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Speaker 3: Offensive, Chris Murphy, they're speaking, let's bring it now, political strategist,

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Speaker 3: the Save American Movement, mister Steve Schmidt, now friend of

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Speaker 2: Thank you Steve for joining us.

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Speaker 3: See, doctor, is there anything that we can believe coming

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Speaker 3: You know, this isn't a war. It's an excursion, which

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Speaker 3: should be incursion. As I have been saying, it's not

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Speaker 3: regime change, but it is regime change. Someone wanted to

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Speaker 3: kill Donald Trump, but we can't tell you who it is.

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Speaker 2: I mean, what can we believe? Have you seen anything

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Speaker 4: You can't believe nothing? Zero.

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Speaker 5: Government has no credibility whatsoever. And that's tragic. That's true.

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Speaker 3: So then what are the American people to do with

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Speaker 3: I feel like he is negotiating with imaginary friends, or

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Speaker 5: In a fantasy world as far afield from reality as

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Speaker 5: Right from the beginning. It makes no sense. And as

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Speaker 5: Problem that the war has caused, the shuddering of the

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Speaker 5: Why because he's Donald Trump. It's incredible.

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Speaker 1: He started a war and now he can't get out

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Speaker 1: They're showing him, you know, heroic montages every morning. That's bonkers.

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Speaker 1: That's not how you brief I worked for a politician.

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Speaker 2: So two things there, Steve.

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Speaker 3: Smith, and we've seen the economy is in shambles right

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Speaker 3: now thanks to this, you know, Donald Trump's war choice.

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Speaker 6: In our reporting speak a lot to young voters, many

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Speaker 7: They had extended to President Trump is doing this for you.

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Speaker 7: He's doing this for young people, so that we are

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Speaker 4: To see crisis up, pump go back down.

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Speaker 7: Just over the past year.

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Speaker 4: See it's unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: But this this war he's doing, believe you, for young people.

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Speaker 5: Pete Hegseeth, Pam Bondy. Maybe, by the way, with the

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Speaker 5: But all of these people, the lying the we're doing

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Speaker 5: And that as we look ahead in the presidential campaigns

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Speaker 4: But we have to talk about character.

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Speaker 5: This is a person with no character surrounded by people

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Speaker 5: But that's what you just watched there with Carolyn Levitt.

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Speaker 3: Well for her, he's doing this for young people. I

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Speaker 3: wonder if you agree with Jesse Bentur, the former governor

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Speaker 2: Here it is.

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Speaker 8: About it. There's a simple thing as a leader. And

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Speaker 8: it's this. A war is justified if you're willing to

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Speaker 8: So I'm calling right now for Baron Trump. Donald Trump's on.

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Speaker 8: You know, after all, he's had three wives, he's had

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Speaker 8: To my knowledge, a Trump in the last hundred years

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Speaker 8: has never done military service. Well, Baron, you can change

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Speaker 8: that in lists of the United States military right now.

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Speaker 8: Do something your father didn't have the courage to do.

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Speaker 8: Do something your father didn't have the patriotism to do.

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Speaker 8: I want to see a Trump in the military. Everybody

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Speaker 5: What do you say to that, Steve Well, I mean,

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Speaker 5: nomes kids, not bondies. No one's kids are going to

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Speaker 5: in a flag draped casket. And so the idea here

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Speaker 4: Get the emotion of that completely.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but none of that will ever happen.

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Speaker 3: I mean, as he said, no Trump, and what do

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Speaker 5: So well, I'm gonna I'm gonna say, you know, the

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Speaker 2: Well, Steve, I thank you for your expertise.

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