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Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.

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Speaker 3: Welcome home.

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Speaker 1: Y'all, This is Guess It, Episode fifty four of Native Lampod,

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Speaker 1: where we break down all things politics, culture, you name it,

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Speaker 1: we got it. We are your hosts. I'm Andrew Gillum.

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Speaker 1: I'm joined by my two favorites, Tiffany Cross and Angela Raie.

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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody. I hope we're doing well and can't

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Speaker 1: wait to get into the show. All right, ladies, so

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Speaker 1: what's on your agenda for today? Top of mind? I

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Speaker 1: can start by timply saying I know confirmations appointments are

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Speaker 1: in the process. I would love, love, love to just

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Speaker 1: do a quick, quick and dirty on what are recess appointments,

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Speaker 1: how do they happen? And what power does the Congress

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Speaker 1: have in the face of threats from Donald Trump?

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Speaker 4: What you got to I will have questions for you

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Speaker 4: about that. I have a lot of questions about recess appointments,

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Speaker 4: but I also want to talk about the idea of

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Speaker 4: this biblic quote curriculum being taught in schools. You know,

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Speaker 4: in the news this week but there are a lot

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Speaker 4: of other states that are trying to push this as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, ay, Rob, what's on your mind?

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Speaker 5: Where we go from here? I think that we kind

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Speaker 5: of left hanging in our last episode if it was

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Speaker 5: even necessary to continue the podcast? Should we continue? And

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Speaker 5: I think we have a lot of questions out there

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Speaker 5: about what we're doing, and I think it's important for

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Speaker 5: us to address what we're thinking because I think it

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Speaker 5: probably changes by the minute for all of us. So

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Speaker 5: that's what I want to talk about today.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate that, y'all. Well, Lessen, let's get to it

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Speaker 1: on the topic of where we go from here. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate you bringing that up, Angela, because I was, I'm

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Speaker 1: sure as you all were, really just overwhelmed by our community.

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Speaker 1: I know that we've all known, and we brag about

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Speaker 1: it all the time, how incredible the listeners and viewers

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Speaker 1: are of this show and how much of a family

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Speaker 1: we feel we have cultivated up to this point. Their

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Speaker 1: responses have been incredible, and if you haven't been able

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Speaker 1: to check them out, I'd love for us to just

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Speaker 1: quickly maybe visit a few of them. Let's see what

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Speaker 1: we got.

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Speaker 3: Was a good Native lampod once again. I'm Lawrence and

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Speaker 3: I'm in Dallas. I want to address the question posed

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Speaker 3: at the end of today's episode. I just finished watching.

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Speaker 3: I don't think you guys should stop. As a matter

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Speaker 3: of fact, I think you have an obligation to continue.

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Speaker 3: Three of my friends, and this is very personal to me.

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Speaker 3: Three of my friends were not engaged in politics, didn't

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Speaker 3: really care about politics. But you know, a couple of

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Speaker 3: times we shared a blunt and listened to the Native

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Speaker 3: Lamp pod on my balcony. Not only did they get

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Speaker 3: registered for this most recent election, but we had all

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Speaker 3: kinds of conversations about local politics and they voted. They

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Speaker 3: actually voted, and you guys were instrumental in that.

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Speaker 6: Love that.

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Speaker 3: So, not only do I believe that you should continue

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Speaker 3: the podcast, but I believe it's going to be absolutely necessary,

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Speaker 3: especially for the next four years, not only instructing people,

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Speaker 3: but kind of delivering education when it is obviously much needed.

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Speaker 4: I want to hang out with him and his friends.

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Speaker 1: On that day, on that day, that other day, were you.

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Speaker 5: Running another clip ag or that was that was the

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Speaker 5: one you wanted to see? I thought you said run

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Speaker 5: a few of them.

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Speaker 1: I thought that they had put together a few of them,

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Speaker 1: but hearing the diversity.

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Speaker 4: Okay, another one.

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Speaker 7: Hey guys, it's Don from Houston, Texas, and I just

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Speaker 7: finished your episode, the first one post selection that I

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Speaker 7: have been frantically waiting on if I'm being honest, and

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Speaker 7: in response to your question on whether or not you

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Speaker 7: guys should continue the podcast, to put it bluntly, because

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Speaker 7: I've already made two videos that are too long. Absolutely hell, Yes,

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Speaker 7: we need you. We need the information. We need the

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Speaker 7: sensitivity to us, to our culture, to our people, and

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Speaker 7: your work that you've done even before this podcast and

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Speaker 7: that you continue to do through it is going to

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Speaker 7: be in strumental for those of us who are not

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Speaker 7: interested in watching cable news, who don't trust the mainstream

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Speaker 7: is happening around us and in our politics. I have shared, you,

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Speaker 7: guys with so many people, so many young people who

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Speaker 7: just don't have any interest in politics, and.

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Speaker 5: They've gotten hooked.

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Speaker 7: Regardless if you reach the quote unquote masses, the community

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Speaker 7: that is here needs you, and we are fairly or

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Speaker 7: unfairly going to lean on you guys for that explanation,

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Speaker 7: for that guide, for that conversation that is downright uncomfortable

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Speaker 1: Wow, wow, y'all. I think, as you know, that's a

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Speaker 1: sampling of the many, many, many, not to mention the

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Speaker 1: written form comments that have come in. And I really

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Speaker 1: what resonates with me, and I'm gonna toss it over

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Speaker 1: to you, Angela. Was the obligation part of it? I actually,

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Speaker 1: you know, as they say in church, you can say

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Speaker 1: ouch in response to that. But I receive I receive

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Speaker 1: that appointment, which is you can't bring folks to a

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Speaker 1: you got this because you know, I can't take this

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Speaker 1: love to hear what's been moving through your mind.

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Speaker 5: Here right I am. I'm very emotional. I think that

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Speaker 5: I feel the obligation. I feel frustrated, honestly with myself,

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Speaker 5: and I and and I'm frustrated about that, because you

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Speaker 5: that what I feel guilty about is knowing that there's

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Speaker 5: you know, a come to Jesus, as they say, with

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Speaker 5: I think, you guys know, I'm fiercely competitive over all

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Speaker 5: And I don't know when you're not even confident that

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Speaker 5: And it's like the weight of that. We were in

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Speaker 5: I'm trying to make sense. We were in our group

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Speaker 5: if we cannot figure out how to be in coalition,

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Speaker 5: We are. If there's no coalition, if there is no

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Speaker 4: I am well. I just want to say this about

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Speaker 4: said I have the Fred Hampton approach, like bring everybody along.

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Speaker 4: Unless you know we align, we can win. I want

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Speaker 4: to caution us because exit polling data is not the

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Speaker 4: And I have been in the throes of re examining

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Speaker 4: like I and I think Angela, you have give yourself

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Speaker 8: Please get back to just teaching our children, math, science,

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Speaker 4: So the hypocrisy of it all exactly. Now, think about

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Speaker 1: for it to be an official recess. Some of us,

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Speaker 1: if for Mike Johnson, the presumptive or expected Speaker of

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Speaker 1: the House, current speak of the House, say that he'd

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Speaker 1: be open to recess appointments, and you might ask yourself, well,

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Speaker 1: what does the House Speaker have to do with recess appointments?

