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Speaker 1: So much happening today. Matt Lower is out at NBC News.

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Speaker 1: Whatever this is has got to be beyond significant and serious,

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Speaker 1: other in terms of if you're a victim of any

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Speaker 1: of this. But anyway, the report now alleges Matt Lower

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Speaker 1: there have been rumors running rampant about something with Matt Lower,

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Speaker 1: Andy Lack is the hack chairman of fake News NBC

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Speaker 1: Conspiracy News. NBC sent a memo to stafford saying, our

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Speaker 1: The hurricanes were devastating, and I said they're worth the point.

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Speaker 1: They said they were worth like point zero zero six,

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Speaker 1: but I said they were worth the point. We would

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Speaker 1: have been at four percent, maybe even over four percent,

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Speaker 1: but we had hurricanes. We took care of him in

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Speaker 1: Texas and Florida. They did a right great job, amazing job,

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Speaker 1: tremendous leadership, and we're very proud. Puerto Rico has been

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Speaker 1: a very tough situation because of the fact that it

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Speaker 1: was in very very bad shape before the storm has

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Speaker 1: ever hit. But they're doing well there and it's healing

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Speaker 1: and it's getting better and we're getting empower and all

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Speaker 1: of the things that they have to have. But I

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Speaker 1: want to tell you that a lot of brave people

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Speaker 1: in every state. We have great, great people, and it's

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Speaker 1: our number one resource, believe me, really great. But in

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Speaker 1: order to achieve this bright and glowing future, the Senate

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Speaker 1: must pass those tax cuts. Bring Main Street roaring back.

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Speaker 1: And that's what's going to happen. This is all done

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Speaker 1: without the tax cuts, and I'm not sure that people

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Speaker 1: even believe the tax cuts. I want to see what happens,

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Speaker 1: and the big day will be either tomorrow or the

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Speaker 1: next day. I would say, do it now. We're ready,

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Speaker 1: I said to the Republicans, I don't wanna tell these

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Speaker 1: are good people. They really want to and I know

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Speaker 1: they get hit hard, the Senators and congressmen, but they're

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Speaker 1: all working hard. It's not so easy. It's complicated stuff.

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Speaker 1: It's not so easy. But we had an incredible session

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Speaker 1: yesterday and I think with that that's why I said,

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Speaker 1: let's do Can we do the vote today? What do

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Speaker 1: I know? I'm a business guy. Can we do the

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Speaker 1: vote now? Well? They said, how about Friday? I said,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to wait till Friday, right, Billy, I said, Billy,

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Speaker 1: can we do the vote, get me to vote. Well,

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Speaker 1: Billy has already passed it. So and then what happens

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Speaker 1: if it passes. It goes into this beautiful committee, this

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Speaker 1: beautiful I quota pot, and we mix it up and

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Speaker 1: we stare it up, and we bring all the best

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Speaker 1: things out and you're gonna have something I predict that

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Speaker 1: will be really really special. So right now, it really

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Speaker 1: is really so right now, America's tax code is a

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Speaker 1: total dysfunctional mess. The current system has cost our nation

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Speaker 1: millions of American jobs, trillions and trillions of dollars, and

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Speaker 1: billions of hours wasted on paperwork and compliance. It is

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Speaker 1: riddled with loopholes that lets some special interests, including myself,

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Speaker 1: in all fairness, is going to cost me a fortune.

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Speaker 1: This thing. But leave me believe this is not good

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Speaker 1: for me. Me, it's not so. I has some very

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Speaker 1: wealthy friends not so happy with me. But that's okay.

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Speaker 1: You know, I keep hearing Schumer do sits for the wealthy. Well,

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Speaker 1: if it is, my friends don't know about it. I

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Speaker 1: have to explain why. Now it is great for companies

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Speaker 1: because companies are going to bring back jobs and we're

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Speaker 1: lowering the rates very substantially. But right now we're bringing

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Speaker 1: the rates down from thirty which is totally non competitive,

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Speaker 1: the highest industrialized nation in the world by far, and

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Speaker 1: we're bringing it all the way down to But that's good.

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Speaker 1: That's good for everybody in the room, whether you have

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Speaker 1: a company or whether you want a job, because we're

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Speaker 1: gonna bring back jobs. And what we've had is a

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Speaker 1: massive giveaway to foreign countries which encourage businesses to relocate officers.

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Speaker 1: And you've seen what's happened before this. This is most

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Speaker 1: prep because as bad as our tax code is, we

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Speaker 1: have Toyota, we have big car companies coming back in,

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Speaker 1: building plants in Michigan and other places. We have a

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Speaker 1: lot of businesses coming back in and they see what's happening.

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Speaker 1: They see what's going on. That's why they're doing. Our

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Speaker 1: current code is a giant and really it is. It's

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Speaker 1: a self inflicted economic wound. It's been that way for

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Speaker 1: so many years and nobody wanted to do anything about it.

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Speaker 1: But all that will change, and it will change immediately

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Speaker 1: if Congress sends a tax cut and reform bill, the

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Speaker 1: biggest tax cut in the history of our country. Bigger

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Speaker 1: than Reagan. If they send it to my desk, I

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Speaker 1: promise all of the people in this room, my friends,

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Speaker 1: so many friends in this room. It's a great state.

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Speaker 1: I promise you I will sign it. I promise I

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Speaker 1: will not veto that bill. There will be no veto

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Speaker 1: under the plan moving forward in the Senate, a typical

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Speaker 1: family for earning seventy dollars as an example, we'll see

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Speaker 1: their taxes go down by as much as two thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot. Now, we're doing that not just help people.

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Speaker 1: We're doing that because it helps our country. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: take that two thousand and right. That's the President speaking

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Speaker 1: in Missouri about his tax plan. We're gonna have experts

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Speaker 1: on the program taking your specific calls on this issue tomorrow. UH.

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Speaker 1: For those of you along the Sean Hannity Show network,

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Speaker 1: we are going to stay with the president. If you

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Speaker 1: need to go to your local break, now would be

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Speaker 1: the time to do it. Well, business, way, do you

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Speaker 1: see the final product? Way? Do you see what finally

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00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 1: comes out in what I call the mixer. The beating

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Speaker 1: heart of our plan is a tax cut for working families.

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Speaker 1: That's what it is. We're going to make sure that

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Speaker 1: you keep more of your hard earned money. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: make sure also that you have a job that you want.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna have choice. You know, in education, we now

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Speaker 1: have choice. Good word here. You're gonna have a choice.

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Speaker 1: You're not just gonna have one. You're gonna have a

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Speaker 1: choice of many jobs. People are moving back into our country.

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Speaker 1: Under our plan, the first twelve thousand dollars of income

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Speaker 1: earned by a single individual will be totally income tax free,

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Speaker 1: zero in. A married couple won't pay one dime of

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Speaker 1: income tax on their first two dollars of income zero.

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Speaker 1: Our plan will significantly increase the child tax Credit and

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Speaker 1: make it available to more middle class families, because the

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Speaker 1: single most important investment our nation can make is in

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Speaker 1: our children. Do we agree? You agree? You better agree.

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Speaker 1: Families will also benefit from a new credit for other dependents,

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Speaker 1: like a child in college or an elderly loved one.

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Speaker 1: We have our mothers, our fathers, You have your grandparents.

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Speaker 1: You have people that are elderly that have done a

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Speaker 1: fantastic job, they've grown old. You want to help them.

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Speaker 1: Now we are going to help you help them. We're

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Speaker 1: also going to eliminate tax breaks and complex loopholes taken

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Speaker 1: advantage of by the wealthy. Who are they? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I think my accountants are gone crazy right now. It's

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Speaker 1: all right, Hey, look I'm president. I don't care. I

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Speaker 1: don't care anymore. I don't care. Some of my wealthy

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Speaker 1: friends care me. I don't care. This is a higher calling.

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Speaker 1: Do we agree? As Hillary said, what difference does it make?

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Speaker 1: It made a different made it made a big difference,

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Speaker 1: made a big, big difference. We want a tax coat

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Speaker 1: that is simple and fair, and that's for all Americans.

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Speaker 1: The plan that Senators will be voting on this week,

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Speaker 1: hopefully as soon as possible, closes the loopholes the corporations

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Speaker 1: used to shift their profits to tax havevings, and it

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Speaker 1: eliminates deductions for CEO salaries over one million dollars. You

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00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:12,040
Speaker 1: see what some of these people are making little ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: I'm driving up their stock. They're making a fortune. Then

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Speaker 1: they go to their board and they tell everybody what

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Speaker 1: a great job they're doing. But what am I gonna do?

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Speaker 1: And many of them, honestly, I don't like, Uh, some

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Speaker 1: of these bankers, I don't like them. And they're making

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Speaker 1: a fortune and it's one of those things. Steve knows

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Speaker 1: a couple of them that I'm talking about dust they're saying,

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Speaker 1: what a great job they do. Right now, anybody could

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Speaker 1: do their job because we're making it easy for them,

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Speaker 1: because we're giving them a great and strong economy, and

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Speaker 1: because we've cut regulations more than any president in the

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Speaker 1: history of this country by far. And that's for full terms,

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Speaker 1: that's not for ten months. And it allows builders to build,

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Speaker 1: and it allows farmers to farm. You know what I've

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Speaker 1: done for farmers. Where have you had a little puddle

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Speaker 1: in the middle of your field. You go to jail

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Speaker 1: if you touch it right, you know what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 1: Not anymore, not anymore, not anymore. And it allows bankers

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Speaker 1: to lend. It allows bankers to lend again. So many

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Speaker 1: people came up to me and they said, we had

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Speaker 1: a twenty year relationship with a bank. We never had

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Speaker 1: a default, we never had a bad loan. Now we

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Speaker 1: go back to the bank and they say we can't

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Speaker 1: do business with you anymore because they don't qualify, even

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Speaker 1: though they're better than the people that do qualify. It's incredible,

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Speaker 1: but we're back to the strong days of our banks

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Speaker 1: and not the days of trouble pre that. We're back

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Speaker 1: to the strong where bankers can make loans and community

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Speaker 1: bankers can make great loan. Two good people. You see

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Speaker 1: what happened recently where the certain agency or bureau that

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Speaker 1: was causing so much trouble two lenders where they could

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Speaker 1: not lend, They just couldn't lend. It was devastating, they

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Speaker 1: were going out of business. Well, we're taking care of that.

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Speaker 1: We've already taken care of a big part of it,

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Speaker 1: and yesterday, So all right, we're gonna that's the man.

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Speaker 1: He is on fire today at that point, What difference

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Speaker 1: does it make? I'm president? All right, when we come back,

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Speaker 1: we've got new Gingrich. Also, Al Franken's office confronted by

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Speaker 1: Juanita Broderick and others will have that, Joe Concha on

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Speaker 1: the media, Matt Lower's sexual harassment, and much more. Mr President,

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Speaker 1: It's time to stop tweeting and start leading. There are

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Speaker 1: serious questions that must be answered and and many things

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Speaker 1: that must be done. Democrats and Republicans on the Hill

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Speaker 1: have come together on government funding before. In April, Speaker Ryan,

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Speaker 1: Leader McConnell, Leader Pelosi and I worked together to fund

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Speaker 1: the government and avoid to shut down. The four of

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Speaker 1: us have worked together before, and we Democrats are ready

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Speaker 1: to do it again. So if President Trump doesn't want

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Speaker 1: to get and get involved in this, if President Trump

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Speaker 1: says he's not going interested in cutting a deal, then

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Speaker 1: we suggest that Speaker Ryan, Leader McConnell, Leader Pelosi and

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Speaker 1: I sit down. We can come up with a good

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Speaker 1: deal on our own. And that's what was done before,

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Speaker 1: that's what can be done again. As I said, there

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Speaker 1: are serious issues in front of us. We don't have

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Speaker 1: time to waste, we don't have games to play. The

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Speaker 1: military is always secondary to them. The military to me

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Speaker 1: number one, we won't be here without our powerful military,

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Speaker 1: and we're building it up stronger, bigger, better than ever before.

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Speaker 1: In general matters can testify to that. And the other thing.

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Speaker 1: They want tax increases and we want major tax decreases.

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Speaker 1: So they decided not to show up. They've been all

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Speaker 1: talk and they've been no action, and now it's even worse.

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Speaker 1: Now it's not even talk. So they're not showing up

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Speaker 1: for the meeting. I will say this in light of

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Speaker 1: the missile launch. Probably they'll be here fairly quickly, or

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Speaker 1: at least discussions will start taking place fairly quickly. I

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Speaker 1: think that we're in a very good position in terms

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Speaker 1: of the meeting we just had over at the Capitol

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Speaker 1: with the Republican senators. Who was outstanding that happens. I

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Speaker 1: would ask a little bit blame the Democrats that that happens.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be over illegals pouring into the country,

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Speaker 1: crime pouring into the country. No border wall, which everybody wants.

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Speaker 1: I got elected partially because of the border wall. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You look at the military. We want strong funding for

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Speaker 1: the military. They don't so many things. As an example,

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Speaker 1: they want high taxes, We want cut taxes. Where go

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Speaker 1: to cut taxes. We're going to reform, We're gonna simplify.

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Speaker 1: They want high taxes, we want low taxes. So with

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Speaker 1: a lot of big differences. So we'll see what happens.

