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Speaker 1: You are entering the freedom hunt. President Trump announces the

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Speaker 1: death of Abu Baker al Baghdaddi, the head of the

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Speaker 1: Islamic State. What does this mean for the fight in

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Speaker 1: How did the media react to this? We've got that

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Speaker 1: and oh so much more coming up on The buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show. This is the buck Sexton Show. For the

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Speaker 1: mission or mission is to decode what really matters with

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Speaker 1: actionable intelligence. Magnom mistake America, You're a great American Again,

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Speaker 1: The buck Sexton Show begins analyst, He's a great guy. Now,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the buck Sexton Show. Everybody, welcome, Welcome. President

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Speaker 1: Trump made an announcement. Please play. Last night, the United

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Speaker 1: States brought the world's number one terroist leader to justice.

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Speaker 1: Abu Bakar al Beghdaddi is dead. He was the founder

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Speaker 1: and leader of ISIS, the most ruthless and violent terror

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Speaker 1: organization anywhere in the world. The United States has been

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Speaker 1: searching for Baghdaddy for many years. Capturing or killing Baghdaddy

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Speaker 1: has been the top national security priority of my administration.

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Speaker 1: US Special Operations Forces executed a dangerous and daring nighttime

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Speaker 1: raid in northwestern Syria and accomplished their mission in grand style.

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Speaker 1: The US personnel were incredible. I got to watch much

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Speaker 1: of it. No personnel were lost in the operation, while

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Speaker 1: a large number of Bagdaddies, fighters and companions were killed.

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Speaker 1: With him, President Trump telling the nation, telling the world

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Speaker 1: the very good news that the leader of the Islamic

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Speaker 1: State is no more. These days and are incredibly polarized

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Speaker 1: political climate, there are very few moments, very few opportunities

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Speaker 1: when you would expect there to be a true bipartisan

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Speaker 1: coming together. But I remember, and the parallels between these

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Speaker 1: two incidents will be a theme as we discussed this today.

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Speaker 1: I remember when under the Obama administration, Osama bin Laden

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Speaker 1: was killed, and I remember that announcement, seeing on TV

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Speaker 1: jubilant reporters, seeing people dancing in the street chanting USA USA.

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Speaker 1: And now understandably, there was a greater psychological attachment, a

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Speaker 1: greater sense of justice delivered when Ubl was killed, because

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Speaker 1: he was the mastermind of the nine eleven attacks that

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Speaker 1: killed almost three thousand of our fellow Americans. But there

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Speaker 1: was an understanding that this was a good thing, that

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Speaker 1: respite from the nasty partisan politics that define almost everything

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Speaker 1: in the news these days. You would think you would

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Speaker 1: think that when Abu Baker al Baghdati is taken out

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Speaker 1: by US special operators, people keep saying special forces. I've

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Speaker 1: seen it reported as Delta Force. But when this happens,

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Speaker 1: shouldn't we have a pause in the partisan warfare. Shouldn't

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Speaker 1: we have a moment where we say enough is enough?

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Speaker 1: With all of that, this was a good thing. First

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Speaker 1: line of credit goes to our military, goes to those

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Speaker 1: in the special operations community who very clearly put their

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Speaker 1: other raids and just in the day to day national

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Speaker 1: security protection of this country. But the credit does make

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Speaker 1: its way up to those who gave the order. The

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Speaker 1: these days could certainly use quite a bit more public

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Speaker 1: confidence and respect, given the way that it has been

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Speaker 1: shamelessly politicized against President Trump. But simply put, my friends,

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Speaker 1: this is a big win. It's a win for America,

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Speaker 1: for Trump, for special operations, for the intelligence community, and

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Speaker 1: for Syria, the Middle East, the world, human decency, basic

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Speaker 1: human rights, any sense of justice. This guy was a

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Speaker 1: care about and what they really think. Astonishing stuff, hard

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Speaker 1: the Washington Post initially called Abu Bakar al Baghdadi a

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Speaker 1: only place I would know where there were very strange

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Speaker 1: But as terrible a human being as you're going to

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Speaker 1: find anywhere in the Washington Post, in its obituary of this,

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Speaker 1: Abu Baker al Baghdatti referred to him, wrote quote, mister

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Speaker 1: Baghdaddy maintained a canny pragmatism. End quote. M I guess enslavement, genocide,

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Speaker 1: mass murder. Some people would find a way to describe

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Speaker 1: the obituary, Acquaintances would remember him as a shy, near

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Speaker 1: obituary of say, Brett Kavanaugh, there would have been more

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Speaker 1: acid tongued attacks. There would have been more nasty, undermining,

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Speaker 1: viciousness about a future Kavanaugh obituary, for example, Then you

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Speaker 1: would see in this piece about a mass murderer, not

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Speaker 1: his morality, and his decency. No, no, Abubakar al bag Daddy.

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Speaker 1: They can find another way to look at him. If

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Speaker 1: I would bring you the way that Bloomberg another major

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Speaker 1: news outlets, employing thousands of journalists, tremendous resources. How about

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Speaker 1: just terrorist mastermind killed? Congrats special Forces or special operations.

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Speaker 1: Congrats US military and the Trump White House. Sorry they

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Speaker 1: We just got Obama reelected by taking out Osama, And

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Speaker 1: guy who killed bin Laden isn't tough enough on terrorists. Well, no,

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Speaker 1: actually turned out he wasn't tough enough on terrorists. Do

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Speaker 1: Islamic State. No, I don't think he was tough enough

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Speaker 1: not a strategy, and drones come with their own collateral

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Speaker 1: Abu Baker Albuaghdaddi, Islamic State leader albu Baker al Baghdaddi

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Speaker 1: in fact, the Islamic State used tactics that were so severe,

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Speaker 1: does this mean about Syria. Wasn't it just a week

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Speaker 1: Were we taking that position? Who looks foolish this week?

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Speaker 1: Not us, not in here a lot of other people.

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Speaker 1: Though perhaps it's because some of us actually worked on

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Speaker 1: immediate and long term. Make no think about it, This

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Speaker 1: was a big win for America, for civilization. Really, it

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Speaker 1: does not end the fight against terrorism, It does not

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Speaker 1: even end the fight against the Islamic state. But it

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Speaker 1: is an important moral and psychological victory in a battle

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Speaker 1: that is largely moral and psychological, But the media wasn't

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Speaker 1: be too much of a win for Trump. Let's focus

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Speaker 1: to what is the single biggest takeout of a terrorist

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Speaker 1: they think of Trump in this whole thing? Bag Daddy

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Speaker 1: and the losers who worked for him, and losers they are.

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Speaker 1: They had no idea what they were getting into. In

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Speaker 1: some cases they were very frightened puppies. In other cases

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Speaker 1: they were hardcore killers. President of Trump minced no words

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Speaker 1: And also though we i'll refer to him as al Baghdatti,

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Speaker 1: own children is a fitting and to a group that

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Speaker 1: is beyond and beneath contempt. And we can't focus on

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Speaker 1: that enemy together as a country. We have to have

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Speaker 1: the elites sneering at Trump. We have to have people

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Speaker 1: in the press telling us that this wasn't such a

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Speaker 1: great thing that Trump did because of X, Y or Z.

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Speaker 1: This is pathetic. These people are sick the press I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about. Now. You know the Austere scholar Abu Baker

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Speaker 1: al Baghdadi brought together, as Bloomberg says, you know this

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Speaker 1: whole area under his choranic recitations. Wow, I guess they're

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Speaker 1: kind of impressed by him. And yet we know how

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Speaker 1: they would respond, how they have responded to what should

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Speaker 1: be a moment of true bipartisan unity because they can't

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Speaker 1: see beyond anything other than their Trump patriot. The Washington Post,

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Speaker 1: The New York Times, CNN, these places have destroyed themselves.

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Speaker 1: To anybody who has open eyes and any sense of

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Speaker 1: judgment whatsoever, those organizations have made a mockery of themselves

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Speaker 1: now and they're doing harm to the country. They're not

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Speaker 1: telling the truth. They're not truth tellers. They are lying

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Speaker 1: about their partisanship and inflicting a very shockingly brazen propaganda

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Speaker 1: on the American people on a day to day basis,

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Speaker 1: even in moments like this. What does this mean for

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Speaker 1: the Islamic State? I mean, let me, I don't want

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Speaker 1: to do too much of just the how Trump's arrangement

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Speaker 1: syndrome affected this, because it certainly did. It affected the

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Speaker 1: way the media and many people across the country saw

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Speaker 1: this event. What is the truth of what happens now

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Speaker 1: in the Islamic State? And also I want to get

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Speaker 1: into a bit of what this means for Syria policy.

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Speaker 1: The operation was conducted last night, the president. They proved

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Speaker 1: a raid onto the target. The aim was to capture

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Speaker 1: Abu Bakar al Baghdatti, and if we couldn't capture him,

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Speaker 1: then of course we were going to kill him. And

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Speaker 1: like I said, the raid was successful. We pulled our

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Speaker 1: troops out. We had two minor injuries to our soldiers,

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Speaker 1: but a very successful, flawless raid. Now we get into

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Speaker 1: the discussion we've had many times before. In fact, it's

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Speaker 1: the discussion that I know a bit about, having been

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Speaker 1: at the CIA during the take out of numerous high

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Speaker 1: value targets in Iraq and Afghanistan. What does this mean

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Speaker 1: for the fight against the Islamic State? What does it

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Speaker 1: mean for the insurgency campaign that is currently being wage

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Speaker 1: or counter terrorism operations? These are largely one and the

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Speaker 1: same in Syria. The truth is we don't know. You

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Speaker 1: don't know until after it happens. One of the best

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Speaker 1: parts of this, if you're looking at it from a

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Speaker 1: tactical and operational perspective, best part of it is that

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Speaker 1: there's a other than the psychological benefits and the sense

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Speaker 1: of justice. Now, as we look at what happened, we

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Speaker 1: also have the information exploitation that occurs. They were able

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Speaker 1: to seize, no doubt, a lot of sensitive documents. Who

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Speaker 1: knows who they may have been able to, who they

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Speaker 1: may be able to track down as a result of this,

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Speaker 1: there's been all this focus on how they managed to

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Speaker 1: track back Daddy down the first place. People find that interesting.

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Speaker 1: I find much more. Yeah, they took out a courier

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Speaker 1: and they managed to track him, and it was just

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Speaker 1: good intelligence work, which is really investigative work. You know,

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Speaker 1: the difference between fighting finding rather a terrorist hiding in

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Speaker 1: Idlib in northwest Syria and finding a you know, a

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Speaker 1: cartel leader in the highlands of Mexico, it's it's really

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Speaker 1: quite similar. You use the tools you have to try

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Speaker 1: and get to get a positive idea on where the

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Speaker 1: subject may be. You try to track them down. You

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Speaker 1: have to then bring kinetic efforts to bear to actually

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Speaker 1: grab him or take him out. So it's really investigative work.

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Speaker 1: That part of it is. It's from what we know

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Speaker 1: right now, seems to be pretty textbook. I found some

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Speaker 1: people that were close enough to him that then tracked

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Speaker 1: down his location. They knew where he would be. The

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Speaker 1: reports are that he didn't move for a while. They

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Speaker 1: were hoping to catch him on the move because this

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Speaker 1: raid was going to be dangerous. There were going to

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Speaker 1: be a lot of fighters around trying to defend him.

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen the casualty figures for the other side yet.

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Speaker 1: But I can assume that our special operators went in

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Speaker 1: at night and were taken out a lot of guys

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Speaker 1: before they even got close to Baghdaddy. There is a

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Speaker 1: part of me that wishes that one of ours, one

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Speaker 1: of ours, have been able to take the final shot

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Speaker 1: like they did with Bin Lauden. But I suppose we

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Speaker 1: have to be content with Baghdaddy obliterating himself, leaving him

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Speaker 1: also casualties of his own children in the process. I

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Speaker 1: and it really tells you what a psychopath you were

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Speaker 1: dealing with here. And also the need for fundamentalist Islamic

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Speaker 1: belief for a jihadis in this process. How could a

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Speaker 1: person do this unless they believe that they had some

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Speaker 1: celestial justification for it. It just defies any reason or logic.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna bring your three kids with you and blow

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Speaker 1: them up? But what does it mean for fighting the

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Speaker 1: Islamic state. They've already talked about the person who will

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Speaker 1: be taking over. They have this, this new leader, and

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Speaker 1: this is another way. This is Look, this is a

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Speaker 1: legitimate way, but another way of taking the focus off

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Speaker 1: the raid. Initially, Abdullah Kardash, who was also known as

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Speaker 1: Haji Abdullah Allafari was nominated, they say, back in August

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Speaker 1: to run the Islamic state. So how much of the

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Speaker 1: day to day was back Daddy really running We don't know,

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Speaker 1: or at least we in the public don't necessarily know.

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Speaker 1: But there is now this Kardash fellow who could be

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Speaker 1: It could be every bit as as evil, could be,

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Speaker 1: even perhaps more capable as a terrorist leader. We'll have

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Speaker 1: to see. I do recall that after the death again,

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Speaker 1: because of special operators and some very good work in

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Speaker 1: Iraq of Abu musabas Or Kawi, you had an escalation

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Speaker 1: of the violence in Iraq and the insurgency and things

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Speaker 1: got substantially worse from a security standpoint. So just killing

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Speaker 1: Abu musabos Or Kawi was not the Oh, the head

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Speaker 1: of the snake has been cut off there for the

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Speaker 1: rest of the body is not a danger. You have

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Speaker 1: to think of insurgency and even hvts or how high

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Speaker 1: value targets. It's like you're dealing with a hydra, remember

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Speaker 1: the creature from Greek mythology, with many many different heads

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Speaker 1: to it still useful to chop off a hydra's head,

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Speaker 1: but you got a chop off a lot of them,

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Speaker 1: and you still have to deal with a body. That's

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Speaker 1: perhaps a better way to consider what has happened here.

