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Speaker 1: something that it really had. Its relations in the Middle

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Speaker 1: East had really deteriorated since the end of the Cold War.

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Speaker 1: By the way, and the call that occur between Assade

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Speaker 1: and Putin, Sad said that Sirius stands with the Russian

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Speaker 1: Federation based on its conviction that its position is correct

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Speaker 1: and because confronting NATO expansionism is right for Russia. Has

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Speaker 1: anyone else of Russia's allies come out with such a

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Speaker 1: strong statement of yeah, this invasion is fantastic In Belarus,

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Speaker 1: I suppose it's a client state, but is there anyone

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Speaker 1: else out there? I consider Syria to be a client

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Speaker 1: state of both Russia and Iran at this point. Both

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Speaker 1: of those countries are highly influential and propping up Assade.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, besides Belarus and Russia, there's really no I

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Speaker 1: think North Korea may have come out. I'm not necessarily

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Speaker 1: ensure it was a support of Putin as much of

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Speaker 1: as it was a denunciation of the United States and NATO.

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Speaker 1: So but yeah, he's Putin is isolated diplomatically, but I

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Speaker 1: think he's made this calculation that this is going to happen,

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Speaker 1: that it was more important for him to suffer diplomatic

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Speaker 1: and economic setbacks because of this, it was more important

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Speaker 1: to get in control of Ukraine and it would suffer

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Speaker 1: those diplomatic and economics back. And we've seen a fair

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Speaker 1: amount of reporting about special Chechen forces and on other groups,

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Speaker 1: including some mercenary groups from parts of what would be

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Speaker 1: the former Soviet Union, but in the Chechen case specifically,

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Speaker 1: there are Islamic fighters who are supposedly tasked with tracking

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Speaker 1: down Zelenski and his family. At least that was the

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Speaker 1: reporting recently on this issue. Is it possible that just

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Speaker 1: out of the really the politics of it, the symbolism

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Speaker 1: of it, that we may see some Bashar al Assad's

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Speaker 1: forces deployed to help out in Ukraine. Or is that

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Speaker 1: too far afield? I think that might be too far

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Speaker 1: afield for Assad. He's still contending with a lot of

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Speaker 1: issues in his country. Has noted you have it lived

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Speaker 1: in those northern areas controlled by the Kurds. I think

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Speaker 1: he needs all of his forces. As far as the

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Speaker 1: Chechens go, these would be the Chechen military. Remember that

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Speaker 1: in the Caucuses, the Russians fought the Islamist there and

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Speaker 1: it used the Khatarov's president Kasarov and Chechnya and his

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Speaker 1: fight his military to help suppress that, and they were

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Speaker 1: successful and in suppressing that, in certainty you don't hear

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Speaker 1: any news coming out from that. And so these would

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Speaker 1: be conventional military forces, I believe. I don't. I don't

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Speaker 1: see as bad as the Russians are, and they don't

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Speaker 1: get in bed with Jehadas. They have their own problem

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Speaker 1: with Jehadas, and Jehadahs do not like the Russians do

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Speaker 1: the Russians. I mean, what was the lesson just And

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Speaker 1: we've only got about a minute, Bill, But the lesson

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Speaker 1: the Russians took from their invasion and military incursion into Czechnia. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think the lessons not just there but in Georgia

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Speaker 1: as well as in Crimea was that you know, if

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Speaker 1: he properly applies force, and if it's often brutal, and

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Speaker 1: if it's organized, that it can succeed in difficult situations.

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Speaker 1: So when people are talking about well Ukraine can mount

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Speaker 1: an insurgency and be successful against the Russians, the Russians

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Speaker 1: have had success in suppressing insurgencies not just in the Caucuses,

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Speaker 1: in Czechnia, but also in Syria. That's another way that

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Speaker 1: the intervention in Syria has improved the Russian military. It's

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Speaker 1: going to prepare them for a potential Ukrainian uprising or insurgency.

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Speaker 1: Bill Roggio, always good to see you, Bill, Thanks so much.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Buck, always a pleasure. The Russian ruble tank today

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Speaker 1: is economic sanctions. We're taking their toll. Will it be

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Speaker 1: enough to make Putin reconsider his invasion of Ukraine? Os

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Speaker 1: Former CI Deft Division chief Bruce Klinger coming up after

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Speaker 1: the break stay with us. The Western response to Vladimir

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Speaker 1: Putin's invasion of Ukraine appears to be taking its toll.

