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Speaker 1: we have survived another week, and I'm joined today by

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Speaker 1: I'm sure some of you have been following the news

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Speaker 1: and there is some wacky picks in there. There keeps

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Speaker 1: being even more wacky ones like RFK, which I didn't

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Speaker 1: safe to assume that RFK in control of Health and

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Speaker 1: Human Services is pretty bad.

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Speaker 2: You don't say you don't say yeah.

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Speaker 1: People are saying it not great to have the world's

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Speaker 1: weirdest conspiracy theorist of the Kennedy family in charge of

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Speaker 1: be bad enough that it's its own episode for the

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Speaker 1: rest of the nominations. Mostly like last week, right, this

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Speaker 1: going to kind of go through nomination by nomination and

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Speaker 1: just kind of point to like more general like neocon

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Speaker 1: especially during Trump's first term. The leaked five hundred and

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Speaker 1: continuous through line throughout all these nominations. I guess, James,

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Speaker 1: do you have any thoughts on Mark Rubio for Secretary

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Marca Ribio, I don't have a lot's thoughts to

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Speaker 3: I will say, like, I'd probably disagree with him on

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Speaker 3: a good thing. I guess, Like I think as Secretary

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Speaker 1: At this rate.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and uh, it's well, he spends all his time

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Speaker 3: I guess Rubio and even amongst these picks, he's probably

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Speaker 2: So is the review and Mark Rubio could be worse.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I guess so.

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Speaker 3: I mean that's the review of Mark Rubio's life, isn't

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Speaker 2: Wild pick, wild pick.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, what who does an a cog tattooed on

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Speaker 3: Yeah, never send us any cabinet member shirtless. I don't

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Speaker 2: I thought I didn't like it. I don't need to

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Speaker 1: Yank you so much. I feel like everyone's pretty well

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Speaker 1: aware now that he has some very questionable Christian nationalist tattoos, honey,

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Speaker 3: Got the more wasted we was out. He got them

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Speaker 1: That also makes sense. That feels like a very midlife crisis.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm a Fox and Friends weekend host now

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Speaker 1: There's a lot to be said about Pete heik Seth.

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Speaker 1: He's a Princeton and Harvard graduate who is also claimed

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Speaker 1: God. He's advocated against divorce for families with kids until

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Speaker 1: he was caught cheating on his second wife with his producer,

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Speaker 1: In general, he's just very chud codd right. He has

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Speaker 5: I'm straight up just saying we should not have women

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Speaker 3: Yes, and wild take, so much should be happening in

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Speaker 3: It was incredible. It was indirect fire. He arcd it

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Speaker 4: I just feel like, if he's gonna like somebody tell

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Speaker 4: I mean, like, if you're going to be Secretary of Defense,

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Speaker 1: Arguably, the most worrying part about Pete as Secretary of

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Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Ugh, this is another odd pick.

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Speaker 1: Christy Nome, the non border state governor of South Dakota,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, incriminating herself another cop.

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Speaker 1: These aren't like people who like work their way up

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Speaker 1: According to Politico, Christinom was recommended by twenty sixteen campaign

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Speaker 1: Her appointment is evidence of Trump's centralizing power and departmental

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Speaker 1: It makes so much sense though. Look at all of

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Speaker 7: People have asked me all day long, President Trump is

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Speaker 1: Like the Alien Enemies Act of seventeen ninetything.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean he did that with Title forty two,

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Speaker 3: which is a law that's designed to stop people with

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Speaker 3: tuberculosis just walking across the border. Right, And he's successfully

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Speaker 3: and he planned this before the pandemic. He successfully used

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Speaker 3: that to effectively allow border patrol to immediately deport people

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Speaker 3: without giving them their right to claim asylum. That was

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Speaker 3: a policy that Trump did and that Biden continued till

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty three. Right, Like Miller, is good if we

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Speaker 3: look at the last term at finding ways to he's Yeah,

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Speaker 3: he's effective. He's scarily effective.

