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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George

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Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

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Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Getty, and he Armstrong and Getty.

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Speaker 3: I really am concerned about how fragile democracy is. I

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Speaker 3: guess what I'm worried about is that the thing that

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Speaker 3: keeps it on track are the guardrails. That there's a

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Speaker 3: Supreme Court that's independent but not but accountable. There's a

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Speaker 3: Congress that you speak your mind, but you're held accountable

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Speaker 3: to basic standards. There's a presidency that says you have

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Speaker 3: very limited powers. I mean, you're the top dog. When

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Speaker 3: you're not, you can dictate everything. And I don't know,

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Speaker 3: they seem to just we just seem to be chipping away.

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Speaker 2: At all those elements.

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Speaker 4: Why is the least popular president outside of Nixon in

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Speaker 4: sixty years, doing so many exit interviews?

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Speaker 2: People hate you. Why don't you just quietly go away?

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Speaker 1: Desperate need to take one last shot at burnishing his legacy.

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Speaker 1: I guess quick note before we get into the meat

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Speaker 1: of this topic, and Michael in Washington State writes, evidently,

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Speaker 1: yesterday I made reference to Biden and his advisors in

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Speaker 1: his farewell speech and Michael suggests the new nickname dead

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Speaker 1: in company, I mean his advisors.

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Speaker 4: That's disrespectful, Michael. It's a bad idea, disrespectful to John Mayer, maybe.

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Speaker 2: Bob Ware. So I'm going to just read here. This

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Speaker 2: is going to be a segment where I just read.

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Speaker 4: This article is super long, and and I just came

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Speaker 4: across it fifteen minutes ago, and it's out the New

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Speaker 4: York Times today, and I have had chance to highlight it.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna read. Joe's gonna comment as we go. The

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Speaker 4: New York Times has interviewed over a dozen people with

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Speaker 4: knowledge of This article is based on interviews with a

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Speaker 4: dozen people who participated in the private push of getting

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Speaker 4: Biden out of office.

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Speaker 2: This is one of the first big articles.

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Speaker 4: On this to come out yet, you know, three days

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Speaker 4: before he leaves office. The headline in today in the NYT.

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Speaker 4: I'm urging you not to run how Schumer pushed Biden

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Speaker 4: to drop out. And I've just started reading it. I'm

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Speaker 4: finding it fascinating. So I hope you will take Senator

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Speaker 4: Chuck Schumer of New York sat in the foyer of

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Speaker 4: President Biden's beach house, tired and tense. He had not

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Speaker 4: slept at all the night before, and on the four

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Speaker 4: hour drive from Brooklyn to Delaware, he had rehearsed out

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Speaker 4: loud what he planned to say, reviewing note cards as

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Speaker 4: he prepared for what he thought might be the most

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Speaker 4: of one.

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Speaker 2: I'm already wrapped. Wow.

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Speaker 4: It was the afternoon of July thirteenth, a humid summer afternoon,

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Speaker 4: just before four o'clock, and Schumer, the Democratic leader of

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Speaker 4: the Senate, was about to make a blunt case to

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Speaker 4: Joe Biden that he needed to drop his bid for

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Speaker 4: a second term. If there were a secret ballot among

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Speaker 4: Democratic senators, mister Schumer would tell the president no more

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Speaker 4: than five would say he should continue running ooh five

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Speaker 4: out of fifty.

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Speaker 2: Two or whatever it was.

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Speaker 4: At the time, mister Biden's own polsters assessed that he

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Speaker 4: had about a five percent chance of prevailing against the

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Speaker 4: Donald Trump. Mister Schumer would tell him information that was

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Speaker 4: apparently news to the president. The pulsters were saying, you

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Speaker 4: have a five percent chance of winning. They weren't telling

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Speaker 4: Joe that. They were telling all the other Democrats that

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Speaker 4: what the hell.

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Speaker 2: You pointed this out?

