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Speaker 1: We'll never sharender. It's what you've been waiting for all day.

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Speaker 1: of talk radio, Buck Sexton, Team Buck. Welcome to the

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Speaker 1: Freedom Hunt Baltimore, Maryland edition. I'm here in Baltimore, Maryland,

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Speaker 1: that's a strong argument, right. You can't just have the

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Speaker 1: federal government writing checks that it feels like writing. Okay,

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Speaker 1: once Congress passes it, or assuming Congress passes us and

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Speaker 1: Trump signs it, then the ads or the the storyline

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Speaker 1: from Democrats becomes, they're cutting off funds for your health care,

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Speaker 1: full stop, and that's why it doesn't go away. All right,

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Speaker 1: Tim Shields time and great, great call. I can talk

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Speaker 1: to you about this all day. But I want to

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Speaker 1: thank you very much, sir, But I want to move

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Speaker 1: to some of our other callers who are patiently waiting

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Speaker 1: here in the queue, and including our friend Greg who's

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Speaker 1: calling it from Oklahoma listening on the I Heart app.

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Speaker 1: We know Greg greg is a combat veteran. What's up, Greg, Hey? Buck?

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to talk about everybody's UH favorite soldier

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Speaker 1: who served with honor and distinction. Oh, I know you're

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Speaker 1: talking about except berg All decided to plead guilty to

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Speaker 1: UH desertion and then misbehavior before the enemy. I think

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Speaker 1: the next step is really finding out what this punishment

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Speaker 1: is is going to be. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that

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Speaker 1: the death sentence is not on the table in this

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Speaker 1: particular situation, even though if you read the codes that

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Speaker 1: he violated in a time of war, desertion is punsorable

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Speaker 1: by death, and so is mis misbehavior before the enemy.

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Speaker 1: And I think he's just gonna get life in prison

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Speaker 1: and be another cult hero to the left, just like

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Speaker 1: brad man It's unbelievable they've done with Bradley Manning by

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Speaker 1: not not to divert from the bird doll discussion, but

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Speaker 1: that Harvard offered offered him this uh this intern and

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Speaker 1: look I I see on all on a lot of

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Speaker 1: news networks, they're all referring to Bradley Manning as she

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Speaker 1: and Bradley manning the whistle blower. I'm like, dumping a

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Speaker 1: ton of classified documents on the internet is not whistle blowing.

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Speaker 1: It's just just it's betraying your country, and it's wildly irresponsible, right,

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Speaker 1: It's it's amazing the narrat anyway with burg Doll. I mean, look, Greg,

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Speaker 1: you're a guy who was out there literally on on

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Speaker 1: the front lines and and uh you know, facing down

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Speaker 1: those uh, those enemies and dealing with those very real

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Speaker 1: threats to your person day in and day out. So

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Speaker 1: I hear from you and others who have warned the

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Speaker 1: uniform and served in combat zones across the board very

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Speaker 1: very much want to see stern, stern punishment, perhaps not

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Speaker 1: the ultimate punishment, but stern punishment for bird Doll for

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Speaker 1: what for what he did, because of the implications of

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Speaker 1: having other people having to go find him on top

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Speaker 1: of everything. On on CNN, your former colleague John Bremen,

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Speaker 1: he wondered aloud, if quote, beyond what he had already

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Speaker 1: served with captivity with the Taliban, would you know service

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Speaker 1: justice for his desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, As

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Speaker 1: if him being captured wasn't his own fault and that

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Speaker 1: should count towards his sentencing at some point like it

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Speaker 1: was mind blowing that he actually said this, let me

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Speaker 1: have one other thing, this Greg, I mean, if this

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Speaker 1: were if burg Doll had not been brought back at

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Speaker 1: the cost of you know, trading Taliban senior you know,

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Speaker 1: few senior fighters and and senior organizers, if burgall had

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Speaker 1: not been traded under the Obama administration and it was

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Speaker 1: not part of Obama's the whole Rose Garden speech and

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Speaker 1: all this stuff. Do you think that you'd be hearing

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Speaker 1: from any senior government officials who are who are clearly

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Speaker 1: Democrats about how yeah, you know, the punishment we don't

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Speaker 1: have to worry about. No, it's because this was an

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Speaker 1: Obama decision and they don't want to they don't want

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Speaker 1: to look as bad, right, And they only did this

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Speaker 1: is because the memory hole, the v A scandal that

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Speaker 1: was exploding in front of their face at the time

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Speaker 1: they hold this Rose Garden and then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: the v A scandal disappears from the front page. And

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Speaker 1: this is great celebration of the you know, forty eight

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Speaker 1: hours of the Obama a ministration and saying, hey, he

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Speaker 1: served with honor and distinction until you actually talk to

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Speaker 1: anybody that served with him and like, no, he completely

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Speaker 1: messed up the into the war. Greg, I know you

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Speaker 1: were in rock Vet before. We have to run into

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Speaker 1: a break here because we've got our guests, But let

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Speaker 1: me ask you first and foremost your thoughts on your

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Speaker 1: your thoughts on Kurdish independence and Kurds in the fight

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Speaker 1: against ices Buck. I'm grateful that you keep putting this

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Speaker 1: in front of people. I think this is one of

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Speaker 1: the main passions that most veterans that I know have U.

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Speaker 1: The Curtish people are warriors that have a warrior culture,

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Speaker 1: and so it really uh speaks to us. And honestly,

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Speaker 1: if I didn't have a family, I would be over

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Speaker 1: there fighting with the Freshmerga or the p k K.

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Speaker 1: At this point, I mean, this is absolutely ridiculous. Trump's

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Speaker 1: statement yesterday UH really sent me into a heated and

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Speaker 1: just because again we're leaving them behind and not backing

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Speaker 1: them up when they've literally saved Iraq from ISIS in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and fourteen, fifteen and sixteen and then push

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Speaker 1: them out and essentially took rocket today h Slash last night.

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Speaker 1: So to turn our back on these people is infuriating

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Speaker 1: and get my blood pressure up even right now just

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Speaker 1: talking about it. I hear you, I hear you. Man well,

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Speaker 1: Greg has always great call my friend, thank you for

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Speaker 1: your service and Shields High team. We're going to run

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Speaker 1: into a quick break here. We're gonna talk about isis

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Speaker 1: the fall of Rock into the hands of the good

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Speaker 1: guys finally thanks to in large part of our friends

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Speaker 1: the Kurds along with some US some essential US MILL help.

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Speaker 1: We will get into that and also talk a bit

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Speaker 1: about Kurtish independence and then the latest on Hillary's un

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Speaker 1: ending circle of corruption. We can have some fun with that,

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Speaker 1: and later on the show, I'll talk to you about

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Speaker 1: judicial uh not just activism, but lunacy courtesy of a

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Speaker 1: judge in Hawaii that is part of the hashtag resistance

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Speaker 1: against Trump. Maybe some thoughts on the Weinstein the continuing

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Speaker 1: spiral into the eighth circle of Hell, that is the

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Speaker 1: Weinstein harassment slash assault story as well. And it's gone

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Speaker 1: well beyond Weinstein, as I've been saying to it's now

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Speaker 1: spreading and there's more and more that's going to be

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Speaker 1: coming out. You are now entering the Freedom Tactical Operations Center.

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Speaker 1: Programs must be kept strictly need to know Team Buck

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00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 1: is cleared and ready for the Buck brief. Well, the

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Speaker 1: day we have been waiting for for years now is

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Speaker 1: finally upon us. The Islamic State has lost control of Rocca,

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Speaker 1: It's capital, it's de facto capital in Syria. Uh. The

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Speaker 1: Syrian Democratic forces with US backing and air power, have

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Speaker 1: finally beaten the j hottest Sadis not just on their

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Speaker 1: home turf, but in the heart of the territory that

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Speaker 1: they once controlled. And now it seems like it is

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Speaker 1: just going to continue to roll them up going forward.

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Speaker 1: We have Hassan Hassan with us. He is the co

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Speaker 1: author of ISIS inside the Army of Terror. Hassan, great

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Speaker 1: to have you back. Tell us what's going on with

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Speaker 1: Rocca right now? Well, thank you for having me. Well. Uh,

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Speaker 1: the bottle of Rockers is almost over. Uh. There's kind

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Speaker 1: of tent of the city. Uh. It's still under the

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Speaker 1: control of ISIS. Uh. But the American officials and people

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Speaker 1: like the commanders on the ground considered the battle done.

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Speaker 1: It's just a clearing and remain of pockets. You have

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Speaker 1: also had to also remember that the same thing happened

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Speaker 1: in most of the battle continued for for a bit

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Speaker 1: of a while, but it's really done practically speak right,

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Speaker 1: they sees that stadium that was set up by ISIS

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Speaker 1: in the center of Rocca as something i've a last

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Speaker 1: stand position, right, So that was the final, the final

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Speaker 1: big stronghold of of ISIS fighters that is now in

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Speaker 1: the hands of the Syrian Democratic forces. There will be

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Speaker 1: some mopping up operations in the city and then continued

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Speaker 1: security encounter and surgery concerns. But on the Syrian side,

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Speaker 1: and I want to ask you about the Iraqi sign

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Speaker 1: just a moment, Hassan. On the Syrian side, what's still

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Speaker 1: left in ISIS or g hottest aligned hands in terms

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Speaker 1: of territory, Well, there is still there's still a major

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Speaker 1: stronghold UH in the province of der Zor that's larger

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Speaker 1: than Rocco in terms of territory size wise, it's it's

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Speaker 1: much bigger than Rocco, but it's UH. It's predominantly try Um,

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Speaker 1: predominantly rural areas. US. There's in that in that space,

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Speaker 1: there's kind of there's two or three small cities or

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Speaker 1: urban centers, but it's ISIS is on the run in Syria.

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Speaker 1: The problem though, is that this is a time when

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Speaker 1: ice ICES is changing tactics. So it's actually uh moving

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Speaker 1: away from kind of face to face with the US

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Speaker 1: backed forces. So they know so well they've melted away

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Speaker 1: into the civilian population now and they're going to engage

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Speaker 1: in insurgency. I so, yes, exactly, so insurgency and full force.

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Speaker 1: Now there are less emphasizing the territory and the klip

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Speaker 1: it and they're moving away into insurgency. They've been talking

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Speaker 1: about this recently in their publications and their public discourse, saying, uh,

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Speaker 1: in two thousands, in two thousand and eight, we did

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Speaker 1: the same thing. We dismantled all our fights in units

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Speaker 1: and turned and turned everyone into an I e D expert,

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Speaker 1: and we trained all all our fighters to be I

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Speaker 1: e D experts. And this is what they're trying to do. Now.

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Speaker 1: What is the status of the Syrian regime, the Assad regimes,

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Speaker 1: security and and territorial gains right now? I mean, how

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Speaker 1: is how is a sad looking at all? This? Well?

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Speaker 1: I said, is looking pretty well? He on one hand,

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Speaker 1: he has won the strategic war, so nobody wants to

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Speaker 1: topple as Sad anymore, and no regional even the oppositions

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Speaker 1: regional backers. They're not interested in bringing down Acid regime,

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Speaker 1: including Turkey. Turkey was one of the kind of the

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Speaker 1: sorriest backers of the Syrian opposition. They are now more

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Speaker 1: or less or indirectly actually working with the Acid regime,

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Speaker 1: and their policy is in line with the Russian and

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Speaker 1: the Iranian policy in northern Syria, so they're actually working together.

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Speaker 1: The Gulf states have no interest in Syria anymore. There

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Speaker 1: there we saw today, for example, the former uh A

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Speaker 1: Saudi ambassadors to Iraq went with Bret McGurk into Syria

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Speaker 1: to visit the deliberated area is that the Americans liberated

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Speaker 1: and helped liberate in eastern Syria, and they're talking about

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Speaker 1: rebuilding rock for example. So uh answered, this is looking

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Speaker 1: pretty you know, please stay right there. There's no there's

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Speaker 1: no serious Really, the Assad regime has lived throughout this

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Speaker 1: entire horrific civil war. Half a million casualties were so

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Speaker 1: the Asade regime is going to live to fight another day. Yes, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: abs what it's good to say, that's there's no question

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Speaker 1: about this at the opposition to talk about resistant asset,

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Speaker 1: but they're really privately that there except the reality this

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Speaker 1: is unless something changes. But for now as it is

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Speaker 1: is fine. The question really is what to do with

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Speaker 1: what remains of Syria and what what the future in

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Speaker 1: the kind of the far future, and is the since

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Speaker 1: future um nobody is talking about removing now and militarily

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Speaker 1: is also doing well. Now there's a race between the

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Speaker 1: Russians and Americans in the Eastern Syria over who takes

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Speaker 1: which areas in in what remains of isis Terris alright?

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Speaker 1: Hassan Hassan, co author of Isis Inside the Army of Terror?

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Speaker 1: Check it out. It's on Amazon. Hassan. Always great to

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Speaker 1: have you man, Thank you for your time. Thank you, sir,

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Speaker 1: He's back with you now. Because when it comes to

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Speaker 1: the fight for truth, the fuck never stops. Tee him.

