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Speaker 1: Corning. You're about to enter the arena.

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Speaker 2: And join the Battle to Save America with your host

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Speaker 2: Sean Parnell. Good evening, America, Welcome to Battleground Live. This

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Speaker 2: is the show where we kick ass and take names

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Speaker 2: in lockhorns with.

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Speaker 1: The radical left.

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Speaker 2: No, we never quit, We never surrender. From sea to

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Speaker 2: shining Sea and everybody in between. Welcome Patriots on.

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Speaker 1: This extraordinary what day is it?

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Speaker 2: Time is flying by over this holiday season, on this Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: which is also New Year's Eve, Battle Crew, Happy New

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Speaker 2: Year's We've been on this journey together for a little

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Speaker 2: bit over a year, but the time has just flown by,

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Speaker 2: and I'm telling you I couldn't be more proud to

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Speaker 2: know you say this often. You probably all like, shut up,

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Speaker 2: move on, get on with the show. But without an audience,

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Speaker 2: there is no show, there is no podcast. And that

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Speaker 2: is why I'm very, very grateful to have you. Seriously,

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Speaker 2: Happy New Year. We're on the precipice of something I

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Speaker 2: think that is really special, very very special twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: As I spoke about today on The Clay and Buck Show,

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Speaker 2: which is, by the way, was an awesome experience. I'll

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Speaker 2: tell you about that in a second. But twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: four was a year for the history books. And I

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Speaker 2: really do if you get a minute, you know, take

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Speaker 2: a few minutes tonight and just take stock of where

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Speaker 2: you were during some pivotal moments in American history. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think some of this stuff is really going to

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Speaker 1: I mean it.

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Speaker 2: I think that we lived through one of the most

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Speaker 2: extraordinary years in American political history. Well ever, I believe

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Speaker 2: that at the core of my being, whether it's the

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Speaker 2: mugshot Day, which we've talked about, whether it's the July

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Speaker 2: thirteenth assassination attempt on President Trump, which we talked about,

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Speaker 2: which whether it was Trump going from a near death

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Speaker 2: what you guessed it We talked about that too, to

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Speaker 2: a second assassination attempt to almost everybody in the American media.

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Speaker 1: For the second time in.

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Speaker 2: A row, actually probably third time in a row, totally

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Speaker 2: discount President Trump. And to listen, I mean this completely.

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Speaker 2: It seems like what happened in twenty twenty four was similar,

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Speaker 2: it was different but also very similar to what happened

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Speaker 2: media saw this coming, so I could, and I didn't

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Speaker 2: have a lot of time to prep for this show,

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Speaker 2: coming from hosting radio directly to here. This is one

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Speaker 2: I'm a one man band, so to speak, on this

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Speaker 2: show on the podcast, But in researching for the show,

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Speaker 2: I found probably five or six pieces of sound that

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Speaker 2: basically said Trump's campaign was faltering. This is a man

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Speaker 2: that will go down in flames and will live out

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Speaker 2: his life in infamy, perhaps even behind bars. And they're

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Speaker 2: saying this gleefully. So I mean, I'm serious, folks. This

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Speaker 2: these idiots with national platforms are saying on national television.

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Speaker 2: And it's also why we should never trust any of

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Speaker 2: I even think that most conservatives discounted this guy. Not us,

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Speaker 2: they're over here raiding the stream from Dan Nunnshow, and

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Speaker 2: whoever else who watches or listens to this show, I

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Speaker 2: I feel like nothing that I say is a surprise

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Speaker 2: is an uncommon thing today in America. You know, I

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Speaker 2: look at school, for example, what my kids, and I've

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Speaker 2: More importantly, think for yourself. Thinking critically was really important. Okay,

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Speaker 2: this is what the history book says, Sean, But what

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Speaker 2: do you think about this fact pattern that was set

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Speaker 2: And I know this because I hear the kids talk

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Speaker 2: Where As you navigate through this crazy journey that we

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Speaker 2: not like you can study for that test. In fact,

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Speaker 2: life is one curveball after the next. And in fact,

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Speaker 2: I talked about this on the Clay and Buck Show

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Speaker 2: today and for those of you who are just joining us,

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Speaker 2: I filled in today for Clay Travis and Buck Sexton

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Speaker 2: on the biggest radio show in the country. By the way,

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Speaker 2: I think they're on five hundred plus stations, which is insane.

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Speaker 2: Definitely not, never will do that. Not in the same

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Speaker 1: Because I would hear over and over from my troops.

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Speaker 1: Folks, I can assure you that this was never part

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Speaker 2: And I talked to Commander Melanie about this before I

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Speaker 2: In the new year, Trump won twenty twenty five, You

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Speaker 2: this stuff, and he'd be responsible for all that. It

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Speaker 2: was very very high speed, highly trained guy. And we

438
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Speaker 2: were on this mission in late two thousand and six.

439
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Speaker 2: We had taken i mean four hundred and eighty five

440
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Speaker 2: days of combat. My base had taken over four thousand rockets.

441
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Speaker 2: And those are indirect fire attacks. So if you remember

442
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Speaker 2: Band of Brothers where there's the Battle of the Bald

443
00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 2: Season they're getting pounded with artillery, that's kind of what

444
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:37,200
Speaker 2: they went through.

