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Speaker 1: This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray

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Speaker 2: On these people.

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Speaker 1: You've not got a free shot.

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Speaker 3: All these networks lying about the people, the people have

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Speaker 1: I know you don't like hearing that. I know you

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Speaker 5: I wish in my soul, I wish that any of

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Speaker 1: Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

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Speaker 3: If that answer is to save my country, this country

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Speaker 1: Use your host Stephen k.

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Speaker 4: Back Simmer.

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Speaker 7: And then two will update you from where we are

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Speaker 7: Will be speaking briefly, and Kervill City Manager Dalton Rice.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, Sheriff. I'll be brief. You know, I'm here

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Speaker 6: Thank you, thanks sure.

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Speaker 9: I'm Mayor Joe Herring, Junior Mayor of Kerville, Texas. I'm

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Speaker 9: glad you're here, and I have a few comments to make.

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Speaker 9: This is the message I want to share. The City

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Speaker 10: just wanted to give a couple updates on operations. Operations

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Speaker 3: I'm missing individuals and twenty seven of those all recent campers,

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Speaker 10: The twenty seven missing is the children from Can't Mystic

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Speaker 10: Like I alluded to with the operations piece, we have

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Speaker 10: We are doing what's called a primary search, which is

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Speaker 10: We do have intel on what sites and locations those are,

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Speaker 14: There are so many people.

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Speaker 13: There's so many people already asked you what can be

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Speaker 12: We stop thirsty as telling we've seen an unknown numbers,

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Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, it's a great it's a great question,

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Speaker 2: Right now, our focus.

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Speaker 10: Is on the search and rescue efforts making sure that

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Speaker 2: On search and rescue operations.

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Speaker 10: Right now, Yes, we are, we have been in continuous

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Speaker 2: One more question.

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Speaker 11: Right now active.

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Speaker 10: Of plan where typically rescues if we do find them,

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Speaker 2: Know where they're at.

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Speaker 10: We're getting them food, water resources, and now it's a

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Speaker 8: So we know that the.

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Speaker 10: We want to protect, you know, those families and their information.

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Speaker 10: So some of them are and some of those have

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Speaker 10: So our next one will be at two o'clock and

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Speaker 1: It was a great question.

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Speaker 3: I think the governor lieutenant governor would want to be there.

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Speaker 3: You can already see the intensity of the recriminations I

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Speaker 11: Sir, Yeah, yeah, so I'm standing next to Chip Roy.

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Speaker 1: This is so. He did answer part of the question.

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Speaker 1: Are they children?

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Speaker 11: Are the adults of the twenty seven missing from Camp Mystic?

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Speaker 11: Are the children? They're additional obvious see more adults. The

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Speaker 11: The big question is the unknown missing? And he didn't answer, Okay,

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Speaker 11: it didn't have.

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Speaker 1: But hang but hang if he but hanging, but hang

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Speaker 1: but hang on?

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Speaker 3: But I know, but hang on, which is terrible. This

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Speaker 11: Yeah, the missing So they've found nine of the girls

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Speaker 11: we do have a congressman, Chip Roy, you just joined Usteve.

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Speaker 1: Chip, thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 3: No terrible time, but talk to us about your first

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean like this is an area that's unique,

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Speaker 5: thirty foot rise in the water in about an hour.

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Speaker 5: That's just you can't really prepare for that sort of

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Speaker 5: a thing. It was a unique situation. It happened at

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Speaker 5: four am to six am, the absolute worst time when

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Speaker 5: people are there, you know, asleep, still dark out, and

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Speaker 5: you know, look, there was a lot of heroic efforts

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Speaker 5: that have been underway. You know, I was just talking

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Speaker 5: about a woman, a camp director who lost her life,

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Speaker 5: you know, saving kids, people, all these first responders who

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Speaker 5: are out here doing the Lord's work. There's been some

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Speaker 5: miraculous stories. One of my kids schoolmates, she was alive

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Speaker 5: after you know, middle of the night, you know, staying

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Speaker 5: on a mattress floating for a few hours. But obviously

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Speaker 5: we've had some heartache and there's going to be some

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Speaker 5: more heartache today. But we remain hopeful as we continue

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Speaker 5: to do the search and rescue operation, and we got

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Speaker 5: to just continue to keep these families in our prayer.

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Speaker 4: It's tragic.

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Speaker 5: I mean, the camp community here is real rich, It's

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Speaker 5: been here for decades, right, and a lot of people

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Speaker 5: send their guy was just on the phone with one

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Speaker 5: of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle.

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Speaker 5: She herself went to the camps here. She was actually

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Speaker 5: here for the last huge flood in nineteen eighty seven.

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Speaker 5: They happened every once in a while, but this one was,

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Speaker 5: you know, this one was something like we've never seen before.

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Speaker 5: So you know, we've got to keep working today to

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Speaker 5: try to do what we can for these families and

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Speaker 5: keep the search operation going.

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Speaker 3: See Ben ask asked congressman. Is he keeping the president personally?

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Speaker 3: Is he updating the president personally?

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Speaker 2: Are you updating the president personally? Or is there communication.

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Speaker 5: Directly you know, in private communications? But yeah, I mean

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Speaker 5: I've been having I talked to the President yesterday. I

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Speaker 5: talked to Secretary know him yesterday. Yesterday. I've been keeping

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Speaker 5: the White House up to date, you know, the in

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Speaker 5: the you know, his staff, and we'll be having a

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Speaker 5: constant conversations the governors in constant conversations.

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Speaker 4: I expect the Governor to be back here today.

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Speaker 15: Uh.

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Speaker 5: I think the Secretary might be here might be here today.

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Speaker 5: We're you know, it's a coordinated effort, state, local, federal.

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Speaker 5: We've gotten all the resources we've asked for, and yesterday

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Speaker 5: we've asked for some supporting. Army Corps immediately got it. Uh,

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Speaker 5: there's air assets here. We've had one hundred and sixty

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Speaker 5: air operations. But you know, a lot of a lot

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Speaker 5: of that credit goes as it should to the state

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Speaker 5: and local guys. You know, Federal comes in to do

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Speaker 5: what they can. But you know Governor Abbitt and you

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Speaker 5: know Nim Kidd, I can't say enough about uh, you know,

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Speaker 5: tem the Texas Department of Emergency Management. I've worked h

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Speaker 5: too much with them for frankly, between COVID and this

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Speaker 5: and other other things. But he's a good man and

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Speaker 5: he's doing a great job.

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Speaker 3: Ben, find out where where can we get in touch?

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Speaker 3: How do we follow Chip Roy today while he's down

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Speaker 3: there on social media?

