WEBVTT - BULLETIN: ASSAULT ON SEN. PADILLA IS TRUMP'S NEWEST TERRORIST ACT

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<v Speaker 1>Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This

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<v Speaker 1>is a Countdown Bulleton podcast about the assault on Senator

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<v Speaker 1>Padilla of California at the Christy Nome Propaganda conference on

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<v Speaker 1>Thursday afternoon. This is also thus another reminder that Donald

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<v Speaker 1>Trump is a domestic terrorist and anybody who serves him

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<v Speaker 1>is a domestic terrorist. It was true in twenty twenty

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<v Speaker 1>it is true again in twenty twenty five. Domestic terrorism.

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<v Speaker 1>These acts of domestic terrorism have unfolded against the citizens

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<v Speaker 1>of California since Friday. The lawless threats, the immoral exercise

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<v Speaker 1>of illegal power, the vow to ignore the civilian courts.

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<v Speaker 1>They have now escalated to state sponsored violence against an

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<v Speaker 1>elected government official, a sitting United States Senator, in this case,

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<v Speaker 1>Senator Alex Padia of California. Mister Padea entered a news

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<v Speaker 1>conference in which the Homeland Security Secretary, an authoritarian idiot

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<v Speaker 1>with no respects for the laws or history or ethos

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<v Speaker 1>of the United States of America, was spouting delusional talking

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<v Speaker 1>points worthy of a drug addict. Senator Padia identified himself,

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<v Speaker 1>demanded answers on behalf of his constituents, his citizens, the

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<v Speaker 1>residents of the community. He represents the people of the

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<v Speaker 1>United States of America, particularly those in southern California who

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<v Speaker 1>are being terrorized by the Trump dictatorship. He was then

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<v Speaker 1>seized no more than twenty five seconds into a brief

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<v Speaker 1>statement by agents protecting Nome, believed at first to be

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<v Speaker 1>Secret Service. Two goons who later showed up to handcuff

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<v Speaker 1>him were wearing FBI logos as they threw him to

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<v Speaker 1>the ground, and of course, the Secret Service, the FBI

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<v Speaker 1>the other organizations that now surround Trump are acting as

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<v Speaker 1>the Trump praetorian guard. The sound of what happened alone

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<v Speaker 1>is terrifying, and that sound comes in two parts, two

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<v Speaker 1>audio clips. Remember before I play the first part, the

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<v Speaker 1>key defense from Nome and the criminal gang for which

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<v Speaker 1>she works and with which she works was that Senator

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<v Speaker 1>Padilla did not identify himself, was not wearing his ID

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<v Speaker 1>and quoting her nobody knew who he was. The first

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<v Speaker 1>part could be a mistake, as you will hear the

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<v Speaker 1>second part that nobody knew who he was is an

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<v Speaker 1>outright lie. I'm not Senators Alix Padia. I have questions

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<v Speaker 1>for the secretary because the fact of the matter is

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<v Speaker 1>half a dozen sign criminals. That ship's hitting on your

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<v Speaker 1>on your how many of our I say this had

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<v Speaker 1>been docked being Senator Padilla is then dragged out of

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<v Speaker 1>the room in which the propaganda conference is being conducted

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<v Speaker 1>into first an anti room and then into a wholeway,

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<v Speaker 1>pulled off his feet and pulled to the ground and

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<v Speaker 1>handcuffed a sitting United States senator better than the caning

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<v Speaker 1>of Senator Charles Sumner in eighteen fifty six by the

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<v Speaker 1>insurrectionist Congressman Preston Brooks. I suppose, but not really buy

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<v Speaker 1>all that much. Here is part two of what this

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<v Speaker 1>monstrosity sounded like.

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<v Speaker 2>Hands on your back, good, all right, cool hand placed

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<v Speaker 2>bleeplatt bleeplat.

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<v Speaker 1>Other hands other hand. There's no recording aloud out here.