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Speaker 1: The Islamic State is clearly under a lot of pressure

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Speaker 1: because of the campaign that the Trump administration has waged

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Speaker 1: since he came into office, which he also does not

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Speaker 1: get sufficient as commander in chief. He does not get

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Speaker 1: sufficient credit for that decision making, right. The credit for

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Speaker 1: the raids, the credit for their credit for valor and bravery,

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Speaker 1: always goes to our military. That's one component of all

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Speaker 1: this that's just period, full stop. The credit for decision making,

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Speaker 1: We're going to talk about that strategy, decision making, command

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Speaker 1: and responsibility that goes to the people that are making

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Speaker 1: those high level calls, and in this case that's President Trump.

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Speaker 1: And as much as they may try to muddy the

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Speaker 1: waters make that not as clear, they can't change the

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Speaker 1: fact that it is because of a Trump administration decision

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Speaker 1: that Abu Baker al Baghdadi no longer walks the earth today.

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Speaker 1: But there's a broader piece here about foreign policy too.

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Speaker 1: What does this mean when we are always being told

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Speaker 1: that President Trump is incompetent, he's endangering the world, He

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Speaker 1: doesn't know what he's doing. He knew what he was

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Speaker 1: doing here, where else does he know? The reality is,

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Speaker 1: we've walked away from the Kurts right at the time

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Speaker 1: where they were giving us intell legence that apparently was

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Speaker 1: key to this operational victory according to them, And what

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Speaker 1: my sources are telling me is that takes the counter

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Speaker 1: terrors and pressure off licens and that risks an isis resurgence.

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Speaker 1: And so this may be, as you said, an operational

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Speaker 1: taxle victory, but strategically, Donald Trump has set the fight

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Speaker 1: against ices back significantly. Notice how Trump can't get credit

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Speaker 1: for this, according to the press, that you cannot say

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Speaker 1: that President Trump made the right call, did the right thing.

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Speaker 1: They won't, They won't concede it. Their sense of patriotism,

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Speaker 1: as weak as it may be, their sense of duty

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Speaker 1: and honor, none of that overcomes the hashtag resistance mentality.

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Speaker 1: Much more important to than that bash Trump than to

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Speaker 1: give credit where it is due. It's one of the

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Speaker 1: reasons why I always tell you I give credit where

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Speaker 1: it's due. On this show, democrat does something good, I say,

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Speaker 1: good job, Democrat. I don't run around pretending that everything

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Speaker 1: a Democrat sayser does is bad. In fact, I like

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Speaker 1: finding things that democrats do that is praiseworthy because it

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Speaker 1: is a reminder that democrats don't have to be crazy.

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Speaker 1: Some of them are Democrats don't have to be hashtag

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Speaker 1: resistance lunatics. Many of them choose to be normal people.

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Speaker 1: We would like to bring them over to our side

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Speaker 1: of thinking. That would be far better. I do want converts.

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Speaker 1: I don't want converts to this show. I want converts conservatism,

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Speaker 1: but start off with converts to this show. So tell

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Speaker 1: your liberal friends be like, hey, listen to this guy.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he'll get you to stop seeing the world the

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Speaker 1: wrong way. New York Times also went around. Then. That

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Speaker 1: was Kendlanian at MSNBC. He started at Kendlanian was also

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Speaker 1: a big proponent of the Russia collusion hoax, which was

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Speaker 1: a hoax. We can say that there's a hoax. There

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Speaker 1: was no Russia collusion, So the hoax word is I

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Speaker 1: think a very useful one. The death of this is

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Speaker 1: from the New York Times. I mean, how many of

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Speaker 1: these These are the biggest liberal news outlets in the world.

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Speaker 1: Jake Tapper had more important things to do than covered

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Speaker 1: the president's full speech and Q and A afterwards cut

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Speaker 1: away from it so he could tell us what he

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Speaker 1: thinks about the events, because he's very serious as journalist. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the death, this is the near time, the death of

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Speaker 1: Abu Baker al Baghdadi, the Islamic State leader, happened largely

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Speaker 1: in spite of President Trump. Zach President Trump's actions, not

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Speaker 1: because of them. According to military intelligence and counter terrorism officials.

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Speaker 1: What does that really mean? How how is that the case?

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Speaker 1: I'd like an explanation of that. I'd like them to

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Speaker 1: tell us why, other than just finding people who can

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Speaker 1: claim the title of military intelligence and counter terrorism official. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: government employees. Basically, finding government employees who hate Trump not

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Speaker 1: hard to do. Finding people that also would rather believe

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Speaker 1: the Trump just got lucky, or this had nothing to do,

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Speaker 1: or it happened in spite of him. You know what

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Speaker 1: did happen in spite of the bin Laden raid? Happened

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Speaker 1: in spite of Joe Biden's opposition to it. But you

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Speaker 1: want to hear press coverage of that one. Joe Biden,

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Speaker 1: in one of his moments of unintentional honesty, He's like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I just didn't think we should do that raid. Good job, Joe.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to Biden later on in the show. But

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Speaker 1: it happened in spite of it. Not only does Trump

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Speaker 1: not get the credit, Trump should be blamed. You see,

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Speaker 1: the media wants you to blame Trump because if it

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Speaker 1: were up to him, this wouldn't have happened. Well, I

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Speaker 1: guess we should just be happy. The press things. That's

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Speaker 1: good that albu Baker al Baghdadi is gone. That's something

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Speaker 1: of a victory for us, I suppose, for sanity. But

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Speaker 1: there's a broader question here, and this ties into the

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Speaker 1: sources that are speaking out against President Trump and what's

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Speaker 1: happened here in this raid. Because more broadly, foreign policy

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Speaker 1: was supposed to be the realm where Trump was out

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Speaker 1: of his depth. We have been told from day one

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Speaker 1: that Trump is a This is what the media and

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Speaker 1: the intelligency and a lot of former government officials, they

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Speaker 1: have been telling us that Trump has no curiosity about

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Speaker 1: the world, no understanding about the world, doesn't read any books,

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Speaker 1: doesn't know anything about anything, and therefore we should not

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Speaker 1: support him because he's going to do all these terrible

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Speaker 1: things that will harm our natural security. I've heard so

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Speaker 1: much criticism of Trump harming our natural security, and I

645
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:28,280
Speaker 1: look around and say, where has it been harmed exactly

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Speaker 1: other than in these rhetorical terms of oh, the perception

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Speaker 1: of us in the world. This is just all propaganda,

648
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:38,920
Speaker 1: This is all just This is bloviating, This is opinions,

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Speaker 1: This is pomposity dressed up as analysis. What is this?

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Speaker 1: Trump has made the country less safe? How by doing what? Oh?

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Speaker 1: And where have we taken thousands of casualties because of

652
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Speaker 1: a stupid decision that Trump has made. Where have we

653
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:01,840
Speaker 1: enmeshed ourselves much more deeply in a war that we

654
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Speaker 1: had no strategic vision to complete. I think the answer

655
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Speaker 1: is they'd never give us any specifics on this because

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Speaker 1: it hasn't happened. You cannot look at the first four

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Speaker 1: years of Trump or Bush's for I'm sorry of Trump's

658
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Speaker 1: foreign policy and compare it to Obama or Bush and

659
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,440
Speaker 1: not come away thinking this Trump guy has got some

660
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Speaker 1: good ideas. He's actually making some things happen. And this

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Speaker 1: is where you get to the egos involved in the

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Speaker 1: Trump opposition, which is a beyond just the hard left.

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Speaker 1: This is beyond just the progressive democrats and socialists running

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Speaker 1: around who despised Trump because he's not woke because he's,

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Speaker 1: you know, a vulgarian who doesn't speak about the thirty

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Speaker 1: seven genders and all the rest of it. There are

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Speaker 1: a lot of other people, and this is where you

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Speaker 1: get folks like Bill Taylor, for example, who testified recently

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Speaker 1: as a State Department guy, saying that his perception of

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Speaker 1: Trump with the quid pro quel, Yeah, the guy's a

671
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Speaker 1: lifelong diplomat. Has he been right? Has it really? Has

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Speaker 1: it really mattered all that much? Is all of this

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Speaker 1: State department puffing, puffing up of itself all the time

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Speaker 1: really worthwhile? Do we need a state department that's nearly

675
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Speaker 1: as big as we do? Are these bureaucrats are worth

676
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Speaker 1: the federal government as important as they like to think

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Speaker 1: they are. And they're expertise. We was here about their expertise.

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Speaker 1: I can tell you this. I have a few people

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Speaker 1: in my life who are just very They're voracious readers,

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Speaker 1: and they read a lot of stuff, and they read

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Speaker 1: a lot of stuff in the newspaper, a lot of

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Speaker 1: journals and books, and they are as knowledgeable about foreign

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Speaker 1: policy as anybody I know from the State Department. And

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Speaker 1: then some all right, so this starts to fall also

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Speaker 1: into this cult of expertise notion that Trump is outside

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Speaker 1: that circle. But what are the people inside the cult

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Speaker 1: the intelligent genca on foreign policy? What are they to

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Speaker 1: make of themselves when this guy who's like a reality

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Speaker 1: TV star, who's you know, tweeting at people like a

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Speaker 1: like a crazy man sometimes And I say that with love,

691
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Speaker 1: but he does. And you know, what are they to

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Speaker 1: make of the fact that he understands at a gut

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Speaker 1: level things that they don't. He has a more realistic

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Speaker 1: understanding of some aspects, not just of how domestic policy works,

695
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Speaker 1: but foreign policy works. Who are the good guys and

696
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Speaker 1: who are the bad guys? How do you handle bad guys? Oh?

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Speaker 1: A lot of brilliant diplomats will tell you how to

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Speaker 1: handle Kim John Un, for example in North Korea? Do

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Speaker 1: they know what's the what's their record of success? Like exactly? Oh,

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Speaker 1: that's right, it's it's a record of decades of bipartisan failure.

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Speaker 1: What about on China? Trump's an idiot, He doesn't know anything.

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Speaker 1: He's starting this trade war with China. Where's the where's

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Speaker 1: the record of success from previous administrations getting China to

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Speaker 1: stop ripping us off, stealing our intellectual problem, pretty engaging

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Speaker 1: in predatory trade practices. Who's been able to do They

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Speaker 1: didn't even think it was a problem before, at least

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Speaker 1: they weren't able to stand up to it and deal

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Speaker 1: with it as a problem. So where does that leave us?

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Speaker 1: What are we really to think about all of this

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Speaker 1: when the President of the United States is not just

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Speaker 1: presiding oh s and P. Five hundred is at like

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Speaker 1: an all time high. I think today, stock markets still booming,

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Speaker 1: household income up, taxes down. The debt's a problem. I

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Speaker 1: will not let it go. Almost a trillion dollars unacceptable.

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Speaker 1: But there's a lot of other stuff you look at,

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Speaker 1: and that gets no attention whatsoever, No focus on the

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Speaker 1: things that are going on and Trump's White House and

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Speaker 1: what that means for the rest of America. No, we're

719
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Speaker 1: just we're told these things by people who are convinced

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Speaker 1: their right and are desperate, desperate to convince the rest

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Speaker 1: of the American people that Trump is just oh so wrong.

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Speaker 1: There's no idea, what he's doing is way out of

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Speaker 1: his depth. Where's the evidence for that? Stop giving me

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Speaker 1: anonymous sources, which is what we have here. Sources in

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Speaker 1: the government say yeah, like Brennan worked for the government.

726
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Speaker 1: Brennan was CIA director. I wouldn't trust that guy to

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Speaker 1: tell me about anything. Guy was a former commie, legitimately

728
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Speaker 1: like a communist. And it's like, you know, people listening

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Speaker 1: to Bernie Sanders. I've got to tell you, I had

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Speaker 1: some I had some moments over the weekend. I was debating.

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Speaker 1: I'll get into that the debate that we had at

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Speaker 1: politicon over healthcare, which I think is probably online you

733
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Speaker 1: can watch it, but just looney Tunes kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: I mean, just people saying crazy things. But on foreign policy,

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Speaker 1: this is where the smart people were supposed to sneer

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Speaker 1: at Trump and be right, he doesn't understand, he doesn't

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Speaker 1: get it. And the Obama people, right, the Obama White

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Speaker 1: House and the various senior advice who are now treated

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Speaker 1: like they're giving a sage commentary on the rest of

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Speaker 1: the world. They would always point a well, you know,

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Speaker 1: look at the bin Laden rate. Oh, you mean the

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Speaker 1: like sort of like the Baghdadi rate where Trump had

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Speaker 1: elite operators moving through multiple tiers of enemy airspace. Really

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Speaker 1: it's airspace controlled by the Syrians and the Russians. You've

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Speaker 1: also got to be concerned about the Turks in this

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Speaker 1: region had to deconflict with them. There were people just

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Speaker 1: so you know, how crazy the press release. There were

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Speaker 1: people who were saying, oh see, he coordinated with the Russians,

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Speaker 1: Putin's puppet. Oh yeah, maybe he's Putin's puppet, or maybe

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Speaker 1: those journals should know that flying a bunch of US

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Speaker 1: airy air assets into someone else's airspace without telling them

752
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Speaker 1: when they have advanced surface to air defense systems like

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Speaker 1: the Russians do, as well as their own planes and helicopters,

754
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Speaker 1: that could be countermeasures. Maybe we just didn't want to

755
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Speaker 1: get our guys blown out of the sky by the Russians.

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Speaker 1: To not DeConick with the Russians before and would have

757
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Speaker 1: been the suicidal, would have been insane. And yet doing

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Speaker 1: that very basic step is pointed to as further evidence

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Speaker 1: of Trump is Putin's puppet. Trump's a bad guy. Can't

760
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Speaker 1: trust Trump, can't trust him even when he's ordering this raid.