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of shows, TV radio, a lot

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Speaker 1: of hosts, a lot of people who work in the

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Speaker 1: information a new space would probably skip over any any

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Speaker 1: in depth discussion of a breakaway province of a faraway country,

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Speaker 1: though when we've been at war in and I've been

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Speaker 1: very involved in for quite some time now, but a

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Speaker 1: lot of people would skip over it in my business

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Speaker 1: in order to move on to the latest UH tweet

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Speaker 1: war against the Trump administration or whatever it may be,

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Speaker 1: right talk about how some unfunny leftist female comedian has

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Speaker 1: said something terrible about somebody on the on the right.

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Speaker 1: I think Kurdistan matters. I think the Kurdish issue is important,

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Speaker 1: and I think that I can discuss it in a

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Speaker 1: way where you'll see that this reflects more than just

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Speaker 1: a decision about what the best strategy is for us

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Speaker 1: in dealing with this issue in Iraq. It reflects who

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Speaker 1: we are as a country. And that's why I think

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Speaker 1: you get some of the most passionate reactions on this

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Speaker 1: issue from veterans, veterans who served in Iraq and who

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Speaker 1: saw firsthand the incredible spirit and tenacity and honor of

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Speaker 1: the Iraqi Kurds. Despite all of the atrocities around them,

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Speaker 1: the genocide around them, the genocide visited upon them by

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Speaker 1: Saddam Hussein, the on Fall campaign, the poison gas attack

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Speaker 1: at Halabja, a Kurdish town, dropping poison gas on men,

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Speaker 1: women and children from Saddam's helicopters. They have endured through

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Speaker 1: all of this, and despite the breakdown of their country

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Speaker 1: into a g hottest sadest anarchy. For a while, the

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Speaker 1: Kurds kept it together somehow, um as a result of

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Speaker 1: the bravery of Kurdish Peshmerga and the trustworthiness of the

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Speaker 1: Kurdish government. Look, I'm not naive, and no government is perfect.

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Speaker 1: They're acting in their own self interest and the interests

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Speaker 1: of their people. And the Barzanis and and the other

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Speaker 1: other clans that run the Kurdish area of Rock that

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Speaker 1: run Kurdistan are certainly not without sin. But because of

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Speaker 1: the Kurds, I can put it to you in these terms,

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Speaker 1: and I think that most of the veterans I know,

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Speaker 1: we get a lot of veterans who listened to the show,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of active military too. Because of the Kurds.

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Speaker 1: There are fewer Americans who have come back with grievous

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Speaker 1: wounds from Iraq. And there are few Americans who have

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Speaker 1: come back having been killed in action because of Kurdish actions,

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Speaker 1: because of what they did. Now, it's their country and

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Speaker 1: they have an interest in it and all of that.

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Speaker 1: But you can't say the same thing about a lot

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Speaker 1: of Sunni Arab towns in Iraq. You can't say the

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Speaker 1: same thing about fighting alongside you know, Sunni, And I'm

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Speaker 1: generalizing here, I know they're there are excellent Sunni Arab

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Speaker 1: units in Iraq, and there are a lot of not

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Speaker 1: so good ones circa two thousand six, two thousand seven,

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Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, when the surge was happening. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you ask, you ask a veteran who's r of in

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Speaker 1: Iraq around that time period, would you rather have had

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Speaker 1: Peshmurger having your back or whoever the latest Iraqi army

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Speaker 1: you know, Sunni and Shia Arab lad Iraqi Army battalion

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Speaker 1: rolled in was. You won't get the same answer every time,

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Speaker 1: but from a lot of them, you're gonna hear Peshburger. So,

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Speaker 1: as I've said, I think we have a gentlemanly obligation.

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Speaker 1: We have a debt of honor to the Kurdish people.

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Speaker 1: I think that's well established. We are celebrating, and I

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Speaker 1: think not nearly celebrating enough the downfall of the Islamic

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Speaker 1: State right now because the Kurds provided the ground force.

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Speaker 1: So also to my previous thesis about how we have

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Speaker 1: fewer wounded and debt Americans in Iraq because of the Kurds,

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Speaker 1: that's certainly the case as well in the fight against

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Speaker 1: the Islamic State. So this is not just some far

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Speaker 1: away place that we can put out of mind. The

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Speaker 1: Islamic State was involved in mass casualty attacks in Europe.

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Speaker 1: Those attacks were planned in Rocca in the surrounding areas.

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Speaker 1: People were trained and funded in rock on the surrounding areas,

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Speaker 1: and they were coming for us on our own soil

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Speaker 1: too here in America, and the Kurds helped stamp them out.

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Speaker 1: They're still doing it. There's more operations left to come,

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Speaker 1: but the Islamic State will, barring some unbelievable reversal of

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Speaker 1: fortune in the Islamic State is on the way out

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Speaker 1: as a state. It'll be an ideology and Jiad is

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Speaker 1: here to stay for a while. But a group that

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Speaker 1: calls itself a state, that is the Islamic State, that

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Speaker 1: functions as a government, that has its own passport making office,

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Speaker 1: that has its own police and Shariah courts and all that. Nope,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be gone in Iraq and Syria soon and

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Speaker 1: again thanks to the Kurds. So that's why when I

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Speaker 1: see the latest news out of Kurdistan, it it really

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Speaker 1: saddens me. The Iraqi government largely pushed into this and

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Speaker 1: and egged on by I R G C. Kods force,

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Speaker 1: and Iran has seized Kerk Cook and the surrounding oil fields.

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Speaker 1: And Kerk Cook if that's a city that doesn't uh

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Speaker 1: pop up in the in the memory bank, it's for

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Speaker 1: us just another city in Iraq where we've had, you know,

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Speaker 1: our best and bravest fighting and trying to create stability

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Speaker 1: and turn the lights on and get the sewage flowing

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Speaker 1: and everything else in that in that city. But for

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Speaker 1: the Kurds, kirk Cook is Jerusalem. That's what they say

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Speaker 1: that kirk Cook is the Kurdish Jerusalem. It is the

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Speaker 1: most important city to them. Usually you think of Kurdistan

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Speaker 1: and areas like air Bill and the cities like our

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Speaker 1: Bill and Sumania. But for them, Kerk Cook is the

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Speaker 1: the holy Grail of cities. And the Iraqi government has

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Speaker 1: taken it back and taken it back by force. And

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Speaker 1: I've seen some reports on exchanges of gunfire between Iraqi

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Speaker 1: troops and some pesh Murga, although they were immediately said,

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Speaker 1: oh no, it's just a misunderstanding. I don't know, I'm

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Speaker 1: not there. But now the government in Baghdad wants even more.

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Speaker 1: They want the pesh Murga, who whose name means those

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Speaker 1: who make a pact with Death, who, even when outgunned

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Speaker 1: by ISIS fighters, were willing to stand their ground and

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Speaker 1: stick it out. The pesh Murger are supposed to come

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Speaker 1: under the authority of the central government in Baghdad. And

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Speaker 1: we look at this and we say to ourselves, Okay,

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Speaker 1: in the short term, I want to give you the

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Speaker 1: short term version of what's happening there and the long

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Speaker 1: term version, which is a combination of why you and

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Speaker 1: and everyone listening, Well, that's the general you, why we

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00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:00,920
Speaker 1: should all care about this, and why there is an

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Speaker 1: opportunity here. And let me start with what the thinking is,

743
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Speaker 1: and then I'll get to why I think it's wrong

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Speaker 1: and how there should be a focus on something else. Um.

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Speaker 1: And I think I've talked talked to you for in

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Speaker 1: the show going back the Air of Woodrow Wilson, League

747
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Speaker 1: of Nations, the Kords, there's thirty million of them, largest

748
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Speaker 1: stateless people in the world. I just think they also

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00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 1: they deserve a homeland, not just because they say it,

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Speaker 1: not just because they have their own language and then

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Speaker 1: their own ethnicity. You can say that a lot of

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Speaker 1: they've earned it. They've earned it, and the international community

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00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:35,439
Speaker 1: should recognize that. On the U S should be taking

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Speaker 1: a lead on this, but I'm getting ahead of myself.

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Speaker 1: In the short term, here's how the Trump administration so far,

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Speaker 1: and I break with them on this. You know, I'm

757
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:44,799
Speaker 1: not here to just tell you everything Trump does is great.

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Speaker 1: That's not gonna happen. You know that this is a

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Speaker 1: foreign policy matter that I disagree with the current administration

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00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:53,920
Speaker 1: position on. But I think Trump is persuadable on this.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's all over yet. That's also why

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Speaker 1: I wanted to talk to you about this today on

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Speaker 1: the show. I don't think this is signed, sealed and

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Speaker 1: delivered against the Kurts, although it has gone badly in

765
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Speaker 1: recent days and it's certainly a major setback for them.

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Speaker 1: I think if Trump was presented with the arguments in

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Speaker 1: the right way, if he was presented with the arguments

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Speaker 1: that I'm making here on this show, for example, he

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Speaker 1: might change his mind and and there would be a

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Speaker 1: way to transition. It wouldn't be an overnight thing, but

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Speaker 1: everybody had a transition to official Kurdish independence. The short

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Speaker 1: term thinking on this is we don't want to upset

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Speaker 1: Turkey because Turkey gets very, uh very antsy about the

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Speaker 1: notion of kur even. Remember, Iraq is a separate country,

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Speaker 1: a different state from Turkey, right, but the Turks have

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Speaker 1: their own Kurdish minority. There has been the p KK

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Speaker 1: insurgency in Turkey for decades. It's killed a lot of

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Speaker 1: Turks and there's a lot of bad blood over this.

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Speaker 1: But to that, I say, the Turkish government has been

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Speaker 1: much less helpful and trustworthy on the issue of the

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Speaker 1: Islamic State then it should have been, especially early on.

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Speaker 1: The Turkish government needs us more than we need them,

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Speaker 1: and the Turkish government would learn to live with it.

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Speaker 1: They've got a lot of direct investment in northern Iraq already.

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Speaker 1: They have economic ties to Kurdistan as it is. And

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Speaker 1: just because we take up we say that a part

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Speaker 1: of Iraq can be Kurdish, doesn't mean that we would

788
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Speaker 1: then say, oh yeah, and Turkey too, a huge piece

789
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Speaker 1: of Turkey. No one suggesting that the Turks need to

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Speaker 1: well it. They'd say it's their backyard. But from my perspective,

791
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Speaker 1: they should back off on this one, but they won't.

792
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Speaker 1: They won't. But that's why we don't want upset Turkey

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Speaker 1: NATO ally, although causing problems for US in the region

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Speaker 1: and with are Doan has a government in place that

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Speaker 1: is it's just going down the wrong path of Islamism

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Speaker 1: and authoritarianism. It's pretty scary stuff what's happening in Turkey

797
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Speaker 1: right now, and they're locking up journalists like it's going

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Speaker 1: out of style. And then the other piece of this

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Speaker 1: is the Iraq Iran issue. And when you look at it,

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Speaker 1: you say, Okay, we've we've essentially helped build this government

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Speaker 1: in Iraq out of Baghdad with Hyderalla body as the

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Speaker 1: prime minister, and we don't want to go against them.

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Speaker 1: There are ally where we'd be carving up a part

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Speaker 1: of their country, right, but what are they really going

805
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Speaker 1: to say to us? They're they're going to do what

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00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:23,719
Speaker 1: exactly tell us that this is this is impossible, that

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Speaker 1: this thinking is is beyond the pale. We've pushed for

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Speaker 1: Albanian independence or ethnic Albanians to have independence in the

809
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Speaker 1: state of Kosovo. Uh. You look at South Ossetia, you

810
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:39,400
Speaker 1: look at South Sudan, new countries are being formed, still

811
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Speaker 1: the map is not done and over with. And then

812
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Speaker 1: you have the Iranian hand on this, which is the

813
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Speaker 1: most ominous and odious of all the players here. That

814
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Speaker 1: you have I r G. C. Kold's force in any way,

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Speaker 1: shape or form attached to these Shia militias that are

816
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Speaker 1: helping to take control in places like kirk Cook is

817
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Speaker 1: deeply disturbing. Uh. These are true enemies of the United States.

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Speaker 1: They are enemies of Western are Western allies? They are

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Speaker 1: enemies of Yes, they are enemies of Western civilization. Here's

820
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Speaker 1: what the Wallstreet Journal reports on this issue. Specifically, Iran,

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Speaker 1: with its own restive Kurdish population, was the most vocal

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Speaker 1: opponent of Kurdistan's independence. The chief of its Kods Force,

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Speaker 1: Major General Kassams Solimani, who has nurtured close ties with

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Speaker 1: Baghdad and Mr Barzani's Kurdish opponents, played a key role

825
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Speaker 1: in Monday's takeover of kerk Cook. This development has prompted Mr.