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Speaker 1: Yesterday that well, Number one, it's just mind blowing that

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Speaker 1: the president's advisers were keeping the polls from him and

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Speaker 1: fully curating which headlines he saw. I mean, that's just

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Speaker 1: it's scary and how clear it is that they're like,

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Speaker 1: if he sees this, he's not going to run again,

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Speaker 1: then I'll have to go find a job. Hey, there's

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Speaker 1: So let's just keep the news from him. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that is some serious puppetry.

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Speaker 2: God, I'd say.

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Speaker 4: If the President refused to step aside, the Senator would argue,

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Speaker 4: the consequences for Democrats in Biden's own legacy after a

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Speaker 4: half century would be catastrophic.

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Speaker 2: Correct.

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Speaker 4: If you run and you lose to Trump and we

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Speaker 4: lose the Senate and we don't get back the House,

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Speaker 1: Whoa happened anyway, But it would have been certain if

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Speaker 2: That's a heck of a thing to say.

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Speaker 4: Schumer would end with the directive, if I were you,

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't run.

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Speaker 2: I'm urging you not to run.

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Speaker 4: The roughly forty five minute conversation, which took place on

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Speaker 4: and emotional than previously known and helps to explain how

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Speaker 4: mister Biden came to the decision just over a week.

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Speaker 2: Later to end his campaign.

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Speaker 4: They lay out the all the people that they talked

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Speaker 2: The whole deal.

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Speaker 4: Uh. When Schumer arrived at mister Biden's beach house that

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Speaker 4: summer day, he could hear the President shouting. Mister Biden

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Speaker 4: group of lawmakers who were expressing their concerns about his

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Speaker 2: His back was up.

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Speaker 4: This was exactly the kind of scenario Schumer had been

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Speaker 4: hoping to avoid for the past three weeks. As he

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Speaker 4: Schumer had been concerned that Biden was going to lose

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Speaker 4: to Trump and cost Democrats Congress. Now listen to this part,

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Speaker 4: and you tell me what's going on here. It wasn't

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Speaker 4: that he thought Biden was not capable of doing the job.

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Speaker 4: During their weekly conversations, the President often rambled, but he

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Speaker 4: had always rambled. Once in a while Biden would forget

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Speaker 4: why he had called, but Schumer thought little of it.

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Speaker 4: He was convinced that Biden could handle the job. How

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Speaker 4: is that freaking possible?

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Speaker 1: How are those sentences part of the same paragraph.

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Speaker 4: Is he only saying that to the New York Times

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Speaker 4: or whoever he's talking to, because he'd be like a

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Speaker 1: Was swearing up and down to anybody who had listened

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Speaker 1: that the President was more than capable of handling.

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Speaker 2: The job at the time.

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Speaker 1: So he's now because obviously he and his people are

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Speaker 1: leaking all this stuff. He is trying somehow to thread

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Speaker 1: not a big fat, stinkin' liar. Good luck thread in

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Speaker 4: Umm. He was uncomfortable with giving unsolicited advice to the

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Speaker 4: commander and cheap about his future. Schumer, like every other

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Speaker 4: chosen to do nothing. So when Biden bombed during his

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Speaker 4: June twenty seventh debate with Trump, Schumer regarded it as

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Speaker 4: something of a gift, a forcing mechanism to start an

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Speaker 4: overdue discussion about the president's political viability. I remember talking

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Speaker 4: the next day about how we thought there's a whole

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Speaker 2: Yes, finally, finally it's out in the open.

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Speaker 4: We don't have to pretend anymore, as opposed to well,

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Speaker 4: I don't let me read this for you. That night,

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Speaker 4: the night of the debate, about two dozen House Democrats,

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Speaker 4: the Washington and Lunxury apartment blah blah blah.

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Speaker 2: Where they all left. That was a gas can you imagine?

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Speaker 4: But the festive atmosphere dissipated immediately after mister Biden, pale

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Speaker 4: stumbling through his answers. By the end of the ninety

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Speaker 4: the first five minutes, like all of the rest of America,

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Speaker 4: oh yeah, those who had been able to bear sticking

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Speaker 2: While lots of people left.