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Speaker 1: The Obama foreign policy, I can point to places all

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Speaker 1: over the world and say got worse, got worse, Afghanistan worse, Iraq, worse,

763
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Speaker 1: Syria worse, Libya, worse, Egypt worse. Give me a country

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Speaker 1: that mattered in terms of US foreign policy where there

765
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Speaker 1: were problems, and I will tell you under the Obama aministration,

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Speaker 1: and I'll point to it and say, oh, yeah, you

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Speaker 1: mean the one that got dramatically worse while Obama's team

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Speaker 1: was running things. Look at who's in charge. Would you

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Speaker 1: rather have Susan Rice, who called Lindsey Graham a piece

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Speaker 1: of blank recently publicly? Would rather Susan Rice making decisions

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Speaker 1: or Pompeo making decisions about foreign policy? You'd rather have

772
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Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton making foreign policy decisions? I certainly hope not yet.

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Speaker 1: Here we are. This is what we were dealing with it.

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Speaker 1: It was disgraceful the way the press reacted this, But

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Speaker 1: as we know, it's all about narrative, and the narrative

776
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Speaker 1: has to be the Trump's foreign policy is bad, and

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Speaker 1: this can't be used the way that it was used

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Speaker 1: very effectively. I might add, to create a false perception

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Speaker 1: that Obama's foreign policy was competent, because it was not.

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Speaker 1: They don't want that to happen now because Trump's foreign

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Speaker 1: policy so far has been competent, and now he has

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Speaker 1: this counter terrorism success. They're terrified about what this means

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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty. Once the foreign policy criticism going to be, Oh, NATO,

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Speaker 1: Trump is too rough with NATO and so he's going

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Speaker 1: to break up the alliance. That's false. NATO allies are

786
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Speaker 1: not paying more money they did before Trump. All Trump

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Speaker 1: has done is hold them to account for their promises

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Speaker 1: or for their targets, the goals that they've set for themselves.

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Speaker 1: NATO Alliance about to break up. But what matters is

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00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:06,959
Speaker 1: just the narrative. These people are just you know, the left.

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00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:10,759
Speaker 1: I got used to having a government apparatus for eight

792
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Speaker 1: years of the Obama administration that was more or less

793
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Speaker 1: always reflecting something other than my view on policy matters,

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Speaker 1: and said, all right, well we're out of power right now.

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Speaker 1: We got to make the case, and we gotta I

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Speaker 1: didn't wake up every day and some kind of a

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Speaker 1: cold sweat freaking out about how we can't survive another administrator,

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Speaker 1: another Obama industry. Now they really think that about Trump.

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Speaker 1: And if you really believe that, what are you unwilling

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Speaker 1: to do? And say? The press completely embarrassed themselves. I mean,

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Speaker 1: these these legacy media outlets, they really should just slowly

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Speaker 1: go away. I mean that would be that I'm hoping

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Speaker 1: the market does that to them all they have so

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Speaker 1: much money behind them, and it takes a while for

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Speaker 1: them to really you know, the New York Times would

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00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:52,960
Speaker 1: already be bankrupt. That hadn't gotten a billionaire. The Washington

807
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:55,160
Speaker 1: Post would already be bankrupt. I hadn't that a billionaire backing.

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Speaker 1: I mean, these these legacy media outlets are now largely

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Speaker 1: turning into artistic projects for liberal billionaires. That's really what

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00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 1: they're That's really what's going on. Oh and also, you

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Speaker 1: don't want to mess with somebody who's got a massive newspaper.

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Speaker 1: You know, don't don't pick fights with somebody who buys

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Speaker 1: ink by the barrel, so to speak, or in this case,

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Speaker 1: employs a whole bunch of people to write stuff online. Team,

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Speaker 1: Just a quick note, welcome back the bucks Ecton show.

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Speaker 1: You know when President Trump said that Habu Baker al Baghdaddi,

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Speaker 1: you know, died like a dog, and he kind of

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Speaker 1: said it like that, it really it reminded me of something.

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Speaker 1: I'm wondering who among you will will know this line

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Speaker 1: right out, because there's a part of it feels like

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Speaker 1: maybe Trump, I'm sure he's seen this movie. Is it

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Speaker 1: possible that Trump got this from the movie producer Mark,

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Speaker 1: would you please play well, I don't want to say

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Speaker 1: what it is. We'll see if people can pick it

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Speaker 1: out before I tell them. Play play the clip, you

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Speaker 1: know the one. I mean, tell me about the night

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Speaker 1: he killed your parents. He said your father begged for mercy,

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Speaker 1: begged like a dog, like a dog. I mean, he

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Speaker 1: said it just like Trump said it just like Trump. Now.

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Speaker 1: I know, I mean maybe say it's a common phrase,

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Speaker 1: but I mean, how many of you have ever heard

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Speaker 1: a line from a movie and and maybe just sort

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Speaker 1: of said it later without thinking about it. I'm not

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying this is dude, don't don't tell me

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Speaker 1: this is fake news. I can't prove this, but it

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Speaker 1: just when Trump gave his initial speech, I was like,

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Speaker 1: that sounds a little bit like who guessed it? Falcone

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Speaker 1: the gangster talking to Bruce Wayne in Batman begins like

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Speaker 1: a dog, and then of course Falconi gets his his

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Speaker 1: come up and later on. So I was at at

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Speaker 1: Politicon of the weekend. I did get to see some

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Speaker 1: of you who listen to the show, which I really

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Speaker 1: do appreciate. I have to tell you, Nashville is a

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Speaker 1: great town. I got nothing Nashville's fantastic, and I knew

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Speaker 1: it would be. That's why I really want to get

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Speaker 1: to keep saying I want to get to Austin. That's

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Speaker 1: top of my list. I really want to get to

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Speaker 1: Austin soon. KLBJ in the highs Our radio affiliate down

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Speaker 1: in Austin. I really want to get down there. I

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Speaker 1: ate barbecue and Nashville. It was delicious, the food was amazing,

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Speaker 1: that people are awesome, the music scenes fantastic, and there's

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Speaker 1: such a vibrancy to that city. Now it's growing so fast.

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Speaker 1: There's someone told me there are forty construction cranes now

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Speaker 1: going in downtown building all these towers and any Austin,

855
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Speaker 1: I mean Austin. Nashville was a great town. I really

856
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Speaker 1: enjoyed it. And I'll get into someone what I saw

857
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Speaker 1: a Politicon a second. But I want to tell you,

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Speaker 1: single best thing at Politicon for me, single coolest moment

859
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Speaker 1: by far, was someone who listens to the show. So

860
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Speaker 1: someone from Team Buck who's a member of the special

861
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Speaker 1: Operations community, came up and told me that when he

862
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Speaker 1: was let's just say engage in anti Isis Operations, his

863
00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 1: guys were listening to this show. And I thought that

864
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:57,800
Speaker 1: was so cool and I appreciated it so much, and

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Speaker 1: he said that, you know, they really they like that

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Speaker 1: I have familiarity with what I'm talking about. I've experienced

867
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Speaker 1: being in some of these places trying to help the

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Speaker 1: war fighters as a civilian intelligence analyst. But there is

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Speaker 1: no greater compliment than I can I can have than

870
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Speaker 1: to be talking about issues of well the fight of

871
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Speaker 1: what was called the War on Terror and have the

872
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Speaker 1: actual war fighters rolling around and I don't want to

873
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:29,200
Speaker 1: say where or how We're rolling around listening to this show,

874
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:33,800
Speaker 1: listening to this show on podcast and appreciating what we

875
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 1: do here and feeling like I'm representing their perspective and

876
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:41,879
Speaker 1: what they're doing well enough that they respect this show

877
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:44,080
Speaker 1: and they listen to this show. So thank you, sir,

878
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:46,400
Speaker 1: I won't name you whatever. Thank you for coming up

879
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 1: and sharing that with me. And it really made my

880
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:53,800
Speaker 1: weekend that guys in the special operations community involved in

881
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:56,880
Speaker 1: the Anti Iis fight like the Bucks acident show. Today

882
00:52:57,719 --> 00:53:03,240
Speaker 1: in America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world,

883
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:13,680
Speaker 1: half of our people are living paycheck to paycheck. And

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Speaker 1: Rashida took me around her district here in Detroit and

885
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:25,279
Speaker 1: I met with beautiful young people who are going to

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Speaker 1: schools in which they don't have adequate textbooks. They are

887
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Speaker 1: going to schools where their teachers are forced to work

888
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Speaker 1: two or three jobs just to make a living. I

889
00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:49,640
Speaker 1: don't think it is too much to ask that in

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Speaker 1: the wealthiest country in the history of the world, we

891
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:58,360
Speaker 1: pay our teachers a living salary. Bernie Sanders is just

892
00:53:58,440 --> 00:54:01,400
Speaker 1: a socialist. I know we're always supposed to say he's

893
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:06,600
Speaker 1: a democratic socialist. He's a socialist. So let's start from

894
00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:10,480
Speaker 1: the real core of his belief system. Yes, he believes

895
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:13,319
Speaker 1: in the process of voting, the democratic process of voting.

896
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Speaker 1: He believes in also the imposition of socialism by the state.

897
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Speaker 1: That your work, your time, your hours, part of your

898
00:54:21,239 --> 00:54:25,160
Speaker 1: life that you are devoting to be productive. He can

899
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 1: take any amount of that away from you he wants,

900
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:30,520
Speaker 1: because it's the right thing to do, because you're too rich.

901
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:33,319
Speaker 1: People who have been paycheck to paycheck. It's not fair,

902
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:37,520
Speaker 1: it's not right. And the richest country, the richest country

903
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Speaker 1: in the world, should not have teachers with five jobs, well,

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Speaker 1: ten job, I mean, I know he said two or

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Speaker 1: three first of all teachers, Every teacher that I know

906
00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:49,719
Speaker 1: pretty much has at least more than one job, because yeah,

907
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:52,320
Speaker 1: they have three months off in the summer. And please,

908
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:54,279
Speaker 1: I know this is some teachers get mad at me.

909
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:56,520
Speaker 1: Don't give me this like, oh, but we're just working

910
00:54:56,560 --> 00:54:59,919
Speaker 1: on lesson plans the whole time. I know some teacher.

911
00:55:00,640 --> 00:55:03,239
Speaker 1: I've been on some dates with some teachers. I know

912
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Speaker 1: what really goes on. All right, don't give you this like, oh,

913
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:08,360
Speaker 1: we're just all we do is our teachers are working

914
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Speaker 1: more than investment bankers. No, some might and congratulations, but

915
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Speaker 1: most don't. In fact, most public school teachers are in

916
00:55:18,040 --> 00:55:20,080
Speaker 1: and this is not their fault, although many of them

917
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Speaker 1: are very supportive of the unions that make this the case.

918
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Speaker 1: They're in what is really a first and foremost a

919
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Speaker 1: jobs program for adults, because that's what the public school

920
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Speaker 1: system in this country is. It's not really about the children,

921
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 1: it's not really about the education. But this was a

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00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:38,440
Speaker 1: perfect Bernie Sanders moment here, because he said a whole

923
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Speaker 1: bunch of things that would not withstand much scrutiny at all,

924
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:46,279
Speaker 1: but gets the crowd to go boo. We don't like

925
00:55:46,360 --> 00:55:48,319
Speaker 1: the rich people to take it too much. If they

926
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Speaker 1: have less, you'd have more that's the basis of the

927
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Speaker 1: whole Bernie ideology. They have less, you'll have Moore doesn't

928
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Speaker 1: work that way. Paycheck to paycheck. I lived check to

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Speaker 1: paycheck for the first pooh out of college, at least

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Speaker 1: the first decade of my life, ten years working paycheck

931
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Speaker 1: to paycheck. I mean I was, you know, one uncovered

932
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Speaker 1: visit from a doctor or you know, one away from

933
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Speaker 1: like living on credit cards for about the first decade.

934
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Speaker 1: I was running around and I know what it's like

935
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Speaker 1: to have worked for many years and go to the

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Speaker 1: ATM machine. I think I was twenty eight or twenty

937
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:34,280
Speaker 1: nine years old. I remember went to the ATM machine

938
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Speaker 1: and I had you know what a lot of Americans have,

939
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:38,799
Speaker 1: which is that they'd have trouble paying for a five

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Speaker 1: hundred emergency. I went to ATM. I had working for

941
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Speaker 1: years working at the government, but I'd moved to New York.

942
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Speaker 1: I was trying to apply to graduate school and had

943
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Speaker 1: cashed out my four oh one k, which is a

944
00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:52,960
Speaker 1: terrible idea, but you gotta do what you gotta do.

945
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Speaker 1: Don't do that, by the way, go deliver pizza's work

946
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Speaker 1: as apera. Whatever you gotta, don't cash out your four oh,

947
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Speaker 1: one k, you're just putting yourself in a you know,

948
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Speaker 1: a more difficult position to catch up later on. So

949
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Speaker 1: don't do as I did with that one. But I

950
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:09,240
Speaker 1: know what it is to go to an ATM machine

951
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:11,719
Speaker 1: and have less than a thousand dollars in the bank,

952
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:15,320
Speaker 1: and you've been working for years, years, but you know,

953
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:17,400
Speaker 1: things are expensive and you gotta pay for things. And

954
00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:20,000
Speaker 1: I was not making much money when I started the

955
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Speaker 1: federal government. I was not making much money during my

956
00:57:22,480 --> 00:57:24,800
Speaker 1: time at the NYPD. I mean, I was a government employee.

957
00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:28,720
Speaker 1: So I understand this concern. I mean, economic anxiety is

958
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:30,320
Speaker 1: very real and we all have it. And the truth

959
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:33,520
Speaker 1: is that absolute financial security doesn't really exist exist for

960
00:57:33,640 --> 00:57:35,520
Speaker 1: very few people, and even those people are always worried

961
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Speaker 1: about not being as rich. You know, look at how

962
00:57:39,200 --> 00:57:43,760
Speaker 1: how anxious many hundred millionaire and billionaires get the millionaires

963
00:57:43,760 --> 00:57:45,720
Speaker 1: to billion one hundred millionaires. That's what Bernie has to

964
00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:48,600
Speaker 1: separate out and do, because he's just he's just a

965
00:57:48,720 --> 00:57:53,000
Speaker 1: lowly like ten millionaire or something. He's not a hundred millionaire.

