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Speaker 2: It is verdict with center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with

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Speaker 2: you and Senator it is a victory dance. It's got

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Speaker 2: some meat and potatoes with it. Donald Trump putting together

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Speaker 2: their hair on fire. And a lot of conservatives have

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Speaker 2: voted for Donald Trump are liking the payoff. There's consequences

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Speaker 2: when you win and when you lose, especially if you're

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Speaker 3: Today, well, change is on the way and the change

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Speaker 3: major nominations for cabinet members, for senior officials in the

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Speaker 3: White House. We're going to go through all of those,

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Speaker 3: you particularly I just think funny story about how utterly

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Speaker 2: this is an interesting list of all these different positions

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Speaker 2: that have been filled by Trump. Early on, you and

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Speaker 2: I were talking before the show. We actually know these people.

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Speaker 2: I know several of them very well. You know them

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Speaker 2: well as also. And I actually want to start with

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Speaker 2: a really important post, and that is the ambassador to

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Speaker 3: Well, Mike Kakabi will do a terrific job in that regard.

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Speaker 3: Huckabee obviously was governor of Arkansas, but also was a

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Speaker 3: He has been an outspoken advocate for Israel, and I

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Speaker 3: think it will be an appointment that he will enjoy profoundly.

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Speaker 3: It will be markedly different from how things have been

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Speaker 3: abandonment of Israel will be because Mike Huckabee will stand

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Speaker 3: It's why under the Trump administration the first term, we

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Speaker 3: sent billions of dollars to our enemies. It's a great appointment.

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Speaker 3: And you know, as you're looking at the appointments that

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Speaker 3: Susie Wiles. Susie Wiles is President Trump's campaign manager. She's

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Speaker 3: been a political operative forever. She's going to become the

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Speaker 3: And Susie is someone who has worked for. She ran

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Speaker 3: she was deputy director during Reagan's nineteen eighty campaign. So

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Speaker 3: she's a longtime political operative. I'll tell you, I know

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Speaker 3: but her reputation is someone who's very effective, who doesn't

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Speaker 2: But his intern election night, when Donald Trump tried to

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Speaker 3: I mean that's have you ever seen that in all

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Speaker 2: No, everybody's usually clamoring to get in front of a

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Speaker 1: And it was very clear there. I think her body language.

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Speaker 2: That night was We've got work to do, Like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: Look Susie's reputation as a serious person who gets things done.

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Speaker 3: Trump's twenty twenty four campaign was by far his best

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Speaker 3: different level. So that's a strong opening appointment. Now right

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Speaker 3: behind it is the deputy chief of staff, the Deputy

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Speaker 3: chief of staff for policy, and that's Steven Miller. Now

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Speaker 3: Steven is someone I know very very well. Steven used

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Speaker 3: helping drive those policies, but from a lower profile position.

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Speaker 3: Deputy chief of Staff for policy is a big deal.

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Speaker 3: I'm glad Steven is in that job. I think he'll

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Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about that when you expand out from

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Speaker 2: Another example of that is the deep state. We know

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Speaker 2: the people around him. And someone that we both know well,

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Speaker 2: a Texan, has been named CIA director and John Ratcliffe,

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Speaker 1: In the Dallas area.

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Speaker 2: This is a big appointment, obviously an important one, but

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm very glad with this pick. John Ratcliffe is

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Speaker 3: He's someone who candidly I urged the Trump administration to

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Speaker 3: appoint to this position. I think John is a good choice.

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Speaker 3: You know, John was in the first Trump administration. He

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Speaker 3: And John showed a seriousness. He'd been a US attorney

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Speaker 3: it's the next excellent one.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about DoD Traditionally it's been someone that's been

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Speaker 2: so funny how quick these things happen and how things

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Speaker 1: That final night. Afterwards, I went on.

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Speaker 2: To host Fox Nation with the guy who's now been appointed,

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Speaker 2: Fox tonight. They were just talking about how much they

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Speaker 2: how he's an individual that has not only served as

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Speaker 1: And he understands war.

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Speaker 2: He graduated Princeton and then graduate graduate degree from Harvard.