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Speaker 1: To me. He's always been the scariest guy in Trump's orbit.

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Speaker 3: Yes, but yeah, because he's competent and like by far,

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Speaker 3: and he stays out of the limelight for the large

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Speaker 3: part and that allows him to not have to defend

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Speaker 3: his evil shit and just get on with doing it.

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Speaker 3: When I watched that six part documentary but the behind

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Speaker 3: the scenes of Trump's campaign, Cela Miller was in almost

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Speaker 3: every scene.

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Speaker 1: Yes, he was always like in the background, always in

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Speaker 1: the background, just just saying things to Trump, like he

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Speaker 1: is a constant presence there. Yeah, it's quite frightening. Now

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Speaker 1: moving on, the guy nominated for National Security Advisor is

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Speaker 1: named Mike Walls. He's a neo Khon. He's an anti assadist,

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Speaker 1: pro Ukraine. He's advocated to take the cuffs off Ukraine

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Speaker 1: to allow them to make strikes further into Russia. He

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Speaker 1: was also the former counter terrorism advisor to Dick Cheney

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Speaker 1: when when he was VP.

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Speaker 2: Heah's super pro Israel too.

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Speaker 1: Oh, everyone I list here is pro Israel.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's pretty much.

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Speaker 1: This is one of the most like openly pro war guys,

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Speaker 1: right right, someone like this guy who's historically kind of

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Speaker 1: like the anti Tulsi Gabbard. Yeah, yeah, takes the opposite

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Speaker 1: stance on almost every single issue. He's he he's a Neocon,

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Speaker 1: he's anti Assad, he's anti Putin.

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Speaker 3: He's a member of the Kurdish Caucus in Congress. Actually interesting, interesting, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean yeah, I hope he bounces out some of

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Speaker 3: some of those crazy more like a saddest sort of

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Speaker 3: or just Trump's natural tendency to see a strong man

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Speaker 3: in one and be like, yeah, you go for it, buddy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. He was the first Green Beret to serve in

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Speaker 1: Congress and has advocated the use of military intel to

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Speaker 1: combat drug cartels and co sponsor legislation to authorize the

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Speaker 1: use of military force against cartels in Mexico.

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Speaker 3: Great guy.

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Speaker 1: Another kind of more standard establishment pick, still not good,

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Speaker 1: but a little bit more standard is CIA director John Ratcliffe.

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Speaker 1: Briefly served as Director of Natural Intelligence near the end

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Speaker 1: of Trump's first term and helped to defend Trump during

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Speaker 1: impeachment hearings. He is more of like a standard pick,

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Speaker 1: but like everyone else on this list, he has demonstrated

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Speaker 1: fierce loyalty to Trump. EPA advisor Lee Zelden, a former

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Speaker 1: New York congressman, no environmental or conservation experience, just an

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Speaker 1: ordinary anti regulation conservative. After his announcement, Zelman wrote, quote,

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Speaker 1: we will restore US energy dominance, revitalize our auto industry

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Speaker 1: to bring back American jobs, and make the US the

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Speaker 1: global leader of AI. Unquote, which does not appoint to

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Speaker 1: much environmental protection. I'm going to quote from the New Republic.

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Speaker 1: Zelden voted to cut EPA funding, scrap its chemical risk

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Speaker 1: assessment program, and block the agency from taking action to

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Speaker 1: restrict carbon pollution. He missed the twenty seventeen vote on

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Speaker 1: whether to defund the EPA's criminal law enforcement program, but

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Speaker 1: voted to prohibit funds from being used for this purpose

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Speaker 1: the prior year.

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Speaker 4: Quote after gording to the R and C, his emails

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Speaker 4: were the worst email thread that I got added to.

