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Speaker 3: Save America with your host Sean Parnell.

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Speaker 4: Good evening, America. Welcome to Battleground Live. This is the

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Speaker 4: We've got a god Daniel Turner on deck, who is

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Speaker 4: He's been around for a real long time. Thank you

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Speaker 4: We are very, very lucky to have you to RM.

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Speaker 4: Thank you. You all are the best. There's so many

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Speaker 4: things that are happening right now, and we're going to

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Speaker 4: with Daniel Turner tonight. But some really really great and

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Speaker 4: also appropriate and funny news right at the top, and

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Speaker 4: that's CNN was found liable for five million dollars in

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Speaker 4: damages at least five million dollars in damages for defaming

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Speaker 4: a navy veteran on what was Jake Tapper's show, And

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Speaker 4: then Jim Acosta got on board. This couldn't happen. This

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Speaker 4: is just so, first of all, my heart breaks for

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Speaker 4: this Navy veteran. Give you just a quick synopsis of

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Speaker 4: what actually is going on. But this poor guy during

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Speaker 4: the Afghan collapse. Wow, the Afghan surrender, of course, happened

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Speaker 4: under the disastrous Biden administration, which three freaking days and

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Speaker 4: President Trump is inaugurated and he's in office, and thank

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Speaker 4: God for that. I think Joe Biden is quite literally

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Speaker 4: the worst president in American history. He has just done

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Speaker 4: unbelievable and extraordinary damage to our country. But this, this

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Speaker 4: navy veteran, rises up seize the fall and collapse surrender

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Speaker 4: of Afghanistan, says I'm going to do something about it,

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Speaker 4: and he worked really hard to find American sponsors who

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Speaker 4: were willing to throw money behind evacuating Afghan allies. Very noble,

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Speaker 4: altruistic cause. CNN completely smeared this guy, destroyed his reputation,

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Speaker 4: saying that he was demanding I'm paraphrasing the lawsuit here,

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Speaker 4: but you can read it.

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Speaker 5: It's out there.

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Speaker 4: The news broke today, but they basically said this guy

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Speaker 4: was asking for exorbitant sums of money from Afghans in

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Speaker 4: order to be evacuated, when actually that wasn't true at all,

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Speaker 4: But I'm going to play this sound here just to

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Speaker 4: give you a gist of what the accusation looked like

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Speaker 4: in the moment and then CNN's subsequent apology.

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Speaker 5: Check this out.

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Speaker 6: After the fall of Afghanistan, many Afghans are still desperate

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Speaker 7: CNN's Alex bark Word found a black market ready to

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Speaker 8: We skyped with a father of three in kabl who

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Speaker 8: had just met with a man offering to get them

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Speaker 8: on an event vacuation flight list. What is the US

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Speaker 8: doing that you know of to try to get you

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Speaker 9: Unfortunately they are not doing now anything up to thirty first,

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Speaker 8: So he went online where he found a man named

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Speaker 8: Zachary Young, who is one of many advertising evacuations from Afghanistan,

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Speaker 8: posting just this week we can deliver One LinkedIn user

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Speaker 8: posted messages with Young, where Young said it would be

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Speaker 8: seventy five thousand dollars for a car to Pakistan. He

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Speaker 8: of most Afghans. We got Young's number and called, but

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Speaker 8: he didn't pick up. In a text message, he told

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Speaker 8: CNN that Afghans trying to leave are expected to have

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Speaker 8: sponsors pay for them. If someone reaches out, we need

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Speaker 8: be able to pay evacuation costs, which Young says are

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Speaker 8: highly volatile and based on environmental realities. Young repeatedly declined

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Speaker 8: to break down the costs or say if he's making money.

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Speaker 10: And thanks to Alex Mark Word for that eye opening

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Speaker 10: report and before we go a correction. In November, we

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Speaker 10: ran a story about Afghans desperate to flee the country

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Speaker 10: who faced pain high sums beyond the reach of average Afghans.

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Speaker 10: The story included a lead in and banner throughout the

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Speaker 10: story that referenced a black market. The use of the

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Speaker 10: term black market in the story was an error. The

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Speaker 10: story included reporting on Zachary Jung, a private operator who

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Speaker 10: had been contacted by family members of Afghans trying to

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Speaker 10: flee the country. We did not intend to suggest that

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Speaker 10: Master mister Young participated in a black market. We regret

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Speaker 10: the air and to mister Young, we apologize.

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Speaker 4: Well, listen, first of all, that's not true, and I

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Speaker 4: really encourage you to go read about this case because

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Speaker 4: as part of the evidence that the jury used to

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Speaker 4: evaluate whether or not CNN should be held liable CNN's

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Speaker 4: emails between Jake Tapper and this guy named Marquette. I

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Speaker 4: guess was a reporter. I guess it was the guy

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Speaker 4: who saw there about the phone, Well, we called him,

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Speaker 4: but he didn't answer.

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Speaker 5: Well apparently.

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Speaker 4: I believe, as after reading the evidence and the trial

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Speaker 4: itself earlier today, that that call never actually happened.

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Speaker 5: It was just completely faked.

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Speaker 4: But you would not believe the emails between Jake Tapper

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Speaker 4: and other people behind the scenes at CNN and how

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Speaker 4: they were talking about this navy veteran. They were completely

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Speaker 4: out to get this guy. They were saying, Oh, the

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Speaker 4: guy has a punchable face, We're gonna nail this MF

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Speaker 4: or just some of the worst stuff that you could

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Speaker 4: trying to help people. Gives you a sense of who

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Speaker 4: CNN and the people that work at CNN really are now,

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Speaker 4: if you'll remember.

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Speaker 5: The reason why.

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Speaker 4: This is significant is because I think set to precedent

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Speaker 4: they'd done to this country since the guy came down

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Speaker 4: the golden escalator. Now, ABC earlier this year, if you remember,

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Speaker 4: settled with Trump for fifteen million dollars after George Stefanopp

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Speaker 4: and Appanopolis to fame Trump on air. They also apologized

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Speaker 4: to him. So if you remember what CNN said after that,

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Speaker 4: I think they were clearly worried because they knew that

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Speaker 4: they were being sued for defamation as well, and that

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Speaker 4: bad things might happen to them too. This was Jake

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Speaker 4: Tapper in the wake of that ABC lawsuit, looking all glum.

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Speaker 6: Note, Kristen, I don't want to overstate Trump's friendliness and

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Speaker 6: genial attitude at this press conference, because this weekend, ABC

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Speaker 6: News agreed to pay sixteen million dollars including legal fees,

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Speaker 6: to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by Trump against the

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Speaker 6: network on their anchor, George Stefanopolis, and that obviously will

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Speaker 6: not be the end of this campaign against the media,

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Speaker 6: legal campaign against the media. We heard him go after

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Speaker 6: many other news outlets today.

