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Speaker 1: Welcome.

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Speaker 2: It is verdict to a Senator Ted Cruz ben Ferguson

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Speaker 2: with you, Senator, it's a headline and I'm going to

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Speaker 2: read it verbatim. Prostitution rings and a lot of money.

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Speaker 2: That is what Representative Nancy Mace described the bank reports

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Speaker 2: on the Biden family business dealing. She got to see

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Speaker 2: these reports, these suspicious activity reports. She made it very

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Speaker 2: clear how shocked she was when she left the Treasury,

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Speaker 2: and this is what she said.

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Speaker 3: Jess left the Treasury to review over one hundred suspicious

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Speaker 3: activity reports on the Biden family, and I have to

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Speaker 3: tell you there are more Biden's involved than we knew previously.

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Speaker 3: And every time you unturn, overturn.

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Speaker 4: Or look under a stone, there's so much more you.

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Speaker 3: Have to investigate because it's while the number.

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Speaker 4: Of family members involved, and it's even the amount of

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Speaker 4: money that we're talking about in these suspicious activity reports

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Speaker 4: is astro nomical, and the accusations there and the source

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Speaker 4: of the funding, where the money is going, the shell

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Speaker 4: company's prostitution rings, et cetera. It's insandydy to me that

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Speaker 4: has not been investigated and the way that.

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Speaker 5: It should be.

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Speaker 2: Senaer, you hear that and that's not even the full headline.

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Speaker 2: The other headline is six additional Biden family members may

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Speaker 2: have been benefiting from Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, James Biden's

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Speaker 2: business dealings.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot your reaction.

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Speaker 5: Look, I think this is astonishing.

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Speaker 6: Ask yourself at home, in what universe would you say

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Speaker 6: that six or more members of your family are profiting

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Speaker 6: from communist China? Are making millions of dollars from communist China.

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Speaker 6: I want you to pause and think how unusual this is. Maybe, Look,

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Speaker 6: you have one cousin who has or know a car

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Speaker 6: repair business.

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Speaker 5: That's a little shady.

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Speaker 6: I'm just trying to hypothesize here, But six family members

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Speaker 6: on the take from the communist Chinese government to the

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Speaker 6: tunes of millions of dollars. Do you know anyone for

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Speaker 6: whom that's the case?

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Speaker 5: I don't. Look.

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Speaker 6: I serve in the United States Senate. I think it

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Speaker 6: would be weird if any of my colleagues had six

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Speaker 6: family members making millions of dollars from communist China. There

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Speaker 6: are one hundred Senators, to the best of my knowledge,

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Speaker 6: zero of them are.

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Speaker 5: In that business.

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Speaker 6: The fact that the Bidens, by all appearances, had a

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Speaker 6: family business and the family business everyone for six family members.

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Speaker 6: I don't know uncle Fester. I don't even know who's

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Speaker 6: who the six are. They haven't released the six. But

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Speaker 6: apparently the entire collective family business is you know, put

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Speaker 6: at birth on the take. You know, the Chinese will

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Speaker 6: pay her one hundred thousand dollars. Like it's at this point,

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Speaker 6: it's getting ridiculous. And I got to say, so, Nancy Mace,

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Speaker 6: congresswoman from South Carolina, that's who you just played. A

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Speaker 6: second ago. She had just left the Treasury Department. She

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Speaker 6: was reading suspicious activity reports. I gotta say the words

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Speaker 6: that are most remarkable that you just played. She says,

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Speaker 6: prostitution rings, et cetera. What yeah, Like okay, like the etc.

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Speaker 6: What's in the et cetera? Like I'm sorry, do you

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Speaker 6: know anyone who is in the business of running prostitution

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Speaker 6: rings or profiting from prostitution rings? Like I don't know

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Speaker 6: what the evidence.

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Speaker 5: Is, but holy crap.

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Speaker 6: If she's saying that Joe Biden's family is personally profiting

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Speaker 6: from prostitution rings. Now, to be clear, I have not

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Speaker 6: seen this evidence, so I am commenting on what congress

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Speaker 6: woman may said publicly. But if there is evidence that

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Speaker 6: the president's family is personally profiting from prostitution rings. And

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Speaker 6: I don't know if those prostitution rings are connected to

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Speaker 6: China or not. But you want to talk about bombshell,

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Speaker 6: and you know what's not happening tonight. It's not going

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Speaker 6: to be on six o'clock news.

