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Speaker 3: Team forty seven with Clay and Buck starts.

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Speaker 1: Now the one year anniversary of Trump two point zero.

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Speaker 1: What has the first year accomplished? What do we think

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Speaker 1: about that Trump is now in the communication the sales

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Speaker 1: pitch aspect of his presidency as we move towards what

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Speaker 1: will frankly be the last election that is in many

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Speaker 1: ways a referendum directly on President Trump's leadership after from

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Speaker 1: twenty fifteen when he came down the escalator for the

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Speaker 1: first time to twenty twenty six, the Trump era of

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Speaker 1: effectively eleven years. Now you can say twenty twenty eight

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Speaker 1: will be potentially for the Republican candidate, if it is

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Speaker 1: Jade Vance, if it is Marco Rubio, somewhat of a

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Speaker 1: referendum of Trump himself, but he will not be on

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Speaker 1: the ballot in any way in twenty twenty eight. So

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Speaker 1: the last real time that Trump has a referendum on

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Speaker 1: his leadership, on his presidency will be the midterms. And

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Speaker 1: so we are now into the sell the job that

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Speaker 1: you have done stage of Trump two point zero. And

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Speaker 1: I mentioned these stats, but I want to hit you

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Speaker 1: with him right off the top here, because I do

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Speaker 1: think that the challenge is making everyone aware of the

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Speaker 1: promises that he has delivered on. And I would say

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Speaker 1: number one the most significant accomplishment of President Trump, Buck

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Speaker 1: is the secure border. And it's so successful that nobody

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Speaker 1: even talks about the border anymore. So for a decade

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Speaker 1: we talked about, Hey, we should build a wall, Hey

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Speaker 1: we should have a secure border. Biden opens the border,

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Speaker 1: everybody comes across, ten million plus people. Trump gets in.

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Speaker 1: One month later, we have the most secure border in

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Speaker 1: the history of the United States. The second thing that

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Speaker 1: I would say is probably the most significant of his

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Speaker 1: accomplishment is record high stock prices. And you can say

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Speaker 1: all that really only impacts rich people, That's not true.

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Speaker 1: With four oh one k's huge percentages of the American public,

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Speaker 1: particularly Republican voters, have exposure to the stock market in

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Speaker 1: some form or fashion, So record high stock prices is

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Speaker 1: super important. I would say the third most important thing

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Speaker 1: he has done buck four point three percent GDP at

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Speaker 1: good chance that we are going to be at five

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Speaker 1: percent plus for the fourth quarter and on indto twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six Inflation in the wake of tariffs did not skyrocket.

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Speaker 1: In fact, it has continued to come down four year

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Speaker 1: lows going all the way back, I believe to March

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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty one two point six percent core inflation.

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Speaker 1: Record murder decline. No one is talking about it. One

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Speaker 1: of the biggest murder declines we have ever seen in

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Speaker 1: many different cities out there, particularly the cities that President

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Speaker 1: Trump has surged federal support. The most for I would

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Speaker 1: say six most impressive thing record fentanyl death decline. That is,

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Speaker 1: overdoses poisonings related to drugs have collapsed. Mortgage rates down

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Speaker 1: seven percent, and gas prices are at a four year low.

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Speaker 1: Those are eight things that I think President Trump has

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Speaker 1: accomplished and could sell. Now. There's also a lot of

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Speaker 1: international affairs, the situation with Israel, Gaza, but I'm just

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Speaker 1: focused right now on those eight things. America first, the

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Speaker 1: into the settlement, the peace process in Gaza. All those

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Speaker 1: things are very consequential. But just in the United States,

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Speaker 1: what is changing in your life? All eight of those

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Speaker 1: things I put up a poll question asking Buck, what

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Speaker 1: grade would you give would you give President Trump? At

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Speaker 1: You can give us a talkback on this. I'm hitting

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Speaker 1: retweet on this right now. So if you want to

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Speaker 1: give Donald Trump's first year in office? Forty seven percent

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Speaker 1: of you say A, thirty four percent of you say B,

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Speaker 1: thirteen percent of you say C, and six percent of

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Speaker 1: impact is, Buck, I would give him an A. I

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Speaker 1: bet you would give him an A. But I'm curious

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Speaker 1: to hear from people. I just laid out those eight

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Speaker 2: You know. I just also think there's such a difference

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Speaker 2: for the country. There was a lot of frustration over staff.

