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Speaker 1: Welcome.

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Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Ted Cruz Weekend Review. Ben Ferguson

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Speaker 2: with you, and these are the stories that you may

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Speaker 2: have missed that we talked about this week. First up,

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump still moving forward with tariffs even after there

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Speaker 2: was a ruling for the Supreme Court. How was he

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Speaker 2: able to do that and did he actually get advice

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Speaker 2: from a Supreme Court justice? Yeah, he did, we'll tell

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Speaker 2: you all about it. Also, the State of the Union speech,

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Speaker 2: It moved the needle for Donald Trump with Americans, including

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Speaker 2: some Democrats. What did he say that connected with so

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Speaker 2: many Americans. We'll have that for you as well. And finally,

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Speaker 2: an entering story out of the Olympics. Two different Olympians

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Speaker 2: with hearts in different places, one skating their heart out

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Speaker 2: for America and the other one saying, yeah, I may

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Speaker 2: have grown up here, but I'd rather skate for China.

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Speaker 2: That incredible story. In just a second, it's the weekend

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Speaker 2: Review and it starts right now. All right, I want

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Speaker 2: to move on to another issue. And we made predictions

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Speaker 2: on this show. I should This is why I should

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Speaker 2: say you made predictions on the show myself from them,

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Speaker 2: I always.

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Speaker 3: Look at this, who's wee? Ben throwing me overboard so.

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Speaker 2: Fast, Centater, you made a prediction about the Supreme Court

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Speaker 2: on tariffs. It was actually really funy. This morning, I

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Speaker 2: was doing a Foxing Sunday shandn't bring much to me,

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Speaker 2: She goes. I listened to y'all the show when you

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Speaker 2: were making your predictions, because nine percent of the time

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Speaker 2: Ted's right on the Spring Court, and he made a prediction.

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Speaker 2: He thought it was going to go to the President's

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Speaker 2: way on these It didn't. But there was also something

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Speaker 2: interesting in there. Brett Kavanaugh wrote basically in there, and

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Speaker 2: I found this incredibly interesting that hey, what we're saying

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Speaker 2: you did, you can't necessarily do it that way. However,

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Speaker 2: here is a way you can do it. It reminded

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Speaker 2: me almost of like Obamacare, when they're like, well, if

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Speaker 2: you do it this way, then you can get away

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Speaker 2: with it, but the way you're doing it, don't keep

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Speaker 2: doing it that way. Do it this other way. It

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Speaker 2: was like a roadmap for him to still have tariffs,

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Speaker 2: still have the power that the presidency needs to do this,

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Speaker 2: and you saw the President jump all over that with

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Speaker 2: a ten percent saying this ain't going away. I don't

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Speaker 2: know if this is a big of a defeat as

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Speaker 2: Democrats and media are trying to make it to be,

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Speaker 2: and the present incant response, I think it proves he

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Speaker 2: still has a ton of power.

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Speaker 3: Well, listen, I'm going to start by eating crow.

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Speaker 1: I did make a prediction on this podcast, and I

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Speaker 1: make a lot of predictions on this podcast, and we've

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Speaker 1: never tallied the number, but I think we're north of

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Speaker 1: eighty percent, and maybe even north of ninety percent.

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Speaker 2: Right, I'm gonna get a credit it's above ninety because

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Speaker 2: I make sure I give you a hard time when

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Speaker 2: you're wrong, and that's not very often, so this is

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Speaker 2: on that sheet. But you know, yeah, and.

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Speaker 1: By the way, we don't make small and mild predictions.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean we make bold and aggressive predictions.

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 3: Were the biggest one, Yeah, Joe Biden. Let's let's just

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Speaker 3: talk about it.

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Speaker 1: I predicted that Joe Biden would not be the nominee

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Speaker 1: a year before it happened, and said they are going

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Speaker 1: to replace him, he is not going to be on

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Speaker 1: the ballot November, and the corporate media made fun of

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Speaker 1: me like crazy for that prediction.

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Speaker 3: Of course, it was exactly right.

