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Speaker 1: and there is exciting news about a Biden nominee. You

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Speaker 1: and I were talking about this behind the scenes, and

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Speaker 1: I want to bring people into this part of the discussion.

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Speaker 1: There was a guy that was nominated for the FAA

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Speaker 1: position to lead it that was just not qualified for

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Speaker 1: the position. You actually liked him as an individual, but

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Speaker 1: it was the wrong person for this job. Now the

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Speaker 1: Biden administrations would draw on him. Talk a little bit

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Speaker 1: about the dynamics here, because to be honest, it's the

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Speaker 1: second time they've had a nominee that's not made it

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Speaker 1: through and without your leadership. I'm going to say this

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Speaker 1: because it was obvious this would not have happened if

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Speaker 1: you weren't in the position that you're in. And Americans

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Speaker 1: should feel safer now because of this. Well, it's a

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Speaker 1: big deal. Big news broke this weekend Saturday night, sort

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Speaker 1: of quietly late at night, trying to avoid the news,

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Speaker 1: the Biden administration announced they were withdrawing Phil Washington, their

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Speaker 1: nominee for fa This is now the second major nominee

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Speaker 1: the White House is withdrawn. Earlier they withdrew gig Soone,

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Speaker 1: who they had nominated the Federal Communications Commission. Both of

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Speaker 1: those nominees go through the Commerce Committee, and I am

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Speaker 1: as of this year, the new ranking member on the

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Speaker 1: Commerce Committee. In other words, I'm the lead Republican on

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Speaker 1: the Senate Commerce Committee. It's the Committee on Commerce, Science,

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Speaker 1: and Transportation. It's got jurisdiction over about half the US economy,

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Speaker 1: including both of these appointees. Both of them. Now we've

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Speaker 1: taken him down, and it was not by accident. Look,

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Speaker 1: it is a good thing. We talked last week on

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Speaker 1: the pod about Phil Washington and why he was not

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Speaker 1: qualified to run the FAA, why this is an incredibly

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Speaker 1: background in aviation or aviation safety. Gig soone we've talked

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Speaker 1: about a lot on the podcast as well. She's a

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Speaker 1: who's described Fox News as a threat to democracy, who

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Speaker 1: has ad vacated using government power to silence voices she

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Speaker 1: doesn't like. She would have been very dangerous as a

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Speaker 1: to be taken in terms of how on the Commerce

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Speaker 1: Committee we were able to take these two nominees down

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Speaker 1: because there were bad nominees, but if you look at

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Speaker 1: most of the bad nominees Biden puts forward, make it through.

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Speaker 1: We did a couple of things different that led to

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Speaker 1: two big victories in a matter of two months. Number

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Speaker 1: one with gigisne, I tried to systematically empower every Republican

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Speaker 1: on her record, providing her information on all of the

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Speaker 1: different things she had said and done that were extreme,

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Speaker 1: and that led to different different members of the committee

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Speaker 1: do you want to take? And so for example, she

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Speaker 1: had sent tweets praising people were calling for abolishing the police,

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Speaker 1: were a whole series of issues, you'll recall. We empowered

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Speaker 1: total of three markups on her. But at the hearing,

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Speaker 1: particular that she kept supporting this left wing group that

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Speaker 1: attacked incumbent Democrat senators and that put up billboards saying

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Speaker 1: up a billboard saying Joe Manchin is corrupt. I asked,

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Speaker 1: So I asked, do you think John Tester's corrupt? She

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Speaker 1: by the way, she'd attacked a bunch of the Republicans too. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: about their billboards, saying Kirsten Cinema's corrupt. Like, oh, you

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Speaker 1: quite brazenly. That had I think a real effect. It

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Speaker 1: had an effect in terms of lots of wobbly votes

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Speaker 1: other Democrats. But we also my team was organizing different

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Speaker 1: us abusing power at the FCC. And what ended up happening.

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Speaker 1: And I will tell you I did a lot of

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Speaker 1: the things she said. By the way, as an aside,

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Speaker 1: at the hearing. I said, look, I actually feel a

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Speaker 1: little bit offended. You've attacked half the senators on this committee,

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Speaker 1: but this group has never attacked me. I mean, what

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Speaker 1: but like, am I'm really feeling like like inadequate. Apparently

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Speaker 1: And it just look it was trolling and having fun.

