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Speaker 1: All right, everybody, So still plenty of news swirling. President

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Speaker 1: Trump took to the Oval Office this morning and answered

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Speaker 1: a number of questions, and one of them was regarding

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Speaker 1: DEI check it out.

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Speaker 4: We didn't have our best and if you read the

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Speaker 4: quote that I read yesterday at the news conference, it

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Speaker 4: talked about people that were psychologically injured, were okay.

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Speaker 5: Warnings or messages that government websites will be shut down

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Speaker 5: this evening to scrub them with DEI content.

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Speaker 2: Can you confirm it.

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Speaker 6: That's actually Jodo.

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Speaker 7: I'll go to the websites, so we shut down the

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Speaker 7: seed to scrub them of DEI content.

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Speaker 6: Can you confer on of that's accurate.

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Speaker 2: And there I don't know.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't sound like a bad idea to me. DEEI

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Speaker 4: think DEI is dead. So if they want to scrub

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Speaker 4: the website, that's okay with me. But I can't tell you.

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Speaker 4: I guess probably certain people handle it in certain ways.

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Speaker 4: But I'll tell you who's very happy about it. The military,

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Speaker 4: the real leaders, the real generals in the military. They're

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Speaker 1: And my producer, who keeps be honest, reminded me that

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Speaker 1: that press conference was this afternoon, although it felt like

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Speaker 1: but not for much longer.

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Speaker 3: As many of you know, I'm heading.

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Speaker 1: To DC this weekend and I'll be joining John in

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Speaker 1: studio every day from here on out there. From Washington, anyway,

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Speaker 1: I want to move on to President Trump and some

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Speaker 1: of his comments about tariffs. This has been an ongoing

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Speaker 3: Prior to the election.

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Speaker 1: After the election, heading into his presidency whether tariffs should

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Speaker 1: be used, and President Trump feels very strongly that that

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Speaker 1: is an incentive to get other countries to buck up.

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Speaker 1: But here are his comments on that.

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Speaker 4: As you know, we have about a two hundred billion

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Speaker 4: dollar deficit with with a candidate getting close to two

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Speaker 4: I say, why should we be subsidizing candidate. You know,

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Speaker 4: it's wonderful. I have so many friends in candid it's

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Speaker 4: a great places. Yeah, now we're not looking for recogn

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Speaker 4: Who it's the same thing. We have a two hundred

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Speaker 8: You've seen the numbers.

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Speaker 9: They've dropped almost zero.

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Speaker 4: But we've suffered under the past administration for years and years.

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Speaker 4: We've suffered with millions of criminals coming into our country. Criminals,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Look, when you have an imbalance in the trade partnership,

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Speaker 1: really matter, though. You've got to even out that partnership, okay,

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Speaker 1: And the media is still talking about cash Betel's at

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Speaker 1: testimony in his Senate confirmation hearings. And you know, for

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Speaker 10: He says in the book over and over there are

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Speaker 10: criminal members of the deep state, and it's a list

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Speaker 10: One of the things we've also learned is that there's

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Speaker 10: a half dozen advisors who've arrived at the Justice Department, sorry,

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Speaker 11: The seventh floor.

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Speaker 10: Two of them are affiliated in some way with space X.

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Speaker 10: One of them is a former aid of Representative Jim Jordan,

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Speaker 8: And this is all unprecedented.

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Speaker 10: After Jay Edgar Hoover's decades of abuse, there was massive

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Speaker 10: reforms in the nineteen seventies. There's only been one political

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Speaker 10: You now have a half dozen people coming in the

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Speaker 10: FBA officials are very worried about what's happening.

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Speaker 1: And yet one of the tools that FBI agents frequently

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Speaker 1: use FAIZA warrants. From one period between twenty twenty two

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Speaker 1: definitely something that is thinking and rotten within that agency,

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Speaker 1: and Americans just want someone in there who can root.

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Speaker 3: It out, all right.

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Speaker 1: So the DNC Winter Meeting took place. They had their

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Speaker 1: and they were trying to still pick apart how Kamala

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Speaker 1: Harris lost the selection. What went wrong? Was it something

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Speaker 1: with the messaging? Was it the fact that they went

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Speaker 1: they don't seem to think, so this is what they

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Speaker 3: Check it out.

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Speaker 2: I have a show of hands.

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Speaker 12: How many of you believe that racism and misogyny played

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Speaker 12: a role in Vice President Harris's defeat? Okay, so that's good,

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Speaker 1: Couldn't be anything wrong with their party's platform and how

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Speaker 1: Speaking of DEI, it has unfortunately crept into practically everything

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Speaker 1: delighted to bring in my guests for opening up the

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for.

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Speaker 11: Being here, Thank you so much for having me, Sir.

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Speaker 1: I absolutely love your story. I'm going to let you

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Speaker 1: tell it, but I just I want our audience to

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Speaker 1: know you are someone who spent four hundred hours in

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Speaker 1: combat flight. You're not someone who who has you know,

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Speaker 1: the Air Force, and you were appointed to this position.

