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Speaker 1: Last week we were shooting from the hip. The information

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Speaker 1: hindsight of one week. Is there any justification for the raid?

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Speaker 1: that case, because the Democrats are not interested in knowing

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Speaker 1: what happens. They're quite happy. Look that the cross examination

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Speaker 1: I had of Chris Ray, no Democrat had any interest

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Speaker 1: in following up on that. They're like, oh, good, the

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Speaker 1: guy involved it entrapment is now in charge of January six,

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Speaker 1: Hey work for us. Awesome, Like it is amazing. And

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Speaker 1: I will say one of the things that underscores the

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Speaker 1: stakes of this election in November, if Republicans take a

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Speaker 1: majority in both houses. We need to have hearings on

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Speaker 1: these topics. We need to have hearings on every one

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Speaker 1: of these topics. We need to examine. We need to

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Speaker 1: use subpoenas. We need to drag Merrick Garland and Chris

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Speaker 1: Ray down there and keep them there and make them

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Speaker 1: answer question, not let them get away with this blythe

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Speaker 1: You know, I am the king. I answer to nobody,

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Speaker 1: which is the attitude they have, And I very much

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Speaker 1: hope a that we win in November, but b that

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Speaker 1: we see that accountability. Of course it's urgent too because

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Speaker 1: they're busting into the doors at Marlago today. But it

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Speaker 1: really could be anyone who's considered a political enemy of

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Speaker 1: our ruling class. Now it's not only the Democrats who

446
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Speaker 1: don't want you talking about this sort of stuff, Senator,

447
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:31,160
Speaker 1: it is even the fake Republicans. I saw this headline.

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Speaker 1: I have got to get your reaction to it. This

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Speaker 1: is from Michael Steele. Michael Steele was the head of

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Speaker 1: the Republican National Committee. Now he's a talking head on

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Speaker 1: MSNBC and he only ever goes on the liberal shows

452
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Speaker 1: and attacks Republicans. He said is directed at you. Senator,

453
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Speaker 1: just sit the hell down, please stop it. This in

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Speaker 1: response to your speech, at Sepak says, it is more

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Speaker 1: fascism than farce, it is more concern than conservatism. And

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Speaker 1: it really is about how we as a citizen respond

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Speaker 1: to this, how we pushed back against it. Blah blah blah,

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Speaker 1: cruises the worst any response, I will say, that's a

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Speaker 1: badge of honor. I'm glad to hear it. Um. Look,

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Speaker 1: I'd say it's three things simultaneously. One, there's a whole

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Speaker 1: cadre of squishy, moderate establishment Republicans who barely believed anything

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Speaker 1: to begin with, and they were a real problem in

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Speaker 1: our party for a long time. They gave rise to

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Speaker 1: my election. They gave rise to the rise of Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: It was a reaction to these these folks who didn't

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Speaker 1: believe anything. Secondly, that many of those same folks are

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Speaker 1: now fully consumed by TDS, by trumpet arrangement syndrome. They

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00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:56,679
Speaker 1: just hate Donald Trump so much that they're they're consumed

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Speaker 1: by it. You mentioned Liz Cheney. Liz Cheney is unrecognizable

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Speaker 1: who she was, you know, five six years ago Bill Crystal.

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Speaker 1: Bill Crystal used to be dan Quayle's chief of staff.

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Speaker 1: He ran The Weekly Standard, which was a conservative publication.

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Speaker 1: He now is indistinguishable from a raving left wing Democratic.

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Speaker 1: It's also worth remembering Bill Crystal discovered Sarah Palin. I

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Speaker 1: know that now Bill and other people on the kind

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Speaker 1: of squishy side or just outright now have switched to

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Speaker 1: the left. They try to say, Palen's the problem, cruise

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Speaker 1: Trump all these right wingers in the conservative movement. Bill

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Speaker 1: Crystal discovered that lady and made her a national thing. Well,

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Speaker 1: and what's funny, it's not just the folks that are

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Speaker 1: destroyed by TDS. It's not just that they don't like

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Speaker 1: what Trump says or does. It's not just that they say, well,

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Speaker 1: we need to speak with greater decorum. You can make

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Speaker 1: that case. They become left wingers on everything that they

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Speaker 1: look at, build back broke and say, whoohoo, raised taxes,

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Speaker 1: spend money, more debt. I mean, I mean their rhetoric

