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Speaker 1: You are entering the freedom hunt. The Iranians shoot down

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Speaker 1: everything else going on today on the buck Sexton Show.

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Speaker 1: This is the bus Sexton Show, where the mission or

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Speaker 1: Magno mistake, American. You're a great American. Again, the buck

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Speaker 1: a big mistake. This drone was in international waters. Clearly,

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Speaker 1: a very big mistake, the President says about Uranians. Welcome

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Speaker 1: you here. Privilege and the pleasures always. So here's what

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Speaker 1: Pardon the expression, because they shot a drone out of

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Speaker 1: the deal. Trump's not the problem, Ditele is this drone

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Speaker 1: was in international waters. We've been flying patterns like this

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Speaker 1: for months. We're trying to collect intelligence to make informed decisions.

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Speaker 1: We've told the Iranians before they shot the drone down

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Speaker 1: that I can engage against American personnel or assets. You

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Speaker 1: do so at your own peril. The present does not

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Speaker 1: want a war with Iran anybody else. President doesn't want

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Speaker 1: a war the Iran. Lindsey Graham is saying, So what

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Speaker 1: do we want? What should happen here? We have our friend,

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Speaker 1: Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaeffer joining us now. Is the author

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Speaker 1: of Operation dark Heart. He is a fellow at the

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Speaker 1: London Center and he joined us to talk about what's

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Speaker 1: going on. Tony, thanks so much, Hey, Buck, always great

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Speaker 1: to be on with you. Thanks for having me. All right,

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Speaker 1: so they shot they shot our drone down. What should

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Speaker 1: we do now? Well? I think there's two things. First,

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Speaker 1: we need to state our objectives one last time. I

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Speaker 1: think this is an I agree with Senator Graham President Trump,

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Speaker 1: based on folks I've talked to at a tooral about

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Speaker 1: this today, I think he President Trump's been completely right

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Speaker 1: about Iran with us said, there's nothing in a case

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Speaker 1: to me that we want to go to war. But

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Speaker 1: after we make that second warning, Buck, I think we

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Speaker 1: have to be prepared for military action. And I don't

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Speaker 1: want to say this in a threatening way, but if

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Speaker 1: the President says he's done with the Iranians their navy,

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Speaker 1: their navy will be pretty much evaporated in about twenty

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Speaker 1: four hours. So I think we can safely use military

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Speaker 1: precision strikes against specific military targets which have been used

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Speaker 1: as part of the Iranian effort in the Gulf of

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Speaker 1: Oman and in the Straits of Homoth to cause problems.

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Speaker 1: So you know, I'm not one for war, but I

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Speaker 1: am one to say, if you continue to poke me

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Speaker 1: in the eye with a stick, I'm going to take

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Speaker 1: that stick, break it in half, and put it in

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Speaker 1: your ear. And I think that's to the point where

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Speaker 1: we're at right now. Now, what would you say to

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Speaker 1: the concerns from from some including on the right that

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Speaker 1: if we do that. Let's say, if we, as you

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Speaker 1: pointed out, made the Iranian navy effectively no more. Iran

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Speaker 1: has a whole bunch of other things that they could do,

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Speaker 1: ground based missiles, firing them at ships in the Straits

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Speaker 1: of Straight, of Hormos, firing it off at oil tankers.

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Speaker 1: You know, if they're what do we do if they

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Speaker 1: escalate in response to our escalation or how concerned are

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Speaker 1: you that they would do that? At this point? I

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Speaker 1: got to be honest with you, I don't think that

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Speaker 1: they would respond in that level of kind. I think

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Speaker 1: the more we appease them, And I think President Trump

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Speaker 1: has tried to kind of split the baby here. He's

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Speaker 1: trying to say, look, I don't want to go to war,

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Speaker 1: don't push me. At the same time, if you push me,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to go to war. In this case, they

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Speaker 1: have continued to ratchet up their bad behavior. And by

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Speaker 1: the way, this drone being down, this is not the

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Speaker 1: first time that they've harassed drones over international waters in

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Speaker 1: the past. The Obama administration just kind of gave in.

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Speaker 1: So this is where I think Uranians are trying to

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Speaker 1: push the president to the point of where they think

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Speaker 1: you'll get in. I just don't think the understanding is

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Speaker 1: not going to get in. And while I don't believe

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Speaker 1: we need to be looking at military troops on the ground, again,

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Speaker 1: if the moment a military weapon is used against a

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Speaker 1: commercial entity, I think we have the right to attack it.

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Speaker 1: So if the Rainings do what you stipulate Buck is

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Speaker 1: they start firing missiles off and commercial ships, I think

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Speaker 1: those those missile sites need to be dealt with very

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Speaker 1: quickly and very effectively. And so this is why I

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Speaker 1: don't think the Rains are going to do that, because

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Speaker 1: the more they deal with us militarily, the more they're

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Speaker 1: going to lose capability, which makes them more vulnerable to

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Speaker 1: others who you know, may not be as welling as

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Speaker 1: us to restrain ourselves. So I don't think they want

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Speaker 1: to do that, and I think they'll recognize I'd like

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Speaker 1: to believe they'll be rational and understanding that if they

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Speaker 1: use military force, we're going to be forced to use

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Speaker 1: force back. What do you think is the proportional response?

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Speaker 1: What is a proportional response to them shooting a one

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Speaker 1: hundred million dollar drone out of the sky. Look like

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Speaker 1: my response would be to take out every like weapon side.

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Speaker 1: That is, say, if they use, say, for example, the

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Speaker 1: Chinese made surface to air missile that comes off the

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Speaker 1: shore one of the ships, then we take them all out.

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Speaker 1: And that's why I'm saying, you know, if the navy

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Speaker 1: continues to be a problem, we take out the entire navy.

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Speaker 1: And so it's one of those things where I don't

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Speaker 1: believe for a minute we will be we will benefit

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Speaker 1: from just HIG one site. I think if if you

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Speaker 1: continue to do things to the level of attacking commercial entities,

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Speaker 1: we need to do it, you know, kind of take

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Speaker 1: out the whole capability. And let me say something else here,

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Speaker 1: which may seem a bit odd, but the Chinese have

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Speaker 1: been stalking up on oil. The reason the Chinese are

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Speaker 1: stocking up on oil is because they have an economy

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Speaker 1: that has no more than two or weeks supply of

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Speaker 1: oil in a given time. So I think others that

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Speaker 1: would not normally be on our side on this may

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Speaker 1: well be on our side on this because while we

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Speaker 1: don't need a rainy and oil, while we don't need

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Speaker 1: oil from any source, we don't want to see commercial

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Speaker 1: entities attacked in the Gulf, which result in the diminishing

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Speaker 1: and other parts of the world's economy crashing. So and

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Speaker 1: I don't think the Chinese want their economy to crash either.

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Speaker 1: So what I'm saying is we have to be very

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Speaker 1: clear on our result, and there may be a need

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Speaker 1: for some level of military force. And again, let me

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Speaker 1: be clear on this, I'm not proposing a military invasion.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we want booths on the ground. At

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Speaker 1: the same time, we cannot allow the Iranians to continue

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Speaker 1: unimpeded to act badly and try to interferece with an

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Speaker 1: interfere with commercial operations within the Gulf. You hear a

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Speaker 1: lot about John Bolton's influence on the president's national security policy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what do you think of John generally, Tony And should

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Speaker 1: this be the concern that a lot of people make

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Speaker 1: it out to be? Essentially that Look, I'll just say

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Speaker 1: that they say that John is a warmonger. Now that's

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Speaker 1: obviously a slur, but you think he's a little too

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Speaker 1: quick to go for the go for the you know,

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Speaker 1: the fire button. I think in the past John has

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Speaker 1: had a record of encouraging military operations against Iran which

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Speaker 1: would have not produced good results. And I'm one of

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Speaker 1: those where you know. Remember but back during the time

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Speaker 1: that John was most vocal, he was trying to encourage

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Speaker 1: the Bush forty three administer Creation to go in and

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Speaker 1: do air strikes against nuclear sites. I was opposed to

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Speaker 1: that because, first off, we just don't know how many

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Speaker 1: sites they have, how many you know, if we miss one,

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Speaker 1: what happens if you know, they continue to do it.

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Speaker 1: So I think there was a lot of issues that

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Speaker 1: we just didn't know enough to do accurate air strikes.

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Speaker 1: And I think that could have resulted in a larger

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Speaker 1: war because that would have been an active aggression. In

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Speaker 1: this case we're talking about here, if the Iranians shoot first.

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Speaker 1: And this goes back to I use the Reagan metaphor

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Speaker 1: in Libyan. You know, the Libyans were in the Mediterranean

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Speaker 1: essentially shooting at our airplanes, and when Reagan was asked

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Speaker 1: by my friend Budd McFarland, what do you want to do?

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Speaker 1: Regan says, shoot them down. So I'm not for aggressive

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Speaker 1: offensive operations. I am for very aggressive defensive operations. It's

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Speaker 1: based on the predicate of someone shooting at us or

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Speaker 1: interfering with our commerce. And I think this is where

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Speaker 1: maybe in the past, John there was a little bit

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Speaker 1: too aggressive regarding trying to create offensive operations without a

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Speaker 1: clear predicate, and I think that's where John got a

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Speaker 1: bad rep. Is John doing better now and that I

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Speaker 1: think John is being much more in tune with what

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Speaker 1: President Trump would want done. I really do believe that.

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Speaker 1: Talking Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaeffer, author of Operation dark Heart

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Speaker 1: also you know him from the London Center for Policy Research.

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Speaker 1: All right, Tony, what about if the Iranians follow through

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Speaker 1: on their threat to enrich uranium? What is it up

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Speaker 1: to twenty percent? Which puts them in very quick striking

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Speaker 1: distance of weaponizing uranium? What should should our policy just

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Speaker 1: be keep the sanctions on, be patient, keep the squeeze on,

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Speaker 1: or should it be stronger than that? Now? I'm one

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Speaker 1: of those again that I think the sanctions and the

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Speaker 1: very severe economic restrictions we've placed on them are actually

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Speaker 1: having an effect. And I again, I've never been one

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Speaker 1: for the idea of air strikes buck because we just

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Speaker 1: don't know what we don't know to kind of do

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Speaker 1: a quote of Don Rumstone, there's no unknowns and all

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Speaker 1: this other stuff. So I'm not comfortable with the idea

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Speaker 1: of going in there and trying to bomb these things.

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Speaker 1: So I think the use of sanctions to strangle their

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Speaker 1: ability to do things. And by the way, that infusion

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Speaker 1: of billions of dollars the Obama administration aid them did

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Speaker 1: not help us and help them move their weapons programs along.

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Speaker 1: So I think the best thing we can do is

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Speaker 1: try to get them back to the negotiating table and

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Speaker 1: go from there. But I'm not for military action at

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Speaker 1: this point regarding a nuclear program. What that said, the

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Speaker 1: other thing we should be encouraging, and I'm saying this

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Speaker 1: as Tony Shaper, Senior fellow at the London Center, not

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Speaker 1: as a member or not as someone who advises the

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Speaker 1: Trump administration, but I think we need to encourage a

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Speaker 1: regime change. A democratic Iran run by someone like the

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Speaker 1: Green Movement, who are predisposed to not be trying to

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Speaker 1: develop weapons of mass structure would be in our ent

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Speaker 1: and the Green Movement back in two thousand and nine,

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Speaker 1: I would argue the Obama administration made a huge problem

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Speaker 1: by not supporting the Persian Spring. They supported the Arab Spring,

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Speaker 1: but the Persians they had a Green movement who was

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Speaker 1: seeking democracy, and the Obama administration had absolutely nothing to

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Speaker 1: help them. There's still a very strong movement within Iran

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Speaker 1: that wants to get rid of the Molas to move

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Speaker 1: towards democracy. I think we should encourage that. And frankly,

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Speaker 1: if they're having their own internal problems, it gives them

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Speaker 1: less opportunity to terrorize or be troublesome to their neighbors

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Speaker 1: around them. Well, Tennant, Colonel Tony Shaff for everybody. Tony,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us. Always appreciate your insights,

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Speaker 1: Sir hey Buck, always great to be on with you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, all right, team, We'll be right back about

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Speaker 1: our ABC News investigation this morning. And did Joe Biden's

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Speaker 1: son Hunter and questions about money he made from foreign

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Speaker 1: business dealings while his father was Vice president? Was Hunter

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Speaker 1: Biden profiting off his dad's work as vice president? And

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Speaker 1: did Joe Biden allow it? We're talking about millions of

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Speaker 1: dollars in at least two countries. Mister Vice President Tom

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Speaker 1: Yamas with ABC News, How you doing. I got a

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Speaker 1: quick question for you. It's a question we tried to

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Speaker 1: ask repeatedly. Can we ask you about Ukraine and China?

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Speaker 1: But kept getting blocked questions about foreign deals? His son

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Speaker 1: Hunter Biden pursued my father Joden in countries where Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden was working as a Miracle's top diplomat. How do

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Speaker 1: you judge what Hunter Biden was doing. I think that

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Speaker 1: Hunter Biden did a very bad thing and he was

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Speaker 1: very wrong. He allowed his name to be abused. ABC

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Speaker 1: News here doing a little rundown on some of the

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Speaker 1: problems facing Hunter Biden, whom I believe is the same

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Speaker 1: Hunter Biden who took up a relationship with the widow

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Speaker 1: of Bobiden, his brother, after Bobiden died, which that strikes

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Speaker 1: me as a quite odd thing to do. But at

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Speaker 1: issue here is that Hunter Biden may have been receiving

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Speaker 1: money that was really just an influence peddling scheme. What

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Speaker 1: does Hunter Biden have to do with these deals in

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Speaker 1: Ukraine and in China where he was making millions of dollars?

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Speaker 1: What expertise does he bring to them? Why would they

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Speaker 1: put him on either the board of any of these

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Speaker 1: companies or involved in deals with these companies. Why would

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Speaker 1: they do any of that unless it was because they

650
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Speaker 1: were trying to buy favor and buy access to his father.

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Speaker 1: And this is what I will never let this go.

