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Speaker 1: radio host and author of the book Republicans Buy Sneakers two,

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Speaker 1: so let's start with this. You you wrote a piece

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Speaker 1: And if he had, we've been a capital If that's

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Speaker 1: what Lebron is doing, in addition to echoing communist talking points,

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Speaker 1: But the Ali Baba guy who now owns the NETS,

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Speaker 1: it sounds like he's set down with Lebron and tried

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Speaker 1: to brainwash him. And he's the guy who wrote that

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Speaker 1: Facebook post right about China's China's history and the territorial

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Speaker 1: integrity and how sensitive it is, and it was some

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Speaker 1: real whiny nonsense. Yeah, and it also essentially told Americans

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Speaker 1: that we shouldn't be concerned with democracy around the world.

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Speaker 1: And that's the big issue here, I think buck right

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Speaker 1: when you really break it down, is China has moved

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Speaker 1: from a country that was, hey, you want to show

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Speaker 1: you the new Avengers movie, well, we need you to

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Speaker 1: cut these two minutes out in order to play in China,

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Speaker 1: and Disney and all the big companies acquiesced to those

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Speaker 1: demands to get into the Chinese market. What they have

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Speaker 1: now started to do, and I think this is an

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Speaker 1: interesting pivot point for China is they are arguing, now,

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Speaker 1: American company, we don't care that your citizens have the

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Speaker 1: right under American law to have First Amendment freedoms and

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Speaker 1: say what they have said, if you want to do

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Speaker 1: business with us, you need to police your employees outside

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Speaker 1: saying and doing. And that to me is a big

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Speaker 1: step by China outside of their terry. Now, that is

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Speaker 1: a really important point. By the way, this isn't if

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Speaker 1: you're going to come into our house, it's our rules.

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Speaker 1: It's you better do things in your house that we

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Speaker 1: our house. Yeah. This is a big difference, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's the difference between let's I mean and again I

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Speaker 1: don't know that a lot of people have noticed this,

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Speaker 1: but that's why I think this is such a larger

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Speaker 1: battle on the grand scale, and why Lagron's decision here

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Speaker 1: much of the twenty first century is likely to be

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Speaker 1: maybe a new Cold War, however you want to define it,

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Speaker 1: between America and China, the question is, do you believe

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Speaker 1: in a communist, authoritarian governments of vision for the twenty

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Speaker 1: first century as it expands beyond its territorial borders and

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Speaker 1: United States and many of our allies. And Lebron James

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Speaker 1: has effectively said, I believe in the communist dictatorship vision.

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Speaker 1: And that is why this is so disappointing, because I

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Speaker 1: think we're starting to see the early shots being fired

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Speaker 1: in a global war of ideas, and Lebron has come

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Speaker 1: down on the side of the Chinese. Clay Travis, everybody

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Speaker 1: the book is Republicans, buy Sneakers too. I actually have

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Speaker 1: a copy. Highly recommend you all go out and get one.

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Speaker 1: He's also a nationally syndicated radio host. You can check

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Speaker 1: out his podcast. Clay, thank you so much for joining

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Speaker 1: us that we appreciate it. Appreciate it, my man. You

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Speaker 1: got a great show. I hear great things about it.

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Speaker 1: Look forward to seeing the politicon here in a few weeks.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad we managed to cover the Lebron James China

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Speaker 1: Hong Kong controversy today because I think that it really

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Speaker 1: is and I agree with what our guests there Clay

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Speaker 1: Travis said, I think this is just going to continue

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Speaker 1: to get worse. I don't think that there's going to

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Speaker 1: be any reprieve here, and the Chinese, their leverage is

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Speaker 1: only going to become more potent as time goes on

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Speaker 1: and push back. And the Chinese have been playing a

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Speaker 1: long game here. They have these Confucious centers that they

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Speaker 1: fond all across America. These Confucius centers create this perception

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Speaker 1: of a China that many people argue is just not

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Speaker 1: and the way that China approaches the rest of the

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Speaker 1: world that's meant to lull us into a sense that

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Speaker 1: the Chinese have no ambitions beyond their own territory and

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Speaker 1: just want to be good trading partners, and they want

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Speaker 1: prosperity for their people and peace around the world. A

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Speaker 1: lot of very powerful propaganda. In fact, I believe that

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Speaker 1: the China People's Daily, which is a or the China Daily,

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Speaker 1: which is a publication approved by the People's Republic of China,

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Speaker 1: was for a time being added to The Washington Post

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Speaker 1: when it was delivered to people's home some years ago

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Speaker 1: as a special advertising bulletin kind of its propaganda. The

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Speaker 1: Washington Post was like, yeah, well, we'll take Chinese money

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Speaker 1: and distribute propaganda all over the world. So has been

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Speaker 1: going on. And then with Lebron James, yeah, I'm not

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Speaker 1: surprised really, And the more I think about it, the

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Speaker 1: more sense it makes that this is This is a

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Speaker 1: tough issue for the NBA in that there will be consequences.

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Speaker 1: It's not tough to know which side to be on,

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Speaker 1: but it's tough as in, you could actually have some

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Speaker 1: bad things happen if you speak out against the Chinese.

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Speaker 1: Nothing bad is going to happen to anybody the NBA

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Speaker 1: for wearing a hoodie and solidarity with Trey von or

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Speaker 1: tweeting out about social justice or saying that you know,

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Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick should be supported in his self indulgent protest movement,

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Speaker 1: all that stuff, all of it, right, that's that's easy.

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Speaker 1: In fact, that's brand enhancing. And you've seen that now

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Speaker 1: some of the more social justice aware things that were

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Speaker 1: in all things that Nike has done, like putting Kaepernick

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Speaker 1: on I forget we're starting a campaign with them, I

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Speaker 1: forget what it's called. It's like the equivalent of putting

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Speaker 1: him on a Wheaty's box. He's now a big sports

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Speaker 1: hero for Nike. That has resulted in an increase in sales,

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Speaker 1: So there is really a financial upside. Not only does

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Speaker 1: it not hurt them to take these stands in the NBA,

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Speaker 1: there's a financial upside to it. Certainly a huge upside

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Speaker 1: for Colin Kaepernick. But you don't want to listen to

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Speaker 1: celebrities in general on these issues because I mean, you

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Speaker 1: should just listen to people who are knowledgeable and intelligent.

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Speaker 1: So if a celebrity happens to be knowledgeable and intelligent

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Speaker 1: on an issue, of course, but being a celebrity does

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Speaker 1: not mean as all. If you know, it means you

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Speaker 1: are neither knowledgeable nor intelligent. On its face, you could be,

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Speaker 1: but it doesn't mean you are. And another example is

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Speaker 1: I mean Jane Fonda still out there, you know, hannoy,

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Speaker 1: Jane still doing her thing. People listen, media gives her airtime.

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Speaker 1: Here she is. Just in case you haven't heard enough

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Speaker 1: scaremongering on climate change, let's hear from non scient taste.

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Speaker 1: I would argue non book reader Chain Fonda about climate change.

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Speaker 1: Play clip seven. Please. The Inner Governmental Panel on Climate

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Speaker 1: Crisis told us last year that we only have well,

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Speaker 1: last year they said twelve years. Now it's eleven years.

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Speaker 1: We have eleven years left to try to turn this

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Speaker 1: fossil fuel disaster around so that we don't completely pass

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Speaker 1: the tipping point and it becomes untenable, untenable to govern,

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Speaker 1: untenable to have a stable economy or any kind of

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Speaker 1: human rights or anything. It's there's just going to be

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Speaker 1: one disaster on top of the other. But we do

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Speaker 1: have time. We have time, and it's going to require

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Speaker 1: that people in every country all around the world organize

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Speaker 1: and mobilize and if necessary, bring government to a halt.

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Speaker 1: If we can't make them do the right thing. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it wouldn't have to be this radical and fundamental. If

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Speaker 1: the fossil fuel industry hadn't lied to us for thirty years.

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Speaker 1: Fossil fuel disaster. That's interesting because what she refers to

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Speaker 1: as a disaster, you could also look at as an

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Speaker 1: objective observer and historian and see that fossil fuels have directly,

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Speaker 1: not just coincided with, but created the economic conditions for

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Speaker 1: more prosperity, longer lifespan, easier lives, better lives around the

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Speaker 1: world than any other series of scientific advances in human history.

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Speaker 1: You do not have modern capitalism without fossil fuels. You

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Speaker 1: don't have. It doesn't exist. You do not have this

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Speaker 1: modern world of technological wonders that we all live in.

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Speaker 1: But now the left in this country and much of

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Speaker 1: it around the world, has embraced this hatred of fossil fuels.

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Speaker 1: They're the enemy. They're gonna kill us all they say. Oh,

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Speaker 1: and also the claim that we should bring governments to

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Speaker 1: a halt. There are a few people as clownish and

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Speaker 1: stupid as the protesters against climate the protesters who are

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Speaker 1: climate change activists against fossil fuels. In recent weeks, you've

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Speaker 1: seen things. They've spray painted buildings red. They do all

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Speaker 1: this crazy idiocy. I almost don't want to ever call

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Speaker 1: them protesters. People in Hong Kong taking truncheons to the face,

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Speaker 1: getting sprayed and hit with rubber bullets and tear gas

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Speaker 1: and standing up for basic human rights. Those are protesters.

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Speaker 1: These climate change activists, they're really just engaged in a

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Speaker 1: kind of self indulgent virtue signaling. Theater Jane Fond is

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Speaker 1: a part of it. Well, they found Hunter Biden everybody

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Speaker 1: where Hunter. Remember Where's Waldo? That book when you were

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Speaker 1: a kid, you try to find Waldo with all the

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Speaker 1: people around him. Well, we're playing where it's Hunter. Turns

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Speaker 1: out they were able to get him. You have the

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Speaker 1: Democrat debate happening tonight, and it seemed that the Biden

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Speaker 1: handlers and assorted media strategists and all the other folks

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Speaker 1: who were involved in trying to prop up the Biden

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Speaker 1: situation here and make it look like it's not as

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Speaker 1: bad as we all know it is. They figured, Okay, well,

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Speaker 1: let's let's get ahead of this thing, because Biden's gonna

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Speaker 1: have to get even then, the pro Biden journos know

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Speaker 1: that he's gonna have to get some kind of question

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Speaker 1: about this tonight, so better to get ahead of it

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Speaker 1: and to have Hunter Biden establish that, you know, there

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Speaker 1: was nothing going on here, nothing wrong here. Everything is

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Speaker 1: just fine. At least that's supposed to be the storyline.

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Speaker 1: That's what we're supposed to take. And I want to

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Speaker 1: play this for you because there are problems even with

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Speaker 1: Hunters very favorable, helpful to him interview right, the way

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Speaker 1: they ask him the most basic questions. He knows they're

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Speaker 1: not going to come at him with anything, particularly though

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Speaker 1: the last questions like do you think it was a

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Speaker 1: good idea? They won't say. How can you tell us

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Speaker 1: that it wasn't corruption? I mean, you know, it's all

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Speaker 1: about how they framed the questions and posed the questions.

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Speaker 1: But here is Hunter Biden when asked on I think

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Speaker 1: it's ABC, right, ABC, CBS, NBC. It's all it's all

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Speaker 1: the same thing. I mean, they think it's not, but

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Speaker 1: I think it is. Here's what Hunter Biden says when

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Speaker 1: asked about whether he talked to his dad about the stuff.

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Speaker 1: Oh please, let's let's know this. Let let's find out

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Speaker 1: what he said. Play five. I'm sorry, Play sixteen. I

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Speaker 1: want to get to the heart of it. Did you

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Speaker 1: and your father ever discuss you free as I said.

