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Speaker 3: This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray

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Speaker 3: Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose.

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Speaker 3: It's Thursday, fourteen August, in the year of our Lord,

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Speaker 4: Sir absolutely, Steve In the one big beautiful bill, spending

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Speaker 5: One point five trillion.

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Speaker 5: So again the forward the outlook is.

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Speaker 5: Sir at Lavornanomics, Steve.

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Speaker 9: say is, when it comes to the Smithsonian, it's just

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Speaker 10: We can joke about this and say, oh, this is

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Speaker 10: Take it to We are watching this administration change history, right,

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Speaker 13: Is it's crazy, but it's intentional, and they're doing it

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Speaker 7: We have a list of Kennedy Center honorees who the

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Speaker 7: Look, we've had multiple committees of people who have been

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Speaker 7: had three hundred different people that we considered, people that

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Speaker 7: were not on the list before. One of the rules

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Speaker 7: don't get to win it twice. And so these would

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Speaker 7: all be brand new people from a whole bunch of

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Speaker 7: different genres.

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Speaker 5: And then the system.

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Speaker 7: That we have in place here at the Kennedy Center

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Speaker 7: began to narrow it down, and then the board got involved.

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Speaker 7: So we've had multiple committees, the board of which President

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Speaker 7: Trump is the chairman, and he's had an opinion on

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Speaker 7: all of this as well, and so it's been an

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Speaker 7: incredibly collaborative process.

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Speaker 2: And what we.

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Speaker 7: Decided is to really make this the best honors that

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Speaker 7: it could be. Let's have the President of the United

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Speaker 7: States come out, welcome people. Let's have the President of

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Speaker 7: the United States talk about each of these five people.

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Speaker 5: I can't think of a.

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Speaker 7: Better honor for the five honorees, than to have the

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Speaker 7: President of the United States, no matter who it is,

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Speaker 7: talk about their life career, talk about all of the

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Speaker 7: great things that they've done.

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Speaker 5: This is the most.

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Speaker 7: Honored moment I could think of, is to have the

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Speaker 7: president fully involved. Luckily, we have a president right now

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Speaker 7: who can come out and do live television, who can

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Speaker 7: do an audience content, and we haven't had a president

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Speaker 7: in the past that's been able to do that. So

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Speaker 7: I think that this is a fantastic moment for the

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Speaker 7: Kennedy Center, a fantastic moment for the five honorees, to

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Speaker 7: have the President of the United States give us the

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Speaker 7: time and attention to honor these individuals.

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Speaker 5: I'm really excited about it.

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Speaker 3: Ambassador, what's your social media handle? You're wearing about ten

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Speaker 3: caps right now doing great work around the world, whether

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Speaker 3: in Eurasia and Latin America and in our own beloved

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Speaker 3: nation's capital for the President United States, Where do people

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Speaker 3: go to keep up with you?

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Speaker 5: Well, thanks, Steve.

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Speaker 7: I'm on Twitter at Richard Garnell.

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Speaker 5: I'm on Truth at Grenell.

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Speaker 7: I'm on Instagram at Richard Garnell and give a follow.

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Speaker 3: From Los Angeles to Venezuela to the Eurasian land Mass,

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Speaker 3: the Balkans in Washington, d C. The Kennedy Center, Ambassador Grenell, Ambassador,

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Speaker 3: thank you so much for joining us this morning in

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Speaker 3: the war room.

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Speaker 5: Thanks my friend.

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Speaker 3: Amazing. This is called seizing the institution. President of Trump,

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Speaker 3: you see, very involved with the board three hundred, so

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Speaker 3: it puts the rest this false smear by the left.

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Speaker 3: Three hundred people considered. I know that there were hundreds considered.