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Speaker 3: And I'll say this, Pete does not have the traditional

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Speaker 2: because it went viral when it happened. Donald Trump has

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Speaker 2: selected Elon Musk and the vic Ramaswami to lead the

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Speaker 2: Department of Government Efficiency.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: I was asked the question right after this broke on

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Speaker 2: social media. Wait, is that even an actual department of

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Speaker 2: the US government.

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Speaker 1: Or is this made up?

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Speaker 2: I laughed, Wait, there's a lot of people that actually

445
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Speaker 2: want to know what is this, does it exists?

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Speaker 1: Is this something new?

447
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Speaker 2: And how big of a deal it is that Donald

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Speaker 2: Trump picked the Tesla CEO and ex owner Elon Musk,

449
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Speaker 2: and an entrepreneur and former Republican President of Canada, Vivic Gramuswati,

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Speaker 2: to lead this Department of quote Government Efficiency.

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Speaker 3: Well, it is not currently a government agency. I don't

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Speaker 3: think it's an accident that Department of Governmental Efficiency spells

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Speaker 3: out Doge, since Elon is a very vocal supporter of

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Speaker 3: the doge coin cryptocurrency. I think that was quite deliberate. Listen,

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Speaker 3: I'm very glad that Elon is going to play a

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Speaker 3: critical role in the administration, focusing on making government work

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Speaker 3: more effectively and more efficiently. I'm glad Viveks too. He's

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Speaker 3: a very smart guy. I know them both very well.

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you I spent thirty minutes on the phone

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Speaker 3: with Elon this week talking about precisely this mission, how

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Speaker 3: you make government operate more effectively, and Elon is dealing

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Speaker 3: right now with There is a major difference between government

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Speaker 3: agencies and the private sector. There are lots of differences,

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Speaker 3: and you know, one of the things I pointed out,

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Speaker 3: there's a fantastic economist man named Ludig von Misis, who

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Speaker 3: was one of the founding fathers of the Austrian School

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Speaker 3: of economics. Brilliant man wrote a lot of different things,

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Speaker 3: but he wrote a book called on Bureaucracy and von

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Speaker 3: Mesis and on Bureaucracy, what he argued is that inevitably

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Speaker 3: you have people who come from the private sector who

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Speaker 3: come into government and they say, we're going to make

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Speaker 3: government more efficient, We're going to make it operate like

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Speaker 3: a business. And von Mesis argued that is always, always,

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Speaker 3: always doomed to failure. And he explained why. He said, Listen,

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Speaker 3: government lacks the essential element of any private enterprise, and

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Speaker 3: that is the profit motive. And the analogy he uses.

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Speaker 3: He says, Okay, look, Ben, let's say you have a

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Speaker 3: private company. You have, say a barbecue restaurant in Memphis.

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Speaker 3: If you're running your barbecue restaurant in Memphis, every single

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Speaker 3: employee at the restaurant is motivated by the profit incentive.

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Speaker 3: If the janitor, the guy who is sweeping up the

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Speaker 3: spilled barbecue sauce in the restaurant, if he comes to

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Speaker 3: you and says, mister ferguson, I've got an idea that

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Speaker 3: can reduce our costs by ten percent and that can

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Speaker 3: increase revenues by five percent. So my guess is a

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Speaker 3: Ben you'd listen to him. You'd be like, Okay, I

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Speaker 3: want to hear that idea. Yeah, my guess is number two.

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Speaker 3: If his idea was right, that guy ain't going to

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Speaker 3: be sweeping floors any longer. He is immediately going to

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Speaker 3: get a promotion because for him and everyone else at

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Speaker 3: the restaurant, the incentive is the profit motive that that

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Speaker 3: unified the incentives of everyone in the private sector. In contrast,

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Speaker 3: and this is what von Misis argues in on bureaucracy,

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Speaker 3: in government, there is no profit motive, and in fact,

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Speaker 3: the incentives are precisely the obverse. Let's say you're running

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Speaker 3: a particular office and a government agency, and you've got

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Speaker 3: a million people who are receiving ten billion dollars in benefits.