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Speaker 1: The only time was after a news account, and it

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Speaker 1: wasn't a discussion in anyway. There's no butt to this. No,

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Speaker 1: we never did. Your dad said I hope you know

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Speaker 1: what you're doing. Hope you know what you're doing. I do,

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Speaker 1: And I said I do. And that was literally the

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Speaker 1: end of our discussion. Why because my dad was vice

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Speaker 1: president of the United States. There's literally nothing as a

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Speaker 1: young man or as a full grown adult that my

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Speaker 1: father in some way hasn't had influence over as it

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Speaker 1: does not serve either one of us. When he said

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Speaker 1: I hope you know what you're doing, what did he

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Speaker 1: think you were doing? Well? He wrote? The press reports

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Speaker 1: that I joined the board of Barisma, which was a

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Speaker 1: Ukrainian natural gas company, and there's been a lot of

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Speaker 1: misinformation about me, not about my dad. Nobody buys that,

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Speaker 1: but it buys this idea that I was unqualified to

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Speaker 1: be on the board. What were your qualifications to be

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Speaker 1: on the board of Barisma? Well, I was vice chairman

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Speaker 1: of the board of Amtrak for five years. I was

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Speaker 1: the chairman of the board of the UN World Food Program.

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Speaker 1: I was a lawyer for A boy Schiller Flexner, one

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Speaker 1: of the most prestigious law firms in the world. You

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Speaker 1: didn't have any extensive knowledge about natural gas or Ukraine

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Speaker 1: itself though, No, But I think that I had as

642
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Speaker 1: much knowledge as anybody else that was on the board,

643
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 1: if not more. In the list you gave me of

644
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:08,880
Speaker 1: the reasons why you're on that board, you did not

645
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:10,759
Speaker 1: list the fact that you were the son of the

646
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 1: of course. Yeah, what role do you think that lay?

647
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:16,359
Speaker 1: I think that it is impossible for me to be

648
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:18,320
Speaker 1: on any of the boards that I just mentioned without

649
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 1: saying that on the sun of the Vice President of

650
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 1: the United States you were paid fifty thousand dollars a

651
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:25,359
Speaker 1: month for your position. Look, I'm a privacy citizen. One

652
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 1: thing that I don't have to do is sit here

653
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 1: and open my kimono as it relates to how much

654
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 1: money I make or make or deer didn't. But it's

655
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:39,240
Speaker 1: all been reported. I gotta tell you, this was great, fantastic.

656
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 1: After all of the whining from libs about Trump and

657
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: the emoluments clause, we have been led to believe through

658
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 1: story after story in The Washington Post, the New York Times,

659
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 1: I nobody even knew what the heck the emoluments clause

660
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 1: was until they thought maybe they could get Trump on it.

661
00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 1: Right that if if, forarders are buying cheeseburgers and beer

662
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 1: at Trump Hotel in Dcy, that's constitutionally prohibited because they're

663
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:10,879
Speaker 1: basically buying off the President United States. And I would

664
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:13,400
Speaker 1: just say to all the Washington Post journos who were

665
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:17,880
Speaker 1: running with this absurd theory, Oh, it's constitutionally not allowed

666
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:19,920
Speaker 1: to get payments for foreign government. Yeah, they're allowed to

667
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 1: give you a big bag of money. They're allowed to

668
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 1: be customers at a business that has expenses and payroll

669
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:30,839
Speaker 1: and that has countless other customers too. What leverage could

670
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 1: you possibly have there? Walk into the White House sometime,

671
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 1: try this one and say I have no foreign policy experience,

672
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,359
Speaker 1: but I did buy a cheeseburger a Trump Hotel last night,

673
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 1: and so I would like you to end this trade

674
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 1: war with China. See how that goes with you, See

675
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 1: how that does. But this is what they were saying.

676
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 1: I'm not making it up. This is what they were

677
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:55,879
Speaker 1: telling people. It's absurd, it's ridiculous. And yet now when

678
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 1: you have Hunter Biden doing this interview, this is just

679
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:03,399
Speaker 1: picture They'll left always talks about privilege. There is no

680
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 1: privilege like Brady politician child privilege, and this is bipartisan.

681
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 1: It's true on all sides and both sides. I'm sorry,

682
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: Braddy Politician. Child is a level of privilege. You get

683
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,359
Speaker 1: to go to any college you want, if you're young

684
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:24,720
Speaker 1: enough for that. You know, you get to be famous

685
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:26,759
Speaker 1: and people will pay you to speak. Why why would

686
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:31,480
Speaker 1: anyone pay Chelsea Clinton to speak anywhere? Who cares? What

687
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 1: soon to be a congressional candidate. I can assure you,

688
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 1: Chelsea Clinton, and then after that senator and then after

689
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 1: that presidential Kenny, They're going to revive the whole Clinton

690
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 1: dynasty around her. Who cares what she has to say

691
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 1: about anything? How has she proven that her thoughts are worthwhile?

692
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 1: Who cares what any politicians children have to say about anything? Well,

693
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 1: if they're particularly compelling, if they're legitimately interesting, good on

694
00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:01,359
Speaker 1: their feet, good on certain topics. I'm persuaded. But that's

695
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 1: a case by case basis. Hunter Biden, however, is sitting

696
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:10,480
Speaker 1: there and he's basically looking the American people the eye,

697
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:13,759
Speaker 1: and he's like, yeah, you know, I mean like I was,

698
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 1: I was just qualified as anybody else to be on

699
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 1: the board of that company. Yeah, totally. Asking if he's qualified,

700
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 1: he said he was on the board of Amtrack. Oh

701
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 1: you mean Amtrack, the company that Joe Biden is linked

702
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 1: to as a politician as part of his brand, Joe

703
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:34,840
Speaker 1: Biden takes the amtrack from Delaware to DC. You know,

704
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 1: Bupadah's blue collar Joe. That's the whole story. Oh oh,

705
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 1: you mean that Amtrack thought it might be a good idea.

706
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:46,280
Speaker 1: I mean a company that is dependent upon the federal

707
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 1: government for its large s. Yeah, they're gonna put the

708
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 1: single US senator who probably rides that more than anyone else,

709
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 1: rides that train more than nails, put his son on

710
00:41:55,080 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 1: the board because because Hunter Biden so smart, I come on, man,

711
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 1: and his qualifications for this clearly nepotistic post. Are the

712
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 1: other posts of nepotism granted to him because of who

713
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 1: his dad is. This is what he's telling in the interview.

714
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, un Food Program. He's on the board

715
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:20,839
Speaker 1: of the un Food Program. I'm sure that was really

716
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 1: strenuous work. And he was hired by a big DC

717
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:27,799
Speaker 1: law firm. Well that had nothing to do with his

718
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:32,360
Speaker 1: last name. My friends, this is the this is the

719
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:35,799
Speaker 1: embarrassment that the Democrats can They can pretend like it's

720
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 1: not embarrassing, but when you look at the complaints, I mean,

721
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 1: the hypocrisy is what's just so difficult to stomach here.

722
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 1: You look at the way that they have talked about

723
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:49,720
Speaker 1: wind about all things related to Trump, everything that Trump

724
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 1: and his family have ever done in office out of office.

725
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 1: You know, they believe that the trademarks that his children

726
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 1: are getting approved around the world, that's elicit, that's wrong.

727
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 1: You know, the emoluments calls, Trump hotels, the businesses. They're

728
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 1: always worried about whether somebody in the United States government

729
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: is paying to stay in a Trump hotel. I mean,

730
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:15,239
Speaker 1: that's just they're completely fixated on this stuff. Never come

731
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 1: up with anything but oh, under the Obama administration, the

732
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 1: vice president's son was getting paid off by a foreign government,

733
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 1: and we're supposed to believe that that didn't at least

734
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:29,359
Speaker 1: create the appearance you could say, well, there was never

735
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,439
Speaker 1: a there was never an explicit agreement between Biden and

736
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:35,280
Speaker 1: between hundred Biden and his dad that you know, borismo

737
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:39,160
Speaker 1: wouldn't get investigated or yeah, okay, but that's not that's

738
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:43,360
Speaker 1: not how bribes necessarily work either, Folks. If a police

739
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 1: officer is, you know, pulls me over and I don't

740
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 1: know why he's pulled me over an hour to just

741
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:54,759
Speaker 1: say well hello, officer, and I slid a crisp. I

742
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:56,840
Speaker 1: was gonna say twenty, but then I'd really be in trouble,

743
00:43:56,920 --> 00:44:00,719
Speaker 1: you know, a crisp one hundred dollar bill across the

744
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 1: top of the door as I have, you know, put

745
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:07,759
Speaker 1: the window down. The officer's not going to say, oh,

746
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:10,400
Speaker 1: that's cool. We didn't agree that. I'm just gonna let

747
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:14,440
Speaker 1: you off because you're giving me money. So I'm just

748
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:17,360
Speaker 1: gonna take the money and then make my determination. But

749
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:19,319
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with you giving me money. That's

750
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:23,759
Speaker 1: that's what's that's not going to happen. Paying off the

751
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:27,720
Speaker 1: vice president's son isn't about an explicit agreement. It's about

752
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 1: the vice president's son is getting a lot of money.

753
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:34,040
Speaker 1: Does does that mean that maybe you're less likely to

754
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 1: be okay? As Joe Biden point man on Ukraine policy,

755
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 1: with an investigation of that company that results in people

756
00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:47,759
Speaker 1: going to prison or bad things happening? Are there concerns

757
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 1: then about dirtying things up, muddying up the waters such

758
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:53,880
Speaker 1: that the Obama administration and anybody who worked for it,

759
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 1: Any any diplomat, any any politician who was involved in

760
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 1: Obama's foreign policy. To making that administration's decision making in Ukraine,

761
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:05,279
Speaker 1: they would have to know the Vice president's son is

762
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 1: on the board of that company. There's no way they

763
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:09,239
Speaker 1: didn't know that, and this would have been talked about

764
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:13,280
Speaker 1: in those circles working on Ukraine policy. That doesn't affect

765
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 1: decision making, That doesn't matter to what they're trying to

766
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:22,400
Speaker 1: accomplish here. I've got to tell you, it seems to

767
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 1: me that it would matter a whole heck them a lot,

768
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:29,279
Speaker 1: depending on the circumstances, even absent an explicit agreement that

769
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:31,600
Speaker 1: there would do. And I think about how stupid that

770
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:34,239
Speaker 1: would be, would do We really have to pretend that

771
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:39,400
Speaker 1: anyone thinks Hunter Biden might have sent an email to

772
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 1: his dad like, hey, I know that you know, I

773
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 1: know that we shouldn't be talking about this, but you

774
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: got a big check or I got a big check

775
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:54,719
Speaker 1: rather from his company, so you know, let's like back

776
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:58,320
Speaker 1: off them. Of course, not even Hunter Biden is that reckless,

777
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:01,840
Speaker 1: So you're never going to find that. But what we

778
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:05,120
Speaker 1: have here is the admission that this was gross and

779
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:06,959
Speaker 1: that's why you know he stepped down from the board.

780
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 1: It's a five year term. Wow, what a gig. By

781
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:11,800
Speaker 1: the way, can somebody put me on the board of

782
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 1: a Ukrainian natural gas company at fifty k a month?

783
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 1: Sign me up ethics or no ethics man. Fifty k

784
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:23,720
Speaker 1: a month for five years. That's really to do nothing,

785
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 1: to be on the board, to be a figurehead. This

786
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:28,920
Speaker 1: is the best no show job I've ever heard of,

787
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:34,320
Speaker 1: well one of them, and now he's stepping down for

788
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 1: But he didn't do anything wrong, you see, it's just

789
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:39,319
Speaker 1: the it's created. It's good. I love this, he said.

790
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 1: This is the interview too. It has created a distraction. Oh,

791
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 1: a distract. That's a very nice way of saying. It's

792
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:52,240
Speaker 1: created a massive cluster of a problem for Hunter Biden,

793
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:55,759
Speaker 1: for his dad, and so they know he's got to

794
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 1: back away from this. The gravy train has come to

795
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 1: a stop, Hunter Biden. But you just you gotta love

796
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 1: the hootspa here, the willingness to look people in the

797
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:08,919
Speaker 1: eye and say, yeah, I was qualified for that board.