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00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:46,799
Speaker 1: The Clintons were so corrupt, They were so completely brazenly

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Speaker 1: willing to sell access to themselves and to sell access

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Speaker 1: to the Clinton enterprise, that it was hard to keep

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Speaker 1: up with it. And they almost created a perception of

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Speaker 1: that activity in those behaviors as normal on their own,

657
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Speaker 1: just by being so flagrant in their violations of those laws.

658
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Speaker 1: How is it that the guardians of our republic, the

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Speaker 1: mainstream media that always pretends to be willing to speak

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Speaker 1: truth to power, how is it that they were unable

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Speaker 1: or uninterested in figuring out what was really going on?

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Speaker 1: To the Clinton Foundation? How the heck did Hillary Clinton

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Speaker 1: and it being worth and her husband worth over a

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Speaker 1: hundred million dollars, never mind the I think it was

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Speaker 1: two billion that they raised for the Clinton Global Initiative.

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Speaker 1: How did all that happen? Why was all of that happening?

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Speaker 1: These were questions that journalists knew. If they wanted advancement,

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Speaker 1: if they wanted to keep their privilege purchase, if they

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Speaker 1: wanted to just be on the upward trajectory, they had

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Speaker 1: to completely forget, completely abandon any pretense of neutrality of journalism,

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Speaker 1: of honesty and earnestness in their endeavors, and cover for

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Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation and everywhere that they could.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if they'll be quite as willing to

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Speaker 1: do that for the Biden family. The Bidens have shown

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Speaker 1: that they are very interested in making money. For all

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Speaker 1: the talk about being public servants. I mean, Hunter Biden

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Speaker 1: here shown up in foreign countries. Well, think about this,

678
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Speaker 1: what would he have to bring to the table, and

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Speaker 1: with some oil company in Ukraine, or of course is

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Speaker 1: that his dad's a vice president. There's nothing else here.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing else that makes any sense. We know what

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Speaker 1: this was all about, We understand what the game was

683
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Speaker 1: that was being played. Just be better if we could

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Speaker 1: be honest about it, and if our journalists would be

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Speaker 1: a bit honest about it. My old colleague, former colleague

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Speaker 1: at the Hill, John Solomon, he's been breaking stories on

687
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Speaker 1: this and he's saying, look this, this stuff is real.

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Speaker 1: He says that Joe Biden made sure that there was

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Speaker 1: the firing of a prosecutor who was looking into in Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: The prosecutor was looking into a fossil fuel production company

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Speaker 1: that a Hunter Biden was on was involved with in

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Speaker 1: some capacity I think consulting and getting some fat fees,

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Speaker 1: and Biden shut the whole thing down. But these people

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Speaker 1: want to want to get mad if someone from like

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Speaker 1: the Embassy of Japan buys a hamburger the Trump International Hotel.

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Speaker 1: I think that's a violation of the emoluments Clause. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think so. I don't think we

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Speaker 1: should accept that kind of nonsense at all. By the way,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think that we're starting to also see

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Speaker 1: that people are running out of patients with this continued

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Speaker 1: discussion over reparations. And I didn't get to play this

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Speaker 1: for you yesterday, but because the reparation ideas, it's never

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Speaker 1: going to go anywhere significant. It really is just for show.

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Speaker 1: It is moral theater, and really mostly moral theater for

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Speaker 1: white liberals who want to feel like they're doing the

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Speaker 1: right thing and they feel good about themselves. But here's

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Speaker 1: what Burgess Owens, who is a former NFL player we've

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Speaker 1: had on the show many times. Here's what he says

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Speaker 1: about reparations. Play clip two. How about a Democratic party

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Speaker 1: pay for all the misery brought to my race and those,

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Speaker 1: after we learn our history decide to stay there, they

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Speaker 1: should pay. Also, they're complicit, and every white American Republican

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Speaker 1: or democrat, it feels guilty because they'll be your white skin.

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Speaker 1: You should need to pony up also the guilt, my friends,

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Speaker 1: It's very powerful tool in the hands of liberals. They

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Speaker 1: use it on any number of things. They use it

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Speaker 1: with trying to push for things that are essentially racial

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Speaker 1: preferences or some form of racial distinction within the law.

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Speaker 1: They use it to convince us all that environmental policy

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Speaker 1: should be dictated from a kind of green priesthood that

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Speaker 1: thinks that they're saving the world, even if they won't

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Speaker 1: change their own behavior, and make no effort to be

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Speaker 1: part of the solution other than to make everybody else

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Speaker 1: part of a solution that will never happen, that will

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Speaker 1: never really, never really occur. I think that in the

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Speaker 1: aftermath of yesterday's hearing, a lot of people on reparations,

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Speaker 1: A lot of people walk around saying, why was that

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Speaker 1: hearing even necessary? What would it mean for English common

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Speaker 1: law based American law? I should say it was comona,

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Speaker 1: But what I mean for English commonla based American law,

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Speaker 1: if all of a sudden you could be held responsible

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Speaker 1: for the sins of your parents, or your grandparents or

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Speaker 1: your great grandparents, you personally could be it could be

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Speaker 1: held out that you were going to be the one

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Speaker 1: that had to pay the price. That would very quickly

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Speaker 1: erode our entire system of jurisprudence, whereby you can only

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Speaker 1: be guilty if you've done something wrong. You can only

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Speaker 1: be the person who has to be has to be

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Speaker 1: punished if you've taken some action, If there's some part

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Speaker 1: of this process where you have an you're an active

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Speaker 1: participant in it. But I just thought that the reparations

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Speaker 1: case that was being made yesterday in Capitol Hill, it

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Speaker 1: was very weak and just does not make any sense.

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Speaker 1: And I didn't even get into yesterday, And this was

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Speaker 1: a part of it that I always think about, Well,

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Speaker 1: what if you're what if you're somebody who's half black,

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Speaker 1: half white, somebody like Barack Obama, Where does do reparations

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Speaker 1: go to you directly if you're from a mixed racial background,

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Speaker 1: in the same to you to the same percentage as

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Speaker 1: somebody that comes from an entirely African American background? Would

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Speaker 1: that be there? You know, who would qualify for this?

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Speaker 1: And at ultimately that's when you realize it's just going

753
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:06,840
Speaker 1: to be a slush fund. It's just gonna be money

754
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Speaker 1: set aside for left wing causes and the promotion of

755
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:14,439
Speaker 1: left wing ideas and everything else very quickly just would

756
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Speaker 1: be meaningless. It would be billions and billions of dollars

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Speaker 1: for progressive institutions, the kind that build really fancy mansions

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Speaker 1: here in DC and you walk past them and you

759
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 1: say yourself, what an organization is that? Did they have

760
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Speaker 1: this kind of money throw around? Well, a lot of unions,

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Speaker 1: by the way, some of these unions AFLCIO and all

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Speaker 1: this stuff, I know they would say, oh, we represent

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Speaker 1: huge memberships. Man, They've got fancy buildings down here in DC,

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Speaker 1: very very fancy indeed. So oh, one more thing, do

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Speaker 1: you want to get a quick lesson from AOC on? Well,

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Speaker 1: I don't have time for the Yeah, no, enough time

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Speaker 1: for it. We'll have to hold that one for tomorrow. Corruption, though,

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Speaker 1: is this is one of the clear worst areas of

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Speaker 1: the law, where there's a Republican standard and a Democrat standard.

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Speaker 1: And you're seeing this with the hunter Biden thing. Why

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Speaker 1: didn't we know about this before? It's only breaking now

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Speaker 1: because hunter Biden has become more expendable with the left.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I think there are a lot of people

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Speaker 1: on the left that want Biden to step aside. I

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00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:20,800
Speaker 1: do think that the smart people on the left realize

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Speaker 1: that Biden just does not does not have it in

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Speaker 1: any sense. He will not be able to beat President Trump.

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Speaker 1: And so that means that the same left that was

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Speaker 1: willing to fight so dirty with you and me, they're

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Speaker 1: going to start fighting dirty with their own And I

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Speaker 1: think you saw that with Kamala Harris and Corey Booker.

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Speaker 1: They're going to be willing to really take it up

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Speaker 1: a notch here. So team, we have a much more

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Speaker 1: show coming up in just a moment. Somebody running for

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Speaker 1: president United States, somebody running to be the leader of

786
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 1: our party should know that using the word boy and

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Speaker 1: the way he did can cause hurt and pain, to

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Speaker 1: coddle the reputations of segreds of people who, if they

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Speaker 1: had their way, I would literally not be standing here

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Speaker 1: to remember le and I've state Senate is I think, um,

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Speaker 1: it's just it's misinformed. What happened all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: the Democrats are going and turning on Biden. Some of

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Speaker 1: the prominent, i would say, the most prominent establishment connected

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Speaker 1: Democrat candidates here, Kamala Harris and Corey Booker, I'd say

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Speaker 1: they're two of the very top, both US senators from

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Speaker 1: big blue states, very friendly with the media, very cozy

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Speaker 1: with the Democrat media establishment. They're going after Biden here

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Speaker 1: and let's just go over a little well, well, let's

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Speaker 1: just set the stage and then I'll tell you what's

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Speaker 1: what's really happening here. So Biden recently said of some

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Speaker 1: of his colleague He was at a New York fundraiser

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Speaker 1: yesterday when he pointed to the relationship he had with

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Speaker 1: senators like James Eastland of Mississippi and Herman Talmadge of

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Speaker 1: Georgia to say that DC or Washington, the swamp used

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Speaker 1: to function with more civility and more smoothly than it

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Speaker 1: does today. He was effectively a decrying the hyperpartisan atmosphere

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Speaker 1: of the current moment we are in now. Put aside

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Speaker 1: whether or not you agree with that, or that's a

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Speaker 1: worthwhile thing for Biden is SAA or whether everyone should

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Speaker 1: care about any of that. The problem here is that

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Speaker 1: Senators James Eastland and Herman Talmadge are or well they're

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Speaker 1: not long dead, but they were segregationists. Ah, so you

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Speaker 1: have Joe Biden who's saying that these two segregation of senators.

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Speaker 1: We worked together really closely, and it was great because

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Speaker 1: there was a lot of civility. There were civility, we

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Speaker 1: got things done, he said. And man, did his Democrat

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Speaker 1: colleagues begin this pylon all of a sudden, quote Corey

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Speaker 1: Booker jumped in, I have to tell Vice President Biden,

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Speaker 1: as someone I respect, that he's wrong for using his

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Speaker 1: relationship with Eastland and Talmadge as examples of how to

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Speaker 1: bring our country together. New York City mayor build a Blasio,

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Speaker 1: who is also Democratic Candidate's a mayor. He's married to

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Speaker 1: a black woman in New York City, he tweeted out, quote,

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Speaker 1: it's twenty nineteen and Joe Biden is longing for the

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Speaker 1: good old days of civility typified by James Eastland. Eastland

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Speaker 1: thought my multi racial family should be illegal. California Senator

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Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, a black presidential candidate, said Biden was coddling

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Speaker 1: segregationist in a way that suggests that he doesn't understand

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Speaker 1: the dark history of our country. And then Beto O'Rourke,

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, what did Biden say? What do you

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Speaker 1: do for the Vice president to somehow say that we're

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Speaker 1: seeing in this country today is a function of partisanship

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Speaker 1: or of bipartisanship, completely ignores the legacy of slavery, the

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Speaker 1: active suppression of African American and community of colors, communities

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Speaker 1: of color right now. So they're all jumping in here, folks,

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Speaker 1: they're all pilot on with Biden saying, oh, how could

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Speaker 1: he say that he worked with these senators back in

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Speaker 1: the day and that they were civil to each other.

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Speaker 1: That's not allowed, that's unacceptable. Biden has perhaps learned a

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Speaker 1: little bit since the last time he was the subject

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Speaker 1: of a pylon, which was over whether there should be

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Speaker 1: a repeal of the High Amendment. Remember, the High Amendment

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Speaker 1: prevents federal funding for abortions. Taxpayer dollars to go to abortions,

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Speaker 1: which is really a giveaway with no substance. Because your

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Speaker 1: tax dollars, I can tell you do you go to abortion?

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Speaker 1: They go to planned parenthood. And Planned parenthood may say

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Speaker 1: that money doesn't go to abortions, but yeah, if you

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Speaker 1: give me ten thousand dollars and I tell you that

849
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Speaker 1: it's not going to my new sports car, it's going

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Speaker 1: to my education, well okay, but you just give me

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Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars, So I can spend the money on

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Speaker 1: whatever I want. That doesn't really make all that much difference.

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Speaker 1: That Biden got caught being somebody without much in the

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Speaker 1: way of principles or any particular core and so now

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Speaker 1: he's decided that he's not going to apologize for this

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Speaker 1: latest moment, this latest gaff. Play clip four. Corey should apologize.

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Speaker 1: He knows better. There's not a racist bone in my body.

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Speaker 1: I've been involved in civil rights my whole career. Period, period, period.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of going on offense a little bit there.

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Speaker 1: Corey should know better. Although I don't think that's I

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Speaker 1: don't think that's gonna cut it. I don't think Corey

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Speaker 1: and Kamal and the rest are going to say, oh, okay, well,

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Speaker 1: if Biden wants us leave us alone, we will. Let

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Speaker 1: me say this, Where does the left draw the line here?