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Speaker 1: But that's a good day for trolling when you when

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Speaker 1: lot of laughter out of it. But look the organized,

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Speaker 1: I actually like Gis. She's smart, she's a true believer.

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Speaker 1: She is a leftist. She is a hardcore leftist. Look,

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Speaker 1: I'm a hardcore conservative. I respect people who believe something,

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Speaker 1: it is doing the homework. And I'll tell you my team.

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Speaker 1: The top two staffers on the Commerce Committee. I hired

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Speaker 1: I deliberately went out and hired these guys and said, look,

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Speaker 1: In fact, if you remember, John Kennedy had the great

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Speaker 1: But it's the same approach where you do your homework.

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Speaker 1: that is and it's substantive. It's not a personal attack.

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Speaker 1: It's not going. It is going. Your record is not

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Speaker 1: terrible in his background that nobody knows absent, that he

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Speaker 1: would be an easy confirmation. And so I suggested at

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Speaker 1: the hearing, and you saw a lot of heads turn.

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Speaker 1: I actually heard from a former senior official in the

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Speaker 1: Biden White House. He said the White House like their

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Speaker 1: heads jerked when I said, if you nominate this guy,

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Speaker 1: he could get confirmed and confirmed quickly. That was an

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Speaker 1: important part to beating Phil Washington because what had enabled

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Speaker 1: me to do so. This past week I was on

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Speaker 1: the Senate floor. I had an entire pocket full of

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Speaker 1: pocket cards. So my team prepares them. They're a note

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Speaker 1: card that I carried inside pocket, and I had individual

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Speaker 1: senators they were prepared for for each one Democrats that

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Speaker 1: I'd go to and I'd pull a senator aside, say

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Speaker 1: let me talk to you about Phil Washington, particularly people

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Speaker 1: who are not on the committee. So people who were

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Speaker 1: saying pilots people who were more moderate. I said, look,

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Speaker 1: here's his background. He doesn't know this, he doesn't know that.

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Speaker 1: I'd give him the pocket card, and I'd say and

447
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Speaker 1: by the way, the acting administrator Biden put him in place,

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Speaker 1: this is not partisan. This is I'd like to have

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Speaker 1: someone qualified. One of the things my team did also

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Speaker 1: as we worked with stakeholders. So lots of different groups

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Speaker 1: came out against Washington and said he's not qualified. Lots

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Speaker 1: of pilot groups in individual states. So, for example, the

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Speaker 1: Tana Pilots Association said no, said he's manifestly unqualified. Well,

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Speaker 1: John Tester is on the Commerce Committee. John Tester's running

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Speaker 1: for reelection in twenty twenty four. Do you really want

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Speaker 1: to be the Democrat who votes to confirm someone the

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Speaker 1: Montana Pilots Association says is unquestionably unqualified. The Arizona Pilots

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Speaker 1: Association said the same thing. So we worked. I gave

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Speaker 1: a floor speech which actually we paid played in a

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Speaker 1: previous podcast about Phil Washington. Here's a piece I didn't

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Speaker 1: tell you about. So when I'm giving the floor speech,

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Speaker 1: the person presiding, the way it works on the Senate

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Speaker 1: presiding anytime she wishes to the vice president can preside.

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Speaker 1: Generally speaking, the vice president does not preside only on

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Speaker 1: really critical votes where a tie breaking vote is required.

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Speaker 1: So the way it normally works as a senator from

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Speaker 1: the majority party presides, and it's usually the more junior senator,

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Speaker 1: so it's on seniority. The more senior ones are kind

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Speaker 1: of out of that responsibility. So when we had a

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Speaker 1: Republican majority, I liked presiding. You'd preside every week, typically

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Speaker 1: an hour each week, and it was interesting. You'd sit there,

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Speaker 1: you could do some work, you'd listen to speeches. But

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Speaker 1: it's the more junior members of the majority party that

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Speaker 1: are presiding. Well, when I gave my speech on Phil Washington,

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Speaker 1: it happened so happened that Peter Well was presiding. So

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Speaker 1: Peter is one of the newest senators. He's a Democrat

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Speaker 1: from Vermont, was just elected replaced Pat Lahey was in

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Speaker 1: the House for a long time, but is new to

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Speaker 1: the Senate. And I like Peter. I'm just getting to

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Speaker 1: know him. He's on Commerce with me and he's on

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Speaker 1: Judiciary with me, so I'm on two committees with him.