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Speaker 5: ABC.

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna wager you one hundred dollars right now, Ben.

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Speaker 6: ABC will not run this, NBC will not run the

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Speaker 6: CBS will not run that. Will you take the bet?

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Speaker 1: Hunter bucks? Now, I'm not.

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Speaker 2: I don't take tubid bets because you and I both

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Speaker 2: know there's no way that they would ever report on

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Speaker 2: six additional Biden family members on the take.

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Speaker 1: And there is another part.

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Speaker 6: But wait a second, ABCNBC, and CBS all reported on

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Speaker 6: the Steel dossier. That was one drunk guy in Europe

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Speaker 6: that claimed that prostitutes like to urinate on Donald Trump.

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Speaker 6: So that story, with no basis, no evidence, and now

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Speaker 6: thoroughly discredited, every network reported on. But here, if I'm

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Speaker 6: understanding what Congresswoman Mace is saying correctly, there are reports

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Speaker 6: in the US Department of Treasury that indicate that the

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Speaker 6: Biden family is directly profiting from prostitution rings, presumably connected

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Speaker 6: to China in some way, and no one will report

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Speaker 6: on that, Like what.

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Speaker 2: This is the this is the media that we now have.

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Speaker 2: They deliberately are working, I would say, for the Democratic

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Speaker 2: Communist Party. And there's another question here, Senator that I

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Speaker 2: think you and I need to help people connect these dots.

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Speaker 2: Before we found out about these six additional Biden family members'

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Speaker 2: names Hunter, Biden, and just and we don't know the six.

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Speaker 6: We don't know six, six, we knew three. So James Comber,

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Speaker 6: the chairman of the.

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Speaker 2: COMPS, well, this is nine now, right, total of nine.

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Speaker 2: I want to make sure we understand that for everybody listening,

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Speaker 2: this is nine official Biden family members that are now

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Speaker 2: connected with suspicious activity reports the Treasury Department.

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Speaker 6: So what James Comer said is the panel has identified

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Speaker 6: six additional members of Joe Biden's family who may have

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Speaker 6: benefited from the Biden family's businesses that we are investigating,

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Speaker 6: bringing the total number of those involved or benefiting to nine.

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Speaker 6: Like nine, Like is the dog fluffy on the take?

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Speaker 6: Like how do you find nine family members and have

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Speaker 6: them all cashing a check from communist China?

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Speaker 2: That's astonishing, well, and this goes back to the question

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Speaker 2: that Hunter Biden and his direct associates. Okay, visit the

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Speaker 2: Obama White House, and this isn't you know where the

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Speaker 2: vice president lived, This isn't in Delaware. This is just

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Speaker 2: the actual White House we know of eighty plus times.

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Speaker 6: And hold on, this is not the White House when

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Speaker 6: Joe Biden was president. This is the White House when

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Speaker 6: Joe Biden was vice president. So he lived at the

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Speaker 6: Naval Observatory, which is a different residence. It's about twenty

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Speaker 6: minutes away from the White House. And yet apparently all

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Speaker 6: of Hunter's business partners were going in and out and

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Speaker 6: senior officials. And the Biden White House won't tell us

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Speaker 6: who they met with. They won't tell us how many

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Speaker 6: times Joe Biden met with them personally. They won't tell

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Speaker 6: them how many times Joe Biden's staff met with them personally.

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Speaker 6: But listen, if it's all of Hunter's business partners, there's

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Speaker 6: no reason to think they're just coming to visit the

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Speaker 6: Social Secretary because they want to help arrange the flowers

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Speaker 6: for the French State dinner. They're there to do business

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Speaker 6: when you get five, I'm sorry, not five, nine family

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Speaker 6: members being paid by communists China. They're getting paid for something.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, and my question is when you add these new

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Speaker 2: were connected to Hunter Biden and all right and the

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Speaker 2: vice president at the White House meeting at the White House?

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Speaker 2: What does that number now go to if you have

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Speaker 2: another six family members that apparently, from what we understand,

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Speaker 5: All right, I'm going to make an official call right now.

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Speaker 6: The US Department of Treasury needs to release every single

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Speaker 6: suspicious activity report.

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Speaker 5: On the Biden family. Janet Yellen, you have a choice.