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Speaker 11: How do we best follow you while you're here getting

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Speaker 11: any updates for the folks that want to.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, first of all, there'll be you know, there's

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Speaker 5: gonna be a bigger briefing in the early afternoon. I

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Speaker 5: think we'll have a little bit more information. You can

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Speaker 5: always follow me on Twitter at chip Roy t X

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Speaker 5: c h I p R o I t X or

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Speaker 5: my official count Rep.

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Speaker 4: Chip Roy.

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Speaker 5: We're putting out what we can, but I'm pretty conservative

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Speaker 5: in what I put out. Other people, you know, throwing

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Speaker 5: stuff out there. I want to wait. We need families

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Speaker 5: to get noticed. We need to take this methodically, do

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Speaker 5: it the right way. You know, people have lost loved ones.

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Speaker 5: There's people out of him in the camp. All the

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Speaker 5: focus on the camps, understandably these young girls, but there

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Speaker 5: there are adults people here in Kervill that are being

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Speaker 5: directly impacted. I saw a story of a couple that

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Speaker 5: was swept away that'd come down here and they were

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Speaker 5: in a cabin, you know, and other folks that are locals,

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Speaker 5: and so, you know, we got to just keep doing

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Speaker 5: our work to try to get the facts out there.

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Speaker 4: But we'll all come together.

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Speaker 5: We're resilient, we're Texans, and we'll figure out how to

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Speaker 5: move forward from this. Right now, we've got to, you know,

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Speaker 5: finish the job in these next few days.

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Speaker 11: Thank you, sir, Thanks.

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Speaker 2: Thanks, yeah, and Steve.

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Speaker 11: The big message Ben Can for everybody out there, YEP

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Speaker 11: is pray, pray, pray, pray, pray for this community.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, Steve, Ben can you hang on.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to go to an interview I just did

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Speaker 3: with Megan Kelly. I want you to hold for the

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Speaker 3: end of the show. We'll get any more wrap up

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Speaker 3: and any more information and we'll tee up the two

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Speaker 3: pm Central time three pm Eastern daylight time another press

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Speaker 3: conference with updates. So Ben Berkwam, just hang on. I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna come right back to you. Okay, Okay.

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Speaker 1: Not a lot of good news at a Kerzville. That's

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Speaker 1: what we need. Prayer.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna go back to Ben Berkwam before we sign

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Speaker 3: off at a twelve noon Eastern daylight time. I was

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Speaker 3: very fortunate to be able to do an interview with

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Speaker 3: Megan Kelly. I want to play that in its entirety.

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Speaker 3: If Denver could go ahead, Let's kick in the Medican

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Speaker 3: Kelly and I'll be back right after it. By Megan

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Speaker 3: Kelly Meghan on this fourth of July weekend, the kicks

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Speaker 3: off really the year leading up to our two hundred

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Speaker 3: and fiftieth commemoration anniversary. As a country. You know, very

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Speaker 3: few republics have made it this long. This is this

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Speaker 3: theory that a republic will only last about two hundred

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Speaker 3: to two hundred and fifty years, like the Roman Republic.

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Speaker 1: And others that come before us.

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Speaker 3: Given last weekend I spent in New York, called up

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Speaker 3: there to kind of go through some analysis and data

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Speaker 3: what happened in this election, to see if there's anything

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Speaker 3: to be done. What is your pull back the camera

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Speaker 3: for a minute, What does Megan Kelly think about the

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Speaker 3: arc of our country?

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Speaker 1: Where are we now?

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Speaker 3: And given your experience, particularly in New York City, when

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Speaker 3: you're at Fox News in Midtown Manhattan, what is happening

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Speaker 3: there now and kind of the arc of the story.

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Speaker 13: If you just looked, if you zoomed in on what's

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Speaker 13: happening in a city like New York or San Francisco

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Speaker 13: or La or Chicago, I think be very pessimistic about

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Speaker 13: the direction of the country, especially if this were twenty

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Speaker 13: twenty three instead of twenty twenty five and we had

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Speaker 13: Joe Biden at the top of the government, the federal government,

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Speaker 13: and in particular when it comes to our culture. I mean,

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Speaker 13: you talk about end times of the Roman Empire and

570
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Speaker 13: other great empires, you start to see things like total

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Speaker 13: debauchery spread across the culture, the loss of the nuclear family,

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Speaker 13: the loss of the connection to faith, and we're seeing

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Speaker 13: that more and more on the left in these big cities,

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Speaker 13: and the left runs our best and biggest cities. Unfortunately

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Speaker 13: they're running them right into the ground. But you're seeing

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Speaker 13: just sort of the sort of the dehumanization of people,

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Speaker 13: the disconnection from God and from faith of any kind,

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Speaker 13: the running away from family and child bearing as something

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Speaker 13: that's somehow evil or bad for you or awful to do,

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Speaker 13: you know, transhumanism. You're seeing thrupples, You're seeing the rent

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Speaker 13: a womb become a thing. I mean, it's just it's dark.

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Speaker 13: It's dark, the whole trans thing, with the men pretending

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Speaker 13: to be women and women telling other women that they're bigots.

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Speaker 13: If they don't accept that and if they stand up

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Speaker 13: for themselves, it's very sick. It's a sick culture in

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Speaker 13: a lot of ways. When you look back, not to

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Speaker 13: sound too pollyanna about it, but you look back at

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Speaker 13: nineteen fifties and the nineteen sixties and you turned on

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Speaker 13: the music on the radio, and what did you hear about?

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Speaker 13: You heard about sweet love between puppy love, teenagers and

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Speaker 13: families and how the guy really wished he could get

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Speaker 13: the girl, and don't know what a slide rulers for.

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Speaker 13: You know, it's just sweet and sort of g rated.

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Speaker 13: And you turn on the radio today and you literally

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Speaker 13: hear songs about wet ass p word celebrated and then

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Speaker 13: written up by the New York Times like some sort

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Speaker 13: of modern day genius. So it's dark. The culture is

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Speaker 13: really slid. And just turn on the television for any

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Speaker 13: Super Bowl, for any music event, any celebratory event of

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Speaker 13: artists of any kind, whether it's music or acting or Broadway,

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Speaker 13: and you see nudity in your child's face, You see

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Speaker 13: j Lo's vadge, which you needn't ask to see. It's

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Speaker 13: like the snapshot would be bleak, would have you feeling

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Speaker 13: like it is end times. But the country is not

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Speaker 13: just blue states and blue cities run by Democrats. It's

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Speaker 13: still I think majority center right, and as has happened

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Speaker 13: repeatedly in history, I think it's correcting now. It's recognized

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Speaker 13: that it was lulled into a sense of complacency, being

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Speaker 13: told that you had to accept all of these things

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Speaker 13: or you were bad. You were a judgmental person, which

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Speaker 13: no one really wants to be. And the country has

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Speaker 13: realized that too many things have slipped out of control

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Speaker 13: into a very negative, even arguably evil place, and it's

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Speaker 13: fighting back that the election of Trump stood for so

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Speaker 13: much more than just let's make the Trump tax cuts

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Speaker 13: permanent and clean up what's happening at the southern border.