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Speaker 1: You spent almost two years as a senior advisor to

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Speaker 1: They just kind of stuck you there because you're black.

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Speaker 1: And how did that go for them?

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Speaker 3: And how did it go for you?

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Speaker 13: Well, I'll tell you this a little bit of inside baseball.

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Speaker 13: There was there was still one of President Trump's appointees

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Speaker 13: And they of course did not. They're finding out now,

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Speaker 8: But so what I see them weep?

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Speaker 3: I love that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And you're right, they definitely are seeing now. So

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Speaker 1: you effectively went in there operating as I mean, for

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Speaker 13: So certain things did not in my mind reach the

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Speaker 13: red on the crazy meter, but certain things did. And

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Speaker 13: Managing an Inclusion for Executives, and they were really really

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Speaker 13: saying that all bipock as they like to call it,

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Speaker 13: But yes, but we had other people in that class

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Speaker 13: And I said, oh lord, okay, this has to stop.

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. You know what's so strange to me

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Speaker 1: they're not the type of people to innately have a

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Speaker 1: victim mentality. So all of the DEI nonsense seems to

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Speaker 1: me like it is wholly incompatible with our fighting bodies.

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Speaker 13: Oh yes, and look at it this way. You have

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Speaker 13: people Air Force, Army, Marines, sailors have been in combat together,

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Speaker 13: have sacrificed, have shed blood, and once their buddies shed

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Speaker 13: You're really inherently racist.

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Speaker 11: Me.

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Speaker 13: There were times when I actually wanted to slap people

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Speaker 13: for saying that, but I had to keep coming.

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Speaker 1: I love that, and I'm right there with you. You know,

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Speaker 1: this mentality has taken over so much of our country.

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Speaker 1: I hope it's on the way out. It seems like

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Speaker 1: it's on the way out. And President Trump I saw

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Speaker 1: earlier today, President Trump ordered that all of those pronouns

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Speaker 3: Is this a free speech issue?

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Speaker 1: Because I feel like that's exactly the argument coming down

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, retired Brigadier general, Thank you so

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Speaker 3: Welcome back, everybody, you know.

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Speaker 1: I have heard so many people remark about how in

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Speaker 1: Cash Battel. And I thoroughly enjoyed watching the fireworks fly

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Speaker 1: the host of the Experts podcast, Jonathan Gilliam. Jonathan great

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Speaker 8: Good to be with you.

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Speaker 1: You know, Cash Betel is a change maker. He is

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Speaker 3: How do you think he did yesterday?

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Speaker 15: But let me just say one thing about what you

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Speaker 15: I believe, and so but I think him getting in there.

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Speaker 8: There is the team that Trump is building. That's the

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Speaker 15: There should be impeachment hearings if they don't do a

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Speaker 1: Honestly, I think fixes the problem of all of this

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Speaker 2: Make it at the top.

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Speaker 15: Let them sue them if they say something that's not true.

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Speaker 15: That would stop it as well, probably pretty.

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Speaker 1: Cash Battel, I feel like there are a number of

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Speaker 1: a number of answers to this.

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Speaker 3: But what are they so afraid of?

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Speaker 1: And I don't mean like a from a thirty thousand

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Speaker 1: foot view that he's going to go in there and

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Speaker 1: shake things up, Like specifically, what are they so afraid of?

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Speaker 8: Well, he's not a puppet.

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Speaker 15: I mean, look, he may be loyal to Trump, but

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Speaker 15: I don't think Cash battail. If President Trump, you know,

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Speaker 15: went crazy and started asking him to do things that

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Speaker 15: were unethical or against the constitution, for instance, Cash wouldn't

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Speaker 15: do that.

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Speaker 8: Cash isn't going to make up.

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Speaker 15: Evidence to go against a politician that they don't hate.

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Speaker 15: You know, the last director created he was over oversaw

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Speaker 15: the FBI when they used false evidence, created evidence, and

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Speaker 15: funneled that through the FAISA. He didn't get through, he

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Speaker 15: didn't get rid of and fire immediately.

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Speaker 8: People who were said that.

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Speaker 15: They had a plan to handle Trump and to get

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Speaker 15: rid of him.

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Speaker 8: I mean, these are You're not going to see that with.

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Speaker 15: Cash, matel So the loyalty to the to the enterprise,

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Speaker 15: that the criminal enterprise, that is the federal government. He's

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Speaker 15: not loyal to that. And ultimately that is what they're

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Speaker 15: scared of, because let me tell you, they may say

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Speaker 15: he's not experienced. Again, I would love to have seen

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Speaker 15: an FBI agent that worked his way through and understands

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Speaker 15: how the entire bureau works.

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Speaker 8: But when it comes to.

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Speaker 15: Cash's experience, I mean the last FBI agent that we

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Speaker 15: had was a director was Louis free.