798
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:10,920
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about Ukraine or natural gas, but

799
00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:15,280
Speaker 1: put me on the board of that company. Why should

800
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:16,440
Speaker 1: I be on the board of that company because you

801
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 1: get on my dad's this famous politician. I'm on the

802
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:19,840
Speaker 1: board of a lot of companies because of who my

803
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 1: dad is. So, you know, we just wanted to we

804
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 1: wanted to add this one into the mix. HM strikes

805
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 1: me as a very shaky justification that much is for sure.

806
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 1: Will this change anything going into the debates? It no,

807
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:40,760
Speaker 1: of course not. You know that they're going to pretend

808
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 1: that Biden has answered all these questions and oh wait no,

809
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: but he was asked specific We got one more here,

810
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:50,399
Speaker 1: he was asked about his relationship with his dad. And

811
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:54,400
Speaker 1: here's also this Hunter Biden interview moment play fourteen. So

812
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 1: you think it's perfectly fine. And the Trump children have

813
00:47:56,840 --> 00:48:01,040
Speaker 1: been criticized for doing similar sorts of that's that's I

814
00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: don't look unlike them. I don't spend a lot of

815
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:06,400
Speaker 1: time thinking about them. I really don't. It's all noise,

816
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:09,840
Speaker 1: and what they do is they create just an enormous

817
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:13,360
Speaker 1: to them, not a noise. I have to then answer

818
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:18,959
Speaker 1: questions about accusations made by probably the most unethical group

819
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:22,720
Speaker 1: of people that we've ever seen in this republic. You said,

820
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 1: no one votes or will vote for or against my

821
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:29,840
Speaker 1: dad because of me, and my dad knows that. Do

822
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:32,400
Speaker 1: you still believe that they know who my dad is?

823
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:35,399
Speaker 1: My dad doesn't have to defend me. My dad only

824
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:39,239
Speaker 1: has to love me, and my dad loves me n equivalent. Look,

825
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 1: I know that after being able to get up after

826
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 1: bow died, say whatever the hell they want to say

827
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:50,440
Speaker 1: about me. I mean, who cares. Look, I'm like, I really,

828
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 1: like I've said, I've been through some stuff in my life.

829
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:58,760
Speaker 1: I've been through some real, real stuff. This isn't real stuff.

830
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: It isn't it truly? Isn't that part of it? That

831
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:06,960
Speaker 1: Burnam and Billy Um, you know, say anything, do anything

832
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:10,040
Speaker 1: you want, you know. I mean, like, you know, Donald

833
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 1: Prince Humperdink Trump Junior is not somebody that I really

834
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:18,000
Speaker 1: care about. I don't even know what that last thing

835
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:23,080
Speaker 1: was whatever, But he's clearly trying to tell everybody how

836
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 1: this doesn't matter. He's doing a national TV interview on

837
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:28,440
Speaker 1: the subject the Night of the Democrat Debates because it

838
00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, right, because it doesn't matter at all. I

839
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:32,560
Speaker 1: would just have I would just have. You also keep

840
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 1: in mind here that while he can invoke the ad,

841
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 1: the Biden family has had tragedies many family have had tragedies, however,

842
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:43,839
Speaker 1: so I don't think that that's a shield for elicits

843
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:47,600
Speaker 1: or unethical behavior. It wouldn't be for other it wouldn't

844
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 1: be for other people. But keep in mind when he's

845
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:55,960
Speaker 1: saying that, oh, you know, this doesn't really matter and

846
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:58,879
Speaker 1: this is all all the nothing burger, which I agree

847
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:00,440
Speaker 1: with those who say that a nothing burger as a

848
00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:02,160
Speaker 1: phrase is something we should probably phase out of the

849
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 1: English language. Who came up with this? What is it?

850
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:09,120
Speaker 1: There's no such thing as a nothing burger. But remember

851
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:11,800
Speaker 1: that his dad's administra, well, his dad as vice president

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Speaker 1: What did General Flynn do to deserve to have his

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Speaker 1: for the Buck Brief. This video right here appearing to

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Speaker 1: show Turkey's military bombing kurd civilians in a Syrian border town.

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Speaker 1: The Kurds, who fought alongside the US against isis now

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Speaker 1: horrific reports of atrocities committed by Turkish fact fighters on

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Speaker 1: those very allies turns out that ABC News, which is

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Speaker 1: one of the biggest news operations in the country, aired

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Speaker 1: footage of what they claimed was a frontline battle explosion

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Speaker 1: between Syrian Kurds and the invading Turkish military. Unfortunately, it

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Speaker 1: was really from a nighttime machine gun demonstration at the

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Speaker 1: Knob Creek Gun Range in West Point, Kentucky. So, I mean,

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Speaker 1: we all make geographic errors, but as those of you're

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Speaker 1: listening to this show no doubt are already aware, Knob

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Speaker 1: Creek Gun Range in West Point, Kentucky is quite a

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Speaker 1: ways away from the front lines of the Turkish Syrian

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Speaker 1: fighting in Northern Syria or Kurdish fighting in Northern Syria.

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Speaker 1: That's that's an issue, that's a problem. How could this happen?

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Speaker 1: You would say, well, there there of course that as

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Speaker 1: there's no dispute that this was a mess up. But

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Speaker 1: then the issue becomes how could they make such a

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Speaker 1: bizarre mistake? And this is going to tie in a

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Speaker 1: second to the way the media is covering everything going

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Speaker 1: on in Syriah right now. It's because anything that looks

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Speaker 1: like it's mayhem and disaster and terrible right now is

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Speaker 1: going to be put on the air, is going to

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Speaker 1: be shared with the American public because it is viewed

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Speaker 1: at as damaging for Trump. Any bodies, any any mayhem,

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Speaker 1: anything bad that is happening in Syria right now. The

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Speaker 1: media has set this up so that is Trump has

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Speaker 1: greenlit the invasion of Syria by the Turkish forces, and

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Speaker 1: it's a desa everyone knows is a disaster, also terrible.

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Speaker 1: I'm here to tell you it's it's not the disaster

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Speaker 1: they're saying it is. And I think in the end

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Speaker 1: we'll see that Trump was right in terms of strategy.

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Speaker 1: And I know that there's a very few conservatives even

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Speaker 1: agree with me on this. I think Trump is right,

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Speaker 1: and I will tell you why. But but first I

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Speaker 1: would just note that here we have a circumstance where

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Speaker 1: you have fake news effectively happening. Now they'll say it's

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Speaker 1: an accident, fine, but once again, it's a major error

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Speaker 1: of fact that happens to occur in a way that

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Speaker 1: if it were true, it would have been useful for

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Speaker 1: the Trump is terrible rat that the media's obsessed with

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Speaker 1: right here, A huge explosion and all this terrible stuff

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Speaker 1: happening on the in the Kurdish Turkish fighting in northern

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Speaker 1: Syria right now, it turns out it didn't really happen.

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Speaker 1: I would just note the following for you that the

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Speaker 1: Syrian Civil War, which is what is still going on here.

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Speaker 1: This is a civil war in a country with multiple

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Speaker 1: factions inside the country, really dozens of factions inside the

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Speaker 1: that involves foreign foreign governments taking sides and what then

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Speaker 1: has become a proxy battle on Syrian soil. The Turks,

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Speaker 1: the Russians, the Iranians. Then you can't even name all

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Speaker 1: the different foreign actors that are the Israelis occasionally show

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Speaker 1: up and blow something up. I mean, a lot of

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Speaker 1: people are very involved in what is going on here.

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Speaker 1: And you also have a Sunni Shia schism that is

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Speaker 1: the backdrop of this. Remember the all white minority in

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Speaker 1: Syria that the Assad regime is a part of is Shia.

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Speaker 1: The majority of the anti Assad fighters are Sunni Arab

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Speaker 1: and including many Sunni Arab jihadists and groups that are

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Speaker 1: either directly or or indirectly affiliated with the Islamic State

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Speaker 1: in al Qaida. So that's what's that's what's happening in

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Speaker 1: this country. The Obama administration was leading on the Syria

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Speaker 1: question for the international community. Over the course of I

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Speaker 1: think it was let's say seven years, six or six

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Speaker 1: or seven years, depending on how you calculated. But for

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Speaker 1: almost the entirety of Obama's president. He's certainly all of

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Speaker 1: the second his second term, Syria has been a disaster.

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Speaker 1: You had half a million people and it's just an

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Speaker 1: estimate killed in the Syrian Civil War. And you have

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Speaker 1: seen more outrage and dismay from the American journo establishment

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Speaker 1: in the last seventy two hours then you saw in

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Speaker 1: the seven years before it, where Obama was the guy

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Speaker 1: calling the shots in Syria. Notice how little coverage you saw,

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Speaker 1: I would note of the fall of Rocca, the destruction

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Speaker 1: of the Islamic state, things that happened while Trump was

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Speaker 1: in office, the eradication of ISIS or the near eradication

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Speaker 1: of ISIS. That yeah, there were news reports on it,

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Speaker 1: but it was never You never had anyone from the

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Speaker 1: national security establishment going on TV and saying, see, Trump

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Speaker 1: does know something about this. Trump did have some idea

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Speaker 1: of how to make this all stop. But now that

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Speaker 1: there's a problem, now that there's an issue, everyone is

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Speaker 1: viewing this as clear evidence that the president has no idea,

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Speaker 1: what's going on? He's reckless destroying everything, and that's also

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Speaker 1: just not true. The Vice President spoke out on this

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Speaker 1: in a number of fronts. Vice President Pence, and for example,

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Speaker 1: here's what he had to say about the US position visa.

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Speaker 1: As I've been telling you, the Turks are the ones

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Speaker 1: causing the problem here with our Kurdish allies. The Turks

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Speaker 1: the ones you were saying we're going after them, and

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Speaker 1: they don't have to do that. They could not do that.

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Speaker 1: So why our administration, Why the Trump administration is being

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Speaker 1: blamed for this is a question that I don't see

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Speaker 1: nearly enough people attempting to answer. But here's what he

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Speaker 1: Here's what the Vice President says about the conversation with Turkey.

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Speaker 1: Play eleven please. President Erdwan reached out and requested the call,

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Speaker 1: and President Trump communicated to him very clearly that the

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Speaker 1: United States of America wants Turkey to stop the invasion,

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Speaker 1: to implement an immediate cease fire, and to begin to

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Speaker 1: negotiate with Kurdish forces Syria to bring an end to

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Speaker 1: the violence. They're saying, cut it out, saying that what

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Speaker 1: the Turks are doing is opposed by this White House

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Speaker 1: opposed by the Trump administration, and Turkey is showing us

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Speaker 1: as I have been saying, they're not really an ally.

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Speaker 1: They certainly shouldn't be a NATO, but they're not really

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Speaker 1: an ally. The Turks do not do what is helpful

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Speaker 1: to our interests in cases where yes, they have their

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Speaker 1: own interests. I understand that, but they don't need to

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Speaker 1: be going after the Kurds like this right now. They

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Speaker 1: don't have to be doing it. There's not some imminent

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Speaker 1: danger to Turkey from the Kurds, but they are highly

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Speaker 1: sensitive to this issue, and you know, this gets back

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Speaker 1: into decades and decades of fighting, and so they don't

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Speaker 1: want to listen to us. There are sanctions now against Turkey,

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Speaker 1: so we are taking economic action, economic action against the

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Speaker 1: Turks against what is at least still officially a NATO ally.