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Speaker 1: We've made a lot of predictions we broke down in

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Speaker 1: in March and April of the beginning of COVID. I

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Speaker 1: laid out the evidence that the COVID virus escaped from

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Speaker 1: a Chinese government lab right at the beginning, and the

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Speaker 1: predictions and that we laid out there. The evidence we

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Speaker 1: laid out there was was square on right. So I

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Speaker 1: made a prediction that the Supreme Court five to four

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Speaker 1: would uphold the president's use of Terroffts. That prediction proved false.

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Speaker 1: What actually happened is six' three The court struck it.

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Speaker 1: DOWN i also predicted That John roberts would write the majority.

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Speaker 1: OPINION i guess that that did prove technically, accurate but

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Speaker 1: he wrote the majority opinion going the other. Way here's

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Speaker 1: WHY i thought The court was going to uphold the president's,

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Speaker 1: Tariffs AND i, said they're a massive reliance. Interests there

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Speaker 1: have been hundreds of billions of dollars of tariffs, collected

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Speaker 1: and The court is reluctant to dramatically upset the status.

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Speaker 1: Quo AND i did say if The court were deciding

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Speaker 1: this issue a year, ago right at the beginning of

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Speaker 1: The trump, ADMINISTRATION i, SAID i think they'd come.

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Speaker 1: Way but after a year, plus after this being central

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Speaker 3: The court would not struck it. Down that proved.

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Speaker 1: Wrong but at the end of the, DAY i don't

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Speaker 1: think it matters a whole. Lot let's cut to the.

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Speaker 1: CONCLUSION i don't think the consequences of this decision are

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Speaker 1: going to be all that. Much what the court decided

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Speaker 1: narrowly is that one particular, STATUTE aipa does not give

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Speaker 1: the president the authority to impose. Tariffs, now mind, YOU

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Speaker 1: aipa gives the president the authority to quote regulate. Importations

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Speaker 1: and so the majority opinion, concluded the president can ban

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Speaker 1: an import from a, country can say we will import Zero.

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Speaker 3: German cars Into.

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Speaker 1: America he can do, that but he can't say we're

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Speaker 1: going to charge a dollar for each one of Those german.

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Speaker 3: Cars that is a pretty loopy.

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Speaker 1: Inclusion AND i got to say the, Descents Justice kavanaugh

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Speaker 1: wrote the lead, Dissent Justice thomas wrote an excellent. DESCENT

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Speaker 1: argument that the words That congress put in THE iepa

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Speaker 1: statute regulate, importation And Justice thomas had had an originalist

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Speaker 1: dissent where he goes through in the foreign policy, area in,

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Speaker 1: particular the ability to import goods from other countries was

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Speaker 1: never viewed as a. Right it was a privilege the

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Speaker 1: government allowed you to. Do and in, fact tariffs were

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Speaker 1: a major tool government used to regulate importation from other.

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Speaker 1: Countries SO i think the majority decision is. Wrong but

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Speaker 1: here's the thing that. Matters there are so many other

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Speaker 1: statutes that allow the president to impose tariffs THAT i

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Speaker 1: think we will see essentially the same. Regime it's gonna

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Speaker 1: a little bit more, work it's going to require some

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Speaker 1: more legal, proceedings BUT i think you're going to see.

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Speaker 1: Him we saw immediately the president announced a ten percent

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Speaker 1: tariff on every. Country he then upped that to fifteen.

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Speaker 1: The president will continue to use tariffs as a critical

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Speaker 1: don't want a world where we have high tariffs for,

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Speaker 1: everyone BUT i do think tariffs are very powerful, leverage

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Speaker 2: Them you know interesting about this when it, happened there

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Speaker 2: should say The Democratic party In, china And china was

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Speaker 2: really celebrating. This and then they were talking about buying

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Speaker 2: soybean crops from other countries instead Of, america and that

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Speaker 2: was like one of the big things that really blew

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Speaker 2: up in the media on social. Media and then you

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Speaker 2: have the same excitement from The Chinese Communist party as

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Speaker 2: you did from The Democratic. Party that tells me an

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Speaker 2: awful lot about this tariff war. Issue this is just Two,

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Speaker 2: democrats not about what's best For, america not about us

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Speaker 2: having better trade. Deal it's not about Saving american jobs

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Speaker 2: Or american, manufacturing protecting that or bringing jobs back to

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Speaker 2: Soil they just Want Donald trump to. Lose and they're

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Speaker 2: on the same team With china on this.

