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Speaker 1: Welcome. It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. We've got

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Speaker 1: one heck of a show for you today. It deals

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Speaker 1: coming out. Plus we've got another victory we want to

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Speaker 1: talk about that deals with censorship. And then there's the

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Speaker 1: big story, and that is one that deals with cocaine

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Speaker 1: at the White House. Now, Senator, there's other big news

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Speaker 1: that we're going to deal with, including a huge court

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Speaker 1: victory against government censorship. But everyone is obsessed with the

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Speaker 1: cocaine at the White House. So let me get your

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Speaker 1: initial take to that one.

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Speaker 2: You know, I don't think Saturday Night Live could satirize

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Speaker 2: the Biden White House worse than what has actually happened now.

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Speaker 2: Of course, for Saturday Night Live to satirize them, they'd

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Speaker 2: have to be willing to actually make fun of Democrats.

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Speaker 2: But listen, Biden ran promising to bring back dignity to

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Speaker 2: the White House when the last couple of weeks we've

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Speaker 2: had number one, a biological man who identifies as a

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Speaker 2: bouncing around on the South lawn. That happened a couple

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Speaker 2: of weeks ago, we had a couple of days ago,

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Speaker 2: Hunter Biden standing behind his parents on the balcony of

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Speaker 2: the White House, by all appearances, stoned out of his mind.

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Speaker 2: And then we now have had a bag of cocaine

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Speaker 2: literally found in the West Wing of the frigging White House.

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Speaker 2: The West Wing, by the way, is the working office

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Speaker 2: It's where the Chief of Staff's office is, It's where

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Speaker 2: white powder. Like, I don't know at this point, how

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Speaker 2: do you even satirize it? With topless transgender people running

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Speaker 2: around and bags of cocaine in the White House. This

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Speaker 2: is Joe Biden's administration.

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Speaker 1: The part that's also extremely shocking to me is the

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Speaker 1: fact that the White House wouldn't comment on this at all.

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Speaker 1: They wouldn't say if they're going to drug test their

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Speaker 1: order completely gone under this administration? I mean, if someone

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Speaker 1: when we find with that type of determination.

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Speaker 2: Oh look, it's worse than that. It's not only is

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Speaker 2: they're a double standard and they won't prosecute people who

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Speaker 2: reviolating the law. We know that, I mean Hunter Biden.

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Speaker 2: We've got videos of him on crack cocaine and the

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Speaker 2: DOJ won't prosecute it. So we know that. But it's

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Speaker 2: worse than that because it's a DOJ cover up. It's

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Speaker 2: a Biden White House cover up. You know, we had

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Speaker 2: the administration put out a statement we probably will never

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Speaker 2: know whose cocaine it was. Really, really, are you frigging

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Speaker 2: telling me someone can leave a bag of something in

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Speaker 2: the West wing of the White House if it were

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Speaker 2: we'll never know who left it. Oh well, and by

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Speaker 2: the way, where this was located, so so let me

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Speaker 2: give you a little bit of the geography of the

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Speaker 2: White House. Where this was located was by the entrance

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Speaker 2: to the White House in the west wing. So when

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Speaker 2: come in a door that is down on the ground level,

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Speaker 2: and where you come in, off on your right there's

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Speaker 2: a dining room. Off on your right is the situation room,

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Speaker 2: and it apparently is right somewhere in that entrance foyer

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Speaker 2: is where this bag of cocaine was found. And it

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Speaker 2: was found in a normal security suite. Now, Kareeine John

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Speaker 2: Pierre has said, well, this is a heavily traffic area

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Speaker 2: screamingly funny that she keeps using the word heavily trafficked,

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Speaker 2: heavily traffic. Well, when you're trafficking in cocaine, that she

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Speaker 2: may be speaking more literally than typical. There's an irony

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Speaker 2: that Karine Jean Pierre may have accidentally spoken the truth

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Speaker 2: from the podium of the White House. But listen, that

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Speaker 2: can't figure out who it is. Now, I will say

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Speaker 2: used cocaine and used crack cocaine in the past. But

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Speaker 2: I doubt Hunter Biden is going in the West wing

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Speaker 2: all that often and going in that interest, all that

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Speaker 2: more astonishing. You're telling me, with the cameras they have there,

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Speaker 2: with the secret service they have there, with the marine

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Speaker 2: who left the bag of cocaine by the front door

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Speaker 2: that is or the side door. That's insane. And the

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Speaker 2: only reason they would put out a statement saying we

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Speaker 2: why the DOJ and the FBI is engaged in a

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Speaker 2: cover up of Hunter Biden's acts of criminality, of Joe

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Speaker 2: Biden's acts of criminality, of the evidence of corruption. Sadly,

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Speaker 2: this administration is more than willing to politicize. Look, it

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Speaker 2: would be embarrassing if we discover that a senior White

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Speaker 2: so their answer instead is, of course, we're not going

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Speaker 2: to prosecute it. We're not going to investigate it, and

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Speaker 2: you know what, we'll just never know who did it. Whoops.