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Speaker 4: His emails are so unhinged, truly the worst thing he's

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Speaker 4: ever done. Yeah, Zelden worst emails, So which actually makes

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Speaker 4: sense that he wants to be a global leader of AI. Yes,

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Speaker 4: that's probably what all his emails were.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's pretty safe to assume that basically any

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Speaker 1: progress that we have made on climate very minuscule, will

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Speaker 1: be immediately undone, and we will just make a negative

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Speaker 1: progress in the next four years with someone like Lee

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Speaker 1: Zelden in charge of the EBA, which already has very

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Speaker 1: little regulatory power, but it's about to have a lot less.

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Speaker 1: Let's discuss borders are Tom Homan, former ICE director. He

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Speaker 1: oversaw the family separation policy in twenty seventeen and has

518
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Speaker 1: since said that American born citizens should be deported with

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Speaker 1: their family to avoid separating families. He's advocated treating cartels

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Speaker 1: like foreign terrorist organizations that Trump will use the full

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Speaker 1: mighte of the US Special operations to take out. He

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Speaker 1: also wrote the border section of Project twenty twenty five, James,

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Speaker 1: do you have anything to say on our new borders?

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Speaker 7: Are?

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Speaker 3: It's kind of troubling because again, you've got someone here

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Speaker 3: who is competent, right, who has worked at a high

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Speaker 3: levels in government. He was an Obama appointee, right.

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Speaker 1: He's worked at ICE like forever.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, Like when Obama was selling records

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Speaker 3: for deportations, Homan was doing it, which I think tells

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Speaker 3: you everything about you know, the shit that we forget

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Speaker 3: about Obama. But yeah, like again troubling because Homan is

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Speaker 3: a real hawk on this stuff and has previously been Like,

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Speaker 3: he was effective at doing family separation right, and it

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Speaker 3: wasn't particularly organized. As we've seen, it's difficult for people

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Speaker 3: to find and reunite the families. They've been doing it

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Speaker 3: ever since Trump left office. But he was effective at

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Speaker 3: getting that shit done. And that worries me in terms

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Speaker 3: of deportations, because ICE will need to scale up massively,

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Speaker 3: as we spoke about, and like that will require someone

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Speaker 3: with leadership experience, and he has that. Like then that

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Speaker 3: is concerning.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about some more diplomatic roles for ambassador to

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Speaker 1: the UN. Trump has named Elise Stephanic, who has no

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Speaker 1: diplomatic experience but has been extremely vocally pro Israel. She

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Speaker 1: harshly interrogated university presidents amid campus protests against the genocide

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Speaker 1: in Gaza, and is consistently advocated against US participation in

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Speaker 1: the UN and now is going to be the UN

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Speaker 1: ambassador to quote from the New Republic quote. In a

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Speaker 1: statement last week, Stephanic heralded Israel's decision to ban the

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Speaker 1: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in

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Speaker 1: the Near East or UNRA from operating in Israel, the

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Speaker 1: West Bank, and Gaza, claiming that the seventy four year

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Speaker 1: old aid program quote instills anti Semitic hate in Palestinians

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Speaker 1: and houses weapons for terrorists unquote. She's also called on

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Speaker 1: the United States to defund the refugee program, criticizing the

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Speaker 1: Biden administration for issuing one billion dollars to UNRA since

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. Unquote.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is like a typical talking point of like

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Speaker 3: right zionists, right that the United Nations is somehow an

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Speaker 3: arm of Hamas and the UN the United Nations Directed

562
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Speaker 3: Welfare Agency is actively funneling weapons to Hamas, and like

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Speaker 3: it's just not true. It's an excuse for targeting aid

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Speaker 3: workers in Gaza.

