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Speaker 1: Big breaking news and the Hunter Biden fiasco with the

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Speaker 1: a moment. Welcome. It is Verdict with Ted Cruz and

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Speaker 1: I am the new co host, Ben Ferguson here with

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Speaker 1: you today. We have a lot to talk about, Senator

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Speaker 1: obviously in the in the news world, but this is

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Speaker 1: a moment that is an honor for me. I am

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Speaker 1: beyond excited to get to co host your podcast with

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Speaker 1: you and do this with Premiere Networks with iHeart. We're

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Speaker 1: going to be expanding for everyone listening to three days

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Speaker 1: I think for the Verdict audience here and something that's

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Speaker 1: been important to you to be able to get to

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Speaker 1: expand this and reach more people. Well, Ben, that's exactly right.

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Speaker 1: And the expansion is going to change the format a

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Speaker 1: it's you and I have that same mission, which is,

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Speaker 1: from people in positions of power against young people. And

432
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Speaker 1: that was the most shocking. I almost failed a class.

433
00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:29,280
Speaker 1: And you're gonna laugh when I tell you which class

434
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Speaker 1: I failed. It was a four hundred level class and

435
00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:39,560
Speaker 1: it was literally entitled Editorial and opinion writing. If there

436
00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:45,520
Speaker 1: is any class editor that I should pass, it would

437
00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:50,320
Speaker 1: be editorial and opinion writing. And I had this professor

438
00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:54,880
Speaker 1: those who can do those who can't teach, Oh, so

439
00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:58,959
Speaker 1: tell me. I assumed the professor was some wild eyed leftist, oh,

440
00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:03,400
Speaker 1: hardcore left. And I walked in the first day. He

441
00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:07,840
Speaker 1: knew exactly who I was, He knew exactly what I did.

442
00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:11,160
Speaker 1: And it was my senior year and I would had

443
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Speaker 1: just signed a book deal with William Morrow Harper Collins

444
00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,359
Speaker 1: to write a book, and so it had been written

445
00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:19,560
Speaker 1: about it was you know, it is obviously a big

446
00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:22,600
Speaker 1: deal writing your first, you know, big book. And I

447
00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:25,639
Speaker 1: was doing a ton of TV then and I walked

448
00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,119
Speaker 1: in and it was game on and he would do

449
00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:32,360
Speaker 1: entire lectures, basically yelling directly at me in the class. Well,

450
00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:36,560
Speaker 1: this class had three papers that you wrote that were

451
00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:39,000
Speaker 1: a third a third to thirty year grade. Well, if

452
00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,520
Speaker 1: you felt one of them, do the math. It's not good.

453
00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:44,520
Speaker 1: So you're gonna it's gonna be bad. And so I

454
00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:48,280
Speaker 1: did my first again editorial and opinion writing. I did

455
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Speaker 1: my first piece, and he gave me an f and

456
00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:54,800
Speaker 1: I went to the head of the department and I said, now,

457
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:58,399
Speaker 1: was your first piece. Was it an editorial or was

458
00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:01,399
Speaker 1: it writing about editorial? Write? No, it was like literally

459
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,320
Speaker 1: write an editor like an opinion piece. So I think

460
00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:07,680
Speaker 1: I wrote about the Second Amendment and he failed me,

461
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:11,080
Speaker 1: and it looked like he got hammered and then spilled

462
00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 1: the red ink. I've never seen more red ink and

463
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:17,119
Speaker 1: writing on a paper. And so I went to the

464
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Speaker 1: head of the department and I was like, look like,

465
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,359
Speaker 1: it's obvious this dude has it out for me. And

466
00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:23,160
Speaker 1: they're like, well, he's tenured, and he's a senior, he's

467
00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:25,560
Speaker 1: been here, he's a premier. He's written for all of

468
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:29,320
Speaker 1: these magazines and newspapers, and you know, I can't overrule him.