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Speaker 2: Oh well.

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Speaker 1: One of the other things the talking point you mentioned

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Speaker 1: it was the fact they say this is a heavily

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Speaker 1: trafficked area. The White House is not Disney World, It's

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Speaker 1: is the idea of this is highly trafficked. Makes it

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Speaker 1: this area. You've been there, like you said, hundreds of times.

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Speaker 1: I've had a blessed career to be able to go

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Speaker 1: to the White House a significant number of times as well.

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Speaker 1: I was there last time the day of the State

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Speaker 1: exact area where the cobbies are where you put your

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Speaker 1: same way I would argue Senator that the idea that

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Speaker 1: we still don't know who leaked, for example, the Roe v.

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Speaker 1: And I promise you if it would have been anthrax

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Speaker 1: They would have found them. There's no way you can

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Speaker 2: So I actually don't know if they know who it is.

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Speaker 2: I think they don't want to know. I think they

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Speaker 2: is a different scenario than the Supreme Court leak. Look,

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Speaker 2: I think Chief Justice Roberts wants to know who leaked it.

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Speaker 2: We've seen Justice Alito has said he thinks he knows

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Speaker 2: who leaked it. But what I suspect happened there, and

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Speaker 2: I don't know because the Court has not given definitive answers.

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Speaker 2: But what I suspect happened there is that they didn't

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Speaker 2: think it's because they allowed the Marshal's Office to lead

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Speaker 2: It's not an agency that investigates crimes. It's a part

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Speaker 2: of the Marshal's office. You have the police officers of

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Speaker 2: they're not typically investing investigating crimes. They're not typically engaged

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Speaker 2: in forensic analysis. And what I called for at the

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Speaker 2: the FBI. The FBI has very extensive forensic capability. The

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Speaker 2: reason the Court didn't, I think was because of separation

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Speaker 2: and asking Article two asking the executive branch to assist

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Speaker 2: is intruding in our internal business. I get that, but

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Speaker 2: I think the better decision would have been for the

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Speaker 2: I think with the Supreme Court leak, it wasn't an

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Speaker 2: effort to cover it up. It was rather putting institutional

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Speaker 2: And so it's much easier from a political damage control

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Speaker 2: because boy, we really don't want to know the answer that.

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Speaker 1: shutting down were people that had five hundred and eight

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Speaker 1: hundred followers and then they said something that went viral,

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Speaker 1: and they're like, yeah, we don't like we don't even

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Speaker 1: they're saying. They had a treat to went viral, we

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Speaker 1: don't like it. Therefore shut down their account, and they

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Speaker 1: did it well.

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Speaker 2: And it's even worse than that. So these big tech

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Speaker 2: companies are staffed in significant parts by a lums from

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Speaker 2: the federal government, from the Obama administration, from the Biden administration.

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Speaker 2: You've got Joel Roth who claimed that the Trump administration

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Speaker 2: were quote literal Nazis. So these are hardcore radical leftists.

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Speaker 2: They're already eager to use they're mini coopoly power to

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Speaker 2: silence speech, but the government is urging them any speech

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Speaker 2: they dislike, they were urging them to silence. And I

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Speaker 2: want to make an important clarification because to the extent

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Speaker 2: you're seeing discussion of this in the corporate media, and

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Speaker 2: the discussion is quite limited, but to the extent you

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Speaker 2: see it, you're seeing histrionic reaction from democrats and corporate

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Speaker 2: media analysts saying, well, how can this be that the

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Speaker 2: government is prohibited from communicating this is a danger to

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Speaker 2: our country. Let's be clear. The injunction explicitly includes carve

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Speaker 2: outs for communication with social media companies that is permissible,

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Speaker 2: including notifying companies about criminal activities, notifying social media companies

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Speaker 2: about national security threats, and notifying them about threats to

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Speaker 2: public safety. And also speech that is not protected by

