --> 01:24:38,280
Speaker 1: what you're okay with and what you're not and you know,

1473
01:24:38,360 --> 01:24:42,920
Speaker 1: if you're not, you're not comfortable doing that, then you

1474
01:24:42,960 --> 01:24:47,040
Speaker 1: shouldn't be with that person. This is this is old

1475
01:24:47,080 --> 01:24:50,200
Speaker 1: fashioned advice, I know, but it's good advice. I always

1476
01:24:50,240 --> 01:24:55,320
Speaker 1: remember I had a a grandmother who was just a

1477
01:24:55,360 --> 01:24:58,599
Speaker 1: wonderful I had had to grandmothers, but one grandmother on

1478
01:24:58,600 --> 01:25:02,720
Speaker 1: my maternal side was just a wonderful person. Really just

1479
01:25:03,040 --> 01:25:08,519
Speaker 1: a great human being. Um very smart, very wise, very kind,

1480
01:25:09,120 --> 01:25:11,719
Speaker 1: and really fun to talk to. But you know, understood

1481
01:25:11,760 --> 01:25:13,720
Speaker 1: that you had to enjoy life too. You know, she

1482
01:25:13,840 --> 01:25:16,880
Speaker 1: liked dance and music and food, and you know, she

1483
01:25:16,960 --> 01:25:19,599
Speaker 1: was very religious, but she also understood that you gotta

1484
01:25:19,640 --> 01:25:21,680
Speaker 1: have fun too. You know, there was a balance to

1485
01:25:21,680 --> 01:25:27,080
Speaker 1: be struck all the time. And she gave advice. I

1486
01:25:27,080 --> 01:25:31,880
Speaker 1: remember hearing the advice from her two she had, uh

1487
01:25:32,160 --> 01:25:35,960
Speaker 1: she had three daughters and the advice was very simple.

1488
01:25:36,960 --> 01:25:40,360
Speaker 1: It was and and and I think it would upset

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Speaker 1: the feminists of the world right now to hear this

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01:25:42,520 --> 01:25:44,880
Speaker 1: kind of thing. Well, at least on one point, it

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01:25:45,040 --> 01:25:50,080
Speaker 1: was maintain your appearance, part one and if he ever

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01:25:50,160 --> 01:25:55,160
Speaker 1: hits you, you leave. That's part two. Now that's not uh,

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01:25:55,200 --> 01:25:59,639
Speaker 1: that's not a roadmap for everything in life, but those

1494
01:25:59,640 --> 01:26:02,439
Speaker 1: are two very good parts of advice. Maintain your appearance

1495
01:26:02,520 --> 01:26:05,280
Speaker 1: is not a superficial standpoint. By the way, if you're

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01:26:05,320 --> 01:26:08,960
Speaker 1: in a monogamous relationship with somebody, you have an obligation

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01:26:09,040 --> 01:26:11,680
Speaker 1: to the other person in that relationship to try and

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01:26:11,960 --> 01:26:16,000
Speaker 1: present yourself as best you can. This isn't everyone has

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01:26:16,040 --> 01:26:18,920
Speaker 1: to be an underwear model. This isn't no one's good enough.

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01:26:18,960 --> 01:26:23,519
Speaker 1: It's just try to be respectful of the fact that

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01:26:23,640 --> 01:26:27,040
Speaker 1: in a relationship between a man and a woman there

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01:26:27,160 --> 01:26:30,240
Speaker 1: is also a physical bond along with the emotional, spiritual,

1503
01:26:30,439 --> 01:26:34,960
Speaker 1: and psychological bond. And so you do the best you can.

1504
01:26:35,520 --> 01:26:38,720
Speaker 1: You don't just give up. Basically, now, people would say, oh,

1505
01:26:38,760 --> 01:26:40,960
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's not about that, and you have kids,

1506
01:26:40,960 --> 01:26:43,040
Speaker 1: and okay, fine, I'm just telling you I think that's

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01:26:43,760 --> 01:26:45,479
Speaker 1: set from what I have seen in life. I think

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01:26:45,479 --> 01:26:47,920
Speaker 1: that has sound advice, and the other one is self explanatory.

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01:26:47,960 --> 01:26:50,400
Speaker 1: If he hits you, you you leave, absolutely, you're and you're gone.