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Speaker 1: But it's interesting Peter's listening to me give the speech

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Speaker 1: and I'm walking through Washington's record, I'm walking through the substance,

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Speaker 1: I'm walking through the corruption case. I'm walking and you

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Speaker 1: can tell he's paying attention to you because there's not

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Speaker 1: a lot of people in the Senate chambers. Virtually nobody.

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Speaker 1: I watched you when we were in DC recently. There's

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Speaker 1: virtually no one in there. There's the pages sitting on

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Speaker 1: the left and the right side on the little steps.

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Speaker 1: There might be another member that walks in getting ready

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Speaker 1: for their next speech, and there's, like you said, it's

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Speaker 1: almost like you have an audience of one in that moment.

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Speaker 1: And I will say, by the way, different presiding officers

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Speaker 1: do it differently, So there are a number of people.

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren when she presides, she won't look at you.

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Speaker 1: She's just reading a paper and just ignores you the

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Speaker 1: whole time, which I never liked. Yeah, when I presided,

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Speaker 1: I tried to look at every senator to listen to

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Speaker 1: their speech, even if there's some left winger and I

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Speaker 1: didn't like what they were saying. I tried to give

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Speaker 1: them the courtesy of the Senate listening to them and

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Speaker 1: hearing them out. Yeah, So Peter number one, he looked

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Speaker 1: at me and was engaging but was interesting. He's nodding

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Speaker 1: quite a bit, and at the end of the speech

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Speaker 1: he literally gives me a thumbs up. Wow, now this

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Speaker 1: is on c Span. Don't you wish we had more

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Speaker 1: of this? By the way in the Senate? I mean,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't it be better for the country if you could

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Speaker 1: have moments? More moments like that? And so I went

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Speaker 1: up up to the dais and I stood there with

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Speaker 1: Peter for like ten minutes, just talking to him and saying, look,

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Speaker 1: these concerns are real. Yeah, and he had not heard

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Speaker 1: a lot of them. He's on the committee, but he

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Speaker 1: wasn't there for all the discussion and so listening to

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Speaker 1: them all together, and I was saying, so here's what

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Speaker 1: I arged several Democrats and I said, look, Peter is

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Speaker 1: a new senator. It's hard for him to come out

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Speaker 1: against a Biden nominee. And I said, I'm not asking

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Speaker 1: you to do that publicly, but what I would say is,

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Speaker 1: if you've got a concern, quietly pick up the phone,

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Speaker 1: call the White House or call Maria Kent Well the chair,

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Speaker 1: and say, look, I've got a concern. If you force

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Speaker 1: a vote, I'll be in now. And I pointed out

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Speaker 1: to him, I said, listen, during the Trump administration, I

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Speaker 1: did this multiple times. Now, I didn't do so publicly. Sure,

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Speaker 1: I didn't throw a fit publicly, but there were several

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Speaker 1: nominees you said this ain't gonna fly with me that

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Speaker 1: I picked up the phone and said, you don't have

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Speaker 1: my vote. This nominee is a problem. And every single

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Speaker 1: time I did it, they pulled the nominee. Now, you

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Speaker 1: don't you don't. You know, you don't piss on them

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Speaker 1: publicly unnecessarily, but there is a responsibility as a senator,

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Speaker 1: even for your own party. And the case I made.

