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Speaker 1: It is, in fact true when you're talking about the

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Speaker 1: federal regulatory machine doing nothing is doing something, because doing

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Speaker 1: nothing is much better than continuing to strangle businesses and

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Speaker 1: American ingenuity and entrepreneurship and freedom. Yeah, that's right. By

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Speaker 1: coming up with all these laws by these bureaucrats sitting around,

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Speaker 1: they're not laws passed by Congress, but they have the

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Speaker 1: force of law. The fourth branch of government, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: talk about the swamp. The bureaucracy is a huge component

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Speaker 1: of the swamp. The unaccountable bureaucrats who decide that a

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Speaker 1: pond in your backyard is a wetland and if you

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Speaker 1: don't get rid of it right away, they're gonna find

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Speaker 1: you thirty thousand dollars a day. As if anybody could

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Speaker 1: actually deal with that, anyone could handle it, it's just insanity. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And then there's some other important federal actions that are

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Speaker 1: either ongoing or that get less attention. Work at the

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Speaker 1: working to reform the v A that's going very well.

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Speaker 1: And there's just a lot of stuff here that we

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Speaker 1: should be pleased about. And I think that because the

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Speaker 1: media narrative has been so hysterically anti Trump, even those

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Speaker 1: of us who support the agenda sit around like, well,

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Speaker 1: how is it really gone? Not Hillary that's true, and

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Speaker 1: that's great, but it's actually from you. If you are

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Speaker 1: a conservative in this country right now and you look

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Speaker 1: at what has happened in government. I don't mean tone,

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Speaker 1: I don't mean tweets, and don't mean any of that

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Speaker 1: talking about government action or oh, the defeat of the caliphate.

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Speaker 1: By the way, there's also that. I'm sorry that. I'm

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Speaker 1: glad I call myself there. Those would have been ashamed,

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Speaker 1: but I left that out and I should not have.

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Speaker 1: But the defeat of the caliphate as well under this

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Speaker 1: administration's all this administrations uch. So if you are a

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Speaker 1: conservative who has had your misgivings about Trump, even if

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Speaker 1: you're a conservative who to this to this day, you

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Speaker 1: don't like Trump's tone, you disagree with his style, you

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Speaker 1: disagree with his personal choices or whatever. But you're just

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Speaker 1: looking at what has happened this past year, what the

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Speaker 1: federal government, what the White House, the executive branch has done.

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Speaker 1: I think, if you're being fair minded about it, you

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Speaker 1: have to be pleased. And a lot of your like

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Speaker 1: bom Buck, I'm more than a little pleased. Yeah, I know,

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Speaker 1: But I'm speaking specifically now to that part of our

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Speaker 1: conservative brothers and sisters out there that they have been thinking.

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Speaker 1: They've been thinking, Oh, I just I can't accept that.

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Speaker 1: I can't abide a Trump administration. I'm still never Trump

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Speaker 1: and you know, really be honest about it. And I

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Speaker 1: think you have to come to the conclusion that it's

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Speaker 1: been a good year for the conservative agenda. It actually has.

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Speaker 1: It's not perfect. People could talk about things that should

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Speaker 1: have been done that weren't done. Obamacare, I know here

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Speaker 1: upset it. And the individual mandate is being repealed. When

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Speaker 1: the individual mandate is being repealed, that means Obamacare is

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Speaker 1: being repealed because they get the money from the individual mandate,

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Speaker 1: So the individual mandate is being revealed. So in this film,

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Speaker 1: not only do we have mess of tax cuts and

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Speaker 1: tax reform, we have essentially repealed Obamacare. Ah, I mean

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Speaker 1: not really now, to be fair to what he said,

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Speaker 1: he said essentially, he did not say repealed because clearly

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Speaker 1: I did not repeal in a place Obamacare because there

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Speaker 1: was that whole effort to do it over the summer

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Speaker 1: didn't work. Those you listen to the show. No, we've

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Speaker 1: been talking about that, okay, But what the repeal of

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Speaker 1: the individual mandate is is a it's putting. It's putting

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Speaker 1: in ocean a series of events that will lead to

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Speaker 1: either the repeal of Obamacare or just the enshrinement of

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Speaker 1: Obamacare into law forever. Because what's gonna happen is the exchanges.

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Speaker 1: People are gonna pull out of the exchanges because they

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Speaker 1: don't have to get insurance, and those who don't really

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Speaker 1: want to get insurance usually the ones who are only

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Speaker 1: doing it because they don't want to pay the penalty.

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Speaker 1: They're younger and healthier, so they are going to say,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I'm just gonna stay out of this

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Speaker 1: thing because we're not gonna be paying I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: pay a penalty anymore. And what that means is that

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Speaker 1: the insurance exchanges are going to have a higher proportion

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Speaker 1: of people who are older and sicker, and the expenses

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Speaker 1: will go up, and these things are going to create

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Speaker 1: a really fast This is kind of throwing gasoline on

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Speaker 1: the already smoldering reality of Obamacare exchanges, and it means

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Speaker 1: that there's going to be a quite a fight ahead

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Speaker 1: because understand this, the pain in those exchanges and the

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Speaker 1: skyrocketing premiums that will come as a result of this,

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Speaker 1: and that will happen. It's not like they're gonna say, yeah, see,

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Speaker 1: freedom has been restored in the in the healthcare market

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Speaker 1: now for at least for individual plans. Obamacare. Obamacare is terrible,

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Speaker 1: right guys, And Democrats are gonna say, yeah, sure, No.

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Speaker 1: Democrats are gonna say that Republicans just sabotaged Obamacare and

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Speaker 1: that now it needs money more than ever, and they're

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Speaker 1: gonna tell you all these cases of people that are

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Speaker 1: going bankrupt in the exchanges or whatever. Right, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: have all these stories for you. It's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: big fight. So to say it's essentially been repealed. No,

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Speaker 1: it's forcing a showdown, is what it's doing. And it

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Speaker 1: is amusing to me to see all the different pundits

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Speaker 1: out there saying, fifteen million people, he's taking away their insurance. No,

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Speaker 1: he's just saying you don't have to get it. There's

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Speaker 1: a difference between stealing something from someone and saying that

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Speaker 1: they don't have to buy it. Right if I used

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Speaker 1: to have to buy a uh, I don't buy orange

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Speaker 1: juice on the way into work every day because I

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Speaker 1: was mandated by law. And now they say, buck, you're

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Speaker 1: no longer mandated by a lot of buy orange juice.

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Speaker 1: They're not stealing orange juice from me. This is pretty straightforward,

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Speaker 1: but that's the way it's being reported. Oh, they're stealing

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Speaker 1: health insurance from fifteen million people or thirteen million people

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Speaker 1: or whatever it is. No, they're just not making them

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Speaker 1: buy it. If they want to buy it, they still can.

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Speaker 1: But I will know. I would note that as people

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Speaker 1: choose not to, more people will want to choose not to,

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Speaker 1: because you're just gonna have the death spiral within the

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Speaker 1: exchanges get faster and faster and more and more extremes.

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Speaker 1: So there will be a fight over whose fault that

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Speaker 1: is and how it should be fixed. I hope Republicans

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Speaker 1: are prepared for it. I am worried that their messaging

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Speaker 1: game a little weak right now. Think about it this way.

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Speaker 1: If they have had a hard time getting a majority

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Speaker 1: of the American people on board with literally keeping more

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Speaker 1: of their own money, imagine what the debate will be

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Speaker 1: like when it's democ rats doing all the fearmongering, all

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Speaker 1: the scary stories and everything they're gonna do from the

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Speaker 1: healthcare exchanges. They're gonna say this is because Republicans destroyed Obamacare.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a fight. So it's not really repealed.

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Speaker 1: The individual mandate will go away, but that means that

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Speaker 1: these exchanges are unsustainable. And if Republicans say, oh, we're

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Speaker 1: just gonna shovel money into them because we have to,

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Speaker 1: because it's a short term fix, and that's what was

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Speaker 1: being talked about over the summer, I would note that's

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Speaker 1: that's a big betrayal of what has been promised and

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Speaker 1: what would be done by this Congress. So we gotta

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Speaker 1: keep an eye on them. All right, I got a

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Speaker 1: bunch of lines. Let me will take some calls after

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Speaker 1: this break eight four to eight to five if you

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Speaker 1: want to join in on the fund next hour, we'll

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Speaker 1: talk about what we can. When it comes to the

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Speaker 1: testimony of former FBI Acting Director McCabe, it's either no, well,

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Speaker 1: what's the uh what's his title now? Anyway, he's a

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Speaker 1: senior FBI guy. Whatever. We'll talk about what he had

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Speaker 1: to say about the dossier and Fusion GPS after the break,

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Speaker 1: stay with me. Oh yeah, we've got some funky Christmas

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Speaker 1: tunes going here, like it. Take some of your calls.

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Speaker 1: Brent in New Mexico listening on the I Heart app. Hey, Brent.

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Speaker 1: Hey buck, she'll tie, She'll hi, buddy. Hey man, I'm

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Speaker 1: pretty stoked about the the tax reform. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you call it reform, tax tweak, or whatever you

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Speaker 1: want to call it. I mean he gives me a

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Speaker 1: couple of extra thousand dollars. I mean I might be

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Speaker 1: able to take my kids to Disney World or something.

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Speaker 1: You know me, Hey, you probably see Paul Ryan there,

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Speaker 1: because after today he sounds like he's going to disney World. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: hell yeah, speaking to Disney World. Did you see the

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Speaker 1: picture of that trump bot at uh the Hall of Presidents?

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Speaker 1: Have you seen that thing? No? I haven't seen it. Oh,

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Speaker 1: gotta google. It's pretty wild, man. But anyway, other than that,

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Speaker 1: I just want to tell you if you haven't seen it,

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Speaker 1: Scrooge with Bill Murray. Tyrone had the same In the break,

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Speaker 1: Tyrone had the same idea said, if you're looking for

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Speaker 1: a fun version of a Christmas Carl to watch, Scrooged

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Speaker 1: is a good one. Yeah. This hands down the best.

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Speaker 1: Begs a strong word, strong word, but I highly, highly,

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Speaker 1: highly pressed my wife to watch that with me every year. Man.

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Speaker 1: It's a good one, alright, cool. I saw it a

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Speaker 1: long time ago. I feel like my dad took me

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Speaker 1: when I was in the theaters, but I I don't

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Speaker 1: really remember. But I'm I'm a big Bill Murray fan.

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Speaker 1: Always have been, always a lot of respect for that

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Speaker 1: guy's body of work. Oh yeah, he's one of my

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Speaker 1: favorites too. Yeah. Absolutely, brother, Thank you for listening, and

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Speaker 1: have a great Christmas. I'm merry Christmas. Me Meani Meani

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Speaker 1: in California. On the I hearty, Hey Meani Hi bought

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Speaker 1: Siels High Fields High. You're actually very nice though nothing goodhead,

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Speaker 1: so I wanted to let you know. So. First of all,

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Speaker 1: I'm more of a traditionalist on a Christmas Carol, and

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Speaker 1: I liked the version that was what George she C

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Speaker 1: Scott played Um Scrooge. But the reason I wanted to

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Speaker 1: call was to tell you there's a new movie out

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Speaker 1: called The Man Who Invented Christmas and it is the

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Speaker 1: story of Charles Dickens and how he came upon writing

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Speaker 1: the Christmas Carol story, events that happened in his life

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Speaker 1: and people that he met in his life, and it

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Speaker 1: kind of puts it together in a really neat package.