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Speaker 2: Who's he got in place? Are they on board?

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Speaker 2: There was a lot of oh, it's not his fault

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Speaker 2: it's just a totally different and this is just marking

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Speaker 2: the progress I'm saying, marking the transformation of honestly, the

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Speaker 2: as the people around him have had. We have very little.

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Speaker 2: Look, there's always going to be people who are who

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Speaker 2: don't like, you know, what happened at you know, pick

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Speaker 2: but there isn't this. You know, hey, it's not Trump's fault,

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Speaker 2: it's the fault of these people. Are that people that

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Speaker 2: didn't do this thing? We're not wasting any time with

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Speaker 2: that because overall the agenda is being implemented, is being pursued.

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Speaker 2: You know, you have to give credit to the people

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Speaker 2: that are the main implement tours, whether it's at any

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Speaker 2: of these different agencies, it's at State, it's at Obviously,

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Speaker 2: the funniest thing with Marcot Rubio these days is all

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Speaker 2: the memes about how he's got fifteen different jobs and

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Speaker 2: you know, you have a lot of people around him

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Speaker 2: who have stepped up. So the conversation is different, and

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Speaker 2: it's now just how do we keep it instead of okay,

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Speaker 2: we got to have a big change in course here,

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Speaker 2: like does anything even? Remember what did Rex Tillerson do

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Speaker 2: his first year Secretary of State? Nobody knows. Didn't last long,

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Speaker 2: didn't work, wasn't a good thing, Rubio, You see what

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Speaker 2: he's been up to. And obviously he's a long long

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Speaker 2: standing Republican fixture now on this in the Senate and

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Speaker 2: on Foreign Relations Committee, et cetera. But these are people

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Speaker 2: who understand what the Trump mission is and are are

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Speaker 2: getting it done day in and day out. So I've

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Speaker 2: got to say it's it's been a great first year.

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Speaker 2: That doesn't mean there aren't There's always going to be

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Speaker 2: areas of improvement. There's always going to be some criticism

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Speaker 2: But man, it's just a world of difference. We're playing

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Speaker 2: a lot of play. We're playing so much defense back

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Speaker 2: in meet we you know, the Trump voters playing so

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Speaker 2: much defense back in twenty seventeen into twenty eighteen on

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Speaker 2: the Russia collusion. Crazy, Yes, it completely consume the media, news,

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Speaker 2: And yes, it's to Trump's credit that he battled through

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Speaker 2: it unfortunately, was pretty successful in slowing down and sabotaging

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think your point there on staff continuity is

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Speaker 1: hugely important because, yes, there have been conflict, as there

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Speaker 1: always is. People argue for what they believe in, people

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Speaker 2: No one in the.

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Speaker 1: Entire first year did Trump say, you know what, I

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Speaker 1: made a poor choice here. I'm going to accede to

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Speaker 1: some of the some of the smoke, some of the fire,

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Speaker 1: some of the attention on these individual picks. Now that

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean that he's not going to have staff turnover.

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Speaker 1: He certainly is as you move into year two, as

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Speaker 1: you move into year three, people get burned out. That's

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Speaker 1: natural no matter who the president is. But you remember this.

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Speaker 1: They really went after Trump on his inability to have

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Speaker 1: they were constantly shifting in and out of people man

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Speaker 1: then you look at the entire cabinet, everybody, it seems,

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Speaker 1: now again people are going to decide this is too

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Speaker 1: much work. I need a little bit more life work

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Speaker 1: life balance. That's a natural in the White House because

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Speaker 1: it is such an all encompassing job. But in terms

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Speaker 1: changes in his personnel, it hasn't happened. And I actually

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Speaker 1: think if you look at Hegseth, jd Vance, Marco Rubio,

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure that we have actually been in a

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Speaker 1: So they've tried to sell this idea of oh Trump's

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Speaker 2: Gonna tell you this. I had to gear up for this,

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Speaker 2: you know, after the cause. Again, we're marking the one

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Speaker 2: this isn't term one, like there's no learning on the job,

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Speaker 2: This time around had to be prepared to say it

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Speaker 2: the future. But I look at term one and I'm

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Speaker 2: truly are. And we're not mired in defending against the

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Speaker 2: same media nonsense with Russia collusion and then the prosecutions

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Speaker 2: capable of doing without, Like I said, all the artificial

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Speaker 1: If I were going to point to one thing that

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Speaker 1: was not handled well, it would be Pambondi and Epstein,

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Speaker 1: like if you gave me a magic wind and you

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Speaker 1: said you can go back, and man, we said that.