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Speaker 8: Muller was not.

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Speaker 15: An FBI agent, and none of the other Christopher Ray

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Speaker 15: is not Comy was not. Those were all DOJ lawyers

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Speaker 15: and look what they did, right, But they said that

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Speaker 15: they were qualified. But somehow Cash Betail's not qualified. The

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Speaker 15: left says this, and so like everything else, their arguments

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Speaker 15: don't make any sense. And when they are afraid of somebody.

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Speaker 15: It means that they have that that person has the

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Speaker 15: ability to call out their lives and to injure their

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Speaker 15: system that is corrupting this country.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and listen, not to besmirch all lawyers, but there

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Speaker 1: is a reputation that exists about most lawyers that puts

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Speaker 1: them exactly in the right position and be at the

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Speaker 1: top of the FBI the way that the FBI has

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Speaker 1: been maneuvery. Jonathan, before I let you go, I want

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Speaker 1: to ask you because you have such a great perspective

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Speaker 1: on all things politics. Obviously, a lot of people are

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Speaker 1: hoping for a golden age under President Trump, for a

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Speaker 1: lot of things to happen differently in Washington.

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Speaker 3: Is it ephemeral though?

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Speaker 1: Does it only last for this four years or is

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Speaker 1: there any long lasting change that that can make sure

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Speaker 1: it doesn't go back to the other way, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: revert after four years.

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Speaker 8: That's an excellent question, and that is what everybody.

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Speaker 15: Two things I think will change for the future beyond Trump. One,

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Speaker 15: Conservatives need to hold Trump to a standard.

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Speaker 8: We need to say we elected you because you are

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Speaker 8: the one who can make change.

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Speaker 15: Now make that change, and if he's not making it,

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Speaker 15: then we need to make it known that we're not

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Speaker 15: happy with that. I don't see that occurring at this point.

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Speaker 15: But the other thing is that he has to change

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Speaker 15: the system. So what he's talking about with DEI is

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Speaker 15: the perfect place to start, because it didn't start with Biden.

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Speaker 8: It started with Clinton.

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Speaker 15: With Bill Clinton, Affirmative Action was the beginning of modern

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Speaker 15: DEI and those people that came in during the Clinton's era,

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Speaker 15: which is when I graduated college and was trying to

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Speaker 15: be a police officer, I couldn't get a job because

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Speaker 15: I was a white guy who had graduated college, and

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Speaker 15: that was a threat to the new system, which is,

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Speaker 15: we will pick the boxes that we need checked, regardless

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Speaker 15: of experience. So that is where they came in. And

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Speaker 15: then as they came in, the recruitment continued to fall

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Speaker 15: left and become substandard. And then those people rose to

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Speaker 15: the ranks and changed policy and standards, so all the

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Speaker 15: standards went down, the policies became incompetent because that's who

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Speaker 15: was being promoted. And so that's how you get to

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Speaker 15: the helicopter running into an airplane.

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Speaker 8: Over Washington, DC.

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Speaker 15: Is because all of these agencies have policies that have

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Speaker 15: been affected through thirty years of this DEI movement and

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Speaker 15: careerists that would rather climb that ladder or be pulled

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Speaker 15: up than it would go out and get real experience.

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Speaker 8: And that's how you get to where we're at now.

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Speaker 8: That's what Trump.

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Speaker 1: Needs to change absolutely. I mean, all of these policies,

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Speaker 1: these woke policies, are weeds in a garden and they

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Speaker 1: are choking out any type of growth that the American

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Speaker 1: people from benefic benefit from. So you've got to pull

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Speaker 1: them out at the roots. Jonathan Gilliam, always a pleasure

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Speaker 1: to have you on the show.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for being here, sir. All right, everybody coming up.

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Speaker 1: President Trump has confirmed his tariff against Canada and Mexico

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Speaker 1: and China will go into effect tomorrow, so we're going

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Speaker 1: to talk about that right after this break.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back everybody.

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Speaker 1: You know, when President Trump burst on the political scene,

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Speaker 1: there were a lot of eyebrows raised over some of

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Speaker 1: his methods, and guess what, By golly, sometimes those methods

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Speaker 1: work out, and it seems like by and large they

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Speaker 1: have been and that's why President Trump got a second

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Speaker 1: round at the Oval office, and now tariffs are the

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Speaker 1: center of the conversation surrounding our economy and our trade

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Speaker 1: relationships with our surrounding country. So to join me to

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Speaker 1: talk about that is former Trump campaign advisor Jason Meister. Jason,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for being.

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Speaker 11: Here, Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: You know, I know this is very reductive, but I

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Speaker 1: have always viewed tariffs as a game of economic chicken,

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Speaker 1: and President Trump has confirmed that the game of chicken

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Speaker 1: goes on tomorrow those tariffs will go into effect. He

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Speaker 1: always seems to win at this game. Though, what do

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Speaker 1: you anticipate it's going to happen.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, Look, I think it's incredible to watch a businessman

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Speaker 16: enter the political arena and using.