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Speaker 1: is indistinguishable from Chuck Schumer's. I mean that they live

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Speaker 1: have just flipped over. And then the third dynamic is

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Speaker 1: is Steele, who I don't know the guy, but you know,

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Speaker 1: apparently makes a living now going on MSNBC. And there's

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Speaker 1: a whole little cottage industry of quote former Republicans, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: who get paid to go on TV. And their job

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00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,800
Speaker 1: description is simple. You have to do two things. Number One,

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Speaker 1: you have to do it sometime. Have called yourself a Republican,

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Speaker 1: and he helps because he was actually head of the RNC,

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Speaker 1: so he's got a good, good sort of fake costume there. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But then two, you have to be willing to piss

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Speaker 1: on Republicans all day longly. They have no interest in

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Speaker 1: reasoned analysis, they have no interest in you're actually considering substance.

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Speaker 1: Your job is I am former Republican who says Republicans

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Speaker 1: all suck. That's what I get paid to do on MSNBC,

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Speaker 1: And it's how I get my easy little paycheck to

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Speaker 1: pay the second mortgage on my condo in Oldtown, Virginia.

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Speaker 1: That is a phenomenon and and and it's a it's

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Speaker 1: an unfortunate and silly one. By the way, what he

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Speaker 1: was reacting to was my speech at Sepack, the central

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Speaker 1: thesis of which is revival is coming. That this administration

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00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: has gone so extreme. People's eyes are opening up and

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Speaker 1: they want to take the country back in the direction

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Speaker 1: of free enterprise and freedom and defending the Constitution and

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Speaker 1: Bill of Rights, and what is his response to that,

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Speaker 1: Sit the hell down and shut up. Okay, Boomer, thanks

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Speaker 1: for your input. You screwed it up. Now it's time

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Speaker 1: for actually people who believe something to lead. Well, that

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Speaker 1: is the key. You'll sometimes hear this. I always hear

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Speaker 1: this with ex Catholics or I don't even know if

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Speaker 1: you'd say ex Catholic, but you'll sometimes hear people say

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Speaker 1: whenever pontificating on some matter of the Church, they'll say, listen,

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Speaker 1: I went to Catholic school, and let me tell you,

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Speaker 1: and you can be certain every time someone says that

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Speaker 1: they don't know anything about the Catholic Church, and I

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00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 1: think it's almost the perfect analogy. You here, they'll say, listen,

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Speaker 1: as a former Republican, and then they go on and

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Speaker 1: they misrepresent Republicans views. They frequently can't articulate them at all,

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Speaker 1: because I think in ninety nine times out of one hundred,

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Speaker 1: they never really believed that stuff to begin with. They

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Speaker 1: never really knew what they were supposed to believe to

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Speaker 1: begin with, and so it was a natural evolution for

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Speaker 1: them to move over to the other side. I see

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Speaker 1: that with virtually all of these so called former Republicans.

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Speaker 1: They're just kind of squishes who opportunistically were in the

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Speaker 1: GOP while it served them, but because they didn't really

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Speaker 1: believe very much on life, on liberty, on the American

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Speaker 1: way of life, that they just switched when the going

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Speaker 1: got tough. And so when they leave the party, I say,

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Speaker 1: good Sionara, glad, don't let the door hit you on

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Speaker 1: the way out. By the way, did you see there

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Speaker 1: was a really weird article in the last week from

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Speaker 1: some I think CBS or I don't know, some media

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Speaker 1: outlet about praying the rosary as a tool of extremist hate.

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Speaker 1: That was like the most okay it was. It was

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Speaker 1: so bizarre I actually assumed it was Babylon b Like

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Speaker 1: it was like, Okay, this is actually pretty good satire,

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Speaker 1: Like I get, this is really making fun of crazy lefties,

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Speaker 1: except they write it anyway like like they're just it

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Speaker 1: is making comedy harder because they will say any asinine thing.

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Speaker 1: But what was your reaction to all Right, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to play the straight man here. Michael is praying the

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Speaker 1: rosary a tool of extremist hate. Well, I actually have

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Speaker 1: a high capacity rosary, so my rosary as fifty Hail

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Speaker 1: marys on it. But not just that. We've got some

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Speaker 1: our fathers, we got some glory bees. Now, the Rosary

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Speaker 1: has been around for what roughly a thousand years, and

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Speaker 1: really even earlier than that, because there were earlier forms

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Speaker 1: of what became the rosary Christian prayer beads, going back

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Speaker 1: to the very earliest days of the church, and the

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Speaker 1: Atlantic whoever wrote this column obviously doesn't know anything about that.

