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Speaker 2: Welcome to American Sunrise Early Edition. The show we're faith,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to American Sunrise Early Edition. I'm Jake Novak, and

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Speaker 1: a major focus now, Walter. The good news is some

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Speaker 1: Coming up on American Sunrise Early Edition, Guess who could

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Speaker 1: American Sunrise Early Edition will be right back Chicago, Illinois.

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Speaker 1: My family came to Chicago, Illinois in eighteen forty and

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Speaker 1: Pete hegseth Hearing circus. That's what it was. It was

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Speaker 7: You could see the attacks one of the other on

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Speaker 7: Nothing could be further from the truth. President Trump won

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Speaker 1: who is the next outrageous recipient of Joe Biden's part

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Speaker 1: I remember that's Sunday, January nineteenth. And you know there

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Speaker 1: is an issue here about whether it can be owned

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Speaker 1: by any foreign come entity at all. It's not just China,

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Speaker 1: and that really is the problem here. So Elon musk Now,

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Speaker 1: who's also an American citizen. You know about Kevin O'Leary

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Speaker 1: wanting to buy it, but the fact that there is

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Speaker 1: a ban coming on TikTok and President Trump has changed

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Speaker 1: his mind and said officially, including to with a letter

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Speaker 1: to the Supreme Court, that he doesn't think the band

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Speaker 1: should go into effect. That hasn't worked, And on Monday,

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Speaker 1: actually Friday, TikTok's lawyers went before the US Supreme Court

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Speaker 1: argued for the band to be either delayed or abolished.

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Speaker 1: And every legal expert folks that I've spoken to since

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Speaker 1: then says they didn't do they didn't close the deal,

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Speaker 1: that the justices did not look like they were going

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Speaker 1: to overturn this band. And it's already been a few

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Speaker 1: days since then they haven't done it. So it's not

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Speaker 1: going to happen either. This app, TikTok needs to be

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Speaker 1: sold off. And this app is worth billions and billions

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Speaker 1: of dollars. There are a major operations in America that,

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Speaker 1: if you strip them down, are not worth as much

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Speaker 1: as TikTok, so it's very, very valuable. But I think

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Speaker 1: that's saying that they would sell it to Elon Musk.

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Speaker 1: Was China's excuse me, China's hail Mary China hoping that

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Speaker 1: the liberals who hate Elon Musk would stand up against

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Speaker 1: the band that also is not working. I'll have more

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Speaker 1: on this TikTok story. A little bit later in the program,

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Speaker 1: all Right, saying on social media Meta, the owner of

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Speaker 1: Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp, is preparing to cut about

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Speaker 1: five percent of its global workforce as the company looks

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Speaker 1: to drop quote low performers faster. That means the bad workers.

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Speaker 1: They want to get rid of them now. In a

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Speaker 1: memo to his staff, boss Mark Zuckerberg says he's made

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Speaker 1: the decision to speed up the firm's regular performance based

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Speaker 1: cuts in anticipation of quote an intense year end quote.

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Speaker 1: Of course, this comes just after Mark Zuckerberg made a

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Speaker 1: number of public appearances claiming Meta would reverse its politically

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Speaker 1: biased fact checking policies. Now that was great, and many

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Speaker 1: of you may know my posy on this. Sure trust,

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Speaker 1: but verify. We don't really think that Mark Zuckerberg has

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Speaker 1: completely turned a corner and will be fair to Trump supporters,

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Speaker 1: fair to Israel supporters, fair to just anyone who isn't

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Speaker 1: a leftist. I'm not really ready to believe that. But

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Speaker 1: getting rid of those backcheckers was a good first step,

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Speaker 1: and I applaud Mark Zuckerberg for that. There's a bigger

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Speaker 1: step he needs to take. There is something called the

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Speaker 1: meta oversight board. It's a number of people who basically

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Speaker 1: decide what the policy is going to be in a

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Speaker 1: general way, and sometimes they deal with specific issues. This

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Speaker 1: is the same meta oversite board that allows you to

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Speaker 1: post genocidal comments about Israel, like from the River to

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Speaker 1: the Sea. But if you make a joke about beeper's

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Speaker 1: like Israel's attack on the Feesbola leadership terrorists not civilians.