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Speaker 1: Here's what the Vice President said play twelfth. Please, the

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Speaker 1: sanctions that we're announced today will continue and will worsen

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Speaker 1: unless and until Turkey embraces an immediate cease fire, stops

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Speaker 1: the violence and agrees to negotiate a long term settlement

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Speaker 1: of the issues along the border between Turkey and Syria,

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Speaker 1: saying you better negotiate its use fire also is going

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Speaker 1: to be economic pain for the Turks. So good. This

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Speaker 1: is the right move for the administration, and this is

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Speaker 1: something that everybody needs to understand is being handled in

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Speaker 1: a way that I think he's responsible for this White

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Speaker 1: House right now, given the realities in the ground. But

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Speaker 1: I want to step back just from the because the

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Speaker 1: storyline is that we told that we basically told the

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Speaker 1: Turks to invade. That's not true. We didn't tell the

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Speaker 1: Turks to invade. We knew the Turks were planning. I'm

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Speaker 1: probably doing this. We've been asking them not to. But

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Speaker 1: Trump wanted to move US troops out of the way

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Speaker 1: because he doesn't want to get in. He doesn't want

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Speaker 1: them to at some point they'd be in the middle

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Speaker 1: of this. People think that fifty US soldiers we already

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Speaker 1: had the Turks fire, they say, accidentally in the vicinity

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Speaker 1: of our soldiers. At some point, US troops are not

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Speaker 1: enough to deter these factions from going after each other.

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Speaker 1: And then and then we start getting involved, we start

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Speaker 1: getting deeper than The national security establishment in this country

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Speaker 1: does not want to learn the lesson of the last

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Speaker 1: twenty years, which is that we do not want to

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Speaker 1: be in Muslim majority countries in the Middle East or

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Speaker 1: South Asia, that do not want a US military presence there,

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Speaker 1: that are in the midst of fighting, that have major

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Speaker 1: problems with terrorism. We don't want to be in charge

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Speaker 1: of rebuilding their societies. We don't want to be in

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Speaker 1: charge of placating their various factions within the population. We're done.

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Speaker 1: We don't want to do it anymore. And that's why

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Speaker 1: I just note with some with some agitation there's this,

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Speaker 1: the way they're reporting on this is to just all

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Speaker 1: make it about how much these other factions are gaining

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Speaker 1: and how much of a win it is for them.

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Speaker 1: Here's the New York Times front page today, Russian troops

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Speaker 1: move in as US troops exit Syrian region. The Russian

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Speaker 1: Defense Ministry said that its military police were patrolling territory

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Speaker 1: between Turkish and Syrian forces, and then right below that,

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Speaker 1: Russia savers US missteps in Syria and sees his opportunity

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Speaker 1: if we're gonna talk abou Russia savoring missteps in Syria.

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Speaker 1: Russia completely outplayed the Obama administration on this issue and

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Speaker 1: managed to save the There was a time when Assad

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Speaker 1: really looked like he was going to be He was

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Speaker 1: gonna be done. He was gonna get Arab springed, if

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Speaker 1: you will. It was very a very close fought thing

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Speaker 1: for a while, but then the Russians came in, the

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Speaker 1: Iranians came in, and they propped him up. They backed

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Speaker 1: him up when it was absolutely critical for the Assad

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Speaker 1: regime to stay in power. But now we're being told, oh,

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Speaker 1: look at all this, all this bounty that has been

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Speaker 1: left for the Russians because the Trump administration has moved

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Speaker 1: some US troops from this border region. Okay, well, now

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Speaker 1: the Russians are going to be dealing with this. This

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Speaker 1: is not some area of great strategic interest to the

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Speaker 1: United States. This is not Oh no, they've seized these

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Speaker 1: oil fields that will be funding their government forever, and

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Speaker 1: what will we do. We'd rather have these other, these

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Speaker 1: other players in charge of this territory. We don't want

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Speaker 1: to be the ones that are policing this. We don't

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Speaker 1: don't want to be the ones that are keeping these

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Speaker 1: combatants from each other's necks. The Syrian government has moved

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Speaker 1: into some of these areas, and I've been saying, nobody

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Speaker 1: wants to say this, nobody wants to admit this out loud.

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Speaker 1: Assad has won the Syrian Civil War, his regime endured,

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Speaker 1: he stayed. That was the plan all along. There is

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Speaker 1: no plan, realistic plan for him to be gone. There's

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Speaker 1: no international pressure to speak of that's has a prayer

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Speaker 1: of having a Sad stepped down or anything else. No,

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Speaker 1: so the Assad regime is staying. So given that they're staying,

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Speaker 1: would we rather have Assad trying to prevent the resurgence

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Speaker 1: of Ices which is anti Assad? Is you know, the

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Speaker 1: enemy of my enemy, my friends, you gotta remember it.

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Speaker 1: So now we got the Russians, we got the Syrians

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Speaker 1: of the Assad regime rather and the Turks all staring

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Speaker 1: at each other across the battlefield, and we don't have

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Speaker 1: US troops that are right in the middle of this,

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Speaker 1: and we're being told that this is a huge loss.

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Speaker 1: Now what we want is these other players to take

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Speaker 1: control of this area. Let the Russians try to figure

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Speaker 1: out how to keep the Turks from fighting with the

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Speaker 1: Kurds from fighting with the Syrian national government. Is it

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Speaker 1: going to be something that works out well for no,

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01:05:50,520 --> 01:05:52,920
Speaker 1: of course not. I mean, the Russians are brutal and

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Speaker 1: they've been bombing. They bombed civilians indiscriminately in the Aleppo campaign,

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Speaker 1: and they've done all kinds of things in Syria that

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Speaker 1: are horrific, but it's not our fight ultimately. And people say, oh,

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Speaker 1: but there's gonna be a resurgence of ISIS. Yeah, maybe,

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Speaker 1: if there's a resurgence of ISIS, we'll have to deal

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Speaker 1: with it. But there's never going to be some certification.

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Speaker 1: There's no international bodies, there's no group that comes together

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Speaker 1: says ah ISIS is finally gone. ISIS is the jehottest

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Speaker 1: ideology in a region that has been riddled with extremism

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Speaker 1: for as long as anybody can remember. You can argue

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Speaker 1: stretching back for centuries, really over a millennium. If we're

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Speaker 1: really going to talk about it, there's going to be

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Speaker 1: extremism there in some form for the foreseeable. There's still

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Speaker 1: Alkaidi to the Arabian Peninsula operating in Yemen. There's still

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Speaker 1: Boko Haram in Nigeria. There's still name your you know,

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Speaker 1: the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and Abu Sayf and the Philippines.

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Speaker 1: If you have these terrorist groups all over the world,

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Speaker 1: do we all say, oh, no, but we need to

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Speaker 1: be there because no, I mean, we maybe help the

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Speaker 1: host government try to deal with it a little bit.

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Speaker 1: But we're not leaving a thousand troops everywhere where there

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Speaker 1: happens to be the possibility of or an ongoing jihadest threat.

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Speaker 1: We'd rather work through allies, partners, or even enemy states

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Speaker 1: that just happened to share our interest in suppressing that

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Speaker 1: terrorist entity. We should be honest about this stuff. What

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Speaker 1: is the I keep saying, what is the alternative? All

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Speaker 1: these people are talking, We're gonna leave. We're gonna leave

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Speaker 1: US troops in this part of Syria for the next

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Speaker 1: decade to what end. There's not going to be a

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Speaker 1: political settlement. There's no there's no negotiating with the Assad

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Speaker 1: regime over this. This isn't critical territory for them. It's

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Speaker 1: not like they can't function, their government can't function. We're

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Speaker 1: going to operate an independent Kurdish Statelet what right right

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Speaker 1: on Turkey's border in Syria? We're going to be in

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Speaker 1: charge of that. What was the what was the game

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01:07:52,200 --> 01:07:55,040
Speaker 1: plan here? Oh, negotiate some kind of a political settlement.

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Speaker 1: This is what people say when they have nothing else

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01:07:56,400 --> 01:08:02,040
Speaker 1: to say. There wasn't gonna be any political settlement. So look,

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Speaker 1: I know I've got a somewhat alternative or contrarian point

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01:08:04,480 --> 01:08:06,640
Speaker 1: of view on this, but also spent a lot of

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Speaker 1: time in a rock, a lot of time in Afghanistan

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01:08:08,480 --> 01:08:11,160
Speaker 1: thinking about this, working on the stuff for the CIA.

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Speaker 1: I know these arguments. I've seen what happens. No one

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01:08:15,640 --> 01:08:18,639
Speaker 1: saying that that Trump is the most eloquent in making

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01:08:18,640 --> 01:08:23,400
Speaker 1: the case, but he understands get out, the mission is done.

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Speaker 1: That's the lesson that we should have learned in Afghanistan

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Speaker 1: and did not, and I'm hoping we've learned it now.

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Speaker 1: For Syria. We are in the fight of our lives.

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Speaker 1: Everything is on the table in twenty twenty. They think

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01:08:35,760 --> 01:08:38,120
Speaker 1: so too, because they think if they lose in twenty

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01:08:38,200 --> 01:08:41,639
Speaker 1: twenty that they're gonna have to the rules are gonna

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01:08:41,680 --> 01:08:45,000
Speaker 1: be fair, and they're never gonna win again. And they're right.

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Speaker 1: If we win in twenty twenty, they're done forever. But

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Speaker 1: it's scary for us too because if they win, literally

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01:08:54,479 --> 01:08:57,479
Speaker 1: it could be the end of the world. Literally, it

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01:08:57,560 --> 01:08:59,280
Speaker 1: could be the end of the world. That there probably

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Speaker 1: could win. That's that's really all I have to tell

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Speaker 1: you about the Democrat debate tonight. That's Tom Steyer. The

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Speaker 1: fact that that guy made a billion dollars is stunning.

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Speaker 1: Just goes to show you. You give me a total

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Speaker 1: political nincome, poop and make a billion dollars. So there's that.

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Speaker 1: There's plenty of those running around. Uh yeah, the world

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Speaker 1: might literally end? How how is it possible? I can't

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Speaker 1: exaggerate how much the Libs and the left exaggerate in

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Speaker 1: these political discussions because they're saying things that, well, how

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Speaker 1: do you go beyond the world will end? If your

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Speaker 1: political party wins, the world will end? Is there anything

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Speaker 1: more terrifying than that? Or is there a level? You know,

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Speaker 1: can you take the dial to eleven? Is there is

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Speaker 1: there anything that's that's bigger than the world will end?

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Speaker 1: Of course not. This is why they when I say

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Speaker 1: these people are shrill hysterics, I mean it. And that's

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Speaker 1: really the that's the Democrats slogan for the night's debate,

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Speaker 1: vote Republican and the world will end and you hate

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Speaker 1: everything and you're terrible. Well gee, that's really that's really

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Speaker 1: helpful conversation, isn't it. Lives among the militant secularists are

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Speaker 1: many so called progressives. But where is the progress? We

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Speaker 1: are told we are living in a post Christian era.

