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Speaker 1: you for joining us. Happy Friday, eight hundred and nine,

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Speaker 1: I've registered as an Arizona Independent. I know some people

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Speaker 1: in the nation, I've decided to leave that partisan process

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Speaker 1: Now she goes on Fake New CNN. She talks to

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Speaker 1: Jake Tapper, gives a great answer when you know, regarding

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Speaker 1: I know you have to ask the question, Jake, but

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Speaker 1: ever since Raphael Warnock. Senator Warnock was reelected earlier this week.

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Speaker 1: The balance of power right now is fifty one Democrats

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Speaker 1: doesn't change that. It's still basically going to be fifty

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Speaker 1: Eight hundred and nine for one Shaun is a number,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's an interesting statement that she's making that

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Speaker 1: least that's what politicos are reporting. That she's not going

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Speaker 1: timeline here, and it's so similar. The FBI's involvement is

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Speaker 1: what scares me the most in all of this. The

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Speaker 1: FBI now put all of these groups on high alert.

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Speaker 1: For example, the FBI warned Facebook to be on high

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Speaker 1: alert for a dump of Russian propaganda before the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty election in terms of it being specific enough that

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Speaker 1: it fits a pattern. Now we know that because CEO

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Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg told that to Joe Rogan in August. So

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Speaker 1: I'm putting pieces of the puzzle together here. Now. That

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Speaker 1: fits in perfectly with the story that was put out

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Speaker 1: these big tech companies apparently, and that these big tech

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Speaker 1: for what they called hack and league operations. In other words,

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Speaker 1: probably you're gonna hear a story about Hunter. And again,

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Speaker 1: the former head of site integrity for Twitter, Yoel Roth

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Speaker 1: as confirmed by Eric Schmidt, who was on the program

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Speaker 1: this week, actually said that that Hunter's name was mentioned specifically.

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Speaker 1: So all these companies were put on alert. Oh if

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Speaker 1: you if you hear anything about a bad story about

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Speaker 1: say Hunter Biden, you know, be on the lookout. It

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Speaker 1: might be a hack and leak operation by a foreign actor.

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Speaker 1: And you got to be on the lookout beyond high

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Speaker 1: alert for a dump of Russian propaganda. It's probably not

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Speaker 1: going to be true. You don't want to be disseminating

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Speaker 1: misinformation before an election. Very similar to the fifty one people,

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Speaker 1: you know, these former Intel officials that all came out

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Speaker 1: of Russian propaganda. They had no facts behind that at

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Speaker 1: all whatsoever, but they made that claim and people believe them.

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Speaker 1: That's the problem with it. So the fact that the FBI,

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Speaker 1: and then we get a little deeper into this, and

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Speaker 1: the FBI agent that was organizing these weekly meetings with

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Speaker 1: big Tech was a supervisory special agent. We told you

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Speaker 1: who he is. His postgraduate thesis his name is Elvis

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Speaker 1: Chan claimed that Russia interfered in the twenty sixteen election

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Speaker 1: to help former President Donald Trump. We know that's a lie.

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Speaker 1: We had somebody on the program earlier this week, the

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Speaker 1: first Twitter file release, you know, now fired by Elon Musk,

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Speaker 1: but he was the guy at the height of the

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Speaker 1: Russia hoax scandal. But he was telling Twitter to be

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Speaker 1: very very careful. This has the potential. It looks like

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Speaker 1: it's very has the markings of being hacked. Okay, even

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Speaker 1: their own officials in the first Twitter file release pointed out,

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Speaker 1: this hacking thing isn't gonna stand up now. The thing

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Speaker 1: that should really really frustrate people and really shows how

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Speaker 1: involved the FBI was in this is that the FBI

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Speaker 1: had Hunter Biden's laptop again since December of twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: They had eleven months before the election. They also knew

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Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani had a copy, so they knew the likelihood

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Speaker 1: public at some point. And what they were doing in

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Speaker 1: the lead up to the release of this information, which

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Speaker 1: eventually came out through the New York Post, is worn

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Speaker 1: all these big tech companies, with the massive reach that

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Speaker 1: it occurred, you got to look at it as probably

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Speaker 1: a dump of Russian propaganda or misinformation. It could be

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Speaker 1: hacked materials. It's not like debunking, it's pre bunking a story.

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Speaker 1: And this is now what Elon Musk was saying when

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Speaker 1: he pointed out that by shutting down dissenting voices, in

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Speaker 1: other words, with all these big tech companies combined with

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Speaker 1: the massive reach that they have all aligning and all

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Speaker 1: being told by our FBI not to disseminate this information

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Speaker 1: and be on the lookout for this disinformation by shutting

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Speaker 1: point that the FBI had already known that it was true.

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Speaker 1: That's another part of this, because all you have to

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Speaker 1: do is open up the laptop and there's naked pictures

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Speaker 1: of Hunter Biden or with a hook or Hunter Biden

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Speaker 1: smoke and crack. And now they've had this laptop for

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Speaker 1: three years, nothing ever happens to Hunter Biden. I doubt

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Speaker 1: that would happen to any prominent conservative or anybody with

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Speaker 1: the last name Trump. But this is the very definition

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Speaker 1: of election interference. And this is where the complicity of

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Speaker 1: the news media comes in. None of them want to

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Speaker 1: even exist because they don't care. As a result, their

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Speaker 1: guide didn't have three weeks before the election of having

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Speaker 1: to defend and having to explain away how much money

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Speaker 1: he might have gotten from Hunter's foreign business partners and

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Speaker 1: why he lied to the American people when he said

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Speaker 1: he never once talk to his son about his feign

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Speaker 1: business partners. Is we got pictures of Joe, photo after

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Speaker 1: photo after photo of Joe Hunter and his farign business partners,

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Speaker 1: like we have pictures like we have dates and meetings

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Speaker 1: of Joe and Hunter and feign business partners that gained

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Speaker 1: access through Hunter and Hunter benefits without any experience and

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Speaker 1: makes millions of millions of dollars. It's called influence pedaling.

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Speaker 1: Of course, they didn't want the story out the FBI.

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Speaker 1: Now two presidential elections in a row have put their

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Speaker 1: thumb on the scale in favor of Democrats. The deep

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Speaker 1: state has that much control that is scary for this country.