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Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Molly John Fast and this is Fast Politics,

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Speaker 1: where we discussed the top political headlines with some of

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Speaker 1: today's best minds, and recently obtained email show that Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump was always planning.

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Speaker 2: To say the election was stolen.

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Speaker 1: I am shocked. I'm totally shocked. We have such a

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Speaker 1: great show for you today. White House communications director the

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Speaker 1: One the Only Ben Lebolt talks to us about the

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Speaker 1: state of the Union and what lies ahead for the president.

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Speaker 2: Then we're going to play you a.

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Speaker 1: Clip from our Soldown City Winery show featuring the One

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Speaker 1: the Only Rick Wilson and surprise guest George Conway. But

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Speaker 1: first we have The Washington Post's own Dana Milbank.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, Too Fast Politics.

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Speaker 3: Dana Milbank, Molly, it's a thrill as always to be

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Speaker 3: with you a thrill.

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Speaker 1: So I love you and love having you on the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I was excited to have you. Oh, I'm very like

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Speaker 1: not DC because I like hug people and tell them

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Speaker 2: That's like not I feel like that's not the culture.

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Speaker 3: It's my culture in DC. You can hang with me anytime.

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Speaker 1: But I wanted to talk to you about this PC

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Speaker 1: for The Washington Post, where it's so crazy. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it is, like it's not that crazy,

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Speaker 1: but it is also that crazy my month of living

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Speaker 2: Thunder here because it's so hilarious. So explain to us

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Speaker 2: what you did.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know that it is possible and throughout the country.

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Speaker 3: Really the laws vary by state to vote in whatever

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Speaker 3: the election. And in DC it's very easy. You just

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Speaker 3: So it is a friend's suggestion that is exactly what

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Speaker 3: I did. I've always been independent and registered independent, you know,

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Speaker 3: I just don't like messing around, you know, voting for

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Speaker 2: Let's be honest. You live in the district.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so my vote is a total throwaway anyway, and

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Speaker 3: It turns out indeed, he did lose in the district

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Speaker 3: have the sole distinction. But you know, there were only

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Speaker 1: What I love about this story is that Trump has

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Speaker 2: So you are one of those radical leftist democrats.

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Speaker 3: Well, except I was more of a radical leftist and

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Speaker 3: And you know, he's been all about how you vote

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Speaker 3: course it's thrilled a lot of Haley supporters. Idea absolutely

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Speaker 1: So one of the things that you did was you

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Speaker 3: I was a little disappointed because you know, he went

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Speaker 3: This is true. They had some great targets that I

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Speaker 3: Then I'm not going to eat there anymore.

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Speaker 3: I didn't even know about this. You see, you are

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Speaker 2: Molly, Ah, I'm sure that's not true.

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Speaker 3: I should have checked with you first on this. No,

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Speaker 3: I just got the fried chicken sandwich and the milkshake.

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Speaker 3: It was really good, and I think I'm I'm just

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about what else is happening in the

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Speaker 2: Would you say that's fair?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and now we have eight months of limping along

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Speaker 1: Oh please, Yes, I think this is the stupidest group

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Speaker 3: And they're basically passing the same, you know, the same

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Speaker 1: Basically, this entire thing is because Matt Gates was mad

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Speaker 3: And they want to have a hunter Biden hearing with

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Speaker 3: various of his accusers. But they're all going to have

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Speaker 3: Right after all that and saying it's really an emergency

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Speaker 1: Do you think that being fiscally sane will come back?

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Speaker 3: There are so many things we wonder about. Will that,

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Speaker 3: Maybe it just hasn't happened yet, but I've sort of

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Dana Milbank, Molly.

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Speaker 3: It's been a pleasure as always.

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Speaker 1: Ben Lebolt is the White House Communications Director. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: Fast Politics. Wait, what is your fancy title, Ben.

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Speaker 2: That seems very fancy.

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Speaker 4: I can search for a new title if it's too much.

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Speaker 2: We like a fancy title here at Fast Politics. Since

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Speaker 1: Want to talk to you about things that happened to

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Speaker 4: implications for women and families across the country. So that's

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Speaker 4: a chance to look forward and then also to just

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Speaker 4: talk about what's on the line and what the contrast

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Speaker 4: is against you know, MAGA Republicans and the President is

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Speaker 4: a defender of democracy. This is a very significant moment

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Speaker 4: in US history that will come to it for this November.

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Speaker 4: He stood up for democracy at home and abroad. He's

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Speaker 4: standing up for individual rights and freedoms. Republicans used to

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Speaker 4: be say that they were for freedoms, but they've passed

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Speaker 4: hundreds of bills and state legislatures to take freedoms away

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Speaker 4: and certainly are responsible for the fall of Roe versus

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Speaker 4: Wade at the Supreme Court. And look, their economic approach

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Speaker 4: hasn't worked. You know, the president's predecessor showered billionaires and

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Speaker 4: corporations with two trillion dollars in tax cuts. It exploded

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Speaker 4: the deficit, and the middle class had to pay for it,

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Speaker 4: and they didn't see any benefits out of it. And

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Speaker 4: so you know, the present that laid out the stakes

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Speaker 4: and laid out the contrast in a really compel a way.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 1: So, one of the many arguments that I have with

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Speaker 1: people in the pundon industrial complex, by the way, I

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Speaker 1: think they're going to kick me out, is that Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden is not a president for you. He is a

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Speaker 1: president for more working class Americans in a way that

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Speaker 1: is I think really sort of like a thing that

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Speaker 1: the Democratic Party sort of lost sight of. And one

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Speaker 1: of the things that makes me think about that is

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Speaker 1: like Biden has had this quest against fees. It's small,

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Speaker 1: it's very un sexy, but I actually think it's something

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Speaker 1: voters really do care about can you talk about that

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Speaker 1: and other things like it.