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Speaker 1: I got to someplace I gotta go. Nothing mattered after

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Speaker 1: that first five minutes. Mister Jefferys had a motto he

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Speaker 1: often shared with this caucus. I've never heard this before.

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Speaker 1: Calm is an intentional decision. He tried to channel it

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Speaker 1: that night, even as his internal alarm bears, bells were

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Speaker 1: win their seats with mister Biden at the top of

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Speaker 1: the ticket. We gotta process at all. See where we

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Speaker 1: are tomorrow morning, and we'll come up.

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Speaker 2: With a game plan. Calm is an intentional decision. I

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Speaker 2: like that. Hey, I'd like that too.

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Speaker 1: And he was absolutely right to tell everybody, hey, hey, hey,

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Speaker 2: We'll talk tomorrow. We're not gonna solve it right now.

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Speaker 4: Schumer, who was at a fundraiser in California during the debate,

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Speaker 4: had a similar message for the donors he saw that night.

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Speaker 2: Uh we'll have.

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Speaker 4: To see, he said, vaguely, I'll have to see what

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Speaker 4: what what do we gonna do?

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Speaker 2: Uh, well, we'll have to see.

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Speaker 1: You know what we could have, you know what would

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Speaker 1: have been theater if we'd thought of it. Of course,

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Speaker 1: we just came across this as sprinkle in various clips

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Speaker 1: to remind you of how astounding it was, how awful

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Speaker 1: embarrassing many powerful people had seen enough, says The New

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Speaker 4: That night, mister Schumer's flip phone started ringing and it

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Speaker 4: remember me. We played the high school football together, but

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Speaker 4: come on, dude. Schumer had one simple message for everyone

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Speaker 4: He said, that will get his back up, and you

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Speaker 4: have got to let the dust settle. But if you

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Speaker 4: White House, that's interesting.

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Speaker 1: Protect the president's dignity or we're not going to be

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Speaker 1: able to get him out. That's why all of those,

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Speaker 1: I mean, just crazy over the top. The most impactful

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Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore. It's been more transformative than blah blah blah.

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Speaker 1: All that stuff is absolutely laughable, but it served that strategy.

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Speaker 4: Some lawmakers thought waiting was the wrong strategy. Representative Jamie

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Speaker 4: Raskin Democratic Maryland chose at first to go the private route,

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Speaker 4: sending a letter to Biden on July sixth encouraging him

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Speaker 4: assured mister Raskin that the President the First Lady had

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Speaker 4: both read the letter. Biden planned to call him, but

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Speaker 4: the President never did so. Then he released a later

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Speaker 4: publicly if you remember that, saying I think the President

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Speaker 4: he was the first person to break Remember. Then it

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Speaker 1: He wakes up next to a German shepherd's head in

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Speaker 2: It's a message. Forget about it. It's a message he's

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Speaker 1: The message is the Secret Service is tired of getting

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Speaker 1: bit by your damn dog.

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Speaker 4: Umm again, I'm reading this up more or less on

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Speaker 4: the fly. I'm sure there's more good stuff in here

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Speaker 4: I can look over and bring to you.

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Speaker 2: Uh, I'm loving. I know, it's amazing.

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Speaker 4: The chief of staff told mister Schumer that the president

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Speaker 1: Well, and picture yourself as Hakeem Jefferies, who wanted Biden

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Speaker 4: Or you couldn't carry my husband out of a fire.

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Speaker 2: In which my response is he got himself in the

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Speaker 4: Maybe a tease ahead in hour four, I'll get back

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Speaker 4: I also think I've figured out who the main source is.

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Speaker 4: It's got to be Nancy Pelosi. She doesn't like that

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Speaker 4: All this information because Chuck was telling her everything that

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Speaker 4: The main takeaway to me is Joe Biden was very

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Speaker 2: They were keeping him completely in the dark.

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Speaker 4: Not only has he got dementia, they weren't telling him

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Speaker 2: Yeah, which is scary, I would admit. Well, well, we'll.