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Speaker 1: As down was the president to back and forth between Schumer,

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Speaker 1: Pelosi and the President yesterday, and of course, uh, Schumer

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Speaker 1: and Pelosi grandstanding, and they wouldn't even show up for

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Speaker 1: a meeting with the President, which is beyond frustrating for everybody. Uh,

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Speaker 1: the reality is they don't have a plan. You know,

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Speaker 1: everybody forgets they actually had an economic plan that included,

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Speaker 1: you know, ten trillion dollars in new taxes, eleven trillion

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Speaker 1: dollars in new spending, and then, of course, what's their

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Speaker 1: plan for North Korea? That many of these are the

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Speaker 1: same people that supported Bill Clinton's stupid, naive appeasement policies. Oh,

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Speaker 1: we can bribe our way towards a peace with Kim

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Speaker 1: Jong un, uh, Kim John Ung's father, Kim Jong ill,

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Speaker 1: and we'll make the world a better place. We'll just

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Speaker 1: give him billion billions of dollars in energy and concessions,

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Speaker 1: and we'll just say, pretty pretty pleased with sugar on top.

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Speaker 1: Whatever you do, don't build nuclear weapons. And now the

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Speaker 1: North Koreans have the capacity, the i c B M capacity.

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Speaker 1: Remember this, This missile went higher than any other missile

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Speaker 1: out of the atmosphere than ever before. It's now i

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Speaker 1: CBM capability they have. We know they have nuclear weapons,

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Speaker 1: and they're now precipitating a crisis that was wholly and

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Speaker 1: completely done under Bill Clinton's watch and Barack Obama's watch

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Speaker 1: because they did nothing to stop it. And now the

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Speaker 1: saber rattling is at a level that we've never seen before,

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Speaker 1: worse than it's ever been before, and so this is

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Speaker 1: now the state of of where the world is having

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Speaker 1: to basically hope and monitor that this guy is not

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Speaker 1: going to fire another missile at at Japan or Hawaii

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Speaker 1: or Guam or anywhere in between. Joining us now, Former

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Speaker 1: Speaker of the House, New King Ridge, how are you, sir?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing well. I think you are correctly growing people's

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Speaker 1: attention to probably the biggest threatning face in the near future,

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Speaker 1: which is a truly very serious and I think it

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Speaker 1: very hard to solve a problem well. I don't think

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Speaker 1: there are many good options, although you did actually raise

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Speaker 1: my hopes in an interview when this happened the last

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Speaker 1: time by saying that we might have new defense capabilities

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Speaker 1: that most Americans don't know about, which would include something

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Speaker 1: on the lines of an electromagnetic pulse that could shut

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Speaker 1: down the entire country of North Korea. I think that

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Speaker 1: there are a number of tools in ourselves, and I

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Speaker 1: think that we were being pushed towards using them. I

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Speaker 1: also think we're pushing the Chinese very hard to make

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Speaker 1: it possible for us to keep them off balance, if

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Speaker 1: you will. I don't think that we should give up

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Speaker 1: on finding a peaceful solution but we should recognize that

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Speaker 1: that what's happening. Part is it Kim Jong n the

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Speaker 1: dictated North Korea has been educated for a generation by

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Speaker 1: watching question American presidents say big things and do nothing.

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Speaker 1: And I think that what you're seeing shift is that

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Speaker 1: we are now we now have a president who means

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Speaker 1: what he's saying, and we've got to somehow, um get

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Speaker 1: through this. I mean, it's really, uh, very important. I

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Speaker 1: happened to have a chance yesterday chatting with General of

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Speaker 1: now Secretary Madison a few other people to get a

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Speaker 1: feel for the fact that they're totally engaged. I mean

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Speaker 1: they literally were responding within seconds of having heard this information,

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Speaker 1: and they are really putting pressures throughout the region. So

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Speaker 1: I'm not convinced yet that that that it's hopeless, but

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Speaker 1: I'm convinced it's a serious, serious problem. Well it seems

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Speaker 1: to me, I mean at this point, now, at some point,

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Speaker 1: we've got to make a decision. Now that they have,

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Speaker 1: you know, this missile flu you know, fifty minutes in

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Speaker 1: the air, now General Madison saying it can reach the

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Speaker 1: continental United States. That put that puts every American in jeopardy.

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Speaker 1: So now, remember what they did which is pretty clever.

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Speaker 1: Is they fired the missile very high, so they so

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Speaker 1: it looks on the surface like a relatively short range

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Speaker 1: but that's because they were using the energy to push

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Speaker 1: it to upwards. So we think that probably if you

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Speaker 1: straighten it out, you could reach um Washington, d C

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Speaker 1: with this missile. Now I did. I happened this morning

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Speaker 1: to be with Leon Panetta, it used to be both

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Speaker 1: Secretary Defense and the head of the CIA, and he

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Speaker 1: was saying that he's reasonably confident that we can defeat

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Speaker 1: one or two I C B M s if we

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Speaker 1: had to with our ballistic missile defense system. But he also,

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Speaker 1: I think, is moving in the direction I don't want

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Speaker 1: to put words in Leon's mouth, but but he also

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Speaker 1: is moving in the direction you've heard me talk about,

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Speaker 1: which is that we have to take seriously the idea

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Speaker 1: of a shoot on launch response which kills the missile.

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Speaker 1: If our listeners can follow this, you when a missile

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Speaker 1: first starts to rise, it's pretty pretty direct and pretty straight,

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Speaker 1: and so that's actually the best time to try to

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Speaker 1: to kill it because you have the easiest shot at it.

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Speaker 1: And North Korea is a relatively narrow peninsula, so you

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Speaker 1: could actually have aircraft on on twenty four hour alert

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Speaker 1: sitting off shore of actually flying off shore with hypersonic

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Speaker 1: weapons and go after Listen. I I agree, but the launched.

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Speaker 1: But this is not perfect technology. You know, one time

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Speaker 1: I remember discussing this very topic with you. I want

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Speaker 1: to have forty shots at it, not one or two.

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Speaker 1: And if he launches two simultaneously, you know, then what

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Speaker 1: do we do or three simultaneously. Look this this, in

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Speaker 1: my judgment, this makes it imparity of the Congress pass

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Speaker 1: a dramatically bigger defense budget and include investing in a

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Speaker 1: mid course up in space capability, include dramatically enhanced UH

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Speaker 1: continental US capability, and include an ability on launch. So

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Speaker 1: you think of it as a three layered system. You

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Speaker 1: try to kill it first on the way up, you

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Speaker 1: try to kill it while it's in space, and then

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Speaker 1: you try to kill it when it comes down. It

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Speaker 1: gives you, if you do it right, it probably gives

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Speaker 1: you twenty or thirty shots at this thing. And you

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Speaker 1: should have You should be able to build a system

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Speaker 1: that has a pretty high likelihood of doing that. Now

746
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 1: I know the world and then everybody is sort of

747
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:21,920
Speaker 1: rocked up with all the allegations in Washington and the

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Speaker 1: media world and Matt Lower and Garrison Killer and Al

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00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:28,920
Speaker 1: Franken and John Conyers, etcetera. But this is a clear

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Speaker 1: and present danger to the US. Similarly, I think the

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Speaker 1: Republican Party now in the next three weeks it's do

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00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 1: or die for them in the Senate, and that is Look,

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00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:41,959
Speaker 1: they've only confirmed half of the President's appointments in a year.

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Speaker 1: That is an unforgivably low number. Mitch McConnell has wind

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00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 1: and complained about excessive expectations. They never got their seven

756
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:53,920
Speaker 1: and a half year promise of repeal and replaced done.

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00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 1: How competent are you that this tax cut bill is

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Speaker 1: actually gonna pass us and they'll go in the conference

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Speaker 1: and the President will have a bill to sign before Christmas. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I'm I would say eight confident. Now, well, I am

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Speaker 1: not that confident. Convinced me? Why because, uh, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: You didn't actually convince you. You asked me how I felt. No,

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Speaker 1: I know, but I want you to convince me because

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Speaker 1: I feel a lot better. I mean, that's what friends do. Okay, Then,

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Speaker 1: by the way, I should just say, for the audience sake,

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Speaker 1: I need to thank you I had no idea how

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Speaker 1: bad my voice had gotten the other night. Uh, and

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Speaker 1: other than the fact that you lectured me publicly for

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Speaker 1: the entire country on how to take care of my voice. No,

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Speaker 1: it sounds a lot better. But by listen, I hope

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Speaker 1: you noticed in the interview that I talked a lot

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Speaker 1: more than I usually would. I know. Well, anyway, I

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Speaker 1: just want to apologize for the entire audience, so I

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Speaker 1: didn't feel it like I No, no, my end of

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Speaker 1: the bargain. Na, listen, it happens. I gotta take a

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Speaker 1: quick break. We'll come back. We'll have more with new

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Speaker 1: king Ridge on the other side of this break. All right.

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Speaker 1: As we continue, New king Rich remains with us, author

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Speaker 1: of the book Vengeance. The thing I most like about

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Speaker 1: where we are right now in the tax bill is

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Speaker 1: that I think the President learned the key lesson of

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Speaker 1: the failure with Obamacare, which is the the legislative process

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Speaker 1: comes down to fifty senators plus the vice president and

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Speaker 1: two House members and the president's signature. And if you

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Speaker 1: can't find a way, it's a numbers game. If you

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Speaker 1: can't find a way to get to fifty plus the

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Speaker 1: vice president, and you can't find a way to get

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Speaker 1: to eighteen. You're not going to get a law period.

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Speaker 1: I don't, you know, the most most fabulous, idealistic bill

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Speaker 1: in history. And if you can't get those numbers right,

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Speaker 1: you lose. The President said yesterday when he was asked

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Speaker 1: about Senator Corker's proposal that they have a target, they

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Speaker 1: have a trigger five or six years out if they

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Speaker 1: don't get enough economic growth, something will be triggered, etcetera.

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Speaker 1: When he said, look, I don't particuarly like it, but

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Speaker 1: if that's what it takes to get the bill, then

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Speaker 1: I would sign it. That was the right answer, because

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Speaker 1: you don't want to say, you know, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: kill the bill over some argument six years from now. Uh,

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Speaker 1: You've got lots of stuff you can do between now

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Speaker 1: and six years from now. Plus I think if you

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Speaker 1: look at the growth numbers that came in this morning,

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Speaker 1: we're already at three point three without the tax cut.

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Speaker 1: So we have a real chance here. And the way

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Speaker 1: the President's going around the planet, by the way, creating

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Speaker 1: American jobs, getting contracts signed country after country. Uh, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of underlying momentum building here. So I think

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Speaker 1: what they've done that they sat down brilliantly with Senator Collins.

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Speaker 1: She had a very specific concern. They said to her,

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Speaker 1: how about we were making order two bills, you'll offer

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Speaker 1: on healthcare that we brought up in the Senate and

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Speaker 1: will pass it um. She said that that's all that

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Speaker 1: satisfies my primary concern. Now she's in that there's been

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Speaker 1: a much more personal, much more what a legislative process

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Speaker 1: should be. Uh. And so I think that they're they're

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Speaker 1: on a roll. Uh. We could have fall apart share,

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Speaker 1: but you only have a two old majority or a

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Speaker 1: three vote margin. You know, anything can happen. But I

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Speaker 1: just sense that they're close to it. But we also

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Speaker 1: point out in the appointments. By the way, McConnell the

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Speaker 1: other day said, Okay, I am now getting seriously fed up.

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Speaker 1: And I think they have a rule that says, if

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Speaker 1: you say you're gonna filibuster of nominee, it takes thirty

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Speaker 1: hours before you can get to the vote. Uh. And

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Speaker 1: he said, maybe we ought to reduce that to eight

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Speaker 1: and if that doesn't work, maybe we'll reduce it to four.

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Speaker 1: When he said that, all of a sudden, the Democrats

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Speaker 1: agree eighty five different nominations being approved by Anandison said,

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Speaker 1: just like that. So here's my high proposal. If the

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Speaker 1: Democrats don't want to meet in the White House on

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Speaker 1: the budget, let's do to budget votes and spending votes

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Speaker 1: what they've already done to Supreme Court votes. Let's just

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Speaker 1: make it a simple majority. Then you don't have to

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Speaker 1: worry about meeting with Schumer. I've been saying this. Somebody

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Speaker 1: did us a big favorite and nobody ever took note

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Speaker 1: of it, and that is Senator Grassley of Iowa. Because

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Speaker 1: with a lot of the court appointments by and the

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00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:04,799
Speaker 1: judge ships that are appointed by the president. You know,

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Speaker 1: they used to have a courtesy rule where the home

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00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:09,279
Speaker 1: state senators would sign off on it. And he said,

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Speaker 1: forget about it. It's never gonna happen, so I'm not

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00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 1: wasting my time. And that was a precedent sent by

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Speaker 1: set by Harry Reid. And the same with this, you know,

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Speaker 1: an equated uh rule that Mitch McConnell's clinging to that

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Speaker 1: is killing the president's agenda. Yeah, and I'll tell you

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00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:26,279
Speaker 1: one of the things you can tell is different. In

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Speaker 1: the old days, a traditional Republican would have tried to

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Speaker 1: find a way to appease the Democrats. What what's now

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00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:37,760
Speaker 1: happening is a new spirit is infecting on the spirit

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Speaker 1: of Trump, if you will, uh and uh it was.

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Speaker 1: It was to me very clear, Um that what's what's

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00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:48,759
Speaker 1: happening is the Republicans are getting tougher. Instead of trying

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Speaker 1: to appease the Democrats, they're standing up to him. That

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Speaker 1: in my career, I have never seen this level of

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Speaker 1: toughness among Republicans in the Senate. All Right, we're gonna

856
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Speaker 1: have to leave it. Go there. I'm glad you're feeling better.

