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Speaker 1: dot com. Good morning, everybody, Happy Monday. Have an amazing

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Speaker 3: Nice to be back here.

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Speaker 1: In the Studiowords Classic than Yage.

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Speaker 2: Classic, A lot to get to you this morning. So

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Speaker 2: bombing continues between the US and Iran, and as of now,

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Speaker 2: no market moving truth has been announced, which is a

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Speaker 3: So we'll get into all of that.

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Speaker 2: Trump is touting these freedom fuel gas stations and there's

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Speaker 2: will dig into that. Senator Lindsay Graham is dead, but

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Speaker 2: Mitch McConnell is apparently alive based on a photo that

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Speaker 2: he put out. We will take a look at Lindsay Graham,

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Speaker 2: who's likely to replace him, the legacy that he leaves

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Speaker 1: you would like. As Crystal said, let's go ahead and

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Speaker 1: start with these latest round of strikes. Now there's actually

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Speaker 1: but let's start with this. This is from Sentcom as

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Speaker 1: of five pm today, this was yesterday. US Central Command

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Speaker 1: degrading their ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial ships

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Speaker 1: these are no longer quote self defense strikes. These are

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Speaker 1: now no longer a battle of regime change. This is

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Speaker 1: Kam said in this video announcement. US forces hit approximately

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Speaker 1: Launch targets included missile and drone sides, naval capabilities, ammunition storage,

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Speaker 1: when we say transiting, what they were doing is they

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Speaker 1: traffic now comes through the Iranian government. The United States

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Speaker 1: this is now a war for the Strait. There's no

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Speaker 1: It is a war for the control of the Strait itself,

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Speaker 2: That's right, and in a sense it makes sense that

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Speaker 2: MoU it would not surprise me if that language that

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Speaker 2: is now being interpreted in different ways by both sides

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Speaker 3: I don't think that there.

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Speaker 2: Is any specific, clearcut language that could potentially satisfy both sides.

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Speaker 2: So that's where we are at this point. Iran is

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Speaker 2: saying absolutely none. I think the US going into with

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Speaker 3: So until this is resolved.

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Speaker 2: You are going to continue to have this escalation trap.

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Speaker 3: Robert Paipe vindicated once again here.

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Speaker 2: Until basically the US accepts that they have lost control

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Speaker 2: power in the region and act as a very effective deterrent.

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Speaker 3: So that's what this is all over. Right now.

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Speaker 2: There are some preliminary reports that carg Island may have

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Speaker 2: been struck this morning and some of the oil infrastructure there.

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Speaker 2: We don't have that confirmed at this point. That would

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Speaker 2: what is the US plan here? Okay, We've already done

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Speaker 2: the bombing campaign. We've hit this, We've hit their that,

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Speaker 2: their bridges, their railway ways, we've hit their civilian infrastructure.

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Speaker 2: We've bombed a girls' school, We've done all of this stuff.

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Speaker 2: It didn't amount to a victory. So what are we

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Speaker 2: going to do that is going to be different. Let's

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Speaker 2: play eight be This is a former Sentcom commander who

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Speaker 2: can't hold it indefinitely, but we can use it as

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Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and take a listen to that.

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Speaker 4: We certainly have the capability to control the straight of

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Speaker 4: horror moves if the President chooses to follow that course

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Speaker 4: of action. Look, what he's been trying to do is

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Speaker 4: I applaud and I think we should all want to

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Speaker 4: matter is the Iranians generally only respond to military force

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Speaker 4: and to extreme pressure. Look, we're not talking about regime

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Speaker 4: change here. What we're talking about is modifying the views

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Speaker 4: and actions of an extreme, hard, hard line regime. That

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Speaker 4: is possible. We have the capability to do that. That

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Speaker 4: capability is resident in the US military. Should the President

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Speaker 4: elect to employ it. That would include opening the Straight

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Speaker 4: and in fact seizing carg Island should we elect to

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Speaker 4: do that. And I would just say, as an aside,

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Speaker 4: that's something we should think about doing because possession of

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Speaker 4: I'm not sure where we're going to go with this,

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Speaker 5: We have those capabilities where the President has made clear

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Speaker 5: he kind of just wants a he wants a deal here.

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Speaker 5: How do you explain to the lay person when the

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Speaker 5: President says we control the Strait of War moves, but

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Speaker 5: then Sentcom says military forces are positioned to ensure freedom

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Speaker 5: of navigation, which makes it sound it isn't exactly free

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Speaker 4: No, it's not right now because we have not deployed

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Speaker 4: all the capabilities that we have to open the strait.

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Speaker 4: We certainly can do that. It would require putting warships

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Speaker 4: up into narrow waters. Look, the US Navy doesn't love

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Speaker 4: if necessary, they can do it, and they can do

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Speaker 2: could visually see how much hardline sentiment there is within Iran.

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Speaker 2: So we have to remember that it's not just Americans

435
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Speaker 2: who have domestic political considerations. The Iranians do too, and

436
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Speaker 2: they had to expend a lot of political capital in

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Speaker 2: order to move forward negotiations and accept this memo of

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Speaker 2: understanding or call. The new Supreme Leader said basically like,

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Speaker 2: this isn't my thing, but I'm going to trust my

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Speaker 2: guys and we'll see where this goes. That was an

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Speaker 2: indication he's trying to see, Okay, which way is this

442
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Speaker 2: going to play out? And what is public sentiment going

443
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Speaker 2: to support. So both in terms of the government in

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Speaker 2: terms of the people, you have, you know, significant sentiment

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Speaker 2: in favor of going back to war and that we

446
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Speaker 2: didn't do enough and we didn't cause enough pain for

447
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Speaker 2: the Israelis and the American Empire for us to be

448
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Speaker 2: able to really secure our position and make sure that

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Speaker 2: we don't end up here again.

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Speaker 1: So that is also it is the height of American arrogance.

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Speaker 1: Is we always assume we're the only ones with domestic politics. Yes.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The Iatola literally was like, I don't know about this,

454
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Speaker 1: but Gallibov tells me it's good, so I'll allow him.

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Speaker 6: To do it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And you're like, what do you think that means?

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Speaker 1: You know, you can read he doesn't take a genius

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Speaker 1: to figure it out. If they seriously went out on

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Speaker 1: a limb. A lot of these you know, non hardliners,

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Speaker 1: but even they themselves, if you look at their rhetoric,

461
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Speaker 1: they have to appease the IRGC. I mean, I don't

462
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Speaker 1: think it's false that there is a power struggle inside

463
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Speaker 1: of Iran, but the actions make it clear. Every time

464
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Speaker 1: that the negotiators try to throw the IRGC under the bus,

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Speaker 1: they're like, oh, it was just a few commanders who

466
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Speaker 1: fired into the straight they fire again. Nobody is constraining them.

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Speaker 1: You can, by the way, thank America for that, because

468
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Speaker 1: the last person who could actually restrain them was the

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Speaker 1: previous Iatola, who's not dead, who is the actual cautious,

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Speaker 1: you know, leader of Iran who did no war nor

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Speaker 1: peace strategy. Now you actually have people inside the regime

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Speaker 1: who either can't be restrained or potentially the current Iatola,

473
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Speaker 1: whose own father was murdered, who can just say okay, go,

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Speaker 1: let's go, and he's not going to do anything to

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Speaker 1: restrain them. So we have no idea how it's going

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Speaker 1: to happen. And let's get, as you said, to the

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Speaker 1: Freedom Fuel and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which remains a

478
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Speaker 1: serious problem and gas still very stubbornly high here in

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Speaker 1: the United States.

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Speaker 2: So Whitehouse recently put out this video touting a chain

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Speaker 2: of quote unquote Freedom Fuel gas stations which are offering

482
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Speaker 2: gas prices much lower than the rest of the market.

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Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and take a look at this video.

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Speaker 7: I save money. I had to go back and they

485
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Speaker 7: get my change. I thought gas was more space, but

486
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Speaker 7: it's not, so thanks chump, saving me some money.

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Speaker 8: We're here at the first Freedom Fueled Network gas station

488
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Speaker 8: right here in Philadelphia, leading the charge to lower gas

489
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Speaker 8: prices three dollars and then forty seven cents. That's for

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Speaker 8: our forty seventh President, Resident Donald J.

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Speaker 6: Trump.

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Speaker 8: The price of gas here is fifty cents lower than

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Speaker 8: the Pennsylvania average gas price. The parts of July, gas

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Speaker 8: prices are coming down, which is great.

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Speaker 9: Tell them very happy about the cheap gas prices.

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Speaker 7: Apter fourth of July.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully everyone has a great holiday, super punk the gas

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Speaker 2: prices are lowered.

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Speaker 6: I'm just grateful right now. We're in a difficult time

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Speaker 6: in this world, but it's nice to see some stability

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Speaker 6: that we can enjoy.

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Speaker 8: Definitely appreciate the lower gas.

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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, and I saw it. I thought it was

504
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Speaker 7: a fake news, but I'm glad it's true. I definitely

505
00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:51,040
Speaker 7: couldn't leave my eyes and I just won't pass. I'm

506
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Speaker 7: actually taking a trip down the shore, so I wasn't

507
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Speaker 7: even gonna come and get the gag, but I'm glad

508
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Speaker 7: I did. Now they just saved me a lot of money.

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Speaker 7: Thanks a lot, chump. Let's keep going with your doing,

510
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Speaker 7: going a good job.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you for helping our country.

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Speaker 1: It's President Donald J.

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Speaker 8: Trump leading the charge the lower gas prices right here

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Speaker 8: at Freedom Fueled Network gas stations.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so this went out from an official White House account,

516
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Speaker 2: and there's a lot to be this interesting about this.

517
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Speaker 2: I mean, first of all, I think soccer the politics

518
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Speaker 2: of it are very interesting. It exposes the fact they

519
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Speaker 2: see this as a major problem, like they needed to

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Speaker 2: do something. Put out some propaganda like we're bringing prices down, which,

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Speaker 2: by the way, three forty seven forty seven, of course,

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Speaker 2: an honor of our forty seventh president three pickup. Oh

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Speaker 2: you didn't pick up on of course, Yes, although apparently

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Speaker 2: some of the stations have already up their price a

525
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Speaker 2: little bit to like three fifty something according to the

526
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Speaker 2: latest reporting, but in any case, it was originally three

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Speaker 2: dollars forty seven cents. It's very mysterious what is going

528
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Speaker 2: on here? Put the New York Times reporting up on

529
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Speaker 2: the screen, because the White House claims they don't have

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Speaker 2: anything to do with this, that they're just celebrating this.

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Speaker 2: Whoever is behind this chain of like twenty five gas

532
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Speaker 2: stations that have lowered the price to such a point

533
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Speaker 2: that they are likely losing money on you know, for

534
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Speaker 2: every car that fills up there, they're actually losing money

535
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Speaker 2: at this price because of what the wholesale price for

536
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Speaker 2: oil is at this point. So they say Trump is

537
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Speaker 2: promising freedom fuel for three dollars and forty seven cents

538
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Speaker 2: a gallon. Who is behind it? These are different gas

539
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Speaker 2: stations that had a bunch of different branding that are

540
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Speaker 2: now in this Freedom Fuel Network umbrella.

