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Speaker 1: Welcome.

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Speaker 2: It is a verdict with Ted Cruz and it's the

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Speaker 2: week in Review. Ben Ferguson with you, and we had

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Speaker 2: some major stories this week that you may have missed.

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Speaker 2: First up, voters, you've heard it before about the idea

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Speaker 2: of draining the swamp. What does it actually look like

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Speaker 2: this time with a Trump presidency and will it be

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Speaker 2: different than twenty sixteen. The answer is yes, and we'll

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Speaker 2: explain just how big of a difference it could be. Also,

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Speaker 2: Kamala Harris was cornered about lying to the American people

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Speaker 2: on the cognitive decline of Joe Biden. She now has

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Speaker 2: a new date when she says she noticed a difference

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Speaker 2: but also defended him as being a brilliant man. It

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Speaker 2: didn't go well in an NBC interview, and we're going

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Speaker 2: to play that for you. And finally, Kamala Harris, just

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Speaker 2: days away from election day, is in Texas. Why well,

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Speaker 2: she wants to tell you Texas is evil and that

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Speaker 2: you should be able to kill your babies whenever you

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Speaker 2: want to on demand with abortion. Is that going to

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Speaker 2: play with voters across the country. It's the Weekend Review

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Speaker 2: and it starts right now, yet not at all and

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Speaker 2: This goes back to the cover up. I don't think

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Speaker 2: this was an accident. This was deliberate by them because

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Speaker 2: they knew they needed this to be a campaign issue

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Speaker 2: that hey, things aren't that bad, right, Inflation's actually not

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Speaker 2: that bad.

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Speaker 1: Immigration.

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Speaker 2: We saw them do this deal with Mexico to make

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Speaker 2: the numbers artificially go down in August, in September, going

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Speaker 2: into the election, going see, we're securing the border. It's

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Speaker 2: no different with the violent crime status here. This is

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Speaker 2: why so many Americans now don't trust the government, certainly

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Speaker 2: the deep state, certainly unfortunately the FBI. And yet no

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Speaker 2: one's going to get fired for screwing up their job

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Speaker 2: this bad because it wasn't a screw up, it was

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Speaker 2: done deliberately.

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Speaker 3: Well, you may be wrong that no one's going to

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Speaker 3: get fired, because.

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Speaker 2: Well that would be amazing in a first in my lifetime.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, if we have a good election. I

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Speaker 3: think if Donald Trump gets elected, we will see a

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Speaker 3: new attorney general. I think we will see a new

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Speaker 3: head of the FA oh for sure. And I am

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Speaker 3: praying the people involved in this will be fired. If

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Speaker 3: we win a majority in the Senate. I think we're

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Speaker 3: likely to win and the Republicans are likely to win

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Speaker 3: a majority in the Senate. As you know, I'm on

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Speaker 3: the Senate Judiciary Committee. I'm going to press the Judiciary

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Speaker 3: Committee to launch an investigation into the FBI as to

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Speaker 3: who specifically put out the false data. And I think

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Speaker 3: we should push to get every email, exchange, every conversation.

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Speaker 3: I think it is likely that this was partisan, but

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Speaker 3: we need to get to the bottom of it. And

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Speaker 3: the fact that the FBI is not even providing any

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Speaker 3: explanation when they're caught red handed really does damage. And

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Speaker 3: by the way, look I'll tell you something again. As

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Speaker 3: I travel around campaigning regularly, people ask me should we

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Speaker 3: abolish the FBI? And I got to tell you that,

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Speaker 3: actually that question concerns me because the FBI does a

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Speaker 3: lot of things that are incredibly important. The FBI is

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Speaker 3: designed to battle terrorism, to catch terrorists before they commit

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Speaker 3: another nine to eleven that the FBI catches serial killers,

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Speaker 3: the FBI catches child predators, the FBI helps with kidnap children.

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Speaker 3: I mean, there is a very very important law enforcement

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Speaker 3: mission of the FBI. And I'll tell you with first

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Speaker 3: James Kate Comy and now Chris Ray running the FBI,

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Speaker 3: I think the integrity and the reputation of the FBI

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Speaker 3: has been so profoundly tarnished that half the country wants

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Speaker 3: to get rid of the damn thing altogether. That is

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Speaker 3: really bad from a law enforcement perspective, from a perspective

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Speaker 3: I have chewed out Chris Ray that when he circles

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Speaker 3: the wagons and defends the hardcore partisans who have politicized

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Speaker 3: the FBI, he is lighting on fire the FBI's credibility

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Speaker 3: and its reputation. And I think if Trump wins, there

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Speaker 3: needs to be a wholesale cleaning house getting rid of