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Speaker 1: If you make a joke about beepers, they'll ban you.

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Speaker 1: So until Mark Zuckerberg gets rid of that meta oversight board,

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Speaker 1: just gets rid of it, I wouldn't even try to

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Speaker 1: populate it with better people. I'm not gonna buy this,

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Speaker 1: but I will applaud every little step he makes. It'll

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Speaker 1: least will make it a little little bit better for

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Speaker 1: those of you who are on Facebook and have been

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Speaker 1: discriminated against, and many of us are, myself included, you

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Speaker 1: know that there's a lot of work to do over there.

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Speaker 1: All right, it's the end of a great era in

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Speaker 1: free loading. Starbucks is killing killing its open door policy

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Speaker 1: that allows people to use its bathrooms and hang out

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Speaker 1: at his shops even if they don't buy anything. This

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Speaker 1: is like a culture change in America. The new rules

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Speaker 1: are part of a larger effort to improve Starbucks cafe

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Speaker 1: experience and deter homeless people and non paying customers who

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Speaker 1: have come to use Starbucks solely for shelter and bathroom access. Folks,

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Speaker 1: this is a lot about the illegal migrants and cities

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Speaker 1: coming into cities. They weren't there when they change this policy. Now,

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Speaker 1: new CEO Brian Nickel, he's the new CEO of Starbucks.

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Speaker 1: He is working on a major overhaul the lower back customers,

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Speaker 1: boost sagging sales, and improve worker relations because you know

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Speaker 1: the workers that baristas are working at Starbucks. They don't

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Speaker 1: want to have to be a bouncer. They don't want

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Speaker 1: to have to deal with these people who come in

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Speaker 1: and make things really difficult for them. This apparently does

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Speaker 1: all three this change in the policy. Now, when did

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Speaker 1: Starbucks officially have their open door policy that began in

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. You might remember this. Two black men were

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Speaker 1: arrested at a Philadelphia location while waiting for a friend,

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Speaker 1: and one of the men said he asked to use

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Speaker 1: the restroom shortly after he walked in and he was

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Speaker 1: told it was only for paying customers. The incident was

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Speaker 1: caught on a camera and it morphed into this pr

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Speaker 1: disaster for Starbucks. By the way, I think Starbucks and

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Speaker 1: the people who worked at that particular Starbucks at Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: were in the wrong. I just don't think it was

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Speaker 1: right for Starbucks to change their entire national policy based

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Speaker 1: on that one incident. But Brian Nichol is the new CEO.

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Speaker 1: He has nothing to do with what happened there seven

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Speaker 1: years ago. He's trying to make it safer for the

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Speaker 1: paying customers. He's trying to make it safer for his employees.

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Speaker 1: I haven't a Starbucks right across the street from he

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Speaker 1: doesn't really have those kinds of problems. But you know

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Speaker 1: what I might walk in now. I'm more likely to

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Speaker 1: walk in now than I was yesterday. All Right, it's

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Speaker 1: car news time, and you know the demand for electric

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Speaker 1: cars is down overall since last year, but the car

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Speaker 1: world is still buzzing about a'resting side by side comparison

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Speaker 1: in sales right now, Tesla out sold Audi in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four by a margin of one point seven million

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Speaker 1: vehicles to one point six million, so one hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: more vehicles. That puts Tesla in a position now to

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Speaker 1: beat Mercedes in twenty twenty five, and it keeps going

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Speaker 1: this way. Tesla launched the Model Y refresh. They just

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Speaker 1: did that. That may still not be enough for Tesla

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Speaker 1: to cash Mercedes, because Mercedes had two million cars sold

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four and BMW is still the luxury

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Speaker 1: sales leader with two point two million vehicles sold last year.

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Speaker 1: But folks, we're talking about a still very new car company.

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Speaker 1: Tesla didn't start until two thousand and three. I don't

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Speaker 1: think they pumped out their first car until two thousand

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Speaker 1: and six, and that may have been a prototype. You

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Speaker 1: can fact check me on those years. But you understand

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Speaker 1: it's a brand new company that is now in a

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Speaker 1: position to overtake very old established German luxury car models.