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Speaker 3: A Delaware corporation was just set.

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Speaker 2: Up for this freedom Fuel network in the past couple

543
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Speaker 2: of weeks. The funders, investors, whoever's behind this are being

544
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Speaker 2: kept secret, so no one really knows what is going

545
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Speaker 2: on here.

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Speaker 3: Now, it does appear that there is.

547
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Speaker 2: An asset manager that owns at least some significant number

548
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Speaker 2: or did own potentially still does own some significant number

549
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Speaker 2: of these gas stations, and it is an asset manager

550
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Speaker 2: that Trump just happens to have millions of dollars of

551
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Speaker 2: investments in. So you have that tie in here. Potentially

552
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 2: you know, corrupt angle as well, but certainly an indication

553
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,919
Speaker 2: that they realize this gas price thing is a major

554
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Speaker 2: major problem for them and they're despert to score any

555
00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:16,639
Speaker 2: kind of a propaganda win on that front.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very interesting. This put B three up here.

557
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Speaker 1: So Politico also did the investigation like who is paying

558
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Speaker 1: for this? And nobody can really figure it out who's

559
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Speaker 1: footing the bill because I remember we're talking about almost

560
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Speaker 1: a fifty cent cut. And you may even ask like, okay,

561
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Speaker 1: so in the gas market, how come there's no race

562
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Speaker 1: to price And it's like because they run on a

563
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Speaker 1: very standard margin. The way that it all works, it

564
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Speaker 1: doesn't really enable you to do this. That's why this

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Speaker 1: is so extraordinary. And somebody out there is got this

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Speaker 1: twenty five stations which are only in southeastern Pennsylvania and

567
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Speaker 1: South Jersey. I think that that is a very targeted place.

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Speaker 1: Southeastern Pa is like the definition of swing country. That's

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Speaker 1: exactly where you had the classic like, oh, I'm a

570
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:05,679
Speaker 1: Trump Biden Trump voter who exists and that's why it

571
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: appears to be concentrated in this region. What they say

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Speaker 1: is they quote, we've had members who have this is

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Speaker 1: like according to the New Jersey Energy Markets Group, we

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Speaker 1: had members who have reached out to ask what it is.

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Speaker 1: I have not been able to find any answers, the

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Speaker 1: executive director of their own Energy Markets Group. So, as

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Speaker 1: you said, it's a Delaware company that was formed on

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Speaker 1: June twenty third, that's a week before it was promoted.

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Speaker 1: The White House won't name who it is, describing it

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Speaker 1: as a private company. The officials said there is no

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Speaker 1: defined timeline for how long these discounts will be offered.

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Speaker 1: They will refuse to connect representatives of Freedom Fueld network

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Speaker 1: with Politico Freedom Fuel. They just say, is a patriotic

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Speaker 1: company doing a good thing for drivers. I'm sure that's

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Speaker 1: all it is. And as you said, this sketchy affiliate

586
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Speaker 1: something called Blue Owl, a New York based asset company.

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00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 1: Trump has sold millions of dollars in Blue Owl stock

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Speaker 1: through its subsidiaries. Blue Owl owns hundreds of gas stations

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Speaker 1: operated by a Georgia based gas supplier and retailer called

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Speaker 1: Mountain Express Oil, but it declared bankruptcy in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: three and declined to expand nationwide. So nobody knows anything

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Speaker 1: about Blue Owl. The White House claims blue Owl has

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Speaker 1: nothing to do with Freedom Fuel, but it is one

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Speaker 1: of those stations which did previously hold a host to

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Speaker 1: an American Trump White House official at an unveiling ceremony

596
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 1: last Friday. So we could start to put some of

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Speaker 1: the pieces together here.

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Speaker 2: And Trump still has he sold some blue Owl stock

599
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Speaker 2: last year. He still has millions of dollars of blue

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Speaker 2: Owl holdings. They seem to be Trump friendly. It says

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Speaker 2: at least seven of these stations that are now in

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Speaker 2: the Freedom Fuel network are owned by affiliates of Blue Owl,

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Speaker 2: so that seems to be the most likely thing here.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: My own theory, and this is just a theory, is

606
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Speaker 2: that this is some Trump aligned billionaire talk to them,

607
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 2: they hatch this idea. Whoever this person is that is

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Speaker 2: fronting the cash that would be required to sustain these losses,

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Speaker 2: because that is what's going on here. They're definitely selling

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00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:13,480
Speaker 2: this fuel at a loss at this point once some

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00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 2: other favor from Trump or just wants to be in

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Speaker 2: as good graces in general. And so this is a

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Speaker 2: you know, you scratch my back, I'll scratch or as

614
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 2: sort of the situation, as most things in the Trump

615
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 2: White House are at this point.

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Speaker 3: So that's the best I can figure.

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Speaker 2: But you know, obviously in terms of the impact on

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Speaker 2: gas prices nationwide, it is going to be nil. I

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Speaker 2: don't know how long whoever is funding this is going

620
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Speaker 2: to be willing to put up with these losses. As

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Speaker 2: I mentioned before, some of the gas stations have already

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Speaker 2: increased their prices, and one theory was, well, you know,

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Speaker 2: sometimes if you have like at the larger gases like

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Speaker 2: huah Wah or Sheets, where you have a large offering,

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00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 2: you know, they're selling sandwiches and all sorts of other

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00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 2: stuff inside, you can lower the gas prices and you

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00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 2: can sustain a loss because what you're really making the

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00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 2: money on is then people going inside and buying a

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Speaker 2: sandwich and getting their cough be in whatever. But a

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Speaker 2: lot of these stations are just you know, the type

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Speaker 2: that you would see in neighborhoods where it's they don't

632
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Speaker 2: really even have a store, and they sell like a few

633
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Speaker 2: candy bars effectively in some gatorades or some Monster Energy drinks,

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Speaker 2: but not a large convenience station. So it wouldn't make

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00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 2: sense from an economic perspective to sell the fuel a

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Speaker 2: loss just to bring people into the convenience store.

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Speaker 3: The majority of them are not operating on that model,

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Speaker 3: so I don't know.

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Speaker 2: There's also theoretically in New Jersey there's actually a law

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Speaker 2: against selling under the market price, because then, you know what,

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00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 2: you don't want a big station coming in and undercutting

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00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 2: all of the local retailers and being able to sustain

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Speaker 2: that long enough to push all of them out of business.

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00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:44,239
Speaker 2: So that could be enforced at some point. But in

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00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 2: any case, very interesting, very mysterious, very noteworthy to me

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Speaker 2: that Trump is pushing this, and the White House is

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Speaker 2: pushing this from official White House.

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Speaker 1: Imagine celebrating three fifty a gallon, like, I'm sorry, that's crazy.

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Speaker 1: That's the other I already have it eighty a gallon,

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Speaker 1: like it was cheap. Can we put b five up

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Speaker 1: here just to show people like gas is still three

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Speaker 1: eighty seven a gallon? Nationally still five dollars and thirty

653
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Speaker 1: eight cents a gallon in California, all of those Red states,

654
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 1: it's either four or five dollars a gallon. All when

655
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Speaker 1: I say read like in terms of the graphic if

656
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Speaker 1: you're just listening, which is all on the West Coast,

657
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Speaker 1: in addition to New York, and to Illinois, where gas

658
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Speaker 1: all remains above four dollars a gallon. Nationally, the cheapest,

659
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Speaker 1: some of the cheapest gas in the country is in

660
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Speaker 1: Texas three forty two. It still not cheap, right, So

661
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Speaker 1: they're barely selling it in Pennsylvania for slightly below what

662
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Speaker 1: are slightly around what it is sold in Texas, and

663
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Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania the price person in the entire state the

664
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Speaker 1: average price is three ninety six accounts, so still right

665
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Speaker 1: around four dollars. What is that four or five months

666
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Speaker 1: now of almost four dollars a gallon gasoline? That's incredibly

667
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 1: detrimental to the overall pocketbook lasting on New Jersey, have

668
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 1: you experienced this where they don't let you pump your

669
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Speaker 1: own gas? So look, I'm usually you know, on the

670
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Speaker 1: on the side of small business and all that, but

671
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Speaker 1: I can't stand that. I got to be honest, It's like,

672
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Speaker 1: it's like New Jersey and Oregon the only two states

673
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Speaker 1: where they make you do it. And I'm like, this

674
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 1: is madness. I just let people pump their own pass and.

675
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 3: When people do things for me that, I'm.

676
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Speaker 1: I totally agree. It's weird. Yeah, it's third world behavior,

677
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 1: that's what they do. In India because everybody needs a job,

678
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 1: you know. It's like that's what they do, which is fine.

679
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 1: They have overpopulation problem over there. But this is New Jersey, Like,

680
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 1: I don't need somebody to pump my own gap. I

681
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 1: haven't electric cars. It don't matter anymore. I did recently

682
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,560
Speaker 1: stop in New Jersey and I was like walking through

683
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 1: the parking lot and there's all those you know, those

684
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 1: attendants just standing there. I'm like, what do you guys

685
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: do all day? Just pump gas? Like this is crazy anyway,

686
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Speaker 1: my personal soap.

687
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Speaker 2: Last thing here, just this new amount to the broader

688
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 2: geopolitical perspective. Put before Up on the screen, you can

689
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 2: see the Strategic Petroleum Reserve still at very very low levels,

690
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 2: so we have not been able to refill it to

691
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Speaker 2: the extent that would be necessary to provide a large buffer.

692
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Speaker 2: This is the sort of thing that the Iranians will

693
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Speaker 2: be paying close close attention to, because that is their

694
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Speaker 2: whole bet is that you know, the gas prices are

695
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 2: a big problem, that the oil market is a major

696
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:07,400
Speaker 2: pain point for the US, for the global economy, and

697
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 2: we've been able to buffer the pain for the American

698
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 2: consumer somewhat through the strategic patrol and reserve, and also

699
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 2: by the way through China just randomly deciding that they're

700
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Speaker 2: going to import a lot less oil and we don't

701
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Speaker 2: know why, and we don't know how long that will last.

702
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Speaker 2: So that's a big question mark that hangs over this

703
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 2: whole thing, whether they will continue bailing us out the

704
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,480
Speaker 2: way that they have effectively been doing. But that is

705
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 2: when the Iranians, you know, when we talk about oh,

706
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Speaker 2: they think Trump will bring blink first. They think that

707
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Speaker 2: the American you know, consumer pain and the global economic

708
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Speaker 2: pain will force concessions from the American side. This is

709
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Speaker 2: what they're looking at, and so this is an indication

710
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Speaker 2: that their logic has a lot to it, that Trump

711
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 2: sees this as a major, major political issue heading into

712
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Speaker 2: the midterm.