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Speaker 11: His business acumen.

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Speaker 16: I mean, this is something that we haven't seen throughout

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Speaker 16: our political universe for decades, if not hundreds of years,

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Speaker 16: because these politicians have no idea how to run a business,

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Speaker 16: how to run a company. And you have this president

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Speaker 16: who really came from the private sector, and he's bringing his.

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Speaker 11: Business acumen to the public sector.

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Speaker 16: And so you saw what happened on the third hole

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Speaker 16: of Trump Durrell in Miami when he laid out the

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Speaker 16: tariffs by picking up his eyes phone and clearly stating

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Speaker 16: the tariffs against Columbia, threatening their economy destroyed, potentially to

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Speaker 16: destroy their economy if they don't listen to what we

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Speaker 16: have to say as it relates to the criminals that

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Speaker 16: crossed our border illegally. And by the sixth hole, he

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Speaker 16: had the president of Columbia catering to him, offering his

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Speaker 16: private plane to repatriate the criminals that crossed over to

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Speaker 16: the border illegally, and then he went to the club

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Speaker 16: house to enjoy a die coke and to posed a

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Speaker 16: meme of his f around and find out doction. I

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Speaker 16: think it's refreshing, I think it's great, and I think

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Speaker 16: it's very effective.

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Speaker 1: It is that your very first sentence, you talked about

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Speaker 1: the business aspect of his career and his life in

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Speaker 1: the public. Is that the magic sauce that goes into

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Speaker 1: how Because I mean, you're right, he was literally in

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Speaker 1: the middle of golfing. He picks up his phone and

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Speaker 1: he just tweets this out and immediately immediately Colombia.

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Speaker 3: Is like, oh, crap, oops.

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Speaker 1: I guess I shouldn't say that on air, but I'm

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Speaker 1: pretty sure that he said some other four letter words

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Speaker 1: along with that. Is that the magic and the genius

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Speaker 1: of President Trump's economic policy.

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Speaker 3: The fact that he has all.

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Speaker 1: Of these years, these decades of experience in business, and

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Speaker 1: he just knows that, whether it's governmental or whether it's

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Speaker 1: in corporate America, you act decisively. And that's how you

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Speaker 1: get to carry the big stick and still speak kind

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Speaker 1: of softly on Twitter.

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Speaker 11: Absolutely.

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Speaker 16: Look, I think what happened here is you have a businessman,

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Speaker 16: a real estate tycoon who cut his teeth in New

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Speaker 16: York City real estate. He understands red tape, he understands

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Speaker 16: getting approvals to build skyscrapers, He understands all of that,

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Speaker 16: the bureaucracies and getting around and navigating it all. Look,

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Speaker 16: this could have went very differently. You could have had

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Speaker 16: a meeting at the Pentagon with a Department of Defense.

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Speaker 16: You would have had fifty people in a boardroom debating

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Speaker 16: writing white papers. Thirty days would have went by, Maybe

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Speaker 16: something would have gotten leaked at a Washington Post and

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Speaker 16: nothing would have gotten done. Think about that as opposed

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Speaker 16: to slicing through it with a butter knife, picking up

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Speaker 16: his iPhone, laying out the tars very clearly and succinctly

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Speaker 16: from his iPhone and basically setting the stage to the

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Speaker 16: world that America is back.

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Speaker 11: You better listen to us or there's going to be consequences.

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Speaker 11: And I think that's.

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Speaker 16: Really what happened here, is that you have a businessman

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Speaker 16: who understands the bureaucracies, the obstacles, and.

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Speaker 11: He cuts right through it and he gets right to

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Speaker 11: the heart of it. And I think that's what you

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Speaker 11: saw on display.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was pretty incredible to see. Last weekend, President

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Speaker 1: Trump made a visit out here to the west and

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Speaker 1: spent some time in Pacific Palisades viewing the damage and

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Speaker 1: of course meeting with state and local leaders here, and

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Speaker 1: then he went to Las Vegas, where he talked about

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Speaker 1: the possibility of replacing the federal income tax with tariffs.

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Speaker 1: What does the success of tariffs need to look like

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Speaker 1: in order for that to happen.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, Look, I.

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Speaker 16: Think you have a president who's taken a very bold position,

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Speaker 16: and he understands the power of tariffs and the ability,

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Speaker 16: like he said, the external revenue Service. Look, we are

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Speaker 16: a country that can enrich ourselves by tariffing the rest

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Speaker 16: of the world. And we don't have to only look

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Speaker 16: into inwards.

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Speaker 11: We can look outwards.

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Speaker 16: And I think you know that's not just with the

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Speaker 16: tariffs and the taxes and the external revenue service. But

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Speaker 16: he's also making bold moves by reclaiming the Gulf of

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Speaker 16: Mexico as the Gulf of America, talking about Canada, talking

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Speaker 16: about Greenland. I mean, this is a bold leader who's

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Speaker 16: understands these territories, who understand we don't have to play

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Speaker 16: by the book that we've played by.