469
00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:31,680
Speaker 1: And I'm like, all right, fine, and I know what's

470
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:33,720
Speaker 1: gonna come. I'm gonna write the second one. He's gonna

471
00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:35,840
Speaker 1: fail me. Second one comes. Sure enough, he gives me

472
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Speaker 1: a D. And I went back and I'm like, to

473
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Speaker 1: the head of the department, I said, okay. I said, now,

474
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:44,359
Speaker 1: now you're really screwing with my life. Like I have

475
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Speaker 1: to have this class to graduate. It's if this grade stands,

476
00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:52,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fail the class, which means i'd have to

477
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Speaker 1: come back and take this class in another semester. I'm

478
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,119
Speaker 1: gonna be gone. I'm going to the Bush campaign like

479
00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:01,000
Speaker 1: I'm out of here and this could really screw up

480
00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:03,080
Speaker 1: my life. And they're like, I'm sorry. So I ended

481
00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:07,199
Speaker 1: up going to the chancellor of the university and he

482
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,560
Speaker 1: said there was nothing he could do, and I said,

483
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:10,800
Speaker 1: all right, well, I just want to give you a

484
00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:12,679
Speaker 1: heads up. I'm gonna go on. I think it was

485
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 1: on Fox, and I said, I'm going to tell my story.

486
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:18,560
Speaker 1: And then the whole thing changed. Senator will hold on

487
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:20,960
Speaker 1: a second, let's see I can come of a compromise, said, well, ho,

488
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:23,919
Speaker 1: you just told me. You just told me a second

489
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:27,159
Speaker 1: ago you can't compromise, and that you're just got to

490
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Speaker 1: stand with this decision because well, what are you proposing.

491
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:31,840
Speaker 1: I said, take my name off the papers, given a

492
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Speaker 1: three different professors in three different departments, and let them

493
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Speaker 1: grade it, and if they failed me, I'll accept the grades.

494
00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:41,960
Speaker 1: And they all came back with a's. And that changed it.

495
00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:44,879
Speaker 1: But that was the moment that I really was. I

496
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,640
Speaker 1: became angry, and I was like, I've got to keep

497
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,720
Speaker 1: doing this because what if you didn't have that threat

498
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Speaker 1: of being able to expose them on national TV? If otherwise,

499
00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:56,760
Speaker 1: and this is what's happening, I think on college campuses,

500
00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:00,000
Speaker 1: as so many kids now are health hostage, they can't

501
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,760
Speaker 1: speak out, they stay quiet, they sit on their hands,

502
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,640
Speaker 1: they write what they think these professors want them to say,

503
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 1: instead of having a grand debate. And that's where we've

504
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:10,680
Speaker 1: I think, how we've gotten to the point where we

505
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 1: are in this country right now where it's basically indoctrination,

506
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:17,920
Speaker 1: no longer a grand debate. That's exactly right, and that's

507
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Speaker 1: why verdickt is something very very different. Look. I think

508
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,359
Speaker 1: we are going to have a fun and amazing time

509
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 1: doing this show together, doing a three days a week now,

510
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,480
Speaker 1: doing it regularly so that folks can count on it

511
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,040
Speaker 1: to come out, and I think it's gonna be it's

512
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:37,800
Speaker 1: gonna be a different vibe than Michael and I had.

513
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:42,879
Speaker 1: Michael as a sort of Yale academic brought brought a

514
00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 1: very kind of conservative Catholic vibe that was fun, and

515
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 1: I think you and I have a very different vibe

516
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Speaker 1: that it's going to be interesting and engaging and help

517
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Speaker 1: help get really to the bottom of the issues that

518
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:55,720
Speaker 1: are happening right now. And I'm going to give people updates.

519
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:57,240
Speaker 1: I'm going to try to work on your tennis game.

520
00:25:57,280 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 1: People don't know this yet, but we're gonna we're gonna

521
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Speaker 1: secretly prepare air you for greatness in the tennis World's

522
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,919
Speaker 1: that's part of that's part of my new mission Field Senator.

523
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,440
Speaker 1: We gotta get that elbow right and then and then

524
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Speaker 1: I promise we're not going to lose if we play

525
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Speaker 1: doubles together. So I actually I have tennis elbow, which

526
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 1: Ben knows, and given how lousy my tennis game is,

527
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 1: I don't even deserve to have tennis elbo like like

528
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Speaker 1: that suggests you have some monocum of skill or maybe

529
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Speaker 1: my skill so bad that's why I have tennis elbow.

530
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Speaker 1: But anyway, Ben gave me this this like basically little

531
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Speaker 1: electro shock, saying that your warm and it shocks it.

532
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,159
Speaker 1: And and I'm not sure if it actually helps or

533
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Speaker 1: if he's just screwing with me and wants to see

534
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 1: how frequently shot myself. But I'm doing it regularly and

535
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:47,399
Speaker 1: I will confess it is actually helping. So that is

536
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Speaker 1: that's been an interesting experience as well. I stated a

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Speaker 1: holiday and Express last night. Senator, Hey, you know, give

538
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Speaker 1: you electroid shock afterwards, there's gonna be some physical therapist

539
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:58,320
Speaker 1: out there. Isn't gonna be yelling at the at their

540
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Speaker 1: phone right now, going do it, Senator. It's a Tensis machine.