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Speaker 6: You are either actively covering up potential evidence of corruption

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Speaker 6: If of the nine Biden family members profiting off communist China,

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Speaker 6: let the American people decide if this is benign. Release

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Speaker 6: the reports. When we've got members of Congress seeing these

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Speaker 6: how is there so much money flowing from China? Janet

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Speaker 6: Yellen has a choice right now. She is not innocent

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Speaker 6: in this. Now, there's no evidence that Janet Yellen was

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Speaker 6: part and parcel of the Biden family business offening off

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Speaker 6: communists China. But if she doesn't release those reports, she

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Speaker 6: is complicit in the cover up. So Secretary Yellen release

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Speaker 6: every single suspicious activity report on the Biden family. There's

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Speaker 6: no national security reason to keep them private. There's no

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a great point.

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Speaker 2: I want to ask you about the Treasury Department and

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Speaker 2: for a second here, because I think the history now

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Speaker 6: Well, listen, there's a broader pattern of this, which is

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Speaker 6: be the most transparent administration ever. We're now two years

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Speaker 6: know that classified documents were discovered at Donald Trump's home,

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Speaker 6: We know that Joe Biden was sticking it classified documents

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Speaker 6: You know what I don't know right now. I have

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Speaker 1: How confident are you now.

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Speaker 6: Well, listen, longtime listeners of Verdict will know that this

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Speaker 2: three years, Dems have been trying to boot Diane Feinstein

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Speaker 2: off the Judiciary Committee. Now Dems are redoubling their efforts

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Speaker 2: because they want to confirm more radical nominees. This is unprecedented,

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Speaker 1: So where are we now with this and what's.

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Speaker 2: Going to take place when it comes to Diane Feinstein

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Speaker 2: basically being absent from work.

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Speaker 6: The Democrat Party is doing everything they can to drive

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Speaker 6: Dianne Feinstein out of the United States.

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Speaker 5: Senate and to understand why.

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Speaker 6: Look, Diane Feinstein has been in the Senate for decades.

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Speaker 6: She is eighty nine years old. She's much older than

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Speaker 6: you are, much older than I am. She's been in

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Speaker 6: the Senate since you and I were in short shorts.

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Speaker 6: This really started in earnest three years ago with the

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Speaker 6: Senate confirmation of Justice Amy Cony Barrett. Now you recall

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Speaker 6: that was at the end of the Trump administration, and

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Speaker 6: the Judiciary Committee took up the nomination quickly. Justice Barrett

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Speaker 6: was incredibly well qualified and she was confirmed. The Democrats

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Speaker 6: voted party line against her, because that is their approach.

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Speaker 5: To judicial nominations. At this point.

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Speaker 6: At the end of the hearing, when all was said

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Speaker 6: the senior Democrat on the Judiciary Committee. Lindsey Graham was

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Speaker 6: the chairman. At the end of the hearing, Diane Feinstein

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Speaker 6: very briefly hugged Lindsey Graham. Now she did it because

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Speaker 6: she and Lindsay have served on the committee for decades together,

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Speaker 6: and she was trying to be gracious. But the radical

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Speaker 6: left wing of the Democrat Party lost their mind. They

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Speaker 6: truly went in to fits of rage that she would

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Speaker 6: dare hug Lindsey Graham. Now, Diane Feinstein was slated to

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Speaker 6: be the next chairman of the Judiciary Committee if the

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Speaker 6: Democrats took the majority. Because the radical left wing was

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Speaker 6: so angry, within days, Chuck Schumer announced Feinstein is no

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Speaker 6: longer in line to be chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Basically,

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Speaker 6: he took Feinstein to a back alley and effectively shot her,

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Speaker 6: and it was giving in to the most extreme left

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Speaker 6: wing voices of the Democrat Party instead. What he did

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Speaker 6: is Dick Durbin was on the committee. He was the

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Speaker 6: next most senior member. But Dick Durbin is also the

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Speaker 6: number two person in the Democrat Party.

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Speaker 5: He is the majority whip.

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Speaker 6: Under Senate rules, typically the majority leader the minority leader.

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Speaker 6: The majority whip, the minority whip can't be a committee chairman.

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Speaker 6: Also that there's a basic principle that if you have

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Speaker 6: one leadership position, you can't have another one. Well, the

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Speaker 6: Democrats decided, screw that, We're going to make Dick Durbin

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Speaker 6: both majority Whip and chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Why

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Speaker 6: because the radical left is so pissed at Diane Feinstein.