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<v Speaker 1>I did not recording aloud on here for right. The

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<v Speaker 1>other defense of this violation of every tenet of not

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<v Speaker 1>just American jurisprudence, not just American government, not just American law,

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<v Speaker 1>but the traditions of American politics. You do not assault

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<v Speaker 1>a sitting senator on behalf of an apparatic, a moron

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<v Speaker 1>working for the opposing party. Apart from that, the other

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<v Speaker 1>defense from Christy Nome and her Minions was that this

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<v Speaker 1>was a stunt by Senator Padilla. Sure, whatever you want

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<v Speaker 1>to call it a stunt, call it a stunt. It's

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<v Speaker 1>a stunt. Opposing Trump is a stunt. Opposing the Christy

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<v Speaker 1>nome Tom Holman Gestapo is a stunt. Opposing the militarization

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<v Speaker 1>of our streets is a stunt. Opposing Trump. Getting the

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<v Speaker 1>troops to boo Biden at a military exercise Bragg is

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<v Speaker 1>a stunt. Being anti Trump terrorism is a stunt. Do

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<v Speaker 1>we think Senator Padilla getting himself thrown to the floor

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<v Speaker 1>after identifying himself as a sitting senator was that part

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<v Speaker 1>of the stunt. The Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson,

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<v Speaker 1>who earlier this week called for the governor of California

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<v Speaker 1>to be quote tarred and feathered, which is an eighteenth

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<v Speaker 1>century form of torture and even public murder, insisted that

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<v Speaker 1>the one who should be punished here is Senator Padilla.

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<v Speaker 1>Censure at least, says Speaker Johnson, and he hints at more.

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<v Speaker 1>He hints that perhaps expulsion or who knows, arrest should follow.

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<v Speaker 2>That behavior at a minimum, is it rises to the

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<v Speaker 2>level of a center. I think there needs to be

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<v Speaker 2>a message sent by the body as a whole that

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<v Speaker 2>that is not what we are going to do. That's

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<v Speaker 2>not how we're going to act. We're not going to

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<v Speaker 2>have branches fighting physically and having senators charging cabinet secretaries.

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<v Speaker 1>I am confident Senator Padilla would accept censure, as would

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<v Speaker 1>I were Speaker Johnson to be arrested for his call

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<v Speaker 1>for violence, for tarring and feathering. Governor Newsom for the record,

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<v Speaker 1>what Johnson said. There, no one charged a cabinet secretary.

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<v Speaker 1>Go and look at the videotape for yourself. No one

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<v Speaker 1>got to within ten feet of her. No one got

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<v Speaker 1>to within ten people of her. She was spewing her

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<v Speaker 1>spewing material to those who were ready to lap it up. Again.

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<v Speaker 1>This is Trump terrorism, As Governor Newsom said, law abiding

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<v Speaker 1>American citizens are now tonight after this past week in

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<v Speaker 1>southern California, in Florida, in New York, in other communities,

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<v Speaker 1>afraid to leave their own homes, people who were born here,

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<v Speaker 1>afraid to leave their own homes because so many people

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<v Speaker 1>who were born here have been swept up anyway, Because

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<v Speaker 1>terrorism is terrorism, and it does not stop being terrorism

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<v Speaker 1>simply because it has the impromater of a evil, bastard

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<v Speaker 1>filled government. It is terrorism still. Newsome went on to

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<v Speaker 1>note that people were afraid to let their children out

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<v Speaker 1>to go to dental appointments in southern California. Thomas Kennedy

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<v Speaker 1>of the Florida Immigrant Coalition posted that they're in Florida

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<v Speaker 1>quote a boat transporting individuals to a Telemundo party. That's

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<v Speaker 1>a television network, a Spanish language television network heavily into

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<v Speaker 1>sports coverage. Telemundo party celebrating one year out from the

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<v Speaker 1>World Cup. That boat was boarded by the coast guard.

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<v Speaker 1>They checked the immigration status of the staff on the boat.