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Speaker 1: This is where I wonder if the Iranians made a

714
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Speaker 1: big mistake because you know, Jay kind of let the game,

715
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Speaker 1: you can let the cut of the bag interview when

716
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 1: he was like, look, we're just going to take these

717
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 1: few months to you know, restock terms. Well, he's kind

718
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 1: of right. I mean, in terms of the spr we

719
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Speaker 1: haven't done it. It would be a huge bowl signal

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Speaker 1: for the price of oil. If the government had to

721
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Speaker 1: start refilling. But I would not put it past the

722
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Speaker 1: Trump administration just drain the spr as far as it

723
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Speaker 1: could possibly go, like the minimum to it. I know

724
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Speaker 1: they're at minimum operating levels, but like you know, that's

725
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Speaker 1: a guidance. I think they would just keep draining it, honestly,

726
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: because what are they going to do. They're going to

727
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Speaker 1: keep to buy oil at four dollars a gallon to refill.

728
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Speaker 1: It would be a disaster. I mean, there'd be billions

729
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Speaker 1: and billion, hundreds of billions of dollars is but basically

730
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Speaker 1: what it would cost it would be insane, and he would.

731
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Speaker 3: And it would cost gas prices to go up, of course,

732
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Speaker 3: because obviously you're adding you're adding gemantic customer to the Yeah, Tomandpool,

733
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Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, I'm no expert on.

734
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Speaker 2: The Strategic Patrolling Reserve, but what I've been reading is

735
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Speaker 2: that when you get down to it, there's a theory

736
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Speaker 2: of what the minimum operating as is. But yeah, it's

737
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 2: not like it's really been tested. But you start to

738
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Speaker 2: have some of the you know, the stuff you're getting

739
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 2: at the bottom, kind of like the dregs. It's mixed

740
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 2: in with other things. The salt caverns that it's stored in.

741
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:07,280
Speaker 2: If you don't have sufficient pressure, they can start to collapse.

742
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Speaker 2: So it becomes a real question mark the closer you

743
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Speaker 2: get to that minimum operating level, because it could be

744
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Speaker 2: that you could draw down even.

745
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Speaker 3: Further than that.

746
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Speaker 2: It could be that they're wrong and you actually can't

747
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:18,759
Speaker 2: draw down even that much without causing the NATO.

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Speaker 1: What scares for getting down to that, Well, scares me

749
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 1: the most is not it run, It's something else? Is that.

750
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Speaker 1: That's that's why it exists. That's why you don't drain it,

751
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,560
Speaker 1: Like is it because you just don't know? Like full blown?

752
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,320
Speaker 1: I mean, who knows. Look at Russia. Russia stopped exporting

753
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 1: diesel all of a sudden. It's like, oh now we

754
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 1: got diesel prices that are going to go up. So

755
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 1: Ukraine hits one wrong thing and boom, you know, a

756
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Speaker 1: bunch of stuff goes offline. China time one those that's

757
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: the predictables to North Korea, like who, no one has

758
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 1: any idea where like wherever the rest of the oil.

759
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:49,879
Speaker 1: It's what if China's spr is now very low they've

760
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 1: been you know, using all their own supply. Tomorrow they're like, okay,

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00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 1: we have to buy again. I mean, all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: you know, you go buy fifty a gallon or something.

763
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Speaker 2: Saudi striking in Yemen with the hooties say, you know what,

764
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 2: we're going to close the Babo man dab straight.

765
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Speaker 1: And anything can happen. It could come from anywhere around

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Speaker 1: the world. I mean, and it could even be a

767
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:09,359
Speaker 1: natural disaster, right like some pipeline or somewhere there's an

768
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 1: earthquake and it takes a hit like this is why

769
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,319
Speaker 1: the thing exists in the first place. And that is

770
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Speaker 1: when you should panic, because then you've got no slack

771
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:18,959
Speaker 1: and you're looking at seven eight dollars.

772
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Speaker 2: We're here, we're in hurricane season, all of those refineries

773
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 2: on the Gulf coast, all of that is and this

774
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 2: is the thing with Trump that we've talked about many

775
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 2: times before, is all of these problems are of his

776
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Speaker 2: own making. He has been actually tremendously lucky in terms

777
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 2: of not having a lot of like major outside forces

778
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:40,279
Speaker 2: that have created crises. All the crises are just things

779
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:41,839
Speaker 2: that he decided himself to do.

780
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Speaker 1: And all we know from history is something is going

781
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 1: to happen like Katrina happened. It just happened, right, and

782
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:51,400
Speaker 1: then it becomes about your management Ukraine, it happened to Biden,

783
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 1: Covid happened to Trump like you have no you have

784
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: no control. And so when you create a crisis of

785
00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:00,760
Speaker 1: your own making and then an external crisis hit, that's

786
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,359
Speaker 1: where if you look at the history books and things,

787
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,799
Speaker 1: that's when things start to get into collapse territory and

788
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 1: then it becomes point fingers, whose problem is this? Already

789
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 1: Trump is already a very low approval ratings, and that's

790
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:14,840
Speaker 1: when you have to start doing crazy shit like export

791
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,400
Speaker 1: bands and you know, all kinds of absolute you know,

792
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,439
Speaker 1: government takeovers of the entire industry. And if you start,

793
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 1: when you start to get to that, you wreck the

794
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:26,320
Speaker 1: market for all time in the future, and it becomes

795
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,440
Speaker 1: incredibly dangerous. This is literally why we have the SPR

796
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Speaker 1: in the first place, is to make sure we don't

797
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 1: have some crazy Middle Eastern shock that ends up what

798
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 1: was it like alternative license plate? Oh, if your number

799
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 1: ends an odd, you can fill up today. This is

800
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Speaker 1: a nightmare. That's why so many people were so upset

801
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Speaker 1: by it. There you go, all right, let's get to

802
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:49,879
Speaker 1: Lindsay Graham. Okay, turning now to Senator Lindsey Graham. Let's

803
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:51,359
Speaker 1: go ahead and start with this. Put it up here

804
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 1: on the screen, his office announced early on Sunday morning.

805
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Speaker 1: A statement from the office of Senator Graham on the

806
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Speaker 1: evening of Saturday, July elevens or Lindsay Graham passed away

807
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 1: from a brief in a sudden illness. Senator Graham's family

808
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 1: appreciates prayers at this time as for privacy during this

809
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:11,960
Speaker 1: incredibly difficult period. A follow up from Senator Graham's office

810
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 1: indicates that he died from an aortic dissection after struggling

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Speaker 1: with a cardiovascular disease. So he was seventy one years

812
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: old and suffered a massive heart attack, which my medical

813
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:27,440
Speaker 1: friends tell me is, you know, it's not unsurvivable, but

814
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Speaker 1: it's very, very difficult to survive.

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Speaker 2: So obviously what I saw is if you aren't in

816
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Speaker 2: a hospital, very unlikely you're going to make it.

817
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 1: Exactly. It's obviously, you know, bad situation, indicative aging, diet, etcetera.

818
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 1: Should do some you know, your own research. You know,

819
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 1: just in terms of seventy one years old, it seems young,

820
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 1: but if you don't take care of yourself, this is

821
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 1: the type of things that can happen. But bigger picture,

822
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Speaker 1: obviously what has done is kind of thrown a wrench

823
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Speaker 1: into domestic and international politics. Lindsey Graham, in my opinion,

824
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 1: was one of the most effective political operators in Washington.

825
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 1: I am purely describing this from a analytical level. I

826
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Speaker 1: don't really appreciate how good he was at his job,

827
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Speaker 1: but you do have to acknowledge that on his departure

828
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Speaker 1: in the middle of what was his heyday, there's no

829
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 1: there's no denying that. And I think, you know, if

830
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:22,320
Speaker 1: we were to look and analyze his political entrepreneurship, his opportunism,

831
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Speaker 1: what exactly and how he was able to move from

832
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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen to twenty twenty six to probably become a

833
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:31,720
Speaker 1: genuine whisperer to Donald Trump, That in and of itself

834
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Speaker 1: is the story I think of his life and of

835
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Speaker 1: his entire legacy really, which ultimately I mean Senator Graham

836
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 1: was probably the most authentic Neocon in Washington. A lot

837
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,879
Speaker 1: of people are showing he wasn't rich, He didn't really

838
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 1: have a lot of money. He was one of the

839
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 1: poorest members of the United States Senate. He did it

840
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:52,759
Speaker 1: for the love of the game, and I mean I

841
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 1: guess there's some respect in that. But what you can

842
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 1: see from his political career cheering on the Iraq War

843
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:03,360
Speaker 1: John McCain is he never wavered on what he wanted.

844
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 1: But what he did is he would utilize the political system,

845
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 1: the wins, whatever happened to be convenient within the GOP.

846
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:12,959
Speaker 1: Very often he would back them up on a few

847
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:16,319
Speaker 1: domestic things to give himself some credibility, not credibility, but

848
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 1: some space maneuver here. On foreign policy, he never wavered

849
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:22,359
Speaker 1: on his foreign policy views. He did a bear Hag

850
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 1: strategy with Donald Trump, and ultimately he won. He is

851
00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 1: the person who moved Donald Trump to where he wanted

852
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:32,400
Speaker 1: to be, which is remarkable considering where things actually started.

853
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:36,520
Speaker 1: Here's where they were. Lindsey Graham twenty sixteen or twenty fifteen,

854
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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, talking about Donald Trump. Let's take a listen.

855
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 1: What is your reaction to hearing what Donald Trump says?

856
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 1: And disgusted?

857
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Speaker 10: He's a jackass, he's becoming a jackass, and he shouldn't

858
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:51,360
Speaker 10: be commander in chief. We think that he's unfit for office,

859
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 10: that he would be a terrible commander in chief. He

860
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:55,240
Speaker 10: doesn't have the temperament or judgment.

861
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Speaker 1: What I think he's doing is being a demagogue. Here's

862
00:40:58,120 --> 00:40:58,719
Speaker 1: what I think.

863
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:02,319
Speaker 10: I think Donald Trump as a political car wreck, and

864
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,359
Speaker 10: people slow down and look at the wreck, but they

865
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 10: eventually move on. At the end of the day, he

866
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 10: would be the most flawed nominee in the history of

867
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Speaker 10: the Republican Party. I think he's a wrecking ball for

868
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Speaker 10: the future of the Republican Party.

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Speaker 1: I think he's a kook. So that's twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen.

870
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 1: In fact, e let's put C three up here, his

871
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,840
Speaker 1: infamous tweet, if we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed

872
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:27,919
Speaker 1: and we will deserve it. That was May third, twenty sixteen. Eventually,

873
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 1: he of course becomes not only one of Trump's biggest defenders,

874
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:34,480
Speaker 1: but one of his greatest allies in the United States Senate.

875
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 1: And my friend Sara Mamari, let's put this up here

876
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 1: on the screen he wrote, and I summarized some of

877
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 1: this already. The triumph of Lindsay Graham. What he talks about,

878
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 1: as popular should learn from the late centaer is his

879
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 1: extraordinary political ability. Again, is he never compromised on Iran,

880
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:52,960
Speaker 1: on Iraq, on Ukraine, on anything that was near and

881
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 1: dear to his neo conservative heart. But what he did

882
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:58,760
Speaker 1: is within the system, is that he would grab Donald Trump.

883
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,400
Speaker 1: He would wrap himself in the veneer of it. He would,

884
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 1: let's say, like things like the Save America Act. Lindsay

885
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 1: knew it was never going to pass and he didn't care.