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Speaker 1: Good question, because it's a confirmation is the responsibility of

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Speaker 1: the Senate. Well, there is a little known section of

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Speaker 1: the US law the Constitution that provides in instances where

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Speaker 1: one of the houses of Congress wants to take a

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Speaker 1: break longer than typical, it must be agreed to by

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Speaker 1: both the House and the Senate. Well, if the Senate

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Speaker 1: says we're not going to go with these recess appointments

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Speaker 1: and we want to see every nominee and go through

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Speaker 1: the confirmation process, it's prerogative can be upset by Speaker

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Speaker 1: Johnson putting on the floor a resolution that says the

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Speaker 1: House wants to go into recess for ten days. If

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Speaker 1: it then goes over to the Senate. If it passes

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Speaker 1: the House, the Senate can then say no, we disagree.

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Speaker 1: And in instances where they disagree, the Constitution provides for

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Speaker 1: the President of the United States to decide and dispand

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Speaker 1: that Congress for its recess, giving Donald Trump the opportunity

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Speaker 1: where he president to have Mike Johnson put forth a

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Speaker 1: resolution for recess, the Senate to deny that, and then

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Speaker 1: for Donald Trump to recess the Congress and make his

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Speaker 1: appointments over a recess period. Obviously, this is not a

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Speaker 1: practice that has been heavily utilized in our past. Actually

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Speaker 1: only once has a cabinet member been confirmed that way,

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Speaker 1: but Donald Trump. Obviously, this would have been during Clinton's administration.

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Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken and it was only recess appointments,

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Speaker 1: of course only lasts for a term, which means once

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Speaker 1: the Congress recesses then comes back into another term, which

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Speaker 1: is typically a calendar year, that person is no longer

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Speaker 1: in office. But of course the president could then repeat

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Speaker 1: that practice for four years and continue to have people

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Speaker 1: reside in those offices via recess appointment.

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Speaker 4: So what happens then, because this is where I'm confused

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Speaker 4: about the process on the Hill. So right now they're

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Speaker 4: looking to fill Senator majority leader. Outgoing former majority leader

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Speaker 4: Senator Mitch McConnell is retiring, and they are looking to

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Speaker 4: fill that position. So Republican leadership, and Donald Trump has

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Speaker 4: said this person has to be okay with recess appointments.

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Speaker 4: So let's say they tap somebody who is okay with

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Speaker 4: recess appointments. So Thune is now the minority leader. So

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Speaker 4: if if Senator John Thune is is like, I'm okay

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Speaker 4: with recess appointments, does that mean that then in the

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Speaker 4: recess he can confirm all all the positions that need

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Speaker 4: recess appointments.

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Speaker 1: Presumptively, if the if the US Senate were to take

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Speaker 1: a ten day break. Of course, Donald Trump would need

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Speaker 1: to be president. He's not president. These nominees are not

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Speaker 1: official until.

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Speaker 4: They are post inauguration correct.

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Speaker 1: Correct, correct, But theoretically the Senate could go on a recess.

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Speaker 10: Now.

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Speaker 1: There are some procedural ways in which Democrats can attempt

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Speaker 1: to upset, but eventually the majority can decide to take

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Speaker 1: a recess.

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Speaker 4: The Democrats have said.

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Speaker 1: There are very and Angela, you may be able to

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Speaker 1: wait inherit to it as well. But there are various

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Speaker 1: procedural ways in which they can delay through requesting and

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Speaker 1: requiring more votes, requiring hand count votes, or individualized votes.

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Speaker 1: These are delay tactics. But the majority which they have

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Speaker 1: presumptively fifty three is what is expected fifty three or

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Speaker 1: fifty four, fifty three seats, I think majority in the

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Speaker 1: United States Senate. They'll have what is required to go

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Speaker 1: on recess right now. I also want to tell you, Tiff,

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Speaker 1: because I know it can be confusing, and I hate this.

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Speaker 1: I hate this for the listeners as well, because it's

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Speaker 1: important we know it. Though of late, the current precedent

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Speaker 1: has pretty much been that the United States Senate doesn't

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Speaker 1: take much of a recess. They keep the they technically

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Speaker 1: have been staying in session and bringing a local or

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Speaker 1: a US senator who is in close proximity to Washington.

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Speaker 1: In this case, if Republicans are in charge, I think

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Speaker 1: West Virginia's probably going to be the closest, and they

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Speaker 1: would have that senator come over and procedurally do some

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Speaker 1: action on the floor that is of no import simply

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Speaker 1: to say that the president cannot make any recess appointments

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Speaker 1: because we have not technically gone on recess. That's been

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Speaker 1: the operating mode probably since Clinton's time in office. Republicans

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Speaker 1: have feared recess appointments and have kept the Congress. I

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Speaker 1: have kept the US Senate technically in session to avoid

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Speaker 1: appointments over recess.

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Speaker 5: I just want to fact check this really quick, because

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Speaker 5: I didn't think that that was true about Bill Clinton

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Speaker 5: being the last one to use the power. So key

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Speaker 5: for cabinet member, Oh for a cabinet I didn't hear

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Speaker 5: you say that, okay, cabinet member. So for the other

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Speaker 5: folks that heard it, like me, initially, the President Obama

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Speaker 5: also used the resource appointments to confirm thirty two people,

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Speaker 5: twenty eight of those in full time positions. George W.

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Speaker 5: Bush used it one hundred and seventy one times.

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Speaker 1: But as you know, Angela, you know, the president has

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Speaker 1: over what six thousand appointments, but only a limited number obviously.

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Speaker 5: Of the cabinet or ones that they make cabinet level.

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Speaker 5: And then Bill Clinton used it one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 5: nine times. These are for full time in part time positions.

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Speaker 5: President Obama mostly used them for undersecretaries for the Deputy

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Speaker 5: US Trade Representative and Deputy Attorney General while he was

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Speaker 5: in office.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of using for ambassadorships as well, to

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Speaker 1: avoid the confirmation you know process, and I do you

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Speaker 1: want to make clear.

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Speaker 5: To expedite when you're being held you know, captive by

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Speaker 5: a Congress that doesn't want to work for you. So

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Speaker 5: it's not just to like obscate a process, it's also

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Speaker 5: when they are obscating the process, correct.

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Speaker 1: Correct, And those have been the most regular uses of

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Speaker 1: the recess appointment. However, at the cabinet level, again, these

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Speaker 1: are people who are in the line of secession. Right

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Speaker 1: the president goes, you know, vice President speak of the

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Speaker 1: House on and so forth. So these are cabinet people.

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Speaker 1: These are people in the line of secession constitutionally who

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Speaker 1: are are basically being routed, you know, in run around

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Speaker 1: the confirmation process, and I just I just want to

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Speaker 1: make sure that we're all listeners and us are all

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Speaker 1: aware that this is what the recess appointment is. It

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Speaker 1: has not been abused prior, you know before, rather in

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Speaker 1: this way for cabinet level positions. But there's no telling

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Speaker 1: them what we can see through Trump.

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Speaker 4: So I think I understand what y'all both saying. I

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Speaker 4: guess my question is, for all of these people who

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Speaker 4: are clearly problematic people, is there any chance that some

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Speaker 4: of these people won't get confirmed because I feel like

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Speaker 4: the Republican Party will just fall in line with Donald Trump.

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Speaker 4: My outlier, I think is Matt Gates, who is obviously

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Speaker 4: up for Attorney General just because he made so many

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Speaker 4: enemies within the party. But we've seen this time and

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Speaker 4: again where people are like, no, you know, screw him,

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Speaker 4: and then they fall in line. So I don't know, And.

