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Speaker 1: Bucks Sexton remission, decoding the news and disseminating information with

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Speaker 1: actionable intelligence. Make no mistake American, You're a great American Again.

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Speaker 1: This is the Bucks Sexton Show. CIA analysts, I can

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Speaker 1: that sometimes it is Bucks. No. Do you see every

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Speaker 1: I thought an emergency was floods in Iowa, Okay. I

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Speaker 1: our constitution. Will you definitely vecho that resolution? It was

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Speaker 1: on Friday. So the Democrats are trying to do their

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Speaker 1: So you know, you have emergency powers have been invoked.

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Speaker 1: We should expect that somebody who was willing to draw

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Speaker 1: resources off of investigations of homicides in a city with

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Speaker 1: a serious homicide problem should not go unpunished and should

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Speaker 1: not go unscathed. But you know, the sad part about

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Speaker 1: this is the media is not going to learn a thing.

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Speaker 1: They're not going to change at all. And here's what

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Speaker 1: I can tell you. The next and there will be one,

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Speaker 1: the next big hate crime hoax that comes along, the

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Speaker 1: same script for the media will be in play. They

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Speaker 1: won't change their coverage, they won't be more skeptical. And

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00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 1: it's because that, ultimately they really think that they did

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Speaker 1: this the right way, even though they were totally wrong.

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Speaker 1: They think the mainstream media believes when it comes to

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Speaker 1: hate crime hoaxes, even when they're wrong, they're still right

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Speaker 1: because they've raised awareness. Be right back. So a lot

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Speaker 1: of people have talked about small at this week. One

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Speaker 1: of the best, and I want to give you a

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Speaker 1: good chunk of it. Charles Barkley is one of the

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Speaker 1: more entertaining TV commentators around period. You know, you don't

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Speaker 1: always get great stuff from Charles, but you do get

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Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of gems. I mean, Charles

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Speaker 1: Barkley comes up with stuff. I don't even really care

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Speaker 1: about professional basketball very much. I used to watch it,

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Speaker 1: but I don't have the time these days. But Charles

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Speaker 1: Barkley is so amusing when he talks about professional basketball,

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Speaker 1: and not even just that, just just topics in general,

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Speaker 1: that I will sometimes watch. I will sometimes watch Charles

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Speaker 1: Barkley on his panel on TNT just because I know

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Speaker 1: he's so funny. The stuff that he said about Smoletts

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Speaker 1: today though, because we got the we got Friday coming

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Speaker 1: up here, we got a weekend. I just figured be

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Speaker 1: fun to share some of this with you. Here's what

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Speaker 1: Charles Barkley said about this play eighteen. Just if you

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Speaker 1: wasted all that damn time of money, you know what

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Speaker 1: you should have did. That's what I'm really a Mason's neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: This one over there that you would say has no

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Speaker 1: chance of happening. Um, two black guys being the black

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Speaker 1: guy and have figured out loud, that's us not on here, man.

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Speaker 1: I think that's probably I think that's probably it. Okay,

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Speaker 1: the Lakers will not make the playoffs. The King's Will

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Speaker 1: is the latest edition. Go ahead, Kenny, I can't leave

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Speaker 1: your chuck here with caster check America. Let me just

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Speaker 1: tell you something that do not commit crimes with checks.

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Speaker 1: If you're gonna break the law, do not write a check.

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Speaker 1: Because you're writing a check that what get cashed? Man, Paul,

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Speaker 1: stop literally now, I got one more question. Be by

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Speaker 1: the face mask, the rope and the thing in the

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Speaker 1: same story. They get it. You think they put that

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Speaker 1: on a receipt, face mask, the rope, bleach the store.

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00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: So they're obviously having some fun there on the set

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Speaker 1: of TNT with Charles Barklay, just really going after the

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Speaker 1: smolette thing. But I think I think you have to man,

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Speaker 1: I don't think that this is a situation where we

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Speaker 1: should all pretend like this isn't completely preposterous, that what

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Speaker 1: he isn't absolutely ridiculous, uh, you know, and and and

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00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 1: damaging and wrong, but also so stupid. This is real,

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00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 1: real buffoon kind of stuff. I mean, it's really astonishingly dumb.

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00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 1: I mean, writing a check, buying the stuff from the

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Speaker 1: store on video, bringing in two other guys to be

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Speaker 1: a part of this, and all of it. It just

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00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 1: makes no sense. It's somebody who's clearly not very smart. Um,

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00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 1: and yet there are some people out there believe it,

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Speaker 1: believe it or not, believe it or not. There are

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00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 1: some people out there who aren't yet convinced, aren't yet

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Speaker 1: entirely convinced. If in fact, this guy Smolett did this

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Speaker 1: whole thing play clip seven here, Maxie Waters ways in.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we can at this point it makes

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Speaker 1: sense of it. There's still some questions that we have,

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Speaker 1: some answers that have to be given. He's a friend,

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Speaker 1: he was at my office, we marched in the Pride

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Speaker 1: Rate for get Together. He introduced me at Black Girl's Rock,

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Speaker 1: and so I believed him when I heard about it.

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Speaker 1: I still don't know all of the details. I'm waiting

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Speaker 1: for the final results of all of this. If in

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00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 1: facts it's the hoax, of course I would be disappointed,

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00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 1: But I'm just hopeful that whatever goes on, and if

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Speaker 1: he finds that he's in trouble, that his life will

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00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 1: be changed, then he has to redo it all over again.

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Speaker 1: How much more does she need in terms of facts,

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Speaker 1: I'm just wondering what the facts from? Does she not

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Speaker 1: believe the Chicago Police Department. Does she not believe Eddie

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Speaker 1: Johnson is CPD superintendent who's speaking yesterday? I mean, this

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Speaker 1: is what this is what Eddi Johnson said yesterday play

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Speaker 1: three to let pay thirty five hundred dollars to stage

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Speaker 1: this attack and dragt Chicago's reputation through the mud in

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Speaker 1: the process. And why this stunt was orchestrated by Smilette

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Speaker 1: because he was dissatisfied with his salary, so he concocted

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Speaker 1: a story about being attacked. Is there any part of

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00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 1: that that Maxine Waters thinks he's a lie? Is there

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Speaker 1: some is there some aspects of this that she Let's

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Speaker 1: all be very clear. The chance that the Chicago Police

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Speaker 1: Department would come out and say these things about a

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Speaker 1: gay African American actor who claimed to have been attacked.

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Speaker 1: Did the fact that they're coming out to say that

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Speaker 1: this is a hoax? They are they have this thing

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Speaker 1: as air tight as you could have anything, as air

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Speaker 1: tight as you could have anything. So that's let's start

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Speaker 1: with that. But if he does face charges, there are

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Speaker 1: some people who are saying, you know, crazier things have happened,

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Speaker 1: and you start to think about some cases that have

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Speaker 1: come up. This is Sonny Houstin on the View nineteen.

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Speaker 1: He is going to mount a vigorous defense, and he's

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Speaker 1: made it very clear that Jesse is still entitled to

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Speaker 1: a presumption of innocence. And I think we do need

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Speaker 1: to remember that for the police department to come out

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Speaker 1: and lay this all out, we have to still be skeptical.

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Speaker 1: We don't know what's going to happen. I mean, did

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Speaker 1: everybody think Casey Anthony was going to be found guilty, yes?

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Speaker 1: Did everybody think O J was going to be found guilty? Yes?

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Speaker 1: And those people were not found guilty. She's confusing analysis

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Speaker 1: of the news with the legal process a little bit.

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Speaker 1: There By the way, he's not going to mount a

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Speaker 1: vigorous defense if he if he goes to trial, he's

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Speaker 1: going to lose. He's going to take a plea bargain.

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Speaker 1: He's not gonna mount no if they charge him, he's

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Speaker 1: gonna plead it out. No way, he's going to mount

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Speaker 1: a vigorous defense. But to her point about Casey Anthony

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Speaker 1: and o J. Yeah, I mean there are people that

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Speaker 1: get away with crimes all the time. Unfortunately, I see

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Speaker 1: that R. Kelly today was charged with ten counts of

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Speaker 1: some kind of sexual misconduct. I don't know exactly what

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Speaker 1: it is. R Kelly's ten counts of sexual misconduct. R

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Speaker 1: Kelly was charged, and the documentary on him, I think

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Speaker 1: it's on Lifetime that I've watched. It's a series of

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Speaker 1: like six or seven episodes, is very good and disturbing.

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Speaker 1: R Kelly was prosecuted for underage sex and making child pornography.

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Speaker 1: He was They had a video of him with the

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Speaker 1: underage girl. They showed it to the jury and r

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Speaker 1: Kelly said it might be his brother, that it wasn't

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Speaker 1: him in the video, and he was found not guilty.

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Speaker 1: How could a jury be so stupid? I don't know

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Speaker 1: the OJ jury, I don't think. I think the OJ

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00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:17,879
Speaker 1: jury always knew that he did it. They just thought

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Speaker 1: that this was some getting back at, getting back at,

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Speaker 1: you know, at the racist oppressors in this country. No

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Speaker 1: one with you know, a functioning brain thought that OJ

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Speaker 1: didn't do it. So is there a chance that Smalette

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Speaker 1: would get off. Well maybe, But he's also he's not

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Speaker 1: some hero to any community. I mean, this is all

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Speaker 1: the whole thing is just is just grotesque, right, So

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Speaker 1: I think he's going I think he's going to the

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Speaker 1: I'll be talking about it. But you know, the nice part.

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Speaker 1: There was no collusion, there was no obstruction, there was

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Speaker 1: no anything, So that's the nice part. There was no

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Speaker 1: phone calls, no nothing. We have a I won a race.

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Speaker 1: You know why I won the race because I was

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Speaker 1: a better candidate than she was and had nothing to

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Speaker 1: do with Russia. And everybody knows it's a hoax. It's

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Speaker 1: one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on this country.

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Speaker 1: So I look forward to seeing the report. If it's

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Speaker 1: an honest report, it will say that. If it's not

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00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:26,840
Speaker 1: an honest report, it won't. Yeah, we may in fact

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Speaker 1: be in the last days of Mullermania. Mullermania. I could

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Speaker 1: do some cool we could do some cool theme music

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Speaker 1: for Mullermania. I am so happy for well at least

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Speaker 1: this reason. And maybe this is a little bit selfish,

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00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 1: but I just don't want to have to talk about

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00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:53,279
Speaker 1: this case anymore. It's so obviously stupid. It's such a

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00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 1: political hatchet job. It has been from the start. The

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00:37:56,719 --> 00:38:01,479
Speaker 1: people involved, or unseemly they're dishonor they're bad people. They've

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Speaker 1: tried to undo the results of a democratic election, you know,

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Speaker 1: And I just feel like we've talked this thing to death.

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Speaker 1: The whole country has. I mean, you turn on CNN

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Speaker 1: and most nights there's a Russia story and a lot

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Speaker 1: of nights and this is for the last two years,

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Speaker 1: a lot of nights they lead with a Russia story

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Speaker 1: and they bring people on who go, well, you know,

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Speaker 1: we don't know yet, and we don't know yet, and

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Speaker 1: all this It was the speculation Olympics for two years

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Speaker 1: about whoa, maybe maybe Mueller's got this up as sleep

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Speaker 1: and maybe now all of a sudden they're starting to

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Speaker 1: try to manage expectations a bit now, and now they're

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Speaker 1: changing the whole tone, the whole vibe of the Mueller probe.

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Speaker 1: And our friend Kim Strassel, who you know is a

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Speaker 1: frequent visitor here on the show, wrote a great piece

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Speaker 1: shifting sci f F TI N to phase two of collusion.

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Speaker 1: Conspiracy theorists look for something new anticipating a Muller letdown,

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Speaker 1: and let me just get Ki. Kim just nails it

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Speaker 1: in this piece. Let me give you someone what she

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Speaker 1: gets into here. Quote There's been no more reliable regurgitator

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Speaker 1: of fantastical Trump Russia collusion theories than Democratic Representative Adam Schiff.

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Speaker 1: So when the House Intelligence Committee chairman sits down to

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Speaker 1: describe a new phase of the Trump investigation. Pay attention.

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Speaker 1: These are the fever swamps into which we will descend

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Speaker 1: after Robert Muller's probe. The collusionists need a new phase

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Speaker 1: as signs grow that the Special Council won't help realize

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Speaker 1: their revelries of a Donald Trump takedown. They had said

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Speaker 1: mister Muller would provide all the answers. Now that it

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Speaker 1: seems they won't like his answers, Democrats and media insist

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Speaker 1: that any report will likely prove anticlimactic and inconclusive. This

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Speaker 1: is merely the end of chapter one, said Nato Mariotti,

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Speaker 1: a CNN legal analyst. Mister Schiff turned this week to

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Speaker 1: a dependable scribe, the Washington Post, David Ignatius to lay

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Speaker 1: out the next chapter of the Penny Dreadful, by the way,

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00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:11,839
Speaker 1: a very good TV show on Cinemax. I think if

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00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:15,280
Speaker 1: you haven't seen it. Mister Ignatius was the original conduit

642
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Speaker 1: for the League about former National Security Advisor Mike Flinn's

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Speaker 1: conversations with a Russian ambassador and the far fetch claims

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Speaker 1: that mister Flinn had violated the Logan Act. Of seventeen

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Speaker 1: ninety nine. Mister Schiff has now dictated to mister Ignatius

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Speaker 1: a whole new collusion theory. Forget Carter Page, Paul Manafort,

647
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:37,279
Speaker 1: George Papadopoulos, whoever the real Trump Russia canoodling rests in

648
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 1: Trump's finances. The future president was doing business with Russia

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Speaker 1: and seeking Kremlin help. End quote. Guys, these people are shameless,

650
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 1: aren't they. I mean, Kim totally nails it. She's right.

651
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:54,480
Speaker 1: I mean I've been saying this too, But this is

652
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 1: this is where all of this is heading. We're just

653
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:02,880
Speaker 1: gonna start to hear now about how we need Trump's

654
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:08,400
Speaker 1: tax returns, We need to know more about about Trump's

655
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:11,759
Speaker 1: business dealings. And you see, this is just going to

656
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: be an investigation of Trump the person. That's what they're

657
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:20,879
Speaker 1: going to transition to. This is an investigation of Donald Trump. There.