857
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Speaker 1: Mr Aker. It was good to see you the other night. Anyway.

858
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Speaker 1: You see the picture of me on the New York

859
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Speaker 1: Times Sunday magazine. Wasn't it a nice picture? The things

860
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Speaker 1: I said about you you were great, I mean, but

861
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Speaker 1: the problem is you have to get past that hideous

862
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Speaker 1: picture to see it. Well, it's New York Times. Yeah,

863
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Speaker 1: I know it's gonna make you look They're not going

864
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Speaker 1: to make you a pin up boy if your goal

865
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Speaker 1: in life was to be a pin up boy for

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Speaker 1: the New York Times. Seriously left by the way. I

867
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Speaker 1: was there with the king Ridge that stole Christmas. So

868
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Speaker 1: I listen, I should have learned a long time ago

869
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Speaker 1: to follow your lead and stay out of these stupid newspapers. No,

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Speaker 1: I think it was a good article for you. In fact,

871
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Speaker 1: I had some friends of ours to tell me yesterday

872
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 1: how surprised they were and how totally positive the article was.

873
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:46,279
Speaker 1: I didn't see it exactly the same way. But it's

874
00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:48,719
Speaker 1: about me. What do I know? Mr Speaker, You're very kind.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you're feeling better. E one sewn toll free

876
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Speaker 1: telephone number. You want to be a part of the program.

877
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:57,840
Speaker 1: You're gonna meet those that confronted Al Frankin's office, and

878
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:00,360
Speaker 1: we're gonna check in with Matt Gates on the latest

879
00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:03,840
Speaker 1: on uranium one, the Clinton scandals, and yeah, Al Franken

880
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:08,759
Speaker 1: confronted Matt Lower Gone Arison, kaylor gone, that's next. If

881
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:11,520
Speaker 1: there is this moment where voters are looking now in

882
00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:14,640
Speaker 1: a general election context or thinking of you versus Donald Trump,

883
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:16,840
Speaker 1: some voters may be paying attention now in a different

884
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:19,399
Speaker 1: kind of way. What's your answer to those people who

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Speaker 1: think g FBI inquiry that's a big deal. Uh? What

886
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:25,319
Speaker 1: do you say to them? I say what I've said

887
00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:28,920
Speaker 1: now for many many months. It's a security inquiry. I

888
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:33,800
Speaker 1: always took classified material seriously. Uh. There was never any

889
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 1: material marked classified that was sent or received by me,

890
00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:40,880
Speaker 1: and I look forward to as being wrapped up. What

891
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:42,880
Speaker 1: about people think, well, she might be president, what does

892
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:45,400
Speaker 1: she learned from this whole president? Well, that was a mistake,

893
00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:47,560
Speaker 1: and I have said that and I will say it

894
00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:50,280
Speaker 1: again as often as I need to. H It seemed

895
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:53,560
Speaker 1: like a convenient idea at the time that certainly wasn't.

896
00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:58,839
Speaker 1: And so I always take classified material seriously. There's no

897
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Speaker 1: argument about that I'm aware of, and I will continue

898
00:55:02,520 --> 00:55:04,839
Speaker 1: to do so. I have to give them credit. You know,

899
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:09,279
Speaker 1: Trump and his allies, including Fox News, are really experts

900
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:13,600
Speaker 1: at distraction and diversion. So the closer the investigation about

901
00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:19,520
Speaker 1: real Russian ties between Trump associates and real Russians, as

902
00:55:19,520 --> 00:55:22,440
Speaker 1: we've heard Jeff Sessions finally admit to h in his

903
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:25,480
Speaker 1: testimony the other day, the more they want to just

904
00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:28,320
Speaker 1: throw mud on the wall. And I'm their favorite target,

905
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:31,160
Speaker 1: me and you know President Obama, we're the ones that

906
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:34,680
Speaker 1: they always like to put into the crosshairs. Um. So yes,

907
00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised, but I think the real story is

908
00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:41,560
Speaker 1: how nervous they are about these continuing investigations. Let me

909
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:45,279
Speaker 1: go back, if I can, very briefly to the decision

910
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:49,680
Speaker 1: to publicly go out with your results on the email.

911
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:54,520
Speaker 1: Was your decision influenced by the Attorney general's tarmac meeting

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Speaker 1: with the former President Bill Clinton. Yes, in in a

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Speaker 1: ultimately conclusive way. That was the thing that kept it

914
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Speaker 1: for me that I had to do something separately to

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Speaker 1: protect the credibility of the investigation, which meant both the

916
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:10,960
Speaker 1: FBI and the Justice Department. Where there are other things

917
00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:13,680
Speaker 1: that contributed to that that you can describe in an

918
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:16,480
Speaker 1: open session, there were other things that contributed to that

919
00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:20,279
Speaker 1: one significant item I can't I know that committee has

920
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:22,759
Speaker 1: been briefed on. There's been some public accounts of it

921
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:24,759
Speaker 1: which are nonsense, but I understand that the committee has

922
00:56:24,760 --> 00:56:27,439
Speaker 1: been briefed on the classified facts. Probably the only other

923
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Speaker 1: consideration that I guess I can talk about an open

924
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:32,000
Speaker 1: setting is that at one point the Attorney General had

925
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:34,920
Speaker 1: directed me not to call it an investigation, but instead

926
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Speaker 1: to call it a matter, which confused me and concerned me.

927
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Speaker 1: But that was one of the bricks in the load

928
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Speaker 1: that led me to conclude I have to step away

929
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Speaker 1: from the Department. If We're to close this case credibly. Alright,

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Speaker 1: twenty four now until the top of the hour, toll

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Speaker 1: free on numbers one, Shawn, if you want to be

932
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Speaker 1: a part of the program. I never sent and I

933
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Speaker 1: never received any of this information classified information. And by

934
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Speaker 1: the way, it's only a matter. It's not it's not

935
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Speaker 1: an investigation. It's a matter, and I'll meet you on

936
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Speaker 1: the tarmac and Hillary blows it all off his course. Anyway,

937
00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:10,879
Speaker 1: there is going to be a major bombshell regarding all

938
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Speaker 1: of this we expect in the next week. So TikTok

939
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:16,240
Speaker 1: to everybody in the liberal news media that hates me

940
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Speaker 1: but yet obsessively listens to the program every day. Joining

941
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Speaker 1: us now is Florida Congressman Matt Gates, who is talking

942
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Speaker 1: about this new evidence that uncovered the FBI colluding with

943
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Speaker 1: Clinton and the investigation that they are planning to launch

944
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Speaker 1: to expose what is widespread deception and much more. How

945
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Speaker 1: are you, sir, I'm great, se And for those who

946
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Speaker 1: did not catch your segment last night on the uranium

947
00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:43,080
Speaker 1: one scandal and the investigations that are still needed there,

948
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Speaker 1: the special council that is still needed there, I would

949
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:48,480
Speaker 1: recommend them to go to your website. Look that up

950
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Speaker 1: because it was very informative. Well, I appreciate, I got listen.

951
00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:53,640
Speaker 1: I gotta give all credit where it's due, and that

952
00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:57,000
Speaker 1: goes to John Solomon and Sarah Carter. At the end

953
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Speaker 1: of all of this, I predict they should be getting

954
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Speaker 1: the pulletzer prise for investigative work. Will it happen? I

955
00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:08,120
Speaker 1: don't know. Um So, the FBI recently released emails in

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Speaker 1: which Hillary was called another word, special access program, and

957
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Speaker 1: also the investigation was called special by the FBI Deputy

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Speaker 1: Director Andrew McKay. Now, special access program information is the

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Speaker 1: highest level of classification. So I want you to go

960
00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:26,680
Speaker 1: deep into these two things in particular. Absolutely, Sean, and

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Speaker 1: you know, equal treatment under the law is a fundamental

962
00:58:30,440 --> 00:58:33,680
Speaker 1: value that we cherish as Americans. And what a roads

963
00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:36,840
Speaker 1: equal treatment under the law is if you give special

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Speaker 1: treatment to some people and you depart from the normal

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00:58:40,360 --> 00:58:44,200
Speaker 1: investigative processes. When you and I have pointed out that

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Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton has gotten her own standard throughout her entire career,

967
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Speaker 1: her own level of review there is less than would

968
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Speaker 1: be applied to any other public official, she says, it's

969
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:58,200
Speaker 1: a vast right wing conspiracy. It's an abuse of power.

970
00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:01,720
Speaker 1: But now coming out of the FBI, we are seeing

971
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Speaker 1: concrete evidence that Hillary Clinton was not treated like every

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Speaker 1: other American. She wasn't even treated like every other person

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Speaker 1: that would be in the Washington, DC area accused of

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00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:16,280
Speaker 1: a crime. So you've got you've got Andrew McCabe, who's

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Speaker 1: the current Deputy director of the FBI, who at the

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Speaker 1: time was working in the Washington Field office, sending emails

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Speaker 1: designating the Hillary Clinton investigations as special telling people to

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Speaker 1: not engage in the normal investigative procedures and practices, but

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Speaker 1: that instead there would be a quote small group at

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00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:40,920
Speaker 1: h Q at headquarters that would manage this investigation. Now

981
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:45,520
Speaker 1: that alone is troubling, but when we provide the additional context,

982
00:59:45,880 --> 00:59:49,440
Speaker 1: it becomes potentially criminal. Here's what worries us. You've got

983
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Speaker 1: Loretto Inch on the tarmac telling Bill Clinton you know,

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Speaker 1: Lord knows what, and their one on one meeting. I

985
00:59:54,600 --> 00:59:56,320
Speaker 1: don't think there are any Americans who think that they

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00:59:56,320 --> 00:59:59,320
Speaker 1: were talking about their grandkids at the time. Then you've

987
00:59:59,360 --> 01:00:03,680
Speaker 1: got James Comey giving testimony that Loretta Lynch told him

988
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:07,000
Speaker 1: to call this a matter and not an investigation. Then

989
01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:09,520
Speaker 1: you've got call me ripping this case out of the

990
01:00:09,520 --> 01:00:12,360
Speaker 1: hands of the Washington Field Office so that he can

991
01:00:12,400 --> 01:00:15,280
Speaker 1: have total control over it. And then you have the

992
01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:19,000
Speaker 1: revelation that James Comey said that he was writing the

993
01:00:19,120 --> 01:00:23,760
Speaker 1: exoneration statement for Hillary Clinton before even conducting critical parts

994
01:00:23,760 --> 01:00:28,520
Speaker 1: of the investigation like interviewing Hillary Clinton herself. Here's what

995
01:00:28,560 --> 01:00:30,440
Speaker 1: we've got to do. We've got to make sure that

996
01:00:30,520 --> 01:00:34,640
Speaker 1: under the new leadership at the FBI, under Christopher Ray,

997
01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:37,600
Speaker 1: we do not have this system where you've got one

998
01:00:37,680 --> 01:00:40,880
Speaker 1: track for the politicians and another track of justice for

999
01:00:40,920 --> 01:00:44,200
Speaker 1: everyone else. We need to clean house at the FBI.

1000
01:00:44,520 --> 01:00:47,360
Speaker 1: We need to attack the deep state there that is

1001
01:00:47,480 --> 01:00:50,800
Speaker 1: unfortunately undermining the rule of law. And I think that

1002
01:00:50,920 --> 01:00:53,760
Speaker 1: will give the American people more confident. So in in

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01:00:53,800 --> 01:00:57,520
Speaker 1: the coming weeks, we expect a lot of developments. We

1004
01:00:57,600 --> 01:01:00,240
Speaker 1: expect to see some real action at the FB eye

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01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:03,960
Speaker 1: from Christopher Ray, and we will have activity of coming

1006
01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:07,040
Speaker 1: in the Judiciary Committee. They will highlight our concerns over

1007
01:01:07,080 --> 01:01:09,600
Speaker 1: the rule of law. All right, So here is where

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01:01:09,960 --> 01:01:12,880
Speaker 1: I think I've got to be honest, Congressman. At times

1009
01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:15,240
Speaker 1: I have felt like a lone voice in the wilderness.

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01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:19,280
Speaker 1: And and you know, media personalities and and other competitive

1011
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:22,120
Speaker 1: networks have said, well, why is Hannity talking about this,

1012
01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:25,040
Speaker 1: Because if we don't have equal justice under the law

1013
01:01:25,080 --> 01:01:27,640
Speaker 1: in this country, we don't have justice. We have a

1014
01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:32,600
Speaker 1: Banana Republic. The evidence is so overwhelming, so incontrovertible on

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01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:36,000
Speaker 1: major issues, and that would include the uranium one deal.

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Speaker 1: And we learned last night from John Solomon that the

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Speaker 1: Clintons and the Clinton Foundation understated support from the firm

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01:01:43,520 --> 01:01:46,080
Speaker 1: that was hired by the Russian nuclear company. And by

1019
01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:48,360
Speaker 1: the way, it never made sense to give away, you know,

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Speaker 1: of America's uranium when we have to import uranium because

1021
01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:55,480
Speaker 1: we don't have enough uranium. Then we've got the Russian dossier.