886
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 1: But what he decided to do is become one of

887
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: the chief proponents for the bill in Congress because he

888
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,880
Speaker 1: knew it would give him credibility with Trump. He was

889
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:18,799
Speaker 1: a major Cavanaugh defender. For example, he would defend Donald Trump,

890
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 1: let's say, on impeachment or various other things. So he

891
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 1: would back Trump on Trump on domestic political things which

892
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 1: he didn't particularly care about. He would never compromise though,

893
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:30,360
Speaker 1: on immigration or on a few of these other things

894
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 1: which were very near and dear to his heart. And

895
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:35,839
Speaker 1: then at the same time he would constantly use his

896
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 1: rhetoric and his closeness with Trump number one to get

897
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 1: Trump to endorse him. But number two is he's always

898
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 1: whispering in his ear. He was like an evil genius.

899
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:46,560
Speaker 1: Is he would say things. Apparently his most common line

900
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 1: to Trump was, well that's something Obama would do, mister president,

901
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:52,000
Speaker 1: whatever came to it, run or you know on Russia.

902
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 1: He was always using that ability to channel to Trump.

903
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:57,799
Speaker 1: And you know, he didn't have a family. This is

904
00:42:57,840 --> 00:42:59,800
Speaker 1: literally all he actually cared about is he was always

905
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 1: golf with Trump. He's only mar Lago. He's always calling

906
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 1: him on the phone late at night. It seems actually

907
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 1: that Trump is the very last person who we spoke

908
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 1: to before he died, and in which he was advocating

909
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 1: for more war with Iran. Yeah, which is kind of incredible.

910
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:14,920
Speaker 1: So that is ultimately I mean, you know, again, it's

911
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:18,239
Speaker 1: not an endorsement whatsoever. It's just that there's no there's

912
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:22,600
Speaker 1: no even thinking about Lindsay Graham without acknowledging he died

913
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:26,360
Speaker 1: at the peak of his powers, which is a remarkable

914
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 1: story for a person like Trump who ran against Lindsey Graham,

915
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 1: who didn't want allegedly his own vice president. Others were

916
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 1: his biggest opponents, supposedly in the United States Senate. But

917
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 1: this was Lindsay's time.

918
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:42,400
Speaker 2: At the peak of his power, but also at a

919
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 2: time when he got what he wanted with the Iran

920
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:49,920
Speaker 2: war and also got to see what a disaster that

921
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:54,319
Speaker 2: policy was. Because you're right, I think he was ideologically

922
00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 2: committed neo con I saw a Twitter joke that was like,

923
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 2: you know, somebody in Masada right now the leading two

924
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 2: terabytes of compromont that they have. Maybe they had it,

925
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:07,440
Speaker 2: but no, he was in it for he was committed.

926
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:10,319
Speaker 2: And you see all of everyone from Netna down to

927
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 2: Ben Gevie lamenting the loss of this great friend to Israel,

928
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:16,240
Speaker 2: which I think is absolutely true.

929
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 3: You know, this is a man.

930
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:20,920
Speaker 2: Who supported and pushed for the Iraq war, saw what

931
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:23,200
Speaker 2: a disaster that was. I still don't think that he

932
00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:25,399
Speaker 2: would say it was the wrong thing to do. He

933
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 2: never never learned from how many how much of a

934
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:33,360
Speaker 2: disaster the foreign policy that he loved and that he

935
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 2: advocated for, how consistently disastrous it was for the world,

936
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 2: first and foremost for the countries that we were attacking,

937
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:43,719
Speaker 2: but also for the US. And that has never been

938
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 2: more abundantly clear than right now, where we got our

939
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 2: ass kicked by a middle rate power that we'd had

940
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:54,320
Speaker 2: sanctioned for decades, who now is a regional hedgemon thanks

941
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:58,319
Speaker 2: to the very policy that Lindsey Graham pushed, hoping to

942
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:03,279
Speaker 2: project American and power and have more say over the

943
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:03,880
Speaker 2: Middle East.

944
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:05,320
Speaker 3: So, in spite of.

945
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 2: All of the facts, and all of the pain and

946
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:11,759
Speaker 2: all of the destruction. He never took that in. He

947
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:16,600
Speaker 2: never adjusted one iota to the reality. And so there's

948
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 2: a kind of an incredible Fox clip coming around, which

949
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 2: is there going around which they're talking about Lindsey Graham

950
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 2: and his legacy blah blah blah, and they have to

951
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 2: interrupt that to announce new bombings.

952
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 1: Of Irun Noah could not.

953
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:33,360
Speaker 2: Be more appropriate for who this man was, what his

954
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:37,560
Speaker 2: ideological project was, and how even by his own conception

955
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:40,760
Speaker 2: of like pursuing American exceptionalist and power in the world,

956
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:43,719
Speaker 2: it was an utter and complete disaster. Let's put C

957
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 2: six up on the screen because it has some pretty

958
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 2: remarkable quotes here about the you know, the final hours

959
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 2: for Lindsay Graham. It says a person who spoke with

960
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 2: Graham shortly afterwards said the Center, complaining he was feeling unwell.

961
00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:59,360
Speaker 2: This is after he had just gotten back from this

962
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 2: trip to you where he was touring a drone factory.

963
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:04,960
Speaker 2: I think the last photo of him alive of of

964
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 2: him in Ukraine holding this drone. When the person urged

965
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:10,320
Speaker 2: him to seek medical attention, immediately said he would do

966
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:13,800
Speaker 2: it after his Sunday morning appearance on NBC's Meet the Press.

967
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:17,879
Speaker 2: He then joked, I can't die now. I still need

968
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 2: to do the Russia sanctions, get Iron sorted out, and

969
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 2: do Israeli Saudi normalization. And so we focused a lot,

970
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:31,279
Speaker 2: obviously with Graham pushing for the Iran war and being

971
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 2: able to be, you know, part of this successful propaganda

972
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 2: effort to push Trump in that direction. All of the

973
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:40,360
Speaker 2: ways that he you know, endeared himself to Trump and

974
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:42,959
Speaker 2: going on golf trips with him and backing.

975
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 3: Him up at key moments, etc. Paying off.

976
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 2: But we don't talk enough too about how probably influentially

977
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:50,160
Speaker 2: he's been on the Ukraine policy as well, where Trump

978
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 2: during the campaign very skeptical, really wanting to cut some

979
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:55,799
Speaker 2: sort of deal and get out of this thing. Well,

980
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 2: we're not out of this thing, you know, continues in

981
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 2: the direction that Lindsey Graham would want it to go.

982
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:04,399
Speaker 1: With Trump even acknowledged that on CNN Live reacting. Let's

983
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:05,439
Speaker 1: take a listen c five.

984
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:08,359
Speaker 6: Well, we disagreed a little bit, but overall, you know,

985
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 6: I'm a big Israel person. He was certainly that I

986
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:19,160
Speaker 6: wanted to see the war with Ukraine, and very quickly

987
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 6: I think he was more into you know, keeping it going. Frankly,

988
00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:26,359
Speaker 6: he was very very miliant having to do with that.

989
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:30,680
Speaker 6: But I was from the standpoint of twenty five thousand

990
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:36,000
Speaker 6: people dying every month. I didn't like that, and he

991
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:38,880
Speaker 6: was very much He was a very strong military person,

992
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:41,400
Speaker 6: so am I. But I think we used it a

993
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:43,440
Speaker 6: little bit differently. We probably had a little bit of

994
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 6: a different attitude, but we got along on it. Essentially

995
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:48,880
Speaker 6: we agreed, and essentially we agreed in almost everything.

996
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 1: And to the point about Graham's influence, guess what, Trump

997
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 1: greenlit those Ukrainian deep strikes into Russia. That's why Lindsay

998
00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 1: was over there. That was literally his dying thing. His

999
00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:00,160
Speaker 1: last thing that he did was go to Ukraine to

1000
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:02,080
Speaker 1: assure them that he was going to convince Trump to

1001
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 1: allow more deep strikes into Russia. You can support that,

1002
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 1: not support that. You cannot say at the very least

1003
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:11,320
Speaker 1: that he wasn't incredibly influential in terms of the policy

1004
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:14,360
Speaker 1: which Trump originally said. And to your point, I mean, yeah,

1005
00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:16,239
Speaker 1: I always find it hard. You know, when somebody dies,

1006
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 1: especially you don't like someone, It's like, okay, how do

1007
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:21,880
Speaker 1: you handle this? You're not wrong, But the story of Washington.

1008
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:24,759
Speaker 1: For my lifetime has been that the neo cons led

1009
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 1: the United States into the most disastrous war in American history,

1010
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 1: only to then have a rising tide an election of

1011
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:36,239
Speaker 1: a candidate and a president who said explicitly that war

1012
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:39,800
Speaker 1: was a disaster, who somehow then topped that by launching

1013
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 1: the United States into a war which is also as disastrous,

1014
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 1: potentially even more so strategically than the current war that

1015
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:48,880
Speaker 1: we're in right now. How did that happen? He is

1016
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:52,160
Speaker 1: a central character ultimately to that story. Yeah, I mean,

1017
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:57,400
Speaker 1: it's like my entire feed after he died, Zelenski, bb Ben, givey,

1018
00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:59,839
Speaker 1: I think we have some that C nine. Let's put

1019
00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:02,160
Speaker 1: the up him. He got you know, Ben Gavier, you

1020
00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:05,799
Speaker 1: got Zelenski, you got a pack, you got you know,

1021
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:09,680
Speaker 1: all of these, in my opinion, odious characters in American

1022
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:13,920
Speaker 1: politics and American influence. And meanwhile, it's like every European

1023
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 1: leader that ever lived is like, wow, you know, the

1024
00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 1: chairman of Germany or whatever. It's like, Oh, we're gonna

1025
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:21,120
Speaker 1: miss Lindsay. I'm like, anybody from South Carolina, I'm gonna

1026
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 1: miss this guy. I'm like, it's pretty obvious where his

1027
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:26,400
Speaker 1: entire interests and focus was. I don't think he particularly

1028
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 1: cared about his own state. I really genuinely think he

1029
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 1: saw his legacy as protecting whatever he saw as you know,

1030
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:37,880
Speaker 1: as Europe or Israel or you know whatever, all these places,

1031
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:41,000
Speaker 1: like deeply committed to this worldview, which despite Libya, despite

1032
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:43,279
Speaker 1: a Rock, despite Syria, despite any of these places, his

1033
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:46,399
Speaker 1: always his excuse was we didn't go far enough. That's

1034
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 1: what it always came down to with him. And I

1035
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 1: mean he got what he wanted, as you said, just

1036
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:55,440
Speaker 1: like we did after Iraq. If anything, his real project

1037
00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:58,920
Speaker 1: today was continuing to push us even more so to

1038
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 1: where we are. And you know, you could say, oh,

1039
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:03,799
Speaker 1: his death is a major blow to the neo conservatives.

1040
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:06,239
Speaker 1: I just agree. Actually, I think he will be used

1041
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:12,160
Speaker 1: as a martyr. In this current moment. Trump is processing

1042
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:14,759
Speaker 1: his death, you know, I think in the most Trumpian way.