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Speaker 11: For the last one hundred plus years.

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Speaker 16: In fact, the establishment has been fairly ineffective, both Democrats

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Speaker 16: and Republicans, and this is a new leader who's bringing

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Speaker 16: new and bold ideas and I think it's great all around.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he has such a great skill of doing things

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Speaker 1: methodically without it looking like it was methodical and planned

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Speaker 1: and calculated. I know the left, you know, is on

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Speaker 1: fire about you know, he's crazy, he's a maniac. He's

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Speaker 1: a mad man, renaming gulfs, renaming mountains. But he has

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Speaker 1: been planning for this and rehearsing every single bit of

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Speaker 1: this for the last four years, and it's been incredible

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Speaker 1: to watch. I want to ask you one more thing

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Speaker 1: before I let you go, because you know, President Trump

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Speaker 1: in his dealings with these terraffs right now, we're talking

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Speaker 1: about China, Mexico, and Canada, but these are nations that

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Speaker 1: up against the United States. Obviously there is no comparison

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Speaker 1: when it comes to our economy and just our might

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Speaker 1: on the world stage. What can they do to fight

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Speaker 1: President Trump? What can they do to counter these tariffs

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Speaker 1: if they do in fact go into effect.

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Speaker 16: Look, I think there's a whole host of things they

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Speaker 16: can try to do. But at the end of the day,

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Speaker 16: something that I've been saying for some time now is

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Speaker 16: that the resistance is dead if you think about it.

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Speaker 16: When you go back to the inauguration. After post inauguration

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Speaker 16: in twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, Washington, DC was lit on fire.

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Speaker 11: I was there. I saw it with my own eyes.

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Speaker 16: Zines were lit on fire, retail stores were boarded up,

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Speaker 16: there was Antifa, There was far left radicals all over

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Speaker 16: DC causing havoc, burning things down, and you didn't really

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Speaker 16: see any of that in this last inauguration.

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Speaker 11: I think that.

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Speaker 16: Look, I think the left and the Democrats are in disarray.

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Speaker 16: I think they've gotten handed a landslide election. They don't

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Speaker 16: even know what to do, where to go, how to

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Speaker 16: understand and analyze what just happened to them. And I

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Speaker 16: think part of that is that the DEI and the

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Speaker 16: wokeism was fully rejected by the American people, and the

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Speaker 16: Obama era is over, and I think that they don't

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Speaker 16: understand and they can't.

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Speaker 11: Grasp how fast Donald Jump's moving.

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Speaker 16: These executive orders are a fuselage of legal cruise missiles

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Speaker 16: targeting the heart and the culture of the DEI wocus movement.

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Speaker 16: And I think that they're extremely effective. And I don't

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Speaker 16: think that the resistance really can do much, and I

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Speaker 16: think that we're ahead of them in many ways, and

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Speaker 16: I think it's going to be very effective going forward

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Speaker 16: as far as this administration's concerned.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think if we were talking about sports here,

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Speaker 1: this is a flood the zone offense and it seems to.

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Speaker 3: Be working so far.

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Speaker 1: Jason Meiser, thanks so much for joining us tonight. We'll

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Speaker 1: have you back on soon.

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Speaker 11: Thank you, Amanda.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely all right, everybody.

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Speaker 1: After the break, we're going to take a look at

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Speaker 1: how President Trump can get his policies adopted by both

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Speaker 1: blue and purple states in this country.

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Speaker 2: That's next.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, everybody. I love having my next guest on

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Speaker 1: because I can talk to him about practically anything. So

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Speaker 1: we're going to bridge the gap over the commercial break

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Speaker 1: from the last segment to this segment and stay on

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Speaker 1: the topic of tariffs with my guest, former Assistant Secretary

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Speaker 1: of State as well as former US Court Appeals clerk

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Speaker 1: and now a MAC spokesperson. He's also the author of

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Speaker 1: the book everybody go check it out. It's called Cherish America.

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Speaker 1: Stories of Courage, Character and Kindness. Bobby calls Bobby, great

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Speaker 1: to have you back on the show.

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Speaker 9: Mandate is always a joy to be on your show.

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Speaker 1: All right, I got to hear your view on the

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Speaker 1: tariff war that President Trump seems to be masterfully conducting,

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Speaker 1: whether it's on X or in communication with these world leaders,

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Speaker 1: namely Justin Trudeau, who claims that there will be some

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Speaker 1: type of repercussions if these tariffs go into effect tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Your thoughts, you know, I.

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Speaker 17: Think that there's a great tendency to use words like

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Speaker 17: trade war the way that they've always been used in

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Speaker 17: the past. The truth is that Donald Trump is you

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Speaker 17: use the word masterful, and it's accurate.