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Speaker 3: Your incentives are not to reduce the number of people

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Speaker 3: receiving those benefits. Your incentives are not to reduce the

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Speaker 3: amount of benefits they're receiving. Instead, what are your incentives

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Speaker 3: in government? Your incentives and government are to increase the

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Speaker 3: one million people to a million, five or two million.

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Speaker 3: Your incentives are to increase the ten million dollars in

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Speaker 3: benefits to fifteen billion or twenty million. Your incentives are

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Speaker 3: to take your say, thousand people that were work for

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Speaker 3: you and increase it to two thousand or three thousand.

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Speaker 3: All of your incentives not only are they not aligned

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Speaker 3: on the profit motive, they are exactly the opposite of

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Speaker 3: the profit motive. So I actually I recommended Elon he

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Speaker 3: read the book. He did not know the book, and

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Speaker 3: we spent about thirty minutes talking about how do you

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Speaker 3: change this beast that is government. You're never going to

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Speaker 3: make it quickened in. But I also talked about the

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Speaker 3: fact that a huge problem with government is that you

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Speaker 3: cannot fire government employees. Generally speaking, there are civil service

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Speaker 3: protections in place that if you try to fire someone,

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Speaker 3: you have litigation. It's very difficult. And I pointed out

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Speaker 3: to Elon, look, when you went into Twitter, you fired

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Speaker 3: what sixty percent of the employees. That is a flexibility

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Speaker 3: that you have and what it means. And I tried

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Speaker 3: to lay this out to him as well. So I said, listen,

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Speaker 3: at Teslas SpaceX, my guess is you have very very

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Speaker 3: few employees who wake up every day with their mission

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Speaker 3: and life being to stop you, to frustrate the objectives

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Speaker 3: of the company, and to try to make them fail.

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Speaker 3: And if you did have any employees that were doing that,

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Speaker 3: you'd fire them because they work for you, and that'd

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Speaker 3: be it. In government, particularly with the deep state, there

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Speaker 3: are literally thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of deep

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Speaker 3: state employees who wake up every day with their objective,

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Speaker 3: their mission being to stop everything Donald Trump is trying

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Speaker 3: to accomplish. And so I'm really glad that Elon is

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Speaker 3: doing this, and I think Vivek is very smart. I

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Speaker 3: think Vivek will add to that. We will get some

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Speaker 3: good results out of it, but it is going to

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Speaker 3: be an incredibly important and incredibly challenging endeavor. And I'll

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Speaker 3: say Elon is as smart a person as I have

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Speaker 3: ever encountered. And look, I've been blessed. I've actually run

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Speaker 3: in some circles where I've known some freakishly smart people,

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Speaker 3: including people like Chief Justice William Renquist and Anton Scalia,

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Speaker 3: and and Elon is just another level in terms of brilliant.

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Speaker 3: So I'm excited to see what he can do in

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Speaker 3: this role. But it is going to be I think

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Speaker 3: his instinct is going to be to break some China

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Speaker 3: and and we'll see how that plays out in the

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Speaker 3: government world.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the government world is a key point there.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about one of the most important appointments, and

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Speaker 2: that is Tom Homan. And there are so many conservatives

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Speaker 2: that voted for Donald Trump, so many Americans that voted

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Speaker 2: for Donald Trump because they want to secure border. He's

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Speaker 2: the former Immigration and Custom Enforcement Director. He has now

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Speaker 2: been named Trump's Borders are tasked with cracking down on

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Speaker 2: immigration and overseeing the southern border the northern border as well.

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Speaker 2: And he said this on Fox yesterday.

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Speaker 4: Look, I've seen I've seen some of these democratic governors,

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Speaker 4: and they're going to stand in the way. They're going

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Speaker 4: they're going to make a heart for us. Well, you

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Speaker 4: know a suggestion, if you're not going to help us,

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Speaker 4: get the hell on the way when we're going to

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Speaker 4: do it. So if we can't get assistance from New

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Speaker 4: York City, and I may we may have to double

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Speaker 4: the number of.