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Speaker 1: The UN already has such little control over any degree

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Speaker 1: of like enforcement for like humanitarian aid, and having this

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Speaker 1: person be the US ambassador to UN will make what

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Speaker 1: little power they have even like diminished. Yes, just last October,

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Speaker 1: she called for a quote a complete reassessment of US

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Speaker 1: funding of the United Nations unquote, after calls from the

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Speaker 1: Palestinian authority to expel Israel from the UN for war

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Speaker 1: crimes and human rights abuses. Now the ambassador to Israel

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Speaker 1: is set to be Mike Huckabee, the former governor of

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Speaker 1: Arkansas and evangelical Christian Zionist. Similarly, he has no diplomatic experience,

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Speaker 1: im going to quote from the Atlantic quote. He has

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Speaker 1: led religious pilgrimages to Israel and visited the country dozens

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Speaker 1: of times over the course of several decades. He also

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Speaker 1: opposes a two state solution to the Israel Palestine conflict

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Speaker 1: and says that quote, there's really no such thing as

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Speaker 1: a Palestinian unquote. He is really bad. Yes, Mike Huckabee

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Speaker 1: is really bad.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's pretty bad.

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Speaker 1: He has also advocated for Israel to permanently annex and

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Speaker 1: take control of the West Bank, and he like legitimately

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Speaker 1: believes in a religious political ideology to return all Jewish

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Speaker 1: people to the Holy Land of Israel to trigger the

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Speaker 1: Biblical apocalypse resulting in the death of all Jews.

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Speaker 8: Well, my feelings personally, and I'm speaking only as a person,

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Speaker 8: I think Israel would only be acting on the property

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Speaker 8: it already owns. I think Israel has titled the Judea

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Speaker 8: and Samaria. There are certain words I refuse to use.

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Speaker 8: There is no such thing as a West Bank. It's

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Speaker 8: Judy and Samaria. There's no such thing as a settlement,

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Speaker 8: their communities, neighborhoods, their cities. There's no such thing as

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Speaker 8: an occupation.

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Speaker 1: This is why he believes this. This isn't like out

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Speaker 1: of care in his heart for Jewish people. It's that

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Speaker 1: he wants to trigger the apocalypse. And to do this

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Speaker 1: he needs to both like, eliminate all Palestinians, give total

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Speaker 1: control of the land to Israel, make all Jewish people

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Speaker 1: live there so that Jesus can come again and do

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Speaker 1: the wars and blah blah blah blah blah, all that

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Speaker 1: kind of stuff. It's nasty. The last diplomatic pick here

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Speaker 1: is Middle East Envoy Steve Whitcoff, who's a Trump campaign

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Speaker 1: fundraiser and a real estate developer. He has no diplomatic

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Speaker 1: or foreign policy experience pro Israel. He'll basically just be

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Speaker 1: assisting and all of the bad things that everyone else

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Speaker 1: I have already named is going to be doing.

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Speaker 2: Wait, sorry, my brain just broke.

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Speaker 4: So the Middle East Envoy is just like a real

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Speaker 4: estate investor guy. Yep, yep, that seems I mean, I

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Speaker 4: mean yeah, is it much better than Jared is going

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Speaker 4: to do peace in the Middle.

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Speaker 2: East like last time.

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Speaker 1: Yes, you can look at this similarly to like Jared

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Speaker 1: Kushner's proposals to like develop what once was Gaza and

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Speaker 1: just like viewing wars in the Middle East as a

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Speaker 1: real estate development opportunity. You can see a guy like

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Speaker 1: this kind of in line with that side of like

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Speaker 1: the Trump campaign.

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Speaker 4: Jared's got to handle it, and we're gonna handle these

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Speaker 4: ad breaks.

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Speaker 1: All right, we are back. It's time to discuss the

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Speaker 1: elephant in the room.

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Speaker 3: Genuinely brought that out in my mind.

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Speaker 2: Are we doing?

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Speaker 1: We are going full DOGE? So I am. I'm just

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Speaker 1: gonna read part of the statement from Donald Trump announcing

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Speaker 1: this new government agency DOGE. More on that later quote.

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Speaker 1: I am pleased to announce that the Great Elon Musk,

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Speaker 1: working into conjunction with American patriot Kraamaswami, will lead the

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Speaker 1: Department of Government Efficiency DOGE. Together these two wonderful Americans

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Speaker 1: will pave the way for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy,

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Speaker 1: slash excess regulation, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies.