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Speaker 5: All right, fast, forward to now.

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Speaker 6: So Diane, who's getting older, which all of us are,

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Speaker 6: has shingles. By all accounts, is a horribly painful disease.

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Speaker 6: I'm grateful I haven't had it, but everything I've heard

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Speaker 6: about it, it sounds terrible. Shingles is also curable.

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Speaker 5: It's not a.

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Speaker 6: Permanent affliction, but it is very painful while you have it.

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Speaker 6: So Diane has been out for a couple of months

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Speaker 6: with shingles. She's been at home recuperating. The radical left

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Speaker 6: is pissed because while Diane is gone, the Democrats no

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Speaker 6: longer have a majority on.

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Speaker 5: The Judiciary Committee.

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Speaker 6: Because they don't have a majority, it means they can't

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Speaker 6: ram through their most radical and extreme judicial nominees. Now,

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Speaker 6: most of their judicial nominees they can pass. Why because

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Speaker 6: on almost every Joe Biden nominee, Lindsey Graham.

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Speaker 5: Votes for them.

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Speaker 6: He has a view that the opposing party should vote

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Speaker 6: for the nominees of the other party, even if you

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Speaker 6: diss agree with their ideology. Now I don't agree with

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Speaker 6: Lindsay's view, but that his long standing view. He's voted

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Speaker 6: to confirm numerous liberal Supreme Court justices. He votes to

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Speaker 6: confirm most Biden judicial nominees. I vote against almost all

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Speaker 6: Biden judicial nominees. But given that Lindsay votes for practically

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Speaker 6: all of them, the Democrats can move almost the entirety

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Speaker 6: of Biden's judicial slate. The ones they can't move are

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Speaker 6: the most radical, are the most extreme. Are the are

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Speaker 6: the nominees that are so extreme they can't get even

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Speaker 6: a single bipartisan vote. And the reaction of the radical

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Speaker 6: left wing number one their number one. Their primary reaction

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Speaker 6: is throw Diane Feinstein out, force her to resign, shame her,

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Speaker 6: throw her out.

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Speaker 5: Of the Senate.

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Speaker 6: Her response to this has been to send a letter

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Speaker 6: to Chuck Schumer saying, please temporarily remove me.

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Speaker 5: From the Judiciary Committee until I come back.

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Speaker 6: Now, as we sit here, I think the chances of

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Speaker 6: that happening are exceptionally low. There are two ways that

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Speaker 6: could happen. Number one by unanimous consent. So the way

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Speaker 6: Senators get on committees is at the beginning of a Congress,

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Speaker 6: the Senate passes an organizing resolution. The organizing resolution names

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Speaker 6: the chairman of every committee, names the ranking members of

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Speaker 6: every committee, names the members of every committee, and that

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Speaker 6: usually takes several weeks. It's negotiated between the majority leader

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Speaker 6: and the minority leader depending on the ratio of how

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Speaker 6: many Republicans how many Democrats. The balance of how many

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Speaker 6: are on each committee is negotiated. Once the two parties

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Speaker 6: reach an agreement, that organizing resolution is typically passed by

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Speaker 6: unanimous consent. In other words, all one hundred senators agree

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Speaker 6: to it once the two sides of a reached agreement. Now,

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Speaker 6: if Schumer wants to change it, he has two ways

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Speaker 6: to do it. Number one, he could ask unanimous consent

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Speaker 6: to remove Feinstein from Judiciary and plug some other Democrat

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Speaker 6: in there. That would take all one hundred senators agreeing.

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Speaker 6: That will not happen. Multiple Republican senators have said they

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Speaker 6: would object. I would object like, there's no chance Schumer

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Speaker 6: is going to get unanimous consent to do that because

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Speaker 6: a bunch of us would object. I don't see any

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Speaker 6: reason why we should be complicit in helping the Democrats

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Speaker 6: confirm their most radical and extreme nominees. The second way

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Speaker 6: he could do it is he could try to move

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Speaker 6: it through regular order, which would take sixty votes, which

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Speaker 6: would mean that he would need to get nine or

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Speaker 6: ten Republicans. I don't think he'll do that. We've seen

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Speaker 6: in the past few days multiple Republicans come out and

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Speaker 6: say we're not going to help Schumer do this. I

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Speaker 6: think right now the chances that he gets enough Republicans

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Speaker 6: to get sixty votes are really, really low, given that

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Speaker 6: the Democrats are in a fix, and what they're doing

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Speaker 6: is they're just trying to put massive political pressure on

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Speaker 6: Feinstein to get her to resign from the Senator. If

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Speaker 6: she resigns from the Senate, Gavin Newsom, the governor of California. Look,

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Speaker 6: there is a vigorous primary going on to replace Diane Feinstein.