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01:01:55,600 --> 01:01:57,920
Speaker 1: For a year they lied about said they had nothing

1023
01:01:57,960 --> 01:02:01,280
Speaker 1: to do with. Now we know they funded Christopher Steel

1024
01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:04,920
Speaker 1: Fusion GPS to come up with Russian lines to influence

1025
01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:07,600
Speaker 1: the American people in an election. And it goes back

1026
01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:10,680
Speaker 1: to a simple abuse of power. When thirty three thousand

1027
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Speaker 1: emails are deleted when they're subpoenaed by Congress, and then

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01:02:15,080 --> 01:02:17,560
Speaker 1: they use acid wash and bleach bit and then they

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01:02:17,600 --> 01:02:20,680
Speaker 1: destroy these devices with a hammer. All of that would

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Speaker 1: Shawn Harry says, it's us, it's it's the Republicans who

1031
01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:27,520
Speaker 1: are abusing power by having the audacity to question the

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01:02:27,560 --> 01:02:31,000
Speaker 1: special treatment that she gets. You know what, why if Waitcrecy,

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Speaker 1: if you subpoena in Hannity documents and I deleted them,

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01:02:34,880 --> 01:02:38,640
Speaker 1: I suspect that I would be arrested and probably charged

1035
01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:41,120
Speaker 1: and maybe put in jail for a long time. You're

1036
01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:43,960
Speaker 1: absolutely right, but see their use to their own standard.

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01:02:44,240 --> 01:02:46,880
Speaker 1: You know, I'm an attorney in the court of law.

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01:02:47,040 --> 01:02:50,480
Speaker 1: If you go and destroy evidence, there is a presumption

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01:02:50,880 --> 01:02:54,040
Speaker 1: that that evidence would be detrimental to the claims you

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01:02:54,080 --> 01:02:57,600
Speaker 1: are making. But see the Clintons. They enjoy a presumption

1041
01:02:57,760 --> 01:03:00,920
Speaker 1: that they should be treated differently or special and your right.

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01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:04,120
Speaker 1: Chart You have taken enormous criticism from the mainstream media

1043
01:03:04,440 --> 01:03:06,560
Speaker 1: over the fact that you've been pointing these things out.

1044
01:03:06,880 --> 01:03:10,120
Speaker 1: But as a consequence of the McCabe emails that have

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01:03:10,160 --> 01:03:12,720
Speaker 1: been released, we now have proof that you've been right

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01:03:12,760 --> 01:03:15,800
Speaker 1: all along. There can no longer be a dispute on

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01:03:15,880 --> 01:03:18,560
Speaker 1: the facts as to whether or not Hillary Clinton was

1048
01:03:18,600 --> 01:03:23,400
Speaker 1: treated differently. The FBI s own emails that they themselves

1049
01:03:23,600 --> 01:03:26,960
Speaker 1: released prove it, and so now we need to know why.

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01:03:27,160 --> 01:03:30,560
Speaker 1: And I think important for us moving forward, for forgetting

1051
01:03:30,560 --> 01:03:33,400
Speaker 1: about Hillary Clinton for a moment. Do we really want

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01:03:33,400 --> 01:03:37,000
Speaker 1: a system of laws in this country that treats the powerful,

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01:03:37,040 --> 01:03:40,840
Speaker 1: the politicians that connected differently than we would treat everyone else.

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Speaker 1: And I think that that is the enduring virtue that

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01:03:44,160 --> 01:03:47,320
Speaker 1: we can bring to this process with transparency and by

1056
01:03:47,400 --> 01:03:50,680
Speaker 1: pointing out this double standard. Why has there been this

1057
01:03:51,280 --> 01:03:54,960
Speaker 1: mysterious reluctance and resistance among some of the leadership in

1058
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Speaker 1: the House and Senate to even ask these questions, delve

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Speaker 1: into these issues when, as you rightly described, there's so

1060
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Speaker 1: much at stake as it relates to equal justice under

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01:04:04,200 --> 01:04:08,919
Speaker 1: the law. We need more Republicans in particular to join

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Speaker 1: our cause, to join Jim Jordan and Rhonda Santis and

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Speaker 1: myself and and twenty members of the Judiciary Committee who

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Speaker 1: have demanded a special counsel for four months now to

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Speaker 1: look into these matters relating to Hillary Clinton. And I

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Speaker 1: think that there are establishment Democrats and establishment Republicans who

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Speaker 1: just think that it's untawdry to be critical of the

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Speaker 1: Clintons anymore, that you know, while they lost, and they're

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Speaker 1: really the past, and we shouldn't really focus on these things.

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Speaker 1: And that's kind of the Country Club Republicans that feel

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Speaker 1: that way. And my assessment is that the rule of

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Speaker 1: law matters every day to every American and we all

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Speaker 1: need to be joined to ensure that that doesn't happen again.

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Speaker 1: Have you have any discussions with leadership like Ryan or

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Speaker 1: McCarthy or any of these guys. I have. I stood

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Speaker 1: up at conference and I said, we have legislation that

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Speaker 1: said that that puts the House of Upper It's on

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01:05:01,040 --> 01:05:04,120
Speaker 1: record calling for a special counsel. It could be put

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Speaker 1: on the floor any day. It has been passed out

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Speaker 1: of the Judiciary Committee already as as an amendment, and

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Speaker 1: we could have it on the floor. And I asked

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Speaker 1: the speaker, and I asked the leader to put it

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Speaker 1: on the floor, and they very politely nodded when I

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Speaker 1: made my request, but they didn't do it, did not.

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Speaker 1: I gotta take a break. We will come back. We

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Speaker 1: will continue with Matt Gates. He is a Florida Congressman,

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Speaker 1: digging deep now into the things that we have been discussing.

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Speaker 1: That as I've been telling you, it's now beginning to

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Speaker 1: cascade down and it's gonna happen very very fast, probably

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Speaker 1: as soon as next week. As we continue with Matt Gates.

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Speaker 1: He is a Congressman from the state of Florida. All

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Speaker 1: these now Hillary controversies that we have been staying on

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01:05:43,520 --> 01:05:46,640
Speaker 1: and keeping alive now coming to fruition, We've not been

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Speaker 1: on the wrong course. We've been on the right course.

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about what you think is coming out

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Speaker 1: next week. I know you remain troubled regarding the FBI's

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Speaker 1: treatment of the president both before and after his election.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel that there has been an eagle unwarranted,

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Speaker 1: let's say, surveillance of President Trump? And is it possible

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Speaker 1: the Fusion GPS Doacier, which has been proven false with

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01:06:08,680 --> 01:06:12,240
Speaker 1: their salacious material, was used as a method of getting

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Speaker 1: a FISA warrant or any other warrant. Well, Jim Jordan

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01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:20,360
Speaker 1: and Rhonda Santis and I asked that question directly to

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Speaker 1: Jeff Sessions. We said, did you did the FDI work

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01:06:24,320 --> 01:06:28,640
Speaker 1: in concert or commingle funds or provide a reimbursement with

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01:06:28,760 --> 01:06:33,080
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party for opposition research that was then used

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Speaker 1: as a basis to spy on Americans? And the answer was,

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01:06:36,360 --> 01:06:40,200
Speaker 1: we can't tell you. That is unacceptable, Sean. The American

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01:06:40,280 --> 01:06:43,480
Speaker 1: people have a right to know whether their tax dollars

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Speaker 1: were used both before and after this election to undermine

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01:06:46,960 --> 01:06:50,160
Speaker 1: President Trump, and I do not accept that that's information

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Speaker 1: that the deep state can keep from the American people.

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Speaker 1: Next week, my expectation, as we may have Christopher Way

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01:06:56,760 --> 01:06:59,919
Speaker 1: before the Judiciary Committee will have the opportunity to ask

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Speaker 1: the FBI these questions directly. And here's the hint I

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01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:05,600
Speaker 1: can give you as to what I think maybe coming

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01:07:05,600 --> 01:07:09,440
Speaker 1: next week. The FBI released these emails about Deputy Director

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Speaker 1: McCabe on purpose. These weren't weeks. They released it on purpose.

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Speaker 1: And so what motivation would Christopher Ray have to out

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Speaker 1: these improper admissions by the FBI. I think Christopher Ray

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01:07:21,800 --> 01:07:24,200
Speaker 1: wants to clean house. I think he wants to be

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Speaker 1: a good FBI director and execute the Trump agenda. And

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Speaker 1: we may may see some real action next week towards

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Speaker 1: that end. That's going to be fascinating to watch in

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Speaker 1: every aspect of this. So you think this was done

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Speaker 1: on purpose as a preemptive measure in the hopes of

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Speaker 1: cleaning up the FBI. I want to ask you about

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Speaker 1: Jeff Sessions. Uh, real quick, before I have to let

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Speaker 1: you go. Look, I've known Jeff Sessions for years I've

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Speaker 1: always I've always been a fan of his, and I

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01:07:47,040 --> 01:07:50,120
Speaker 1: am beyond puzzled at what the heck he's doing over

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01:07:50,160 --> 01:07:53,440
Speaker 1: there as the attorney general. He was a phenomenal U S.

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Speaker 1: Senator as Attorney general on free speech issues, on immigration issues,

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01:07:57,920 --> 01:08:02,160
Speaker 1: he's done a great job. But there's something about the Clinton's,

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01:08:02,240 --> 01:08:06,960
Speaker 1: about the Russia investigation, where we've needed Jeff Sessions to

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01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:10,520
Speaker 1: show leadership, and he's been very reticent to show that leadership.

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Speaker 1: I mean, with all of the facts that you've detailed

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Speaker 1: on your show, with all the facts that we've seen

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01:08:15,880 --> 01:08:19,200
Speaker 1: in documents from the FBI, why in the world do

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01:08:19,280 --> 01:08:22,719
Speaker 1: we not have a special counsel investigating Hillary Clinton. There's

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01:08:22,800 --> 01:08:26,880
Speaker 1: way more evidence for her collusion with foreign entities than

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01:08:26,920 --> 01:08:30,240
Speaker 1: there is with Donald Trump. But yet we we subject

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01:08:30,240 --> 01:08:33,320
Speaker 1: Donald Trump to this just egregious standard of scrutiny that

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01:08:33,400 --> 01:08:35,559
Speaker 1: we would that the Clintons have never faced. And so

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01:08:35,880 --> 01:08:39,320
Speaker 1: I'm frustrated with Jeff Sessions and Jim Jordan, and I

1146
01:08:39,360 --> 01:08:42,120
Speaker 1: have said very clearly, Jeff Sessions needs to appoint a

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01:08:42,160 --> 01:08:44,960
Speaker 1: special counsel to look into these matters with Hillary Clinton,

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01:08:45,320 --> 01:08:47,400
Speaker 1: or he needs to step aside as the attorney general.

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Speaker 1: So that we can find somebody who will really enforce

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Speaker 1: the rule of law. I totally agree with all of that,

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Speaker 1: really appreciate you being with us. Eight D Shawn is

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01:08:55,439 --> 01:08:58,519
Speaker 1: a number, and Melanie Morgan. I'm here today to demand

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01:08:58,520 --> 01:09:02,080
Speaker 1: that Senator crank can resign. Brought to Washington some of

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01:09:02,080 --> 01:09:05,280
Speaker 1: the victims of Bill Clinton's harassment. As you can see,

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01:09:05,400 --> 01:09:09,920
Speaker 1: Kathleen Willie wanted to Broaderick and Leslie Milwe who is

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01:09:10,000 --> 01:09:13,040
Speaker 1: joining us as well, and we are here to demand

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01:09:13,560 --> 01:09:18,400
Speaker 1: at both Senator conyor Senator Franken and Congressman Conyers resigned

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01:09:18,400 --> 01:09:21,800
Speaker 1: their position. Does he remember me? First of all, I'm

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Speaker 1: the one who was harassed by him seventeen years ago

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01:09:24,880 --> 01:09:28,040
Speaker 1: on politically Incorrect with Bill Maherk. He has never even

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01:09:28,080 --> 01:09:31,400
Speaker 1: referred to me, let alone apologize to me, let alone

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01:09:31,439 --> 01:09:34,639
Speaker 1: any of these other women like Leanne Tweeton and others.

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Speaker 1: So this is what we're here to do today. Let's

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01:09:37,520 --> 01:09:42,000
Speaker 1: see what happens. Senator Franklin, come on, come on out,

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01:09:42,120 --> 01:09:45,599
Speaker 1: talk to us. Don't be a coward. Speak to us.

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01:09:46,080 --> 01:09:48,320
Speaker 1: We have something to say to you. I think you

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01:09:48,320 --> 01:09:51,160
Speaker 1: should have something to say to us. So he's not

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01:09:51,200 --> 01:09:53,439
Speaker 1: available right now, but I'm gonna be happy to take

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01:09:53,479 --> 01:09:56,000
Speaker 1: the message and pass it able. He harassed me and

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01:09:56,040 --> 01:09:59,240
Speaker 1: stalked me seventeen years ago, and I'd like for a

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01:09:59,360 --> 01:10:02,960
Speaker 1: year to know that I demand an apology, but more importantly,

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Speaker 1: i'll passively apology if he resigns. He needs to leave

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01:10:08,600 --> 01:10:12,519
Speaker 1: office right now. He and Congressman knyer Al Franklin was

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01:10:12,640 --> 01:10:17,439
Speaker 1: confronted earlier today at his office by Melanie Morgan. Wanted

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01:10:17,560 --> 01:10:22,080
Speaker 1: to broader at Kathleen Willie uh Leslie Milwee was also

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01:10:22,200 --> 01:10:25,200
Speaker 1: there and uh, as you can hear that he wouldn't

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Speaker 1: come out of his office and talk to the women

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Speaker 1: who now all join us on our newsmaker lines. Welcome

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Speaker 1: all of you back to the program. Melanie, let me

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Speaker 1: start with you. Uh, let's talk about from your perspective

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01:10:37,400 --> 01:10:39,800
Speaker 1: why it was important. I mean, you talked about the

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01:10:39,840 --> 01:10:42,400
Speaker 1: stalking incident with you. We saw the pictures with lee

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01:10:42,439 --> 01:10:46,160
Speaker 1: An Tweeden. He's apologized, is actually acknowledged a lot of it,

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Speaker 1: but not all of it. What are your thoughts? It's

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01:10:49,880 --> 01:10:52,599
Speaker 1: not good enough, It's not nearly good enough, Sean. That's

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Speaker 1: why we had a news conference in Washington, d C.