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Speaker 11: Take a listen, Well, I'm.

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Speaker 1: Going to be bringing one against.

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Speaker 12: The people in Iowa. Their newspaper were filing one on

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Speaker 12: sixty minutes. We're involved in one which has been going

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Speaker 12: on for a while and very successfully against Bob Woodward.

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Speaker 12: We have one very interestingly on Bulletser, because reporters at

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Speaker 12: the New York Times Washington Post got Bulletser prizes for

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Speaker 12: the Yeah, wonderful, accurate and highly professional reporting on the

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Speaker 12: Russia Russia Russia hoax.

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Speaker 6: We don't have time to go all that, but just

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Speaker 6: a touch base on a couple there. One of them

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Speaker 6: is the people of Iowa at the one register. That's

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Speaker 6: because there was a poll that was that was inaccurate.

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Speaker 6: The one on sixty minutes is because they didn't like

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Speaker 6: the editing that had been done to the Yeah, I

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Speaker 6: mean this is this is wildly ridiculous.

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Speaker 4: It's actually not wildly ridiculous. Trump issuing CBS for election interference.

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Speaker 5: And he should.

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Speaker 4: What these media outlets have done to President Trump and

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Speaker 4: his family is nothing short of criminal. You should not

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Speaker 4: be like I get it. Free speech is everything in

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Speaker 4: this country. It's freedom of speech. It's just it's just everything.

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Speaker 4: But they have these these media types have gone out

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Speaker 4: of their way to push hoaxes that have actually not

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Speaker 4: just hurt President Trump who's running for office, but his

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 4: It's it's sickening what they've done. But what CBS did

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Speaker 4: was also election interference. At the height of a presidential campaign.

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Speaker 4: They they significantly edited what was supposed to be a

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Speaker 4: live interview, a real time interview with Kamala Harris to

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Speaker 4: make her look better and more palatable to the American people.

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Speaker 4: They did this to sway an election. That is election interference,

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Speaker 4: and Trump is suing them for I think between ten

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Speaker 4: to fifteen million dollars. And word on the street is

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Speaker 4: that CBS is thinking of settling that lawsuit. But if

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Speaker 4: you don't remember that, what I'm talking about the interview

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Speaker 4: with CBS and Kamala Harris Harris, it's this. See if

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Speaker 4: you can detect the difference in the way that Kamala

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Speaker 4: Harris answered this question, in the way that CBS clearly

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Speaker 4: edited the answer to make her look better.

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Speaker 1: It seems that Prime Minister Netanyah, who is not listening.

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Speaker 13: Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted.

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Speaker 4: For those listening this is this is the actual answer.

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Speaker 4: Listen to this word salad.

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Speaker 13: And a number of movements in that region by Israel

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Speaker 13: that were very much prompted by or a result of

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Speaker 13: many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen

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Speaker 13: in the region.

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Speaker 1: But it seems that Prime Minister Netanya who is not.

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Speaker 5: Listening this is the edited answer.

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Speaker 13: They're not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for

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Speaker 13: the United States to be clear about where we stand

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Speaker 13: on the need for this war to end.

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Speaker 4: I mean, they are clearly these media outlets are clearly

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Speaker 4: propaganda through and through. They edited that answer to make

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Speaker 4: Kamala Harris look better because she was running for president

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Speaker 4: and they didn't want Donald Trump to win. So I

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Speaker 4: think Donald Trump is right to put some of these

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Speaker 4: media outlets on notice for their lying and their election interference. Again,

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Speaker 4: think back to the Hunter Biden laptop and how if

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Speaker 4: I think if the American people and polls have reflected this,

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Speaker 4: If the American people knew about the Hunter Biden laptop,

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Speaker 4: and then they knew the truth behind what was on

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Speaker 4: the laptop between seven and fifteen percent of Americans would

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Speaker 4: have likely changed their vote. I mean, now, listen, it's

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Speaker 1: It's great to be back on with you. It's great

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Speaker 5: You're one hundred percent right.

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Speaker 4: So this is this is the New York City taxpayer.

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Speaker 1: And I don't mean in terms of age. I mean

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Speaker 1: in terms of their ideas. There there their vision, they

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Speaker 1: have no vision, but they're so old they're still stuck

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Speaker 1: on do you think women have the right to? Not

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Speaker 1: that women's rights don't matter, of course they do. But

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Speaker 1: of course if you look at the grandiosity and the

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Speaker 1: vastness of D O D and that's all you're stuck on.

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Speaker 1: Is this one tiny little you know, the them hearing

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Speaker 1: I was at yesterday. The vastness of the Department of Interior,

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Speaker 1: six hundred million acres over something observed like one point

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Speaker 1: two million acres of offshore national parks oil gask like

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Speaker 1: the vastness of this, and it's like, do you think

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Speaker 1: lesbians have the right to? And you want to say, Senator,

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Speaker 1: with all of this, your your ideas are so old.

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Speaker 5: Like oh yes, wait, let me show you.

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Speaker 4: Let me show you Senator Herono's questions to Doug Bergham,

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Speaker 4: all of the issues that we face with energy independence

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Speaker 4: and energy here in this country. Listen to this insanity.

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Speaker 15: Thank you, missus Sherman welcome. As part of my responsibilities

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Speaker 15: to ensure the fitness of nominees before any of the committee,

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Speaker 15: so much, I said, I asked the following two initial questions. Firstus,

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Speaker 15: since you became a legal adult, have you ever made

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Speaker 15: a want to request for sexual favors or committed any

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Speaker 15: verbal or physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature.

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Speaker 1: No, Senator, I have not.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever faced this?

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Speaker 4: I mean, I can't even get I mean, of course,

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Speaker 4: nobody wants a cabinet nominee to have done any of

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Speaker 4: that stuff. But my god, you get seven minutes in

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Speaker 4: these hearings right as a sitting US senator, Democrat or Republican,

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Speaker 4: to ask questions, and to your point about whether it's

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Speaker 4: Pete's hearing or incoming Secretary Bergham's hearing, It's like these

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Speaker 4: questions are unbecoming of the American people. They're just they're

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Speaker 4: not serious. Like the Department of Defense, all branches of

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Speaker 4: the military face very very serious problems and you know,

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Speaker 4: I thought, you know, just as as something of a

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Speaker 4: politico like the Dems could have made Pete's life a

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Speaker 4: lot harder. It would have been tough for them to

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Speaker 4: do because Pete's he knows his stuff, and he's articulate,

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Speaker 4: he knows how to handle himself. But they could have

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Speaker 4: done a hell of a lot better than like Pete.