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Speaker 1: It's an incredible story. Lover hate Elon Musk. If you

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Speaker 1: had told me, Hey, if you told me in the

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Speaker 1: year two thousand, that there would be a new company

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Speaker 1: that we sell almost two million cars a year that

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Speaker 1: hasn't even been started yet, I wouldn't believe you. So

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Speaker 1: it's just a really unbelievable story. All right. Now back

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Speaker 1: to the TikTok story. A top parent expert on social

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Speaker 1: media has another theory as to why TikTok is facing

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Speaker 1: that January nineteenth ban, And it may not surprise you

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Speaker 1: when you hear it, but it's an interesting take. Check

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Speaker 1: it out.

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Speaker 9: So you were there in DC at the Supreme Court.

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Speaker 9: That was last Friday, the day that the justices were

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Speaker 9: hearing arguments. What do you think is going to be

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Speaker 9: the most likely outcome here? Do you think it's going

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Speaker 9: to get banned outright? Is it going to be sold?

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Speaker 9: Is there going to be a delay? What do you

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Speaker 9: think is going to happen?

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Speaker 10: I think that a lot of the mainstream media headlines

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Speaker 10: are spreading a lot of fear among the creators. It

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Speaker 10: almost feels like we're being conditioned. But for those of

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Speaker 10: us that stayed for the entirety of the arguments, I

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Speaker 10: felt it was very clear that the justices were more

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Speaker 10: persuaded by the Creator's case. They had hard questions for

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Speaker 10: the government, especially in the later half for the Solicitor General,

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Speaker 10: and it seemed to me that they were opening the

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Speaker 10: gateway probably or possibly administratives today, which is exactly what

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Speaker 10: President Trump asked for in his amicus brief.

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Speaker 11: And so you know, national security Tiffany has been the

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Speaker 11: main concern with TikTok because it's parent company, byte Dance,

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Speaker 11: is subjected to Chinese laws that require it to cooperate

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Speaker 11: with the CCP's intelligence work.

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Speaker 2: Do you believe that that's a valid.

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Speaker 11: Concern, that the CCP works in tandem with byte Dance

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Speaker 11: and naturally has to share information with them.

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Speaker 1: I do not.

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Speaker 10: I don't believe that for a number of reasons, but primarily,

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Speaker 10: or chief among them, really is that if it were

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Speaker 10: a threat to our national security and it were truly

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Speaker 10: a dangerous place to be, President Biden, vice President Harris,

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Speaker 10: and President Trump wouldn't all have accounts on that app

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Speaker 10: nor would dozens of the senators and representatives that voted

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Speaker 10: for this band.

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Speaker 9: I think that's a really good point, Tiffany, what do

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Speaker 9: you think is motivating all of this? Then? If it's

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Speaker 9: not national security, then what is it? I mean, we've

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Speaker 9: seen the parties kind of flip flop on all of this.

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Speaker 9: During Trump's first term, he was all for banning this thing.

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Speaker 9: Biden was the one against it, and now he is

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Speaker 9: the one that's for banning it. So what do you

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Speaker 9: think is really motivating all of that? Is it just

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Speaker 9: to manipulate the way that people think.

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Speaker 10: I think it's more than that. Actually. First of all,

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Speaker 10: when President Trump wanted to ban it, originally it was

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Speaker 10: about data security. And TikTok has invested billions of dollars

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Speaker 10: into Project Texas to move all American data storage into Oracle,

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Speaker 10: which is the same company that houses our international allied

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Speaker 10: warfare information. They are more than equipped to handle it,

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Speaker 10: and they gave the government access to all of the

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Speaker 10: information and source code. That's why President Trump says he's satisfied.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 10: What I do believe is that Meta and Alphabet have

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Speaker 10: lost billions of dollars in revenue in their monopolistic enterprises,

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Speaker 10: and they have spent millions of dollars lobbying the government

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Speaker 10: to ensure that this app goes away.