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Speaker 6: She's not running for reelection, so her seat will be

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Speaker 6: up in twenty twenty four. Multiple Democrats are running. Adam

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Speaker 6: Schiff is running, Katie Porter is running, Barber Lee is running.

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Speaker 6: Gavin Newsom has promised if there's a vacancy, he will

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Speaker 6: appoint an African American woman, and he will only appoint

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Speaker 6: an African American woman. So if you're white, you need

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Speaker 6: not apply. If you're a man, you need not apply.

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Speaker 6: If you're Hispanic, you need not apply. He is openly

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Speaker 6: and explicitly racist and sexist in saying who he will appoint. Now,

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Speaker 6: if you look at the primary contenders. There's only one

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Speaker 6: of those candidates who's an African American woman. That being said,

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Speaker 6: I suppose Adam Schiff could announce tomorrow that he identifies

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Speaker 6: as an African American woman, but absent his doing that,

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Speaker 6: Barbara Lee is the only person who qualifies.

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Speaker 5: The radical left would love.

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Speaker 6: For Feinstein to resign and Barbara Lee to be appointed

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Speaker 6: to the race and give her a leg up over

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Speaker 6: Schiff and Katie Porter. I don't think that will happen,

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Speaker 6: although the press and the Democrats are trying to shame

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Speaker 6: her into it. And I gotta say, Ben, I've been

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Speaker 6: in the Senate eleven years. Look, the Senate is a

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Speaker 6: body with a crap ton of really old people, like

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Speaker 6: the bunch of people in their seventies and eighties. I've

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Speaker 6: served with a bunch of colleagues who are way past

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Speaker 6: their expiration date. It's striking to me that the only

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Speaker 6: Senator I've ever seen that a party has tried to

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Speaker 6: drive out because of health is Dianne Feinstein. Listen, John McCain,

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Speaker 6: who I served with for a long time. John McCain

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Speaker 6: chairman of the Armed Services Committee. There was no effort

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Speaker 6: to throw John McCain out of the Senate, nor should

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Speaker 6: there have been. I would not have supported that. I

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Speaker 6: didn't support that. It's really striking, by the way, right now,

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Speaker 6: Joe Biden is profoundly mentally diminished. None of these left

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Speaker 6: be clear, John Fetterman, the Senator from Pennsylvania, has been

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Speaker 6: medically unavailable and absent for most of this Congress. He's

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Speaker 6: been in the Senate only a few days since he

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Speaker 6: was elected. And none of these radicals who are calling

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Speaker 6: And so it raises an obvious question, why the double standard?

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Speaker 6: Why is she the target of.

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Speaker 2: Their ire Yeah, it is shocking to see the way

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Speaker 2: And I'm talking about just the human side of this

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Speaker 2: that it seems so clear now what their goal is,

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Speaker 2: how they're treating an older woman who has served clearly

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Speaker 2: the people of California for decades on end, trying to

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Speaker 2: force her out while she's actually trying to heal from

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Speaker 2: she Or is this just the Democratic Party in a

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Speaker 2: nutshell and when they're done with you, they throw you away.

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Speaker 6: Well, look, I think it could backfire all. To be honest,

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Speaker 6: I don't think the odds of that are terribly high,

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Speaker 6: because I think the corporate media is so hypocritical they

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Speaker 6: won't hold Democrats to account. I think they're activists, are

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Speaker 6: so extreme they won't care. They're perfectly happy to throw

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Speaker 6: Diane Feinstein overboard. And so I don't think there's actually

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Speaker 6: a whole lot of downside now from the Democrats perspective.

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Speaker 6: And I do want to say something. Look, I like Diane.

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Speaker 6: I've served with her eleven years. She and I get along.

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Speaker 5: Fairly well.