541
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:03,439
Speaker 1: Do it. It'll work. So yeah, you're gonna now you're

542
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 1: gonna get filled with tweets coming to you on advice

543
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 1: on how to do it. Well, I will confess it.

544
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:13,120
Speaker 1: It has made it made it sell a little bit better. Good.

545
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:16,400
Speaker 1: That's what That's what I like to hear. I want

546
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 1: to ask you about some of the big news of

547
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:23,240
Speaker 1: the day that I that I think is shocking. There

548
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:27,479
Speaker 1: is some new audio that has been released on Hunter Biden,

549
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 1: and it is shocking audio of Hunter begging for cash

550
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 1: to go, claiming it's for rehab. He is begging his

551
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:44,880
Speaker 1: brother's widow who he ended up dating, hooking up with

552
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:50,680
Speaker 1: whatever after his brother died, begging her for points reward

553
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Speaker 1: points from a credit card as he's claiming he's going

554
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,199
Speaker 1: to check and a rehab and send her. When I

555
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,159
Speaker 1: listened to this and this just came out, there was

556
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,919
Speaker 1: two things that shocked me. One, I genuinely have compassion

557
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:06,120
Speaker 1: and feel bad for Hunter Biden because it's obvious he's

558
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 1: an addict. He's addicted, and this is right around the time,

559
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,960
Speaker 1: just weeks before his gun purchase. But there was something

560
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,639
Speaker 1: else in this audio that I think was so disturbing

561
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 1: to me, and that is at one point, well, he's

562
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:23,439
Speaker 1: begging her for these points, and she's like, no, I'll

563
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 1: send you to rehab. I'll do it, I'll book your ticket,

564
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:28,159
Speaker 1: but I'm not giving you this to you because she

565
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:30,320
Speaker 1: knows it's going to be used, I think for drugs,

566
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:33,720
Speaker 1: drug abuse. He says, well, give it to my uncle,

567
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 1: and then she says no to that, and then he says,

568
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:41,480
Speaker 1: well give it to my dad. And it was such

569
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 1: an eye opening moment for me that I think just

570
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 1: tells you about Joe Biden and James Biden, and the

571
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 1: fact that they knew that he was a struggling addict

572
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 1: and they exploited it. They sobered him up for the

573
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Speaker 1: moments they needed him to get the deals done and

574
00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 1: the corruption and keep the money flowing to their family.

575
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Speaker 1: I want to play this for you and get your reaction,

576
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 1: and I'll do it. No, Honey, I don't want you

577
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Speaker 1: to know where I'm going. It's very important that if

578
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 1: you want, you won't give me my money. Honey, Holly,

579
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 1: please give the money. I mean, it's just points. I'm

580
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 1: not even asking pose. I'm asking you from my point

581
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 1: care you don't care. I will do it all, okay, here,

582
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 1: how about this? Not you? Okay? You give it to No, No,

583
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 1: give it to my Give it to my uncle, Jimmy. No,

584
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 1: give it to my uncle, Jimmy. What's the difference now? Why?

585
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Speaker 1: I don't care. I'll do it. Give it to my dad.

586
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 1: You're not using it. Give it to my dad. It's

587
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: really important to me that you don't know. Give it

588
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 1: to my dad. I figure a place either wise, don't

589
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 1: ask me again. I can't pay for the place. Other wise,

590
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 1: you're killing Why are you doing this? No? Center, you

591
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 1: hear that and I have it made me sad. If

592
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 1: you've ever known somebody that's become addicted to drugs, whether

593
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:58,719
Speaker 1: it's illegal drugs like this or prescription drugs, I have

594
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: compassion for people are struggling. And I hear that, and

595
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 1: he basically is saying, send it to my uncle, and

596
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 1: she says no, because she obviously doesn't trust certain the uncle.

597
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 1: And then he says, give it to my dad, And

598
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 1: she doesn't even trust her own father in law to

599
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 1: do the right thing and to actually make him go

600
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Speaker 1: back to rehab instead of just giving him access to

601
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 1: what you know, his next fix. Here. I've never felt

602
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 1: more compassion for him as a human being than this

603
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 1: tape that just came out. Yeah, look, that's that's really

604
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 1: hard to listen to. That. That's someone who is clearly hurting,

605
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 1: clearly is led, and is living a very troubled life.