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Speaker 1: Barzani's movement to adopt a stridently anti Iranian tone, potentially

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Speaker 1: aligned the conflict with the broader Middle East fracture between

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Speaker 1: foes and allies of Tehran. Iran really doesn't want an

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Speaker 1: independent Kurdistan. I think Iran realizes that were that to happen,

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Speaker 1: you know what, if we were we were playing chess

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Speaker 1: instead of checkers here, if we were looking if the

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Speaker 1: government right now was looking steps down the line, and

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Speaker 1: I understand this would be a transition process. It wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be forever. But we could be given a lot more

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Speaker 1: help and backing to the Kurds than we are. We

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Speaker 1: could have air bases in Kurdistan. The Kurds would love it,

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Speaker 1: oh man, I'm sure they would. I mean I haven't

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Speaker 1: talked to them about it, you know, but I'm sure

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Speaker 1: the Kurds would love to have some a permanent US

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Speaker 1: military base. I mean, think along the lines of what

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Speaker 1: we have in South Korea and Germany. Have that right

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Speaker 1: up in Kurdistan in an area where the people couldn't

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Speaker 1: be any happier to see US, friendly, trustworthy. Kurdish food

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Speaker 1: is good. Look, I'm open about that. I think the

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Speaker 1: Kurds are great. Uh. Kurtish food is good. Kurtish people

846
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Speaker 1: are friendly. That like Americans. They love Americans. If we

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Speaker 1: set up an air base or two in the north,

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Speaker 1: you know, or whatever basis we want, and what do

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Speaker 1: you think the Iranians would think? Then no more of this,

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Speaker 1: all this this Baghdad Oh we've got you know, we

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Speaker 1: don't want to be puppets of the Americans and we're

852
00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:05,279
Speaker 1: gonna cause problem. You know, the courage will be like

853
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:09,520
Speaker 1: come on in, the water's warm, because the Kurds are

854
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:13,560
Speaker 1: real allies. And one more thing. So from a strategic

855
00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:15,920
Speaker 1: point of view, the relationship that we could have with

856
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:20,400
Speaker 1: the Kurds, if they were an autonomous state, could just

857
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:22,880
Speaker 1: get stronger and stronger and give us a tremendous amount

858
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:24,239
Speaker 1: of leverage in a part of the world where we

859
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 1: could really use it. And we would have, you know,

860
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:29,359
Speaker 1: we if we built an air base there, if there

861
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 1: was a Curtis stand, if it was a member of

862
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:34,440
Speaker 1: you know, the the United Nations and seen by the

863
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:37,879
Speaker 1: world as a new state. There's a lot of opportunities there,

864
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:40,880
Speaker 1: opportunities for investment as well, all kinds of stuff. And

865
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:43,919
Speaker 1: one more thing. And this is at the broadest level,

866
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:47,239
Speaker 1: the broadest narrative of what I view is not just

867
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 1: the counter jihad and the global counterinsurgency against al Qaya,

868
00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:55,239
Speaker 1: the Islamic State and these other these other entities, these

869
00:51:55,239 --> 00:52:00,520
Speaker 1: other nihilistic, vile, destructive death cults that are out there

870
00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:06,200
Speaker 1: under the banner of of jihad. The Kurds have proven

871
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:13,280
Speaker 1: that a Muslim ethnic group, so they're at their ethnic Kords,

872
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:17,920
Speaker 1: but there Muslim by religion. The Kurds have proven that

873
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:25,680
Speaker 1: an Islamic people can be modern, pro western, maintain their identity,

874
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:28,360
Speaker 1: and be an ally to the civilized world in the

875
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:33,200
Speaker 1: face of the worst jihaddest atrocity is imaginable. They have

876
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:36,239
Speaker 1: been a beacon to the rest of the Muslim world,

877
00:52:36,239 --> 00:52:37,719
Speaker 1: whether they want to see it or not, about what

878
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:41,319
Speaker 1: is possible, about what friendship with the West and with

879
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:46,440
Speaker 1: the civilized nations of the world could mean. And to

880
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:49,640
Speaker 1: miss this opportunity to say, see, there are friends, there

881
00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 1: are allies. They've been with us, they have bled with us,

882
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 1: they have bled for us, and now we have an

883
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:57,279
Speaker 1: opportunity to pay them back. I just think it's I

884
00:52:57,280 --> 00:53:00,279
Speaker 1: will say it. I think it's shameful. And we them

885
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:04,080
Speaker 1: more than this, We owe them more than this. All right,

886
00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:06,360
Speaker 1: We've got calls up on the board here in the

887
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:09,319
Speaker 1: Freedom Hunt. And I also want to thank UH w

888
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Speaker 1: CBM A M six eight, Baltimore for hosting me today.

889
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:17,759
Speaker 1: UH special thanks to Shawn Casey, the programming director, Eric Steinegal,

890
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:22,120
Speaker 1: the chief engineer w c B M A M UH

891
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:24,840
Speaker 1: six eight in Baltimore. Thank you very much for giving

892
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:29,440
Speaker 1: me a Mobile Freedom Hunt for the day, much much appreciated.

893
00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:34,160
Speaker 1: Let's get into all of the latest. Here we have

894
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:38,160
Speaker 1: on the board. Here we have Dr Bob listening in

895
00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:41,279
Speaker 1: on the I Heart app from in Pennsylvania. What's going on?

896
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:47,399
Speaker 1: Dr Bob? Hey page paging the doctor. What's up? Now?

897
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:49,600
Speaker 1: You got you gotta cut no speaker phone, sir, You

898
00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:51,279
Speaker 1: gotta come right up to this because everyone wants to

899
00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:55,759
Speaker 1: hear you, Dr Bob. Okay, So there we go. Look

900
00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:57,640
Speaker 1: at oh Crystal clear. Man, it's like you're hanging out

901
00:53:57,680 --> 00:54:01,920
Speaker 1: here with me and everybody else. All right, here's the story.

902
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:05,239
Speaker 1: First of all, we have to transform everything that you

903
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:10,440
Speaker 1: just said into action. Now I've written even though I'm Jewish,

904
00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:14,120
Speaker 1: I'm not Kurdish. I've written a half dozen articles over

905
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:18,839
Speaker 1: the past decade on this issue. And I visited Congress

906
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:21,080
Speaker 1: on Mondays three weeks ago when they had the hearing

907
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:24,400
Speaker 1: when the Cassidy Bill, and dropped off a couple of

908
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:27,759
Speaker 1: articles along those lines. To try to motivate people to

909
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:33,240
Speaker 1: have a conference in Washington. They would pull together all

910
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:36,520
Speaker 1: of the Kurdish lobbying groups. There are four of them,

911
00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:40,719
Speaker 1: and a guy named Sharko, a boss who has been

912
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:44,120
Speaker 1: educating me on this. Who is the president of the

913
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:49,080
Speaker 1: Kurdistan National Assembly of Syria can put this together, and

914
00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:51,359
Speaker 1: I'd like to ask you if we can recruit your

915
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:56,960
Speaker 1: support to help coordinate pulling this together as soon as possible,

916
00:54:57,400 --> 00:55:00,440
Speaker 1: because we have to help the Donald under dan that

917
00:55:00,560 --> 00:55:03,360
Speaker 1: being neutral, as you pointed out yesterday, when Fox News

918
00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:08,920
Speaker 1: is actually supporting Iran via back. Dad. Do you think

919
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:11,319
Speaker 1: we can do this? I don't. I don't know the

920
00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:14,400
Speaker 1: specifics of what you're trying for your Dr Bob, but

921
00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:16,160
Speaker 1: if if it, if there's a way that I can

922
00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:19,000
Speaker 1: be helpful in getting the administration to understand this Kurdish

923
00:55:19,080 --> 00:55:21,359
Speaker 1: issue from a perspective, and it sounds like you and

924
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 1: I share that that's something I would certainly be interested in. Well,

925
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:30,839
Speaker 1: let me just suggest that Barzani would come over for

926
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:34,840
Speaker 1: a conference. And the key difference between this and a

927
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:38,080
Speaker 1: conference that was held in June is it would not

928
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:40,920
Speaker 1: just be one of the Couratish groups, would be all

929
00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:44,440
Speaker 1: of them. And there we've we've written up in the

930
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:48,440
Speaker 1: past the various factions that have been backed by various groups.

931
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:53,000
Speaker 1: But the key thing is we have to push for independence.

932
00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:55,480
Speaker 1: We have to push for the fact that a hundred

933
00:55:55,560 --> 00:55:59,319
Speaker 1: years ago, the Treaty of Severa is promised that this

934
00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:04,400
Speaker 1: was going to occur, and then it was unfortunately supplanted.

935
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 1: And therefore this is something that's for the thirty plus

936
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 1: million heards, is something that should have been accomplished not

937
00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:17,640
Speaker 1: just yesterday, but a year ago, if not a century ago,

938
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:22,080
Speaker 1: if not four thousand years ago, when they first started

939
00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:25,319
Speaker 1: working together as an ethnic group. All right, Dr Bob,

940
00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 1: give me a favorite. Send me, send me all this,

941
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:29,359
Speaker 1: Send me all this. You have my Facebook, right, send

942
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 1: me the message there. I'll get it, and uh, you

943
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:33,919
Speaker 1: and I can we we can start a dialogue about

944
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:35,920
Speaker 1: this via email and see where we go. All right,

945
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:40,040
Speaker 1: I'm thrilled to hear from you. Thanks, Okay, all right,

946
00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:43,360
Speaker 1: Dr Bob, thank you, sir. So I've got two different

947
00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:45,920
Speaker 1: stories that i want to get to now, and I'm

948
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:47,879
Speaker 1: not sure how much time I'm gonna spend on either,

949
00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:51,720
Speaker 1: so we'll see. I think I will skip over that

950
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:58,600
Speaker 1: I saw it fox, that Bigfoot was reportedly sited in

951
00:56:58,680 --> 00:57:02,319
Speaker 1: northern California to pick just have gone viral. Oh man,

952
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:06,160
Speaker 1: you know, there's just something it's just fun to read.

953
00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:07,800
Speaker 1: You know, it's nonsense, but it's fun to read a

954
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:11,840
Speaker 1: big Foot story right now and again big Foot locked ness,

955
00:57:12,160 --> 00:57:14,640
Speaker 1: chupa cabra. There's all kinds of stuff out there. Maybe

956
00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:17,640
Speaker 1: you can get into some of that on around Halloween,

957
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:22,640
Speaker 1: you know, take take a a fun view of the lore,

958
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:26,120
Speaker 1: the mythology around all this stuff. I think mythology is

959
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:29,160
Speaker 1: mythology is just stories as long as you realize it's

960
00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:32,760
Speaker 1: not real. Stories give me great. Uh So, I this

961
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:35,080
Speaker 1: big Foot photo that was pretty funny. That's out there

962
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:37,440
Speaker 1: right now. I don't think, I don't I don't know

963
00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:38,840
Speaker 1: much to add on that. I'm not a I'm not

964
00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:44,680
Speaker 1: a Sasquatch expert um and uh or I never just

965
00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:47,760
Speaker 1: really so, I guess the abominable snowman is that like

966
00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:51,680
Speaker 1: in the Himalayas versus the sasqu and Sasquatches up in

967
00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:55,560
Speaker 1: the Pacific Northwest. And I've never really and and big

968
00:57:55,560 --> 00:57:58,080
Speaker 1: Foot is the same as Sasquatch. So that's about as

969
00:57:58,160 --> 00:57:59,600
Speaker 1: much as that now, all right, like buck stop talking

970
00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:03,000
Speaker 1: about the things. Yeah, so I've got put that aside.

971
00:58:03,040 --> 00:58:04,600
Speaker 1: I just saw that story and it made me smile

972
00:58:04,640 --> 00:58:08,520
Speaker 1: for a second. That's all hard turn Now I want

973
00:58:08,520 --> 00:58:12,520
Speaker 1: to get into the the Hillary corruption stuff that broke today,

974
00:58:12,560 --> 00:58:16,560
Speaker 1: and I think was it Solomon and my friend Sarah Carter. Sarah,

975
00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:18,240
Speaker 1: by the way, it's just the greatest. I used to

976
00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:21,280
Speaker 1: work with her a lot at at the Blaze, and

977
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:27,160
Speaker 1: it's amazing that a journalist can be so effective and

978
00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:33,000
Speaker 1: fierce in her profession and such an incredibly kind, warm

979
00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:38,600
Speaker 1: and trustworthy and patriotic human beings. So, uh, Sarah. I

980
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:41,320
Speaker 1: can't say enough nice things about Sarah Carter. And you know,

981
00:58:41,320 --> 00:58:43,440
Speaker 1: we've had her on the show many times before. But

982
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:45,280
Speaker 1: I've been working with Sarah for years. I'm not sure

983
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:46,760
Speaker 1: if this was her. I think it is her piece,

984
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:49,800
Speaker 1: it's Solomon as well. She's been working with John Solomon

985
00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:53,280
Speaker 1: a lot of the Hillary email stuff and also on

986
00:58:53,320 --> 00:58:57,640
Speaker 1: the Russia gate. So but there's more Hillary corruption about Russia,

987
00:58:57,920 --> 00:59:00,480
Speaker 1: and I'll get to that. Put put a pin in

988
00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:03,440
Speaker 1: that for a second, but we will talk about it.