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00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:22,880
Speaker 1: You know, they can try to say it's about Russia,

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Speaker 1: collusion anything else. But now, I mean, if they're talking

660
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,879
Speaker 1: about his business dealings, what is that If they didn't

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00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:34,879
Speaker 1: find collusion as in Trump and Trump's campaign actively contacting

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Speaker 1: and working with the Russians to help steer the election

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Speaker 1: to Trump, if they didn't find that then looking at

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Speaker 1: Trump's finances can't be a part of that investigation because

665
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Speaker 1: obviously Trump's finances, as it affects the Russia collusion narrative

666
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:57,759
Speaker 1: would have already been covered. It would have already been

667
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 1: there if they had any evidence of this what's whatever.

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00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 1: So now they have no evidence of collusion. What they're

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Speaker 1: saying is, let's just turn Trump's finances upside down and

670
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,920
Speaker 1: then we'll find evidence of collusion. You know, this is

671
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 1: the throw the witch out in the lake, tire down

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00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:20,400
Speaker 1: with stones. If she drowns, she's innocent. If she floats,

673
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:25,799
Speaker 1: she's a witch. Trump can't win. Trump can't win. Don't

674
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Speaker 1: even get me started on that scary movie The Witch.

675
00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:30,000
Speaker 1: I've been having nightmares the movie scary, too scary, man,

676
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 1: too scary. But this is, this is what we're dealing with.

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00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 1: These these people are the Democrats, their little media allies,

678
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:42,240
Speaker 1: little media stooges. They're they're utterly shameless. I mean, Rachel

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00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 1: Maddow has been doing these. Now we have this really

680
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:50,319
Speaker 1: interesting revelation that's gonna blow your mind about Russia. Every night,

681
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: you know, she takes a little pen out, she taps

682
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:54,839
Speaker 1: on the table, the whole stick. I mean, I don't

683
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 1: know who finds Rachel Maddow's show interesting. I really don't.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's just more people speculating abou Russian night

685
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:04,399
Speaker 1: after night who don't know anything. There's no information. It's

686
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 1: just speculations. Well maybe maybe yes, no kind of so

687
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: they have nothing to offer in terms of knowledge, in

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00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 1: terms of actual transmission of useful information or real information. No,

689
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:23,439
Speaker 1: it all just becomes the same old nonsense about how well,

690
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 1: if this happened, then maybe that happened, then maybe this

691
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 1: other thing happened. You know, anybody? This is like when

692
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 1: McCabe goes on TV and says Trump still could be

693
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:34,840
Speaker 1: a Russian asset. McCabe still could be a Russian asset.

694
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 1: Can he prove to us that he's not a Russian asset?

695
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 1: How do we know? Oh, let's investigate him. This is

696
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:48,720
Speaker 1: the essence of police state tactics. This is what happens

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00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 1: in countries where there is no rule of law and

698
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:56,280
Speaker 1: where the people who have the ability to exercise judicial

699
00:43:56,480 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 1: and prosecutorial discretion do not act in faith. The bar

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Speaker 1: for a counterintelligence investigation, as we've seen from McCabe and

701
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:11,279
Speaker 1: Coombe and others is essentially we think maybe this thing

702
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:14,320
Speaker 1: could have happened, so we're going to start pulling people's

703
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:19,480
Speaker 1: phone calls and emails and surveiling them because of counterintelligence concerns.

704
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 1: This is a massive abuse, This is an enormous scandal,

705
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:30,920
Speaker 1: and that the Democrats are just unwilling to see what

706
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 1: is plainly staring all of us in the face here

707
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:35,959
Speaker 1: just goes to show that you can't trust these people

708
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 1: with power, their ideology, their party is morally and intellectually bankrupt.

709
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 1: You don't want these people to be in charge. You

710
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 1: do not want Democrats to be in a position to

711
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:54,600
Speaker 1: sick the irs, the DOJ, the f behind people. Notice

712
00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 1: how who is Trump sicked the prosecutorial arm of the

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00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 1: government on you know, you know, the Clintons used to

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Speaker 1: have the IRS go after people. The IRS went after

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Speaker 1: conservatives under the Obama administration, conservatives. Somehow, Republicans, this doesn't

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00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:15,360
Speaker 1: happen from our side. I wonder why that is. We

717
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 1: don't weaponize the apparatus of the government the way the

718
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Speaker 1: left does, you know. And and for for people who

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Speaker 1: are going to say, well what about the Clintons, Buck

720
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 1: and Whitewater, the Clintons should have gone the Clintons should

721
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Speaker 1: have been criminally prosecuted. The Clintons actually broke the law.

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Speaker 1: We all know they broke the law in a whole

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Speaker 1: bunch of ways, both of them more than once. So

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00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:39,640
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's not a witch hunt. That's actually yeah,

725
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:43,960
Speaker 1: you're that's that's just a hunt that's finding illegal behavior.

726
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:48,360
Speaker 1: But this sole Muller thing, it's not. It's going to

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Speaker 1: end next week. And Kim's right. Kim Strauss's right just

728
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Speaker 1: means collusion. Chapter two begins. That's a woman who inflicted

729
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Speaker 1: enormous rescue on American soldiers, on American citizens. She's a terrorist.

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Speaker 1: She's not coming back. President Trump made clear that she

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Speaker 1: wasn't coming back. She's not a US citizen, she has

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Speaker 1: not entitled to US citizenship, and she's not coming back

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Speaker 1: to our country to pose a threat. Secretary of State

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Speaker 1: is not messing around when talking about Hodah Muthana. This

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Speaker 1: is the case. I believe we spoke to my friend

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Speaker 1: Rahim Kasam about this one earlier in the week. But

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Speaker 1: this is the case of a woman who was a

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Speaker 1: I think thrice married isis bride. So she went off

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Speaker 1: to join the Islamic State. Now and there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of details I want to get into it. Let me

741
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:52,320
Speaker 1: start with this. Who sees the snuff videos, the the

742
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 1: horrific murder videos that are out there of the Islamic

743
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:03,800
Speaker 1: State orchering people, mutilating people, murdering people. Who sees that

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00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:08,479
Speaker 1: stuff and and then says I want to go join

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00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 1: that group? Who sees that? What kind of a person

746
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:18,360
Speaker 1: would want to go be a part of that and

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00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:23,320
Speaker 1: marry fighters for this? I mean, this woman, you know

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Speaker 1: she's a terrorist, folks, She is a terrorist. I know

749
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 1: you know that. But we need to make sure we

750
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:32,920
Speaker 1: keep a close eye here on the T word because

751
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:37,400
Speaker 1: there are some very interesting and shady and slimy figures

752
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:39,279
Speaker 1: that are emerging who all of a sudden are trying

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00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:41,960
Speaker 1: to make a case that, you know, maybe she wasn't

754
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 1: that bad, or we should bring her back and she

755
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:48,920
Speaker 1: should have her day in court. Now. I think there

756
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:54,359
Speaker 1: are some legal issues here where, you know, it can

757
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 1: go either way. I mean, in my opinion, if you

758
00:47:56,920 --> 00:48:00,960
Speaker 1: wage war against your country, you should be able to

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00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:05,320
Speaker 1: have your citizenship stripped from you. This woman not only

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00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 1: not only joined the Islamic State in Syria, married multiple

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Speaker 1: Isis men, was a bride for them. She was tweeting

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Speaker 1: out ISIS propaganda and encouraging people on behalf of the

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Speaker 1: Islamic State and posting online on behalf of the Islamic

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Speaker 1: State to kill Americans here at home, not just on

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Speaker 1: the battlefield, here at home. She was one of the

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Speaker 1: people who was encouraging who you could say was was

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Speaker 1: digitally conspiring with individuals to radicalize on their own here,

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Speaker 1: to mow people down with cars, to stab people, and

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Speaker 1: just do all these disgusting, horrific terrorist things that we

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Speaker 1: know the Islamic State has been doing. And now she's

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Speaker 1: being held by Kurdish forces, she's in a refugee camp,

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Speaker 1: she has a child. She says she wants to come home.

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Speaker 1: She said, quote, I know I've ruined my future, in

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Speaker 1: my son's future, and I deeply regret it. And now

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Speaker 1: people referring to as the Isis bride, and there's going

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Speaker 1: to be I tell you this, the social justice left

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00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:18,960
Speaker 1: is going to start saying, oh, she was brainwashed and

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00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:23,440
Speaker 1: it wasn't her fault, and that she should be allowed

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Speaker 1: back in the country. The Trump administration has just said,

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Speaker 1: as you heard it there from a Secretary of State,

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00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 1: she's not a citizen is not a citizen quote. The

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Speaker 1: State Department maintains that no such process is required. As

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Speaker 1: Muthana is not, and never has been, an American citizen,

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Speaker 1: she stands outside of the Fourteenth Amendments guarantee of birthright citizenship.

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Speaker 1: The government argues because her father, who is now a

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Speaker 1: naturalized citizen, was formerly a Yemeni diplomat under the jurisdiction

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Speaker 1: of his home country, that's right like in the Constitution,

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Speaker 1: subject to the jurisdiction thereof US citizenship and Immigration Services

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Speaker 1: guidelines specify an exception to birthright citizenship for children not

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Speaker 1: born subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, as

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Speaker 1: the Fourteenth Amendment requires, she may have been born here,

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Speaker 1: Pompeio said, she is not a US citizen, nor is

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Speaker 1: she entitled the US citizenship. Muthana's lawyers, however, are indicating

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Speaker 1: that her father has been was discharged from his diplomatic

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Speaker 1: position by the time of her birth, by which point

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Speaker 1: her mother had gained permanent residency status. When the government

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00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:34,960
Speaker 1: revoked the young woman's passport in January, it stated that

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Speaker 1: she hadn't was not a birthright citizen because her father's

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Speaker 1: termination had not officially been documented until February nineteen ninety five.

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Speaker 1: So you know, look, this is where you're going to

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Speaker 1: get into. You know, if the papers weren't signed in time,

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00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 1: the laws, the law, and if your citizenship papers didn't

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Speaker 1: go through, guess what. Sorry. And I hope that nobody's

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00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:05,759
Speaker 1: really gonna lose too much sleep over this one. But

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00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 1: you know, the left, they see they see a Muslim minority,

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00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 1: you know, Muslim minority female, and they are immediately trying

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Speaker 1: to find ways to, if not openly take her side,

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Speaker 1: certainly defend her, defend some aspects of her position. I

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00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:27,560
Speaker 1: saw the Council on Arab Islamic Relations. I only see

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Speaker 1: the Council CARE. They call it the Council on Arab

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Speaker 1: Islamic I'm sorry, Council on American Islamic Relations. Pardon me.

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00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:37,600
Speaker 1: I only see CARE though. When it's like, hey, does

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00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:39,759
Speaker 1: anybody want to defend this terrorists and they're like, yes,

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00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:42,200
Speaker 1: we are from CARE. We would like to defend the terrorists.

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00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:45,279
Speaker 1: Like who is that really the only the only time

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Speaker 1: we get to hear from you guys? Or if somebody

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Speaker 1: leaves a mean voicemail on an imam's you know, phone

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Speaker 1: message and then we get to hear about it. I'll

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00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:58,680
Speaker 1: never forget that I was in I was at CNN

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Speaker 1: once and it was after one of the I think

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Speaker 1: it might have been after the Pulse nightclub shooting. I

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Speaker 1: pretty but I forget. I was over there analyzing so

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Speaker 1: many terror incidents. I think it was a Pulse nightclub shooting.

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Speaker 1: And they brought me on and the segment before me

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Speaker 1: was about the shooting, which had just happened maybe a

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Speaker 1: couple of days before, and they wanted to talk to

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Speaker 1: me about how is this going to spur arise in

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Speaker 1: hate crimes because somebody left a mean voicemail on an

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Speaker 1: EMMS on an emom's answering machine at a mosque somewhere.

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Speaker 1: I remember thinking, this is how CNN priorities work. You

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Speaker 1: have a terrible attack with dozens and dozens of gay

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Speaker 1: men slaughtered while they're trying to just have a night out,

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Speaker 1: have a night of fun and enjoyment, and you know,

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Speaker 1: killed for the crime of trying to dance and listen

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Speaker 1: to some music by this Islamic state supporting psychopath. Remember

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Speaker 1: when the FBI redacted information from the transcript to the

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Speaker 1: Obama FBI. There have been some big big signs out

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00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:04,880
Speaker 1: there that the FBI is not this UH team of

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Speaker 1: crack gum shoes that a lot of people would like

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Speaker 1: to believe they were. They were retracting things or redacting

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Speaker 1: things like I'm doing this in the name of the

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Speaker 1: Blank State, and I pray to Blank that I will

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Speaker 1: be a martyr. I mean, I think we could do

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Speaker 1: the film remember that with the UH. That was a

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Speaker 1: real thing during the aftermath of Pulset nightclub shooting. But

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Speaker 1: they immediately wanted to talk to me about is there

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Speaker 1: going to be a rise in hate crimes? And who

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Speaker 1: are saying? You know, can we focus on the actual

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Speaker 1: crime here? Can we actually talk about the Terrorist Act

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Speaker 1: and not immediately switch this into like, well, like we

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Speaker 1: don't want, you know, we don't want to talk about

852
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Speaker 1: this hate crime, which is what it was. We want

853
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Speaker 1: to talk about the possible hate crime against the Islamic

854
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Speaker 1: community later on. And back to this this woman who's

855
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Speaker 1: trying to come back from the Islamic State. I'm sorry

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Speaker 1: you you joined the enemy. You have no rights in

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Speaker 1: this country as far as I'm concerned. You're not a citizen,

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Speaker 1: so I mean government that the government says you're not

859
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Speaker 1: a citizen and you don't have citizenship. What we're gonna

860
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Speaker 1: give her citizenship now? So she wasn't a citizen when

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Speaker 1: she went there, she's not a citizen now. And I

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Speaker 1: think that the Trump administrations right on this one. Notice,

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Speaker 1: how though, they'll be plenty of Democrats that say, oh,

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Speaker 1: it's tyranny and it's terrible what Trump is doing because

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Speaker 1: they just opposed Trump, no matter what it is. It's

866
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Speaker 1: one of the more remarkable tests of the left delusion

867
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Speaker 1: here is that no matter what the circumstances may be.