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Speaker 1: It's not in a lot of theaters, but it's I

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Speaker 1: think it's well worth seeing. So it's in theaters now

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Speaker 1: or it's I mean, could I could I watch it

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Speaker 1: on demand? You know? Is one of those things. No,

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Speaker 1: you can't watch it on demand. You have to go

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Speaker 1: to a theater. But you'll probably have to look on

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Speaker 1: san Dango and find out where it's playing because it's

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Speaker 1: in the smaller theaters. Okay, I'll definitely check it out.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Thank you so much. Me to

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Speaker 1: have a merry Christmas. One more thing, uh call me beer.

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Speaker 1: We really want to see him back. He's back. You

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Speaker 1: have you have my word on that. All right, you

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Speaker 1: have my word on that. Be the Bearers back. We've

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Speaker 1: got some This is perhaps where I could tell you guys,

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Speaker 1: we've got some some changes coming in seeing here on

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Speaker 1: the show. Whole bunch of things. I've mentioned the history

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Speaker 1: podcast that will be really in addition to the show,

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Speaker 1: but it'll be a it'll be an extension of what

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Speaker 1: we're already doing here in the Hut. We have a

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Speaker 1: I kind of have to wait on some of it

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Speaker 1: to announce it until the new year. But there's there's

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Speaker 1: things that things are in the works. This is it's

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Speaker 1: been a great year here because of all of you,

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Speaker 1: and that means that we have latitude to make some

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Speaker 1: changes and and have the full support of Premier, our syndicator,

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Speaker 1: our bosses, to do some things to bring you an

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Speaker 1: even more exciting product. In so I'm very much looking

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Speaker 1: forward to that. I know that's that's really vague. So

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Speaker 1: it's like I'm trying to sell you on a car

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Speaker 1: that you can't see, and I won't tell you the price,

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Speaker 1: but trust me, it'll be good. It'll be good when

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Speaker 1: it happens. And I think I will have to check

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Speaker 1: out some of these new new versions of h the

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Speaker 1: Christmas Carol. So that's so funny in this money, I

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Speaker 1: couldn't believe it. But then again, she found out recently.

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Speaker 1: I've never seen check this out. Never seen the movie

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Speaker 1: Greece never. I know, you guys are freaking out. How

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Speaker 1: is that possible? Especially for a kid that really grew

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Speaker 1: up watching a lot of movies. Never saw it, and

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Speaker 1: I know the songs and everything, because you know who

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Speaker 1: doesn't never seen the movie. People always like, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: love John Travolta in Greece, and I'd be like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: me too, just because I don't want to be left out,

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Speaker 1: all right, FBI testimony. McCabe, the Deputy director of the FBI,

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Speaker 1: the Dussier lou dossier. We will talk about that and

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Speaker 1: uh a whole bunch of other stuff, some national security

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Speaker 1: coming at you in the second hour today and that

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Speaker 1: means just kind of way through this break and I'll

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Speaker 1: be right back with it, so uh, don't touch that dial.

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Speaker 1: So huge tax cuts passed today. Well done Congress, Well

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Speaker 1: done g O P. That's the biggest story by far.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna help with the economy. It's gonna put more

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Speaker 1: money in your pockets. Lots of red and to celebrate this,

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Speaker 1: and is a a really great way for the GOP

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Speaker 1: to be heading into the new year. The optics of

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Speaker 1: this are very powerful, very strong. That's something else happened

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Speaker 1: today and I wanted to talk to you about a bit,

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Speaker 1: and that is that former acting current Deputy Director of

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Speaker 1: the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Andy McCabe. He spent eight

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Speaker 1: hours today behind closed doors with the Senate Intelligence UH Committee,

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Speaker 1: and he has asked all kinds of questions about the dossier.

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Speaker 1: Now we don't know, but it has been suspected for

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Speaker 1: a while that McCabe, whose wife was running as a

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Speaker 1: Democrat in a House race around the maybe a year before,

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Speaker 1: around the time of the election. Uh and got a

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Speaker 1: lot of money from the d n C and had

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Speaker 1: those ties to Terry mccauliffe Virginia and McCabe, I'm guessing

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Speaker 1: is a Democrat too, right. We all know this, Okay.

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Speaker 1: So McCabe has all of these ties to the various

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Speaker 1: figures in the Hillary email investigation as well as the

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Speaker 1: Russia collusion stuff that's out there, and he was behind

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Speaker 1: closed doors for eight hours today and we don't yet

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Speaker 1: know all that much because the FBI, and this is

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Speaker 1: not surprising to me at all. The FBI and the

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Speaker 1: d o J are falling back on one of the

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Speaker 1: government's favorite tricks, which is when pushed into a corner

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Speaker 1: and asked, even in a closed door setting where they

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Speaker 1: can discuss classified for information, they either say that they

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Speaker 1: can't talk about it because it's an ongoing investigation elsewhere,

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Speaker 1: or they don't know, they don't recall and we have

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Speaker 1: some reason to believe that, or we have some reporting

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Speaker 1: that that is exactly what happened today. M Molly Hemingway,

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Speaker 1: who is a Fox News contributor, shared this earlier today.

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Speaker 1: McCabe couldn't recall quote despite reported existence of docks with

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Speaker 1: his signature establishing his knowledge of the dossier's financing and

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Speaker 1: providence end quote. They asked McCabe behind closed doors, did

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Speaker 1: you guys did the FBI pay money for the dossier?

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Speaker 1: Which is a question that that that's a yes or no.

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Speaker 1: This is this is pretty easy. You know. If I

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Speaker 1: asked any of you, did you have a Rebby stake

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Speaker 1: tonight for dinner, that's a yes or no. It's not

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure. And if you had a Rebby, by

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Speaker 1: the way, good choice, probably my favorite cut of meat.

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Speaker 1: But he said, McCabe said, didn't know about the dossier.

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Speaker 1: McCabe said, sorry, couldn't. Couldn't figure it out. And then

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Speaker 1: there's also reporting on Fox News that McCabe couldn't. I

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Speaker 1: love these I these are leaks, but these aren't damaging leaks, right,

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Speaker 1: there are leaks in their leaks. Should people be talking

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Speaker 1: about what was said behind closed doors in the Senate

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Speaker 1: INTELLIENTCE Committee meeting? Technically no? But are these leaks that

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Speaker 1: will endanger anybody or anything? No? All right, this is

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Speaker 1: just what's going on, at least from what I've seen

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Speaker 1: so far. I mean, I'm I'm not privy to all

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Speaker 1: the leaks, but from what I'm seeing here reported this

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Speaker 1: is pretty small time stuff. In fact, it's just leaks

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Speaker 1: about non information in a sense, leaks about information that

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Speaker 1: was not gathered, and that in and of itself tells

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Speaker 1: us a lot. Here When asked if McCabe could give

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Speaker 1: one single allegation credibility from the dossy, remember this is

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Speaker 1: the dossier compiled by Fusion GPS, paid for by the

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Speaker 1: Hillary campaign by the d n C to discredit Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: That could, and I think most likely was, could have

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Speaker 1: been the basis for the whole counterintelligence probe, all the

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Speaker 1: stuff that you've seen about these Russia ties and all

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Speaker 1: the and the collusion and everything else, because they've already

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Speaker 1: been shaking the trees, as they say, turning everything upside

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Speaker 1: down with investigators for months, spending millions of dollars and

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Speaker 1: haven't been able to give us one single bit of actual, real,

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Speaker 1: bona fide Russia collusion, right, nothing but the dossier and

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Speaker 1: all of its allegations, which include some really people keep

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Speaker 1: describing it as salacious. It's a word that's been used

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Speaker 1: a lot more this year because of the people know

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Speaker 1: what a dossier is, and they know what salacious is,

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Speaker 1: and they also know what a certain type of shower is.

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Speaker 1: Now because of the of this whole situation, and they

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Speaker 1: couldn't verify any of it, which is an interesting thing

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Speaker 1: for them to have to say, especially given that this

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Speaker 1: may very well have been the basis for all of us.

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Speaker 1: And I think the FBI at the top level has

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Speaker 1: got to be pretty scared now because this would be

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Speaker 1: Let's just assume for a moment it comes out that

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Speaker 1: the FBI paid fifty dollars for this dossier, which was

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Speaker 1: already paid for by the Clinton d n C. Right,

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Speaker 1: so they would be paying for oppo research. The FBI

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Speaker 1: would have been duped into taking opo research during a

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Speaker 1: presidential campaign using that opposition research that they had paid

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Speaker 1: money for, if that is in fact what happened as

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Speaker 1: the basis for actual investigatory steps, including using the resources

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Speaker 1: of the intelligence community to try and verify this stuff,

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Speaker 1: and then when they didn't find anything or they didn't

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Speaker 1: find what they needed, selectively leaking information they had leaned

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Speaker 1: from that process to undermine and hurt the incoming administration,

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Speaker 1: most notably the leak about General Flynt's phone called this ambassador,

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Speaker 1: Russian ambassador Sir Atkisliak Goola. It's fun to say. So

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Speaker 1: there's a lot riding on the provenance of this dossier.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot that's at stake, and that you had

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Speaker 1: the you had Rosenstein number two at d o J

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Speaker 1: saying sorry, I I do know if the FBI paid

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Speaker 1: money for it, but I will not say it because

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Speaker 1: there's an inspector general. See this is what I mean.

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Speaker 1: There's always the pivot. Oh sorry, Congress can't tell you

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Speaker 1: because the Inspector General is looking at it and I

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Speaker 1: don't want to interfere with that investigation. Oh rather convenient,

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Speaker 1: isn't it. But for eight hours behind closed doors, they

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Speaker 1: were asking the cave questions about this. And when all

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Speaker 1: said and done, we will find out if the FBI

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Speaker 1: paid money for this, and I they were to find

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Speaker 1: out a whole lot more about the political biases of

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Speaker 1: various figures involved with both the Hillary email investigation and

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Speaker 1: the Russia Trump collusion debacle. You have to think about

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Speaker 1: it this way. Once they had already made the decision,

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Speaker 1: going back to that series of events that I lay

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Speaker 1: it out for you, right, dossier Hillary pays for the dossier,

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Speaker 1: or rather the d n C. I'm not gonna say that.

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Speaker 1: Hillary is like, I'll pay you, but the dossier gets

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Speaker 1: paid for by the d n C. This guy, Christopher

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Speaker 1: Steel runs around Russia is talking to all these people.

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Speaker 1: They say all kinds of stuff, nasty stuff about Trump,

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Speaker 1: not not none of which has been verified to this day.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, they come back after getting all that information

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Speaker 1: and then they go to the FBI because a Fusion

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Speaker 1: GPS employee also happens to be the wife of a

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Speaker 1: senior d o J official. So it seems to me

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Speaker 1: that Or's wife may who worked for Fusion GPS, may

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Speaker 1: have said to him, Yeah, look, there's this dossier that

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Speaker 1: we've got. You guys have got to take a look

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Speaker 1: at this. This is really this is really some stuff.

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Speaker 1: And as a bunch of Trump haters, they're like, oh wow, yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is all really believable. And then the FBI takes

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Speaker 1: it and they go, okay, well, not only is this

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Speaker 1: the basis maybe for counter intelligence investigation, but do they

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Speaker 1: take that to afis a court. People have been asking

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Speaker 1: that question and then they opened that when we're talking

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Speaker 1: to counter intelligence investigation, understand that means they're bypassing all

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Speaker 1: the standard protections that US citizens would have for communications abroad.

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Speaker 1: Right there, they're getting around those usual Fourth Amendment protections

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Speaker 1: because it's not count it's not there's not a criminal predicate.