445
00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:39,760
Speaker 1: Was far far worse. Living in those fox holes.

446
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,560
Speaker 2: No cold weather, gear, freezing or asses off getting pounded

447
00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:43,760
Speaker 2: with German artillery every day.

448
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Speaker 1: That was hell.

449
00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:48,679
Speaker 2: We got pounded with artillery every day too, But at

450
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:50,359
Speaker 2: least I had a bed and a pillow to sleep in.

451
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,040
Speaker 2: Now that doesn't mean a hey rocket can land on

452
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:54,480
Speaker 2: your head while you're sleeping, but at least you're going

453
00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:57,320
Speaker 2: to be comfortable in the meantime, or comfortable ish as

454
00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:59,960
Speaker 2: it goes when you're in the middle of nowhere in Afghanistan.

455
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:02,679
Speaker 2: So we got tasked with this mission to find all

456
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:06,480
Speaker 2: these rocket teams, hunt them down, and kill them. And

457
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 2: we got that mission in late November, well within five

458
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Speaker 2: minutes of being on that mission. My opatun was, of

459
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Speaker 2: course we ran point for everything Pittsburgh Plumbers says, and

460
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 2: what is Band of Brothers a movie? Band of Brothers?

461
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Speaker 3: Uh?

462
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh is the best mini series of all times. If

463
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Speaker 2: you have Netflix, it's for free on net It's it's

464
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,160
Speaker 2: right there on Netflix. It's the best World War two

465
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 2: mini series of all time. It's largely regarded as that

466
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Speaker 2: as well, by not just me, but by everybody. But

467
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Speaker 2: we watch it because it gives the kids a sense

468
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 2: of what it's like to be in the infantry. So anyways,

469
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Speaker 2: we go, we're on this mission, and within two seconds

470
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Speaker 2: of hunting down these guys, we see these like al

471
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Speaker 2: Qaeda type guys, clad and all black had uh you know,

472
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Speaker 2: bdu like camouflage, woodland camo chest racks where they carried

473
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 2: all their ammunition and stuff in AK forty sevens. They

474
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Speaker 2: run out from the wadi system to our left, and

475
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 2: a wadi system is like a canyon right or a callvert.

476
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Speaker 1: They run out.

477
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Speaker 2: There's five of them there waving their AK forty sevens

478
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,520
Speaker 2: and screaming at us and doing us all this other stuff.

479
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,760
Speaker 2: We're on patrol with the Afghan National Army and Marines

480
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,200
Speaker 2: are embedded with the Afghan National Army to train them,

481
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:22,920
Speaker 2: and so they're up on the high ground. Michaeltoon's down

482
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:26,119
Speaker 2: in the low ground. Well, the Afghan National Army sees

483
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:29,439
Speaker 2: these guys waving these AK forty sevens and screaming, and

484
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 2: they turn around and they take off running. Well guess

485
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 2: what the Afghan National Army did. The Afghan National Army

486
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:40,240
Speaker 2: went running after them, and the Marines who were embedded

487
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Speaker 2: among them, you could hear them yelling no stop stop,

488
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 2: sensing what we all sensed, and that was we were

489
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Speaker 2: about to be very likely baited into an ambush, that

490
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,600
Speaker 2: they had something in that calvert that was not going

491
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Speaker 2: to be good for us, And sure enough, that's exactly

492
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Speaker 2: what happened. The marine first lieutenant who was with the

493
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Speaker 2: Afghan National Army at that point, got shot in the

494
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 2: pelvis right away, and every member of the Afghan National

495
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 2: Army on that ridge line who charged after those Al

496
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 2: Qaeda insurgents, those rocket teams got pinned down and cut

497
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Speaker 2: off and surrounded by the enemy. And the problem was

498
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,360
Speaker 2: is that, I mean, obviously, being trapped and pinned down

499
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 2: by the enemy is a really bad, shitty thing.

500
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Speaker 1: That's bad in and of itself.

501
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 2: But what was really bad is that we had a marine,

502
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Speaker 2: a US marine up there, who was shot in the pelvis,

503
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:36,119
Speaker 2: and what we had gotten word of is that his

504
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:39,320
Speaker 2: foremoral artery might have been nicked. And that's not a

505
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:45,920
Speaker 2: good thing, obviously, And so I asked my battalion commander

506
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:47,400
Speaker 2: to send my platune in to get him out.

507
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Speaker 1: And so we went in.

508
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 2: We drove headlong into that kill zone, got attacked, had

509
00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:53,280
Speaker 2: two guys shot in the head on that patrol.

510
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 1: Both of those guys stayed in the fight.

511
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Speaker 2: By the way, I think I told some of you

512
00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 2: all this story before, but had to evak are wounded,

513
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 2: went back into the kill zone, couldn't get to this

514
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 2: marine in trucks, so it pulled back out of the

515
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 2: kill zone, consolidated, reorganized, focus on evacuating all of our wounded.

516
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 2: Jeff Hall, my third squadalier, volunteers to go after this

517
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 2: marine and take his squad with him. Nine people fight

518
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:23,920
Speaker 2: through two enemy lines to get.

519
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: To this guy.