989
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:07,400
Speaker 1: I think it's just giving us more of it's more

990
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:13,160
Speaker 1: detail that is supporting what we already know as as

991
00:59:13,160 --> 00:59:15,880
Speaker 1: conclusions about all this. But put a hold on that

992
00:59:15,960 --> 00:59:18,440
Speaker 1: for a second, because I also just want to note

993
00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:24,120
Speaker 1: that there is not a whole lot of new information

994
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:25,560
Speaker 1: right think the two stories I wanted to get to

995
00:59:25,640 --> 00:59:28,360
Speaker 1: know obviously Russia. Hillary will get into that in a second,

996
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:33,720
Speaker 1: but first on the Las Vegas mash shooting that happened.

997
00:59:34,840 --> 00:59:39,520
Speaker 1: Here we are now, we've had many days passed since

998
00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:44,360
Speaker 1: that incident, and we don't really have much more in

999
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:47,640
Speaker 1: terms of information. I spoke to you yesterday about how

1000
00:59:47,640 --> 00:59:50,880
Speaker 1: the timeline was fixed and how it seems like Hazos

1001
00:59:51,520 --> 00:59:57,440
Speaker 1: Jesus Campos was maybe caught up in the possibility of

1002
00:59:57,520 --> 01:00:02,800
Speaker 1: his employer being sued. He is completely, uh disappeared. I mean,

1003
01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:07,320
Speaker 1: it's it's known that he's Oh it's Allison Span is

1004
01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:09,360
Speaker 1: the one with the piece. Pardon me, well, Sarah still

1005
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:11,720
Speaker 1: all those things I said about Sarah Carter still stands.

1006
01:00:11,800 --> 01:00:16,520
Speaker 1: So Sarah Carter is still wonderful. But it's Allison Span

1007
01:00:16,680 --> 01:00:20,600
Speaker 1: with the with the piece on Russia, FBI and cover.

1008
01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:22,880
Speaker 1: Yeah here, John Solomon and Allison Space. It was John

1009
01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:25,400
Speaker 1: Solomon and Allison Span instead of John Solomon and Sarah Carter.

1010
01:00:26,360 --> 01:00:28,160
Speaker 1: I'm sure Allison Span is great too, I just don't

1011
01:00:28,160 --> 01:00:31,520
Speaker 1: know her. So, but back to Las Vegas. Thank you

1012
01:00:31,760 --> 01:00:35,320
Speaker 1: producer Amy for not letting me continue to cite the

1013
01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:37,360
Speaker 1: wrong person as the author of that piece. That's why

1014
01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:40,160
Speaker 1: I've got you know, Amy, Yeah, making sure that I

1015
01:00:40,440 --> 01:00:44,760
Speaker 1: stay on the on the factual path here. Uh, although

1016
01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:46,560
Speaker 1: she left me alone with the Sasquatch thing, because we

1017
01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:50,360
Speaker 1: all know sasquatch. It's just about fun. So we don't

1018
01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:52,920
Speaker 1: have we don't have any more back to the serious

1019
01:00:52,920 --> 01:00:56,000
Speaker 1: topic of of the investigation here, we don't have anything

1020
01:00:56,160 --> 01:00:59,960
Speaker 1: on on the shooter. Really, we don't have any additional information,

1021
01:01:00,120 --> 01:01:03,280
Speaker 1: which is kind of incredible at this point, not much

1022
01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:07,040
Speaker 1: more in the way of motive. And this disappearance and

1023
01:01:07,040 --> 01:01:08,920
Speaker 1: he's not disappeared like no one knows where he is,

1024
01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:13,000
Speaker 1: but dropping off the radar of the security guard. It's

1025
01:01:13,040 --> 01:01:16,000
Speaker 1: just something up. And I'm I don't have conspiracies for you.

1026
01:01:16,080 --> 01:01:18,640
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't buy into that stuff. One of

1027
01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:23,320
Speaker 1: the reasons why I never think that conspiracies are uh,

1028
01:01:23,520 --> 01:01:27,520
Speaker 1: intellectually sound practice, it is because having spent time in

1029
01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:30,200
Speaker 1: some places where there's a lot of conspiracy theories c

1030
01:01:30,440 --> 01:01:34,120
Speaker 1: I A CFR. You know, go down, go down the

1031
01:01:34,160 --> 01:01:38,480
Speaker 1: list of some of these organizations. It's often what people

1032
01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:41,320
Speaker 1: think might be some grandiose plot. It's much more likely

1033
01:01:41,360 --> 01:01:47,280
Speaker 1: to just be in competence, indifference, in aptitude, so I'll

1034
01:01:47,320 --> 01:01:49,000
Speaker 1: be amazing if there was like all these people coming

1035
01:01:49,040 --> 01:01:50,680
Speaker 1: together from all over the world and there's like this

1036
01:01:50,920 --> 01:01:53,040
Speaker 1: this group of people that are like at the top,

1037
01:01:53,120 --> 01:01:54,960
Speaker 1: you know, and and they're they're they're the ones given

1038
01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:56,520
Speaker 1: the orders. I mean, they're the one saying like this

1039
01:01:56,560 --> 01:01:59,320
Speaker 1: is how it's good that that gets people riled up,

1040
01:01:59,360 --> 01:02:05,360
Speaker 1: and they no. No, Usually, conspiracies are just much more complicated,

1041
01:02:05,480 --> 01:02:08,640
Speaker 1: are much more complicated then they have to be. And

1042
01:02:08,640 --> 01:02:12,000
Speaker 1: that's because they're not accurate, right, That's why conspiracies become

1043
01:02:12,080 --> 01:02:15,280
Speaker 1: so ornate. But they're interesting and so they draw attention

1044
01:02:15,320 --> 01:02:19,040
Speaker 1: for people. I don't have any conspiracy to offer up

1045
01:02:19,080 --> 01:02:21,560
Speaker 1: here about what's going on on Vegas, because nothing makes

1046
01:02:21,560 --> 01:02:23,600
Speaker 1: sense to me. But I also don't have answers for you.

1047
01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:26,800
Speaker 1: I don't have answers about the motive of the shooter.

1048
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:30,840
Speaker 1: I don't have answers about how you know, the timeline.

1049
01:02:30,840 --> 01:02:32,479
Speaker 1: I think we've worked out a little bit, but still

1050
01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:33,840
Speaker 1: the motive here, we don't have it. And I was

1051
01:02:33,880 --> 01:02:35,760
Speaker 1: saying to you the first week of the shooting. I

1052
01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:38,080
Speaker 1: just want to note this, I was saying the first

1053
01:02:38,080 --> 01:02:40,760
Speaker 1: week that that shooting had happened, that I'm not sure

1054
01:02:40,800 --> 01:02:43,240
Speaker 1: we're ever going to find out based on the the

1055
01:02:44,480 --> 01:02:53,480
Speaker 1: almost unfathomable precision and planning and the meticulous nature of

1056
01:02:54,080 --> 01:02:57,360
Speaker 1: what that guy Paddock did to engage in mass murder.

1057
01:02:57,400 --> 01:02:59,360
Speaker 1: It just doesn't line up with what we see in

1058
01:02:59,400 --> 01:03:02,320
Speaker 1: these case is in the past. And if you're gonna

1059
01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:05,280
Speaker 1: if there was a political motive, if you do something

1060
01:03:05,320 --> 01:03:08,320
Speaker 1: for a political motive, you want people to know. And

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Speaker 1: if you're that politicized, you tend to leave a trail

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Speaker 1: of your politics, and we don't. We still just don't

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Speaker 1: have it. Now. Another a lot of folks are out there, Oh,

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Speaker 1: you know, my law enforcement sources say, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: just a matter of hours before the equivalent of the

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Speaker 1: you know, the the handwritten note that explains it all

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Speaker 1: is revealed. They've got it. You know, people say stuff

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Speaker 1: like that, whether they're saying it in good faith or

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Speaker 1: they just want to be on on TV or on

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Speaker 1: radio and have something to say. I can't tell you,

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Speaker 1: but I was telling you right away, I don't think

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Speaker 1: that this is I don't see how we get to

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Speaker 1: a clear answer here, because if there was a clear answer,

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Speaker 1: we would probably know. And right now that's looking pretty

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Speaker 1: pretty accurate. And if it changes. I'll update you as

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Speaker 1: soon as I can. But I'm still sitting around waiting.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not a part of this world anymore

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Speaker 1: on the investigative or analytics side. I'm still waiting to

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Speaker 1: hear something about loss Vegas on the motive and about

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Speaker 1: this shooter that all that brings it all together. So

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Speaker 1: it makes sense. I just I'm not there yet. Um,

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Speaker 1: And we're not there yet. No no one knows, I

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Speaker 1: mean no one. No one knows unless law enforces holding

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Speaker 1: stuff back. But there's no criminal trial here that we

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Speaker 1: know of. I mean, the shooters debt, So why would

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Speaker 1: law enforce and be holding out on us? That makes

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Speaker 1: no sense either. So there's just some there's some question

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Speaker 1: marks that are are lingering. Um. And I wanted to

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Speaker 1: note that now I told you we talked about Hillary

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Speaker 1: and the corruption and and all the and the Russia stuff.

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Speaker 1: Why don't I take this opportunity to we can reset,

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Speaker 1: get back into neutral here and go to a quick

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Speaker 1: break so we can all take a little breather here

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Speaker 1: from some of our wonderful sponsors. We come back, we'll

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Speaker 1: dive into this reporting on Hillary. Here's the here's the

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Speaker 1: short version of it. Did. The FBI uncovered Russian bribery

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Speaker 1: and meddling and all kinds of stuff going on before

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Speaker 1: the Obama administration approved the controversial uranium deal with Moscow.

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Speaker 1: By the way, who was the Secretary of State during

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Speaker 1: all that? Oh that's right, Hillary, she was a secretary

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Speaker 1: of State. But what happened was, Oh, we'll find out

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Speaker 1: what happened Hillary. No, you won't. Yes I will, Yes,

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Speaker 1: I will. We're gonna look into what happened with Hillary here,

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Speaker 1: all right. I promised you Hillary time. You did? You

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Speaker 1: promised I promised you Hillary time. And so that now

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get and now we're gonna get into it.

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Speaker 1: I really, I really am now just just taking this

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Speaker 1: into like a like a parrot sound, but it's really

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Speaker 1: if you really listen closely, it sounds like Hillary. Don't

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Speaker 1: don't think that I'm just making a parody with a parrot.

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Speaker 1: I'll show myself out, all right. FBI uncovered Russian bribery

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Speaker 1: plot before Obama administration approved controversial nuclear deal with Moscow.

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Speaker 1: It's on the Hill dot Com seventy eight thousand shares

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Speaker 1: and counting on social media, so some people definitely read

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Speaker 1: this one and let me give you some of the

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Speaker 1: some of the broad strokes. There's a lot of detail here,

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Speaker 1: and it's good to have the details out there. It's

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Speaker 1: good reporting from it's great reporter from John Solomon and

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Speaker 1: Allison Span But, uh, you just need to know the

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Speaker 1: broad strokes to understand why this matters so much. But

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Speaker 1: let me get walk you through this a little bit. Quote.

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Speaker 1: Before the Obama administration approved a controversial deal in giving

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Speaker 1: Moscow control of a large swath of American uranium, the

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Speaker 1: FBI had gathered substantial evidence that Russian nuclear industry officials

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Speaker 1: were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion, and money laundering designed

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Speaker 1: to grow Vladimir Putin's atomic energy business inside the United States.

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Speaker 1: Federal agents used a confidential US witness working inside the

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Speaker 1: Russian nuclear industry to gather ex densive financial records, make

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Speaker 1: secret recordings that intercept emails as early as two thousand

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Speaker 1: and nine that showed Moscow had compromised an American uranium

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Speaker 1: trucking firm with bribes and kickbacks and violation of the

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Speaker 1: Ford Corrupt Practices Act Practices Act, according to the FBI

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Speaker 1: and court documents. Uh, and it's just there's a lot

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Speaker 1: more detail here, but let me just skip to some

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Speaker 1: of the parts you're gonna need to know. Rather than

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Speaker 1: bring immediate charges in the d J continued investigating the

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Speaker 1: matter for nearly four years, essentially leaving the American public

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Speaker 1: and Congress in the dark about nuclear Russian nuclear corruption

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Speaker 1: on US soil during a period when the Obama administration

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Speaker 1: made two major decisions benefiting Putin's commercial nuclear ambitions, um

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Speaker 1: and the And then you get into the Clinton aspect

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Speaker 1: of all this stuff here in just a second. But first, okay,

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Speaker 1: so there's this big investigation going on. FBI is looking

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Speaker 1: into it. Court documents can be consulted to give further

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01:08:02,160 --> 01:08:06,840
Speaker 1: further proof of all this that the Russians are playing

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Speaker 1: dirty in the uranium sector and the government knows about this,

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Speaker 1: but the government doesn't do anything for four years. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: now we get into some other stuff here, right, So

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Speaker 1: the Aby administrations decided, no, no no, we're not gonna We're

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Speaker 1: not gonna go forward with these prosecutions. We're not gonna

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Speaker 1: raise the alarm. Not keep in mind, what have we

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Speaker 1: heard about all Russia corruption and and meddling in the election. Oh,

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01:08:30,200 --> 01:08:31,479
Speaker 1: there should have been more done, That should have been

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Speaker 1: more done. What about before? Right, this is Russian meddling,

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01:08:35,120 --> 01:08:38,240
Speaker 1: and all of our stuff is not new online in person,

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Speaker 1: old school, new school, up down and all around the place.