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Speaker 5: I think Sif was still asking her question, Well, I just.

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Speaker 4: Really I could talk it to Angela because I want

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Speaker 4: to hear answer, but I just want to say, Andrew,

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Speaker 4: I know you were in college at the same time

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Speaker 4: as Matt gets uh, Matt Gates rather and we didn't

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Speaker 4: get a chance to talk about that, but yeah, I'd

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Speaker 4: love to hear from from you, Angela on is there

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Speaker 4: any stopping this? You know, even outside the park? Is

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Speaker 4: there any stop in any of these cabinet members.

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Speaker 5: Here's what I really think is important. And before we

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Speaker 5: get into what I really think is important, I really

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Speaker 5: think we should go to break and talk about why

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Speaker 5: this is not normal and why we should not normalize it.

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Speaker 5: So let's talk about that on the other side of

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Speaker 5: this break.

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Speaker 3: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, welcome, y'all.

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Speaker 5: I know that we all understand that this is not normal.

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Speaker 5: I do not want to talk about Donald Trump and

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Speaker 5: the way that he plans to use his executive powers

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Speaker 5: as normal. I don't want to talk about him abusing

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Speaker 5: what we know he will do is which has abuse

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Speaker 5: recess appointments as normal. And I want to be very

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Speaker 5: clear to the listening audience that it is so abnormal

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Speaker 5: that this man has also appointed people to the Supreme

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Speaker 5: Court who will always side with him. So not only

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Speaker 5: will he likely get every appointment confirmed, whether it is

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Speaker 5: through the traditional way or the way that he will

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Speaker 5: abuse a recess appointment that will only apply to Donald

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Speaker 5: Trump and no other president if forever to get another president.

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Speaker 5: But I want to be very clear about the fact

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Speaker 5: that the Supreme Court, who took issue with Barack Obama's

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Speaker 5: appointments to the National Labor Relations Board during recess, that

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Speaker 5: they will be totally fine with Donald Trump confirming and

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Speaker 5: getting confirmed all of these crazy people, including a WWE

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Speaker 5: exec and including Matt Gett. So I just wanted to

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Speaker 5: be very very clear in ksey'all missed it. This is

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Speaker 5: not normal. This is someone who intends to abuse the process.

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Speaker 5: This is someone who's been rubber stamped along the way.

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Speaker 5: I think part of my trauma this week is seeing

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Speaker 5: every single one of his criminal cases falling off. And

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Speaker 5: there are people that are diehard supporters of Donald Trump

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Speaker 5: who are like, oh, it's God's favor. No, it is not.

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Speaker 5: It is white supremacist privilege that only applies to this man.

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Speaker 5: And I cannot figure out why it's again going to

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Speaker 5: spiral me to I don't know, and I can't figure

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Speaker 5: out why. So I'm going to table it there. But please, please,

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Speaker 5: Andrew gillim while we have a feckless Attorney General named

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Speaker 5: Merrick Garland who won't get anything done except for targeting

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Speaker 5: black elected officials won't get anything done around Donald Trump

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Speaker 5: won't ensure There are thousands of January sixth insurrectionists, by

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Speaker 5: the way, who are arrested and have caught cases, but

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Speaker 5: their leader did not because Merritt Garland sat there and watched.

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Speaker 5: But please tell me more about a child molester could

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Speaker 5: be the next attorney general's country. And it's just because

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Speaker 5: it's not normal.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm no fan of the at all, I mean, but.

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Speaker 5: This is the thing we have to like go from.

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Speaker 5: Like this dude did not get it right. So like

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Speaker 5: now we get somebody that is a complete nut basket

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Speaker 5: because he's pledged blind allegiance to Donald Trump. That's just

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Speaker 5: because we have somebody who actually is capable and understands

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Speaker 5: the law and all that, but doesn't use it to

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Speaker 5: ensure that this country is protected from this maniac. Like

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Speaker 5: this is mind blowing to me. We normalize everything, wet

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Speaker 5: everything as normal, and trigger back to last week when

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Speaker 5: he told me just don't go to inauguration. But Jesus,

631
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Speaker 5: like when you treat everything like it's just business as usual,

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Speaker 5: you get this unusual, crazy business. And now we're all

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Speaker 5: going to jail.

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Speaker 4: Go ahead, tell me what can I just really really quickly, Andrew,

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Speaker 4: I just want to say that Matt Gates has he

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Speaker 4: is an accused. He's been accused of having sex with

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Speaker 4: seventeen year olds. We called him. He's accused. He has

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Speaker 4: not been convicted.

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Speaker 5: He had accused of take it out the thing. But

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Speaker 5: Matt Gates is not saying he's attacked Andrew personally. That

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Speaker 5: is factual. He is not saying they will not see

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Speaker 5: me for saying. He is not saying. And I will

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Speaker 5: also say that this man there were two women who

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Speaker 5: testified before the House Ethics Committee under sealed report that

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Speaker 5: y'all still have not seen. I'm sure it's coming that

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Speaker 5: talked about his behavior with underage women with minors, seventeen

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Speaker 5: year olds, seventeen, These are miners. These are miners. These

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Speaker 5: are miners. Perfect, they're miners.

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Speaker 4: Well, in addition to being minors, he's also accused of

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Speaker 4: paying for sex, which is also against the law. Right,

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Speaker 4: you went to school with them, So I want to yeah,

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Speaker 4: well we're.

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Speaker 1: In the same city, we're in the same Yeah. But

654
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Speaker 1: I will say this about is not just to him,

655
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Speaker 1: but across the board, to these nominees. The Trump administration

656
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Speaker 1: has decided to waive in the case of Matt Gates

657
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Speaker 1: as well as Tulci Gabbard, as well as their nominee

658
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Speaker 1: for the Defense Secretary FBI background checks on them, which

659
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Speaker 1: are in depth research, interviews, and investigations on each of

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Speaker 1: the nominees he's waived it. I'd like to ask this question,

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Speaker 1: which is, why is it that, in the remaining days

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Speaker 1: of this administration, can't Joe Biden direct the FBI to

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Speaker 1: conduct these investigations right now under his watch? What limits

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Speaker 1: the current president of the United States saying I believe

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Speaker 1: and I will direct this agency to investigate thoroughly each

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Speaker 1: of the President's nominees and make that material available to

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Speaker 1: respective committees and members of both the House and the Senate,

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Speaker 1: on both the Democrat, Republican and independent whoever else is

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Speaker 1: up there in the Congress. But I just think that

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Speaker 1: we should not yet let off the existing administration as

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Speaker 1: a protectee of the Constitution and our democracy if they

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Speaker 1: still believe that it is such a threat and under

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Speaker 1: such threat, that they ought to use the powers that

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Speaker 1: exist right now to ensure that we get the information

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Speaker 1: about these individuals that we need. Because I tell you,

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Speaker 1: I'm shocked that Tallahassee is not already swarming with reporters

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Speaker 1: from all over. I mean, Matt and I were at

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Speaker 1: college at the same time. I was student body president

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Speaker 1: FAMU prior to that Senate president. He was doing similar

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Speaker 1: work over at FSU. My best friend and he are

681
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Speaker 1: law school classmates, and so on and so forth, and

682
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Speaker 1: the stories, and I can tell you even firsthand experiences

683
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Speaker 1: of having observed the kind of person that Matt is.