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Speaker 3: I might actually have thrown in a couple of names

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Speaker 3: myself as recommendations. An incredibly complicated process, collaborative all the

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Speaker 3: way to the board, different subcommittees and select it. And

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Speaker 3: I get to tell you, I think you'd hit it

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Speaker 3: dead spot on. This is going to be the biggest

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Speaker 3: award ceremony of the season. Finally to put to Kennedy

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Speaker 3: Center awards the nominees and have the Prision United States

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Speaker 3: intimately involved. Seize the institutions from Washington, d C. Next,

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Speaker 3: the Repository of our History, the Smithsonian Institute with Roger.

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Speaker 10: Kimball joke about this and say, oh this is just

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Speaker 10: the arts. But okay, but then take it to the Smithsonian,

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Speaker 10: take it to We are watching this administration change history right,

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Speaker 10: change how the public receives history and our most important music.

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Speaker 11: I have a lot of worries, and obviously they're parallels

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Speaker 11: to Stalin here, and so they're concerning things.

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Speaker 2: But I don't know.

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Speaker 11: I think that the Smithsonian staff is pretty steeped in history.

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Speaker 11: They're pretty serious people, pretty woke and God willing if

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Speaker 11: we ever get out of this nightmare that we're living.

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Speaker 11: I don't think history is going to be a race forever.

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Speaker 11: We have an internet, you now, we've books.

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Speaker 5: I don't think God Trump is that powerful.

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Speaker 11: The temptation is bad, like the fact that he wants

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Speaker 11: to do it is bad.

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Speaker 2: I don't like it.

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Speaker 8: But I just have I have.

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Speaker 12: More pressing concern I mean, down again, you have twenty

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Speaker 12: seconds the letter that was sentenced by the Domestic Policy Advisory.

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Speaker 12: Domestic Policy Advisor is involved in education, healthcare, every single

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Speaker 12: facet of the American public. If that person is involved

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Speaker 12: in revive saing Smithsonian history were in some deep doo.

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Speaker 3: Doo, yeah, Stephen, though he'd be talking about Stephen Miller

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Speaker 3: and Vince Haley, the head of the Domestic Policy Council

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Speaker 3: and the deputy chief of Staff. And Vince Haley right in, Vince, Vince,

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Speaker 3: great job at a boy. Uh. But that guy right

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Speaker 3: there got it? And how serious this is?

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Speaker 2: So?

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Speaker 3: Roger Kimball? Is this stalin? Or are we rewriting history here?

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Speaker 3: Tim Miller, formerly Bush's spokesman, and I knew Tim back

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Speaker 3: when he was a cub Uh he was head of

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Speaker 3: the RNCs Comms department. People ought to embrace that, Uh, Tim,

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Speaker 3: Tim sitting there saying the smiths Ony are serious people.

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Speaker 3: They've been putting out serious history. Roger Kimball, what say you, sir?

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Speaker 8: Well? I thought that was That's the funniest thing I've

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Speaker 8: heard in quite a while. And I like the conjunction

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Speaker 8: of he described the staff of the Smithsonian as woke,

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Speaker 8: which is probably true, and then at the same in

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Speaker 8: the same breath said that they were serious people. Those

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Speaker 8: two things do not go together. If you are woke,

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Speaker 8: by definition, you are not serious. And what is I

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Speaker 8: am just amazed at what President Trump is doing. From

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Speaker 8: the moment he took office. One of his first acts,

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Speaker 8: of course, was to uh eradicate the racist practice of

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Speaker 8: DEI Diversity, Equity and Inclusion UH in in UH universities

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Speaker 8: and throughout the federal government.

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Speaker 2: Bravo.

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Speaker 8: But issuing a an executive order is one thing. Actually

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Speaker 8: making it come true is something else. Again, this last March,

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Speaker 8: he issued another executive order about bringing truth and sanity

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Speaker 8: back to our cultural institutions in the men by name

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Speaker 8: the Smithsonian, But it was only with the letter of

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Speaker 8: just a couple of days ago, sent by the head

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Speaker 8: of the Domestic Policy Project and Russell White, head of

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Speaker 8: Office and Budget, and one other person that said, we know, uh,

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Speaker 8: this is to the director of the Smithsonian. We're going

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Speaker 8: to conduct an internal review, and it was very specific.