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Speaker 13: It was definitely those things, but it was about so

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Speaker 13: much more. You know, how many times have you heard

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Speaker 13: people say, we don't have to do that anymore. We

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Speaker 13: elected Trump, and it applies across our culture because it's

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Speaker 13: not just Trump, it's the middle finger that is Trump.

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Speaker 13: It's the right and the normies standing up against the

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Speaker 13: erosion of decency. So that's my initial response. And I

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Speaker 13: just think we've let something that's really important slide for

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Speaker 13: too long, and I think, you know, we're at risk

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Speaker 13: it over correcting like we always do. You know, you

627
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Speaker 13: have to watch out. You can't get puritan like the

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Speaker 13: left did in its holistic messages about how you're not

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Speaker 13: allowed to speak this way and you're not allowed to

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Speaker 13: think that way. We on the right have got to

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Speaker 13: watch that and not sort of start judging each other

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Speaker 13: too harshly. But we're on a good course right now

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Speaker 13: toward correction. I don't think the downward slide is as

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Speaker 13: rapid as it was just eighteen months ago.

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Speaker 3: Did the course of American history has always have been

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Speaker 3: predicated upon the people and the people ultimately making decisions

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Speaker 3: about what direction we had. But we've always had an

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Speaker 3: elite that was culturally, very very attuned with the underpinnings

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Speaker 3: and the foundational elements of the Judeo Christian West.

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Speaker 1: Can we turn this around as a populist movement?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 3: Can we turn this around when you have elites and

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Speaker 3: elites educational institutions. I mean, a lot of our analysis

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Speaker 3: about what's happened in New York is that the breeding

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Speaker 3: ground of this, the recruiting ground for the get out

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Speaker 3: the vote activity, is places like Connard College and Columbia University.

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Speaker 3: They've used the universities and all the way down the

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Speaker 3: indoctrination of the not just public schools, but really even worse,

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Speaker 3: the private schools, the high end private schools.

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Speaker 1: That we've created.

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Speaker 3: Now a group of elites that not only do not

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Speaker 3: believe in the underlying tenants of the Judeo Christian West,

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Speaker 3: but actually are quite anti American and hate America and

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Speaker 3: hate what America stands for.

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Speaker 13: Ma'am, yeah, you're totally right, and I've lived that through

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Speaker 13: my own children and their exposure to that education, and

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Speaker 13: my friends who have college age and younger children as well.

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Speaker 13: I'll just give you one example. When my kids were

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Speaker 13: in this most prestigious boys' school, really one of them

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Speaker 13: in the country in New York City. They had to

661
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Speaker 13: write little essays in the second grade. I think it

662
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Speaker 13: was why I'm a feminist? Why are you having my

663
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Speaker 13: child say he's a feminist? We don't embrace that. Even

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Speaker 13: I don't say I'm a feminist, and I'm their mother,

665
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Speaker 13: So it starts very very young. Then the trans stuff

666
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 13: was heaped on them in the third grade, trying to

667
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Speaker 13: inject some question about what gender they might actually be

668
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Speaker 13: with a bunch of boys in the boys school that

669
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Speaker 13: had absolutely no questions. And then you fast forward to

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Speaker 13: the college years. I've got a good friend whose child

671
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 13: is at NYU and was forced to write an essay

672
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Speaker 13: about how capitalism is bad and she doesn't feel that way,

673
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 13: but she needed to write that because that was the assignment,

674
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Speaker 13: and if you wrote anything other than that, you weren't

675
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Speaker 13: going to get a very good grade. She wants to

676
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Speaker 13: get into grad school, and so she needed to get

677
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Speaker 13: a good grade, and so she wrote it. She just

678
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Speaker 13: did it long to get along. And that's how you

679
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Speaker 13: get ahead at these elite institutions, whether it's at the

680
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Speaker 13: K through twelve level or above. So you're right, there's

681
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Speaker 13: been complete capture. And that's why those same kids coming

682
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Speaker 13: out of NYU and other institutions that are teaching the

683
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:15,759
Speaker 13: same thing look at Zorn mum Dami and they think, yeah,

684
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 13: he's right, capitalism does suck. We do need socialism. And

685
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Speaker 13: then we get the myth that Sweden is some utopia

686
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Speaker 13: and it's fully socialist, and it's not. And every time

687
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 13: they lean more socialists, they have to correct it and

688
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,400
Speaker 13: go back to a form closer to capitalism. And by

689
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Speaker 13: the way, I was in Sweden literally twelve months ago,

690
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:35,759
Speaker 13: and yeah, there are a lot of things that are

691
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,439
Speaker 13: quote free. It's free for the freeloaders, but the people

692
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Speaker 13: who actually earn have taxes that are in the mid

693
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Speaker 13: seventies mid seventies, But they want to pay seventy five

694
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 13: percent tax to your government so that your freeloading neighbor

695
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 13: doesn't have to work hard. It completely kills any urge

696
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 13: to innovate. What is Sweden invented in the past fifty years.

697
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 13: Anything coming to mind? Did they have an Elon Musk?

698
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 13: I know you don't like him, but I'm just saying

699
00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 13: he's one of our best inventors. We have people in

700
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Speaker 13: America who invent great things. We've got Bill Gates, you know,

701
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Speaker 13: We've got Jeff Bezos. And yes they're this elitist class,

702
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:07,279
Speaker 13: but they make real things. They come up with new

703
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:11,840
Speaker 13: innovative things. Mark Zuckerberg, what do they have? Socialism doesn't

704
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:15,279
Speaker 13: encourage any sort of invention or innovation, and it leaves

705
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,439
Speaker 13: you just a flatlined economy. So I think these people

706
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:21,319
Speaker 13: are being brainwashed and they don't read history because they're

707
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,239
Speaker 13: not allowed to. All they read is Howard Zinn telling

708
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Speaker 13: them how bad America is. Another personal example, when we

709
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Speaker 13: were looking for schools for our kids as Manhattanites, we

710
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:33,279
Speaker 13: went to one Fieldston, which is very well respected as

711
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 13: a very tony school in the in sort of the

712
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Speaker 13: Lower Bronx, and they talked about how the entire third