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Speaker 1: All right, Special report airs every day here in Real

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Speaker 1: America's Voice at four pm Eastern time. Coming up, We're

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Speaker 1: going to look again at the Pete Hegseth trial by

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Speaker 1: fire before the Senate Committee. He will come out? Will

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Speaker 1: he come out a winner with this Defense Secretary job?

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Speaker 1: Stay tuned, We'll be right back here. Eric and Sunrise

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Speaker 1: Early edition.

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Speaker 8: That you mean.

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Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, January fifteenth. Here are some of the top

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Speaker 1: stories this morning. The fires in and around Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: are still raging, but some of the most feared scenarios

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Speaker 1: did not come to pass yesterday. Despite some of the

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Speaker 1: strongest wins recorded. Now, firefighters feel they need just one

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Speaker 1: more day of good luck to have a chance at

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Speaker 1: getting the upper hand. Pete Hegseth faced shrieking sanctimony and

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Speaker 1: lies during his Senate confirmation hearing how was your day?

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Speaker 1: He also had a lot of support behind him, though

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Speaker 1: it's still not clear though that will be enough to

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Speaker 1: get him the top job of the Pendant. The deal

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Speaker 1: has still not gone into effect, but it looks like

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Speaker 1: Israel and Klamas have agreed on a release of the

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Speaker 1: hostages and a ceasefire in Gaza. We are still closer

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Speaker 1: to that deal being signed than ever before, so there

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Speaker 1: is optimism. But the hard reality is Israel had to

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Speaker 1: agree to release about one thousand Palestinian terrorist criminals, and

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Speaker 1: once again, a victory for common sense in America does

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Speaker 1: not garner any significant Democrat support. Just wait until you

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Speaker 1: hear how few Democrats voted for a bill to protect

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Speaker 1: women in college sports. American Sunrise Early edition continues right now.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to American Sunrise early edition. I'm Jake Novak.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining me. Joining me now

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Speaker 1: also is Daily Signal reporter Elizabeth Mitchell. And Elizabeth we'll

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Speaker 1: get to the stuff on Capitol Hill in a second.

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Speaker 1: But as I said to my first guest earlier today,

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Speaker 1: as long as America's second largest city remains under lethal threat,

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Speaker 1: I have to go to these LA fires first. I'm

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Speaker 1: sorry that story is still life and death. What is

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Speaker 1: your take on you're in DC. How is Washington responding

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Speaker 1: to these fires? In your opinion, do you think that

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Speaker 1: there's been a good response or just more of the same.

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Speaker 8: I think that while this fire crisis was partially combination

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Speaker 8: of weather factors like strong winds, I think everyone is

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Speaker 8: realizing that a large part of the reason that this

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Speaker 8: has gotten so far out of hand is because of

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Speaker 8: the state's extremely radical democratic leadership that has repeatedly prioritized DEI,

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Speaker 8: the environment, other things like that instead of just fire

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Speaker 8: safety and keeping home safe, keeping people safe. And I

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Speaker 8: think that that is something that people are aware of

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Speaker 8: around the country.

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Speaker 1: You know, now to the pte hegg Seth Hearing Center

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Speaker 1: that was kind of a firestorm in and of itself,

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Speaker 1: and you know, Elizabeth, there were a lot of shrieking

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Speaker 1: moments from the Democrats yesterday at male and female. At

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Speaker 1: some point, I don't know if you notice, they all

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Speaker 1: started shouting. If I repeat Hegseth. One of the first

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Speaker 1: things I would have said is like, hey, you don't

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Speaker 1: have to shout. I'm right here, and you have a

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Speaker 1: mic that would have gotten a huge laugh. But whatever,

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Speaker 1: I'm not his joke writer. And all these senators were shouting,

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Speaker 1: pretending to be outraged. And I love that too, because

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Speaker 1: they've had weeks and weeks and weeks where people haven't

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Speaker 1: been talking about the Hext nomination, where they could have

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Speaker 1: posted something, they could have done an interview, they could

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Speaker 1: have raised their voice. Then it was just such theater.

