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Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Welcome everybody to the Wednesday edition of The Clay Travis

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Speaker 2: and Buck Sexton Show. Clay here with me in South

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Speaker 2: Florida for a MUI especial edition of The Clay and

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Speaker 2: Buck Show. Very warm weather here, Clay loving the Miami

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Speaker 2: life all of a sudden, It's phenomenal.

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Speaker 3: I feel bad for bailing on the city of Nashville

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Speaker 3: right as a couple of inches of snow hit, but

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Speaker 3: it is nice to be an eighty degree short, splip

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Speaker 3: flops weather for the next few days, so I'm not

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Speaker 2: It's a good time to be in Miami, Tennesseeans. Clay

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Speaker 2: had to be here. He's not abandoning you to the

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Speaker 2: snow store, and I promise it's not that he just

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Speaker 2: wanted the beautiful weather and didn't want to be up

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Speaker 2: to his ankles and snow. We got a lot to

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Speaker 2: talk to you about today, my friends. The remaking of

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Speaker 2: the GOP under Trump. We'll get into that. We've been

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Speaker 2: talking about it. The numbers speak very clearly to the

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Speaker 2: extent that we can gauge any of this. The Trump

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Speaker 2: shift not just in the GOP, which is out the

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Speaker 2: Trump GOP, but nationally the electorate, there's been major movement.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that.

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Speaker 2: We'll also get into this fascinating feud with Kathy Hokeel

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Speaker 2: and Eric Adams in New York City. Kathy hokl the governor,

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Speaker 2: Eric Adams the mayor of New York City, and she

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Speaker 2: is threatening for the first time. You know, New York's

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Speaker 2: been around a long time, you know, it's been it's been.

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Speaker 1: There for a bit.

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Speaker 2: For the first time in the history of the state

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Speaker 2: of New York there could be a mayor of New

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Speaker 2: York City duly elected removed by the governor of New

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Speaker 2: York State. And we shall get into why. But this

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Speaker 2: kind of intramural squabbling among Democrats, I think it's nothing

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Speaker 2: but a win for Trump. But it also just shows

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Speaker 2: you what a mess, what disarray they're in. So we're

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Speaker 2: gonna we're gonna break that down for you. As you know,

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Speaker 2: I was a New Yorker for basically three plus decades,

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Speaker 2: so still very much high up in my thoughts and

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Speaker 2: my family's still there. Got some interesting soundbites from Treasury

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Speaker 2: sect Terry Scott Bessant on the economy and how things

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Speaker 2: are going there, and yeah, we're going to be diving

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Speaker 2: into all of it. Let's just first and foremost talk

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Speaker 2: about what's going on with Doge. We have the White

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Speaker 2: House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt because the media is very

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Speaker 2: freaked out about some things when it comes to access

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Speaker 2: to personal information.

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Speaker 1: This is cut three.

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Speaker 2: Here's Caroline Levitt Clay talking about what the actual status

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Speaker 2: of Elon Musk is.

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Speaker 4: First of all, President Trump is the ultimate decision maker

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Speaker 4: for this entire administration. Elon Musk, just like everybody else

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Speaker 4: across the federal government, works at the direction of President Trump.

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Speaker 4: Elon Musk is a special government employee. As I have

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Speaker 4: told you before, he serves as a senior advisor to

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Speaker 4: the President, if you will. Within the Executive Office of

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Speaker 4: the President. Doge has people that again are onboarding as

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Speaker 4: political appointees at every respective agency and they are working

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Speaker 4: alongside our agency partners and the Secretary areas that President

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Speaker 4: Trump nominated and have been confirmed by the United States

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Speaker 4: Senate to identify waste, fraud and abuse at these agencies.

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Speaker 4: And that's his role.

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Speaker 3: I don't even understand Buck as you try to break

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Speaker 3: down exactly what might be occurring here. In terms of criticism,

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Speaker 3: the idea that somehow Elon Musk is going to be

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Speaker 3: using his access to individual people's information to in some

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Speaker 3: of the craziest arguments I think that Democrats have tried

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Speaker 1: In general, it just doesn't.

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Speaker 3: Add up remotely that a guy worth three hundred billion dollars,

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Speaker 3: a family of four from Topeka, Kansas.

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Speaker 1: And get in there and screw it all up.

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Speaker 3: It reminds me of the joke I think it was

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Speaker 3: Rodney Dangerfield who used to tell it.

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Speaker 3: Do you remember this joke when he said that his

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Speaker 3: because whoever stole it was spending less money than his wife.

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Speaker 3: I feel like if Elon got into my personal information,

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Speaker 3: and all the other genius Doge related employees. If they

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Speaker 3: I just don't understand this focus in general.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's fascinating because they've really shown everybody that the

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Speaker 1: Don't really any in any.

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Speaker 2: Important way have to take orders from the president, from

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Speaker 2: the head of the executive branch. So what does that

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Speaker 2: tell you? I mean, is the press, Are you the

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Speaker 2: CEO of a company if you can't hire and fire?

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Speaker 2: I would say no, if you're not the CEO, you

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Speaker 2: don't have command authority within the entity if you can't

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Speaker 2: hire and fire. And what we're seeing is democrats because

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Speaker 2: Democrats are now taking positions that are flatly indefensible, but

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Speaker 2: they have no choice, right so they keep saying, why

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Speaker 2: is why is Elon Musk getting all this access to things?

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Speaker 2: Why shouldn't he do you want do you not want.

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Speaker 1: Him to find the fraud?

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Speaker 2: Increasingly I think the answer is yes, we can all

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Speaker 2: see they don't actually want us to know. And here's

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Speaker 2: a perfect example of an exchange. Steven Miller, friend of

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Speaker 2: exchange with CNN's Brianna Keeler, and he just is straight

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Speaker 2: this Oh my gosh, Elon and Doge they're going through

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Speaker 2: and finding fraud.

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Speaker 1: He's like, what what are you talking at? Like, how

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Speaker 1: is this a bad thing? Play for?

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Speaker 5: Why are you not celebrating these cuts? If you agree

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Speaker 5: there is waste, if you agree there is abuse, if

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Speaker 5: you agree there is corruption, why are you not celebrating

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Speaker 5: the cuts, the reforms that are being instituted every day

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Speaker 5: that no action is taken, the entire salaries of American

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Speaker 3: Stephen, Let's calm down.

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Speaker 5: This is not We're not having as no reason.

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Speaker 1: About whether they're are.

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Speaker 5: You are clearly trying to debate me, and I I

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Speaker 5: will be as excited as I want to be about

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Speaker 5: the fact that we are saving Americans billions of dollars,

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Speaker 5: that we are ending the theft and waste and grift

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Speaker 5: subsidizing a rogue federal bureaucracy that has been relentlessly weaponized

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Speaker 2: This should be something that everybody is on board for

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Speaker 2: because we know we have too much money being spent.