606
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:41,160
Speaker 1: He's an addict, and and all of us have known

607
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:45,840
Speaker 1: addicts in our lives. My older sister, Marian tragically died

608
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 1: of an overdose, and addiction is a cruel and horrific disease,

609
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 1: and he's clearly in the throes of it, the desperation

610
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 1: in his voice, and he one who's had loved ones

611
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 1: dealing with this has heard that desperation before. I'll tell you.

612
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 1: Listening to it, what it reminded me of was was

613
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 1: Rayleiota's character and Goodfellows when he was an addict and

614
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 1: he's begging his wife again. It was the same same

615
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 1: back and forth of begging his wife and the panic.

616
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 1: But you're right that it also illustrates that that is

617
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 1: his wife believes that that neither his uncle nor his

618
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 1: father are going to do anything about it, That that

619
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: you couldn't trust giving the points or given the money

620
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 1: to Dad, that they wouldn't just turn around. And presumably

621
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 1: at least you know, you you infer from listening to

622
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 1: that that that she thinks they're going to give it

623
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 1: to him and let him buy drugs with it rather

624
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: than ensure that he gets in rehab. And that you know, Look,

625
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 1: if if Hunter Biden were Hunter Jones or Hunter Smith,

626
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 1: he would be someone who had a very troubled life

627
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,240
Speaker 1: and and and you would want to see him get help,

628
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:06,479
Speaker 1: But it wouldn't be news his conversation. Conversations like this

629
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 1: wouldn't be talked about. What's different is his father's president

630
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 1: of the United States, and the evidence that has come

631
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 1: out of number one, his father, his father's official position

632
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: being used essentially to immunize him from the crimes that

633
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 1: he's committing. But number two, the very significant evidence of

634
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 1: his father being directly involved in corruption makes it a

635
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 1: matter not just of a private son who is struggling

636
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 1: with addiction, but of a question of public corruption that

637
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, this has never been

638
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 1: about Hunter Biden. This is about Joe Biden. This is

639
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 1: about the president and what he's willing to do, and

640
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 1: those questions. You know, I think that that recording only

641
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 1: ample by those questions. You know, it's amazing how they're

642
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 1: trying to act like Hunter Biden's business dealings can be

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Speaker 1: separated from his father and his uncle and the big

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Speaker 1: guy getting ten percent. You know, I part of my background.

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Speaker 1: I own a gun range and a gun store and

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Speaker 1: a barbecue restaurant. And if my dad was, you know,

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Speaker 1: giving a massive government contract to my gun range right

648
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 1: for law enforcement, that's a conflict of interest and that

649
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 1: obviously would be a massive problem. I know that right

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Speaker 1: at the basic level. Yet NBC News Today came out

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Speaker 1: and said, well, there's nothing wrong, nothing illegal with Hunter

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Speaker 1: Biden taking money from foreign governments, acting like immediately that

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Speaker 1: that's a closed case. I want you to hear this.

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Speaker 1: This was on MSNBC, their NBC reporter saying this earlier.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of people who evade taxes or never

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Speaker 1: prosecuted criminally, so that's going to be a big issue

657
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Speaker 1: in this case in terms of like corruptionplic of interest.

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Speaker 1: We've never heard a hint that that was that there

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Speaker 1: were potential criminal charges there. Because under Biden wasn't an officeholder,

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Speaker 1: it was perfectly legal for him to take money from

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Speaker 1: foreign governments as long as it wasn't he wasn't inappropriately

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Speaker 1: giving them information from his family or something. There's no

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Speaker 1: hint of that. There's no hint of that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: NBC News looks at you in a straight face and

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Speaker 1: you've seen it. You've seen all the data that's come out,

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Speaker 1: you've seen just all the suspicious activity reports on their

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00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 1: bank accounts, and they say, in their actual words, there's

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Speaker 1: nothing here, there's nothing that says that any of this

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Speaker 1: was nefarious. And they say it with a straight face.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's what worries so many Americans is

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Speaker 1: they truly believe, Oh my gosh, they're gonna get away

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Speaker 1: with this. I mean, if they just nail Hunter Biden

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Speaker 1: with tax issues and they just nail with a gun issue,

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Speaker 1: those are technically the two issues, Senator that you probably

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Speaker 1: cannot connect to his father and all the other stuff

676
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Speaker 1: that they act did is that they should be charging

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00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 1: him with. If they don't, then he's going to basically

678
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: walk away with a slap on the wrist with the alibi.