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Speaker 1: Raises we send in New York City because we're going

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Speaker 1: to do the job. We're going to do the job

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Speaker 1: without here or with you. It's very clear.

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Speaker 2: Democrats already gearing up to fight against the government and deportations.

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Speaker 2: He has said their number one goal is what you

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Speaker 2: and I mentioned on the show. I think it was

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Speaker 2: even before election day. They're going to go after the

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Speaker 2: criminals first. They're going to go after the people that

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Speaker 2: have already had due process and have been told that

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Speaker 2: they are to be deported from this country. And again,

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Speaker 2: this is where I love doing the show. Let's remind

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Speaker 2: listeners and arm you guys with the facts. When when

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Speaker 2: you hear the left say it's inhumane to deport people,

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Speaker 2: do not forget Barack Obama deported more than three million

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Speaker 2: illegal immigrants while he was president. So this idea that

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Speaker 2: we're doing a million plus at or felons that have

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Speaker 2: been convicted of crimes that have already had due process,

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Speaker 2: don't fall for this because remind all of the people

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Speaker 2: that say otherwise, Barack Obama deported more than three million

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Speaker 2: illegal immigrants when he was president.

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Speaker 3: So Tom Homan is a serious guy. He cares passionately

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Speaker 3: about defending this nation securing our borders. I am very

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Speaker 3: very happy that Trump is named him borders are He

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Speaker 3: also named Christy Nome, the governor South Dakota to be

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Speaker 3: the Secretary of the Department Homeland Security. Homan and Nome

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Speaker 3: will work hand in hand. I think that's going to

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Speaker 3: be very effective. Tom Homan understands the border, he understands

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Speaker 3: what is what it takes to secure the border, and

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Speaker 3: I think he is going to be the point person

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Speaker 3: driving the agenda. As I've predicted before. But I want

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Speaker 3: people to hear this. It's November. We are still facing

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Speaker 3: an invasion at our southern border. We are going to

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Speaker 3: secure the border, and it is not going to take

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Speaker 3: a year at not even going to take six months.

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Speaker 3: It will be done by January and February of next year.

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Speaker 3: And in February, Ben, I want you to play this

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Speaker 3: clip back and either we're going to say the results

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Speaker 3: are in Cruz was right, or hold me to account

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Speaker 3: and say, Okay, it didn't happen. What went wrong. But

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Speaker 3: either way, that's my prediction. And I think Tom Homan

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Speaker 3: is going to be driving the effort to get that done,

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Speaker 3: and I also think Stephen Miller, is Deputy Chief of Staff,

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Speaker 3: will be driving it alongside him. I'm very optimistic about

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Speaker 3: what we're going to get done on that front.

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Speaker 2: And finally, when we're talking, and there's more names are

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Speaker 2: going to come out, and we will continue to let

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Speaker 2: you know what we think about them and how exciting

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Speaker 2: this moment is. But there's one of your colleagues in

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Speaker 2: the Senate, someone you know very well. There was a

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Speaker 2: lot of people that were on the short list. I

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Speaker 2: say a lot, a lot that you and I knew

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Speaker 2: that were floated for the shortlist for Secretary of State.

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Speaker 2: I was paying very close attention to this one, as

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Speaker 2: I know you were. And and the nominee is going

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Speaker 2: to be your colleague, the Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think this is terrific. I think Marco is

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Speaker 3: going to do a good job.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 3: He is focused on foreign policy quite a bit his

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Speaker 3: entire time in the Senate. Marco is smart, He cares

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Speaker 3: about foreign policy. He cares about standing up to communists,

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Speaker 3: especially in Cuba. He cares about standing up to communist

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Speaker 3: in China. Marco is more interventionist on foreign policy than

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Speaker 3: I am. But that being said, he cares deeply about it,

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Speaker 3: and and and so I think he is more interventionist

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Speaker 3: on foreign policy than Trump is. And at the end

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Speaker 3: of the day, Trump is going to make the decisions.

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Speaker 3: But I think Marco is someone who is diplomatic, He

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Speaker 3: is articulate, he will be he will be a very

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Speaker 3: effective diplomat for America. I think it's a great choice.