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Speaker 1: It will become potentially the Manhattan Project of our time.

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Speaker 1: Republican politicians have dreamed about the objectives of DOGE for

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Speaker 1: a long time. To drive this kind of drastic change,

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Speaker 1: the Department of Government Efficiency will provide advice and guidance

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Speaker 1: from outside of government, and will partner with the White

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Speaker 1: House and Office of Management and Budget to drive large

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Speaker 1: scale structural reform and create an entrepreneurial approach to government

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Speaker 1: never seen before. Their work will conclude no later than

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Speaker 1: July fourth, twenty twenty six. A smaller government with more

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Speaker 1: efficiency and less bureaucracy will be the perfect gift to

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Speaker 1: America on the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the

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Speaker 1: Declaration of independ unquote.

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Speaker 3: Jesus christ Man.

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Speaker 1: So this is this is the new quote unquote government agency,

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Speaker 1: which is not real. Right, this is not a real

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Speaker 1: government agency. Trump just can't create one out of thin air.

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Speaker 1: And in this statement it does clarify that they will

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Speaker 1: be providing advice and guidance from outside of government.

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Speaker 3: That's pretty funny. This is a children's table, like they

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Speaker 3: have the plastic cutler reads it's.

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Speaker 1: The children's table. Yes, he's He's sending musk and the

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Speaker 1: vec off to the side to have their little fun.

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Speaker 1: They'll make like a blog post that talks about who

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Speaker 1: to cut, you know what programs to cut. VEC specifically

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Speaker 1: talked about like ending healthcare for veterans, which I'm sure

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Speaker 1: will go over very well, and they'll submit that to

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Speaker 1: Trump and then the people in charge of the Office

662
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Speaker 1: of Management and Budget will probably just throw it in

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Speaker 1: the trash. But we will see. I mean, I don't

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Speaker 1: want to understate Musk's general influence in like Trump's operations,

665
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Speaker 1: because Musk right now does have a great deal of influence.

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Speaker 1: I think this doge thing isn't something to be too

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00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: worried about. Though. Now, as a as a fun side

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Speaker 1: note to kind of demonstrate the nonsensical nature of this,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about something that Vivek has proposed.

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Speaker 1: He has said that a way to cut down a

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Speaker 1: government bureaucracy would be to make a list of all

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Speaker 1: of the non elected government employees and fire the ones

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Speaker 1: that have a Social Security number that starts or ends

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Speaker 1: with an odd number. This way, you can automatically cut

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Speaker 1: seventy five percent of the workforce without having to worry

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00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:31,880
Speaker 1: about racial, gender, or political discrimination. The Vech says, quote,

677
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 1: not a thing will have changed for the ordinary American unquote.

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Speaker 3: I think that's going to work that way.

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Speaker 1: This is proposing cutting like two million people. Talking to

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Speaker 1: front of the pod Lex Friedman, he framed this as

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Speaker 1: a thought experiment, not necessarily a policy proposal, and said

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00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:51,680
Speaker 1: that a more complicated form of this idea could select

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00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 1: to save people with quote the greatest commitment and knowledge

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00:35:55,960 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 1: of the constitution unquote. This is goofy, Like this is fake,

685
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:03,800
Speaker 1: Like this isn't this isn't real. He's not going to

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00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,440
Speaker 1: cut seventy five percent of the workforce. You should be

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00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 1: more concerned about Schedule F, a policy that Trump will

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00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 1: reinstate that gives him power to remove government employees at will,

689
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 1: to select for people that align with him more ideologically. Like,

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00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:17,239
Speaker 1: that's the real thing to be concerned about in terms

691
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 1: of like government staffing. I'm not much concerned about Vivek here, though.

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Speaker 1: The Washington Post did report that some Trump advisors have

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Speaker 1: asked Congress for thirty five to fifty million dollars to

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Speaker 1: fund the DOGE Commission. The alternative is to raise money

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00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 1: from the private sector, which seems more likely. It's also

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00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: just very funny to have like an efficiency department ran

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00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,840
Speaker 1: by two people, especially if you're going to ask to

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Speaker 1: spend fifty to fifty million dollars because yeah, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: the best way to improve government efficiency is to give

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Speaker 1: two billionaires fifty million dollars.