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00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,279
Speaker 1: And I think it's clear as a family knew it. Well,

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Speaker 1: we can say it's a drug addict, so you shouldn't

681
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:15,920
Speaker 1: be hard on him. Yeah. Look, the obviously DJ is

682
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 1: leaking like a sieve right now and projecting that they

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Speaker 1: are going to in nit Hunter Biden on a tax

684
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Speaker 1: claim at a gun plant charged those are I'm glad

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00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 1: to see it on one side, and in that the

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00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 1: laws should be blind and the fact that his daddy

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Speaker 1: happens to live in government housing on Pennsylvania Avenue should

688
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Speaker 1: not give him a get out of jail free card

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Speaker 1: that nobody else has. But it's it's disturbing for the

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00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 1: same reason, which is that what they're leaking suggests they're

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Speaker 1: not looking at the corruption. They're not looking at whether

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Speaker 1: the corruption from Ukraine or the corruption from China, and

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Speaker 1: in particular that they're not looking at the connections to

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Speaker 1: his dad. The reason any one should care is because

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Speaker 1: of his father. And you know, the clip you just

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Speaker 1: played for from NBC is truly absurd because takes something

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Speaker 1: like boris mine and every time we talk Barisma, that

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00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 1: brings us back to the very beginning of verdict launched

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Speaker 1: on the first day of impeachment, when we talked about

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Speaker 1: Barisa a lot. Hunter Biden was given a job at

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Speaker 1: Barisma where they paid him eighty three thousand dollars every

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Speaker 1: single month. Now, what expertise does he have. He doesn't

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Speaker 1: speak Ukrainian, he doesn't know anything about oil and gas,

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Speaker 1: He has no relevant expertise. He had one qualification and

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Speaker 1: one qualification only, which is that he carried the DNA

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Speaker 1: of being the son of the sitting vice president at

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Speaker 1: the time. And so NBC, well, there's no question of

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Speaker 1: corruption or anything. Really, why does the Ukrainian gas company

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Speaker 1: pay him that money? What are they getting? And by

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Speaker 1: the way, Hunter Biden, his father je Biden, then the

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Speaker 1: vice President, was the point person for the Obama administration

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Speaker 1: on Ukraine, so it was literally bribing essentially the family

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Speaker 1: of the lead US policy person. And I'll tell you

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Speaker 1: one thing to understand. Okay, Look, if you're a foreign government,

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Speaker 1: let's say you're the Ukrainian government. Let's say you're communist China,

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Speaker 1: and you're trying to influence a US decision maker. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you just show up and hand Joe Biden a

718
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Speaker 1: paper bag full of cash, you could try to do that.

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Speaker 1: But that's a little clunky and a little obvious and transparent.

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Speaker 1: Even the shills at MSNBC might have a hard time

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Speaker 1: explaining that one away. But there's a second way you

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Speaker 1: do it, which is listen the video you played or

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Speaker 1: the audio you played of Hunter talking to his wife.

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Speaker 1: It is clear that Hunter Biden was a financial burden

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Speaker 1: to his entire family. He was a financial burden to

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Speaker 1: his dad. His dad, I am sure, spent hundreds of

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Speaker 1: thousands of dollars, if not millions of dollars, trying to

728
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Speaker 1: take care of his very troubled son. And look, we

729
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Speaker 1: all respect that you should do what you can to

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Speaker 1: help help your children, especially when they're troubled. But by

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Speaker 1: Barisma giving Hunter Biden eighty three thousand dollars a month,

732
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Speaker 1: what they did is they took that obligation off of

733
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden's palace sheets. In other words, he didn't have

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Speaker 1: to support Hunter Biden because lo and behold, the Ukrainians

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Speaker 1: are doing it for him. And then later on in

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Speaker 1: China the private equity deals, and that he didn't China

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Speaker 1: multi billion dollar deals. You've got indications there, including as

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Speaker 1: you noted that the ten percent for the big guy.

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Speaker 1: Let's be clear, the big guy. He is not talking

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Speaker 1: about some of his back It's talking about Joe Biden.