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Speaker 1: If you were a senator, and you've been a senator

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Speaker 1: for a very long time, and you had to serve

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Speaker 1: with fellow senators who were not just people who are segregationists,

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Speaker 1: but what about people who, oh, give it some time,

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Speaker 1: what about people who are for a traditional marriage in

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Speaker 1: the Senate? Will that be considered a mark against senators

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Speaker 1: decades from now, What also do we say about the

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Speaker 1: fact that then anybody who served in the Senate at

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Speaker 1: that time on the Democrat side and worked with these

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Speaker 1: two segregationists, because they would have had to work with

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Speaker 1: them if they're going to be in the same party

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Speaker 1: and they're going to try to get bills past, are

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Speaker 1: they all guilty of being allies or activists or supporters

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Speaker 1: of the segregationist senators? Is that is that what we're

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Speaker 1: supposed to take from this. The left doesn't really establish

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Speaker 1: any clear guidelines. It's it's often just left to be

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Speaker 1: whatever it is, that's what it's going to be. They

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Speaker 1: make it up as they go along, and on this

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Speaker 1: you just have some Democrat candidates who are clearly upset,

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Speaker 1: not about what Joe Biden said so much as they're

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Speaker 1: upset I think that their campaigns haven't caught on more,

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Speaker 1: and that Joe Biden's getting so much of the attention

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Speaker 1: and so much of the money. He managed without an

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Speaker 1: endorsement from Obama and without any particularly impressive career of

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Speaker 1: his own, he managed to put himself in a position

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Speaker 1: where he's just the he is the front runner, he

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Speaker 1: is the guy. And based on what I mean that

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Speaker 1: it's based on eight years of Obama is pretty stunning

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Speaker 1: because Biden didn't do all that much to speak of

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Speaker 1: in those Obama years, and usually a vice president like

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Speaker 1: that doesn't necessarily just get to be at the very

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Speaker 1: very front of the pack in a crowded field in

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Speaker 1: the next general election. But Biden, I've been you know,

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Speaker 1: I've been saying all along. He's a weak candidate. He's

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Speaker 1: not going to be stronger as a candidate. There's no

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Speaker 1: way that Joe Biden can beat Donald Trump in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: unless something just completely unforeseen, unforeseeable and crazy happens. There's

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Speaker 1: just no way, because why why would anyone vote for

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Speaker 1: this guy change his positions on a whim? What ideas

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Speaker 1: it does? Does he have? Oh, I'm gonna be more civil,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be more friendly people by the team. I'm

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Speaker 1: sorry my voice. I'm I've got a cold in June,

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Speaker 1: which is really I don't know, that's the thing that

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Speaker 1: really happened to people. So my voice keeps cracking and

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Speaker 1: my head's all stuffed up, and you know, I'm on

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Speaker 1: taking some meds to try to get through the show.

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Speaker 1: But I apologize if you hear my voice crack or

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Speaker 1: something bad goes down during the show like that. I'm

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Speaker 1: fighting through a team because neither rain nor snow nor

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Speaker 1: sleet or whatever that is. Blah blah, I have a cold.

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Speaker 1: I'll keep doing my show. We'll grab back, Congresswoman. Tens

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Speaker 1: of thousands were also brutalized, tortured, starved, and ultimately died

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Speaker 1: in concentration camps camps like Takau. If you want to

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Speaker 1: criticize the shameful treatment of people at our southern border, fine,

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Speaker 1: they'll have plenty of company, but be careful comparing them

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Speaker 1: to Nazi concentration camps, because they're not at all comparable

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Speaker 1: in the slightest But here's where upsetting as are comments.

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Speaker 1: Some Democrats have been relucting to condemn her remarks, and

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Speaker 1: I don't want to get criticized on Twitter. Fellow New

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Speaker 1: Our Congressman Jerry Nadler tweeted in response, one of the

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Speaker 1: lessons from the Holocaust is never again. We fail to

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Speaker 1: learn that lesson when we don't call out such inhumanity

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Speaker 1: right in front of us. Darry Nadler Shirley knows migrant

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Speaker 1: detainment camps are not the same as concentration camps. So

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Speaker 1: why didn't he just say that? Why are we so

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Speaker 1: cheapest calling out people we agree with politically these days?

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Speaker 1: So Chuck Todd maybe accidentally is engaging in an active,

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Speaker 1: somewhat sane journalism here Chuck Todd NBC? Why does this

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Speaker 1: guy have the job he has? What is he particularly

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Speaker 1: good at? Why shouldn't even listen to him? I can't

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Speaker 1: answer any of those questions for you, folks. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: You get a lot of these guys that we're just

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Speaker 1: supposed to listen to because they've been around for a

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Speaker 1: while and they're friends with the execs that run these companies. Basically,

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Speaker 1: what is it about Chuck Tbwell, who cares Chuck Todd?

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile he's calling out AOC, and who wants to just

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Speaker 1: in their own head here for a second, just just

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Speaker 1: give it a little guess. Did Chuck Todd get treated

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Speaker 1: like he was doing the right thing for calling out

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Speaker 1: of Casey Cortez? Or was the response response to him

945
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Speaker 1: that he's a terrible person and he's the worst and

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Speaker 1: he's a sellout and everything else. Oh, that's right, it's

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Speaker 1: defend AOC no matter what time. That's where the left

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Speaker 1: is that is where the left heart and soul is

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Speaker 1: right now, whatever it has to be, defend AOC. She

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Speaker 1: tripled down yesterday. She keeps going with this concentration thing.

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Speaker 1: She said, we are calling these camps. We're calling these

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Speaker 1: camps what they are because they fit squarely in an

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Speaker 1: academic consensus and definition. History will be kind to those

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Speaker 1: who stood up to this injustice. So say what you will.

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Speaker 1: Kids are dying, and I'm not here to make people

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Speaker 1: free feel comfortable about that. Okay, Again, just demagoguery, I

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Speaker 1: mean shameless demagoguery when she says kids are dying. There

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Speaker 1: are no kids who are dying in the detention facilities

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Speaker 1: because of the conditions or because of unsafe you know,

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Speaker 1: unsafe holding cells or anything like that. The kids who

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Speaker 1: have died have showed up at the border incredibly sick

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Speaker 1: because they're going through a dangerous passage to get there

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Speaker 1: in the first place. Those kids have showed up, they've

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Speaker 1: been very ill, and they've been immediately taken to get

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Speaker 1: first world taxpayer funded American healthcare right away. But if

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Speaker 1: you show up with the kid who was one hundred

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Speaker 1: and four fever and is dehydrated, and you know, bad

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Speaker 1: things can happen. It's terrible, it's a tragedy, but that's

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Speaker 1: what has been happening. But see her suggestion question here

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Speaker 1: is that the kids are dying because of immigration and

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Speaker 1: custom enforcement or because of border patrol, which is just wrong.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's wrong on the facts. It's also

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Speaker 1: morally wrong. It's wrong to suggest that to make it

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Speaker 1: seem like the men and women or border patrol are

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Speaker 1: killing kids. Don't even get me started on how AOC

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Speaker 1: and so much of the left only cares about kids

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Speaker 1: in the context of migrants, not in the womb. You know,

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Speaker 1: there was a really interesting Cleveland Clinic video that they

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Speaker 1: put out showing a cartoon essentially or a visualization of

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Speaker 1: a spina bifida surgery being done on a fetus. And

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Speaker 1: it's incredible and they just did the first successful one ever.

982
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Speaker 1: And this was making the rounds on Twitter and on

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Speaker 1: social media because people were asking the obvious question, if

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Speaker 1: this is basically this fetus is basically a tumor or

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Speaker 1: a parasite or a clump of cells or the other stuff,

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Speaker 1: the other deeply disingenuous, non scientific stuff that is said

987
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Speaker 1: about it by libs who just want to justify what

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Speaker 1: they're doing. Why are they doing a very complicated spina

989
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Speaker 1: bifitous surgery on that fetus. You don't do a spina

990
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Speaker 1: as in spine surgery on a clump of random cells.

991
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Speaker 1: Who certainly wouldn't do that on a tumor. But this

992
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Speaker 1: is this is where we are now. The people that

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Speaker 1: claim to embrace science reject science so blatantly in the

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Speaker 1: case of life and the fight over life. Oh wait,

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Speaker 1: here we go, there's more from me. I'm sorry, there's

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Speaker 1: This is from Walter shab who is the Office of

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Speaker 1: Government Ethics, former director of that. Okay, oh yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: one of these guys who's always coming out now out

999
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Speaker 1: to say like Trump is breaking this law or that laws.

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Speaker 1: There's a whole industry of people that come up with

1001
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Speaker 1: obscure laws or bizarre interpretations of laws that allows someone

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Speaker 1: to try to throw Trump in prison. That's what they try,

1003
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Speaker 1: that's what they want, or at least tell themselves they

1004
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Speaker 1: maybe do that one day. Sky Walter Shaubs wrote here

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Speaker 1: about the AOC dust up in the future of the

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Speaker 1: history books, if there are history books, will have much

1007
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Speaker 1: to say about the people who did the normalizing this phenomenon.

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Speaker 1: Is not notable for its uniqueness of the times that,

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Speaker 1: similar to other periods of darkness, the lessons have not

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Speaker 1: been learned. And that's in response to a Kazi Ortel's

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Speaker 1: writing to Chuck Todd. The fact that you slipped in

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Speaker 1: Nazi when I never said that is pretty unfortunate, Almost

1013
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Speaker 1: as unfortunate as the fact that you spent this whole

1014
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Speaker 1: time without discussing DHS, freezers, dog pounds, missing children, and

1015
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Speaker 1: human rights abuses that uphold use of this term. She's

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Speaker 1: not backing off of saying concentration camps at the border.

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Speaker 1: She's not, folks, After all the information that has been

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Speaker 1: pushed her way, after all the free history lessons that

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Speaker 1: she's been given, she's still saying concentration camps. Why because

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Speaker 1: ultimately this is not really about those kids. It's not.

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Speaker 1: She might say it is, she pretends it is. But

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Speaker 1: by calling what's going on in a southern border concentration camps,

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Speaker 1: it serves two very important purposes for the left. One

1024
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Speaker 1: is that it ties into the whole Trump is basically

1025
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Speaker 1: basically Hitler is a fascist. And two, it keeps the

1026
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Speaker 1: focus off of the fact that the Democrats have no

1027
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Speaker 1: answers as to what should be done at the border,

1028
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Speaker 1: have no theories about how we can make this better,

1029
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Speaker 1: and so all they would like to do is continue

1030
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Speaker 1: to point the Republicans and say, see, these guys are bad.

1031
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Speaker 1: They don't like the migrants. Bad, bad, bad, and that's

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Speaker 1: what they're doing. AOC is an intellectual abomination, but she's

1033
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Speaker 1: very powerful and has a lot of people. Wow, four

1034
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Speaker 1: point four three million Twitter followers, she has a massive audience.

1035
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Speaker 1: I mean for somebody who is a third tier intellect,

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Speaker 1: I mean somebody who's just not impressive at all in

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Speaker 1: terms of the grasp of information and knowledge and her

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Speaker 1: synthesis of all of that. It's appalling. But people are

1039
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Speaker 1: still backing her up. People are still pretending that what

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Speaker 1: she said was not the outrageous and stupid comparison that

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Speaker 1: it was. But Chuck Todd, I'm surprised to see that

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Speaker 1: he was willing to be not even a journalist, just

1043
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Speaker 1: be normal for a moment, just to speak the truth

1044
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Speaker 1: about something like this. So many journalists are just running

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Speaker 1: scared from AOC all the time. They think that they

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Speaker 1: have to constantly prop her up. They have to find

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Speaker 1: some way to justify whatever it is that she says

1048
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Speaker 1: it's pretty pathetic. It is pretty pathetic. And I know

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Speaker 1: that the left would say, oh, but the right, or

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Speaker 1: at least the conservative journals do that for Trump. It's

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Speaker 1: not true. I know a lot of people on the

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Speaker 1: right who will disagree with something Trump said or how

1053
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Speaker 1: he said it. They just support Trump as the movement.

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Speaker 1: They don't think that everything he does is perfect. We

1055
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Speaker 1: don't have some Messiah complex with Trump. I think they do.

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Speaker 1: With AOC coming up in a few moments, we're going

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Speaker 1: to talk about the injustice of the exoneration and now

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Speaker 1: the lionization of the Central Park five, the individuals who

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Speaker 1: are initially convicted of a brutal rape and attempted murder

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Speaker 1: in Central Park back in nineteen eighty nine. They're now

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Speaker 1: being turned into civil rights icons, folk heroes, and Hollywood

1062
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Speaker 1: is just completely completely changing the history and the facts

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Speaker 1: to suit this this narrative. We all know what the

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Speaker 1: narrative is. The narrative is that evil white cops who

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Speaker 1: were racist just grabbed the nearest black boys that they

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Speaker 1: could in order to try and you know, get false

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Speaker 1: confessions out of them because of pressure from city hall.

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Speaker 1: You know that that's the narrative. That's the thing that

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Speaker 1: they tried to do, and that's not what reality was.

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Speaker 1: But I will get into that a few minutes. But

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Speaker 1: I do have some good news here today from the

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Speaker 1: legal front, because that that is bad news, that does

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Speaker 1: not work. But some good news from the legal front

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Speaker 1: would be that the you may recall this, I talked

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Speaker 1: about the story here on the show, the Sheila Jackson

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Speaker 1: Lee staffer who decided to docks meaning to share the

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Speaker 1: private information of members of the Republican Senate in order

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Speaker 1: to do them harm just because they're Republicans. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this was a this was a political hit, and this

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Speaker 1: happened during the final hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

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Speaker 1: That Democrat congressional staffer has just been sentenced to four

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Speaker 1: years in prison. This from the Daily Daily Wire today.

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Speaker 1: Jackson Costco was described by prosecutors as having self righteous

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Speaker 1: entitlement and believing that he could violate the sanctity of

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Speaker 1: the United States Senate at will and threaten individual senators

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Speaker 1: as he pleased. Prosecutors sought to make an example of

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Speaker 1: Costco because his crime allegedly led to other incidents of

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Speaker 1: attacks on political opposition. Costco is the son of the

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Speaker 1: CEO of a major construction company who has ties to

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Speaker 1: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Diane Feinstein. He had

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Speaker 1: previously worked as a staffer in Maggie Hassan's office, but

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Speaker 1: has since moved on to working for Lee. While Senator's

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Speaker 1: Question cabin On, doctor Christine Blasi Award Costco snuck into

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01:05:03,200 --> 01:05:08,120
Speaker 1: his former boss's office to use a computer to publish

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Speaker 1: the private information of senators who supported Kavanaugh. Now, this

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01:05:14,600 --> 01:05:16,960
Speaker 1: should not be surprising in a sense that this happens

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01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:20,920
Speaker 1: because the Left has adopted very much an attitude of

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Speaker 1: anything that hurts the opposition is good. There are no

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Speaker 1: more rules that we have to abide by. There's no

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Speaker 1: more decency that we have to strive for or try

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Speaker 1: to hold ourselves too. It's just about how do you

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Speaker 1: crush the other side? How do you mess the other

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Speaker 1: guy up who disagrees with you? And doxing, which is

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Speaker 1: the release of private information into a public domain in

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01:05:44,560 --> 01:05:49,840
Speaker 1: order to create harassment, threats, embarrassment. Doxing is a tactic

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Speaker 1: that mainstream media outlets will use. I will never forget

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01:05:54,240 --> 01:05:58,920
Speaker 1: that CNN because somebody created a meme that CNN didn't like,

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01:05:59,600 --> 01:06:03,720
Speaker 1: you know, pro Trump meme that they threatened to docks

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01:06:03,760 --> 01:06:06,160
Speaker 1: the person, like, we're gonna we found out who you are,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna tell everybody unless you take this down

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Speaker 1: and do what we say. That's a major media organization.

