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Speaker 2: to get to is the Iowa caucuses. It was the

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Speaker 2: first first voting done for the twenty twenty four election,

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Speaker 2: which is going to end up being Trump and Biden

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Speaker 2: again unless one or both of them drop dead. We're

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Speaker 2: going to talk again with Sherry Preston from Des Moines

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Speaker 2: ABC News for KFI. Here's Sherry.

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Speaker 3: How are you well. I'm still in the moin and

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Speaker 3: everybody else packed up on Lemper, New Hampshire. But because

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Speaker 3: of travel was the blizzard days. I had to stay

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Speaker 3: in extra day, so that means I get to talk

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was in Iowa once. Not a whole lot

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Speaker 3: I got to tell you, you know, it's really interesting.

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Speaker 3: I was talking to one of our our ABC em beds, Okay,

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Speaker 3: and these are. These are young reporters who go out

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Speaker 3: with the candidates and then they're with them, you know,

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Speaker 3: a lot of the time. And we were talking today

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Speaker 3: because I was interviewing them for this piece, and they said,

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Speaker 3: you know, I got a different view of Iowa than

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Speaker 3: I ever thought I would. Young person said, I am

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Speaker 3: I am black. I'm clear. I didn't think that I

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Speaker 3: would sit in here, and I've been here for seven

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Speaker 3: months and has has grown to really appreciate how they

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Speaker 3: do it in here in this state. You know what

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Speaker 3: I mean, like a really Oh no, they're very friendly

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Speaker 2: Yeah, now, there's very friendly people now as I think

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Speaker 2: liked it the first time. Yeah, yeah, no, I'm just

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Speaker 2: kind of teasing. But uh, it was a much smaller

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Speaker 2: that that isn't quite right because there really wasn't a

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Speaker 2: lot of drama on who is going to win this,

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Speaker 2: So I just didn't see that the that the right

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Speaker 2: it was the right set of circumstances to create a

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Speaker 3: No exactly, And then you could tell when they started,

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Speaker 3: you know, putting up the weather forecast, that it was

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Speaker 3: not going to be the number of people. But you know,

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Speaker 3: and that's another thing that people have an issue with

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Speaker 3: the Caucuses, and this being first that you know, you

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Speaker 3: have three million people in this state alone and a

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Speaker 3: determine this whole thing. And I was talking to a

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Speaker 3: fascinating to watch this. I was in a I was

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Speaker 3: They they had me set up on a little chair

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Speaker 3: So I had fought roast tea to actually watch how

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Speaker 3: And then they write down the name, and then they

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're very friendly, accommodating people. I know, Los Angeles

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Speaker 2: all that, like you know, it's one hundred and ten

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Speaker 2: the inner core of political obsessives. And it's kind of funny, how,

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Speaker 2: you know, Because the media has to fill their space

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Speaker 2: and fill their time with something, it blows up into

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Speaker 2: something of monumental proportion. But the Republican Party is its

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Speaker 2: own entity. It doesn't represent the general public at large.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't represent independence, Democrats and everybody else. It doesn't

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Speaker 2: represent a lot of Republicans who didn't bother to show so,

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Speaker 2: but this is what the hardcore activist types the really devoting.

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Speaker 2: This is who they want Trump.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's exactly And if you look and the people

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Speaker 3: loud and clear what exactly they wanted. I mean, it

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Speaker 3: was a it was a blowout. It was across the board.

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Speaker 3: I mean Trump won women, he won men, he won

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Speaker 3: college educated, he won those without a four year degree,

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Speaker 3: New Hampshire with this giant lead that he really wanted

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Speaker 3: two and three, I mean, really, you know they're they

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Speaker 3: So the two of them combined are still ten points

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Speaker 3: that Iowa doesn't really pick the winner, but it narrows

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Speaker 3: down the field. That's true. But when you have somebody

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Speaker 3: I think even a lot of people were really PRIs

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Speaker 3: by just how absolutely well that he did. And it'll

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Speaker 3: make a big difference because now you've got going forward. Okay,

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Speaker 3: how long is Ron Defantis going to stay in it?