1510
01:26:50,400 --> 01:26:53,800
Speaker 1: You're done. There's there's no second there's no second round,

1511
01:26:53,840 --> 01:26:56,720
Speaker 1: there's no part two. So I always thought that was

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01:26:56,840 --> 01:27:00,479
Speaker 1: very interesting, very straightforward advice. And I think that some

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01:27:00,560 --> 01:27:05,519
Speaker 1: young women today on college campuses would really benefit from older,

1514
01:27:05,560 --> 01:27:09,880
Speaker 1: wiser women telling them the truth about what really goes

1515
01:27:09,920 --> 01:27:12,640
Speaker 1: on between men and women and giving them real advice.

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01:27:13,479 --> 01:27:16,679
Speaker 1: And uh, I should just not. In this piece, she finishes,

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01:27:16,800 --> 01:27:20,400
Speaker 1: this author finishes by saying, if you're ever assaulted, see

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01:27:20,439 --> 01:27:23,520
Speaker 1: commediate help from someone you trust who is not affiliated

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01:27:23,520 --> 01:27:26,680
Speaker 1: with the college, and go to the police, because she

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01:27:26,720 --> 01:27:28,760
Speaker 1: says that the college's interests are not the same as

1521
01:27:28,760 --> 01:27:31,479
Speaker 1: these young women who are in fact assaulted, and they

1522
01:27:31,520 --> 01:27:35,040
Speaker 1: sometimes will try to find a way to take care

1523
01:27:35,040 --> 01:27:38,559
Speaker 1: of their public relations interests first and foremost. So I

1524
01:27:38,600 --> 01:27:44,080
Speaker 1: thought this was a very powerful piece by by Jennifer Berceras,

1525
01:27:44,240 --> 01:27:46,600
Speaker 1: And I really think young women, I look at my

1526
01:27:46,680 --> 01:27:50,800
Speaker 1: little sister is now fully grown law school graduate, and

1527
01:27:50,840 --> 01:27:52,680
Speaker 1: you know is a woman who you know I go

1528
01:27:52,800 --> 01:27:55,320
Speaker 1: to for advice. But if she were still in college,

1529
01:27:55,360 --> 01:27:58,280
Speaker 1: I promise you I would have sent her. She's engaged

1530
01:27:58,280 --> 01:27:59,840
Speaker 1: and she's gonna be getting married to but if she

1531
01:28:00,000 --> 01:28:01,880
Speaker 1: were still in college, I would send her this piece

1532
01:28:01,880 --> 01:28:05,240
Speaker 1: and say, Daisy, you gotta read this. And I think

1533
01:28:05,360 --> 01:28:07,519
Speaker 1: that's how I feel about my little sister. So any

1534
01:28:07,520 --> 01:28:09,519
Speaker 1: young woman across the country right now, read this piece

1535
01:28:09,520 --> 01:28:14,800
Speaker 1: in the journal. Buck is back when you hear team.

1536
01:28:14,880 --> 01:28:18,400
Speaker 1: I have something of a follow up to yesterday when

1537
01:28:18,439 --> 01:28:23,200
Speaker 1: I was telling you about my memories of nine eleven

1538
01:28:23,320 --> 01:28:26,479
Speaker 1: and how on my college campus at Amorous, there was

1539
01:28:27,080 --> 01:28:33,280
Speaker 1: a sentiment among some professors and even some students that

1540
01:28:33,640 --> 01:28:37,840
Speaker 1: somehow we shouldn't be focusing on the massive jihad ist

1541
01:28:38,120 --> 01:28:42,120
Speaker 1: snake attack that killed a few thousands of our people,

1542
01:28:43,040 --> 01:28:46,160
Speaker 1: but that the real problem was U S foreign policy,

1543
01:28:46,320 --> 01:28:51,080
Speaker 1: or even the response to the nine eleven attacks. There was,

1544
01:28:51,400 --> 01:28:55,960
Speaker 1: as I have mentioned before on this show, a flag

1545
01:28:56,000 --> 01:29:00,240
Speaker 1: burning a few weeks after the nine eleven attack X

1546
01:29:00,240 --> 01:29:02,760
Speaker 1: and I was there and saw it happen, and you

1547
01:29:02,840 --> 01:29:07,880
Speaker 1: had the the classic leftist idiots, the kinds of individuals