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Speaker 1: One. Yeah look that that's Where democrats, Are that's where

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Speaker 1: much of the media. Is let me walk through two.

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Speaker 1: Things Number, one there's gonna be some. Chaos one of

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Speaker 1: the REASONS i didn't think The court would. Do what

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Speaker 1: they did is you've got hundreds of billions of dollars

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Speaker 1: of tariffs that's going to be. Collected there's gonna be massive.

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Speaker 1: Litigation everyone that's paid the tariffs is gonna look at

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Speaker 3: Back DO i? Sue DO i try to collect.

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Speaker 1: It it's gonna vary in terms of whether they filed

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Speaker 1: a timely protest to the. TARIFFS i think some of those,

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Speaker 1: some of the people who paid tariffs will have timely protested,

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Speaker 1: tens of billions of dollars or. More that litigation chaos

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Speaker 1: will will unfold for. YEARS i didn't think The court

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Speaker 1: would do. That but in terms of the president's ability

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Speaker 1: it remains on the statute. Book so that's one. Area another,

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Speaker 1: act upon results of an investigation revealing unfair trade. Practices

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, four The biden administration opened three investigations

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Speaker 1: trump's second, ADMINISTRATION Us Trade Representative's office has opened a

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Speaker 1: And that allows the president to impose restrictions on goods

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Speaker 1: trump has used that for steel imports and aluminum. Imports

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, five he expanded steel in aluminum, teriffs

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Speaker 1: increasing the aluminum rate to twenty five, percent eliminating all country.

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Speaker 1: Exemptions to, date The trump administration has launched twelve Different

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Speaker 1: section two thirty two, investigations concluded five and then there's

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Speaker 1: Finally section two one of The Trade active of nineteen

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Speaker 1: Section two one to put tariffs on solar, cells on,

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Speaker 1: modules and in residential washing. Machines look the long and

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Speaker 1: short of, It you guys don't need to memorize all

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Speaker 2: Why this speech was the things that Irritate republican slash

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Speaker 2: the things that irritate those that can stay. Home watching

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Speaker 2: his demeanor, tonight he came across in such a way of,

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Speaker 1: Yeah the record of the last, YEAR i believe is objectively. Phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: Congress it's a great message and that's been. Lost AND

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Speaker 4: Murdered they wouldn't stand up on mass for murder. Declining

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Speaker 4: Healthcare democrats always went on healthcare and on a defensive

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Speaker 1: Too million people being deported and that's just less, demand you.

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Speaker 2: Yes by the, way, yes yesterday, morning you And adam

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Speaker 2: Matters Speaker johnson understands he basically has a one person

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Speaker 1: Advocating, LOOK i hope so to Play devil's. Advocates we're

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Speaker 2: Before if you want to hear the rest of this

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Speaker 2: conversation on this, topic you can go back and dow

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Speaker 2: the podcasts from earlier this week to hear the entire.

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Speaker 2: THING i want to get back to the big story

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Speaker 2: number three of the.

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Speaker 3: Week you may have.

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Speaker 2: Missed all, Right, sanata let's talk about The. Olympics there

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Speaker 2: were so many cool stories out of The. Olympics obviously

438
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Speaker 2: celebrating hockey that kind of took everything over when that,

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00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:49,359
Speaker 2: happened but there were some other really incredible and important

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00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:53,119
Speaker 2: stories in These, olympics and one of them that just

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00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:56,800
Speaker 2: is something we got to talk about is involved not

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00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:02,199
Speaker 2: Only china but Also america's gold medalists who won in figure.

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00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:03,720
Speaker 2: Skating it's an amazing.