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Speaker 3: It's to have two people running running an apartment. That's great,

702
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:53,839
Speaker 3: Like that's what we need. Too many.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's also like a fake department that'll just produce

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Speaker 1: like a write up that talks about cutting social Security.

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Speaker 3: Right, one will throw it in the bin.

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Speaker 1: That's all it's gonna be. Musk has also gone to

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Speaker 1: Twitter to try to get people to send in job

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Speaker 1: applications to work for free, to like sort to sort

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Speaker 1: through these like these people that should be cut from

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Speaker 1: federal government. He just wants people to do work for free.

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Speaker 1: So now you have people setting in job applications to Twitter.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure that'll end great for those people. Part of

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00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: this just feels kind of like a scheme to like

714
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: coerce Trump into allowing the formation of a fake government

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Speaker 1: agency to pump the value of doge coin. Like, yes,

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Speaker 1: dogecoin did like boost some value after this announcement, and

717
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:36,760
Speaker 1: like this is very suspicious and like should be maybe

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Speaker 1: illegal because this could just be like a cryptocurrency scheme,

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Speaker 1: which is very very likely now despite the kind of

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Speaker 1: goofy nature of Doge, and like the idea that this

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Speaker 1: is basically just Musk of Abeck sitting at the kids

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Speaker 1: table to keep them happy while the adults take care

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Speaker 1: of real business. I don't want to rush over the

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Speaker 1: influence that Musk currently has on the Trump admin. Basically

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Speaker 1: since election night, Musk has essentially been living with Trump

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Speaker 1: at to mar A Lagos, just.

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Speaker 3: Like the first buddy.

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Speaker 1: Yes he is. He started to call himself first buddy,

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00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:08,919
Speaker 1: which makes me deeply uncomfortable.

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Speaker 3: The richest man ones yeah, first friend, with benefits absolutely pathetic.

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Speaker 1: Musk is reported to be giving input on staffing decisions

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Speaker 1: and joining phone calls with foreign leaders under play a

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Speaker 1: clip from scene on here.

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Speaker 6: Multiple sources tell me tonight that Musk has been seen

735
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Speaker 6: at mar A Lago nearly every single day since Donald

736
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Speaker 6: Trump won, dining with him on the patio at times.

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Speaker 6: Today they were seen on the golf course together. Musk

738
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Speaker 6: has been in the room when world leaders have called Trump,

739
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 6: and tonight we've learned he's also weighing in on staffing decisions,

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Speaker 6: making clear his preference for certain roles, even publicly Tonight,

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Speaker 6: Elon Musk is backing Florida Senator Rick Scott as the

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Speaker 6: next leader of the Republican Conference to replace Mitch McConnell.

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Speaker 6: While Musk himself is still not expected to take any

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Speaker 6: kind of formal position inside Trump's administration given how complicated

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00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 6: it would be with his companies, what's becoming clearer to

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Speaker 6: Night is that he doesn't really need to, With one

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Speaker 6: source telling me Elon Musk is having just as much

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Speaker 6: influence from the outside.

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Speaker 1: NBC's reported that a source close to the transition team

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Speaker 1: has told them that Musk is quote behaving as if

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Speaker 1: he is co president and making sure that everyone knows it.

752
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: And he's sure taking lots of credit for the president's victory,

753
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 1: breaking about America pack and X to anyone who will listen.

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Speaker 1: He's trying to make President Trump feel indebted to him,

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Speaker 1: and the President is indebted to no one unquote, which

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Speaker 1: is a very very fun statement from a Trump guy.

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00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 3: It's also not true. Doesn't Trump ohloads of people money?

758
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Speaker 3: Like empirically we know this.