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Speaker 2: And it's interesting too, Clay, isn't it, because they keep saying, well,

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Speaker 2: if you don't touch Medicare and Medicaid and social really

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Speaker 2: it's Medicare and social Security. If you don't touch that,

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Speaker 2: nothing changes, nothing will happen with the budget. Well, let's

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Speaker 2: at least create the transparency, the systems and the habits

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Speaker 2: Because small winds beget big wins, right doing the I

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Speaker 2: just get Clay walked in today. He's like, damn buck.

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Speaker 2: It was like that's right, thirty pounds my man. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but it took about four four five months, and it

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Speaker 2: was you know what, fewer cookies, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's like little things. You add it all together, you

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Speaker 2: around saying, you guys are shoving you know, bonbonds in

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Speaker 1: I also want to give credit to Steven Miller. There.

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Speaker 3: This guy, and you know, because he's been coming on

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Speaker 1: This guy is so.

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Speaker 3: Incredibly passionate and committed to the job that he has.

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Speaker 3: And this is one of the stories. As we are

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Speaker 3: The biggest story to me of Trump two point zero

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Speaker 3: the legacy media.

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Speaker 1: You know, they are.

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Speaker 3: Looking for every possible scandal story that they can write.

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Speaker 3: There have been almost zero leaks buck and you remember

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Speaker 3: Trump one point zero, it was like before they could

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Speaker 3: give credit to Susie Wiles, I think Steven Miller, I

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Speaker 3: this White House so far have done a splendid job

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Speaker 3: Don't you want a pit bull like that every day

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Speaker 3: credit here while I'm sprinkling commendations. I love that Trump

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Speaker 3: because the clear attempt of the left wing media has

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Speaker 3: when it comes to just delivering every day for the

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Speaker 2: Yes, and that's what we see happening. Meanwhile, you keep

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Speaker 2: having these moments where the media says things that shows

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Speaker 2: you what the establishment Democrat apparatus mentality really is. CNN

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Speaker 2: has a host named Abby Philip, and you should just

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Speaker 2: hear this. She wants you to know that as far

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Speaker 2: as she, a journalist is concerned, sixteen billion dollars is

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Speaker 2: just no big deal. If we're lighting sixteen bills billion

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Speaker 2: What's the Problem Play five, they're not going.

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Speaker 1: To make up for it.

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Speaker 6: I mean, I'm just telling you the facts are okay.

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Speaker 6: Dode says that they have cut about sixteen billion dollars,

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Speaker 6: which is a rounding error in the federal government's budget.

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Speaker 6: But of that sixteen billion, they claim they saved eight billion.

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Speaker 6: This is according to The New York Times, eight billions

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Speaker 6: on a single contract. Turns out it wasn't eight billion.

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Speaker 6: It was eight million. Yeah, so we're talking pennies here

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Speaker 6: in the scale of the six trillion federal budget. It's pennies.

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Speaker 2: And when you look into it, you say upgrades on flights.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly the dynamic. As a Democrat, a prominent Democrat

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Speaker 2: he's causing problems at the national level on immigration, and

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Speaker 2: then they go after him on corruption. And here's the thing.

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Speaker 2: If they back off the corruption charge, now it looks

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Speaker 2: even more obviously like it was political to the people

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Speaker 2: who brought it on the whole system. Right, So that's why,

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Speaker 2: of course they're going to fight this. And I'm just

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Speaker 2: laying out how the next couple of years are going

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Speaker 2: to go. Andrew Cuomo is about to announce Andrew for

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Speaker 2: mayor of New York City.

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Speaker 3: Former governor of New York. Andrew Cuomo is going to

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Speaker 3: win the mayor's race. I'm just grab this. This is

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Speaker 3: like me predicting the next couple of years. I'm either

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Speaker 3: gonna look like a genius or a moron. So grab

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Speaker 3: this flagot Okay, He's gonna win New York City mayor.

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Speaker 3: He then is going to turn We've been talking about

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Speaker 3: who is the face of the Democrat party right now,

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Speaker 3: he is going to turn into the most anti Trump

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Speaker 3: Democrat figure. They're gonna get in a fight over what

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Speaker 3: America means. I'm laying out exactly how this is gonna go.

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Speaker 3: Cuomo is gonna wrap himself in the Statue of Liberty

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Speaker 3: and Ellis Island. And this is not the you know,

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Speaker 3: you can hear how he's gonna talk. This is not

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Speaker 3: the America we are. He's gonna try to sweep away

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Speaker 3: all the COVID lies right, one of the worst governors

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Speaker 3: in the country for COVID.

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Speaker 1: He didn't get kicked out of office.

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Speaker 2: Buck in New York's forgiving smooches on the cheek and

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Speaker 2: grabbing the tom tom of a couple of states, not

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Speaker 2: police ladies.

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Speaker 3: Not for all of his failures with COVID, but for

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Speaker 3: inappropriate conduct with subordinates, which, let's be honest, relative to

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Speaker 3: most me too, cass.

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Speaker 1: Can we pull some of what he remember when he

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Speaker 1: had like the slide show, He's like.

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Speaker 2: Is it true that sometimes I kiss a woman on

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Speaker 2: the side of a face?

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Speaker 1: Yes, it is true. I am Italian. We give kisses.

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Speaker 1: We like lasagna.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes we have long family dinners and we give inappropriately

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Speaker 2: long hugs to subordinates.

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Speaker 1: What's the problem? You know? He did the whole thing.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and everybody was like, this is so weird because

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Speaker 2: you're gonna leave office for this, and they pushed him out.

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Speaker 2: But because of the way he was pushed out, I

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Speaker 2: don't I don't disagree with anything he.

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Speaker 3: Like his next step. He's gonna run in twenty eight.

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Speaker 3: He is going to see it. You're you're calling two shots.

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Speaker 1: This is not just this, this is the double. This

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Speaker 1: is out. This is out into the parking.

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Speaker 3: I'm calling, like Babe Ruth knock yet knocking it out

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Speaker 3: of out of the old game.

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Speaker 2: So you're saying he's gonna become mayor and then run

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Speaker 2: as a Democrat for president.

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Speaker 1: Correct?

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Speaker 2: I think you are not wrong, So you sign on now.

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Speaker 2: I know, I think you are not wrong. Yes, now

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying he's gonna to be the nomination and

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying he's the nominee either, But will he

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Speaker 2: run and will he launch that platform based off of Oh,

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Speaker 2: here's the other thing cleaning up New York and this

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Speaker 2: is Eric Adams. I think I've been very clear. I've

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Speaker 2: tried to be very fair about this. Eric Adams is

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Speaker 2: not malicious to the City of New York, meaning I

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Speaker 2: think if it was within his capability, that's why the

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Speaker 2: immigration thing. But because he's like, there are people camp

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Speaker 2: out in all the hotels and we can't afford this,

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Speaker 2: and this is nuts. He doesn't have the leadership skill

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Speaker 2: set to turn around New York and deal with what

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Speaker 2: he has to deal with to get it going there, right,

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Speaker 2: He just I think it's beyond his capability. Deblasio was like,

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Speaker 2: let me burn this place down because that's what it deserves.