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Speaker 2: the First Amendment is expressly exempted from the injunct. So

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Speaker 2: this injunction is narrowed too, Biden administration, you cannot ask

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Speaker 2: social media companies to censor political speech because you disagree

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Speaker 2: with it and dislike it. That is not how the

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Speaker 2: First Amendment operates. And I guarantee you if you are

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Speaker 2: watching a democrat or a corporate media analyst talk about this,

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Speaker 2: they're going to suggest that the government can no longer

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and look, you know some of them are going

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Speaker 1: another big issue, and this deals with China. This is

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Speaker 1: not a normal conversation that you would think you and

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Speaker 1: I would be having. There's a movie that's out, the

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Speaker 1: Barbie movie, Barbie and Ken. It is now making waves

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Speaker 1: for a map in that movie, and it's basically so

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Speaker 1: Barbie and the people that made the movie, could it

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Speaker 1: make a bunch of money in China by making them

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Speaker 1: happy in Beijing? Explain this insane story.

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Speaker 2: Well, sure, Barbie is an upcoming summer blockbuster targeting obviously

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Speaker 2: young girls, teenage girls who are a huge movie going audience.

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Speaker 2: And there's a scene in the movie Barbie where Barbie

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Speaker 2: is in front of a map of the world, and

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Speaker 2: it's a cartoon map. It's not a very detailed map.

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Speaker 2: So for example, it has drawn out one of the

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Speaker 2: places on the map is Asia, so it's a map

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Speaker 2: of the world and has Asia, but off to the

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Speaker 2: east of Asia that they have lines drawn in the

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Speaker 2: South China Sea, and it's called the nine dash line.

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Speaker 2: And the nine dash line is a line that the

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Speaker 2: Communist Party of China is pushing out because they are

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Speaker 2: claiming that China has sovereignty over virtually the entirety of

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Speaker 2: the South China Sea, and that is contrary to international

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Speaker 2: law the South China Sea. The claim is disputed by Vietnam,

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Speaker 2: by Malaysia, by Indonesia, by Burnei, by the Philippines in Taiwan,

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Speaker 2: and in fact, an international tribunal at the Hague found

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Speaker 2: the Chinese Communist Party's map is illegal. In other words,

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Speaker 2: that their claims of sovereignty, they're trying to steal control

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Speaker 2: over international waters and waters that other nations have sovereignty.

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Speaker 2: And it's a power grap And what's bizarre. You have

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Speaker 2: this cartoon map with with no specificity. Asia is one

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Speaker 2: block on it. And yet there in the sea are

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Speaker 2: the nine dashes that are exactly what the CCP wants

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Speaker 2: to claim. The South China Sea is theirs. And in

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Speaker 2: response to this, the country of Vietnam officially banned the

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Speaker 2: movie from Vietnam. They said, this is Chinese Communist propaganda,

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Speaker 2: and it is a sad pattern. We've seen an ongoing

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Speaker 2: pattern of Hollywood movies cow towing to the Chinese Communists

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Speaker 2: and at times censoring their movies, but at times doing

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Speaker 2: what they're doing here, which is just happily repeating CCP

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Speaker 2: propaganda because they want to sell the movie in China,

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Speaker 2: and they recognize that that repeating what makes the Chinese

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Speaker 2: Communist Party and the government happy, increases the chances that

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Speaker 2: the government will allow the movie to be sold in China.

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Speaker 2: But I got to say, it is shameful to see

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Speaker 2: Hollywood acting as a mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist You know,

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Speaker 2: when I saw this, I tweeted out, I said, well,

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Speaker 2: you know, I guess Barbie is made in China, and

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Speaker 2: a vast number of the Barbie dolls sold in America

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Speaker 2: are in fact manufactured in China. But it is sad

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Speaker 2: to see a movie aimed at young girls is acting

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Speaker 2: as the mouthpiece for Chinese communist propaganda.