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Speaker 3: the wildly partisan, uh career bureaucrats who burrowed into senior

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Speaker 2: All right, let's let's dive into this even on a

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Speaker 2: on a more intense level, because this is one of

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Speaker 2: is we've heard this before, that there's going to be

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Speaker 2: a real draining of the swamp. What how different do

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Speaker 2: you think a Trump administration will be this time? Compared

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Speaker 2: to twenty sixteen, when there was a lot of people

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Speaker 2: done it before. When when people win, and what you

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Speaker 2: go through is you say, okay, well, there's a certain

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Speaker 2: mess with them, right, they stay throughout administrations, and then

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Speaker 2: here's your support, here's your political ones, and you can

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Speaker 2: deal with them how you want. But there's these certain

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Speaker 2: areas we don't touch it. I think Donald Trump learned

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Speaker 1: Yes, and this is a great example of that.

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Speaker 2: So do you believe that there is is the political

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Speaker 2: will to actually clean house the way that many voters

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Speaker 2: if we're going to put you back in there, Republicans

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Speaker 2: you're going to do this time in clean house, because

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Speaker 2: that's what we're voting for.

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Speaker 3: Well, as you know, this is the topic of the

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Speaker 3: third book that I wrote, which is called Justice Corrupted.

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Speaker 3: How the left has weaponized the legal system. And then

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Speaker 3: the book Justice Corrupted, I lay out how Barack Obama

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Speaker 3: weaponized the Department of Justice, of the FBI and the

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Speaker 3: by that point, many of these hard parts since had

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Speaker 3: spent the four years of the Trump presidency waging war

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Speaker 3: the president. They tried to frustrate and oppose every aspect

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Speaker 3: of his agenda. And now under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,

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Speaker 3: they're brazen it out in the open. They are nakedly

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Speaker 3: politicized that they repeatedly are employed to target and persecute

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Speaker 3: the political opponents of the White House, and it is disastrous.

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Speaker 3: I think it is one of the most important things

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Speaker 3: in a Trump administration to depoliticize the Department of Justice

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Speaker 3: don't want a Republican DJ, I don't want a Democrat DJ.

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Speaker 3: prosecutes people when they break the law, regardless of their party.

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Speaker 3: will it be better the second time around?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely?

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Speaker 3: I don't think Trump, and I know his senior team

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Speaker 3: they were fighting. They didn't realize how the swamp operated,

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Speaker 3: actively waged war against the Trump administration. Look, classic example

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Speaker 3: of that is James Comy. I believe that the Trump

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Speaker 3: White House should have fired James Comy on January twentieth,

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Speaker 3: twenty seventeen. No one would have blinked. First day Trump

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Speaker 3: He was the old head of the FBI. You're gone.

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Speaker 3: They didn't. They thought, oh, we can co opt this

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Speaker 3: James Comy was behind a lot of that. And so

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Speaker 3: this time around, I think there certainly they realize the

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Speaker 3: threat now fighting it's not easy. I'm not going to,

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Speaker 3: you know, just blow smoke at you and say it's

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Speaker 3: all going to be rosy if Trump wins again. Fighting

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Speaker 3: the swamp and the career bureaucrats is incredibly difficult. But

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Speaker 3: I do think you will see a much much greater

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Speaker 3: seriousness of purpose from the Trump White House time around.

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Speaker 3: I think they realize much more the magnitude of the

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Speaker 2: Final question for you, sender, there's a story and we're

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Speaker 2: getting more details on it, but we're going to talk

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Speaker 2: about this one on Wednesday, I'm sure. But there is

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Speaker 2: a headline that just popped and it says big tech

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Speaker 2: censoring ahead of the elections. I was not surprised by this.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a no brainer. But we're seeing now

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Speaker 1: Weeks before election.

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Speaker 3: Day, Yeah, the Washington Post had an investigation that said

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Speaker 3: that Instagram, which is part of Meta, buries political posts

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Speaker 3: the word vote is posted, and one influencer faced, as

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Speaker 3: I said, a sixty three percent drop. And this is

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Speaker 3: an investigation done by Washington Post tech columnist Jeffrey Fowler

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Speaker 3: that showed that Meta cross its platforms, including Instagram, Facebook

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Speaker 3: the word vote in a captured across eleven posts, the

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Speaker 3: found several other Instagram creators who noticed a similar pattern,

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty election. But silencing the ability of citizens to

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Speaker 2: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,

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Speaker 2: from earlier this week.

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Speaker 1: Now onto story number.

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Speaker 3: Two, MSNBC pushes her on Joe Biden's cognitive state, and

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Speaker 3: again her answer is terrible.