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01:10:55,720 --> 01:10:59,000
Speaker 1: And national news conference to call on him for his resignation,

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01:10:59,120 --> 01:11:02,559
Speaker 1: in addition to Congressman Conyers. And then we went over

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Speaker 1: to the the capital and we demanded, we demanded to

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01:11:07,040 --> 01:11:10,240
Speaker 1: be heard by Senator Franken who cowered in his own office.

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01:11:10,280 --> 01:11:12,960
Speaker 1: He refused to come out to meet us, to speak

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01:11:13,000 --> 01:11:16,000
Speaker 1: to us or talk to us. And it was it

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01:11:16,120 --> 01:11:19,400
Speaker 1: was unbelievable to me. I mean, after seventeen years, um,

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01:11:19,960 --> 01:11:23,439
Speaker 1: apparently he has nothing to say to us. These half

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01:11:23,479 --> 01:11:27,880
Speaker 1: apologies and non apologies unacceptable. Let me go to one

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Speaker 1: eight one eight. I've known you and Kathleen in particular

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01:11:30,880 --> 01:11:34,320
Speaker 1: a long time, and you know, it's been very interesting

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01:11:34,760 --> 01:11:39,040
Speaker 1: to watch all of these stories unfold. And after Lisa Myers,

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Speaker 1: I was the second person that went to interview you,

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Speaker 1: and I remember one of the one of the first

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01:11:43,920 --> 01:11:46,160
Speaker 1: things that people would ask me when I came back,

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01:11:46,240 --> 01:11:49,960
Speaker 1: as do I believe you? And like Lisa Myers, I

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01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:53,840
Speaker 1: think had communicated to you you're too believable and I

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01:11:54,000 --> 01:11:56,560
Speaker 1: just knew all my heart at the time, I remember this.

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01:11:56,720 --> 01:11:58,439
Speaker 1: It was a very hard interview for me to do.

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01:11:59,080 --> 01:12:03,320
Speaker 1: When I went down to our you know, I made

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01:12:03,360 --> 01:12:06,080
Speaker 1: I made you know all my life, I've said to

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01:12:06,160 --> 01:12:08,479
Speaker 1: myself for good or for better or worse. That I

1209
01:12:08,560 --> 01:12:10,400
Speaker 1: was never gonna cry on air. And I remember doing

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Speaker 1: the interview with you and literally biting hard the inside

1211
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Speaker 1: of my cheek because it was so painful to hear

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01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:21,639
Speaker 1: what you had gone through. Oh yeah, and it's still

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01:12:21,760 --> 01:12:26,360
Speaker 1: painful to me, you know, and talk about it, you know,

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01:12:26,960 --> 01:12:30,439
Speaker 1: thirty years the Clintons were protected, though, And I noticed

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01:12:30,520 --> 01:12:33,360
Speaker 1: that some people are now saying, oh, we should there

1216
01:12:33,360 --> 01:12:35,479
Speaker 1: now coming out. The day of reckoning for the Clintons

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01:12:35,560 --> 01:12:38,320
Speaker 1: have come. And to me, that's like, well, after Paula,

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01:12:38,439 --> 01:12:41,320
Speaker 1: after you, after Kathlee, and after a bunch of other people,

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01:12:41,800 --> 01:12:44,080
Speaker 1: I'm thinking it's a little too little, too late. What

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01:12:44,200 --> 01:12:48,000
Speaker 1: are your thoughts, because now the Clintons don't have power. Oh,

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Speaker 1: that's exactly it. If Hillary Clinton had been elected, Seawn,

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01:12:52,800 --> 01:12:56,439
Speaker 1: you and I both know that these sudden revelations would

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01:12:56,760 --> 01:13:00,040
Speaker 1: never have occurred. They would not have given us a

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01:13:00,160 --> 01:13:04,479
Speaker 1: time of day. But as the Clinton's powers, you know,

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01:13:04,800 --> 01:13:09,439
Speaker 1: goes away and diminishes, they feel safe to come out. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I did notice an exchange that went on, and I

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01:13:12,120 --> 01:13:15,800
Speaker 1: even talked about it on air between you and what's

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01:13:15,840 --> 01:13:22,440
Speaker 1: her name, Chelsea Handler? And and she she then apologized

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01:13:22,520 --> 01:13:26,400
Speaker 1: to you, and you accepted her apology. Well, you know,

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01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:30,160
Speaker 1: and and I and I did accept her apology, Sean,

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01:13:30,760 --> 01:13:33,880
Speaker 1: But I still do not understand how she had never

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01:13:34,080 --> 01:13:36,880
Speaker 1: known about me. No, I mean that that is a

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01:13:36,920 --> 01:13:40,040
Speaker 1: good point, right, I just I didn't I did not

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01:13:40,240 --> 01:13:44,360
Speaker 1: understand that. And the same with Anna Navarro. Oh I

1235
01:13:44,760 --> 01:13:47,680
Speaker 1: didn't know Anna Navarro had done that, but you were Yeah,

1236
01:13:47,720 --> 01:13:51,439
Speaker 1: she apologized. You told the story of being brutally raped

1237
01:13:52,360 --> 01:13:58,200
Speaker 1: by Bill Clinton, right, and then all these years every

1238
01:13:58,600 --> 01:14:04,120
Speaker 1: you got smeared and slandered by the Clinton machine, didn't you. Oh? Yes, yes,

1239
01:14:04,760 --> 01:14:06,640
Speaker 1: people would laugh about me. Do you know how they

1240
01:14:06,760 --> 01:14:10,639
Speaker 1: laughed about Trump will never be president? When my name

1241
01:14:10,840 --> 01:14:14,680
Speaker 1: was brought up. They would laugh, and they and and

1242
01:14:14,920 --> 01:14:19,040
Speaker 1: deny everything that I was trying to say. Uh, they

1243
01:14:19,200 --> 01:14:23,719
Speaker 1: ridiculed me Shawndenoian and even up to an including last

1244
01:14:23,840 --> 01:14:25,760
Speaker 1: year when you showed up at the second debate and

1245
01:14:25,800 --> 01:14:28,559
Speaker 1: I interviewed you and Paula and Kathleen. It even happened

1246
01:14:28,600 --> 01:14:32,200
Speaker 1: through then, right, Oh yes, well it had sort of

1247
01:14:32,360 --> 01:14:34,760
Speaker 1: died down a little bit. But when we went to

1248
01:14:34,880 --> 01:14:38,960
Speaker 1: that debate, My god, did it come on again. Well,

1249
01:14:39,120 --> 01:14:41,599
Speaker 1: we know, we know why they're coming back out again

1250
01:14:42,680 --> 01:14:46,800
Speaker 1: that that that wasn't it, That wasn't it. This man,

1251
01:14:47,520 --> 01:14:52,240
Speaker 1: President Trump gave us the opportunity to speak when we

1252
01:14:52,400 --> 01:14:56,439
Speaker 1: had been not been denied that for two decades. Let

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01:14:56,520 --> 01:14:59,320
Speaker 1: me go to Leslie. Leslie, it's great to talk to

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01:14:59,400 --> 01:15:02,679
Speaker 1: you again. You were sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton twice

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01:15:02,760 --> 01:15:08,559
Speaker 1: in you that your local TV reporter. Yes, he actually

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01:15:09,320 --> 01:15:12,200
Speaker 1: what I would call sexually assaulted me on three occasions.

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01:15:12,320 --> 01:15:17,519
Speaker 1: One time it was more groping and uh that, and

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01:15:17,600 --> 01:15:20,920
Speaker 1: then the second and third time it was very very aggressive,

1259
01:15:21,880 --> 01:15:24,439
Speaker 1: need to the point that I would consider it truly

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01:15:24,600 --> 01:15:30,679
Speaker 1: sexual assault. And you know, I I I feel bad

1261
01:15:30,960 --> 01:15:33,840
Speaker 1: so much that I didn't support Juanita and Kathleen and

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01:15:33,920 --> 01:15:37,240
Speaker 1: everyone in the nineties. I had really small children, and

1263
01:15:37,320 --> 01:15:40,679
Speaker 1: I was truly afraid of the Clinton machine. And now

1264
01:15:40,920 --> 01:15:43,840
Speaker 1: I'm I am really happy that I've come forward and

1265
01:15:43,960 --> 01:15:46,559
Speaker 1: told the story because millennials need to hear this too.

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01:15:47,560 --> 01:15:49,680
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny you say that because there are

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01:15:49,760 --> 01:15:53,880
Speaker 1: so many people I'm finding out. I mean, I lived

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01:15:53,920 --> 01:15:56,120
Speaker 1: through these years. I was on radio and TV all

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01:15:56,200 --> 01:15:58,840
Speaker 1: these years, and to me, it's like, you know, fresh

1270
01:15:58,920 --> 01:16:01,920
Speaker 1: and etched into my memory. Worry and for some young people.

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Speaker 1: They don't even know that, they don't know this story.

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Speaker 1: When you put the atmosphere that's out there now and

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Speaker 1: you look at the left and their reaction to some

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Speaker 1: of the different allegations and and frankly admissions that have

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01:16:15,479 --> 01:16:19,439
Speaker 1: come out, and you compare it to how democrats but

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01:16:19,640 --> 01:16:24,280
Speaker 1: thirty years circled the wagons for the Clintons. It seems

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01:16:24,320 --> 01:16:27,080
Speaker 1: to me that that that is the just the definition

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01:16:27,200 --> 01:16:31,120
Speaker 1: of being disingenuous. And this is selective moral outrage, and

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01:16:31,160 --> 01:16:33,720
Speaker 1: it has really nothing to do with women's rights. That

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01:16:33,760 --> 01:16:36,120
Speaker 1: has everything to do with politics. And you get a

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01:16:36,200 --> 01:16:41,439
Speaker 1: pass of your a liberal that's exactly right. Yeah, well

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01:16:41,439 --> 01:16:43,479
Speaker 1: I needed you, I mean, and that's the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: What do we do? Look and by the way, Leslie,

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Speaker 1: what happened to your career as a result of when

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Speaker 1: you finally talked and when you spoke out and finally

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01:16:53,360 --> 01:16:57,200
Speaker 1: spoke about this, Well, I it changed the course of

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Speaker 1: my life. I gave up my job as a reporter

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01:17:00,040 --> 01:17:03,720
Speaker 1: there in Arkansas, um at at the behest really of

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01:17:03,840 --> 01:17:06,519
Speaker 1: my family, and my grandmother would retain and knocked on

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01:17:06,640 --> 01:17:09,439
Speaker 1: my door one night to try to get into my home.

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Speaker 1: Um I was terrified I quit my job the next

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Speaker 1: day and I'm now in a completely different sales and

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Speaker 1: it's great. I'm not complaining. I'm you know, I'm a survivor,

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Speaker 1: not a victim. But yes, I want people to understand

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Speaker 1: how amazingly this man has gotten by with this for

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Speaker 1: all these many years. And let me go back. This

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Speaker 1: is this is why I wanted to square the circle today. Um.

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01:17:36,240 --> 01:17:39,360
Speaker 1: In order to understand sexual harassment and sexual assault in

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Speaker 1: two thousand seventeen, we have to look back to to

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01:17:43,600 --> 01:17:47,000
Speaker 1: what happened to broad wanted to broad Rate, to Leslie Milwy,

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01:17:47,200 --> 01:17:50,559
Speaker 1: to Kathleen Willie and the dozens of other women whose

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01:17:50,640 --> 01:17:53,400
Speaker 1: names have been associated with Bill Clinton. If we don't

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01:17:53,439 --> 01:17:56,280
Speaker 1: understand what happened and what sexual assault looks like and

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01:17:56,360 --> 01:17:58,880
Speaker 1: what sexual harassment looks like, how are we going to

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01:17:59,000 --> 01:18:01,200
Speaker 1: clean the house to day? And by a house, I

1306
01:18:01,280 --> 01:18:06,040
Speaker 1: mean Congressman Kanyer's captain underpants, who thinks it's perfectly appropriate

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01:18:06,160 --> 01:18:10,680
Speaker 1: to run around his office in his tidy whitey's in

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01:18:10,760 --> 01:18:13,120
Speaker 1: front of his all female staff. I mean, this is

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01:18:13,200 --> 01:18:15,920
Speaker 1: what all the reports are. How are we going to

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01:18:16,760 --> 01:18:19,760
Speaker 1: get somebody like al Franken, who has been you know,

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01:18:20,040 --> 01:18:23,360
Speaker 1: involved in groping, and who has photographic evidence of what

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01:18:23,520 --> 01:18:26,920
Speaker 1: happened with and all these women whose stories have been

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01:18:27,840 --> 01:18:32,800
Speaker 1: discredited by liberal feminist icons like Nancy Pelosi and some

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01:18:32,920 --> 01:18:37,040
Speaker 1: of these other women who supposedly represent all of women, Well,

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01:18:37,200 --> 01:18:40,080
Speaker 1: what they represent is a war on women and in

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01:18:40,240 --> 01:18:45,080
Speaker 1: particular the victims of democratic aggressors. And that's why we

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01:18:45,200 --> 01:18:48,160
Speaker 1: wanted to go public today. What do we do, Like

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01:18:48,520 --> 01:18:53,360
Speaker 1: in the case of al Franken, we have a picture

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01:18:53,479 --> 01:18:56,360
Speaker 1: and we all know Leanne tweeting and lean tweetens asleep,

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01:18:56,840 --> 01:18:59,920
Speaker 1: and then we got other pictures of him grabbing Arianna huffing,

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01:19:00,040 --> 01:19:02,040
Speaker 1: and although she says it's okay, I guess she just

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01:19:02,160 --> 01:19:05,759
Speaker 1: supports his politics, and and the same with joy Behart.