966
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 1: There's too much money. But look at the way that

967
00:57:56,040 --> 00:57:59,200
Speaker 1: they get wound up and anxious about the prospect of

968
00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:04,600
Speaker 1: becoming slightly less incredibly rich. It worries them. They don't

969
00:58:04,680 --> 00:58:07,760
Speaker 1: like that idea. Sure, some of them take this giving pledge,

970
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:09,080
Speaker 1: They're gonna give away a lot of their money, But

971
00:58:09,240 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 1: a lot of them don't. Most of them don't. But

972
00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:18,280
Speaker 1: paycheck to paycheck, that is a situation that you make better.

973
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:22,600
Speaker 1: How how do you make it better? You make it

974
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:25,919
Speaker 1: better by taxing people more and having there be less

975
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:29,600
Speaker 1: opportunity for jobs and wage growth for the people that

976
00:58:29,640 --> 00:58:32,240
Speaker 1: are working. That's not going to do it. That's not

977
00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:35,320
Speaker 1: going to do it very well. Then you also made

978
00:58:35,360 --> 00:58:37,520
Speaker 1: him say that the schools don't have textbooks and teachers

979
00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:42,040
Speaker 1: are poor. I know of many teachers at schools here

980
00:58:42,080 --> 00:58:44,080
Speaker 1: in New York City who will I shouldn't say many teachers.

981
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:46,480
Speaker 1: I have spoken to several teachers at schools here in

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00:58:46,480 --> 00:58:49,640
Speaker 1: New York City that are schools that are almost entirely

983
00:58:49,720 --> 00:58:57,360
Speaker 1: minority and not high income background. They're generally low income.

984
00:58:57,400 --> 00:59:00,240
Speaker 1: Minority students are the entirety or almost the entire of

985
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:03,439
Speaker 1: the student body. The problem is not resources. The problem

986
00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:05,920
Speaker 1: is not inadequate textbooks. All right, If we're really going

987
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:07,960
Speaker 1: to talk about education, that's a whole other discussion. But

988
00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:11,640
Speaker 1: there's plenty of there's brand new computers in the classrooms.

989
00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:15,440
Speaker 1: The classrooms all look great. There's tons of money that's

990
00:59:15,440 --> 00:59:17,400
Speaker 1: being funneled into the public school system in places like

991
00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:19,720
Speaker 1: New York. In DC, I've been in. I was in

992
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:23,440
Speaker 1: a very poor years ago, very poor in terms of

993
00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:27,360
Speaker 1: the students per capita income of their households. Poor school

994
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:29,800
Speaker 1: in DC. And all the classrooms are brand new, and

995
00:59:29,800 --> 00:59:33,280
Speaker 1: they had Mac computers everywhere, and it looked inside like

996
00:59:33,320 --> 00:59:35,680
Speaker 1: it could be a private school, and the students were

997
00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:40,000
Speaker 1: all underperforming, and the place was academically a mess, but

998
00:59:40,120 --> 00:59:42,080
Speaker 1: it wasn't a mess because they didn't have textbooks or

999
00:59:42,160 --> 00:59:44,320
Speaker 1: you know, the ceilings were falling in. I'm not saying

1000
00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:48,240
Speaker 1: that doesn't happen anywhere, but this is just not really

1001
00:59:48,280 --> 00:59:51,280
Speaker 1: looking at at the problem. No one's okay with the

1002
00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:54,400
Speaker 1: school that's falling apart. There's asbestos or there's you know,

1003
00:59:54,480 --> 00:59:56,680
Speaker 1: there's no textbooks or whatever. But but that's really not

1004
00:59:56,840 --> 00:59:59,720
Speaker 1: the problem. They can keep pretending that that's that's really

1005
00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:02,120
Speaker 1: not problem. And a majority of the schools you can

1006
01:00:02,160 --> 01:00:04,680
Speaker 1: point to would say that there's a lack of performance.

1007
01:00:04,720 --> 01:00:08,560
Speaker 1: But Bernie Sanders All he's able to do, or what

1008
01:00:08,680 --> 01:00:11,560
Speaker 1: he does so well, I should say, is prey upon

1009
01:00:11,600 --> 01:00:15,440
Speaker 1: people's envy and whip them up into a kind of

1010
01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:20,360
Speaker 1: outrage and then mobilize that for his own political purposes.

1011
01:00:21,360 --> 01:00:23,640
Speaker 1: And then that brings me to and I probably should

1012
01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:25,760
Speaker 1: have pulled some from it, but I don't know. I'm

1013
01:00:25,760 --> 01:00:27,320
Speaker 1: not sure I wanted to relive it. I had to

1014
01:00:27,400 --> 01:00:34,960
Speaker 1: do a panel at Politicon where we discussed health Medicare

1015
01:00:35,040 --> 01:00:37,920
Speaker 1: for All, and I started out and there was a

1016
01:00:37,960 --> 01:00:40,480
Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders spokesperson there I do not remember her name,

1017
01:00:41,040 --> 01:00:48,920
Speaker 1: a progressive pundit Sally Cone, and then a very liberal

1018
01:00:49,040 --> 01:00:51,080
Speaker 1: doctor who's like, I have an MD, and it's like

1019
01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:53,760
Speaker 1: that's great, but you're also super liberal. And he was

1020
01:00:53,800 --> 01:00:56,160
Speaker 1: a psychiatrist, which, as I've told you before, the most

1021
01:00:56,240 --> 01:00:59,760
Speaker 1: liberal people in the medical profession, by the numbers, are psychiatrists.

1022
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:03,360
Speaker 1: If you want people that are you know, Jill Steins supporters,

1023
01:01:03,520 --> 01:01:06,040
Speaker 1: go see a shrink, say hey, doc, who do you

1024
01:01:06,120 --> 01:01:11,520
Speaker 1: vote for um? And then you had uh oh, and

1025
01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:15,240
Speaker 1: you had I know him as Kane from what's Kane's name?

1026
01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:18,800
Speaker 1: From the w WE producer Mark, I'm talking about that guy.

1027
01:01:18,880 --> 01:01:22,600
Speaker 1: He's He's a great guy, smart dude, too. Isn't he

1028
01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:26,960
Speaker 1: just came No, he has a real name, Glenn Glenn H. Jacobs.

1029
01:01:27,280 --> 01:01:28,919
Speaker 1: I didn't know his real name. Oh yea, yeah, Glenn

1030
01:01:28,960 --> 01:01:31,800
Speaker 1: Jake had no idea. He's the mayor of I think Knoxville, Tennessee.

1031
01:01:32,440 --> 01:01:36,080
Speaker 1: First of all, he's he is enormous. You know, you

1032
01:01:36,160 --> 01:01:38,040
Speaker 1: see people who are seven footers and they tend to

1033
01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:41,680
Speaker 1: be kind of lanky. Usually you don't usually seven footers

1034
01:01:41,760 --> 01:01:45,600
Speaker 1: who look like they could have, you know, been in

1035
01:01:45,680 --> 01:01:47,800
Speaker 1: Conan the Barbarian back in the day or something like.

1036
01:01:47,920 --> 01:01:51,080
Speaker 1: This guy is Jack Still, he's a big dude. I'm

1037
01:01:51,120 --> 01:01:53,840
Speaker 1: just saying it's impressive. So you stay next this guy

1038
01:01:53,880 --> 01:01:57,200
Speaker 1: are like my, my, heavens and he's a libertarian, and

1039
01:01:57,360 --> 01:01:59,360
Speaker 1: we were having It's funny because we were trying to

1040
01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:04,320
Speaker 1: represent the reality based view of the problems in the

1041
01:02:04,440 --> 01:02:06,240
Speaker 1: medical system that we have right now, or the rather

1042
01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:09,160
Speaker 1: the problems in getting good care cheaply to people are

1043
01:02:09,240 --> 01:02:12,600
Speaker 1: because of intrusions in the market by the government. It's

1044
01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:18,080
Speaker 1: because you don't have price transparency. It's because different hospitals

1045
01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:20,080
Speaker 1: don't have to compete with each other on price, because

1046
01:02:20,080 --> 01:02:22,560
Speaker 1: you can't even know the price. There's all this back

1047
01:02:22,640 --> 01:02:26,640
Speaker 1: room collusion with insurance companies and providers. They bash the

1048
01:02:26,720 --> 01:02:28,640
Speaker 1: insurance companies all the time on the left, but they

1049
01:02:28,680 --> 01:02:31,680
Speaker 1: forget that the providers are also, you know, just taking

1050
01:02:31,720 --> 01:02:36,040
Speaker 1: people to the cleaners. The providers are often some of

1051
01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:40,080
Speaker 1: the worst offenders, especially within the hospital system in this realm,

1052
01:02:41,240 --> 01:02:44,600
Speaker 1: just doing everything that they can to squeeze every dollar

1053
01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:46,040
Speaker 1: of people. Especially if you want to pay out a

1054
01:02:46,040 --> 01:02:49,000
Speaker 1: pocket you should be getting the best deal for paying

1055
01:02:49,080 --> 01:02:53,000
Speaker 1: cash upfront. You should be getting the best service. I'm

1056
01:02:53,040 --> 01:02:55,160
Speaker 1: just saying in a market based economy, for saying, here

1057
01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:57,520
Speaker 1: is my credit card. Instead, what you get is, oh,

1058
01:02:57,600 --> 01:03:00,760
Speaker 1: you don't have insurance, We're going to charge you four

1059
01:03:00,920 --> 01:03:03,360
Speaker 1: or five, ten times as much as we'll charge an

1060
01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:05,280
Speaker 1: insurance company for the person who walks in after you

1061
01:03:05,360 --> 01:03:08,560
Speaker 1: because of the deal we've struck with them. This is

1062
01:03:08,680 --> 01:03:12,760
Speaker 1: the problem. It's not that hard to understand, you know. Why,

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Speaker 1: Why is it now that my iPhone is so capable? Instead,

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Speaker 1: I don't even want a new iPhone cause I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I can't even handle all the stuff that my current

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Speaker 1: iPhone can do. I feel like my iPhone, can you

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Speaker 1: recite poetry to me while it gives me a BackRub?

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Speaker 1: I just need to learn how to make my iPhone

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Speaker 1: do that perhaps while it draws me a one bubble bath.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure the iPhone probably hasn't happen for that, but

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Speaker 1: I don't know how to do it. But why is

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Speaker 1: it so sophisticated and getting so much cheaper all the

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Speaker 1: time because of market forces? You know, I you know,

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Speaker 1: I've gone through the process of moving many times, far

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Speaker 1: too many times. Why is it that when you have

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Speaker 1: if you come and you get movers to give you

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Speaker 1: an estimate, yeah, once you're you know, once they've given

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Speaker 1: you that estimate, and usually they'll go a little bit

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Speaker 1: over with movers, but you gotta give them a big tip.

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Speaker 1: But those guys work hard. I'm always, I'm a big believer,

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Speaker 1: and you know, tip well, it's it's never You're never

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Speaker 1: going to be out of money. You're never going to

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Speaker 1: be broke because you've tipped people well for the service

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Speaker 1: as they give you. I just maybe I'm wrong economically,

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Speaker 1: but I'm a big believer and you tip people well always,

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Speaker 1: and you know, movers, that's standard in New York City

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Speaker 1: at least moving at twenty percent, which big. But why

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Speaker 1: is it that when you when you have movers come.

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Speaker 1: They don't just say yeah, we'll move you. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: cost fifty thousand dollars. Well, if there's only one moving

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Speaker 1: company and you really needed movers, they could do that.

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Speaker 1: And you don't pant a whole lot of money for

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Speaker 1: a move. Why is it they'll show up and say no,

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Speaker 1: it'll be two or three thousand dollars to move you

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Speaker 1: because there's another moving company that they know you can call,

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Speaker 1: and they're also going to compete on price. Now, there

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Speaker 1: isn't going to be a moving company that shows up

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Speaker 1: and says, hey, we'll do this for you for one

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars, because they have guys that they have to pay,

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Speaker 1: and they have bills, and they have costs and insurance

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Speaker 1: and expenses. So this is how a price gets set.

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Speaker 1: But it benefits everybody because the price will cover the interests,

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Speaker 1: the cost, the needs of the company providing the service.

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Speaker 1: But also because there's competition in doing that, it will

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Speaker 1: allow the person who is purchasing the service to get

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Speaker 1: the benefit of that competition because they, you know, everybody

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Speaker 1: wants that business. This is how a market sets a price.

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Speaker 1: When you go in and you say, I know I've

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Speaker 1: got a you know, my toe is has turned blue.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think it's broken or something. I've broken

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Speaker 1: the big toe a long time ago. That wasn't fun.

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Speaker 1: That you can't say to them, hey, what's this going

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Speaker 1: to cost? They can't even tell you. They don't know,

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Speaker 1: and they can't tell you at a hospital in New York.

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Speaker 1: So then and then what happens is they figure out

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Speaker 1: how can we extract the most money from this person possible,

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Speaker 1: and it's either going to be setting an outrageous out

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Speaker 1: of pocket cost for you or just trying to take

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Speaker 1: as much from your insurance company. And then the insurance

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Speaker 1: company fights with them. But this is nonsense. This is

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Speaker 1: the fundamental problem that we have, and that we don't

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Speaker 1: have insurance. What we have is cross subsidized care all

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Speaker 1: the time. We already have fifty percent of healthcare spending

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Speaker 1: that the federal government's already doing. We're almost a socialist

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Speaker 1: healthcare system in many ways, not entirely, been in many

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Speaker 1: ways already. And they say, what's your plan, I say, well,

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Speaker 1: my plan would be let people buy an insurance health

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Speaker 1: insurance the way they buy any other kind of insurance,

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Speaker 1: have absolute transparency in pricing and a habit mandatory. What

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Speaker 1: is this going to cost? Because one of the reason

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Speaker 1: insurance companies and providers, especially hospital networks can get away

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Speaker 1: with what they do is nobody knows what a cost

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Speaker 1: at this place or that place, so the market can't function.