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Speaker 1: Apparently the Biden White House was freaked out because I'm

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Speaker 1: having this conversation with Peter on c SPAN. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it was not hidden because it just happened. The camera was, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you can, you can watch, and so they're all the

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Speaker 1: White House was was nervous as all get out. But

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Speaker 1: I had this conversation with multiple Democrat senators where I said, look,

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Speaker 1: if God forbid, there's another plane crash, and at some

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Speaker 1: point there's going to be a plane crash. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's an inherently dangerous activity. We know, we hope that

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Speaker 1: there's never another plane crash. But we also know with reality,

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Speaker 1: something will go wrong, pilot error, there will be a

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Speaker 1: mechanical breakdown, something will happen, if God forbid, there's another

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Speaker 1: plane crash in the next two years. Do you really

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Speaker 1: want to be the senator who was the deciding vote

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Speaker 1: in confirming the head of the FAA, who's manifestly unqualified

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Speaker 1: and didn't know how to prevent it? Like that? Frankly,

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Speaker 1: And I said this to several Senators. I said, let's

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Speaker 1: be honest, this is the kind of issue senators lose

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Speaker 1: elections on. Yeah, Like, it's not hard. This is an

553
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Speaker 1: easy want to get right, and if you get it wrong,

554
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Speaker 1: it could go really bad. It could You could literally

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Speaker 1: be looking at hundreds of dead bodies, women, children, dead

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Speaker 1: because you put someone in a position they weren't qualified

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Speaker 1: for and they screwed up solely based on politics. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and it was. It was a And I had several

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Speaker 1: Democrats say, why are they nominating this guy? I said, look, Frankly,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. At that point, You're like, I'm not

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Speaker 1: on your team, Like, I have no idea why they

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Speaker 1: would do this. Well, but but what I said, look,

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Speaker 1: I don't know but but I assume it's a political

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Speaker 1: favor either for California Democrats or for Colorado Democrats, because

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Speaker 1: he had worked in both California and Colorado, and I

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Speaker 1: assume he was east tight with the Democrats there. But

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Speaker 1: this was cronyism, and there are jobs in government you

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Speaker 1: can put someone for cronyism that they're just a buddy

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Speaker 1: of yours. And so you get this job. You wanted

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Speaker 1: to make him ambassador to some small country. Knock yourself out. Fine,

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Speaker 1: by me, He'll be fine. I pointed out. Look, he

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Speaker 1: had quite a bit of experience with trains and buses.

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Speaker 1: He was originally considered for the Amtrak Board of Directors.

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Speaker 1: I said, you know what, that would have been a

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Speaker 1: perfectly reasonable position. Number one, you're part of a board.

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Speaker 1: But he has train experience, so that you know, as

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Speaker 1: the old phrase goes, that's good enough for government work.

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Speaker 1: But the FAA is something different. Yeah, So I would say, listen,

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Speaker 1: I'm really proud. I want to commend my team because

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Speaker 1: the guys on my team worked their tails off. But

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Speaker 1: did it right? Did it based on substance? Did it

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Speaker 1: based on real legitimate concerns? And we presented with Phil Washington.

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Speaker 1: We presented an alternative, and I'll draw a distinction. Look

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Speaker 1: the SCC. If I were a left wing Democrat, I'd

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Speaker 1: actually be pissed at the Biden White House because through

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Speaker 1: they're trying to ram Gigi sewn through and this thing's

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Speaker 1: been pending for over a year. They had three markups.

588
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Speaker 1: It was clear she was never going to go anywhere.

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Speaker 1: They kept a vacancy on the FCCCC has two Republicans,

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Speaker 1: two Democrats. They haven't had a Democrat majority on the FCC,

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Speaker 1: and with a Democrat majority they would ram through some

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Speaker 1: terrible policies, but they overreach. They went for someone who

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Speaker 1: was so far left that they couldn't hold their own party.

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Speaker 1: They couldn't hold the Democrats. If I were a partisan Democrat,

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Speaker 1: I'd be irritated at the Biden White House. Why didn't

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Speaker 1: you just find an ordinary left winger and gets have

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Speaker 1: done for two years? And so from my perspective, I

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Speaker 1: actually had mixed sentiments when they withdrew gd soone, I

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Speaker 1: don't know that I would have minded them continue this

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Speaker 1: fight for another year and then fail in a year,

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Speaker 1: because it stops them from a bad three commissioner majority

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Speaker 1: on the FCC doing real harm to jobs in America

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Speaker 1: at a free speech in America, to communication in America,

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Speaker 1: the FA, I feel very different. We haven't had a

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Speaker 1: Senate confirmed administrat at the FA for a year now.