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Speaker 2: I thought she was gonna I thought she was gonna

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Speaker 2: were going to tell her that, you know, enough's enough.

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Speaker 1: And even Susie Wilds, chief of staff, came out and said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we really screwed the fact that she said the files

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Speaker 2: They still have to get those files out. By the way,

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Speaker 2: more pressure on them. We can, but I don't run

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Speaker 2: any of these agencies now. That is Clay. There needs

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Speaker 3: You're listening to Team forty seven with Clay and Buck.

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Speaker 1: He said, I will not use force to take Greenland,

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Speaker 4: We never asked for anything, and we never got anything.

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Speaker 4: All the United States is asking for is a place

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Speaker 1: We gave it back to them, Okay, Buck. Last night

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Speaker 1: sell it, We're just gonna take it, Mike. Throughout history,

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Speaker 1: Buck has often made right. Trump understands this, and I

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Speaker 2: not actually going to just seize it by force? No, dude,

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Speaker 2: It Also, though, wouldn't be Trump if he didn't take

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Speaker 4: We saw this in World War Two when Denmark fell

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Speaker 4: It's hard to call it land, it's a big piece

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Speaker 2: Okay, So, by the way, there's a great podcast opportunity,

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Speaker 2: Trump Does History. So then we crushed the Nazis, huge

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Speaker 2: crushing of the evil, evil, bad Nazis. And the Japanese

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Speaker 1: It is great too for him to go in front

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Speaker 1: like that. I think it'll be more substantial than the

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Speaker 1: agreement you're talking about. Buck. Now, they may argue for

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Speaker 1: purposes of trying to look like they are just completely

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Speaker 1: relenting to Trump. They may say, well, this is just

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Speaker 1: a mutual He's not getting anything that he wants, right Like.

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Speaker 1: There could be an element of the way the media

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Speaker 1: plays it, But I think Trump wants, you know, free

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Speaker 1: and clear title of Greenland and the ability to develop

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Speaker 1: its resources for the next hundreds of years for the

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Speaker 1: United States. I think he's gonna get it, and I

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Speaker 1: think it may lead to us having to pay off

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Speaker 1: all of the fifty seven thousand of the people who

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Speaker 1: live in Greenland. Right, it's not gonna be cheap, and

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Speaker 1: we're not gonna seize it. To your point with boots

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Speaker 1: on the ground, there's not going to be paratroopers coming

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Speaker 1: into Greenland. But I do think that there's going to

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Speaker 1: be some form of agreement reached.

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Speaker 2: You know what this really means. We're heading toward clay

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Speaker 2: In Buck's excellent Greenland adventure. I'm already doing the research.

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Speaker 2: It's happening. I'm working on my dog sledding skills. I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna get it all going. We're gonna be ready for Greenland,

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Speaker 2: hopefully by this summer. We're gonna get this thing in motion.

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Speaker 1: Look, I think there is an element of capitulation that's

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Speaker 1: already in place. Even NATO is saying in the UN

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Speaker 1: and all these other different groups. I think they're going

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Speaker 1: to have to roll over and Trump's going to dominate them.

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Speaker 1: It just feels inevitable to me that that is where

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Speaker 1: we are headed. And part of this, we were just

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Speaker 1: talking about the energy buck that Trump has flies overnight.

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Speaker 1: They have to turn Air Force one around, bring it

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Speaker 1: back to Andrews Air Force Base. Change the planes, and

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Speaker 1: yet he's right now going full speed. Basically no sleep.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to Team forty seven with Clay and Buck.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to be talked about very much,

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Speaker 1: and I actually think it is a tremendous accomplishment, one

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Speaker 1: of the best accomplished months so far of Trump two

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Speaker 1: point zero. I'm reading from Axios buck Us murder rate

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Speaker 1: hits lowest level since nineteen hundred. I want to repeat

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Speaker 1: that because it should be everywhere. Everybody should be talking

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Speaker 1: about this. The murder rate in Trump two point zher

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Speaker 1: year one just hit the lowest level since nineteen hundred.