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Speaker 9: What he's doing with these tariffs are three things.

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Speaker 17: Number One, he's causing all of us to buy American

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Speaker 17: instead of more expensive foreign goods.

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Speaker 9: Number Two, we actually.

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Speaker 17: Have been taken advantage of in many cases by the

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Speaker 17: notion that we will pay more, we will actually pay

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Speaker 17: more for our own goods and will not collect tariffs.

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Speaker 17: This is kind of a rebalancing of the world, right,

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Speaker 17: We're getting back to a point where there's a true

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Speaker 17: balance if we make goods that are higher quality in

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Speaker 17: any way.

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Speaker 9: That the second big.

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Speaker 17: Point here is that we are trying to pull in revenue,

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Speaker 17: foreign revenue from countries that have kind of been robbing us,

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Speaker 17: including those three and the third big reason, and it

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Speaker 17: really is the big reason if you read his press release,

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Speaker 17: the third big reason is that he wants to knock

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Speaker 17: down the fentanyl africas and he says that a lot

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Speaker 17: of fentanyl is coming in from China, Mexico and Canada.

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Speaker 17: And you know, I did a little research, and I

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Speaker 17: noticed that the critics say that a place like I

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Speaker 17: live in right here in Maine, somehow won't be affected

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Speaker 17: by all this, that the fentanyl isn't such a big deal.

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Speaker 17: And in addition to it being a very big deal

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Speaker 17: locally at the northern border, there were forty three pounds

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Speaker 17: of fentanyl that were pulled off the border last year alone,

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Speaker 17: and that's enough to kill the entire state of Maine

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Speaker 17: eighteen times.

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Speaker 9: So yes, we get thousands at the southern border.

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Speaker 17: And what he's doing is he's saying to China, to

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Speaker 17: Mexico and Canada, what I want you to do is

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Speaker 17: to stop sending the drugs here. I want you to

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Speaker 17: rebalance trade so that your products are essentially in fair

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Speaker 17: competition with ours. And he's saying, look, we come from America,

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Speaker 17: where Americans. There's this idea of America first, and we're

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Speaker 17: going to help American manufacturers and farmers and producers and

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Speaker 17: fishermen get a fair price for what they make.

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Speaker 1: And Bobby, what's amazing is that there's a parallel track

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Speaker 1: to this buy American idea that actually involves health and medicine,

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Speaker 1: and it is that so many people are starting to

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Speaker 1: pay more attention to toxins in their food and their

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Speaker 1: skincare and their makeup and everything that we consume and use.

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Speaker 1: And it is actually moving people into a place where

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Speaker 1: they want to purchase more American instead of from China.

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Speaker 1: So I think it's going to be amazing to see

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Speaker 1: those two sides come together.

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Speaker 3: Speaking of sides coming.

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Speaker 1: Together, you are in Maine, and I want to ask

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Speaker 1: you about blue states and purple states that maybe this

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Speaker 1: time around flirted a little bit with some of President

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Speaker 1: Trump's America First ideas. And you know, President Trump certainly

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Speaker 1: is not your traditional Republican and I think that's why

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Speaker 1: we have seen people who are independence and even some

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Speaker 1: Democrats who are closer to the center move up move

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Speaker 1: over for President Trump. But in Maine, in Maine particular,

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Speaker 1: what do you see there on the ground.

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Speaker 3: That tells you that this.

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Speaker 1: Is a formidable movement and a chance to actually pull

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Speaker 1: people over.

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Speaker 17: I think Maine in many ways is emblematic of what

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Speaker 17: is happening in a lot of rural America, but actually

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Speaker 17: even in suburban and urban America. We were just talking

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Speaker 17: off camera about la What you're seeing is that people

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Speaker 17: have said, I get this common sense agenda that the

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Speaker 17: President is bringing to Washington. He's cleaning the swamp out

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Speaker 17: in Washington, and he's doing it very rapidly. What we

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Speaker 17: want to see, and this is not just in Maine,

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Speaker 17: but I think you're seeing it all over the United States,

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Speaker 17: is we want to see these blue state governors and

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Speaker 17: mayors basically have to have to have to confront common

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Speaker 17: sense also.

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Speaker 9: So in Maine we have a Democrat governor who just entered.

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Speaker 17: We used to budget two days ago that is literally

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Speaker 17: twice the budget that it was seven years ago.

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Speaker 9: We haven't grown.

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Speaker 17: We're not two times the size that we were then.

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Speaker 17: We don't have two times the size of money. It's

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Speaker 17: just pure spending, which then has caused a dramatic uptick

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Speaker 17: and taxes for local people. Back to public safety for

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Speaker 17: a moment. This state, I mean, Amanda, it would turn

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Speaker 17: your stomach.

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Speaker 9: Or at least it would break your heart.

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Speaker 17: When I was grown up in this state, we had

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Speaker 17: five overdoses maybe a year. They had ten thousand overdoses

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Speaker 17: last year in the state, and we lose between forty

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Speaker 17: and seventy kids a month. And whose failure is that

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Speaker 17: the Democrats have controlled this state for almost thirty years.