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Speaker 1: Give a listen.

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Speaker 4: Can you say that you were honest with the American

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Speaker 4: people about what you saw in those moments with President

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Speaker 4: Biden as you were with him again and again repeatedly

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Speaker 4: in that time.

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Speaker 5: Of course, Joe Biden is an extremely accomplished, experienced and

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Speaker 5: capable in every way that anyone would want if they're president,

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Speaker 5: and you never saw anything like.

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Speaker 4: What happened at the debate night behind closed doors with him.

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Speaker 1: It was a bad debate. People have bad debates. He

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Speaker 4: The reason why you're here. And he's not running for

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Speaker 4: the top of the ticket.

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Speaker 5: Well, you'd have to ask him if that's the only reason, why,

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's just a bad answer, Like it's an

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Speaker 4: A judgment question. That's why I ask, can the American

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Speaker 5: I have worked with Joe Biden, whether hours and hours

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Speaker 3: seemed wrong to me. Everything seemed fine. He was the smartest,

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Speaker 3: But she is trapped by her own misconduct because the truth,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would have told her a. Look, I think

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Speaker 2: That's why I'm sitting in front of you. That would

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Speaker 2: And this goes back to the trustworthy aspect of Kamala.

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Speaker 5: Here's how I look at it. First of all, let

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Speaker 5: me be very clear. Mine will not be a continuation

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Speaker 4: Then why do you think that's not landing with voters,

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Speaker 1: Well, when I'm out.

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Speaker 5: This is why I'm going out to Wisconsin, Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 1: I have to earn the vote.

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Speaker 2: That's breaking news. My administration will not be a continuation

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Speaker 3: Well, and remember that's the exact opposite of what she

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Speaker 2: One other question I want to ask you about this

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Speaker 2: The whole entire campaign right now seems to be in

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll confess I am a lot less critical of

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Speaker 2: Well, and the last thing I want to ask you

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Speaker 5: You're not unfortunately, we have some pre determined questions, and

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Speaker 3: Well, look, I could tell you I've done hundreds of

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Speaker 3: And if that's true, then it completely it makes a

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Speaker 2: If you want to hear the rest of this conversation

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Speaker 2: I want to get back to the big story number

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Speaker 1: You may have missed this is I.

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Speaker 2: Do believe going to be the Achilles Hill for her

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Speaker 2: She's not coming to campaign necessarily in Texas, because I

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Speaker 2: She is coming, however, to attack Texas and Texas laws

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Speaker 3: has decided is that they're going to describe Texas as

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Speaker 3: this horrible hell hole and like her messages to be

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Speaker 3: vote for me to avoid America becoming like Texas. And

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Speaker 3: I got to say, you do have sort of facts

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Speaker 3: in reality that crashes into that, which is, for more

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Speaker 3: than a decade, Texas has had over one thousand people

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Speaker 3: a day moving to our state. People are voting with

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Speaker 3: their feet. They want to be here. And where do

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Speaker 3: they come from. They come from bright blue states. They

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Speaker 3: come from her state, they come from California, they come

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Speaker 3: from Illinois, they come from New York, they come from

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Speaker 3: New Jersey, they come from Connecticut. They come from states

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Speaker 3: that have adopted these high tax, high regulation, terrible environment

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Speaker 3: for small businesses, terrible environment for jobs. And then soft

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Speaker 3: on crime. And by the way, let's listen to her

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Speaker 3: answer when she was confronted about her soft on crime policies.

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Speaker 3: Let's listen to what she says on that.

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Speaker 5: On the issue of law and order, as you mentioned,

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Speaker 5: I think there's just a whole lot of misinformation. To

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Speaker 5: be honest with you, I have personally prosecuted very serious

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Speaker 5: crime it's how I started my career. I spent most

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Speaker 5: of my career as a prosecutor, not in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 5: And as my first priority had and remains as a

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Speaker 5: first prior to me, the safety of the American people.

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Speaker 1: So that has not changed.

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Speaker 5: And sadly, I think that there's a bit of misinformation,

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Speaker 5: if not more than a bit, But I'm glad that

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Speaker 5: you raised the subject so that I can address it.

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Speaker 2: She again generalities, no actual real answer the question.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, does she address True or false. You have repeatedly

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Speaker 3: called for defunding the police. Answer true, true or false.

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Speaker 3: You've voted for defunding the police. Answer true, true or false.

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Speaker 3: You've called for abolishing and defunding ICE. Answer true, true

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Speaker 3: or false. You've called for shutting down ICE detention centers

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Speaker 3: and pledged to do so on your first day as president.