713
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:43,680
Speaker 13: grade is spent making the children fall in love with

714
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Speaker 13: the Native Americans. The entire third grade. That's all they

715
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Speaker 13: do in history is social studies in third grade and

716
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:51,400
Speaker 13: then fourth grade. The entire fourth grade is spent on

717
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:53,799
Speaker 13: how we kill them all, and how we committed a

718
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Speaker 13: genocide and how evil the white man is. Like what

719
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 13: it starts young, So the inductor is baked in. Most

720
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Speaker 13: parents happily hand their child over this, over to this

721
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Speaker 13: because they really want you need to get into Harvard. Well,

722
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 13: they well, it used to be a world in which

723
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 13: you can learn actual things, but now it's just all

724
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 13: that indoctrination times one hundred, that indoctrination on steroids, and

725
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 13: then we're confused when the bumdamis of the world actually

726
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 13: score a win. So on that front, I think we're

727
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:26,480
Speaker 13: on a collision course because they're going to do it.

728
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Speaker 13: This guy is going to get elected unless something extraordinary

729
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 13: happens between now and November, and we're just going to

730
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Speaker 13: have to relearn lessons we learned already about what happens

731
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Speaker 13: when you put far left socialist democrats in charge of

732
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Speaker 13: our major cities. Nothing good.

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Speaker 1: How can we turn the country around?

734
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Speaker 3: I keep arguing this is one of the reasons I

735
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Speaker 3: was so against the potential getting dragged in to regime

736
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Speaker 3: change war in Persia is that the central front of

737
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 3: this Third World War is in the United States, and

738
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Speaker 3: particularly in the big sanctuary cities Los Angele, Chicago, now

739
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Speaker 3: New York. You have three of the greatest cities in

740
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Speaker 3: the world, and certainly the three greatest cities in the

741
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Speaker 3: United States of America, that are essentially run by and

742
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Speaker 3: I come from Richmond, Virginia, Neo Confederates politicians and people

743
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 3: that think they don't have to comply with federal law

744
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 3: and not disagreements on the margin federal law, just think

745
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:21,839
Speaker 3: that they can dictate their own laws, and if they

746
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,839
Speaker 3: want to make non citizens essentially citizens, they'll just do it.

747
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Speaker 1: And you saw what happened in Los Angeles.

748
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Speaker 3: How can we actually take the country back and get

749
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:33,320
Speaker 3: on the right path politically economically when we have three

750
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Speaker 3: of the greatest cities on earth that are controlled by

751
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 3: people that hate our values and refuse to comply with

752
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:40,959
Speaker 3: federal law.

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Speaker 13: Man, I mean, I have to think it's the same

754
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:48,239
Speaker 13: answer you and I have discussed on the lawfair that

755
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:51,239
Speaker 13: the Democrats unleashed on Trump, which is we have to

756
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,879
Speaker 13: let them suffer on the other side in the same way.

757
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 13: In other words, let them elect Brandon Johnson in Chicago

758
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 13: and see how that goes. He has an eleven percent

759
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 13: approval rating. Let them elect Mom Damie in the world's

760
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:09,400
Speaker 13: greatest city, New York City, and see what that does

761
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:13,280
Speaker 13: to Manhattan, to the billionaire class who's tax paying dollars

762
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,760
Speaker 13: we are dependent on in order to keep the city running.

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Speaker 13: We're already a shadow of our former selves in New York.

764
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Speaker 13: I lived in New York seventeen years. Seventeen of the

765
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Speaker 13: past twenty I've been in New York City. And when

766
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 13: I got there, under the early Bloomberg years, post Giuliani,

767
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:33,280
Speaker 13: you could eat off the sidewalks, sanitation worked, public works worked,

768
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 13: the subway was clean and safe. That's why I chose

769
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Speaker 13: to have three children while living there and raise toddlers

770
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Speaker 13: in that city. Now it's a shadow of its former self.

771
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Speaker 13: You can't walk down a block without stepping over garbage,

772
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:49,439
Speaker 13: homeless people, human feces. That's thanks to all these years

773
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Speaker 13: of Democrat rule. Mayor build the Blasio ruined the city,

774
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 13: and Eric Adams didn't do a whole hell of a

775
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 13: lot to improve it. And so now they want to

776
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 13: go They want to double down. Unstupid. I kind of

777
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,400
Speaker 13: think they need to feel the full effects of their decisions.

778
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 13: They need to actually feel the pain why don't we

779
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,919
Speaker 13: do the mom Dami plan where we drive every one

780
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 13: of New York's one hundred and twenty three billionaires out.

781
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 13: Let them go to Greenwich, you know, let them go

782
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 13: to some beautiful town in New Jersey. It's really not

783
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 13: hard to find another place to live in the Tri

784
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:22,840
Speaker 13: state area for billionaires, and see what happens to the

785
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Speaker 13: tax base. And not just them, but the one hundred

786
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:28,320
Speaker 13: billionaires who populate the Upper east Side who voted for Cuomo.

787
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Speaker 13: Let's let them feel the pain that comes with the

788
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:34,960
Speaker 13: public housing projects. Mamdami wants to move right into the

789
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:38,760
Speaker 13: heart of Manhattan, like right on the on Central Park,

790
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:42,400
Speaker 13: so that everybody going for an afternoon stroll with their

791
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 13: kids has to deal with that kind of person who's

792
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 13: living in the public housing projects in Manhattan. It's a nightmare.

793
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:51,400
Speaker 13: And I really feel like only when they feel the

794
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 13: full pain of it and see what they voted for,

795
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 13: what it got them, are they going to start voting differently.

796
00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 13: I think Chicago's going to vote differently. Don't forget chess

797
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 13: aboudin that radical weather underground scion of Bill Ayers. He

798
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 13: was recalled as the San Francisco DA, the San Francisco

799
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 13: school board had a revolution. Like even in San Francisco,

800
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 13: they started to see reason bit by bit. In Chicago

801
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 13: they're starting to see reason. New York apparently needs another

802
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:21,759
Speaker 13: four years of lessons in this guy. I'm sorry, but

803
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:23,640
Speaker 13: I think they probably have to get it if we

804
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 13: want real change to eventually come.

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Speaker 3: The weekend I was last week and I was there

806
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:31,319
Speaker 3: doing this analysis and looking at data.

807
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Speaker 1: And by the way, one hundred percent agree with you.

808
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Speaker 3: Unless it's some miracle and people drop out, they're going

809
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:37,839
Speaker 3: to get Mandambi, and quite frankly, maybe they deserve him,

810
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 3: and you got to play it out and see how

811
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 3: it turns out, because it'll burn the city to the ground.