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Speaker 1: And they do this on purpose because it gives them

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Speaker 1: more price setting power. And they would say to you,

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Speaker 1: will buck, if we couldn't do that, though, we'd go bankrupt.

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Speaker 1: Because Medicare Medicaid, where the government sets the price does

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Speaker 1: not cover the cost of the procedures, forces them to

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Speaker 1: operate at a loss. Again, price is central here. They

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Speaker 1: do not operate a word of the prices. And I've

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Speaker 1: just got to tell you the stuff that was being

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Speaker 1: said from the liberals, you know, the liberal doctor and

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Speaker 1: then the two liberal ladies on the stage about how

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Speaker 1: the Bernie Sanders healthcare plan is going to function, it

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Speaker 1: was just fantasy land stuff. I'm sitting here and I

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Speaker 1: still think, I think to myself, they really believe that

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Speaker 1: if we just elimit it all all private health and

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Speaker 1: just basically throw the insurers out, have the government standing there,

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Speaker 1: but keep the rest of the system as it is,

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Speaker 1: with the government setting all prices. They don't think that

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Speaker 1: that's going to be a disaster. Disastrous and disastrous in

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Speaker 1: terms of your ability to get the care you want,

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Speaker 1: disastrous in terms of your wait times, in terms of

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Speaker 1: the cost to the American taxpayer. Everything we have seen

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Speaker 1: in history tells us that this would be catastrophically expensive

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Speaker 1: and deeply dysfunctional. But the Sandernistas, even Democrats realize this

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Speaker 1: is crazy. But the sander Nist does run around saying, oh, no,

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Speaker 1: this is great, and if you don't want it's because

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Speaker 1: you're like a tool of the rich. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: my friends. One of the issues dealing with Medicare for

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Speaker 1: All is it's hard to argue with crazy. Crazy is

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Speaker 1: not an easy debate opponent. But no, he didn't succeed

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Speaker 1: in his mission because there was inadequate transparency to the

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Speaker 1: American people on whose behalf he was investigating. And when

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Speaker 1: I say inadequate, I mean in two different ways. Both

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Speaker 1: in the way in which his report was spun, massaged,

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Speaker 1: and in my view, misconstrued by the Attorney General and

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Speaker 1: the way in which it was physically presented made it

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Speaker 1: impossible for the American people to have access to it.

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Speaker 1: Comes just delusional. He was at Politicon as well. I

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Speaker 1: didn't get a chance to see him all, you know,

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Speaker 1: six foot eleven of him. I didn't get a chance

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Speaker 1: to see him, which wouldn't be helpful anyway. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I have just no I just don't think he's a

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Speaker 1: figure worthy of respecter or engagement. I've also never met

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Speaker 1: I loved all those stories from the media back to

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Speaker 1: the day about how people in the FBI were crying

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Speaker 1: when Comy was fired. I really mean this. I have

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Speaker 1: never met a human being who worked with James Comey

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Speaker 1: or knows James Comey who likes him. And I've met

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Speaker 1: a lot of people who worked with him or know him,

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Speaker 1: never met one who liked him. Now, I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: that there's nobody out there likes and clearly Patrick Fitzgerald,

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Speaker 1: who's also a very scummy guy, likes him. But I've

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Speaker 1: never been anybody who's like, yeah, he's great, really solid dude.

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Speaker 1: Nobody says it about him. Yet he's running around telling

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Speaker 1: us I'm serious, he said this is Politicon. If Trump wins,

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Speaker 1: he's moving to New Zealand. One can only hope James Comy,

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Speaker 1: One can only hope welcome back to the Buck Sexton Show. Here,

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Speaker 1: I am trying to tell you guys about the Bernie

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Speaker 1: Sanders Plan for your healthcare, which is also really the

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren plan for your healthcare, which is incorrectly termed

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Speaker 1: Medicare for All. It is not Medicare. It is in

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Speaker 1: fact more expensive, more expansive than even Medicare is. Medicare

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Speaker 1: is an entitled the people pay into over their lives.

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Speaker 1: Medicare is like Social Security in a sense, but for

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Speaker 1: your healthcare. Unfortunately, and I know people don't like to

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Speaker 1: hear this, most Medicare beneficiaries take out over their life

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Speaker 1: cycle twice as much as they put in, which is

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Speaker 1: why Medicare keeps blowing a huge hole in the deficit

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Speaker 1: year in and year out. But at least there is

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Speaker 1: that component of paying into it over time. And then

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Speaker 1: also there is call sharing. There are plans that you

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Speaker 1: can buy Medicare advantage, for example, which is through private

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Speaker 1: insurers that deal with what's not covered under Medicare. But

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Speaker 1: you have call sharing states kicking money for Medicare too,

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Speaker 1: So it's not just you go to a doctor and

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Speaker 1: there's never a bill. What Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and

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Speaker 1: some of the other Democrats are promising is you go

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Speaker 1: to the doctor or the er, the hospital, whatever your

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Speaker 1: healthcare situation is, you go there. There's never a bill.

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Speaker 1: This is crazy. Not even Canada, for example, Hello Canada.

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Speaker 1: Not even Canada has a system that covers that much. Canada.

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Speaker 1: If you want dental or vision insurance, guess vision care,

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Speaker 1: you have to buy a private insurance or go see

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Speaker 1: private practitioners. They don't cover all that. There are some

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Speaker 1: areas where, for example, you would have to do it

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Speaker 1: on your own. And we know Canadians when they want

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Speaker 1: open heart surgery or there are certain procedures that they'll

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Speaker 1: leave Canada and come to America for it's through the

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Speaker 1: National Health Service in the UK as well. I don't

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Speaker 1: want to be the one who has to say this,

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Speaker 1: but you see some European countries, Americans generally have better

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Speaker 1: dental care. I'm just gonna say it. It's still true.

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Speaker 1: I think it was the Simpsons that one had the

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Speaker 1: British Book of Bad Smiles or something. They had this

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Speaker 1: whole thing about. Because dental care in European countries is

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Speaker 1: generally not all European countries, but in some of the

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Speaker 1: major ones where there's socialist healthcare. It's not as good

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Speaker 1: as this yere in America. Why because the market matters,

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Speaker 1: My friends, how many of you would think that it

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Speaker 1: would be easy to get really excellent people have lasic surgery,

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Speaker 1: for example, We'll Medicare for all cover you or lasic.

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Speaker 1: And is that just the way it's gonna be. Everyone's

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Speaker 1: gonna have a surgery that runs thousands and thousands of

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Speaker 1: dollars that's elective. Well, it's a great surgery, and a

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Speaker 1: lot of people have had it. No one really answers

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Speaker 1: any of these questions. They don't even know how they're

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Speaker 1: gonna pay for this. Elizabeth Warren's like, I have a

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Speaker 1: plan for this. I have a plan. We ask, well,

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Speaker 1: what's the plan to pay for this? She goes, oh, oh, well,

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Speaker 1: you know when your daddy always says, two toads jumping

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Speaker 1: around the back of a barn turns into a ham sandwich.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how that happens, but you know, part

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Speaker 1: of these Elizabeth Warren truth telling moments, she just like

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Speaker 1: makes up how folksy she is. She's so folksy. He's

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Speaker 1: waiting for Elizabeth Warren one day to show up and

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Speaker 1: pull out a banjo and just be like, hey, everybody,

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Speaker 1: I come from Oklahoma. I went to all these fancy

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Speaker 1: schools as a fake Native American. But I'm just want

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Speaker 1: to you and the rich wanna take everything away from you.

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Speaker 1: Do play in the banjo. Elizabeth Warren is for Medicare

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Speaker 1: for all. Bertie Sanders and Medicare for all. You have

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Speaker 1: all these different democrats who pretend that this is going

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Speaker 1: to work, And the problem is there are a lot

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Speaker 1: of very ignorant people out there who don't understand. Forgetting

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Speaker 1: there's two ways to attack why a medicare for all?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean in the broadest sense, the history

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Speaker 1: of central planning and socialism, and then the mechanisms of

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Speaker 1: central planning and socialism. Now on the history side, what

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Speaker 1: you'll get into is often what I think you could

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Speaker 1: call the Venezuela vers Venezuela versus Sweden debate. We say,

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Speaker 1: look at Venezuela. They say, well, look at Sweden. Even

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Speaker 1: though Sweden actually is was getting much poorer the more

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Speaker 1: socialists it got, and then it turned around became much

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Speaker 1: more free market. It does have very high taxes and

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Speaker 1: a large social welfare state, but most Swedes, by the way,

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Speaker 1: are happy living a very boxed in middle class lifestyle.

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Speaker 1: A lot of Americans would like the opportunity to grow

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Speaker 1: wealth over time and leave their children better than they were.

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Speaker 1: Swedes aren't leaving their children better than they were, leaving

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Speaker 1: their children the same way they were. That's the plan.

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Speaker 1: We have a different approach to life. We have a

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Speaker 1: more aspirational vision for our day to day. Swedes just

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Speaker 1: don't have that. Venezuela, the vision would be, can we

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Speaker 1: have bread on the shelves and clean water to drink

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Speaker 1: and not be living in this dystopian nightmare brought on

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Speaker 1: by the desire or the central government Venezuela and Caracas

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Speaker 1: to institute all kinds of economic reforms based in rooted

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Speaker 1: in social justice, in socialism. So that's one. But the

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Speaker 1: history of what has happened so far is illustrative of

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Speaker 1: the problem. But only if you're willing to be honest

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Speaker 1: about it. Then you just have the mechanisms of it.

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Speaker 1: Why who will set the price for your surgery under

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Speaker 1: Medicare for All? Who will determine what doctors you can

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Speaker 1: see under Medicare for All? And and who tells you

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Speaker 1: that there will not be restrictions placed does not understand

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Speaker 1: how the world works. There are some doctors who have

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Speaker 1: great reputations and work for facilities that are renowned. There

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Speaker 1: are some doctors who went to medical school in the

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Speaker 1: South Pacific somewhere in a place no one's ever heard of,

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Speaker 1: and I would not personally choose to go under the

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Speaker 1: knife with them, will dig it. It's not hard in

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Speaker 1: the Internet era to figure out who is who guess

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Speaker 1: what people all gonna want to go to the best surgeon.

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Speaker 1: Who determines whether you go to the best surgeon or not.

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Speaker 1: It's not going to be the market price. It's going

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Speaker 1: to be the government. How long will that wait time be?

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Speaker 1: In fact, the best place to get sports medicine surgery

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Speaker 1: down here in New York City is called HSS Hospital

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Speaker 1: for Special Surgery. And I remember when I was thinking

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Speaker 1: about having a major surgery there on my ankle, which

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Speaker 1: I never did, which some of you have noticed who

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Speaker 1: have met me. I kind of not really limp, but

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Speaker 1: I kind of have an uneven gait. I walk a

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Speaker 1: little strangely because of the blown out tendons in my

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Speaker 1: right foot. I don't worry. I could still like crush

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Speaker 1: libs and everything, but I do have a you know,

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Speaker 1: like everybody, I've got a little bit of an issue.

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Speaker 1: We've all got stuff. I remember looking at the different hospitals,

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Speaker 1: there was one guy. Of all the surgeons at the

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Speaker 1: hospital for special surgery, but they're doing there are surgeries.

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Speaker 1: There was one guy who at that time would have

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Speaker 1: taken my insurance and the weight and this is private insurance,

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Speaker 1: and the way to see him was I think six

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Speaker 1: maybe nine months, there was only one surgeon on staff.

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Speaker 1: The rest of them didn't take my insurance. In fact,

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Speaker 1: a lot of them didn't take any insurance, so you'd

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Speaker 1: have the only way you could see them is either

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Speaker 1: you pay out a pocket or you have out of

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Speaker 1: network benefits, which is always a whole I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: good luck with that, but that already exists here. And

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Speaker 1: imagine if now, instead of that system, what you have

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Speaker 1: was just everyone everyone's the same, everyone gets the same.

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Speaker 1: The government sends the check, so who determines who gets

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Speaker 1: to see what doctor? Well, get ready to wait a

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Speaker 1: very long time. And then when the costs are going

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Speaker 1: up and up and up, because people are gonna want

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Speaker 1: to see the best doctors that I want the best care,

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Speaker 1: how are they going to limit those costs so they

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Speaker 1: don't just completely destroy the economy rationing. This is guaranteed,

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Speaker 1: it's guaranteed it happens right now. I had people come

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Speaker 1: up with me after this debate who are from the

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Speaker 1: who had dealt with the VA system. They said, some

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Speaker 1: people in the view, you know, some VA facilities are

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Speaker 1: pretty good, some are terrible, but by and large, it's

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Speaker 1: not really working the way it's supposed to work. And

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Speaker 1: I bring this up just because, well because we're talking

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Speaker 1: about healthcare. But fifty percent of millennials, according to Axios

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Speaker 1: Today and fifty one percent of Generation Z have a

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Speaker 1: somewhat or very unfavorable view of capitalism, and seventy percent

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Speaker 1: of millennials say that they would vote for a socialist

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Speaker 1: Seventy percent of millennials say they would vote for socialism.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's just it's just stunning. It's stunning, and

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Speaker 1: there's such a lack of I mean, I really feel

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Speaker 1: like it's a lack of gratitude for what capitalism has

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Speaker 1: done for so many of us. I mean, this system.

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Speaker 1: Oh and this is another one that came out of

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Speaker 1: this survey. One in three millennials sees communism favorably. Now

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Speaker 1: we start to get into the definitional separation between communism

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Speaker 1: and socialism. Socialism is a system of central planning with

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Speaker 1: the rediscrution of wealth at the government at the hands

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Speaker 1: of the government. Communism involves a revolutionary elite seizing or

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Speaker 1: taking power in some capacity and then instituting a radical

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Speaker 1: form of across the board. Pure socialism, where the government

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Speaker 1: controls the means of production as well as the means

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Speaker 1: of distribution and there's a central committee or a central

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Speaker 1: party in charge of all of this is non democratic.