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01:19:05,800 --> 01:19:08,280
Speaker 1: But you got evidence and Leah and tweet. I knew

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01:19:08,280 --> 01:19:11,000
Speaker 1: about that picture for years, and Leanne asked me never

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01:19:11,080 --> 01:19:13,479
Speaker 1: to talk about it, and I never did. But I've

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01:19:13,520 --> 01:19:16,200
Speaker 1: known about it for a long time. What do you

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01:19:16,439 --> 01:19:21,040
Speaker 1: do when there's no evidence and it's it's one person's

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01:19:21,080 --> 01:19:24,120
Speaker 1: word against the other. Because in the case of Knyer's

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01:19:24,200 --> 01:19:27,559
Speaker 1: when he denies it, I feel on being consistent when

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01:19:27,600 --> 01:19:31,560
Speaker 1: I say, okay, everybody deserves a presumption of innocence, But

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01:19:31,760 --> 01:19:36,200
Speaker 1: these charges are so serious we need to find the truth. Melanie,

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Speaker 1: You've been very very consistent Sean from the beginning on

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Speaker 1: on whether it was Judge Roy Moore, or whether it

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01:19:44,439 --> 01:19:47,280
Speaker 1: is Al Franken or John Conyer's or anybody else. You

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01:19:47,360 --> 01:19:50,160
Speaker 1: have to look at the totality of the allegations. You

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01:19:50,280 --> 01:19:52,880
Speaker 1: have to look at the veracity and the history of

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01:19:53,000 --> 01:19:55,720
Speaker 1: the people who are making them. I can't speak for

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01:19:55,840 --> 01:19:58,160
Speaker 1: any other woman other than myself, and I know my

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01:19:58,400 --> 01:20:01,679
Speaker 1: story is a true story. I have spoken to Juanita.

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01:20:01,960 --> 01:20:04,200
Speaker 1: I have lived this story of what the Clintons had

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01:20:04,240 --> 01:20:08,439
Speaker 1: done since I've spoken about it every single day. But

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01:20:08,520 --> 01:20:10,759
Speaker 1: when I sat down last night at the dinner table

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01:20:10,840 --> 01:20:14,040
Speaker 1: to hear all these women who are so incredibly brave

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01:20:14,200 --> 01:20:17,640
Speaker 1: and smart and wonderful and what they went through and

1345
01:20:17,800 --> 01:20:19,880
Speaker 1: as they told I felt like it was a Rosa

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01:20:19,960 --> 01:20:23,360
Speaker 1: Park moment. I mean, really, this is a shattering now

1347
01:20:23,479 --> 01:20:27,479
Speaker 1: with with firing of Matt Lower and Garrison Keeler and

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01:20:27,560 --> 01:20:30,200
Speaker 1: all these others, All these people in private industry are

1349
01:20:30,200 --> 01:20:33,760
Speaker 1: getting fired as these allegations become public. But it's the

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01:20:33,840 --> 01:20:38,240
Speaker 1: people's representatives who are well paid that we paid millions

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01:20:38,320 --> 01:20:43,120
Speaker 1: out well, we paid for their non disclosure agreements, we

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01:20:43,240 --> 01:20:47,120
Speaker 1: paid for their settlement agreements. And my attitude is it's

1353
01:20:47,160 --> 01:20:50,720
Speaker 1: your problem, not the taxpayers problem. You pay and that's

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01:20:50,800 --> 01:20:52,240
Speaker 1: up to you. If you want to pay. You can't

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01:20:52,280 --> 01:20:54,840
Speaker 1: use our money and then get anonymity. You want to

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01:20:54,880 --> 01:20:56,960
Speaker 1: pay for whatever deal you want to make, then you

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01:20:57,080 --> 01:21:00,880
Speaker 1: pay for it, all right. As we continue earlier today,

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01:21:01,080 --> 01:21:05,160
Speaker 1: Al Franken's office was confronted by Melanie Morgan. She, of course,

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01:21:05,200 --> 01:21:08,439
Speaker 1: along with LeAnn Tweeden, has chronicled what in fact Frankin

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01:21:08,520 --> 01:21:10,799
Speaker 1: did to her by stalking her for a long period

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01:21:10,840 --> 01:21:12,640
Speaker 1: of time and she had to threaten the police to

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01:21:12,720 --> 01:21:14,960
Speaker 1: get it to end. On Ata, Broderick, we all know

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01:21:15,080 --> 01:21:18,599
Speaker 1: her story. Well, uh told me her story years ago

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01:21:18,640 --> 01:21:22,080
Speaker 1: about being raped by Bill Clinton, and Leslie Milwee is

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01:21:22,240 --> 01:21:24,719
Speaker 1: back with us and she was a local TV reporter

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01:21:24,800 --> 01:21:28,679
Speaker 1: in Arkansas sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton twice in on ATA.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you the same question I was asking

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01:21:30,920 --> 01:21:33,400
Speaker 1: Melanie Morgan, is you know what do you do in

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01:21:33,479 --> 01:21:37,280
Speaker 1: the cases where somebody says it didn't happen and then

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Speaker 1: somebody says it did happen. Oh goodness, Sean, that's that's

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01:21:40,840 --> 01:21:44,120
Speaker 1: a hard one. You just have to follow the trail

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Speaker 1: and you have to see if there's any credible witnesses.

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01:21:48,400 --> 01:21:51,120
Speaker 1: You have to see if there's any physical evidence, and

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Speaker 1: you have to trust who these ladies are, who they

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01:21:54,800 --> 01:21:59,000
Speaker 1: have been, and who the accused is. Other than that,

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01:21:59,400 --> 01:22:02,360
Speaker 1: it's just an investigative process. And by the way, when

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Speaker 1: when you're when you came public and I had the

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01:22:05,240 --> 01:22:09,280
Speaker 1: second interview, you were getting trashed publicly, and a lot

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01:22:09,320 --> 01:22:11,120
Speaker 1: of people in the media never took the time to

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01:22:11,200 --> 01:22:13,760
Speaker 1: call you a reach out to you. Did they No, no, no,

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01:22:14,320 --> 01:22:17,240
Speaker 1: but but they had plenty to say without talking to me.

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01:22:17,720 --> 01:22:20,519
Speaker 1: And it was horrible, Sean, it was just horrible. You know.

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Speaker 1: It is interesting because as I've interviewed all of you,

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Speaker 1: and and Kathleen is not with us today, and Paula

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01:22:26,360 --> 01:22:29,640
Speaker 1: Jones was not with us today. It's an amazing, you know,

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Speaker 1: gut feeling. I've been in radio now thirty years, Leslie,

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Speaker 1: and I know you probably as a reporter, you felt

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01:22:35,920 --> 01:22:38,040
Speaker 1: the same thing. There there came a point, there came

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Speaker 1: a time where you really could tell sincerity and a

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01:22:41,560 --> 01:22:45,040
Speaker 1: lack of sincerity. Do you feel that in your career? Oh? Absolutely?

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Speaker 1: And taking it a step further from what Wanita was

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Speaker 1: saying about, you know, he said, she said, um, the

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Speaker 1: track records there. I told my husband, you know about this.

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Speaker 1: I met my husband shortly after this happened, and I,

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Speaker 1: you know, my immediate family and my husband and a

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Speaker 1: few other people you know, new early on, and I

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01:23:05,920 --> 01:23:08,679
Speaker 1: always you know, I asked my husband should I talk

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01:23:08,720 --> 01:23:12,240
Speaker 1: about this? Should I come out and tell everyone? And

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01:23:12,320 --> 01:23:13,840
Speaker 1: he said, you know what, you'll know when it's the

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01:23:13,960 --> 01:23:16,400
Speaker 1: right time. And it's the right time now. I think

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01:23:16,439 --> 01:23:20,040
Speaker 1: things are breaking open. It's time that women came forward.

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01:23:20,240 --> 01:23:23,680
Speaker 1: I was fortunate that I kept some things that, um,

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01:23:24,200 --> 01:23:27,000
Speaker 1: like Bill Clinton wrote on top of my name Clinton

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01:23:27,479 --> 01:23:30,200
Speaker 1: and said to me, um, you know, I just wanted

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01:23:30,200 --> 01:23:32,040
Speaker 1: to show you how good Clinton looks on top of

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01:23:32,120 --> 01:23:34,439
Speaker 1: Leslie on my notebook, you know, and things like that.

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01:23:34,680 --> 01:23:38,080
Speaker 1: People don't understand. You know. This was a constant harassment

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01:23:38,200 --> 01:23:40,719
Speaker 1: that I had to endure for months and months and months.

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01:23:41,360 --> 01:23:44,200
Speaker 1: And I'm so glad that I've come forward. And I

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01:23:44,280 --> 01:23:47,040
Speaker 1: know he'll never admit it, just like I think Franken

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01:23:47,080 --> 01:23:50,080
Speaker 1: won't and Conyers and many of these men. But it's

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01:23:50,120 --> 01:23:53,360
Speaker 1: so good. Just like Oneeda said, you know, look at

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01:23:53,400 --> 01:23:57,479
Speaker 1: the facts. Look at how we've lived our lives. What's happened? Um,

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01:23:57,920 --> 01:24:01,400
Speaker 1: you tell me what do you think is correct? Listen.

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01:24:01,479 --> 01:24:03,840
Speaker 1: I appreciate all of you coming on. I know it's

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01:24:03,880 --> 01:24:06,400
Speaker 1: hard to to relive these moments in your life and

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01:24:06,439 --> 01:24:09,920
Speaker 1: to talk about them. Um, if one good thing comes

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01:24:10,080 --> 01:24:13,360
Speaker 1: out of all of this, maybe you know this systemic,

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01:24:13,640 --> 01:24:18,800
Speaker 1: this systematic this, Uh you know this, this trend is unbelievable.

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01:24:19,280 --> 01:24:22,080
Speaker 1: And I think your voices will probably help many women

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01:24:22,120 --> 01:24:24,400
Speaker 1: in the future, which would which would be a great

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01:24:24,479 --> 01:24:26,880
Speaker 1: thing for everybody. And I thank you all for being

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01:24:26,960 --> 01:24:28,560
Speaker 1: with us. And uh, I think we'll see some of

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Speaker 1: you on TV tonight on Hannity. Thank you for being

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01:24:31,320 --> 01:24:35,800
Speaker 1: with us. Thank you. The Handman is back on the

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01:24:36,000 --> 01:24:39,160
Speaker 1: radio right now. You co hosted the Today's Show with

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01:24:39,200 --> 01:24:42,799
Speaker 1: Matt Lauer for fifteen years. What is Matt's most annoying happit?

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01:24:45,880 --> 01:24:50,920
Speaker 1: Keith pinches me on the Asshlon just moments ago and

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01:24:51,040 --> 01:24:53,519
Speaker 1: be seen. His chairman, Andy Lax sent the following note

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01:24:53,560 --> 01:24:57,280
Speaker 1: to our organization. Dear colleagues, On Monday night, we received

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01:24:57,320 --> 01:25:00,360
Speaker 1: a detailed complaint from a colleague about in opre its

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01:25:00,400 --> 01:25:04,120
Speaker 1: sexual behavior in the workplace by Matt lower it represented,

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01:25:04,160 --> 01:25:08,000
Speaker 1: after serious review, a clear violation of our company's standards.

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01:25:08,280 --> 01:25:11,080
Speaker 1: As a result, we have decided to terminate his employment.

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01:25:11,479 --> 01:25:14,000
Speaker 1: While it is the first complaint about his behavior in

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01:25:14,080 --> 01:25:16,519
Speaker 1: the over twenty years he has been at NBC News,

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01:25:16,920 --> 01:25:19,880
Speaker 1: we were also presented with reason to believe this may

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01:25:19,960 --> 01:25:23,560
Speaker 1: not have been an isolated incident. Our highest priority is

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01:25:23,600 --> 01:25:27,320
Speaker 1: to create a workplace environment where everyone feels safe and protected,

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01:25:27,560 --> 01:25:30,080
Speaker 1: and to ensure that any actions that run counter to

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01:25:30,160 --> 01:25:33,680
Speaker 1: our core values are met with consequences, no matter who

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01:25:33,760 --> 01:25:37,240
Speaker 1: the offender. We are deeply saddened by this turn of events,

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01:25:37,479 --> 01:25:40,080
Speaker 1: but we will face it together as a news organization

1444
01:25:40,600 --> 01:25:43,880
Speaker 1: and do it and as transparent a manner as we can.