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Speaker 3: He's not pulling well at all, and people today he

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Speaker 3: But you know, and Nikki Haley same thing. Yeah, like

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Speaker 2: Been campaigning in these states for months and months. You know,

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Speaker 2: some of these primary states you might campaign for five days.

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Speaker 2: Right as you get deeper into the schedule, you just

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Speaker 2: almost a year for some of these candidates. And if

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Speaker 3: Exactly. And that's another thing that makes Iowa unique is

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Speaker 3: go to these events and these candidates would be there

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Speaker 3: and you know, people would show up nine o'clock on

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Speaker 3: a Sunday morning at a pizzas Morgage board to hear

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Speaker 3: for these candidates that face to FaceTime. Really it's almost

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean.

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Speaker 3: It's almost like they're they're going to college or something

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Speaker 3: because they're learning how to do what it is they

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Speaker 3: need to learn how to do. It's one thing to

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Speaker 3: That's always been so important here in Iowa, that FaceTime.

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Speaker 3: But Donald Trump had very little face time here. He

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Speaker 3: didn't do those pizza joint meetings. He didn't do the

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Speaker 3: let's go to the church and just shake hands and stuff. No,

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Speaker 3: he flew in. He had, you know, thirty appearances the

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Speaker 2: I remember from one of the last times he ran.

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Speaker 2: He never eats the awful local food, whatever the special

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, Sherry, thanks for coming on with us.

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Speaker 3: Okay, have a great afternoon and good luck. We'll see

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Speaker 3: what happens in New Hampshire.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Cherry Preston kf I, ABC News on yesterday's blowout

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Speaker 2: protest the promotion that Tiffany Blacknell got as his chief

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Speaker 2: of staff. Black Nell is a radical anti police, anti

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Speaker 2: Hawkman thinks that's that's the atrocity, and we're going to

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Speaker 2: talk to Nathan about that right at the top of

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Speaker 2: the hour at two o'clock. Right, it's the Johnny co

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Speaker 2: Trump wins big, big, fifty one percent of the vote

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Speaker 2: in Iowa and the Desantan's got twenty one, Hayley nineteen.

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Speaker 2: They move on to New Hampshire, but it's it's pretty

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Speaker 2: clear how this is going to end. I've had trouble

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Speaker 2: following this the last few weeks and months because it's

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Speaker 2: obvious what's going to happen, and to the extent that

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Speaker 2: I'm paying attention, it's I'm amused how relentlessly reporters and

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Speaker 2: anchors on television try to hype this, and how writers

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Speaker 2: in newspapers try to analyze it to death. There's nothing

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Speaker 2: to hype and there's nothing to analyze. That part of

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Speaker 2: the world wants Trump to win, and he's got the

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Speaker 2: majority of him in agreement, and the ones in the

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Speaker 2: Republican Party who don't want Trump to win, Odds are

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Speaker 2: most of them will vote for Trump in the end anyway.

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Speaker 2: So it's you know, unless he dies or Biden dies,

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Speaker 2: those are the two guys that are obviously going to

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Speaker 2: be the candidates. And boys, there are a lot of noise.

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Speaker 2: Is there a lot of blown gas?

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Speaker 2: Just well, I mean they have jobs, right. You gotta

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Speaker 2: go home. This is crazy. It's a disaster. Seriously, set

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Speaker 2: another owner, Chalise Mazelle. Very frustrating, said another one. I

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Speaker 2: want Elon Musk to do something about this. Some Tesla

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Speaker 2: owners even found they were unable to open their doors

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Speaker 2: because of the freezing temperature. Door handle mechanisms didn't work.

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Speaker 2: This is crazy. I mean, this is flat out not

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Speaker 2: gonna work at a certain latitude in this country. I mean,

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of states right now getting freezing temperatures

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Speaker 2: because this storm came in from the Arctic with a

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Speaker 2: cold front and it's dropped temperatures really low all the

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Speaker 2: way into the South. Even Texas they were expecting freezing temperatures.