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Speaker 1: But what has replaced the Judeo Christian moral system? What

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01:10:22,520 --> 01:10:25,080
Speaker 1: is it that can fill the spiritual void in the

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01:10:25,120 --> 01:10:29,479
Speaker 1: hearts of the individual person, and what is the system

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01:10:29,560 --> 01:10:35,160
Speaker 1: of values that can sustain human social life. The fact

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01:10:35,280 --> 01:10:39,320
Speaker 1: is that no secular creed has emerged capable of performing

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01:10:39,360 --> 01:10:43,439
Speaker 1: the role of religion. This is not decay, this is

1186
01:10:43,560 --> 01:10:49,880
Speaker 1: organized destruction. Secularists and their allies have marshaled all the

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Speaker 1: forces of mass communication, popular culture, the entertainment industry, and

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01:10:55,360 --> 01:10:59,800
Speaker 1: academia in an unremitting assault on religion and traditional that

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Speaker 1: he is, Bill Barr, the Attorney General, is an excellent lawyer,

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01:11:06,360 --> 01:11:09,040
Speaker 1: but he's also as we just heard, and I would

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01:11:09,080 --> 01:11:11,040
Speaker 1: really recommend that you go if you have the chance,

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01:11:11,080 --> 01:11:13,960
Speaker 1: and watch or listen to that entire speech that he

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01:11:14,000 --> 01:11:18,479
Speaker 1: gave earlier in the week. He's also somebody who really

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01:11:18,600 --> 01:11:26,360
Speaker 1: understands the spiritual crisis of our current moment. You have

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Speaker 1: a left wing in this country that as I know,

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of Democrats who they think of

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01:11:30,720 --> 01:11:34,440
Speaker 1: themselves as very religious and very spiritual. But the leadership

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01:11:34,520 --> 01:11:38,560
Speaker 1: of the progressive left, as he says, what progress have

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Speaker 1: they made in spiritual areas other than the concerted effort

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01:11:44,200 --> 01:11:49,880
Speaker 1: to destroy religion. The leadership of the left is atheist,

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01:11:50,960 --> 01:11:53,600
Speaker 1: at least in their policies, in their vision of the

1202
01:11:53,680 --> 01:11:57,760
Speaker 1: role of government in people's lives, and the leadership of

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01:11:57,800 --> 01:12:03,519
Speaker 1: the progressive left also views Judeo Christian values as not

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01:12:03,560 --> 01:12:07,280
Speaker 1: just in anachronism, but a threat, and threats must be

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01:12:07,320 --> 01:12:09,840
Speaker 1: dealt with, Threats must be destroyed. You can't allow that

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Speaker 1: to continue on. You can't have an ongoing in the

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01:12:13,520 --> 01:12:17,479
Speaker 1: background possibility of a resurgence, let's say, in American culture

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Speaker 1: of Judeo Christian values. I say, I've always been and

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Speaker 1: I'm honest with you about who I think is impressive

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Speaker 1: and who is not in this administration, and who I

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Speaker 1: believe has competence, and who is a buffoon, because unfortunately

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Speaker 1: there have been a lot of those in the Trump

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Speaker 1: White House. Bill Barr is a very smart guy, and

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01:12:38,320 --> 01:12:42,160
Speaker 1: he understands what's really going on here and the point

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Speaker 1: about pop culture being marshaled in a way that the

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01:12:44,520 --> 01:12:50,080
Speaker 1: forces of the left in pop culture are specifically actively

1217
01:12:50,280 --> 01:12:55,240
Speaker 1: working toward the destruction of what had been the moral

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Speaker 1: fabric of this nation. You see it happening all the

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01:12:57,479 --> 01:13:03,120
Speaker 1: time all around you. Left never takes a position that

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Speaker 1: at least not not in recent memory, that Christian beliefs,

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Speaker 1: Christian values, Judeo Christian beliefs and values should be supported,

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01:13:12,280 --> 01:13:16,040
Speaker 1: should be treated with any not just not deference, any respect.

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Speaker 1: And the moment that I think really will stick out

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Speaker 1: in a lot of people's minds was when Beto O'Rourke,

1225
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Speaker 1: who is clearly a man who is trying to punch

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01:13:28,400 --> 01:13:31,880
Speaker 1: way above his weight in any presidential contest. He's just

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01:13:32,000 --> 01:13:35,600
Speaker 1: not like that, like smart, really, but he's just like

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01:13:35,840 --> 01:13:38,479
Speaker 1: really into himself and was like born to do this,

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01:13:38,640 --> 01:13:43,160
Speaker 1: and so he thinks he should be president. But when

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Speaker 1: Beto said that churches that advocate for, say, traditional marriage,

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Speaker 1: should lose their tax exempt status, he was giving voice

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Speaker 1: to what the progressive left believes in this country just

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01:13:56,120 --> 01:13:58,679
Speaker 1: has not been willing. They have not been willing to

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01:13:58,720 --> 01:14:01,519
Speaker 1: openly take that position because they don't want to suffer

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01:14:01,560 --> 01:14:03,720
Speaker 1: the political consequences. But that's not the same thing as

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01:14:04,960 --> 01:14:08,160
Speaker 1: rejecting this. That's not the same thing as saying that

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01:14:08,240 --> 01:14:13,000
Speaker 1: it should never happen. They're waiting for the moment in

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Speaker 1: time when they can do it without fear of reprisal.

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01:14:17,520 --> 01:14:21,200
Speaker 1: And Betto really just gave away the game a bit

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Speaker 1: early on all of this. And that's why I think

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01:14:26,080 --> 01:14:29,200
Speaker 1: now when we have these these conversations about is what's

1242
01:14:29,200 --> 01:14:32,719
Speaker 1: the difference in the left and the right. The American

1243
01:14:32,840 --> 01:14:35,679
Speaker 1: left wants to put the government in place of God.

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01:14:36,280 --> 01:14:40,439
Speaker 1: You can still have your private God or gods, you know, whatever,

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01:14:41,800 --> 01:14:44,760
Speaker 1: whatever that may be, or you can still worship Mother

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Speaker 1: Earth in private. Well that when they actually want as

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01:14:48,120 --> 01:14:50,920
Speaker 1: a function of public policy, because climate change activism is

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01:14:51,000 --> 01:14:54,040
Speaker 1: the religion. Why why is climate change activism catching on

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01:14:54,120 --> 01:14:59,120
Speaker 1: so much? Why do so many people react as though

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01:14:59,160 --> 01:15:04,080
Speaker 1: they've been personally affronted, They have been as human beings,

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01:15:04,080 --> 01:15:07,840
Speaker 1: they have been undermined, they've been assaulted by the questioning

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01:15:08,080 --> 01:15:12,120
Speaker 1: of what is inherently a scientific debate. Why do they

1253
01:15:12,120 --> 01:15:16,920
Speaker 1: get so mad, call you a deny her even sometimes

1254
01:15:16,960 --> 01:15:21,200
Speaker 1: publicly say that you should be banned from raising doubts

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01:15:21,240 --> 01:15:23,920
Speaker 1: about climate change. This is all straight out of a

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01:15:24,040 --> 01:15:27,920
Speaker 1: true believer of a religion, and a religion that has

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01:15:27,960 --> 01:15:30,280
Speaker 1: not matured to a level where it has its own

1258
01:15:30,960 --> 01:15:37,519
Speaker 1: sense of purpose and it's it's sense of its destiny

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01:15:37,600 --> 01:15:40,759
Speaker 1: such that it doesn't feel the need to be constantly

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01:15:40,800 --> 01:15:44,519
Speaker 1: forcing people to go along with what it says or else.

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Speaker 1: But climate change has been catching on so much because

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Speaker 1: there is a spiritual crisis in the country. Why do

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01:15:52,280 --> 01:15:55,719
Speaker 1: people why should we What do we exist for? Oh? Sure,

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01:15:55,800 --> 01:15:59,759
Speaker 1: we exist because we want to be woke, We want justice,

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01:15:59,760 --> 01:16:07,200
Speaker 1: social justice. Of course, we will not rest until transgender

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01:16:07,240 --> 01:16:11,880
Speaker 1: athletes can compete against women in every sport, at every level,

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Speaker 1: all the way down to grade school. These are all

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Speaker 1: political purposes, but that doesn't really give people enough meaning.

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Speaker 1: No one person is necessary for any of that. We

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01:16:25,720 --> 01:16:29,519
Speaker 1: can exist because we're part of some great collective, which

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Speaker 1: the left certainly believes, and that collective action is a

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Speaker 1: motivating force in our day to day lives, and that

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Speaker 1: we should just take satisfaction and pride in being a

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Speaker 1: part of the great mass that is leveraged by the

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01:16:44,439 --> 01:16:47,559
Speaker 1: apparatus of the political left in this country to achieve

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Speaker 1: certain ends. Yea, you know, part of that, part of

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Speaker 1: that entity, however you want to describe it. That's not enough. Ah,

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Speaker 1: So you need something that is truly existential, a fight

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Speaker 1: between good and evil, you know, between heaven and hell,

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Speaker 1: between God and the devil. But you can't actually use

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Speaker 1: any of those things because that's religion. So where do

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Speaker 1: you come up with now, Oh, well, humanity will go

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Speaker 1: extinct unless we harness the collective that I was speaking

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Speaker 1: about before and understand that that that our purpose as

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Speaker 1: human beings now, according to the climate change activists, is

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Speaker 1: not a relationship with God. It's not achieving our spiritual

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Speaker 1: destiny of trying to become good people that are worthwhile

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Speaker 1: and that do God's will here on earth, and none

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Speaker 1: of that stuff. That's all like Old Testament, New Testament,

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01:17:42,439 --> 01:17:47,519
Speaker 1: you know, you know whatever, it's ah, we exist for

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Speaker 1: the purposes of saving the future generations of this planet

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01:17:51,760 --> 01:17:55,880
Speaker 1: by empowering a super government to change every aspect of

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01:17:55,880 --> 01:17:58,960
Speaker 1: our life, to stop putting CO two, which is less

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01:17:58,960 --> 01:18:01,080
Speaker 1: than one percent of the APT sphere in the air.

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Speaker 1: That's why we exist. That's shallow stuff. It's also not true,

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Speaker 1: but we'll put aside the scientific, the scientific gaping holes

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Speaker 1: on all that theory. This is why it's catching on

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Speaker 1: so much now. It is a religious belief for people

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Speaker 1: who think they're too smart for religion. I think I

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01:18:20,960 --> 01:18:23,400
Speaker 1: said that recently on Fox and all media matters, and

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01:18:23,479 --> 01:18:26,599
Speaker 1: all these groups got all upset because it's true. If

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Speaker 1: it were silly, if the people that we're so into

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Speaker 1: climate change. Weren't offended by the truth of the statement.

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Speaker 1: They would ignore it because of who would care? But

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01:18:37,040 --> 01:18:40,400
Speaker 1: what I say is true, and what the Attorney general

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Speaker 1: here says about the forces the militant secularists of the left,

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Speaker 1: they view this as the ultimate spiritual battle of our

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Speaker 1: age is to eradicate spirituality. The ultimate moral quest for

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01:18:56,840 --> 01:19:03,360
Speaker 1: the progressive left today is to troy the moral teachings

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Speaker 1: that have been the bulwark of much of human civilization

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Speaker 1: for millennia. Now destroy all that kick at the load

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Speaker 1: bearing walls of Judeo Christian Judeo Christian ideology, morality, ethics,

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01:19:22,479 --> 01:19:26,120
Speaker 1: kick at the load load bearing walls of Western civilization,

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01:19:26,160 --> 01:19:30,559
Speaker 1: and see what happens. This is what the progressive left

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01:19:30,640 --> 01:19:32,799
Speaker 1: is doing in this country, or this is how they're fighting,

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01:19:32,840 --> 01:19:36,960
Speaker 1: this is what they're striving for all the time. We

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01:19:37,080 --> 01:19:40,120
Speaker 1: can sit back and allow it to happen and wonder

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01:19:40,680 --> 01:19:43,960
Speaker 1: why there'll be not just lost generations, but perhaps lost centuries,

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Speaker 1: perhaps a new dark ages of militant secularism descending upon

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01:19:48,680 --> 01:19:52,840
Speaker 1: this country and many others with it. Or we can say,

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Speaker 1: perhaps there is wisdom, there's wisdom in Judeo Christian teaching

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Speaker 1: worth fighting for as a matter of public policy, not

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Speaker 1: just as personal spiritual belief. I think the Attorney General

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01:20:05,960 --> 01:20:09,080
Speaker 1: is really onto something. I think he knows exactly what

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Speaker 1: he's talking about here. I wish he would run for something.