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01:25:44,479 --> 01:25:46,840
Speaker 1: That is the statement from our chairman, Andy Lack. And

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01:25:47,000 --> 01:25:50,400
Speaker 1: we just learned this moments ago, just this morning. As

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01:25:50,439 --> 01:25:52,760
Speaker 1: I'm sure you can imagine, we are devastated, and we

1448
01:25:52,840 --> 01:25:56,720
Speaker 1: are still processing all of this. And I will tell

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01:25:56,760 --> 01:25:58,360
Speaker 1: you right now we do not know more than what

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01:25:58,439 --> 01:26:01,000
Speaker 1: I just shared with you, but we will be covering

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01:26:01,040 --> 01:26:04,280
Speaker 1: this story as reporters, as journalists. I'm sure we will

1452
01:26:04,320 --> 01:26:06,720
Speaker 1: be learning more details in the hours and days to come,

1453
01:26:07,320 --> 01:26:11,040
Speaker 1: and we promise we will share that with you and

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01:26:11,120 --> 01:26:14,120
Speaker 1: hold to I mean, you know, for the moment, all

1455
01:26:14,240 --> 01:26:17,560
Speaker 1: we can say is that we are heartbroken. I'm heartbroken

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01:26:17,640 --> 01:26:20,080
Speaker 1: for Matt. He is my dear, dear friend and my partner,

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01:26:20,160 --> 01:26:23,160
Speaker 1: and he is beloved by many many people here. And

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01:26:23,240 --> 01:26:26,400
Speaker 1: I'm heartbroken for the brave colleague who came forward to

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01:26:26,479 --> 01:26:29,479
Speaker 1: tell her story and any other women who have their

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01:26:29,520 --> 01:26:33,720
Speaker 1: own stories to tell. And we are grappling with a

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01:26:33,800 --> 01:26:36,679
Speaker 1: dilemma that so many people have faced these past few weeks.

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01:26:37,160 --> 01:26:40,320
Speaker 1: How do you reconcile your love for someone with the

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01:26:40,400 --> 01:26:43,960
Speaker 1: revelation that they have behaved badly? And I don't know

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01:26:44,040 --> 01:26:46,800
Speaker 1: the answer to that, but I do know that this

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01:26:46,960 --> 01:26:50,880
Speaker 1: reckoning that so many organizations have been going through is important.

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01:26:51,439 --> 01:26:55,080
Speaker 1: It's long overdue, and it must result in workplaces where

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01:26:55,160 --> 01:27:00,360
Speaker 1: all women, all people feel safe and respected. As painful

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01:27:00,400 --> 01:27:02,560
Speaker 1: as it is, this moment in our culture and this

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01:27:02,800 --> 01:27:06,400
Speaker 1: change had to happen, Yeah, it did. This is a

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01:27:06,560 --> 01:27:09,320
Speaker 1: very tough morning for both of us. Um I've known

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Speaker 1: Matt for fifteen years and I've loved him as a

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Speaker 1: friend and as a colleague. And again, just like you

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01:27:14,439 --> 01:27:17,640
Speaker 1: were saying, Savannah, it's hard to reconcile what we are

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01:27:17,760 --> 01:27:20,560
Speaker 1: hearing with the man who we know who walks in

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01:27:20,720 --> 01:27:24,080
Speaker 1: this building every single day. We were both woken up

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01:27:24,080 --> 01:27:26,360
Speaker 1: with the news kind of pre dawn, and we're trying

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01:27:26,400 --> 01:27:28,320
Speaker 1: to process it and trying to make sense of it,

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01:27:28,479 --> 01:27:31,080
Speaker 1: and it'll take some time for that. We're processing it

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01:27:31,200 --> 01:27:34,680
Speaker 1: with all of you at home, and we promised to

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01:27:35,000 --> 01:27:39,360
Speaker 1: be transparent and be straightfor well and continue this important conversation,

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Speaker 1: all right, that from the Today Show earlier today now

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Speaker 1: till the top of the hour one Shawn told free

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Speaker 1: telephone number as this news continues to come in. In

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Speaker 1: terms of media figures, you know the liberal lion Charlie

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Speaker 1: Rose Garrison Killer who was the MPR host of Prairie

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Speaker 1: Home Companion, which I gotta be honest, was a great

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Speaker 1: show on radio for years, an incredible radio talent, although

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Speaker 1: a huge massive LIB But anyway, hours after Matt Lower

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Speaker 1: was fired and again the allegations here of actual sexual assault.

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Speaker 1: UM no details yet coming in, but anyway, we have

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Speaker 1: another marquee star major LIB TV radio network has now

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Speaker 1: terminated Gallus and Keeler for quote in an improper behavior

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Speaker 1: and it was confirmed on Wednesday that he was fired

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Speaker 1: by his longtime broadcast Home in a sorta public radio,

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Speaker 1: and after confirming the news and an email to the AP,

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Speaker 1: Keiller issued a statement saying that he was terminated over

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Speaker 1: a story that I think is more interesting and more

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Speaker 1: complicated than the version MPR heard. He didn't elaborate on that.

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Speaker 1: MPR issued a statement on their website announcing it would

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Speaker 1: end its business relationship with Keiller's media company, effective immediately,

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01:29:00,320 --> 01:29:04,080
Speaker 1: and that includes ending distribution and broadcast of the writer's

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01:29:04,120 --> 01:29:07,800
Speaker 1: Almanaca daily syndicated program, in addition to the Best of

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01:29:07,840 --> 01:29:12,080
Speaker 1: a Prairie Home companion. By the way he started that inception.

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01:29:12,280 --> 01:29:15,000
Speaker 1: Inception of that was seventy four. Then on top of that,

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Speaker 1: we have other news. We have the MPR chief news editor,

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01:29:20,400 --> 01:29:23,720
Speaker 1: David Sweeney, now has left the company following allegations of

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01:29:23,800 --> 01:29:28,240
Speaker 1: sexual harassment filed against him by at least three female journalists,

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01:29:28,760 --> 01:29:31,960
Speaker 1: and David Sweeney is no longer on staff. Acting senior

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01:29:32,080 --> 01:29:35,719
Speaker 1: vice president Chris Turpin said in an email to staff,

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Speaker 1: this is a difficult time for our newsroom. I'm committed

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01:29:38,160 --> 01:29:40,560
Speaker 1: to supporting all of you as we move forward. And

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01:29:40,680 --> 01:29:45,040
Speaker 1: the complaints against Sweeney were filed after MPR Senior vice

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01:29:45,080 --> 01:29:48,080
Speaker 1: president of News and editorial director was forced to resign

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01:29:48,160 --> 01:29:52,240
Speaker 1: on November one over sexual misconduct allegations. Here to help

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01:29:52,320 --> 01:29:56,280
Speaker 1: sort through this media mess is Joe Concha. He writes

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01:29:56,360 --> 01:29:59,000
Speaker 1: for The Hill, and uh is often a frequent of

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01:29:59,479 --> 01:30:01,880
Speaker 1: makes frequent appearances on the Fox News channel. How are

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01:30:01,920 --> 01:30:05,599
Speaker 1: you you want me to unpack all that my hair

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01:30:05,760 --> 01:30:07,360
Speaker 1: hurts my friends? Well, you want to start with the

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01:30:07,479 --> 01:30:09,519
Speaker 1: picture of me on Time magazine? You can do whatever

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01:30:09,560 --> 01:30:12,400
Speaker 1: you want. But I mean, I think the world was

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01:30:12,600 --> 01:30:15,400
Speaker 1: stunned this morning. I mean Matt Lower, I'm told got

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01:30:15,439 --> 01:30:17,760
Speaker 1: paid as much as twenty five million dollars a year.

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01:30:17,920 --> 01:30:21,000
Speaker 1: He was the franchise at the Today Show. So whatever

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01:30:21,120 --> 01:30:25,200
Speaker 1: happened there, you're Variety actually reports twenty eight million, twenty

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01:30:25,240 --> 01:30:27,479
Speaker 1: eight million a year, a lot of money heid in

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01:30:27,560 --> 01:30:30,360
Speaker 1: broadcast media. Garrison Killer saying, hey, wait a minute, that

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01:30:30,439 --> 01:30:32,759
Speaker 1: this may not have happened the way MPR was told,

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01:30:32,840 --> 01:30:35,360
Speaker 1: but he's already been found guilty. Always, I don't know

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01:30:35,400 --> 01:30:38,000
Speaker 1: how you litigate this stuff, Like with Harry Harvey Wainstein.

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01:30:38,080 --> 01:30:41,680
Speaker 1: It's easy because there's there's actual audio of him, you know,

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01:30:41,960 --> 01:30:45,000
Speaker 1: in an m y p D undercover operation. That's fine,

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01:30:45,040 --> 01:30:47,439
Speaker 1: And Kevin stays Stacey basically said I was drunk. I

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01:30:47,479 --> 01:30:49,280
Speaker 1: really don't remember. Okay, yeah that that that means that

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01:30:49,360 --> 01:30:52,080
Speaker 1: probably happened. So they're easy ones to litigate. And then

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01:30:52,120 --> 01:30:53,639
Speaker 1: there are ones where are like, well wait a minute,

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01:30:53,640 --> 01:30:55,280
Speaker 1: I don't know if this happened or not. Now now

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01:30:55,360 --> 01:30:58,439
Speaker 1: with Lauer, uh, you know a lot of media outlets

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01:30:58,479 --> 01:31:00,560
Speaker 1: were we're working on this, and and I've been you know,

1540
01:31:00,680 --> 01:31:02,800
Speaker 1: I was late to the party. But I heard about

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01:31:02,880 --> 01:31:05,840
Speaker 1: this in earnest on Monday. Uh that that this, and

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01:31:06,200 --> 01:31:11,320
Speaker 1: I heard about relationships. I'd never heard about assault. No assault,

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01:31:11,360 --> 01:31:13,600
Speaker 1: I didn't harassment. I had heard about the assault that

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01:31:13,760 --> 01:31:17,360
Speaker 1: that may have happened allegedly in Rio during those Olympics,

1545
01:31:17,800 --> 01:31:19,439
Speaker 1: and Sochy I think was brought up as well in

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01:31:19,520 --> 01:31:22,759
Speaker 1: other Olympics. That that's different altogether. So NBC was pretty

1547
01:31:22,800 --> 01:31:25,320
Speaker 1: definitive and firing them. It wasn't like we're gonna investigate this,

1548
01:31:25,479 --> 01:31:28,599
Speaker 1: because they knew that a lot of publications were sniffing

1549
01:31:28,640 --> 01:31:31,680
Speaker 1: around well beyond me that we're going to break this,

1550
01:31:31,800 --> 01:31:34,080
Speaker 1: So they decided to break it themselves. But what worries

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01:31:34,120 --> 01:31:36,439
Speaker 1: me sean, to be honest with you, two thousand eighteen

1552
01:31:36,479 --> 01:31:39,600
Speaker 1: and two thousand twenty, if somebody wants to take a

1553
01:31:39,680 --> 01:31:42,640
Speaker 1: political opponent out, and somebody in some back room, a

1554
01:31:42,720 --> 01:31:45,719
Speaker 1: guy behind the guy in some strategy war room, decides

1555
01:31:45,760 --> 01:31:48,080
Speaker 1: to put together an elaborate scheme to have somebody accused

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01:31:48,080 --> 01:31:50,719
Speaker 1: of sextual harassment. It seems now that you're guilty until

1557
01:31:50,760 --> 01:31:53,559
Speaker 1: proven innocent in the media because so many people are

1558
01:31:53,600 --> 01:31:56,160
Speaker 1: actually guilty, that everybody's gonna be painting with this broad

1559
01:31:56,200 --> 01:31:58,080
Speaker 1: brush and it's gonna be used as a political weapon

1560
01:31:58,120 --> 01:32:00,280
Speaker 1: to take out opponents. And and that's my fear right now,

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01:32:00,280 --> 01:32:02,479
Speaker 1: that we're going down a very slippery slope where we're

1562
01:32:02,520 --> 01:32:05,360
Speaker 1: jumping to conclusions immediately. In other words, you're you're afraid

1563
01:32:05,720 --> 01:32:08,960
Speaker 1: because of what the atmosphere is. But there are two

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01:32:09,040 --> 01:32:12,240
Speaker 1: different responses every time. One is I didn't do it,

1565
01:32:13,040 --> 01:32:16,360
Speaker 1: and people fight back and there and by the way,

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01:32:16,400 --> 01:32:18,840
Speaker 1: that would be the case of John Conyers or Roy Moore.

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01:32:19,680 --> 01:32:24,120
Speaker 1: And you know, I have been steadfast in my belief

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01:32:24,240 --> 01:32:26,639
Speaker 1: that there should be a presumption of innocence, like, for example,

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01:32:26,680 --> 01:32:29,800
Speaker 1: in the case of Roy Moore, I don't understand we

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01:32:30,000 --> 01:32:33,160
Speaker 1: have in one case, he says he didn't know a woman.