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Speaker 4: I think the President's tests is always is this something

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Speaker 4: that your family would talk about around the Thanksgiving table?

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Speaker 4: And people like us, Molly, obviously, we've been hyper political

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Speaker 4: for a big portion of our lives. But you know

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Speaker 4: that the average America and the average family isn't like that.

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Speaker 4: And you know, when I get together with my extended

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Speaker 4: family over Thanksgiving, there's still a lot of people who say,

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Speaker 4: you know, I'm just not interested in politics. It doesn't

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Speaker 4: have that big of an impact on my life, which

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Speaker 4: I've argued to various extents over the years, but I

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Speaker 4: got to tell you it's stuck. Like jug fees where

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Speaker 4: it took a trip, they were loaded up with all

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Speaker 4: these resort fees that didn't even stayed a resort, you know,

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Speaker 4: doubled the cost threat or you know, they want to

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Speaker 4: go see a concert or a game, and you know

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Speaker 4: the ticket company is doubling the fee for that and

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Speaker 4: not disclosing it. I mean, the presence Lens has always

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Speaker 4: been the family million household he grew up with and

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Speaker 4: around in Scranton, Pennsylvania and Claymont, Delaware. You know, working

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Speaker 4: families who struggle to make ends and meet who aren't

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Speaker 4: one hundred percent sure that they'll have job security or

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Speaker 4: financial security and have to strap things together every couple

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Speaker 4: of weeks. And he has kept those Americans, those hardworking Americans,

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Speaker 4: at the heart of his presidency. He's made sure that

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Speaker 4: the earners on the bottom of the wave scale have

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Speaker 4: actually seen the biggest gains under this administration as wages

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Speaker 4: have gone up. He's made sure that the racial wealth

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Speaker 4: gap has closed. His address areas like student debt relief,

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Speaker 4: which had really burdened families and prevented them from you know,

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Speaker 4: putting down at the down payment on a house or

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Speaker 4: having another kid. He's focused on things like the child

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Speaker 4: tax care credit and the economy to make sure that

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Speaker 4: this is just the lenses. Does it impact the daily

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Speaker 4: life of hardworking Americans, and if so, then he's got

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Speaker 4: time to focus on.

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Speaker 1: So I think that's important point about the junk fees

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Speaker 1: and the sort of smaller pieces of legislation that may

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Speaker 1: not be mass deportation squads but will actually help people's lives.

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Speaker 1: So talk to us about some of the top lines

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Speaker 1: from the speech, and also just some like IVF abortion.

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Speaker 1: I would love you to talk about like sort of

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Speaker 1: the health freedom aspect.

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Speaker 4: The President believes that this is a significant moment in

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Speaker 4: history that we're living through where democracy is on the

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Speaker 4: line abroad, and and he draws a connection between what's

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Speaker 4: happening abroad in Ukraine and in Europe where Putin's on

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Speaker 4: the march. He's waving a war of aggression against Ukraine.

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Speaker 4: He won't stop there. We know that when dictators and

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Speaker 4: authoritarians are on the march that they'll go into other countries.

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Speaker 4: He's signified that he would like to do so, it

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Speaker 4: least into the Baltics, and that if we don't stop

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Speaker 4: them there, it'll continue and our native alliance, the strongest

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Speaker 4: alliance in history, will be threatened. And by the way,

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Speaker 4: if he enters into a European country that's part of

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Speaker 4: the NATO alliance, we're at war. So we've got to

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Speaker 4: stop Putin in Ukraine, and we've got to stop you know,

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Speaker 4: bowing down to Putin and his government and imply that

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Speaker 4: it's just okay for authoritarians like Putin to seize territory

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Speaker 4: that's not theirs. Well, we're also facing a really significant

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Speaker 4: moment at home and a significant risk to our democracy

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Speaker 4: became very clear on January sixth, where thousands of insurrectionists

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Speaker 4: stormed the Capitol and tried to overturn the results of

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Speaker 4: a free and fair election, and Maga Republicans have embraced

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Speaker 4: and the president's predecessor embraced those people not as insurrectionists,

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Speaker 4: not as criminals, but as patriots. Well, that's a very

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Speaker 4: dangerous moment for our country that has not been fully alleviated,

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Speaker 4: and the present believes we need to confront that directly.

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Speaker 3: So that's one.

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Speaker 4: Secondly, there's been a rollback of rights and freedoms. The

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Speaker 4: rights and freedoms of Americans across the country are under assault.