520
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 2: And Jeff Hall was what they would call like a

521
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 2: medically trained combat lifesaver. So he takes his squad up

522
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 2: this hilltop and he gets to the top of the

523
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Speaker 2: hill and he does fight through two hostile enemy lines,

524
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 2: gets to this marine. He administers first aid somehow stops

525
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 2: the bleeding after being shot in the hip. He guides

526
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Speaker 2: in this Blackhawk helicopter with a Jungle penetrator.

527
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 1: But not before to Apache helicopters.

528
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 2: Okay, these are our attack helicopters were on station attacking

529
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Speaker 2: the enemy and try to keep the enemy off of us.

530
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 1: Not before both hear me.

531
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Speaker 2: Now, both of those apaches took incoming fire, took bullets

532
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 2: to their haull and had to withdraw from the station.

533
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,480
Speaker 2: So all of this happened, Jeff's able to get this

534
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 2: black Hawk helicopter in with a jungle penetrator.

535
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Speaker 1: Which is basically a litter where you would put a casualty.

536
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 2: Imagine, you know, somebody sitting in the back of an

537
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 2: ambulance or something that's like a litter, dangling at the

538
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 2: end of a big long rope that they lowered down

539
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 2: from this helicopter that's called a jungle penetrator, and then you've.

540
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 1: Got these straps that go over the casualty's chest.

541
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 2: Well, Jeff Hall is surrounded by the enemy, somehow gets

542
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 2: this black Hawk helicopter and then remember he's a pathfinder

543
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:46,200
Speaker 2: and he's trained to do this stuff, and gets this

544
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 2: jungle penetrator in, gets this marine loaded up, and we

545
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 2: watched this bird fly away with this big dangly rope

546
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 2: in this litter, this marine hanger. I mean, it's absolutely unbelievable.

547
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:59,480
Speaker 2: And Jeff Call comes down smoking a cigarette and he goes, sir,

548
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 2: I see that look in your eye. Don't even put

549
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,960
Speaker 2: me in for an award. He's like, because it ain't

550
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 2: gonna work. I'm just doing my damn job. So that's

551
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 2: the kind of guy that Jeff hall is and so

552
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 2: we get home after sixteen months of Afghanistan, and he

553
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 2: and I were close, you know, you go through something

554
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 2: like that, you know, I was close with a lot

555
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 2: of my guys, even to this day. I was just

556
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 2: talking to my second squad leader yesterday, who actually lost

557
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 2: to Brock by the way, in this fantasy football finals.

558
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:37,520
Speaker 2: But Jeff Paul and I after I got back, got

559
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 2: into some stupid fight about something. You know, I don't

560
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:45,760
Speaker 2: even remember what the hell it was about, just some

561
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 2: stupid military bullshit. I don't I couldn't even tell you

562
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 2: to this day what it was about. And we never

563
00:30:54,920 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 2: really talked ever again until he got orders to go

564
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 2: back to Afghanistan, and I couldn't. I was non deployable

565
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 2: because of my head injury. I was going through rehabit

566
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 2: in the process of being put out of the Army.

567
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 2: But I remember standing on the flight line because I

568
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,760
Speaker 2: wanted to be there for my troops as they went

569
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 2: back into the fight that they just barely survived. Sixteen months,

570
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 2: nine months off and then back for over fifteen months.

571
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 1: Absolutely ridiculous what the.

572
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 2: Army put us through, which, by the way, this is

573
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 2: part of the reason why I'm glad that heg Sat

574
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 2: is going to be our new Secretary of Defense. That

575
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 2: kind of crazy shit has to stop. But I remember

576
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 2: shaking his hand and saying, good luck, You're gonna be great,

577
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 2: take care of your men, and he said thanks, sir,

578
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 2: shook shook his hand, and he went and boarded that

579
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 2: that that that that SEE one third that that civilian

580
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 2: hel helica, that's civilian aircraft to take him to Kuwait

581
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 2: where he gets on to SEE one thirty goes back

582
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 2: to Afghanistan. He deplored to Wardak Province and on June first,

583
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 2: two thousand and nine, he was killed. His truck ran

584
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 2: over a devastating improvised explosive device and killed everybody in

585
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 2: that truck.

586
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: But the gunner. And I look back on that.

587
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:11,479
Speaker 2: I was talking to Melanie about this today and for

588
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:14,720
Speaker 2: whatever reason, you know, I've sup as you go through

589
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 2: life and you forget some of this stuff, right, But

590
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 2: something that I saw on Band of Brothers yesterday as

591
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 2: we watched this, jarred that memory in me, and I

592
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 2: told Melanie this morning, I'm like, man, I really regret this.

593
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 1: This is this was a really stupid fight.

594
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 2: And now I'll never have the opportunity to really make

595
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 2: it right or talk to him ever.

596
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 1: Again, life is short. You know.

597
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 2: The only thing that we're guaranteed is right the second.