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Speaker 1: One of those yellers, he was a yeller, was Michigan

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Speaker 1: Senator Gary Peters. And here's how he immediately became a

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Speaker 1: punchline thanks to somebody else in the hearing. Check it out.

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Speaker 5: I'm just about trying to get things done, managing efficiently

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Speaker 5: and having the best people who have demonstrated that in

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Speaker 5: a large organization. And I'm sorry, but I don't see

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Speaker 5: that in your background. There are a lot of other

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Speaker 5: things you can do very well. You're a capable person,

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Speaker 5: but you have not convinced me that you're able to

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Speaker 5: take on this tremendous responsibility with a complex organization and

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Speaker 5: having little or no significant management experience.

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Speaker 6: Senator, I'm grateful to be hired by one of the

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Speaker 6: most successful CEOs in American history.

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Speaker 5: Should I be confirmed?

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Speaker 4: Mister Haig said that it seems to me that you've

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Speaker 4: provised far more people than the average United States Senator

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Speaker 4: supervisors to.

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Speaker 1: All right, Elizabeth, I promise you. Peters was shouting before

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Speaker 1: he sounded a little bit more concilia. Sorry at the end,

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Speaker 1: but he just walked into that one. Did he deserve

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Speaker 1: it or did he have a point? I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: let's give him a chance here. Like I said, I

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Speaker 1: take my word for it. He was shouting before he

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Speaker 1: quieted down during the SoundBite that we showed, but then

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Speaker 1: he got you know, he became a punchline. Did he

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Speaker 1: deserve that? Or maybe he has a point. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think it's worth being fair to him right now.

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Speaker 1: Maybe well.

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Speaker 8: Haig Seth managed a lot of people, had a very

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Speaker 8: very key role at Concerned Veterans for America. His previous

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Speaker 8: job and one of my colleagues at the Bailly Signal

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Speaker 8: wrote an article talking about the hie praises he received

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Speaker 8: from all of his colleagues, how much they loved working

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Speaker 8: with him and thought he was very professional and did

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Speaker 8: great work for our veterans. So I think that the

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Speaker 8: next Senator speak had a really good point that yes,

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Speaker 8: he's managed a lot more people than most US senators,

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Speaker 8: and I think a lot of people actually see it

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Speaker 8: as a as a benefit to Hagsith that he's kind

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Speaker 8: of an outsider to this industry. He's not tied up

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Speaker 8: with defense contractors, etc. Like how Americans chose an outsider

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Speaker 8: in President Trump. They might want President Trump chose choice

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Speaker 8: of an outsider for Defense secretary to succeed.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know again, I think the qualifications thing can

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Speaker 1: go on and on and on. There's nothing that stops

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Speaker 1: the senator other than the voters, and sometimes they don't.

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Speaker 1: And the hypocrisy at politics is all about hypocrisy. I'm

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Speaker 1: not naive, but thepocrisy at Senate hearings is just such

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Speaker 1: an embarrassing thing. It is the worst advertisement for the

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Speaker 1: American Republic that I can ever think of. All Senate

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Speaker 1: confirmation hearings, and yesterday did not disappoint. We got more.

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Speaker 1: We're going to talk about that a little bit later

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Speaker 1: today in this program. We have another hearing today. I

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Speaker 1: think it's also going to be ugly, Elizabeth. The hostages

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Speaker 1: are still not back on Israeli soil or American soil,

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Speaker 1: but the sdie does appear to be done between Israel

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Speaker 1: and Commas for the release of the hostages, about thirty

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Speaker 1: three of them in the first promise, then maybe one

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Speaker 1: hundred that are becoming back. Some of them will be, unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: just bodies and not human, living, human beings. But Israel

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Speaker 1: has to have the remains of their loved ones just

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Speaker 1: as much as they're the ones who are living. So

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Speaker 1: you understand where Israel's coming from. The problem though, is

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Speaker 1: that Israel has to give up about a thousand Palestinian

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Speaker 1: terrorist criminals. Now, none of the people that Israel going

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Speaker 1: to release were the ones who participated in the October

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Speaker 1: seventh attack. But do you think you know, you're involved

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Speaker 1: with Congress who speak to members of Congress, do you

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Speaker 1: think Congress is going to applaud this deal, even though

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Speaker 1: it's a little tough to swallow.