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Speaker 1: And once again it is highly disturbing that DJ it

742
00:38:56,320 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 1: doesn't seem has even the slightest interest in looking anything

743
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Speaker 1: that could implicate Joe Biden. This is all about finding

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Speaker 1: a fall guy and with an alibi, with an alibi,

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00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: Phil and I mean, look, you and I both have

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Speaker 1: compassion for Hunter. When you listen to that tape. Don't

747
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 1: think that tape's not going to be played if they're

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00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 1: in a court, when people are on a jury, A're

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Speaker 1: gonna say this guy, this poor guy's an addict. He's

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Speaker 1: addicted to drugs. Okay, yeah, he broke the law, but

751
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Speaker 1: maybe we'll give him a little compassion here. That's been

752
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 1: their game plan the whole time, even when they brought

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Speaker 1: out Joe's sister when she did the morning show Sunday

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Speaker 1: Morning Show, CBS This Morning or whatever it was several

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00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 1: months back. She clearly laid out the plan for the family,

756
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Speaker 1: and that was he may have done something wrong back

757
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Speaker 1: in the day, but he was an addict, so it's

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Speaker 1: not his fault. And that's always been the alibi, which

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00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 1: meant they could exploit him and get even to do

760
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 1: more insane deals. And I think you and I and

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Speaker 1: this is something the American you will have to ask themselves.

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Speaker 1: This Hunter Biden exists as a businessman in any of

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Speaker 1: these capacities, whether it's with you know, Chinese Communist Party

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Speaker 1: and the oil and gas deals with Bob Olenski, the

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Speaker 1: whistle blower about their deals with Russian olagarchs, and the

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Speaker 1: former mayor of Russia's wife giving him millions of dollars

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Speaker 1: with him being a defense attorney for more than a

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Speaker 1: million dollars for a guy that's going to prison and

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Speaker 1: missing in China or Barisma. Does any of that happen,

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Speaker 1: forget his last name, Hunter Biden. Does any of that

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Speaker 1: happen without his father being involved in those deals? I

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Speaker 1: would argue it's impossible to separate Joe Biden and James

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Speaker 1: Biden from any of this. Look, I think that's right,

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Speaker 1: and I think DJ is once again being partisan and political.

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Speaker 1: And what I fear is that this is also being

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Speaker 1: done for a very explicitly partisan purpose, which is that

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Speaker 1: Merrick Garland has decided if we indict Hunter Biden, then

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Speaker 1: he can turn around and indict Donald J. Trump, And

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Speaker 1: I think that is his objective at this point is

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00:40:56,560 --> 00:41:00,360
Speaker 1: to say, Gus, we're not political. Look, we indicted THEO

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00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:03,400
Speaker 1: who is so plainly guilty and recorded videos of it

782
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:05,919
Speaker 1: and put it out to the world, and we could

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Speaker 1: only not indict him if we ignored it. But it's

784
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 1: all about having the Look how even handed we are.

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Speaker 1: We're doing both sides for people that are angry, and

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Speaker 1: I would be in this category center you hear this,

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Speaker 1: And if the DOJ doesn't do a special prosecutor, if

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Speaker 1: we don't get real indictments, just these two kind of

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00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:30,799
Speaker 1: slap on the risk indictments that insulate the president. What

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Speaker 1: does justice look like if you guys take control of

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Speaker 1: the Senate, if Comber takes control, you know, in the

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Speaker 1: leadership role there in the House, to investigate you know.

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Speaker 1: Congressman Comber said that Hunter Biden quote is a national

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Speaker 1: security threat who may be compromise, who may have compromised

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Speaker 1: the president. And that's what he says. They're going to

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Speaker 1: look out in the House side. But what does justice

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Speaker 1: look like if we don't get these indictments? Can you guys,

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Speaker 1: you know, get a special prosecutor? Or? Is that no?

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Speaker 1: Because the president is Joe Biden. Is there anything that

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00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 1: you guys can actually do when you're investigating him to

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00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 1: go back and force a DJ or the FBI or

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00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 1: law enforcement do their job if they don't do it

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Speaker 1: the first time around. Well, I think the election matters

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Speaker 1: powerfully because having a majority gives you the ability to

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00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 1: then convene hearings, and those hearings there has been essentially

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Speaker 1: zero oversight of the Biden administration. With Democrats in charge

807
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 1: of Congress. They put partisan politics above everything else, so

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00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: they don't want to know the answers to any of

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Speaker 1: these things. I think we are extremely likely to see

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Speaker 1: a Republican House, and I think there's a good chance

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Speaker 1: we'll see a Republican Senate. If and when that happens,

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Speaker 1: I think we will see I hope and believe vigorous

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Speaker 1: hearings examining all sorts of issues. The corruption, the corruption

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Speaker 1: going straight to the top, Joe Biden, his involvement in it,

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Speaker 1: doctor Fauci, the origins of COVID, the Wuhan Institute of Virology,

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00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:03,839
Speaker 1: the ding from the NIH forgative function research, all of that,

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Speaker 1: The involvement with Big Pharma in the administration's policy, the

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00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 1: involvement with the teachers unions in the administration's in defensible policies.