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Speaker 1: You know, if Trump came out and said that he

869
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Speaker 1: has managed to find a way that you could eat

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Speaker 1: all the cheeseburgers you want, never gained a pound, that

871
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Speaker 1: it would be healthy for you, the left would be

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Speaker 1: anti cheeseburger. They would say that cheeseburgers are racist and

873
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Speaker 1: evil and destroying the planet. So that's what we're up against,

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Speaker 1: your folks. More national security, come out up here in

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Speaker 1: just a moment to talk to you about the troop

876
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Speaker 1: draw it out in Syria and the Vietnam Kim Summit

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Speaker 1: coming up. You are now entering the Freedom hug Dable

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Speaker 1: Operation Center. All SENSI programs. Musky Caps strictly need to

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Speaker 1: know Team Buck is cleared and ready for a Buck brief.

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Speaker 1: This is a rough estimate about two hundred, not a

881
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Speaker 1: specific number. We're gonna We're in constant contact with our allies.

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Speaker 1: At the end of the day, the President wants to

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Speaker 1: bring our troops home, and he's working towards that. He

884
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Speaker 1: wants to do that in a safe and peaceful way.

885
00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:34,960
Speaker 1: I'm always going to be happy with the President pulling

886
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Speaker 1: our men and women in harm's way out of harm's way,

887
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Speaker 1: and also doing so responsibly. I agree. I believe that

888
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Speaker 1: the two hundred that are remaining will keep Turkey out

889
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Speaker 1: of the Syrian conflict, will also keep Iron's ambitions at bay.

890
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Speaker 1: So this President, you deserve a lot of credit for

891
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Speaker 1: destroying the Caliphate, but we need an insurance policy to

892
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Speaker 1: make sure that they don't come back. And the Kurds

893
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Speaker 1: who helped us in the eyes of Turkey, THEYPG Kurds

894
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Speaker 1: or part of the PKK, we need a buffer zone

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Speaker 1: between Turkey and the Syrian Democratic forces so they don't

896
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Speaker 1: go to war. You don't want to end one war

897
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Speaker 1: and start another. We want to make sure is Sist

898
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Speaker 1: never comes back and Iran cannot get these old fills

899
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Speaker 1: that are in Syria. So by having a small US

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Speaker 1: presence will attract a lot of Europeans. It's time for

901
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Speaker 1: the Europeans to take the lead here, and that's what

902
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Speaker 1: this plan's about, is to put them in the lead

903
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Speaker 1: with our help. News today that President Trump is going

904
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Speaker 1: to keep two hundred troops in Syria. Obviously that's a

905
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Speaker 1: that's a small contingent. We have a much larger contingent

906
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Speaker 1: of a few thousand troops next door in Iraq. And

907
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Speaker 1: keep in mind, giving US navy and aerial assets that

908
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Speaker 1: can be deployed in the Mediterranean as well as other

909
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:50,839
Speaker 1: bases in the region, we have no shortage of ways

910
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Speaker 1: to blow up stuff in Syria if we want to,

911
00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:55,799
Speaker 1: all right. So that's that's one thing that I think

912
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Speaker 1: often gets you know, Oh, if we don't have troops there,

913
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Speaker 1: what are we gonna do? Point it's thing on a

914
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Speaker 1: map America in Syria, and America can destroy it if

915
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Speaker 1: we want to. It's not always a good thing for

916
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Speaker 1: us to do it, but we have that capability to

917
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Speaker 1: keep this contingent of troops there. I understand the reasoning

918
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Speaker 1: behind this, and I understand why A lot of people

919
00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:17,920
Speaker 1: are favorable to it right now. We heard there from

920
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Speaker 1: Lindsay Graham, John James, Sarah Huckabee. Sanders announced this today,

921
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:28,360
Speaker 1: and it's a slight shift in the presidents. Well, it

922
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Speaker 1: wasn't really a plan. It was a tweet from a

923
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Speaker 1: few weeks back where he said that we need to

924
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Speaker 1: get out of Syria and get out of Syria as

925
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Speaker 1: fast as possible. Here's why, here's the argument for us

926
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Speaker 1: to keep these troops in Syria. And then I'm gonna

927
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Speaker 1: make my argument as to why we need to get

928
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Speaker 1: out of Syria. We need, we need to leave Syria.

929
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Speaker 1: I think we can handle all of the different concerns

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Speaker 1: without a US military presence in Syria, because the presence

931
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Speaker 1: that we have now may seem small and manageable and fine.

932
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Speaker 1: When you have a small presence, the ability for that

933
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Speaker 1: to become a large presence is very real. And the

934
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Speaker 1: necessity for it to become a large presence under circumstances

935
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Speaker 1: that are not far fetched is also very real. Here's

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Speaker 1: why they want to step troops. There number one reason

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Speaker 1: that comes to mind, Although I think if you speak

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Speaker 1: two people on the military side, as I have recently,

939
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Speaker 1: they'll say that the biggest concern that they have is

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Speaker 1: they don't want to abandon the Kords who are fighting

941
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Speaker 1: alongside us in Iraq. I'm sorry, well, interroctive done the

942
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Speaker 1: two in Syria and fought bravely and fought well against

943
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Speaker 1: the psychopaths of the Islamic State. Okay, So, and that's

944
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Speaker 1: a real thing and American honor. There are global implications

945
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Speaker 1: for the honor that we either gain or lose in

946
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Speaker 1: the treatment of battlefield allies. I don't mean allies that

947
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Speaker 1: are like, Hey, we're gonna go to a Davos, a

948
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Speaker 1: Davos forum and talk about how we're going to ally

949
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Speaker 1: with you on climate change. I mean Kurds, and some

950
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Speaker 1: of you who are listening to the show, I know

951
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Speaker 1: for a fact have been out there with them, so

952
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about better than anybody else.

953
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Speaker 1: I mean Kurds who are on the front lines, taking incoming,

954
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Speaker 1: laying down fire against our enemy, alongside special US Special

955
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Speaker 1: Forces operators and alongside our guys. Those are allies, real allies,

956
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Speaker 1: and there's an understandable concern that if we weren't there,

957
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Speaker 1: then the Turks would launch air strikes against them because

958
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Speaker 1: they think that they are essentially the same. The Turks

959
00:59:41,760 --> 00:59:46,520
Speaker 1: believe that our Syrian allies, Kurdish Syrian allies, and the

960
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:51,360
Speaker 1: Syrian democratic forces in Eastern Syria and Eastern and Northern

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Speaker 1: Syria predominantly are the same as the PKK Marxist separatist

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Speaker 1: terrorists that have been waging a thirty plus year struggle

963
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Speaker 1: against the Turkish government. So the Turks have a very

964
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Speaker 1: big problem with them. And this I understand all this.

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Speaker 1: That's the one part of it. The other part of

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Speaker 1: it is the fear that the Islamic State is going

967
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Speaker 1: to make some kind of a major comeback if we're

968
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Speaker 1: not there all right now. So that's really the read.

969
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Speaker 1: Oh and then there's another set of reasons that I

970
01:00:23,560 --> 01:00:26,360
Speaker 1: don't think are good reasons. But there are people who

971
01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:29,520
Speaker 1: say that we need to be there to counter Iranian influence.

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Speaker 1: I think that's unrealistic, and I think it's also a

973
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Speaker 1: dangerous expansion of the mission set and the strategy that

974
01:00:39,560 --> 01:00:43,760
Speaker 1: we're approaching all this with that we're there because we're

975
01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:47,000
Speaker 1: going to try to broker a peace agreement with Assad.

976
01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 1: I think that's misplaced. I think that's just wrong. It's

977
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Speaker 1: not going to work, it's not going to happen. Assad

978
01:00:52,480 --> 01:00:55,200
Speaker 1: is not going anywhere. He's not going to negotiate with

979
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Speaker 1: Assyrian Democratic forces for you, for him stepping down or

980
01:00:59,560 --> 01:01:01,680
Speaker 1: anything else else. I mean, Syria, it was through a

981
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Speaker 1: civil war and the country has been chopped up into pieces.

982
01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:08,360
Speaker 1: But there is this notion of what we need to

983
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Speaker 1: counterbalance the other bad players Russia, Iran, Assad, Hesbollah. I don't.

984
01:01:15,040 --> 01:01:16,520
Speaker 1: I don't think that we should be getting to that

985
01:01:16,640 --> 01:01:20,880
Speaker 1: game because they all already have troops on the ground

986
01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:23,360
Speaker 1: there ford operating bases. The Russians have had a naval

987
01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:26,840
Speaker 1: base in Tartus for I don't know how many decades

988
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:32,160
Speaker 1: now in Syria, So we're not counterbalancing. How then, on

989
01:01:32,280 --> 01:01:35,720
Speaker 1: the way that we could do this without a true

990
01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:38,600
Speaker 1: presence there, meaning that we should scale down this two

991
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Speaker 1: hundred to essentially zero as soon as we can, That's

992
01:01:41,200 --> 01:01:45,600
Speaker 1: my opinion. We use the all the different military assets

993
01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:47,360
Speaker 1: that we have in the region if we need to

994
01:01:47,880 --> 01:01:50,800
Speaker 1: to back up Kurdish fighters on the ground, the Syrian

995
01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:54,720
Speaker 1: Democratic forces there, and keep in mind, we could always

996
01:01:54,760 --> 01:01:56,840
Speaker 1: have troops there that are non you know that that

997
01:01:56,960 --> 01:01:59,000
Speaker 1: are not being reported on, right, I mean, we could

998
01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:02,800
Speaker 1: always have operations going on there. That are not being

999
01:02:02,960 --> 01:02:05,720
Speaker 1: publicized quite the way. What we're talking about this contingent

1000
01:02:05,880 --> 01:02:10,040
Speaker 1: is advisors and so on and so forth. But as

1001
01:02:10,200 --> 01:02:12,480
Speaker 1: as long as we have the military presence that we

1002
01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:16,560
Speaker 1: do in the region, we can give air cover, give

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01:02:16,720 --> 01:02:20,600
Speaker 1: material support. We knew whatever we want in the in

1004
01:02:21,040 --> 01:02:23,120
Speaker 1: this part of Syria, and I think we can accomplish

1005
01:02:23,120 --> 01:02:25,960
Speaker 1: it without a troop presence there in terms of the

1006
01:02:26,280 --> 01:02:29,960
Speaker 1: Turkish Kurdish, and that's necessary for the suppression of ISIS, right.

1007
01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:32,560
Speaker 1: So this is people's worry about Iceis coming back, and

1008
01:02:32,680 --> 01:02:35,400
Speaker 1: to that, I say, you're never going to completely eradicate

1009
01:02:35,440 --> 01:02:37,720
Speaker 1: the Islamic State. A lot of them have apparently moved

1010
01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:41,200
Speaker 1: into Iraq. Our foothold in Iraq is not as permanent

1011
01:02:41,240 --> 01:02:43,600
Speaker 1: as some people think. I think the Iraqis get restless

1012
01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:47,760
Speaker 1: with our presence there. So that's also worth keeping in mind.

1013
01:02:48,400 --> 01:02:51,320
Speaker 1: And that's not a reason to try to You know,

1014
01:02:51,440 --> 01:02:54,400
Speaker 1: right now we think Syria is more Syria we can

1015
01:02:54,760 --> 01:02:58,040
Speaker 1: be in with troops because we're so stable in Iraq. Well,

1016
01:02:58,080 --> 01:03:00,800
Speaker 1: what happens if that gets upended. I wouldn't want to

1017
01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:02,880
Speaker 1: be that US troop contingent in Syria. If all of

1018
01:03:02,920 --> 01:03:04,200
Speaker 1: a sudden we have to pull out of a rock.

1019
01:03:05,920 --> 01:03:08,680
Speaker 1: So there's that, and then there's also trying to keep

1020
01:03:08,760 --> 01:03:13,240
Speaker 1: the Turks out of the Syrian conflict and out of

1021
01:03:14,160 --> 01:03:16,680
Speaker 1: air strikes on our our Kurdish friends and the Syrian

1022
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Speaker 1: Democratic forces. Now, then I just say, we got to

1023
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Speaker 1: make it clear to the Turks that you know, they're

1024
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:23,120
Speaker 1: not going to keep being a NATO country. We're not

1025
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Speaker 1: going to play ball with them and help them out

1026
01:03:26,800 --> 01:03:29,120
Speaker 1: on things that matter to them if they are going

1027
01:03:29,200 --> 01:03:32,480
Speaker 1: to be spoilers and refuse to respect some of our

1028
01:03:32,520 --> 01:03:34,640
Speaker 1: app Look, it's a request, it's an ask. We can't

1029
01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:38,320
Speaker 1: make them do this, and we're certainly not gonna take

1030
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Speaker 1: any military action against the Turkish Turkish forces on behalf

1031
01:03:42,320 --> 01:03:45,840
Speaker 1: of Kurdish allies. I think. So then you get into

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01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:48,520
Speaker 1: do you really want US troops to be a trip

1033
01:03:48,640 --> 01:03:53,160
Speaker 1: wire there for the Turks? Essentially the Turks won't bomb

1034
01:03:53,360 --> 01:03:55,480
Speaker 1: some of these encampments because they don't want to kill

1035
01:03:55,480 --> 01:03:59,680
Speaker 1: American soldiers. Well, you're gonna keep American soldiers they're in

1036
01:03:59,720 --> 01:04:01,440
Speaker 1: harms way, and the hopes of the Turks don't do that.

1037
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Speaker 1: I don't like that plan. The biggest thing though, for me,

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Speaker 1: I mean, so I try to work through some of

1039
01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:09,320
Speaker 1: the pieces there, because it's obviously a very complicated situation.

1040
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Speaker 1: The biggest thing for me is we need to stop

1041
01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:16,760
Speaker 1: Our leadership needs to stop thinking that the answer to

1042
01:04:16,960 --> 01:04:20,640
Speaker 1: problems abroad all the time is to send United States

1043
01:04:20,760 --> 01:04:24,520
Speaker 1: military forces to calm things down, to chill things out,

1044
01:04:24,640 --> 01:04:29,800
Speaker 1: to make problems go away. We don't need to do that.