1548
01:29:07,920 --> 01:29:11,840
Speaker 1: who would be cheering on a modern day Antifa protest

1549
01:29:12,400 --> 01:29:16,840
Speaker 1: lighting flags on fire, not at some rallied to support

1550
01:29:17,000 --> 01:29:21,559
Speaker 1: the robust US foreign policy of invading foreign countries. No,

1551
01:29:21,800 --> 01:29:28,400
Speaker 1: it was a community session for thanking everybody for their

1552
01:29:28,479 --> 01:29:32,080
Speaker 1: kindness and well wishes from those who had lost family

1553
01:29:32,080 --> 01:29:35,840
Speaker 1: members on nine eleven. And one of them was a

1554
01:29:35,840 --> 01:29:38,680
Speaker 1: friend of mine, a classmate of mine, who lost her

1555
01:29:38,720 --> 01:29:42,920
Speaker 1: sister in one of the towers. And these imbeciles showed

1556
01:29:43,000 --> 01:29:45,240
Speaker 1: up and lit flags on fire. Now, that was back

1557
01:29:45,320 --> 01:29:49,400
Speaker 1: in two thousand and one, and I believe the Boston Globe,

1558
01:29:49,520 --> 01:29:52,719
Speaker 1: or maybe it was the Boston Herald covered that story

1559
01:29:52,800 --> 01:29:59,920
Speaker 1: because a flag burning at a ceremony remembering the recently

1560
01:30:00,320 --> 01:30:05,160
Speaker 1: dead in nine eleven, that got some attention. But it

1561
01:30:05,200 --> 01:30:10,080
Speaker 1: seems like not much has changed, because just yesterday there

1562
01:30:10,280 --> 01:30:16,439
Speaker 1: was a banner unveiled at Amherst College above the one

1563
01:30:16,560 --> 01:30:22,559
Speaker 1: dining hall, Valentine hall Um, and the banner said that

1564
01:30:22,720 --> 01:30:26,080
Speaker 1: in honor of those killed and displaced by America's so

1565
01:30:26,160 --> 01:30:31,599
Speaker 1: called war on terror, and it also said that there

1566
01:30:31,680 --> 01:30:35,479
Speaker 1: is no flag large enough to cover the shame of

1567
01:30:35,600 --> 01:30:39,640
Speaker 1: killing innocent people, which people attribute as a quote to

1568
01:30:40,479 --> 01:30:45,360
Speaker 1: the historian Howard's inn. So it's nine eleven, and you

1569
01:30:45,439 --> 01:30:49,839
Speaker 1: have people on Amer's campus who are remembering what happened

1570
01:30:49,960 --> 01:30:53,280
Speaker 1: in what happened on that day, and there was a

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01:30:53,360 --> 01:30:56,479
Speaker 1: young woman, Marita Tam who was killed in one of

1572
01:30:56,520 --> 01:30:58,439
Speaker 1: the towers, who had been a senior at Amher's when

1573
01:30:58,479 --> 01:31:01,679
Speaker 1: I was a freshman, and she was one of three

1574
01:31:02,200 --> 01:31:08,080
Speaker 1: to whom the Amer's College community was paying tribute yesterday,

1575
01:31:08,240 --> 01:31:11,800
Speaker 1: and these idiot students decided to hang a banner. I

1576
01:31:11,800 --> 01:31:16,960
Speaker 1: should also note that the students, or rather that the

1577
01:31:17,000 --> 01:31:20,200
Speaker 1: administrators on campus, take the position that they took back

1578
01:31:20,240 --> 01:31:22,800
Speaker 1: in two thousand and one, which is, while they think

1579
01:31:22,840 --> 01:31:26,720
Speaker 1: it's insensitive, they'll say that quote free speech enables all

1580
01:31:26,800 --> 01:31:29,240
Speaker 1: citizens of this country to express their opinions, even if

1581
01:31:29,280 --> 01:31:31,679
Speaker 1: their views are expressed in a manner that might offend,

1582
01:31:32,160 --> 01:31:36,680
Speaker 1: and quote, Okay, I agree. So on the issue of

1583
01:31:36,720 --> 01:31:40,839
Speaker 1: a mass casualty terrorist attack, it seems that the Amor's

1584
01:31:40,920 --> 01:31:44,719
Speaker 1: College administrators have an understanding of the First Amendment that, yes,

1585
01:31:44,760 --> 01:31:49,439
Speaker 1: in fact, it does include the right the ability to offend.