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Speaker 1: I mean, CNN is also a terrible joke and a

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01:06:16,760 --> 01:06:21,400
Speaker 1: festering boil on American journalism. But it is a big

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01:06:21,440 --> 01:06:23,080
Speaker 1: place with a lot of money and a lot of influence,

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01:06:23,120 --> 01:06:27,280
Speaker 1: a lot of reach. But if you really believe the rhetoric,

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Speaker 1: and I keep coming back to this because it's so important,

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Speaker 1: if you believe the rhetoric of the left, that we

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Speaker 1: are in an existential fight for the future of this country,

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Speaker 1: that Trump is a threat to this republic, that anybody

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Speaker 1: who stands with Trump needs to be made an example of. Well,

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Speaker 1: why wouldn't you do this? Isn't it more important to

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01:06:53,120 --> 01:06:55,720
Speaker 1: defeat such a terrible opposition. Isn't it more important to

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Speaker 1: do that than to play by whatever the Senate rules are? Well,

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Speaker 1: this guy's gonna find four years. By the way, that's

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Speaker 1: a pretty that's a real sentence. I mean, that's real,

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Speaker 1: that's real prison time. That's not messing around, but it's

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Speaker 1: deserved you have to make an example of somebody like

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Speaker 1: this that he would use his government access in this

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Speaker 1: way for such a petty, spiteful part as an operation.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, he even went further. He according

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01:07:25,200 --> 01:07:30,440
Speaker 1: to according to here in the Daily Wire, he threatened

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Speaker 1: somebody who knew what he tried to do and said

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01:07:35,600 --> 01:07:38,600
Speaker 1: that he would release all of the stuff as essentially

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Speaker 1: was holding the information hostage. Costco pleaded guilty in April

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Speaker 1: to crimes related to an unparalleled effort to ransaka Senate office,

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01:07:49,760 --> 01:07:53,200
Speaker 1: extorting a Democratic senator, illegally harming Republicans for their political views,

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01:07:53,200 --> 01:07:57,840
Speaker 1: and blackmailing a witness. Here you go, another staffer and

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01:07:57,960 --> 01:08:03,200
Speaker 1: Hassen's office recognized Costco and reported him. So he sent

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01:08:03,360 --> 01:08:07,680
Speaker 1: that staffer an email threatening to quote leak it all

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01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:12,800
Speaker 1: if the staffer told anyone what he had done. He said, emails,

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01:08:13,200 --> 01:08:20,479
Speaker 1: signal conversations, gmails, senators, children's health information, and social security numbers.

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Speaker 1: This guy, Costco wrote, what a sick maniac. He knew

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01:08:28,120 --> 01:08:31,479
Speaker 1: exactly what he was doing. He knew exactly what the

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01:08:31,560 --> 01:08:37,080
Speaker 1: results of this would be, which was just a total

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01:08:37,840 --> 01:08:40,000
Speaker 1: nightmare for the people that would have been affected by

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01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:41,920
Speaker 1: it and all their socials and everything out there, or

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01:08:41,920 --> 01:08:45,880
Speaker 1: their phone numbers, their home addresses, everything to violate the

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Speaker 1: trust of the United States Senate in that way. Why

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01:08:49,760 --> 01:08:52,080
Speaker 1: isn't the medium more interested in this story? We know why.

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01:08:52,120 --> 01:08:54,480
Speaker 1: I mean, I asked that. I asked that question rhetorically,

1151
01:08:55,479 --> 01:09:00,120
Speaker 1: but it's so fascinating that's someone who was entrusted with

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01:09:00,200 --> 01:09:02,880
Speaker 1: that access on Capitol Hill would go to these lengths.

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01:09:02,920 --> 01:09:05,960
Speaker 1: But Kavanaugh, I keep coming back to it. Cavanaugh was

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01:09:06,120 --> 01:09:11,920
Speaker 1: a turning point in my mind in American politics. Cavanaugh

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01:09:11,960 --> 01:09:16,880
Speaker 1: was something else. It was different. It was proof of

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Speaker 1: what many of us had known was there for a

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01:09:18,400 --> 01:09:20,960
Speaker 1: long time, but now it was staring us in the

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01:09:21,000 --> 01:09:25,240
Speaker 1: face that the Left will do anything to destroy people

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01:09:25,240 --> 01:09:27,479
Speaker 1: that stand in the way of their power, that they

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01:09:27,720 --> 01:09:32,519
Speaker 1: have no demands of honor or decency in the way

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Speaker 1: that they fight, and that they were cheering on that

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Speaker 1: destruction of Cavana. I mean, anyone in public life who

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01:09:40,960 --> 01:09:45,080
Speaker 1: was a part of defaming Brett Kavanaugh, who was hoping

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01:09:45,200 --> 01:09:48,760
Speaker 1: for and advocating for him to be destroyed, should be

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01:09:48,800 --> 01:09:54,160
Speaker 1: deeply ashamed. It was grotesque. It was grotesque. But the

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01:09:54,240 --> 01:09:57,680
Speaker 1: left's response to all this is not to try to

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01:09:57,720 --> 01:10:01,200
Speaker 1: clean up their act. It's not to be better going forward.

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01:10:02,080 --> 01:10:04,040
Speaker 1: They just feel like they lost that one, but they'll

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01:10:04,040 --> 01:10:06,960
Speaker 1: win the next one. And that's how you have people

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01:10:07,000 --> 01:10:10,000
Speaker 1: like this Costco guy who figure, well, if we can't

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01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:12,519
Speaker 1: get our way and stop Kavanaugh, we might as well

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01:10:13,520 --> 01:10:17,360
Speaker 1: create problems, personal problems, put the safety of senators families

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Speaker 1: in jeopardy. Given the that moment in politics, you think

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01:10:24,000 --> 01:10:26,640
Speaker 1: it's really a good idea to put the Republican senators

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01:10:26,640 --> 01:10:29,200
Speaker 1: who are willing to stand out for Kavanaugh do the

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01:10:29,320 --> 01:10:31,120
Speaker 1: right thing to put their information out there in the

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Speaker 1: public domain for anyone to see, not just their address,

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01:10:34,720 --> 01:10:41,920
Speaker 1: of their phone numbers, their kids health information. Does this

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01:10:41,960 --> 01:10:43,880
Speaker 1: stuff happen on the right, folks, because I never see

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Speaker 1: it. It It always seems to happen the left. The really vicious, vindictive,

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01:10:48,800 --> 01:10:53,360
Speaker 1: crazy stuff seems to be stuck on the left. I

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01:10:53,360 --> 01:10:55,479
Speaker 1: don't think I'm imagining that. I don't think that's just

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01:10:55,640 --> 01:11:02,720
Speaker 1: my perception. Here, you and us, who you were in

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Speaker 1: the park with, oh names, I's got a loss. Where

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01:11:07,640 --> 01:11:11,920
Speaker 1: did you see the lady one lady, the female charger.

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01:11:11,960 --> 01:11:16,640
Speaker 1: It was severely beaten and raped. Every blackmail who was

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01:11:16,680 --> 01:11:19,880
Speaker 1: in the park last night is a suspect. I need

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01:11:19,920 --> 01:11:24,320
Speaker 1: all of them. What's going on with my son? Your

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Speaker 1: certains are involved and we're rape in Central part they

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01:11:30,600 --> 01:11:33,960
Speaker 1: saw you rape the lady. Didn't see a lady or

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01:11:34,040 --> 01:11:37,080
Speaker 1: hit anyone. I didn't see any lady, Kevin, I didn't

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Speaker 1: see any I want to see my son right now,

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01:11:39,320 --> 01:11:49,960
Speaker 1: right now. Whatever they said I did, I didn't. So

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01:11:52,360 --> 01:11:54,719
Speaker 1: in These Boys State Matches the central facts of the crime.

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Speaker 1: Let Netflix show when they see us about the Central

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Speaker 1: Park what people known as a Central Park five. And

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Speaker 1: this is a very politically charged documentary on a very

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Speaker 1: politically charge, a very sensitive case that I remember, even

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Speaker 1: though I was quite young at the time, I was

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01:12:14,680 --> 01:12:16,920
Speaker 1: eight years old, but I remember people talking about it.

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Speaker 1: I grew up three blocks from Central Park in New

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Speaker 1: York City. I used to go into the park for

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Speaker 1: all of my school years to play sports. And when

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01:12:27,960 --> 01:12:30,840
Speaker 1: I was growing up, you were told that if you

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01:12:30,880 --> 01:12:35,599
Speaker 1: went into Central Park at night, bad things were likely

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01:12:35,640 --> 01:12:39,080
Speaker 1: to happen, which in retrospect is just that's almost like

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01:12:39,200 --> 01:12:41,400
Speaker 1: saying that there's a whole area of a city that's

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01:12:42,560 --> 01:12:46,920
Speaker 1: been ceded to you know, bad guys or insurgents or something.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this was just completely insane. I couldn't go

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Speaker 1: to a park at night, a park in what is

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Speaker 1: a very wealthy part of New York City, because there

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Speaker 1: was a real threat of physical violence against you. Central

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01:13:01,120 --> 01:13:04,080
Speaker 1: Park is not that big. I mean it's a really

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Speaker 1: maybe four or five miles north to south and maybe

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01:13:09,040 --> 01:13:11,840
Speaker 1: two miles across. It's not that big of an area.

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01:13:12,240 --> 01:13:16,320
Speaker 1: So when you when you look at what the city

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01:13:16,439 --> 01:13:18,479
Speaker 1: was like at this time and the feelings that people had.

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Speaker 1: As a native New Yorker growing up there, there was

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Speaker 1: a sense that there was this lawlessness and this violence.

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01:13:25,120 --> 01:13:26,760
Speaker 1: I could break it at any moment. And that's why

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01:13:26,800 --> 01:13:29,519
Speaker 1: when the Central Park jogger case happened, where a young

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Speaker 1: woman who was jogging in the park was just viciously, brutally,

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Speaker 1: horrifically beaten to within an inch of her life, raped horribly.

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Speaker 1: The whole the whole incident just appalled and shocked the city.

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Speaker 1: And you had these this group of of they were kids,

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Speaker 1: I mean, they were young, young, predominantly black. I think

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Speaker 1: one of them was Hispanic men who were all arrested

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Speaker 1: and prosecuted and convicted for their role in the Central

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Speaker 1: Park jogger case. And now Hollywood has decided that this

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Speaker 1: is all a racial injustice, and this is something that

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01:14:14,160 --> 01:14:16,000
Speaker 1: we have to we have to look back on and

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01:14:16,880 --> 01:14:20,600
Speaker 1: have a full accounting of the racism that led to

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Speaker 1: this outcome. I mean, I'm here to tell you that

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Speaker 1: based on the facts as I know them, it could

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Speaker 1: not be more clear to me that the people that

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01:14:29,680 --> 01:14:34,560
Speaker 1: did this were the people who were initially arrested and convicted,

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01:14:35,360 --> 01:14:40,599
Speaker 1: and that politics, not the justice system, dictated that they

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Speaker 1: would be quote exonerated, and this has now turned into

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01:14:45,400 --> 01:14:50,760
Speaker 1: a disgraceful injustice that we are we are to treat

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Speaker 1: these individuals like they are civil rights heroes, and I

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01:14:55,280 --> 01:14:59,680
Speaker 1: give when they are anything but that they committed a

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Speaker 1: Haines sack. I mean, I know there were fourteen fifteen.

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01:15:02,640 --> 01:15:04,639
Speaker 1: One was sixteen years old when they were a part

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01:15:04,640 --> 01:15:07,920
Speaker 1: of this. But if a sixteen year old holds a

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01:15:07,920 --> 01:15:09,920
Speaker 1: woman down while she's being rape, I want that sixteen

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01:15:09,960 --> 01:15:14,759
Speaker 1: year old to suffer very serious consequences, decades in prison

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01:15:14,800 --> 01:15:19,120
Speaker 1: at a minimum. That's what I believe should happen. And

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Speaker 1: there are very few voices right now, because there's such

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01:15:22,479 --> 01:15:26,439
Speaker 1: a breathtaking rewriting of history that's going on here, there

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01:15:26,439 --> 01:15:29,840
Speaker 1: are very few voices that will speak honestly about this case.

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Speaker 1: And that's why I just so appreciate and I'll reach out.

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01:15:34,680 --> 01:15:36,800
Speaker 1: She's tough to get on radio sometimes she's a very

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01:15:36,840 --> 01:15:39,320
Speaker 1: busy lady. But I really do appreciate the work that

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01:15:39,360 --> 01:15:42,639
Speaker 1: Ann Coulter does on this because she'll just tell you

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01:15:43,439 --> 01:15:46,320
Speaker 1: this is all a lie, folks, This is a lie.

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01:15:46,720 --> 01:15:50,439
Speaker 1: Then a whole generation now that wasn't around during the

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01:15:50,439 --> 01:15:53,599
Speaker 1: Central Park jogger case, that doesn't have any that doesn't

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01:15:53,600 --> 01:15:55,360
Speaker 1: have any connection in any knowledge of what New York

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01:15:55,400 --> 01:15:58,400
Speaker 1: City was like at the time and what the atmosphere was.