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Speaker 4: You know, he's a misogynist and you know women and

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Speaker 4: oh you're just so inexperienced. Those are dumb angles. And likewise,

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Speaker 4: this stuff with Bergham is the same shit. Man, It's ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was waiting for Pete to to say to

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Speaker 1: Senator Jillibrand, calm down.

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Speaker 4: But but you know, it was a weird to have

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Speaker 4: a bunch of a bunch of old a bunch of

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Speaker 4: not old, but like a bunch of angry women just

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Speaker 4: yelling at Pete the whole time.

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Speaker 5: I'm sorry, I know that's gonna but it's true.

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Speaker 1: But even just in terms of optics, and if you

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Speaker 1: really wanted to defeat him, you could have made the

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Speaker 1: same points without the the histrionics, without the emotion, without

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Speaker 1: the screaming nature that that Instagram video that was trending

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Speaker 1: of the six boxes, of all the women yelling at him,

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Speaker 1: his face in the middle, like Alice and the Brady Bunch,

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Speaker 1: just just just stoneface listening to it. You could have

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Speaker 1: made the point and it would have been more effective.

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Speaker 1: It would have been crueler and harder if you just

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Speaker 1: had some But they're incapable of it. There there are

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Speaker 1: questions their vision there. Everything is so old, it's so

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Speaker 1: it's so boring. There's no vision, there's no plan for tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: It's just you gonna get rid of the text credits

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Speaker 1: on EV's like, that's the whole. The other thing that

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Speaker 1: struck me, which I'm hoping to write an op ed

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Speaker 1: about if I get time, was the senators. I don't

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Speaker 1: even think they know their job. There were so many

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Speaker 1: questions to the Interior Secretary about tax credits for wind

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Speaker 1: and solar EVS and I, from the back of the

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Speaker 1: room wanted to scream, that's your job, senator, right that

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Speaker 1: the Secretary of Interior doesn't give out tax credits. The

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Speaker 1: communist does. And so if you want tax credits, pass

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Speaker 1: a bill that's called the Ron Wyden Bill for tax

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Speaker 1: credits for solar. But he doesn't want to do that.

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Speaker 1: Governor a Senator Widen. So he wants to sneak it

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Speaker 1: in somehow, and he wants to use the bureaucracy, which

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Speaker 1: is why we call the weaponization of government. So now

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Speaker 1: he wants to know if the Department of Interior will

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Speaker 1: do something, which illegally they've been doing. And it's like,

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Speaker 1: well you do it, Senative, but I don't want to

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Speaker 1: pass a law with my name on it. So they

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Speaker 1: don't even know what their jobs are. They've advocated so

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Speaker 1: much authority to these bureaucracies. Governor Bergham was brilliant. I mean,

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Speaker 1: talk about a man crush. I mean, the guy was

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Speaker 1: just exceptional and every answer was just flawless. I mean, really,

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Speaker 1: it's so exciting his vision for energy for the country.

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Speaker 1: I was thrilled. I was so happy when this hearing

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Speaker 1: was over.

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Speaker 4: It was for folks who are listening and maybe watching

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Speaker 4: at home. Listen to a little bit of Burghum's Doug

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Speaker 4: Bergham's opening statement check us out.

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Speaker 16: Today America produces energy cleaner, smarter, and safer than anywhere

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Speaker 16: in the world. And when energy production is restricted in America,

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Speaker 16: it doesn't reduce demand, it just shifts productions to countries

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Speaker 16: like Russia and Iran, who's autocratic leaders not only don't

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Speaker 16: care at all about the environ but they use their

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Speaker 16: revenues from energy sales to fund wars against US and

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Speaker 16: our allies. President Trump's energy dominance vision will end those

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Speaker 16: wars abroad, will make life more affordable for every family

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Speaker 16: in America by driving down inflation. And President Trump will

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Speaker 16: achieve those goals while championing clean air, clean water, and

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Speaker 16: protecting our beautiful land.

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Speaker 5: That's a solid opening statement.

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Speaker 1: This is stuff. The power of the fure is the

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Speaker 1: reason why power of the future exists. Is this exact vision.

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Speaker 1: If his lovely wife had just tilted her head a

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Speaker 1: little bit, you would have seen me. I was in

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Speaker 1: the background, trying to be on like the camera hog

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Speaker 1: that I am. But it was just a brilliant opening statement.

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Speaker 1: One of the things he said which really stuck with

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Speaker 1: me was he said, we're constantly berating ourselves on our debt,

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Speaker 1: and our debt is real, thirty six trillion dollars in net,

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Speaker 1: thirty six trillion dollars in debt, he says, but nobody

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Speaker 1: knows our assets. So Biden just gave away six hundred

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Speaker 1: million acres of offshore water from drilling. What's the value

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Speaker 1: of that, Well, we don't know because we don't know

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Speaker 1: how much oil there is offshore. We don't know how

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Speaker 1: much is subsurface mining and metals and minerals. We don't

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Speaker 1: know what our timber industry is worth. Because you look

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Speaker 1: at some of these national forests and the environmental policies

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Speaker 1: are so insane you can't go in and you can't assess.

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Speaker 1: So he says, we talk about our debt and we

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Speaker 1: make it sound like our countries in bad shape. But

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Speaker 1: what if I told you our assets were four hundred trillion, Well,

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Speaker 1: then suddenly thirty six trillion in debt isn't quite so bad.

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Speaker 1: But we have no idea on a balance sheet what

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Speaker 1: we are worth because we are prevented by bad policies

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Speaker 1: of doing this investigation. And it was like, that's something

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Speaker 1: a businessman would say, and he is a businessman. He's

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Speaker 1: a self made billionaire us for a reason, he's never

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Speaker 1: been in well, he was governor, but he literally went

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Speaker 1: from being a billionaire to saying I'm going to fix

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Speaker 1: the state and run for governor. So he's I guess

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Speaker 1: a couple of years of politician, but he's a businessman

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Speaker 1: at heart. And that's what we need in this country

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Speaker 1: is someone to say, what are the assets of the Pentagon.

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Speaker 1: The Pentagon has failed. I did tweet that in real

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Speaker 1: time when Governor when when Senator Blumenthal was like, we

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Speaker 1: can't afford a mismanaged Pentagon. It was like, you've failed

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Speaker 1: an audit for eight straight years? You have you don't

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Speaker 1: even know how many tanks you have in the Pentagon.

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Speaker 1: How dare you Vietnam veteran bloom and fall? Tell us

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Speaker 1: that's the joke for those who know. It was infuriating. So,

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Speaker 1: but Bergham had this vision, this direction that you say like, yes,

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Speaker 1: we need, we need I'm getting choked up, we need

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Speaker 1: that in this country. It was, it was.