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Speaker 4: If you're a gay person that believes their identity should

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Speaker 4: be recognized, if you're a woman who wants to make

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Speaker 4: their own healthcare decisions, if you're worried about what's happening

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Speaker 4: in schools where entire programs and chapters of history are

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Speaker 4: just being torn out of books, Well, this is a

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Speaker 4: moment where we need to fight back for our freedoms

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Speaker 4: and to defend our individual liberties. And the present beliefs

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Speaker 4: that this is a year where we'll make big decisions

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Speaker 4: on that front. And at the art of things, as

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Speaker 4: we talked about earlier, is the present believes we need

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Speaker 4: to continue to build the economy from the bottom up,

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Speaker 4: in middle out instead of the top down. We know

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Speaker 4: what the results have been, record job creation, the strongest

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Speaker 4: economy in the world, record contracts for workers, Unions are expanding,

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Speaker 4: wages are rising. The policies that the President has put

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Speaker 4: into place, which by the way, some people said were

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Speaker 4: too aggressive when he did so, has led those things.

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Speaker 4: He believes we need to can continue our progress. And

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Speaker 4: the MAGA Republicans all they want to do is the

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Speaker 4: same trickle down economic expansion of tax breaks for billionaires

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Speaker 4: and corporations. Well, guess what the President thinks tax fairness

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Speaker 4: should mean. It should mean charging billionaires and corporations their

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Speaker 4: fair share, that we should actually have a minimum tax

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Speaker 4: on billionaires, that we should raise the minimum tax on corporations,

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Speaker 4: that we can actually do things like fund a child

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Speaker 4: tax scar rented in this country for working America.

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Speaker 2: So let me ask you two questions.

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Speaker 1: So, one of the things that you guys are going

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Speaker 1: to get into trouble with in this election, and you're

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Speaker 1: already seeing it in some of the exit poll line

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Speaker 1: is progressives who you know in some ways they don't

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Speaker 1: understand just how much the Supreme Court sucks.

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Speaker 2: And so I want to talk to you about like

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Speaker 2: student debt.

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Speaker 1: One of the things I think has been really amazing

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Speaker 1: is that the buy An administration has been quietly working

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Speaker 1: around the clock to try to cancel student debt, but

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Speaker 1: not so easy. You guys have canceled certain tranches. Talk

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Speaker 1: to me about where you are and what's happening with that,

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Speaker 1: And also do you think people can understand that the

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court really is just going around trying to undermine

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Speaker 1: legislation at every point.

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Speaker 4: Well, the good news is you can see from a

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Speaker 4: public pulling that Americans more Americans know about the work

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Speaker 4: that the president's doing on student deck belief than the

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Speaker 4: progress are making out a lot of other issues. So

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Speaker 4: this is one area that's broken through. I think it's

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Speaker 4: broken through in part because the Supreme Court overturned what

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Speaker 4: the President was trying to do in terms of canceling

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Speaker 4: student debt for millions in America. But he didn't allow

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Speaker 4: the Supreme Court decision to stop is canceled student debt

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Speaker 4: for four million Americans to the tune of the one

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Speaker 4: hundred and thirty eight billion dollars in debt relief through

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Speaker 4: every executive lever that he has available to do that,

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Speaker 4: and every couple of weeks every month, there are thousands

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Speaker 4: of new borrowers getting a letter and email from the

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Speaker 4: President saying that their debt is canceled or that their

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Speaker 4: payments are reduced. So he's attacking this from every single angle,

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Speaker 4: and I think it shows the type of work he's

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Speaker 4: done throughout the presidency. You know, he doesn't believe this

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Speaker 4: is a country that should have crumbling infrastructures, So he

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Speaker 4: passed legislation to get forty six thousand infrastructure projects off

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Speaker 4: the ground modernists across the country. He doesn't think Europe

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Speaker 4: and China should lead the world on that.

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Speaker 3: He thinks the.

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Speaker 4: United States should. He dug into the supply chain crisis

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Speaker 4: that was causing inflation into individual issues to look at

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Speaker 4: things like semiconductors, which power refrigerators in cars. We invented

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Speaker 4: those in America, but they were being built overseas in Asia,

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Speaker 4: and the present pass bipartisan legislation to make sure we're

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Speaker 4: building those in America again. Factories are getting off the

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Speaker 4: ground in places from New York to Arizona. To make

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Speaker 4: sure that those chips are built here in the United States.

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Speaker 4: I mean, he really took and looked at the pandemic

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Speaker 4: and the financial crisis that came out of it, to say,

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Speaker 4: what do we need to do to build our enomy

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Speaker 4: in a way it's helping working families, that's bringing prices down,

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Speaker 4: and that's addressing the cost issue that Americans are facing

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Speaker 4: at home. And so that's really been the heart of

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Speaker 4: his domestic policy agenda.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that I've been impressed with that

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Speaker 1: you guys have done is we have this attention economy.

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Speaker 1: The goal here is to get in front of voters

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Speaker 1: and also to inspire young people. How is the Biden

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Speaker 1: Biden administration talking to constituents in ways that are a

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Speaker 1: little bit creative and not necessarily traditional because I think

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Speaker 1: that you guys are doing interesting stuff.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Well, look, you know, from a purch of my job,

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Speaker 4: there's nothing more important than that, and it's what I

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Speaker 4: spend every day on is figuring out how we reach

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Speaker 4: the average person across the country. And you have to

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Speaker 4: realize the average person is not consuming political news right

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Speaker 4: They're going about the day. They may have you know,

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Speaker 4: a morning show or day side TV on to you know,

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Speaker 4: catching bits and pieces of it as they're you know,

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Speaker 4: making lunch or a family member or heading to a job.

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Speaker 4: At night, you know, after dinner, people are watching The Bachelor,

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Speaker 4: you know, more than they're watching the evening news and so.