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Speaker 1: The Russian ruble crashed to a record low against the

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Speaker 1: US dollar, at one point, losing nearly half of its

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Speaker 1: value before Russian markets closed. The meltdown comes as the

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Speaker 1: US and a number of European nations agreed to sever

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Speaker 1: Russian banks out of the so called Swift financial system,

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Speaker 1: which allows Russia to participate in Western banking. In addition

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Speaker 1: to sanctions, Western allies are stepping up arms shipments to

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Speaker 1: support Ukrainian resistance. The US, EU countries, and NATO have

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Speaker 1: all announced millions in new lethal aid, including anti tank weapons,

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Speaker 1: surface to air missiles, and other equipment. So could the

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Speaker 1: Western response be enough to tip the scales in favor

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Speaker 1: of Ukraine. Let me bring in Bruce Klinger, former CIA

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Speaker 1: Deputy Division chief for Korea and senior research fellow at

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Speaker 1: the Heritage Foundation. Bruce, thanks for being with us, well,

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Speaker 1: thanks for having me. Before I get to the Western

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Speaker 1: response to all this, I just wanted your take because

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Speaker 1: I think there's so much back and forth over this

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Speaker 1: on the Ukrainian fight back against this invasion. How is

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Speaker 1: it going now that we're a few days into the

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Speaker 1: Russian blitz Creek. Well, we are only few days in

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Speaker 1: and Russia has a lot more forces still outside of

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Speaker 1: Ukraine that they could throw into the fight. But the

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Speaker 1: Ukraine has been doing an amazing job of resisting. I

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Speaker 1: think outpacing all predictions of how long they would last

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Speaker 1: or how long they would be able to resist Russian

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Speaker 1: forces going into the capital of Kieva. And certainly, if

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Speaker 1: I was in a barroom fight, I'd want to Ukrainian

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Speaker 1: as a wingman, or better yet, have them do the

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Speaker 1: fight and I'll buy them the beer afterwards. Now, what

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Speaker 1: do you think about what has been done by outside

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Speaker 1: powers friendly to Ukraine, whether it's NATO allies, the US

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Speaker 1: specifically in countries? Are we doing what should be done

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Speaker 1: at this point? Is there more that should be done

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Speaker 1: than what you're seeing so far? There's always more we

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Speaker 1: would like. But I think what's really striking is the

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Speaker 1: reactions we've seen by Europeans. I mean, we have the

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Speaker 1: Swiss sort of overcoming their usual neutrality and they're willing

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Speaker 1: to take financial actions against Russia. We have the Swede

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Speaker 1: sending weapons to Ukraine, the first time they've done that

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Speaker 1: since nineteen thirty nine, and supporting Finland the Germans, you know,

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Speaker 1: before only sent two thousand helmets. Now they're willing to

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Speaker 1: send thousands of anti tank and anti air missiles. So

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Speaker 1: and they really worldwide, we've had a lot of financial

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Speaker 1: not only sanctions, but financial warfare against Russia. As you

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Speaker 1: pointed out, the ruble is down. I think the Russian

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Speaker 1: stock market was down forty or more percent. We're really

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Speaker 1: doing a lot on the financial side, and it's to

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Speaker 1: Ukraine is obviously taking the brunt of the military weapons side.

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Speaker 1: Some including a member of Congress, have brought up some

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Speaker 1: serious escalation from what we've already done. Jensaki here was

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Speaker 1: filling a question about whether a no fly zone, of

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Speaker 1: course the US would be operating, would be a good idea.

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Speaker 1: Here's what you said, she wants to invest on military

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Speaker 1: Is there anyway in which the US would support a

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Speaker 1: no fly zone over Ukraine. Well, here's what's punport friv

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Speaker 1: They didn't know about a fly zone, but that would

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Speaker 1: require is implementation by the US military. It would essentially

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Speaker 1: mean the US military would be shooting down planes Russian planes.

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Speaker 1: That is definitely escalatory. That would potentially put us into

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Speaker 1: a place where we're in a military conflict. With Russia.