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Speaker 5: It was amazing, Yeah, it really was.

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Speaker 4: And so I think I said, Burgham is and he's

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Speaker 4: Bergham is the income incoming Secretary of the Interior. And

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Speaker 4: then you have, right, Chris Wright is incoming Secretary of Energy, Right,

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Speaker 4: Chris Chris Wright is also gonna be fantastic in that role.

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Speaker 5: He is.

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Speaker 4: He is super intelligent. I've read a lot about this guy.

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Speaker 4: I've actually watched some of some of his speeches. He's

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Speaker 4: super intelligent and He's also very very articulate, which I

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Speaker 4: think is really important for some of these secretary nominees.

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Speaker 4: And I think the highlight of his I mean, there

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Speaker 4: are lots, I mean watching these hearings, but was his

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Speaker 4: comments on China and are you going to commit to

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Speaker 4: a clean energy race with China? When I heard a

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Speaker 4: Democrat senator asked that, I was like, these people they

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Speaker 4: are I don't know if they really believe this stuff, Daniel,

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Speaker 4: or are they just that stupid. I'm not trying to

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Speaker 4: be rude, but a clean energy race with China. Somehow

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Speaker 4: they think that China is committed to green energy. There's

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Speaker 4: no way they could possibly believe that. But Right's response

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Speaker 4: to this was fantastic.

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Speaker 17: Check it out about the legislation that was written in

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Speaker 17: this room that was the biggest transformation on clean energy

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Speaker 17: in American history.

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Speaker 5: That is our.

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Speaker 17: Package that basically said the tax code as it relates

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Speaker 17: to energy is a broken down ness, and we basically

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Speaker 17: said we're gonna have a technology neutral system. The more

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Speaker 17: you reduce carbon, the bigger your tax savings. Now there

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Speaker 17: is a big effort in the Trump administration to reverse it.

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Speaker 17: I think that's gonna be bad for the economy, but

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Speaker 17: it is going to be damn good for China because

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Speaker 17: we are in an arms race and clean energy with them.

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Speaker 17: Are you going to be on the side of people

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Speaker 17: who want to unravel this?

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Speaker 5: Uh?

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Speaker 11: Senator the senator widen, just so we can frame this

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Speaker 11: for everyone in the room. China will build one hundred

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Speaker 11: new coal plants this year. There is not a clean

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Speaker 11: energy race. There is an energy race China.

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Speaker 5: So of course that's best. Not right. I'm all sorts

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Speaker 5: of food bar today.

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Speaker 4: My god, it's Friday, so at least grabbed me some

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Speaker 4: grace there. But that, but the point remains, right, Daniel, like,

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Speaker 4: we're not in a clean energy race with China. China

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Speaker 4: doesn't give a shit about clean energy at all.

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Speaker 1: Another guy who's a self made billionaire who entered the

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Speaker 1: foray of politics because he and he said this in

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Speaker 1: his opening remarks, I was so sad to see the

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Speaker 1: state of our country are spending our debt when I

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Speaker 1: know our assets, I know how valuable our country, how

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Speaker 1: much potential we have. This is a guy who didn't

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Speaker 1: want to be in politics, and admittedly so, and now

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Speaker 1: he's going to be the Treasury secretary. But what a

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Speaker 1: brilliant answer and so moderated. And here's Ron Wyden, and

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Speaker 1: you want to say, Senator again, why is China building

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Speaker 1: these coal plants. They're building these coal plants because they're

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Speaker 1: manufacturing the very solar panels that we're buying, because you

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Speaker 1: cannot manufacture solar panels without coal. Right, the actual solar

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Speaker 1: panel itself, which is crystalline courtzite. To make it, you

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Speaker 1: have to heat it to around two thousand degrees and

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Speaker 1: the only thing that burns that hot, which a lot

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Speaker 1: of Western pa folks know, is that's why you need

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Speaker 1: coal for steel and coal for cement, because it burns

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Speaker 1: hot and it burns consistently. Well, it's expensive to do

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Speaker 1: that here, and we punish it in America, make it

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Speaker 1: overseas because they don't burn coal responsibly as we do

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Speaker 1: in America, and they use nine year old girls to

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Speaker 1: do so. So here's Ron Wyden, the Senator from Oregon,

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Speaker 1: saying how great it is for the environment that we

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Speaker 1: shut down responsible coal electricity here in America to buy crappy,

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Speaker 1: slave made solar panels made with bad coal in China,

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Speaker 1: to make expensive electricity here in America fifteen percent of

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Speaker 1: the time and we call this being environmental, we call

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Speaker 1: this being green, we call this a victory. And Ron

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Speaker 1: Wyden says, are you going to reverse this? Fuck? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna reverse it because it's failure. And proof of

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Speaker 1: that is the fact that you're paying, you know, thirty

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Speaker 1: five percent more for your electricity than you were when

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Speaker 1: the Biden administration began. It's just been an abject failure,

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Speaker 1: and yet we're trying to pretend that it's winning based

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Speaker 1: upon these fake numbers. Four hundred million, that's how Congress measures.

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Speaker 1: That's their metric of success. We've spent four hundred million airgo,

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Speaker 1: it must be good. It's like when you go to

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Speaker 1: a meal and you're like, well, this bottle of wine

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Speaker 1: is two hundred bucks, it must be good, must it?

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Speaker 1: You know? Maybe it is, maybe it's not. All I

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Speaker 1: know is it's really damn expensive. And Congress measures their

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Speaker 1: their success by how much money they've We've spent four

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Speaker 1: trillion more on education. Our kids aren't any smarter, right,

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Speaker 1: Every congressman, every politician does this, and it's infuriating. So yes,

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Speaker 1: Scott Bessent was just again calm, educated, rational, and he

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Speaker 1: makes these senators look, as I said, old stale, ideas stale.

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Speaker 5: They're just dumb.

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Speaker 4: I mean, so many of these Democrat senators are just dumb.

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, they're just dumb. I just can't Maybe some

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Speaker 4: of them are politically shrewd and they think they have

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Speaker 4: gotcha questions. But I'll tell you, like Tammy Duckworth reading

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Speaker 4: the soldier Creed to Pete, Hegseth a guy that was

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Speaker 4: in the army for twenty years. So you think that

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Speaker 4: Pete doesn't know and understand the soldier's creed, I's just

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Speaker 4: like insulting. It's ridiculous, it's grand standing. And meanwhile, you know,

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Speaker 4: back to the clean energy thing, this these solar panels.

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Speaker 4: What kills me is that why have we convinced ourselves?

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Speaker 4: You know, first of all, why are we handicapping ourselves?