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Speaker 1: They are being told old through movies, through Hollywood, through Netflix,

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Speaker 1: and now that the press and these different I think

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01:16:05,520 --> 01:16:08,280
Speaker 1: there's a Ken Burns documentary, and it as well that

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01:16:08,320 --> 01:16:13,280
Speaker 1: this was essentially racism, that the Central Park jogger case

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01:16:13,560 --> 01:16:16,280
Speaker 1: was about racism from the police force, that they just

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01:16:16,320 --> 01:16:20,320
Speaker 1: grabbed whatever black men they could to pin it on

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01:16:20,680 --> 01:16:24,240
Speaker 1: and they coerced confessions and this was an injustice. The

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01:16:24,320 --> 01:16:27,559
Speaker 1: injustice is that these men are now being treated like

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Speaker 1: heroes and are given tens of millions of dollars for

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01:16:31,400 --> 01:16:33,280
Speaker 1: being a part of one of the most heinous acts

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Speaker 1: that anybody can think of. In the recent history of

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Speaker 1: New York City. That's the injustice and we all need

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Speaker 1: to be very clear on that. I watched this play

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01:16:44,320 --> 01:16:46,320
Speaker 1: out and I think to myself, how long is it

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Speaker 1: before the narrative of the OJ Simpson case turns into

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01:16:51,360 --> 01:16:54,400
Speaker 1: OJ was really innocent? You see. It's just that there

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Speaker 1: were all these very racist white people in the District

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Speaker 1: Attorney's office in Los Ange Jellis County, and they tried

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01:17:01,560 --> 01:17:03,320
Speaker 1: to pin it on OJ, who was an innocent man.

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Speaker 1: You hear me say that, and you probably think that's absurd. Buck.

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01:17:06,360 --> 01:17:10,599
Speaker 1: Everyone knows OJ's guilty. Well at the time, everybody knew

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01:17:10,760 --> 01:17:14,000
Speaker 1: that these young men were guilty too. These young boys,

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Speaker 1: they were boys at the time when they were arrested,

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01:17:15,680 --> 01:17:20,200
Speaker 1: fourteen years old. They were guilty. What's the evidence for this?

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Speaker 1: Ane's got a column out today that picks that picks

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Speaker 1: from important evidence in this trial. I mean, a few

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01:17:28,640 --> 01:17:31,080
Speaker 1: things that we all need to know before we even

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Speaker 1: get into the evidence. Is that one Michael Bloomberg, whom

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Speaker 1: I worked for at the NYPD, he refused to give

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Speaker 1: these individuals any money from the city, and the City

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Speaker 1: of New York paid forty million dollars as soon as

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Speaker 1: de Blasio came into office. That was just a payment,

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01:17:50,200 --> 01:17:53,320
Speaker 1: that was just essentially a white guilt payment from Deblasio

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Speaker 1: to try and buy support from the minority community, to

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01:17:59,080 --> 01:18:03,160
Speaker 1: try to buy support from white liberals who always feel

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01:18:03,280 --> 01:18:06,640
Speaker 1: guilt in any of these these situations. They feel like

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01:18:06,680 --> 01:18:09,360
Speaker 1: there's something that they've they have to atone for, they

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01:18:09,400 --> 01:18:10,680
Speaker 1: have to make up for it, even if they had

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01:18:10,720 --> 01:18:14,519
Speaker 1: nothing to do with it. So here's some of what

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Speaker 1: Anne talks about on this column today. And you really

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01:18:16,680 --> 01:18:19,519
Speaker 1: need to know this because you're you're being lied to

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01:18:19,520 --> 01:18:21,200
Speaker 1: you right now about the Central Park five. I mean,

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01:18:21,280 --> 01:18:24,920
Speaker 1: these these kids were out there and the Anna isn't

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01:18:24,880 --> 01:18:27,559
Speaker 1: even get into all the evidence against the First of all,

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01:18:27,600 --> 01:18:30,320
Speaker 1: they were out there attacking people. They put people in

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01:18:30,320 --> 01:18:32,599
Speaker 1: the hospital that weren't even this woman. They were out

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01:18:32,600 --> 01:18:37,440
Speaker 1: there engaging in gang violence effectively in the park at night, attacking,

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01:18:37,680 --> 01:18:44,000
Speaker 1: attacking people, mugging people. So these are not these were

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Speaker 1: not these were not good kids. Start. Let's start with that.

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01:18:46,720 --> 01:18:48,920
Speaker 1: Let's understand these were not kids that were pulled out

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Speaker 1: of their beds at night and made to, you know,

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01:18:52,160 --> 01:18:53,720
Speaker 1: confess to something they had nothing to do with. They

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01:18:53,720 --> 01:18:56,519
Speaker 1: were in the park, they were attacking people. Now that

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01:18:56,560 --> 01:18:58,320
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that they were guilty of a gang rape.

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Speaker 1: But let's just understand they were in the park that

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Speaker 1: night and they were attacking people, So they were criminals.

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01:19:04,920 --> 01:19:08,400
Speaker 1: They were criminals. Attacking somebody's a criminal act. So the

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01:19:08,479 --> 01:19:11,400
Speaker 1: question is just what degree of criminal are we really

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01:19:11,960 --> 01:19:16,360
Speaker 1: talking about here? Here's what Anne writes. The five accused rapists,

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01:19:16,840 --> 01:19:23,200
Speaker 1: Kevin Richardson, Anton McCrary, A McCray, Raymond Santana, Yusuf Salam,

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01:19:23,280 --> 01:19:26,840
Speaker 1: and Carrie Wise were convicted of the nineteen eighty nine

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01:19:26,920 --> 01:19:29,360
Speaker 1: Central Park rape, as well as other assaults in the

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01:19:29,360 --> 01:19:33,280
Speaker 1: park that night. They were quote exonerated thirteen years later,

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01:19:34,080 --> 01:19:36,080
Speaker 1: and more than a decade after that, paid forty million

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01:19:36,120 --> 01:19:37,720
Speaker 1: dollars by the City of New York to settle a

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01:19:37,760 --> 01:19:42,919
Speaker 1: malicious prosecution case within months of Buildablasia becoming mayor, despite

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01:19:42,920 --> 01:19:47,519
Speaker 1: city lawyer's confidence that they would win at trial. Today,

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01:19:47,520 --> 01:19:49,920
Speaker 1: they are treated as civil rights heroes to Hollywood airheads

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01:19:49,920 --> 01:19:52,280
Speaker 1: and others completely unfamiliar with the facts of the case.

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01:19:52,800 --> 01:19:59,680
Speaker 1: So here is some of the evidence against them. You

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01:19:59,680 --> 01:20:02,000
Speaker 1: know what, team, let me let's hit a quick take,

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01:20:02,040 --> 01:20:03,680
Speaker 1: a quick breather. I want to come back on the

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01:20:03,720 --> 01:20:04,960
Speaker 1: other side here, and I want to I want to

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01:20:04,960 --> 01:20:07,200
Speaker 1: work through the piece of evidence that are in the

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01:20:07,280 --> 01:20:11,439
Speaker 1: record that these young men initially were convicted based on,

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01:20:12,640 --> 01:20:14,920
Speaker 1: and then we can all come to our own decisions

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01:20:14,920 --> 01:20:19,600
Speaker 1: as to whether this is just the most despicable rewriting

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01:20:19,600 --> 01:20:22,240
Speaker 1: of history that's going on, and that to me seems

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01:20:22,320 --> 01:20:24,320
Speaker 1: quite quite clear. But let me come back to the

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01:20:24,400 --> 01:20:26,439
Speaker 1: start of this break and we'll talk about what is

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01:20:26,479 --> 01:20:30,320
Speaker 1: the evidence of guilt of the so called Central Park Five.

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01:20:30,880 --> 01:20:33,080
Speaker 1: Stay with me, all right, team, We're talking about the

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01:20:33,760 --> 01:20:38,920
Speaker 1: evidence in the Central Park Jogger case that it involves

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01:20:38,920 --> 01:20:43,439
Speaker 1: the Central Park Five as they are now known, And

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01:20:43,560 --> 01:20:46,600
Speaker 1: I want you to really think about how could it

1345
01:20:46,640 --> 01:20:50,240
Speaker 1: be possible that this evidence is what it is. But

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01:20:50,439 --> 01:20:55,000
Speaker 1: now we are supposed to believe that these these men,

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01:20:55,160 --> 01:20:58,519
Speaker 1: who at the time we're boys, were teenagers, were not

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01:20:58,640 --> 01:21:01,719
Speaker 1: involved in the raven Keep in mind, if you hold

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01:21:01,760 --> 01:21:04,040
Speaker 1: somebody down during a rape, even if you're not the

1350
01:21:04,040 --> 01:21:07,400
Speaker 1: one who does the penetration, you are culpable. You are

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01:21:07,439 --> 01:21:10,719
Speaker 1: guilty of that rape. That is the way the law sees,

1352
01:21:10,720 --> 01:21:12,479
Speaker 1: at least law in New York in New York State.

1353
01:21:13,439 --> 01:21:17,439
Speaker 1: So there's not this Oh, they were just there, you know,

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01:21:18,200 --> 01:21:20,280
Speaker 1: holding her down while this was happening. By the way,

1355
01:21:20,479 --> 01:21:23,200
Speaker 1: just as a as a little bit of a fair

1356
01:21:23,240 --> 01:21:25,400
Speaker 1: warning here some of this. I'm not going to use

1357
01:21:25,439 --> 01:21:30,719
Speaker 1: any improper words, but this is tough stuff to hear about.

1358
01:21:30,800 --> 01:21:33,160
Speaker 1: So just a little bit of a content warning on that.

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01:21:34,280 --> 01:21:36,200
Speaker 1: So he mentioned the names of the boys, Kevin Richardson,

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01:21:36,280 --> 01:21:40,519
Speaker 1: Anton McCray, Raymond Santana, Yusuf Salam and carry wise are

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01:21:40,640 --> 01:21:42,840
Speaker 1: those in the names. Here's some of the evidence that

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01:21:42,840 --> 01:21:47,040
Speaker 1: Ann Coulter has pulled together on her in her most

1363
01:21:47,080 --> 01:21:52,640
Speaker 1: recent column dealing with this issue. Santana was one of

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01:21:52,640 --> 01:21:54,960
Speaker 1: the first boys picked up in the dark the night

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01:21:55,000 --> 01:21:59,719
Speaker 1: of the attacks on April nineteenth, nineteen eighty nine. While

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01:21:59,800 --> 01:22:03,880
Speaker 1: being driven to the precinct, he blurted out, quote, I

1367
01:22:03,960 --> 01:22:07,400
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with the rape. All I did

1368
01:22:07,600 --> 01:22:13,840
Speaker 1: was feel the woman's blank. The police didn't even know

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01:22:13,880 --> 01:22:17,960
Speaker 1: at that point that there had been a jogger even

1370
01:22:17,960 --> 01:22:21,360
Speaker 1: found that the police knew nothing about the rape when

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01:22:21,400 --> 01:22:26,680
Speaker 1: he said that. So in the record, we now have

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Speaker 1: a teenager in the park that night, picked up in

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01:22:30,600 --> 01:22:34,880
Speaker 1: the park, who says he's obviously scared because he realizes

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01:22:34,880 --> 01:22:36,479
Speaker 1: that he might be in trouble for something he doesn't

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01:22:36,479 --> 01:22:38,519
Speaker 1: know what, doesn't know what the police know. He says,

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01:22:38,640 --> 01:22:40,880
Speaker 1: I didn't rape her. I just felt her. I just

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01:22:40,920 --> 01:22:45,639
Speaker 1: felt her chest. It's a very strange thing to say

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01:22:45,680 --> 01:22:47,880
Speaker 1: for an innocent young man who wasn't there to nothing

1379
01:22:47,880 --> 01:22:49,479
Speaker 1: to do with it, right, that's a that's a very

1380
01:22:49,520 --> 01:22:55,360
Speaker 1: weird thing for him to have said. Richardson quote road

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01:22:56,200 --> 01:22:58,799
Speaker 1: to the precinct with another boy who announced the police

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01:22:58,840 --> 01:23:04,520
Speaker 1: that he knew who the murder, naming Anton McCrary I mcray.

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01:23:05,360 --> 01:23:10,160
Speaker 1: Richardson concurred, saying, yeah, that's who did it. Keep in

1384
01:23:10,200 --> 01:23:12,720
Speaker 1: mind the police did not know about the jogger yet.

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01:23:14,080 --> 01:23:19,360
Speaker 1: Over the next five days, five teenage boys gave detailed

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01:23:19,360 --> 01:23:21,479
Speaker 1: confessions about the attack on the woman, as well as

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01:23:21,479 --> 01:23:24,680
Speaker 1: the other attacks. All five made their confessions in the

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01:23:24,720 --> 01:23:31,639
Speaker 1: presence of their parents or guardians. It is absolute madness

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01:23:31,680 --> 01:23:34,840
Speaker 1: to imagine these officers did anything to coerce these confessions.

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01:23:34,880 --> 01:23:38,200
Speaker 1: Culter rights. When the boys confessed, No one, not that

1391
01:23:38,280 --> 01:23:41,240
Speaker 1: I'm not the prosecutors, not the police interviewing them, had

1392
01:23:41,320 --> 01:23:45,519
Speaker 1: any idea whether the jogger would emerge from her coma

1393
01:23:45,680 --> 01:23:51,760
Speaker 1: remembering everything. Mercifully, she remembered nothing Why on earth would

1394
01:23:51,800 --> 01:23:56,240
Speaker 1: cops bully five random teenagers into false confessions knowing the

1395
01:23:56,320 --> 01:23:58,720
Speaker 1: victim might wake up at any moment and announced my

1396
01:23:58,800 --> 01:24:01,880
Speaker 1: boyfriend did it. That would be rather awkward for any

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01:24:01,880 --> 01:24:07,320
Speaker 1: cop who'd gotten someone else to confess. Does anybody want

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01:24:07,320 --> 01:24:10,479
Speaker 1: to try to explain that one? So these confessions were

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01:24:10,520 --> 01:24:15,240
Speaker 1: allegedly coerced. They were coerced in the presence of adult

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01:24:15,320 --> 01:24:19,960
Speaker 1: relatives of the accused, and the police would have been

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01:24:20,000 --> 01:24:23,720
Speaker 1: coercing them with the possibility that the woman who was

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01:24:23,760 --> 01:24:27,040
Speaker 1: in a coma therefore was alive and still did live

1403
01:24:27,080 --> 01:24:31,400
Speaker 1: after this incident, could have woken up and destroyed all

1404
01:24:31,439 --> 01:24:36,519
Speaker 1: the confessions that they had allegedly coerced. Right, because they

1405
01:24:36,560 --> 01:24:39,680
Speaker 1: weren't coerced. Folks, We're not idiots, right, We all understand this.