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Speaker 2: Like Deblasio actively harmed the city of New York for

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Speaker 2: ideological reasons. It's not that hard. We have a template.

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Speaker 2: Rudy Giuliani. You go back, you read the history. It

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Speaker 2: starts with safety, it starts with cleaning up the streets.

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Speaker 2: Of crime and cleaning up the streets just period of

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Speaker 2: like dirt and trash and stuff. Uh So that then

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Speaker 2: leads to so many other possibilities. And Cuomo is smart

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Speaker 2: enough as a politician and as a person to know that.

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Speaker 2: And he's also rough and tough enough. I think with

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Speaker 2: some of the systems in New York, whether it's you know,

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Speaker 2: the public sector unions, the teachers unions, the police union,

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Speaker 2: all that he would get things, that he would be

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Speaker 2: able to move things in the right direction on that.

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Speaker 2: I still think he's terrible on a whole range of things.

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Speaker 2: I think he was a dictator on COVID. I'll never

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Speaker 2: forgive him for that.

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Speaker 1: I think it's.

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Speaker 2: Horrifying that he might be mayor of New York and

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Speaker 2: I don't even live there anymore, but I do. I

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Speaker 2: do see the pathway for him. And I think also

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Speaker 2: Hokal with this whole removing Eric Adams thing, here's it.

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Speaker 2: They they are removing him. Theoretically, it's not gonna I'm

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Speaker 2: also predicting this. It's not gonna happen. They're just you know,

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Speaker 2: making it seem like Hokeel's going to do this to

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Speaker 2: put pressure on him. He didn't pull the like he didn't. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so you know, by the way, he's been very clear,

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Speaker 2: this is cut sixteen. He's like, I'm not going anywhere

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Speaker 2: play it.

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Speaker 7: I enjoyed every moment a bit of police officer.

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Speaker 1: They prepared me for.

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Speaker 7: Where I am right now is the mayor of the

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Speaker 7: greatest city on the globe. Everybody too want to take you,

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Speaker 7: and they gonna have to take you because I'm going

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Speaker 7: no way.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be the man happy black his me money.

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Speaker 2: Now, he's not going to win reelection. That I can't

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Speaker 2: tell you. He's not gonna win reelection, But I think

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Speaker 2: they'll let him finish out his term and we'll see.

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Speaker 2: We'll see what happens next fall. But Clay, the position

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Speaker 2: that the Democrats are in right now is fascinating because

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Speaker 2: they are saying that they want to remove Adams because

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Speaker 2: of Trump DOJ pressure. That's not Adams's fault. There's nothing

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Speaker 2: that says they really want to remove him because of

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Speaker 2: his stand on illegals in the city. And they're using

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Speaker 2: the Trump DOJ corruption thing as a pretext to get

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Speaker 2: rid of him totally.

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Speaker 1: And here's another wild part of this.

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Speaker 3: Two other little anecdotes associated with why this might matter

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Speaker 3: if you're a big you know, if you live right

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Speaker 3: now in Nebraska, or you live in Florida where we are, Tennessee,

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Speaker 3: or California, and you're like, why do I care about

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Speaker 3: the New York City mayor race? Possibility that Eric Adams

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Speaker 3: ends up running as a Republican. Those machinations are going

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Speaker 3: on behind the scenes because he's going to lose the

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Speaker 3: Democrat primary, and typically if you win the Democrat primary,

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Speaker 3: you're going to win the mayor's race, So that is

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Speaker 3: something to put a pin in. I don't think Eric

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Speaker 3: Adams could win as a Republican, but it is intriguing.

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Speaker 3: Second part on this, and this is why I think

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Speaker 3: Andrew Cuomo is setting himself up to not be Mayor

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Speaker 3: of New York City, which I think he will be,

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Speaker 3: but he really wants to be President. Trump gets in

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Speaker 3: fights over New York City related issues because he still

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Speaker 3: sees himself as a New Yorker.

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Speaker 1: I think that.

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Speaker 3: Andrew Cuomo is going to be able to elevate his

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Speaker 3: national profile because they'll get into a fight over congestion, pricing,

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Speaker 3: or what the situation is going to be with immigrants

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Speaker 3: in New York City, and that will elevate Cuomo in

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Speaker 3: a way that puts him as a primary combatant of Trump.

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Speaker 3: And that is I think the calculus that he is

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Speaker 3: playing out here is he doesn't want to be mayor

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Speaker 3: of New York City. This is about Andrew Cuomo setting

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Speaker 3: himself up to run for president of the United States.

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Speaker 3: Look at the way this plays out. He gets elected

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Speaker 3: Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, we talked to last week.

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Speaker 3: That happened in Saudi Arabia, and one of the discussions

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Speaker 3: now going on is what needs to happen in order

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Speaker 3: of all, where's the money going? Which is a valid question.

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Speaker 3: We have sent hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine

655
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Speaker 3: and there does not seem to be an accounting for

656
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Speaker 3: where all that money went. Taxpayer dollars. The continued just

657
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Speaker 3: shovel of money that we have been sending there has

658
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Speaker 3: slowed down.

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Speaker 1: Trump has put a pause on it.

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Speaker 3: But he's also raised a really important question, and I

661
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Speaker 3: don't know that many of you have even thought about this.

662
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:09,840
Speaker 3: One of the conditions going forward in order for Ukraine

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Speaker 3: and Russia to have a ceasefire is Ukraine actually having

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Speaker 3: an election. Zolensky does not appear willing to have an

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Speaker 3: election because he doesn't actually have that much popular support

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Speaker 3: in Ukraine. We have all been told, oh, Zolensky, he

667
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 3: is the most popular politician anywhere. Everyone loves him. Why

668
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Speaker 3: won't he allow an election to take place? If he

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Speaker 3: supposedly is standing for democracy. It's a question that suddenly

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Speaker 3: has emerged, and I think it's an important one that

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Speaker 3: we should be talking about.

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Speaker 2: Clay Are, resident Civil War amateur historian, brought up that

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Speaker 2: even during the height of the Civil War, and it

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Speaker 2: is in fact the case, Abraham Lincoln was concerned about

675
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Speaker 2: challenges from the electorate, as in, is he going to

676
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Speaker 2: get re elected? And if there weren't some battlefield successes

677
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 2: from specifically, I think was Grant and Sherman right to

678
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Speaker 2: make the public feel like the North was actually on

679
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Speaker 2: a pathway to victory. Abraham Lincoln might have lost that election,

680
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Speaker 2: but it turned out he won, and as we know well,

681
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 2: it certainly wasn't happily ever after for Lincoln after that.