812
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:45,200
Speaker 3: At the same time, you're inundated on social media with

813
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 3: the Bezos wedding, and so when Mandami goes, I don't

814
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:50,720
Speaker 3: know if we need billionaires, you look at the Bezos

815
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,160
Speaker 3: wedding and not that you agree with them.

816
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Speaker 13: So glad you said that.

817
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 1: Compare and contrast that.

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Speaker 3: I mean, when these young kids who don't know anything,

819
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 3: or Tarvias skraslaying the said we don't need billionaires, you

820
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:07,240
Speaker 3: have the Bezos thing in your face for seventy two hours.

821
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Speaker 1: Your thoughts.

822
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Speaker 13: Man, I'm so glad you raised that. I've been wrestling

823
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:14,800
Speaker 13: with it too. It's disgusting, like the in your face

824
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 13: display of extreme wealth. And honestly, like for me, it

825
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 13: wasn't even the Vogue spread or the fake friends at

826
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:25,879
Speaker 13: their wedding. It just hit the papers today. I asked

827
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Speaker 13: myself on the show and ask my audience what the

828
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 13: hell was Sidney Sweeney doing at the Bezos Sanchez wit

829
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 13: who everybody knows? This young starlet doesn't know these two?

830
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Speaker 13: Why is she there? And I'd speculated that sometimes agents

831
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Speaker 13: and she might be represented by ariammanuelite id in check,

832
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 13: but sometimes they'll cut a deal, like get my client

833
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 13: invited to this thing, so she'll be a headliner. What

834
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:47,759
Speaker 13: it actually appears is she starred in some movie that

835
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 13: Amazon has a producing role in, and so her boss,

836
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 13: Jeff Bezos invited her, even though they don't know each other,

837
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Speaker 13: to his wedding. He obviously just wanted a headline with

838
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:59,719
Speaker 13: her name in it. That's how vapid these people are.

839
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 13: I mean, I'm sorry, who would extend that invitation and

840
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 13: who would go Both of these people are just completely vapid.

841
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 13: And so you look at so Anyway, that wasn't the worst.

842
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:12,319
Speaker 13: The worst of it for me was the shot of

843
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:14,800
Speaker 13: them on the yacht. And their yacht has a yacht.

844
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 13: You know, their yacht has its own yacht, the second

845
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 13: yacht that travels along with all the yachts trappings like

846
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 13: the helicopter, and reportedly it's where he makes her go

847
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 13: when the Kardashians come to visit for their weird parties,

848
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:26,840
Speaker 13: because who the hell wants to be seen with a

849
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:31,920
Speaker 13: Kardashian And on their yacht they had a foam party

850
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:36,799
Speaker 13: in their yachts pool. Their yacht has a pool. You know,

851
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:38,759
Speaker 13: some of these big, big boats might have a hot tub.

852
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,720
Speaker 13: Theirs has a pool and they dumped all this foam

853
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 13: in it so they could frolic in the foam. And

854
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 13: you see the foam dripping off of the main yacht

855
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:53,879
Speaker 13: into the beautiful Mediterranean in Venice. Can you think how

856
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 13: little respect do you have for anything?

857
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Speaker 15: Like?

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Speaker 13: It's not too far a few from what I went

859
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:02,880
Speaker 13: to the met Gala a couple of years Steve. I

860
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:05,359
Speaker 13: used to be an anna win to our favorite when

861
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 13: she thought I was a trump foil, And what I

862
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:10,439
Speaker 13: saw in there was stomach turning. I saw the same

863
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 13: class of people. They make tens of millions, in some

864
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 13: cases hundreds of millions. And yes, indeed there were billionaires

865
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Speaker 13: there too. I talked with a lot of them. And

866
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Speaker 13: you go into the bathroom at the met gala, and

867
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 13: all I saw was wall to wall Kardashians, yes, and

868
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:30,759
Speaker 13: fake influencers, supermodels smoking cigarettes among our classic works of art.

869
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 13: Couple dry humping one another. By the way, Sean Diddycombs

870
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 13: was in there, absolutely disrespectful doing drugs. Not the Kardashians.

871
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Speaker 13: You're not going to name who was doing there, but

872
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Speaker 13: this was witnessed, okay, in one of our most celebrated

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Speaker 13: places of homes of art that we're lucky enough to

874
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Speaker 13: have in Manhattan. In the United States. It's the same thing.

875
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 13: And this is our so called ruling class. These are

876
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:57,239
Speaker 13: the ones who whose endorsement during the presidential election is

877
00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:01,360
Speaker 13: supposed to matter. And Jeff Bezos somehow eagles an invitation

878
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:05,120
Speaker 13: to the inauguration where he steps behind President Trump. What

879
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 13: did he do to help President Trump get inaugurated? His

880
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:12,319
Speaker 13: Washington Post ripped on Trump every day. You know, it

881
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 13: was absurd to me that he was anywhere within striking

882
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Speaker 13: distance of Trump. Not to mention his now bride. I'm sorry,

883
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:23,840
Speaker 13: but with her tits hanging out, totally disrespectful. Chrissy Tagan

884
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Speaker 13: going to the White House correspondence dinner with her vadge,

885
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Speaker 13: hanging out with her her skirt so high, literally showing

886
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Speaker 13: her underwear. It's disrespectful. And there is this so called

887
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:39,040
Speaker 13: ruling class that doesn't understand anything about regular Americans. So

888
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 13: that's why there's this huge vapid hole that's ripe for

889
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 13: exploitation by a guy like mom Dommy, who smiles a

890
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 13: lot and is kind of cheery and likable, just done

891
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:55,239
Speaker 13: in terms of delivery, saying's New York is too expensive,

892
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:57,759
Speaker 13: I'm gonna fix it. That's literally what he ran on.

893
00:44:58,040 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 13: It was like those two lines. It was very simple,

894
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:03,600
Speaker 13: very appealing, and you think, yes, it is too expensive.

895
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:07,400
Speaker 13: Why am I living paycheck to paycheck and have to

896
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:09,839
Speaker 13: worry about my grocery store bill when I'm looking at

897
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:12,879
Speaker 13: the phone party and these morons who are you know,

898
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 13: going to the metcal at their eighty five thousand dollars

899
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 13: a ticket, smoking cigarettes and doing drugs, And I'm told

900
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:20,560
Speaker 13: I'm a bad person if I don't relate to them.

901
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:23,319
Speaker 13: I don't get into these elite colleges. They judge me

902
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 13: for my community college or for not going to college. Yes,

903
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 13: I hate them, and so it does that too. The

904
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:33,799
Speaker 13: Bezos Sanchez wedding and everything around them feels end times ish.