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Speaker 1: That's bad, and I've hold Look, I told Maria Cantwell,

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Speaker 1: get the White House to nominate someone like Billy Nolan,

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Speaker 1: will confirm him quickly, because I want someone in that

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Speaker 1: job tomorrow. Yeah. Like, I don't like the delay there

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Speaker 1: because tomorrow morning, when I go get on an airplane

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Speaker 1: and fly to Washington, I'd really like an FAA administrator

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Speaker 1: know something about not having that plane crash. Yeah. So

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Speaker 1: it does vary job by job, but I do think

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Speaker 1: there is also hopefully it was worthwhile for listeners of

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Speaker 1: the pod to kind of go behind the scenes, no

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Speaker 1: doubt on the mechanics of building support. By the way,

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Speaker 1: I'll say one other thing, which is with the FAA,

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Speaker 1: the Biden Department of Transportation was leaning on everyone. They

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Speaker 1: were leaning on airlines, they were leaning on unions, they

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Speaker 1: were pounding the hell out of them support Phil Washington,

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Speaker 1: and they were exerting political pressure. We mostly kept people

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Speaker 1: on the sidelines. There were a few like Frontier Airlines

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Speaker 1: came out in support of Phil Washington, which frankly pissed

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Speaker 1: me off. And so last week we had a hearing

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Speaker 1: on bad customer service on airlines. Frontier Airlines is routinely

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Speaker 1: ranked very last. So I invited Frontier Airlines to come testify.

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Speaker 1: All right, you're gonna give lousy service and be enlisted

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Speaker 1: to be political henchmen for the Biden White House in

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Speaker 1: confirming a manifestly unqualified FAA administrator. Why don't you come

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Speaker 1: on end? They refused to come. So Frontier was a

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Speaker 1: bad actor in this, although I'm sure the political pressure

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Speaker 1: put on them was a lot. Yeah, But I will

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Speaker 1: say on our end, we did a pretty good job

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Speaker 1: with almost everyone of keeping them on the sidelines. And

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Speaker 1: my team was on the phone to all of them

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Speaker 1: and they're like, these guys are beating the heck out

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Speaker 1: of us. So we said, fine, he's not going to

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Speaker 1: be confirmed. Just we're not saying come out against him.

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Speaker 1: We're asking other people to do that. Sure, but look,

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Speaker 1: There was a shocking moment and it was just like,

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Speaker 1: is this real life? The cast of Ted Lasso. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you've ever seen a show a great show,

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Speaker 1: love it, watch it on airplanes all the time. That

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Speaker 1: the victory dance in the locker room is still awesome,

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Speaker 1: still amazing. They're asked to come to the White House

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Speaker 1: in the exact same day that Vladimir Putin and the

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Speaker 1: which I also think you could read a lot into

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Speaker 1: talking about from an optics standpoint, why the hell would

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Speaker 1: President also mocked a lot of the reporting. I want

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Speaker 1: to play this video, basically saying, you guys have all

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Speaker 1: been saying that they're gonna give weaponry to Russia. It

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Speaker 1: hadn't happened yet, and then he goes, I mean, it

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Speaker 1: may happen. But it was also one of those moments

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Speaker 1: like what are you doing. Take a look, look, look,

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Speaker 1: I don't take China lately, I don't take Russia lately,

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Speaker 1: but I think we vastly exaggerate. I would here I've

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Speaker 1: been hearing now for the past three months, how about

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Speaker 1: China is going to provide significant weapons to Russia, and

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Speaker 1: they're gonna. I've been talking about that. They haven't yet,

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean they won't. But they haven't yet, doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: they won't. They haven't yet. Senator, this is This is

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Speaker 1: embarrassing and the scary price. Our adversaries, Russian, China are

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Speaker 1: watching this. They are and listen. The Biden foreign policy

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Speaker 1: and they've shown weakness and appeasement to our enemies. All

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Speaker 1: of our enemies are stronger than they were two and

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Speaker 1: a half years ago. Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba,

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Speaker 1: all of them. If you're an enemy of America, they

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Speaker 1: By the way, what does Biden do consistently Russia? He

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Speaker 1: So now Maduro is stronger and making more money because

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Speaker 1: he say right there? He's like, oh, they're not so bad.