1043
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 1: Don't we have that thought of him going after him

1044
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:20,279
Speaker 1: a little bit? Yeah, let's take a listen to C

1045
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 1: fifteen of Donald Trump kind of trashing him a little bit.

1046
00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:26,440
Speaker 1: Actually this morning on Fox and Friends.

1047
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:29,000
Speaker 9: He was totally against me. I mean, he was fighting me,

1048
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:31,600
Speaker 9: he said. He used me as the example because I

1049
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:34,919
Speaker 9: was leading in the polls by a lot, and he said,

1050
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:37,160
Speaker 9: I'll get you in South Carolina. I'm going to get

1051
00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:39,960
Speaker 9: you to South Carolina. That didn't work out too well.

1052
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:43,839
Speaker 9: I joke about it and it was like it was amazing. Actually, well,

1053
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 9: the whole thing was amazing. Hey, the whole career was amazing.

1054
00:50:47,360 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 9: But Lindsay was a big part of it. Because once

1055
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:52,760
Speaker 9: that ended, he'd left the Raise, and once that ended,

1056
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:55,239
Speaker 9: I became really good friends with him.

1057
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 1: Right, So, once that ended, I became very good friends

1058
00:50:58,080 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 1: with him. But again to just talk here about Trump

1059
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:07,480
Speaker 1: about Lindsey. You know, Trump became the Lindsay Graham president

1060
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:10,400
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. He really did. And I

1061
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:13,560
Speaker 1: mean it's their most remarkable political story I think in

1062
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:17,000
Speaker 1: maybe not ever, but in modern history for sure, in

1063
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:18,799
Speaker 1: terms of how you get elected and then what you

1064
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:22,000
Speaker 1: end up doing. And actually Trump gave us a very

1065
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:25,280
Speaker 1: good preview. Do we have that image of Donald Trump

1066
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:28,879
Speaker 1: that he posted on Trump True Social this morning where

1067
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 1: he said, so sad President DJT. Here is Lindsay Graham,

1068
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:35,000
Speaker 1: either at Bedminster or at mar Lago, who is in

1069
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:38,520
Speaker 1: a polo shirt, wearing a Make Iran Great Again hat

1070
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:41,840
Speaker 1: and with a piece of cardboard that seems to be

1071
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:45,720
Speaker 1: from Wikipedia where it shows Trump and it says acting

1072
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:50,040
Speaker 1: President of Venezuela that he obviously like think about the

1073
00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:52,360
Speaker 1: mechanics here. He had to get a custom make Iran

1074
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:55,560
Speaker 1: great Again hat. He had to either go or to staff,

1075
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:58,880
Speaker 1: had to go to Kinko's and create this mohotoshop image.

1076
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:01,239
Speaker 1: And all of this is playing at some sort of

1077
00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:04,560
Speaker 1: luncheon or whatever he's doing here at Marlago. This is

1078
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:07,479
Speaker 1: an insight into how he was able to influence Donald

1079
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:09,399
Speaker 1: Trump and he won. He used the venice, of course,

1080
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:11,759
Speaker 1: cheered on the Venezuela thing, cheered on make it Ron

1081
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:14,360
Speaker 1: great again. That is how he ended up winning this

1082
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:15,240
Speaker 1: entire presidency.

1083
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 2: I mean, Rubio is a very similar figure, another opponent

1084
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:21,960
Speaker 2: of Trump, you know, aggressively, they were like challenging each

1085
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:24,279
Speaker 2: other based on their manhood, size and whatever and the

1086
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:27,960
Speaker 2: primary and now here he is sectuary of state and

1087
00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 2: got what he wanted with Venezuela, and it's very much yeah,

1088
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:32,759
Speaker 2: I might be very likely to get what he wants

1089
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:35,680
Speaker 2: with regard to Cuba. All it required was for them

1090
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:38,040
Speaker 2: to abandon any other principle that they ever had in

1091
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:39,520
Speaker 2: terms of like moral character.

1092
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:41,439
Speaker 3: Integrity and suck up to this.

1093
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:45,960
Speaker 2: Guy and both of them for completely odious ends that

1094
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 2: they were pursuing. You know, I want to play C eight,

1095
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 2: which just a reminder of how like it's I appreciate

1096
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:56,080
Speaker 2: Soccers and Allison, I think is true of how effective

1097
00:52:56,080 --> 00:52:58,680
Speaker 2: he was in getting what he wanted from Trump and

1098
00:52:58,719 --> 00:53:02,560
Speaker 2: persuading Trump to pursue this hardline neo coon path. I

1099
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:05,920
Speaker 2: think it's also worth, you know, judging the nature of

1100
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:09,279
Speaker 2: that political project. And so Blue Georgia put together a

1101
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 2: compilation of some of the utterly disgusting and you know,

1102
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:18,240
Speaker 2: sociopathic things that Lindsey Graham has said about his own

1103
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:20,560
Speaker 2: ideology and the ends that he was pursuing.

1104
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:21,520
Speaker 3: Let's take a listen to that.

1105
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:26,520
Speaker 10: America first is to kill people who wish us ill.

1106
00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 10: I feel good about the Republican Party. We're killing all

1107
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:31,960
Speaker 10: the right people, and we're cutting your Texas. We've run

1108
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:34,000
Speaker 10: out of bombs. We didn't run out of bombs in

1109
00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 10: World War Two. You just wait to see what comes

1110
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:39,120
Speaker 10: in the next two weeks. We're gonna blow the hell

1111
00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:41,560
Speaker 10: out of these people. We're in a religious war here.

1112
00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:43,960
Speaker 10: I am with Israel. Do whatever the hell you have

1113
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:45,760
Speaker 10: to do to defend yourself.

1114
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:46,440
Speaker 1: Level of the place.

1115
00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:49,239
Speaker 10: Why is it okay for America to not to to

1116
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:53,399
Speaker 10: drop two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end

1117
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 10: their existential threat war?

1118
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:56,920
Speaker 1: Why was it okay for us to do that?

1119
00:53:57,080 --> 00:53:59,680
Speaker 3: I thought it was okay to Israel do whatever you

1120
00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:00,000
Speaker 3: have to do.

1121
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:02,319
Speaker 10: To survive as a Jewish state.

1122
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:04,680
Speaker 1: Aron's going to have a choice in two to three weeks.

1123
00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:06,920
Speaker 10: You either do a deal where you get out of

1124
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 10: the business you're in, or We're going to blow your

1125
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:12,880
Speaker 10: stuff up. Our friends in Israel surrounded by people that

1126
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:16,120
Speaker 10: want to kill them, destroy them, a second Holocaust in

1127
00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:19,839
Speaker 10: the making. What is the proportional response to people want

1128
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:20,360
Speaker 10: to kill.

1129
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:21,160
Speaker 1: You and your family.

1130
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:24,279
Speaker 10: They're running out of ammunition in Israel. We have to

1131
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 10: help our friends. I go back to South Carolina. I'm

1132
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:29,480
Speaker 10: asking them to send their sons and daughters over to

1133
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:31,360
Speaker 10: the Mid East to our friends in Israel.

1134
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:32,080
Speaker 1: God bless you.

1135
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:35,440
Speaker 10: I'm with you in every way. To all the anti Seminites,

1136
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:38,319
Speaker 10: to all the isolationists, forget it. I'm not with you.

1137
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:40,759
Speaker 10: I'm with Israel. I will be with Israel to our

1138
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:43,320
Speaker 10: dying day. There's no better partner on the planet.

1139
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:45,799
Speaker 1: Than Israel. God Bless is right. We should move all

1140
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:46,680
Speaker 1: our stuff to Israel.

1141
00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:49,480
Speaker 3: Oh, he didn't lie. He was with Israel till his

1142
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:50,319
Speaker 3: dying day.

1143
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:53,600
Speaker 2: In this past year, he's been back and forth to

1144
00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:57,040
Speaker 2: Ukraine and Israel, probably spending more time in this country

1145
00:54:57,080 --> 00:55:00,080
Speaker 2: than he has been in South Carolina. Wouldn't doubt that

1146
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:04,359
Speaker 2: contributed to the negative health outcomes. It's very hard on you,

1147
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:08,200
Speaker 2: certainly at a certain age, but you know, this is

1148
00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:10,319
Speaker 2: this is what he was pursuing and what he's been

1149
00:55:10,320 --> 00:55:12,720
Speaker 2: fairly successful at pursuing, and now he gets to see

1150
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:14,680
Speaker 2: the wreckage. Not that I think it caused him to

1151
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:17,920
Speaker 2: question for a second the policy that he would he

1152
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 2: would be you know, if you live for another five years,

1153
00:55:19,719 --> 00:55:21,480
Speaker 2: he'd be the one pushing us through war with Turkey

1154
00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:24,000
Speaker 2: or whatever would be would be next. So I don't

1155
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:25,839
Speaker 2: think that it was causing him to reckon at all.

1156
00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:30,160
Speaker 2: With what a monstrous disaster this ideology has right amount.

1157
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:31,919
Speaker 1: And this is more of a mainstream media thing because

1158
00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 1: like I get it, you know, one of the things

1159
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:35,000
Speaker 1: like what's one of the what's one of the worst

1160
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:37,360
Speaker 1: things Trump did recently? And I know this is like

1161
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:39,839
Speaker 1: might be selective that Rob Reiner post, it was like, oh,

1162
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:42,320
Speaker 1: that's horrible, right, So, like you don't want to piss

1163
00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:45,160
Speaker 1: on someone's grave immediately after they die. But there is

1164
00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:48,480
Speaker 1: like a mainstream media like hay Geography. Remember when Dick

1165
00:55:48,560 --> 00:55:50,440
Speaker 1: Cheney died and they were like, oh, Dick Chene he

1166
00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:53,919
Speaker 1: was a protector of democracy. I'm like democracy, Like, okay, look,

1167
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:56,360
Speaker 1: we can just say the guy died. Let's leave it

1168
00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:59,520
Speaker 1: at that. But then whenever it comes to discussion of legacy,

1169
00:55:59,520 --> 00:56:01,359
Speaker 1: if you're only going to highlight one thing, it's like, well,

1170
00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:03,200
Speaker 1: you got to highlight the rest too. And that's how

1171
00:56:03,239 --> 00:56:05,480
Speaker 1: I feel about Lindsay Graham. Like again, I don't want

1172
00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:08,400
Speaker 1: to disparage too much, and like I get it's distasteful,

1173
00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:11,320
Speaker 1: but yeah, you take a look at that. Lindsey Graham

1174
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:15,160
Speaker 1: reveled in death who he would define as America's enemies.

1175
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:17,000
Speaker 1: I think it killed a lot of Americans and it

1176
00:56:17,120 --> 00:56:21,319
Speaker 1: killed a lot of foreigners too. So that's ideology. And

1177
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:25,879
Speaker 1: you know, that really was a bedrock like belief of

1178
00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:31,320
Speaker 1: his that that was a good. Ultimately, I dramatically disagree

1179
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:34,960
Speaker 1: with that. And there's no assessing him without There's no

1180
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:37,400
Speaker 1: assessing him period without looking at that, and you have

1181
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:40,240
Speaker 1: all these Democratic senators and others who were posting selfies

1182
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:42,360
Speaker 1: of him with him and Zelensky being like, oh, he

1183
00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:45,719
Speaker 1: was such a champion for democracy. And that's part of why,

1184
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:48,400
Speaker 1: you know, to assess Lindsay. He is the ultimate Washington creature.