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01:24:39,720 --> 01:24:44,360
Speaker 1: They were not coerced. These kids admitted it. They admitted

1407
01:24:44,360 --> 01:24:48,200
Speaker 1: that they had a role in this. But there's more.

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01:24:49,800 --> 01:24:53,280
Speaker 1: The police had incriminating testimony from friends and acquaintances of

1409
01:24:53,320 --> 01:24:56,960
Speaker 1: the defendants. Quote Dennis Comedo, one of the boys who

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01:24:57,040 --> 01:24:59,360
Speaker 1: was part of the larger group, told the police that

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01:24:59,400 --> 01:25:01,400
Speaker 1: when he ran in Richardson in the park that night,

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01:25:01,840 --> 01:25:08,120
Speaker 1: he'd said, quote, we just raped somebody, Carrie Wise, told

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01:25:08,200 --> 01:25:12,080
Speaker 1: a friend's sister, Melody Jackson, that he didn't rape the jogger,

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01:25:12,120 --> 01:25:15,760
Speaker 1: He only quote held her legs down while Kevin Richardson

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01:25:16,000 --> 01:25:20,519
Speaker 1: blanked her. Jackson volunteered this information to police, thinking it

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01:25:20,560 --> 01:25:24,439
Speaker 1: would help Wise. That's right. Somebody thought, oh, I'm gonna

1417
01:25:24,439 --> 01:25:27,080
Speaker 1: help my friend out by telling the cops, Well, he

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01:25:27,080 --> 01:25:30,920
Speaker 1: didn't actually rape her, he just held her down. Was

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01:25:31,240 --> 01:25:33,400
Speaker 1: she was she part of the coerced confession too? I

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01:25:33,439 --> 01:25:37,479
Speaker 1: just want to know. Was that was that the big, bad,

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01:25:37,640 --> 01:25:43,920
Speaker 1: mean white cops that were doing that? Okay? Two of

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01:25:43,960 --> 01:25:46,320
Speaker 1: Wise his friends, Carrie Wise, remember, one of the cues,

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01:25:46,320 --> 01:25:48,280
Speaker 1: said the next day he told them, you heard about

1424
01:25:48,280 --> 01:25:49,800
Speaker 1: that woman that was beat up and raped the park

1425
01:25:49,880 --> 01:25:54,640
Speaker 1: last night. That was us. Another boy arrested for the

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01:25:54,680 --> 01:25:57,440
Speaker 1: attacks but not the rape, told the detectives on videotape

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01:25:57,760 --> 01:26:01,120
Speaker 1: that he overheard Santana and a friend and laughing in

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01:26:01,120 --> 01:26:04,160
Speaker 1: the park about how they'd quote made a woman bleed.

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01:26:06,760 --> 01:26:13,040
Speaker 1: The defendants also new facts about the attack that only

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01:26:13,080 --> 01:26:16,439
Speaker 1: someone who had been there could possibly know. Two of

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01:26:16,439 --> 01:26:20,759
Speaker 1: the boys, Santana and Richardson, independently pointed out the exact

1432
01:26:20,800 --> 01:26:25,680
Speaker 1: location where the rape had occurred wide Wise told the

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01:26:25,680 --> 01:26:28,040
Speaker 1: detective interviewing him that someone he thought was named Rudy

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01:26:28,080 --> 01:26:32,839
Speaker 1: had stolen the joggers walkman. The officer notes state quote

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01:26:32,880 --> 01:26:40,320
Speaker 1: persons present when girl raped Rudy took walkman. At that point,

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01:26:40,320 --> 01:26:42,559
Speaker 1: the jogger was still in a coma. Police investigators had

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01:26:42,640 --> 01:26:45,599
Speaker 1: no way of knowing that she'd been carrying a walkman.

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01:26:46,560 --> 01:26:50,320
Speaker 1: Thirteen years later, the sixth rapist, Matthias Reyes, the only

1439
01:26:50,400 --> 01:26:54,040
Speaker 1: rapist according to Hollywood and former District Attorney Robert Morgenthaw,

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01:26:54,600 --> 01:26:57,320
Speaker 1: told police that in addition to raping the jogger, he

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01:26:57,439 --> 01:27:02,760
Speaker 1: had stolen her walkman. Someone explained to me, how would

1442
01:27:02,760 --> 01:27:05,280
Speaker 1: the cops be so slick, so smooth in they're set

1443
01:27:05,360 --> 01:27:10,439
Speaker 1: up here that they would have contemporaneous notes about somebody

1444
01:27:10,479 --> 01:27:13,679
Speaker 1: at the attack stealing or walkman, and then only thirteen

1445
01:27:13,760 --> 01:27:18,360
Speaker 1: years later did they have anybody confirming that, yes, in fact,

1446
01:27:18,360 --> 01:27:22,439
Speaker 1: they stole a walkman. Unless the kids who were saying

1447
01:27:22,479 --> 01:27:24,880
Speaker 1: they were there at the time knew that this guy

1448
01:27:24,920 --> 01:27:30,559
Speaker 1: stole or walkman. These people were part of a vicious

1449
01:27:30,640 --> 01:27:37,400
Speaker 1: gang rape less than two miles from where I grew up,

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01:27:38,600 --> 01:27:41,800
Speaker 1: right in an area where I spent many years of

1451
01:27:41,840 --> 01:27:47,760
Speaker 1: my life playing sports, going for walks. They were a

1452
01:27:47,800 --> 01:27:50,759
Speaker 1: part of a heinous incident, and now they're being treated

1453
01:27:50,800 --> 01:27:55,360
Speaker 1: as heroes. There was no adjudication of their innocence. There

1454
01:27:55,439 --> 01:28:02,080
Speaker 1: was just DNA exoneration. That is an exoneration and a

1455
01:28:02,120 --> 01:28:05,880
Speaker 1: politicized decision by a mayor who is a left wing

1456
01:28:05,960 --> 01:28:10,280
Speaker 1: idiot to write a massive check to them. And now

1457
01:28:10,320 --> 01:28:13,040
Speaker 1: you have Hollywood all jumping on this bandwagon too. There

1458
01:28:13,200 --> 01:28:16,880
Speaker 1: is real racism in America. There is a long history

1459
01:28:16,880 --> 01:28:21,760
Speaker 1: of very real and very disgraceful racism in this country.

1460
01:28:22,600 --> 01:28:28,160
Speaker 1: When the left creates stories like this, they undermine our

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01:28:28,280 --> 01:28:32,880
Speaker 1: ability to see and tackle and deal with the real

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01:28:32,960 --> 01:28:35,000
Speaker 1: racings out that's out there. This was not a case

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01:28:35,040 --> 01:28:38,439
Speaker 1: of racism. This wasn't just the police acting out and

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01:28:38,520 --> 01:28:41,880
Speaker 1: grabbing five black boys to make an example of them.

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01:28:42,520 --> 01:28:45,200
Speaker 1: These people confessed they were guilty. They did a horrible thing.

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01:28:45,840 --> 01:28:51,880
Speaker 1: And now the media that is so unconcerned with real

1467
01:28:51,920 --> 01:28:56,360
Speaker 1: innocence or guilt pat themselves on the shoulders because they

1468
01:28:56,400 --> 01:28:59,120
Speaker 1: say that this is now justice. This is a grave

1469
01:28:59,280 --> 01:29:01,759
Speaker 1: injustice that is being done with this rewriting of history

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01:29:01,760 --> 01:29:05,120
Speaker 1: of the Central Park. Five very important question I'm about

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01:29:05,120 --> 01:29:09,640
Speaker 1: to pose to all of you, what is your comfort

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01:29:09,720 --> 01:29:13,840
Speaker 1: food of choice? Now? I can't necessarily hear your answers,

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01:29:13,880 --> 01:29:15,680
Speaker 1: although you could all write into me on Facebook dot

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01:29:15,720 --> 01:29:21,040
Speaker 1: com slashbuck Sexton. That's one way to go, Mark, what

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01:29:21,320 --> 01:29:24,599
Speaker 1: is your comfort food of choice? Don't think, just give

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01:29:24,600 --> 01:29:26,479
Speaker 1: me the answer. The first thing that popped into my

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01:29:26,479 --> 01:29:31,400
Speaker 1: head was mac and cheese. Very solid choice, very solid

1478
01:29:31,439 --> 01:29:34,120
Speaker 1: I mac and cheese. I think I have to put

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01:29:34,200 --> 01:29:37,920
Speaker 1: in my number two spot. I do love and people

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01:29:37,960 --> 01:29:40,240
Speaker 1: super poking to you mac and cheese. There's excellent gluten

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01:29:40,240 --> 01:29:41,920
Speaker 1: free mac and cheese. It's all over the place. It's

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01:29:42,000 --> 01:29:44,839
Speaker 1: very easy to find. It's very good. It tastes exactly

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01:29:44,880 --> 01:29:48,640
Speaker 1: the same. Some of you're saying, no, it doesn't. I'm

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01:29:48,680 --> 01:29:52,280
Speaker 1: telling you it does. Excellent mac and cheese in the

1485
01:29:52,280 --> 01:29:54,800
Speaker 1: gluten free community. Does gluten free you get to call

1486
01:29:54,840 --> 01:29:58,000
Speaker 1: itself a community? Now? I hope so. But the different

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01:29:58,080 --> 01:30:04,600
Speaker 1: twenty twenty candidates have had their various comfort foods of

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01:30:04,680 --> 01:30:10,760
Speaker 1: choice compiled here by The New York Times. And there

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01:30:10,760 --> 01:30:14,760
Speaker 1: are some excellent choices, and there are some choices that

1490
01:30:14,800 --> 01:30:18,080
Speaker 1: are so terrible. It's important we talk about them because

1491
01:30:18,120 --> 01:30:20,800
Speaker 1: it tells you a lot about the candidate that would

1492
01:30:20,840 --> 01:30:23,240
Speaker 1: ever say such a thing. I mean, I think the

1493
01:30:23,280 --> 01:30:27,880
Speaker 1: winner is Kamala Harris who said fries, because that's mine

1494
01:30:27,960 --> 01:30:31,599
Speaker 1: as well. French fries, for me, are the perfect food.

1495
01:30:31,720 --> 01:30:34,559
Speaker 1: I love French fries. I eat them too often. I'd

1496
01:30:34,600 --> 01:30:36,960
Speaker 1: probably be about five or ten pounds lighter if I

1497
01:30:37,000 --> 01:30:39,679
Speaker 1: did not eat French fries because I just love French

1498
01:30:39,680 --> 01:30:43,200
Speaker 1: fries and it's a weakness. French fries, chocolate, I got

1499
01:30:43,240 --> 01:30:45,080
Speaker 1: a few things, but French fries are very high on

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01:30:45,120 --> 01:30:48,120
Speaker 1: my list. It reminds me when I was a teenager,

1501
01:30:48,200 --> 01:30:51,799
Speaker 1: people say, don't eat chocolate or French fries, you'll get pimples.

1502
01:30:51,800 --> 01:30:54,439
Speaker 1: Such a stupid wives tale. Has nothing to do with anything.

1503
01:30:54,520 --> 01:30:57,960
Speaker 1: It's hormonal and oil and secretion on the skin base

1504
01:30:58,080 --> 01:31:00,320
Speaker 1: that has nothing to do with chocolate or french But

1505
01:31:00,720 --> 01:31:02,200
Speaker 1: did you ever hear that mark was or is that

1506
01:31:02,360 --> 01:31:04,320
Speaker 1: my just tool? I definitely heard that, Yeah, right, don't

1507
01:31:04,320 --> 01:31:06,720
Speaker 1: eat chocolate you'll get ziz. It's not true. There's no

1508
01:31:06,760 --> 01:31:09,160
Speaker 1: basis and science for that whatsoever. People are just absurd.

1509
01:31:09,680 --> 01:31:11,240
Speaker 1: But you know, it's just because people want to be

1510
01:31:11,240 --> 01:31:13,840
Speaker 1: mean to teenagers all the time. They'll tell us not

1511
01:31:13,880 --> 01:31:17,800
Speaker 1: to have any fun. Uh, so Warren said fries, which

1512
01:31:17,840 --> 01:31:20,360
Speaker 1: is a very solid choice. Mark said mac and cheese,

1513
01:31:20,400 --> 01:31:22,160
Speaker 1: also very solid, but no one on this list said

1514
01:31:22,439 --> 01:31:25,559
Speaker 1: mac and cheese. I'm sorry, Harris said fries. Warren said

1515
01:31:25,600 --> 01:31:29,920
Speaker 1: chips and guac. Chips and guac. That's now, first of all,

1516
01:31:30,000 --> 01:31:33,000
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren. Once again, I'm just saying cultural appropriation from

1517
01:31:33,040 --> 01:31:37,040
Speaker 1: Lizabeth Warren, culturally appropriating from Mexico. But chips and guac

1518
01:31:37,160 --> 01:31:45,320
Speaker 1: is a very solid choice. Buddha Judge said beef jerky, which, okay,

1519
01:31:45,520 --> 01:31:48,240
Speaker 1: I'm not a beef jerky guy, but you know, he's

1520
01:31:48,280 --> 01:31:51,000
Speaker 1: from Indiana and he served overseas and they probably ate

1521
01:31:51,040 --> 01:31:52,960
Speaker 1: a lot of beef jerky. I can I can respect that.

1522
01:31:54,240 --> 01:31:59,040
Speaker 1: Jillah Brand Kristen Jillibrand said whiskey. She's just trying to

1523
01:31:59,080 --> 01:32:01,639
Speaker 1: sound cool, not think that that is our comfort food.

1524
01:32:02,120 --> 01:32:04,280
Speaker 1: But that's a very Gilibrand answer. What can I say

1525
01:32:04,360 --> 01:32:07,240
Speaker 1: that will make people think I'm more interesting than I am?