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<v Speaker 1>The mayor of Miami Dade, officials from FIFA, the World

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<v Speaker 1>Soccer Organization, and the leadership of Telemundo were present on

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<v Speaker 1>the boat, and in fact, the Miami New Times obtained

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<v Speaker 1>and posted video from Telemundo of apparently a live broadcast

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<v Speaker 1>or a recorded broadcast of the moment the party boat

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<v Speaker 1>was boarded and halted outside Miami Offshore. Miami held there

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<v Speaker 1>for an hour, no one knowing what was going on

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<v Speaker 1>or how it would end. Terrorism on the West coast,

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<v Speaker 1>terrorism on the East coast. Terrorism from Donald Trump, Trump

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<v Speaker 1>is back. He is a sadist. He is not a

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<v Speaker 1>human being, as you and I understand the phrase, he

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<v Speaker 1>is fully engaged in destroying this nation and fulfilling the

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<v Speaker 1>textbook definition of terrorism, which is using violence or the

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<v Speaker 1>threat of it to force political change unlawfully. Ask Alex

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<v Speaker 1>Padia if he was a victim of that. Trump did

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<v Speaker 1>it on June first, twenty twenty when he gassed the

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<v Speaker 1>peaceful George Floyd protesters at Lafayette Square outside the White

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<v Speaker 1>House so he could stand in front of Saint John's

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<v Speaker 1>Church with a Bible in his hand, a photo op

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<v Speaker 1>with a Bible during which he accidentally held the Bible

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<v Speaker 1>right side up. At that time. I called it what

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<v Speaker 1>it was, terrorism and I called Trump a terrorist. A

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<v Speaker 1>few months later, Senator Mitt Romney issued a statement in

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<v Speaker 1>which he condemned all of us for inflating and throwing

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<v Speaker 1>gasoline on the delicate political situation, and how dare I

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<v Speaker 1>refer to Trump as a terrorist. Three months after that,

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<v Speaker 1>Senator Roma, it was one of many senators and more

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<v Speaker 1>congressmen trapped inside Capitol Hill as Trump Maga terrorists tried

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<v Speaker 1>to break in to kill them. I have not heard

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<v Speaker 1>from now former Senator Romney recently about how wrong I

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<v Speaker 1>was to call Trump a terrorist. Trump has no code,

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<v Speaker 1>no morals, There is no line. He will not cross.

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<v Speaker 1>A man who virtually began his campaign boasting he could

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<v Speaker 1>shoot people on Fifth Avenue and lose no support. He

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<v Speaker 1>does not say that idly, nor without actually calculating the effect.

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<v Speaker 1>I know this man, I have known him since nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>eighty three. There is no there there. If something evil

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<v Speaker 1>has just occurred to him, he wonders, only not is

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<v Speaker 1>it right? Or is it wrong? Not even can I

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<v Speaker 1>get away with it? He wonders why no one has

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<v Speaker 1>thought to do it before, Like shooting people on Fifth Avenue.

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<v Speaker 1>He meant it. He means it, he will mean it.

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<v Speaker 1>And the people he thinks he could shoot are not hypotheticals,

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<v Speaker 1>nor random passers by, nor the New Yorkers he no

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<v Speaker 1>longer likes. They are people like Gavin Newsom and Alex Padilla.

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<v Speaker 1>And for all I know, you and me incredibly as

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<v Speaker 1>disturbing and infuriating, as alarm bell ringing as the man

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<v Speaker 1>handling of Senator Padilla. Maybe I am in fact equally

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<v Speaker 1>disturbed by Thursday's other grotesque development. And this was from Washington.

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<v Speaker 1>I will read you the Politico headline and one exchange

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<v Speaker 1>captured in the story, quote heg Seth won't commit to

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<v Speaker 1>obeying courts on marines in Los Angeles subhead, The Defense

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<v Speaker 1>Secretary declined to say whether the Pentagon would comply with

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<v Speaker 1>any judicial order blocking Trump's domestic troop deployment. Rep. Roe

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<v Speaker 1>Kana D of California repeatedly pressed Hegseeth on whether he

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<v Speaker 1>would follow a court ruling. You're not willing to say

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<v Speaker 1>you would respect those decisions, Kanna asked. Hegseeth replied, what

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<v Speaker 1>I'm saying is local district judges shouldn't make foreign policy.

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<v Speaker 1>Newsom Governor Newsom reposted a video of the exchange on

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<v Speaker 1>social media platform x This is not normal, he said, Governor,

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<v Speaker 1>I will be critical of you for the first time

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<v Speaker 1>in a week. That's not the phrase I would use.

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<v Speaker 1>Hegseeth refused to confirm he would yield to civilian authority.