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01:32:33,439 --> 01:32:36,280
Speaker 1: The woman claims, well, look at my yearbook I've had

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01:32:36,360 --> 01:32:39,760
Speaker 1: a forty two year professional handwriting expert on this show

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01:32:39,840 --> 01:32:42,559
Speaker 1: that says they could. They could absolutely if they can

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Speaker 1: get his handwriting from the time with a dent accuracy,

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01:32:45,479 --> 01:32:47,840
Speaker 1: they will be able to determine if he wrote that

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01:32:48,000 --> 01:32:50,560
Speaker 1: on the yearbook, and they'd be able to determine forensically

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01:32:51,120 --> 01:32:54,320
Speaker 1: if the ink exists. Why isn't that moving forward? Because

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01:32:54,360 --> 01:32:57,200
Speaker 1: that at that point would say Roy Moore lied, Did

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01:32:57,280 --> 01:32:59,160
Speaker 1: he sign something at some point that they could cut

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Speaker 1: their hands on. I mean, that's up to more to

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01:33:01,000 --> 01:33:03,320
Speaker 1: present that, right, I mean, well, no, I think, but

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01:33:03,600 --> 01:33:06,720
Speaker 1: remember they're not making that available to him and his

1583
01:33:06,880 --> 01:33:10,600
Speaker 1: team to have forensically looked at, right, and that that

1584
01:33:10,600 --> 01:33:12,599
Speaker 1: would certainly help that go along way because remember Glory

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01:33:12,640 --> 01:33:14,960
Speaker 1: already broke out the yearbook and said, see here's the

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01:33:15,000 --> 01:33:16,760
Speaker 1: proof for a basic Well, that's the point. If if

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01:33:16,920 --> 01:33:19,439
Speaker 1: forensics can prove a case that he's either telling the

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01:33:19,479 --> 01:33:21,719
Speaker 1: truth in that instance are lying, I think that benefits

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01:33:21,760 --> 01:33:24,439
Speaker 1: the people of Alabama and the fact that they're not

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01:33:24,600 --> 01:33:27,400
Speaker 1: producing it. To me, I don't know, it makes no

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01:33:27,560 --> 01:33:29,960
Speaker 1: sense to me. Let me get props by the way

1592
01:33:30,000 --> 01:33:32,759
Speaker 1: to shifting gears for a second. To Melissa Francis at

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01:33:32,840 --> 01:33:36,920
Speaker 1: Fox News because months and months ago, she said, everybody's

1594
01:33:36,960 --> 01:33:40,439
Speaker 1: saying that Fox News has a culture problem in this regard,

1595
01:33:40,640 --> 01:33:44,120
Speaker 1: and this is prevalent throughout the industry, and their day

1596
01:33:44,200 --> 01:33:47,160
Speaker 1: of reckoning is gonna come. And sure enough, now we

1597
01:33:47,320 --> 01:33:50,880
Speaker 1: see this wasn't a Fox problem. This is a CBS problem.

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01:33:51,120 --> 01:33:53,280
Speaker 1: It's an NBC problem. And we do have a pretty

1599
01:33:53,280 --> 01:33:55,559
Speaker 1: good track record here because we don't rush to judgment.

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01:33:55,600 --> 01:33:58,040
Speaker 1: I'll never get credit for it. You know, nobody thought

1601
01:33:58,080 --> 01:34:02,320
Speaker 1: Trump could win every but he thought that that George

1602
01:34:02,400 --> 01:34:05,640
Speaker 1: Zimmerman was guilty. Richard Jewel case. Uh, then we have

1603
01:34:05,760 --> 01:34:08,559
Speaker 1: the Ferguson case, then we have the Freddie Gray case,

1604
01:34:09,080 --> 01:34:11,760
Speaker 1: you know, then the vetting of Obama issue. I think

1605
01:34:11,800 --> 01:34:13,920
Speaker 1: I have a pretty good track record, and you know,

1606
01:34:14,000 --> 01:34:16,439
Speaker 1: it's amazing I could come under fire for saying I

1607
01:34:16,560 --> 01:34:18,600
Speaker 1: believe in the presumption of innocence. I said that for

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01:34:18,760 --> 01:34:22,439
Speaker 1: John Conyers, because Conyers denied it. Confident. You've got to

1609
01:34:22,439 --> 01:34:24,040
Speaker 1: work in your confidence. You're not you don't you know

1610
01:34:24,200 --> 01:34:26,760
Speaker 1: you're not toubting that enough. That's the problem. You're such

1611
01:34:26,800 --> 01:34:28,760
Speaker 1: a wisass. Sorry, Why why do I why do I

1612
01:34:28,840 --> 01:34:31,080
Speaker 1: have you on to abuse me? I there's no point.

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01:34:31,680 --> 01:34:33,920
Speaker 1: I mean, Linda works full time. She gets paid to

1614
01:34:33,960 --> 01:34:37,880
Speaker 1: do that. Abuse was that New York Times cover, which

1615
01:34:37,920 --> 01:34:39,640
Speaker 1: which is a shame because you have to admit they

1616
01:34:39,680 --> 01:34:41,200
Speaker 1: did a good job with that piece. I thought it

1617
01:34:41,280 --> 01:34:44,719
Speaker 1: was very fair. You know, Look, it's not I wish

1618
01:34:44,800 --> 01:34:46,720
Speaker 1: things that I had actually said. One of the things

1619
01:34:46,760 --> 01:34:48,599
Speaker 1: I said in that piece that I wish was in there.

1620
01:34:49,520 --> 01:34:52,000
Speaker 1: I act what I just said to you. I'm often

1621
01:34:52,080 --> 01:34:55,240
Speaker 1: more right than wrong, and that I wait, and that

1622
01:34:55,360 --> 01:34:58,679
Speaker 1: I'm patient, and that I actually do my own digging.

1623
01:34:59,040 --> 01:35:00,639
Speaker 1: You know. I had a little Twitter or fight. What's

1624
01:35:00,640 --> 01:35:03,280
Speaker 1: that guy's name that's on MSNBC. I don't even know

1625
01:35:03,360 --> 01:35:07,000
Speaker 1: the show, the guy that you know, No, no, no,

1626
01:35:07,080 --> 01:35:10,240
Speaker 1: I no Lawrence the guy had yeah that one. So

1627
01:35:10,360 --> 01:35:13,080
Speaker 1: he tweets out so well, Hannity talks to Julian and

1628
01:35:13,200 --> 01:35:16,320
Speaker 1: Kim dot com and I'm like, yeah, I actually Julian

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01:35:16,360 --> 01:35:18,640
Speaker 1: Osang would be the one man in the world that

1630
01:35:18,800 --> 01:35:22,240
Speaker 1: knows who uploaded who gave him the information on the emails,

1631
01:35:22,560 --> 01:35:26,120
Speaker 1: so unlike him. Yeah, I called him. I've interviewed him

1632
01:35:26,200 --> 01:35:29,439
Speaker 1: on radio and TV, and I went to London. That's

1633
01:35:29,439 --> 01:35:36,080
Speaker 1: all in pursuit of truth for my audience eleven eleven years.

1634
01:35:36,160 --> 01:35:39,559
Speaker 1: They've never been proven wrong eleven What do you think

1635
01:35:39,600 --> 01:35:43,640
Speaker 1: of the picture? Really handsome photo. You know, I got

1636
01:35:43,680 --> 01:35:45,680
Speaker 1: a lot of feedback on Twitter. People said they liked it,

1637
01:35:46,560 --> 01:35:50,960
Speaker 1: that it showed your passion. No no, no, no, no,

1638
01:35:51,120 --> 01:35:54,479
Speaker 1: no no. They wanted to portray me as an angry

1639
01:35:54,680 --> 01:35:58,880
Speaker 1: nut a conservative nutcase. That and this is you know,

1640
01:35:58,960 --> 01:36:00,840
Speaker 1: I showed this last day. You watch the last Night show,

1641
01:36:00,880 --> 01:36:03,639
Speaker 1: I hope. So, of course, Okay, did you see when

1642
01:36:03,720 --> 01:36:07,519
Speaker 1: I went back all the way to that's twenty six

1643
01:36:07,640 --> 01:36:10,960
Speaker 1: years ago and I let a guy in my radio

1644
01:36:11,040 --> 01:36:15,880
Speaker 1: studio in Huntsville, Alabama take photographs for three hours and

1645
01:36:16,160 --> 01:36:20,680
Speaker 1: did you see the photo he put in? Yeah, that's okay. No,

1646
01:36:20,840 --> 01:36:23,680
Speaker 1: it wasn't nice. It had my face contorted, made me

1647
01:36:23,800 --> 01:36:28,040
Speaker 1: look angry. And that's how the liberal media wants to

1648
01:36:28,160 --> 01:36:32,920
Speaker 1: portray conservatives. It is a it's photo bias, if you will.

1649
01:36:33,520 --> 01:36:35,000
Speaker 1: Did you see I hear back in the New York Times.

1650
01:36:35,000 --> 01:36:36,720
Speaker 1: I asked him, I said, well, what what went into

1651
01:36:36,720 --> 01:36:39,479
Speaker 1: the decision making process? And their official spokesperson got back

1652
01:36:39,479 --> 01:36:41,160
Speaker 1: to me and he said that you had said in

1653
01:36:41,240 --> 01:36:43,599
Speaker 1: the story that you were mad, and therefore they wanted

1654
01:36:43,640 --> 01:36:45,640
Speaker 1: to portray that. They quoted you was saying you were mad,

1655
01:36:45,680 --> 01:36:48,000
Speaker 1: and they thought that the picture was accurate. That's that

1656
01:36:48,120 --> 01:36:51,680
Speaker 1: whole thing is inaccurate too, because I'm mad because I

1657
01:36:51,760 --> 01:36:55,400
Speaker 1: see my country disintegrating. You know one of the things

1658
01:36:55,560 --> 01:36:57,840
Speaker 1: I went over again and again that never got put

1659
01:36:57,880 --> 01:36:59,920
Speaker 1: in that piece. You know what what what drives me

1660
01:37:00,040 --> 01:37:02,400
Speaker 1: every day? You know what drives me. I care about

1661
01:37:02,520 --> 01:37:05,920
Speaker 1: people in the position I was when I was in

1662
01:37:06,080 --> 01:37:08,760
Speaker 1: my late teens and early twenties and mid twenties, where

1663
01:37:08,760 --> 01:37:11,840
Speaker 1: I had no money, the forgotten men and women. There

1664
01:37:11,880 --> 01:37:14,439
Speaker 1: are millions of people on poverty, on food stamps, and

1665
01:37:14,520 --> 01:37:17,960
Speaker 1: out of the labor force, and I want to fix problems. Now.

1666
01:37:18,080 --> 01:37:20,439
Speaker 1: That's what gets me up in the morning. Not I

1667
01:37:20,479 --> 01:37:23,400
Speaker 1: don't give a flying rip about Matt lower leaving the

1668
01:37:23,479 --> 01:37:26,560
Speaker 1: Today Show. That's his problem. Yeah, he didn't leave, he

1669
01:37:27,080 --> 01:37:30,120
Speaker 1: got fired. He probably won't ever work again. But I'll

1670
01:37:30,160 --> 01:37:33,320
Speaker 1: tell you this, though, You're gonna see accusations Sewan, because

1671
01:37:33,320 --> 01:37:34,960
Speaker 1: the Hill ran a poll a couple of days ago.

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01:37:35,000 --> 01:37:36,720
Speaker 1: They said the sixty percent of women say they were

1673
01:37:36,720 --> 01:37:38,600
Speaker 1: sexually harassed in the workplace at some point. You know

1674
01:37:38,680 --> 01:37:40,680
Speaker 1: what that means. That means every day get used to

1675
01:37:40,800 --> 01:37:43,320
Speaker 1: this news coming out from either the political arena, the

1676
01:37:43,439 --> 01:37:46,559
Speaker 1: media arena, or the entertainment arena of somebody big getting

1677
01:37:46,560 --> 01:37:48,320
Speaker 1: accused to the point where there's not gonna be too

1678
01:37:48,360 --> 01:37:52,480
Speaker 1: many folks left. It appears, it's not How do we ascertain?

1679
01:37:52,600 --> 01:37:55,400
Speaker 1: And I think the public needs to really wrap their

1680
01:37:55,640 --> 01:37:59,600
Speaker 1: head around this because there are women that are victimized

1681
01:37:59,640 --> 01:38:03,439
Speaker 1: by horrible people. It happens, and you know what, they

1682
01:38:03,479 --> 01:38:06,120
Speaker 1: don't deserve to be treated that way. Okay, what but

1683
01:38:06,600 --> 01:38:11,280
Speaker 1: an allegation is made that's not definitive? How do how

1684
01:38:11,360 --> 01:38:16,000
Speaker 1: does the average person sort through all of this and

1685
01:38:16,160 --> 01:38:19,479
Speaker 1: get to truth? I wish I could say the media

1686
01:38:19,600 --> 01:38:21,920
Speaker 1: would would dig and do the right things and not

1687
01:38:22,479 --> 01:38:25,840
Speaker 1: just run with allegations and convict that person as guilty

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Speaker 1: in the court of public opinion. But that doesn't appear

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Speaker 1: to be the way that things are working. So I

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Speaker 1: the answer is, I'll be totally transparent. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what you do in this situation. If

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Speaker 1: you're accused, and if you don't have the means and

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Speaker 1: the in the money to the fight back, you're screwed.

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Speaker 1: You're screwed. Unfortunately, and most women are telling the truth. Well,

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Speaker 1: may be clear about that, but there are going to

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Speaker 1: be exceptions. And again I think that in the political

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you about it be weaponized. You're

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Speaker 1: out of time, get lost. I'm kidding, all right, Thank you,

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Speaker 1: Joe Contract from the hell. We appreciate it, all right,

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Speaker 1: Hannity tonight UH nine, he stood on the Fox News Channel.

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Speaker 1: Matt lower is alt, Garrison Keeler is out, multiple firings

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Speaker 1: at MPR. What's going on? Also, the President tweets out

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Speaker 1: some radical Islamic terrorists and people say, well, look at

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Speaker 1: who we te tweeted. We'll discuss that, and we'll point

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Speaker 1: out a media hypocrisy on so many levels. And of

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Speaker 1: course we have the latest on the President's push to

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Speaker 1: get the Senate to finally do something, and so much more.

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Speaker 1: We got a big show tonight. Set your dvr ninetiestern

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Speaker 1: on the Fox News Channel. Thanks for being with us.

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Speaker 1: We'll see it a night at nine. Back here tomorrow.