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Speaker 2: And some people don't have cable, like anyone under.

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Speaker 4: Fifty exactly, there's lots of cord cutters now. Streamings increasingly important,

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Speaker 4: and so the media has just become more fractured. People

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Speaker 4: have added new channels to their diet, but they haven't

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Speaker 4: removed the old channels, and so there's diminishing returns on

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Speaker 4: any interview or news event. And so what we have

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Speaker 4: to do is figure out how to reach people everywhere

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Speaker 4: throughout their day on their smartphone, on consumer media that

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Speaker 4: doesn't tend to cover political neviws, on digital media, through

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Speaker 4: every social media platform available. We produced our on content.

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Speaker 4: We talked to the media, We talked to the media

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Speaker 4: at the White House, we talked to the media in

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Speaker 4: the States. We brief influencers who have large reach with

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Speaker 4: their own audiences. We need to reach people across ages

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Speaker 4: and demographics wherever they get their news. So look like

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Speaker 4: we've got you know, talking to you right now. We've

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Speaker 4: got a podcast strategy then my dads didn't have four

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Speaker 4: years ago, So we look at information consumption and we

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Speaker 4: work backwards from that to make sure we're reaching people.

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Speaker 2: Ben Lebault, thank you so much for joining us. I

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Speaker 2: hope you'll come back.

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Speaker 4: It was great to talk to you and would love

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Speaker 4: to Thanks Molly, and.

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Speaker 1: Now we have a special clip from our sold out

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Speaker 1: show at City Winery in New York City with Rick

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Speaker 1: Wilson and George Conway. One of the things about Robbie

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Speaker 1: Kaplan is you can't just get any lawyer for that case.

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Speaker 6: I mean, she.

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Speaker 1: Really is singularly very smart and go.

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Speaker 5: And then the way I got to know her was

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Speaker 5: I had she was. She has another case against Sean

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Speaker 5: which most people don't know about. It is a it

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Speaker 5: is a uh it was a class action. I don't

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Speaker 5: think I got certified as a class action. But it

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Speaker 5: involves lots and lots of people who.

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Speaker 1: They were Trump Steaks, No, Trump Water.

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Speaker 5: No, it's it's Trump University. No, but it's but it's

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Speaker 5: it was a ripoff. It was it's called no, no,

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Speaker 5: what is it?

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Speaker 6: That Trump for President campaign?

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Speaker 5: Free drinks for that table where we go That right,

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Speaker 5: very smart crowd scheme where it was like you can

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Speaker 5: get rich just you know, and roll in our program,

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Speaker 5: send us money. And it basically it was a what

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Speaker 5: they call multiply was that was that the that the

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Speaker 5: and the and the and they and they pushed it

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Speaker 5: on the apprentice. He did and what was Don Jr?

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Speaker 5: And there was I am shocked.

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Speaker 1: Don Jr.

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Speaker 5: Was basically lost the load of money and there was

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Speaker 5: you know that you can demonstrate apparently the evidence is

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Speaker 5: pretty strong. You can demonstrate basically there was no way

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Speaker 5: anybody other than Donald Trump and the founders of ACN

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Speaker 5: We're gonna make any money on us. So I had

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Speaker 5: read this complaints, so I have read well, because the

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Speaker 5: judge didn't certify it as a class action, refused are

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Speaker 5: uncertified it as a class action. So that piece of

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Speaker 5: it's going up. So it's not gonna it's not gonna

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Speaker 5: get tried this year. So but you know, at some

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Speaker 5: day he's gonna have to get out of prison to

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Speaker 5: testify in this case. But I mean, you're maybe no,

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Speaker 5: maybe maybe they'll just let him testify for my satellite

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Speaker 5: from you know, from the they'll have to shut down

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Speaker 5: the license plate making room for a couple of hours

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Speaker 5: and he can have his deposition.

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Speaker 6: I've read in the prison laundry.

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Speaker 7: Now it's the best rud laundry in any federal correction.

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Speaker 5: The c before I got here, the prison commissary, no

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Speaker 5: one liked it.

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Speaker 6: It was strong.

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Speaker 5: Prisoners came up to me and would say, sir, we

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Speaker 5: have a terrible, terrible commissary.

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Speaker 6: It's it's it's it's.

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Speaker 5: Do we need a businessman, a stable genius to run

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Speaker 5: the commissary?

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Speaker 6: Before the things there, we're not classy. I've made them classy.

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Speaker 5: And the license plates, they were terrible. They were the

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Speaker 5: worst license plates. Now they shine. They are Trump license.

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Speaker 6: Plates are more beautiful license plates than these.

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Speaker 2: When do I tell them to stop? Or can I

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Speaker 2: let them keep doing it?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 1: They can keep doing it?

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Speaker 5: Okay, did this on the We should just do this

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Speaker 5: on the Jimmy Kimmel's right something right, right?

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Speaker 6: I mean we can.

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Speaker 5: Okay, Well yeah, I.

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Speaker 7: Mean, but George, you're you're more bullish than a lot

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Speaker 7: of people. On Trump actually going to prison, Yes, talk

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Speaker 7: about that, because there are a lot of people it's

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Speaker 7: really simple.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean he's criminal.