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Speaker 1: You know, what I'm concerned about is an impeachment inquiry

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Speaker 1: that's moving forward, that's denying the president and his administration

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Speaker 1: due process. If we want to exercise oversight, which is

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Speaker 1: our responsibility in Congress, you don't have to label it

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Speaker 1: an impeachment inquiry. If you do, I certainly hope that

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Speaker 1: Speaker Pelosi and Leader Hoyer will put a vote on

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Speaker 1: the floor of the House and just like the three

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Speaker 1: other impeachments in our nation's history, to ensure that the

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Speaker 1: American people know where each and every member of Congress

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Speaker 1: stands in moving this inquiry forward. Otherwise we're just having

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Speaker 1: committee hearings and people coming in and directing our own oversight. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're manipulating this whole process in ways that couldn't be

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01:20:51,600 --> 01:20:56,920
Speaker 1: any more obvious. They're weaponizing this whole impeachment inquiry mess

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Speaker 1: against the President of the United States in ways that

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Speaker 1: are dishonor us, that are unfair. No transparency, all this

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01:21:03,360 --> 01:21:07,080
Speaker 1: secret stuff going on, and but you know, think about

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01:21:07,120 --> 01:21:10,760
Speaker 1: what the real play is here, Adam Schiff and his

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01:21:10,840 --> 01:21:15,160
Speaker 1: shifty Democrat colleagues. I should be more clever than that,

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Speaker 1: but it was close enough. They tell us that they

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Speaker 1: have to have secrecy, they have to protect these witnesses. Oh,

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Speaker 1: we could never find out who the whistleblower is. Oh good,

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Speaker 1: heavens not until they sign their six figure book deal

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Speaker 1: and get on the speaking circuit. That then we can

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Speaker 1: know who the whistleblower is. Oh maybe, and perhaps after

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Speaker 1: the next election then you'll definitely, I think, find out

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Speaker 1: who they know who the whistleblower is. This person's not

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Speaker 1: going to stay secret forever, and by their own choice,

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Speaker 1: I would say that they want secrecy until they don't.

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Speaker 1: They want the protections of They want the protections of

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Speaker 1: the process, but not the protections for others in the

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Speaker 1: process that come from transparency and accountability. So what we

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01:22:05,600 --> 01:22:10,360
Speaker 1: have here, my friends, is the Democrats showing us who

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Speaker 1: they really are on this process and what they're really

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Speaker 1: planning to do. They don't want people to know what's

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Speaker 1: going on behind closed doors, but then they'll have a

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Speaker 1: very clear series of leaks. Most recently leaks involving the

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Speaker 1: testimony of the former US ambassador to Ukraine, a series

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Speaker 1: of leaks, So information can certainly get out from behind

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Speaker 1: closed doors, but we can't have open access to any

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Speaker 1: of it, so we can't really know what we said.

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Speaker 1: We can't know who was asking what and what the

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Speaker 1: games are the Democrats are playing here, which is why

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Speaker 1: I have to say a representative Matt Gates, when he

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Speaker 1: calls this a clown show, is most certainly onto something.

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Speaker 1: Play clip nine, please, So this morning we see further

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Speaker 1: evidence that Adam Shift's clown show of an impeachment proceeding continues.

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Speaker 1: Adam Schiff lied when he said that he and his

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Speaker 1: team and not had contact with the whistleblower. He lied

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Speaker 1: when he read a false transcript into the record as

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Speaker 1: Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Indeed, and doesn't get

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Speaker 1: much better after that, impeaching the president for this Ukraine

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Speaker 1: Ukraine phone call. Some people have started to catch onto

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Speaker 1: this because I know that you know you deal with

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Speaker 1: this initial as a conservative, as somebody on the right,

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Speaker 1: you try to assess things as they are, not as

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Speaker 1: you wish that they would be. That's the emotionalism of

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Speaker 1: the left. But when something like this comes up, you say, well,

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Speaker 1: hold on, maybe you know did Trump? Did Trump really

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Speaker 1: make a mistake here? Did you do something bad? A

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Speaker 1: lot of people on the right that I know, I

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Speaker 1: think fell victim too. Well, if so many people are

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Speaker 1: so outrage about this, there must be something wrong. More

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Speaker 1: are starting to come around to my opinion, which is

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01:23:57,960 --> 01:24:00,680
Speaker 1: people do things for a personal benefit in politics all

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Speaker 1: the time, and that's why we have to have very

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Speaker 1: clear lines separating out what is corrupt from what it's

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Speaker 1: just politics, because otherwise things can get very messy very quickly.

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Speaker 1: You know, you can accept a million dollars in cash

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Speaker 1: for signing a bill, but there are a lot of

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Speaker 1: ways if people can funnel cash to you for doing

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Speaker 1: what you want or what they want you to do

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01:24:24,439 --> 01:24:28,000
Speaker 1: as a politician, that are totally illegal. And so just

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Speaker 1: because the president would benefit politically if there was an

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Speaker 1: investigation of Joe Biden and his son going on in Ukraine,

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Speaker 1: it does not mean that that is illicit or illegal. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: there's a there's a legitimate basis and this is why

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Speaker 1: all along haven't I haven't moved from this position. There's

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Speaker 1: a legitimate basis for inquiry into the dealings that the

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Speaker 1: Biden's had in Ukraine or the Obama administration, and if

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Speaker 1: that happens to upset Democrats, that's just too bad. We

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01:24:59,640 --> 01:25:02,240
Speaker 1: see how, we see how the Democrats are investigating everybody

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Speaker 1: and anybody whenever they want and not apologizing at all.

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Speaker 1: So get ready tonight for I think I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of I think a lot of Democrats actually are

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Speaker 1: going to be on the same sheet of music here

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Speaker 1: in this debate. They're going to say, and some of

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Speaker 1: you will be watching the debate probably as I'm as

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Speaker 1: you're hearing this, but they're gonna defend Joe Biden on

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Speaker 1: the Ukraine thing because that's that's a liability for the

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Speaker 1: Democratic Party. That's a bigger thing. Corruption isn't just about

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden. Corruption is about the Democratic Party and the

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Speaker 1: Obama administration, which is still held up as without scandal.

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Speaker 1: Forget about Benghazi and Fast and Furious and the IRS

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01:25:47,080 --> 01:25:50,559
Speaker 1: targeting remember the Remember when the IRS was targeting the

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Speaker 1: opponents of Barack Obama's administration. The thing that completely happened

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Speaker 1: on the record, we know it, Andy, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: prison for that. Anything really bad happened to anybody as

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Speaker 1: a result of that. Nah in election year, by the way,

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Speaker 1: in an election year, you have the irs going after

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Speaker 1: Obama's political opponents. This is just this is what happened.

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Speaker 1: But we're supposed to be outraged. We're supposed to be outrage.

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Speaker 1: Oh and they said it was it was just decisions

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Speaker 1: made at the field level. You know, its decisions made

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Speaker 1: by the field offices. It wasn't anything from up top. Sure,

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Speaker 1: but Joe Biden asking for some kind of investigation of

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Donald Trump asked him some kind of investigation

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Speaker 1: of Joe Biden, Hunter Biden. That's considered to be the

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Speaker 1: worst thing that anybody's a worse than water gate, which

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Speaker 1: is a phrase that is so abused. It really now

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Speaker 1: that has no meeting. It would have to quickly be

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Speaker 1: worse than worse than Watergate or else nobody will pay

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Speaker 1: any attention to it. Here's a Senator Amy Klobischer, by

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Speaker 1: the way, she's gonna If you're looking for somebody's gonna

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Speaker 1: break out tonight, I think it might be her. Actually,

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01:26:54,840 --> 01:26:56,479
Speaker 1: media is trying to set her up for a big

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Speaker 1: run here, and she's definitely in contention for a vice

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Speaker 1: presidential running slot. I think in this they need to

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01:27:03,400 --> 01:27:07,160
Speaker 1: appeal to Midwest the crazy libs on the coasts. Here's

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01:27:07,160 --> 01:27:10,920
Speaker 1: a klobaschart talking about why impeachment exists. Play six. We

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01:27:11,200 --> 01:27:16,639
Speaker 1: literally have a president who is using immigrants as political pawns,

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01:27:16,640 --> 01:27:20,040
Speaker 1: belittling people who don't agree with him, destroying our democracy

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01:27:20,080 --> 01:27:23,879
Speaker 1: with dark money and voter suppression, and allowing a foreign

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Speaker 1: country to make mincemeat of our democracy. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: if you want to know why we have impeachment provisions

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01:27:31,800 --> 01:27:35,400
Speaker 1: in the Constitution, look back at what James Madison said

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Speaker 1: at the Constitutional Convention. He said that he feared that

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Speaker 1: a president would betray the trust of Americans for a

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Speaker 1: foreign power. That was the reason he gave, and that

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Speaker 1: is why those proceedings have begun in the House of Representatives.

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01:27:52,680 --> 01:27:58,200
Speaker 1: Destroying our democracy with dark money. She says, how like,

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Speaker 1: what all these charges, all these these phrases that are

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01:28:04,120 --> 01:28:09,120
Speaker 1: trotted out, They're sounds so profound. It's just all sound

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01:28:09,120 --> 01:28:13,040
Speaker 1: and fury signifying nothing, my friends, But you already knew that,

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Speaker 1: which is what the Democrat debates tonight will be. Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump in twenty sixteen said he was going to make

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Speaker 1: America great again. And what was Hillary Clinton's response? America

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Speaker 1: is already great. Remember that, and that did not work.

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Speaker 1: That was not the right answer. We have to acknowledge

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01:28:28,560 --> 01:28:30,800
Speaker 1: the depth and the severity of the problems that are

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01:28:30,880 --> 01:28:33,960
Speaker 1: racking our communities. But then we need real solutions that

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Speaker 1: will actually improve our own lives. Donald Trump got some

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01:28:37,000 --> 01:28:40,160
Speaker 1: of the problems right, but his solutions were the opposite

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Speaker 1: of what we need. I'd still tell you I think

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Speaker 1: Yang and I know he probably hated what he just said.

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Speaker 1: That's fine, because I think the President has shown us

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Speaker 1: that he does understand some of the solutions, because look

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Speaker 1: what's been going on in the country, Look what's been

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Speaker 1: going on with the economy. But Yang and Tulsi Gabbard

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Speaker 1: are people who the Democrats that they cannot accept them.

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Speaker 1: You know why, because there are reminders that you don't

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01:29:04,560 --> 01:29:10,320
Speaker 1: have to be a sanctimonious, shrill, pandering lunatic to be

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Speaker 1: a Democrat, or maybe that you shouldn't have to be

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01:29:13,960 --> 01:29:16,760
Speaker 1: those things to be a democrat. And the reason that

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01:29:16,800 --> 01:29:20,840
Speaker 1: Tulsi and Yang are so upsetting to the democratic establishment

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01:29:20,880 --> 01:29:25,360
Speaker 1: is that they're a reminder of what could be. Tulsie

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Speaker 1: and Yang are both individuals that I disagree with on

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Speaker 1: a whole range of issues, but they seem like decent

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Speaker 1: people who are trying their best and who are willing

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Speaker 1: to listen to the other side, which separates them from

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Speaker 1: the rest of the Democrat crew. Tom's I cannot believe

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Speaker 1: Tom Styer is going to be on that stage. Just

1487
01:29:43,240 --> 01:29:47,160
Speaker 1: a climate change radical, that's what he is. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he is to climate change what you know what al

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Speaker 1: Qaeda is to jehotism. I mean he is a client.