905
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 13: It does feel late Roman Empire, and that's yet another

906
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Speaker 13: reason why I don't think those two are a force for.

907
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Speaker 1: Good Late Roman Empire.

908
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:45,280
Speaker 3: Well, we know the Bayonaire married the stripper Megan Kelly.

909
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 3: Fantastic You and I got our work cutout for us

910
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:49,759
Speaker 3: in the run up to America is two hundred and

911
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:52,279
Speaker 3: fiftieth birthday, So thank you so much. Where do people

912
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 3: get your podcast and all all your writings, Well.

913
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:58,480
Speaker 13: You can catch grea at YouTube dot com, slash Meghan Kelly,

914
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 13: or wherever you get my your podcast for free. Steve

915
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 13: Bannon is an honor to serve alongside.

916
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Speaker 1: You, Megan Kelly. I like being in the trenches with you.

917
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 1: We got a fixed band nets this year. Thank you man,

918
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Speaker 1: appreciate you. Have a great rest of the weekends.

919
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Speaker 13: Thank you too.

920
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Speaker 3: We'll be back back in a moment for a wrap

921
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:21,400
Speaker 3: up for our fourth of July weekend special.

922
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Speaker 4: Back in the moment.

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Speaker 8: The welcome we will God, here's your host, Stephen k.

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Speaker 10: Ban.

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Speaker 3: Okay, let's go down back to Doc Chambers. Doc, we

926
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Speaker 3: had you on last night before the press conference. Press conference,

927
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Speaker 3: good information, kind of depressing. Can you give us an

928
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Speaker 3: update on where we are in search and rescue?

929
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Speaker 12: Sir Roger That, Yeah, we had over two hundred and

930
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Speaker 12: sixty rescues yesterday. This is a positive note. Obviously, we're

931
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Speaker 12: looking at one hundred and some of those were hoists,

932
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Speaker 12: so this is what we call a jungle penetrator type.

933
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Speaker 12: The old comes down from the helicopter with a operator.

934
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Speaker 15: At the bottom of the line.

935
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Speaker 12: Somebody pulls them up through the tree line because this

936
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Speaker 12: is triple canopy in some places, lots of foliage in

937
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Speaker 12: the area. So that's a positive note. Unfortunately, you do

938
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Speaker 12: have to report that we're at about twenty four right

939
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Speaker 12: now unconfirmed, twenty four to twenty six deaths reported expected

940
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Speaker 12: to rise still, twenty five missing expected to rise, but

941
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Speaker 12: we're nearing those numbers down as we speak. So those

942
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Speaker 12: are just unconfirmed, but they are close to the right numbers.

943
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Speaker 3: What is of the twenty five what's the status of

944
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Speaker 3: the Mystic Girls camp. They were saying that last night

945
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Speaker 3: twenty to twenty three. Is that still an accurate number

946
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Speaker 3: that had not been the search and rescue had not located.

947
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Speaker 1: Is that still the accounting? We have.

948
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Speaker 12: No, because over the ninth we were reporting all the

949
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Speaker 12: way through zero three hundred. This morning, yeah, there were

950
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Speaker 12: about seven that I saw that were sent to me.

951
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Speaker 12: I have not got those numbers yet. I'm on my

952
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Speaker 12: way to Mystic. We've we've had a lot of stops

953
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Speaker 12: along the way. Understand, this is still going on. It's

954
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Speaker 12: the Geen area, Lake mcqueeney. Is that there's a deluge

955
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Speaker 12: of rain down from us. So it's it's adding to

956
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Speaker 12: the problem set. But we're controlling what we can here

957
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Speaker 12: and then we'll continue to move to that location. But

958
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Speaker 12: first I'll hit Mystic and be out there conducting some

959
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Speaker 12: support out there, ministry support with some of the families.

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Speaker 1: Let's bring a peat teal.

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Speaker 3: Hang on, doc, let's go a peat teal from the

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Speaker 3: minute man a disaster relief, I think, joins us by phone.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, there we have him, Pete.

964
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Speaker 3: Can you give us an update on a disaster relief,

965
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Speaker 3: search and rescue anything, you know?

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Speaker 15: I agree with what what the previous guy said. I

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Speaker 15: was at the operations center there were they were did

968
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Speaker 15: the operational briefing this morning? I don't have any additional

969
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Speaker 15: numbers to what he said. Those are are in line

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Speaker 15: with what I'm aware of.

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Speaker 3: When you say, in line, this is just the question

972
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Speaker 3: last night I think they said.

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Speaker 1: I think they reported at Mystic, at.

974
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Speaker 3: The Bubble End or one of the sub camps at Mystic,

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Speaker 3: that there were twenty to twenty three nine year old girls.

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Speaker 1: Is that was last night? Not the correct answer.

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Speaker 3: That's what the media has been, that that had been

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Speaker 3: unaccounted for. Where there are there still twenty.

979
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Speaker 1: This morning.

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Speaker 15: I don't want to say that definitively because I can't

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Speaker 15: tell you for sure, but yes, that is my understanding.

982
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Speaker 15: I was an eight nine year old camp and a

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Speaker 15: couple of the camp buildings were swept away, is what

984
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Speaker 15: I understand.

985
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Speaker 1: What? UH is search and rescue still going on? Correct?

986
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Speaker 15: Yes it is right now. I believe I'm probably on

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Speaker 15: the same highway as Lieutenant Colonel Is. There are a

988
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Speaker 15: number of state police and ambulances, number of game warden

989
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Speaker 15: trucks just drove by me here while I was talking

990
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Speaker 15: with you.

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Speaker 13: Uh.

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Speaker 15: The Sturson rescue is still going on, although I think

993
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Speaker 15: at this point it might be more recovery than search

994
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Speaker 15: and rescue.

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately, where how tough has this search and rescue been?

996
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Speaker 3: Given the biblical nature of this flash flood?

997
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Speaker 1: How tough has it been? Peede Teal.

998
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Speaker 15: I have not been involved in the search and rescue personally,

999
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Speaker 15: but just trying to turn around in a truck. The

1000
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Speaker 15: mud and muck is unbelievable. The level of damage this

1001
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Speaker 15: is like a major hurricane. There are thousands of trees

1002
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Speaker 15: that have been stripped, there are mattresses in trees, There's

1003
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Speaker 15: the height of the flood level. It's this is unbelievable.