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Speaker 1: Story, well, look we obviously have the incredible victory of

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Speaker 1: winning the gold in both men's hockey and women's, hockey

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Speaker 1: AND i got to say that moment was. Extraordinary at

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Speaker 1: The state of The, union it was wonderful to see

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Speaker 1: the men's gold Winning olympic hockey team. There the pride

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00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,159
Speaker 1: they had For america was. Fabulous but there's also a

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Speaker 1: story that got some. Coverage BUT i think it's worth

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Speaker 1: going back and focusing because it was a powerful, contrast

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Speaker 1: and it was a contrast between Two. Olympians it was

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Speaker 1: a contrast Between Alyssa lu And Eileen. Goo now both

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Speaker 1: are women Of chinese. Heritage One, alyssa competed for The United,

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Speaker 1: states the, Other, eileen competed For. China let's start With

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Speaker 1: alyssa Because alyssa's story is, extraordinary AND i want to

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Speaker 1: read from a tweet from a fellow Named afshine M.

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Speaker 1: RONNIE i don't know who this person, is BUT i

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Speaker 1: thought the way he wrote it was very Effect here's

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00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:04,800
Speaker 1: what he, Said the Ultimate american revenge, Story the script

461
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,960
Speaker 1: couldn't have been have written it. Better in nineteen eighty,

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00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:13,720
Speaker 1: Nine Arthur liu Fled china as a political refugee after

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00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 1: The Tieneman square. Massacre he came To america with nothing

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Speaker 1: but a dream.

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Speaker 3: For a free.

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Speaker 1: Life decades, later his, Daughter Alyssa lu became the face

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Speaker 1: Of TEAM, usa but THE ccp didn't. Forget before the

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Speaker 1: twenty Twenty Beijing, olympics THE fbi uncovered a brazen spying.

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00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:38,760
Speaker 1: Operation the Target alissa and her. Father The chinese government

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00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 1: tried to stalk them ON us, soil intimidate her into,

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Speaker 1: silence pressure her to turn her back on the country

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00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:50,480
Speaker 1: that gave her family. Refuge THE fbi had to give

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00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:55,120
Speaker 1: them twenty four to seven security just so she could.

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00:25:55,160 --> 00:26:02,720
Speaker 1: Compete she faced, intimidation refused to be a. Pawn she

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00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:06,120
Speaker 1: walked away from the sport for two years to find

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00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:09,399
Speaker 1: her soul, again and then she came back with a.

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00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 1: Vengeance today the story is. Complete in a flawless performance

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00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 1: To Donna Summers MacArthur, Park Alyssa leud just did the

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Speaker 1: Impossible olympic, gold the First american woman to win individual

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00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:32,359
Speaker 1: gold in twenty four. Years she didn't just skate for a.

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Speaker 1: Medal she skated for the freedom her father risked everything.

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00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 1: For she didn't just win for, herself she won for

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Speaker 1: the flag that protected her family when the world felt.

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Speaker 1: Small that's what a patriot looks. Like NOW i gotta,

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Speaker 1: SAY i want to give listeners some background into this.

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Speaker 1: Show the way you AND i record this. Spot as

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00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 1: we sit down right before recording, it and we go

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Speaker 1: through all the story they're in the, news we, sar

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00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:03,359
Speaker 1: what do we want to talk? About and by the,

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00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 1: way the pod is not scripted like you AND i

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00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 1: don't know what we're gonna.

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00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 3: Say we just sort of talk about.

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Speaker 1: Topics we pick a couple of topics and riff on

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Speaker 1: it AND i want everyone to. Know ben is, like, no, no,

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00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,720
Speaker 1: NO i don't want to cover this. Story ben, SAID

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Speaker 1: i Hate, AMERICANS i Hate. Olympians, YEAH i can't, skate.

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Speaker 3: And, True i'm a very good skater And i'm secretly a.

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Speaker 1: Communist okay there Were, okay, YEAH i got.

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Speaker 2: It, OKAY i see where we're going.

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Speaker 3: Here now are you a good? SKATER i suck at.

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00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:32,160
Speaker 3: Skating i'm a horrible.

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00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 2: Skater so my dad's you, know from up. North and

503
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 2: that was like one. Thing it would take us skating

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00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 2: his kids and then we would skate on the. Ponds

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00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 2: we went To North. Dakota so, Yeah i've been skating

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00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 2: a long.

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00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,160
Speaker 3: Time i'm an unbelievably bad.