1526
01:32:07,479 --> 01:32:13,960
Speaker 1: Tulsi Gabbard said vegan cupcakes, which I can believe. I

1527
01:32:14,000 --> 01:32:17,320
Speaker 1: can believe that that's something that she's really into vegan

1528
01:32:17,360 --> 01:32:20,680
Speaker 1: cupcakes or I've had vegan cupcakes that are good. You know,

1529
01:32:21,280 --> 01:32:23,200
Speaker 1: the thing is. I don't know if people who are

1530
01:32:23,280 --> 01:32:25,960
Speaker 1: vegan or people who are keto are more excited about

1531
01:32:25,960 --> 01:32:30,080
Speaker 1: telling you their dietary restrictions and plans, but there's keto

1532
01:32:30,120 --> 01:32:35,520
Speaker 1: and vegan people. And then Klobaschar said a baked potato,

1533
01:32:36,560 --> 01:32:40,320
Speaker 1: which that's you know. I think Klobaschar's candidacy is about

1534
01:32:40,320 --> 01:32:43,120
Speaker 1: as exciting as a baked potato. But the worst dancer

1535
01:32:43,280 --> 01:32:46,240
Speaker 1: on here, well, the second worst answer was Mary and Williamson,

1536
01:32:46,280 --> 01:32:49,920
Speaker 1: who said quote, I have no comfort food, which is

1537
01:32:49,960 --> 01:32:51,680
Speaker 1: such an annoying and weird thing to say. I mean,

1538
01:32:51,680 --> 01:32:55,200
Speaker 1: everyone has some kind of a comfort food. But the

1539
01:32:55,320 --> 01:32:59,840
Speaker 1: single worst answer given by a candidate who should be

1540
01:32:59,840 --> 01:33:01,479
Speaker 1: doing so much better than he is, but when he

1541
01:33:01,520 --> 01:33:04,160
Speaker 1: says things like this, it's clear to me why he's

1542
01:33:04,200 --> 01:33:08,760
Speaker 1: not doing better than he is. The worst answer on here,

1543
01:33:08,840 --> 01:33:15,519
Speaker 1: Corey Booker said, veggis. That's disgusting. Veggis what is wrong

1544
01:33:15,560 --> 01:33:19,200
Speaker 1: with him? Veggis are not a com First of all,

1545
01:33:19,280 --> 01:33:21,639
Speaker 1: veggis is so broad that it doesn't even mean anything,

1546
01:33:21,920 --> 01:33:24,760
Speaker 1: saying well, veggies are not a comfort food. I know

1547
01:33:24,840 --> 01:33:28,000
Speaker 1: he's a is he a vegetarian? I think he's a vegan. Actually,

1548
01:33:29,200 --> 01:33:31,320
Speaker 1: that's all you have to know. I you know, I

1549
01:33:31,320 --> 01:33:35,080
Speaker 1: don't think I think that this country could handle somebody

1550
01:33:36,000 --> 01:33:39,320
Speaker 1: who was an atheist to be president long before they

1551
01:33:39,320 --> 01:33:42,479
Speaker 1: could handle a vegan, because at least with an atheist,

1552
01:33:42,479 --> 01:33:45,599
Speaker 1: you know what's going on vegans? I don't know. Something

1553
01:33:45,720 --> 01:33:49,240
Speaker 1: something funky there, something I'm inevitably going to get people

1554
01:33:49,240 --> 01:33:50,800
Speaker 1: reading to me. Who are vegans listening to the show.

1555
01:33:50,800 --> 01:33:52,760
Speaker 1: What's wrong with you? Buck? I'm just kidding. I love

1556
01:33:52,800 --> 01:33:56,519
Speaker 1: you vegans. Calm down, and you love yourselves, that's for sure,

1557
01:33:56,560 --> 01:33:59,200
Speaker 1: because you like to talk about your veganism. Oh we'll

1558
01:33:59,200 --> 01:34:19,479
Speaker 1: be right back, team Buck. It's time for roll call. Team.

1559
01:34:19,479 --> 01:34:21,799
Speaker 1: Sorry if my voice is a little bit less powerful

1560
01:34:21,800 --> 01:34:24,040
Speaker 1: than it usually is. I managed to get a cold

1561
01:34:24,439 --> 01:34:27,320
Speaker 1: in mid June. We look up this morning. I was like,

1562
01:34:27,320 --> 01:34:29,360
Speaker 1: I don't understand. How do I have a cold. This

1563
01:34:29,439 --> 01:34:31,479
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense. I know that it's a virus

1564
01:34:31,479 --> 01:34:33,280
Speaker 1: that has nothing to do with the temperature outside, but

1565
01:34:33,880 --> 01:34:38,120
Speaker 1: who gets a cold virus in June? I'm uh, it

1566
01:34:38,200 --> 01:34:41,839
Speaker 1: is what it is? Facebook dot com, slash Buck Sexton,

1567
01:34:42,720 --> 01:34:45,120
Speaker 1: that's where you throw the roll call noise and let's

1568
01:34:45,160 --> 01:34:49,519
Speaker 1: get into it. Owen right, Hey, Buck, My eleven year

1569
01:34:49,520 --> 01:34:51,960
Speaker 1: old son has named his baseball player for the PS

1570
01:34:52,000 --> 01:34:55,400
Speaker 1: four game The Show twenty eighteen. He's named the player

1571
01:34:56,000 --> 01:35:00,280
Speaker 1: Buck Shields High. Well, that's awesome, Owen. It's a great name.

1572
01:35:00,320 --> 01:35:06,519
Speaker 1: It's a strong name. It's a name that people will remember, hopefully,

1573
01:35:07,200 --> 01:35:09,920
Speaker 1: so I appreciate that. I'm not even sure if it's

1574
01:35:10,000 --> 01:35:12,559
Speaker 1: named for me, but I'll take it. I'll take it.

1575
01:35:12,560 --> 01:35:15,920
Speaker 1: It's a good name. You gotta you gotta lean into it. Though.

1576
01:35:15,920 --> 01:35:17,880
Speaker 1: If your name is Buck, you can't shy away from it.

1577
01:35:18,880 --> 01:35:20,880
Speaker 1: There's no easy way to be Buck. You got you

1578
01:35:20,920 --> 01:35:26,280
Speaker 1: gotta be Buck all the time. Claudia, Hello Buck. Just

1579
01:35:26,320 --> 01:35:29,400
Speaker 1: a quick note regarding free Medicare for all, it is

1580
01:35:29,479 --> 01:35:32,200
Speaker 1: not free. My husband, who will be turning sixty five

1581
01:35:32,200 --> 01:35:34,120
Speaker 1: in November, has a work history of fifty years and

1582
01:35:34,200 --> 01:35:37,120
Speaker 1: is paid into the Medicare fund. He will be eligible

1583
01:35:37,160 --> 01:35:40,280
Speaker 1: for coverage in November, and the governmentill begin automatically taking

1584
01:35:40,320 --> 01:35:42,400
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty eight dollars per month from his

1585
01:35:42,439 --> 01:35:45,639
Speaker 1: Social Security check, as done to all persons on Medicare.

1586
01:35:45,960 --> 01:35:48,639
Speaker 1: In addition, Medicare does not cover all his health needs.

1587
01:35:48,680 --> 01:35:50,600
Speaker 1: We will need to add an additional supplement at a

1588
01:35:50,600 --> 01:35:53,800
Speaker 1: few hundred dollars a month. Again, Medicare is not free

1589
01:35:53,800 --> 01:35:56,840
Speaker 1: and does not cover all one's needs. Claudia, I know

1590
01:35:56,880 --> 01:35:59,880
Speaker 1: that that is all true, and I appreciate you walking

1591
01:36:00,080 --> 01:36:04,240
Speaker 1: us all through some of the realities of the Medicare program.

1592
01:36:04,280 --> 01:36:07,160
Speaker 1: But that's why I've always said that what Bernie Sanders

1593
01:36:07,840 --> 01:36:12,440
Speaker 1: has often talked about is really a true single payer program,

1594
01:36:12,920 --> 01:36:15,400
Speaker 1: which is different than Medicare because Medicare has a lot

1595
01:36:15,439 --> 01:36:19,479
Speaker 1: of cost sharing. You spend money from your tax or

1596
01:36:19,520 --> 01:36:21,720
Speaker 1: you pay money through your taxes into Medicare for a

1597
01:36:21,720 --> 01:36:26,680
Speaker 1: long time. And then beyond that there is also a

1598
01:36:26,800 --> 01:36:32,960
Speaker 1: state and local government that excuse me, that will be

1599
01:36:33,000 --> 01:36:35,960
Speaker 1: a part of the whole Medicare situation. So there's a

1600
01:36:35,960 --> 01:36:38,519
Speaker 1: bunch of different things coming together there. And you are

1601
01:36:38,600 --> 01:36:41,600
Speaker 1: right that Medicare is not It's certainly not free, and

1602
01:36:41,640 --> 01:36:47,080
Speaker 1: it does not cover everything. Fill up. A few days ago,

1603
01:36:47,240 --> 01:36:50,840
Speaker 1: you were searching for Howard Dean's yeah A moment. The

1604
01:36:50,920 --> 01:36:54,160
Speaker 1: reason for his instantaneous implosion was it reminded everyone of

1605
01:36:54,920 --> 01:37:00,320
Speaker 1: Slim Pickens writing an a bomb in doctor Strange Glove. Well,

1606
01:37:00,320 --> 01:37:02,040
Speaker 1: this is where I have to admit that I've never

1607
01:37:02,040 --> 01:37:05,760
Speaker 1: seen doctor Strange Glove. So Mark, should I go back

1608
01:37:05,760 --> 01:37:09,000
Speaker 1: and watch this one. Are we talking about Doctor Strange

1609
01:37:09,080 --> 01:37:12,599
Speaker 1: the Marvel movie or Doctor Strange Glove? No, Doctor Strange Glove.

1610
01:37:12,840 --> 01:37:16,120
Speaker 1: They've never heard of it. It's an older one. And

1611
01:37:16,200 --> 01:37:17,880
Speaker 1: I'm somebody that gets into a lot of trouble, I know,

1612
01:37:17,880 --> 01:37:20,840
Speaker 1: with this audience, because I think that there is a

1613
01:37:21,080 --> 01:37:24,840
Speaker 1: bias in favor of older movies. I think that people

1614
01:37:25,080 --> 01:37:27,240
Speaker 1: tend to just assume, oh, if it's if it's an

1615
01:37:27,240 --> 01:37:30,040
Speaker 1: old classic, then it has to still be really worth

1616
01:37:30,080 --> 01:37:32,559
Speaker 1: watching today. Truth is that a lot of older movies

1617
01:37:32,560 --> 01:37:35,080
Speaker 1: don't really hold up. I know, I know people can

1618
01:37:35,160 --> 01:37:37,160
Speaker 1: get mad at me and say, oh, back, that's terrible

1619
01:37:37,280 --> 01:37:40,240
Speaker 1: and how could you say such a thing, And but no,

1620
01:37:40,360 --> 01:37:42,400
Speaker 1: that's that's just the way it is, folks. A lot

1621
01:37:42,400 --> 01:37:45,400
Speaker 1: of older movies, the acting is kind of lame. There's

1622
01:37:45,479 --> 01:37:49,360
Speaker 1: just there's just stuff going on that's not it's not great.

1623
01:37:49,840 --> 01:37:53,599
Speaker 1: So there there you have it. I know people get

1624
01:37:53,640 --> 01:37:55,760
Speaker 1: mad at me, but I speak the truth. It is

1625
01:37:55,760 --> 01:37:58,120
Speaker 1: what I do here on the show. There's a lot

1626
01:37:58,120 --> 01:38:01,960
Speaker 1: of indicating instead of act right, yeah, thank you Mark.

1627
01:38:02,080 --> 01:38:03,639
Speaker 1: A lot of this stuff people go, oh, it's black

1628
01:38:03,680 --> 01:38:07,920
Speaker 1: and white, it's got to be good. False. The storylines

1629
01:38:07,960 --> 01:38:12,479
Speaker 1: are cheesy. It's ridiculous. You know what I'm saying. Yeah,

1630
01:38:12,640 --> 01:38:19,240
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Joey writes you just uh oh, No,

1631
01:38:19,400 --> 01:38:22,000
Speaker 1: Joey has fallen up on his message from yesterday. Okay, Joey,

1632
01:38:22,000 --> 01:38:25,759
Speaker 1: thank you. Kristin. Listen to Rush live on Newstalk twelve

1633
01:38:25,880 --> 01:38:29,160
Speaker 1: ninety whichtop Falls and heard your Trump twenty coin commercial.

1634
01:38:29,680 --> 01:38:32,439
Speaker 1: So cool to hear your voice when listening to someone else. Well,

1635
01:38:32,520 --> 01:38:34,559
Speaker 1: christ and that is cool. I'm glad that people get

1636
01:38:34,600 --> 01:38:38,360
Speaker 1: to hear me on some of the other platforms out there.

1637
01:38:38,400 --> 01:38:41,560
Speaker 1: That's kind of fun. That's very cool. So yes, indeed,

1638
01:38:43,720 --> 01:38:48,880
Speaker 1: James Rights, hey Buck, bring back the haya buck slap sound?

1639
01:38:49,120 --> 01:38:51,280
Speaker 1: I chuckle to myself every time I hear it. Do

1640
01:38:51,360 --> 01:38:56,720
Speaker 1: we have that one? Mark we hand? Exactly? There we go.

1641
01:38:57,600 --> 01:38:59,880
Speaker 1: That's the that's got to be the buck slap sound,

1642
01:39:00,000 --> 01:39:01,719
Speaker 1: even though it makes no sense, like if you're gonna

1643
01:39:01,720 --> 01:39:05,080
Speaker 1: slap somebody, I don't think you'd go hey, But that's

1644
01:39:05,320 --> 01:39:08,200
Speaker 1: that is the buck slap because it's so powerful that

1645
01:39:08,320 --> 01:39:10,439
Speaker 1: even though it's just a slap, you have to psych

1646
01:39:10,520 --> 01:39:17,960
Speaker 1: yourself up for it. There we go, Glenn Rights, hey Buck.