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Speaker 4: Why are the Democrats so hell bent on kneecapping America

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Speaker 4: when it comes to energy this and is actually from

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Speaker 4: a national security standpoint, it's actually very very dangerous. You know,

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Speaker 4: if there were an actual real life emergency or crisis

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Speaker 4: or god forbid, America was attacked and we're reliant on

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Speaker 4: these stupid solar panels that get knocked out in a

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Speaker 4: bad hailstorm, or with high winds. It just doesn't make

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Speaker 4: any sense. And if clearly you hear me talking about

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Speaker 4: it just pisses me off.

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Speaker 1: Because I'm really passionate.

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Speaker 4: It's just just it's ridiculous to me, and I just

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Speaker 4: don't understand. I don't understand how they can not get this.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're a great center from Pennsylvania. Your new

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Speaker 1: one was at the Doug Burgham confirmation because he's on

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Speaker 1: the Energy Committee. Makes perfect sense. He represents the second

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Speaker 1: largest natural gas producing state in the nation, and he

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Speaker 1: mentioned that he and Doug Bergham in respond said, you know, Senator,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how many Americans realize that Pennsylvania produces

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Speaker 1: twenty percent of our natural gas. And I wanted to

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Speaker 1: yell out from the back. No one more than Bob

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Speaker 1: Casey doesn't realize that, right, Like Dave McCormick realizes that, right,

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Speaker 1: American Pennsylvanians did, but Bob Casey shore as hell didn't.

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Speaker 1: And where's Bob Well, I mean, he's taking a nap.

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Speaker 1: So that's the only thing that he's gotten. A professorship

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Speaker 1: somewhere at this point, right, and That's what I'm looking for.

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Speaker 1: Biden leaves in a couple of days. Is they'll all

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Speaker 1: get jobs at Yale and Harbor. He'll go to Penn, right,

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Speaker 1: he'll get a professorship of Polly sci like Biden did,

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Speaker 1: right million dollars a year, and he'll tell people I

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Speaker 1: taught college when I graduated, taught college like he's got

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Speaker 1: books under it here. So I'm curious to see where

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Speaker 1: some of these idiots in the Biden administration land, because

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Speaker 1: academia is the only place, because again, they're ideas, then

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Speaker 1: they don't really work when you put them in practice,

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Speaker 1: like Marxism, but in ideas it sounds. It sounds fantastic.

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Speaker 1: And the damage they've done will take President Trump some

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Speaker 1: time to undo. I heard you say right before I

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Speaker 1: was coming on that Pietez at the fifty vote, And

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Speaker 1: right before I came on that, I saw Senator Thune,

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Speaker 1: majority leader of the Senate, say that they hope to

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Speaker 1: have the new senator appointees from Ohio and Florida sworn

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Speaker 1: in right after the inaugural. So that's two more Republican votes.

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Speaker 1: I got to tell you, if you're newly sworn in

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Speaker 1: to the Senate and your first act is voting against

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Speaker 1: the Secretary of defense.

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Speaker 4: Oh no, tell me, okay, break this down for me. So,

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Speaker 4: oh god, yeah, you're right. So the president would be

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Speaker 4: inaugurated on the twentieth hag Seth's vote, and I think, actually,

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Speaker 4: I think Rubio's vote is actually on the twentieth, shortly

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Speaker 4: after Yes, Trump's inauguration. The sec deaf is the schedule

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Speaker 4: for the twenty first. Right now, he's at fifty, but

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Speaker 4: that does not count the incoming senator from Ohio.

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Speaker 1: I don't believe. So no, because both of them have

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Speaker 1: officially resigned their positions. JD. Vance and Marco Rubio have resigned,

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Speaker 1: so that the fifty is probably now we have fifty

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Speaker 1: three Republicans, so minus those two and we're still at

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Speaker 1: fifty so, which is a great number to be at.

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Speaker 1: So normally what they've done in the past is as

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Speaker 1: soon as the inaugural's done and everyone well, they're not

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Speaker 1: walking back up the stairs because they're not going to

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Speaker 1: be outside, They'll be in the rotunda literally within minutes.

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Speaker 1: They'll grab the Vice president as who's the president of

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Speaker 1: the Senate? JD. Vance and they will say swear in

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Speaker 1: these two and hand on the bike and if the

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Speaker 1: swearing ceremony will happen in forty five seconds, and it

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Speaker 1: will be immediate and then Thune will probably grab everyone,

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Speaker 1: run to the Senate do a quick vote. And the

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Speaker 1: reason why is that Marco Rubio has asked for immediate

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Speaker 1: swearing in because of war, right, and same with Pete

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Speaker 1: hegseth Right, there's a lot of shit going on and

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Speaker 1: if we're secretary, that's not good. He probably wants to

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Speaker 1: go in and start firing some of these these morons too,

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Speaker 1: which would be a glorious thing.

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Speaker 4: Did you see the video of the Secretary of Defense, well,

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Speaker 4: the outgoing Secretary of Defense Austin, he'd leaving his office

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Speaker 4: and everyone's clapping, and I'm thinking, like, you know what

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Speaker 4: Pete said during the hearing. And of course this is

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Speaker 4: very very much the case. You lose a rifle or

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Speaker 4: your night vision in the military, now not only are

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Speaker 4: they throwing the book at you, but they are docking

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Speaker 4: your pay for the full amount of that weapon system

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Speaker 4: and that sensitive item. But if you're a military, if

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Speaker 4: you're a general, and you lose a war, they promote you.

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Speaker 4: That is a fact, Daniel, that that's one hundred percent

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Speaker 4: how it works. And things are just completely upside down

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Speaker 4: and I'm thinking, if you're in the Pentagon, you're clapping.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I understand, and I really do understand the

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Speaker 4: deference and respect that Secretary of Defense Austin has in

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Speaker 4: that building. But how can you be proud of that

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Speaker 4: surrender in Afghanistan and what Austin has done to our military.

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, but this is not the best version of

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Speaker 4: the military. And likewise, same with the Department of Transportation

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Speaker 4: under Brudagegg. He gave his farewell address today and who

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Speaker 4: the hell Grand Holmes Secretary of Energy. What a disaster

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Speaker 4: she was. I mean, all of these people have done

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Speaker 4: extraordinary damage to the country. And by the way, none

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Speaker 4: of them are qualified. Pete buke Keg is like, oh yeah,

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Speaker 4: I want to be Secretary of Transportation because I like trains,

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Speaker 4: and like, meanwhile, you got some Republicans that are just like,

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Speaker 4: I'm vote vote for this man. So I just it

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Speaker 4: just struck me as I was surprised. But here now

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Speaker 4: we have Heg Sath who is who's qualified to do

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Speaker 4: the job, and others where people.