682
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Speaker 2: But the point is they allowed elections to happen, and

683
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Speaker 2: they don't allow that in Ukraine right now. I'm also

684
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Speaker 2: curious what the role is that Zelenski thinks that Trump

685
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Speaker 2: administration is supposed to play here because we have provided them.

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Speaker 1: Here's one thing to remember.

687
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Speaker 2: There's what we have officially provided them, as in people

688
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Speaker 2: know about, and then there's the help that we have

689
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 2: given them quietly, as well as some of our more

690
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:52,280
Speaker 2: militarily adept NATO partners. It's a lot more than people

691
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Speaker 2: think and realize. It is right, the intelligence assistants, the

692
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Speaker 2: training assistants, the things that have been going on to

693
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Speaker 2: bring Russia to a stalemate. Without the help of the

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Speaker 2: US specifically, and then a couple of our NATO partners

695
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,439
Speaker 2: pitching in too, Ukraine would not be able to hold

696
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Speaker 2: Russia back in this way. So it's not like Clay.

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Speaker 2: We are bystanders, you know, We're not up in the

698
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Speaker 2: bleachers yelling at the ref and interfering in the game.

699
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Speaker 2: Without US, there is no game without us. This war

700
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Speaker 2: would have been lost for Ukraine a long time ago.

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Speaker 2: So for Trump to take a role in trying to

702
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Speaker 2: get negotiations started, let's see where this goes. I'm not surprised,

703
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Speaker 2: but it is a little bit frustrating to see some

704
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Speaker 2: of the comments that have been made from Zelensky specifically

705
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Speaker 2: given this, he certainly does not come across as being

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Speaker 2: somebody who is grateful for the help of the unit.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he kind of says it, but.

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Speaker 2: He, I think, is in a position right now where,

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Speaker 2: first of all, the Russians are on the move, the

710
00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:00,879
Speaker 2: Russians are actually on the offensive. To get a deal

711
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Speaker 2: done is probably better now than it would be if

712
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Speaker 2: you were to wait six months or twelve months now.

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Speaker 2: Putin obviously knows that too, but bringing this conflict to

714
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Speaker 2: an end is essential. I mean, Trump has called Zelenski

715
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Speaker 2: now a dictator and has accused him publicly of misusing usaid.

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Speaker 1: Is that true, Because if.

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Speaker 2: It's true, Trump calling out is the right thing to do,

718
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Speaker 2: and I don't think Trump would say this unless he

719
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Speaker 2: felt like he needed to bring Zelensky to the table

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Speaker 2: with a bit more pressure to get an end to this.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, let me put my history nerd hat on here.

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Speaker 3: If you are arguing, hey, Ukraine stands on the side

723
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Speaker 3: of democracy.

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Speaker 1: Did you know? And I know because I wrote my

725
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Speaker 1: thesis on it.

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Speaker 3: In eighteen sixty four, Abraham Lincoln ran against George McClellan

727
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Speaker 3: buck his former head of the Union Army, and McClellan

728
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 3: ran as the Democrat.

729
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Speaker 1: Lincoln was the Republican. In eighteen sixty four.

730
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Speaker 3: McClellan ran basically on the precept of we need to

731
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Speaker 3: have peace, and we need to go ahead potentially and

732
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Speaker 3: allow the South to withdraw.

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Speaker 2: And to your point, basically, the South wins, I mean correct,

734
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Speaker 2: South gets to be what it is, which is not

735
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Speaker 2: a part of the Union.

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Speaker 1: And that's ballgame, everybody correct.

737
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Speaker 3: And the entire election came down to be a referendum

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Speaker 3: on should the Civil War continue to be prosecuted as

739
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Speaker 3: it was? And to your point, it was uncertain who

740
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Speaker 3: was going to win again we had an election during

741
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Speaker 3: the Civil War in this country, and until Sherman took

742
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Speaker 3: Atlanta and began his march to the Sea. For those

743
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 3: of you who are Civil War history nerds, it was

744
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Speaker 3: unclear whether Lincoln was going to win. It was the

745
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Speaker 3: capture of Atlanta in September that was the false surprise

746
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Speaker 3: of the eighteen sixty four election, and Lincoln could say,

747
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Speaker 3: we've got to keep the steam going. We don't need

748
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 3: to now allow the South to have the opportunity to

749
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Speaker 3: think they can win.

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Speaker 2: The war, because all you needed from the Confederate point

751
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Speaker 2: of view was a stalemate that continued long enough where

752
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 2: the survival of the Confederate Army ran off that the

753
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 2: North loses the political will to continue the fight. When

754
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 2: Sherman comes in and makes it more of a total

755
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Speaker 2: war scenario going after the war, making capability the railroad depots,

756
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Speaker 2: supply lines of the Lee's Confederate Army, it changed the

757
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 2: equation in the minds of people in the North. So

758
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:32,719
Speaker 2: that's how mcloughan's defeated and Lincoln wins. Point here being

759
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 2: so Zelenski just says, no elections and I'm in charge until.

760
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Speaker 3: What And by the way, not just Civil War buck

761
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Speaker 3: World War two. FDR won an election which was in

762
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Speaker 3: many ways a referendum against Dewey in November of nineteen

763
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Speaker 3: forty four. On how the election was going, and if

764
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Speaker 3: you go back in time, and if you actually do

765
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Speaker 3: your historical analysis, it wasn't a coincidence that Eisenhower invaded

766
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Speaker 3: in June of nineteen forty four, because in the summer

767
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Speaker 3: of that election season, this was the idea being, Hey,

768
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Speaker 3: we're prosecuting the war against Hitler in Germany, and things

769
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 3: were going well enough that people said, I can see

770
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Speaker 3: an end coming to this war. But in the summer

771
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Speaker 3: when they were running, there was an uncertainty about how

772
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Speaker 3: this should come out. My point on it is the

773
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Speaker 3: United States arguing that Ukraine through Trump, that Ukraine should

774
00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 3: have an election is actually consistent with democratic republican values

775
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 3: of the United States. When we have allowed elections to

776
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Speaker 3: take place in this country during the two I would argue,

777
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Speaker 3: most crucible moments about what the future of this republic

778
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Speaker 3: would be. We allowed citizens to go vote on whether

779
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Speaker 3: the Civil War should continue. We allowed citizens to go

780
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Speaker 3: vote on whether World War iiO should happen, and why

781
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 3: shouldn't we act. That's the same thing of Zelensky. This

782
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 3: seems very rational to me. Now, the reason Trump's calling

783
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 3: him a dictator buck is because Zelensky doesn't think he

784
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:11,840
Speaker 3: would win the election, and this is important for everybody

785
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 3: in America who's been told, oh, Zelensky is this war hero.