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Speaker 8: I think that we know that the goal of Israel,

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Speaker 8: and I think in a lot with the United States,

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Speaker 8: was to get those hostages back, get those people back

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Speaker 8: to their families, particularly the ones who have been alive

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Speaker 8: under these terrible conditions for over a year now. And

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Speaker 8: I think, of course, it's really unfortunate to have to

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Speaker 8: let these you know, very violent criminals run free. But

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Speaker 8: I don't know that'll be up to Congress if that

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Speaker 8: deal is worth it.

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth, you have a story of your own in the

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Speaker 1: Daily Signal as a reporter of the Daily Signal, detailing

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Speaker 1: this shocking number. The number is two one two, just

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Speaker 1: two Democrats in the House. We're willing to vote for

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Speaker 1: a bill to protect women in college sports. Can you

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Speaker 1: elaborate on this story for us a little bit?

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Speaker 8: Absolutely?

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Speaker 12: So.

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Speaker 8: The vote happened yesterday in the House on the Protecting

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Speaker 8: Women and Girls in Sports Acts. So this law passed

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Speaker 8: by the House would prevent men who are pretending to

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Speaker 8: be women or boys preting to be girls from playing

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Speaker 8: in girls' sports. We know that it's unfair, they have

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Speaker 8: an unfair advantage, it's unsafe. They can hurt these girls

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Speaker 8: due to their far superior strength. And it was able

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Speaker 8: to pass in the House yesterday with every Republican vote

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Speaker 8: except one person chose not to vote, and as you mentioned,

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Speaker 8: only two Democrats supported this common sense bill that's saying

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Speaker 8: men cannot be women, and it's not that men have strength,

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Speaker 8: it's different than women, and so shouldn't be competing in girls' sports.

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Speaker 8: It makes women unable to win in sports. We saw

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Speaker 8: that with Leah Thomas, with numerous other examples of men

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Speaker 8: just absolutely dominating female sports. But nonetheless, even though this

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Speaker 8: is an issue that seventy two percent of Americans agree on,

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Speaker 8: seventy two percent of Americans think that men should not

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Speaker 8: play women's sports, only two Democrats were able to vote

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Speaker 8: for common sense and vote for this bill.

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Speaker 1: You know, Elizabeth, I have a superhero alter ego. It's

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Speaker 1: called unemployable political consultant. And the reason why I'm an

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Speaker 1: unemployable political consultant is because I give good advice as

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Speaker 1: opposed to advice from on high and just to get paid.

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Speaker 1: So I'm saying this now with the full grain of

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Speaker 1: salt in my head, knowing that no Democrats going to

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Speaker 1: listen to me, but they should, so attention Democrats voting

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Speaker 1: to protect women in college sports, voting against boys and girls'

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Speaker 1: locker rooms. Voting against things like no bail, no cash

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Speaker 1: bail will boost, I repeat, boost your poll numbers. It

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Speaker 1: will get you elected. You will stand out among the

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Speaker 1: sea of people who have no common sense. Be a

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Speaker 1: John Fetterman. John Fetterman, if he ran tomorrow in Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 1: would win a much larger majority than he did in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Anyone who thinks otherwise is not paying attention.

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Speaker 1: Richie Torres in New York, a big liberal, but coming

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Speaker 1: out against the bail stuff now when he basically kind

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Speaker 1: of was for defunding the police a few years ago.

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Speaker 1: He's gotten religion, he's figured it out. He's also very

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Speaker 1: pro Israel. Folks. I don't know who is advising these Democrats.

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Speaker 1: I don't know who's advising the almost what it was,

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Speaker 1: it like two hundred, I mean a tremendous number of

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Speaker 1: Democrats who voted against this bill. They're not your friend, Okay,

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Speaker 1: they're working for either the DNC generally not for you,

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Speaker 1: or they're working for donors like George Soros. They are

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Speaker 1: not your friend. They're not helping you. Listen to what

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Speaker 1: reidw what Elizabeth wrote, figure out what listen to what

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Speaker 1: she said, because it's not helping you. Honestly, do you

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Speaker 1: see anybody else in Congress who might join those other

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Speaker 1: two in the next couple of days or weeks and

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Speaker 1: who might get some common sense in their head?