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Speaker 3: I think it's a natural fit. I will tell you so.

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Speaker 3: So I sent Marco a text tonight which I'll go

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Speaker 3: ahead and and and and read to you what I

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Speaker 3: send him. I sent Mark of the following text. Congrats, sir,

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Speaker 3: A big damn deal. You join an historic roster including

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Speaker 3: John Jay Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, James Madison, James Monroe,

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Speaker 3: John Quincy, Adams, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John Calhoun, William Jennings,

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Speaker 3: Bryan Charles Evans, Hughes, Henry Stimpson, George Marshall, Dean Atchison,

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Speaker 3: John Foster, Dulles, Dean Rusk, Henry Kissinger, George Schultz, and

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Speaker 3: James Baker. Truly rarefied air. Every Cuban is deeply proud.

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Speaker 3: And then I finished it with and I'm confident at

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Speaker 3: least that you'll kick the ass of Hillary and John Kerry.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, Barr, but I couldn't agree with you more

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Speaker 2: on that one. Right, It's I have no idea. I

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Speaker 2: have no doubt I should say that Marco was going

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Speaker 2: to laugh when he reads that last part of the text.

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Speaker 3: So he did laugh, and he responded, I will almost

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Speaker 3: never out my colleagues text, but I think Marco would

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Speaker 3: forgive me for this. His response was, he said, there

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Speaker 3: is hope for the Cuban Caucus, and then he sends

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Speaker 3: me a story from Latin Times. Social media users launch

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Speaker 3: campaign to get pit Bull appointed to Marco Rubio's Senate seat.

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Speaker 3: Ron de Santus has only one choice, and I could

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Speaker 3: only respond to that spectacular.

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Speaker 1: You gotta love it.

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Speaker 2: I want to tell you about the International Fellowship of

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Speaker 2: Christians and Jews. Last week, Americans voted in one of

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Speaker 2: the most consequential elections in our history, and with all

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Speaker 2: that's happening, we know that the support of Americans like

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Speaker 2: you mean so much the people of Israel, especially now.

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Speaker 2: This past year, not only have we seen the war

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Speaker 2: rage on in the Holy Land, but we've also seen

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Speaker 2: an alarming rise in anti Semitism. That's why I'm a

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Speaker 2: proud partner of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.

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Speaker 2: They have been building bridges between Christians and Jews for

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Speaker 2: on the ground helping the vulnerable and providing security for

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Speaker 2: support during this critical time, because so many of you

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Speaker 2: those most in need. Standing with Israel and the Jewish

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Speaker 2: people has never meant so much. And if you've not

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Speaker 2: gotten involved, please take a look at what you can

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Speaker 2: IFCJ dot org. To learn more and to make a

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Speaker 2: gift now, that's support IFCJ dot org. You can also

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Speaker 2: call them to give it eight to eight for eight

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Speaker 2: eight IFCJ that's eighty eight for eight eight IFCG or

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Speaker 2: four to three.

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Speaker 1: Two five, Senator.

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Speaker 2: One other story is Donald Trump is getting his cabinet

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Speaker 2: together and making appointments.

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Speaker 1: That has not gotten a lot of attention is the.

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Speaker 2: Take out the trash, everybody throwing everybody under the bus

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Speaker 2: in the Biden camp, the Harris camp. We find out

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Speaker 2: she blew through a billion dollars, she's upside down in debt.

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Speaker 2: They're begging for money with text messages to liberals saying

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Speaker 2: we need your help with accounting of the votes and

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Speaker 2: give money.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 2: I wish I was joking, but I'm not, and I

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Speaker 2: don't know. Someone said eighteen twenty million upside down. And

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Speaker 2: then we found out where a lot of the donations

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Speaker 2: actually went. The donations were going to celebrities. Oprah's had

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Speaker 2: to come out after there was a million dollar check

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Speaker 2: given to her Quote production company for production of a

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Speaker 2: one day sit down interview that we many people saw

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Speaker 2: on TV with Oprah. It doesn't call it's a million

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Speaker 2: dollars to produce that, but that was the price tag.