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Speaker 1: That is not something the president wants to do. So

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Speaker 1: that's a no one that those are all the reasons

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Speaker 1: why that's not a good idea. Seems like there's a

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Speaker 1: red line that both parties Republican and Democrat, I've drawn

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Speaker 1: on this issue. You think that that's going First of all,

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Speaker 1: you agree with her, and also you think it will

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Speaker 1: hold well. As impressed as we are and as much

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Speaker 1: as we're praying for Ukraine, they are not a member

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Speaker 1: of NATO, so that's a critical differences. Unlike other European

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Speaker 1: nations that are members of NATO that we are obligated

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Speaker 1: by the treaty to defend, Ukraine is not a member

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Speaker 1: of NATOS, so we do not have that obligation. So

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Speaker 1: it's clearly a red line that would would be crossed

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Speaker 1: if Ukraine had been part of NATO, and that was

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Speaker 1: one of the reasons why any were arguing against bringing

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Speaker 1: Ukraine into NATO because it was seen, as you know,

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Speaker 1: so aligned with Russia and certainly putencies it as within

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Speaker 1: his sphere of influence. So bringing Ukraine into NATO, if

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Speaker 1: we do that after all these hostilities are over, certainly

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Speaker 1: would continue to be a contentious issue. This weekend, Putin

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Speaker 1: put his nuclear forces on high alert, citing aggressive statements

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Speaker 1: from NATO and tough financial sanctions. This is scene is

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Speaker 1: a pretty serious concern, obviously. What do you make of it? Well,

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Speaker 1: he's raising the threat level. Before he gave a fairly direct,

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Speaker 1: though in still indirect threat of outsiders not to influence,

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Speaker 1: not to go into or impede Russian operations in Ukraine,

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Speaker 1: threatening that they would see a response unlike any that

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Speaker 1: they've seen in history of a reference to nuclear weapons.

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Speaker 1: But by doing this, I think it reflects how badly

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Speaker 1: things are going for Russian forces. Certainly they're disappointed that

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Speaker 1: they didn't go into Kievas as quickly as they thought

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Speaker 1: they would. The Russian forces are really getting hurt badly

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Speaker 1: by Ukrainians. So I think this is a way not

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Speaker 1: only of raising the threat against outsiders coming to Ukrainian help,

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Speaker 1: but also you know, trying to intimidate others to back

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Speaker 1: off even supplying Ukraine with the anti tank and anti

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Speaker 1: air weapons. Bruce's not just Western nations joining the fight.

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Speaker 1: Japan recently announced it would be imposing sanctions against Russian

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Speaker 1: banks and key government officials, including Putin himself. What can

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Speaker 1: you tell us about this. I haven't seen a lot

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Speaker 1: of reporting on the Japanese reaction to the invasion of

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Speaker 1: Ukraine well. And also there were statements by former Prime

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Speaker 1: Minister Abe over the weekend that Japan should move beyond

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Speaker 1: its reluctance to host a US nuclear weapons or even

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Speaker 1: advocating a nuclear sharing agreement such as the US has

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Speaker 1: with Arnado allies. That was really breaking new ground for Japan,

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Speaker 1: which has historically since the end of World War Two,

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Speaker 1: and they suffered two atomic weapons explosions to end the

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Speaker 1: World War Two, they have had a very strong push

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Speaker 1: against nuclear weapons and they have what's called the three

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Speaker 1: nuclear nose of they will not produce, they will not possess,

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Speaker 1: or they will not allow nuclear weapons into their territory.

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Speaker 1: But all of that I think reflects the great concern

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Speaker 1: that not only Japan, but other US allies has as

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Speaker 1: to the situation going on with Russia and Ukraine. And

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Speaker 1: also Japan has been very concerned the last several years

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Speaker 1: about Chinese actions, the bullying tactics and intimidating tactics and

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Speaker 1: policies against not only Japan but other nations in the

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Speaker 1: East China Sea, in the South China, Sea, and that

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Speaker 1: led Japan to overcome what had been a reluctance even

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Speaker 1: to identify China as a threat publicly. And they've done

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Speaker 1: that for the last several years and implemented a lot

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Speaker 1: of defense reform and augmented their military forces to improve

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Speaker 1: their capability to deter and defense against a Chinese thread.