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Speaker 1: Murders fell twenty one percent last year, the biggest one

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Speaker 1: year drop ever, likely the lowest rate since the year

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Speaker 1: nineteen hundred. Axios Data says the decline signal is a

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Speaker 1: complete reversal of the COVID era crime wave. Here are

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Speaker 1: a couple of data points inside of this. Aggravated assaults

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Speaker 1: fell by nine percent, gun assaults and robbery down twenty

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Speaker 1: two percent and twenty three percent, respectively, and in some cities.

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Speaker 1: Listen to this buck. Murders fell forty percent in Washington, DC.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember when they told us that Trump surging

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Speaker 1: resources in Washington, d C Was going to have no impact?

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Speaker 1: Forty percent in DC, and in Omaha, Nebraska. Murdered down

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Speaker 1: forty one percent. In Denver, and in general, the national

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Speaker 1: murder rate is down to four per one hundred thousand people,

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Speaker 1: the lowest level it has been at since nineteen hundred.

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Speaker 2: This is a big deal.

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Speaker 1: Is a really big deal, and I think it's a

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Speaker 1: sign of Trump's endorsement of law and order, and it's

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Speaker 1: having real impact already.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm sure it's coming. Minneapolis right now is the focus,

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Speaker 2: as is Greenland and the negotiations at Davos. But I

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Speaker 2: think this White House is probably going to have a

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Speaker 2: press conference in the days ahead where the first thing

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Speaker 2: we hear from Caroline Levitt is going to be all

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Speaker 2: these stats that you just shared. If they haven't done

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Speaker 2: this already, maybe I've missed some of this, but they

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Speaker 2: should do that because a few things. One, they deserve

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Speaker 2: the administration deserves the credit for making a decision in

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Speaker 2: the face of tremendous pushback. And also, this really matters.

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Speaker 2: This isn't adjusting the marginal tax rate for a twelve

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Speaker 2: month period until we figure out what the next appropriations

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Speaker 2: bill is. This is saving people's lives, and so it's

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Speaker 2: important that everyone understands the old way of sorry, we

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Speaker 2: just have to have x hundred number of murders in

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Speaker 2: this city or that city, because that's the way it is,

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Speaker 2: should no longer apply. What's even more, what's the word shocking,

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Speaker 2: but maybe it shouldn't be shocking? Is clay. All the

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Speaker 2: people that were opposed to this should now be saying, Wow,

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Speaker 2: murders are way down. Trump was right. We should do

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Speaker 2: more of this, But they won't because they would rather

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Speaker 2: I don't know how else you could frame this. They

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Speaker 2: would rather more people get shot and killed in DC,

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Speaker 2: in Memphis and all these different cities we're talking about.

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Speaker 2: They'd rather more people get shot and killed because they

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Speaker 2: don't have to see that and deal with it if

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Speaker 2: they don't live there, or they don't live one of

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Speaker 2: the bad neighborhoods. That admit that Trump was right and

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Speaker 2: that he's saving lives, think about that. Imagine where that's

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Speaker 2: your moral calculation, because that's the calculation democrats all across

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Speaker 2: the country are making and Buck.

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Speaker 1: This is just going to be one hundred percent true

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Speaker 1: based on the data. You know, as we hit the

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Speaker 1: lowest murder rate since nineteen hundred, do you know what

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump has done. He's actually proved black lives matter

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Speaker 1: because overwhelmingly the people whose lives were saved were black.

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Speaker 1: Because you got to get that on a T shirt, Clay,

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Speaker 1: we got to sell the Clay Travis. Trump has proven

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Speaker 1: black lives matter. No one has saved more black lives

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Speaker 1: than Donald Trump. I mean in the history of the presidency.