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Speaker 1: In the subheader, they actually referred to the Rosary as

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Speaker 1: a sacrament. And again, you don't need to be a

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Speaker 1: doctor of the church to know that the rosaries not

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Speaker 1: a sacrament. Seven sacraments of the church. Rosary beads are

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Speaker 1: not one of them. And so they broadcast their ignorance

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Speaker 1: basically from the headline of the piece. But then they

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Speaker 1: spout off on it anyway, because the author, just like

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Speaker 1: so many liberals, is frequently wrong but never in doubt.

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Speaker 1: And what is this about. I mean, I think they

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Speaker 1: actually have a really clear political motivation here. They want

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Speaker 1: to cast anything that is Christian as extreme or terrorism.

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Speaker 1: And so when you see when you see as frequently occurs,

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Speaker 1: little old nuns praying outside of a planned parenthood playing

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Speaker 1: praying their rosaries. Why that's a symbol of terrorism. That's

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Speaker 1: a great threat to the country. We better call law

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Speaker 1: enforcement out on them. We've got to suppress these symbols

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Speaker 1: of hate. So I'm I'm holding onto my beads. They

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Speaker 1: are not registered and moulin lave. That's what I say

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Speaker 1: about my rosary. Come and take it well, and to

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Speaker 1: be fair though, you know, I guess the Atlantic does

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Speaker 1: have a point. If I remember correctly, one of the

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Speaker 1: Godfather movies, one of the assassins was dressed as a

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Speaker 1: priest and carrying the rosary and committed murder. So that's

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Speaker 1: so there we go, qed they prove in their case,

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Speaker 1: it's it's so preposterous it it's the only thing that

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Speaker 1: one can do is sort of laugh at it and pray,

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Speaker 1: I guess is the other thing that we can do.

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Speaker 1: But they're they're revealing such a degree of ignorance and

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Speaker 1: such a degree of hypocrisy. Frequently, there's one store I

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00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 1: have to get to before before I let you go,

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00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:30,399
Speaker 1: which which combines all of these things. In New York,

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Speaker 1: my home state, in Washington, d C. Place where you

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Speaker 1: spend a lot of time, where I spend a lot

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Speaker 1: of time too. These are sanctuary cities. These are places

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Speaker 1: that say we are open to immigrants, specifically illegal immigrants,

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Speaker 1: no borders, no people are illegal, come here. And so

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Speaker 1: then the governor of your state senator decided to take

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Speaker 1: them up on their offer, and he said, Okay, we've

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Speaker 1: got historic numbers of illegal aliens pouring across the border,

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Speaker 1: probably going to be more more than two million this year,

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Speaker 1: and so that's fine. If you want to take them

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Speaker 1: New York, you want to take them DC, put them

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Speaker 1: on a bus for free, the governor's paying for it,

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Speaker 1: and ships them up to New York. The mayors of

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Speaker 1: New York and DC are absolutely losing their minds over it.

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Speaker 1: They're saying this is terrible. They're saying this puts a

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Speaker 1: strain on the resources of these cities. It's a horrific

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Speaker 1: thing to do. And I thought, hold on, wait, wait

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Speaker 1: a minute. I was previously told by these very same

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Speaker 1: mayors and politicians that illegal immigration is a net contributor

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Speaker 1: to our economy and it's really great, and it's really wonderful,

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Speaker 1: and it doesn't put a stress on any of our resources,

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Speaker 1: and it doesn't bring crime or anything else. But now

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Speaker 1: they're saying, not in my backyard. But illegal immigration is

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Speaker 1: really great in the Republican States. It's not good in

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Speaker 1: the blue cities that encourage it. You know. I gotta say,

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Speaker 1: this story reveals, as you said, the fear and ignorance

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Speaker 1: and the absolute hypocrisy of the left. So the mayors

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Speaker 1: of both DC and New York have been holding press conferences,

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Speaker 1: hysterical press conferences. The mayor of DC, Muriel Browser, has

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Speaker 1: said said that the six thousand illegal immigrants that Texas

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Speaker 1: has put on buses and send up to DC has

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Speaker 1: created a crisis and it is unacceptable and it has

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Speaker 1: to stop. Now. That's just six thousand since Joe Biden

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Speaker 1: has become president, three and a half million illegal immigrants

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Speaker 1: across the border. We have towns in South Texas that

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Speaker 1: have seen massive, hundreds of thousands, millions of people coming through.