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Speaker 5: Are like oh ho ho hung, I don't harump, I don't.

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Speaker 4: Know if we can vote for them. They're not qualified.

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Speaker 4: Look at what may Orcus has done. Look at what

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Speaker 4: Graham Home at Home is done, Look at what Buda

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Speaker 4: Gag has done. These people have done more damage to

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Speaker 4: the economy in four years than any Republican nominee, certainly

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Speaker 4: within my memory.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think for General Austin and clearly you

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Speaker 1: know this world way better than I ever will, even

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Speaker 1: as as as awful as Afghanistan was, if people were like, well,

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Speaker 1: let's take that off the table, how else will we

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Speaker 1: measure successful? How's your recruitment going, right? And if you're

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Speaker 1: leaving a department that has fewer people because they don't

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Speaker 1: want to join, clearly something is wrong with your your

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Speaker 1: your your your team right. It's why coaches get eventually

809
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Speaker 1: get get kicked off. You know, if if the high

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Speaker 1: school recruits are like you know what, I think Nick

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Speaker 1: Saban's great, but I want to go to Georgia. You know,

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Speaker 1: a Kirby Smart's got my attention. Uh uh, Lane Kiffin's

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Speaker 1: got my eye. I want to go play for Marcus

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Speaker 1: Freeman go Irish on Monday right that you can see it.

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Speaker 5: If you're another Notre Dame fan.

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Speaker 4: So like, we had a big conversation with Steve Friend,

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Speaker 4: who was on Steve Friend, who is a he's a

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Speaker 4: law enforcement officer.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if you know.

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Speaker 4: I'm the law enforcement guy, FBI guy turned whistleblower. He

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Speaker 4: left the organization because the FBI was prosecuting January sixth

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Speaker 4: prisoners and like they were violating all sorts of their

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Speaker 4: own protocol. So he became a whistleblower. Anyway, he went

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Speaker 4: to Notre Dame and is a big freeman guy. And

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Speaker 4: so now we've got I got two back to back

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Speaker 4: Notre Dame fans on the show.

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Speaker 5: What this is? This is ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: That's why Monday is going to be probably the greatest

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Speaker 1: day in my life. I'm going to see President Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to see it now. I had my

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Speaker 1: tickets and I wasn't gonna brave, but I don't think

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna make there. They were expecting around a million people,

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Speaker 1: and I think they're kidding me about a million hundred.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know if I'm going to be one

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Speaker 1: of those that gets moved from the millions to this man.

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Speaker 5: Like Melanie and I have been.

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Speaker 4: We've been down in DC like the last several times

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Speaker 4: over the last couple of weeks and you know, we're like,

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Speaker 4: what's that all? Yeah, yeah, So we're like looking at

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Speaker 4: hotel rooms there and like, you know, you can lay

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Speaker 4: out the entire month's calendar and like the day before

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Speaker 4: the inauguration or like two days before the day before

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Speaker 4: the day up. I mean, these hotel rooms are going

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Speaker 4: for like two thousand and three thousand, five thousand dollars

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Speaker 4: a night for inauguration. That is insane, first of all,

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Speaker 4: But second of all, what is your take on them

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Speaker 4: moving inauguration inside? I mean they said it's gonna be

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Speaker 4: the weather in the wind chill, and you know, when

849
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Speaker 4: Barack Obama was inaugurated, I think it was in twenty twelve,

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Speaker 4: the weather was really bad. There was some cold weather

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Speaker 4: injuries for that. But they don't cancel the Macy's Day parade.

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Speaker 4: I mean, they don't cancel other you know, outdoor events

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Speaker 4: at least I don't think. So that leads me to

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Speaker 4: believe that there might be something else to play here.

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Speaker 1: What you say, five degree weather definitely hurts, There's no

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Speaker 1: doubt about it.

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Speaker 5: For sure.

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Speaker 1: That's what it's expected to be right now as five

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Speaker 1: I know all of Alaska's laughing at us for an

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Speaker 1: event that starts at ten. You have to be there

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Speaker 1: by by eight thirty to get through security, so you're

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Speaker 1: just sitting there from eight thirty to ten. Then it's

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Speaker 1: about two hours long. So I can understand that. But

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Speaker 1: I will say this, not knowing any intel, I think

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Speaker 1: there's probably a bit of a sigh of relief on

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Speaker 1: Secret Services part, and Secret Service has been clearly a

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Speaker 1: mess with President Trump, there's probably a sigh of relief

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Speaker 1: of like, it's, you know what, it's one less thing

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Speaker 1: to worry about in what is an early chaotic day. Right,

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Speaker 1: You've got for a couple of hours, you've got four

871
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Speaker 1: people you have to protect, you know, not equally. But

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Speaker 1: but Biden is still the president, he still has his

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Speaker 1: whole detail. Trump is the president elect, and that switches

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Speaker 1: in a second, but the shift of personnel protective protective

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Speaker 1: personnel doesn't. So you've got the vice presidents, you've got

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Speaker 1: the presidents, you've got the spouses. Secret Service that day

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Speaker 1: is it's a logistical hell, and I'm sure they're like,

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Speaker 1: you know what, this is just one thing to make

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Speaker 1: our job a little easier, and sadly it's kind of

880
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Speaker 1: a reflection of our time. I hope it ends. But

881
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Speaker 1: how many people are in our country?

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Speaker 5: Right?

883
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Speaker 1: I mean, five hundred and fifty terrorists were stopped at

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Speaker 1: the border, not to mention, you know, ten million who

885
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Speaker 1: we don't know who the fuck they are. They're here too,

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Speaker 1: So I heard surprised if Secret Service was like, yes,

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Speaker 1: it's really cold, but let's just make life a little

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Speaker 1: easier for us all. And I can't blame them. I'm

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Speaker 1: sad for the American people, no doubt. I'm sure President

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Speaker 1: Trump is sad too, but he'll rally. We still get

891
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Speaker 1: them regardless.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, so what do you make of actually,

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Speaker 4: let me see if I have it. What do you

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Speaker 4: make of this Biden saying today, I'm affirming what I

895
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Speaker 4: have long believed. What course of the States if I've

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Speaker 4: ratified the twenty eighth Amendment is the law of the

897
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Speaker 4: land guarantee? Yeah, I mean, like, here's this little graphic

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Speaker 4: or whatever, and doubt here he's.

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Speaker 5: Getting community noted on X into oblivion. It just says

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Speaker 5: straight up.

901
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Speaker 4: The Archives of the United States, charged with officially published

902
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Speaker 4: publishing ratified amendments, has confirmed the era was not ratified

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Speaker 4: and based that and based that analysis on binding legal precedent.