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Speaker 8: We're going to look at your exhibitions, We're going to

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Speaker 8: look at your curatorial practices, we're going to look at

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Speaker 8: your criteria for selection, and we're going to we're going

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Speaker 8: to look at the wall labels, the all the texts,

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Speaker 8: the accompanying social media, everything that you do in order

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Speaker 8: to be sure that the Smithsonian know these one hundred

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Speaker 8: or so museums and related activities to make sure that

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Speaker 8: they are aligning with the President's vision of making America

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Speaker 8: great again, of telling the truth about America. Because as

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Speaker 8: one commentator said, much of what the Smithsonian does is

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Speaker 8: true enough to mislead and obscure enough to indoctrinate. And

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Speaker 8: what you see is a clever, systematic process of trying

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Speaker 8: to tell the story of America as if it were

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Speaker 8: primarily a story of oppression, which is a distorted view

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Speaker 8: of America. The story of America is not the story

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Speaker 8: of oppression, of environmental disaster, of tyrannical deployment of power.

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Speaker 8: The story of America is the story of from the

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Speaker 8: very beginning, and to obscure that story is to do

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Speaker 8: a huge disservice to the people of this country. And

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Speaker 8: make no mistakes, Steve, the Smithsonian Institution is an incredibly

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Speaker 8: potent institution with it's represented, has activities and satellites in

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Speaker 8: almost every state. It is perhaps the largest mirror that

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Speaker 8: people will look into and hope to see the image

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Speaker 8: of what America is like. And unfortunately, over the last

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Speaker 8: several decades, that image has been a distorted one. And

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Speaker 8: I'm glad that that the President is moving very rapidly

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Speaker 8: to write that image because the only way that his

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Speaker 8: common sense agenda that he talked about in his inaugural address,

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Speaker 8: the only way that that is going to come to

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Speaker 8: fruition is if he can occupy the institutional heights of

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Speaker 8: the country. That means the universities, it means cultural institutions

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Speaker 8: like the Kennedy Senator that you were just talking about.

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Speaker 8: And it means institutions like the Smithsonian Institution. So you

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Speaker 8: know I wrote this, yeah, go ahead.

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Speaker 3: No hang hang, but hanger scd hang scond. I got

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Speaker 3: you on here for a reason. Okay, this is sees

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Speaker 3: the institutions. The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most

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Speaker 3: powerful institutions in this country. A young man twenty five

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Speaker 3: years ago wrote one of the most powerful books I've

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Speaker 3: read about modern America. That guy was Roger Kimball. This

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Speaker 3: was by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the

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Speaker 3: books of the year, I think of the year two thousand.

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Speaker 3: It's called the Long March. It's how the cultural revolution

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Speaker 3: of the nineteen sixties changed to America. It is about

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Speaker 3: the long March through the institutions. Why do we have

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Speaker 3: Zoron Mandami leading in New York City. It's because of

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Speaker 3: the Long March through the institutions and public schools. We

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Speaker 3: have to The Trump revolution will mean nothing if we

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Speaker 3: don't deconstruct the administrative state and destroy the deep state

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Speaker 3: in the process, and seize the cultural institutions in this

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Speaker 3: country and get them back to American greatness. Make those

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Speaker 3: institutions great again.

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Speaker 2: That's what this is about.

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Speaker 3: Roger Kim Will you laid out the blueprint twenty five

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Speaker 3: years ago of how the left had done it. Tell

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Speaker 3: us how they did it and how Trump is reversing

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Speaker 3: this by seizing these institutions. And from Maggie Haberman to MSNBC,

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Speaker 3: they are beyond throwing the toys out of the prem

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Speaker 3: furiated that the populist movement has seized control here.

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Speaker 8: Sir, yes, well, they're the little clip he showed at

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Speaker 8: the beginning of The person who described what's going on

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Speaker 8: at the Smithsonian is as stalinists. I think that tells

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Speaker 8: you a lot of what you need to know. Their

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Speaker 8: right to be worried. They were right to be panicked

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Speaker 8: by the prospect of the return of Donald Trump because

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Speaker 8: they knew that his populous counter revolution would change everything.