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Speaker 6: I have noticed a lot of criming.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, and look at I mean, look at it

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Speaker 5: this way. He's got the ninety one counts basically any

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Speaker 5: combination of them. I mean it's like you gotta okay,

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Speaker 5: they should have a roulette wheel. They've got the quick

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Speaker 5: ninety one. You know, wherever the ball lands, that's three

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Speaker 5: or four years right there. So you know, you just

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Speaker 5: a couple of spins, bye bye.

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Speaker 2: So that's I feel.

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Speaker 1: Like you will not be said to see him go.

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Speaker 5: I you know, I don't wish him unwell. He is unwell.

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Speaker 5: I don't wish him unwell. I mean I I don't.

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Speaker 1: I think when you like the Republican Party back.

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Speaker 5: We're never getting it back.

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Speaker 6: It's gone.

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Speaker 5: It's gone. It's dead, it's gone. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 5: it's it's basically, if Trump doesn't destroy the Republican Party

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Speaker 5: this year, it'll be because he got elected and he will

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Speaker 5: destroy the country, right, But he's not going to do that.

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Speaker 5: And I think that you can already see the tensions

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Speaker 5: in the Republican Party at the state level. At the

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Speaker 5: federal level, You've got Henry Barber saying no, don't spend

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Speaker 5: the money on Trump's legal defense and his judgments. You know,

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Speaker 5: you've got you've got all these I mean at the

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Speaker 5: state level. Look, the Republican Party is a disaster because

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Speaker 5: all the looney tunes have taken over the state. The

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Speaker 5: state parties, Michigan's are perfect. Florida can't raise any money

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Speaker 5: because they're crazy. You know, we we haven't seen everybody.

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Speaker 5: I want all the Democrats to be paranoid and upset

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Speaker 5: and scared.

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Speaker 6: We don't don't.

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Speaker 5: Because I want all of you people to walk on

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Speaker 5: a crawl unbroken glass with people on your back to

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Speaker 5: the you know, in a swing state, please take you know,

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Speaker 5: get on Jet blue or.

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Speaker 6: Whatever whatever whatever, register legally, and.

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Speaker 5: That's you know, that's that's the way. You know, it's

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Speaker 5: it's when you assume that, oh, he's such an idiot,

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Speaker 5: he can't win. Is y he wins? Yeah, And that's

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Speaker 5: what happened in twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 7: I remember twenty sixteen. I was talking to people around

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Speaker 7: Clinton World.

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Speaker 6: They're like, oh man, they've got this in the bag.

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Speaker 6: It's amazing.

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Speaker 5: They were hanging out in.

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Speaker 6: Brook they were picking out curtains in the west wind.

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Speaker 7: They were like, I'm going to be the deputy Secretary

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Speaker 7: of Commers, I'm going to be in the state and

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Speaker 7: where were they after that?

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Speaker 5: And then and then but they figured it out, like

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Speaker 5: with seven days to go before the election, which is

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Speaker 5: why they held that big rally in Philadelphia, and it

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Speaker 5: was and they never how many times they go to

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Speaker 5: Wisconsin zero?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but the reason they did go to Wisconsin was

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Speaker 1: because every time she went it wasn't good, was it

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Speaker 1: didn't do whatever.

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Speaker 6: Here's here's the book.

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Speaker 5: The reason why she lost was because the election became

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Speaker 5: about her.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: The reason why he lost in twenty twenty was because

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Speaker 5: the election was about him, because he was the incumbent

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Speaker 5: and the lunatic. And twenty twenty four he is going

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Speaker 5: to lose because he cannot help but make the election

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Speaker 5: about him, because everything has to be about him. And

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Speaker 5: they can tell him, no, you have to say you

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Speaker 5: have to you know, you have to talk about Joe Biden,

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Speaker 5: and he'll mutter some things about Biden crime family where

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Speaker 5: he's see and then he's gonna say blah blah, and

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Speaker 5: then and then and then people like people like Rick

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Speaker 5: are gonna run ads saying you know, you are a lunatic,

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Speaker 5: You're a madman, and he's gonna say, no, I'm not.

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Speaker 5: He's gonna spend all day saying I'm a stable genius

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Speaker 5: and he's gonna look like a complete and one of

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Speaker 5: the things we have to do this year, everybody was

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Speaker 5: upset about this guy herd the council. It's like, no,

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Speaker 5: he did he doesn't. He did us a favor because

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Speaker 5: he put the mental state of our presidential candidates an issue.

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Speaker 5: And okay, hey, Joe's old. He forgets stuff. I forget stuff.

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Speaker 5: We're all forgetting stuff. Okay, he needs more sleep than

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Speaker 5: he used to, like my dog, like my dog, Bonnie.

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Speaker 8: Yes, okay, Bonnie, and so fucking what Yeah, okay, and

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Speaker 8: you're here, all right, So so let's let's talk about

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Speaker 8: You got the old guy who's nice and not crazy

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Speaker 8: and doesn't wanna it, doesn't want.

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Speaker 5: To destroy the be a dictator for damn a minute.

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Speaker 6: Or burn down the republic, burn down the.

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Speaker 5: Republic, or you know, reak vengeance upon his enemies.

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Speaker 2: That's us, by the way, in case you're wondering, Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I want the I want the bungalow nearest to the

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Speaker 6: to the fire pit.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, that's what Givemo is known for its bungalows.