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Speaker 1: It's not just that too, there's also problems here in

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Speaker 1: the US. There's an amazing movie that you just went

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Speaker 1: to that talks about human trafficking and children that are

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Speaker 1: being sex trafficked and what a problem it is in

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Speaker 1: the world. It actually was the number one movie over

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Speaker 1: the July fourth weekend, beating out Indiana Jones, which is incredible,

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Speaker 1: and it was actually in half the number of theaters

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Speaker 1: apparently as Indiana Jones. And this is what's encouraging to

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Speaker 1: me center is the fact that it seems like as

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Speaker 1: much as they're trying to force this propaganda, whether it

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Speaker 1: be Barbie, whether it be Target, whether it be Disney.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they had massive layoffs the other day with

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Speaker 1: talent at ESPN. A lot of people believe this is

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Speaker 1: because of Disney and ESPN. People just had enough of

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Speaker 1: their woke propaganda and their obsession with Black Lives Matter

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Speaker 1: propaganda on ESPN day and night for several years and

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Speaker 1: people just said, I'm done with you. And now we're

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Speaker 1: seeing that the conservatives are starting to fight back with

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Speaker 1: their dollars not spending them places. But also this movie

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Speaker 1: that just came out that that is dealing with a

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Speaker 1: tough issue, an important issue, goes to number one with

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Speaker 1: half of the of the distribution in theaters as the

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Speaker 1: big Hollywood movie, you know, with Indiana Jones.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly right. And so this movie Sound of Freedom.

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Speaker 2: I actually on July third, I took my mom to

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Speaker 2: see it. And my mom loves movies, so do I.

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Speaker 2: So the two of us went to see It's a

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Speaker 2: fantastic movie. Jim Cavizl, who played Jesus in the Passion

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Speaker 2: of the Christ, is an incredibly talented actor. He plays

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Speaker 2: the lead. He plays Tim Ballard. So this is a

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Speaker 2: true story. Tim Ballard was a DHS Department Homeland Security

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Speaker 2: agent who was working fighting child trafficking and and and

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Speaker 2: he saw the horrific evils of child sex trafficking. There

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Speaker 2: is a massive, multi billion dollar business of kidnapping and

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Speaker 2: selling children for sex trafficking, and it is horrific, it

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Speaker 2: is evil, and and the true story, Tim Ballard ended

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Speaker 2: up actually leaving his job and going down to Latin

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Speaker 2: America to rescue over a hundred kids who had been

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Speaker 2: kidnapped by child sex traffickers and and it's it's a

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Speaker 2: true story. And I got to tell you I met

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Speaker 2: Tim Ballard, Jim Jim Cavisel came by my office a

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Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago. We talked about the movie and

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Speaker 2: let me encourage everyone go watch this movie. It's inspiring.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's an amazing true story. So much of

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Speaker 2: what comes out of Hollywood as garbage today, it's propaganda.

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Speaker 2: This is a true story about fighting. Look, you can

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Speaker 2: disagree about all sorts of political issues, but the sick

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Speaker 2: predators who engage in in sexual assault of little kids

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Speaker 2: and sell little children to pedophiles that I worked a

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Speaker 2: lot of years in law enforcement. I dealt with a

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Speaker 2: lot of horrible crimes. I dealt with murders, I dealt

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Speaker 2: with all sorts of crimes. The ones that always got

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Speaker 2: me the most upset, the most angry are the bastards

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Speaker 2: that hurt kids. I think there is a special circle

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Speaker 2: of hell devoted to people who hurt kids. And the

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Speaker 2: corporate media and most of Hollywood they didn't want this

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Speaker 2: movie made. They don't want anyone to know about it.

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Speaker 2: It gets no press. In fact, when I met with

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Speaker 2: Jim Caviezel, the Houston Chronicle wrote a hit piece saying, oh,

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Speaker 2: Jim Caveazl is this crazy conspiracy theorist guy without talking

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Speaker 2: about the movie, without talking about the horrors of child

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Speaker 2: sex trafficking. Instead, they just wanted to paint it as

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Speaker 2: a tenfoil hat crazy thing. This is a true story,

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Speaker 2: and you are right. On July fourth, Sound of Freedom

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Speaker 2: was the number one box office movie in the country.

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Speaker 2: It beat Indiana Jones. Sound of Freedom was on just

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Speaker 2: over two thousand screens. Indiana Jones was on over four

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Speaker 2: thousand screens, and nevertheless, Sound of Freedom was number one.

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Speaker 2: I want to encourage everyone to go watch it, but

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Speaker 2: it's a sign of just how messed up Hollywood is

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Speaker 2: that they don't want.

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Speaker 1: You to watch it. Yeah, and they don't want to

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Speaker 1: talk about They're hoping that this weekend it dies, which,

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Speaker 1: as you know, we've got a lot of vertict listeners

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Speaker 1: that want that may not even know this movie exists.