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Speaker 8: It would change not just the political texture of Washington,

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Speaker 8: d C. It would also change the institutional footprint and

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Speaker 8: the institutional identity of this country. And it's it's this

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Speaker 8: that Trump is doing right now with places like the

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Speaker 8: Kennedy Senator and the Smithsonian. That distinguishes him from other

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Speaker 8: great presidents, even Ronald Reagan. Reagan, for all of his greatness,

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Speaker 8: and I'm of Ronald Reagancy, ended the Cold War and

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Speaker 8: so on, unleashed the greatest accumulation of wealth and history.

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Speaker 8: We did a lot of good things. But the important

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Speaker 8: thing that he didn't do that Donald Trump is doing

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Speaker 8: is he made narry a dent in the institutional life

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Speaker 8: of the country, those institutions that are occupied by the

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Speaker 8: self appointed elite, because it is those institutions, the universities,

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Speaker 8: in places like the Smithsonian and the Kennedy Center, those

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Speaker 8: institutions that transmit the identity of the culture. And if

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Speaker 8: you have those institutions captive by the left, by people

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Speaker 8: who hate America, who hate normality, who hate the good,

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Speaker 8: the true, and the beautiful, and who seek to uh

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Speaker 8: transform the identity of the country into something that is

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Speaker 8: uh that that that celebrates For example, uh George Floyd.

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Speaker 8: UH an exhibition at this film at the Smithsonian. It

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Speaker 8: says George Floyd is comparable. His death was comparable to

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Speaker 8: the death of Jesus Christ. Now what what does that?

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Speaker 8: What does that mean?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 8: At the Smithsonian when they when they celebrate women, they're

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Speaker 8: careful also to celebrate so called trans women. That is

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Speaker 8: to say, men pretending to be women. Uh, this is

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Speaker 8: not what what most Americans want. And it's Trump's genius

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Speaker 8: change those institutions.

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Speaker 3: Okay, okay, we won't change the institutions. The engine room

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Speaker 3: of the worms on fire right now. Because I make

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Speaker 3: you a point. Trump and Grennell went over to Kennedy

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Speaker 3: Center and they got blew out the board, put new

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Speaker 3: board members in, many people, we know, some just amazing people.

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Speaker 3: Culturally made Trump the head of it. Next thing, you know,

660
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Speaker 3: you've got a complete change in programming yet, but you

661
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Speaker 3: know they're making money. Everything's gonna sit on its own bottom.

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Speaker 3: You got to sell tickets or just everything. Right, they're

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Speaker 3: doing it from top to Bomomy saw the Kenny Wards.

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Speaker 2: Here.

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Speaker 3: You've got Vince Haley, who's a great guy. We love

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Speaker 3: Vince and Miller are fantastic. And they're sending a letter saying,

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Speaker 3: you're gonna We're gonna view this is gonna review, This's

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Speaker 3: gonna view this. You have a as a reminder, you

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Speaker 3: have a board of regents that are many members of Congress.

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Speaker 3: Why are we not blowing these guys? These guys have

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Speaker 3: been sitting around the board of the Smithsonian is just

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Speaker 3: as lax as the board over at the Kennedy Center.

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Speaker 3: Why are we not blowing these guys out and replace

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Speaker 3: them with the Roger Kimballs of the world.

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Speaker 8: Sir, Yes, Well, it's early days, Steve. That letter went

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Speaker 8: out I think on Monday, maybe Tuesday. Today is Thursday.

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Speaker 8: Let's see what happens. I looked at that the list

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Speaker 8: of the of the Board of Regents, and I think

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Speaker 8: it's due for an upgrade.

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Speaker 2: I would agree with that, Kimball.

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Speaker 3: Kimball, would you if so, if the President came to

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Speaker 3: you with some ideas, or Grenell came to you, uh

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Speaker 3: and said, hey, we want some ideas about this board,

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Speaker 3: would you serve on the board of the Smithsonian Institute

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Speaker 3: and help the president redirect this institution?