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Speaker 1: And it's obviously a decent comparison. You've got giant states,

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Speaker 1: They've curbed their exposure in part by dropping thousands of

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Speaker 1: seventy percent to be fiscally sound, but will settle for

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Speaker 1: forty nine percent. They were granted sixteen percent. So Fare

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Speaker 1: is under capitalized, had only seven hundred million dollars in

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Speaker 1: cash on hand as of last year, seven hundred million,

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Speaker 1: and a liability of four hundred and sixty billion.

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Speaker 2: Great system.

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Speaker 4: I'm just curious what happens for people with homes that

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Speaker 4: cost over three million dollars, because in California lots of areas,

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Speaker 4: that's not hard to do. For those of you around

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Speaker 4: the country, I could show you neighborhoods with two three

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Speaker 4: million dollar homes.

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Speaker 2: You need think these are two million dollar homes? Are

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Speaker 2: you serious? Yeah? That's crazy? Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Actually, I suppose you could get like a supplemental policy

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Speaker 1: at very high cost from some wow, you know, Lloyd's

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Speaker 1: of London or something like that. The secondary insurance market anyway,

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Speaker 1: So to prevent more insurance from leaving the state, Lara

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Speaker 1: last month finally let carryers price in their reinsurance cost

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Speaker 1: and use catastrophe models. But he also capped the reinsurance costs.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not going to get into the technicalities.

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Speaker 2: But so it means that.

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Speaker 1: Insurers might not cover all of the fire damage. Homeowners

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Speaker 1: will face heftier building costs, but the Federal Emergency Management

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Speaker 1: Agency covers losses of homeowners are under insured, which means

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Speaker 1: taxpayers in Houston and Little Rock may pay for rebuilding

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Speaker 1: multimillion dollar homes in California. And if Fare becomes insolvent,

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Speaker 1: as it's looking like it might, all insurers in California,

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Speaker 1: meaning their customers are on the hook for its claims,

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Speaker 1: homeome owners could see rates rise by thousands of dollars

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Speaker 1: per year homeowner as California.

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Speaker 2: In Florida.

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Speaker 1: In striking contrast, Republicans headed off an insurance market death

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Speaker 1: spiral caused by litigation abuse state law. It allowed policyholders

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Speaker 1: to assign their claim benefits to contractors working with try lawyers.

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Speaker 1: Contractors would inflate charges and sue insures if they rejected them,

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Speaker 1: setting up a costly claim by claim battle. Insurans lost

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Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of dollars a year. More than a

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Speaker 1: dozen failed between twenty and twenty two. Others left the

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Speaker 1: market because the litigation costs made it difficult to obtain

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Speaker 1: reinsurance and they had an insurer of last resort too

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Speaker 1: that was in danger of collapsing. And our Governor Ron DeSantis,

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Speaker 1: who could certainly be the next president who knows, who

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Speaker 1: championed tort reforms in twenty two to twenty three that

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Speaker 1: have stanched the flood of frivolous lawsuits, stabilized the market,

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Speaker 1: and reduced their last resort guy's exposure. According to the

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Speaker 1: Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, nine insurers have since re

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Speaker 1: entered the market. Sixty percent of Florida's top ten carriers

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Speaker 1: have expanded their business in the state, forty percent have

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Speaker 1: filed for rate decreases, and the average monthly request for

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Speaker 1: rate increases is now just over one percent compared to

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Speaker 1: fourteen percent a few years ago. If not for mister

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Speaker 1: Desantus reforms, last year's hurricane might have toppled citizens. Finally,

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Speaker 1: they conclude federalizing the US insurance market, which some people

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Speaker 1: are in favor of, would create a moral hazard and

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Speaker 1: discourage state reforms. Rather than protecting California's Democrats from the

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Speaker 1: costs of their blunders, Republicans should point to Florida.

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Speaker 2: That's a good idea, man.

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Speaker 1: Governance matters, policy matters.

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Speaker 4: Well in California. That's one of the reasons I'm still

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Speaker 4: a renter is where insurance prices were compared to where

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Speaker 4: they're going to be next year.