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Speaker 2: And then we found out that there were a lot

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Speaker 2: of celebrities that were being paid to act like they

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Speaker 2: loved Kamala Harris. And there are some Democratic donors that

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Speaker 2: are livid right now over the price tag on this.

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Speaker 3: You know, there's a terrific article in the Spectator World

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Speaker 3: entitled Kamala Harris ran the Fry Festival of Campaigns, and

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Speaker 3: it points out that Trump's campaign spent roughly four hundred

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Speaker 3: and eighty eight million dollars and Kamala spent more than

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Speaker 3: a billion, so she outspent Trump. More than two to one,

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Speaker 3: and Kamala's campaign ended up twenty million dollars in debt. Well,

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Speaker 3: it turns out where did that money go. Well, one

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Speaker 3: of the things that went to is they paid many

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Speaker 3: of the quote unquote celebrities who supported her. We were

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Speaker 3: getting paid and getting paid significant sums. So for example,

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Speaker 3: remember the Call Me Daddy podcast? Yeah, well apparently the

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Speaker 3: campaign spent upwards of six figures to build a custom

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Speaker 3: set for her appearance on the podcast, and the podcast

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Speaker 3: netted only eight hundred thousand downloads, less than a million downloads. Look, Ben,

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Speaker 3: you and I we have roughly a million unique listeners.

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Speaker 3: If she wanted eight hundred thousand downloads, I'll tell you,

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Speaker 3: Kamala right now, even though you've lost Ben and I

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Speaker 3: will invite you on Verdict right now. We will welcome you.

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Speaker 3: We will not charge you to build a set, so

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Speaker 3: you can save all your money. And you paid Oprah

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Speaker 3: a million dollars for production costs, we will charge you

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Speaker 3: for production costs on Verdict. What do you think fifty bucks?

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Speaker 1: Sure? I think I took a fair price. Fifty bucks.

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Speaker 3: Fifty bucks will get you a very nice coffee cup

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Speaker 3: with some Jamaican blue Mountain coffee. That's what we'll spend

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Speaker 3: the fifty bucks on and you can reach the same

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Speaker 3: number of people. All right. By the way, she also

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Speaker 3: turned down Joe so call me Daddy. Got eight hundred

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Speaker 3: thousand downloads. How many do you think Joe Rogan's interview

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Speaker 3: of Donald Trump got a lot more than that? Forty

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Speaker 3: seven million?

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's a lot. Okay, that's a lot.

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Speaker 3: So there were also seven Swing state concerts with expensive performers,

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Speaker 3: and it turns out every one of them they got

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Speaker 3: a price. It is the world's oldest profession and they

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Speaker 3: are charging for it. So who are the performers that

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Speaker 3: got paid millions of dollars? Katie Perry, Lady Gaga, John

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Speaker 3: bon Jovi, Ricky Martin.

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Speaker 1: Hold on, you're.

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Speaker 2: Telling me now of these people were like doing it

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Speaker 2: for free because they were all in for Comma.

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Speaker 1: They wanted to get paid.

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Speaker 3: That show me the money. They ended up spending more

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Speaker 3: than twenty million dollars on event production alone. Oprah, as

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Speaker 3: you noted, charged a million dollars, and they went so

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Speaker 3: far into debt that the campaign and allegedly had to

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Speaker 3: scrap Alanis Morisset. They were planning to do a lot

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Speaker 3: of Morisset and they said, no, okay, we can't afford

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Speaker 3: her anymore. Nevermind. I mean it is truly stunning, and

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Speaker 3: you've got to wonder, like I gotta say, I don't

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Speaker 3: get paying millions of dollars for celebrities to fake endorse

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Speaker 3: someone she spent paid money to. What Beyonce.

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Speaker 1: Well, let's go over the big ones.

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Speaker 2: This is coming from Fox and I'm gonna play this

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Speaker 2: this audio.

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Speaker 1: Take a listen.

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Speaker 2: This is again from Fox, as they were going through

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Speaker 2: how much cash was spent.

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Speaker 1: I can't get over these numbers.