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Speaker 1: The Russians are meddling right there, doing whatever they can

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Speaker 1: not new, going back to the KGB era, going back

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Speaker 1: to UH compromise at the Provocatzia, Provocatzia and all these

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Speaker 1: other things that the KGB, you know, provocations and compromising

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Speaker 1: and all the things that KGB used to do. Maskova,

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Speaker 1: you know, i'd like the fake on Russian accent when

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Speaker 1: I say these words. And then you get Hillary in

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Speaker 1: on all this, and you start to wonder. It's it's

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Speaker 1: kind of interesting, isn't it that while this is all

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Speaker 1: going on, and this was written about in UH in

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Speaker 1: Clinton cash, all right, but there's all this shady Russian

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Speaker 1: business happening, and then you find out that, you know,

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Speaker 1: Hillary and the Clinton Foundation, there's all this money that's

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Speaker 1: coming into them too, And you just have to wonder,

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Speaker 1: given the sensitivity that should have been raised at the

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Speaker 1: time about Russia in our uranium sector, that Hillary as

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Speaker 1: Secretary of State allowed the Russians to purchase this large

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Speaker 1: steak in American an American uranium company. You would think,

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Speaker 1: you would think might get a little more attention to

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Speaker 1: raise some long to know how to be written about

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Speaker 1: by Peter Schweitzer for anyone to even noticed this right quote.

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Speaker 1: The Obama Administration's decision to approve Raza Tom's purchase of

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Speaker 1: Uranium one. Uranium one is the U S company has

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Speaker 1: been a source of political controversy since that's when conservative

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01:10:15,760 --> 01:10:19,000
Speaker 1: author Peter Schweitzer and The New York Times documented how

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Speaker 1: Bill Clinton collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in Russian

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Speaker 1: speaking fees and his charitable foundation collected millions in donations

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Speaker 1: from parties interested in the deal while Hillary Clinton presided

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Speaker 1: on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.

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Speaker 1: The Obama administration and the Clinton's defended their actions at

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Speaker 1: the time, insisting there was no evidence that any Russians

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Speaker 1: or donors engaged in wrongdoing and there was no national

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Speaker 1: security reason for any member of the committee to oppose

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Speaker 1: Iranium one deal. But FBI, Energy Department and court documents

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Speaker 1: reviewed by The Hill show the FBI in fact had

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01:10:54,640 --> 01:10:59,800
Speaker 1: gathered substantial evidence well before the committee's decision that Vadium Mercurian,

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Speaker 1: the main Russian overseeing Putin's nuclear expansion inside the United

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Speaker 1: States was engaged in wrongdoing starting in two thousand and nine. Okay, So,

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Speaker 1: like I said, there's a lot I know, there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of detail, a lot of names and guy's name,

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Speaker 1: like you know what was this guy? Vladimir and Vadim

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Speaker 1: and you know this and that and god, I've gotta stop.

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Speaker 1: My Russian keeps keeps floating into my Transylvanian because you know,

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Speaker 1: we got DRACTA coming up in a few weeks. Uh.

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Speaker 1: But here's what, here's what you this is already known,

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Speaker 1: but it just gives you more details about this. And

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01:11:31,720 --> 01:11:35,160
Speaker 1: the Obama administration, the d o Janity administration sat on this,

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Speaker 1: didn't want to do much about it. And it just

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Speaker 1: goes to show that they made a political decision about

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Speaker 1: Russian medaling during the election, and the political decision was, look,

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Speaker 1: Hilary is gonna win anyway. You know, this is not

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Speaker 1: a big deal. Who cares? And that's the truth. It's

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Speaker 1: not a big deal. Who cares? Or if you want

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01:11:52,439 --> 01:11:54,720
Speaker 1: to look into it, fine, but you know, looking into

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Speaker 1: the same way you look into like baseball and steroids

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Speaker 1: or something, right, I mean, Congress gets all sanctimonious and

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01:11:59,520 --> 01:12:05,599
Speaker 1: nobody really cares. Uh, but no, no, Now they tell

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Speaker 1: us that this is a national security threat. Now they

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Speaker 1: tell us that the Russians are like lurking in every

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Speaker 1: corner and under every bed, and we've got to be

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Speaker 1: terrified of what Russia is gonna do next. And the

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Speaker 1: Russians aren't finished with us, and the Russians, yeah, we

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Speaker 1: have there are opposition governments around the world. To be

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01:12:21,200 --> 01:12:24,280
Speaker 1: sure their enemy governments, enemy regimes around the world. But

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Speaker 1: to overstate the threat from Russia for purely political reasons,

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Speaker 1: right as an excuse for Hillary's loss to Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: It's just pathetic. But they're not going to stop. And

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Speaker 1: when you look at how blatant the corruption was with

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Speaker 1: the Clinton Foundation and Hillary and the conflicts of interest there,

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Speaker 1: This is why the punches that the media try to

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Speaker 1: land on this administration just don't work. This is why

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Speaker 1: they keep coming. They keep coming to the American people

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Speaker 1: and saying, oh, he's gone too far. Now, oh this

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Speaker 1: latest thing he said. Now it's all over for Trump.

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Speaker 1: And it's not because we're paying attention. We see and

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Speaker 1: I don't even get I didn't even get to talk

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Speaker 1: about how the Department of Justice, or rather James Comey,

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Speaker 1: how did the FBI was writing and this was on

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Speaker 1: this was courtesy of Fox News dot Com yesterday, was

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Speaker 1: writing memos two show before Hillary was even interviewed that

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Speaker 1: the email thing was going nowhere. That's yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 1: A different justice system for the Clintons. At least they

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Speaker 1: thought that's what they had now with Trump in office, though,

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Speaker 1: I think things have changed because they've really become just obstructionists.

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Speaker 1: They have no good policies, and frankly, they're not good politicians,

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Speaker 1: but they are very good obstructionists and that's what they

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Speaker 1: do well. Obstruct Uh. The number of nominees that I

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Speaker 1: have approved by the Democrats are about half of what

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Speaker 1: President Obama had. And when you look at that and

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Speaker 1: you look at judicial appointments, look how slow that's going.

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Speaker 1: I'll have a hundred and forty five ultimately, which is

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Speaker 1: tremendous number, will have seventeen Court of Appeals supportments. But

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Speaker 1: they're not getting approved. They're being slow walked by Schulber

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Speaker 1: and the group of Democrats that really it's it's really disgraceful.

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Speaker 1: Even people that they know they're going to approve, they

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Speaker 1: take it right out to the end. They use every

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Speaker 1: single minute, and I think it's a very disgraceful situation. There.

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Speaker 1: We have President Trump who is not mincing words when

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Speaker 1: it comes to the Democrats, calling them obstructionists, particularly on

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01:14:30,760 --> 01:14:34,599
Speaker 1: the issue of the judiciary, which a lot of folks

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Speaker 1: on the left no is one of the best places.

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Speaker 1: It probably is the single best option for the hashtag resistance.

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01:14:43,680 --> 01:14:46,759
Speaker 1: But Trump was also talking earlier day about how he's

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01:14:46,880 --> 01:14:49,800
Speaker 1: got a healthcare bill that he likes, or at least

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01:14:49,800 --> 01:14:52,040
Speaker 1: he's saying he likes it as of now, that would

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Speaker 1: be bipartisan in nature. So so what is going on here?

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Speaker 1: He was buddy buddy with McConnell earlier in the week.

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Speaker 1: Now he's pushing for by partisan healthcare reform. What is

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Speaker 1: really happening To help us way through some of this?

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Speaker 1: We have Sarah Westwood on the line. She is the

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Speaker 1: Washington Examiners White House correspondent. Sarah, great to have you,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. Okay, Sarah, Let's let's start with

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Speaker 1: the basics here. What is going on? One moment Trump

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Speaker 1: saying the Democrats are obstruction is the next it feels

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Speaker 1: like he's telling us that Chuck and Nancy have some

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Speaker 1: good ideas for shoring up the healthcare exchanges, while clearly

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Speaker 1: President Trump is trying to lay some defensive groundwork for

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Speaker 1: his decision to withhold those cost sharing reduction payments, which

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Speaker 1: UM analysts believe we're helping to prop up the Obamacare exchanges.

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Speaker 1: And so by withholding those and then also by doing

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Speaker 1: his executive order that he did last week which opened

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Speaker 1: up the possibility of selling insurance plans over state lines,

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Speaker 1: president Trump is taking some actions that are undermining the

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Speaker 1: integrity of the Obamacare system. It was already weak, and

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Speaker 1: this is only going to weaken it. So President Trump

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Speaker 1: has suggested that Republicans would be open to working with Democrats,

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Speaker 1: but that's clearly not a viable possibility. Democrats and Republicans

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Speaker 1: are so far apart on healthcare. They've uh, Democrats are pursuing,

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Speaker 1: you know, in some cases, a single payer system, while

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Speaker 1: Republicans are pursuing something that block grants medicate. So they

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Speaker 1: couldn't be further apart on healthcare. And really this is

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Speaker 1: a tool that both sides use sometimes to call for

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Speaker 1: a bipartisan solution, and it's an effort to highlight the

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Speaker 1: other side's unwillingness to work together. You have Senator Senator

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Speaker 1: Truck Schumer saying that the latest solution to show up

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Speaker 1: the exchanges is a pretty good idea. You got Senator

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Speaker 1: Patty Murray saying Democrats Republicans working together, that's a that's

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Speaker 1: a good thing, something we should all feel like it

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Speaker 1: is to be applauded. And yet I'm just wondering, is

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Speaker 1: this like when a little bit earlier, we had Trump,

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Speaker 1: what was it a few weeks ago, Trump saying that

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Speaker 1: there was a deal or there was reporting at least

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Speaker 1: of a deal on immigration with Chuck and Nancy, and

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Speaker 1: now we're told that's fallen apart. Do you think that

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Speaker 1: there's a chance that Trump is going to just change

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Speaker 1: his mind on this? By it's not really a bipartisan

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Speaker 1: reform on health here, it's just a quick fix or

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Speaker 1: a two year fix. There's always a possibility that President

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Speaker 1: Trump will change his mind on anything, and certainly with immigration,

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Speaker 1: we saw that's exactly what happened in his conversation with

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Speaker 1: the Democratic congressional leaders. He seemed to indicate that the

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Speaker 1: wall wasn't going to be part of what he pushed

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Speaker 1: for in any package that extended protection to the Dreamers

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Speaker 1: to to legislate the Dhaka order that he's rescinding next year.

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Speaker 1: But uh, Truck and Nancy came out ahead of the

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Speaker 1: White House announcing that the President Trump wasn't going to

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Speaker 1: pursue the wall in a way that made it look

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Speaker 1: like they've gotten some kind of concession. The White House

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Speaker 1: might have made mistake by letting Chuck and Nancy set

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Speaker 1: the tone for what the agreement was going to look like.

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Speaker 1: And so what you saw was President Trump Saul pulled

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Speaker 1: back a little bit from that and say, uh, well,

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Speaker 1: these are all of the border security and interior security

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Speaker 1: measures that we're going to push for as part of

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Speaker 1: the deal. Those included like to verify more ICE employees

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Speaker 1: and resources, and that put Democrats back on defense. Dates

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Speaker 1: then felt the need to backtrack from the deal. So

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Speaker 1: this is a lot of game woman trip, a lot

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Speaker 1: of signaling to supporters about who's going to fight for what.