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Speaker 1: It's a counterintelligence investigation. So if you're speaking of people abroad, right,

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Speaker 1: that changes the story all of a sudden. And that's

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Speaker 1: how you can get conversations picked up, you know, Flynn

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Speaker 1: and Kisliak and these other things. So if they used

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Speaker 1: the dost see you to do that, and then they

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Speaker 1: went all the way with it and picked up all

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Speaker 1: this information, and they're assuming the whole time, keep in

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Speaker 1: mind that Trump is gonna lose, and so Hillary would

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Speaker 1: come into office then and it wouldn't really matter. Right,

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Speaker 1: they were on a fishing expedition. Maybe they could help

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Speaker 1: Hillary think about their perspective. Maybe they could have helped Hillary.

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Speaker 1: The d o J and FBI officials involved in this

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Speaker 1: help her push it over the line. Right, Maybe they

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Speaker 1: were in a position where they could say, oh, by

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Speaker 1: the way, you know, something gets leaked that destroys the

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Speaker 1: Trump campaign and make sure Hillary wins. Then all this

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Speaker 1: stuff about the dossy it never comes out. Think about

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Speaker 1: which way the gamble would have gone. Here, everyone thinks

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Speaker 1: Hillary is gonna win, so they're looking all this information.

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Speaker 1: They figured they've they're gonna nail Trump on something. All

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Speaker 1: it takes is one leak of really damaging stuff which

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Speaker 1: they never really got, and that could ensure Hillary win.

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Speaker 1: She becomes commander in chief. Guess who gets the gets

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Speaker 1: get to the hero treatment. Then anybody involved in d

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Speaker 1: O j R FBI in that whole process, and they

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Speaker 1: know the dirty side if it's never gonna come out.

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Speaker 1: So there you have it, right, What I just laid

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Speaker 1: out to you make sense. What other people talk about

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Speaker 1: all the Russia and Wiki leaks and everything else doesn't

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Speaker 1: make sense. I don't even see the pathway they're trying

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Speaker 1: to draw here. And that's why McKay behind closed doors

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Speaker 1: today and or yesterday is so interesting. Although I would

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Speaker 1: note that a lot of like I don't know a

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Speaker 1: lot of can't give you an answer on that for

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Speaker 1: things that they certainly have an answer on. So will

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Speaker 1: we Will we ever really get to the the bottom

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Speaker 1: of what was done at d O j n FPI

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Speaker 1: to try and subvert the Trump campaign and hand it

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Speaker 1: to Hillary. I'm hopeful but I'm not certain that's where

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Speaker 1: that's That's the best that I can give you on

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Speaker 1: this right now. But I would ask you to really

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Speaker 1: think about the series of events that I described to

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Speaker 1: you and whether at least that's plausible, and and then

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Speaker 1: look at what we already have information where we can

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Speaker 1: fill in the gaps. We have facts that we can

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Speaker 1: use to support that narrative versus the other narrative, which

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Speaker 1: is that there was like some meeting in Trump Tower

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Speaker 1: where they said they had information, there was no information,

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Speaker 1: and who cares? Right, I just and so what But

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Speaker 1: that's Russia collusion. No, there had to there had to

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Speaker 1: be something else. What was that something else? I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: certain at some point, my friends, we will get to

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Speaker 1: we'll get to that place where Democrats will never meet

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Speaker 1: there are wrong. They'll just focus on something else. There'll

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Speaker 1: be some other shiny object you know. Oh, you know

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Speaker 1: Trump is the emoluments clause. Yeah, that'll get him out

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Speaker 1: of office. The moment they have a majority in the House,

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Speaker 1: they will impeach it, or they will begin to get

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Speaker 1: in the process of impeaching them. It will happen because

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00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:02,240
Speaker 1: they don't have that and have a compelling enough candidate

853
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Speaker 1: or platform to oppose the Trump agenda, especially given what

854
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Speaker 1: we've seen this past year. And they're still running stories.

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Speaker 1: I'm literally sitting here with you and they're running stories

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Speaker 1: on seeing about firing Muller would be a gross abuse

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Speaker 1: of power. He said he wasn't gonna fire him a

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Speaker 1: few days ago. How is this even a story? Senator

859
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Speaker 1: Mark Warner is just warning everybody all at all, it's

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Speaker 1: would be a gross abuse of power. It's like, actually, no,

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Speaker 1: actually no, I'm not gonna happen. Alright, team, We're gonna

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Speaker 1: roll into a quick break. We'll be back and again

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Speaker 1: in some national security here in a few minutes. Stay

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Speaker 1: with me, just on the subject to taxes, and it's

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Speaker 1: a great day. It's a celebration tax reform, tax cuts

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Speaker 1: gone through. But there was an exchange earlier today that

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Speaker 1: I'm meant to play for you, and I want to

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Speaker 1: make up for that miss right now where you have

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Speaker 1: This is one of my problems with the format of

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Speaker 1: a place like The Today Show formerly known as Matt

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Speaker 1: Lauer is I don't know, Love Grotto. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: know that the Today Show with Matt Lower Yeah, I know,

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Speaker 1: but you know, but he earned that one. I mean, uh,

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Speaker 1: it is a place where one moment they're like, hey, like,

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Speaker 1: let's all make the best scalloped potatoes for summer, and

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Speaker 1: the next minute they're like, excuse me, Mr President, UM

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Speaker 1: want to ask you a serious question. It's like, come on,

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Speaker 1: come on, guys. I I look looked. It makes like

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Speaker 1: I half a billion dollars a year in revenue. So

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Speaker 1: they know something I don't. I guess, but it doesn't

881
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 1: mean they're smart. Just means they know what they're doing

882
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:37,200
Speaker 1: when it comes to advertising, sales and getting people to watch.

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Speaker 1: So Savannah Guthrie, who you know? I want to I

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00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 1: don't know what does Savannah Guthrie know about anything? It's

885
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Speaker 1: a fair question ask. I'm not clear on it. But

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Speaker 1: she decided to go toe to toe with Paul Ryan,

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Speaker 1: and not just toe to toe on the issue with taxes,

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Speaker 1: because look, she's an American citizen. She wants to ask

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Speaker 1: him tough questions. She's a she's a journalist. That's fine,

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00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:03,960
Speaker 1: but you know, I mean, Paul Ryan is kind of

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Speaker 1: a numbers guy. It's sort of what he does. But

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Speaker 1: she even asked him, she even got a little she

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Speaker 1: got a bit saucy, a little sassy with the Speaker

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Speaker 1: of the House today, let's play that clip. Not only

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Speaker 1: where are we gonna let you bring your money back

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Speaker 1: from overseas, which is trapped overseas. We're gonna tax you

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Speaker 1: at a rate that is that is on par with

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Speaker 1: the rest of the world. But we're gonna give you

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Speaker 1: an incentive to invest in American jobs. In American businesses,

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Speaker 1: you can write off your investments. So if you do

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Speaker 1: it in America, and the studies are really clear, workers benefit,

902
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Speaker 1: wages go up, more jobs occur. Are you living in

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Speaker 1: a fantasy world? Are you living in a fantasy world?

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Speaker 1: Now there was more to that question. She she was

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Speaker 1: quoting a but better who are you living in a

906
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:48,000
Speaker 1: fantasy world? That's not really uh? You see, this is

907
00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:50,440
Speaker 1: where this is where the bias and the influence the

908
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:52,600
Speaker 1: Democrat media comes out right that that's not a question

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00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:55,080
Speaker 1: they would ever ask. You know what Obama was saying

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00:52:55,160 --> 00:52:58,760
Speaker 1: about healthcare, about Obamacare, We're gonna give more people healthcare.

911
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Speaker 1: It will be better health care and will be cheaper healthcare.

912
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:04,239
Speaker 1: Nobody was ever like, you know, that's kind of like

913
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Speaker 1: telling somebody that we're gonna come up with a jelly

914
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Speaker 1: donut that you can eat that costs you less than

915
00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:12,759
Speaker 1: jelly donut's normally cost and you can eat as many

916
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Speaker 1: of them as you want. You won't get in anyway.

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Speaker 1: It just doesn't work that way. It's that's just not reality, right.

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Speaker 1: But Obama was saying that about healthcare, and it wasn't reality.

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna be able to cover more people with

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Speaker 1: better health care at less cost without changing anything else,

921
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Speaker 1: so than just saying that that it will be so,

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Speaker 1: and with redistributing the already existing healthcare resources, which is

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Speaker 1: all Obamacare's. Obamacare is a redistributive mechanism. It's taking for

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Speaker 1: some from some to give to others. It's it's social

925
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:42,600
Speaker 1: justice via healthcare. That's the shorthand. But that's the truth.

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Speaker 1: Back to Paul Ryan, though, it's Savannah Guthrie. Oh, she

927
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Speaker 1: said before that are you living fancy land? CEOs aren't

928
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Speaker 1: waiting on a tax cut to jump start the economy,

929
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Speaker 1: a favorite phrase of politicians who have never run a

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Speaker 1: company or or to hand out raises. It's pure fantasy

931
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Speaker 1: to think that the tax bill will lead to significantly

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Speaker 1: higher wages and growth. And that was from Michael Bloomberg.

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Speaker 1: She was quoting Bloomberg, and then she said to him,

934
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Speaker 1: are you living in a fantasy world? Um? So, Paul

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Speaker 1: Ryan pushed back on this. He said that surveys show

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Speaker 1: the vast majority of businesses are gonna do just what

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Speaker 1: we say, reinvest in their workers, reinvest in their factories,

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Speaker 1: pay more people, higher wages, and more money. I just

939
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Speaker 1: wouldn't I wish that. Paul Ryan's response here wasn't a survey, says,

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Speaker 1: I wish it was. Let's take a company, Savannah. Let's

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Speaker 1: and you know, let's take the the Great Widget Factory

942
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Speaker 1: of Omaha where they make widgets, right, which is not

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Speaker 1: a thing, but you know, that was what came to mind. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know they make let's let's let's even give it

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Speaker 1: something else. Let's say, uh, the great I don't know,

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Speaker 1: the Great hat factory. Right. So they they've got costs,

947
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Speaker 1: and they've got they've got expenses running the business, they've

948
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Speaker 1: got employee, they've got payroll. But they export hats all

949
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Speaker 1: over the world, right, and they've even set up they've

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Speaker 1: even set up some hat factories in you know, Guatemala

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Speaker 1: and Malaysia because it's cheaper there, and so they're they're

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Speaker 1: doing their hat thing, and now they might be bringing

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Speaker 1: back some jobs into Omaha because they won't be making hats.

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Speaker 1: It's not as profitable for them to make hats overseas,

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Speaker 1: although that's mostly you'd make them in Guatemala and Malaysia

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Speaker 1: for labor reasons, not for tax reasons. Necessarily. You get

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Speaker 1: the idea, right. I just wish Paul Ryan, who looks

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Speaker 1: at the numbers all day, would walk us through a

959
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:51,560
Speaker 1: case study. I think that's a much more powerful way

960
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:53,960
Speaker 1: to explain to people about how their wages will go

961
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Speaker 1: up than just to say, well, the surveys say, you know,

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Speaker 1: come on, Paul Ryan, just she just called you out,

963
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:04,480
Speaker 1: you know, she said, you're living in a fantasy lands,

964
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Speaker 1: hiding hiding behind Michael Bloomberg's words while she does it.

965
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Speaker 1: But I just wish Ryan was a little This is

966
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Speaker 1: the thing with Republicans. It's one of the things about

967
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:17,080
Speaker 1: Trump that we really need to keep in mind that

968
00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:19,520
Speaker 1: they're not good at They're not good at the UH,

969
00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:22,960
Speaker 1: at the war of words. They really aren't most of

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Speaker 1: the time. You know, Mitch McConnell, these guys, you look

971
00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:30,160
Speaker 1: at Pelosi and Schumer, Yeah, they're liars, wildly dishonest. But

972
00:56:30,239 --> 00:56:32,680
Speaker 1: Pelosi is out there like people are gonna die because

973
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Speaker 1: of taxes, and you know what, some people believe that crap.