1045
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Speaker 1: We should not do that. And I think that Syria

1046
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Speaker 1: is the beginning of the turning of the tide away

1047
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Speaker 1: from Iraq, which has not been successful. Okay, we can

1048
01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:44,800
Speaker 1: talk about Iraq as much as anybody wants. I was

1049
01:04:44,840 --> 01:04:48,360
Speaker 1: in the CIA's Iraq office for years. Iraq is not

1050
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Speaker 1: the success that we were promised, and it is not

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Speaker 1: a particularly stable country. It's okay, But Afghanistan, which we

1052
01:04:56,440 --> 01:04:59,000
Speaker 1: are losing. We are losing in Afghanistan. We are going

1053
01:04:59,080 --> 01:05:01,560
Speaker 1: to We're going to try to create some face saving

1054
01:05:01,720 --> 01:05:05,480
Speaker 1: agreement with the Taliban where the Taliban is essentially left

1055
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Speaker 1: in control of the country or part of the country,

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Speaker 1: and then eventually we'll be in control of half of

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Speaker 1: the country. All the Pashtun parts of Afghanistan are going

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Speaker 1: to be Taliban run. It's just a matter of when.

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Speaker 1: So that didn't work out for us. Enough is enough.

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Speaker 1: And I do think that there's a class of elites

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Speaker 1: in this country. And I mean that pretty specifically. I

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Speaker 1: mean I can actually name some of them, the Bill

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Speaker 1: Crystal and Max Boot. You know. Tucker Carlson wrote an

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Speaker 1: article about them recently where he referred to them as

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Speaker 1: the professional war peddlers, many of these Bush era, very

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Speaker 1: muscular foreign policy neocon types. I think that their ideas

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Speaker 1: have largely been or should be repudiated. I think that

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Speaker 1: they've dragged us into conflicts that have been far too

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Speaker 1: costly in terms of lives and in terms of blood

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Speaker 1: and treasure for the United States, and for what. For what?

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Speaker 1: We should be putting our troops in harm's way when

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Speaker 1: there is a clear US national security interest that we

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Speaker 1: must defend and that we know we're going in hard

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Speaker 1: and we're going in furiously. We should not be leaving

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Speaker 1: troops in places in unstable countries where the host government

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Speaker 1: either doesn't want us or there is no host government

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Speaker 1: really to speak of. We're propping up a host government

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Speaker 1: and hoping that we can cobble these countries together on

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Speaker 1: our own. That's just it's not a good policy. It's

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Speaker 1: not a good idea, and I think Syria is the

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Speaker 1: turning of the tide. I think people are going to

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Speaker 1: realize that Syria is a place where finally we start

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Speaker 1: to draw down. Don't allow this to drag on forever.

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Speaker 1: Draw down the Syrian our contingent in Syria, and let

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Speaker 1: this be someone else's problem. If it's going to be

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Speaker 1: a problem, I think that that's now. I know there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of good faith debate on this. There's a

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Speaker 1: lot of ways you can take this argument. But the

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Speaker 1: problem with you know, it's never going to be easy

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Speaker 1: to end an endless war, but the alternative is to

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Speaker 1: keep fighting an endless war. I'm not saying it's risk free.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying there's no chance Isis could come back.

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Speaker 1: I'm saying we need to not make Syria our mission

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Speaker 1: open ended for the foreseeable. It's a bad idea. We'll

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Speaker 1: be right back. We're making progress the presence in no hurry.

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Speaker 1: Particularly as long as things continue to move forward in

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Speaker 1: a positive manner and as long as the conversations continue

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01:07:46,760 --> 01:07:50,440
Speaker 1: to go well again, we'll see what happens. I think

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Speaker 1: that the only one setting high expectations is probably the media,

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01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:58,720
Speaker 1: because they're looking for reasons to attack this president. So

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Speaker 1: we have this summit coming up in Vietnam, where the

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Speaker 1: media is I mean, that was Sara Hugaby Sanders setting

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Speaker 1: it up properly. The media is going to do everything

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Speaker 1: they can to tell us that Trump has failed with

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Speaker 1: North Korea so far, and his summit is a bad idea,

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Speaker 1: this one on one meeting in Vietnam, and you know,

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Speaker 1: he's a fool on foreign policy and this is going

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Speaker 1: to be a disaster. That's what they're gonna say. Now,

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Speaker 1: I don't believe it. That is the case. I can't

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Speaker 1: tell you what's going to happen quite yet because I'm

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01:08:37,479 --> 01:08:39,559
Speaker 1: obviously it hasn't happened, and I don't believe anybody can

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Speaker 1: predict the future. Here's what Lindsey Graham Lindsey Graham his

1113
01:08:43,640 --> 01:08:45,560
Speaker 1: expectations for this, Lindsay Graham getting on a play in

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01:08:45,560 --> 01:08:49,240
Speaker 1: the media these days, play fourteen. My expectations are to

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01:08:49,400 --> 01:08:52,320
Speaker 1: give up his nuclear weapons over time, to convince him

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Speaker 1: that he is better off without a nuclear arsenal Denny

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01:08:56,200 --> 01:08:58,760
Speaker 1: is with one, his nuclear weapons could fall in the

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01:08:58,800 --> 01:09:00,920
Speaker 1: hands of people would actually use him if he would not.

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Speaker 1: The president is right to want this transition from a

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Speaker 1: nuclear North Korea to a non nuclear North Korea. Chairman

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Speaker 1: Kim's at the table because he's afraid of Trump. We

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Speaker 1: broke the Iran nuclear Agreement, which was putting Iron on

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Speaker 1: a pathway to the nuclear weapon, and we destroyed the

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Speaker 1: Caliphate and we got the Taliban at the table in Afghanistan.

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Speaker 1: Why we've been strong in the face of adversity. Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump has been the opposite of Barack Obama. The reason

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Speaker 1: the Taliban's at the table. Kim's at the table as

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Speaker 1: Trump has shown strength. Now we've got to close the deal.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate what Lindsay Graham is staying there. He's wrong

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Speaker 1: on Afghanistan. That's and anybody I know who knows Afghanistan

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Speaker 1: well and whose opinion that's respect. I gotta tell you

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01:09:46,920 --> 01:09:49,720
Speaker 1: we are not at the table in Afghanistan because we're

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01:09:49,760 --> 01:09:53,280
Speaker 1: doing so much better. Obama raised the troop levels to

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Speaker 1: over one hundred thousand there, took the fight to the

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Speaker 1: Taliban in Kandahar, and Helmond did not. You know, yeah,

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01:10:00,640 --> 01:10:04,080
Speaker 1: our troops beat our troops beat their guys. But at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, we didn't stabilize the country.

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Speaker 1: But back to North Korea here, So I just I

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01:10:09,800 --> 01:10:11,599
Speaker 1: have to know Lindsay Graham. I think I think Lindsay

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01:10:11,600 --> 01:10:14,759
Speaker 1: Graham is wrong. Sometimes it's not wrong on Kavan, although

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01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:17,519
Speaker 1: I love you forever for that. With Lindsay, Lindsay gets

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01:10:17,520 --> 01:10:21,400
Speaker 1: a big he gets a big special paddle the back

1143
01:10:21,479 --> 01:10:27,559
Speaker 1: for that one. But on North Korea, I can't say

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01:10:27,600 --> 01:10:29,280
Speaker 1: he's wrong. I don't think that Kim Jong gun will

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01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:31,400
Speaker 1: give up his nuclear weapons. I think that nuclear weapons

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01:10:31,960 --> 01:10:35,519
Speaker 1: are central to the belief system of the North Korean

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Speaker 1: Communist Party. I think that nuclear the nuclear deterrent is

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Speaker 1: really the reason for that and the reunification of the

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Speaker 1: Korean peninsula by force. By the way, that is why

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01:10:47,400 --> 01:10:51,960
Speaker 1: the North Korean regime exists. So it will not eliminate

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01:10:52,600 --> 01:10:55,960
Speaker 1: it's reason for being. It will not give it up.

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01:10:57,240 --> 01:10:58,880
Speaker 1: I know that that. And you might ask me a buck,

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01:10:58,880 --> 01:11:01,439
Speaker 1: where does that leave us? I don't know, But I

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01:11:01,479 --> 01:11:03,360
Speaker 1: don't think the North I don't think that Kim jongan

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Speaker 1: is gonna give up their nukes. I just don't see

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Speaker 1: it happening. That said, I think that Trump is right

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01:11:07,640 --> 01:11:10,160
Speaker 1: to try, and if I or him, I would certainly

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01:11:10,200 --> 01:11:13,720
Speaker 1: want to try, because the alternative is pretty horrific down

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01:11:13,760 --> 01:11:19,439
Speaker 1: the line, pretty horrific. He also hasn't given up anything

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01:11:19,479 --> 01:11:21,320
Speaker 1: in the process this whole thing of Oh by meeting

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01:11:21,360 --> 01:11:23,519
Speaker 1: with him, you legitimize him. He's the leader of North Korea.

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Speaker 1: We can hold our breath and pretend he's not the

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01:11:25,880 --> 01:11:27,840
Speaker 1: leader of North Korea. But what good does that do.

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Speaker 1: He is the leader of North Korea, and I think

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Speaker 1: we do well to live in that reality. He has

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Speaker 1: not fired off any missile since Trump approach him with

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Speaker 1: these overtures. I think that that's at least some version

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Speaker 1: of progress here, and we'll have to see. But I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to blow smoke here. Do I think the

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Speaker 1: North kore is gonna give up their nukes? No? I

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Speaker 1: do not. I do not see that happening, And I

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Speaker 1: think that Trump is going to make a very good

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Speaker 1: faith effort to get there. We will see how it goes.

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Speaker 1: But he doesn't lose anything by trying, because he's kept

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Speaker 1: all the sanctions in place and he's not buying off

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Speaker 1: the North Koreans like Obama bought off the Iranians. Got

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Speaker 1: I don't think that here on this radio show right now.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to be able to solve that. I know

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Speaker 1: there are some hosts. You'd be like, WHOA, let me

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Speaker 1: tell you I know everything. No, I don't actually have

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Speaker 1: all the answers. I have a lot of them, but

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Speaker 1: I don't have all of them. I read this piece

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Speaker 1: though it was actually it was in the New York Times.

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Speaker 1: I must I must admit I do read the Times.

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Speaker 1: I read the enemy's publications. Don't think that, you know.

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Speaker 1: I leave that undone. But the piece is called Wealthy,

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Speaker 1: Successful and Miserable, The Future of Work, Wealthy, Successful and Miserable,

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Speaker 1: and it says that the upper echelon it's by Charles

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Speaker 1: Duhigg says the upper echelon is hoarding money and privilege

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Speaker 1: to a degree not seen in decades. But that doesn't

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Speaker 1: seem to make them happy at work. And it just

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Speaker 1: goes into a story about a guy who went to

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Speaker 1: Harvard Business School, graduated in the early two thousands, when

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Speaker 1: there was a sense of just incredible optimism, hyper capitalism

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Speaker 1: in America, so much wealth creation, and if you were

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Speaker 1: on a certain track, if you went to these Ivy

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Speaker 1: League schools, and by the way, this is all for

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Speaker 1: those of you who don't care about any of that stuff.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to what this matters for all of us

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Speaker 1: in a moment. But went to these fancy schools, you

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Speaker 1: were on this pathway to extreme wealth and happiness and

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Speaker 1: access and freedom and all these great things. Well, this

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Speaker 1: individual has written this piece about how he went to

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Speaker 1: his Harvard MBA Harvard Business School reunion. It's fifteenth reunion.

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Speaker 1: He just went to it this past summer. And what

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Speaker 1: was so interesting is that here is this group of

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Speaker 1: people who, if you were to segment off a cohort

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Speaker 1: of individuals who have just been incredibly lucky to have

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Speaker 1: graduated from Harvard Business School in America in the early

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Speaker 1: two thousands, you are in the one one millionth of

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Speaker 1: one percent of humanity. I mean you are super lucky,

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Speaker 1: I mean for all time in terms of the prospects

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Speaker 1: that you have for wealth, for opportunity and just But

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Speaker 1: what's so interesting, and many of you know where this

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01:15:40,680 --> 01:15:45,480
Speaker 1: is going, is guess what a lot of really unhappy

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Speaker 1: people in his Harvard Business School class fifteen years later.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people who, despite what would be referred

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Speaker 1: to as privilege by many people on the left these days,

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Speaker 1: despite this, what is true privilege, going to Harvard and

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Speaker 1: the business school and graduating and getting all these big jobs.

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Speaker 1: But there are people that are still miserable. He said

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Speaker 1: that there were people who quote complained about jobs that

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Speaker 1: were unfulfilling, tedious, or just plain bad. One classmate described

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Speaker 1: having to invest five million dollars a day, which didn't

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Speaker 1: sound terrible until he explained that if he put only

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Speaker 1: four million dollars to work on Monday, he had to

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Speaker 1: scramble to play six million dollars on Tuesday, and his

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Speaker 1: co workers were constantly undermining one another in search of

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Speaker 1: the next promotion. It was insanely stressful work done among

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Speaker 1: people he didn't particularly like. He earned about one point

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Speaker 1: two million dollars a year and hated going to the office.

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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm wasting my life, he told me.

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Speaker 1: When I die, is anyone going to care that I

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Speaker 1: earned an extra percentage point of return? My work feels

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Speaker 1: totally meaningless. He recognized the incredible privilege of pay and status,

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Speaker 1: but his anguish seemed genuine. If you spend twelve hours

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Speaker 1: a day doing work you hate, at some point it

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter what your paycheck says. He told me, there's

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Speaker 1: no magic salary at which a bad job becomes good. Now,

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Speaker 1: I think this probably has It's probably really resonates with

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Speaker 1: a lot of you listening. It resonates with me and

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Speaker 1: I you know, as early don't make one point two

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Speaker 1: million dollars a year. But the point is that if

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Speaker 1: that you that you don't have a passion for, you

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Speaker 1: feel as meaningless. It ceases to matter what they're paying

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Speaker 1: you for it, because this is your life, this is

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Speaker 1: your time, this is what you are doing with yourself.

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Speaker 1: Time is the one commodity that you cannot get more

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Speaker 1: of and you can never get back. So what do

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01:17:43,840 --> 01:17:46,880
Speaker 1: you do every day? And this is why I think

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Speaker 1: our society, as much as I'm not somebody that goes

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Speaker 1: on and rails against a materialism in American society, it

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01:17:55,439 --> 01:17:58,479
Speaker 1: is a problem. It is a problem. I can tell

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Speaker 1: you that I've had jobs. You know, one of the

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Speaker 1: most fulfilling and fun jobs I ever had was being

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Speaker 1: a JV soccer coach, high school soccer coach for my

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Speaker 1: high school. In two thousand and four, I was a

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Speaker 1: JV soccer coach at Regis High School in New York

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Speaker 1: City and I think I was paid for the season.