598
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 2: You know, we're not guaranteed tomorrow. And so you know, again,

599
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 2: I'm sorry to go off on a tangent with this stuff,

600
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 2: but this is all the stuff I'm thinking about going

601
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 2: into into the new year, and hopefully I learned from

602
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 2: this and it makes me a better person. And that's

603
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 2: why when I see these stories like six billion dollars

604
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 2: to Ukraine, this is of course the Biden administration announcing

605
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 2: a two point five billion dollar weapons aid package to

606
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 2: Ukraine in conjunction with Janet Yellen announcing, you know, a

607
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 2: three point five billion dollar aid package to Ukraine from

608
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 2: the US Treasury, over six billion to Ukraine in Biden's

609
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 2: last in the twenty twenty one days out before Trump

610
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 2: is sworn in.

611
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 1: It just pisses me off so much because it feels

612
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 1: like we're all like we're making the same mistakes that

613
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: we have made for the last twenty years, mistakes that

614
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 1: put Jeff Hall in a place to get killed, that

615
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: forced him to go back to Afghanistan after sixteen months.

616
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 2: By the way, four hundred and eighty five days. Try

617
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 2: to wrap your mind around how long that is? So

618
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:02,280
Speaker 2: easy company in band of brothers, they jump into Normandy

619
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 2: and they fight to Hitler's eagles nest in less time

620
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 2: than four hundred and eighty five days. That's how long

621
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 2: we were in Afghanistan. Sixteen months in a row. So Jeff

622
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 2: Hall comes home as a new baby, is a new

623
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:18,319
Speaker 2: baby girl name named Audrey, and gets married to an

624
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:22,840
Speaker 2: amazing woman called Alison, and is with his baby for

625
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,879
Speaker 2: nine months. And the Secretary of Defense at the time,

626
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 2: which I think was Rumsfeld, turn around, send him right back.

627
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 1: Hell, it might not have been Rumsfeld. I don't know.

628
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 2: It might have been Gates or somebody like that. But

629
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 2: no one in the Department of Defense thought that maybe

630
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,359
Speaker 2: we shouldn't send a unit that had been home for

631
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 2: only nine months less than a year, send him back

632
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 2: over there. Think that, guys, after sixteen months of heavy

633
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 2: combat might be fatigued. You think that that might be

634
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:49,919
Speaker 2: an anti war fighter position. Yet here we are six

635
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,400
Speaker 2: billion dollars sending right to Ukraine in a war that

636
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 2: will be nothing but bloody, a bloody stalemate. And oh,

637
00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 2: by the way, here we are sending all this money

638
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 2: to Ukraine when you have Western North Carolina still in shambles.

639
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 2: People were sharing heartbreaking video out of Western North Carolina.

640
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 2: This is a national scandal. I mean, I guess FEMA's

641
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 2: on the ground there now, but they're not doing a

642
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 2: whole lot. I mean, you talk, you look at some

643
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,760
Speaker 2: of the testimony videos from the people of North Carolina

644
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 2: who are still suffering to this day from Hurricane Helen.

645
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 2: I mean, many people have not even seen FEMA or

646
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 2: think that FEMA is not helping them at all. And

647
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 2: so here we are sending six billion to Ukraine and

648
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 2: not even helping our own people. Or how about the

649
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:46,399
Speaker 2: people of Maui in Hawaii. We covered that extensively here

650
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 2: on this podcast when it happened, extensively, relying heavily on

651
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 2: survivor testimony from local news coverage, how people felt the.

652
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,360
Speaker 1: Government was doing. They didn't feel good about it.

653
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Speaker 2: Seven hundred bucks, seven hundred bucks maybe a little bit

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Speaker 2: more in Western North Carolina. That is supposed to replace

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Speaker 2: everything that these people lost, and yet here we are

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Speaker 2: show me tell me what the moral justification is Republicans

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Speaker 2: who are okay with this bullshit? Because I know there

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Speaker 2: are plenty of you in Washington. Where's the moral justification

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Speaker 2: for this when you have Americans here that are suffering

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Speaker 2: legitimately suffering from natural disasters? Or how about in the

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Speaker 2: year of twenty twenty four, homelessness in this country increased

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Speaker 2: at a rate not seen before in a very long time.

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Speaker 2: It's at an all time high right now under Joe Biden.

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Speaker 2: Show me the moral justification for sending six billion dollars

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Speaker 2: to a country that's not even technically our ally. This

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Speaker 2: is why I'm so passionate about this speaker's stuff.

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Speaker 1: I know that many of you all.

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Speaker 2: Look I am not. I am as conservative America first

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Speaker 2: as you get. I think you all know that about me.

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Speaker 2: But I don't want to squander two years of.

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Speaker 1: A Trump presidency. I don't. We did this in sixteen.

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Speaker 1: Republicans stabbed him in the back. Paul Ryan and the

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Speaker 1: rest of the republic Republicans from the cut from the

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Speaker 1: same cloth.

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Speaker 2: I'm tired of this. We cannot have a repeat of

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Speaker 2: the past where Republicans gain power and we fail to

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Speaker 2: wield it. So is Mike Johnson perfect, Absolutely not. But

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Speaker 2: there's no one else. There's no one else. There's not

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Speaker 2: a consensus candidate that's gonna just go into emerge. Jim Jordan.

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Speaker 2: I love Jim Jordan, the Farah in the House of Representatives.