904
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Speaker 4: There is no twenty eighth amendment. But here's here's the

905
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Speaker 4: crazy thing, Daniel, is that the Democrats have gone.

906
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Speaker 5: All in on this insanity.

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Speaker 4: I mean, Kirsten Gillibrand put out a tweet saying President

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Speaker 4: Biden just declared that the Equal Rights Amendment is now

909
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Speaker 4: a valid part of the Constitution and should be considered

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Speaker 4: the law of the land. This is an incredible moment

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Speaker 4: for reproductive freedom and historic day for equality, especially with

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Speaker 4: Americans facing further degradation of reproductive freedom.

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Speaker 5: Blah blah.

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Speaker 4: But what the hell is going on here exactly that

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Speaker 4: you can amend the Constant via a post on x yeah,

916
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Speaker 4: three days before you leave office.

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Speaker 1: Apparently, Again, it's just so old. If you if you

918
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Speaker 1: really wanted to talk about the Equal Rights Amendment, reproductive freedom, right,

919
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Speaker 1: they're they're so stuck on their little talking points that

920
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Speaker 1: it's not the you know when Equal Rights Amendment first

921
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Speaker 1: kind of came around, which was a thing from the sixties.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're a very different country than we were

923
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Speaker 1: in the sixties. And if you're still going to play

924
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:30,759
Speaker 1: this card that women don't have the same rights as men, again, old, right,

925
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Speaker 1: it's just so old, it's so boring. To it's you

926
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Speaker 1: know what, going back to the great Marcus Freeman after

927
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Speaker 1: they they they spanked Georgia in New Orleans, right when

928
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Speaker 1: they said and being the first African American coach, how

929
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Speaker 1: does that make you feel? And he was kind of like,

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Speaker 1: I don't like he didn't, you know. And because it's old,

931
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Speaker 1: it's so old, like you're really going to get caught

932
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Speaker 1: up on. You know. No one has been talking about

933
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Speaker 1: how Scott Beissende is the first gay Treasury Secretary nomine

934
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Speaker 1: in history, because we don't play that card. And he

935
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Speaker 1: certainly hates that card. And Trump world hates that card

936
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Speaker 1: because everyone hates that card. But boy, when it was

937
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Speaker 1: the Democrats in charge, this is the first Latino woman

938
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Speaker 1: ever to be making a ham sandwich on a Thursday, right,

939
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Speaker 1: it was NonStop of identity politics.

940
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Speaker 4: And so listen, listen to Biden. Listen to Biden mumbles,

941
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Speaker 4: I mean he thinks that. What's crazy to me is

942
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:30,280
Speaker 4: that these people call Trump a dictator. Imagine if Trump

943
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:35,560
Speaker 4: seriously tried it. Declare just declared via a post on

944
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Speaker 4: his Twitter account. Yet he was amending the Constitution for

945
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:43,879
Speaker 4: whatever reason, not going through the actual problem. But listen

946
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Speaker 4: to how Biden just talks about it as if it's real,

947
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:50,760
Speaker 4: when when the Democrats talk about conspiracy theorists, they're really

948
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Speaker 4: referring to themselves because they're all just insane.

949
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Speaker 7: Listen, career, I've been clear, no one, no one, no

950
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 7: one should be discriminated against based on their six And

951
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Speaker 7: in order for the amendment to be ratified, it requires

952
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Speaker 7: three fourths to the states to ratify it. That Benchmar's

953
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Speaker 7: benchmark was passed when Virginia ratified.

954
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Speaker 1: The ERA a few years ago.

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Speaker 7: Today, I affirmed the Ecal Rights Amendment to have cleared

956
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Speaker 7: all the necessary hurdles.

957
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Speaker 1: To be added to the US Constitution.

958
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Speaker 5: Now what the law, It's the law of the land,

959
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:32,800
Speaker 5: he just says it.

960
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Speaker 4: Meanwhile, the amendment was not ratified by the requisite number

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Speaker 4: of states prior to that deadline, and some states ratified

962
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Speaker 4: the amendment post deadline.

963
00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:44,080
Speaker 5: Other states have revoked her ratification altogether.

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, but like this to me, it's just it's

965
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 4: just another piece of evidence that these Democrats just they

966
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:57,720
Speaker 4: don't care about the Constitution, clearly like they are willing

967
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:01,719
Speaker 4: to just blow off the costag whenever it suits them.

968
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:05,920
Speaker 5: But just these they're crazy. These people are crazy.

969
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Speaker 4: They live in a post constitutional world that exists only

970
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Speaker 4: in their own minds.

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Speaker 1: Let's just remember the last couple of days of the

972
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:18,400
Speaker 1: Biden administration where removing oil and gas drilling offshore, commuting

973
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:22,719
Speaker 1: the sentences of child rapists and murderers, and declaring by

974
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:26,759
Speaker 1: Fiat constitutional Amendment right. Those are the last couple of

975
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Speaker 1: days of the Biden administration. And it's a perfect example

976
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:32,960
Speaker 1: of what lunacy we've been dealing with the last four years.

977
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Speaker 1: And the tide is turning. We got two and a

978
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Speaker 1: half days. It's going to be remarkable, it really is.

979
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Speaker 4: So what are you doing this weekend in the what

980
00:53:43,239 --> 00:53:46,120
Speaker 4: two and a half days until this country is really

981
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:47,440
Speaker 4: liberated from Joe Biden?

982
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Speaker 1: Well farm shores for a day and a half, but

983
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:55,040
Speaker 1: then Sunday afternoon head back to d C. Staying in

984
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Speaker 1: a friend's house near the capitol because we were hoping

985
00:53:57,719 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 1: to walk over but while still well, you know, we'll

986
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:03,160
Speaker 1: find something to do. There's the rally on Sunday night.

987
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:07,080
Speaker 1: We'll go to that. I don't know if we'll get

988
00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:09,640
Speaker 1: into the there's gonna be a post rally.

989
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:12,360
Speaker 5: I think there's a rally. There's a rally's doing a rally.

990
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:15,600
Speaker 1: He was doing a rally Sunday night at at the

991
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:20,399
Speaker 1: whether the Washington Wizards play. It changes names all the time.

992
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:23,360
Speaker 1: I don't know what's new name. And then there. I

993
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:26,840
Speaker 1: think they're gonna do now a post inaugural rally there,

994
00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:30,359
Speaker 1: but I'm not sure. And regardless, going to the inaugural ball,

995
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:32,920
Speaker 1: everyone likes a chance to put on a tucks. So

996
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:35,520
Speaker 1: if you're going to the inaugural ball and you're with

997
00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:38,440
Speaker 1: your eight thousand closest friends, try to find me. I'll say, hello,

998
00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:41,840
Speaker 1: are you going? I hope to see you.