786
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 3: Everybody in Russia loves him. Wait a minute, why won't

787
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:23,399
Speaker 3: he allow Ukrainian will to come out and for Ukrainians

788
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 3: to vote about what they think should happen this These

789
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:31,319
Speaker 3: are really good questions that haven't been discussed in this country. Well,

790
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 3: there's also one of the challenges here is that the

791
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 3: Ukrainian fight has been held up as a proxy effectively

792
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 3: a proxy army against the Russians and the really cynical.

793
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:48,319
Speaker 3: But I think for a lot of people who view

794
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:50,919
Speaker 3: it as a very accurate sense of this is that

795
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:53,880
Speaker 3: the support of the Ukrainian army was an opportunity for

796
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Speaker 3: US to bleed the Russian Federation without losing any of NATO,

797
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 3: without losing any actual NATO soldiers, right, And so in

798
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 3: that formulation, the longer the conflict goes, the better it

799
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 3: is for the people sitting there pulling the puppet strings,

800
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 3: because they're just losing Ukrainians, they're not losing NATO allies,

801
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 3: and they're making things harder on Russia. Now, I think

802
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:22,479
Speaker 3: that's a brutal and an immoral and short sighted way

803
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:26,440
Speaker 3: of viewing the situation. But there is that sentiment among

804
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 3: the foreign policy elites. I wouldn't say consensus anymore, because

805
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:32,759
Speaker 3: they're not calling the shots Trump is, but there is

806
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:35,280
Speaker 3: that sense among them that this is giving us greater

807
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 3: strategic depth against Russia. And they also say this, and

808
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 3: Zelensky says this himself, This crazy stuff about how Russia

809
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 3: is going to overrun all of Europe unless they're stopped

810
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Speaker 3: in Ukraine.

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Speaker 2: That's just not true. The Russians don't have the capacity

812
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 2: to do that. They don't have the capacity to overrun

813
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 2: Ukraine right now with the support that's being given. They're

814
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:55,400
Speaker 2: not about to invade Germany and trigger Article five of NATO.

815
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 2: That's not going to happen. So we're told things about

816
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,400
Speaker 2: this conflict that are not true. And the longer it

817
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:03,560
Speaker 2: tracks on, the higher the body count goes. Isn't it fascinating?

818
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 2: Think of all the people, Clay, who are so upset

819
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:08,920
Speaker 2: about the loss of I'm talking about the left and

820
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:12,200
Speaker 2: Democrats in this country. Everything that happens in Gaza is

821
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 2: a cause for you know, college kids and you know

822
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 2: MSNBC hosts to start crying. Look at the loss of

823
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 2: life that's going on in Ukraine. Day in and day out.

824
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Speaker 1: No, that's that's worth it because it's protecting democracy? Is it?

825
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 3: Really?

826
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Speaker 1: How is it protecting democracy?

827
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Speaker 3: Isn't the very foundation of democracy allowing people to pick

828
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Speaker 3: their leaders even in a time or learning something new.

829
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Speaker 3: I also don't think very many people even are aware

830
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Speaker 3: that Zelensky has ended all elections in his country, and

831
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Speaker 3: so I think this is a real conversation. We'll take

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Speaker 3: some of your calls, by the way, eight hundred and

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Speaker 3: two two two eight a two if some of you

834
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Speaker 3: have questions about this. But I do think this is

835
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Speaker 3: a conversation on a substantial level that frankly, the American

836
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,399
Speaker 3: public has not been as well informed as they could

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Speaker 3: have been. And I think it's important to use our

838
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 3: country's history as a argument for what we think the

839
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Speaker 3: precedent should be for other countries. In times of war.

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Speaker 3: The Constitution doesn't vanish in the United States.

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Speaker 1: In times of.

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Speaker 3: Lincoln did suspend heneous corps. Actually, nobody's perfect, nobody's that's

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Speaker 3: actually a super nerd a bit that you know that.

844
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Speaker 3: But he did allow the election to happen. And unfortunately,

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Speaker 3: what we learned during COVID is the constitution matters far

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Speaker 2: Well, stop depresses everybody, because the Democrats may have found

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Speaker 2: their way back into the mainstream, into the hearts and

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00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:19,239
Speaker 2: minds of the American people. And I don't know that

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00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:23,279
Speaker 2: we have a ready response for this. I don't know

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Speaker 2: what the counteraction would be, Clay. I am concerned that

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Speaker 2: they may have found the weak, soft underbelly of trump Ism,

884
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Speaker 2: and maga if you will. I didn't see this one coming.

885
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:44,399
Speaker 2: Democrats upset at the Kennedy Center are protesting outside via

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Speaker 2: interpretive I.

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Speaker 1: Can't even get through it via interpretive, Dads.

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00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:53,879
Speaker 2: This is the saddest spectacle I have seen since Chuck

889
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 2: Schumer was shrieking on.

890
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 1: Stage a week or two ago about how horrible Trump is.

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Speaker 3: Well with an avocado and a yeah, with an avocado

892
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:03,919
Speaker 3: on a corona, talking about you know, Mexico and avocados.

893
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:07,439
Speaker 2: They're going to be so expensive. Uh, this interpretive dance.

894
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 2: First of all, they're not even good at dancing. I

895
00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:12,120
Speaker 2: could do this, and I'm not saying anybody would want

896
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Speaker 2: to see.

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Speaker 1: Me do this.

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Speaker 2: You are a TikTok dance impress ario. He's never gonna

899
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Speaker 2: let that go.

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Speaker 3: I still want to see the TikTok dance you were

901
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 3: practicing by yourself in your apartment. Some of us try

902
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:25,720
Speaker 3: and fail at things, and we just accept that life

903
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:27,480
Speaker 3: is not you know, life is not easy on all

904
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Speaker 3: of us who want to learn how to do a

905
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Speaker 3: shuffle dance. Yeah, I was not good at shuffle dancing

906
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Speaker 3: during during the pandemic.

907
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Speaker 1: But these you see these individuals.

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Speaker 2: First of all, it is it is kind of amazing

909
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:42,280
Speaker 2: how much you can look at people. Well, maybe particularly

910
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:45,279
Speaker 2: this crew, because who really protests outside the Kennedy Center.

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00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 1: Isn't Rick Rennell.

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00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 3: Now he's the I think he's in charge of the

913
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Speaker 3: Kennedy Center. The Kennedy Center.