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Speaker 17: They controlled the House, the Senate, and the governorship. Bottom

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Speaker 17: line is they need to be tossed out our education system.

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Speaker 17: Trump has started back to the idea that gets CRT

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Speaker 17: get DEI get this garbage out, this activism out of

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Speaker 17: our public schools. They resisted, the Democrats up here resisted,

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Speaker 17: and yet think about it for a minute.

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Speaker 9: What's happened in this state.

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Speaker 8: I grew up in a state.

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Speaker 9: I went to public schools up here in this state.

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Speaker 17: We were one of the top fiveational systems in the country,

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Speaker 17: Little Old Maine. We are now number forty nine out

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Speaker 17: of fifty. Why because the Democrats has driven us into

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Speaker 17: the ground with all of this political correctness and Marxism.

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Speaker 17: And we're done with it. We're just done with it.

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Speaker 17: My mother taught for forty years. I have siblings who teach,

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Speaker 17: and we want real four years of math, four years

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Speaker 17: of science, read your classics, graduate, go to college or

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Speaker 17: go to the trade school, and have a great productive life.

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Speaker 17: You know what does our declaration ask us to do? Life,

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Speaker 17: liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And that's what Trump

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Speaker 17: is doing at the national level, and that's what we

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Speaker 17: need to do at the state level.

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Speaker 1: Is there a formula for making the messaging digestible? Because look,

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Speaker 1: I mean here in Los Angeles a very recent example

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Speaker 1: with the fire. Sometimes I am amazed at how few

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Speaker 1: people who vote Democrat, they vote blue no matter who.

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Speaker 1: They don't connect the dots between the way that they

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Speaker 1: vote and the policies and the way that it affects them.

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Speaker 1: How do Republicans message better, especially on what you were

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Speaker 1: talking about with the budget exploding, people's taxes. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it seems to us like that would be an easy

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Speaker 1: way to deduce what is happening, But there are so

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Speaker 1: many people who just don't connect the dots.

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Speaker 9: Well, this is a great point.

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Speaker 8: You know.

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Speaker 17: One of the things Donald Trump has taught us since sixteen,

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Speaker 17: he used Twitter.

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Speaker 9: Recently he used shows like Rogan.

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Speaker 17: What he's taught us is you've got to think around corners,

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Speaker 17: a phrase that Golden Powell used to use daily with us.

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Speaker 9: You need to look around corners, think around corners.

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Speaker 17: You need to be communicating with people where they are.

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Speaker 17: So maybe that means retail politics, returning that. Maybe that

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Speaker 17: means going to the factory floor, going out to the

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Speaker 17: you know, to the hinterland and talking to people. Maybe

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Speaker 17: it means using more digital. Maybe it means thinking even

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Speaker 17: more creatively than that. Maybe it means thinking about what

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Speaker 17: are truly the worst sufferings of people. And in Maine,

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Speaker 17: you know, people scratch by the average income in a

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Speaker 17: state that's going to have basically looking to double taxes

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Speaker 17: in seven years.

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Speaker 9: The average income in.

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Speaker 17: This state is forty forty two thousand dollars per capita.

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Speaker 17: So we don't have the money in this state to

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Speaker 17: pay for things that nobody wants and that nobody can afford.

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Speaker 9: How do you get it? How do you get it

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Speaker 9: out there?

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Speaker 17: I think you just have to keep educating people, and

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Speaker 17: you know they're tired.

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Speaker 9: We're all tired, but.

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Speaker 8: You got it.

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Speaker 9: Truth matters and you've got to keep educating.

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Speaker 1: Well, the wind is in our sails. I mean the

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Speaker 1: fact that every single state in this country except for

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Speaker 1: two went more conservative than Democrat in the last selection.

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Speaker 1: I think that that's a good sign of good things

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Speaker 1: to come. Bobby Charles, thank you so much for joining us,

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Speaker 1: seven our forty seven president, and that is a part

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Speaker 1: of making America great again. So everybody go there and join.

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Speaker 1: Today we're going to take a break and we'll be

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Speaker 1: back on the other side. Welcome back, everybody. Final block

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Speaker 1: of the show. I want to get straight into it

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Speaker 1: with Emily Sturge. She is a campus reform reporter and

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Speaker 1: a student at the University of Florida, of Florida Gator.

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Speaker 3: Indeed, and Emily, thanks so much for being here.

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Speaker 6: Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: I want to start with the topic of young Republicans

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Speaker 1: on college campuses. This time around, young people showed up

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Speaker 1: for President Trump. What do you think the top two

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Speaker 1: or three issues were that caused this youngest generation of

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Speaker 1: Americans to move more in the conservative direction.