974
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Speaker 1: Chuck Schuber's like, this is terrible, and everyone's like, oh

975
00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:41,520
Speaker 1: my gosh, Struck Schubert says, it's terrible. Meanwhile, you got

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Speaker 1: Paul Ryan who's sitting there. He was like, well, if

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Speaker 1: you look, if you measure ebitdab, then you take that

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Speaker 1: off from the off balance sheet expenses of the cume.

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Speaker 1: It's like, no, Paul, she came at you gotta come

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00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:54,560
Speaker 1: back with some noise. You gotta Yeah, it just wasn't

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Speaker 1: strong enough for me. Just wasn't on that on that exchange.

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Speaker 1: It's a note from me, Paul. Right, but tax reform

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Speaker 1: one through. Let's talk about national security. My friends are buddy.

984
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Speaker 1: Stephen Yates is online. He is the CEO of DC

985
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:12,120
Speaker 1: International Advisory. He formerly served in the White House as

986
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:15,719
Speaker 1: Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs.

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00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:20,160
Speaker 1: Stephen Yates, great to have you, Great to be with you. Buck.

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00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:23,000
Speaker 1: All right, Steve, talk to me about Nicki Haley and

989
00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:25,760
Speaker 1: this uh that the taking of names as she has

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00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:28,320
Speaker 1: put it on the u N resolution in Jerusalem I

991
00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:32,320
Speaker 1: like this, Oh, I love it. Uh. And I think

992
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:37,520
Speaker 1: the idea of accountability arriving at the United Nations is

993
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:42,440
Speaker 1: refreshing and as we both know, depressingly new as a concept.

994
00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:46,560
Speaker 1: But frankly, a lot of our competitors and adversaries over

995
00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 1: the years have been taking names and pushing their agenda.

996
00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:52,200
Speaker 1: And it's about time America stood up and said, you know,

997
00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:56,200
Speaker 1: we've got a policy. We have sovereignty. Were recognizing the

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Speaker 1: capital of another sovereign state that happens to be an

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Speaker 1: ally and it's you're gonna go against it. We're keeping names. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And frankly, you're a bunch of hypocrites. Given that every

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Speaker 1: member of the body is a nation state that shows

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Speaker 1: its own capital. It's kind of amazing to me that

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Speaker 1: that we're at a point Steven in the Israeli Palestinian

1004
00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:23,440
Speaker 1: issue conflict that the international community or whatever whatever we

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00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:24,920
Speaker 1: want to call it, seems to believe that they can

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Speaker 1: tell the United States where embassy can be. That that's

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00:58:27,480 --> 00:58:31,200
Speaker 1: it just seems like such a nonsensical position for them

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Speaker 1: to hold. We can put our embassy wherever we want, correct,

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Speaker 1: and we usually try to play nice and we'll go

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Speaker 1: where the host nation would like it to be. But

1011
00:58:39,400 --> 00:58:42,920
Speaker 1: other than that, really it's no one else's business. And

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Speaker 1: you know, we have a couple of parts of the

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00:58:45,360 --> 00:58:50,800
Speaker 1: world where, uh, the alleged educated classes forced the rest

1014
00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:54,120
Speaker 1: of us, if they're lucky, to suspend disbelief and pretend

1015
00:58:54,240 --> 00:58:56,080
Speaker 1: we can't see with our eyes or here with our

1016
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Speaker 1: ears and just facts on the ground. One of them

1017
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Speaker 1: is in the Middle East with disconflict, and the others

1018
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Speaker 1: in China and Taiwan. And we're supposed to just ignore

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00:59:05,160 --> 00:59:07,919
Speaker 1: who really has sovereignty and who has control and where

1020
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Speaker 1: a democracy is and just listen to what the experts

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00:59:11,040 --> 00:59:13,840
Speaker 1: tell us. But I think in this case, we've got

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Speaker 1: a president and a UN ambassador that's speaking squarely from

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Speaker 1: common sense facts, with the American people behind them, and

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Speaker 1: probably with a lot of the world saying, yeah, what

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Speaker 1: are the rest of you guys talking about? This is

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Speaker 1: Israel's capital, Stephen the The situation with China came up

1027
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Speaker 1: in multiple parts of Trump's national security strategy, which was

1028
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Speaker 1: unveiled earlier this week, in which he gave a speech

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Speaker 1: about and and the focus tends to be on how

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Speaker 1: we can deal with China economically without rilling them up

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Speaker 1: too much politically because we kind of need them on

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Speaker 1: North Korea and some other things. What what would you

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Speaker 1: advise a Trump administration in eighteen to do Visa v.

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Speaker 1: China that we are not already doing, or that we

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Speaker 1: need to do a lot more of. Well, first, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, having somewhat been in the arena, I would

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Speaker 1: give some deference to the people who have to make

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Speaker 1: the tough calls on how to manage risk. But as

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Speaker 1: one of my friends once said, the further I get

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Speaker 1: away from real responsibility and decisions the White House, the

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Speaker 1: clearer the solutions are, and the more the brilliance of

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Speaker 1: my idea has become clearer. So I think I I

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01:00:24,920 --> 01:00:28,160
Speaker 1: can see much more easy solutions to North Korea and

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Speaker 1: not having the responsibility. But they've done a lot of

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Speaker 1: the things to right the wrongs of the past. First,

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01:00:34,560 --> 01:00:37,160
Speaker 1: they haven't taken the bait on trying to buy the

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01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:40,320
Speaker 1: threat again. This is tried in the Clinton administration and

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Speaker 1: the Bush administration, both times spectacular failures. So they've at

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Speaker 1: least first done no harm. They've put more sanctions in place.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we're going to sanction away at the

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Speaker 1: North Korean nuclear threat, but they are the right policy moves. Ultimately,

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Speaker 1: you have to put pressure on China, and that's the

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Speaker 1: judgment call they have to make. How much risk are

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Speaker 1: we willing to play in our economic relationship with China?

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Speaker 1: We're in order for them to feel enough pressure to

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Speaker 1: alter their national interests with regard to North Korea. And

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Speaker 1: so far no one has been able to find that formula.

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Speaker 1: When people talk about pressuring China, and they say often

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Speaker 1: to pressure China to pressure North Korea. Right, So it's

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Speaker 1: like a transitive property of pressuring here. But if we're

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Speaker 1: looking for levers to get changes in Chinese behavior economically,

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Speaker 1: what what what is that? I mean, I've heard people say,

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Speaker 1: I've had other experts on the on the show in

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Speaker 1: the past even who would say that we're in a

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Speaker 1: one way trade war. We just refused to admit that

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Speaker 1: even that's too much? Is that is that true? Do

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Speaker 1: we respond in kind? I mean? What what is our

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Speaker 1: leverage with China economically? Access to our market, access to

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Speaker 1: the fine international financial system? Uh? And it's basically the

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Speaker 1: reputation of their state owned enterprises, including their finance two institutions. UH.

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Speaker 1: And those are you know, that's a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a word sell it. So my apologies to the listeners,

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Speaker 1: But what it really comes down to is the one

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Speaker 1: time we really had measurable movement on China's part is

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Speaker 1: when we made any financial institution with exposure to North

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Speaker 1: Korea a potential money laundering concern. And that was jargon

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Speaker 1: that would have denied Chinese financial institutions access to United

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Speaker 1: States markets, and that gets their leader's attention. Uh. And

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Speaker 1: the problem was we sold that back to them at

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Speaker 1: too lower price. The price was resuming multilateral talks instead

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Speaker 1: of some kind of actualty nuclearization. UM. So at this point,

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Speaker 1: how far we've given, how far their programs have gone.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that we can expect the nuclearization. Uh.

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Speaker 1: We're really looking at how do we mitigate threat and

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Speaker 1: how do we improve some sense of deterrence and missile

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Speaker 1: defense which will always be imperfect. Were speaking Vegnates, the

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Speaker 1: CEO of d C International Advisory If formerly in the

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Speaker 1: White House's deputy assistant to Vice President Cheney. Uh, Stephen,

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Speaker 1: what what is the national security issue that would if

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Speaker 1: you were close to the corridors of power again, if

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Speaker 1: you are next to the decision makers as you used

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Speaker 1: to be, what are you worried about. Well, for me,

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Speaker 1: we still have this problem of our borders are getting

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Speaker 1: more secure, but they're still poorest. We still too many

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Speaker 1: people who have overstayed. We don't know with enough surety

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Speaker 1: who's in our country and what they're doing. And I

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Speaker 1: still am very, very concerned about people who have been radicalized,

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Speaker 1: who can do small or large things to disrupt our

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Speaker 1: transportation and power networks and conduct small, small scale terror

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Speaker 1: inside the United States. And I think that was always

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Speaker 1: something at home is always going to burn the brightest

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Speaker 1: and hardest overseas. Just think that the multitude of challenges

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Speaker 1: that China presents is going to is going to be

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Speaker 1: the biggest challenge in and the years going forward. It

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Speaker 1: relates to North Korea, but it's not limited to that.

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Speaker 1: It's trade, it's commercial espionage, territorial claims, their military modernization,

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Speaker 1: proliferation UH and basically their aim to basically do whatever

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Speaker 1: it takes to take us down a notch and gain

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Speaker 1: influence and primacy. And I think that that remains the

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Speaker 1: single largest strategic challenge for the United States. And just

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Speaker 1: one more for you, Stephen, the Mid East. I think

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Speaker 1: that it's interesting that the Trump administration doesn't spend more

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Speaker 1: energy and time. And I've not been critical of this,

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Speaker 1: but just as as a as a free suggestion that

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Speaker 1: they're not going to listen to the caliphate has been

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Speaker 1: defeated on Donald Trump's watch, I think they should make

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Speaker 1: more of that. There was some talk about that today

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Speaker 1: when Vice President Tense had his term to speak, when

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Speaker 1: the congressional leaders of joined the president to celebrate the

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Speaker 1: tax reform. Uh, and that is the first very clear

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Speaker 1: call saying yes, their caliphate's capital has been decimated, and UH,

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Speaker 1: this is a major, major accomplishment. And really, as since

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Speaker 1: it's that time of year, if you look back at

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Speaker 1: this year, that movement on isis uh this tax reform, deregulation,

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Speaker 1: a Supreme Court justice. This is an incredible year of

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Speaker 1: political accomplishments if you could just filter the distractions out

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Speaker 1: along the way. Totally agree. Stephen Yates, everybody, CEO of

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Speaker 1: DC International Advisory. Follow him on Twitter at Yates d

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Speaker 1: c A. Stephen, great to talk to you, my friend.

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Speaker 1: Have a merry Christmas, a happy new Year, and looking

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Speaker 1: forward to have you joined us more. Thank you, buck

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Speaker 1: my pleasure of Merry Christmas YouTube. All right, team, when

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Speaker 1: we come back. We're gonna go from uh the expertise

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Speaker 1: and insights that we just heard too, the food fight

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Speaker 1: online right now that involves people going back and forth

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Speaker 1: with Rosie O'Donnell, who, it seemed to some of us

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Speaker 1: kind of sort of maybe tried to bribe a couple

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Speaker 1: of U. S. Senators today when it came to the

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Speaker 1: tax reform vote by offering them millions of dollars on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: Oh oh yes, we will go there, we will discuss,

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01:06:23,200 --> 01:06:25,600
Speaker 1: and then third hour, we got a whole lot more

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Speaker 1: lined up for all of you, including North Korea stealing bitcoin.