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Speaker 2: These these individuals outside the Kennedy Center are I don't

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Speaker 2: know if they're moving their chi or their chakra or

916
00:48:57,239 --> 00:49:01,840
Speaker 2: their energy center or whatever, but they're they're not good dancers,

917
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:06,880
Speaker 2: and they're doing interpretive dance as protests outside the Kennedy Center,

918
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 2: which is just making everyone think, Wow, this place really

919
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Speaker 2: needs more talented dancers.

920
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Speaker 1: I'm glad that new people are in charge.

921
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 3: I think also as much as Trump is right about

922
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:22,680
Speaker 3: almost everything, and again in a non partisan way, border

923
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 3: ending war, trying to reduce government for auden waste, trying

924
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:31,919
Speaker 3: to decrease the amount of taxes that everybody pays, these

925
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:37,160
Speaker 3: are all very popular aspects of American governance right now.

926
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Speaker 3: In addition to their not being a primary Democrat opponent,

927
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 3: there's no one who people go to and say, hey,

928
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:48,360
Speaker 3: this is the Democrat leader. Whether you like Nancy Pelosi

929
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Speaker 3: or not, she was, I think, a pretty effective spokesperson

930
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 3: compared to what Democrats have now. Democrats are also just

931
00:49:56,800 --> 00:50:01,320
Speaker 3: huge dorks. And if you're wondering why young people, people

932
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:05,480
Speaker 3: under the age of thirty are gravitating towards Trump, does

933
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 3: anybody out there who's nineteen think, Hey, I really wish

934
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Speaker 3: I could have been a part of that interpretive dance

935
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Speaker 3: outside of the Kennedy Center to protest Trump. There was

936
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Speaker 3: for a long time, go back in time, buck woodstock

937
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Speaker 3: was pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: Whoa, we're going this way?

939
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Speaker 3: Bime, right, But if you think about when Democrats really

940
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Speaker 3: took control of the culture, a bunch of filthy hippies.

941
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Speaker 3: I get it, But what were they doing. They were

942
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Speaker 3: celebrating music, they were they were throwing a party. They

943
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:39,080
Speaker 3: were having lots of sex. They were drinking and using

944
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Speaker 3: drugs like they were rebellious.

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Speaker 2: Some communists bachan, all, I'm just gonna do it. I

946
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Speaker 2: can do without it. I'm just saying that if you

947
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Speaker 2: were a teenager, looked like it might be something fun

948
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Speaker 2: to do, or you're in your twenties. Now they're dancing

949
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Speaker 2: in interpretive dance outside of the Kennedy Center. Buck, you

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Speaker 2: and I drove past the protest at the inauguration.

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Speaker 1: I actually we actually had this is fun.

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Speaker 2: We had a great time because we pulled up and

953
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Speaker 2: from the first moment Claan, I look at them and go,

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Speaker 2: oh manch we get some you know, man on the street,

955
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Speaker 2: it was cold.

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Speaker 1: We'll have producer Alli because she.

957
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Speaker 2: Can infiltrate any leftists. They'd never see producer ally coming.

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Speaker 2: We all know this because producer ally, she lives in

959
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Speaker 2: a hip part of New York.

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Speaker 3: She might be a hot yoga class. You got no

961
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Speaker 3: idea where she might show up. She's a double agent.

962
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Speaker 2: She's a hip lady who knows where the hip people

963
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 2: hang out. She gets invited to those parties in Brooklyn

964
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Speaker 2: where I don't even know how you get to go

965
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Speaker 2: to it.

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Speaker 1: Remember, she used to work at an illegal bar and

967
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Speaker 1: hang out with Moby. Moby needs to hit on her.

968
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Speaker 1: I'm just Moby never hit on me.

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Speaker 3: I'm just saying I don't even know where Mobi would

970
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Speaker 3: have gone in the nineteen nineties.

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Speaker 2: So Ali, but we drove past and we said, maybe

972
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Speaker 2: we'll get some of these people. And then we looked

973
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 2: at them and we actually started to feel badly because

974
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Speaker 2: it was so cold outside and it was so sad.

975
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Speaker 2: There's people there like and they had like the signs

976
00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:57,520
Speaker 2: for different things too. So it's clear that not even

977
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Speaker 2: all the people there are there for one reason. They

978
00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:01,960
Speaker 2: just had no thing better to do on a frigid

979
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:05,759
Speaker 2: Saturday after Trump handed the Democrats in ass kicking, they

980
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:08,759
Speaker 2: had nothing better to do than gathering together and talk

981
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:11,040
Speaker 2: about climate change in Palestine while they're little.

982
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Speaker 1: They were shivering, and that was like there was shaking.

983
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:17,719
Speaker 3: Some androgynous chick is like beating on a one draggled

984
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Speaker 3: drum drum.

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Speaker 1: It was sad.

986
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Speaker 3: It wasn't even like they didn't even have any guys

987
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:22,640
Speaker 3: walking around playing flutes.

988
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:24,239
Speaker 1: I mean, I could have added a little bit of

989
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Speaker 1: flavor there.

990
00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 2: They really like a metaphor for the entire state of

991
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:30,279
Speaker 2: Democrats right now, you know, because I've seen I've been

992
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:32,440
Speaker 2: to big Democrat protests, like I've been there when they

993
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:35,000
Speaker 2: have fifteen thousand people and they've got the chance, and

994
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:35,880
Speaker 2: they've got celebrities.

995
00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:37,720
Speaker 1: Remember Occupy Wall Street Clay they had.

996
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Speaker 2: You know, uh, well, who's the one. I don't like her,

997
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:43,200
Speaker 2: but everyone every an halfaway she was there. You know,

998
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:46,320
Speaker 2: these famous actor types would show up and they're like, yeah,

999
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:48,279
Speaker 2: like down with capitalism. It's like, don't you live in

1000
00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 2: a twenty million dollars house in Malibu? But anyway, at

1001
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:52,160
Speaker 2: least they used to hey, you know, I mean, you know,

1002
00:52:52,239 --> 00:52:54,120
Speaker 2: it depends like you look at this stuff.

1003
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:58,560
Speaker 3: Even the vagina hats look old. They're not even making

1004
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:01,520
Speaker 3: new vagina. Remember the Women's March back in twenty seventeen.

1005
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:04,040
Speaker 3: At least they had like a newly made like the

1006
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:07,040
Speaker 3: women walking around in the vagina hats. The vagina hats

1007
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:10,640
Speaker 3: look like they're moth riddled. They're eight years old. And

1008
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:13,600
Speaker 3: I just I look at the protesters and I just

1009
00:53:13,719 --> 00:53:16,080
Speaker 3: actually felt sorry for them. We were sitting in a nice,

1010
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:18,919
Speaker 3: warm car, and I was thinking, I just I kind

1011
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:20,440
Speaker 3: of want to just offer that, like there was an

1012
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 3: old like remember the old lady we drove past, yes,

1013
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:26,320
Speaker 3: And I was like, you know, it's Saturday, it's twenty

1014
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:29,919
Speaker 3: five degrees. You're gonna die at a protest against Trump.