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Speaker 1: It's just the people in charge of the people in charge,

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Speaker 1: and it's a dictatorship of committee. In some cases just

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Speaker 1: becomes a dictatorship of one, as we've seen in plenty

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Speaker 1: of communist countries around the world. One in three millennials

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Speaker 1: have it a favorable view of communism. I have to

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Speaker 1: wonder if this is the case. Is it because they're

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Speaker 1: too stupid to know what communism is? Is that? Does

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Speaker 1: that make me feel better? Or is it preferable that

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Speaker 1: they know what communism is but are so deluded that

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Speaker 1: they think that it just wasn't done the right way.

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Speaker 1: That's always the excuse. Wasn't done the right way there's

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Speaker 1: a good way to do communism. I would like to

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Speaker 1: know where has you know, it's one thing to say

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Speaker 1: socialism everywhere has been tried, has failed. It's true, but

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Speaker 1: they'll cover it up with saying, oh, but look at

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Speaker 1: this socialist country or that socialist program that hasn't destroyed everything. Well,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't destroy everything, but it hasn't been a good idea.

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Speaker 1: Name the place where communism has been tried and has

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Speaker 1: not failed. I mean other than CNN, but like, name

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Speaker 1: a place where it's really been the government, the governing

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Speaker 1: system that hasn't resulted in an economic deprivation and catastrophe.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't exist. We don't. We don't learn the lesson.

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Speaker 1: We don't learn the lesson. I mean, Bernie Sanders should

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Speaker 1: not be taken seriously as a political candidate by anybody

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Speaker 1: who knows history or economics. And yet he's number two

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Speaker 1: I think right now most of the polls or three.

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Speaker 1: He's top three for sure. And Elizabeth Warren is really

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Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders, just with a little bit less craziness that

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Speaker 1: doesn't make me feel good about things, that doesn't make

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Speaker 1: me think that the future of this country is going

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Speaker 1: to be bright. If either of those candidates were to

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Speaker 1: become the next president United States, which then, of course

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Speaker 1: brings us to Joe Biden, great hope of the Democrats.

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Speaker 1: Still to this day, I don't understand how he's been

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Speaker 1: able to cling to this this lead in the polls,

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Speaker 1: although it's evaporated and Warren is beating him in some places,

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Speaker 1: but the fact that he is still probably to be

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Speaker 1: considered in a polling sense, the front runner him though

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Speaker 1: his money situation has gotten very tight. Joe Biden tells

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Speaker 1: us a lot about the Democratic Party today versus where

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Speaker 1: it was before. It's clearly gone further to the left,

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Speaker 1: which is why Biden has been abandoning a lot of

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Speaker 1: his more centrist positions of the past in order to

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Speaker 1: be more far left. But Biden's got bigger problems even

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Speaker 1: than just his positioning on issues the Democratic Party has

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Speaker 1: had Jack Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama. This is your

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Speaker 1: third run for it? Why Joe Biden? Well, because I think,

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Speaker 1: as I said, there we need somebody who on day

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Speaker 1: one knows exactly what to do, can command the world stage.

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Speaker 1: No one wonders whether I know a great deal about

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Speaker 1: these issues and foreign policy and domestic policy there's things

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Speaker 1: I've done, and that might be one of the criticisms too,

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Speaker 1: that you're offering essentially four more years of a Obama

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Speaker 1: like administration. Well, let me tell you something. I love

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Speaker 1: the fact that all of a sudden, the Democratic Party

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Speaker 1: doesn't think Obama was that great a president. I find

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Speaker 1: that fascinated some of us. Why hasn't President Obama endorsed you?

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Speaker 1: You guys served together for eight years? Because I have to,

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Speaker 1: I want to earn this on my own. Did he

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Speaker 1: offer to endorse you? No, we didn't even get there.

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Speaker 1: I asked him not to be said, Okay, I think

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Speaker 1: it's better. I think he thinks it's better for me.

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Speaker 1: I have no doubt when I'm the nominee, he'll be

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Speaker 1: out the campaign trail for me. Does anyone believe that? Well? Actually,

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Speaker 1: can we start with the no one his quote that

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Speaker 1: no one were whether or questions whether he knows a

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Speaker 1: lot about all this stuff? I do. I'm sitting here

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Speaker 1: raising my hand. I question whether he knows a lot

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Speaker 1: about anything other than playing golf and charging too much

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Speaker 1: money for speeches and letting his his son make a

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Speaker 1: lot of money because he's related to the Vice president.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what Joe Biden thinks. He knows a

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Speaker 1: lot about, but I've never seen any evidence of it.

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Speaker 1: Going back to that line from a Reagan's I think

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Speaker 1: it was from Reagan's diary that he was a pure demagogue,

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Speaker 1: a politician. Joe Biden was a politician, and all is

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Speaker 1: a politician all the worst ways that one thinks of

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Speaker 1: that term. Just says whatever he has to say, whenever

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Speaker 1: he has to say it. But the lack of an

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Speaker 1: Obama endorsement, I think that this is particularly interesting. His

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Speaker 1: claim that, oh, he would be endorsed by Obama. Oh,

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Speaker 1: he totally would be endorsed by Obama, but he didn't

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Speaker 1: want that. He didn't want to be endorsed by Barack Obama.

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna let you make your own determinations whether

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Speaker 1: you think that that's accurate or not. I think that

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01:24:10,960 --> 01:24:12,920
Speaker 1: it's pretty clear, pretty clear to me at least, that

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Speaker 1: no serious person would believe that, and not even just

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Speaker 1: that that Obama was unwilling when Biden was getting trashed

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Speaker 1: by Kamala Harris, who has had a deeply disappointing for

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Speaker 1: a lot of media libs out there, deeply disappointing presidential run,

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Speaker 1: but that Joe Biden was getting attacked essentially for being

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Speaker 1: a racist after having been the vice president to the

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Speaker 1: first black president in this country for eight years, and

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01:24:42,120 --> 01:24:44,000
Speaker 1: Obama didn't feel they need to stay a word for him.

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01:24:44,040 --> 01:24:51,400
Speaker 1: Obama has said more in defense of the Prime Minister

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Speaker 1: of Canada, who wore blackface so many times he can't

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Speaker 1: even remember then he has ever said since in this

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Speaker 1: election cycle defense of Joe Biden. So Biden got that problem.

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden was asked though, about these about the gaffs

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Speaker 1: that Joe Biden has and whether they're indicative of something

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01:25:09,040 --> 01:25:11,920
Speaker 1: bigger going on here. Play clip too. You've made in

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Speaker 1: a number of gaffs in the debates. In the October debate,

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Speaker 1: you confused Syria with Iraq. In the September debate, you

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Speaker 1: conflated Iraq and Afghanistan. When you're watching these debates, do

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Speaker 1: you worry about the gaffs? No? I don't worry about

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Speaker 1: the gaffs. And you know what, the American people know

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Speaker 1: who Joe Biden is. I mean, if he misspeaks one word,

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Speaker 1: they don't, that doesn't affect the way they're going to

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Speaker 1: vote one way or the other. I've heard from people

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Speaker 1: that Joe Biden is actually a very very nice person,

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Speaker 1: lovely person. So I'll just say that because I have

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Speaker 1: heard that from people who would know. So good for

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden making a good choice there. But the gaffs

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Speaker 1: are more than just the mistakes. It is this guy

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Speaker 1: really Is he foggy upstairs? That's really what people are

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Speaker 1: getting at. And as I've said, Liberals open the door

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Speaker 1: to this with all their Trump is crazy twenty fifth Amendment,

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01:26:07,240 --> 01:26:13,360
Speaker 1: Trump is mentally mentally ill twenty fifth Amendment. Joe Biden

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Speaker 1: is old. It seems old, and does not seem like

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Speaker 1: he has a full command of his own intellectual faculties

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Speaker 1: all the time. Seems like sometimes he zones in and out.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna sign up to have this guy be president

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Speaker 1: for possibly eight years. At what stage of this can

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01:26:30,320 --> 01:26:33,240
Speaker 1: we start to say that it's just narcissism for Joe Biden.

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01:26:33,960 --> 01:26:36,559
Speaker 1: Speaking of narcissism, you see that an advisor to Hillary

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01:26:36,600 --> 01:26:39,720
Speaker 1: Clinton said over the weekend that she believes that she

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Speaker 1: was put on this earth to be president. I believe

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01:26:43,760 --> 01:26:46,160
Speaker 1: that that is true of Hillary Clinton, that she does

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01:26:46,360 --> 01:26:49,879
Speaker 1: believe that she was put on this earth to be president.

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01:26:50,160 --> 01:26:54,760
Speaker 1: I also believe that Hillary Clinton is narcissistic and kind

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Speaker 1: of crazy. I think that the not being president thing

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01:26:58,120 --> 01:27:01,240
Speaker 1: has affected her in ways that we are still just

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01:27:01,520 --> 01:27:04,360
Speaker 1: figuring out now that she's speaking out publicly, and that

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01:27:04,439 --> 01:27:07,840
Speaker 1: the media handlers and all this, there's not as much

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01:27:07,880 --> 01:27:12,200
Speaker 1: of an investment in perpetuating this mythology of Hillary Clinton

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01:27:12,240 --> 01:27:17,840
Speaker 1: the brilliant tactician who understands everything and understands what's going on. No,

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Speaker 1: I think that people now see that Hillary Clinton was

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Speaker 1: what I've known her and many of you have known

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Speaker 1: her to be all along, which is a grasping grifter

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01:27:26,560 --> 01:27:29,960
Speaker 1: who really just looks to advance herself and pretends to

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01:27:30,040 --> 01:27:32,080
Speaker 1: do so for some loftier principle that really has no

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01:27:32,200 --> 01:27:35,400
Speaker 1: interest in anything other than the greatness and wealth personal

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01:27:35,479 --> 01:27:39,519
Speaker 1: wealth of Hillary Clinton and her immediate family. But Joe

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01:27:39,600 --> 01:27:43,240
Speaker 1: Biden still still clinging to some frontrunner status despite his

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01:27:44,160 --> 01:27:50,360
Speaker 1: obvious limitations and just also lack of why why should

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01:27:50,360 --> 01:27:53,639
Speaker 1: it be Joe Biden? Even Joe Biden kenned a tremble

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01:27:53,760 --> 01:27:57,320
Speaker 1: for my country, knowing how difficult it has become for

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01:27:57,479 --> 01:28:01,759
Speaker 1: us to stand together as a nation right now, knowing

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01:28:01,920 --> 01:28:07,320
Speaker 1: that we are living amid a crisis of belonging in

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01:28:07,400 --> 01:28:11,560
Speaker 1: the United States of America. Right now, we're in the

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01:28:11,600 --> 01:28:15,720
Speaker 1: midst of a crisis. May Or Pete there says a

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01:28:15,840 --> 01:28:18,800
Speaker 1: crisis that I think we all are supposed to believe

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01:28:18,920 --> 01:28:22,639
Speaker 1: is of Donald Trump's making. What is the Democrats answer

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01:28:22,680 --> 01:28:25,760
Speaker 1: to this? In what way do Democrats really propose to

1513
01:28:25,840 --> 01:28:29,320
Speaker 1: bring us together to force us to all pay into

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01:28:30,320 --> 01:28:36,880
Speaker 1: increasingly massive government coffers? Is socialism really is supposed to

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01:28:36,880 --> 01:28:41,880
Speaker 1: be the answer? How do Democrats proposed to inspire us

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01:28:42,000 --> 01:28:44,559
Speaker 1: and to bring us together as one people. I think

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01:28:44,640 --> 01:28:48,200
Speaker 1: it's also worth noting that the differences between left and

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01:28:48,360 --> 01:28:53,200
Speaker 1: right now feel like they are reaching irreconcilable difference status,

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01:28:53,800 --> 01:28:58,040
Speaker 1: that we have a level of separation in our culture,

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01:28:58,080 --> 01:29:00,479
Speaker 1: even within America, between left and right that seems like

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01:29:00,680 --> 01:29:04,320
Speaker 1: maybe it's not all that fixable. Sometimes I wish I

1522
01:29:04,360 --> 01:29:06,120
Speaker 1: could say that wasn't the case, but I do think

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01:29:06,160 --> 01:29:09,560
Speaker 1: it can be the case. But the living in a

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01:29:09,720 --> 01:29:14,880
Speaker 1: crisis line that we hear from so many Democrats, I

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01:29:14,960 --> 01:29:18,920
Speaker 1: do have to ask, when are we not hearing about

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01:29:18,920 --> 01:29:22,080
Speaker 1: a crisis from them? Everything is a crisis. I saw

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01:29:22,120 --> 01:29:23,880
Speaker 1: over the weekend there was there are more of these

1528
01:29:24,000 --> 01:29:28,320
Speaker 1: terrible fires going on in California, and Democrats they make it.

1529
01:29:28,400 --> 01:29:31,439
Speaker 1: They'll make an immediate leap online from a fire in

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01:29:31,560 --> 01:29:39,719
Speaker 1: California to climate change to Trump. It's just that's immediately something.

1531
01:29:40,760 --> 01:29:45,320
Speaker 1: There's a big forest fire going on California, climate change

1532
01:29:45,320 --> 01:29:47,519
Speaker 1: Trump right away that that's where it goes. It's never

1533
01:29:47,800 --> 01:29:50,680
Speaker 1: maybe there's a forest fire because there's a fire, or

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01:29:50,760 --> 01:29:53,760
Speaker 1: even beyond that, maybe because they don't do enough forestry

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01:29:53,800 --> 01:29:59,240
Speaker 1: in California anymore because of environmentalists concerns to help clear

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01:29:59,280 --> 01:30:04,320
Speaker 1: out underbrush and prevent the immediate circumstances that can be

1537
01:30:04,520 --> 01:30:08,800
Speaker 1: much more likely to result in a catastrophic fire. No,

1538
01:30:09,240 --> 01:30:12,600
Speaker 1: everything becomes political right away. There's this immediate leap to

1539
01:30:13,520 --> 01:30:16,360
Speaker 1: and not just political, but an effort to bash Trump

1540
01:30:16,760 --> 01:30:20,840
Speaker 1: because we are living in a state of alleged crises

1541
01:30:21,439 --> 01:30:25,040
Speaker 1: and there's never any Wait a second, was that really

1542
01:30:25,120 --> 01:30:27,760
Speaker 1: a crisis? I just saw the weekend again that there

1543
01:30:27,920 --> 01:30:30,719
Speaker 1: was a they're doing stories again about polar bears drowning.