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Speaker 1: Talk about it, Stay with me. I don't know what's

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Speaker 1: more annoying that Rosie O'Donnell offered on Twitter to bribe

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Speaker 1: a couple of U. S. Senators with regard to their

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Speaker 1: votes all over the tax bill, or the fact that

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Speaker 1: Rosie O'Donnell probably actually does have millions of dollars with

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Speaker 1: which she could theoretically bribe U. S. Senators. She's got

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Speaker 1: bank I don't know how. I haven't seen her tie nose,

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen her anything in for ever, and yet

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Speaker 1: she's she's got a lot. It's got a lot of

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Speaker 1: cash stashed away from I guess the night. I guess

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Speaker 1: she had a big nineties. She was big in the nineties.

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Speaker 1: That talk show was number two to Oprah every single

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Speaker 1: year she had it. It was huge that Rosy show

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Speaker 1: was the number two talk show. I had no idea.

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Speaker 1: I don't I do not watch daytime talk stuff like

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Speaker 1: that before she got political. Right, Wow, that's amazing number

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Speaker 1: two to Oprah. So yeah, she's got cash to burn. Which,

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Speaker 1: if we're gonna talk about the whole men's ray component

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Speaker 1: of this offer, you know that that the ability to

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Speaker 1: actually follow through on a conspiracy or two to engage

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Speaker 1: in it in the acts necessary for a conspiracy to

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Speaker 1: be taken to fruition are legally important. Here's what happened today.

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Speaker 1: Rosie o'donnald Uh sent out some tweets late on Tuesday night,

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Speaker 1: and she offered two Republican senators two million dollars in cash.

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Speaker 1: This is what the tweet said. It's on Twitter for

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Speaker 1: everybody see. I'm sure she's got over a million followers, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, she's got a huge amount of followers, which,

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Speaker 1: by the way, what is wrong with this country when

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Speaker 1: I see some of these people that have millions of

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Speaker 1: followers I'm like, who who wants to know what Rosie

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Speaker 1: o'donnald has to say about anything? But Tyrone just told

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Speaker 1: me she was crushing it and talked television for or

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Speaker 1: Dasi TV for a long time, which I don't even know.

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Speaker 1: So okay, uh, I was busy doing other things. Apparently

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Speaker 1: all Rosie o'donald was doing her show. She said this

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Speaker 1: on Twitter, So how about this? I promised to give

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Speaker 1: two million dollars to Senator Susan Collins and two million

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Speaker 1: to Senator Jeff Flake if they vote no. No, I

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Speaker 1: will not kill Americans for the super rich. No profanity word,

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Speaker 1: two million dollar cash each, she wrote, telling the lawmakers

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Speaker 1: that she would send them a direct message in on

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Speaker 1: two it or if they were interested. As we know,

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Speaker 1: that didn't work. Senate Republicans pushed it through fifty one

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Speaker 1: to but some people were pointing out that this is

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Speaker 1: the problem that offering to bribe. Offering to bribe members

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Speaker 1: of the Senate is highly illegal. You could actually get

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Speaker 1: fifteen years in federal prison for it, and you can

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Speaker 1: get enormous fines, But as we have just discussed, apparently

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Speaker 1: fines wouldn't do that much to deter Rosie O'Donnell. Now,

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Speaker 1: I know what people are going to say. I know

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Speaker 1: that they would respond, Oh, she was kidding, Okay, I

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Speaker 1: mean you know we can take that position, we can

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Speaker 1: say to each other. Oh no, she must It must

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Speaker 1: have been a joke, because nobody would be that dumb.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, who would be so dumb

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Speaker 1: as to write such a tweet? I did see the

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Speaker 1: exchange with but it was Ben Shapiro pointed out to

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Speaker 1: her on Twitter that this was very illegal, and she

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Speaker 1: wrote back a a rather profane response to uh to

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Speaker 1: our friend Mr Shapiro, and it got a lot of

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Speaker 1: attention on Twitter. But this is just another instance. I

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Speaker 1: remember I was talking to you yesterday about the social

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Speaker 1: signaling is kind of a it's a term that sounds

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Speaker 1: like I'm in a sociology class somewhere. But the tribalism

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Speaker 1: and the perception of cool the Democratic Party has created,

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Speaker 1: and that really has fused itself into the synapses of

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Speaker 1: so many of these celebrities, such that a really rich

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Speaker 1: celebrity like Rosie o'donald, who the tax code changes will

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Speaker 1: not matter to her one way or the other in

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Speaker 1: any meaningful sense, and she has no idea really what

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Speaker 1: the different points of the tax code are. She just

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Speaker 1: knows Donald Trump is gonna sign it, Republicans are doing it,

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Speaker 1: therefore it must be bad at and she's going to

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Speaker 1: share that with millions of people who will also come

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Speaker 1: to that incredibly, uh, uninformed conclusion. And that's how you

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Speaker 1: get fifty per cent er. I don't really believe those polls,

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Speaker 1: but you've got a pretty large percentage of people overall

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Speaker 1: who are of the mindset that this tax cut is bad.

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Speaker 1: Democrats have been able to convince, with the help of

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Speaker 1: celebrities and other income poops out there, that a little

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Speaker 1: bit of your money going back into your pocket is

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Speaker 1: a bad thing. Which if you asked anyone on the street,

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Speaker 1: as I've been saying, he said, would you like a

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Speaker 1: little more money? The answers yes, would you like two

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars, which is the average they say for a

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Speaker 1: middle class family that they'll get back onto this time.

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Speaker 1: Find me somebody that's walking around on the street that

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Speaker 1: you say, would you like an extra two grand in cash?

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Speaker 1: They would say, no, No, I don't I don't want

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Speaker 1: that's a terrible idea. I have no no interest in

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Speaker 1: that at all. Yet if you walk around and say, hey,

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Speaker 1: what do you think of Donald Trump's tax plan that

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Speaker 1: will give you two thousand dollars in cash in your

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Speaker 1: pocket when it's enacted. Uh, they'd say, well, you know,

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Speaker 1: I saw Rosie o'donald saying it's really bad. You know,

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Speaker 1: I trust Rosie. The problem with our our celebrity culture

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Speaker 1: is that now we are also saturated in media all

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Speaker 1: the time that all of the dumbest Hollywood celebrities who

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Speaker 1: have enormous followings, which is a failing of our culture.

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Speaker 1: I will say I have never and this is way

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Speaker 1: before I was in media too. This isn't like, oh,

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Speaker 1: you know why I want, you know, fifteen million followers

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Speaker 1: like I want Lady Gaga's number of followers. I mean,

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Speaker 1: obviously I do. That'd be cool. But the point I'm

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Speaker 1: making is that even before I did this, I never

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Speaker 1: would have cared what any of these people said about anything. Yeah, sure,

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Speaker 1: will I go see movies that have you know what?

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Speaker 1: Would I go see a Matt Damon movie even though

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Speaker 1: I think Matt Damon is politically an ignoramus. Sure, because

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Speaker 1: I don't care what his politics U s are. That's

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Speaker 1: also why I would never follow him on social media

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Speaker 1: and care about the latest flights of whimsy from Matt

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Speaker 1: Damon's mind. I just have no interest. Why do people care?

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Speaker 1: It's it's a frustration for me and Rosie O'Donnell getting

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Speaker 1: all this attention. I know, in a sense, i'm I'm

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Speaker 1: part of the problem, and that I'm talking about Rosie

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Speaker 1: o'donnald and that she shouldn't really matter to any of

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Speaker 1: us at all. But it was kind of funny to

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Speaker 1: see that. I will tell you this, I don't think

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Speaker 1: she meant to bribe those senators, but I don't think

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Speaker 1: she realizes that it's a that that it's a fifteen

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Speaker 1: year federal prison sentence for doing that. I bet she

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Speaker 1: had no idea. So while I'll give her the benefit

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Speaker 1: of the doubts, she wasn't actually gonna give them each

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Speaker 1: two million dollars, which I'm giving her the better of

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Speaker 1: the doubt on that, I promise you if somebody had

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Speaker 1: been like, hey, Rosie, what do you think would happen

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Speaker 1: if you actually tried to do that, she'd be like,

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Speaker 1: you know, I slap on the wrist, you know, no, no,

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Speaker 1: no big deal. It's like nope, Actually, it's like, really

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Speaker 1: serious prison time, like you're going away for a long,

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Speaker 1: a long while. Um, it will make the hiatus of

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Speaker 1: her fame since her show in the nineties or whatever

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Speaker 1: looked like nothing in comparison. So there you have it.

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Speaker 1: Rosey O'Donnell offered to ingest bribe some senators. And now

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Speaker 1: I see James Clappers back on CNN. They they cannot

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Speaker 1: they cannot get enough of James Clapper on CNN. Just

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Speaker 1: the more Trump derangement syndrome former officials they can put

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Speaker 1: on air, the happier they will be. It's it's really appalling.

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Speaker 1: I've been very upset to see, well, not upset. I

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01:14:42,479 --> 01:14:44,400
Speaker 1: don't get upset about these things right now. It sounds

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01:14:44,400 --> 01:14:47,479
Speaker 1: like a snowflake myself. And it's been very annoying to

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Speaker 1: see some of the analysis out there about Clapper and

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Speaker 1: how Trump is being handled by Putin like a Russian asset.

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Speaker 1: It's it's just gross. All right. I'll want to talk

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Speaker 1: about this time about North Korea and Bitcoin. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a wild ride, so stay with me for that.

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Speaker 1: You are now entering the Freedom Tactical Operations Center. All

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Speaker 1: visitor programs must be keVs strictly need to know Team

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Speaker 1: Bucket is cleared and ready for the buck Brieze North Korea.

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Speaker 1: I spoke to you yesterday about North Korean hacking operations

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Speaker 1: and the concerns that continue and actually just get worse

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Speaker 1: all the time, about how North Korea is trying to

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Speaker 1: use cyber operations as a way of not just engaging

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Speaker 1: in offensive military operations and trying to commit espionage and

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Speaker 1: steal UH state secrets, trade secrets, whatever they can in

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Speaker 1: the North Koreans are out there trying to pilfer information

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Speaker 1: and also trying to get there get their bank account

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Speaker 1: to go higher. UH. This is the latest we've got, though,

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Speaker 1: and it involves bitcoin, which that kind of a wild

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01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:07,160
Speaker 1: ride from what I understand this week in terms of

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01:16:07,240 --> 01:16:12,760
Speaker 1: the price UH. Bitcoin is either symbolic of a whole

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Speaker 1: new era of finance, or perhaps it is symbolic of

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Speaker 1: the tulipmania that the country is currently and we'll see

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Speaker 1: which it is. I don't know quite what the answer is,

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01:16:24,160 --> 01:16:25,519
Speaker 1: but let me talk to you first about what's going

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Speaker 1: on with this North Korean heist. This is from the

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Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal. Investigators in South Korea are looking into

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Speaker 1: North Korea's possible involvement in a heist from a bitcoin

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Speaker 1: exchange that collapsed on Tuesday, according to people familiar with

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Speaker 1: the matter, as the sanctions choked regime develops new ways

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Speaker 1: to raise money. The investigation into the hack, led by

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Speaker 1: South Korean law enforcement and a state cybersecurity agency, is

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Speaker 1: still in its infancy, and a review of the malware

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01:16:56,160 --> 01:16:59,679
Speaker 1: code could take weeks, the people said. But the people

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Speaker 1: si that there were telltale signs and historical evidence that

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Speaker 1: North Korea, which has turned in recent years to increasingly

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Speaker 1: sophisticated financial warfare, was behind the hack of the Soul

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Speaker 1: based exchange you bit. The same cryptocurrency exchange operating under

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Speaker 1: a different name, was targeted in April by North Korean hackers,

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Speaker 1: according to sources sided by the journal UH, the company

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Speaker 1: that operates you bit suspended trading and file for bankruptcy

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Speaker 1: after Tuesday's hack. So here's the problem, um, As I've

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Speaker 1: been saying to you, North Korea can get on the

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Speaker 1: Internet just like anybody else, and they are realizing that

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Speaker 1: theft of whether it's of any kind of information is

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Speaker 1: much better if you can just do it through electronic means.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to take any risks to your personnel.