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Speaker 3: Answer true, true or false. You've advocated for releasing violent

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Speaker 3: criminals from jail true true or false. You've advocated for

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Speaker 3: ending cash bail and letting criminals out without even paying bail.

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Speaker 3: True true or false. You have advocating for decriminalizing illegal

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Speaker 3: border crossings true all true or false. You raised bail

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Speaker 3: money to bail out violent rioters in Minneapolis answer true. Now,

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Speaker 3: in the face of all those facts, what does she

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Speaker 3: say misinformation, by the way, with no counter narrative, she

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Speaker 3: just says, no, no, no, I'm a prosecutor. Look, I was

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Speaker 3: raised in the middle class. Look, I'm a prosecutor. Those

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Speaker 3: are her two crutches that she goes to repeatedly, but

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Speaker 3: then she actually does not address anything that resembles facts.

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Speaker 2: Let me also ask you another question about this town

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Speaker 2: hall and it dealt with her plan, and it's the

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Speaker 2: socialist plan, her plan on groceries.

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Speaker 1: She's now tripling down. She tried to run away from it.

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Speaker 2: That didn't work, so now she's back at it again, saying,

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Speaker 2: if you vote for me, I'm going to give you

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Speaker 2: communist price control. She was actually asked a question from

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Speaker 2: someone in the audience about this.

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Speaker 7: Prices have gone up quite a bit in the last

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Speaker 7: four years, and some people blame former President Trump, some

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Speaker 7: people blame President Biden. Who would you say is correct

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Speaker 7: and what would you do to bring prices down for Americans?

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Speaker 5: Thank you, Eric, And you're absolutely right. You know what,

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Speaker 5: I know what I think most Americans know it. Price

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Speaker 5: and grocery is still too high, and we need to

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Speaker 5: address it in a number of ways. One of my

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Speaker 5: aspects of doing what we need to do to bring

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Speaker 5: down the cost of living for working people in the

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Speaker 5: middle class in America is to address the issue of

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Speaker 5: grocery prices. Part of my background and how I come

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Speaker 5: to it is probably a new approach grounded in a

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Speaker 5: lot of my experiences as a former attorney general where

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Speaker 5: I took on price gouging, and part of my plan

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Speaker 5: is to create a new approach. That is the first

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Speaker 5: time that we will have a national ban on price gouging.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that seems like the most ridiculous answer, this

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Speaker 2: national ban on price gouging.

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Speaker 1: We already have a lot of laws on price gouging.

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Speaker 2: A lot of states have those laws, and they're the

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Speaker 2: ones that usually are implementing them. So what is she

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Speaker 2: actually offering up here that everybody that has that's as

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Speaker 2: a big store is evil If I don't like their

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Speaker 3: Well, and listen, in the grocery context, it's it's particularly absurd.

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Speaker 3: So states that have price gouging laws, and by the way,

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Speaker 3: Texas has a price gouging laws law, they are typically

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Speaker 3: focused on emergency. So if you have say a hurricane

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Speaker 3: price gouging laws are if if you know, ordinarily you

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Speaker 3: charge a dollar for a bottle of water, and a

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Speaker 3: hurricane hits and you decide you're going to charge fifty

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Speaker 3: dollars for a bottle of water. That's when price gouging

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Speaker 3: kicks in. Is that when you're taking a disaster and

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Speaker 3: just taking advantage of people in a time of crisis.

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Speaker 3: And states do have laws for that, they don't apply

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Speaker 3: just to day in, day out the ordinary pricing of

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Speaker 3: goods and services, and particularly in the grocery context, that

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Speaker 3: the average profit margin in a grocery store it is

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Speaker 3: typically one or two percent. So the idea that the

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Speaker 3: Feds are going to come like forced grocery stores, it's

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Speaker 3: it's it's you know, big grocery that that is the

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Speaker 3: cause of inflation rather than the disastrous policy's she has

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Speaker 3: led is asinine. But I will say, look look to

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Speaker 3: Anderson Cooper's question. You know, to his credit, he pointed out,

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Speaker 3: wait a second, you're in the White House right now.

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Speaker 3: If this is a good idea, why aren't you doing it?

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Speaker 3: And listen to her response about why she hasn't done

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Speaker 3: what she's proposing, despite the fact that she's been in

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Speaker 3: the White House four years and in power.

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Speaker 2: Take a listen, simple question from Anderson Cooper asked to

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Speaker 2: Kamwa Harris, and her response is laughable. Some voters, though,

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Speaker 2: might ask, you've been in the White House for four years.

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Speaker 2: You were vice president, not the president, But why wasn't

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Speaker 2: any of that done in the.

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Speaker 1: Last four years?