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Speaker 5: Ten million dollars for Beyonce to step up and back

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Speaker 5: Kamala Harris publicly, five million for Megan the Stallion, three

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Speaker 5: million for Lizzo, one point eight million for eminem was that.

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Speaker 2: Those numbers are unbelievable if you just look at them.

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Speaker 2: And I was like, hold on a second, and I

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Speaker 2: went back and watched that clip a couple of different times,

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Speaker 2: because you look at them.

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Speaker 1: Ten million for Beyonce.

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Speaker 2: If you're a donor and you wrote a big check Meghan,

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Speaker 2: this Stallion, five million, Lizzo three million and one point

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Speaker 2: eight million, I called on, I just raised all this

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Speaker 2: money for you and this is how you spent it.

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Speaker 3: Look, I gotta say I've run a bunch of campaigns.

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Speaker 3: I ran my first campaign for Senate in twenty twelve.

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Speaker 3: I ran my next campaign for president in twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 3: We won twelve states all over the country. I ran

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Speaker 3: my next campaign for Senate again in twenty eighteen, and

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Speaker 3: I just finished running my most recent campaign for Senate

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Speaker 3: reelect a third term in twenty twenty four. I can

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Speaker 3: tell you, in the whole time, I've never paid any

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Speaker 3: one a million dollars for anything. I don't think we

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Speaker 3: paid any entertainers. I don't know of any entertainers we paid.

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Speaker 3: Maybe at some point we paid five or ten grand

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Speaker 3: for someone performing at some party. I'm not aware of it.

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Speaker 3: But I can tell you this. Look our stars now,

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Speaker 3: to be clear, the stars we have at our events

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Speaker 3: are our international, supermodeled, global talents like Ben Ferguson. And

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Speaker 3: I gotta tell you.

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Speaker 2: What that ten million dollar payday once in my career

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Speaker 2: like oh yeah, Beyondest say yeah, yeah, I'm all in

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Speaker 2: for the cause, but I just need ten million to.

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Speaker 1: Make it happen.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Ben, To be clear, we don't pay you ten dollars,

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Speaker 3: No that's Look, I'm a fiscal conservative. Dammit. If you

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Speaker 3: want to be there and you believe in saving the country,

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Speaker 3: stand up and save the country. And if not, get

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Speaker 3: the hell out. But like, what is it with these

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Speaker 3: lefties who ironically they want to put socialists in office

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Speaker 3: who make it impossible for people to earn a living,

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Speaker 3: and yet they're such capitalists that they're like, show me

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Speaker 3: the money to do it. I mean, there is an

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Speaker 3: intense hypocrisy on this.

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Speaker 1: I believe this.

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Speaker 2: And I'm not just saying this because this moment in

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Speaker 2: this headline, but I'm being dead serious. This could be

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Speaker 2: a huge problem for democratic canants moving forward, because when

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Speaker 2: you see this type of abuse of campaign finance money

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Speaker 2: from donors, those same donors, somebody's going to be asking

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Speaker 2: them for money and four years or less than four

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Speaker 2: years from now.

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Speaker 3: And I'm, by the way, the question the next time

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Speaker 3: Beto O'Rourke, Collin all Red jumps on a stage with

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Speaker 3: with Willie Nelson, Everyone's going to ask how much you

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Speaker 3: pay him?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: How much of my money did did I gave you?

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Speaker 2: Did you just give him for that thirteen minutes of

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Speaker 2: him singing? It's an question and.

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Speaker 3: It undermines the entire credibility that I'm here because I

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Speaker 3: love America so much and you've got to vote for

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Speaker 3: this candidate. Look, i'll give you an example in the

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Speaker 3: presidential race. So one of the cooler people that I

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Speaker 3: got to meet and spend time with was Phil Robertson,

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Speaker 3: you know from Duck Dynasty.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and here was I mean massive back in

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Speaker 2: the day, like unbelievable star.

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Speaker 3: Huge star. And so so he invited me to Monroe,

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Speaker 3: Louisiana to come stay at his place. And I went

835
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Speaker 3: out duck hunting with Phil, which by the way, ranks

836
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Speaker 3: among the coolest things I've ever gotten to do. And

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Speaker 3: we went to the duck blind. We're there at four

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Speaker 3: in the morning. Look, i'd like to hunt in Texas.