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Speaker 1: It's a movie you need to go see, and you

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Speaker 1: need to go see it this weekend. And the reason

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Speaker 1: why is because after last weekend, there are some theaters

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Speaker 1: that will pick up this movie, and if more people

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Speaker 1: go this weekend, more theaters will pick it up next

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Speaker 1: week because they think they're missing out on profits. That's

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Speaker 1: why it's so important. Don't wait for it to come out.

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Speaker 1: This is a movie that conservatives and Christians should support.

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Speaker 1: This is put your money where your mouth is and

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Speaker 1: go out there. Because if we succeed in these movies

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Speaker 1: being successful, center more of them are going to be made,

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Speaker 1: which is the best part of all.

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Speaker 2: Well, and Ben, I'll tell you when we finished watching

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Speaker 2: the movie on the afternoon of July third, at the

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Speaker 2: end of the movie, the entire theater burst out an applause.

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Speaker 2: When's the last time you read a movie where that happened. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean it is uplifting. It's horrifying. I mean, the

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Speaker 2: evil of it is horrifying, but it also is a

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Speaker 2: demonstration that you can go and you can fight against

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Speaker 2: this evil and you can prevail. And it's important for

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Speaker 2: people to understand peace. People don't like to talk about

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Speaker 2: modern day slavery, and sadly, under the Biden administration with

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Speaker 2: their open borders at the southern border, human trafficking has

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Speaker 2: exploded the results of open borders. I'll give you an

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Speaker 2: amazing statistic we've talked about on Verdict before this statistic

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Speaker 2: is from the New York Times. In twenty eighteen, the

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Speaker 2: Mexican drug cartels made in revenue from human trafficking roughly

649
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Speaker 2: five hundred million dollars. Last year, they made over thirteen

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Speaker 2: billion dollars from human trafficking. That is a two six

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Speaker 2: hundred percent increase. This is evil and it is modern

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Speaker 2: day slavery. Now that being said, as bad as Hollywood is,

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Speaker 2: as much as they don't want you to hear and

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Speaker 2: watch movies that expose things like this, as much as

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Speaker 2: they're willing to cowtow to communist China, we did have

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Speaker 2: a significant victory recently, which is the pattern of Hollywood

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Speaker 2: censoring for China has been an ongoing pattern, and I've

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Speaker 2: been calling it out for a long time. So, for example,

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Speaker 2: the movie Top Gun Maverick. You remember the first movie

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Speaker 2: Top Gun. Yeah, Maverick had on the back of his

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Speaker 2: jacket a series of patches of different flags, and two

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Speaker 2: of the flags that were on the back of his

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Speaker 2: jacket were the flag of Japan and the flag of Taiwan. Well,

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Speaker 2: the Chinese communists don't like Japan and they hate they

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Speaker 2: loathe Taiwan, and so the movie Top Gun Maverick the sequel,

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Speaker 2: they edited those patches out. They've just made them sort

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Speaker 2: they didn't want to offend the Chinese Communist Party by

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Speaker 2: referring to Japan or Taiwan. And I called him out,

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Speaker 2: I said, really, are you serious? Are you telling me

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Speaker 2: that Maverick is afraid of the Chinese Communists? I mean

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Speaker 2: it was insane and a bit of good news. Actually,

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Speaker 2: the studio ended up putting him back, so when the

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Speaker 2: movie was released, they had the patches back, and there

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Speaker 2: was enough criticism they got embarrassed. Another example Hollywood the

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Speaker 2: movie Bohemian Rhapsody. It's another great movie. It's a biopic

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Speaker 2: Mercury was gay because the Chinese Communists didn't want to

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Speaker 2: hell do you tell Freddie Mercury's story without acknowledging he

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Speaker 2: his life. And you know, Hollywood is always happy to

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Speaker 2: to make millions of dollars from China, in which case

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Speaker 2: they're like, nope, edited out. Guess what, Freddy Mercury no

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Speaker 2: longer gay, Let's just take it out. It was embarrassing,

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Speaker 2: it was wrong, and so I introduced legislation called the

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Speaker 2: Script Act. And what the Script Act said is that

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Speaker 2: if a Chinese studio, sorry, if an American studio engages

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Speaker 2: in order to please the Chinese government, then they are

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Speaker 2: not eligible to use US government assets. So there are

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Speaker 2: lots of movies where movie studios use assets of the

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Speaker 2: US government. Think something like Top Gun, where they're using

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Speaker 2: where you're down on the border, you're downfighting drugs, and

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Speaker 2: you're up in a Blackhawk helicopter. They're all sorts of