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Speaker 1: And the last year Japanese senior officials, including Abe and

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Speaker 1: the current Prime Minister, have all had very strong comments

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Speaker 1: by Japanese standards more directly linking japan security to that

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Speaker 1: of Taiwan. And there was reporting of the weekend that

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Speaker 1: something was fired out of North Korea, and we all

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Speaker 1: usually know what that means. Did we get corroboration on that?

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Speaker 1: And what do you think the calculus is there? That

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Speaker 1: is China telling North Korea to act up a little

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Speaker 1: bit to help take some of the heat off of

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Speaker 1: China for helping Russia. What's going on here? Well, I

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Speaker 1: think it's North Korea really operates autonomously. And they did

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Speaker 1: a lot of missile launches in January, as they have

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Speaker 1: in previous years. This one they still haven't identified the

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Speaker 1: specific missile or released photos as they often do, but

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Speaker 1: they did say that it was really a practice run

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Speaker 1: for a saddle bite launch. They released photos taken from

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Speaker 1: this missile of the Korean peninsula, so they have been

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Speaker 1: working towards a satellite capability. This would seem to be

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Speaker 1: a photographic or electro optical satellite, so I think it's

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Speaker 1: a dry run for what would likely be a longer

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Speaker 1: range satellite launched later. If that flies over Japan out

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Speaker 1: to a greater distance, it's going to be very escalatory,

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Speaker 1: even though they'll say, oh, it's civilian, it's not military. Well,

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Speaker 1: if it uses ballistic missile technology, as it would, it's

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Speaker 1: yet another violation of you and resolutions, as they've been

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Speaker 1: doing for several years now. Bruce, appreciate you bringing the

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Speaker 1: insights to us today. Thanks so much. Well thanks for

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Speaker 1: having me. Coming up next to Ukrainian sailor was arrested

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Speaker 1: for sinking his Russian bosses seven point seven million dollar

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Speaker 1: luxury yacht. I'll tell you why he did it, and

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Speaker 1: more coming up in Quick Hits, and pr gives out

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Speaker 1: advice on how to stay cool for the people who

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Speaker 1: still want to wear face masks, and former Senator Al

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Speaker 1: Frank predicts Trump will win in twenty twenty four and

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Speaker 1: it will be the last democratic election ever, as the

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00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:08,359
Speaker 1: hysteria just never stops with these Libs. We've got those

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Speaker 1: stories and more in quick hits. Let's get to it.

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Speaker 1: So the Libs are trying to figure out how do

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Speaker 1: they walk away from all the COVID madness and never

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Speaker 1: have to actually have any introspection, never have to really

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Speaker 1: think about, did we just do all this for no reason?

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Speaker 1: Or we totalitarian lunatic mask police if everybody around us

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Speaker 1: with no real scientific basis for this whatsoever? In fact,

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Speaker 1: it was just absurd, it was stupid. How do they

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Speaker 1: deal with this? Well, they want to tell people, you know,

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Speaker 1: keep masking up if you feel like it. That's not

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Speaker 1: a big deal. NPR. Yeah, they got an op ed

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Speaker 1: says it can be lonely out there as the solo

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Speaker 1: masker in a sea of exposed chins and noses, feeling

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Speaker 1: awkward in your mask. Here's how to stay cool. Number one,

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Speaker 1: Ignore people. Number two, focus on the task at hand,

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Speaker 1: then get out of their Number three, remember why you're

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Speaker 1: wearing a mask in the first place. Well, let's take

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Speaker 1: these one by one. Shall't we ignore people? Oh? So

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Speaker 1: now they want to grow people because they used to

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Speaker 1: be telling you to be the mask police. So it

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Speaker 1: wasn't just you what you were going to wear a mask?

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Speaker 1: You to go say, pull your mask up over your nose.

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Speaker 1: Why isn't your mask ups? People are crazy. Focus on

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Speaker 1: the task at hand. Here's a task for you. Breathe normally, Libs,

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Speaker 1: stop being crazy. Doesn't save you, doesn't stop you from

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Speaker 1: getting COVID. You probably already got COVID. Most of the

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Speaker 1: country got COVID. And then remember why you're wearing a

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Speaker 1: mask in the first place. Yeah, why why are you

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Speaker 1: wearing a mask? Libs just wondering. You want to give

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Speaker 1: us an answer to that one. Don't seem like you do.