839
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Speaker 3: I gotta be careful about what I say because there's

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Speaker 3: so many really serious hunters that I can't overstate. I

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Speaker 3: go hunting a couple times a year. I enjoy it,

842
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Speaker 3: but I'm not someone who lives and breathes it. Phil

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Speaker 3: in that duck blind, I have never seen a person

844
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Speaker 3: who is a better shot with a shotgun. He would

845
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Speaker 3: drop birds at a distance that I wouldn't pick up

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Speaker 3: my gun. They were too far away. I'm like, yeah,

847
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Speaker 3: if the duck flies over here, I'll shoot it, but

848
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Speaker 3: I can't shoot it way over there. And he would

849
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Speaker 3: just boom and then the dogs would swim out and

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Speaker 3: grab the duck and bring it back. And Phil, I'll

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Speaker 3: tell you, So I went there and spent the day

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Speaker 3: when hunting with him. He recorded an ad for our

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Speaker 3: campaign that we put out. It remains one of my

854
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Speaker 3: favorite ads we've ever done. I'm all like wearing camo

855
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Speaker 3: grease pain and I'm in the duck blind with Phil.

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Speaker 3: It was really cool. But Phil, it was during the

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Speaker 3: Iowa Caucuses and we asked, Phil, will you come to

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Speaker 3: Iowa and campaign with me? And Phil, for something like

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Speaker 3: forty years, had not missed a single day of duck season.

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Speaker 3: He'd been out there every single day for four decades,

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Speaker 3: and we'd invited him to come. And that morning he

862
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:24,960
Speaker 3: went to the blind at four in the morning and

863
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 3: he's sitting there in the blind, and I guess you know,

864
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:31,360
Speaker 3: it weighed on his heart. I can't do this today.

865
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Speaker 3: I need to go fight to save America. And Phil

866
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Speaker 3: left the blind and he went and hopped on a

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Speaker 3: plane and he flew to Iowa and he did a

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Speaker 3: big rally with me in Iowa, and I told him then,

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Speaker 3: I'm like, Phil, I am beyond humboldt that you missed

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Speaker 3: the first day of duck season in forty years to

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Speaker 3: be here in campaign alongside me. Now, I didn't writehim

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Speaker 3: a damn check to do that.

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Speaker 2: I just said, if you gave him Beyonce money, you

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Speaker 2: know you're like, oh, and by the way, here's ten

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Speaker 2: million dollars.

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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 3: No, I just said, come help save America. And it

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Speaker 3: meant a lot like for him to miss it. And

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Speaker 3: that day we were literally touch and go. We didn't

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Speaker 3: know who's gonna come, but it meant a big deal

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Speaker 3: when he came. If you're paying Beyonce ten million dollars,

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Speaker 3: I mean, my good I mean goodness. Who would she

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Speaker 3: not endorse for ten million dollars? No, it's a very

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Speaker 3: fair question.

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Speaker 2: And it's like, would any of these celebrities have showed

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Speaker 2: up for her if she wasn't paying them? Not tens

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Speaker 2: of thousands, not one hundred of thousands, but literally millions

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Speaker 2: of dollars. I think it's gonna be a very interesting

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Speaker 2: talking point in politics moving forward. It's like, is anyone

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Speaker 2: that's actually endorsing these democrats or celebrities not on the take.

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Speaker 1: Is it all just a massive payday?

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Speaker 2: They get a chance out every four years, and it's

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Speaker 2: gonna be interesting to see how that fold, how that

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Speaker 2: people and they're gonna have to now answer questions about it.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be really fun.

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Speaker 2: Don't forget. We do this podcast Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

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Speaker 2: I on those in between days grab my podcast. I'll

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Speaker 2: keep you update on the latest breaking news on the

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Speaker 2: cabinet positions as well. Download the Ben Ferguson podcast. There

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Speaker 2: and Senator Cruz and I will see you back here

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Speaker 2: on Friday morning.