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Speaker 6: It's worth noting there's some irony of my speaking out

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Speaker 6: in defense of Diane Einstein while most Democrats are eagerly

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Speaker 6: sticking a knife in her. Which is when I was

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Speaker 6: a brand new babysitter and I'd been in the Senate

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Speaker 6: just a few months. One of the very first things

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Speaker 6: that happened was the horrific shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, and

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Speaker 6: the Democrats, the Democrats, Barack Obama just been re elected.

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Speaker 6: So I was elected in twenty twelve. So Obama was

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Speaker 6: starting a second term, and Chuck Schumer was on the

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Speaker 6: Sunday shows just exultant saying, We're going to pass gun control.

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Speaker 6: We're in the sweet spot. We want to take away

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Speaker 6: everyone's guns. And Diane Feinstein was the point of the

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Speaker 6: so called assault weapons band in the Senate. She had

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Speaker 6: advocated it for a long time. And so we're in

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Speaker 6: the Judiciary Committee and I'm a brand new senator and

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Speaker 6: we're at a hearing, and I asked her. I said,

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Speaker 6: in the Bill of Rights, the Second Amendment uses the

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Speaker 6: words the right of the People to keep in bear

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Speaker 6: arms shall not be infringed and I pointed out, I said,

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Speaker 6: the right of the people, when the framers wrote them

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Speaker 6: into the Bill of Rights, is a term of art,

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Speaker 6: and it's a term of art that they used repeatedly.

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Speaker 6: They used it in the First Amendment, the right of

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Speaker 6: the people to peacedly assemble. They used it in the

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Speaker 6: Fourth Amendment, the right of the people to be free

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Speaker 6: from unreasonable searches and seizures. Every time the Framers use

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Speaker 6: the phrase the right of the people, it referred to.

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Speaker 5: An individual right.

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Speaker 6: And I asked her bill banning so called assault weapons

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Speaker 6: specified about two thousand different weapons that would be prohibited,

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Speaker 6: and it specified them by name. And I said, given

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Speaker 6: the Second Amendment uses the words the right of the people,

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Speaker 6: as does the First Amendment, as to the Fourth Amendment,

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Speaker 6: would you be okay with legislation on another one of

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Speaker 6: those amendments, Let's say the First Amendment specifying two thousand

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Speaker 6: books that should be banned that are no longer allowed.

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Speaker 6: What gives Congress the right to ignore the right to

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Speaker 6: the people in the Bill of Rights?

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Speaker 5: Now?

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Speaker 6: The response, Diane got very upset, and she said, I

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Speaker 6: am not a sixth grader. She was really angry, and

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Speaker 6: she dressed me down and I have to admit, and

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Speaker 6: this thing went viral. It got gazillion views online. I

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Speaker 6: have to admit I was astonished. I was brand new

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Speaker 6: to the Senate and I was sitting there thinking, well,

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Speaker 6: of course, you're not a sixth grader. I would never

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Speaker 6: ask a sixth grader a substantive question about the United

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Speaker 6: States Constitution of the Bill of Rights. You're a Senator

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Speaker 6: representing the largest state in the Union, California, and a

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Speaker 6: longtime senator serving on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and you're

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Speaker 6: proposing legislation that I think is contrary to the Constitution.

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Speaker 6: So I'm asking you a constitutional law question, like it's

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Speaker 6: obvious you're not a sixth grader, and actually given that

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Speaker 6: hot exchange, so I can tell you. In the months

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Speaker 6: that followed it, Diane and I repeatedly we'd be in

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Speaker 6: an elevator in the Capitol and she'd look at me

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Speaker 6: and go, She'd look over me, she kind of purse

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Speaker 6: her lips and go, hello, tough guy. And I would

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Speaker 6: smile and I'd say, Diane, I'm sweetness and light, I'm

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Speaker 6: gentle as a kiddy cat, and she would say, is

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Speaker 6: that what your wife tells you? We had that conversation,

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Speaker 6: I kid you, not three times word for word in

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Speaker 6: Senata elevators, all of which is to say, there is

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Speaker 6: some irony that I'm now defending Diane. And actually, for

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Speaker 6: the sake of our podcast listeners, let's go back through

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Speaker 6: the wayback machine. This is in twenty thirteen. I'm a

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Speaker 6: brand new baby senator. I'm forty two years old. Let's

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Speaker 6: play right now the back and forth between Dianne Feinstein

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Speaker 6: and me on guns, and you can hear her explain

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Speaker 6: to me that she's not a sixth rate. It's to

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Speaker 6: me that all of us should begin as our foundational

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Speaker 6: document with the Constitution, and the Second Amendment in the

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Speaker 6: Bill of Rights provides that the right of the people

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Speaker 6: to keep in bear arms shall not be infringed. The

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Speaker 6: term the right of the people when the framers included

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Speaker 6: it in the Bill of Rights, they used.