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Speaker 2: Who knows.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, especially if this fair thing crashes and burns, right

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Speaker 1: my god, Yeah, I know, I know, and I hear

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Speaker 1: you in the other forty nine states, Like why don't

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Speaker 1: the voters vote differently?

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Speaker 2: Have a long, complicated answer.

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Speaker 1: Major factors Iraq war being sold on the idea that

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Speaker 1: securing the border is racist, that's going away, And more

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Speaker 1: than anything, the many hundreds of thousands of public employee

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Speaker 1: union members who always vote vote for whoever's going to

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Speaker 1: butter their bread. They are, practically including the teachers and

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Speaker 1: the nurses and several other big not public employee unions.

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Speaker 1: I guess teachers are but they're practically an insurmountable political

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Speaker 1: force because California is so corrupt.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, our friend lanh Chen, who got more Republican votes

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Speaker 4: in the twenty two election than any Republican in America,

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Speaker 4: including Ron de Santis, and still lost to California.

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Speaker 1: Endorsed by every major newspaper in the state, said hey,

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Speaker 1: you've got to vote for this Republican. He's crazy sharp,

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Speaker 1: including liberal newspapers. And he's still lost because what I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about.

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Speaker 4: Right, And he says to us privately, and I don't

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Speaker 4: think he would mind us saying this, that it ain't

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Speaker 4: gonna get better anytime soon. I mean, it's just it's

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Speaker 4: a mess.

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Speaker 2: It's broken. Yeah, that's disturbing.

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Speaker 4: Great scenery though, yeah, yeah, full that ain't falling into

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Speaker 4: the sea right right. Oh, speaking of good news, blessedly,

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Speaker 4: Christy nom has assassinated no dogs thus far in Washington,

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Speaker 4: d C.

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Speaker 2: During her confirmation hearing.

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Speaker 4: Do I understand that nobody's brought up the dog shooting

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Speaker 4: in the confirmation hearing the day Hanson Joe was predicting

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Speaker 4: that that would be something somebody would work in. So, oh,

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Speaker 4: it's a must A wonder how come they're going gloves off,

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Speaker 4: the dog shooting.

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Speaker 1: Well, and I'm not in favorite I understand, I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: not speaking of myself. I'm speaking in terms of the

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Speaker 1: sort of poop show that these hearings are as an

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Speaker 1: amazing Heroni, who's clearly the dumbest person in either House

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Speaker 1: of Congress, doesn't is she.

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Speaker 4: Not on the committee to bring up the dog Well,

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Speaker 4: if Tim Kaine was gonna lecture the second deaf guy,

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Speaker 4: do you call yourself free and clear you cheated on

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Speaker 4: your wife or the pregnant blah blah blah. I mean,

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Speaker 4: if he's got to do that, why wouldn't you go

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Speaker 4: with the dog shooting?

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Speaker 2: Well, if I was mazy Heroni, I would.

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Speaker 4: H Anyway, we got this nine to one one call.

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Speaker 4: Pretty cool story about a nine to one one operator

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Speaker 4: really handing like a complicated situation. Well, among other things.

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Speaker 4: On the way, stay here breaking inauguration news. I was

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Speaker 4: wondering how cool was it when I was there for

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Speaker 4: the twenty seventeen inauguration of Donald J.

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Speaker 2: Trump?

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Speaker 4: Because this is unpleasant. It was rainy, but it was

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Speaker 4: forty eight degrees at noon that day. They're expecting a

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Speaker 4: feels like of eight for this Monday, and that's why

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Speaker 4: they just announced they're moving it inside, which really sucks

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Speaker 4: if you're planning on being there. I don't know if

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Speaker 4: you still get a couple hundred thousand people gathering out

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Speaker 4: to watch it on TV screens or what, but it

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Speaker 4: definitely ain't the same thing. Well, in January seventh of

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty three, many people were saying President or Trump

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Speaker 4: will be president again when health freeze is over. Apparently

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Speaker 4: this happened other than one time, and they moved it inside.

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Speaker 4: In nineteen eighty five for Reagan it was seven degrees.