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Speaker 1: A man by age, but an adolescent by attitude, demeanor

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Speaker 1: and com u uh comportment, a troller in chief on

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Speaker 1: every platform that allows him to still exist. There there

687
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Speaker 1: are stories that go back to his days as as

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Speaker 1: as a younger man still an adult in Tallahassee. That

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Speaker 1: that that really deserve some intentional and investigative reporting. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, well, I would say this much everything that

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Speaker 1: you have seen him accused of up to this point today,

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Speaker 1: should those things be confirmed and turned out to be true,

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Speaker 1: know that that didn't just begin at this point in

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Speaker 1: his life. That that pattern began a very long time ago,

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Speaker 1: probably even before I ever encountered him or got to

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Speaker 1: got to know him, when he was a student here

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Speaker 1: at Florista University. And I want to be careful here

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Speaker 1: because I'm not suggesting that he has anything to do

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Speaker 1: with it, but he had a roommate of his pass

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Speaker 1: away inexplicit inexplicably, there was an investigation that was undertaken

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Speaker 1: by the Department of Law Enforcement that sort of at

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Speaker 1: least it was rumored that it began as a homicide investigation,

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Speaker 1: and then ultimately that went away and it was just

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Speaker 1: sort of ruled as some sort of accidental death or

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Speaker 1: or I forget what the actual claim on it is,

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Speaker 1: but that's a job of and reporters to go in and.

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Speaker 5: Find out to see out the details.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why it went away, but I should

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Speaker 1: note that Matt Gates' father, Popagates, Daddy Gates as the state,

710
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Speaker 1: was a very powerful state senator at the time, had

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Speaker 1: went it to retirement and now back in the and

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Speaker 1: and and governing power, And so there was a lot

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Speaker 1: going on under the sort of under the surface here.

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Speaker 1: There are people who experienced him here, who rolled with

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Speaker 1: him here, who know And I guess if I had

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Speaker 1: a call out to folks who were in Tallahassee in

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Speaker 1: these early two thousands and and and forward, who remember

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Speaker 1: that time with him, both as a member of the

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Speaker 1: legislature but going back to his time as a student

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Speaker 1: at Florida State University. Who know more. If you are

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Speaker 1: on the side of saving our democracy, on the side

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Speaker 1: of not having a retributive uh, you know, Tyrant of

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Speaker 1: a team serving as the US Attorney General, then I

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Speaker 1: think you have an obligation to reach out to your

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Speaker 1: local or state FBI offices, offer what you know in secret,

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Speaker 1: and let them do the work that they're supposed to

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Speaker 1: do to unearth what is truth and what is not.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to I don't want to live in

729
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Speaker 1: in gossip. That's why I won't say more, but I

730
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Speaker 1: will say there there is more than smoke right now.

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Speaker 11: Uh.

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Speaker 1: And I think with a little bit of and and

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Speaker 1: how do you say, a deep dive by by reporters,

734
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Speaker 1: I think you can quickly start to illuminate some truths

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Speaker 1: for the American people to consider before this confirmation is

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Speaker 1: seen by the US Center.

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Speaker 5: Can I just say really quick about Matt Gates too,

738
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Speaker 5: because I think it is important that our cabinet officials

739
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Speaker 5: are above reproach. There's a biblical constance we're teaching Bible

740
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Speaker 5: in school, is teaching on the podcast too above reproach.

741
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Speaker 5: And it is fascinating to me that the standards by

742
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Speaker 5: which someone can be admitted to a bar, you know,

743
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Speaker 5: to practice law, are higher than what would be required

744
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Speaker 5: of a cabinet official. And and to me, what is

745
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Speaker 5: also really frustrating. And I'm not saying that people don't

746
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Speaker 5: make mistakes and that they shouldn't be forgiven or that

747
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Speaker 5: it shouldn't be disclosed, but it could be disqualifying for

748
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Speaker 5: an attorney to have a dui right to be arrested

749
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Speaker 5: for dui. Matt Getz also has a d UY on

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Speaker 5: his record. Oh I don't know about three. I know

751
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Speaker 5: about one, but okay, so let's say that it's allegedly three.

752
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Speaker 1: Right, Well, well let's go with allegedly one, but.

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Speaker 4: Certain currently.

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Speaker 5: Allegedly three, maybe multiples. But I guess all I'm saying

755
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Speaker 5: is I think that it is time for this country

756
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Speaker 5: to take a hard look at the standards that are

757
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Speaker 5: required for people to work a job. Why is it easier?

758
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Speaker 5: Why is the bar lower for Donald Trump to become

759
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Speaker 5: president than it is for someone to work at a

760
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Speaker 5: regular nine to five job. Why is it easier for

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Speaker 5: someone to become the Attorney General of the United States

762
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Speaker 5: than it is for someone to be admitted to practice

763
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Speaker 5: law at a state bar. Those are some of the

764
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Speaker 5: questions that we should be asking ourselves to remind ourselves

765
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Speaker 5: that this is not a normal time, that it is abnormal,

766
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Speaker 5: and that we should not accept this type of abnormality.

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Speaker 4: Echo Echo, echo a thousand times. Andrew, can I ask

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Speaker 4: you a quick question?

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Speaker 10: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Please, Okay.

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Speaker 4: I want to talk about this phyllish slapley character he

772
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Speaker 4: got run in the White House. He has named Susie

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Speaker 4: Wiles his chief of staff. As you all know, that

774
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Speaker 4: does not need a Senate confirmation. You have personal experience

775
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Speaker 4: with Susi wise, we didn't get a chance to talk

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Speaker 4: about it last week.

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Speaker 1: I want to hear your yeah. I'll say, you know,

778
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Speaker 1: I don't have dirt on Susie Wilds. What I have

779
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Speaker 1: on Susie Wilds is the fact that she is a

780
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Speaker 1: magic maker. I mean, she came in and took over

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Speaker 1: Ronda Santis' campaign when he and I were running against

782
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Speaker 1: each other for the office of governor in twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 1: And this is at the point where my poll numbers

784
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Speaker 1: began to climb above his, and it almost in the

785
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:26,359
Speaker 1: last thirty days just sort of looked like the thing

786
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Speaker 1: was sort of about to be done, and Susie Wilds

787
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Speaker 1: came in to rescue his operation and turned I mean

788
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Speaker 1: literally in thirty days, turned that ship, you know, quite

789
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Speaker 1: around a very very low key operative. You're not going

790
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Speaker 1: to see her holding press conferences, You're not going to

791
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Speaker 1: see her out front. She you know, it sort of

792
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Speaker 1: reminds me of a character from Scandal, where you know,

793
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Speaker 1: you sort of have this clutch player who is mysterious

794
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Speaker 1: in many ways, sort of behind the curtain, but is

795
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Speaker 1: each extremely powerful and frankly quite impressive about the rescue mission,

796
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Speaker 1: does the rescue mission, does the fixing, and then I

797
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 1: think turns out almost near unbelievable outcomes. And I just

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Speaker 1: underscored this sort of almost unbelievable part because I think,

799
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Speaker 1: you know, we ought to know, we need to know more.

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Speaker 4: Well since fallen out.