1544
01:30:30,800 --> 01:30:33,240
Speaker 1: I think we're hearing about that again now, Oh, the

1545
01:30:33,320 --> 01:30:36,000
Speaker 1: polar bears, the ice caps are melting. You haven't heard

1546
01:30:36,000 --> 01:30:38,200
Speaker 1: about that for about ten or fifteen years because it

1547
01:30:38,280 --> 01:30:40,559
Speaker 1: didn't happen, but they kept saying it's going to happen.

1548
01:30:41,400 --> 01:30:43,960
Speaker 1: And now we're hearing about the we've got twelve years

1549
01:30:44,080 --> 01:30:45,800
Speaker 1: or ten years or eight years or whatever it is

1550
01:30:45,880 --> 01:30:49,120
Speaker 1: before we crossed the point of no return, and then

1551
01:30:49,200 --> 01:30:52,200
Speaker 1: climate change will come for us. All. I think we're

1552
01:30:52,200 --> 01:30:55,880
Speaker 1: getting numb to fake crises, and that worries me because

1553
01:30:56,600 --> 01:30:58,519
Speaker 1: we could face a real crisis as a country at

1554
01:30:58,560 --> 01:31:00,560
Speaker 1: some point in the future. There could well come a

1555
01:31:00,640 --> 01:31:03,120
Speaker 1: time when there's something that all of us would have

1556
01:31:03,200 --> 01:31:08,439
Speaker 1: to admit is a crisis. I do worry, for example,

1557
01:31:08,479 --> 01:31:11,800
Speaker 1: about the future of the US confronting China. China's got

1558
01:31:11,880 --> 01:31:15,559
Speaker 1: a much larger population, it has a much more clear,

1559
01:31:16,160 --> 01:31:20,439
Speaker 1: I believe, strategic plan in mind to take down the

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01:31:20,600 --> 01:31:24,320
Speaker 1: United States. And here's for example, this is what this

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01:31:24,400 --> 01:31:26,240
Speaker 1: is still what Joe Biden. Not to bring this back

1562
01:31:26,280 --> 01:31:28,240
Speaker 1: to Biden, but producer Mark, would you please play a

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01:31:29,040 --> 01:31:35,519
Speaker 1: clip four. Here's the deal everybody talks about. Biden says

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01:31:35,560 --> 01:31:37,479
Speaker 1: that China, if we do we have to do, China

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01:31:37,560 --> 01:31:41,240
Speaker 1: is not a problem. Look, China is in real trouble. Man.

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01:31:42,080 --> 01:31:44,040
Speaker 1: I spent a lot of time with Shijing King. I

1567
01:31:44,080 --> 01:31:48,720
Speaker 1: spent more time within than any world leader before I left. Yeah,

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01:31:48,880 --> 01:31:52,400
Speaker 1: China is the one that's got all the problems. Joe Biden.

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01:31:52,439 --> 01:31:54,280
Speaker 1: It also said that China is not a problem in

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01:31:54,320 --> 01:31:56,240
Speaker 1: the past, and he's not backing away from that. Still,

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01:31:57,520 --> 01:32:00,320
Speaker 1: that's the strategic leaders. That's a strategic leaders that you

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01:32:00,400 --> 01:32:03,160
Speaker 1: want to be in place. The guy who can't see

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01:32:03,800 --> 01:32:05,479
Speaker 1: the rise of China as a threat. I mean, that's

1574
01:32:05,479 --> 01:32:08,400
Speaker 1: a crisis. The opioids in this country are a crisis.

1575
01:32:09,439 --> 01:32:13,360
Speaker 1: I think what's happening in Mexico right now is at

1576
01:32:13,439 --> 01:32:16,280
Speaker 1: least the early indicators of a possible real crisis on

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01:32:16,320 --> 01:32:20,559
Speaker 1: our southern border. After that takeover of a city by

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01:32:20,760 --> 01:32:24,639
Speaker 1: cartel members in Kulia Khan, after they had seized Ovideo Guzman,

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01:32:24,720 --> 01:32:29,320
Speaker 1: the son of El Chapo Guzman, and the president Lopez

1580
01:32:29,400 --> 01:32:35,160
Speaker 1: Obrador decided that he would be released. That's scary stuff, right.

1581
01:32:35,160 --> 01:32:38,080
Speaker 1: I mean, we're talking about crist there's real crisis out there,

1582
01:32:38,880 --> 01:32:42,360
Speaker 1: and the focus on the from the left on fake crisis,

1583
01:32:42,479 --> 01:32:44,320
Speaker 1: and I really will come in the climate change is

1584
01:32:44,320 --> 01:32:46,120
Speaker 1: the fake crisis. It's just not a crisis. We can

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01:32:46,160 --> 01:32:47,519
Speaker 1: sit around to talk to this all day. It's not

1586
01:32:47,520 --> 01:32:52,600
Speaker 1: a crisis. But the focus on this takes away not

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01:32:52,720 --> 01:32:57,639
Speaker 1: only energy and resources from real problems, but it makes

1588
01:32:57,680 --> 01:33:02,120
Speaker 1: the discussion so there's so much noise, so much overheated,

1589
01:33:03,520 --> 01:33:06,599
Speaker 1: nonsensical rhetoric about things that for people that are trying

1590
01:33:06,600 --> 01:33:08,200
Speaker 1: to live their lives and just do what they need

1591
01:33:08,240 --> 01:33:10,920
Speaker 1: to do, I'm sure it can feel like, well, how

1592
01:33:10,960 --> 01:33:13,519
Speaker 1: do I tell one crisis from another? And maybe we

1593
01:33:13,520 --> 01:33:15,280
Speaker 1: should just have other people be in charge of all

1594
01:33:15,320 --> 01:33:17,040
Speaker 1: this stuff. Maybe I should vote for the people that

1595
01:33:17,120 --> 01:33:19,000
Speaker 1: promise that the government's going to make all the crises

1596
01:33:19,080 --> 01:33:21,679
Speaker 1: go a wait. Government creates some of the crises we're facing.

1597
01:33:22,479 --> 01:33:26,200
Speaker 1: The government makes some of them worse. But we are

1598
01:33:26,479 --> 01:33:30,320
Speaker 1: like the debt, and I wonder tut a crisis no

1599
01:33:30,400 --> 01:33:32,439
Speaker 1: one cares anymore. I came into conservative media when the

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01:33:32,439 --> 01:33:35,760
Speaker 1: Tea Party was basically at its well a year after

1601
01:33:35,880 --> 01:33:38,840
Speaker 1: it was really at its absolute height. The Tea Party

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01:33:38,880 --> 01:33:42,439
Speaker 1: was such a powerful force, and people were very concerned

1603
01:33:42,439 --> 01:33:45,280
Speaker 1: and talking about the debt. None of that has changed,

1604
01:33:45,520 --> 01:33:49,759
Speaker 1: except it's gotten a lot worse. All of the arguments,

1605
01:33:49,800 --> 01:33:52,800
Speaker 1: all the things that were being said then about what

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01:33:52,960 --> 01:33:57,320
Speaker 1: would happen are still very much applicable today. The only

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01:33:57,400 --> 01:33:59,200
Speaker 1: real difference, you real the distinction is that we are

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01:33:59,320 --> 01:34:01,680
Speaker 1: much deeper in debt now than we were in twenty ten,

1609
01:34:02,240 --> 01:34:04,600
Speaker 1: and we're not hearing anybody talk about it. And you know,

1610
01:34:04,840 --> 01:34:07,639
Speaker 1: it's it's a shame, I think right now in conservative media,

1611
01:34:07,680 --> 01:34:10,400
Speaker 1: if you did a and many people who have radio

1612
01:34:10,439 --> 01:34:12,880
Speaker 1: shows and TV shows, they're obsessed with the ratings all

1613
01:34:12,920 --> 01:34:14,639
Speaker 1: the time, so they look at every segment and everything

1614
01:34:14,680 --> 01:34:17,400
Speaker 1: that happens, and they'll say whatever, whatever does well, they'll

1615
01:34:17,439 --> 01:34:18,920
Speaker 1: just say more of and whatever doesn't do well, it

1616
01:34:18,920 --> 01:34:21,040
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what they think. They won't say that. There

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01:34:21,040 --> 01:34:22,400
Speaker 1: are a lot of hosts out there. That's how they

1618
01:34:22,479 --> 01:34:26,320
Speaker 1: run their shows. And I'm pretty sure right now, if

1619
01:34:26,320 --> 01:34:28,439
Speaker 1: you talk about the debt, people just go map, don't care.

1620
01:34:30,280 --> 01:34:33,040
Speaker 1: It feels very strange because ten years ago, if you're

1621
01:34:33,040 --> 01:34:34,479
Speaker 1: talking about the debt, when it was much less than

1622
01:34:34,520 --> 01:34:37,040
Speaker 1: it is now, people were worried about the future of

1623
01:34:37,120 --> 01:34:39,200
Speaker 1: this country. They thought it was an existential threat to

1624
01:34:39,240 --> 01:34:41,200
Speaker 1: our economy and therefore the American way of life and

1625
01:34:41,240 --> 01:34:45,080
Speaker 1: the American experiment that's all gone away. So Pte may

1626
01:34:45,160 --> 01:34:47,879
Speaker 1: or Pete's talking about a crisis that doesn't exist. Meanwhile,

1627
01:34:47,920 --> 01:34:50,280
Speaker 1: a crisis crises that do exist feel if they're getting

1628
01:34:50,320 --> 01:34:53,000
Speaker 1: larger and worse around us. And we can't even agree

1629
01:34:53,040 --> 01:34:56,599
Speaker 1: on what's a crisis as a country, So how can

1630
01:34:56,680 --> 01:34:59,360
Speaker 1: we even begin to think that there will be the

1631
01:34:59,520 --> 01:35:02,920
Speaker 1: basis is for real action about any of this when

1632
01:35:02,960 --> 01:35:08,120
Speaker 1: we can't even decide what requires action. That's my concern

1633
01:35:08,240 --> 01:35:10,719
Speaker 1: for us going forward. That's where I think we've started

1634
01:35:10,720 --> 01:35:14,760
Speaker 1: to really run into some issues we are going to

1635
01:35:14,840 --> 01:35:17,000
Speaker 1: and the issues that are only gonna get worse. But

1636
01:35:17,160 --> 01:35:19,320
Speaker 1: without my friends, it's all gonna be fine. Just keep

1637
01:35:19,360 --> 01:35:20,760
Speaker 1: listening to the buck Sexton Show and tell us some

1638
01:35:20,800 --> 01:35:25,920
Speaker 1: friends about us. They listened to roll calls up. The

1639
01:35:26,040 --> 01:35:34,719
Speaker 1: show ain't over yet, folks, keeping it real, It's time

1640
01:35:34,800 --> 01:35:46,080
Speaker 1: for roll call Facebook dot com slash buck Sexton for

1641
01:35:46,240 --> 01:35:50,120
Speaker 1: roll call time or Team Bucket. iHeartMedia dot com again.

1642
01:35:50,160 --> 01:35:52,360
Speaker 1: Thanks to all. Team Bucket came out to Nashville to

1643
01:35:52,439 --> 01:35:55,240
Speaker 1: Politicon over the weekend. Great to see you and enjoy

1644
01:35:55,320 --> 01:35:57,360
Speaker 1: taking the selfies hanging out. It was a lot of fun.

1645
01:35:59,439 --> 01:36:02,400
Speaker 1: Went to mark Its Barbecue. That place is great. Oh

1646
01:36:02,560 --> 01:36:07,679
Speaker 1: the brisket was so good. The brisket was just that's

1647
01:36:07,720 --> 01:36:10,120
Speaker 1: my I mean, that's my favorite of the barbecue meets

1648
01:36:10,160 --> 01:36:13,120
Speaker 1: the brisket. When it's done. The right way, but so

1649
01:36:13,240 --> 01:36:14,479
Speaker 1: much barbeue. The problem I have when I go to

1650
01:36:14,520 --> 01:36:16,920
Speaker 1: really good barbecue place, same thing with Heart eight and Dallas,

1651
01:36:17,120 --> 01:36:20,120
Speaker 1: or the problem with with the best barbecue places I've

1652
01:36:20,160 --> 01:36:23,680
Speaker 1: been to is I always want to eat more, you know,

1653
01:36:23,920 --> 01:36:26,160
Speaker 1: and you can really only handle so much of that

1654
01:36:26,200 --> 01:36:29,880
Speaker 1: stuff before you've really got to tap out. I'm producer Mark.

1655
01:36:30,160 --> 01:36:31,880
Speaker 1: Did you are you up on the baseball stud that

1656
01:36:32,000 --> 01:36:34,479
Speaker 1: the World Series that is apparently happening right now? Is

1657
01:36:34,520 --> 01:36:36,479
Speaker 1: there anything of note for our audience you want to share?

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01:36:37,000 --> 01:36:39,600
Speaker 1: What do you mean of note? Like? Is this a

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01:36:39,680 --> 01:36:42,400
Speaker 1: good World Series? I've seen some people complaining the last

1660
01:36:42,479 --> 01:36:46,040
Speaker 1: night's game. Yeah, it's been eight one and then seven one.