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Speaker 1: There are so many topics that are screening for oversight.

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Speaker 1: I think we will see hearings on every one of

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Speaker 1: those topics. Those hearings may involve subpoenas if witnesses refuse

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Speaker 1: to attend. Having the majority means you can issue subpoenas

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Speaker 1: and use legal compulsion to make witnesses attend. You can

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Speaker 1: have lawyers who engage the investigations. But you asked, can

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Speaker 1: Congress appoint a special prosecutor? And the answer to that

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Speaker 1: is no. Under our constitution, we have separation of powers

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Speaker 1: and only the executive can execute the laws. So the

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Speaker 1: questions of prosecution, it is only article to the President

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Speaker 1: the Attorney General that have the authority to indict anyone

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Speaker 1: to prosecute anyone to bring a case risk. The legislature

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Speaker 1: can pass laws that need the President's signature to become law,

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00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 1: and Congress can hold hearings and shine a light. So

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Speaker 1: I had been calling for two years for a special

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Speaker 1: prosecutor to look at Hunter Biden, for a special prosecutor

835
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Speaker 1: to look at Anthony Fauci. This administration lasts that off.

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Speaker 1: They don't care that they are going to be corrupt

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Speaker 1: and political, and they do not care with the majority.

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Speaker 1: What the hearings can do is shine a light and

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Speaker 1: put pressure. But at the end of the day, the

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Speaker 1: only person with the authority to appoint a special prosecutor

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Speaker 1: is the Attorney General of the United States. And so

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Speaker 1: that's one of the reasons why I believe one of

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Speaker 1: the first orders of business should be impeaching Merrick Garland.

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Speaker 1: The degree to which he has turned J into a

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Speaker 1: partisan nest of hornets, working on behalf of the White House,

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Speaker 1: working on behalf of the dn SEE, I think has

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Speaker 1: profoundly compromised the integrity as a partment of Justice and

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Speaker 1: the FBI, And as an alumnus I worked at the

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Speaker 1: DOJ in two thousand and one, that is both very sad,

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Speaker 1: but it's also incredibly dangerous. I want to switch gears

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Speaker 1: real quick before we run out of time today to

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Speaker 1: gas prices. Senator JP Morgan CEO came out earlier today

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Speaker 1: in an interview and he said this about American oil production,

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Speaker 1: as he also said we're headed into a recession if

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Speaker 1: we're not already there. That obviously made a Wall Street

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Speaker 1: perk up. But I want you to hear what he

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Speaker 1: had to say about America with oil production. America needs

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Speaker 1: to play a real leadership role. America is the swing producer,

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Speaker 1: not Saudi Arabia. And we should have gotten that right

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Speaker 1: story in March. It's almost too late to get it

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Speaker 1: right because obviously there's the longer term investments. America needs

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Speaker 1: to play a real leadership role. You rarely see CEOs

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Speaker 1: come out in this way, and this happens, and you

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Speaker 1: tweeted this out. Valerio has now fired back with facts

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Speaker 1: after the California government is going to investigate oil and

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Speaker 1: gas companies for the gas price spikes there that are

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Speaker 1: hitting seven eight dollars a gallon in some parts of

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Speaker 1: California because the California Energy Commission, and obviously this is political.

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Speaker 1: Right before the elections, wrote executives at five oil and

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Speaker 1: gas companies Centerer, demanding answers for sharp price increases, and

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Speaker 1: basically the vice president for state government affairs at Valerio said, Okay,

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Speaker 1: you want to know what's happening, Fine, we'll tell everybody.

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Speaker 1: He said, California, for Valero, is the most expensive operating

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Speaker 1: environment in the country and quota very hostile regulatory environment

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Speaker 1: for refining. He also said California policymakers have knowingly adopted

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Speaker 1: policies with the express intent of eliminating the refinery sector.