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Speaker 1: Then she fell out with Ronda Santis and hated DeSantis

802
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Speaker 1: because everyone was crediting her with DeSantis's win. They basically

803
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Speaker 1: said there was no way Susie comes in as she

804
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Speaker 1: rescues it, and she began getting a lot of attention,

805
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 1: which she usually pushes off, but without her permission a

806
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Speaker 1: lot of attention inure to her. The Disantances reportedly did

807
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 1: not like that at all and simmarily dismissed her from

808
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Speaker 1: her role at the Republican Party of Florida. And later thereafter,

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Speaker 1: Trump embraced her, picked her right on up and bought

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Speaker 1: him her early on into his campaign as as a

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Speaker 1: senior advisor and then later obviously as as a deputy

812
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Speaker 1: as the.

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Speaker 4: Co campaign tried to discourage and absolutely, yes, I get

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Speaker 4: to fire her.

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Speaker 1: I would say the DeSantis is. I think it's very

816
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Speaker 1: important to keep Casey DeSantis in the picture because of

817
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Speaker 1: the very outsize role that she played in his life.

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Speaker 1: And then last on, this is the other Matt Gates connection.

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Speaker 1: Is he actually uh played me as in debate prep

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Speaker 1: as the centus sparring partner. It's quite interesting because my

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Speaker 1: team advisors and staff always shows women to play the

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Speaker 1: role of dissentis during my debate prep, which I don't

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Speaker 1: know what that was about. I didn't question it at

824
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Speaker 1: the time, but he supposedly played me as if uh

825
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Speaker 1: in preparing DeSantis uh for for debate. But you're right,

826
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Speaker 1: it's not normal, and that's why I want to press

827
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Speaker 1: on this administration to do what they can with the

828
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Speaker 1: power that they have remaining. I think they owe us

829
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Speaker 1: some protection here to the extent that we can get

830
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Speaker 1: it to unearth what needs to be on earthed, because

831
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Speaker 1: your point, Angela around above reproach above reproach for a

832
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Speaker 1: position like this really means that you can't hide anything

833
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Speaker 1: that's somebody else, a foreign government or even a domestic

834
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Speaker 1: a citizen who could get a hold of then hold

835
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Speaker 1: over your head the disclosure of that information over your

836
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Speaker 1: head so that they can take from you or really,

837
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Speaker 1: in this case from the American people, what is not

838
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Speaker 1: owed to them. We need people who are beyond reproach

839
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Speaker 1: or they need to open up the closet and let

840
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Speaker 1: out what is in there so that they cannot be

841
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Speaker 1: bribed or held hostage by a citizen or foreign government

842
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Speaker 1: for information that they have over that.

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Speaker 5: Is going to happen, friend, because that's the era that

844
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Speaker 5: we're in, Like, let's just be clear about what they

845
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Speaker 5: can't like, all of this is going to happen. I

846
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Speaker 5: think the sooner we come to terms with the fact

847
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Speaker 5: that this is where we are, the better ourf will be.

848
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Speaker 5: Now for those people out there who think that Donald

849
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Speaker 5: Trump is like a black man because he had a

850
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Speaker 5: mug shot. You'll probably appreciate this one too. Fun fact

851
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:12,240
Speaker 5: about Susie Wiles is she lobbied for Swiss or sweets.

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Speaker 5: So I guess there's a black card for you.

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Speaker 4: Wow, frustrating break? Well, well, I guess it's time for

854
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Speaker 4: a break. Well, we'll go to a break. And on

855
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Speaker 4: the other side of that, I would love to go

856
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Speaker 4: to if you were a questioned that hits close to

857
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 4: my heart and that is about the punditry class and

858
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Speaker 4: their hot garbage takes they've been offering that. So don't

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Speaker 4: go anywhere.

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Speaker 11: We'll be right, yeah, ma'am.

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Speaker 12: Hey, Tiffany Angela Andrew. My name is Donelle. I am

862
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Speaker 12: originally from Cludand, Ohio, but I currently live in LA

863
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Speaker 12: and I just wanted to I guess get you ays

864
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Speaker 12: opinion on all these pundits post elections going around blaming

865
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Speaker 12: wokeness as the reason Kamala Harris ultimately lost the election.

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Speaker 12: Being that the term woke originated within the black community,

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Speaker 12: it kind of feels like a slap in the face,

868
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Speaker 12: at least personally as a black gay man, especially being

869
00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:22,360
Speaker 12: that the LGBTQ community supporting Kamala overwhelmingly too. It just

870
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:24,719
Speaker 12: feels distasteful and, like I said, a slap in the

871
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 12: face to me that they would go around blaming wokeness

872
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:31,239
Speaker 12: or being too woke as the reason, and it ultimately

873
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:34,480
Speaker 12: kind of makes me not want to support the Democratic

874
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:38,839
Speaker 12: Party in the future. But yeah, just wanted to get

875
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:41,640
Speaker 12: you guys' opinion on that, And yes, I think you

876
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:44,960
Speaker 12: guys should definitely keep going. Your voices are definitely needed

877
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:46,040
Speaker 12: in this space.

878
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Speaker 4: I love it. I was born in Cleveland, Ohio, so homeboy.

879
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 4: But I want to say, the puntry class right now

880
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 4: is trash. I'm so disgusted by all of it. Even

881
00:49:57,640 --> 00:49:59,440
Speaker 4: the people that you see taking up space on these

882
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:02,880
Speaker 4: sets like Show the viewers, you have some respect for

883
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:05,719
Speaker 4: them that you at least looked up something that you

884
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:08,720
Speaker 4: are a subject matter on, something not just taking up space.

885
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:11,759
Speaker 4: But what happened earlier this week. It came out that

886
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 4: morning Joe host, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brazinski went to

887
00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:17,560
Speaker 4: meet with Donald Trump. A lot of us weren't surprised

888
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:19,319
Speaker 4: by this, but I was really surprised that so many

889
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:21,279
Speaker 4: of you guys were, and so I was happy to

890
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:25,759
Speaker 4: get this question from this this man talking about, you know,

891
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:29,200
Speaker 4: blaming woke culture. This really isn't something new, so we

892
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 4: really shouldn't be surprised by a lot of these same

893
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 4: folks echoing these same garbage takes. And I just want

894
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:38,920
Speaker 4: to remind people who these folks are and who they

895
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 4: have always been. I want you all to take a

896
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:44,759
Speaker 4: listen to Joe Scarborough in twenty fourteen. This is ten

897
00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:47,439
Speaker 4: years ago. This was on the heels of the Saint

898
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Speaker 4: Louis Rams players who walked on the field in twenty fourteen,

899
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Speaker 4: as you all remember, with the hands up, don't shoot position.

900
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Speaker 4: This is how the former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough responded

901
00:50:59,239 --> 00:51:00,800
Speaker 4: to that outside about any others.

902
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:07,280
Speaker 6: So, but these players can suggest that the Saint Louis

903
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:10,919
Speaker 6: cops shoot black youth with their hands up in the air.

904
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Speaker 6: That's cool with the NFL, That's cool with the Saint

905
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Speaker 6: Louis Rams. That's cool to suggest that Saint Louis police

906
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Speaker 6: officers in the town. Probably a lot who go to

907
00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:25,520
Speaker 6: the games and watch the games and are fans. Does

908
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:29,319
Speaker 6: Saint Louis Rams think it's cool for them to suggest

909
00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:33,120
Speaker 6: that Saint Louis cops shoot young black men who had

910
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:35,319
Speaker 6: hands up in the air, when we know that that

911
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:39,640
Speaker 6: was a lie. It's a lie, and what was that?