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Speaker 1: Remember this is the same Joe Biden who a few

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Speaker 1: for China. It's competing with China. This is someone our

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Speaker 1: enemies don't respect. They're not afraid of. Why did Putin

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Speaker 1: But number two because Biden's so weak that they're not

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Speaker 1: concerned about him. Why is Taiwan in existential danger right

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Speaker 1: now from China? Because she doesn't respect Biden. And when

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Speaker 1: he says, look play the beginning of that clip again. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but play just the beginning of the clip where he

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Speaker 1: says they're exaggerated, because I want you to listen to it. Look. Look,

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Speaker 1: I don't take China lately, I don't take Russia lately.

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Speaker 1: But I think we vastly exaggerate. Okay, stop right there.

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Speaker 1: I think we vastly exaggerate. Now, if we had a

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Speaker 1: functioning press corps, there would be follow ups to that.

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Speaker 1: Mister President, you said, quote we vastly exaggerate when it

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Speaker 1: comes to China. You said, quote we vastly exaggerate when

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Speaker 1: it comes to Russia. Mister President, is an exaggeration to

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Speaker 1: say that China maintains concentration camps with over one million

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Speaker 1: weekers in it today, Miss President. Is an exaggeration to

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Speaker 1: say that China uses murder as an official government policy.

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Speaker 1: Mister President, is an exaggeration to say China uses torture

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Speaker 1: as an official government policy. Miss President, is an exaggeration

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Speaker 1: to say China has come in and crushed democracy in

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Speaker 1: Hong Kong. Mister President, is an exaggeration to say that

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Speaker 1: China is responsible for the release of the COVID virus,

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Speaker 1: that the virus may well have been manufactured by Chinese

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Speaker 1: scientist in that government lab to make it more trans

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Speaker 1: admissible and more lethal, And that the Chinese government actively

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Speaker 1: and aggressively covered up the leak of from the lab

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Speaker 1: and allowed COVID to become a national pandemic. Mister President,

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Speaker 1: is an exaggeration to say that the Chinese Communist government

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Speaker 1: engages an espionage, steals our national security secrets, steals our

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Speaker 1: commercial secrets, steals intellectual property, mister President, is an exaggeration

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Speaker 1: to say the Chinese Communist government takes our weaponry, is

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Speaker 1: assembling a military design to defeat us. That's what a

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Speaker 1: functioning press corps would say. Now, I have no idea

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Speaker 1: how Biden answers to that. He just, oh, it's all

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Speaker 1: exaggerated weakness. That kind of weakness means our enemies are

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Speaker 1: laughing at us. But you know what's even worse, not

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Speaker 1: just our enemies, our friends are laughing at us. Here

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Speaker 1: play this next clip. So today I applaud China for

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking. So that's addressing the Canadian Parliament. Yeah, and listen. Fine,

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Speaker 1: So he had a slip of the tongue. Everyone does that.

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Speaker 1: the President of the United States. Now, Canadians are many things,

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Speaker 1: but fundamentally they're polite. They are very polite. Just how

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Speaker 1: you can tell when I'm thinking, which is what they're laughing.

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Speaker 1: But he had a reporter that I actually wanted to

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Speaker 1: I At one point, John Kerry has defended his own

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Speaker 1: airliner ever, because of the stature that I've gotten doing

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Speaker 1: in this world. And I was on a I think

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Speaker 1: on Fox News doing an interview and I compared him

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Speaker 1: to Thirsted Howel, and I went back to my Senate

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Speaker 1: office and someone in my office us put it out

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Speaker 1: that he didn't know who Thurston Howell was, and I asked, now,

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Speaker 1: let's look, you know, Capitol Hill. Capitol Hill is a

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Speaker 1: young person's game, and most of the people there are

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Speaker 1: grabbed about twenty of my staffers and I said, all right,

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Speaker 1: do any of y'all know who Thurston Howell is? No one,

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Speaker 1: not a single person knew. By the way, since many

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Speaker 1: of our podcast listeners are are young, Thurston Howell was

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Speaker 1: the millionaire on Gilligan's Island. He was the rich, out

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Speaker 1: of touch millionaire. For the record, I didn't know who

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Speaker 1: that was either, So that means yeah, I just wanted

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Speaker 1: to feel young today. Thank you, Thank you for giving

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Speaker 1: me that gift. All right, I twenty somethings in thirty somethings,

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Speaker 1: but Skippy, you didn't. You didn't know ninety nine luff balloons,

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Speaker 1: and you don't know Gilligan's Island. I know Gilligan's Island,

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Speaker 1: apparently not, but I don't know the old persons. Okay,

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Speaker 1: it was Thurston Howell, the third. So here's an amazing story.