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Speaker 5: It as a term of art.

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Speaker 8: That same phrase, the right of the people, is found

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Speaker 8: in the First Amendment, the right of the people to

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Speaker 8: peaceably assemble and to petition their government for redress of grievances.

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Speaker 8: It's also found in the Fourth Amendment, the right of

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Speaker 8: the people to be free from unreasonable searches, and seizures.

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Speaker 8: And the question that I would pose to the senior

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Speaker 8: Senator from California is would she deem it consistent with

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Speaker 8: the Bill of Rights for Congress to engage in the

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Speaker 8: same endeavor that we are contemplating doing with the Second

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Speaker 8: Amendment in the context of the First or fourth Amendment? Namely,

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Speaker 8: would she consider it constitutional for Congress to specify that

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Speaker 8: the First Amendment shall apply only to the following books,

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Speaker 8: and she'll not apply to the books that Congress has

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Speaker 8: deemed outside the protection of the Bill of Rights. Likewise,

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Speaker 8: would she think that the Fourth Amendments protection against searchers

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Speaker 8: and seizures could properly apply only to the following specified

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Speaker 8: individuals and not to the individuals that Congress has deemed

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Speaker 8: outside the protection of the development question.

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Speaker 9: Let me just make a couple of points in response. One,

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Speaker 9: I'm not a sixth grader, Senator. I've been on this

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Speaker 9: committee for twenty years. I was a mayor for nine years.

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Speaker 9: I walked in, I saw people shot. I've looked at

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Speaker 9: bodies that have been shot with these weapons. I've seen

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Speaker 9: the bullets that implode. In Sandy Hook, youngsters were dismembered. Look,

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Speaker 9: there are other weapons I've been up I'm not a lawyer,

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Speaker 9: but after twenty years I've been up close and personal

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Speaker 9: to the Constitution.

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Speaker 5: I have great respect for it.

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Speaker 9: This doesn't mean thats of war, and the Heller decision

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Speaker 9: clearly points out three exceptions, two of which are pertinent here.

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Speaker 9: And so, I you know, I mean, it's fine you

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Speaker 9: want to lecture me on the Constitution. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 9: Just know, I've been here for a long time. I've

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Speaker 9: passed on a number of bills. I've studied the Constitution myself.

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Speaker 9: I am reasonably well educated, and I thank you for

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Speaker 9: the lecture. Incidentally, this does not prohibit you use the

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Speaker 9: word prohibit. It exempts two thousand, two hundred and seventy

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Speaker 9: one weapons. Isn't that enough for the people in the

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Speaker 9: United States?

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Speaker 1: Mister?

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Speaker 5: Do they need a bazooka?

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Speaker 9: Do they need other high powered weapons that military people

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Speaker 9: use to kill in close combat? I don't think so.

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Speaker 9: So I come from a different place than you do.

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Speaker 9: I respect your views. I ask you to respect my views. Senator,

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Speaker 9: I want to apologize to you. You sort of got

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Speaker 9: my dander up, and that happens on occasion.

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Speaker 2: But first, mister Chairman, Senator, you can't make it out.

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Speaker 2: Your recollections spot on on that one.

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Speaker 6: Well, and that was actually Pat Leahy who threw in

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Speaker 6: the Rye comment first time ever. So look, the point is,

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Speaker 6: there's some irony that I'm now defending Dianne Feinstein, but

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Speaker 6: it's because the radical left she was more than eager

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Speaker 6: to be the tip of the spear on gun control.

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Speaker 6: They loved her then, but now their view is she

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Speaker 6: has shingles. Get the hell out, because we've got radical

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Speaker 6: judges to confirm. And again it's worth noting.

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Speaker 5: That the.

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Speaker 6: Judges, the vast majority of Biden judicial nominees can move forward.

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Speaker 6: It's only a handful of the nominees who are extreme.