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Speaker 1: I forget it might have been like twelve hundred dollars

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Speaker 1: or something like that. It wasn't, you know, a twelve

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Speaker 1: week season, and maybe maybe it was two grand I

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Speaker 1: don't know it was. It was a little honorarium. It

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Speaker 1: was not a salary salary, but it was a great gig.

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Speaker 1: I was doing another gig at the Council on Foreign

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Speaker 1: Relations at the time, Council on Four Relations, the Illuminati,

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Speaker 1: the Builderbergs, but I was there, and then I did

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Speaker 1: the whole coaching thing. And coaching was great, and if

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Speaker 1: I could make a living doing it, I would love

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01:18:50,680 --> 01:18:52,360
Speaker 1: to do it. But I don't think I could have.

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Speaker 1: And I also think that there were limitations on how

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01:18:54,880 --> 01:18:57,360
Speaker 1: good a coach I would have been able to I

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Speaker 1: would have been able to become give and that I

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Speaker 1: wasn't a college or professional athlete myself, unless you count rowing,

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01:19:04,439 --> 01:19:06,360
Speaker 1: which is not really You're not really an athlete. You're

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01:19:06,400 --> 01:19:10,120
Speaker 1: just a masochist who wants to ruin ruin your days.

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01:19:12,120 --> 01:19:14,880
Speaker 1: But the point about wasting your life no matter how

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Speaker 1: much money you make, I think that really should matter

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01:19:16,640 --> 01:19:18,680
Speaker 1: to people. But it matters up to a point. You

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01:19:18,840 --> 01:19:21,280
Speaker 1: need there are all these different studies about happiness and

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01:19:21,400 --> 01:19:24,320
Speaker 1: about fulfillment, and you need a certain amount of money

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01:19:24,360 --> 01:19:27,519
Speaker 1: because I've also been in the position where you don't

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Speaker 1: have money for things you need money for, you know,

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01:19:30,640 --> 01:19:34,840
Speaker 1: I have been in my late twenties when I realized

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01:19:35,439 --> 01:19:38,360
Speaker 1: I can't do you know, I can't afford to have

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Speaker 1: a surgery for example, that a doctor has recommended that

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Speaker 1: I have. I just don't have the money. So I

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01:19:44,240 --> 01:19:48,439
Speaker 1: know what that's like. That's stressful. You don't want that either. See,

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Speaker 1: I think most of the studies I've seen say that

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01:19:50,840 --> 01:19:54,680
Speaker 1: you know your your relative happiness, and you know, up

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Speaker 1: to fifty or seventy five thousand dollars a year of

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01:19:57,400 --> 01:20:02,839
Speaker 1: income in America, you know it's making seventy instead of sixty.

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01:20:03,720 --> 01:20:05,920
Speaker 1: That feels good. You like that, you know, making sixty

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01:20:06,000 --> 01:20:09,080
Speaker 1: instead of fifty, you know, making fifty and so on

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01:20:09,120 --> 01:20:11,920
Speaker 1: and so forth, but making you know, one hundred and

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01:20:12,080 --> 01:20:14,599
Speaker 1: sixty instead of one hundred and fifty. Hey, it doesn't

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01:20:14,640 --> 01:20:17,400
Speaker 1: really matter that much. And once you can imagine you

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01:20:17,439 --> 01:20:19,160
Speaker 1: get up into the millions, it really doesn't matter that

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01:20:19,280 --> 01:20:22,080
Speaker 1: much to people. I mean, it's the work is the work,

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01:20:22,360 --> 01:20:24,120
Speaker 1: and if you hate what you're doing and you think

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01:20:24,120 --> 01:20:26,160
Speaker 1: it's meaningless. You can't get around that. And it was

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Speaker 1: interesting that there are all these people that he goes

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01:20:28,200 --> 01:20:31,800
Speaker 1: through in this in this article who have had the

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01:20:31,960 --> 01:20:37,400
Speaker 1: most on a resume basis, on a you know, looking

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01:20:37,439 --> 01:20:42,760
Speaker 1: at their their pathway from an outsider's perspective, they've had

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01:20:42,800 --> 01:20:46,320
Speaker 1: this incredible run and they hate it and they hate it.

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01:20:46,400 --> 01:20:50,240
Speaker 1: An overall job satisfaction has gone down. In the mid

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighties, According to this piece, sixty one percent of

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Speaker 1: workers said that they were satisfied with their jobs. Since then,

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Speaker 1: as of twenty ten, forty three percent of workers are satisfied.

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01:21:02,320 --> 01:21:08,599
Speaker 1: That's a big that's a big drop. Only forty three

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01:21:08,640 --> 01:21:12,439
Speaker 1: percent of workers are satisfied, less than half. I think

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01:21:12,479 --> 01:21:15,280
Speaker 1: that there's a lot that drives this um. There are

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01:21:15,479 --> 01:21:18,000
Speaker 1: there are people that will point you to two different things.

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01:21:18,160 --> 01:21:20,839
Speaker 1: You know, they'll they'll point you to how you're always

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01:21:21,680 --> 01:21:25,639
Speaker 1: uh here. He mentioned some of this article oppressive hours,

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01:21:25,720 --> 01:21:30,839
Speaker 1: political in fighting, the competition created by globalization, the internet,

1341
01:21:30,880 --> 01:21:33,320
Speaker 1: and the always on culture. You carry your phone around,

1342
01:21:33,360 --> 01:21:35,320
Speaker 1: they can reach you. You carry your email around, they

1343
01:21:35,360 --> 01:21:37,000
Speaker 1: can reach you. Right, You've got that going on all

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01:21:37,040 --> 01:21:40,160
Speaker 1: the time. Something more more to this as well, though

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01:21:41,120 --> 01:21:47,120
Speaker 1: I think that we are increasingly as a society people

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01:21:47,200 --> 01:21:52,240
Speaker 1: are seeing the financial where with all of those around

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01:21:52,280 --> 01:21:53,760
Speaker 1: them that they're seeing, you know, it's like keeping up

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01:21:53,760 --> 01:21:56,000
Speaker 1: with the Joneses thing. They see what other people do

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01:21:56,080 --> 01:21:57,719
Speaker 1: and what they can do, and they think to themselves,

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01:21:57,800 --> 01:22:00,880
Speaker 1: why don't I have that, instead of thinking do I

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01:22:00,960 --> 01:22:05,160
Speaker 1: have what I need and what I want? And understanding

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01:22:05,280 --> 01:22:08,679
Speaker 1: that your own expectations are the only expectations that really

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01:22:08,760 --> 01:22:12,439
Speaker 1: matter for these things. But dissatisfaction, even for people who

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01:22:12,479 --> 01:22:15,639
Speaker 1: are very financially well off, is pervasive. Now I want

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01:22:15,640 --> 01:22:17,400
Speaker 1: to pause because I want to come back and say

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01:22:17,840 --> 01:22:21,200
Speaker 1: that there's some real upside that there are two lessons

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01:22:21,320 --> 01:22:24,120
Speaker 1: that he gets into in this piece, which I will

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01:22:24,160 --> 01:22:26,880
Speaker 1: post on Facebook dot com slash buck Sexton so you

1359
01:22:26,920 --> 01:22:28,879
Speaker 1: can all see it. But there are these two lessons

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01:22:29,760 --> 01:22:34,000
Speaker 1: that he gets into that I think will really stick

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Speaker 1: with because we're not going to talk anymore about oh,

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01:22:36,120 --> 01:22:38,960
Speaker 1: the hedge fund manager who says his life is meaningless

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01:22:39,000 --> 01:22:41,519
Speaker 1: but he's worth millions of dollars. You may find that interesting,

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01:22:41,560 --> 01:22:43,200
Speaker 1: you may not, but it's just a way of getting

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01:22:43,240 --> 01:22:45,519
Speaker 1: into this piece because there are other people who find

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Speaker 1: their lives really interesting and really have meaning. Their work

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01:22:50,280 --> 01:22:53,360
Speaker 1: lives have meaning in a way that may be surprising

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01:22:53,439 --> 01:22:55,840
Speaker 1: to hear, probably be inspiring to hear. And then also

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Speaker 1: the people that find work and find their roles that

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Speaker 1: are the right ones for them. There's something very interesting

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01:23:05,680 --> 01:23:07,640
Speaker 1: that they all have in common, or that many of

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01:23:07,680 --> 01:23:10,960
Speaker 1: them have in common, and it's not what you would expect.

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Speaker 1: And I think that will also this article. I found

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Speaker 1: this article inspiring, not the part I've told you about

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Speaker 1: so far, but see, this is how we do radio teases,

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Speaker 1: the part when we come back stay with me. When

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Speaker 1: an Amazon company. So how do you manage to one

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Speaker 1: have a fulfilling job and to find a fulfilling job

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Speaker 1: and then to be fulfilling in that role? Right? What

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01:24:37,640 --> 01:24:39,920
Speaker 1: do you? What are some of the lessons from this

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Speaker 1: piece team that was written in the New York Times

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01:24:42,640 --> 01:24:45,600
Speaker 1: about how there are a lot of wealthy elite professionals

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01:24:46,120 --> 01:24:50,160
Speaker 1: who are really miserable with what they do even though

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01:24:50,160 --> 01:24:54,200
Speaker 1: they're financially successful. Money. You need enough money to be happy.

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01:24:54,479 --> 01:24:56,000
Speaker 1: This is my This is my role. This is not

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01:24:56,040 --> 01:24:58,759
Speaker 1: from the species. You need enough money, but money doesn't

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01:24:58,800 --> 01:25:03,880
Speaker 1: make you happy. Tons of times I've known people who

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01:25:03,960 --> 01:25:06,559
Speaker 1: are who are deeply unhappy. I've known people who were

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01:25:07,080 --> 01:25:11,000
Speaker 1: incredibly wealthy, who are like Trump level wealthy. I've known,

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Speaker 1: you know, children of Trump's generation who are incredibly wealthy,

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01:25:14,479 --> 01:25:18,080
Speaker 1: and they were on all kinds of you know, serious medication,

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01:25:18,320 --> 01:25:20,639
Speaker 1: or they were self medicating with drugs. You'd say, how

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01:25:20,760 --> 01:25:22,439
Speaker 1: is that? Well, you know your life is so easy,

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01:25:22,479 --> 01:25:27,439
Speaker 1: why aren't you happy? Because it's not enough. People need purpose.

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01:25:27,520 --> 01:25:28,880
Speaker 1: And one of the things I talk to you about

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01:25:29,000 --> 01:25:31,240
Speaker 1: is and it's a lot of things that I say

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01:25:31,280 --> 01:25:34,240
Speaker 1: on this radio show are also ways to solidify my

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01:25:34,360 --> 01:25:37,200
Speaker 1: own thinking. And it's my own way of reminding myself.

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01:25:37,680 --> 01:25:40,040
Speaker 1: How do you derive happiness, enjoy from your day to day?

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01:25:40,760 --> 01:25:43,040
Speaker 1: How are you making yourself better? How are you treating

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01:25:43,080 --> 01:25:45,200
Speaker 1: the people around you? How are you contributing in a

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01:25:45,280 --> 01:25:50,800
Speaker 1: way that is positive? Right? And I don't get into

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01:25:50,800 --> 01:25:52,320
Speaker 1: the spiritual side of it as well, but I think

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01:25:52,320 --> 01:25:55,280
Speaker 1: when you're doing those things, you're also obviously serving, serving

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01:25:55,360 --> 01:25:58,120
Speaker 1: God and being a good Christian, and you know, these

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01:25:58,160 --> 01:26:01,439
Speaker 1: things all tied together. But a couple of things come

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01:26:01,520 --> 01:26:03,080
Speaker 1: up in this piece that really were noted in me.

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01:26:03,200 --> 01:26:08,320
Speaker 1: One is he cites this study about again, this isn't

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Speaker 1: this New York Times piece about a bunch of janitors,

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01:26:13,360 --> 01:26:17,720
Speaker 1: janitors who were working in a hospital, and some of

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01:26:17,840 --> 01:26:22,599
Speaker 1: them were incredibly happy with their jobs and their janitors.

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01:26:22,720 --> 01:26:24,920
Speaker 1: Now janitors, and I always and I say this, and

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01:26:25,000 --> 01:26:28,120
Speaker 1: I mean this, you know I any work that you

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01:26:28,240 --> 01:26:31,400
Speaker 1: do that is contributing and that is honorable and you

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01:26:31,479 --> 01:26:34,879
Speaker 1: were receive a paycheck for is something that deserves respect.

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01:26:36,080 --> 01:26:39,120
Speaker 1: And janitors are certainly in that capacity. In fact, janitors

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Speaker 1: in New York City, not to get into this, they

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01:26:40,840 --> 01:26:42,800
Speaker 1: make over one hundred grands, So start with that. I

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01:26:42,920 --> 01:26:45,200
Speaker 1: know in New York City public school janitors make with

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Speaker 1: overtime over one hundred thousand dollars. Let that one sit

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01:26:47,800 --> 01:26:49,720
Speaker 1: there for a second. It's a lot more money than

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01:26:49,760 --> 01:26:53,280
Speaker 1: I made in my first many years of work. But

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Speaker 1: so janitors, though, in this one hospital, they love their job.

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01:26:57,240 --> 01:27:00,960
Speaker 1: Why because they didn't see their job, according to this study,

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Speaker 1: as just tidying up in this hospital unit for people

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Speaker 1: that were dealing with really serious brain injuries. A lot

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Speaker 1: of the patients were actually in comas. The janitors, Yes,

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01:27:12,080 --> 01:27:14,640
Speaker 1: they changed the bed pans, they picked up trash, but

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Speaker 1: some of the janitors would move pictures around on the

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Speaker 1: wall and would try to leave things in the room

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01:27:23,160 --> 01:27:27,600
Speaker 1: looking particularly nice and make little changes because they believed

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Speaker 1: quote a subtle stimulation in the unconscious patients environment might

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01:27:33,400 --> 01:27:38,639
Speaker 1: speed their recovery. One of the janitors also said, quote,

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Speaker 1: I enjoy entertaining the patients. That's not really part of

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01:27:41,800 --> 01:27:43,800
Speaker 1: my job description, but I like putting on a show

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01:27:43,840 --> 01:27:47,639
Speaker 1: for them. She would dance around, tell jokes, tell jokes

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01:27:47,680 --> 01:27:50,720
Speaker 1: to families sitting doing bedside vigils. She would try to

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01:27:50,800 --> 01:27:53,080
Speaker 1: cheer them up. She would try to distract them from

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01:27:53,080 --> 01:27:57,520
Speaker 1: the pain and uncertainty that surrounded them. That's right, janitors

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01:27:58,160 --> 01:27:59,960
Speaker 1: who were showing up with their job and doing a nest,

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Speaker 1: sorry job with just the usual janitorial stuff, but also

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01:28:03,600 --> 01:28:08,680
Speaker 1: view themselves as healers, view themselves as helpers. And for

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Speaker 1: any of you who have ever been by a sick relative,

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01:28:11,280 --> 01:28:16,960
Speaker 1: you know that human decency and human contact and warmth

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Speaker 1: and kindness even from strangers can really mean a lot.