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Speaker 5: But anyway, I mean, you know, one of the one

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Speaker 5: of the great failures. So the press was that, I mean,

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Speaker 5: it's his problem. Isn't just that he's losing it, like

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Speaker 5: he's losing it in terms of his ability to recall things,

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Speaker 5: his language ability is is aphasia, all these things. His

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Speaker 5: problem is the same problem he's had this entire life.

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Speaker 5: He's a narcissistic sociopath. And and the thing that's that's that's.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna clap for narcissistic.

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Speaker 5: Exact, everybody cluster b let's hear it for cluster We

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Speaker 5: having a hand for all these people who know what

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Speaker 5: cluster b is. Everyone took a cluster b he he

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Speaker 5: we need to talk about that. And four years ago,

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Speaker 5: oh my god, four and a half years ago, I

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Speaker 5: wrote a piece in The Atlantic that was like eleven

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Speaker 5: thousand words trying to get people to focus on the

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Speaker 5: fact that he was a narcissist somath. No. But you know,

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Speaker 5: I mean it got some press. It really got a

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Speaker 5: lot of play in the Beltway. I think all of

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Speaker 5: the basically all the journalists read it and they said, oh,

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Speaker 5: that makes sense, but they still ill wouldn't report it

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Speaker 5: because because well, well there's there's first of all, there's

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Speaker 5: there's a, there's a everybody's used to his lunacy. So

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Speaker 5: you know, we've defined deviancy down if you will, and

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Speaker 5: we've we've basically, you know, or psychologists or sociology called

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Speaker 5: it malignant normality. And so everything he's graded on a curve.

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Speaker 5: But there's the gold Water Rule, and the press always

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Speaker 5: afraid about the Goldwater Rule says says that mental health

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Speaker 5: professionals cannot talk about people who are not their patients,

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Speaker 5: and they and and so they're afraid to go near it.

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Speaker 5: The problem is all the reasons behind the Goldwater Rule

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Speaker 5: don't apply here. Like one is, well, how can you

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Speaker 5: how can you say somebody has this condition if you

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Speaker 5: haven't examined them. Dude, we have been examining this fucking

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Speaker 5: guy for how many years now? Nine nine years, nine

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Speaker 5: nine and years. And it's not like it's not like

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Speaker 5: it's ambiguous or marginal. I mean, if you look at

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Speaker 5: you know, this isn't hard. I mean, it's it's actually

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Speaker 5: written in plain English that diagnosed The Constatistical Manual of

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Speaker 5: of of mental disorders is the description of narcissistic personality

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Speaker 5: disorder and it's and anti social personality disorder. Of the

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Speaker 5: two clear ones that he clearly has. You go through

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Speaker 5: one through nine, only like five of them you have

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Speaker 5: to have. He's nine for nine, like five, they're like

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Speaker 5: five of them. For for sociopathy, ding ding ding ding ding,

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Speaker 5: you only need like three. It's like so much winning,

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Speaker 5: so much winning and everything. If you look at those

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Speaker 5: behavioral characteristics, it explained everything makes sense about Donald Trump. Everything,

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Speaker 5: the pathological line that's basically part and parcelov of the

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Speaker 5: self regard, the talking about himself, the fact that he

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Speaker 5: thinks that that the soldiers who die and to protect

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Speaker 5: democracy are our suckers and losers. Okay, this is this

877
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 5: is this is Donald Trump. This is his this is

878
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:22,719
Speaker 5: his sociopathy and his narcissism. And and you know, there

879
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:24,879
Speaker 5: was there was one I was sort of wondering about, Well,

880
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 5: was he is he is? There is Does he assault people? Yes, yeah,

881
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:33,400
Speaker 5: we've proven that already. And and there are just so

882
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 5: many I mean it, literally he checks every box. And

883
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:41,120
Speaker 5: we need to start talking about that because it explains

884
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 5: almost everything about him, about his desire to use the

885
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 5: government as an instrument for revenge, about his problem with

886
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 5: not seeking consent before in trying to engage in sexual relations,

887
00:46:57,040 --> 00:47:02,600
Speaker 5: with other people, and you know his fevery stealing documents

888
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:06,880
Speaker 5: and money. Do I mention the pathological line? Yeah, you know,

889
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:09,880
Speaker 5: it's all. It all makes sense when you say this

890
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 5: is this guy is textbook and and the press will

891
00:47:13,239 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker 5: not talk about it. They'll just say, oh, he's unconventional

892
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:21,799
Speaker 5: because he's a fucking lunatic.

893
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Speaker 6: But take him seriously but not literally, No, take him literally.

894
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:31,480
Speaker 5: He's crazy and and and you know, I I think

895
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Speaker 5: that's something that we need to talk about this year.

896
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Speaker 5: And now that we.

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Speaker 1: Are he's the nominee again.

898
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Speaker 5: We're gonna start talking about it this year more than ever.

899
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 5: And you you know, we're.

900
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:47,839
Speaker 1: Gonna talking over The goal is we're going to talk

901
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:49,839
Speaker 1: about it for eight months and then we're never going

902
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 1: to talk about him, right.

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Speaker 9: That's what we want, and then we go back to

904
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Speaker 9: having normal politics with normal presidents who you might not

905
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Speaker 9: agree with, but who you don't think are going to.

906
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Speaker 7: Asp You know what, I don't think we're going to

907
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:06,759
Speaker 7: be clear of it, even if we beat him this year.