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Speaker 2: I know, even in Florida the temperature is supposed to

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Speaker 2: be down in the low forties tonight. So this is

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Speaker 2: a bust. But don't worry. You're gonna hear Gavin Newsom

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Speaker 2: still promoting this stuff. There's plenty of cold temperatures up

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Speaker 2: in northern California. You're still gonna hear northeastern governors promoting

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Speaker 2: this crap and Biden as well. More coming up. John

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Speaker 2: Cobelt showed you you're listening to.

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Speaker 5: John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am six forty.

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Speaker 2: We're on the radio from one until four and then

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Speaker 2: after four o'clock it's the John Cobelt on Demand podcast

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Speaker 2: and we've got a lot of good stuff coming up

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Speaker 2: in the right after the two o'clock news with Debra,

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Speaker 2: Nathan Hockman's gonna come on. One of the leading candidates

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Speaker 2: for La County District Attorney. He's a former federal prosecutor

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Speaker 2: and assistant US Attorney General, and he is having a

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Speaker 2: press conference. Basically, he's saying, why the hell is public

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Speaker 2: why is Tiffany blacknew Gascon's chief of staff? Because she's

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Speaker 2: not only a public defender, Strike one, she's anti police,

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Speaker 2: Strike two, she's anti cop Strike three, anti prosecuting criminals.

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Speaker 2: That Strike four, she should be thrown out of the game,

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Speaker 2: and ejected from the stadium here, all right, you can't

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Speaker 2: have her as the chief of staff for our idiot,

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Speaker 2: whack job district attorney. So Nathan Hockman, well, he wouldn't

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Speaker 2: say that. I'm saying that that's how I feel should mischaracterize.

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Speaker 2: Nathan speaks far more formally than I do on the matter.

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Speaker 2: So that's coming up. If you've been tracking these Israeli protests,

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Speaker 2: well they hit a new low on Monday yesterday, thousands

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Speaker 2: gathered in Manhattan demanding a ceasefire because you know, only

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Speaker 2: only terrorists are supposed to be firing weapons at innocent people, right,

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Speaker 2: only terrorists should have free reign. God forbid anybody fights

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Speaker 2: back against terrorists. You know this is a pro homosk crowd.

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Speaker 2: But guess where they went for their protests. They didn't

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Speaker 2: go to, you know, a federal office building or one

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Speaker 2: of the local senators or congressmen who support Israel. No,

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Speaker 2: they went to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to

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Speaker 2: yell at cancer patients on the Upper East Side. I mean,

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Speaker 2: this is a new looe. Do they think they're getting

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Speaker 2: any converts when you start screaming at cancer patients like,

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Speaker 2: who's so who are you winning over? Then they went

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Speaker 2: after a Starbucks and a McDonald's and accused, accused the

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Speaker 2: workers there of making meals for genocide. I don't know

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Speaker 2: how that tracks. See that one of those, one of

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Speaker 2: those baristas, is making some complicated coffee mix, and you

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Speaker 2: have these crazed Palestinians, Palestinian supporters screaming about genocide they made.

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Speaker 2: They're robots, you know what. They probably were screaming at

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Speaker 2: the robots. But back to the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

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Speaker 2: Somebody in the crowd beating a drum. There's always some

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Speaker 2: moron with a drum. Why don't they bang their empty skulls?

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Speaker 2: It would make the same sound. So this guy's beating

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Speaker 2: a drum and people chanted MSK. It's memorial Sloan Kettering MSK.

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Speaker 2: Shame on you, you support genocide. Two They also the

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Speaker 2: name of the protest was flood Manhattan for a Gaza

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Speaker 2: MLK Day March for healthcare, and people just were shouting shame, shame.