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Speaker 8: Elizabeth, As this goes on to the Senate, I hope

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Speaker 8: that Democratic senators have that in their minds that they

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Speaker 8: are representing the American people, and the American people do

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Speaker 8: not want men and women's sports for a new variety

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Speaker 8: of reasons that are not political. It's just common sense.

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Speaker 8: And so I hope that they will see the facts

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Speaker 8: here and see stories of real girls who have had

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Speaker 8: to compete against boys and lose and sometimes get very

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Speaker 8: serious injuries, and then also see how many medals have

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Speaker 8: been lost by these girls, and that they'll realize that

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Speaker 8: the American people do not want men and women's sports,

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Speaker 8: they want women's sports protected, and voting for this bill

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Speaker 8: will accomplish that nationwide.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so now I have a sidekick, Jake Novak. Elizabeth Mitchell.

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Speaker 1: Unemployable Democrat political consultants will never and never earn a

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Speaker 1: dime because we have too much common sense. Elizabeth Mitchell

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Speaker 1: from The Daily Signal, Thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Have a great new year.

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Speaker 8: Thank you too.

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Speaker 1: All right, coming up another day, another potentially dramatic confirmation

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Speaker 1: hearing on Capitol Hill. That's the nice way of saying it.

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Speaker 1: Embarrassing is the real word. Terrence Bates will join me

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Speaker 1: in a moment to discuss what to expect from Pam

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Speaker 1: Bondi and her inquisitors, i mean questioners today. Stay with us.

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Speaker 1: That is Wildwood, New Jersey. You know, HBO has been

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Speaker 1: doing like marathons of the Sopranos the last couple of days,

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Speaker 1: so I'm kind of in a New Jersey thought. Ood

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Speaker 1: right now, there you go. Terrence Bates joins me right

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Speaker 1: now to preview yet another confirmation hearing, or as I

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Speaker 1: should call it, the theater of the absurd. It could

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Speaker 1: get spicy, it could get embarrassing. Today it's going to

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Speaker 1: be Pam Bondy. She's President Trump's choice for attorney general.

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Speaker 1: And you know this could get really explosive again because

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Speaker 1: they got warmed up with Pete hag Seth yesterday. But Terrence,

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Speaker 1: the one thing I'm I guess worried about is, you know,

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Speaker 1: like everybody in Congress is a lawyer, like some crazy

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Speaker 1: high percentage. So with an Attorney General nominee in front

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Speaker 1: of them, everyone's going to try to pretend they're Clarence

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Speaker 1: Darrow or f Lee Bailey or Johnny Cochrane. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'd be happy if I get a few

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Speaker 1: laughs out of it, but it's just so embarrassing. At

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, I'm bracing myself for embarrassment.

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Speaker 12: How about you, Terrence, Yeah, you know, And we were

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Speaker 12: just talking about this. The unfortunate part of these hearings

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Speaker 12: is that you've got on one side people who are

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Speaker 12: going to support the nominee no matter what, and then

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Speaker 12: on the other side you've got people who just want

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Speaker 12: to grand stand and try to find a way to

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Speaker 12: indict the nominee on something. And so there's really no policy,

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Speaker 12: there's really no attempt to get some in depth understanding

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Speaker 12: of what the nominee stands for. And I think that

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Speaker 12: does the American people of disservice. But here's the good news.