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01:36:46,120 --> 01:36:49,400
Speaker 1: Of course it's boring. It's baseball, folks. What do you expect? Actually,

1662
01:36:49,439 --> 01:36:51,519
Speaker 1: surprisingly it has been the lowest rated World Series in

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01:36:51,560 --> 01:36:55,280
Speaker 1: a long time. Well that surprised me at all. You know,

1664
01:36:55,320 --> 01:36:57,800
Speaker 1: if you want to spend nine hours drinking looking at

1665
01:36:57,840 --> 01:37:00,160
Speaker 1: something from Afar, just go hang out by the train

1666
01:37:00,240 --> 01:37:02,479
Speaker 1: tracks somewhere. It'll be free. What baseball game are you

1667
01:37:02,560 --> 01:37:04,719
Speaker 1: going through that takes nine hours? I don't know. Baseball

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01:37:04,760 --> 01:37:07,599
Speaker 1: it takes forever. Man, does it takes the same amount

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01:37:07,600 --> 01:37:09,840
Speaker 1: of time? As a football or hockey game, except there's

1670
01:37:09,840 --> 01:37:12,640
Speaker 1: not as much happen. Except football is amazing, says the

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01:37:12,680 --> 01:37:14,960
Speaker 1: person who doesn't know who's sake one Barkley. Well, I

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01:37:15,000 --> 01:37:17,400
Speaker 1: mean it's a busy year, man. We're launching the show

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01:37:17,439 --> 01:37:20,280
Speaker 1: in here. Yeah, sure, all right, let's get to Facebook,

1674
01:37:20,320 --> 01:37:24,759
Speaker 1: Facebook dot com slash buck Sexton. This one comes from

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01:37:25,560 --> 01:37:29,560
Speaker 1: Douglas Buck. Does this sound like CNN News aim to

1676
01:37:29,640 --> 01:37:35,040
Speaker 1: have effect on the broad masses, concentration on a few points,

1677
01:37:35,120 --> 01:37:37,400
Speaker 1: constant repetition of those points, framing of the issues in

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01:37:37,479 --> 01:37:40,200
Speaker 1: disputable one sided. I bet you know where that's from.

1679
01:37:40,240 --> 01:37:45,240
Speaker 1: I'll tell you If not. No, I mean, is this

1680
01:37:45,320 --> 01:37:47,400
Speaker 1: like propaganda from World War two or something. I don't

1681
01:37:47,439 --> 01:37:49,559
Speaker 1: know what that is, but let me know Douglas when

1682
01:37:49,600 --> 01:37:52,720
Speaker 1: you're writing again. But yeah, it just sounds like a

1683
01:37:52,760 --> 01:37:56,960
Speaker 1: definition of propaganda, which CNN certainly is. But is that

1684
01:37:57,160 --> 01:37:59,800
Speaker 1: Jeff right shield hie Buck. Just listen to podcast from

1685
01:38:00,080 --> 01:38:03,360
Speaker 1: week regarding Hillary and something came to mind. You may

1686
01:38:03,400 --> 01:38:05,720
Speaker 1: have already mentioned this, but I don't recall hearing it

1687
01:38:05,840 --> 01:38:09,559
Speaker 1: in the media. The next time we're lectured about why

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01:38:09,560 --> 01:38:11,719
Speaker 1: the electoral college should be removed from popular vote should

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Speaker 1: be implemented. Please remind them that Hillary beat Obama in

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Speaker 1: the popular vote during the two thousand and eight Democratic primary,

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Speaker 1: and the majority of them had no issue with Obama

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Speaker 1: being the nominee. I gotta take your word for that,

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01:38:26,960 --> 01:38:29,519
Speaker 1: because I actually don't remember if that's true or not.

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01:38:29,640 --> 01:38:33,120
Speaker 1: But if that's true, that's a very a very interesting,

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01:38:34,640 --> 01:38:41,880
Speaker 1: very interesting point. Let's see here, Linda rights. Hey, I

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01:38:42,000 --> 01:38:45,240
Speaker 1: was watching Pluto TV the first in Hawaii, and there

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Speaker 1: you are. I'm intrigue. Don't know much about apple pop,

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01:38:48,600 --> 01:38:50,200
Speaker 1: but we'll look around. You sound like a man with

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Speaker 1: a mind, and coming from a grandma, you're kind of hot.

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Speaker 1: Best wishes, Linda, Thanks, Linda, I'll take it. I'll take it,

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01:38:58,840 --> 01:39:01,240
Speaker 1: you know, take a reck, get it. That was good

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Speaker 1: to it. Don't no producer Mark now now we don't.

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01:39:04,120 --> 01:39:07,800
Speaker 1: We don't need to hear to say anything. Okay, all right,

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01:39:08,600 --> 01:39:11,120
Speaker 1: just so many gotta hit the mute button on producer

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01:39:11,200 --> 01:39:13,960
Speaker 1: Mark over here right now. You're busy. Make sure the

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01:39:14,040 --> 01:39:16,439
Speaker 1: podcast goes out with all the cool things that the

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01:39:16,560 --> 01:39:19,600
Speaker 1: social media things you do. Do those things peep on

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01:39:19,680 --> 01:39:21,920
Speaker 1: social media? Love when I mock you? So wow? That's

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01:39:21,960 --> 01:39:26,599
Speaker 1: that true? That too? Or true? Both of those things. James,

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Speaker 1: I think the left is on a mission to destroy

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01:39:28,479 --> 01:39:31,240
Speaker 1: this country for their own personal beliefs. And the Bible

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Speaker 1: says is right, they will say is wrong. James. I'll

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Speaker 1: just leave that to you, my friend, and let's see here,

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Speaker 1: Rick right, Buck, I'm a longtime listener who just upgraded

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01:39:44,840 --> 01:39:48,640
Speaker 1: to Mac operating system Catalina. It's a long story, but

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01:39:48,720 --> 01:39:52,360
Speaker 1: Catalina makes moving podcasts onto my iPod very cumbersome. Is

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01:39:52,400 --> 01:39:54,599
Speaker 1: there a location or a way to download your show

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01:39:54,680 --> 01:39:58,240
Speaker 1: as an MP three file? This would simplify copying them

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01:39:58,240 --> 01:40:03,000
Speaker 1: onto my iPod? Ruster, Mark, I don't know. I'm not

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01:40:03,120 --> 01:40:05,400
Speaker 1: a hun sure, but I feel like if you go

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01:40:05,479 --> 01:40:09,040
Speaker 1: on bucksexon dot com you might be able to download it. Okay,

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01:40:09,080 --> 01:40:10,880
Speaker 1: I could double check in on that though. Yeah, I

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01:40:10,960 --> 01:40:13,880
Speaker 1: mean let's say that that's uh, we'll try that and

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Speaker 1: see if that works. Because I have no ideas, we'll

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01:40:16,080 --> 01:40:18,840
Speaker 1: just go with whatever producer Mark says. That certainly works

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Speaker 1: for me. Douglas, can you give me an example of

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01:40:24,320 --> 01:40:29,000
Speaker 1: an agreement that is not quid pro quo? Uh? Okay?

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01:40:29,240 --> 01:40:32,760
Speaker 1: I mean, well, Douglas, Yeah, sure, Like if I if

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Speaker 1: I agree to write your son a recommendation for college.

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01:40:38,479 --> 01:40:41,560
Speaker 1: And I do that, that's not and that's not a

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01:40:41,640 --> 01:40:44,360
Speaker 1: quid pro quo. Right, So that's there you go. There's

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01:40:44,360 --> 01:40:46,559
Speaker 1: an example of what's not a quid pro quo. If

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Speaker 1: I do that, though, and of your own accord, you

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01:40:50,479 --> 01:40:54,280
Speaker 1: send me a gift on my birthday, which is right

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01:40:54,320 --> 01:40:57,760
Speaker 1: around Christmas time, that's still not a quid pro quot.

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01:40:58,760 --> 01:41:00,599
Speaker 1: But if you say, hey, Buck, my son a letter

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Speaker 1: of recommendation for are you guys know they don't have

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01:41:02,479 --> 01:41:03,600
Speaker 1: to go through the rest of it. You get it.

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01:41:05,479 --> 01:41:10,679
Speaker 1: Philip Rights, I'm guessing this well, this is a photo

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Speaker 1: of a giant trailer that says Team Buck on it,

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01:41:13,120 --> 01:41:14,680
Speaker 1: and he wrote, I guess I'm guessing this was not

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Speaker 1: you doing an outside broadcast in Montana today. Yeah, that is.

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01:41:19,120 --> 01:41:21,320
Speaker 1: That was not the Team buckmobile. But that's pretty that's

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01:41:21,360 --> 01:41:25,120
Speaker 1: pretty badass, actually, I gotta say pretty smart. Can see

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01:41:25,120 --> 01:41:28,880
Speaker 1: this photo in the inbox. It's pretty legit well done

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01:41:28,960 --> 01:41:31,360
Speaker 1: with a Team Buck Montana. Whatever that is, I'm assuming

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01:41:31,400 --> 01:41:38,840
Speaker 1: it's related to horses or something. John, if you're still

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Speaker 1: in Nashville and anyone anywhere near Morton Steakhouse, I'll buy

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Speaker 1: you a mesical John. Thank you for the offer, my friend. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: I am back in New York City. I am not

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Speaker 1: in Nashville. Nashville was a great town. I want to go.

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01:41:52,360 --> 01:41:54,680
Speaker 1: I want to go back. I want to go back

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Speaker 1: and check it out for sure, for fun. Um. All right,

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Speaker 1: here we go, Mark rights Hey. Last Friday, a young

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Speaker 1: person wrote into roll Call asking why raising the minimum

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Speaker 1: wage would be bad. I'll tell you why. I'm scared

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Speaker 1: of it being raised. I'm sixteen years old and I

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01:42:10,560 --> 01:42:13,800
Speaker 1: work at a feed store, loading bags of animal feed

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Speaker 1: into cars and stocking the warehouse. I get paid seven

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Speaker 1: fifty an hour for what I do. If they raise

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Speaker 1: the minimum wage to ten dollars, I wouldn't be useful

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01:42:22,520 --> 01:42:25,240
Speaker 1: to the company anymore. I'd be let go because there's

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Speaker 1: a limit to how much people are going to pay

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Speaker 1: for each job. So in order to get our wages

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01:42:30,680 --> 01:42:32,880
Speaker 1: to go up, we should work hard and work our

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01:42:32,960 --> 01:42:36,760
Speaker 1: way up the line. Government regulation won't help us. We'd

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Speaker 1: lose our jobs and the price for everything we'd go

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Speaker 1: up if we raise it. Thanks Team WHOA WHOA. Mark

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Speaker 1: Margaret's a very good explanation of why raising the minimum

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Speaker 1: wage is just not the panacea. It's a fun word

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Speaker 1: to say, isn't it panacea that everybody says it is?

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Speaker 1: Let's see next peer were Scott Scott rights hey Buck,

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Speaker 1: longtime listener, great admirer. Am I alone and thinking the

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01:43:09,720 --> 01:43:14,360
Speaker 1: Drudge Report has swung wildly anti Trump since the impeachment

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01:43:14,960 --> 01:43:18,120
Speaker 1: farce shifted into fifth gear. Love to hear analysis on

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01:43:18,160 --> 01:43:20,200
Speaker 1: this and whether and imagine I'm imaging or not, whether

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01:43:20,280 --> 01:43:22,720
Speaker 1: Drudge has flipped or if it's just playing the If

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01:43:22,760 --> 01:43:25,439
Speaker 1: Trump has impeached, the Democrats lose big in twenty twenty game.

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01:43:25,479 --> 01:43:30,080
Speaker 1: Appreciative Scott from New Hampshire. Scott, I have noticed a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a assaultiness from the Drudge Reports in

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01:43:35,320 --> 01:43:38,360
Speaker 1: it's approach to Trump. There's something going on there. Maybe

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01:43:38,520 --> 01:43:41,880
Speaker 1: maybe Drudge, who is one of the most secretive but

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01:43:42,000 --> 01:43:45,240
Speaker 1: also influential people in conservative media still to this day,

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01:43:46,400 --> 01:43:49,200
Speaker 1: maybe he feels like Trump just isn't following through on

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01:43:49,280 --> 01:43:51,440
Speaker 1: stuff he needs to fall through. Maybe some of the promises,

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Speaker 1: you know, are maybe he's out enough. Ronnie rides Buck,

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Speaker 1: You have to have dinner in Nashville at rodit Ceo

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01:44:01,880 --> 01:44:05,599
Speaker 1: Brazilian grill just off Broadway, almost any kind of meat.

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Speaker 1: We were just there a couple of weeks ago. Have

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Speaker 1: fun well, Ronnie. Next time, I'll definitely check it out.

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Speaker 1: I will say one night on Saturday night, we went

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Speaker 1: out somewhere on Broadway, and I don't want to name

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01:44:15,320 --> 01:44:16,560
Speaker 1: it because I know it's it's a new place to

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01:44:16,640 --> 01:44:18,280
Speaker 1: just helped me the food. The food was not that good,

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01:44:18,280 --> 01:44:20,000
Speaker 1: but that was our fault because we went somewhere for

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01:44:20,840 --> 01:44:23,599
Speaker 1: the live music and not for the I didn't really

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01:44:23,640 --> 01:44:25,439
Speaker 1: do my usual deep dive and whether the food would

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Speaker 1: be any good, folks, That's going to be the show

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Speaker 1: for it today. As I always say, please do tell

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Speaker 1: somebody this week about the Buck Section show telling they

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01:44:32,960 --> 01:44:36,479
Speaker 1: can download it for free on iTunes or wherever they

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01:44:36,520 --> 01:44:40,080
Speaker 1: listen to podcasts, the iHeart app for example. We're going

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01:44:40,160 --> 01:44:42,240
Speaker 1: to have an amazing week of shows for you because

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01:44:42,280 --> 01:44:44,600
Speaker 1: we always do and that's just how we roll. So

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01:44:44,640 --> 01:44:46,599
Speaker 1: I'll be back here tomorrow, same time, same place. Remember

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Speaker 1: channel to forty eight on Pluto. If you're listening to

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Speaker 1: the podcast, just download Pluto TV. See you talk to

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Speaker 1: you tomorrow. Shields High