1647
01:39:18,000 --> 01:39:20,080
Speaker 1: I live in Massachusetts and I do believe it is

1648
01:39:20,160 --> 01:39:23,479
Speaker 1: part of the state electoral compact. Was curious if the

1649
01:39:23,479 --> 01:39:26,280
Speaker 1: compact is constitutional, whether anyone has looked at a class

1650
01:39:26,320 --> 01:39:29,479
Speaker 1: action lawsuit to revoke it. Things like this really make

1651
01:39:29,560 --> 01:39:32,080
Speaker 1: my blood boil. Anyway, great show, keep up the good work.

1652
01:39:32,080 --> 01:39:35,920
Speaker 1: We'll Glenn, thank you so much. I don't know anything

1653
01:39:35,920 --> 01:39:40,479
Speaker 1: about the electoral Compact, so I don't have a smart

1654
01:39:40,560 --> 01:39:43,160
Speaker 1: thing to say here. I just will say that I

1655
01:39:43,240 --> 01:39:45,639
Speaker 1: appreciate you writing in and you listen to the show,

1656
01:39:45,680 --> 01:39:49,320
Speaker 1: and you're a great guy and a great American. Michael

1657
01:39:49,160 --> 01:39:52,719
Speaker 1: A right, Buck, I love these solidad O'Brien buck slap story.

1658
01:39:52,960 --> 01:39:57,080
Speaker 1: The only thing missing was the he have producer Mike

1659
01:39:57,120 --> 01:40:00,320
Speaker 1: teed up next time field tie from Lost Us. Yeah. See,

1660
01:40:00,400 --> 01:40:03,920
Speaker 1: people really like it. We gotta Mark, you gotta have

1661
01:40:03,960 --> 01:40:05,439
Speaker 1: that one ready going forward when I call for the

1662
01:40:05,439 --> 01:40:07,400
Speaker 1: buck slap, now you know, man, that's the one. So

1663
01:40:07,840 --> 01:40:11,120
Speaker 1: that's the new buck slap. That is the one that

1664
01:40:11,240 --> 01:40:16,120
Speaker 1: is the one that people like. Here we go, Robert, Hey, Buck,

1665
01:40:16,160 --> 01:40:18,880
Speaker 1: I'd love to have a serious conversation about reparations for

1666
01:40:18,960 --> 01:40:22,760
Speaker 1: the descendants of slaves without turning it into a name

1667
01:40:22,800 --> 01:40:26,760
Speaker 1: calling session. How are today's African Americans harmed by slavery.

1668
01:40:27,080 --> 01:40:31,960
Speaker 1: An argument can be made that they about whoa Okay,

1669
01:40:33,439 --> 01:40:35,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna at Robert, I don't have to dive into

1670
01:40:35,040 --> 01:40:40,240
Speaker 1: this one little bit more. Thank you for writing in though, Carla,

1671
01:40:40,320 --> 01:40:42,880
Speaker 1: hey Buck, I'm wondering if AOC truly believes all the

1672
01:40:42,880 --> 01:40:44,920
Speaker 1: propaganda she is spewing her if she's just trying to

1673
01:40:44,960 --> 01:40:47,040
Speaker 1: get a reaction out of everyone, like a child looking

1674
01:40:47,040 --> 01:40:49,960
Speaker 1: for attention. I wonder if the best way for us

1675
01:40:50,400 --> 01:40:54,120
Speaker 1: to handle her is to write her off and ignore her,

1676
01:40:54,360 --> 01:40:56,599
Speaker 1: dismiss her as a child, or to recognize her as

1677
01:40:56,600 --> 01:40:59,840
Speaker 1: a real threat and continue to vocally oppose her. What

1678
01:41:00,160 --> 01:41:02,679
Speaker 1: your thoughts. Thank you for always speaking the truth, sending

1679
01:41:02,680 --> 01:41:06,479
Speaker 1: you prayers for wisdom and encouraged to keep on keeping on. Carlo,

1680
01:41:06,520 --> 01:41:07,960
Speaker 1: thank you so much for the kind note. You know,

1681
01:41:08,000 --> 01:41:11,200
Speaker 1: I think that AOC the problem with trying to ignore

1682
01:41:11,280 --> 01:41:14,639
Speaker 1: her is that she has such a large social media

1683
01:41:14,720 --> 01:41:18,439
Speaker 1: following that if you ignore her, what often ends up

1684
01:41:18,479 --> 01:41:22,200
Speaker 1: happening is you allow her to preach to her side unopposed.

1685
01:41:22,760 --> 01:41:24,519
Speaker 1: So I don't think that that's a good thing, because

1686
01:41:24,520 --> 01:41:27,280
Speaker 1: there are a lot of very impressionable Unfortunately, a lot

1687
01:41:27,320 --> 01:41:30,479
Speaker 1: of very ignorant people out there who if they hear

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01:41:30,560 --> 01:41:35,519
Speaker 1: AOC able to say things without someone pointing out that

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01:41:35,600 --> 01:41:39,559
Speaker 1: what she says is nonsense and lies, they're more likely

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01:41:39,600 --> 01:41:43,519
Speaker 1: to believe it. So I don't think we can just

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01:41:43,600 --> 01:41:48,639
Speaker 1: write her off. I do believe that she is the

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01:41:48,680 --> 01:41:52,280
Speaker 1: future of the Democratic Party, not necessarily just her personally,

1693
01:41:52,760 --> 01:41:55,240
Speaker 1: but her view of the world and the way that

1694
01:41:55,280 --> 01:41:59,360
Speaker 1: she approaches governance, and her thoughts on things like social

1695
01:41:59,400 --> 01:42:05,920
Speaker 1: justice and socialism and the size and mission of the state.

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01:42:06,720 --> 01:42:09,200
Speaker 1: I think that the Democratic Party is trending toward AOC

1697
01:42:09,400 --> 01:42:12,160
Speaker 1: and not the other way around. So I don't think

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01:42:12,200 --> 01:42:14,280
Speaker 1: we can ignore her. I do think there's a little

1699
01:42:14,280 --> 01:42:20,440
Speaker 1: bit of a right wing media fixation on diving into

1700
01:42:20,520 --> 01:42:24,400
Speaker 1: everything that she says, and occasionally it has backfired. I mean,

1701
01:42:24,520 --> 01:42:27,960
Speaker 1: the people that were getting all upset about her, well, no,

1702
01:42:28,040 --> 01:42:29,800
Speaker 1: that's not even true, because no one really got upset

1703
01:42:29,840 --> 01:42:31,360
Speaker 1: about her dance video. That was a lie. That was

1704
01:42:31,400 --> 01:42:34,280
Speaker 1: fake news. There was I never saw a single person

1705
01:42:34,320 --> 01:42:36,640
Speaker 1: who was upset about her having a dance video, but

1706
01:42:36,720 --> 01:42:38,960
Speaker 1: the left created this all. Oh, they're just upset about

1707
01:42:38,960 --> 01:42:41,760
Speaker 1: her video where she's dancing. Why would anyone be upset

1708
01:42:41,800 --> 01:42:44,400
Speaker 1: about that? There's nothing people out to dance and have fun.

1709
01:42:44,760 --> 01:42:46,800
Speaker 1: This is one thing I wish conservatives did a better

1710
01:42:46,920 --> 01:42:52,680
Speaker 1: job of promoting, just as publicly as they can do

1711
01:42:52,680 --> 01:42:54,880
Speaker 1: as many people as they can. Conservatives want people to

1712
01:42:54,920 --> 01:42:57,240
Speaker 1: have fun. I want people to enjoy themselves. I want

1713
01:42:57,240 --> 01:43:00,120
Speaker 1: them to enjoy their lives. I think joy is a

1714
01:43:00,200 --> 01:43:04,519
Speaker 1: very important part of life, and you know, I'm all

1715
01:43:04,560 --> 01:43:06,240
Speaker 1: for it. I like people to dance. I like people

1716
01:43:06,240 --> 01:43:11,920
Speaker 1: to have fun, drink responsibly, eat delicious food, go out

1717
01:43:12,880 --> 01:43:17,120
Speaker 1: see friends, you know, if you're not married, you know,

1718
01:43:17,240 --> 01:43:20,960
Speaker 1: go out on dates, meet new people. You know. I'm

1719
01:43:21,000 --> 01:43:23,840
Speaker 1: a big believer in all this. You know, the left

1720
01:43:23,920 --> 01:43:27,240
Speaker 1: is able to get away with creating this, this perception

1721
01:43:27,680 --> 01:43:30,960
Speaker 1: that conservatives don't like fun, don't want people to smile,

1722
01:43:31,000 --> 01:43:32,759
Speaker 1: don't want people out the I don't think it's really true.

1723
01:43:33,280 --> 01:43:35,680
Speaker 1: And one example of all this is that all the

1724
01:43:35,960 --> 01:43:39,240
Speaker 1: or one example of how this is the perception doesn't

1725
01:43:39,280 --> 01:43:44,640
Speaker 1: match up with the reality is that people who are conservatives,

1726
01:43:44,800 --> 01:43:47,840
Speaker 1: and I believe this the statistic or the studies that

1727
01:43:47,920 --> 01:43:51,920
Speaker 1: conservatives who are married enjoy sex more than people who

1728
01:43:51,960 --> 01:43:54,560
Speaker 1: are not married. And it really makes a lot of

1729
01:43:54,560 --> 01:43:56,200
Speaker 1: sense when you think about it. I mean, people that

1730
01:43:56,280 --> 01:43:59,320
Speaker 1: are married are going to feel more comfortable, and that's

1731
01:43:59,320 --> 01:44:00,840
Speaker 1: a very important part of it. There's going to be

1732
01:44:00,920 --> 01:44:04,920
Speaker 1: much greater connection and appreciation between those individuals for what

1733
01:44:04,960 --> 01:44:07,720
Speaker 1: they're doing. There's not the tremendous anxiety of like what

1734
01:44:07,760 --> 01:44:10,000
Speaker 1: if this goes wrong or what if this person doesn't

1735
01:44:10,000 --> 01:44:13,240
Speaker 1: call me, or any of those things. So conservatives in

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01:44:13,280 --> 01:44:14,880
Speaker 1: a lot of ways do have more fun, and we

1737
01:44:15,000 --> 01:44:18,320
Speaker 1: certainly have more fun in the realm of ideas. I

1738
01:44:18,360 --> 01:44:21,360
Speaker 1: think that the funniest people I know now are all conservatives.

1739
01:44:21,360 --> 01:44:24,360
Speaker 1: I mean, the people that are the most entertaining are

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01:44:24,400 --> 01:44:26,439
Speaker 1: all the funniest people I know in life. This is

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01:44:26,479 --> 01:44:28,680
Speaker 1: I've never really thought about this until now. All of

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01:44:28,680 --> 01:44:31,599
Speaker 1: my funniest friends now are conservatives, none of them. None

1743
01:44:31,640 --> 01:44:33,720
Speaker 1: of the funniest people I know are liberals. And I

1744
01:44:34,040 --> 01:44:35,600
Speaker 1: and some of the people I know who would have

1745
01:44:35,600 --> 01:44:39,400
Speaker 1: considered themselves liberal who are very funny are now pretty

1746
01:44:39,479 --> 01:44:42,559
Speaker 1: much conservatives, And they've kind of switched over a little

1747
01:44:42,600 --> 01:44:45,880
Speaker 1: bit because there's just been this change. If you're going

1748
01:44:45,920 --> 01:44:48,680
Speaker 1: to be a little bit provocative, a little bit contrarian,

1749
01:44:49,439 --> 01:44:53,920
Speaker 1: different in your thinking, willing to push some buttons, you're

1750
01:44:53,960 --> 01:44:57,040
Speaker 1: going to be a conservative these days because the Libs,

1751
01:44:57,040 --> 01:44:58,880
Speaker 1: they all they're all just repeating the same crap to

1752
01:44:58,920 --> 01:45:03,000
Speaker 1: each other all the time, and it's all very disingenuous,

1753
01:45:03,080 --> 01:45:05,960
Speaker 1: and it's it's not clever, it's not funny. It's really

1754
01:45:05,960 --> 01:45:09,479
Speaker 1: often just quite nasty. So yeah, the funniest people I know,

1755
01:45:09,960 --> 01:45:12,599
Speaker 1: I mean, the people that can make me laugh very

1756
01:45:12,720 --> 01:45:15,040
Speaker 1: very hard, are my friends who are a right wing

1757
01:45:15,880 --> 01:45:17,759
Speaker 1: And you know, I've got a great right wing posse.

1758
01:45:17,920 --> 01:45:21,719
Speaker 1: So a lot of right wing, right wing, right wing

1759
01:45:21,920 --> 01:45:24,599
Speaker 1: squad down here in DC is a lot of fun.

1760
01:45:25,600 --> 01:45:30,439
Speaker 1: Let's see here. Gina hey Buck Opera. I love opera.

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01:45:30,600 --> 01:45:33,360
Speaker 1: I love a wide variety of music, from Volbeat to

1762
01:45:33,520 --> 01:45:37,599
Speaker 1: Fleetwood Mac to Counting Crows to def Leopard, But lately,

1763
01:45:37,640 --> 01:45:40,439
Speaker 1: when I'm cooking or stressed, it's labo am. I love

1764
01:45:40,640 --> 01:45:43,480
Speaker 1: this opera. My favorite version on YouTube is with Paparatti

1765
01:45:43,560 --> 01:45:47,639
Speaker 1: the Full Opera. It's musically perfect, gets me from pasta

1766
01:45:47,680 --> 01:45:50,840
Speaker 1: to parmesan at a salad, Dude brusqueta, brilliant and probably

1767
01:45:50,840 --> 01:45:52,800
Speaker 1: designed that way. My next go to is Mozart the

1768
01:45:52,880 --> 01:45:56,280
Speaker 1: Full Opera Requiem, darker but so moving, chow and as

1769
01:45:56,280 --> 01:45:58,840
Speaker 1: always shields high. It's a nice one to end on today. Team,

1770
01:45:58,880 --> 01:46:00,839
Speaker 1: thank you so much for hanging out with me. Always

1771
01:46:00,880 --> 01:46:02,280
Speaker 1: great to be with you. The Freedom Hut Talk to

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Speaker 1: you tomorrow. She'll tie