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Speaker 1: She says six thousand as a crisis. I publicly urged

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Speaker 1: the governor if she thinks six thousand as a crisis,

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Speaker 1: we had to send six hundred thousand. Yeah, six hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand would be roughly one sixth of the number of

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Speaker 1: illegal immigrants who have come in under Joe Biden. By

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Speaker 1: the way, if she doesn't like it. She is a

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Speaker 1: member of a party, the Democrat Party. The person responsible

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Speaker 1: for these three and a half million dollars lives in

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Speaker 1: her city in Washington, d C. I can give her

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Speaker 1: his address at sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue. His name is

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Speaker 1: Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. He made a political decision to

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Speaker 1: let three and a half million illegal immigrants in his

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Speaker 1: that's great. Eventually these folks will vote Democrat, he believes.

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Speaker 1: So Let there be lots of suffering and misery and poverty.

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Speaker 1: Let there be children sexually assaulted. Let there be women

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Speaker 1: trapped in sex slavery. Let there be horrific abuse and

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Speaker 1: disease and crime, all of that because politics is worth it.

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Speaker 1: If she wants to fix it, the leader of her

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Speaker 1: party can fix it anytime he damwell wants by simply

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Speaker 1: choosing to follow the law. Now, Eric Adams, the Mayor

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Speaker 1: He's done these hysterical press conferences losing his mind saying

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Speaker 1: threatened he said, I'm gonna send bus loads of New

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Speaker 1: Yorkers to go to Texas to campaign against Greg Abbott

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Speaker 1: for governor. Now, I have to admit I did have

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Speaker 1: there are already thousands of bustloads of New Yorkers fleeing

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Speaker 1: driving them away. Now they're coming to Texas because we're

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Speaker 1: an oasis of freedom and New York is run by

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Speaker 1: hellscape of the seventies. Yeah, you know, it's like escape

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Speaker 1: from New York. Snake Pliskin is going to have to

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Speaker 1: go to Paradise's like Texas or Florida. But secondly, you

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Speaker 1: gotta say, Eric Adams, I think he might be slightly

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Speaker 1: to cause Texans and go, oh okay, we want our

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Speaker 1: state to suck as much as you've screwed your city up,

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Speaker 1: so let's do that. It is absurd. And here's a

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Speaker 1: final point. I'm very glad Greg Abbott is doing and

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Speaker 1: it's the right thing to do. He ought to accelerate

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Speaker 1: it massively. As you know, Abbott and I are good friends.

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Speaker 1: I worked for him five and a half years. I

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Speaker 1: filed legislation that said we shouldn't just ship him to

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Speaker 1: New York and DC. We ought to ship illegal immigrants

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Speaker 1: to Martha's Vineyard. We had to Tuckett right. We ought

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Speaker 1: to ship him to Southampton. We ought to ship him

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Speaker 1: to Rehobeth Beach, Delaware. We're Biden vacations. We had to

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Speaker 1: ship him to Coopertino, California. Every place that rich liberals

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Speaker 1: sit and swirl chardonnay. They ought to sit there and

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Speaker 1: watch busload after busload after busload of illegal immigrants unloading.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, the Martha Martha's Vineyard mayor like

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Speaker 1: publicly engaged me and said, oh, we would love that,

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Speaker 1: we would welcome it. Really, just play chicken six thousand.

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Speaker 1: Let's just start with the six thousand that went to Washington, DC.

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Speaker 1: It reveals the utter hypocrisy of the left. They're willing

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Speaker 1: to cause human suffering as long as it doesn't impinge

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Speaker 1: on the view from their golf course. I'm just picturing

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Speaker 1: when it comes to the busloads of New Yorkers campaigning

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Speaker 1: against the Republicans, and I'm picturing my cousin Vinnie, you know,

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Speaker 1: knock knock on the door. Hey, you hear about all

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Speaker 1: these utes, the shipping up, all these all these utes,

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Speaker 1: you know, these shipping them up. It's not going to

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Speaker 1: be very persuasive. And the thing you're bringing up, by

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Speaker 1: the way, Senator I was just described by Mike anton

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Speaker 1: Over at the Claremont Institute, I thought in a really

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Speaker 1: good way. He describes it as the celebration parallax, a

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Speaker 1: vantage points. And he says that what the liberals are

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Speaker 1: the liberals deny that. The liberals get to celebrate it.