1015
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:32,920
Speaker 3: Like shouldn't you just be like, you know, facetiming with

1016
00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:35,040
Speaker 3: your grandkids and having some cocoa.

1017
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:39,239
Speaker 2: This is also where you know, psychiatry unfortunately is completely

1018
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:44,759
Speaker 2: dominated by far far left individuals. Right, And because I'm

1019
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:49,280
Speaker 2: really curious what the correlation is between far left thinking

1020
00:53:49,880 --> 00:53:52,840
Speaker 2: and psychological and emotional destabilization.

1021
00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:54,600
Speaker 1: I bring it up because.

1022
00:53:55,000 --> 00:54:00,080
Speaker 2: Our people on the right, center, right, centrist, whatever, they

1023
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:02,959
Speaker 2: don't sit out there and freeze banging drums and yelling

1024
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:07,319
Speaker 2: about Palestine in downtown DC as if anybody cares. I mean,

1025
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:09,760
Speaker 2: this is like, you know, this is like the guys

1026
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:12,799
Speaker 2: pushing around shopping carts that have random Bible versus who

1027
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:15,200
Speaker 2: are shouting crazy things in the air, and you're like, wait,

1028
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:16,680
Speaker 2: what does this have to do with anything?

1029
00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:17,960
Speaker 1: Like who is this for?

1030
00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:21,000
Speaker 3: Remember when New York magazine recently, first of All, had

1031
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:25,600
Speaker 3: a dishonest cover photo from the inauguration party. They worked

1032
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:28,520
Speaker 3: shopped out or photo shopped out minorities and tried to

1033
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:31,440
Speaker 3: be like, oh, this is just Trump's maga movement. It's

1034
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:34,320
Speaker 3: a bunch of white kids. But the picture of the party,

1035
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:37,880
Speaker 3: the girls were really good looking, the guys were good looking,

1036
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:40,239
Speaker 3: and you were like, this seems like a party if

1037
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:42,600
Speaker 3: you were in your twenties that you would hope to

1038
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:45,400
Speaker 3: be invited to because you could go meet an attractive

1039
00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:48,040
Speaker 3: member of the opposite sex. And they're trying to make

1040
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:50,880
Speaker 3: it seem like a cruel thing that actually it's a

1041
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:53,360
Speaker 3: cool thing. They called it the Cruel Kids Table was

1042
00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:55,520
Speaker 3: the headline. I think there's even some lawsuits going on

1043
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:55,920
Speaker 3: about this.

1044
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:56,160
Speaker 1: Now.

1045
00:54:56,360 --> 00:55:00,359
Speaker 2: Also interesting that the individual who I believe organized that

1046
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:04,120
Speaker 2: party is a black concern, correct, So so they're they're

1047
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:07,480
Speaker 2: they're you know, dumping on the people at this party

1048
00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:10,000
Speaker 2: for the lack of diversity, and they made sure nobody

1049
00:55:10,080 --> 00:55:13,560
Speaker 2: knows that the person throwing the party is a black guy,

1050
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:15,000
Speaker 2: a black conservative CJ.

1051
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:15,480
Speaker 1: Pearson.

1052
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:19,879
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's they they have They've never clay in

1053
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:25,960
Speaker 2: my in my recollection, honestly, they've never lost their stranglehold

1054
00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:29,200
Speaker 2: over the culture the way that they have now, and

1055
00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:33,960
Speaker 2: that I think is adding to this sense of panic.

1056
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:36,400
Speaker 2: The Democrats are panic. And you know it's not just us.

1057
00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:39,319
Speaker 2: We've played you clips from other prominent Democrats. You know,

1058
00:55:39,480 --> 00:55:42,040
Speaker 2: James Carville, it's just like one four letter word after

1059
00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:44,120
Speaker 2: another when he talks about where his party is right now.

1060
00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:47,359
Speaker 2: But even the Pod Save Bros. They're much younger. They're,

1061
00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:50,319
Speaker 2: you know, forty or thirty years younger than Carville is. Uh,

1062
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:53,719
Speaker 2: they're saying the same things. They're in disarray, and it's

1063
00:55:53,719 --> 00:55:59,040
Speaker 2: because they used to be able to rely on the celebrity, uh,

1064
00:55:59,080 --> 00:56:02,800
Speaker 2: you know, the celebrity and entertainment industrial complex to push

1065
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:06,480
Speaker 2: their worst ideas constantly. You know, DiCaprio's going around flying

1066
00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:08,560
Speaker 2: everyone on climate change. You don't even hear about climate

1067
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:10,080
Speaker 2: change these days, you know. I mean they made a

1068
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:13,560
Speaker 2: sixteen year old into their false god, Greta Thunberg, over

1069
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:17,399
Speaker 2: climate change, and they don't they don't have the same

1070
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:20,520
Speaker 2: ability to dictate what the culture is. And I think

1071
00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:22,480
Speaker 2: that it's kind of funny to see how we used

1072
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:25,840
Speaker 2: to The paradigm we were told was that politics is

1073
00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:28,000
Speaker 2: downstream of culture. But it does feel more and more

1074
00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 2: like culture is downstream of politics right now because Trump

1075
00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:35,040
Speaker 2: has had such an effect on the culture of the country.

1076
00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:36,640
Speaker 2: I don't just mean in terms of who you vote for.

1077
00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:40,520
Speaker 2: I mean in terms of where corporations stand, where entertainment,

1078
00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:43,440
Speaker 2: you know, with his entertainment options that are out there,

1079
00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:46,880
Speaker 2: what people are gravitating towards. You know, what leagues or

1080
00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:49,360
Speaker 2: even sports leagues are doing well and which ones aren't.

1081
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:52,719
Speaker 2: All of this has been affected by that national conversation.

1082
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:55,600
Speaker 2: And this is where I don't know. Look, a lot

1083
00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:57,439
Speaker 2: of people, we know this. A lot of people voted

1084
00:56:57,440 --> 00:56:59,239
Speaker 2: for Kamala Harris. Oh I didn't bring this up the

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Speaker 2: other day. You know, she still in the league. For Democrats,

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Speaker 2: they right now Kamala Harris far and away is their choice.

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Speaker 2: And that is shocking to me because Kamala Harris, I think,

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Speaker 2: if you have any objectivity whatsoever, is just a truly

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Speaker 2: horrific political candidate. But they think, meaning the Democrat Party

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Speaker 2: faithful believe that she is the best option that they have.

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Speaker 1: Still they're in trouble, and they're in trouble again.