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Speaker 1: At the end of the day, though, uh, these these

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Speaker 1: deals are all within the reach of Congress. They just

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Speaker 1: have to be willing to let the other side maybe

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Speaker 1: win a symbolic victory. Now and then we're speaking to

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Speaker 1: Sarah Westwood, who is the Washington Examiners. White House corresponded, Uh,

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Speaker 1: speaking to the White House, Sarah, what can you tell

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Speaker 1: us about as much as anyone can know? What can

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Speaker 1: you tell us about the relationship between Senate Majority Leader

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Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell and President Donald Trump. It seems like it's

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Speaker 1: been on a bit of a roller coaster lately. It

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Speaker 1: certainly has. But what we're hearing from our sources is

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Speaker 1: that it was President Trump the White House who initiated

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Speaker 1: that meeting, not the Senate Majority Leader. There are some

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Speaker 1: who think it's a recognition on the part of Trump

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Speaker 1: that he will need Senate Republicans to pass his legislative

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Speaker 1: agenda items, particularly tax form, and that antagonizing McConnell is

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Speaker 1: not going to be the way to get there. There

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Speaker 1: are some who think that President Trump is just laying

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Speaker 1: the groundwork to be able to say a little bit

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Speaker 1: down the line that he did everything he could, that

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Speaker 1: he looked, I did try to make nice with McConnell,

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Speaker 1: and look where it got us. That he's sort of

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Speaker 1: buying himself that credibility down the line. Uh, it was

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Speaker 1: just sort of remarkable to see President Trump go from

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Speaker 1: trading barbs with McConnell on Twitter to shaking his hand

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Speaker 1: and clapping his back in front of reporters in the

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Speaker 1: Rose Garden yesterday, and the relationship between the presidents and

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Speaker 1: Secretary of State Tillers in which I'm seeing being there's

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Speaker 1: additional reporting today to say that still some some tension

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Speaker 1: there or is that not really verified based on what

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Speaker 1: you're hearing from your sources. Well, remote, we're hearing that

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Speaker 1: the tension has been there for a long time, not

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Speaker 1: necessarily because of either side doing anything wrong, but because

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Speaker 1: Tillerson and Trump just may not be a good fit

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Speaker 1: professionally personally, that they have totally different styles, totally different

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Speaker 1: approaches to the job. That President Trump maybe thought he

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Speaker 1: was going to be hiring a contemporary, someone that he

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Speaker 1: could interact with in a friendly way because Rex Tillerson

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Speaker 1: came from the corporate world. But Tillerson was actually much

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Speaker 1: more cautious and careful then President Trump might have thought.

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Speaker 1: And so they don't necessarily get along that well on

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Speaker 1: a personal level, and that's really colored their professional relationship

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Speaker 1: as well. Um, I you know, I have no idea

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Speaker 1: whether Tillerson actually called President Trump a moron, but those

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Speaker 1: stories are just the symptom of the fact that they're working.

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Speaker 1: Relationships has been complicated over the past few months. And

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Speaker 1: I saw some reporting about Senator Tom Cotton. Is that

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Speaker 1: is that confirmed yet or is that just in the

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Speaker 1: rumor mill? Still, Well, it's still in the rumor mill,

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Speaker 1: but it's certainly believable because President Trump clearly likes Senator

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Speaker 1: Tom Cotton and trust his council. Remember that just days

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Speaker 1: before President Trump gave that big speech about his new

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Speaker 1: approach to the Iran nuclear deal, he had Cotton into

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Speaker 1: the White House for a one on one meeting. That

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Speaker 1: the White House has been in contact with Cotton, relying

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Speaker 1: on his advice as they proceeded with this new Uran policy.

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Speaker 1: So Cotton is someone President Trump clearly trust and likes,

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Speaker 1: has praised in the past. That wouldn't be surprising them

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Speaker 1: that he would consider placing Cotton somewhere in the administration.

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Speaker 1: Should have vacancy open up. Is there going to be

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Speaker 1: some action from this Republican Congress on legislation by the

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Speaker 1: end of the year you think, or is this just

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Speaker 1: going to be a conversation, whether it's about taxes, healthcare

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Speaker 1: that just keeps getting pushed out. Well, it's the timeline

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Speaker 1: that the White House is for doing for TAXICR in particular,

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Speaker 1: it's really ambitious. Initially, Gary Cone had said they wanted

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Speaker 1: to see tax reform get through the House by October

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Speaker 1: the Senate by November. That's just not looking likely. There's

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Speaker 1: only two weeks left in October, and Republicans are still

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Speaker 1: haggling over the broad strokes of tax reform and whether

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Speaker 1: it should add to the deficits or not, just big

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Speaker 1: conceptual questions, let alone hammering out the nitty gritty of

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Speaker 1: what kind of language would pass the House by the

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Speaker 1: end of the month. So it's a really ambitious timeline.

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Speaker 1: And uh, the more it drags on, there's only a

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Speaker 1: couple of dozen legislative working days left on the calendar,

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Speaker 1: the more unlikely it looks that we'll see it this year,

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Speaker 1: all right. Sarah Westwood, White House correspondent for the Washington Examder. Sarah,

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Speaker 1: great to have you, thanks for joining us, Thanks for

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Speaker 1: having me. Just a note about the obstruction as some

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Speaker 1: point on the judiciary and what's going on there with Trump.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it is true that the Democrats are doing

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Speaker 1: absolutely everything in their power to try and make it,

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Speaker 1: just make it as difficult as possible, as prolonged as

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Speaker 1: possible to get Trump's nominees to the bench. This is

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Speaker 1: one of the places where I think he's shown the

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Speaker 1: greatest support from conservatives. So he's getting the most support

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Speaker 1: from conservatives is on putting people. Uh course, it's the

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Speaker 1: most visible manifestation of this. The Supreme Court, but the

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Speaker 1: federal bench as well and appellate courts. The Obama administration's

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Speaker 1: legacy is largely a judicial one. Just keep that in mind.

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Speaker 1: I don't just mean the corruption within the do o

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Speaker 1: J because of all the leftist bureaucrats that clearly infiltrated it,

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Speaker 1: but I mean the actual judiciary, like the bench judges.

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Speaker 1: Uh we're talking about a large number of the current

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Speaker 1: currently in lace federal judges were appointed by Obama. And

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Speaker 1: remember that it was Harry Reid who got rid of

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Speaker 1: the filibuster for lower level meeting, non Supreme Court federal judges,

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Speaker 1: and that meant that they could just pack them with

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Speaker 1: devoted leftists, and they did. I think I should probably

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Speaker 1: check my statistic, but usually when I say this, i'm right,

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Speaker 1: I'm just being cautious. If I'm wrong, I'll correct it.

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Speaker 1: I think almost thirty percent in the let's say approximately

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Speaker 1: of the UH federal bench right now is comprised of

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Speaker 1: Obama appointees. Think about that, ish, A lot of judges

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Speaker 1: are far left wing Obama picks, and that's something that

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Speaker 1: stays with us unless we get rid of some of

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Speaker 1: those judges. And I think that you're seeing the need

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Speaker 1: for that with what's going on with this judge out

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Speaker 1: in in Hawaii. I think that people need to really

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Speaker 1: take seriously the removal of office, removal from office of

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Speaker 1: judges who are abusing their power. Why don't we talk

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Speaker 1: about that? Why don't I get into why I'm thinking

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Speaker 1: about the judiciary so much today? You got this judge

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Speaker 1: out in Hawaii who is stopping Trump's third iteration of

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Speaker 1: the so called travel band or is I like to

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Speaker 1: put it the temporary restriction or temporary enhancement on travel security.

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Speaker 1: He's holding the line for America. Buck Sexton his back

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Speaker 1: hut Baltimore addition today, excited to be hanging out here,

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Speaker 1: like I said the first time, So Baltimore is uh

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Speaker 1: is It is a nice town. I like it here.

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Speaker 1: You know, some good restaurants, there's some stuff to do.

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Speaker 1: I'm enjoying it, but I wanted to get into a

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Speaker 1: little bit of the continued fallout over the Harvey Weinstein situation.

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Speaker 1: Drudge has a big headline Harvey wood Cracking, and there's

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Speaker 1: just more and more of this stuff coming out, and

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Speaker 1: you know, I think that it's it's gonna be coming

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Speaker 1: out for quite some time because and this hasn't been

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Speaker 1: spoken about by that many people, I think yet, and

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Speaker 1: that's that there's something about the entertainment industry that is

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Speaker 1: particularly and has been particularly open to this kind of

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Speaker 1: exploitation for a long time. And it's because you have

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Speaker 1: individuals who are largely in terms of their careers, left

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Speaker 1: at the whim of completely well. They are left to

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Speaker 1: completely subjective decision making. There's not much that you can

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Speaker 1: do or say when you don't get the part in

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Speaker 1: a movie. It's just people in power deciding whether you

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Speaker 1: are a success or not. And that means that the

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Speaker 1: opportunity for abuse of power. And this is separate from

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Speaker 1: the specifics of all the sexual assault allegations that are

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Speaker 1: out there, but I just mean as a general concept,

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Speaker 1: Hollywood and the media and the entertainment industry are are

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Speaker 1: a profession where the power imbalance is tremendous between those

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Speaker 1: who have it and those who do not, and the

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Speaker 1: difference is stark. You know, let let me kind of.

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Speaker 1: And this is also true, I should note in the

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Speaker 1: in the news industry, particularly the TV news side, and

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Speaker 1: you've also seen plenty of problems coming from the TV

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Speaker 1: news industry with regard to harassment recently. But if you

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Speaker 1: are let's say a if you're a lawyer, if you

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Speaker 1: are working in a in a small business and you

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Speaker 1: have a role and that's what you do, you have

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Speaker 1: established something on your resume. You know that you have

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Speaker 1: a company that probably there's some either an HR department

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01:27:59,360 --> 01:28:03,720
Speaker 1: or at least some basic h r H policies that

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01:28:03,760 --> 01:28:07,160
Speaker 1: are in place. There's some structure for what's going on,

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01:28:07,360 --> 01:28:10,280
Speaker 1: and there are other people, and there's transparent. Look I'm

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01:28:10,280 --> 01:28:12,880
Speaker 1: speaking in generalities here, but there's other people around you,

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01:28:13,200 --> 01:28:17,320
Speaker 1: and there's some sense of expectations for conduct in the workplace.

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01:28:17,439 --> 01:28:20,519
Speaker 1: Now that sexual harassment happens, but the laws on the

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01:28:20,520 --> 01:28:22,160
Speaker 1: books that have been in the books for a long

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01:28:22,200 --> 01:28:26,760
Speaker 1: time mean that at a company, at a corporation that is,

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01:28:28,040 --> 01:28:32,240
Speaker 1: you know, making the money that is profitable, the opportunities

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01:28:32,920 --> 01:28:37,519
Speaker 1: to harass people always come with the possibility of a

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01:28:37,640 --> 01:28:41,599
Speaker 1: major UH settlement of some kind right that you can

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01:28:41,640 --> 01:28:46,000
Speaker 1: be sued, that there can be redress for people who

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01:28:46,040 --> 01:28:50,479
Speaker 1: are harassed or sexually harassed in your standard American court.

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01:28:50,520 --> 01:28:52,519
Speaker 1: Now that's not to say that harassment doesn't exist. I

1494
01:28:52,600 --> 01:28:55,800
Speaker 1: know that the me too hashtag, which is about people

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01:28:55,800 --> 01:28:58,920
Speaker 1: that have been sexually assaulted or harassed, has been mega

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01:28:58,960 --> 01:29:02,160
Speaker 1: trending on Twitter. But I'm just trying to point out

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01:29:02,600 --> 01:29:07,960
Speaker 1: that the entertainment industry specifically is going to be and

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01:29:08,080 --> 01:29:12,200
Speaker 1: has been, a subject to people abusing their power in

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01:29:12,240 --> 01:29:15,559
Speaker 1: this way because there really isn't much of a of

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01:29:15,640 --> 01:29:18,519
Speaker 1: a structure and place for a lot of how this works.

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01:29:18,520 --> 01:29:23,000
Speaker 1: There really isn't a an established best practices. There's no

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01:29:23,120 --> 01:29:25,960
Speaker 1: corporate culture in Holly Well. I guess you could argue

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01:29:25,960 --> 01:29:28,640
Speaker 1: the corporate culture is the casting couch mentality. It is

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01:29:29,000 --> 01:29:32,240
Speaker 1: people doing anything to get ahead. But it's it's worse

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01:29:32,320 --> 01:29:35,519
Speaker 1: in Hollywood then it would be, and and then I

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01:29:35,560 --> 01:29:37,519
Speaker 1: believe it's worse in Hollywood than it is in in

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01:29:37,680 --> 01:29:41,920
Speaker 1: almost any other industry, certainly in any other large industry.

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01:29:42,479 --> 01:29:48,000
Speaker 1: And Hollywood has been uniquely susceptible to abuse of power

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01:29:48,040 --> 01:29:50,639
Speaker 1: and harassment for a long time. What I think has

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01:29:50,760 --> 01:29:55,880
Speaker 1: caused the explosion of allegations here, or or rather the

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01:29:55,880 --> 01:30:00,080
Speaker 1: the outrage in response to the explosion allegations, is that

1512
01:30:00,200 --> 01:30:05,360
Speaker 1: this stuff was so egregious and was suppressed for so long.