908
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:08,480
Speaker 7: I don't think we're going to be clear of it

909
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Speaker 7: for a while. There's a lot of bad incentives out there,

910
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Speaker 7: I hope. So there's a lot of bad incentives out

911
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 7: there to make people act in crazy ways.

912
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Speaker 5: And that's not in the clubhouses. Yeah, right, running there

913
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Speaker 5: the Lauren Boberts. But that's the thing. I mean, I

914
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:30,400
Speaker 5: think the Republican Party is going to fall apart because

915
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Speaker 5: those people are not going to be able to hold

916
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Speaker 5: it together. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: One of the things go ahead, one of the things

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Speaker 1: you would say to me for years now, as you've

919
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:43,840
Speaker 1: been saying to me, he's going to destroy the Republican Party.

920
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:47,640
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, I mean functionally the party doesn't exist.

921
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:48,720
Speaker 5: It doesn't exist anymore.

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00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:52,919
Speaker 7: Right, there's no ideology, there's no philosophy, there's no plan

923
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Speaker 7: of governance.

924
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Speaker 5: It's all about Well, there was the twenty twenty Republican platform.

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Speaker 6: You mean, the one that was whatever Donald says goes.

926
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Speaker 5: Yeah. They said we will just reprint the one from

927
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Speaker 5: twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 6: It's better when it was like the Bath Party platform.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Oh but but yeah, I think that's a really good point.

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Speaker 1: We are, Uh, he really has all of the It's

932
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Speaker 1: funny because as Nicky Haley and Nikki Hally's last sort

933
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Speaker 1: of hurrah, she was talking about spending, government spending, and

934
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Speaker 1: I was like, I haven't heard a Republican talk about

935
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Speaker 1: this in like five seasons.

936
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Speaker 6: No, it was, it was.

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00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 5: It was so quaint. I remember like that first debate,

938
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Speaker 5: it's like.

939
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Speaker 6: Oh, tell us more about them. Before times Grandma was.

940
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Speaker 5: Talking about not spending money wastefully. Wow, that's like that's

941
00:49:55,480 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 5: the earth I grew up on. What how into that planet?

942
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:05,759
Speaker 5: So I give her credit for that. Yeah, I don't

943
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:07,759
Speaker 5: give her credit for raising her and saying, well, I'll

944
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Speaker 5: vote for him even he's a criminal. And did she

945
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:12,239
Speaker 5: say she'd pardon him or no?

946
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Speaker 7: Yeah, she said several times that She's like, we just

947
00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:17,560
Speaker 7: have to put it behind us. I'm like, yeah, close

948
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:18,759
Speaker 7: the jail, Doring's behind us.

949
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:25,399
Speaker 5: That's she seems to have gotten better lately. I don't know. Yeah,

950
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:26,160
Speaker 5: it's gonna last.

951
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Speaker 1: She's out now she's going.

952
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Speaker 5: Look, I know she's out, but I I but she was,

953
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Speaker 5: she's she was actually getting close to saying the right

954
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Speaker 5: things almost consistently.

955
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Speaker 1: And then she was like, and Joe Biden's bad too.

956
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Well I hope she. I hope she stays strong.

957
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:45,480
Speaker 6: I don't hold a lot of hope for it, though.

958
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:47,759
Speaker 7: I Mean, I've just seen too many of these people

959
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Speaker 7: join that cadre of broken men and women who oppose

960
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:52,759
Speaker 7: Trump and.

961
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Speaker 6: Then so befo him anyway, because Biden's communism, and then

962
00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:58,239
Speaker 6: you end up being like a hollow shell of a man,

963
00:50:58,360 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 6: like a Marco or a Ted.

964
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Speaker 5: Cran What about it, right, If I had to bet

965
00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:02,080
Speaker 5: money on that.

966
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:06,000
Speaker 6: Rudy, Rudy's on a hollow shell of anything. Rudy is.

967
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:11,080
Speaker 5: Rudy is like Rudy is, he's he's just sloshing around.

968
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:16,279
Speaker 6: Rudy is destroyed. Yeah, yes, listen, I would actually not

969
00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:20,560
Speaker 6: actually full. I wouldn't even describe it as secrets.

970
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:22,320
Speaker 7: I would describe it something on the lower shelf in

971
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:26,920
Speaker 7: the plastic jug wild No, no, not even wild turkey,

972
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Speaker 7: like old Ocelot or.

973
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Speaker 1: All right, we have zero minutes left.

974
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Speaker 10: Yes, I'm going to break this up, this party, but

975
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:51,080
Speaker 10: it was absolutely amazing, all right, George Conway, No, no moment.

976
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Speaker 6: So it's now time for a moment. We're standing now

977
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Speaker 6: for the moments of fu We really.

978
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:01,800
Speaker 1: Wanted to and this whole time didn't we So we

979
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 1: are in the moment of fuckery. For people who listen

980
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:07,719
Speaker 1: to my podcast, that's something we do there.

981
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:09,240
Speaker 3: Do you do it in your podcast?

982
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:09,759
Speaker 5: No? I do.

983
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:11,200
Speaker 6: Who's on the enemy's list.

984
00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:12,799
Speaker 5: Oh and oh that's good.

985
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:16,080
Speaker 1: I listened to your podcast, so don't. It's didn't make

986
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:18,040
Speaker 1: it sound it made it sound like I don't, but

987
00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:22,240
Speaker 1: I do. Obviously, moment of buckery, you're gonna go first

988
00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:24,359
Speaker 1: because you have real scorged earth.