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Speaker 2: There was a scuffle. One protester thrown to the ground

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Speaker 2: by cops. Oh good, I hope they dropped them on

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Speaker 2: their heads, I really do. And the protesters, of course,

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Speaker 2: are demanding the cops' names, and I'm sure they were

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Speaker 2: holding out their phones. This is just this is a

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Speaker 2: a mental disorder, you know. I've got I've got to

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Speaker 2: find this article. I found it a couple of months ago,

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Speaker 2: and I always meant to talk about it, just never

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Speaker 2: had a chance or and forgot about it. But there

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Speaker 2: is Christopher Ruffo, who's who's an activist. He wrote a

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Speaker 2: piece on cluster B. Cluster B is like a syndrome

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Speaker 2: of certain personality traits, and you see them in public protesters.

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Speaker 2: You know, they're wild eyed, they're crazy, they're self important,

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Speaker 2: they're narcissistic, they're delusional, they're emotionally unbalanced. And if you

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Speaker 2: go through the list of the cluster B symptoms, they

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Speaker 2: match symptom for symptom. What you're seeing with your own

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Speaker 2: eyes when you see these protesters screaming, and so, what

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Speaker 2: you're watching is not a protest about an issue, right,

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Speaker 2: You're not obviously watching a rational discussion. What you're watching

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Speaker 2: is somebody having some kind of seizure. They've got a

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Speaker 2: mental disorder and they can no longer control their impulses

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Speaker 2: or their feelings or whatever powering them to do this,

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Speaker 2: And so you're seeing like someone who maybe has I

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Speaker 2: don't know, an epileptic fit. You're seeing somebody who has

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Speaker 2: is afflicted with a disorder that they can't control, and

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Speaker 2: we probably just should pity them or get them treatment

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Speaker 2: or lock them up. And because normal, the only way

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Speaker 2: to stop whatever there is to stop in Israel is

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Speaker 2: for somebody to call Hamas up, the Hamas leaders, and say,

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Speaker 2: why don't you surrender completely? Everybody? Just turn over all

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Speaker 2: your weapons, give up all the hostages, inform the Israelis

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Speaker 2: of all the locations where you have all your men stashed.

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Speaker 2: All the leaders should surrender and turn themselves over, and

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Speaker 2: then the retaliation will cease. That's how you stop it.

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Speaker 2: But screaming at cancer patients or Barista, isn't Starbucks or

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Speaker 2: the burger flipper at McDonald's. Isn't that, by definition obviously

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Speaker 2: somebody with a mental disorder. I mean, can you imagine

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Speaker 2: whatever political issue you're angry with in life? You know

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Speaker 2: we've all got our list, but you decide, you know what,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna take action. I'm gonna do something. You know,

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Speaker 2: I tried by that McDonald's every day, and I know

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Speaker 2: they're making burgers there and I know they're shaking the

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Speaker 2: fry basket and they got that milkshake machine going, and

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Speaker 2: I'm just going to go in there and yell at

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Speaker 2: them about the genocide. And you know what that cancer hospital,

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Speaker 2: those can't those little kids suffering from cancer who were

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Speaker 2: getting the chemotherapy treatments and they've had their brain tumors

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Speaker 2: removed and they've lost their hair. I'm gonna yell at

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Speaker 2: them because they could stop the Israelis if they wanted.

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Speaker 2: And these are truly mental patients and they ought to

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Speaker 2: be a van there would be guys with white coats

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Speaker 2: and nets and take them all into padded rooms. That

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Speaker 2: would be the appropriate response here. All right, We got

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Speaker 2: more coming up and after two o'clock. As I said,

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Speaker 2: Nathan Hoffman, who's one of the leading candidates for district attorney,

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Speaker 2: and he's got a press conference going on today. He's

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Speaker 2: demanding that George Gascon get rid of Tiffany black Now

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Speaker 2: as his chief of staff. Blackmail, anti police, anti prison

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Speaker 2: pro criminal, a real dangerous activist, probably another cluster B

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Speaker 2: candidate like the anti Israeli protesters screaming at the cancer patients. Probably,

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Speaker 2: I'm sure the same ilk Debra Mark live in the

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