1004
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Speaker 15: They have been using jeeps, they've been using dogs as

1005
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Speaker 15: much as they can with the mud. I mean, every

1006
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Speaker 15: asset is being used. There was an offer this morning

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Speaker 15: from a group that has assessed the three thirty seven

1008
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Speaker 15: with search and rescue package with infrared and everything. I

1009
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Speaker 15: don't know if that's coming over, but every asset the

1010
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Speaker 15: state has, I believe, has been pushed here. The number

1011
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Speaker 15: at the staging area of the Infinite Command Post that

1012
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Speaker 15: we're probably three hundred vehicles of people that are here

1013
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Speaker 15: that are state officials rather than just volunteers that we're

1014
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Speaker 15: for search and rescue. The magnitude of the response from

1015
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Speaker 15: the State of Texas is amazing. This is what makes

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Speaker 15: America great is that people come help each other.

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Speaker 1: Doc Chambers.

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Speaker 3: One of the questions last night about people being notified,

1019
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 3: and one of the officials said that, hey, this area

1020
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Speaker 3: has a history of flooding in your memory, is this

1021
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Speaker 3: the biggest has happened recently?

1022
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Speaker 1: Twenty years, thirty years? The biggest in memory?

1023
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Speaker 3: I mean, how big is this compared to other events

1024
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Speaker 3: that this area has had the Guadalupe.

1025
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Speaker 12: River, great question, twenty years, this is the highest one

1026
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Speaker 12: in record now, but understand this is the longest in

1027
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Speaker 12: the corridor of the Guadala Lope. We're looking at probably

1028
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Speaker 12: seventy miles as the crow flies, hundreds of miles one

1029
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 12: hundred and twenty miles of river as it curves. So

1030
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Speaker 12: we're looking at all those low laning areas. And remember

1031
00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:11,680
Speaker 12: all these camps that were plussed up for Fourth of

1032
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Speaker 12: July holiday, that was the evacuation problem set. And now

1033
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Speaker 12: when we're spreading those forces, thin as Pete was mentioning,

1034
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Speaker 12: I'm out here with them, and these guys are running

1035
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Speaker 12: up and down the roads. So are civilian groups. You know,

1036
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 12: the Cajun navies coming in from Louisiana. There's some great folks.

1037
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Speaker 12: This is what we're dealing with. The thermals are the

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Speaker 12: key for the nighttime and daytime. The problem set for

1039
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Speaker 12: some of these areas further down is the amount of

1040
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 12: rain that they're still receiving. Deluge of rain over Lake mcqueeney,

1041
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Speaker 12: so they won't be able to work there, but from

1042
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Speaker 12: their back yes, they will be up with those fixed

1043
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Speaker 12: wing and rotary wings.

1044
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Speaker 3: Doc Chambers, where do people your sitting ups have been amazing?

1045
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 3: Where do people go that weren't in the audience last night?

1046
00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:56,160
Speaker 3: Where do people go to keep up with this?

1047
00:52:56,320 --> 00:52:56,760
Speaker 4: Understanding?

1048
00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:58,399
Speaker 1: Your heading up to the mystic camp right now?

1049
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:00,920
Speaker 3: So how do people keep in touch with you on

1050
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:02,880
Speaker 3: social media to get your sit reps?

1051
00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 1: Affirmative? Sir?

1052
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:07,560
Speaker 12: Well, what you look is Doc Pete Chambers on X

1053
00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:13,600
Speaker 12: and then I have remnantministrytx dot org. That's what we'll

1054
00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:17,000
Speaker 12: be cletally posting things as where well, but on X

1055
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Speaker 12: is the primary right now. I'll be doing probably probably

1056
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Speaker 12: every couple hours as I can, just a short thirty second.

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Speaker 1: Spot okay, perfect, thank you.

1058
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Speaker 3: We'll post those up and make sure we stream them

1059
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Speaker 3: thank you, Doc, appreciate you, pet Tiel before we let

1060
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Speaker 3: you go. Anything to make our audience smart as the

1061
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:41,720
Speaker 3: day they look at social media or continue to follow

1062
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:44,880
Speaker 3: the stream here on Real America's Voice. Anything to make

1063
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:47,880
Speaker 3: us smart about how this search and rescue is going, Sir.

1064
00:53:49,880 --> 00:53:52,600
Speaker 15: I don't have anything in particular. Miniman Disaster Response is

1065
00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 15: an all volunteer group that helps people clean up after

1066
00:53:56,640 --> 00:54:00,279
Speaker 15: major events. We have not done a full deployment yet.

1067
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:02,480
Speaker 15: We're down here assessing the situation to see if we'll

1068
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:06,920
Speaker 15: be going. So, I mean, just the the level of

1069
00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:12,920
Speaker 15: damage here is is just it's overwhelming. But I we

1070
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:14,920
Speaker 15: don't have a public web page where we put sit

1071
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:17,799
Speaker 15: reps on. Uh, so I can't add on that.

1072
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:21,440
Speaker 1: Do you have do you have social media?

1073
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:26,160
Speaker 15: You guys on Twitter, We're on Facebook. I believe we're

1074
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:29,640
Speaker 15: on Instagram. It should be just miny Man Disaster Response.

1075
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Speaker 15: I don't know about Twitter. K.

1076
00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:35,520
Speaker 1: Well, Jess, we'll send everybody over.

1077
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 3: Well that's okay, we'll send everybody over to your Facebook

1078
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 3: or your your Instagram. Pete, thank you so much for

1079
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:43,920
Speaker 3: joining us. I know you're busy this morning, so thank

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00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:44,920
Speaker 3: you for taking a few minutes.

1081
00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:47,080
Speaker 15: Yep, thank you goodbye.

1082
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 3: There'll be a press conference at There will be a

1083
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:54,840
Speaker 3: press conference at at eleven o'clock eastern daylight time. We

1084
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:57,080
Speaker 3: will jump into that and get some updates on this.

1085
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Speaker 3: Jason Jones is down there, the congressman trip where is

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Speaker 3: down there? We'll get some other input in the second hour.

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Speaker 3: Let's go to as soon as we get more information,

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Speaker 3: obviously we'll inform everybody.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Brazil to Rio.

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Speaker 3: You know, yesterday on Drudge for the entire day of

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Speaker 3: fourth of July until late in the day after President

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Speaker 3: Trump signed the signed the big beautiful bill and had

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Speaker 3: this amazing.

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Speaker 1: Ceremony Philip Patrick. The headline the.

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Speaker 3: Drudge lead was dollar has worst opening six months I

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00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:32,279
Speaker 3: think in history or twenty years, you know, the drop

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Speaker 3: of the dollar. You're at the conference, and I'm sure

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Speaker 3: that came from the d dollarsation movement of Brooks.

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Speaker 1: What exactly is going on down in Rio? What?

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Speaker 7: What?