912
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:42,719
Speaker 6: Just Joan Capitill or more people like going, Oh, it

913
00:51:42,719 --> 00:51:44,279
Speaker 6: doesn't matter where it's the truth or not, I'm going

914
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:47,400
Speaker 6: to suggest the cops shoot people with their hands up

915
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:49,920
Speaker 6: in the air. What is wrong with this country?

916
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 1: It's not the truth.

917
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 3: And you know it's not the truth.

918
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:55,680
Speaker 13: And you're going on the house floor suggesting that police

919
00:51:55,719 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 13: officers who put their lives on the line are shooting

920
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:02,440
Speaker 13: people with their hands in the air when you know

921
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:03,360
Speaker 13: it's a lie.

922
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Speaker 6: What's wrong with you?

923
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Speaker 4: So on the heels of that. Never mind that many

924
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 4: witnesses say that Michael Brown what he did, have his

925
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:15,480
Speaker 4: hands up when the officer shot him. Never minded his

926
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:18,080
Speaker 4: body was left dead in the streets to rot for hours.

927
00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:22,160
Speaker 4: Never mind that we routinely saw at this time, especially

928
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:25,799
Speaker 4: and nothing that has really changed black men, unarmed black

929
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:30,400
Speaker 4: men getting shot by the police. So I just you know,

930
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:33,719
Speaker 4: that was ten years ago. So the fact that the

931
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:38,239
Speaker 4: media who normalized this foolish, ridiculousness that we've seen in

932
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:41,360
Speaker 4: Donald Trump, they didn't remind people about Trump having kisleak

933
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:43,600
Speaker 4: in the oval office. They didn't remind people about the

934
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:47,839
Speaker 4: document's case. They didn't remind people about who Donald Trump was,

935
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 4: so it should be no surprise. And I would just

936
00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:52,960
Speaker 4: ask people, if you don't like what you're seeing from

937
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:56,319
Speaker 4: the pundits, then stop watching because by you tuning in,

938
00:52:56,560 --> 00:52:59,640
Speaker 4: you're saying I approve of this, and you're giving them ratings.

939
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:02,319
Speaker 4: When they announced that they met with Donald Trump there

940
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:05,000
Speaker 4: they saw their ratings take a dive. So if you

941
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:07,239
Speaker 4: go back and watch, then they're seeing an uptick and

942
00:53:07,239 --> 00:53:09,920
Speaker 4: they assume that you don't mind. When you tune into US,

943
00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:13,000
Speaker 4: it says, hey, we see people like what they're watching,

944
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 4: so we will expand this platform. We'll give more opportunity.

945
00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:18,360
Speaker 4: When you tune out, it says all people don't like

946
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:20,920
Speaker 4: what they're watching, So you are the real power brokers

947
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:23,560
Speaker 4: at home. Tune out if you don't like it. Speaking

948
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:25,640
Speaker 4: of normalizing, note, I want to get back to the cabinet,

949
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:27,879
Speaker 4: and I know that you got a lot to say

950
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:30,279
Speaker 4: about the cabinet. Which one did you say you you

951
00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:31,400
Speaker 4: wanted to hit Angela?

952
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:34,600
Speaker 1: I forget Doctor last episode.

953
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:39,239
Speaker 5: Doctors, But before I get to doctor Oz, I do

954
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:41,840
Speaker 5: want to address part of this listener question. I actually

955
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:46,959
Speaker 5: might pitch y'all off. I do think that we have

956
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:50,479
Speaker 5: some soul searching to do, because there are a bunch

957
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:53,640
Speaker 5: of us. I label myself as a progressive. I don't

958
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:57,879
Speaker 5: really hold a party label, and there are a lot

959
00:53:57,920 --> 00:54:00,560
Speaker 5: of reasons, and I'm very concerned that the way that

960
00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:03,880
Speaker 5: progressive people are being talked about within the Democratic Party

961
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:09,759
Speaker 5: is damn near violent right now. There is we have

962
00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:15,080
Speaker 5: to have some conversations around how we define ourselves and

963
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:18,040
Speaker 5: then how those definitions are going outside. And so he

964
00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:21,919
Speaker 5: just he brought up wokeism in his comments as well,

965
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:27,560
Speaker 5: and I think wokeness like so, there's a definition from

966
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:30,799
Speaker 5: Oxford that says the quality of being alert to and

967
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:36,000
Speaker 5: concerned about social injustice and discrimination. Then there is a

968
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 5: wokeism definition also in Oxford. It says progressive or left

969
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:46,799
Speaker 5: wing attitudes or practices, especially those opposing social injustice or discrimination,

970
00:54:47,239 --> 00:54:52,560
Speaker 5: that are viewed as doctrinaire, self righteous, and insincere. And

971
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:58,359
Speaker 5: I guess, I guess My question is why is it

972
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:03,240
Speaker 5: self righteous to desire to live? Why is it self

973
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:09,359
Speaker 5: righteous to ask that police officers protect and serve all,

974
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:13,120
Speaker 5: not some? Why is it self righteous to demand that

975
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:15,759
Speaker 5: my paycheck when I'm doing the same job as you

976
00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:19,239
Speaker 5: should be the same. Why is it self righteous for

977
00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:24,120
Speaker 5: me to seek a mortgage loan and hope that my

978
00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:27,600
Speaker 5: mortgage loan would be approved because of my credit score?

979
00:55:27,719 --> 00:55:29,640
Speaker 5: Just like everybody else? Tell we you're rid of those

980
00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:34,680
Speaker 5: things and not disproved or denied because of who I

981
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:38,440
Speaker 5: am and my skin color and where I come from,

982
00:55:38,880 --> 00:55:41,000
Speaker 5: if you can even choose that. Why is it self

983
00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:43,840
Speaker 5: righteous for me to desire to live in a neighborhood

984
00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:47,520
Speaker 5: where my kids and my family can be safe because

985
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:50,000
Speaker 5: I deserve that and I can stay there and I

986
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:53,600
Speaker 5: can afford MYO Like why is that self righteous? And

987
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 5: I think that that is the conversation that we have

988
00:55:56,239 --> 00:55:59,640
Speaker 5: to have. Why is it that your power has to

989
00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:03,040
Speaker 5: be a usif to my to my dreams, to my liberty,

990
00:56:03,080 --> 00:56:06,000
Speaker 5: to my freedom? Like why is that the case? Yes,

991
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:09,319
Speaker 5: my mere, my mere survival. We're not even trying to

992
00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:12,120
Speaker 5: we haven't even talked about thriving yet. So I'm like,

993
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:15,799
Speaker 5: I am literally still at this crossroads. I get it

994
00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:19,520
Speaker 5: with him, I get his frustration with the Democratic Party,

995
00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:23,880
Speaker 5: and I also am curious. We've talked about it at nauseum.

996
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:26,120
Speaker 5: I think especially in our in our you know, in

997
00:56:26,160 --> 00:56:29,200
Speaker 5: our side conversations, but is the tent just too big?

998
00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:32,319
Speaker 5: You know? Is the tent just too at a point

999
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:34,040
Speaker 5: at a breaking point?

1000
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:35,440
Speaker 11: I remember.