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Speaker 3: I think to your point on culture, they don't have

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Speaker 3: a spokesperson, and the people that are the face of

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Speaker 3: the Democrat party right now just look to be complete

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Speaker 3: and total losers. And there is an element of coolness associated,

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Speaker 3: particularly with young voters in which party they gravitate to,

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Speaker 3: and frankly, Democrats seemed for much of the twenty first

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Speaker 3: century to be way cooler. That's gone and what's fascinating

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Speaker 3: now is you look at under thirty year old voters,

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Speaker 3: young men, I believe in twenty twenty eight are going

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Speaker 3: to continue to break even more for Republicans. And I

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Speaker 3: give credit to my wife because I think she's right

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Speaker 3: about this. A lot of young girls who want to

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Speaker 3: be popular with boys, that is, you know, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen,

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Speaker 3: nineteen year old girls are also now starting to gravitate

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Speaker 3: towards Trump in a way that never would have been

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Speaker 3: the case before. And I also think the secondary aspect

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Speaker 3: of this buck is the continued devolution in the importance

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Speaker 3: of abortion, because really Democrats became the party of young,

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Speaker 3: unmarried women based on abortion and I don't think that

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Speaker 3: fear in the wake of Dobbs overturning Roe v. Wade

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Speaker 3: has the cultural cogency that it did in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 3: Comm will remember our good friend the shrieking woman at

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Speaker 3: the liquor store.

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Speaker 1: About women of America.

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Speaker 3: They didn't show up based on abortion in twenty four

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Speaker 3: and I don't think it's gonna work in twenty six

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Speaker 3: or twenty eight. And this is I think one of

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Speaker 3: the benefits of giving the political process back to abortion

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Speaker 3: and reproductive rights. Trump, to his credit, just came out

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Speaker 3: and supported IVF. Remember they went after they set up.

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Speaker 3: He just came out and said, hey, I want to

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Speaker 3: make IVF even more affordable. Good for him. We need

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Speaker 3: more babies in this country.

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Speaker 1: But they're in trouble. I think they're going to.

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Speaker 3: Lose young women increasingly in the years ahead because the

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Speaker 3: fear mongering is not registering with them in the same way.

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Speaker 2: And I think that all the all of this is

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Speaker 2: tied together. What are considered. And you know, we, as

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Speaker 2: much as I like to joke around with Clay, we

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Speaker 2: would have been in college at the same time. Clay

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Speaker 2: could have been a senior giving me wedgies as a freshman.

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Speaker 2: But so we're we're of the same of the same

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Speaker 2: uh generation and time period. It was the institution, the

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Speaker 2: elite institutions were captured by the left, which happened before

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Speaker 2: we came along, but it was clear as day you

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Speaker 2: had to be you know, if you wanted to get

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Speaker 2: certain kinds of jobs, you had to get the stamp

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Speaker 2: of approval for certain places, and if you wanted to

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Speaker 2: rise in corporate maryer, you had to mouth some of

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Speaker 2: these preferred slogans of the left and all this stuff

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Speaker 2: that is fading. It's fading rapidly. You're seeing a lot

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Speaker 2: of I mean, I'm down here.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: University of Florida, my wife's alma mater, got ninety thousand

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Speaker 2: applications to see.

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Speaker 3: It's happening all over the southern state schools in the

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Speaker 3: wake of the protests that happened against Israel. Because people

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Speaker 3: see what, you know, they see Columbia University where my

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Speaker 3: dad actually went. They see Harvard, my dad went there too.

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Speaker 2: But anyway, they see these schools kind of funny side note,

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Speaker 2: and they're not impressed, and they realize it's not some

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Speaker 2: key to a successful life and that there are a

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Speaker 2: lot of ways to do what you want to do

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Speaker 2: without necessarily having to kiss the ring of the establishment

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Speaker 2: left the same way. I'm not saying it's gone, but

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Speaker 2: it has changed. It has changed dramatically, you know. And

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Speaker 2: I think a lot of parts of the economy have

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Speaker 2: opened up. I think remote work, I think virtual work.

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Speaker 2: I think all these things have changed now that elons

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Speaker 2: come along and they don't have the stranglehold over that

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Speaker 2: that they did. You don't have to play the game

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Speaker 2: the same way.

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Speaker 3: When I went away to college, the idea that parents

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Speaker 3: in New York, LA Chicago would be sending their kids

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Speaker 3: to southern colleges would have been a crazy argument to make.

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Speaker 3: My sister went to Davidson, and I encouraged her to

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Speaker 3: do it, and she had a great experience there, and

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Speaker 3: that was very unusual for a New Yorker. Now, New

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Speaker 3: Yorker's Davidson, UNC, Chapel Hill, Vanderbilt. You uf, these kinds

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Speaker 3: of schools are completely in one. Oh yeah, flooded the

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Speaker 3: University of Tennessee. You used to have to have a

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Speaker 3: basically like a heartbeat and they would.

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Speaker 1: Admit you they have like a twenty percent of mint.

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Speaker 3: Right now, because so many kids are trying to flood

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Speaker 3: in from other parts of the country because sanity doesn't

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Speaker 3: exist in many of these left wing cities and.

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Speaker 1: They want their kids to go to an actual college.

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Speaker 3: Look, we got an awful news that has been coming

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Speaker 3: out of Israel. If you've been paying attention, we'll probably

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Speaker 3: have to talk about it on Thursday or Friday. The hostages,

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Speaker 3: many of them have been murdered and bodies are being

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Speaker 3: returned on a daily basis right now in Israel, and

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Speaker 3: it is brutal to see. And unfortunately it is going

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Speaker 3: to be happening again potentially with young kids with babies

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Speaker 3: killed by Hamas taken hostage. This is an awful story.

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Speaker 3: But if you want to do something to help the

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Speaker 3: people of Israel as they go through the continuing grieving

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Speaker 3: associated with October seventh, you need to be checking out

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Speaker 3: and doing work with our friends at the International Fellowship

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Speaker 3: of Christians and Jews. Look, they've continued to support those

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Speaker 3: in the Holy Land still facing the horrors of war

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Speaker 3: and those in desperate need of help right now, whether

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Speaker 3: it's bulletproof vehicles to help people in the Kibbutza's saved

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Speaker 3: lives on October seventh, whether it's new bomb shelters, whether

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Speaker 3: it is food for people who are struggling and dealing

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Speaker 3: with the fact that their homes may have been destroyed

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Speaker 3: by Hamas by Hesbola. Your ongoing monthly gift to forty

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Speaker 3: north and southern parts of Israel devastated by the ongoing war.

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Speaker 1: I saw it.

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Speaker 3: In the looking over the border in Lebanon. I saw

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Speaker 3: it looking over the border into Gaza in December when

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Speaker 3: I went down to Israel and I traveled there and

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Speaker 3: I went all over the country. I saw the incredible

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Speaker 3: work that the IFCJ is doing. And I'm asking you

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Speaker 3: to join me and going to support IFCJ dot org.

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