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Speaker 12: When it comes to pan BONDI, we get to hear

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Speaker 12: from her twice. Obviously today she's going to be before

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Speaker 12: the Senate Judiciary Committee, and then she's gotten encore appearance

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Speaker 12: to more as well, so we'll get a chance to

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Speaker 12: hear from her twice, and then later on today Marco Rubio,

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Speaker 12: Senator Marco Rubio from Florida, will be back on Capitol Hill,

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Speaker 12: back with his colleagues as he tries to become this

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Speaker 12: country's next Secretary of State. I'm curious to see how

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Speaker 12: that confirmation hearing goes, whether it's going to be as

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Speaker 12: contentious as yesterday as was with Pete Hegseth, or whether

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Speaker 12: his former colleagues that would be Marko Rubio's former colleagues

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Speaker 12: will give him a bit more grace. We shall see, Jake, so.

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Speaker 1: Terrence, I like the way that you broke it down.

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Speaker 1: Half the people there are just there to support the nominee.

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Speaker 1: The other there are just there to attack the nominee.

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Speaker 1: There's no meeting in the middle. So you're saying it's

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Speaker 1: like the end zone seats at an Eagles game, which

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Speaker 1: is everyone's gonna there's gonna be a fistfight, right, That's

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Speaker 1: basically what you're saying.

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Speaker 12: You know what, maybe, like in the Eagles stadium, they

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Speaker 12: need to put a jail in the bottom of the

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Speaker 12: in the bottom of Congress that might help as well.

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Speaker 12: It is unfortunate though, because I think it really does

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Speaker 12: do the American people of disservice, because the point is

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Speaker 12: to vet the nominee, if you will, to see where

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Speaker 12: the nominee stands on critical issues, and then to make

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Speaker 12: a decision, a determination based on the information. But I'm

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Speaker 12: not so sure we ever get to the information because

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Speaker 12: so many of the senators come in with their minds

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Speaker 12: already made up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a tough situation. You mentioned, you know, Marco Rubio,

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Speaker 1: and well, I have a prediction. You know, it's long

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Speaker 1: been known that when a senator is nominated for a

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Speaker 1: cabinet post, his fellow senators take it easy on him

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Speaker 1: or her, and so it probably will be an easier

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Speaker 1: day for him. I would really predict that pretty strongly. However,

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Speaker 1: I do think that there is going to be at

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Speaker 1: least one question or one line of narrative that will

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Speaker 1: be exceedingly anti Israel. They're going to really try to

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Speaker 1: nail him on being not loyal enough to the United States,

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Speaker 1: too friendly to Israel, that there's so much anti Israel

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Speaker 1: money coming. I know, the narrative is that there's a

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Speaker 1: pro Israel pack money that's flooding Congress it is dwarfed

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Speaker 1: by a factor of ten to one by anti Israel

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Speaker 1: money that comes into Congress. So I predict there'll be

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Speaker 1: an ugly moment like that. I think Rubio will handle

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Speaker 1: it fine, but I wonder if you agree. I think

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Speaker 1: generally it'll be much softer because senators take it a

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Speaker 1: little bit easier on their own club, even if it's

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Speaker 1: not from their own party.

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Speaker 12: Absolutely, I'm with you on that. I suspect that it's

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Speaker 12: not going to be quite as contentious. It is going

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Speaker 12: to be a bit more civil, if you will. Here's

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Speaker 12: the other thing I want to add. So, just yesterday,

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Speaker 12: the Biden administration basically e sanctions on Cuba. We of

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Speaker 12: course know that Mark or Rubio is a form is

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Speaker 12: a Cuban, he's a Cuban descendant. But more importantly, he's

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Speaker 12: been very critical of Cuba. So I suspect that Democrats,

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Speaker 12: in particular, we'll call him to the carpet on that,

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Speaker 12: we of course will find out, and we'll be talking

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Speaker 12: about that next here on American Sunrise as well.

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Speaker 5: Jake.

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Speaker 1: That's right, Terrence. Like the old Calvin Klein commercials, I

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Speaker 1: don't know where I am. Then you begin when it

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Speaker 1: comes to American Sunrise Early Edition, an American Sunrise. We're

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Speaker 1: all big, one, one big family. It's a beautiful thing,

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Speaker 1: all right, Terrence, thank you so much for joining me,

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Speaker 1: giving me some of your extra time, and thank you

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Speaker 1: for watching. I'll be back tomorrow on American Sunrise Early Edition.

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Speaker 1: American Sunrise starts right now.