1185
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:50,120
Speaker 1: I met him a couple of times. Hey is the

1186
00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:52,759
Speaker 1: nicest guy. Everybody has a story about how funny he is,

1187
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 1: how disarming he is. I would disagree with him, you know,

1188
00:56:56,680 --> 00:56:59,600
Speaker 1: always just agree to disagree or something like that, and

1189
00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:01,960
Speaker 1: everybody he's got a story like that, But that doesn't

1190
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:03,960
Speaker 1: mean that what he was saying is good, Like he

1191
00:57:04,120 --> 00:57:05,759
Speaker 1: used those powers for bad.

1192
00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:08,239
Speaker 2: I think when you're talking about a powerful person, you

1193
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:11,320
Speaker 2: have to be honest about their legacy and not pull punches.

1194
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:13,759
Speaker 2: Because it's important that we set the record. You know,

1195
00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:15,279
Speaker 2: this will be, you know, one of the last times

1196
00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:17,720
Speaker 2: we think about or talk about Lindsay Gram. It's important

1197
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:19,600
Speaker 2: to set the record of what this man's life was

1198
00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:22,640
Speaker 2: actually dedicated to. And you know, certainly playing him in

1199
00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:25,440
Speaker 2: his own words with regard to the impact on Trump,

1200
00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:28,080
Speaker 2: I just have to There was one clip of him

1201
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:31,360
Speaker 2: almost seeming to like get choked up talking about Lindsey Graham,

1202
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:33,640
Speaker 2: which is not he barely.

1203
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:34,280
Speaker 1: Cares about his own son.

1204
00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:36,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, he didn't even go to his own son's wedding.

1205
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:40,480
Speaker 2: True, true, So I mean I think he was genuinely

1206
00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:41,400
Speaker 2: close to him.

1207
00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:42,560
Speaker 3: But also Trump is such a.

1208
00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:44,680
Speaker 2: Narcissist, which is what you can see with him posting

1209
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:47,280
Speaker 2: that Lindsay Graham holding up you know, the Trump picture,

1210
00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 2: that Trump clearly is thinking about his own mortality a lot.

1211
00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:54,800
Speaker 2: Lindsay is a decade younger than he is, was a

1212
00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:58,360
Speaker 2: decade younger than he is, and part of I think

1213
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:01,440
Speaker 2: how he got persuaded to go to war with Iran

1214
00:58:01,640 --> 00:58:03,560
Speaker 2: was about what is the legacy that you're going to

1215
00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:05,120
Speaker 2: leave behind? And he's not going to be the one

1216
00:58:05,120 --> 00:58:06,920
Speaker 2: who wants to be here to deal with the fallout

1217
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:10,880
Speaker 2: from it. So I think it probably feeds into that

1218
00:58:11,080 --> 00:58:14,320
Speaker 2: sense of his own mortality as natural. Anytime someone who's

1219
00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:16,680
Speaker 2: close to you dies that you start contemplating those things

1220
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:19,320
Speaker 2: more so, it wouldn't be surprised, It would not surprise

1221
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:23,600
Speaker 2: me if it just further fuels his sense of his

1222
00:58:23,760 --> 00:58:25,680
Speaker 2: limited time and how much he wants to leave his

1223
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:28,360
Speaker 2: mark on this town and on the world.

1224
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:29,880
Speaker 3: I mean, they're very securely a good thing.

1225
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:32,720
Speaker 1: They're both very similar in their late seventies. Obviously Lindsay

1226
00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:35,240
Speaker 1: was is not as obese, but he was like, you know,

1227
00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:37,800
Speaker 1: he's not like working out. Obviously, he was seventy one.

1228
00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:40,400
Speaker 1: He flew all over the world. He was totally dedicated

1229
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:42,920
Speaker 1: to his work, didn't sleep a lot, a total creature

1230
00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:44,640
Speaker 1: of politics. Trump looks at that and he's like, wait,

1231
00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:46,440
Speaker 1: I could be like that. Yeah, no, serious as an

1232
00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:49,280
Speaker 1: eighty nights and look at if you look at Lindsey Graham,

1233
00:58:49,560 --> 00:58:51,960
Speaker 1: you could actually see his degradation over the years in

1234
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:54,360
Speaker 1: terms of his like his face looks more haggard. That's

1235
00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:57,600
Speaker 1: how cardiovascular disease, hard disease works. So Trump and any

1236
00:58:57,800 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 1: older person, Sam Neil, we were talking about that before

1237
00:58:59,760 --> 00:59:02,080
Speaker 1: the shit he died today. He's seventy eight. He's younger

1238
00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:04,000
Speaker 1: than Trump. So you know, once you start out to

1239
00:59:04,040 --> 00:59:06,320
Speaker 1: that age, a lot of people, you know, start dying,

1240
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:09,960
Speaker 1: especially who are old, who are only obsessed with themselves,

1241
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:13,240
Speaker 1: who are you know, totally dedicated to the work of politics.

1242
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:14,880
Speaker 1: I mean the fact that one of the very last

1243
00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:16,919
Speaker 1: things that Lindsay Graham ever said was I can't die

1244
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:18,520
Speaker 1: now because I have to go do X Y and

1245
00:59:18,680 --> 00:59:21,160
Speaker 1: z and not you know, hang out with my wife

1246
00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:24,120
Speaker 1: or my children or something that's I just don't want

1247
00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:25,680
Speaker 1: to go out that way I can put it. I

1248
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:28,480
Speaker 1: could put it like that. And then now what you

1249
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:32,040
Speaker 1: also see, you know, without Trump is South Carolina. I

1250
00:59:32,040 --> 00:59:35,720
Speaker 1: believe Lindsay Graham was running for his fifth term, which

1251
00:59:35,760 --> 00:59:39,000
Speaker 1: is crazy, his fifth term, a long history of senators

1252
00:59:39,040 --> 00:59:42,240
Speaker 1: from South Carolina dying from old age in office, which

1253
00:59:42,680 --> 00:59:45,640
Speaker 1: that's your business, I guess. And now we have, like

1254
00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:48,040
Speaker 1: the race to replace him will just be, you know,

1255
00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:50,320
Speaker 1: the grifting race for the age. So let's put C

1256
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:54,800
Speaker 1: ten up here on the screen. The disgraced gubernatorial former

1257
00:59:54,840 --> 00:59:59,120
Speaker 1: congress candidate, former Congresswoman Nancy Mace says, just when I

1258
00:59:59,120 --> 01:00:03,720
Speaker 1: thought I was out, they pulled me back in. Scott Bessent,

1259
01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:06,320
Speaker 1: the Treasury secretary. Let's put see eleven up here on

1260
01:00:06,360 --> 01:00:09,480
Speaker 1: the screen. Apparently as a native son of South Carolina

1261
01:00:09,880 --> 01:00:12,840
Speaker 1: who has maintained a house there during Washington, he's been

1262
01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:16,000
Speaker 1: fielding calls they want him to run potentially even though

1263
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:19,160
Speaker 1: he's a Treasury secretary. And so you had at one.

1264
01:00:19,040 --> 01:00:21,080
Speaker 3: Pointm actually did succeed strom Thurman.

1265
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:24,040
Speaker 1: I know that was Yeah, that's my refen who died

1266
01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:25,880
Speaker 1: of How old was strom is like one hundred and

1267
01:00:25,880 --> 01:00:30,080
Speaker 1: two something when he died something like that. Yeah, and

1268
01:00:30,120 --> 01:00:32,240
Speaker 1: then we found out about his black daughter after he died.

1269
01:00:32,360 --> 01:00:35,080
Speaker 1: If I'm doing my math correctly about anyway, if you

1270
01:00:35,080 --> 01:00:36,920
Speaker 1: don't know who strom Thurman is, he was. He was

1271
01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:40,760
Speaker 1: a segrege. He like did the filibuster against the segregation. Yeah.

1272
01:00:40,840 --> 01:00:42,720
Speaker 3: Anyways, I went to Clemson.

1273
01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:45,640
Speaker 2: There were buildings still like named after him because I

1274
01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:50,720
Speaker 2: think grandson was at school there when I was there too. Anyway, Yes, okay,

1275
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:51,600
Speaker 2: I digress.

1276
01:00:51,720 --> 01:00:54,160
Speaker 1: I met someone here in Washington once, the older person.

1277
01:00:54,280 --> 01:00:55,840
Speaker 1: They're like, I came to work from the Senate. I

1278
01:00:55,880 --> 01:00:58,080
Speaker 1: was like, oh for who oh for a Southern senator.

1279
01:00:58,120 --> 01:01:03,640
Speaker 1: I was like, well, which one. I was like, oh okay,

1280
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:05,640
Speaker 1: and then I did the math in terms of the

1281
01:01:05,680 --> 01:01:09,080
Speaker 1: year and I was like sixty one. Huh. Interesting nice

1282
01:01:09,080 --> 01:01:09,880
Speaker 1: start there, Yeah.

1283
01:01:09,960 --> 01:01:10,400
Speaker 6: Interesting.

1284
01:01:10,520 --> 01:01:14,160
Speaker 1: So anyways, zooming out the race to replace Lindsay Graham,

1285
01:01:14,480 --> 01:01:18,280
Speaker 1: it will be a Titanic one. I'm gonna call it.

1286
01:01:18,440 --> 01:01:21,320
Speaker 1: I'm calling Nikki Haley, that's my call. I think she's

1287
01:01:21,320 --> 01:01:23,960
Speaker 1: gonna make a deal with Trump. Trump has said I

1288
01:01:24,040 --> 01:01:26,480
Speaker 1: want to, He said I have somebody in mind. Already

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Speaker 1: she's been stucking up to him on Iran. She's going

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Speaker 1: to have more money than humanly possible. That would be

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Speaker 1: a natural place I think for her to end up.

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Speaker 1: The only reason she never did it was because those

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Speaker 1: seats are really, really hard to get, and so I

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Speaker 1: could see, I could.

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Speaker 3: See you don't think Scott Bessant, Well.

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Speaker 1: Here's the rate and reason Lindsay just died. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be very hot. What's fifty to fifty right there in

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Speaker 1: the Senate McConnell is God knows what is up with him.

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Speaker 1: If you replace Scott Bessant, you got to get a confirmation.

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Speaker 1: Is a single Democrat going to vote for confirmation? This

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Speaker 1: is part of the reason why no member of the

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Speaker 1: South Carolina delegation is going to get it from the

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Speaker 1: House of Representatives because they can't afford the margin.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they talked about.