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Speaker 2: instances where the US government allows Hollywood to use their

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Speaker 2: assets to film great action movies. The Script Act says, Okay,

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Speaker 2: if you're going to let the Chinese communist government censor

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Speaker 2: your films, you can't use US government assets to do

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Speaker 2: it and the Script Act. I introduced it, I fought

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Speaker 2: Hollywood supports the Democrats significantly. We had a huge battle

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Speaker 2: back and forth. Ultimately, the full Script Act didn't pass,

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Speaker 2: Fiscal year twenty twenty three National Defense Authorization Bill. And

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Speaker 2: guidelines pursue it to the legislation that I wrote, making

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Speaker 2: clear to studios, if you let the Chinese government censor

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Speaker 2: it will be a major incentive to stop this garbage,

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Speaker 1: But there was so much backlash so quickly that Target realized,

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Speaker 1: And this is proof that when we get together and focus,

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Speaker 2: Well, that's exactly right. This is a big victory again

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Speaker 2: for free speech against censorship, in this case censorship from

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Speaker 2: big business. Mark Levin, who is a dear friend of mine,

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Speaker 2: a dear friend of yours. He is the great one.

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Speaker 2: And and that is a title that is fully earned. Uh,

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Speaker 2: it is not hyperbole to say I wouldn't be in

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Speaker 2: the US Senate without Mark Levin when when I was

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Speaker 2: at two percent and was just getting started, Mark had

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Speaker 2: me on my show over and over and over again,

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Speaker 2: and and and helped me get get my message out

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Speaker 2: to millions of Texans, help help me prevail. By the way,

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Speaker 2: another guy named Ben Ferguson, who was also hosted a major,

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Speaker 2: major show, had me on repeatedly. And so I'm grateful

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Speaker 2: to the both of you, and and and I got

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Speaker 2: to say, Democrats are still pissed at both of you.

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Speaker 2: Uh for impact you did there, badge of honor. But Mark,

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Speaker 2: you're right. Every book he writes sells a gazillion copies.

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Speaker 2: His books are fantastic. His latest book, Uh, you know,

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Speaker 2: you know, Mark is is someone who's very subtle. He

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Speaker 2: has difficulty speaking clearly. He has difficulties saying what he

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Speaker 2: really believes. So his title with all of the understatement

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Speaker 2: that that has made Mark famous. Uh, the title of

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Speaker 2: the book is the Democrat Party Hates America. Well that

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Speaker 2: you know. I haven't read Mark's book yet, it's coming

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Speaker 2: out shortly, but I suspect he makes a compelling case

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Speaker 2: for the title. But Mark tweeted out on July fifth,

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Speaker 2: Target will not carry the Democrat Party Hates America because

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Speaker 2: it might offend Democrats pathetic. You can go to Amazon

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Speaker 2: And I want to thank Barnes and Nobles Walmartin Books

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Speaker 2: a million for carrying the book. Now, a lot of

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Speaker 2: conservatives spoke out against this. I spoke out. I retweeted Mark,

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Speaker 2: and here's what I said. I said, not to worry.

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Speaker 2: Target has built up so much goodwill with conservatives that

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Speaker 2: I'm sure they won't mind. And then I said, and

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Speaker 2: bias book because I'm sure it's a fantastic book. Well,

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Speaker 2: here's the good news. If you feel like all of

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Speaker 2: corporate America as a disaster, well, Mark tweeted out on

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Speaker 2: July sixth. The day later, Target just informed my publisher

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Speaker 2: that is reversed course and will be taking my new

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Speaker 2: book in its stores upon its release. You folks are

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Speaker 2: an immense force for free speech and market capitalism, and

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Speaker 2: conservative authors and audiences everywhere will benefit from your patriotism.

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Speaker 2: I could not be more proud of you, not only

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Speaker 2: for how this specific case turned out, as there will

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Speaker 2: undoubtedly be more of this, but because you've made it

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Speaker 2: clear that you've had enough and will exercise your enormous power.

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Speaker 2: The silent majority is silent no longer. I'll more fully

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Speaker 2: discuss this on radio. God bless and I thank and

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Speaker 2: salute you all. That is awesome, and every conservative, everyone

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Speaker 2: who believes in free speech, everyone who doesn't want to

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Speaker 2: We started this pod by talking about a victory for

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Speaker 2: by talking about a victory for free speech against big business.

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Speaker 2: In both instance, there is a power to truth. There

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