1001
00:56:35,640 --> 00:56:37,120
Speaker 1: That's one of the one thing that's one of the

1002
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 1: few things that stood up for me for election Knight,

1003
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:42,480
Speaker 1: was when we were with the Breakfast Club. I think

1004
00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:44,799
Speaker 1: it was Charla Might who said, is the Democratic tent

1005
00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:48,879
Speaker 1: just too big? Can you mean all those needs? And

1006
00:56:49,680 --> 00:56:53,040
Speaker 1: it sat with me, y'all, because one, I think this

1007
00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:55,399
Speaker 1: tent that we are describing as a big, big tent

1008
00:56:55,560 --> 00:56:59,440
Speaker 1: and then therefore representative of a share philosophy has always

1009
00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:01,800
Speaker 1: been a bit of a pipe dream. We have a

1010
00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:04,040
Speaker 1: lot of con Democratic Party has a lot of constituencies

1011
00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:07,320
Speaker 1: to serve. But as we saw from this last election,

1012
00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:11,480
Speaker 1: there were very important parts of that quote constituency who

1013
00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:15,400
Speaker 1: didn't feel seen, heard, spoken to at all whatsoever, and

1014
00:57:16,040 --> 00:57:19,800
Speaker 1: quite lightweight disrespected by some of what was happening, you know,

1015
00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:23,360
Speaker 1: within that frame. I also think that we got to

1016
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:25,880
Speaker 1: really face up to the fact and this was put

1017
00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:28,360
Speaker 1: positive by y'all, you know, and the opening this whole

1018
00:57:28,440 --> 00:57:31,440
Speaker 1: question of the rainbow, the coalition, what is that is

1019
00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:34,640
Speaker 1: that it appears to me that when certain people get

1020
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:38,120
Speaker 1: access to power, they want to one exempt themselves out

1021
00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:41,320
Speaker 1: of the coalition and align with an interest that has

1022
00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:45,600
Speaker 1: worked over time toward their suppression. And in fact, even

1023
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:49,120
Speaker 1: when they joined that coalition, this group is still working

1024
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:53,320
Speaker 1: over time against your very existence. Do you think the

1025
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:55,600
Speaker 1: average run of the mill joe on the street is

1026
00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:58,680
Speaker 1: really making a difference between whether or not you are

1027
00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:02,600
Speaker 1: legal or he or illegally if you look to them

1028
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:07,080
Speaker 1: like a latino, No, they're not. Most most folks aren't

1029
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:10,600
Speaker 1: gonna displice that difference. Just like that incident of the

1030
00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:13,480
Speaker 1: neighbor and the neighbor. You may be a legal citizen,

1031
00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:15,720
Speaker 1: you may have been a born citizen here in this country,

1032
00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:19,640
Speaker 1: yet your neighbor hadn't even demonstrated announced curiosity about that

1033
00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:24,320
Speaker 1: you are brown, you are different, you are other, period.

1034
00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:28,160
Speaker 1: And so I that this tent thing and the question

1035
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:30,919
Speaker 1: you're asking you if it's if it's too big, let's

1036
00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:32,240
Speaker 1: go on a journey and find out.

1037
00:58:32,480 --> 00:58:33,040
Speaker 4: I ask you what.

1038
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:35,040
Speaker 5: I hope we can do that on the mini pot

1039
00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:36,600
Speaker 5: because I didn't like, I didn't know this was gon.

1040
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:39,080
Speaker 5: I didn't know and it wasn't planned, but just hearing

1041
00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:42,160
Speaker 5: like your response watch Tiffany's space. I'm like, I want

1042
00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:44,000
Speaker 5: to talk about this. If we can't like, what is

1043
00:58:44,640 --> 00:58:48,040
Speaker 5: what I think we want from our you know, political system,

1044
00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:50,640
Speaker 5: from democracy? What are our high hopes? Tif maybe we

1045
00:58:50,680 --> 00:58:52,520
Speaker 5: can imagine and find some hope in that.

1046
00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:55,600
Speaker 4: Well, do y'all do y'all want to talk about that?

1047
00:58:55,760 --> 00:58:57,920
Speaker 4: Or do y'all want to talk about the cabinet members

1048
00:58:57,920 --> 00:58:58,919
Speaker 4: on the mini pot or both?

1049
00:58:59,480 --> 00:59:03,120
Speaker 5: I would rap to talk about Yeah, we got times if.

1050
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:05,640
Speaker 4: We because we're going on the hour, we do calls now,

1051
00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:07,840
Speaker 4: we could potentially do both because we would it would

1052
00:59:07,880 --> 00:59:09,560
Speaker 4: just be a longer minipod or we can get into

1053
00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:10,240
Speaker 4: the cabinet now.

1054
00:59:10,680 --> 00:59:15,840
Speaker 5: I'm just going to say, real quick, this cast is trash. Uh, Yes,

1055
00:59:15,960 --> 00:59:19,480
Speaker 5: real quick, the cabinet is trash, doctor oz Uh. You

1056
00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:23,600
Speaker 5: know my grandmother before she passed, God rest her soul,

1057
00:59:24,080 --> 00:59:27,360
Speaker 5: Graham used to always talk to us about what you know,

1058
00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:31,360
Speaker 5: doctor Oh said, And I just would like for him

1059
00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:35,080
Speaker 5: to stay his ass on somebody's TV screen and out

1060
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:39,840
Speaker 5: of the Department of Medicare and Medicaid Services centers. Excuse

1061
00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:43,040
Speaker 5: me for Medicare and Medicaid Services. That's not where he belongs.

1062
00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:46,200
Speaker 5: I'm deeply concerned by most of these pics. We don't

1063
00:59:46,280 --> 00:59:49,640
Speaker 5: have real time to get into them, but just know

1064
00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:55,080
Speaker 5: that he has put in the head of personnel someone

1065
00:59:55,120 --> 00:59:58,760
Speaker 5: who's ran his publishing companies, specifically for his books. This

1066
00:59:58,880 --> 01:00:03,640
Speaker 5: is literally a cabinet of Donald Trump stands. That is

1067
01:00:03,680 --> 01:00:08,160
Speaker 5: what you have people who have pledged blind allegiance to

1068
01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:10,680
Speaker 5: this man. I don't have another thing that is thought

1069
01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:13,760
Speaker 5: provoking to say about this, except for doctor I said,

1070
01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:17,080
Speaker 5: I really don't want you running this, sir, I'm.

1071
01:00:16,960 --> 01:00:19,840
Speaker 1: Telling you, but it's almost right, right, A president who

1072
01:00:19,840 --> 01:00:22,320
Speaker 1: told us to drink clorox or bleach or whatever he

1073
01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:26,440
Speaker 1: said to put this man over medicare medicaid. Y'all, these

1074
01:00:26,480 --> 01:00:30,080
Speaker 1: folks are not playing. And the truth is you said

1075
01:00:30,080 --> 01:00:32,600
Speaker 1: it last week, Tiffany, that trying to call out Donald

1076
01:00:32,640 --> 01:00:35,000
Speaker 1: Trump and follow him from a New s perspective, it's

1077
01:00:35,040 --> 01:00:37,160
Speaker 1: like trying to catch confetti and it's impossible, right, You

1078
01:00:37,160 --> 01:00:39,320
Speaker 1: can't catch all the pieces. And I think one of

1079
01:00:39,360 --> 01:00:41,200
Speaker 1: the things that we're going to be challenged by y'all

1080
01:00:41,280 --> 01:00:44,440
Speaker 1: over the coming weeks and months for sure, but years,