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Speaker 1: Though this happens in my my with my staff, I

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Speaker 1: go to the Senate Republican lunch. Now, we have lunch

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Speaker 1: together every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and for some reason

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about it. I decided to tell my

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Speaker 1: colleagues that story, which which got a good laugh because

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Speaker 1: my colleagues the median age is one hundred and forty two,

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Speaker 1: so they all know who Thurston Howell is. And then

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Speaker 1: Mitt Romney says, you know, I actually discovered the same

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Speaker 1: thing when I was running for president, and I found

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Speaker 1: if you want to use an analogy, a much better

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Speaker 1: one to use is mister Burns. That that that young

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Speaker 1: people get, mister Burns, And I'm like, oh, dear God,

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Speaker 1: I'm being I'm getting advice on how to be like

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Speaker 1: in touch and a man of the people from MIT.

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Speaker 1: But it's actually it's actually good advice, mister Burns. You know,

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Speaker 1: Miss burnsess so excellent. Yes, so, but let me tell

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Speaker 1: you something amazing about John So since he began serving

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Speaker 1: in the Biden administration, let me tell you something about

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Speaker 1: his personal emissions, and I mean his plane. In twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one, he took forty eight trips, lasting more than

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Speaker 1: sixty hours in total. It's a lot of time in

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Speaker 1: private planes. He has a big private plane. His plane

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Speaker 1: emitted an estimated seven hundred and fifteen thousand, eight hundred

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Speaker 1: and eighty six pounds of carbon or three hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty five metric tons. This is John Kerry single handedly

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Speaker 1: I was trying to think of, how do you characterize

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Speaker 1: it in kind of relative comparison, And so I did

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Speaker 1: a little bit of searching online. Actually, right before we

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Speaker 1: did the podcast, I wouldn't let you start because I

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Speaker 1: was on my phone googling. Here's what I found. The

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Speaker 1: country of Greenland emits in a given year one thousand,

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Speaker 1: five hundred and thirty tons of carbon. In other words,

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Speaker 1: John Carry, individually, one person emits roughly a fifth twenty

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Speaker 1: percent of what the entire nation of Greenland emits. In Greenland,

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Speaker 1: by the way, is a little over eight hundred and

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Speaker 1: thirty six thousand square miles. Greenland has over fifty six

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Speaker 1: thousand people who live in Greenland. So one guy, John

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Speaker 1: Carry and is entourage that care for his gray poopon

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Speaker 1: and that polished the tassels on his loafers. He emits

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Speaker 1: one fifth of what fifty six thousand people in the

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Speaker 1: entire nation of Greenland emits. And he has kind of

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Speaker 1: a big deal center. You should know that he's kind

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Speaker 1: of a big deal. He deserves that private jet. And

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Speaker 1: you know what he's willing to tell you. You need

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Speaker 1: to give up your automobile. Yeah, you need to give

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Speaker 1: up your gas stove. You need to give up your lawnmower,

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Speaker 1: you need to give up your washing machine, you need

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Speaker 1: to give up your dishwasher, because after that's his offset.

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Speaker 1: I guess right, that's exactly right. If he gets if

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Speaker 1: he takes away your cars and the cars of the

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Speaker 1: other fifty six thousand people in Greenland, it will make

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Speaker 1: up for his private jet, and he's saving the world.

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Speaker 1: The absolute hypocrisy the left, it is difficult to find

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Speaker 1: it better personified than his comment. The gazillionaires and Davos

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Speaker 1: do more, much more than you little people. Great googling,

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Speaker 1: by the way, right before the show, that was worth it.

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