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00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:44,400
Speaker 1: Yes, and currently through lawsuits, Trump does out people a

760
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Speaker 1: lot of money. But yeah, not that that will matter

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Speaker 1: at all anymore. In a meeting with House Republicans. Last Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: Trump reportedly joked, quote, Elon won't go home. I can't

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Speaker 1: get rid of him, at least until I don't like him, unquote,

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Speaker 1: which kind of underscores the running bet pool that we

765
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Speaker 1: have here at Colzone Media on when the Trump Musk

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00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 1: falling out will happen, and we will we will keep

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Speaker 1: up on this story very closely, because I really can't

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Speaker 1: imagine that that Musk will stay here for too long.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he'll stay in some proximity, especially with all

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Speaker 1: like the government contracts that SpaceX has, but Trump being

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Speaker 1: like this close to Musk surely will result in some

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Speaker 1: kind of fallout. And maybe maybe that's opium. Maybe maybe

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Speaker 1: that's me just fully hot up on hopium. But I

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Speaker 1: really see able ASM working to our advantage here with

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Speaker 1: Trump eventually just getting sick of this guy. And I

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Speaker 1: think part of what Elon's doing here as well, and

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Speaker 1: other people have possilated this, including Robert is like Elon

778
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 1: can't run for president legally, right and out again, laws

779
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:46,760
Speaker 1: might just completely go out the window here. But because

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Speaker 1: Elon's on, a natural born citizen like Elon can't run

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Speaker 1: for president, and Elon does want power. So basically, Elon's

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Speaker 1: trying to become as close as he can do President

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Speaker 1: Trump to be like like this, source said co president, right,

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Speaker 1: that's kind of his end goal heres. He wants to

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Speaker 1: be the president and he can't, so this is as

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Speaker 1: close as he can get. That is most of the

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Speaker 1: main picks so far. Lastly, all mentioned like three people

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Speaker 1: who worked on the Trump campaign who will now be

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Speaker 1: serving as advisors, including danz Cavino, James Blair, and Taylor Buttowitch.

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Speaker 1: All these guys appeared pretty frequently in the behind the

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Speaker 1: scenes documentary about Trump's twenty twenty four campaign, and all

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00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,280
Speaker 1: three of these guys primarily focused on like weaponizing anti

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Speaker 1: immigrant claims to get Trump elected. That was kind of

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Speaker 1: their main focus, especially James Blair. But lastly, lastly, I

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Speaker 1: do have one more person to mention, the co chair

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Speaker 1: of Trump's transition team, the former CEO of WWE McMahon.

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Speaker 1: She is working as the co chair for the transition team.

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Speaker 1: She is the wife of A Vince McMahon. Now. She

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Speaker 1: also served in Trump's first term as head of the

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Speaker 1: Small Business Administration from twenty seventeen to twenty nineteen. Two

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Speaker 1: failed Senate runs in Connecticut. Now, besides co leading the

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Speaker 1: President's transition team, McMahon's also their front runner to lead

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Speaker 1: the Department of Commerce. Now, to kind of tie this

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Speaker 1: back to Matt Gates, she along with her husband, are

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Speaker 1: also currently being sued for sex trafficking underage boys in

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Speaker 1: the WWE. The suit alleges that WWE leadership knowingly allowed

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Speaker 1: an announcer named mel Phillips to groom and molest the

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Speaker 1: five plaintiffs who were hired as ring boys from the

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Speaker 1: ages of twelve to thirteen. Ring boys basically like people

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Speaker 1: who like help out on the side for you know,

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Speaker 1: I see, they're kind of like performative roles. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: that's pretty fucked up. And the fact that this whole

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Speaker 1: qunon movement has now resulted in two people being charged

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Speaker 1: for sex trafficking or at least investigative for sex trafficking.