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Speaker 1: Valero said California requires refiners to pay very high carbon

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Speaker 1: cap and trade fees and burden gasoline with a cost

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Speaker 1: of low carbon fuel standards, saying, quote, with the backdrop

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Speaker 1: of these policies, not surprisingly, California has seen refineries completely

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Speaker 1: closed or shut down major units. And he said when

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Speaker 1: you shut down refinery operations, you limit the resilience of

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Speaker 1: the supply chain, saying, don't blame us for this. You

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Speaker 1: guys have isolated this market. You guys have destroyed this market.

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Speaker 1: You guys have made us to produce a unique blend

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Speaker 1: of gasoline, and now you want to investigate us while

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Speaker 1: you set up this entire thing. You're I'm glad finally

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Speaker 1: some companies are speaking out like this. I think it's

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Speaker 1: really important to see companies pushing back. You know. The

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Speaker 1: letter continues and it goes right out the California regulators.

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Speaker 1: In the letters from Valero, says, quote from the perspective

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Speaker 1: of a refiner and fuel supplier, California is the most

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Speaker 1: challenging market to serve in the United States for several

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Speaker 1: additional reasons. California regulators have mandated a unique blend of

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Speaker 1: gasoline that is not readily available outside of the West Coast.

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Speaker 1: California is largely isolated from fuel markets of the Central

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Speaker 1: and eastern United States. California has imposed some of the

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Speaker 1: most aggressive and thus expensive and limited environmental regulatory requirements

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Speaker 1: in the world. California policies have made it difficult to

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Speaker 1: increase refining capacity and it prevented supply projects to lower

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Speaker 1: operating costs of refineries. It is a great example of

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Speaker 1: just responding with facts, and this is we're seeing this

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Speaker 1: nationally with the radicals, the Green New dealal radicals and

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Speaker 1: the Biden administration, and California is the Wuhan virus epicenter

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Speaker 1: of the craziness that is in the Biden administration. All

906
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Speaker 1: of these nutty ideas originated in California, with the crazies there.

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Speaker 1: It is the reason people are fleeing California in droves.

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Speaker 1: But when it comes to energy, the reason gas prices

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Speaker 1: are so high nationally five dollars, six dollars, even seven

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Speaker 1: dollars a gallon is because Joe Biden and the people

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Speaker 1: he appointed want gas prices to be high. They promised

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden on the campaign trail, promised that he would

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Speaker 1: end drilling on federal lands, both onshore and offshore, and

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Speaker 1: they have bent over backwards trying to do that. They

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Speaker 1: have put in place dozens of rules and regulations and

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Speaker 1: policies designed to make it harder to develop oil and

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Speaker 1: gas in the United States. They shut down the Keystone Pipeline,

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Speaker 1: They shut down exploration in anwar the incredibly resource rich,

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Speaker 1: very small section of Alaska. They shut down new leases

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Speaker 1: in offshore drilling where they're vast reserves. In the Golf

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Speaker 1: of Mexico. They're not giving new leases there. They are

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Speaker 1: not granting permits for pipelines, they're not granting hermits for refineries.

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Speaker 1: And not only that they're cutting off the funds to

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Speaker 1: pay for exploration. They're two avenues. To fund a new

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Speaker 1: exploration project, you'd neither have debt or equity. The Biden

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Speaker 1: banking regulators are hammering banks not to lend oil and

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Speaker 1: gas projects. And on the equity side, the Biden appointeeds

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Speaker 1: to the SEC are hammering hammering efforts to raise equity

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Speaker 1: to fund that. Also, if you have no capital, you

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Speaker 1: can't drill. And so what's happening. The bad guys are

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Speaker 1: getting rich. Russia's getting rich, or Rand's getting rich. Venezuela

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Speaker 1: is getting rich because they're producing and by the way,

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Speaker 1: they pollute a lot more than America does. So so

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Speaker 1: the Biden zealots are shutting down are hurting the environment

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Speaker 1: at the same time. And as bad as all of

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Speaker 1: that is, California takes all of that and does it

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Speaker 1: on steroids. So when you pay seven bucks a gallon

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Speaker 1: in California, I guess you could be grateful, because in

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Speaker 1: a year they want you to pay ten bucks a gallon.

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Speaker 1: And it's this is the direct result of policies passed

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Speaker 1: by people who don't give a damn about your life.

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Speaker 1: They don't care about your kids, They don't care about

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Speaker 1: working people being unable to afford to get to work

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Speaker 1: or get to school. This is a religion for them,

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Speaker 1: and the consequences of their policy that's for little people

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Speaker 1: to worry about. It doesn't trouble their pretty little hits. Senator,

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Speaker 1: we're often running with Verdict. As I said earlier, I'm

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