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Speaker 1: is how it is that we create a new system

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Speaker 1: of alert with his actions. We know it all falls

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Speaker 1: in the categorgory of this ain't normal. But if we

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Speaker 1: run around with our hair on fire, people are not

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Speaker 1: going to know when to activate and when we all

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Speaker 1: know this for truth that people can't stay activated twenty

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Speaker 1: four to seven. We have to sleep in shifts, So

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Speaker 1: so cruise got to be ready to move in when

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Speaker 1: they are at their designated time. And so everything is

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Speaker 1: going to feel immergent with this guy. Everything his sky

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Speaker 1: is falling because it truly is. These appointments are deplorable

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Speaker 1: and call them people to put the action of putting

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Speaker 1: these people where he's trying to put them. But there

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Speaker 1: may be different points at which there may be calls

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Speaker 1: to action for us to intervene in some ways to

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Speaker 1: do some things about it. And just because it's not

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Speaker 1: called on everything doesn't mean that everything isn't important or

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Speaker 1: a threat. But we're gonna have to calibrate ourselves as

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Speaker 1: we take in what's happening to make sure we don't

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Speaker 1: run people around this country with their hair on fire,

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Speaker 1: but rather to start to be able to put this

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Speaker 1: stuff into some perspective given what we're going to have

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Speaker 1: to deal with. That's all my thoughts on that. If

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Speaker 1: you want to take us at CTAs.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so just to be clear, we're going to talk

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Speaker 4: about what we want from our political systems on the

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Speaker 4: mini pod. Yes, that's what we wanna do.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we are.

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Speaker 4: And just a reminder to the viewers, you can catch

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Speaker 4: those mini pods. They drop every Monday, and so yeah,

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Speaker 4: we'll get into that. I'm excited about it. I really

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Speaker 4: kind of already gave my CTA. But I'll just reiterate.

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Speaker 4: If you tune into some garbage, they think that's what

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Speaker 4: you like. So you are the person who are the

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Speaker 4: who's the real power broker? Stop tuning in the garbage,

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Speaker 4: Stop listening to the garbage. And the thing I've said

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Speaker 4: repeatedly on here, I'll keep saying it. Please share responsibly.

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Speaker 4: There is so much misinformation doctor tweets, ai videos, Yes

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Speaker 4: it is. Just just take a quick second before you

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Speaker 4: share something and just see if it's accurate or real.

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Speaker 4: I've had so much hit my inbox just this week alone,

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Speaker 4: So just just take a quick pause before you post,

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Speaker 4: before you share, before you drop something, just to make

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Speaker 4: sure that it's accurate. Because we're about to be flooded

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Speaker 4: with a lot of foolishness and guard that will sound fake,

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Speaker 4: but it's sadly real on a lot of cases. Right now,

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Speaker 4: Donald Trump has sixteen cabinet appointments. Who knows where we'll

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Speaker 4: be at by by next week, So stay in.

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Speaker 5: That's all I got, Angela, what you got, I'm going

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Speaker 5: to tell y'all to track the cabinet appointments. Make sure

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Speaker 5: you read up on who these folks are. I've not

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Speaker 5: seen anyone yet that I'm like, you know what, that's

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Speaker 5: a great pick, surprisingly great pick. I am. I am

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Speaker 5: underwhelmed and really pissed, so that that would be my

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Speaker 5: call to action. Please make sure y'all are checking out

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Speaker 5: these cabinet appointments. Yea, videos coming, your questions, your comments.

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Speaker 5: You guys have no idea how important it is to

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Speaker 5: hear from you. We have a town hall style podcast

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Speaker 5: over the holiday, sounds like, And that's because you all

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Speaker 5: have sent in so many videos, so keep them coming.

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Speaker 10: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And actually mine picks up from where you just

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Speaker 1: left off, Angela, which is the commenting and the being engaged.

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Speaker 1: And I don't mean just on our platform. Some of

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Speaker 1: the ways in which I think we're going to be

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Speaker 1: able to raise the heat about some of these nominees

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Speaker 1: in the coming weeks and days is by by hitting

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Speaker 1: on our elected officials. Everybody lives in the state AND's

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Speaker 1: got two representatives in the United States Congress and the

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Speaker 1: United States Senate. They need to know that you expect them,

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Speaker 1: particularly the Democrats, but also the Republicans because they've got

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Speaker 1: the majority. But we do not expect our We do

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Speaker 1: not expect people who share our philosophical beliefs largely between

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Speaker 1: the two systems, to roll over to anything that Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump is pushing. Yes, it is going to be unfair

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Speaker 1: because you are going to have to work around the clock.

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Speaker 1: Your staffs will have to work around the clock. But

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Speaker 1: there are not a lot of protections that people are

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Speaker 1: feeling right now. We are not feeling safe, secure, held

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Speaker 1: in good arms. And the upcoming a couple of months

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Speaker 1: in the next four years, and so now is the time.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a little bit outrageous to see the

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Speaker 1: Democrats only just now came up with a strategy of

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Speaker 1: pushing through judges, and only coincidentally we're able to get

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Speaker 1: a procedural vote pass to get some of those judges

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Speaker 1: through because a couple of Republicans didn't show up. We

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Speaker 1: ought to have real, fell safe plans for what we

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Speaker 1: are going to do. I expect Democrats to manipulate and

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Speaker 1: use the rules that are on the books to the

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Speaker 1: success rate that Republicans have used them when they have

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Speaker 1: been in the minority. They've used them, they've exercised them.

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Speaker 1: And now is y'all's turns to get up, and it

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Speaker 1: is our jobs us, the citizens, the residents in these states,

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Speaker 1: to email, call, be in touch with the staffs and

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Speaker 1: the offices of these members so that they can hear

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Speaker 1: from us. Because if they don't hear from us, y'all,

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Speaker 1: they do just like we do. They're like, oh, there

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Speaker 1: are no heat on, that, there's no heat on, that,

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Speaker 1: there's no expectation. So that's that's it for me. I'm

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Speaker 1: sorry that was a long CTA, but I just want

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Speaker 1: to warn us that this is what's going to be

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Speaker 1: required of us. Are our fooling engagement with these folks, y'all.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate all of us you joining us for this episode,

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Speaker 1: and we hope that you will join with us in

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Speaker 1: the mini pod. Y'all got some parting words otherwise.

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Speaker 5: No welcome home, y'all.

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Speaker 1: Before we leave this show, I want to remind everyone

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Speaker 1: to please leave us a review and subscribe to the

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Speaker 1: Native Lampid. We're available on all platforms and YouTube. New

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Speaker 1: episodes drop every Thursday. Also, please don't forget to follow

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Speaker 1: us on social media. We are Angela Rae, Tiffany Cross,

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Speaker 1: and I'm Andrew Gillum. Welcome home, y'all, and guess what.

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Speaker 1: There are seven hundred and twelve days until the midterm elections.

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Speaker 11: There are no off elections.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for joining the Natives. Attention to what the

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Speaker 2: info and all of the latest rigulum and cross connected

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Speaker 2: to the statements that you leave on our socials. Thank

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Speaker 2: you sincerely for the faces reason for your choice is clear, so.

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Speaker 1: Grateful to execute roles.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for serve, defend and protect the truth human

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Speaker 2: in case we walk on home in all of the Natives,

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Speaker 2: we thank you.

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Speaker 5: Welcomesso.

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