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Speaker 2: I'd be voting for Jim Jordan all day long. I

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Speaker 2: love that guy. But even I think Jim would tell

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Speaker 2: you I'm more effective on judiciary, and he's probably right

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Speaker 2: investigating the Biden crime family syndicate, questioning and holding to

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Speaker 2: a holding to a cat all these criminals within our

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Speaker 2: deep state. I actually like Jim Jordan in that role too,

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Speaker 2: And I think you tell you the same thing. Maybe

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Speaker 2: I don't know, I'm just speculating. Trump endorsed Mike Johnson.

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Speaker 2: Mike Johnson came out yesterday and said he has the votes.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we'll see.

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Speaker 2: I broke down the math for you all yesterday. Go

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Speaker 2: to the thirty one minute mark of the show yesterday

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Speaker 2: where I break down all the math. But Speaker Johnson

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Speaker 2: can only afford to lose four votes. We's got Massy's

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Speaker 2: not going to be voting for him. I think Victorious Sparts,

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Speaker 2: a Republican congresswoman, is probably not going to vote for him,

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Speaker 2: or is at least looking to maybe vote for somebody else.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's two.

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Speaker 2: You need a solid majority of people who name you

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Speaker 2: by name in order to win, and that numbers two eighteen,

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Speaker 2: so you can only.

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Speaker 1: Afford to lose a few with four hundred and thirty

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Speaker 1: four members in the House.

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Speaker 2: And if you don't, and here's the reason, right, Okay,

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Speaker 2: listen to me on this. I know many of you

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Speaker 2: all probably I don't know if you all agree or not,

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Speaker 2: but like to me, I look at it like this,

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Speaker 2: if we are to say that President Trump, a president

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Speaker 2: is entitled to his cabinet and and and by the way,

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Speaker 2: I don't like the whole media gas lighting of oh

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Speaker 2: are we going to.

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Speaker 1: Vote for Pete or not? Oh my gosh, is Cash

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Speaker 1: Betell going to have the votes or not? I think

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Speaker 1: this is media gas lighting.

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Speaker 2: Because look at Biden, Pete butt, keg keg and and

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Speaker 2: all of these moronic Biden cabinet appointees who have no

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Speaker 2: experience whatsoever. All of them got some Republican votes. So

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Speaker 2: don't tell me that Pete Hegseth isn't qualified. Don't tell

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Speaker 2: me that Cash Hotel is not qualified. Don't tell me

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Speaker 2: that Tulca Gabbard and rfk aren't qualified. A president is

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Speaker 2: entitled to his cabinet. Let me ask you, folks, I

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Speaker 2: really want to ask you all this question because maybe

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Speaker 2: I'm wrong, and this is something. But I personally believe

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Speaker 2: that a president is entitled to his cabinet.

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Speaker 1: Do you believe that. I respect the Constitution, I respect

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Speaker 1: the Senate's role of advice and consent. I respect that.

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Speaker 1: Nowhere in that phrase is obstruct advice consent.

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Speaker 2: I respect that, But I just do believe the Democrat

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Speaker 2: or Republican if the elections on the up and up,

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Speaker 2: and a president wins an election, well he's entitled to

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Speaker 2: the advisors that he wants, right, So so of course,

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Speaker 2: of course, so lots of yes is here, So let

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Speaker 2: me let me also ask you this then, so and

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Speaker 2: tell me if I'm wrong, and and Shells bells one percent. Absolutely,

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Speaker 2: a leader needs his team. I agree, I agree in Boston,

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Speaker 2: Boston says I couldn't agree more. Sean, it's bs whether

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Speaker 2: her own Senate asses are doing fire for yet fire

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Speaker 2: for effect, dropping some f bombs. Thank you for your Canador,

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Speaker 2: my friend. Okay, So, if we agree that a president

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Speaker 2: is entitled to his cabinet, a leader needs his team.

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Speaker 2: If Trump endorses Mike Johnson first speaker. Would that same

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Speaker 2: logic not apply Trump endorsed Speaker Johnson. Trump has a mandate.

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Speaker 2: It was a Trump mandate. He overperformed republic statewide Republicans everywhere,

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Speaker 2: even in the suburbs. As all Trump naysayers would tell you, they, oh,

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Speaker 2: he's gonna lose the suburbs. Trump overperformed statewide Republicans in

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Speaker 2: the suburbs. So is so president endorses Speaker Johnson? Is

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Speaker 2: he entitled to have a speaker of his choice? If

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Speaker 2: you believe the president's entitled to his cabinet, then I

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Speaker 2: also believe I'm just trying to be intellectually consistent here,

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Speaker 2: that he's also entitled to have a speaker of his choice,

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Speaker 2: and if he chooses Mike Johnson, hey, Trump won the election.

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Speaker 2: We shouldn't get on board with that too, especially since

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Speaker 2: there is not a viable conservative that has come forward

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Speaker 2: to do it. I cannot let good be the enemy

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Speaker 2: of great?

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Speaker 1: Did I say that right?

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Speaker 2: Nevertheless, you get my point, And what really concerns me

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Speaker 2: is that having Trump in the White House with no

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Speaker 2: bullshit shenanigans taking place is ultimately the most important thing,

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Speaker 2: Because while Republicans seem poised to infight. The Democrats are

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Speaker 2: working over time to undermine the President at every turn,

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Speaker 2: use the power of Congress to thwart the will of

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Speaker 2: the American people, use the intel community to make President

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Speaker 2: Trump's next term.