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Speaker 1: It's a much more straightforward proposition to just hack. Now,

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Speaker 1: what stops people in some countries at least from trying

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Speaker 1: to hack into international banking system or or bitcoin exchanges.

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Speaker 1: Running of that is that there are extradition agreements, or

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Speaker 1: in cases where there wouldn't be extradition or we wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be able to necessarily immediately work through law enforcement to

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Speaker 1: get somebody who was a hacker uh either handed over

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Speaker 1: to us, or they wouldn't take care of it themselves

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01:18:18,720 --> 01:18:20,679
Speaker 1: because there's or they would take care of it themselves

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Speaker 1: because there's rule of law. We usually are able to

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Speaker 1: exert some degree of pressure right to get them to

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Speaker 1: accept societal and international societal norms and international law when

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Speaker 1: it comes to the Internet. But there are some exceptions

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Speaker 1: to this. We could ask the Russians, hey, hand us

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Speaker 1: over that hacker, and I have a pretty well given

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Speaker 1: that they've given that they've provided asylum to Edwards Snowden,

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Speaker 1: I think we could all guess it's very unlikely that

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Speaker 1: the Russians are going to start handing over high level

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Speaker 1: hackers to us anytime soon, unless for some reason they

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Speaker 1: upset the Russian government. Same thing would be true of China.

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Speaker 1: And because it is. That's just because these are states

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Speaker 1: that are large enough and powerful enough that they won't

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Speaker 1: uh bend to US pressure on some of these issues.

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Speaker 1: And then with North Korea, because it's already a pariah state,

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Speaker 1: there are only there are there are really no options

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Speaker 1: for us. If somebody is able to operate on North

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Speaker 1: Korean soil and hack into a US bank or a

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Speaker 1: bitcoin exchange in South Korea or anywhere in the world

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Speaker 1: for that matter, we can, you know, do whatever we

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Speaker 1: want at the United Nations. We can get all upset,

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Speaker 1: we can pound the desk, so to speak, but it's

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Speaker 1: not gonna do anything. So this is a vision I

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Speaker 1: think of the future. This is what North Korea is

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Speaker 1: going to be doing, and it shows you how sanctions

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Speaker 1: are always going to have holes in them. I think

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Speaker 1: the Trump administration is making the right move by trying

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Speaker 1: to cut North Korea off from the international banking system

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Speaker 1: and and limit the regime's ability to get the hard

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Speaker 1: currency reserves it's so desperately needs for well all purposes,

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Speaker 1: but specifically to keep it's very expensive nuclear program and

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Speaker 1: its military going. But they are also in a an

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Speaker 1: adaptive organism. The North Koreans are able to look at

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Speaker 1: what's going on but the sanctions regime, and because they

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Speaker 1: don't care about the law, they can find all kinds

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Speaker 1: of criminal enterprises to engage into raise money and cash

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Speaker 1: around the world. This is also why North Korea is

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Speaker 1: a true menace. But one of my major concerns about

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Speaker 1: this and now this is transitioning a bit into bitcoin

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Speaker 1: producer Amy and I and Tie have been trying to

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Speaker 1: get a there's a handful of bitcoin experts that I

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Speaker 1: really want to have on uh, and they're just they've

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Speaker 1: been tough to track down, but we we hopefully in

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Speaker 1: the new year, will get some of them to join.

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Speaker 1: Because there's only certain people that I really want to

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Speaker 1: have talking to. You would present it as an expert

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Speaker 1: on the subject. There's a lot of people out there

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Speaker 1: who are like, yeah, I've got pit coins, I know everything. Uh,

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Speaker 1: It's incredibly complicated. It's complicated because it creates a there

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Speaker 1: are there are two areas where you have to have

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Speaker 1: a real conceptual and philosophical understanding, and it's in technology,

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Speaker 1: but it's also in currency and money and markets. So

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Speaker 1: perhaps this is an opportunity to give a short primer

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Speaker 1: from what I've learned from a lot of reading on bitcoin.

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Speaker 1: Here's what's going on. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency. A cryptocurrency

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Speaker 1: just means that it is a a digital store of value,

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Speaker 1: and you actually mine bitcoin through computing power. In the past,

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Speaker 1: it was a lot easier now because of the competition

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Speaker 1: for bitcoin. I believe you actually would spend more money

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Speaker 1: on electricity and computing efforts to try and make a bitcoin.

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Speaker 1: Uh in a vast majority of circumstances, then you would

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Speaker 1: get from the mining of the bitcoins. But for those

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Speaker 1: who say that it's not money, and this is a

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Speaker 1: this is a very complicated philosophical area. But for those

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Speaker 1: who say that it's not money, I just say, well,

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Speaker 1: what is a dollar bill and why is that money?

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Speaker 1: It's a piece of paper. Bitcoin is traceable and bitcoin

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Speaker 1: also employs a technology called blockchain, and blockchain is a

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Speaker 1: a fascinating and possibly world changing kind of technology. It

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Speaker 1: means that a ledger, so I think of it like

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Speaker 1: a spreadsheet or you know, a booklet of information alleger

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Speaker 1: of all bitcoin transactions is kept via blockchain technology. Blockchain

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Speaker 1: means that each and every individual that is involved in

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Speaker 1: any of the transactions has a record on his or

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Speaker 1: her computer all of all the transactions. So it's like

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Speaker 1: everybody has the copies of everything that has gone on.

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Speaker 1: When it comes to bitcoin transactions, it is unlike what

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Speaker 1: many people say. They say, oh, it's great for black markets,

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Speaker 1: and it got this really bad reputation. Bitcoin in fact,

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Speaker 1: is highly traceable. It is completely transparent in the sense

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Speaker 1: that you will know about all transactions because it's almost impossible,

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Speaker 1: when you think about it, to be able to break

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Speaker 1: into all these individual computers around the world and change

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Speaker 1: all of the change all of them perfectly and without

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Speaker 1: anyone knowing, so that you can alter the record of

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Speaker 1: bitcoin transaction. So those are two different things, and a

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Speaker 1: bitcoin in blockchain. Blockchain is the technology that is used

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Speaker 1: to keep track of the transactions of bitcoin, which is

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Speaker 1: a cryptocurrency. So this would mean that the big implications

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Speaker 1: for the future are that if you could transfer money

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Speaker 1: easily and from your martphone to someone anywhere in the

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Speaker 1: world and create absolute trust in that transaction, a lot

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Speaker 1: of middlemen, a lot of third parties, all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden no longer really hold meaning I think major banks,

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Speaker 1: I think some of the institutions that currently get billions

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Speaker 1: and billions and dollars of fees just to create, on

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Speaker 1: the one end, the belief that if you transfer money

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Speaker 1: to somebody else there's a record of it, it will

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Speaker 1: actually happen, it will go to that person, and it

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Speaker 1: will get done. If bitcoin means that all you need

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Speaker 1: is an Internet connection, it just completely changes the global

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Speaker 1: financial landscape of money transferring and and banking. It would

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Speaker 1: transform the banking system. So in that way it is fascinating,

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Speaker 1: and then you immediately start to think about that, or

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Speaker 1: you're brought into discussion about whether or not bitcoin has

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Speaker 1: value right now, it's what what's where does it stand

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Speaker 1: right now at the last count? I mean, I could

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Speaker 1: I could tell you officially what the the price of

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Speaker 1: a bitcoin is um it's been of sixteen thousand right now,

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Speaker 1: so one bitcoin is sixteen thousand dollars. That's up from

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Speaker 1: less than I think less than a penny many years ago. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and people are very worried that there's a mania going

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Speaker 1: on and that the price could entirely crash. I've also

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Speaker 1: heard people say that if bitcoin and blockchain technology together

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Speaker 1: are what they are believed to be, and that we

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Speaker 1: are in the early stage of of getting to that,

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Speaker 1: bitcoin could be worth many many times what it currently is,

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Speaker 1: which seems astonishing, But when you think about the rise

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Speaker 1: that it's had in the last year, it's either transforming

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Speaker 1: finance and banking and the global financial system this technology

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Speaker 1: and the notion of cryptocurrencies, or it's some kind of

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Speaker 1: a mania and bitcoins could all just crash because you

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Speaker 1: know who knows. You get into a very deep philosophical

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Speaker 1: question though about what is money, and people would say, oh, well,

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Speaker 1: money is you know the dollar bills that I have. Well,

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Speaker 1: first of all, how many of us even really use

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Speaker 1: money in our day to day transactions? Now? You mostly

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Speaker 1: or in many cases at least use credit cards, You

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Speaker 1: pay through your bank account, you have a routing number.

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Speaker 1: That's the way it's done, right. I know one shows

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Speaker 1: up that I know of a New York City, for example,

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Speaker 1: to pay their rent in cash, And if you did it,

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Speaker 1: probably want to know if you're running some kind of

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Speaker 1: a grow operation or something, so people pay using electrons. Already,

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Speaker 1: electronic transmissions are in essence currency, it's and it starts

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Speaker 1: to get weird. I know you just thinking about this,

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Speaker 1: you're like, well, paper which is not even backed by

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01:26:46,160 --> 01:26:48,360
Speaker 1: gold anymore, because we got off the gold standard that

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01:26:48,439 --> 01:26:51,800
Speaker 1: has value because they say that it does. Why doesn't

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01:26:51,840 --> 01:26:54,720
Speaker 1: bitcoin have value? And you know, you ask someone that

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01:26:54,880 --> 01:26:57,519
Speaker 1: question and it's very tough to get answers. There's a

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01:26:57,520 --> 01:26:59,760
Speaker 1: limited number. I think there's twenty two million bitcoins that

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01:26:59,800 --> 01:27:02,599
Speaker 1: will that are in total circulation as well, and they

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01:27:02,680 --> 01:27:06,840
Speaker 1: really can't be counterfeited because of that blockchain technology. So

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01:27:07,360 --> 01:27:11,679
Speaker 1: that's a little bit of a background er on bitcoin.

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01:27:11,800 --> 01:27:14,160
Speaker 1: I am not a bitcoin expert and the people who

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01:27:14,200 --> 01:27:17,960
Speaker 1: are there are very few who truly are, and we

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01:27:18,080 --> 01:27:21,120
Speaker 1: will get one on the show as soon as we can. Um.

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01:27:21,760 --> 01:27:26,880
Speaker 1: But it's also a tremendous opportunity for rogue actors, whether

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01:27:27,000 --> 01:27:30,680
Speaker 1: states or individuals, to try and steal now that these

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01:27:30,720 --> 01:27:34,040
Speaker 1: cryptocurrencies are worth so much money, we are in a

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01:27:34,200 --> 01:27:36,800
Speaker 1: new era when it comes to the security of this

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01:27:37,720 --> 01:27:40,799
Speaker 1: of this data. And like I said, sure, North Korea,

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01:27:41,200 --> 01:27:44,400
Speaker 1: we might know that they hacked a BITCOINX or a

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01:27:44,640 --> 01:27:50,240
Speaker 1: cryptocurrency exchange rather in South Korea, UM, we might know that,

1495
01:27:50,720 --> 01:27:52,400
Speaker 1: but what are we really going to do about it?