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Speaker 1: Being this close to the Trump orbit, I'm sure, I'm

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00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:52,920
Speaker 1: sure we can just trust the plan and things and

817
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:55,879
Speaker 1: things will all things will all turn out fine. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a little it's a little Linda McMahon a fun

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Speaker 1: fact there. So that is all I have to say

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00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,799
Speaker 1: at this point about the Trump cabinet picks. There's gonna

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Speaker 1: be more. I know RFK is gonna be its own

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00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 1: nightmare that we will get to. Yeah, I guess any

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Speaker 1: closing thoughts, uh, Sophie or James on this this who's

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00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:15,360
Speaker 1: who of the worst people in the country.

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Speaker 2: Who's gone I've come next?

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Speaker 4: And that's basically it, and and not even that after

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Speaker 4: this first round and then like obviously he's gonna fucking

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Speaker 4: fire some people. Who's he gonna report who's he gonna

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Speaker 4: replace them with?

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Speaker 3: It will be like Instagrammers by the end of four years.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he's really just going through all the people

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Speaker 1: who have like pledged complete loyalty to him, including people

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Speaker 1: who've like previously been critical but have like turned around

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00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:44,440
Speaker 1: and gotten fully on the Trump train. And like, the

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Speaker 1: thing that links up all of these names is that

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Speaker 1: Trump believes that they're not gonna turn on him, because

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Speaker 1: that was the thing that really threw a wrench in

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Speaker 1: his first administration. And the reason why he's appointing all

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00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 1: these people who are just chronically unqualified, it's because they

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Speaker 1: need Trump, right, Like if Matt Gates doesn't become then

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00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:02,319
Speaker 1: he's also like out of a job now because he

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00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:05,320
Speaker 1: resigned from Congress, and he'll also probably face more punishment

843
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 1: for his alleged sex trafficking. But if he's in charge

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Speaker 1: of the entire Justice Department, he's not going to get anything, right. Like,

845
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Speaker 1: a huge part of Trump like trying to become president

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00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:16,719
Speaker 1: again is to get out of all of the criminal

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Speaker 1: complaints and indictments that he's been facing the past year.

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Speaker 1: And now none of those matter. I'll point you to

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Speaker 1: a Legal Eagle video for like why none of the

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00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:28,319
Speaker 1: convictions will matter, None of the ongoing cases will matter.

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Speaker 1: All those trials are now completely meaningless. He has gotten

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Speaker 1: away with everything. Looking over this whole list, you see

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Speaker 1: a lot of neo cons in foreign policy positions and

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00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 1: like mega celebrity loyalists in domestic positions, which makes a

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Speaker 1: lot of sense for Trump trying to both like maintain

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Speaker 1: his own power as well as showing off his kind

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Speaker 1: of hidden neo contendencies. And this entire cabinet points towards

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Speaker 1: centralizing power with just him and the White House. Right,

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00:44:56,640 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 1: these people are not qualified, So now Trump basically will

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00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,720
Speaker 1: puppeteer every department and Trump's advisors, including like Stephen Miller.

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Speaker 1: So this is all about centralizing power and demanding fierce loyalty.

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Speaker 1: That's what all of these appointments point towards.

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Speaker 3: This is good ending. What a happy show.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is a great ending. You know, not all

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Speaker 1: these will have happy endings because we're currently facing a

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Speaker 1: pretty rough situation. But we will have some episodes later

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Speaker 1: on in this week that do point more towards what

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Speaker 1: you can do to protect yourself in the coming days,

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Speaker 1: including Molly's episode tomorrow, so stay tuned for that. But

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Speaker 1: this is just a quick, a quick rundown on why

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Speaker 1: I don't like every single person appointed to these positions.

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Speaker 9: It could Happen Here is a production of cool Zone Media.

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Speaker 9: For more podcasts from cool Zone Media, visit our website

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Speaker 9: Foolzonemedia dot com, or check us out on the iHeartRadio app,

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Speaker 9: Apple Podcasts, or wherever.

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Speaker 1: You listen to podcasts.

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Speaker 9: You can now find sources for it could Happen here,

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Speaker 9: listed directly in episode descriptions. Thanks for listening.