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Speaker 2: So what happens is the governor nominate someone and then

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Speaker 2: they have a special primary election to figure out who

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Speaker 2: the nominee is going to be because they've already had

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Speaker 2: the primaries Instagram obviously one there's a Democrat, a woman

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Speaker 2: I care remember a name right now who also one,

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Speaker 2: So she will remain the Democratic nominee, and now you

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Speaker 2: have to have a special primary to figure out who

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Speaker 2: is going to be the Republican who will stand for

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Speaker 2: election in the fall. Joe Wilson, who is the like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: who's young sprite from Chicus seventy eight, not even close

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Speaker 2: to the oldest person in the House of Representatives. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: he was being contemplated, but then he seemed to say, hey,

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Speaker 2: we shouldn't do this because we got to protect our

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Speaker 2: majority in the House, which is extremely slim at this point.

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Speaker 2: This also, it does have huge repercussions for what the

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Speaker 2: Senate will be able to get anything. This Trump's fantasy

1321
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Speaker 2: give the Save America Act not going to happen because

1322
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Speaker 2: you've got Mitch McConnell maybe alive, but certainly not in

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Speaker 2: the Senate voting. I don't know we'll get to that.

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Speaker 2: Like I said in a moment, Lindsey Graham now dead.

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Speaker 2: So you have no one in that seat you have,

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Speaker 2: And then you've got a couple of people Tom Tillis,

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Speaker 2: Cassidy who u in uh uh uh not foon, I'm

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Speaker 2: at Cornyn down in Texas. Who are you know their

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Speaker 2: primary primary down care They don't care, so they can

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Speaker 2: do whatever they want. Now the on the other side,

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Speaker 2: you do have John Fetterman, who also does whatever he wants,

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Speaker 2: so maybe you could get him for some things. But no,

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Speaker 2: their their majority in the Senate is sort of de

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Speaker 2: facto gone at.

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Speaker 1: This it's a it's a very That's part of the

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Speaker 1: reason why with Besson, i mean, Treasure Secretary such an

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Speaker 1: important position, why would they gear up for confirmation right there?

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Speaker 1: You know, there was that other you remember, I think

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Speaker 1: I was off that whole Alito resigning thing, which might

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Speaker 1: have been happening. Yeah, it's not gonna happen now because

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Speaker 1: you can have that confirmation battle's he's got to wait

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Speaker 1: till the next He.

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Speaker 3: Should have gone with the NPR announcement.

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Speaker 1: No, I'm dead serious. If he had, let well, we

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But now, I mean, now, if the Senate goes blue,

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01:04:01,600 --> 01:04:03,360
Speaker 1: you're going to see there are a lot of guys

1349
01:04:03,360 --> 01:04:05,360
Speaker 1: like Clarence Thomas and all those people. You better hope

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Speaker 1: nothing happens to them.

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Speaker 2: If you're they were talking about doing a reconciliation bill

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Speaker 2: for the Save America Act because it only requires a

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01:04:12,400 --> 01:04:15,240
Speaker 2: majority vote. But now you don't even you can't even

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Speaker 2: count on that. So I don't even if they get

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01:04:16,760 --> 01:04:19,920
Speaker 2: rid of the filibuster at this point that there's no

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Speaker 2: guarantee that you're going to be able to cobble together

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Speaker 2: a majority for literally anything, because some of these guys

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01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:28,200
Speaker 2: that Trump went against Gornyon at all would love to

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01:04:28,600 --> 01:04:30,800
Speaker 2: stick it to them and get some vengeance for being

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Speaker 2: for losing their political powers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this really does have like some serious serious implications

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Speaker 1: here in Washington, even in terms of like funding the

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Speaker 1: government ICE, I mean, DHS, I mean, who knows, right,

1364
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Speaker 1: Like there's all kinds of crazy stuff that happens. McConnell

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Speaker 1: proof of life. Maybe let's put see thirteen up here

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Speaker 1: on the screen. Here it is. Here's a photo released yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Leave this up for a good but let's take a

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Speaker 3: look at.

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Speaker 1: Let's analyze the picture. So here is Senator Mitch McConnell.

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Speaker 1: It's very nice to see his wife by his side

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Speaker 1: after she took from China trip to China two days

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Speaker 1: after he went to the hospital. I joked that it's

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01:05:08,240 --> 01:05:09,840
Speaker 1: like a story out of the notebook. It's the love

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Speaker 1: affair that you like to see two elderly people separated

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Speaker 1: by continents. You can just feel the passion. What you

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Speaker 1: can see in this photo is bottom left very strategically

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Speaker 1: places that newspaper so you can see the modern day newspaper.

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Speaker 1: So when we see Mitch, he's smiling kind of, he's

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Speaker 1: got his glass, his eyes are open. The what is

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Speaker 1: that the left hand? There a lot of bruising there

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Speaker 1: on the left hand, usually indicative of an ivy.

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Speaker 3: Very trump looking very trump.

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Speaker 1: And we'll all remember the photo of the Queen from

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Speaker 1: like the day before that she died, where she also

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Speaker 1: had a lot of the bruising there. Usually that's where

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Speaker 1: they place an ivy. So obviously in a hospital bed.

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Speaker 1: I recognize that those types of chairs from my time

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Speaker 1: when my wife was giving birth. So okay, so that's

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Speaker 1: where Mitch is. He's propped up there on a pillow.

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Speaker 1: Now let's keep in mind nothing of him talking, but

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Speaker 1: he disappear to be sent in semi or whatever. His

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Speaker 1: eyes are open, that's what we know. And his wife

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Speaker 1: is there by side. I mean, it's all we can

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Speaker 1: that's all we can assess from this photo, right, is

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Speaker 1: that he is alive.

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Speaker 2: I mean, maybe I don't like Also, it's the age

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Speaker 2: of AI and you accept us just to accept a

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Speaker 2: photo at face value, like, oh, see.

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Speaker 3: The newspaper here. I mean, it's just it's too much.

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Speaker 1: It is too much, and then it's too much that

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01:06:26,200 --> 01:06:27,560
Speaker 1: they have to do this right.

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Speaker 2: And so if you if you actually want a proof

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Speaker 2: of life, all these Republicans are Oh I talked to

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Speaker 2: Misch McConnell for twenty minutes. He's great a problem. Okay, Well,

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01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:37,720
Speaker 2: then talk to someone who's not a Republican like talk

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Speaker 2: to in his refer call up many Democratic friends in

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Speaker 2: the Senate, you know, I mean, someone who might have

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Speaker 2: a little more credibility to vouch for what's going on here.

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Speaker 2: And then we get this statement from him, puts up

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Speaker 2: on this screen.

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Speaker 3: I'll read this.

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Speaker 2: It's length. I'm sorry, but let me read this whole

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Speaker 2: thing just so. I don't, you know, don't paraphrase in

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Speaker 2: a way that's that doesn't fully capture all of the

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Speaker 2: sentiments expressed here to my fellow Kentuckians. And this was

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Speaker 2: put out alongside that photo when you elected me to

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Speaker 2: seventh term, made me our Commonwew's longest serving center. You

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01:07:08,880 --> 01:07:11,160
Speaker 2: did so trusting I keep showing up to fight for

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Speaker 2: you every day over the past several weeks, Elaine and

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01:07:13,560 --> 01:07:15,840
Speaker 2: I have appreciated both your well wishes and your honest

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Speaker 2: questions about what was keeping me away from the Senate.

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Speaker 2: You all know how folks of my generation often hesitate

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01:07:22,000 --> 01:07:25,120
Speaker 2: to share the vulnerability that comes with growing older, even

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Speaker 2: in the public eye. I feel that same instinct. I

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01:07:27,760 --> 01:07:29,960
Speaker 2: can't help it. Keep in mind, guys, he has been

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Speaker 2: gone for a month. A month we have heard nothing.

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Speaker 2: This is all we've gotten is this one photo.

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Speaker 3: In this statement.

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Speaker 2: But at the same time, I've had more than my

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Speaker 2: share of experience with physical vulnerability. Surviving childhood polio meant

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Speaker 2: spending my entire life with mobility challenges. This is reminding

1432
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Speaker 2: me very much of the Joe Biden stutter discourse. They

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01:07:46,720 --> 01:07:49,400
Speaker 2: haven't exactly gotten easier to manage with age, and last

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Speaker 2: month I took a fall which landed me in the hospital.

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Speaker 2: My doctors confirmed I didn't break any bones or suffer

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Speaker 2: a concussion. I did not have a heart or a stroke.

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01:08:01,400 --> 01:08:05,080
Speaker 2: I don't have any tumors or hamorrhages. But I was

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Speaker 2: briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital or receiving

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Speaker 2: excellent care. Over the past several weeks, I've also had

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Speaker 2: to deal with a mild case of pneumonia.

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Speaker 3: Let me just pause there.

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Speaker 2: He's claiming that a fall, a mild fall that did

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Speaker 2: not cause a concussion, that was not caused by a

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01:08:21,080 --> 01:08:23,759
Speaker 2: heart attack or stroke, that he doesn't have any tumors

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01:08:23,840 --> 01:08:28,040
Speaker 2: or hemorrhages, but somehow left him unconscious but didn't cause

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Speaker 2: a concussion, is what led to him being hospitalized for

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Speaker 2: a month. And by the way, they're still not releasing

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01:08:35,479 --> 01:08:39,720
Speaker 2: him and letting him go. So what exactly happened with

1449
01:08:39,800 --> 01:08:42,960
Speaker 2: this alleged fall that was so severe that all you

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01:08:43,000 --> 01:08:44,439
Speaker 2: can do is put out this photo and.

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Speaker 3: Have to be in the hospital for a month.

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Speaker 2: Allow me to continue, he says, I can assure you

1453
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Speaker 2: that I've been a good patient and my age.

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01:08:50,160 --> 01:08:51,760
Speaker 3: I tend to do what my doctors told me to do.

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01:08:51,800 --> 01:08:53,560
Speaker 2: I've submitted to every test they can think of to

1456
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Speaker 2: help figure out what caused this incident. I'm continuing to

1457
01:08:56,280 --> 01:08:58,320
Speaker 2: do everything that asked to speed my recovery. In fact,

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01:08:58,360 --> 01:09:00,960
Speaker 2: with signs of continued progress, I've been able to move

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Speaker 2: from hospital care to a rehabilitation center where I'll keep

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01:09:04,600 --> 01:09:07,320
Speaker 2: regaining my strength. As much as it frustrates me, this

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Speaker 2: process takes time, and on the advice of my doctors,

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Speaker 2: I will not be able to return to the Senate

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Speaker 2: floor to vote quite yet.

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Speaker 3: Rest assured.

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01:09:13,360 --> 01:09:15,120
Speaker 2: In the meantime, I'm not taking a break from the

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01:09:15,160 --> 01:09:17,320
Speaker 2: Senate business that matters to you. I've been working closely

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01:09:17,360 --> 01:09:20,639
Speaker 2: with my legislative staff on current issues, with my Kentucky team,

1468
01:09:20,640 --> 01:09:24,000
Speaker 2: who helped me provide timely constituent services across our commonwealth.

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Speaker 3: Blah blah blah.