1586
01:31:50,320 --> 01:31:54,320
Speaker 1: Do they apply that principle? However, two discussions on campus

1587
01:31:54,360 --> 01:31:58,280
Speaker 1: about affirmative action, do they apply that principle that quote,

1588
01:31:58,320 --> 01:32:01,160
Speaker 1: free speech enables all citizen of this country to express

1589
01:32:01,200 --> 01:32:05,960
Speaker 1: their opinions and quote when it comes to racial set

1590
01:32:05,960 --> 01:32:09,559
Speaker 1: asides in the admissions process. When it comes to housing

1591
01:32:09,640 --> 01:32:14,919
Speaker 1: on campus that has also set aside for preferred racial groups,

1592
01:32:15,920 --> 01:32:19,320
Speaker 1: do they allow for the discussion then? Oh no, my friends,

1593
01:32:19,360 --> 01:32:23,599
Speaker 1: I can assure you that they would, under the UH

1594
01:32:23,880 --> 01:32:28,120
Speaker 1: rubric of hate crimes or hate speech try to shut

1595
01:32:28,160 --> 01:32:31,440
Speaker 1: that down. So this is a perfect example of exactly

1596
01:32:31,520 --> 01:32:33,840
Speaker 1: forget about the idiot students for a second. They'll always

1597
01:32:33,880 --> 01:32:36,679
Speaker 1: be dumb kids on college campuses whose parents are paying

1598
01:32:36,720 --> 01:32:39,200
Speaker 1: too much money for them to be not educated at all.

1599
01:32:39,640 --> 01:32:42,240
Speaker 1: But look at the administrators, look at the adults, the

1600
01:32:42,439 --> 01:32:47,000
Speaker 1: overpaid college bureaucrats, and how they respond when it comes

1601
01:32:47,080 --> 01:32:52,479
Speaker 1: to offending the families of the dead from the Amors

1602
01:32:52,560 --> 01:32:57,400
Speaker 1: community who were killed in nine eleven, they just have

1603
01:32:57,520 --> 01:33:00,559
Speaker 1: to will only talk about how it's insensitive. But if

1604
01:33:00,600 --> 01:33:06,360
Speaker 1: it came to a mean discussion about diversity, yeah, First

1605
01:33:06,360 --> 01:33:10,080
Speaker 1: Amendment doesn't apply anymore. Does it tells us a lot?

1606
01:33:12,560 --> 01:33:15,040
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Team buck sex in here. I feel like

1607
01:33:15,160 --> 01:33:17,599
Speaker 1: it would be uh, I would be remiss if I

1608
01:33:17,600 --> 01:33:20,760
Speaker 1: didn't at least give you some tips that I have

1609
01:33:20,960 --> 01:33:24,880
Speaker 1: come up with over the years of doing radio, doing

1610
01:33:24,920 --> 01:33:29,960
Speaker 1: TV and being in the midst of interviews, hostile panel discussions,

1611
01:33:30,000 --> 01:33:32,759
Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff. Some tips that I found for

1612
01:33:32,760 --> 01:33:37,120
Speaker 1: for public speaking in general. Um, one of the big

1613
01:33:37,160 --> 01:33:40,960
Speaker 1: ones is no surprise here, no what know what you're

1614
01:33:40,960 --> 01:33:44,960
Speaker 1: gonna say beforehand. Very few people can just pull it,

1615
01:33:45,560 --> 01:33:48,200
Speaker 1: pull that out of thin air, off the cuff. But

1616
01:33:48,280 --> 01:33:50,120
Speaker 1: you don't have to know every word. Just have a

1617
01:33:50,160 --> 01:33:52,880
Speaker 1: sense of where you're gonna go. That also means have

1618
01:33:52,960 --> 01:33:56,640
Speaker 1: a sense of timing. Uh. You don't want to end

1619
01:33:56,720 --> 01:33:59,880
Speaker 1: up those of you who are familiar with the movie

1620
01:34:00,000 --> 01:34:02,920
Speaker 1: Old School having to get bailed out by your buddy