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Speaker 1: Hell, they are doing this right now.

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Speaker 2: And if we squabble and fight amongst ourselves over a

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Speaker 2: stupid speaker fight now, I'm not saying this stuff is important.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying. I'm just saying there are things that

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Speaker 2: making sure Trump is in the White House on January

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Speaker 2: twentieth is everything to me. What I am said saying

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Speaker 2: is that having Trump and the White House is more

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Speaker 2: important than who's Speaker of the House right this second.

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Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. And the fact that Trump has

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Speaker 2: endorsed Speaker Johnson for the job. Hey, has he been perfect?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely not, but Trump endorsed him. We should trust Trump.

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean that. So I'm gonna tell you,

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Speaker 1: Folks.

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Speaker 2: Listen, we have the wind at our back right now. Seriously,

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Speaker 2: she ain't going anywhere.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna see her very soon.

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Speaker 2: Good run her again in twenty eight, Please Democrats run

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Speaker 2: that more on Kamala Harris at the top of the

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Speaker 2: ticket again. Somehow you found somebody that was less articulate

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Speaker 2: than Joe Biden. He's not even barely alive right now.

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Speaker 2: They've learned nothing. Biden thinks that he shouldn't. He regrets withdrawing.

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Speaker 2: He thinks that he could have beaten Trump. Biden thinks

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Speaker 2: listen to this stuff that this Rick Wilson, who's this

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Speaker 1: These people have learned no lessons. And while politically that's

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Speaker 1: good for.

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Speaker 2: Us, it's bad for us because they're going to keep

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Speaker 2: pushing the authoritarian fascist nonsense unless somebody holds them, these

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Speaker 2: people accountable, right, So in order for that to happen,

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Speaker 2: we got to have Trump in office.

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Speaker 1: Okay, but listen to Rick Wilson.

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Speaker 4: It's an inevitability that the hyper populist, non college educated

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Speaker 4: part of Trump's space, which is the plurality at the

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Speaker 4: minimum of a majority, if you think certain arguments, we're

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Speaker 4: always going to be preconditioned to believe that the word

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Speaker 4: the universal Twitter bro that you see at every avatar

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Speaker 4: on Twitter, that guy's thinking of it. Well, well, I

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Speaker 4: could have been the senior software designer at Google if

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Speaker 4: only it weren't for DEI or immigration. It's absurd. But

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Speaker 4: now you see these people that rely on that as

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Speaker 4: you know, the hyper populous. They don't really care about

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Speaker 4: the more sophisticated arguments about H one B or one visas.

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Speaker 4: They care around people that that's their whole that's their

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Speaker 4: whole driving conditioning they've had for from Fox for years.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, going with the age old Trump is a

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Speaker 2: racist argument, right, these people, they don't get it. Not

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Speaker 2: to mention that Trump made historic gains in just about

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Speaker 2: every single category. And that moron that I just showed

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Speaker 2: you was the day before election day said Trump was

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Speaker 2: gonna lose in embarrassing fashion.

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Speaker 1: But it's not just him.

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Speaker 2: Listen to Jennifer Ruben, who I don't know if she

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Speaker 2: still is, but I think thing might still be a

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Speaker 2: columnist at the Washington Compost.

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Speaker 5: Why would ABC Disney, the mouse who has more money

882
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Speaker 5: than God settled with Donald Trump?

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Speaker 6: I honestly don't know.

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Speaker 5: You know, I've asked why would ABC? But people ask

885
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Speaker 5: me all the time why is the media so mamsey pamsey?

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Speaker 5: And there are two explanations. The one is they are

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Speaker 5: convinced that if they would just move a little bit

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Speaker 5: to the right, all those maga readers out there. Now,

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Speaker 5: you'll notice the contradiction in terms MAGA readers would pick

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Speaker 5: up the Washington Post.

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Speaker 1: Oh ha ha ha ha ha. MAGA readers, they're dumb,

892
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Speaker 1: they can't read. These people are idiots.

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Speaker 2: To fight over a speaker fight, especially when President Trump

894
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Speaker 2: has weighed in and given his blessing to speaker Mike

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Speaker 2: Johnson and squander this extraordinary momentum that we have. Would

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Speaker 2: would be, would be to give our political enemies a massive,

897
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Speaker 2: massive victory. So we have a lot of extraordinary things

898
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Speaker 2: going for us. The intel community, yeah, they're going to

899
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Speaker 2: be working to try to undermine Trump, but they also

900
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Speaker 2: recognize that they are on the ropes in a very

901
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Speaker 2: big way. I mean, seriously, listen to John Brennan, who,

902
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Speaker 2: by the way, is a Commie mouth breather who was

903
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Speaker 2: one hundred percent behind spying on President Trump, one hundred

904
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Speaker 2: percent behind the Russia collusion hoax, signed the Laptop from Hell,

905
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Speaker 2: the Hunter Biden Laptop Letter. This guy is a hardcore

906
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Speaker 2: Democrat hack And just just listen to this.