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Speaker 4: Other than that, it would be the coldest it's ever

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Speaker 4: been for an inauguration, So well, that's losing flesh from frostbite.

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Speaker 2: Cold.

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Speaker 1: Sure, if you're out there for hours, because the length

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Speaker 1: of exposure matters, I wonder it doesn't matter. The pomp

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Speaker 1: and circumstance is interesting and fun and speaks to our

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Speaker 1: peaceful transfer power and it's cool, but it's not the president's.

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Speaker 1: It's like the difference between your wedding and your marriage.

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Speaker 2: Good one.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, Oh thank you, I'm here all week. So this

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Speaker 1: is really quite interesting. This happened in London. It is

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Speaker 1: a nine to one to one caller. They're equivalent of it.

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Speaker 1: The the London Police put this out. Uh, they have

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Speaker 1: an actor portraying the crime victim, but the rest of

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Speaker 1: it is one hundred percent authentic and I think it's

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Speaker 1: pretty self explanatory.

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Speaker 5: Go ahead, Hello police, what's the emergency? Peter delivery? Pizza delivery? Okay?

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Speaker 5: Do you require pizza Livery or do you require the police?

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Speaker 5: If it's the police, say yes, yes, okay. Is the

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Speaker 5: person is the person that's scaring you at the property? Now, yes,

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Speaker 5: no problem. Police have come in. Okay. Have they got

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Speaker 5: any weapons? Answer yes or no. If he threatened to

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Speaker 5: hurt you, tell me peperoni, If he threatened to hurt

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Speaker 5: the children, tell me cheese, okay. The police will be

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Speaker 5: with you very very shortly. Okay, all right, if you

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Speaker 5: need to call back nine nine nine, keeping a separate

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Speaker 5: room for him from him for the moment, all right.

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Speaker 5: If I stay on the phone any younger, it will

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Speaker 5: look suspicious if you're calling for a pizza. Okay, okay, Police.

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Speaker 5: So we Richie Very saying.

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Speaker 1: Wow, the kid was kind of yelling over it, but

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Speaker 1: she said we've got to cut this off because it

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Speaker 1: would seem too weird. If you're on the phone too long,

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Speaker 1: but the cops are on their way. Get to a

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Speaker 1: separate room. Wow, that's some good training. We've played some

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Speaker 1: bad nine one operators over the years, terrible, but that

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Speaker 1: was some fantastic training.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I'd say she knew exactly how to handle it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And the Metropolitan Police put out the word, hey,

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Speaker 1: you can cough, you can tap keys. Our operators will

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Speaker 1: find a way for you to communicate with us even

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Speaker 1: if you can't speak.

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Speaker 2: That's some good police work. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Interesting, they don't say exactly how it came out. I

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Speaker 1: suspect it came out well, otherwise they would not have

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Speaker 1: released that. On a completely different topic, we're talking a

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Speaker 1: bit about the end, thank God, of the Biden administration.

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Speaker 1: The fabulous Nelly Bowles, writing in the Free Press, was

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Speaker 1: talking about his soul sucking farewell address the other night,

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Speaker 1: with his ominous warnings about dark forces billionaires exerting too

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Speaker 1: much influence on American politics. She quotes him as saying,

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Speaker 1: today an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth,

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Speaker 1: power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our

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Speaker 1: basic rights and freedom is a fair shot for everyone

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Speaker 1: to get ahead. I don't think it is, but anyway,

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Speaker 1: Nelly writes, I agree there's a new oligarchy of rich

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Speaker 1: people will manipulate our political landscape, and I, for one,

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Speaker 1: am glad that our president finally sees the danger of

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Speaker 1: Mackenzie Scott. That's the former missus Bezos and George Soros,

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Speaker 1: billionaire political donors propping up untold numbers of causes. He's

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Speaker 1: never criticized Mackenzie Scott, but I'm sure he was thinking

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Speaker 1: of her, the woman who's thrown nineteen billion dollars at

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Speaker 1: activist nonprofits trying to sway American politics. I'm sure when

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Speaker 1: he just recently gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to

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Speaker 1: George Soros, he was thinking, this is the dangerous oligarch

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Speaker 1: I will speak of soon.