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Speaker 1: He is a hardcore believer, and yet he's gonna be

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Speaker 1: I think guy's worth a billion dollars. I don't even

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01:30:02,880 --> 01:30:05,000
Speaker 1: want to say. You know, he's got plenty of money

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01:30:05,000 --> 01:30:06,760
Speaker 1: to buy books and actually read them, but he'd rather

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01:30:06,800 --> 01:30:08,439
Speaker 1: just talk about how we're going to save the world

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01:30:08,479 --> 01:30:13,720
Speaker 1: from CO two. Do you have a Corey Booker who

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01:30:14,360 --> 01:30:16,400
Speaker 1: is at this point, I think he's really playing for

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Speaker 1: a VP slot. The media loves him, there's all this

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01:30:21,640 --> 01:30:26,799
Speaker 1: there's always this very fawning support from the media about

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01:30:26,840 --> 01:30:30,599
Speaker 1: about him, but it just never really translates. Uh. Kamala

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Speaker 1: Harris totally underperforming in this election cycle. Yang is Beetiger

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01:30:35,360 --> 01:30:41,000
Speaker 1: in California, her home state. Bernie just had a heart attack, folks,

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01:30:41,000 --> 01:30:44,200
Speaker 1: so well, you know he's not up for this. He's

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01:30:44,200 --> 01:30:46,519
Speaker 1: too old, he's not up for this. I'm sorry. I know,

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01:30:46,600 --> 01:30:49,439
Speaker 1: we're you know, we're supposed to think Bernie's this cuddly

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01:30:49,479 --> 01:30:51,280
Speaker 1: fellow and it's all gonna be fine, and he's a

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01:30:51,320 --> 01:30:54,000
Speaker 1: cuddly comi and it's gonna think the money from the

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01:30:54,280 --> 01:30:56,439
Speaker 1: rich people, because it's the pool people. And when the

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01:30:56,520 --> 01:30:59,000
Speaker 1: rich people have enough money, the pool people could know

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01:30:59,160 --> 01:31:01,760
Speaker 1: that they can enough money to who and nine tax

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01:31:01,800 --> 01:31:04,200
Speaker 1: worth that's not that high the billionaires. You know, the

1511
01:31:04,240 --> 01:31:06,799
Speaker 1: whole thing, right, we know, his whole his whole stick,

1512
01:31:07,080 --> 01:31:12,720
Speaker 1: the whole spiel. It's just it's not gonna work. And

1513
01:31:12,760 --> 01:31:20,040
Speaker 1: then you have Biden, Biden running around trying to convince

1514
01:31:20,040 --> 01:31:23,280
Speaker 1: people that he's not part of really a world class

1515
01:31:23,360 --> 01:31:28,040
Speaker 1: grifters scheme with his son. Not quite at Clintonian levels,

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01:31:28,080 --> 01:31:33,080
Speaker 1: but it's still it's still certainly high. And you know

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01:31:33,680 --> 01:31:35,639
Speaker 1: the problem with Biden is people ask the question why,

1518
01:31:35,640 --> 01:31:38,439
Speaker 1: and there's never a good answer why Joe Biden, because

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01:31:38,479 --> 01:31:41,439
Speaker 1: he's not Donald Trump. That's not enough, not even for

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01:31:41,520 --> 01:31:43,920
Speaker 1: crazy Democrats, really, well for some of them, but not

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01:31:43,960 --> 01:31:49,559
Speaker 1: all of them. Elizabeth Warren, Wow, you know she was

1522
01:31:49,600 --> 01:31:53,599
Speaker 1: a she was a school teacher in the Midwest, and

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01:31:53,640 --> 01:31:59,720
Speaker 1: then she became a professor of law Harvard University. And

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01:32:00,040 --> 01:32:03,720
Speaker 1: you know what needs to happen in this country. We

1525
01:32:03,800 --> 01:32:09,080
Speaker 1: need we need the big money and politics to just

1526
01:32:09,360 --> 01:32:14,720
Speaker 1: go away. You think there's al this is. It's like

1527
01:32:15,360 --> 01:32:20,639
Speaker 1: America is being hectored and lectured by a really annoying

1528
01:32:20,760 --> 01:32:24,120
Speaker 1: kindergarten teacher all the time or a librarian who's just

1529
01:32:24,680 --> 01:32:29,479
Speaker 1: no talking in the library and makes it a really

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01:32:30,680 --> 01:32:36,080
Speaker 1: bad environment for studying. That we got Yang, who Yeah,

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01:32:36,080 --> 01:32:37,800
Speaker 1: I don't make fun of Yanks. Yang's cool. I think

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01:32:37,880 --> 01:32:39,680
Speaker 1: Yang's all right. I don't I don't really have and

1533
01:32:39,840 --> 01:32:42,400
Speaker 1: I don't like his ideas on policy for the most part,

1534
01:32:42,439 --> 01:32:46,200
Speaker 1: I think that the universal basic income is a terrible

1535
01:32:46,280 --> 01:32:49,960
Speaker 1: idea that would just be uh. It would just result

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01:32:50,040 --> 01:32:53,360
Speaker 1: in fifty one percent of the country voting themselves more

1537
01:32:53,439 --> 01:32:55,519
Speaker 1: universal basic income all the time, which is not going

1538
01:32:55,560 --> 01:32:58,479
Speaker 1: to be good, not gonna be good for anybody. Then

1539
01:32:58,520 --> 01:33:01,879
Speaker 1: you know what to think about Beato. Who is the worst?

1540
01:33:02,920 --> 01:33:05,120
Speaker 1: The worst of all of the counternates right now is

1541
01:33:05,160 --> 01:33:11,040
Speaker 1: Patu Rourke. And then you had Kloba Shar. I have

1542
01:33:11,200 --> 01:33:15,479
Speaker 1: to work on my Klobishar. She kind of sounds like

1543
01:33:15,600 --> 01:33:21,519
Speaker 1: this she's from a Midwest state and the Democrats need

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01:33:21,600 --> 01:33:25,800
Speaker 1: her support. And then you ohen Castro is still in

1545
01:33:25,800 --> 01:33:29,479
Speaker 1: the mix. I didn't realize that. Castro perhaps most famous

1546
01:33:29,560 --> 01:33:35,040
Speaker 1: for his suggestion that taxpayers fund the transgender Sir, I'm sorry,

1547
01:33:35,280 --> 01:33:41,519
Speaker 1: fund the abortions of transgender illegal aliens. Thank you for

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01:33:41,600 --> 01:33:48,800
Speaker 1: that contribution to public discourse, Julian Castro. Thank you. That's

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01:33:48,840 --> 01:33:52,040
Speaker 1: your Democrat field tonight, folks. So as you are listening

1550
01:33:52,040 --> 01:33:54,080
Speaker 1: to this, you may be a bit ahead of the debater.

1551
01:33:54,200 --> 01:33:57,920
Speaker 1: It might be a bit after definitely worth watching the

1552
01:33:57,960 --> 01:34:01,439
Speaker 1: buckster do his tweet thang during the during the debates.

1553
01:34:01,560 --> 01:34:04,080
Speaker 1: That'll be fun, for sure, if you can check that out.

1554
01:34:04,320 --> 01:34:06,920
Speaker 1: And I think that if you're asking, if I'm asking for,

1555
01:34:06,960 --> 01:34:08,800
Speaker 1: it's fun to throw predictions out there because if I'm wrong,

1556
01:34:08,800 --> 01:34:10,320
Speaker 1: we'll just forget about it. But if I'm right, I'll

1557
01:34:10,320 --> 01:34:12,360
Speaker 1: play it back for you in the air. I think

1558
01:34:12,360 --> 01:34:16,760
Speaker 1: you're gonna see Klobascher have a good night. And no

1559
01:34:16,800 --> 01:34:19,200
Speaker 1: matter what happens, the media is gonna say this standout

1560
01:34:19,280 --> 01:34:25,040
Speaker 1: is Lushapith Warren. Oh gosh, am I really gonna be

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01:34:25,200 --> 01:34:30,360
Speaker 1: the next president of the United States? Yeah? Maybe, folks,

1562
01:34:30,960 --> 01:34:54,040
Speaker 1: Maybe Hey, Team buck it's time for roll call maxbook

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01:34:54,080 --> 01:34:56,400
Speaker 1: dot com slash buck sections that will pick off the

1564
01:34:56,439 --> 01:35:02,280
Speaker 1: work call tonight. We also have Team Bucket. iHeartMedia dot

1565
01:35:02,280 --> 01:35:05,719
Speaker 1: com if you want our email address. That is how

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01:35:05,920 --> 01:35:10,840
Speaker 1: we roll John kicking it off tonight, Hey Buck, got

1567
01:35:10,840 --> 01:35:14,839
Speaker 1: a story, might want to look into reporting on fake news.

1568
01:35:15,000 --> 01:35:17,200
Speaker 1: It should be breaking everywhe it's barely getting any traction

1569
01:35:17,240 --> 01:35:21,799
Speaker 1: with the mainstream media. I'm not surprised. Over the weekend,

1570
01:35:21,840 --> 01:35:25,040
Speaker 1: ABC got caught red handed when they claimed they mistakenly

1571
01:35:25,080 --> 01:35:27,439
Speaker 1: aired a video at a machine gun range in Kentucky,

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01:35:27,840 --> 01:35:31,519
Speaker 1: saying it was from the Turkish offensive in Syria. They

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01:35:31,560 --> 01:35:35,799
Speaker 1: even called it slaughter in Syria. The clip aired multiple

1574
01:35:35,800 --> 01:35:38,400
Speaker 1: on multiple ABC shows before ABC pulled the video. The

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01:35:38,400 --> 01:35:40,400
Speaker 1: machine gun range is called Knob Creek. If you have

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01:35:40,400 --> 01:35:42,400
Speaker 1: any questions, please let me know. Keep up the good work.

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01:35:42,439 --> 01:35:46,400
Speaker 1: Shields high, John, Well, John, thank you, my man. As

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01:35:46,400 --> 01:35:48,400
Speaker 1: you probably know at this point, we did talk about

1579
01:35:48,400 --> 01:35:50,840
Speaker 1: that on the show, and I even told you why.

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01:35:50,840 --> 01:35:52,640
Speaker 1: I think, Yeah, it was a mistake. They didn't mean

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01:35:52,680 --> 01:35:56,519
Speaker 1: for it to happen, But the climate for such an

1582
01:35:56,520 --> 01:36:02,439
Speaker 1: egregious error to happen is enabled by the desire to

1583
01:36:02,520 --> 01:36:04,479
Speaker 1: run with any story that is damaging to Trump as

1584
01:36:04,560 --> 01:36:06,960
Speaker 1: quickly as possible. No need for fact checking, no need

1585
01:36:07,000 --> 01:36:14,080
Speaker 1: for diving into it beyond that. Michael, hold on, let's

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01:36:14,080 --> 01:36:18,000
Speaker 1: go here, Tim, Tim, Sorry, Michael's didn't come up on

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01:36:18,040 --> 01:36:20,799
Speaker 1: the screen. Here, Buck, Your Warren is getting pretty good,

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01:36:21,400 --> 01:36:24,960
Speaker 1: but you need to add the annoying wavering that she

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01:36:25,080 --> 01:36:30,960
Speaker 1: has in her voice. For Trudeau, just take your current Warren,

1590
01:36:31,880 --> 01:36:36,640
Speaker 1: drop it an octave and throw in some Canadian pronunciations.

1591
01:36:40,560 --> 01:36:46,439
Speaker 1: Do Trudeau by doing Warren but lower octave and Canadian pronunciations.

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01:36:46,160 --> 01:36:49,559
Speaker 1: That might be that might be closer than what we

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01:36:49,640 --> 01:36:51,880
Speaker 1: do right now for Trudeau, which is a fake accent

1594
01:36:51,920 --> 01:36:54,160
Speaker 1: for him because he does not sound as cool at all.

1595
01:36:54,880 --> 01:36:58,400
Speaker 1: But I like it. Nonetheless, maybe we should say that

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01:36:58,439 --> 01:37:03,439
Speaker 1: I am justin Trudeau, was brother Jean Pierre Trudeau, the

1597
01:37:03,520 --> 01:37:08,200
Speaker 1: true power behind the cicerone in Kinada. Yeah, we have

1598
01:37:08,240 --> 01:37:10,160
Speaker 1: to create just a random character. It's like to keep

1599
01:37:10,160 --> 01:37:12,439
Speaker 1: doing a stupid French accent. That might be kind of fun.

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01:37:13,120 --> 01:37:17,799
Speaker 1: Monsieur Trudeau, he's time for you to go. You should

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01:37:17,800 --> 01:37:21,679
Speaker 1: not be the Prime minister off kinda da because singing

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01:37:21,720 --> 01:37:24,360
Speaker 1: in an accent. Really, I mean, we could probably do

1603
01:37:24,439 --> 01:37:26,839
Speaker 1: like a whole holiday special. It's like you're taking everything

1604
01:37:26,880 --> 01:37:30,040
Speaker 1: people complain about and you're putting it into one jingle bells.

1605
01:37:30,200 --> 01:37:32,760
Speaker 1: Trudeau smells, Oh, we do this all day. That's what

1606
01:37:32,800 --> 01:37:36,400
Speaker 1: we'll be doing holidays when we take off a special.