989
00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:27,880
Speaker 6: Is Mitch motherfucking McConnell.

990
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:33,239
Speaker 7: That is a man who, at two critical moments in

991
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 7: our American history, had the chance to shut.

992
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:39,759
Speaker 6: Donald Trump's ship down. He had the chance.

993
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:42,680
Speaker 7: He said the right thing after January sixth, and when

994
00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:46,840
Speaker 7: he said Donald Trump did this, he caused this, and

995
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:50,239
Speaker 7: you know what he did what he did this week?

996
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 11: Will hope to endorse Trump because of what don't you know?

997
00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:57,600
Speaker 11: We'll hold full communism when Joe Biden is a Marxis socialist.

998
00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 11: And guess what This is a man who insulted Mitch

999
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:08,920
Speaker 11: McConnell's wife, who called her Coco chow, overtly racist, unbelievably

1000
00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:12,320
Speaker 11: destructive to McConnell's plan to hold power in the Senate,

1001
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:17,440
Speaker 11: and yet all he cares about is the vestigial twitch

1002
00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:21,400
Speaker 11: reflex of maintaining a Republican Therefore, most vote for the

1003
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:24,800
Speaker 11: guy is divorced from every single moral aspect of what

1004
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:27,480
Speaker 11: Trump is and does. And for that, Mitch McConnell, is

1005
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:29,080
Speaker 11: my moment of fuckery.

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00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:29,600
Speaker 1: Nice.

1007
00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:35,759
Speaker 3: That was very good.

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00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:38,000
Speaker 9: Go girl, you're pretty good at this.

1009
00:53:38,880 --> 00:53:42,359
Speaker 1: So my moment of fuckery is actually something I've seen

1010
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:45,560
Speaker 1: now because I was interviewing Tammy Baldwin the other day,

1011
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:50,400
Speaker 1: great senator from the state of Wisconsin running for reelection,

1012
00:53:50,719 --> 00:53:53,120
Speaker 1: good people, and she was saying to me, you know,

1013
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:57,560
Speaker 1: they actually brought in a candidate who lives in California

1014
00:53:58,080 --> 00:53:59,799
Speaker 1: to run for the Wisconsin seed.

1015
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:03,320
Speaker 7: Well, it's like Dave McCormick in Pennsylvania. He flew his

1016
00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 7: jet down from his house in Connecticut.

1017
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 6: I'm not kidding you, No, no, he really did.

1018
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:09,279
Speaker 5: And this is not even a joke.

1019
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:10,480
Speaker 6: They bought a house in.

1020
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:12,319
Speaker 7: A very fancy neighborhood, I know because they know one

1021
00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:16,080
Speaker 7: of his neighbors, and they fly their jet down there

1022
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:19,200
Speaker 7: when Dave has to come down for events. They commute

1023
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:22,000
Speaker 7: from Connecticut to run for US Senate in Pennsylvania.

1024
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:23,440
Speaker 6: But this is happening in.

1025
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:27,160
Speaker 1: Wisconsin, and he actually lives in a seven million dollar

1026
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:31,440
Speaker 1: house in California. But these are candidates who are carbon baggers,

1027
00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:35,040
Speaker 1: but they're also self funded, and so I just wonder

1028
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:38,000
Speaker 1: and again, we are going to see more reporting on this,

1029
00:54:38,120 --> 00:54:41,280
Speaker 1: but I just wonder how much of these self funded

1030
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Speaker 1: candidates are running because the RNC is having some trouble

1031
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:45,680
Speaker 1: raising money.

1032
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Speaker 6: It's listen, McConnell.

1033
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:50,279
Speaker 7: This was part of McConnell's plan for a long time

1034
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:55,319
Speaker 7: was to get wealthy moderate Republicans to run and smash them.

1035
00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:58,200
Speaker 6: Ag. Here's the again, going back to my moment of fucker.

1036
00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:02,120
Speaker 7: The irony is that Mitch McConnell after twenty twelve said, oh,

1037
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Speaker 7: fuck these tea Party people, We're going to put more

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Speaker 7: modern Republicans in.

1039
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Speaker 6: Well.

1040
00:55:05,719 --> 00:55:08,320
Speaker 7: That didn't work in the end of the day, but

1041
00:55:08,560 --> 00:55:10,520
Speaker 7: so then there the plan was, oh, well, we'll get

1042
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:11,160
Speaker 7: these rich guys.

1043
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:13,279
Speaker 6: They're donor class guys. We know who they are.

1044
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:17,320
Speaker 7: They like money, we like money, and it made it

1045
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:22,080
Speaker 7: easier for them to counteract the crazy right and also.

1046
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:25,440
Speaker 1: All and also all that money is going to Trump's

1047
00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:28,520
Speaker 1: legal bills, so you got to get bless them.

1048
00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:31,200
Speaker 5: And that is our moment off the Great Well.

1049
00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:34,640
Speaker 6: And by the way that it started, my experience.

1050
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Speaker 5: Was we've done it. I know, We've done it.

1051
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Speaker 1: That's it for this episode of Fast Politics. Tune in

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Speaker 1: every Monday Wednesday and Friday to hear the best minds

1053
00:55:44,239 --> 00:55:47,440
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1054
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:50,200
Speaker 1: enjoyed what you've heard, please send it to a friend

1055
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