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Speaker 1: So that's one part of this is that you know

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Speaker 1: you can be a janitor, which is great. You can

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Speaker 1: also be a janitor who views himself or herself as

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Speaker 1: someone who is contributing beyond their role, and that's where

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Speaker 1: a lot of happiness comes from. I'll tell you this

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Speaker 1: in my high school, there was a janitor named Jimmy.

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Speaker 1: And anybody who's listening to went to my high school

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Speaker 1: knows I'm talking about. There was a janitor named Jimmy.

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Speaker 1: And every single morning when I was when I was

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01:28:48,479 --> 01:28:51,360
Speaker 1: a student at this high school, he would wait outside

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Speaker 1: for he was cleaning the street and know tiding up

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01:28:54,240 --> 01:28:56,519
Speaker 1: in things, but he would and every kid who walked

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01:28:56,560 --> 01:28:58,400
Speaker 1: into that school he would high five on the way

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Speaker 1: and say, how you doing. He high fived everybody who

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Speaker 1: went in. And I'm gonna tell you, I had some

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01:29:02,600 --> 01:29:04,400
Speaker 1: days in that school where I wasn't particularly happy to

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01:29:04,479 --> 01:29:07,280
Speaker 1: be there. I was always happy to see Jimmy, and

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01:29:07,439 --> 01:29:10,800
Speaker 1: you always felt like, it's all right, I got Jimmy here,

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01:29:10,840 --> 01:29:13,320
Speaker 1: and he would give you a high five. Jimmy was

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01:29:13,360 --> 01:29:15,080
Speaker 1: a janitor. Jimmy was a lot more than a janitor,

1484
01:29:15,160 --> 01:29:16,960
Speaker 1: though not that just being a janitor is not enough,

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01:29:17,000 --> 01:29:18,920
Speaker 1: but he chose to make it more. We all can

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01:29:19,000 --> 01:29:21,519
Speaker 1: make that choice to be more. One other interesting lesson

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01:29:21,560 --> 01:29:23,840
Speaker 1: in this piece that I think really matters, really really

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01:29:23,880 --> 01:29:26,880
Speaker 1: struck a note with me because I've had a non

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01:29:26,960 --> 01:29:30,760
Speaker 1: traditional career and I've had as many rejections and letdowns

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01:29:30,840 --> 01:29:34,679
Speaker 1: and shutdowns as as anybody could in media. Oh maybe

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01:29:34,680 --> 01:29:35,960
Speaker 1: one day I'll tell you about all the people in

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01:29:36,000 --> 01:29:37,880
Speaker 1: media who should have hired me, who should have hired me,

1493
01:29:37,960 --> 01:29:40,600
Speaker 1: who didn't, who passed me over, who promised me. And

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01:29:40,640 --> 01:29:42,840
Speaker 1: I've only been doing this for about nine years at

1495
01:29:42,880 --> 01:29:45,240
Speaker 1: eight and nine years now, and even before that, all

1496
01:29:45,240 --> 01:29:47,280
Speaker 1: the jobs I applied for that I didn't get, or

1497
01:29:47,439 --> 01:29:51,680
Speaker 1: you know, tons of that. What this one author says, though,

1498
01:29:51,760 --> 01:29:55,120
Speaker 1: is that when he found people who were really happy

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01:29:55,760 --> 01:29:58,680
Speaker 1: in their jobs, really happy and they felt like they

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01:29:58,720 --> 01:30:01,120
Speaker 1: had a good job, not just because the pay a

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01:30:01,240 --> 01:30:04,920
Speaker 1: good job, because they felt it was meaningful, they tended

1502
01:30:05,000 --> 01:30:09,320
Speaker 1: to be the people who had to struggle to figure

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01:30:09,360 --> 01:30:11,040
Speaker 1: out who they were and how they were going to

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01:30:11,080 --> 01:30:13,920
Speaker 1: get there. That the people that went through these elite

1505
01:30:13,960 --> 01:30:16,880
Speaker 1: institutions and had these gold plated resumes and went to

1506
01:30:16,960 --> 01:30:22,439
Speaker 1: the most esteemed institutions, they didn't really they didn't really

1507
01:30:22,840 --> 01:30:26,080
Speaker 1: care that much about their jobs. They get paid a lot,

1508
01:30:26,160 --> 01:30:28,600
Speaker 1: but it doesn't really feel like much to them. But

1509
01:30:28,760 --> 01:30:31,479
Speaker 1: the people who end up getting rejected and they fail

1510
01:30:31,680 --> 01:30:36,280
Speaker 1: and they have to find that avenue, that that pathway

1511
01:30:36,320 --> 01:30:39,240
Speaker 1: for themselves. They have to be creative, they have to

1512
01:30:39,320 --> 01:30:42,240
Speaker 1: be entrepreneurial, they have to take risks, they have to

1513
01:30:42,360 --> 01:30:45,439
Speaker 1: try things that people that are handed or that earned

1514
01:30:45,520 --> 01:30:47,040
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to say they were handed, but that

1515
01:30:47,200 --> 01:30:51,040
Speaker 1: earned their gold plated opportunities through the systems in place,

1516
01:30:51,600 --> 01:30:55,680
Speaker 1: would never take too risky. Look, I got into and

1517
01:30:55,800 --> 01:30:57,599
Speaker 1: this is I got into some of the best business

1518
01:30:57,600 --> 01:31:00,439
Speaker 1: schools in the world. So the NBA program thing here

1519
01:31:00,560 --> 01:31:02,439
Speaker 1: really really struck a chord with me, and I said,

1520
01:31:02,479 --> 01:31:04,000
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm going to roll the dice on

1521
01:31:04,080 --> 01:31:07,880
Speaker 1: this media thing. If I had spent years at a

1522
01:31:07,920 --> 01:31:09,920
Speaker 1: hedge fund before that, would I have done that? Probably not.

1523
01:31:10,080 --> 01:31:12,280
Speaker 1: Now I do a job that I can honestly say,

1524
01:31:12,400 --> 01:31:16,000
Speaker 1: doing this radio show, I love my job. And I

1525
01:31:16,040 --> 01:31:17,840
Speaker 1: don't love all the things I do in media. This

1526
01:31:18,120 --> 01:31:21,080
Speaker 1: radio show, I love my job. It matters to me,

1527
01:31:21,200 --> 01:31:24,800
Speaker 1: This audience matters to me, and that is something that

1528
01:31:25,160 --> 01:31:28,200
Speaker 1: is really special and I recognize it a special and

1529
01:31:28,280 --> 01:31:31,240
Speaker 1: it was really hard to get here. But this notion

1530
01:31:31,360 --> 01:31:36,360
Speaker 1: that the struggle, the struggle to find that meaningful position

1531
01:31:36,439 --> 01:31:39,160
Speaker 1: for yourself and by though it's not just professional, I

1532
01:31:39,200 --> 01:31:41,200
Speaker 1: think this is true of people's lives, to the struggle

1533
01:31:41,280 --> 01:31:43,880
Speaker 1: to find out who you are and what makes you

1534
01:31:44,000 --> 01:31:47,800
Speaker 1: happy is a necessary part of the process for most people,

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01:31:48,000 --> 01:31:49,920
Speaker 1: and I think I think at the end of the day,

1536
01:31:50,320 --> 01:31:55,560
Speaker 1: to embrace that idea of fighting to get where you

1537
01:31:55,680 --> 01:31:57,680
Speaker 1: need to be. That there's going to be setbacks, that

1538
01:31:57,760 --> 01:31:59,439
Speaker 1: they're going to be problems. It's not all going to

1539
01:31:59,439 --> 01:32:04,880
Speaker 1: be clear guys and wonderful sailing. Just know that if

1540
01:32:04,960 --> 01:32:08,200
Speaker 1: you stick to who you are and your values, and

1541
01:32:08,320 --> 01:32:11,800
Speaker 1: you're resilient and you fight, you'll get to a place

1542
01:32:11,840 --> 01:32:14,200
Speaker 1: where you're happy. Which doesn't mean we don't all get

1543
01:32:14,240 --> 01:32:15,720
Speaker 1: to be president. We all don't all get to be

1544
01:32:15,760 --> 01:32:18,479
Speaker 1: professional athletes, but we can't all be the best version

1545
01:32:18,520 --> 01:32:20,639
Speaker 1: of ourselves if we keep trying. That's what I took

1546
01:32:20,640 --> 01:32:23,519
Speaker 1: away from this. We can be the janitor who's helping

1547
01:32:23,600 --> 01:32:26,960
Speaker 1: to heal people with brain damage. We'll be right back.

1548
01:32:30,640 --> 01:32:33,439
Speaker 1: Ain't no party like a Team Buck party, because a

1549
01:32:33,600 --> 01:32:43,160
Speaker 1: Team Buck party don't stop. Yeah, we got Buck turned

1550
01:32:43,200 --> 01:32:58,719
Speaker 1: up to eleven. It's time for a roll call. Doesn't

1551
01:32:58,760 --> 01:33:01,759
Speaker 1: that guy kind of sound like optis Prime? It's time

1552
01:33:01,920 --> 01:33:05,760
Speaker 1: for roll call? You know what I mean? Anybody John?

1553
01:33:05,800 --> 01:33:09,280
Speaker 1: Do you ever watch The Transformers? Yeah? Did years ago?

1554
01:33:10,600 --> 01:33:12,599
Speaker 1: Michael Bays stuff? No, all right, I mean if we really,

1555
01:33:12,880 --> 01:33:16,280
Speaker 1: if we really have to get into it, Transformers or ThunderCats.

1556
01:33:17,479 --> 01:33:20,760
Speaker 1: I really like ThunderCats too. I think that would have

1557
01:33:20,840 --> 01:33:23,200
Speaker 1: to be my choice, ThunderCats. I think I go ThunderCats

1558
01:33:23,240 --> 01:33:26,200
Speaker 1: over Transformers. But I know we've just probably set the

1559
01:33:26,280 --> 01:33:30,600
Speaker 1: airwaves on fire. People like no Transformers, optimist Prime, and

1560
01:33:30,760 --> 01:33:32,320
Speaker 1: some of you are like Buck, what are you talking about?

1561
01:33:33,080 --> 01:33:37,000
Speaker 1: Facebook dot com slashbuck Sexton. Because it is a Friday,

1562
01:33:37,360 --> 01:33:41,200
Speaker 1: and because I am excited to get to the weekend,

1563
01:33:41,240 --> 01:33:43,120
Speaker 1: We're gonna do a double roll call where we get

1564
01:33:43,120 --> 01:33:45,240
Speaker 1: to because you have so many messages in the inbox

1565
01:33:45,320 --> 01:33:46,800
Speaker 1: here that we have not gotten to from the week

1566
01:33:46,880 --> 01:33:49,320
Speaker 1: so we'll try to get to a bunch of them.

1567
01:33:49,520 --> 01:33:52,439
Speaker 1: So easy, just go to Facebook dot com slashbuck Sexton

1568
01:33:52,600 --> 01:33:55,439
Speaker 1: and send a message. Let me know what you think

1569
01:33:55,600 --> 01:33:59,080
Speaker 1: of the show. Things we've been working on. Come out

1570
01:33:59,120 --> 01:34:01,840
Speaker 1: to the coast, A few laughs, all that good stuff,

1571
01:34:02,000 --> 01:34:06,559
Speaker 1: All right, Seth writes Buck. Did you know the Wendy

1572
01:34:06,640 --> 01:34:09,600
Speaker 1: Walls that advertises a podcast in between your segments is

1573
01:34:09,680 --> 01:34:12,960
Speaker 1: the same Wendy Walls who accused O'Reilly of sexual harassment

1574
01:34:13,000 --> 01:34:15,679
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen. What is she doing on your show?

1575
01:34:16,160 --> 01:34:18,240
Speaker 1: Even so, I'm enjoying your show as much as ever.

1576
01:34:18,560 --> 01:34:23,680
Speaker 1: From seth M. Yeah, I don't know what ads are

1577
01:34:23,760 --> 01:34:26,560
Speaker 1: running on some of them. I mean, there are sponsors,

1578
01:34:26,640 --> 01:34:28,680
Speaker 1: my friend, and then there are radio ads that run

1579
01:34:28,760 --> 01:34:31,000
Speaker 1: on stage, and so I don't I'm on one hundred

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01:34:31,000 --> 01:34:35,280
Speaker 1: and twenty five six something like that, one hundred and

1581
01:34:35,280 --> 01:34:38,360
Speaker 1: twenty some odd stations across the country. I do not know.

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01:34:39,000 --> 01:34:41,120
Speaker 1: So if you're if you're calling me, or if you're

1583
01:34:41,160 --> 01:34:45,360
Speaker 1: gonna send me a message because Bob's Waterbed in East

1584
01:34:45,439 --> 01:34:48,080
Speaker 1: Tallahassee is not getting it done for you, they're probably

1585
01:34:48,320 --> 01:34:51,320
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know. They're not a sponsor of mine.