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Speaker 2: Your right to expect your representatives to work hard for you,

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01:09:28,160 --> 01:09:30,000
Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera. I'll keep working hard to get

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Speaker 2: back on the Senate floor as soon as possible. Keep

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01:09:32,320 --> 01:09:34,479
Speaker 2: you posted on the progress of my recovery. N til then,

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01:09:34,560 --> 01:09:37,280
Speaker 2: So grateful for your prayers and well wishes. This still

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01:09:37,360 --> 01:09:40,760
Speaker 2: makes absolutely no sense, Occer. So if you no concussion

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01:09:40,760 --> 01:09:43,800
Speaker 2: and no stroke, no problem, everything's good. Why are you

1477
01:09:43,840 --> 01:09:46,000
Speaker 2: still in the hospital. Yes, Why don't we have a video?

1478
01:09:46,160 --> 01:09:48,679
Speaker 2: Why can't you talk to reporters? Like, what is going

1479
01:09:48,720 --> 01:09:51,400
Speaker 2: on here? Why do we just get this one photo well,

1480
01:09:51,400 --> 01:09:52,400
Speaker 2: which the newspaper.

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Speaker 1: What is also weird is remember the EMS call had

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01:09:55,240 --> 01:09:57,040
Speaker 1: set cardiac arrest. That's part of the reason a lot

1483
01:09:57,040 --> 01:09:58,400
Speaker 1: of people are like oh my god, it might be dead.

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01:09:58,400 --> 01:10:00,320
Speaker 1: Because Ryan had looked up the status like if you

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01:10:00,320 --> 01:10:03,519
Speaker 1: have cardiac arrest and again CPR and they're coming to

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01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:05,439
Speaker 1: get you. You're eighty four years old at your home,

1487
01:10:05,520 --> 01:10:07,720
Speaker 1: you have like a two percent survival rate. So this

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01:10:07,880 --> 01:10:09,640
Speaker 1: it does make a little bit more sense now that

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01:10:09,680 --> 01:10:12,960
Speaker 1: he didn't suffer a heart attack, at least according to him,

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01:10:13,160 --> 01:10:15,680
Speaker 1: he suffered a fall. Now that said fall is one

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01:10:15,720 --> 01:10:17,639
Speaker 1: of the leading causes of death for people who are

1492
01:10:17,640 --> 01:10:20,120
Speaker 1: his age, so it's not uncommon a lot of hip breaking.

1493
01:10:20,200 --> 01:10:23,599
Speaker 1: It leads to rapid deterioration. But he's pairing it here

1494
01:10:23,640 --> 01:10:26,479
Speaker 1: with the mild pneumonia. I mean, I feel insane even

1495
01:10:26,479 --> 01:10:30,080
Speaker 1: talking about this. You're eighty four years old. This is bonkers. Like,

1496
01:10:30,240 --> 01:10:32,800
Speaker 1: you're eighty four, you're falling. You've had multiple incidents where

1497
01:10:32,800 --> 01:10:36,920
Speaker 1: you can't speak on cameraide he literally freeze up completely.

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01:10:37,160 --> 01:10:39,000
Speaker 1: You're spending weeks in the if you have to spend

1499
01:10:39,080 --> 01:10:42,160
Speaker 1: weeks in the hospital, weeks in the hospital because of

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Speaker 1: your old age, How can you be a public servant?

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Speaker 1: How could you run again? You know? And he say, oh,

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01:10:47,320 --> 01:10:50,360
Speaker 1: I retired, Why didn't Sorry, I'm retiring at the end

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01:10:50,400 --> 01:10:53,040
Speaker 1: of chance leave now like you can't, you're not doing

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01:10:53,080 --> 01:10:56,400
Speaker 1: your job. Allegedly, you're talking your staff. You've been multiple

1505
01:10:56,400 --> 01:10:59,720
Speaker 1: weeks here in the hospital. I mean, it's just did

1506
01:10:59,720 --> 01:11:01,360
Speaker 1: you hear end up hearing by the remember that missing

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Speaker 1: congressman we found out what happened? Oh yeah, he had depression.

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01:11:03,720 --> 01:11:08,679
Speaker 2: Depression yeah mm hmm and again month, you know, yeah, months.

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01:11:08,880 --> 01:11:11,479
Speaker 2: And by the way, he is not telling the truth either,

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Speaker 2: because you're not hospitalized for months with depression without something very.

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01:11:16,439 --> 01:11:19,080
Speaker 1: Severe, maybe had a schizophrenic break line, which in either case,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. You got to go, dude. You can't be

1513
01:11:20,960 --> 01:11:22,280
Speaker 1: taken three and a half months off work.

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01:11:22,360 --> 01:11:26,320
Speaker 2: You are usually kept if you are hospitalized with mental

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01:11:26,360 --> 01:11:29,360
Speaker 2: illness for months at a time, it means you are

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01:11:29,479 --> 01:11:32,360
Speaker 2: risk to yourself or others. Right, So yeah, I mean

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01:11:32,439 --> 01:11:34,320
Speaker 2: we're definitely not getting the straight story there, and we're

1518
01:11:34,320 --> 01:11:34,800
Speaker 2: definitely not.

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01:11:34,720 --> 01:11:35,840
Speaker 3: Getting the straight story here.

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01:11:35,920 --> 01:11:41,080
Speaker 2: And the reason why people were and still are very

1521
01:11:41,120 --> 01:11:45,320
Speaker 2: much speculating that he, you know, maybe not there at

1522
01:11:45,360 --> 01:11:47,559
Speaker 2: all at this point, is that they would want to

1523
01:11:47,640 --> 01:11:50,320
Speaker 2: drag out the process past I think it's August third,

1524
01:11:50,400 --> 01:11:52,720
Speaker 2: because if he's you know, out of the Senate or

1525
01:11:52,760 --> 01:11:54,640
Speaker 2: dead before August third, then they have to call a

1526
01:11:54,680 --> 01:11:57,400
Speaker 2: special election. Oh and then Tom's Massy might run and

1527
01:11:57,439 --> 01:11:59,360
Speaker 2: that could cause some problems for them because if he

1528
01:11:59,400 --> 01:12:01,920
Speaker 2: runs as a Republican, he could win the nomination and

1529
01:12:01,960 --> 01:12:04,840
Speaker 2: then that's another senator that Trump can't control. Or if

1530
01:12:04,840 --> 01:12:06,840
Speaker 2: he runs as an independent, then he could serve as

1531
01:12:06,880 --> 01:12:09,880
Speaker 2: a spoiler. So that was the reason why there would

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01:12:09,880 --> 01:12:12,439
Speaker 2: be some motivation to cover up the reality of what

1533
01:12:12,520 --> 01:12:15,519
Speaker 2: is going on here. But look, I mean, it's yeah,

1534
01:12:15,640 --> 01:12:18,360
Speaker 2: we're being lied to. It's in your face. They're not

1535
01:12:18,360 --> 01:12:21,120
Speaker 2: giving the whole story. What he's saying doesn't make sense.

1536
01:12:21,520 --> 01:12:23,639
Speaker 2: And I don't think anyone should be convinced of anything

1537
01:12:23,960 --> 01:12:27,679
Speaker 2: from this photo that they're putting, the single singular photo

1538
01:12:27,840 --> 01:12:29,800
Speaker 2: that they are putting out at this point, the.

1539
01:12:29,880 --> 01:12:32,640
Speaker 1: Fact that they have to put the photo out in

1540
01:12:32,680 --> 01:12:35,479
Speaker 1: and of itself. We're in crazy town, you know when

1541
01:12:35,479 --> 01:12:38,200
Speaker 1: you're I'm eighty four. I just fell. Don't worry about it.

1542
01:12:38,200 --> 01:12:40,719
Speaker 1: I'm totally fine. But I've spent here weeks in the hospital.

1543
01:12:41,080 --> 01:12:44,360
Speaker 2: I need to spend an unspecified amount of time more

1544
01:12:44,600 --> 01:12:47,360
Speaker 2: in the hospital, but more how cleared too? And this

1545
01:12:47,520 --> 01:12:50,080
Speaker 2: was something did you see Lauren Bobert reacting to that?

1546
01:12:50,160 --> 01:12:50,920
Speaker 3: Tom Keane guy.

1547
01:12:51,160 --> 01:12:53,600
Speaker 1: She was kissed. She was like, oh, she was disgusted.

1548
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Speaker 2: She was absolutely discussed, and she was like, you had

1549
01:12:56,120 --> 01:12:58,160
Speaker 2: to be out for months because you're a little sad.

1550
01:12:58,439 --> 01:12:58,800
Speaker 1: She went.

1551
01:12:59,200 --> 01:13:01,080
Speaker 2: But she made a point and she was like, this

1552
01:13:01,200 --> 01:13:03,960
Speaker 2: job is not that hard, Like we can roll you

1553
01:13:04,000 --> 01:13:04,679
Speaker 2: in the back.

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01:13:04,520 --> 01:13:06,640
Speaker 3: Doors over vote.

1555
01:13:06,360 --> 01:13:09,759
Speaker 2: And you leave right. You can make it a lot,

1556
01:13:09,920 --> 01:13:12,120
Speaker 2: you can do a lot more with it. But if

1557
01:13:12,120 --> 01:13:14,920
Speaker 2: you're just doing the bare minimum, it takes you like

1558
01:13:15,040 --> 01:13:17,519
Speaker 2: ten minutes a day, it's really not that big a deal.

1559
01:13:17,960 --> 01:13:21,320
Speaker 2: You can't do that. You can't do that. That tells

1560
01:13:21,360 --> 01:13:24,679
Speaker 2: you how dire the situation is. That you can't even

1561
01:13:24,800 --> 01:13:28,280
Speaker 2: roll his wheelchair in the back door to cast a

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01:13:28,360 --> 01:13:29,240
Speaker 2: vote and roll.

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01:13:29,120 --> 01:13:31,519
Speaker 3: Him back out. He is not in a condition even

1564
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Speaker 3: to do that.

1565
01:13:32,160 --> 01:13:34,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember reading some book where they used to

1566
01:13:34,280 --> 01:13:37,400
Speaker 1: do that. There was some senator who was basically on

1567
01:13:37,439 --> 01:13:39,880
Speaker 1: his deathbed and they forced him to come vote, and

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01:13:39,920 --> 01:13:42,639
Speaker 1: they never he never forgave the whipper snapper who forced

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01:13:42,720 --> 01:13:44,840
Speaker 1: him to come vote, like from his deathbed. Yeah, where

1570
01:13:44,880 --> 01:13:47,280
Speaker 1: they had to, but literally they wheeled him in from

1571
01:13:47,280 --> 01:13:49,519
Speaker 1: his hospital bed or from his hotel room or something

1572
01:13:49,520 --> 01:13:51,320
Speaker 1: where he was hold up. He voted and then he

1573
01:13:51,360 --> 01:13:53,639
Speaker 1: went back. But that and that's apparently the norm.

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01:13:53,760 --> 01:13:57,360
Speaker 2: Remember Feinstein like voted and then hours later died, didn't

1575
01:13:57,400 --> 01:13:58,240
Speaker 2: she crazy?

1576
01:13:58,320 --> 01:13:58,519
Speaker 3: Yeah?

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01:13:58,600 --> 01:14:03,080
Speaker 1: Yeah? And what did Amy Klovich was like just fot, yes, okay,

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Speaker 1: I can't live like this.

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Speaker 10: H