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Speaker 1: But they like to pretend. Oh, it stops the spread.

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Speaker 1: No it doesn't. Oh it protects you from other people's droplets. No,

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Speaker 1: not really. So what was that all about. They don't really,

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Speaker 1: They don't really care. It's all about the politics of

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Speaker 1: it. It It was all about making it feel good at

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Speaker 1: the time for them, political power, making other people obey them.

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Speaker 1: They love all this stuff. Now onto Ukraine situation. A

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Speaker 1: Ukrainian sailor has sunk his Russian boss's seven point seven

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Speaker 1: point seven million dollars super yacht Ukrainian man was arrested

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Speaker 1: for partially sinking his Russian tycoon boss's yacht in Spain

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Speaker 1: in protests or the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine. The fifty

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Speaker 1: five yearl was taken to custy after you allegedly opened

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Speaker 1: several valves to intentionally flood the one one hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty six foot long vessel. When officers arrived to arrest

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Speaker 1: and the crew member allegedly said, my boss is a

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Speaker 1: criminal who sells weapons that kill Ukrainian people. Interesting. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if a seven million dollars counts as a

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Speaker 1: super yocht. I'm just gonna put that out there, it's

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Speaker 1: gonna say. I mean, it's it's a yacht for sure,

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Speaker 1: super yot. Not that I have any yacht. I mean

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Speaker 1: I can't even afford a little dinghy with the little

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Speaker 1: motor on the back of it, or a probably even

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Speaker 1: a fancy canoe. Former Senator Al Franken predicts Trump will

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Speaker 1: win in twenty twenty four will be the last Democratic election.

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Speaker 1: He says, it's a look before we get into it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, these like these democrat leftist types, what are

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Speaker 1: they even talking about here? Predicts Trump's gonna win, will

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Speaker 1: be the last election over based on what well, let's

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Speaker 1: hear the hysteria. Then we can make fun of them.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, you when you say that, kids

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Speaker 1: will look up and see Donald Trump picture the president.

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Speaker 1: They'll see Donald Trump, then they'll see Biden, and then

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Speaker 1: they'll see Donald Trump again. And he'll still be president

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Speaker 1: when these kids are at school. Because it's just becoming ill.

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Speaker 1: That's it. It's over. It'll be a dictatorship. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it'll be authoritarian regime though we will not have a

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Speaker 1: democratic election again. I mean every it'll be like Hungary

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Speaker 1: or something like that, and we'll all be fraud and

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Speaker 1: you know, and based on what exactly here. But they

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Speaker 1: still say this stuff because Republicans would go along with

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Speaker 1: the dictatorship. Sure, who are the people that were shutting

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Speaker 1: down your business and not letting you see loved ones

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Speaker 1: as they were in the hospital, shutting down your weddings

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Speaker 1: and funerals and all this stuff because you know, science,

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Speaker 1: democrats lives. They are the ones that push for all

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Speaker 1: this stuff. But the authoritarians, the scary people who want

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Speaker 1: to be in charge of the Republicans illusional. But who's

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Speaker 1: the real enemy Nancy Pelosi is very clear on this one.

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Speaker 1: Forget about Putin. The real enemy are Republicans in this

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Speaker 1: country when it comes to assaults on democracy. Watch as

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Speaker 1: we talked about Ukraine on the trip, and we talked

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Speaker 1: about the fact that the invasion, as the assault on

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Speaker 1: Ukraine was an assault on democracy, Barbara took time to

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Speaker 1: talk about assaults on our democracy in our own country.

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Speaker 1: Putin was engaged into trying to disrupt our own elections,

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Speaker 1: but a separate and apart from that, what's going on

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Speaker 1: in our country about the vote and the role that

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Speaker 1: you're playing to fight for passage in the Senate and

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Speaker 1: the rest on voting rights in our country. So once again,

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Speaker 1: man speaker, connecting what's taking place abroad to what's taking

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Speaker 1: place in our own That's everything I told a lot.

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Speaker 1: Find the No Spinoos with Bill O'Riley is up next.

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Speaker 1: She'll's high