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Speaker 5: Members of Generation Z are beyond excited to welcome an

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Speaker 5: administration back into office that is going to rein state

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Speaker 5: American principles of economic success, of rewarding individual achievement, and

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Speaker 5: of meritocracy.

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Speaker 6: When it came to this election, Gen.

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Speaker 5: Z was thinking about the economy, We were thinking about

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Speaker 5: our futures, and just within the last few weeks of

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Speaker 5: Donald Trump in office, members of Gen Z already feel reinspired.

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Speaker 5: We feel this sense of hope and confidence when we.

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Speaker 6: Look toward our futures.

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Speaker 5: We feel like we are better able to reclaim the

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Speaker 5: American dream under Donald Trump's economic policies, whether that's starting

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Speaker 5: out in our career, starting a family, buying a.

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Speaker 6: Home, or even investing in the stock market.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I want to ask you, because I saw these

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Speaker 1: pictures floating around from New York mag which is no

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Speaker 1: better than a gossip rag these days. It's really really

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Speaker 1: unfortunate the depths to which it has fallen. But they

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Speaker 1: put out this article with pictures the Cruel Kids table,

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Speaker 1: and it was a gathering of young, gorgeous conservatives.

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Speaker 3: It kind of seems like they're a little jealous.

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Speaker 5: It absolutely does, and it's very unfortunate that New York

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Speaker 5: magazine cherry picked which images and which quotes to include

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Speaker 5: in this magazine article. They deliberately refused to include the

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Speaker 5: fact that the host of the party was a young

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Speaker 5: black Conservative, C J.

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Speaker 6: Pearson.

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Speaker 5: They deliberately cropped the image to not show young.

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Speaker 6: Republicans who were not white.

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Speaker 5: They were trying to instill this image of the white

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Speaker 5: supremacist Republican young Conservative that they're trying to paint this

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Speaker 5: picture that is just absolutely not the story of what

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Speaker 5: we're seeing at these parties, of what we're seeing on

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Speaker 5: college campuses, or what we're seeing on social media. On

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Speaker 5: social media, on college campuses, we're seeing young conservatives of

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Speaker 5: every color, every race, every religion, every gender, and every

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Speaker 5: sexual orientation excited to welcome back the Trump administration when

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Speaker 5: it comes to principles like the economy and getting back

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Speaker 5: to where our country was before the disastrous Biden Harris administration.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Emily, you know what amazes me about the gen

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Speaker 1: Z generation is that, you know, I am a millennial.

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Speaker 1: I'm on the older end of millennials, But I grew up,

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Speaker 1: you know, every morning at school putting my hand on

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Speaker 1: my heart, saying the pledge of allegiance. If we had

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Speaker 1: an assembly, we did the same thing. And that doesn't

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Speaker 1: happen in every school in this country anymore. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I would argue if that happens in very few. But

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Speaker 1: gen Z managed to buck the trend. Somehow. You guys

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Speaker 1: love your country, many of you do. I mean, of

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Speaker 1: course you had the loud haters out there, but the

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Speaker 1: empty barrels make the most noise. Anyway. How did you

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Speaker 1: guys manage to fly in the face of what they

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Speaker 1: were trying to do, which was indoctrinate you into hating America,

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Speaker 1: and on the other side, you love America more than

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Speaker 1: even other generations.

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Speaker 6: Well, I'll bring you some hope.

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Speaker 5: I do think Donald Trump coming back into office is

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Speaker 5: reinstating that patriotism, that confidence and American values among my generation.

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Speaker 5: At the Leadership Institute's Campus Reform, we reported how Donald

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Speaker 5: Trump gained ground with Generation Z in this past election.

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Speaker 5: We also reported a very interesting trend leading up to

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Speaker 5: we called election liars, and they weren't proud to talk

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Speaker 5: about who they voted for. Now after the election, we're

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Speaker 5: seeing more and more members of gen Z loud and

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Speaker 5: proud seeing that they turned out and supported the former president,

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Speaker 5: and they're very excited to see just within the last

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Speaker 5: few weeks of Donald Trump in office, things like his

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Speaker 5: executive orders declaring that there are only two biological sexes

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Speaker 5: or rooting DEI out of the federal government. Gen Z

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Speaker 5: is excited to see these initiatives, and those initiatives have

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Speaker 5: former president and now current president on social media and

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Speaker 5: on their college campuses.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it certainly seems like people are bolder, even here

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. I feel like I am hearing more

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Speaker 1: and seeing more evidence of Trump supporters around the city

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Speaker 1: of la Emily Surge, Campus Reform reporter, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for joining us tonight. All Right, everybody that's going

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Speaker 1: to do it for us on This Friday, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to go hop on a plane, and then I will

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Speaker 1: see you on Monday in DC from our studio. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to be posted up there ongoing. That's where I

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Speaker 1: will be moving there to take that job as White

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Speaker 1: House correspondent. So you will see both me and John

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Speaker 1: onscreen on Monday, six pm Eastern, right here on Real

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Speaker 1: America's Books