1496
01:27:52,800 --> 01:27:56,200
Speaker 1: And how do we stop them? It was a bitcoin heigh,

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01:27:57,200 --> 01:28:01,160
Speaker 1: So North Korea and bitcoin together it's like a shark

1498
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Speaker 1: Nato of analytic excellence here on the Buck Sexton Show. Um,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna take a quick break here where to come

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01:28:06,720 --> 01:28:11,439
Speaker 1: back with much more? Eight four four, eight to five, Buck,

1501
01:28:11,880 --> 01:28:15,000
Speaker 1: stay with me. And I think President Trump brook now

1502
01:28:15,120 --> 01:28:19,000
Speaker 1: has the world record for injecting politics into the aftermath

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01:28:19,040 --> 01:28:21,559
Speaker 1: of a terror attack. Is he trying to wage something

1504
01:28:21,640 --> 01:28:23,479
Speaker 1: of a copra war? You know? I think we saw

1505
01:28:23,600 --> 01:28:26,120
Speaker 1: the president's true colors today, and I'm not sure they

1506
01:28:26,160 --> 01:28:28,200
Speaker 1: were red, white and blue. How the White House could

1507
01:28:28,200 --> 01:28:31,160
Speaker 1: put out talking points uh saying that the President was

1508
01:28:31,200 --> 01:28:34,000
Speaker 1: in the right here is just it's baffling. It's strange,

1509
01:28:34,320 --> 01:28:36,680
Speaker 1: and but they are right in one respect. He has

1510
01:28:36,800 --> 01:28:40,360
Speaker 1: united the country against the views that he espoused today,

1511
01:28:40,439 --> 01:28:42,719
Speaker 1: which we're right there on the edge of white nationalism.

1512
01:28:42,800 --> 01:28:45,519
Speaker 1: And they're just not going to do this on camera audio.

1513
01:28:45,680 --> 01:28:48,040
Speaker 1: Why are we even having these briefings? Are these gaggles

1514
01:28:48,040 --> 01:28:50,640
Speaker 1: in the first place? They won't answer these questions on

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01:28:50,840 --> 01:28:53,840
Speaker 1: camera or let us record the audio. I don't know

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01:28:53,920 --> 01:28:56,400
Speaker 1: why everybody is going along with this. It just doesn't

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01:28:56,400 --> 01:28:58,400
Speaker 1: make any sense to me. And it just feels like

1518
01:28:58,520 --> 01:29:02,200
Speaker 1: we're we're sort of slowly, even surely, being dragged into

1519
01:29:02,360 --> 01:29:04,400
Speaker 1: what is a new normal in this country with the

1520
01:29:04,680 --> 01:29:08,439
Speaker 1: camera engine should turn the cameras on? Why don't we

1521
01:29:08,520 --> 01:29:10,640
Speaker 1: turn the cameras on? Why don't we turn the cameras on?

1522
01:29:10,840 --> 01:29:14,080
Speaker 1: I'm sorry you, why not turn the cameras on? There

1523
01:29:14,120 --> 01:29:16,360
Speaker 1: in the room? The later on? So that was kind

1524
01:29:16,400 --> 01:29:21,160
Speaker 1: of a throwback to this year with CNN's senior White

1525
01:29:21,240 --> 01:29:23,880
Speaker 1: House Correspondent. I always love that too. Is there just

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01:29:24,000 --> 01:29:26,320
Speaker 1: a White House correspondent because they got they got a

1527
01:29:26,400 --> 01:29:29,080
Speaker 1: senior one? So is that like an ego thing, like

1528
01:29:29,320 --> 01:29:32,519
Speaker 1: I'm the senior White House correspondent as opposed to the

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01:29:33,080 --> 01:29:37,000
Speaker 1: just the White House correspondent? Anyway, Uh, we're gonna do

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01:29:37,120 --> 01:29:38,760
Speaker 1: some in the next couple of days here, some of

1531
01:29:38,800 --> 01:29:40,920
Speaker 1: these where we we do a little a little trip

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01:29:41,040 --> 01:29:44,080
Speaker 1: down memory lane, and sometimes it will involve, say the

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01:29:44,120 --> 01:29:47,800
Speaker 1: fake news. It will be various media freak outs. This

1534
01:29:47,880 --> 01:29:50,880
Speaker 1: will be our our first of these, but we'll do

1535
01:29:51,000 --> 01:29:57,439
Speaker 1: more tomorrow and the next day. But the fake news

1536
01:29:57,560 --> 01:30:00,880
Speaker 1: CNN has has had a terrible year. As we sit

1537
01:30:01,040 --> 01:30:04,120
Speaker 1: here and talk about how great it is the tax

1538
01:30:04,200 --> 01:30:07,120
Speaker 1: package has gone through and that Republicans are going into

1539
01:30:08,000 --> 01:30:12,599
Speaker 1: no question on a high note. Ah, it's also funny

1540
01:30:12,600 --> 01:30:16,880
Speaker 1: to look back and see what we have learned over

1541
01:30:16,920 --> 01:30:20,400
Speaker 1: the course of this year, and in particular with CNN,

1542
01:30:20,560 --> 01:30:25,719
Speaker 1: we have seen that it doesn't work what they're doing.

1543
01:30:26,360 --> 01:30:30,360
Speaker 1: It doesn't work from the perspective of journalism, it doesn't

1544
01:30:30,360 --> 01:30:34,280
Speaker 1: work from the perspective of ratings. MSNBC this just came

1545
01:30:34,320 --> 01:30:40,200
Speaker 1: in today. MSNBC has for the full year now officially

1546
01:30:40,960 --> 01:30:44,880
Speaker 1: beat CNN in the ratings. That's a pretty that's pretty

1547
01:30:44,920 --> 01:30:48,200
Speaker 1: remarkable when you think about it, that CNN, which at

1548
01:30:48,280 --> 01:30:50,720
Speaker 1: one point really considered itself and was thought of as

1549
01:30:50,760 --> 01:30:54,160
Speaker 1: the gold standard in cable news, has now been beaten

1550
01:30:54,280 --> 01:30:58,639
Speaker 1: by the third tier player, which was having a terrible

1551
01:30:58,680 --> 01:31:00,280
Speaker 1: time in the ratings even a few year yars ago.

1552
01:31:00,280 --> 01:31:02,360
Speaker 1: I mean, I remember in the latter stages of the

1553
01:31:02,400 --> 01:31:05,880
Speaker 1: Obama presidency. I was like, yeah, I mean, nobody really

1554
01:31:05,920 --> 01:31:09,800
Speaker 1: cared anymore, and all their shows were just Obama cheerleading shows.

1555
01:31:09,920 --> 01:31:13,760
Speaker 1: So it didn't really it just didn't rate. People didn't

1556
01:31:13,760 --> 01:31:17,679
Speaker 1: want to watch it, they didn't care. But the fake

1557
01:31:17,760 --> 01:31:20,240
Speaker 1: news has had a bad year. Uh. And as we

1558
01:31:21,080 --> 01:31:26,599
Speaker 1: look on with the with with an eye to take

1559
01:31:26,760 --> 01:31:29,519
Speaker 1: to taking some conclusions away from all this and thinking

1560
01:31:29,560 --> 01:31:33,120
Speaker 1: about what could be different in the future or what

1561
01:31:33,200 --> 01:31:36,719
Speaker 1: we should remember for the future. It was that despite

1562
01:31:36,800 --> 01:31:41,720
Speaker 1: all of the the whining, the claims of fascism within

1563
01:31:41,760 --> 01:31:45,960
Speaker 1: the Trump administration, and the accusations of white nationalism, and

1564
01:31:46,840 --> 01:31:51,360
Speaker 1: the American people by and large kind of rejected the

1565
01:31:52,280 --> 01:31:55,960
Speaker 1: CNN agenda for the year. Now. I do think that

1566
01:31:56,400 --> 01:31:58,640
Speaker 1: CNN's belief I don't think they're going to change at all,

1567
01:31:58,920 --> 01:32:02,960
Speaker 1: going to my I think their belief is that the

1568
01:32:03,080 --> 01:32:06,200
Speaker 1: Mueller probe will go on for another full year and

1569
01:32:06,479 --> 01:32:11,040
Speaker 1: that they will be vindicated. That's how ideologically set in

1570
01:32:11,120 --> 01:32:13,160
Speaker 1: all of this they are. You know, there's no Christmas

1571
01:32:13,200 --> 01:32:16,600
Speaker 1: spirit from CNN. They're not They're not letting bygones be

1572
01:32:16,680 --> 01:32:22,000
Speaker 1: bygones with the Trump administration. They will be getting lumps

1573
01:32:22,000 --> 01:32:24,680
Speaker 1: of coal in their stockings this year, but maybe next year.

1574
01:32:24,760 --> 01:32:29,040
Speaker 1: They assumed that things will be quite different, but they have.

1575
01:32:29,280 --> 01:32:33,080
Speaker 1: They've been exposed. It's one of the great one of

1576
01:32:33,120 --> 01:32:37,280
Speaker 1: the great byproducts of the Trump administration and President Trump

1577
01:32:37,320 --> 01:32:40,240
Speaker 1: in the White House is that we now know really

1578
01:32:40,320 --> 01:32:45,920
Speaker 1: what CNN is all about. We have a greater perspective

1579
01:32:46,040 --> 01:32:50,040
Speaker 1: with which to approach all things at CNN, and and

1580
01:32:50,160 --> 01:32:51,720
Speaker 1: another noteworks like it too. I'm not just trying to

1581
01:32:51,720 --> 01:32:55,000
Speaker 1: beat up on CNN, MSNBC is a different category. They're

1582
01:32:55,040 --> 01:32:57,920
Speaker 1: wrong all the time, but at least they're honest about

1583
01:32:58,479 --> 01:33:01,280
Speaker 1: who they are. I mean that that was always my

1584
01:33:01,600 --> 01:33:04,519
Speaker 1: my thing about Bernie Sanders versus Hillary Clinton. At least

1585
01:33:04,520 --> 01:33:07,519
Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders admits he's a Democrat socialist. Hillary pretends to

1586
01:33:07,560 --> 01:33:10,840
Speaker 1: be something else because she thinks it why it makes

1587
01:33:10,880 --> 01:33:17,000
Speaker 1: her more electable. Bernie had the benefit of honesty, great

1588
01:33:17,080 --> 01:33:20,640
Speaker 1: shooter baby, just telling the truth like it is. So

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01:33:21,320 --> 01:33:24,840
Speaker 1: that was that was the reality of that race. And

1590
01:33:24,960 --> 01:33:28,840
Speaker 1: I just look now at how the ratings at CNN

1591
01:33:28,920 --> 01:33:30,720
Speaker 1: of crash. I mean, I can see a night in

1592
01:33:30,760 --> 01:33:32,679
Speaker 1: a night out. It's like they've got the same panels,

1593
01:33:32,760 --> 01:33:35,679
Speaker 1: the same people. It's just boring. You'll notice they don't

1594
01:33:35,680 --> 01:33:39,160
Speaker 1: even have debates really on air anymore because they have

1595
01:33:39,320 --> 01:33:45,759
Speaker 1: to protect their their snowflake anchors and their intellectually wimpy

1596
01:33:46,200 --> 01:33:49,120
Speaker 1: correspondence from having to deal with the posing points of view.