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Speaker 1: The Conservatives, when they say it, are punished for it.

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Speaker 1: And you see it in this case, the liberals are saying,

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Speaker 1: of our cities when it shows up here, and so

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Speaker 1: we really just want to limit illegal immigration to the

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Speaker 1: Red States. And then and this is a cause for celebration.

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Speaker 1: The conservatives going and they say, hey, illegal immigration is

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Speaker 1: want to limit it to our states. And they say,

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Speaker 1: how dare you? That's evil, that's a lie, that's fake news,

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Speaker 1: that's inhuman. They're saying exactly the same thing. The question

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Speaker 1: is just who is allowed to say it. It's an

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Speaker 1: awfully good question, but I will say it is a

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Speaker 1: to a revival in November, and that is causing folks

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Speaker 1: like our friend Michael Steele to lose their mind. Yeah, now,

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Speaker 1: one question before I let you go. This is from

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Speaker 1: our mail bag. I don't want to allow our wonderful

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Speaker 1: seventeen fifty love a great pun. This question very very important,

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Speaker 1: especially compared to all the stuff we've been talking about today.

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Speaker 1: What's your favorite band? What's my favorite band? So I'm

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Speaker 1: not terribly musically literate, so it's it's actually a complicated question.

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Speaker 1: I grew up as a kid listening to classic rock,

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Speaker 1: so I listened to groups like Who, Genesis, The Kinks,

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Speaker 1: I saw Pink Floyd and Concert and now I listened

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Speaker 1: more to country music. In fact, I was supposed to

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Speaker 1: all right. I was so bummed. I was supposed to

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Speaker 1: go last weekend to Garth Brooks and it was awesome.

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Speaker 1: I got invited to go backstage and meet Garth Brooks

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Speaker 1: and never met Garth Brooks. I'm not someone who generally

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Speaker 1: I got an invitation, Hey, you want to come back

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Speaker 1: and meet Garth Brooks. I was like, holy, I would

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Speaker 1: love to. The concert was in Houston Saturday night. We

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Speaker 1: were in DC all night voting on voter Rama Saturday night.

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Speaker 1: So not only did I see the Democrats bankrupt America,

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Speaker 1: jackup taxes, pass a bill that will increase gas prices,

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Speaker 1: increase inflation, but I missed the friggin Garth Brooks concert.

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Speaker 1: So it will completely bummed me out. And the fellow

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Speaker 1: who had invited me to go. He sent me pictures

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Speaker 1: from the concert, which which was a little bit like

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Speaker 1: sort of rubbing salt in the wounds. I'm like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that concert looks pretty amazing, and I'm I'm down in

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Speaker 1: the basement of the Capitol right now, and wow, that's

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Speaker 1: that's not where I am. If it makes you feel

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Speaker 1: any better, Senator, I'm not convinced to that you have

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Speaker 1: not met Garth Brooks because I have never seen Garth

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Speaker 1: Brooks and Glenn Beck in the same room at the

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Speaker 1: same time. So I'm not making any accusations here. It's

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Speaker 1: just to me a little bit suspect there's two guys

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I will say, by the way, this

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Speaker 1: this year. Earlier this year, I was supposed to take

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Speaker 1: the family to George Straiton concert at the Houston Rodeo

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Speaker 1: so this has been a bad year for concerts because

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Speaker 1: Eagles and concert this year, which was an amazing concert.

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Speaker 1: So I enjoyed that. But I would say I don't

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Speaker 1: say it used to be classic rock. Now it has

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Speaker 1: King I assume as a favorite of years. I mean,

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Speaker 1: on the Cloakroom with our friend Liz Wheeler. Liz, what

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Speaker 1: of what you talked about on Verdict today and it's

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Speaker 1: this distrust that the American people feel in our government

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Speaker 1: institutions and what the recourse for this is. Because there

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Speaker 1: responsibility in our country. There's a movement called Convention of

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