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01:34:52,040 --> 01:34:55,160
Speaker 1: I can't speak to Bob's Waterbed of East Tallahassee, So

1587
01:34:55,400 --> 01:34:57,800
Speaker 1: I don't you know what I mean? Like this is

1588
01:34:58,880 --> 01:35:02,160
Speaker 1: local stations can do different things. The sponsors that I know,

1589
01:35:02,920 --> 01:35:05,040
Speaker 1: I know the CEOs, I know the companies I use,

1590
01:35:05,120 --> 01:35:07,840
Speaker 1: the products. That's a different that's a different situation. So

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01:35:07,920 --> 01:35:10,960
Speaker 1: I can't speak to this. I don't know who Wendy

1592
01:35:11,000 --> 01:35:12,759
Speaker 1: Walsh is. I don't know any about what you're talking about,

1593
01:35:12,760 --> 01:35:14,320
Speaker 1: and I really don't. I'm not trying to be coy,

1594
01:35:15,280 --> 01:35:18,840
Speaker 1: but yeah, ads they're a good thing capitalism. I love

1595
01:35:19,200 --> 01:35:23,760
Speaker 1: I love all sponsors for shows like this that are

1596
01:35:23,760 --> 01:35:27,040
Speaker 1: good shows. Brad right, dear Buck. With all the talk

1597
01:35:27,120 --> 01:35:30,519
Speaker 1: from democratic hopeles about how great socialism is and how

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01:35:30,640 --> 01:35:32,640
Speaker 1: great it will be to stand in breadlines like the

1599
01:35:32,680 --> 01:35:35,840
Speaker 1: past days of the USSR, I haven't heard one word

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01:35:35,920 --> 01:35:38,719
Speaker 1: on how they or any other politician plans to tackle

1601
01:35:38,800 --> 01:35:43,599
Speaker 1: our raising or our rising rather national debt crisis. At

1602
01:35:43,680 --> 01:35:46,000
Speaker 1: what point are they going to realize these spend spend

1603
01:35:46,080 --> 01:35:49,160
Speaker 1: spend mentality is killing our economy and our nation. I

1604
01:35:49,280 --> 01:35:51,240
Speaker 1: hate to sound like an alarmist, but the hens are

1605
01:35:51,320 --> 01:35:54,320
Speaker 1: going to come back to rouse someday. But there's a

1606
01:35:54,439 --> 01:35:59,080
Speaker 1: fox in the henhouse waiting for them. Would you like

1607
01:35:59,240 --> 01:36:01,040
Speaker 1: your I would like your thoughts on this and what

1608
01:36:01,200 --> 01:36:02,720
Speaker 1: we can do to help this great nation of ours

1609
01:36:02,760 --> 01:36:06,920
Speaker 1: before it's till it. Have a great week in Shields High. Brad.

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01:36:07,000 --> 01:36:11,800
Speaker 1: You're correct, I mean, you're right. The spending is out

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01:36:11,840 --> 01:36:15,120
Speaker 1: of control. And when people would argue, oh, it's not

1612
01:36:15,120 --> 01:36:17,080
Speaker 1: out of control, book, well, it's about a trillion dollars

1613
01:36:17,160 --> 01:36:19,840
Speaker 1: this year, close to a trillion dollars this year, or

1614
01:36:19,880 --> 01:36:22,599
Speaker 1: I should say for the last fiscal year. We're twenty

1615
01:36:22,640 --> 01:36:27,400
Speaker 1: two trillion dollars in debt, and this much is for sure.

1616
01:36:28,120 --> 01:36:31,920
Speaker 1: When a financial crisis of that magnitude, that is that

1617
01:36:32,120 --> 01:36:36,519
Speaker 1: structural and foundational, when it is clear to anybody who's

1618
01:36:36,560 --> 01:36:39,160
Speaker 1: paying attention that it's a really, really big problem, it

1619
01:36:39,240 --> 01:36:43,280
Speaker 1: has to be dealt with. It's too late now, the

1620
01:36:43,640 --> 01:36:47,000
Speaker 1: problem we have in this country. And remember I came

1621
01:36:47,160 --> 01:36:50,280
Speaker 1: into media, I left the CIA and came into media

1622
01:36:50,920 --> 01:36:53,000
Speaker 1: at the time of the rise of the Tea Party.

1623
01:36:53,080 --> 01:36:57,760
Speaker 1: So I remember when conservatives were very much concerned with

1624
01:36:59,240 --> 01:37:02,120
Speaker 1: the debt and the deficit, and this was a major

1625
01:37:02,400 --> 01:37:05,920
Speaker 1: national issue. That issue has only gotten worse, my friends,

1626
01:37:06,520 --> 01:37:09,519
Speaker 1: and I do think that there's a disconnect here between

1627
01:37:09,560 --> 01:37:14,960
Speaker 1: the recognition of national debt as a structural and strategic

1628
01:37:15,520 --> 01:37:18,280
Speaker 1: not just economic, but national security threat as well. My friends,

1629
01:37:18,320 --> 01:37:21,200
Speaker 1: if our economy starts to crap out, guess what you

1630
01:37:21,280 --> 01:37:25,200
Speaker 1: think that China becomes more or less emboldened, You think

1631
01:37:25,240 --> 01:37:27,519
Speaker 1: that other enemies around the world are more or less

1632
01:37:27,640 --> 01:37:31,320
Speaker 1: likely to move against us in all kinds of ways.

1633
01:37:32,400 --> 01:37:35,640
Speaker 1: So I think that's a very Look, your point is

1634
01:37:35,720 --> 01:37:39,160
Speaker 1: very well taken, and you're not an alarmist, You're correct.

1635
01:37:39,400 --> 01:37:42,920
Speaker 1: I bring it up here on the show but you know,

1636
01:37:43,040 --> 01:37:46,320
Speaker 1: it's tough I discuss issues I compared to other radio

1637
01:37:46,360 --> 01:37:49,120
Speaker 1: shows that I don't listen to often, but I've listened

1638
01:37:49,120 --> 01:37:52,400
Speaker 1: to enough to know I try to cover. I try

1639
01:37:52,439 --> 01:37:55,080
Speaker 1: to cover as much as I can in terms of

1640
01:37:55,160 --> 01:37:58,519
Speaker 1: subject matter. A lot of people just go either all

1641
01:37:58,640 --> 01:38:00,720
Speaker 1: in on how much they love Trump, are all in

1642
01:38:00,840 --> 01:38:03,080
Speaker 1: and how much they hate Trump, and that's a successful

1643
01:38:03,360 --> 01:38:05,439
Speaker 1: and radio it's mostly how much they love Trump, and

1644
01:38:05,560 --> 01:38:08,720
Speaker 1: that's a successful business model for them. And I am

1645
01:38:08,760 --> 01:38:11,840
Speaker 1: a capitalist, so I can appreciate that. But I know

1646
01:38:12,000 --> 01:38:14,080
Speaker 1: that I feel like when I talk about the debt,

1647
01:38:14,160 --> 01:38:17,599
Speaker 1: people just it's not in the zeitgeist right now. It's

1648
01:38:17,960 --> 01:38:21,240
Speaker 1: twenty two trillion dollars. You know, maybe it is worth it.

1649
01:38:21,360 --> 01:38:24,760
Speaker 1: Maybe this is the show. And I have as you know,

1650
01:38:24,880 --> 01:38:28,240
Speaker 1: I've worked with Stansbury, research with Porter Stansbury. He's a

1651
01:38:28,439 --> 01:38:33,280
Speaker 1: brilliant financial mind. His whole team incredibly brilliant guys. They know,

1652
01:38:33,479 --> 01:38:36,080
Speaker 1: I mean, they'll tell you they publish on this that

1653
01:38:36,400 --> 01:38:42,920
Speaker 1: we are heading for an economic and financial calamity, so

1654
01:38:43,840 --> 01:38:46,360
Speaker 1: you know, and so I can leverage their research and

1655
01:38:46,439 --> 01:38:48,680
Speaker 1: their knowledge and I'm just telling you it's coming. But

1656
01:38:49,040 --> 01:38:51,960
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, people there's so much that

1657
01:38:52,080 --> 01:38:54,800
Speaker 1: I want to talk to this audience about. And I

1658
01:38:54,960 --> 01:38:57,960
Speaker 1: don't want to go too deep on a subject or

1659
01:38:58,240 --> 01:39:00,920
Speaker 1: hit a subject too often that people just, you know,

1660
01:39:01,040 --> 01:39:02,800
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, they don't really want to hear about it.

1661
01:39:02,880 --> 01:39:05,840
Speaker 1: But maybe maybe that should change here, maybe we get

1662
01:39:05,880 --> 01:39:08,280
Speaker 1: it going. And I am here in DC, in the swamp.

1663
01:39:08,360 --> 01:39:10,160
Speaker 1: I have a lot of swamp contacts. I have friends

1664
01:39:10,200 --> 01:39:13,200
Speaker 1: in the White House. I mean, you know it. I

1665
01:39:13,240 --> 01:39:15,760
Speaker 1: can get word up the chain. But the politics of

1666
01:39:15,840 --> 01:39:18,720
Speaker 1: this are it is popular to spend money on the

1667
01:39:18,840 --> 01:39:22,600
Speaker 1: stuff that you want to spend money on. You know,

1668
01:39:22,920 --> 01:39:27,120
Speaker 1: That's that's the reality. It is popular to spend money

1669
01:39:27,160 --> 01:39:29,880
Speaker 1: on stuff you and and it's unpopular to say, let's

1670
01:39:30,000 --> 01:39:33,520
Speaker 1: raise the retirement age, let's have means testing for Social Security,

1671
01:39:34,000 --> 01:39:37,240
Speaker 1: Let's you know, change Medicare so there's more cost saving.

1672
01:39:37,360 --> 01:39:40,040
Speaker 1: You know, all this, all this stuff, no one wants

1673
01:39:40,080 --> 01:39:42,880
Speaker 1: to hear that. Nobody wants to hear that, even my own,

1674
01:39:42,920 --> 01:39:45,960
Speaker 1: even my generation, the generation below me, who are the

1675
01:39:46,040 --> 01:39:47,880
Speaker 1: ones that are going to be saddled with those debts? Anyway,

1676
01:39:47,920 --> 01:39:50,080
Speaker 1: as you can tell, I've been brad. You touch the

1677
01:39:50,120 --> 01:39:52,800
Speaker 1: nerve here because I've been rambling on about your question

1678
01:39:52,880 --> 01:39:54,640
Speaker 1: about the debt for some time, but I have not

1679
01:39:54,840 --> 01:39:58,640
Speaker 1: forgotten the Tea Party movement and what it stood for

1680
01:39:59,000 --> 01:40:02,800
Speaker 1: and the truth of the message. And they were right.

1681
01:40:04,000 --> 01:40:06,920
Speaker 1: They were right. They won't necessarily they weren't necessarily right

1682
01:40:07,120 --> 01:40:12,000
Speaker 1: within eight years, but on a longer horizon they are correct.

1683
01:40:12,080 --> 01:40:15,160
Speaker 1: It is a mathematical certainty. And if the US all

1684
01:40:15,200 --> 01:40:17,719
Speaker 1: of a sudden runs into a debt crisis where people

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Speaker 1: no longer believe that we can pay our obligations, we

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01:40:20,560 --> 01:40:23,120
Speaker 1: lose our reserve currency status. We are in a world

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Speaker 1: I've heard. Okay, I must move on. I cannot keep

1688
01:40:25,720 --> 01:40:29,519
Speaker 1: drilling down into this, David writes the Buckman, which is

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01:40:29,560 --> 01:40:33,320
Speaker 1: indeed my legal name, buck the You don't have to

1690
01:40:33,360 --> 01:40:37,719
Speaker 1: do but Buckman shields ye podcast listener, love the show.

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01:40:38,280 --> 01:40:40,120
Speaker 1: I really appreciate your your segment last then, and how

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01:40:40,160 --> 01:40:43,000
Speaker 1: fundamentalist Islam is by far a more immediate threat to

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01:40:43,080 --> 01:40:46,519
Speaker 1: this nation than white nationalists. Are there any civilian accessible

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01:40:46,560 --> 01:40:49,160
Speaker 1: resources for those kind of statistics and numbers anywhere or

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01:40:49,240 --> 01:40:54,080
Speaker 1: that you specifically recommend? Well, Dave, the FBI stats are

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01:40:54,280 --> 01:40:56,479
Speaker 1: a good place to start. I will just tell you,

1697
01:40:56,600 --> 01:40:59,879
Speaker 1: though you have to read into the stats. For example,

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01:41:00,120 --> 01:41:02,360
Speaker 1: you look at hate crimes and you see, and this

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01:41:02,520 --> 01:41:06,360
Speaker 1: isn't about radical Islam or white nationalist terrorism, but you

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01:41:06,439 --> 01:41:08,559
Speaker 1: look at the hate crime statistics and you'll see, wow,

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01:41:08,640 --> 01:41:12,040
Speaker 1: eight thousand hate crimes. That's more than you probably would

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01:41:12,080 --> 01:41:14,000
Speaker 1: have guessed, right there, eight thousand hate crimes the year.

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01:41:14,040 --> 01:41:17,479
Speaker 1: But then when it does the breakdown, something like twenty

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01:41:17,520 --> 01:41:25,360
Speaker 1: to twenty five percent of them are essentially comments, and

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01:41:25,520 --> 01:41:28,080
Speaker 1: then another fifteen or twenty percent I mean, I'm forgetting

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01:41:28,120 --> 01:41:31,880
Speaker 1: the specific numbers, but vandalism, so it's comments, vandalism and

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01:41:31,920 --> 01:41:36,559
Speaker 1: simple assault, and assault does not necessarily include a physical assault, right. Oh,

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01:41:37,640 --> 01:41:40,160
Speaker 1: And that's a huge portion of them, so the number

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01:41:40,560 --> 01:41:43,519
Speaker 1: when you really get down to it, is a lot less.

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01:41:44,479 --> 01:41:46,600
Speaker 1: And then and if you're talking about hate crimes that

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01:41:46,760 --> 01:41:50,360
Speaker 1: end in a murder, now you're fortunately, thankfully for this country.

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01:41:50,400 --> 01:41:53,400
Speaker 1: But then the numbers actually quite small. But when people

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01:41:53,439 --> 01:41:59,400
Speaker 1: think hate crimes, they don't think somebody scrawled a swastika on,

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01:42:00,040 --> 01:42:03,320
Speaker 1: you know, a cemetery in some small town somewhere. That's

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01:42:03,439 --> 01:42:06,000
Speaker 1: usually not what they're thinking, and that is counted as

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01:42:06,000 --> 01:42:09,839
Speaker 1: a hate crime. They're thinking, you know, someone is brutally

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01:42:10,000 --> 01:42:13,840
Speaker 1: attacked because they're gay or somebody is is attacked by

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01:42:14,800 --> 01:42:17,240
Speaker 1: racists who don't like somebody, you know, who are hateful

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01:42:17,240 --> 01:42:19,639
Speaker 1: towards somebody because they're black. I mean, that's what hate

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01:42:19,680 --> 01:42:23,040
Speaker 1: crime makes you think of, right, and those are obviously heinous.