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01:30:06,320 --> 01:30:10,160
Speaker 1: I believe that we all figured that there was that

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01:30:10,240 --> 01:30:14,440
Speaker 1: there was behavior similar to this going on in Hollywood,

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01:30:14,600 --> 01:30:17,720
Speaker 1: and that most people just ignored it. They've got their

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01:30:17,720 --> 01:30:19,840
Speaker 1: own things to think about, and they didn't you know

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01:30:19,920 --> 01:30:22,960
Speaker 1: what I mean similar to I mean sexual harassment comments

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01:30:23,000 --> 01:30:27,800
Speaker 1: to women, uh quid pro quo for movie roles, that

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01:30:27,800 --> 01:30:31,080
Speaker 1: that casting couch behavior. I think people have recognized for

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01:30:31,120 --> 01:30:34,360
Speaker 1: a long time that that was going on, but we

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01:30:34,439 --> 01:30:37,360
Speaker 1: just didn't know the specifics of it. Now that we

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01:30:37,600 --> 01:30:41,080
Speaker 1: know the specifics and know that it's not only an

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01:30:41,080 --> 01:30:46,439
Speaker 1: issue of what would be civil litigation, right, a suit

1524
01:30:46,520 --> 01:30:50,760
Speaker 1: that could go to court that's monetary damages, but criminal allegations.

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01:30:51,600 --> 01:30:56,000
Speaker 1: That's where the suppression of this goes, well beyond just well,

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01:30:56,120 --> 01:30:58,479
Speaker 1: you know, there was a corporate culture, or there wasn't

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01:30:58,479 --> 01:31:01,479
Speaker 1: a corporate culture in Hollywood. There was a culture of

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01:31:01,920 --> 01:31:06,080
Speaker 1: the powerful praying on the powerless, and you know that

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01:31:06,120 --> 01:31:11,759
Speaker 1: this is now into what feels like a criminal conspiracy,

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01:31:11,880 --> 01:31:16,200
Speaker 1: and you're starting to see the beginnings of co conspirator

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01:31:16,240 --> 01:31:20,080
Speaker 1: people talking about co conspirators with Weinstein. It's gone beyond

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01:31:20,120 --> 01:31:24,800
Speaker 1: just enablers, because this guy was a predator. This was

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01:31:24,840 --> 01:31:29,760
Speaker 1: somebody who was dangerous to women and praying upon them

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01:31:29,760 --> 01:31:33,360
Speaker 1: in criminal ways, at least allegedly, right, nothing, nothing has

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01:31:33,400 --> 01:31:35,320
Speaker 1: been proven yet in a court of law. This is

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01:31:35,320 --> 01:31:38,360
Speaker 1: why we say allegedly it's a formality, but one that

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01:31:38,520 --> 01:31:42,479
Speaker 1: is in place. But the allegations of a criminal nature

1538
01:31:42,520 --> 01:31:45,479
Speaker 1: he denies. Of a civil suit nature he accepts, and

1539
01:31:45,479 --> 01:31:49,639
Speaker 1: that's why he's gone to the rehab facility. But this

1540
01:31:49,880 --> 01:31:52,840
Speaker 1: has gotten worse with each passing day. I don't think

1541
01:31:52,840 --> 01:31:56,200
Speaker 1: we've seen the worst of it yet, and you're going

1542
01:31:56,240 --> 01:31:59,200
Speaker 1: to see that there's been a transition from this was

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01:31:59,280 --> 01:32:03,640
Speaker 1: a civil suit kind of complaint originally to know this

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01:32:03,840 --> 01:32:07,599
Speaker 1: is now possible criminal charges. And now I'm wondering if

1545
01:32:07,640 --> 01:32:11,160
Speaker 1: there's going to be more fallout for those around Harvey

1546
01:32:11,200 --> 01:32:14,960
Speaker 1: Weinstein for being co conspirators in this, for being enablers

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01:32:15,000 --> 01:32:18,439
Speaker 1: in this. That's where I think this may be going next.

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01:32:19,320 --> 01:32:24,599
Speaker 1: M Well, everybody, it's been fun. I'm actually doing as

1549
01:32:24,640 --> 01:32:29,280
Speaker 1: I said that the show today from Baltimore, which is

1550
01:32:29,479 --> 01:32:32,559
Speaker 1: my first time in Baltimore. I've done something of a

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01:32:33,240 --> 01:32:37,160
Speaker 1: of a coastal tour in the last few days. I

1552
01:32:37,200 --> 01:32:41,160
Speaker 1: went back to my old stomping ground in Washington, d C.

1553
01:32:41,400 --> 01:32:43,799
Speaker 1: Which I will tell you, I know it's a swamp,

1554
01:32:44,479 --> 01:32:47,400
Speaker 1: but it is in its own way pretty charming and

1555
01:32:49,520 --> 01:32:53,920
Speaker 1: alluring swamp. The food in d C has gotten really good.

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01:32:54,200 --> 01:32:57,800
Speaker 1: I moved there in two thousand and five, and I

1557
01:32:57,840 --> 01:33:02,240
Speaker 1: think DC has every year gotten better. So I know

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01:33:02,320 --> 01:33:05,439
Speaker 1: that all things political and inside the Bellway we see

1559
01:33:05,520 --> 01:33:09,680
Speaker 1: as being problematic, and there's and that's all true, right

1560
01:33:09,720 --> 01:33:12,479
Speaker 1: that the wealthiest or three of the ten, or four

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01:33:12,520 --> 01:33:13,920
Speaker 1: of the ten, might even be six of the ten.

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01:33:14,000 --> 01:33:17,479
Speaker 1: I forget now several of the wealthiest counties in the

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01:33:17,520 --> 01:33:22,360
Speaker 1: country are the ones immediately ringing d C. That shouldn't

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01:33:22,360 --> 01:33:25,040
Speaker 1: be the case. It should not be feeding from the

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01:33:25,080 --> 01:33:28,080
Speaker 1: trough of the federal government. But that's what happens. But

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01:33:28,120 --> 01:33:29,680
Speaker 1: if you're just talking about a place to visit, I

1567
01:33:29,720 --> 01:33:32,200
Speaker 1: gotta say d C is pretty great. I was in

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01:33:32,240 --> 01:33:34,759
Speaker 1: Georgetown for a little bit. I met my little brother

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01:33:34,880 --> 01:33:39,400
Speaker 1: who just happened to randomly be in town on on business,

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01:33:39,479 --> 01:33:41,760
Speaker 1: and we we didn't even realize we're going to be

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01:33:41,800 --> 01:33:44,760
Speaker 1: in town the same time until I told him I

1572
01:33:44,800 --> 01:33:46,639
Speaker 1: was going to be on Fox and had a lot

1573
01:33:46,680 --> 01:33:50,320
Speaker 1: of fun yesterday on the Brett Bear panel, but we

1574
01:33:50,320 --> 01:33:53,280
Speaker 1: met up afterwards one of our old haunts. I was

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01:33:53,600 --> 01:33:57,519
Speaker 1: a young c I a officer in d C living

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01:33:57,560 --> 01:33:59,680
Speaker 1: in Georgetown, and my little brother was a student at

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01:33:59,720 --> 01:34:03,800
Speaker 1: George Town University. So even when I was outside of

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01:34:04,080 --> 01:34:07,000
Speaker 1: New York City, my hometown, I had family nearby when

1579
01:34:07,040 --> 01:34:08,320
Speaker 1: we used to hang out all the time, and it

1580
01:34:08,360 --> 01:34:10,640
Speaker 1: was it was great, and it was nice to be

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01:34:10,720 --> 01:34:14,000
Speaker 1: back in town and to spend some time in my

1582
01:34:14,120 --> 01:34:17,519
Speaker 1: old my old stomping ground, and also with a little

1583
01:34:17,520 --> 01:34:21,759
Speaker 1: bro who's just the greatest guy anybody could could ever imagine.

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01:34:22,280 --> 01:34:27,040
Speaker 1: So I wanted to also, uh take some time today

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01:34:27,080 --> 01:34:31,519
Speaker 1: to get into the latest on Team Buck Speaks, because

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01:34:31,560 --> 01:34:33,640
Speaker 1: this has become one of my one of my favorite

1587
01:34:34,240 --> 01:34:36,640
Speaker 1: parts of of the show. Actually, it's a lot of

1588
01:34:36,680 --> 01:34:40,080
Speaker 1: fun to be able to read off to all of

1589
01:34:40,120 --> 01:34:43,920
Speaker 1: you what you're saying, especially because we have such a

1590
01:34:44,040 --> 01:34:47,960
Speaker 1: large podcast audience. And also I know some of you

1591
01:34:48,000 --> 01:34:50,880
Speaker 1: listen to the show either on the I Heart radio

1592
01:34:51,000 --> 01:34:54,640
Speaker 1: app or you listen on a little bit of a

1593
01:34:54,640 --> 01:34:57,120
Speaker 1: delay on your station. So for those of you who

1594
01:34:57,200 --> 01:34:59,640
Speaker 1: can't call in live, which is it's always great to

1595
01:34:59,680 --> 01:35:02,160
Speaker 1: have you with the live call ins. But for those

1596
01:35:02,160 --> 01:35:04,320
Speaker 1: of you can't call it live. Facebook dot com slash

1597
01:35:04,360 --> 01:35:08,040
Speaker 1: buck Sexton, the team and I Tyrone, Amy and me,

1598
01:35:08,200 --> 01:35:11,639
Speaker 1: we are going through those messages and we're taking all

1599
01:35:11,680 --> 01:35:17,200
Speaker 1: of your thoughts and advice into account, your criticism as well. Uh,

1600
01:35:17,200 --> 01:35:19,720
Speaker 1: And it's a great way to have real connectivity with

1601
01:35:19,720 --> 01:35:22,639
Speaker 1: all of you listening. So however you listen to the show,

1602
01:35:22,680 --> 01:35:25,519
Speaker 1: and if you're just a little shy about calling in,

1603
01:35:26,160 --> 01:35:30,719
Speaker 1: although you couldn't have anyone better than than producer Amy

1604
01:35:30,800 --> 01:35:32,720
Speaker 1: as the first person you're going to talk to, she will.

1605
01:35:32,800 --> 01:35:34,880
Speaker 1: She'll make you feel right at home when you call in.

1606
01:35:35,439 --> 01:35:37,599
Speaker 1: But if you would rather write, or if you want

1607
01:35:37,600 --> 01:35:40,120
Speaker 1: to share a link, or there's a story that you

1608
01:35:40,160 --> 01:35:43,679
Speaker 1: think should be brought to the attention of the Freedom

1609
01:35:43,800 --> 01:35:46,519
Speaker 1: Hut so that we can get involved in the discussion here,

1610
01:35:46,600 --> 01:35:48,439
Speaker 1: or I can talk to my sources and try to

1611
01:35:48,479 --> 01:35:51,479
Speaker 1: dig up more information on it. Facebook dot com slash

1612
01:35:51,520 --> 01:35:56,360
Speaker 1: buck Sexton. So with that, uh, we have Mark writing

1613
01:35:56,400 --> 01:36:01,160
Speaker 1: in doing great as usual on Brett Bear Killer Hair

1614
01:36:01,280 --> 01:36:05,599
Speaker 1: bro always looking good, l O L. And then he writes, dang,

1615
01:36:05,880 --> 01:36:10,360
Speaker 1: you're skinny now too, what's the secret? Looking younger and younger?

1616
01:36:10,680 --> 01:36:13,000
Speaker 1: Always love your comments. You need to have your own

1617
01:36:13,000 --> 01:36:16,320
Speaker 1: show on f n C. I think I'll tell them seriously, Well, Mark,

1618
01:36:16,360 --> 01:36:19,679
Speaker 1: you are far too nice. Thank you very much, hopefully

1619
01:36:19,680 --> 01:36:21,439
Speaker 1: I was having a good hair day yesterday on the

1620
01:36:21,439 --> 01:36:24,960
Speaker 1: bread Bear panel. And in terms of dropping some LB's

1621
01:36:25,200 --> 01:36:28,160
Speaker 1: one is, you know, I can't be if if I'm

1622
01:36:28,200 --> 01:36:30,200
Speaker 1: gonna be a few years older than miss Molly, I

1623
01:36:30,240 --> 01:36:33,360
Speaker 1: can't be losing a step to be in uh dad

1624
01:36:33,400 --> 01:36:35,840
Speaker 1: Bob just yet right, I've I've got to actually be

1625
01:36:35,920 --> 01:36:38,439
Speaker 1: a dad before I let the dad bod fully fully

1626
01:36:38,720 --> 01:36:43,639
Speaker 1: get embraced. And also, I just find the enemies are

1627
01:36:44,120 --> 01:36:46,280
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying I don't I don't enjoy both,

1628
01:36:46,320 --> 01:36:49,479
Speaker 1: but the enemies are sugar and alcohol everything else and

1629
01:36:49,520 --> 01:36:53,800
Speaker 1: sugar meaning also refined carbohydrates that your body breaks down

1630
01:36:53,840 --> 01:36:57,439
Speaker 1: quickly and in your blood. In your blood sugar reflects. Uh.

1631
01:36:57,960 --> 01:37:00,880
Speaker 1: It's as though you were you know, a cupcake, and

1632
01:37:01,200 --> 01:37:05,080
Speaker 1: or you know a piece of chocolate and a bagel.