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00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:44,239
Speaker 3: What are the bricks Nations organizing? We're getting ready to

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Speaker 3: kick off this conference. You've been down for a couple

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Speaker 3: of days. Get us up to speed.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, Look, it's interesting, it's it's hustle and bassel. We've

1105
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:56,759
Speaker 14: been out We're watching dinners between Charlie's delegates and Brazilian

1106
00:55:56,840 --> 00:56:00,000
Speaker 14: real estate developers. Deals are happening all over the place.

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Speaker 14: The dollar is certainly a topic of conversation, as you

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Speaker 14: rightly point out, a worst start for the year since

1109
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Speaker 14: nineteen seventy three, since we came off the gold standard,

1110
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Speaker 14: dollars lost ten and a half percent of its purchasing power,

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Speaker 14: So you know it's looking primed for the bricks and

1112
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Speaker 14: their plans longer term. We had a very interesting interview

1113
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Speaker 14: with an economics professor yesterday heavily involved in the Bricks leadership,

1114
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:31,760
Speaker 14: and learn a lot in that conversation about different motivations

1115
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:36,600
Speaker 14: for different bricks companies countries, sorry, particularly Brazil. So there

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00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:40,960
Speaker 14: is a feeling here of excitement and that things are

1117
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:42,000
Speaker 14: moving forward.

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Speaker 1: Is explained to the audience.

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Speaker 3: We know during Biden's time, is this flow over from Biden?

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Speaker 3: Because President Trump puts at the big, beautiful built and

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00:56:53,719 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 3: clearly it has some defenit in there.

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00:56:56,120 --> 00:56:58,600
Speaker 1: They've asked for a five treeon dollars, a lift to the.

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Speaker 3: To the debt ceiling, but the global capital markets kind

1124
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:08,160
Speaker 3: of took this. The tenure treasuries slightly down. Gold's been

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Speaker 3: kind of stable. The stock market's on a run again.

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Speaker 3: Why explain to the audience why does the dollar keep

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00:57:15,520 --> 00:57:18,640
Speaker 3: losing value relatives some of these other currencies, Because this

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Speaker 3: is one of the things the bricks are saying. If

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Speaker 3: we can't do another currency, we've got to figure out

1130
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Speaker 3: some way to dedollarize, Right, We've got to get away

1131
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:30,320
Speaker 3: from the dollar being the center of world currency trading.

1132
00:57:30,720 --> 00:57:33,320
Speaker 3: So why is the dollar continued to DETERI why have

1133
00:57:33,360 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 3: we had the worst six months since we came off

1134
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 3: the gold standard under Nixon?

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Speaker 6: Look, I think there's a number of reasons. Right.

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00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:44,080
Speaker 14: It started in twenty twenty two with Biden's weaponization of

1137
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:47,040
Speaker 14: the dollar, and ultimately it showed nations around the world

1138
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Speaker 14: that they have risk. But I think what I'm learning

1139
00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:53,240
Speaker 14: here is people misunderstand.

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Speaker 6: What the bricks really are.

1141
00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:54,280
Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 14: The argument that I always hear is, look, they're not

1143
00:57:56,760 --> 00:58:00,680
Speaker 14: politically aligned, right, India and trying to can't agree on anything.

1144
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Speaker 14: And there's sort of acceptance of that on the ground

1145
00:58:05,200 --> 00:58:09,240
Speaker 14: I mentioned. I was interviewing an economics professor and he said, look,

1146
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:11,840
Speaker 14: you know, the idea of viewing them as a political

1147
00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 14: unit is the wrong way to look at it. They

1148
00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:15,960
Speaker 14: are not a block, right, they don't have a chairman,

1149
00:58:16,040 --> 00:58:17,840
Speaker 14: they don't have a CEO, they don't have a board

1150
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Speaker 14: of directors, and importantly they don't have agenders to vote on.

1151
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Speaker 14: What they are instead is a group of countries that

1152
00:58:24,560 --> 00:58:27,680
Speaker 14: have come together to basically help one another out right

1153
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:30,360
Speaker 14: with trade, development projects and loans.

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Speaker 6: There's a feeling.

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Speaker 14: Here of mutual cooperation because I think on the whole

1156
00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:38,240
Speaker 14: Bricks nations feel snubbed by the West, and now they

1157
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Speaker 14: with China leading the way, they have a lot of clout.

1158
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:44,000
Speaker 14: Remember they've got bigger GDP now than the G seven.

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00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:48,000
Speaker 14: So they're not politically aligned, but they are aligned in

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Speaker 14: one area, and that is and this is a direct

1161
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Speaker 14: quote from the from the professor himself, and he was

1162
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Speaker 14: not anti Western, I want to be very clear. But

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Speaker 14: the aim here in their mind is to diminish power

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Speaker 14: of the West. And it was very shocking to hear

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Speaker 14: until he started to explain the background, right and from

1166
00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:11,240
Speaker 14: an inside of Bricks perspective, it started to make a

1167
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Speaker 14: lot more sense, and that is that BRICKS members want

1168
00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:17,760
Speaker 14: different things. Right for China, it's all about power, right.

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Speaker 14: They don't want a direct economic war.

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Speaker 6: With the West. Or Europe.

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Speaker 14: They still do a lot of business with US, but

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Speaker 14: they do want to become a global leader, and they

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00:59:25,560 --> 00:59:28,360
Speaker 14: do want to recover Taiwan. The question is how much

1174
00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:30,760
Speaker 14: of their wealth do they want tied up in US

1175
00:59:30,840 --> 00:59:34,080
Speaker 14: dollars when they try that. So they're very motivated to

1176
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:38,960
Speaker 14: break dollar dominance. For Russia, it's about economic security from sanctions.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 6: For Brazil, in his mind, it was a little more nuanced.

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Speaker 15: Right.

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Speaker 14: They still harbor resentments about deals offered by the IMF

1181
00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:50,080
Speaker 14: when they were struggling in the eighties and nineties, essentially

1182
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Speaker 14: loans with too.

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Speaker 6: Many strings attached.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 14: Those difficult experiences during times of crises, I think make

1186
00:59:56,760 --> 01:00:00,760
Speaker 14: them open to alternatives. They see themselves, as the professor

1187
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:05,439
Speaker 14: himself says, as a bridge between the global north and south, right,

1188
01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:08,880
Speaker 14: to act as a moderator, balancing between China and the West.

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Speaker 14: This is basically their opportunity to seize a global role.

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Speaker 14: The point being they all want different things that they

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Speaker 14: united around the

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Speaker 3: Common hang on, hang on one second, that common purpose

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Speaker 3: is diminished to West sharp break Philip Patrick comrio next