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Speaker 6: And let me tell you some of the ones that

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Speaker 6: they really want to move forward. So there's a nominade

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Speaker 6: named Michael Delaney. Michael Delaney's nominated.

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Speaker 5: The First Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Speaker 6: He was representing a very elite private school in litigation

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Speaker 6: against a sexual assault victim, and he argued in court

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Speaker 6: that the sexual assault victims should not be allowed to

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Speaker 6: use a pseudonym, but rather this should be publicly outed

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Speaker 6: as a victim. Now that's a pretty extreme position. It's

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Speaker 6: a position that frankly, none of the Democrats wanted to

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Speaker 6: defend this confirmation hearing, and the only way they're going

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Speaker 6: to report him to the floor is if Feinstein is

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Speaker 6: back and they have a straight party line vote, because

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Speaker 6: there's going to be no Republicans who vote for him.

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Speaker 5: Lindsey Graham said he would vote no.

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Speaker 6: A second nominee is Charnell Becklgrin, who's nominated in the

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Speaker 6: Eastern District of Washington. Now Beckl Grin, astonishingly enough, John

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Speaker 6: Kennedy Astor and we've played this on on the podcast,

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Speaker 6: ask her what Article five of the Constitution was. She

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Speaker 6: had no idea. Article five is the provision that lays

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Speaker 6: out how you amend the Constitution. He then asked her

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Speaker 6: what is Article two of the Constitution? Now, I got

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Speaker 6: to tell you, Ben, if you're not a lawyer, you

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Speaker 6: might not know what article two is. But if you

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Speaker 6: are a first year law student and you're asked what's

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Speaker 6: Article two and your answer is I don't know, you

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Speaker 6: will flunk conlaw. Article two is the provision of the

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Speaker 6: Constitution that creates the president and the executive branch, and

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Speaker 6: the fact that she didn't know demonstrates she is manifestly

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Speaker 6: unqualified to be a federal judge. And by the way,

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Speaker 6: Dick Durban, the chairman of the committee, his defense was, well, gush,

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Speaker 6: there are a bunch of members of this committee who

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Speaker 6: don't know what Article two is. If there are any

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Speaker 6: they ought to get the hell off the Judiciary Committee.

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Speaker 6: You really ought to know what Article two is. The

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Speaker 6: Beckel Grant is nominated to be what is called an

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Speaker 6: Article three judge. Article three, which I suspect she has

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Speaker 6: no idea what it is is the provision that creates

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Speaker 6: the judiciary. The other two nominees are an individual named

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Speaker 6: Cato Cruz cr E W s so not not spelled

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Speaker 6: like me, a nominee to the District of Colorado who

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Speaker 6: failed to describe the holding of Brady versus Maryland a

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Speaker 6: foundational criminal law case. Uh and and said, and it

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Speaker 6: deals with with the the production of exculpatory evidence of

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Speaker 6: sculpatory evidence to defendants. And instead this this nominee said, quote,

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Speaker 6: I believe the Brady case involves something regarding the Second Amendment.

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Speaker 6: I've not had occasion to address that. That's a level

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Speaker 6: of absolute unfamiliarity with criminal law that makes you unfit

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Speaker 6: to be a judge. And then the fourth nominee is

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Speaker 6: someone named Marion Gaston, nominated in the Southern District, California,

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Speaker 6: who co authored a position paper arguing that sex offender

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Speaker 6: restrictions are too tough. The paper argues, and this is

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Speaker 6: a quote difficult as it might be, laws that regulate

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Speaker 6: where sex offenders may not live should be repealed or

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Speaker 6: substantially modified in the interest of public safety. The paper

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Speaker 6: also noted, quote children are not safer because registered sex

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Speaker 6: offenders are prohibited from residing near schools, parks, daycare centers,

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Speaker 6: and other places where children tend to gather. Now, I

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Speaker 6: got to say, Ben, for a radical leftist to argue

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Speaker 6: we ought to be sending pedophiles to live next door

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Speaker 6: to a school or a daycare is a holy crap moment.

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Speaker 6: And so those are the four nominees that this fight's

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Speaker 6: all about. Because every other nominee, Lindsey Graham's going to

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Speaker 6: This is about those four, and the radical left is saying,

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Speaker 6: give us our most extreme nominees because that's who we want,

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Speaker 6: and we can't get that as long as Feinstein is

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