1621
01:34:03,040 --> 01:34:06,200
Speaker 1: Vince Vaughn right there and it continues right here. Because

1622
01:34:06,240 --> 01:34:07,960
Speaker 1: I think what my friend Mitch is trying to say

1623
01:34:08,000 --> 01:34:09,720
Speaker 1: is that true love is blind. So you want to

1624
01:34:09,760 --> 01:34:12,120
Speaker 1: know what you're gonna say, and you want to know

1625
01:34:12,120 --> 01:34:16,960
Speaker 1: how long you're gonna go. Shorter is better. That is

1626
01:34:17,000 --> 01:34:19,679
Speaker 1: something to always keep in mind. I have never once

1627
01:34:20,280 --> 01:34:23,559
Speaker 1: been in a social setting, in particular where somebody was

1628
01:34:23,600 --> 01:34:26,839
Speaker 1: making a toast or giving a speech and I thought, wow,

1629
01:34:26,880 --> 01:34:30,839
Speaker 1: that was that was just too short. I have been

1630
01:34:30,960 --> 01:34:33,240
Speaker 1: in this situation many times where I've had to think

1631
01:34:33,240 --> 01:34:37,320
Speaker 1: to myself, well that was quite long. I remember years

1632
01:34:37,360 --> 01:34:40,360
Speaker 1: ago being at a family member's wedding and it was

1633
01:34:40,560 --> 01:34:43,800
Speaker 1: the rehearsal dinner for the wedding, and you had people

1634
01:34:43,840 --> 01:34:45,960
Speaker 1: standing up and giving toast and it was very nice.

1635
01:34:46,320 --> 01:34:49,120
Speaker 1: But for whatever reason, it was a big rehearsal dinner.

1636
01:34:49,479 --> 01:34:53,600
Speaker 1: People started standing up to give toasts who were increasingly

1637
01:34:53,640 --> 01:34:57,479
Speaker 1: removed from the actual bride and grooms. You had people

1638
01:34:57,479 --> 01:35:00,800
Speaker 1: setting up who were saying things like, look, I'm not

1639
01:35:00,840 --> 01:35:04,000
Speaker 1: really much of a public speaker, but I don't really

1640
01:35:04,040 --> 01:35:08,000
Speaker 1: know these two, but I just want to say, Uh,

1641
01:35:08,160 --> 01:35:09,479
Speaker 1: you know, I look back on my life and I

1642
01:35:09,520 --> 01:35:12,320
Speaker 1: got a lot of regrets. It was it was kind

1643
01:35:12,320 --> 01:35:13,880
Speaker 1: of like that. I mean, there was a lot of

1644
01:35:14,360 --> 01:35:17,080
Speaker 1: people that were given speeches that maybe shouldn't have been

1645
01:35:17,720 --> 01:35:22,480
Speaker 1: given those speeches. Another tip, and this is true for interviews.

1646
01:35:22,600 --> 01:35:25,200
Speaker 1: It's true. This is I'm now giving away. I'm giving

1647
01:35:25,200 --> 01:35:28,160
Speaker 1: away some of my secrets here, some of the freedom hut.

1648
01:35:28,760 --> 01:35:33,240
Speaker 1: Public speaking tips to become well whatever it is that

1649
01:35:33,280 --> 01:35:36,640
Speaker 1: you want to do. Uh. One thing is know the

1650
01:35:36,720 --> 01:35:39,920
Speaker 1: first line that you're gonna say. That's the only thing

1651
01:35:39,960 --> 01:35:44,839
Speaker 1: that I recommend knowing word for word beforehand. So however

1652
01:35:44,880 --> 01:35:48,160
Speaker 1: you're gonna start your speech, because I don't recommend reading

1653
01:35:48,200 --> 01:35:50,599
Speaker 1: I see this at wedding after wedding people read their speech.