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00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,360
Speaker 1: SKATER i basically wobble around the skate rink and hold

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00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 1: onto the walls the whole. Time it's, terrible like four

510
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,120
Speaker 1: year olds come skating past me and or like get

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00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:55,439
Speaker 1: out of the, way like you you terrible.

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Speaker 2: THING i can picture, this AND i believe you completely

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00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 2: That you're not over selling that point at.

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00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 1: All i'm. Not but let's just say for the, RECORD

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00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 1: i can kick your ascid. Basketball and to be, Clear

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00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 1: i've broken your finger playing.

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00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:09,879
Speaker 3: Basketball that is.

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00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 2: True the game the a. Part at some point we

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00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 2: might need a one on one game just so the

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Speaker 2: audience shows the.

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Speaker 1: Score, Here i've just, said all, right, look look you've

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00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 1: got mass and. Strength but But i'm Just i'm just,

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00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 1: saying you can't shoot to save your. Life all?

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00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 3: Right why DID i want to cover this?

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00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 1: Story, look some of it is as the child of

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00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 1: a refugee From. CUBA i Find Alyssa lou's story. INSPIRATIONAL

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00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 1: i find.

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00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,200
Speaker 2: It now you identify with it's incredible.

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00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 1: And and and, listen there's a contrast with her And Eileen. Gou,

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Speaker 1: now NOW i want to say. Something So Eileen gu

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Speaker 1: is also Of chinese. Heritage she's a student At.

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Speaker 3: Stanford alyssa's a figure.

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Speaker 1: Skater she won the. Gold Eileen gu is a downhill.

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00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 1: Skier she won two. Silvers both were offered the opportunity

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00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 1: From china that The Chinese communist government, said we will

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00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 1: give you millions of dollars to compete For. China literally.

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00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 2: Millions you're not, joking like some report's been upwards of

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00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 2: six million.

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00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:13,720
Speaker 1: Plus, yeah like massive amounts of. Money And eileen said,

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00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 1: yes And alyssa said. No, NOW i got to, say

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00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:19,160
Speaker 1: in the conservative, media there's been a world of hate

542
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 1: pounded and dumped On.

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00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 3: Eileen i'm not in that.

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00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 1: Camp, look she's a like twenty year old college. KID

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00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 1: i don't have any hate or animosity to. HER i.

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00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,960
Speaker 1: UNDERSTAND i, mean, look IF i were in, college no

547
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: one there been reports she received like fourteen million. Dollars

548
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:39,959
Speaker 1: no one ever offered me fourteen million dollars in. COLLEGE

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00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 1: i understand. That and there is something of a tradition

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00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,719
Speaker 1: in The. Olympics you think about THE nba where you

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00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 1: have all these.

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00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 3: Stars you, Know Victor.

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00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: Webba yamu in THE nba competes For, France alpa And

554
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 1: shengoun competes For. Turkey they have lots of people who

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00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 1: are from other countries compete for other countries and no

556
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,280
Speaker 1: one is horrified and they're not like you're a horrible human.

557
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 2: Being but let me say here's the.

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00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 3: Difference it's. Different it is, different but go.

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00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 2: Ahead it's the reason why it's this one's different is

560
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,560
Speaker 2: when you grow up In america and you do everything

561
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 2: In america and you're part of this country and this

562
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 2: country supports, you and then because someone throws money at,

563
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 2: you you defect to Communists. China that's the difference between

564
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 2: if you come into the league from another country and

565
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 2: you play in THE nba and then you go back

566
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 2: To like WHEN i played, tennis a lot of the

567
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,200
Speaker 2: guys from smaller countries would go back and Play Davis

568
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 2: cup or The olympics for their. Team it was, Awesome

569
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 2: like there was teammates of mine that made Their olympic.

570
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 2: Team there was from you, Know kazakhstan or smaller nations

571
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 2: and they were the best in their. Country that's not

572
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 2: defecting From, america, Right but when you're In america and

573
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,360
Speaker 2: Your american says and then you're, like all, Right i'm

574
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 2: literally defecting and gonna go do this For china and

575
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 2: it's solely for a big. Payday it was from an athlete,

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00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 2: STANDPOINT i get the. Money but it is different than

577
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 2: if you're in THE nba and you're From france like

578
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 2: Mart gasol And Pau gasol and they go and play

579
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 2: against THE usa in that, Game, LIKE i have no

580
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 2: qualms about.