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Speaker 2: That's hilarious.

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Speaker 1: You know, look, I understand politics, I understand messaging. I

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Speaker 1: understand that you're not obligated to give the full story

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Speaker 1: all the time if you're trying to persuade people, but

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Speaker 1: try not to be so obviously hilariously a hypocrite.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if he is. I think he believes it.

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Speaker 4: I think he believes the It's like people who watch

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Speaker 4: MSNBC and think that's the news and fair and balanced.

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Speaker 4: I think he believes, no, No, our billionaires are good,

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Speaker 4: decent people just trying to, you know, help the country.

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Speaker 2: Their billionaires are evil and scary. I think he actually

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Speaker 2: believes that crap.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I could be wrong. I don't know. He is

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Speaker 1: so shot at this point. Yeah, well, how much time

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Speaker 1: we got?

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Speaker 2: Michael too and a half.

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Speaker 4: So I was going to read a little more from

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Speaker 4: the New York Times article in our four that's out

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Speaker 4: today with the most revelation about the whole thing went

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Speaker 4: down when he was pushed out, and it was Chuck Schumer,

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Speaker 4: not Nancy Pelosi that pushed him out clearly, at least

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Speaker 4: based on this New York Times telling, which I think

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Speaker 4: their main source is Nancy Pelosi, that version of which

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Speaker 4: is the way it works, and it's awesome. But I

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Speaker 4: don't know if you remember this. I kind of remember.

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Speaker 4: They had a behind closed doors meeting like a week

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Speaker 4: or so after the debate. All the Democratic senators wanted

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Speaker 4: to meet with people from the White House like the

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Speaker 4: Chief of Staff and the other people and stuff like that,

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Speaker 4: and they just erupted and screaming at him, like God,

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Speaker 4: he's got to step down.

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Speaker 2: What is he doing?

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Speaker 4: And the Democratic senators, So Joe Biden, if you remember this,

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Speaker 4: wrote a letter basically saying, drawing a line in the sand,

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Speaker 4: I am not stepping down. Everybody needs to rally behind me.

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Speaker 4: Now is the go time that sort of thing? And

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Speaker 4: Democratic senators were saying in that secret, you know, closed

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Speaker 4: door meeting, did he even write that? Did Jill write that?

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Speaker 4: Did Hunter write that? Is even capable of writing a

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Speaker 4: letter like that? I mean, that's what Democrats senators were

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Speaker 4: saying behind closed doors. And one of them, I forget

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Speaker 4: which one, and a group of others agreed demanded.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what you do.

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Speaker 4: You get two real like neurologists or whoever looks at

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Speaker 4: brains to give him the once over, declare him fit,

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Speaker 4: and they do a press conference and answer any questions.

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Speaker 2: You do that and we'll continue to back him. Anything

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Speaker 2: short of.

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Speaker 4: That and we're out. Yeah, where was that story? And hey,

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Speaker 4: Democratic senators, why didn't you go to the media with that?

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Speaker 4: You were willing to let this guy run for president again?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: They why is he president? Now? I mean they didn't

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Speaker 2: believe he could even write the letter himself. Why is

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Speaker 2: he still president?

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Speaker 1: I'm really enjoying these preliminary leaks and stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: But mark my words, the moment on Monday, Donald J.

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Speaker 1: Trump says, so help me God, do not be standing

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Speaker 1: in the entrance of the big publishing houses in New York,

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Speaker 1: or you will be stampeded to death by Biden aids

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Speaker 1: wanting to get a book deal.

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Speaker 4: To tell all, oh yeah, if you're smoking a cigarette

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Speaker 4: in front of the front door at Simon and Schuster,

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Speaker 4: you're gonna get stampeded like it's the bulls of Pampalona.

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Speaker 1: Unanimous decision, Supreme Court, no commie ownership of TikTok. Well done, soups,

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