999
00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 4: No, I have not a pomp and circumstance type of

1000
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:48,880
Speaker 4: a guy. That's not not like there are other better

1001
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:51,840
Speaker 4: people like yourself that can send me a picture of

1002
00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:53,480
Speaker 4: yourself and there in your top hat.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely I will. I have sheep couplings, which I'm very

1004
00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:02,040
Speaker 1: excited about because I have sheep farms, so I'm excited

1005
00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:02,759
Speaker 1: to bust them out.

1006
00:55:03,239 --> 00:55:07,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, I had a picture of yourself and your cheap couplings. Daniel,

1007
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:08,640
Speaker 4: tell us all where we can find you.

1008
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:12,839
Speaker 1: Powerthefuture dot com. Daniel at Power the Future. Every time

1009
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:15,360
Speaker 1: I throw out my email address, people shoot me notes

1010
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:19,480
Speaker 1: and I love to get questions and their questions like, hey,

1011
00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:21,920
Speaker 1: what's the deal with blah blah blah? And I always respond,

1012
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:24,479
Speaker 1: So you got a question about energy, oil, gas coal,

1013
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:29,279
Speaker 1: the green agenda? Daniel Atpowerthefuture dot com. And next time

1014
00:55:29,320 --> 00:55:31,320
Speaker 1: I talk to you, it will be a new world

1015
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:32,640
Speaker 1: and I'm looking forward to it. Sean.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, man, save here. The future is bright, is

1017
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Speaker 4: it not?

1018
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Speaker 1: It is gonna be.

1019
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:42,959
Speaker 4: It'll be bright with fossil fuels. All right, my friends,

1020
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:46,440
Speaker 4: see you later, bless all right. That is Daniel Turner.

1021
00:55:46,600 --> 00:55:49,000
Speaker 4: He's the founder and executive director of Power the Future.

1022
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Speaker 4: You should go follow him on X as well. He's

1023
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:54,640
Speaker 4: got an awesome X profile. He's got lots of great

1024
00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:58,040
Speaker 4: takes on all these different things, energy and just everything else.

1025
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Speaker 4: But go support Daniel Turner. Make sure that we do

1026
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:04,080
Speaker 4: the right thing for him battle Crew. He is just

1027
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Speaker 4: an extraordinary guy all the way around, and we're really

1028
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:12,200
Speaker 4: really lucky to have him. Okay, now it's time to

1029
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:16,640
Speaker 4: recognize some members of the battle crew. Also got to

1030
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:20,200
Speaker 4: thank the NUN Report. If you're not following or subscribing

1031
00:56:20,239 --> 00:56:22,759
Speaker 4: to the Nun Report, you should definitely do it. Thank

1032
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:25,880
Speaker 4: you to my buddy Dan, and also the Patriot Raiders

1033
00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:28,279
Speaker 4: both rated this stream. We are lucky to have you.

1034
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Speaker 4: Everyone go follow if you can the Patriot Raiders as well.

1035
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Speaker 4: We love having them here. And all of these, you know,

1036
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Speaker 4: all of you gifting five subscriptions to Battleground. I don't

1037
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Speaker 4: even know what to say other than just thank you.

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00:56:42,640 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 4: I mean, I just said in the live chat that

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Speaker 4: you're the best audience in the face of the planet,

1040
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:46,440
Speaker 4: and I mean it.

1041
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 5: And I'm looking at the battle Crew.

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00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 4: Buck Guy, who I affectionately called Newlywed because she was

1043
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:54,920
Speaker 4: recently married this year, gifted five subscriptions to Battleground.

1044
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Speaker 5: Thank you, battle Crew, Buck Guy, Thank you.

1045
00:56:57,520 --> 00:57:01,200
Speaker 4: Doc sixty eight Whiskey also give did five subscriptions to

1046
00:57:01,239 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 4: batle around. You guys are the best. Steel City Ken.

1047
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:07,280
Speaker 4: I think Steele City Ken has been with us every

1048
00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:10,080
Speaker 4: single episode of Battleground line.

1049
00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:12,960
Speaker 5: I mean he is just an OG member through and through.

1050
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:16,880
Speaker 5: He also gifted five subscriptions to Battleground Live. All of you.

1051
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:19,080
Speaker 5: Thank you all so much from the bottom of my heart.

1052
00:57:19,120 --> 00:57:19,480
Speaker 5: Thank you.

1053
00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:22,800
Speaker 4: This is about building a community and we've done that

1054
00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:26,520
Speaker 4: for sure. And who can forget staying salt stay in

1055
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Speaker 4: Salty money for fifteen seconds in a hotel room, if

1056
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:35,240
Speaker 4: you go to if you go to DC, thank you

1057
00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:42,560
Speaker 4: staying salty. I really appreciate you all, folks. This is

1058
00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 4: an amazing weekend. Make sure you smash that like button,

1059
00:57:45,360 --> 00:57:48,480
Speaker 4: that little gray button. If you haven't liked the show yet,

1060
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:51,280
Speaker 4: the button is gray. Once you like it, it's green.

1061
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Speaker 4: So smash that like button, that little gray turn it green.

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Speaker 4: That button beneath the video. It helps us make the leaderboard.

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Speaker 4: We try to get to four hundred by the end

1064
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Speaker 4: of every show, so it helps us. It just really

1065
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Speaker 4: helps us show a lot. But folks, I really want

1066
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Speaker 4: you to enjoy your weekend. This weekend, this is we

1067
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Speaker 4: have lived through one of the most historic election cycles

1068
00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:15,320
Speaker 4: in our nation's history.

1069
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Speaker 5: Trump is persevered through.

1070
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Speaker 4: Just an unbelievable amount of things that come to this point,

1071
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Speaker 4: and on Monday, he'll be sworn in as the forty

1072
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Speaker 4: seventh President of the United States, elected with an historic mandate.

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Speaker 4: He has never been more powerful, not in sixteen, not

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Speaker 4: in twenty. He is far more powerful today than he's

1075
00:58:37,440 --> 00:58:40,520
Speaker 4: ever been. So let's rejoice in that because I think

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00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:44,880
Speaker 4: good and better days are coming. So enjoy your weekend, folks.

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Speaker 4: I hope it's warm where you are. It's cold here

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Speaker 4: in western Pennsylvania, lots of snow on the ground. But

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Speaker 4: as always, folks, I will see you Monday. You guys,

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Speaker 4: you all, guys, gals, members of the battle crew, have

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Speaker 4: a great, great weekend. God bless you all, and God

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Speaker 4: bless this amazing country that we call home.

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Speaker 5: Take care, good night, have a great weekend, and I

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Speaker 5: will see you on Monday.