1654
01:35:50,800 --> 01:35:53,880
Speaker 1: You want to go bullet points. Know what you're gonna

1655
01:35:53,880 --> 01:35:57,760
Speaker 1: say beforehand. For the first line, though, welcome everybody. I'm

1656
01:35:57,800 --> 01:36:00,479
Speaker 1: so glad to be here, to be giving a toast

1657
01:36:00,560 --> 01:36:07,760
Speaker 1: for John and and Sally. Right. That's I know, it

1658
01:36:07,760 --> 01:36:11,360
Speaker 1: seems very straightforward. But if you know what your first

1659
01:36:11,400 --> 01:36:14,439
Speaker 1: line is and you focus on the delivery, you've already

1660
01:36:14,439 --> 01:36:17,200
Speaker 1: created a momentum in your head for everything else you're

1661
01:36:17,200 --> 01:36:23,840
Speaker 1: gonna say. If you stand up and you go, hello, everybody,

1662
01:36:25,280 --> 01:36:27,639
Speaker 1: I am here for and you know, public speaking is

1663
01:36:27,800 --> 01:36:29,920
Speaker 1: one of the biggest fears that people have. I think

1664
01:36:29,960 --> 01:36:32,280
Speaker 1: some studies show it's like the most widely shared fear

1665
01:36:32,320 --> 01:36:36,439
Speaker 1: that people have. Know your first line, Practice your first line,

1666
01:36:36,840 --> 01:36:40,799
Speaker 1: say it out loud for an important speech, an important toast,

1667
01:36:40,880 --> 01:36:45,360
Speaker 1: any of the above. Give yourself the ability to practice

1668
01:36:45,400 --> 01:36:48,640
Speaker 1: beforehand if you can. Now that's not always possible, but

1669
01:36:48,680 --> 01:36:51,160
Speaker 1: if you have the opportunity, that doesn't mean sit there

1670
01:36:51,240 --> 01:36:53,120
Speaker 1: and read it to yourself. It doesn't mean it means

1671
01:36:53,200 --> 01:36:56,960
Speaker 1: stand up in front of a mirror and do it.

1672
01:36:58,000 --> 01:37:01,640
Speaker 1: Give the speech, do it more than once. But no

1673
01:37:01,680 --> 01:37:05,559
Speaker 1: matter what, remember shorter is better. Know what you're gonna say,

1674
01:37:05,600 --> 01:37:08,559
Speaker 1: before you start speaking and meaning, no the major points

1675
01:37:08,960 --> 01:37:14,040
Speaker 1: and have your first line cold. Your first line should

1676
01:37:14,040 --> 01:37:16,960
Speaker 1: be something that you could say in your sleep, You

1677
01:37:17,000 --> 01:37:19,960
Speaker 1: could say after ten shots of tequila. You could get

1678
01:37:20,000 --> 01:37:25,960
Speaker 1: that first line out no matter what, interviews, toasts, anything

1679
01:37:26,240 --> 01:37:28,840
Speaker 1: you name it for big speech in front of your

1680
01:37:28,840 --> 01:37:33,680
Speaker 1: whole class. First line, have it down, No guesses, don't deviate,

1681
01:37:33,960 --> 01:37:35,960
Speaker 1: no offans or butts. All right, those are my thoughts

1682
01:37:36,000 --> 01:37:38,320
Speaker 1: on that one. Um. I want to ask you to

1683
01:37:38,320 --> 01:37:41,200
Speaker 1: please download the podcast as always, buck Sexton with America

1684
01:37:41,240 --> 01:37:45,120
Speaker 1: now on iTunes, and you can check out all of

1685
01:37:45,160 --> 01:37:47,599
Speaker 1: our latest gear at buck sexton dot com slash store.

1686
01:37:47,600 --> 01:37:49,880
Speaker 1: We also post stories throughout the day on buck sexton

1687
01:37:50,280 --> 01:37:52,280
Speaker 1: dot com. I've got a piece up on the Hill

1688
01:37:52,680 --> 01:37:56,759
Speaker 1: looking at whether we would, under any circumstances consider using

1689
01:37:57,000 --> 01:38:02,879
Speaker 1: nuclear weapons against North Korea. It's a philosophical international relations

1690
01:38:02,880 --> 01:38:04,599
Speaker 1: piece up on the Hill dot com that I would

1691
01:38:04,960 --> 01:38:08,160
Speaker 1: recommend you also please do check that out too. It's

1692
01:38:08,200 --> 01:38:11,240
Speaker 1: also on Facebook dot com slash buck Sexton. Thanks as

1693
01:38:11,240 --> 01:38:14,440
Speaker 1: always for hanging out Until next time, Team