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Speaker 7: John Brennan, who in twenty twenty cold President Trump a

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Speaker 7: quote despicable, ignorant fool, has a surprising take on the

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Speaker 7: transition so far.

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Speaker 8: Listen here, I think this transition to the there he

911
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Speaker 8: was now he's taking place in.

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Speaker 6: A more serious and professional fashion than happened in twenty

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Speaker 6: sixteen twenty seventeen, because you have people like a Marco Rubio,

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Speaker 6: who has been named to be the next Secretary of State,

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Speaker 6: who is well steeped in these issues and also takes

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Speaker 6: them very seriously. And I know that there is engagement

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Speaker 6: between the Biden Department of State and the incoming Trump team.

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Speaker 2: So that snafu was not me. That was on Fox,

919
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Speaker 2: but that was that said. Look, this guy is only

920
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Speaker 2: saying this because he knows that Trump does like when

921
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Speaker 2: people give him kudos, and he's hoping that he won't

922
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Speaker 2: be held accountable when Trump takes office and cash Battel

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Speaker 2: steps in as the FBI director.

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Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. And look, you want to.

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Speaker 2: Talk about the Biden crime family, they were totally exposed.

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Speaker 2: Remember the New York Post headline. The Feds finally released

927
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Speaker 2: photos showing then VP Biden meeting sons Hunter Biden business

928
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Speaker 2: China business partners days before he leaves office. So this

929
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Speaker 2: is first of all, thanks Feds for putting all this

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Speaker 2: stuff out now is the animated corpses on his way

931
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Speaker 2: out of the White House. But this confirms everything that

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Speaker 2: we already knew, and we've been reporting on this for

933
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Speaker 2: the better part of a year, that Biden is a

934
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Speaker 2: wholly owned subsidiary of the CCP. People came after me

935
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Speaker 2: for saying that, but it's one hundred percent true. There

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Speaker 2: are pictures of him now out there as a sitting

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Speaker 2: vice president meeting with President she of China and Hunter Biden, who,

938
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Speaker 2: by the way, Hunter Biden was paid in bags full

939
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Speaker 2: of diamonds from China, like he's some sort of bond villain.

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Speaker 2: But the narrative around the Biden crime family is also collapsing.

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Speaker 4: Ukraine and also China.

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Speaker 9: There's a polling by the Associated Press that shows that

943
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Speaker 9: almost seventy percent of Americans, including forty percent of Democrats,

944
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Speaker 9: believe that you acted either illegally or unethically in regards

945
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Speaker 9: to your family's business interests. Can you explain to the Americans,

946
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Speaker 9: to Americans this impeachment in Korea, why you interacted with

947
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Speaker 9: so many of your son and brothers foreign business associates.

948
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to comment that I did not, and

949
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Speaker 1: especially a bunch.

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Speaker 3: Of lies in Liberals Associates, I did not there's lies.

951
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Speaker 1: If he just grumbles lies enough, the world won't believe him,

952
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Speaker 1: and the media won't ask any more questions, just like

953
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Speaker 1: they didn't ask any damn questions about his age. Oh

954
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Speaker 1: my gosh. It's listen.

955
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Speaker 2: Good as winning. Good is winning. But the media they're

956
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Speaker 2: doing everything. I'm telling you. I'm telling you they they're

957
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:48,360
Speaker 2: doing everything they can to undermine President Trump. So we

958
00:53:48,440 --> 00:53:56,239
Speaker 2: cannot do their work for them. We cannot fight and

959
00:53:56,320 --> 00:53:59,640
Speaker 2: squabble over who's going to be a speaker. We cannot

960
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:03,480
Speaker 2: do it, cannot even waste a day. We've got two

961
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Speaker 2: years of guaranteed Republican power.

962
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Speaker 1: We should use it.

963
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Speaker 2: We should wield it unapologetically and never look back. And

964
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Speaker 2: like you see this other thing, this got left on

965
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Speaker 2: the cutting room floor yesterday. I'm not leaving it on

966
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Speaker 2: the cutting room floor today. Do you see this, Lina

967
00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:24,560
Speaker 2: Wang come out and talk about bird flu? What should

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Speaker 2: be happening in the Biden administration right now that isn't

969
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Speaker 2: going on.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there are two main things that they should be

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Speaker 3: doing in the days that they have left. The first

972
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Speaker 3: is to get testing out there. I feel like we

973
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Speaker 3: should have learned our lesson from COVID that just because

974
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Speaker 3: we aren't testing it doesn't mean that the virus isn't there.

975
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Speaker 3: It just means that we aren't looking for it. We

976
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Speaker 3: should be having rapid tests, home tests available to all

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Speaker 3: farm workers, to their families for the clinicians taking care

978
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Speaker 3: of them, so that we aren't waiting for public labs

979
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Speaker 3: and CDC labs to tell us what's bird flu or not.

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Speaker 3: And the second very important thing is this is not

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Speaker 3: like the beginning of COVID, where we were dealing with

982
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Speaker 3: a new virus, we didn't have a vaccine. There actually

983
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Speaker 3: is a vaccine developed already against age five and one.