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01:42:24,280 --> 01:42:27,080
Speaker 1: Hate crime is not usually what you think of when

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01:42:27,120 --> 01:42:30,519
Speaker 1: you're talking about somebody who takes a roll of toilet

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01:42:30,560 --> 01:42:33,160
Speaker 1: paper and makes a swastika in a dorm on the floor,

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01:42:33,600 --> 01:42:35,920
Speaker 1: probably late at night to be an idiot. That was

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01:42:35,960 --> 01:42:38,280
Speaker 1: a real thing, by the way, that that was investigated

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01:42:38,280 --> 01:42:39,720
Speaker 1: as a hate I remember there was a hate crime

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01:42:39,760 --> 01:42:42,720
Speaker 1: at Georgetown University many years ago where a guy who

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01:42:42,960 --> 01:42:45,400
Speaker 1: was and I might get some of the details wrong

1729
01:42:45,479 --> 01:42:48,439
Speaker 1: here because this was I don't know, over maybe maybe

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01:42:48,479 --> 01:42:51,839
Speaker 1: almost twenty years ago now, a guy grabbed a manure

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01:42:53,080 --> 01:42:56,519
Speaker 1: and just like ran across campus with a manure in

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01:42:56,600 --> 01:42:59,240
Speaker 1: his hand, and he was really drunk, and they thought

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01:42:59,280 --> 01:43:00,760
Speaker 1: that and I think he'd opt it when they were

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01:43:00,840 --> 01:43:02,680
Speaker 1: chasing him, and so it was a hate crime. I mean,

1735
01:43:03,120 --> 01:43:06,360
Speaker 1: you know, there's a big variation of hate crimes, so

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01:43:06,520 --> 01:43:09,000
Speaker 1: you have to look into the statistics and you'll see

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01:43:09,040 --> 01:43:12,800
Speaker 1: what I mean. Same with terrorism. Terrorism, And this is

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Speaker 1: why I got on this rent terrorism for example, can

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01:43:16,320 --> 01:43:20,640
Speaker 1: cover eco terrorists who let a few ferrets out of

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01:43:20,640 --> 01:43:24,880
Speaker 1: their cages at a testing facility. Well, okay, that's not good.

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01:43:25,120 --> 01:43:28,320
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, obviously you shouldn't. That's property, and

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01:43:28,840 --> 01:43:30,240
Speaker 1: what's going to happen to the wall. I guess the

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01:43:30,240 --> 01:43:32,160
Speaker 1: ferrets are better off not being tested on. But you

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01:43:32,200 --> 01:43:35,439
Speaker 1: get what I'm saying. But when you think of ideological terrorism,

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01:43:35,520 --> 01:43:40,040
Speaker 1: you're thinking of murder, bombing, attempts, you know, assassinations. You're

1746
01:43:40,080 --> 01:43:43,680
Speaker 1: not thinking of lighting an suv on fire somewhere, or

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01:43:44,640 --> 01:43:50,040
Speaker 1: engaging in some form of hateful, you know, hateful conduct.

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01:43:50,320 --> 01:43:52,040
Speaker 1: That's usually what we think of his terrorism. All right,

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01:43:52,080 --> 01:43:55,840
Speaker 1: I'm going to let our wonderful sponsors get a word

1750
01:43:55,880 --> 01:43:57,320
Speaker 1: in here for just a moment, and when we come back,

1751
01:43:57,360 --> 01:43:59,000
Speaker 1: we'll finish up Roll Call and I'll send you off

1752
01:43:59,040 --> 01:44:05,599
Speaker 1: on a fantastic weekend. All right, back with part two,

1753
01:44:06,080 --> 01:44:09,840
Speaker 1: Partdieu of Roll Call. Whatever I think of Partdieu, I

1754
01:44:09,920 --> 01:44:13,360
Speaker 1: think of hot Shots, Part Dieu. Man Charlie Sheen, I

1755
01:44:13,400 --> 01:44:15,920
Speaker 1: remember when Charlie Sheen was really like in his heyday.

1756
01:44:16,520 --> 01:44:18,960
Speaker 1: Wall Street is one of the movies I've seen as

1757
01:44:19,040 --> 01:44:23,519
Speaker 1: many as any other movie in existence. And now Charlie Sheen.

1758
01:44:23,880 --> 01:44:27,400
Speaker 1: What a what a fall from I don't know if

1759
01:44:27,439 --> 01:44:29,600
Speaker 1: it was from Grace, but just what a fall that

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01:44:29,720 --> 01:44:33,960
Speaker 1: guy's had. All Right, Max writes, Hi, Buck, could you

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01:44:34,040 --> 01:44:37,120
Speaker 1: explain to me something I'm confused about with the investigations

1762
01:44:37,160 --> 01:44:40,840
Speaker 1: into Trump? I assume the government can't legally investigate someone

1763
01:44:40,920 --> 01:44:44,320
Speaker 1: for purely political reasons. What is required to open a

1764
01:44:44,439 --> 01:44:48,800
Speaker 1: criminal versus counterintelligence versus congressional investigation? What is needed in

1765
01:44:49,080 --> 01:44:51,640
Speaker 1: these cases to issue a subpoena. Since you've worked in

1766
01:44:51,680 --> 01:44:54,360
Speaker 1: law enforcement, the CIA and as a journalist covering politics,

1767
01:44:54,400 --> 01:44:57,519
Speaker 1: I figured you are unusually qualified to explain this well, Max,

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01:44:57,560 --> 01:44:59,200
Speaker 1: thank you, and I think that is correct. I am

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01:44:59,520 --> 01:45:02,519
Speaker 1: more qualified then certainly about ninety five percent of the

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01:45:02,680 --> 01:45:06,320
Speaker 1: pundits and journals out there on this matter. And what

1771
01:45:06,439 --> 01:45:08,400
Speaker 1: I can tell you is that we are now seeing

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01:45:09,040 --> 01:45:16,320
Speaker 1: that the bar for our counterintelligence investigation is actually very low.

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01:45:17,520 --> 01:45:20,320
Speaker 1: That it's really up to the discretion of the people

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01:45:20,520 --> 01:45:23,960
Speaker 1: in positions of authority at places like the FBI, And

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01:45:24,120 --> 01:45:27,800
Speaker 1: if they want to push for a counterintelligence investigation, they

1776
01:45:28,360 --> 01:45:32,479
Speaker 1: can do it, you know, they can get account There

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01:45:32,560 --> 01:45:36,479
Speaker 1: were reports in ABC News from months ago, and it's

1778
01:45:36,520 --> 01:45:41,200
Speaker 1: resurfaced recently that the FBI opened up a counterintelligence probe

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01:45:41,240 --> 01:45:45,000
Speaker 1: into Jeff Sessions. Now that hasn't been confirmed, but that

1780
01:45:45,160 --> 01:45:49,240
Speaker 1: was the ABC News report Jeff Sessions, folks for being

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01:45:49,280 --> 01:45:53,679
Speaker 1: a Russian, a Russian agent. If you think that Jeff

1782
01:45:53,720 --> 01:45:57,200
Speaker 1: Sessions is a Russian agent, you are not smart. I

1783
01:45:57,280 --> 01:45:59,840
Speaker 1: don't care what title you have, I don't care how

1784
01:46:00,000 --> 01:46:01,799
Speaker 1: many years on the job you have at the FBI.

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01:46:02,280 --> 01:46:04,519
Speaker 1: If you think, and let me also say this, people say, oh, Buck,

1786
01:46:04,560 --> 01:46:07,879
Speaker 1: you haven't seen the evidence. Oh if there was evidence

1787
01:46:08,320 --> 01:46:11,560
Speaker 1: that would make the investigation of Jeff Sessions as a

1788
01:46:11,640 --> 01:46:15,720
Speaker 1: Russian asset not seem crazy, trust me, you would know

1789
01:46:15,800 --> 01:46:19,920
Speaker 1: about it. Trust me, that would have been leaked. So Max,

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01:46:19,960 --> 01:46:23,120
Speaker 1: the answer your question is that there's a whole bunch

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01:46:23,200 --> 01:46:28,080
Speaker 1: of specific standards for a criminal, a criminal versus counterintelligence

1792
01:46:28,240 --> 01:46:32,599
Speaker 1: versus congressional investigation. You get into reasonable suspicion and probable cause,

1793
01:46:32,680 --> 01:46:35,600
Speaker 1: and there are terms of art that apply here. But

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01:46:35,720 --> 01:46:39,400
Speaker 1: for counterintelligence specifically, it's really up to the discretion of

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01:46:39,479 --> 01:46:42,200
Speaker 1: the people at the FBI, at the DOJ. It is

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01:46:42,200 --> 01:46:46,200
Speaker 1: a discretionary issue. And remember, not only is there discretion involved,

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01:46:46,680 --> 01:46:50,640
Speaker 1: they also can hide the information. They can hide the

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01:46:50,720 --> 01:46:55,200
Speaker 1: investigation as classified from the public. So there's almost no

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01:46:55,360 --> 01:46:59,400
Speaker 1: accountability for counterintelligence investigations, almost none, which is why we've

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01:46:59,400 --> 01:47:02,320
Speaker 1: also seen Will bring up, oh the fiz accord, the

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01:47:02,400 --> 01:47:05,799
Speaker 1: fisichord authorize these investigations of Carter Page. That I always

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01:47:05,840 --> 01:47:10,400
Speaker 1: want to say, Okay, so what anybody who thinks that

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01:47:10,479 --> 01:47:14,160
Speaker 1: Carter Page is a Russian asset is also a moron,

1804
01:47:14,800 --> 01:47:19,519
Speaker 1: an absolute moron. And you see them, they go on TV,

1805
01:47:19,640 --> 01:47:24,920
Speaker 1: they think they're so smart. They're not. Alan writes Buck,

1806
01:47:25,000 --> 01:47:28,719
Speaker 1: you were spot on regarding Jesse Smollett. Thank you, Alan,

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01:47:28,760 --> 01:47:30,680
Speaker 1: I'm glad it's nice to get a little credit for it.

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01:47:31,200 --> 01:47:33,720
Speaker 1: I doubt if any of the MSM or celebs who

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01:47:33,760 --> 01:47:37,280
Speaker 1: commented early on will apologize. My big question is where

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01:47:37,439 --> 01:47:39,479
Speaker 1: is Jesse getting the money to pay for all his

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01:47:39,600 --> 01:47:42,560
Speaker 1: lawyers and his crisis management teams. He doesn't have a

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01:47:42,640 --> 01:47:47,200
Speaker 1: lot of personal wealth, any ideas, Alan, I don't know.

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01:47:47,560 --> 01:47:49,600
Speaker 1: I don't know what his personal wealth is. I do

1814
01:47:49,800 --> 01:47:54,839
Speaker 1: know that for some people there's probably just a professional

1815
01:47:54,920 --> 01:47:57,680
Speaker 1: incentive to be a part of the Jusse team in

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01:47:57,800 --> 01:48:02,320
Speaker 1: some way, and he was making from what I saw you,

1817
01:48:02,600 --> 01:48:05,000
Speaker 1: close to a million dollars a year on that show,

1818
01:48:05,120 --> 01:48:06,720
Speaker 1: and I'm sure he does some other things here and there,

1819
01:48:06,800 --> 01:48:09,040
Speaker 1: so I mean he's got some resources. This guy's not poor.

1820
01:48:09,920 --> 01:48:11,439
Speaker 1: It's got a lot more money than I do. So

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01:48:11,800 --> 01:48:14,760
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure he can manage to pay some

1822
01:48:14,880 --> 01:48:19,360
Speaker 1: lawyers for a bit. But we'll see. Brittany writes, can

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01:48:19,439 --> 01:48:25,679
Speaker 1: you recommend some books on American history? Nothing too dry? Please? Well, Brittany,

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01:48:27,160 --> 01:48:30,000
Speaker 1: I would also recommend that you, you know what, I

1825
01:48:30,160 --> 01:48:35,080
Speaker 1: will I will post your I will post your ask

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01:48:35,439 --> 01:48:38,439
Speaker 1: on the Facebook page, and so other people on the

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01:48:38,520 --> 01:48:41,120
Speaker 1: team can weigh in as well, because we have so

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01:48:41,360 --> 01:48:43,160
Speaker 1: many astute I mean, there are a lot of people

1829
01:48:43,160 --> 01:48:45,560
Speaker 1: listen to the show who are deeper on I'm just

1830
01:48:45,600 --> 01:48:47,400
Speaker 1: gonna bit a deeper on American history than I am.

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01:48:47,479 --> 01:48:49,920
Speaker 1: I mean, they really get into it, especially certain periods.

1832
01:48:50,320 --> 01:48:53,519
Speaker 1: Civil War. I like the Revolutionary period a lot. That

1833
01:48:53,600 --> 01:48:55,479
Speaker 1: one I'm pretty good on, but my Civil War knowledge.

1834
01:48:55,760 --> 01:48:57,920
Speaker 1: Everybody thinks our World War two expert, and very few

1835
01:48:57,960 --> 01:48:59,920
Speaker 1: people actually are. But I'm pretty good on World War

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01:49:00,080 --> 01:49:02,880
Speaker 1: two and World War One. If you're looking for a

1837
01:49:02,920 --> 01:49:07,080
Speaker 1: book on American history, here's one. American Caesar by William Manchester.

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01:49:07,880 --> 01:49:12,880
Speaker 1: It's about Douglas MacArthur. It's a phenomenal book. Phenomenal book

1839
01:49:12,920 --> 01:49:14,600
Speaker 1: and really will tell you some naching stuff about the

1840
01:49:14,600 --> 01:49:16,920
Speaker 1: Second World War. So my pick for this week would

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01:49:16,920 --> 01:49:21,240
Speaker 1: be American Caesar by William Manchester, Professor Emeritus at Wesleyan University.

1842
01:49:21,240 --> 01:49:23,960
Speaker 1: I think he died. Also is a great two biography

1843
01:49:24,080 --> 01:49:27,200
Speaker 1: or two volume biography of Churchill that I'd recommend you,

1844
01:49:27,280 --> 01:49:29,800
Speaker 1: but try American Caesar. Let me know what you think.

1845
01:49:30,160 --> 01:49:32,799
Speaker 1: That's it for today's show. Team, have a fantastic weekend.

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Speaker 1: Shield's high