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Speaker 8: Sir h Probably the answer would be yes. I would

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Speaker 8: need to find out what was involved, but yeah, probably

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Speaker 8: I would.

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Speaker 3: What would be involved is getting some scalps. This is

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Speaker 3: gonna it's gonna be messy work. These institutions are. They're

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Speaker 3: locked in. They're locked in they're just they think we're

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Speaker 3: blown through town. That's why the Kennedy Center. You have

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Speaker 3: to seize the institutions, like the left dead. The left

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Speaker 3: sees the schools, they seize the universities. The cloud pivot.

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Speaker 2: These people understand, like in.

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Speaker 3: The Bolshevik revolution, Marxist revolution, you see, you seize the

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Speaker 3: institution and guess what if there's got to be a

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Speaker 3: little if it's got to be messy, it's got to

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Speaker 3: be messy. But on the other side, you have control

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Speaker 3: of it. Hangar for a second. We'll take a short

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Speaker 3: commercial breaks We've only got when you take these by

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Speaker 3: the way, you take these institutional If this is what's

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Speaker 3: happening in Washington, d C. Let's deploy a couple of

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Speaker 3: thousand combat troops. Let's deploy a couple of thousand National Guard.

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Speaker 3: You saw him last night on the streets of DC.

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Speaker 3: The countries out of control. The institutions are still controlled

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Speaker 3: by the left, still controlled by the ruling class. When

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Speaker 3: he says, sees them, let's seize them, blow out what

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Speaker 3: the problem is and rejuvenate, purge and rejuvenate. Next in

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Speaker 3: the war room, this one.

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Speaker 12: He's making more radical changes to the country and to

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Speaker 12: the White House that will live well beyond his presence,

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Speaker 12: right And I.

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Speaker 14: Think part of it is because he now knows how

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Speaker 14: government works.

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Speaker 2: I think one of.

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Speaker 14: The things that really is the key difference between the

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Speaker 14: first time and the second term is that he had

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Speaker 14: a whole host of characters in the government that we're

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Speaker 14: trying to stemy his efforts to radically change the country.

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Speaker 14: He's now surrounded by people that are fully supportive of

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Speaker 14: his agenda and helping him do it.

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Speaker 2: He's way more effective.

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Speaker 14: At accomplishing his agenda with having that time out of

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Speaker 14: office because those a lot of his AI's RUSS, those

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Speaker 14: sorts of officials spend their time out of government planning

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Speaker 14: for this term, and so what they've done is an

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Speaker 14: onset of executive orders in the first six months that

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Speaker 14: accomplished a lot of their goals very quickly because he

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Speaker 14: knew what they wanted to do.

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Speaker 3: The difference in the first and the second is that

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Speaker 3: we took those four years and people went to work,

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Speaker 3: particularly on seizing the institutions. He's got deals. He's breaking

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Speaker 3: the universities, the arrogance of the universities. He's breaking the media.

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Speaker 3: He's now taken on the culture institutions. But all three

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Speaker 3: of those, the universities, the media, and the culture institutions.

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Speaker 3: They think they're going to wagh us out. This is

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Speaker 3: why everything's urgent. We should have a recess appointments. We

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Speaker 3: have to have a sense of urgency on this. The

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Speaker 3: MAGA Gramsey Roger Kimball joins us.

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Speaker 8: Roger, your thoughts, well, I think you're absolutely right, Steve.

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Speaker 8: It was an act of providence that Donald Trump was

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Speaker 8: not seated after he won the twenty twenty election because

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Speaker 8: that gave him time to reflect on what went wrong,

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Speaker 8: and it gave his team time to understand what had

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Speaker 8: to be done if he was really going to be

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Speaker 8: able to make America great again. And it's not just

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Speaker 8: the executive orders are great. They articulate a vision, but

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Speaker 8: is only that is step one. As I was saying

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Speaker 8: before the break, what he has done. What Donald Trump

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Speaker 8: has done that no other recent president, maybe any president

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Speaker 8: ever has done, is he has understood that the institutions

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Speaker 8: that define America have been captured by the left. They

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Speaker 8: need to be decapitated. He's beginning at work at places

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Speaker 8: like Columbia and Harvard and the University of California, but

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Speaker 8: all of the people who occupy those institutions and the

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Speaker 8: ambient spirit of those institutions. They feel that they can

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Speaker 8: just hold on for another three and a half years.