984
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Speaker 3: The Biden administration has contracted with the manufacturers to make

985
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Speaker 3: almost five million doses of the vaccine. However, they have

986
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:16,400
Speaker 3: not asked the FDA to authorize the vaccine. There's researched

987
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:18,880
Speaker 3: down on it. They could get this authorized now and

988
00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:22,319
Speaker 3: also get the vaccine out and to farm workers into

989
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:24,960
Speaker 3: vulnerable people. I think that's the right approach because we

990
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:27,200
Speaker 3: don't know what the Trump administration is going to be

991
00:55:27,239 --> 00:55:30,000
Speaker 3: doing around bird flu. If they have people coming in

992
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:33,640
Speaker 3: with anti vaccine stances, could they hold up the vaccine authorization.

993
00:55:34,040 --> 00:55:37,080
Speaker 3: If they don't want to know how much bird flu

994
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Speaker 3: is out there, could they withhold testing? I mean, that's

995
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Speaker 3: a possibility, And I think the Biden administration in the

996
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:46,759
Speaker 3: remaining days should get testing and vaccines widely available so

997
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:50,080
Speaker 3: that at least it empowers state and local health officials

998
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Speaker 3: and clinicians to do the right thing for their patients.

999
00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:53,359
Speaker 3: Parder Worth.

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Speaker 2: So here she's talking about advanced advanced authorization for a

1001
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Speaker 2: vaccine for bird flu.

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Speaker 1: That, by the way, pos is very very very very

1003
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Speaker 1: very very very minimal risks to humans. We're not going

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Speaker 1: down this path again. We just aren't. I refuse to

1005
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:16,200
Speaker 1: go down this path.

1006
00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:20,040
Speaker 2: And listen, I'm telling you they're gonna do everything they can,

1007
00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:24,719
Speaker 2: including the whole the COVID playbook all over again, to

1008
00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:29,080
Speaker 2: try to derail President Trump's second term. We can't let

1009
00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:33,839
Speaker 2: them do it. We cannot infight. So all right, come

1010
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:36,920
Speaker 2: to the end of the show. Holy smokes that flew by.

1011
00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:41,319
Speaker 2: This is crazy how fast this show goes. Make sure

1012
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:43,520
Speaker 2: you smash that like button on your way out. I

1013
00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:46,520
Speaker 2: know it's a holiday. I know we have some people

1014
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Speaker 2: that would be celebrating New Year's Eve. And by the way,

1015
00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:52,600
Speaker 2: Robert Malone. I gotta say this because I'm just seeing

1016
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Speaker 2: this now. Someone sent this to me about Lena When

1017
00:56:57,239 --> 00:57:01,240
Speaker 2: Malone says this is stunningly irresponsible, Why does quote face

1018
00:57:01,320 --> 00:57:03,960
Speaker 2: that face the nation give her airtime. There's no public

1019
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:06,680
Speaker 2: health emergency, even the CDC says the risk is low.

1020
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Speaker 2: She seeks to normalize irresponsible, non scientifically and medically sound policies.

1021
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:16,640
Speaker 2: This is psychological bioterrorism. And Lina when is a psychological bioterrorist?

1022
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Speaker 2: Who is she working for? Ooh, Robert Malone, spinning fire.

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Speaker 2: Had to get you that before we left. Okay, So

1024
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Speaker 2: Winnie's World, Yeah, exactly. The lefts trying to call people

1025
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Speaker 2: stupid and uneducated. Yet thank you for the rumble rant tip.

1026
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Speaker 2: Winnie's World, you are the best. We are so so

1027
00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:41,240
Speaker 2: grateful for you. Geef Fontes, thanks again, You're a og

1028
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:44,320
Speaker 2: regular rumble rant tipper.

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Speaker 1: Thank you all for everything.

1030
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Speaker 2: Seriously, so to the end of the show, smash that

1031
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Speaker 2: like button on your way out, and I want you

1032
00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:57,560
Speaker 2: to just really you know, twenty twenty five is going

1033
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Speaker 2: to be great Boston. I see your rumble rant, my friend.

1034
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Speaker 2: Happy New Years to you as well, and we love

1035
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Speaker 2: you right back at you Boston. Thanks for the rumbel

1036
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Speaker 2: rant tip. Folks, listen, I want you to have a

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Speaker 2: happy New Year. We've been through a lot, and we've

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00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:18,600
Speaker 2: been through a lot together. We pushed through a lot together.

1039
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Speaker 2: You are the best audience in the world, and so

1040
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Speaker 2: enjoy New Year's Eve any way that you want. Here

1041
00:58:26,440 --> 00:58:28,360
Speaker 2: in the greatest country on the face of the planet.

1042
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Speaker 2: And when we see each other, it'll be the year

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, the year of President Donald J.

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Speaker 1: Trump.

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Speaker 2: So let's pray for Republicans to be strong. Let's pray

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Speaker 2: for our country to get back on its feet again

1047
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Speaker 2: after four hard years of the Biden administration. Let's pray

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Speaker 2: for Donald Trump to have success. Let's pray for Jade

1049
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Speaker 2: Vance to be right there with him. And as always, folks,

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Speaker 2: as you're on your way out, happy happy, Happy New Year.

1051
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Speaker 2: Battle crew, God bless you all, and God less this

1052
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Speaker 2: amazing country that we call home. Take care, good night,

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Speaker 2: and I will see you in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Take care,