1633
01:37:05,439 --> 01:37:07,680
Speaker 1: For all intents and purposes, you should think of them

1634
01:37:07,680 --> 01:37:10,000
Speaker 1: a gun of the same way. So although I think

1635
01:37:10,080 --> 01:37:13,719
Speaker 1: dark chocolate is fantastic, as you know, yeah, sugar and chocolate,

1636
01:37:13,720 --> 01:37:17,720
Speaker 1: I mean, whoops, No, chocolate's phenomenal. Sugar and alcohol are

1637
01:37:17,760 --> 01:37:19,800
Speaker 1: the enemy. If that's something that you want to make

1638
01:37:20,080 --> 01:37:23,280
Speaker 1: some changes to. Uh. David writes in hey buck, just

1639
01:37:23,320 --> 01:37:26,439
Speaker 1: listen to the Friday podcast. I will not give you

1640
01:37:26,479 --> 01:37:29,840
Speaker 1: a hard time about the pearl handled revolver remark because

1641
01:37:29,840 --> 01:37:33,240
Speaker 1: you corrected yourself. But on the subject of Friday, thank you.

1642
01:37:33,280 --> 01:37:35,800
Speaker 1: I'm glad I got so many I corrected it on air,

1643
01:37:35,920 --> 01:37:38,800
Speaker 1: and still people were writing again like how could you like,

1644
01:37:38,880 --> 01:37:41,920
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I know it wasn't it was Ivory. It

1645
01:37:42,040 --> 01:37:46,720
Speaker 1: wasn't pearl on patents, revolver or revolvers. Oh gosh, that

1646
01:37:46,760 --> 01:37:49,439
Speaker 1: I'm making another mistake. Apologies. But on the subject of

1647
01:37:49,439 --> 01:37:53,040
Speaker 1: Friday the thirteenth, my wife and I uh met on

1648
01:37:53,080 --> 01:37:56,080
Speaker 1: Friday the thirteenth, and we were married on on February

1649
01:37:56,120 --> 01:37:59,640
Speaker 1: thirteenth and have been married for almost thirty years. Superstition

1650
01:37:59,680 --> 01:38:04,280
Speaker 1: be d. D. Shields. High shout out to Ms Molly

1651
01:38:04,920 --> 01:38:08,120
Speaker 1: Welcome home, Chica. And by the way, my wife's name

1652
01:38:08,240 --> 01:38:10,400
Speaker 1: is Maria and she's a huge fan too. Well. David

1653
01:38:10,479 --> 01:38:13,960
Speaker 1: and Maria, congrats on your marital bliss and thank you

1654
01:38:14,040 --> 01:38:18,839
Speaker 1: very much for writing into the show. Shields High, Michael.

1655
01:38:19,439 --> 01:38:23,400
Speaker 1: Michael writes in Hey, Buck, Shields High from Texas. I

1656
01:38:23,479 --> 01:38:25,639
Speaker 1: was podcasting Friday Show. Just how to give a big

1657
01:38:25,680 --> 01:38:30,559
Speaker 1: thumbs up to the gratuitous greenskeeper Carl talking about all

1658
01:38:30,600 --> 01:38:34,640
Speaker 1: the doctors offering their advice literally made me L O L.

1659
01:38:35,160 --> 01:38:38,519
Speaker 1: Thanks for the laugh, Shields High, buddy, Well Michael, glad

1660
01:38:38,560 --> 01:38:40,519
Speaker 1: that it made you l O L. That's that's what

1661
01:38:40,560 --> 01:38:43,320
Speaker 1: we aim for sometimes here. It can't be all serious

1662
01:38:43,320 --> 01:38:47,320
Speaker 1: stuff all the time. Uh. Just this is from Ellen.

1663
01:38:47,439 --> 01:38:49,960
Speaker 1: Just listen a lot of Just listen to Friday Podcast

1664
01:38:50,000 --> 01:38:52,200
Speaker 1: here today. I guess people are delayed over the weekend

1665
01:38:52,240 --> 01:38:55,080
Speaker 1: and they're right in on Monday. Just listen to Friday Podcast.

1666
01:38:55,160 --> 01:38:57,600
Speaker 1: Great show as usual. I'm with you on the Exorcist.

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01:38:57,760 --> 01:39:01,880
Speaker 1: I lived in d C for years and always avoided

1668
01:39:01,920 --> 01:39:07,240
Speaker 1: that street when in Georgetown. Well, Ellen, I lived right

1669
01:39:07,680 --> 01:39:10,759
Speaker 1: down from that street and I walked past it every

1670
01:39:10,760 --> 01:39:12,639
Speaker 1: single day. I mean I drove past it, walked past

1671
01:39:12,680 --> 01:39:14,479
Speaker 1: it every day. To give you a sense of where

1672
01:39:14,479 --> 01:39:17,560
Speaker 1: I lived in Georgetown when I was down there, But

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01:39:18,280 --> 01:39:20,599
Speaker 1: that is to me still the scariest movie ever made.

1674
01:39:21,040 --> 01:39:23,120
Speaker 1: I am an adult. I am not afraid of the dark.

1675
01:39:23,200 --> 01:39:25,599
Speaker 1: I have been in plenty of scary places around the world.

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01:39:25,880 --> 01:39:28,240
Speaker 1: I do not enjoy watching The Exorcist. It will not

1677
01:39:28,320 --> 01:39:31,719
Speaker 1: be on my list of movies for this Halloween. Although

1678
01:39:31,800 --> 01:39:35,599
Speaker 1: the real Dracula that's coming up on the Bucks Exton

1679
01:39:36,240 --> 01:39:39,280
Speaker 1: radio show in in a few weeks also known as

1680
01:39:39,320 --> 01:39:44,200
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton with American Now So we have oho, sorry,

1681
01:39:44,240 --> 01:39:48,200
Speaker 1: more people writing, lots more people writing in about the

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01:39:48,240 --> 01:39:52,320
Speaker 1: pearl handled. Sorry they were they were not pearl handled.

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01:39:52,400 --> 01:39:55,840
Speaker 1: I am not worthy. I am not worthy. They're not

1684
01:39:55,880 --> 01:39:59,040
Speaker 1: pearl handled. They were ivory handled. That patent Carrott. We

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01:39:59,040 --> 01:40:03,000
Speaker 1: have established that, all right. David writes in with something serious. Here, Hey, Buck,

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Speaker 1: here is the picture of the Vegas shooters sweet door

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Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier. It appears to be off the hinges

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Speaker 1: and laying sideways. I can count maybe ten bullet holes.

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Speaker 1: You know as well as I do that the door

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Speaker 1: would have been blown to hell if two rounds were

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01:40:16,680 --> 01:40:19,000
Speaker 1: put through it at short range by an a R

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01:40:19,080 --> 01:40:22,559
Speaker 1: fifteen on quote full automatic, that hallway would have looked

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01:40:22,600 --> 01:40:25,360
Speaker 1: like a sawmill. It sucks. I even have to think

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01:40:25,360 --> 01:40:27,280
Speaker 1: about it, but it doesn't make sense on any level,

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01:40:28,080 --> 01:40:30,360
Speaker 1: and then a security guard disappears after the meeting with

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Speaker 1: MGM management. Anyway, looking forward to the Dracula episode, there

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Speaker 1: we go, perfect timing. David. The History Deep Dives are great,

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Speaker 1: and you produce a well balanced show. We can only

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01:40:40,600 --> 01:40:42,840
Speaker 1: talk politics so much. Well, David, let me first say

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01:40:42,840 --> 01:40:45,200
Speaker 1: thank you for that. I do like to mix it

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01:40:45,280 --> 01:40:48,160
Speaker 1: up and bring a lot of information to the show because, look,

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01:40:48,200 --> 01:40:51,640
Speaker 1: I know that there's so much commentary out there, and

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01:40:51,680 --> 01:40:54,000
Speaker 1: by the time I'm on air, a lot of you

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01:40:54,040 --> 01:40:57,240
Speaker 1: will have heard about the main news stories and maybe

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01:40:57,280 --> 01:41:00,200
Speaker 1: even some commentary in the main news stories. So that's

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01:41:00,200 --> 01:41:01,639
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why I like to go deep

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01:41:01,640 --> 01:41:04,559
Speaker 1: on the national security side, bring a little expertise to things.

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01:41:05,040 --> 01:41:08,320
Speaker 1: And also why I mix it up and why you

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01:41:08,360 --> 01:41:12,879
Speaker 1: have uh, some history deep dives, some more philosophical segments,

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01:41:12,880 --> 01:41:16,040
Speaker 1: some that are just about life and coming up the

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01:41:16,280 --> 01:41:20,559
Speaker 1: real Dracula for those who don't know the story, I

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01:41:20,600 --> 01:41:23,960
Speaker 1: think you'll really enjoy that. That will be as close

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01:41:24,000 --> 01:41:25,599
Speaker 1: to Halloween. I gotta see what day of the week

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01:41:25,640 --> 01:41:29,519
Speaker 1: Halloween is, but the real Dracula is always that's a

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01:41:29,520 --> 01:41:32,519
Speaker 1: crowd pleaser because I'm I'm amazed to this day that

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01:41:32,520 --> 01:41:35,760
Speaker 1: no one has really made a movie about the guy

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01:41:35,800 --> 01:41:39,519
Speaker 1: that Dracula, the character was based on. I mean, it

1718
01:41:39,600 --> 01:41:44,479
Speaker 1: is a historical character, as the cross versus Crescent theme

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01:41:44,560 --> 01:41:46,920
Speaker 1: continues through this show in terms of our history, Deep

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01:41:46,920 --> 01:41:51,120
Speaker 1: dives vlad dera cool who is the basis for Dracula,

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01:41:52,120 --> 01:41:55,720
Speaker 1: was raised in the Ottoman court. He was the equivalent

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01:41:55,800 --> 01:41:59,599
Speaker 1: in his day of like a special forces guy. He

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01:41:59,680 --> 01:42:04,040
Speaker 1: had non traditional he fought in nontraditional ways. He was

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01:42:05,600 --> 01:42:08,599
Speaker 1: schooled in the Ottoman arts of warfare and then fought

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01:42:08,600 --> 01:42:10,800
Speaker 1: for the Christians against the Ottomans. He was also a

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01:42:10,840 --> 01:42:13,960
Speaker 1: bloodthirsty maniac. But we'll get into all of that. We

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01:42:13,960 --> 01:42:17,320
Speaker 1: will get into all of that. It's a fascinating historical

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01:42:17,400 --> 01:42:20,080
Speaker 1: piece that I think doesn't get nearly enough attention, And

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01:42:20,160 --> 01:42:21,760
Speaker 1: now that I've talked it up so much, we will

1730
01:42:21,760 --> 01:42:25,400
Speaker 1: certainly have to spend some time on the show doing it.

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01:42:26,320 --> 01:42:31,960
Speaker 1: Um Chessen writes in with a photo of his Chuck roast,

1732
01:42:32,280 --> 01:42:35,400
Speaker 1: which I can tell you all looks delicious. So Chessen,

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01:42:35,479 --> 01:42:37,920
Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed that. I can't really describe it

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01:42:37,920 --> 01:42:40,479
Speaker 1: well enough to do with Justice on radio. But I'm

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01:42:40,520 --> 01:42:46,120
Speaker 1: sure it was absolutely fantastic. And let's see who else

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01:42:46,160 --> 01:42:48,639
Speaker 1: I'm trying to make my there's so many and those

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01:42:48,680 --> 01:42:50,479
Speaker 1: of writing in just you know, even if I don't

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01:42:50,560 --> 01:42:53,800
Speaker 1: get to it on air. Um, if I don't get

1739
01:42:53,800 --> 01:42:56,599
Speaker 1: to it on air, don't think that I'm not reading

1740
01:42:56,600 --> 01:42:58,640
Speaker 1: it and that you're you're not being heard in the

1741
01:42:58,680 --> 01:43:02,320
Speaker 1: sense that we're not getting to your messages. It just

1742
01:43:02,400 --> 01:43:04,040
Speaker 1: means that we run out of time. And in fact,

1743
01:43:04,400 --> 01:43:07,720
Speaker 1: I gotta call it there because it is time for

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01:43:07,840 --> 01:43:10,439
Speaker 1: us to close up shop here in the Freedom Hut.

1745
01:43:10,760 --> 01:43:13,559
Speaker 1: Thank you as always, Facebook dot Com, slash buck Sex.

1746
01:43:13,560 --> 01:43:15,880
Speaker 1: Then if you want to send me those messages, I'm

1747
01:43:15,880 --> 01:43:19,400
Speaker 1: gonna gonna be spending the night tonight in Baltimore, which

1748
01:43:19,439 --> 01:43:22,680
Speaker 1: is a lovely, lovely place. I want to thank w

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01:43:22,840 --> 01:43:26,960
Speaker 1: c w CBM for hosting me. Very generous of them

1750
01:43:27,000 --> 01:43:29,719
Speaker 1: to allow me to come and use their wonderful radio

1751
01:43:29,800 --> 01:43:33,439
Speaker 1: studio and get a chance to enjoy Baltimore and its

1752
01:43:33,439 --> 01:43:36,320
Speaker 1: surroundings and be close to the folks down here. So

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01:43:36,600 --> 01:43:38,440
Speaker 1: big thank you to w CBM.