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<v Speaker 1>He has now cloaked himself in the idea that local

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<v Speaker 1>district judges are not affecting the illegal use of the

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<v Speaker 1>military on civilian streets for civilian in issues. He has

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<v Speaker 1>cloaked that with this nonsensical fabrication by some lawyer, by

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<v Speaker 1>some Stephen Miller protege somewhere, that this is foreign policy,

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<v Speaker 1>that this is beyond the ken of the judges and

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<v Speaker 1>beyond the rights of the American citizen. It is perhaps

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<v Speaker 1>the most dangerous thing offered to this country since the

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<v Speaker 1>Alien and Sedition Acts under President Adams at the start

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<v Speaker 1>of the nineteenth century. One more note from the Politico story,

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<v Speaker 1>The Defense Secretary, in separate congressional testimony on Wednesday, suggested

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<v Speaker 1>the administration could deploy troops elsewhere to assist in roundups

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<v Speaker 1>and deportations. That is, literally, have the troops, literally, have

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<v Speaker 1>those Marines in southern California go on the roundups. You

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<v Speaker 1>have not just been arrested by ice and renditioned by ice.

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<v Speaker 1>You have been seized by the Marines on the streets

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<v Speaker 1>of an American city, full fledged military dictatorship. At that hearing,

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<v Speaker 1>Politico notes heg Seth was not able to immediately cite

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<v Speaker 1>the legal justification for the deployments. I would add that

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<v Speaker 1>as largely because there is none just Hegseeth's answer in

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<v Speaker 1>testimony Thursday, is itself terrorism. While the case determining whether

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<v Speaker 1>or not the local courts the federal courts in California

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<v Speaker 1>would overrule this illegal use, this illegal usurpation of the

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<v Speaker 1>use of the National Guard of California while that hearing

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<v Speaker 1>was beginning, hours before that first emergency hearing was to start,

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<v Speaker 1>heg seth answers, I'm not sure we're going to abide

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<v Speaker 1>by it one way or the other. Do you know

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<v Speaker 1>what a Defense Secretary of Pentagon chief who will not

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<v Speaker 1>defer to civilian courts and civilian laws is called. He's

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<v Speaker 1>called part of a milli military dictatorship. Hopefully afterwards he

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<v Speaker 1>is called a fugitive. There is some small good news

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<v Speaker 1>as I record this, g Elliott Morris of the site's

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<v Speaker 1>strength in numbers of polling and polling analysis site. He

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<v Speaker 1>was the last head of the five thirty eight website.

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<v Speaker 1>Morris has been able to gauge the stark impact of

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<v Speaker 1>the last week of Trumpean terrorism, not just on opinion

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<v Speaker 1>in southern California or among Democrats, but in the United

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<v Speaker 1>States one week ago, literally one week ago last Thursday,

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<v Speaker 1>Donald Trump was a positive net five points in public

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<v Speaker 1>approval on how he handled immigration. He was up by

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<v Speaker 1>five people approved of all this one week plus five

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<v Speaker 1>as of earlier Thursday. As of earlier today, one week later,

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<v Speaker 1>he is minus one. He has fallen a net six

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<v Speaker 1>points and fallen out of the blue into the red

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<v Speaker 1>in one week. This is not just illegal, this is unpopular. Unfortunately.

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<v Speaker 1>The questions that that produces are will it matter? And

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<v Speaker 1>how quickly are we approaching the point at which someone

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<v Speaker 1>like Hegseth or Gnome or Trump declares it illegal to

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<v Speaker 1>conduct or promulgate or print such polls. And when all

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<v Speaker 1>the courts in the country tell them they are breaking

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<v Speaker 1>the law in doing so, they say, so what? Because

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<v Speaker 1>the Trumpest answer to Senator Padilla's demand for answers about

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<v Speaker 1>the laws being broken in California. The answer to the

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<v Speaker 1>demand of the Trumpest stooge, hegseeth that he obey and

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<v Speaker 1>affirm he will obey the civilian law which constitution prevails

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<v Speaker 1>over his little gun shop. The answer to any time

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<v Speaker 1>and any way from Trump and his mobsters to a

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<v Speaker 1>statement of fact that they have broken the law, Their

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<v Speaker 1>answer is, indeed, so what? This has been a countdown

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