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Speaker 1: I don't know who was president back in nineteen hundred,

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Speaker 1: but when you look, I mean, in all seriousness, it's

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Speaker 1: it's unfortunate truth that the black murder rate, that is,

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Speaker 1: people who are black who are murdered, is I think

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Speaker 1: it's twenty x the white murder rate. I think that

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Speaker 1: number is correct. In other words, the victims not perpetrated,

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Speaker 1: shock right. I think it's it's ten x perpetrator, twenty

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Speaker 1: x victim rate something like that. That's about I think

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Speaker 1: that's about right. We'll have all we'll grocket. But I

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Speaker 1: think think you are twenty times as likely to be

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Speaker 1: So My point on that is when murder rates come down,

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Speaker 1: they overwhelmingly are leading to fewer black murders because the

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Speaker 1: numbers are statistically what they are. So if you truly

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Speaker 1: believe that black lives matter and you've been focused on

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Speaker 1: it since George Floyd, no one has done more to

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Speaker 1: save black lives as a president than President Trump has

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Speaker 1: u And the reality is what I love about this.

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Speaker 1: In addition to the fact that way more people are alive,

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Speaker 1: which is a good thing, the DC numbers buck We

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Speaker 1: got lectured. So many journals came out and they said

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Speaker 1: they wagged their fingers and they either said it's not

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Speaker 1: actually that dangerous, because that's one of the things they

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Speaker 2: Well, the nationally, you're right about this. But I think

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Speaker 2: it's interesting, Clay, because remember we talked about it journals

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Speaker 2: who didn't live in DC, roll Dust. I went there

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Speaker 2: on a school trip and it was really nice. You know,

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Speaker 2: they're super safe.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what they're talking about.

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Speaker 2: I went to a cocktail party once in Georgetown and

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Speaker 2: didn't get shot. What a surprise. The actual journals in DC, though,

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Speaker 2: including some libs. You remember, there were cracks, there were

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Speaker 2: breaks in the ranks, on this where they were like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I know, it's really dangerous. They were the ones who

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Speaker 2: lived there. Some of them started speaking up because they

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Speaker 2: were sick of being worried about getting robbed for their

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Speaker 2: phone on their street corner in nice neighborhoods. So that

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Speaker 1: The numbers have plummeted forty percent. D murders overwhelmingly saved

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Speaker 1: black lives in DC because almost everyone who dies of

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Speaker 1: murder in DC is black. I mean, that is what

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Speaker 1: the data actually reflects. Also, buck this ties in what

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Speaker 1: we're talking about in Minneapolis. Do you think that just

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Speaker 1: maybe letting ICE go arrest violent criminals in the United

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Speaker 1: States and put people on notice that they're coming for

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Speaker 1: them might also have impacted in a significant way the

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Speaker 1: overall murder rate that we saw happen in this country.

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Speaker 1: I just think if if you just objectively step back

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Speaker 1: actually reflects, this is where I think President Trump is correct.

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Speaker 1: He's not getting credit for having a transformative first year

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Speaker 1: of his presidency when it comes to border security, when

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Speaker 1: it comes to actual murder rates nationwide, when it comes

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Speaker 1: to locking bad guys up. Think about this, No one

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Speaker 1: alive listening to us today. This is pretty incredible. No

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Speaker 1: one alive listening to us today has ever lived in

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Speaker 1: a United States safer than last year in the United States.

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Speaker 1: That's a pretty remarkable stat unless you were Unless you're

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Speaker 1: I don't think anybody's one hundred and twenty five years

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Speaker 1: old or one hundred and twenty six years old right now,

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Speaker 1: then none of us have ever been alive in a

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Speaker 1: United States that was safer than President Trump's first year

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. And it's a remarkable turnaround since

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty when the murder rate skyrocketed, that we now

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Speaker 1: have gone to a level of safety that no one

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Speaker 1: living today has ever seen before. You know what, I

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Speaker 1: might call that book making America Great Again.

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Speaker 2: In fact, it's making America safe again for sure, making

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Speaker 2: America safer than it's ever been before.

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Speaker 1: We're not even going back to the word again. We're

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Speaker 1: going to a new standard of excellence when it comes

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Speaker 1: to safety in the country. This should be the number

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Speaker 1: one story everywhere in the nation right now, and I

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Speaker 1: bet many of you will not hear it, but for

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Speaker 1: having heard us talk about it,