581
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:09,960
Speaker 1: That that's where you were. Raised to be, clear The

582
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 1: gasols are From, spain Not. France different wherever it. Is

583
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: but We latins don't like when you call Us french like.

584
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:21,719
Speaker 1: That that is getting it. Wrong mark there you, Go,

585
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 1: okay you are right that it's. Different you, Know Victor Wemenyama's.

586
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 1: French you grew up In, france like his whole background is.

587
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 1: That so it is different when you go and play

588
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 1: for the country you were born and grew up. In

589
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 1: Both alyssa And eileen were born in and grew up In,

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00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 1: america so that is.

591
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 3: Different that being said, that there.

592
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 1: Was some real vitriol directed At eileen and, listen she's

593
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 1: a twenty year Old olympic. ATHLETE i don't have anger towards.

594
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 1: Her but my view is. Simple if you DECIDE i

595
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 1: want to compete For, CHINA i want to win the

596
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 1: gold medal For, china you can do. That but you

597
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 1: know what you're, SAYING i want one point three billion

598
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,720
Speaker 1: people In china to root for, me AND i want

599
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 1: to beat The United states Of. America, well you know,

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00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 1: What i'm not going to root for. You i'm going

601
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 1: to root for The for the athletes that Say i'm

602
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:21,239
Speaker 1: competing For, America i'm. NOT i thought people were a

603
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 1: little bit overwrought in Condemning. AILEENU i don't know her at,

604
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 1: all and she's a talented athlete and, she's you, know

605
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 1: a twenty year old. Kid but she made the decision

606
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 1: she wants The chinese to root for and she does

607
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 1: not Want america to root. For and to be, clear

608
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 1: when she made that, decision she's, SAYING i want The

609
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 1: United states Of america to. Lose, yeah that's a DECISION

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00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 1: i disagree. With and the contrast With Alyssa, liu she

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00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 1: was offered millions of.

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00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 2: Dollars, SENATOR i also think just really cool part of

613
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 2: the story Is alisalu's. Father we mentioned that. Earlier, yeah but,

614
00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 2: like this is a guy that sacrificed, everything had to

615
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 2: flee the, country comes To. America he is literally being

616
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 2: attacked and still being hunted by The chinese government to

617
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 2: the point where THE fbi is coming after, him and

618
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 2: on top of, that stays focus to make his daughter

619
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 2: An olympic gold medalist while having to look over his

620
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:20,719
Speaker 2: shoulder to the point where THE fbi had to give him.

621
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 2: Protection that's the best part of the story as. Well

622
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 2: they love this. Country they didn't take the. Money by

623
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 2: the way they took the, Money i'm assuming they wouldn't

624
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:28,240
Speaker 2: need protection.

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00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 3: Anymore, Right, look he was incredibly.

626
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 1: Driven he raised his. Daughter she was. Extraordinary AND i

627
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 1: will say one aspect.

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00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 3: Of this story THAT i really.

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Speaker 1: Like according to The, internet according To, twitter Apparently Alisa

630
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 1: lou is politically liberal and so leftists are like, you

631
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 1: conservatives can't cheer her on because she is allegedly. WOKE

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00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 1: i don't know she's politically, liberal liberal or, not but

633
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 1: you know, WHAT i don't care.

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00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 3: Care she competed For.

635
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 1: America when she was standing, there she had The american

636
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 1: flag around her. Shoulder she's tearing up as as The

637
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 1: star spangled. Banner she he's cheering For america And i'm

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00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: cheering for. Her AND i don't give a damn if

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00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: she votes For Barack obama Or Joe. Biden she's An

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00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:08,839
Speaker 1: american And i'm proud to cheer her.

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00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 2: On as, always thank you for listening To verdict With,

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00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 2: Sinner Ted, Cruz Ben ferguson with you don't forget to

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00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 2: deal with my, podcast and you can listen to my

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