1607
01:37:36,920 --> 01:37:40,719
Speaker 1: Buck sings to holiday hits. Calnder via a Leisha Birthward

1608
01:37:40,920 --> 01:37:46,679
Speaker 1: have a holly jolly Chrishmash. I could do it, we could.

1609
01:37:46,680 --> 01:37:49,360
Speaker 1: We could make the Bernie. Oh we got Bernie Sanders

1610
01:37:51,080 --> 01:37:54,920
Speaker 1: sleigh bells ringing in the You know Bernie Sanders would

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01:37:54,920 --> 01:38:01,599
Speaker 1: sing dradeal dradeal dradel produce Sir Mark, well he would.

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01:38:01,880 --> 01:38:08,080
Speaker 1: Oh yes, I forgot huge fair point. All right, Kristen

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Speaker 1: is next here. Um, I heard you say today that

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01:38:14,840 --> 01:38:17,160
Speaker 1: the day for Pluto, but you didn't give the name

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01:38:17,200 --> 01:38:23,280
Speaker 1: of the channel. Two forty eight is the channel. Two

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01:38:23,320 --> 01:38:29,960
Speaker 1: forty eight is a channel on Pluto TV. Um, there

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01:38:30,000 --> 01:38:32,200
Speaker 1: we go. Please do check it out, folks. It's fun,

1618
01:38:32,280 --> 01:38:34,040
Speaker 1: by the way, it's not you know, you should watch

1619
01:38:34,160 --> 01:38:36,759
Speaker 1: the first, First, and foremost, which is our new channel

1620
01:38:36,760 --> 01:38:39,080
Speaker 1: on Pluto. But you know there's there's like lots of

1621
01:38:39,080 --> 01:38:40,680
Speaker 1: stuff on Pluto as so it's a great app to

1622
01:38:40,720 --> 01:38:43,719
Speaker 1: have and your number one destination on the Pluto TV

1623
01:38:43,760 --> 01:38:46,719
Speaker 1: app should be the first me my Man, Jesse Kelly.

1624
01:38:46,840 --> 01:38:50,839
Speaker 1: Other fantastic people are soon going to join the First

1625
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Speaker 1: Revolution on on Pluto TV, but we cannot name them

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01:38:55,800 --> 01:38:57,920
Speaker 1: quite yet, but they will be fantastic. We have we

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01:38:57,960 --> 01:39:01,320
Speaker 1: have all the we're getting. We are actually bring out

1628
01:39:01,360 --> 01:39:04,160
Speaker 1: all the best people, all the best people. Don't worry

1629
01:39:04,160 --> 01:39:06,000
Speaker 1: about what Trump says about the best people. We're bringing

1630
01:39:06,040 --> 01:39:11,720
Speaker 1: on the best people. Mark Right's bark. Happy Columbus Day.

1631
01:39:11,800 --> 01:39:14,320
Speaker 1: Oh wait, there's a push to be rid of Columbus.

1632
01:39:14,720 --> 01:39:17,479
Speaker 1: Be careful what one wishes for. Does that mean no

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01:39:17,520 --> 01:39:21,360
Speaker 1: more Columbus Day parades or Columbus Day sales? Can't really

1634
01:39:21,400 --> 01:39:23,519
Speaker 1: change another name because without Columbus it would just be

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01:39:23,600 --> 01:39:27,280
Speaker 1: another day. Yeah. Well, they're trying to say that it

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01:39:27,280 --> 01:39:32,080
Speaker 1: should be Indigenous People's Days. So I don't think that's

1637
01:39:32,080 --> 01:39:35,680
Speaker 1: going to catch on because it's the day that right,

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01:39:35,720 --> 01:39:37,840
Speaker 1: it's that it was picked for Columbus. So I don't

1639
01:39:37,880 --> 01:39:40,679
Speaker 1: think that no one anyone's gonna be on board really

1640
01:39:40,720 --> 01:39:44,320
Speaker 1: for switching that over, or at least not necessarily. And

1641
01:39:45,360 --> 01:39:47,760
Speaker 1: there were people that were throwing paint red paint on

1642
01:39:47,800 --> 01:39:51,559
Speaker 1: Columbus statutes, so forget where that happened. It's so stupid.

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01:39:52,640 --> 01:39:57,000
Speaker 1: You know, we should all just understand that every single culture,

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01:39:57,200 --> 01:40:01,400
Speaker 1: and every religious group and every ethnicity, judged by the

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01:40:01,439 --> 01:40:07,400
Speaker 1: standards of today, in the fifteenth century, would have been xenophobic, racist, bigoted,

1646
01:40:07,439 --> 01:40:11,480
Speaker 1: and evil, okay everybody everywhere. There was no like tolerant

1647
01:40:11,680 --> 01:40:14,719
Speaker 1: by the standards of today. There was no tolerant culture.

1648
01:40:14,880 --> 01:40:18,719
Speaker 1: There was no you know, multiculturalism and diversity, these things.

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01:40:18,720 --> 01:40:24,080
Speaker 1: You had absolutist tribalism, religious wars. I mean, this is

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01:40:24,080 --> 01:40:26,920
Speaker 1: what was going on. So why are we just gonna

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01:40:26,920 --> 01:40:28,240
Speaker 1: be This is why I brought up what was going

1652
01:40:28,240 --> 01:40:30,880
Speaker 1: on in the New World before it became the New World.

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01:40:31,640 --> 01:40:35,439
Speaker 1: You had Native American tribes warring against each other, taking

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01:40:35,439 --> 01:40:38,720
Speaker 1: over other tribes, enslaving other tribes, murdering each other. I mean,

1655
01:40:38,840 --> 01:40:41,920
Speaker 1: this is human history folks everywhere. So why do we

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01:40:41,920 --> 01:40:45,000
Speaker 1: pretend that, you know, oh, we can't celebrate this culture

1657
01:40:45,120 --> 01:40:51,000
Speaker 1: or this individual because bad things happened. You know, look

1658
01:40:51,040 --> 01:40:53,920
Speaker 1: look at this stuff, and Muhammad was a war lord.

1659
01:40:54,520 --> 01:40:58,680
Speaker 1: Does that mean that Islam is now completely you know,

1660
01:40:59,160 --> 01:41:02,880
Speaker 1: beyond the paliph us to talk about I'm just I'm asking,

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01:41:02,920 --> 01:41:05,080
Speaker 1: I mean, why is why is that? Okay, Mohammed was

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01:41:05,840 --> 01:41:10,680
Speaker 1: uh you know, had there were captives of the of

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01:41:10,760 --> 01:41:14,880
Speaker 1: the earliest Islamic tribe, the Islamic faith who were murdered.

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01:41:14,880 --> 01:41:16,640
Speaker 1: I mean all kinds. Anyway, you know, we can talk

1665
01:41:16,680 --> 01:41:18,599
Speaker 1: about this stuff all day. But I'm warden Roll called

1666
01:41:19,200 --> 01:41:23,800
Speaker 1: I'm getting fired up late in the show, Wayne Buck,

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01:41:23,840 --> 01:41:26,200
Speaker 1: thank you for your incisive analysis of politics. I need

1668
01:41:26,280 --> 01:41:29,920
Speaker 1: to ask you, have you heard Dana Lash is Elizabeth Warren?

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01:41:31,560 --> 01:41:34,960
Speaker 1: It's really it's the best. I mean, I'm gonna have

1670
01:41:35,040 --> 01:41:37,080
Speaker 1: to hear it because i don't know if it's better

1671
01:41:37,080 --> 01:41:39,439
Speaker 1: than mine. I'm just gonna you know, and I love

1672
01:41:39,640 --> 01:41:42,720
Speaker 1: I love Dana Lash, But is ear Elizabeth Warren better

1673
01:41:42,800 --> 01:41:45,080
Speaker 1: than mine? That is a question for the ages we

1674
01:41:45,120 --> 01:41:47,000
Speaker 1: will have to see. Have you heard her? Elizabeth? Ward?

1675
01:41:47,400 --> 01:41:48,920
Speaker 1: You look at you're moving over here to tell me

1676
01:41:48,960 --> 01:41:51,040
Speaker 1: you have no just doing work. Oh, you're just working

1677
01:41:51,360 --> 01:41:53,559
Speaker 1: keeping the show in the air, doing that thing I do.

1678
01:41:53,680 --> 01:41:55,960
Speaker 1: Please keep doing that. It's helpful when we have a

1679
01:41:56,000 --> 01:41:59,160
Speaker 1: show that is still in the air. But yeah, maybe

1680
01:41:59,200 --> 01:42:04,160
Speaker 1: maybe Dana and I can have a Warren off. Wow, Dana,

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01:42:04,320 --> 01:42:08,320
Speaker 1: I would like to challenge shoot, who a Warren versus Warren.

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01:42:09,720 --> 01:42:11,760
Speaker 1: I'll have to invite her on the show just for that. Yeah,

1683
01:42:11,760 --> 01:42:16,000
Speaker 1: we might, we might might have a conversation in Warren

1684
01:42:16,640 --> 01:42:22,400
Speaker 1: warren Ese. Warren is, Um, we could do that. Let's see,

1685
01:42:23,080 --> 01:42:26,120
Speaker 1: we've Douglas writing, Buck, why isn't the renaming of Columbus

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Speaker 1: Day to Indigenous People's Day a prime example of cultural appropriation? Douglas,

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Speaker 1: the answer to your question is that it is impossible,

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Speaker 1: according to the social justice Left, for Western for people

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Speaker 1: to appropriate Western European culture. Appropriation is only one way

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Speaker 1: thing that can only happen when people who are in

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Speaker 1: a position of power over another people take their stuff.

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Speaker 1: That's what they would say. The same way that there

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Speaker 1: are many people on the left who now argue that

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Speaker 1: race is m is only possible when a group that

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Speaker 1: generally or systematically dominates another group engages in negative behaviors

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Speaker 1: toward that group. But a group that is, in terms

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Speaker 1: of intersectional dynamics, the the oppressed cannot be the oppressor,

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Speaker 1: which is also, by the way, nonsense. But nonetheless, this

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Speaker 1: is what people say. I'm just telling you what they say,

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Speaker 1: just telling you what's going on. Hey, Buck, Tom pe here,

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Speaker 1: love your post and your broadcast appearances. Keep up the

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Speaker 1: good work. Well, Tom Pete, thank you so much, my man.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it, you have the family my warm regards,

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Speaker 1: and I appreciate the kind thoughts about what we're doing

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Speaker 1: here in the show. Irene, very good assessments of Biden

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Speaker 1: and Biden Junior. It drives me crazy that the dim

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Speaker 1: Democrats cannot see the hypocrisy. All right, I am with

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Speaker 1: you on that one Foe show, Alan, hey Buck. Why

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Speaker 1: aren't the famous people who were on the board of

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Speaker 1: directors of tharn Nos being talked about since they were

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Speaker 1: not qualified to understand what Tharonos was doing. They were

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Speaker 1: just as guilty as Biden son of not having the qualifications.

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing there are a lot of people on Tharnos

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Speaker 1: board that have no qualifications outside their contacts. Well, Alan,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think you can make the argument that

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Speaker 1: a secretary of state gives our former secretary of state

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Speaker 1: gives a certain degree of gravitas and also useful business

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Speaker 1: connections and perhaps even strategic insight. You could argue those things,

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Speaker 1: but that's different. That's a different situation than what Hunter

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Speaker 1: Biden would be, which is just a guy who's related

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Speaker 1: to a guy who who's all those you could arguers

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Speaker 1: are all those things, but yeah, company boards. Look, there

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Speaker 1: are ways that people pay people off without doing the

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Speaker 1: bag of cash under the table and board seats is

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Speaker 1: very good way to do it. By the way, there's

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Speaker 1: a sketchy Ukrainian company out there that's looking for somebody

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Speaker 1: to sit on the board for a fifty k a month,

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Speaker 1: buck Sexton. This fantastic option. Fantastic option for the board seat.

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Speaker 1: Talk to you tomorrow's team, Shields high