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Speaker 5: Well, there was a lot that was done, but there's

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Speaker 5: more to do, Anderson, and I'm pointing out things that

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Speaker 5: need to be done that haven't been done but need

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Speaker 5: to be done.

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Speaker 2: You couldn't write a better script for Saturday Night Live.

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Speaker 1: There you go.

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Speaker 3: I'm pointing out the things that need to be done

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Speaker 3: that haven't been done, that need to be done. And

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Speaker 3: by the way, I'm the one that didn't do them,

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Speaker 3: but I'm the one you can count to do them.

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Speaker 3: But actually compare that and combine that with let's remember

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Speaker 3: her biggest mistake. But when she's asked, look, people want

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Speaker 3: to change the page. They want to turn the page.

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Speaker 3: They recognize that the Biden Harris record is a disaster.

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Speaker 3: So when she's asked how she's different from Joe Biden,

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Speaker 3: take a listen to her answer.

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Speaker 6: Considering you've been in the position of Vice president for

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Speaker 6: the past four years under the Biden administration. How can

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Speaker 6: we expect you to deviate from the direction of that

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Speaker 6: administration compared to your own. How can we differentiate your

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Speaker 6: policy and your beliefs from that of Biden's.

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Speaker 5: That's a great question, and thank you well. First of all,

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Speaker 5: my administration will not be a continuation of the Biden administration.

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Speaker 5: To this role, my own ideas and my own experience.

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Speaker 5: I represent a new generation of leadership on a number

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Speaker 5: of issues and believe that we have to actually take

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Speaker 5: new approaches. For example, what we talked about in terms

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Speaker 5: of housing. My experience that leads to that priority includes

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Speaker 5: what I did to take on the big banks around

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Speaker 5: the foreclosure crisis, when I brought billions of dollars to

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Speaker 5: homeowners that were the subject of predatory lending. I know

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Speaker 5: what homeownership means to the American people, not to mention

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Speaker 5: what it meant to my mother, who worked very hard

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Speaker 5: and saved up so that by the time I was

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Speaker 5: a teenager, she was able to buy our first home.

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Speaker 5: I bring to it my experience actually taking care of

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Speaker 5: my mother when she was sick, and it was, as

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Speaker 5: it turned out, dying from cancer, and so I know

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Speaker 5: what it means and have the experience of taking care

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Speaker 5: of an elderly relative, and I have raised children, and

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Speaker 5: so I bring to my priorities and will as president

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Speaker 5: a new approach and a new idea frankly, about what

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Speaker 5: we need to do to deal with the Sandwich generation.

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Speaker 2: There it is. It's it's I'm not him. His policies

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Speaker 2: are terrible. I'm different. But a month ago I told

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Speaker 2: you we were amazing together and his policies were amazing.

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Speaker 3: And the difference is I'm a new generation. I actually

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Speaker 3: care about people, unlike that old geezer. By the way,

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Speaker 3: I know what it's like to care for old geezers.

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Speaker 3: Look at the one I care for in the White

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Speaker 3: House right now that I lied to you about and

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Speaker 3: said was brilliant engage when he actually isn't. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I mean it truly is it. It is a miracle

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Speaker 3: of circularity. But but we actually should close on what

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Speaker 3: we opened on. We talked about how she held a

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Speaker 3: press conference to say that Trump is a fascist and

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Speaker 3: Trump is hitler. She's not running away from that. That

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Speaker 3: that that that's her big October surprise. So so give

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Speaker 3: a listen when when when she's asked asked whether she

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Speaker 3: thinks Trump is a fascist?

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Speaker 1: Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 1: I do, Yes, I do.

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Speaker 5: And I also believe that the people who know him

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Speaker 5: best on this subject should be trusted.

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Speaker 1: Senator, I go back to the dog whistle.

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Speaker 2: This is so concerning to me because all I hear is, Hey,

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Speaker 2: if there's someone out there that wants to finish the job,

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Speaker 2: these other two attempted assassins were trying to finish. The

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Speaker 2: President's already been shot once. We've dehumanized him to the

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Speaker 2: point where we're right back to calling him a fascist,

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Speaker 2: and earlier today in front of the official American flag

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Speaker 2: at the home of the Vice President, I'm telling you

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Speaker 2: he's hitler. I cannot believe the level of hatred and

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Speaker 2: irresponsibility from Kamwa Harris in this moment.

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Speaker 3: At the same time that they're sending out Barack Obama

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Speaker 3: to say we need more civility and decency in this

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Speaker 3: bitterness is too much. And by the way, my opponent

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Speaker 3: is hitler. They managed to say those without taking a

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Speaker 3: breath between those two statements.

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