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Speaker 8: They can wait it out. Maybe they'll get a lucky

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Speaker 8: break in the twenty twenty six midterm election. I don't

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Speaker 8: think so. But maybe what Trump is doing is he

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Speaker 8: is beginning very methodically and very radically to go into

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Speaker 8: these institutions like the Harvards and the Columbias and the

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Speaker 8: Yales and the University of California's, and he is turning

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Speaker 8: them upside down. Really, he is going to There will

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Speaker 8: be a lot of new people there. A famous phrase,

767
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Speaker 8: personnel is policy. Personnel is policy, and Donald Trump understands that.

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Speaker 8: At the Smithsonian Institution, this internal review, it's very thorough,

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Speaker 8: and it's not just going to affect the public facing

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Speaker 8: exhibitions at the Smithsonian. It's going to change the whole

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Speaker 8: spirit of the institution. I believe we're just on the

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Speaker 8: very threshold of a radical rethinking of what these cultural

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Speaker 8: institutions that were. After all, these institutions are entrusted with

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Speaker 8: preserving and transmitting the highest values of our culture. That's

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Speaker 8: why we give them the prestige, the tax exempt status,

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Speaker 8: all of the social largests that they enjoy. That's why.

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Speaker 8: But what happens if, over a period of time they

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Speaker 8: have actually been coverted. What happens if instead of trying

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Speaker 8: to preserve and transmit the highest values of our culture,

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Speaker 8: they are actually working to subvert it. And I would

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Speaker 8: it's not a novel observation to say that that's what

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Speaker 8: primarily what many of most of our universities and colleges,

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Speaker 8: and indeed the entire school system is doing. They are

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Speaker 8: carrying out a radical left wing agenda at Donald Trump

785
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:28,720
Speaker 8: sees it, the American people see it, and I believe

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Speaker 8: that he is just at the beginning of turning it around.

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Speaker 8: It will only happen if he can remake these institutions.

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Speaker 8: It's not just a matter of finding Columbia or Harvard

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Speaker 8: or the University of California. There has to be real

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Speaker 8: radical change, and that means a change of personnel and

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Speaker 8: a change of the spirit. So to get them back

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Speaker 8: to what they are supposed to be doing.

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Speaker 3: Roger Kimball, people are going to This is going to

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Speaker 3: be manifested. Folks in November, New York City. Write that down.

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Speaker 3: Take your number, two, Princeil and write that down the

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Speaker 3: cultural rot and subversion of this nation with this and

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Speaker 3: now neo Redgreen alliance, Neo Marxist and radical g how

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Speaker 3: you're going to manifest itself in the smiley in the

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Speaker 3: smiley Zorhan in New York City, Roger, your social media,

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Speaker 3: where do people go to? All your sites, your book publishing,

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Speaker 3: social media, all of it, your your journals, where do

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Speaker 3: they go?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: So I'm the editor of the New Criterion, that's the

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Speaker 8: New Criterion dot com. I publisher of Encounter Books. That's

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Speaker 8: Encounter Books dot com. And my ex handle is Roger Kimball.

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Speaker 8: So it's all pretty pretty straightforward.

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Speaker 3: Pretty simple. Roger, thank you, very calm bow tie wearing

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Speaker 3: very calm, revolutionary a radical the long March to the institutions, Roger,

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Speaker 3: thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: Bide Gramsey right there at Mago Gramsey Andrew Breibart understood this.

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Speaker 3: He understood it better than anybody, and before anybody. Vince

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Speaker 3: Haley understands that. Stephen Miller understands it. Now we've got

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