1597
01:33:50,520 --> 01:33:52,559
Speaker 1: It's it's not fun over there anymore, man, I can

1598
01:33:52,640 --> 01:33:54,559
Speaker 1: I can just see it, you know, And they're all

1599
01:33:54,760 --> 01:33:58,479
Speaker 1: everything rides on a Trump impeachment for CNN, and it's

1600
01:33:58,520 --> 01:34:01,320
Speaker 1: just not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen. They're they're

1601
01:34:01,320 --> 01:34:05,320
Speaker 1: in ratings trouble. So anyway, Jim Acosta for your fake newsery,

1602
01:34:05,920 --> 01:34:09,800
Speaker 1: we salute you, um And with that we are going

1603
01:34:09,920 --> 01:34:12,000
Speaker 1: to roll into a break here. I'm gonna talking about

1604
01:34:12,000 --> 01:34:15,160
Speaker 1: holiday stress. Stay with me for that. I hate to

1605
01:34:15,200 --> 01:34:18,640
Speaker 1: see people getting stressed out over the holiday, but I

1606
01:34:18,720 --> 01:34:24,000
Speaker 1: also totally understand why that can happen. It's a time

1607
01:34:24,040 --> 01:34:28,240
Speaker 1: of year when, yeah, we get together with family. For

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01:34:28,400 --> 01:34:31,000
Speaker 1: some of us that can be a bit on the

1609
01:34:31,080 --> 01:34:35,120
Speaker 1: stressful side. It's a time of year when we also,

1610
01:34:35,280 --> 01:34:39,280
Speaker 1: I think, tend to reflect. And reflection is a very

1611
01:34:39,360 --> 01:34:42,559
Speaker 1: good thing in my humble, thirty five year old opinion,

1612
01:34:43,400 --> 01:34:46,479
Speaker 1: But it's not a good thing if reflection just becomes

1613
01:34:46,560 --> 01:34:51,800
Speaker 1: an excuse to beat oneself up to think about all

1614
01:34:51,880 --> 01:34:56,760
Speaker 1: the missed opportunities and mistakes. I don't know how each

1615
01:34:56,880 --> 01:34:59,000
Speaker 1: and every one of you tends to think of your

1616
01:34:59,439 --> 01:35:01,760
Speaker 1: day to day in your careers and your lives, but

1617
01:35:02,360 --> 01:35:07,599
Speaker 1: I certainly tend toward the overcritical instead of the under

1618
01:35:07,640 --> 01:35:11,680
Speaker 1: critical of myself. So I have to force myself when

1619
01:35:11,720 --> 01:35:14,720
Speaker 1: I take time to reflect back on the year, not

1620
01:35:14,960 --> 01:35:18,960
Speaker 1: to make it an exercise in would a shoulda, could

1621
01:35:19,000 --> 01:35:22,720
Speaker 1: have and instead look honestly at what has gone well,

1622
01:35:23,479 --> 01:35:29,360
Speaker 1: at where I've made progress or made some good improvements

1623
01:35:29,400 --> 01:35:33,080
Speaker 1: into my life, and and to try and take joy

1624
01:35:33,280 --> 01:35:36,720
Speaker 1: as much as possible and what has gone right. There

1625
01:35:36,760 --> 01:35:40,000
Speaker 1: will never be a shortage of things that go wrong.

1626
01:35:40,320 --> 01:35:43,680
Speaker 1: I'm always reminded of the fact that growing up here

1627
01:35:43,760 --> 01:35:47,320
Speaker 1: in New York City and having been exposed to a

1628
01:35:48,600 --> 01:35:52,600
Speaker 1: fair number of people who don't have the concerns that

1629
01:35:52,680 --> 01:35:56,160
Speaker 1: a vast majority of Americans do. I knew plenty of

1630
01:35:56,280 --> 01:35:59,280
Speaker 1: folks growing up who it was clear their families were

1631
01:35:59,280 --> 01:36:01,560
Speaker 1: going to be paying the bills, they weren't gonna have

1632
01:36:01,680 --> 01:36:04,479
Speaker 1: to worry about getting that job right out of school

1633
01:36:04,760 --> 01:36:09,840
Speaker 1: or even during college. But they have their own miseries

1634
01:36:10,080 --> 01:36:14,080
Speaker 1: that can creep up. It's not like it's easy for

1635
01:36:14,520 --> 01:36:18,560
Speaker 1: folks just because they don't have the same economic struggles

1636
01:36:18,600 --> 01:36:22,160
Speaker 1: that you and I do. So I think that mindset,

1637
01:36:22,280 --> 01:36:24,960
Speaker 1: that's just I'm using that to illustrate that mindset is

1638
01:36:25,680 --> 01:36:29,160
Speaker 1: so very critical and you don't want to be over

1639
01:36:29,240 --> 01:36:31,559
Speaker 1: critical of yourself, and it's something that I think it's

1640
01:36:31,600 --> 01:36:34,360
Speaker 1: easy for us to fall into over the holidays, and

1641
01:36:34,439 --> 01:36:36,760
Speaker 1: you know, I want to talk about fun stuff and

1642
01:36:36,880 --> 01:36:39,320
Speaker 1: we will in the next couple of days, especially in

1643
01:36:39,360 --> 01:36:42,479
Speaker 1: the third hour of the show, I'm planning a history

1644
01:36:42,560 --> 01:36:46,160
Speaker 1: of the real St. Nicholas, for example, and maybe some

1645
01:36:46,320 --> 01:36:49,479
Speaker 1: more Christmas history about you know, the origins of the

1646
01:36:49,560 --> 01:36:53,440
Speaker 1: whole reindeer stuff and all that. But in the meantime,

1647
01:36:53,840 --> 01:36:57,840
Speaker 1: I just was really struck by this gallant poll that

1648
01:36:58,760 --> 01:37:05,800
Speaker 1: eight in ten Americans are really afflicted by stress. You've

1649
01:37:05,840 --> 01:37:09,080
Speaker 1: heard me talking about how mental health and physical health

1650
01:37:09,280 --> 01:37:13,599
Speaker 1: are inextricably linked. And we don't learn this in school,

1651
01:37:13,760 --> 01:37:16,320
Speaker 1: right in health class when they they teach you the

1652
01:37:16,400 --> 01:37:19,800
Speaker 1: basics in high school or even before that about you know,

1653
01:37:20,080 --> 01:37:22,120
Speaker 1: I don't know medicine and how to take care of

1654
01:37:22,200 --> 01:37:25,760
Speaker 1: yourself and the birds and the bees and all that stuff. Uh,

1655
01:37:26,120 --> 01:37:30,200
Speaker 1: they don't talk to you about mental health. They don't

1656
01:37:30,240 --> 01:37:34,559
Speaker 1: talk to you about feelings of wellness. And the good

1657
01:37:34,600 --> 01:37:38,519
Speaker 1: news is for many of you listening, Um, you drive

1658
01:37:38,560 --> 01:37:45,000
Speaker 1: a tremendous amount of uh, psychological and emotional and yes,

1659
01:37:45,200 --> 01:37:49,519
Speaker 1: spiritual comfort from a relationship with God. But in a

1660
01:37:49,920 --> 01:37:52,560
Speaker 1: day to day sense, in terms of your careers and

1661
01:37:52,680 --> 01:37:58,520
Speaker 1: your jobs and everything else. I know that faith is fantastic,

1662
01:37:58,760 --> 01:38:02,479
Speaker 1: but sometimes even those of us who have incredibly strong

1663
01:38:02,640 --> 01:38:05,800
Speaker 1: faith need a little more than that to find a

1664
01:38:05,840 --> 01:38:09,040
Speaker 1: way to get through some of the trials and tribulations

1665
01:38:09,080 --> 01:38:12,040
Speaker 1: that stand in our way, and it's important to take

1666
01:38:12,120 --> 01:38:16,080
Speaker 1: a proactive approach to all that. I hope this doesn't

1667
01:38:16,120 --> 01:38:19,240
Speaker 1: sound preachy at all. I'm just trying to share what

1668
01:38:19,360 --> 01:38:23,360
Speaker 1: I've picked up from dealing with very different kinds of

1669
01:38:23,479 --> 01:38:26,759
Speaker 1: stress in a couple of very different kinds of careers,

1670
01:38:26,880 --> 01:38:31,599
Speaker 1: one being a government national security employee and now being

1671
01:38:31,680 --> 01:38:34,040
Speaker 1: here with you on the radio, which I love. But

1672
01:38:34,240 --> 01:38:37,639
Speaker 1: the media business, as I have told you many times,

1673
01:38:38,040 --> 01:38:43,040
Speaker 1: is a disgusting snake pit, uh and not a fun

1674
01:38:43,160 --> 01:38:46,679
Speaker 1: place to be trying to make a living. So stress

1675
01:38:46,760 --> 01:38:50,560
Speaker 1: management is essential, and there are many different ways to

1676
01:38:50,640 --> 01:38:53,519
Speaker 1: do it, and it's not something that can be put off.

1677
01:38:53,640 --> 01:38:56,800
Speaker 1: And I see this among many of my peers where

1678
01:38:57,840 --> 01:39:01,280
Speaker 1: the the go to is alcohol. And look, I like

1679
01:39:01,400 --> 01:39:03,440
Speaker 1: to have my tequila a little bit on the weekends

1680
01:39:03,520 --> 01:39:08,240
Speaker 1: and you know, moderation, it's all good. But using too

1681
01:39:08,320 --> 01:39:11,280
Speaker 1: much alcohol as a stress relief is particularly not just

1682
01:39:11,840 --> 01:39:15,439
Speaker 1: bad for the long term health risks, but all and

1683
01:39:15,600 --> 01:39:18,360
Speaker 1: and the relationship damage that it can do and career

1684
01:39:18,479 --> 01:39:20,680
Speaker 1: damage it can do in the short term. But it's

1685
01:39:20,720 --> 01:39:22,800
Speaker 1: not even a good stress reliever. I think very few

1686
01:39:22,880 --> 01:39:26,560
Speaker 1: people really know that that the the effect, the the

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01:39:26,720 --> 01:39:29,479
Speaker 1: positive effect of alcohol that reduces stress in the short

1688
01:39:29,600 --> 01:39:34,040
Speaker 1: term is really outweighed by once the alcohol is gone, Uh,

1689
01:39:34,479 --> 01:39:36,760
Speaker 1: your body actually can kind of ramp up some of

1690
01:39:36,840 --> 01:39:39,559
Speaker 1: that stress again, and so it becomes a vicious cycle.

1691
01:39:40,160 --> 01:39:43,479
Speaker 1: So I would uh say that, you know, I've learned

1692
01:39:44,240 --> 01:39:47,600
Speaker 1: to try and take a positive and proactive approach with

1693
01:39:48,640 --> 01:39:52,599
Speaker 1: uh some level, some basic level of anti dad bod fitness,

1694
01:39:52,800 --> 01:39:55,559
Speaker 1: you know, although I will embrace the dead bods soon enough.

1695
01:39:55,640 --> 01:39:58,880
Speaker 1: I'm fighting for another year or two and then hopefully

1696
01:39:58,960 --> 01:40:02,240
Speaker 1: Ms Molly is just gonna think I'm I'm great and cuddly. Um.

1697
01:40:02,600 --> 01:40:05,040
Speaker 1: But for a lot of people, I know, meditation is

1698
01:40:05,160 --> 01:40:10,840
Speaker 1: really profound prayer obviously as well. UM yoga. I have

1699
01:40:10,960 --> 01:40:12,680
Speaker 1: to say, yoga makes me feel like I'm having a

1700
01:40:12,760 --> 01:40:14,760
Speaker 1: heart attack. I wish I could say that I have

1701
01:40:14,960 --> 01:40:20,000
Speaker 1: enjoyed um yoga. But anyway, there there it's really important

1702
01:40:20,000 --> 01:40:23,920
Speaker 1: to find out what your particular outlet is. For some people,

1703
01:40:23,960 --> 01:40:27,200
Speaker 1: it was painting I've maybe mentioned before on the show,

1704
01:40:27,360 --> 01:40:29,679
Speaker 1: though maybe it was a few years ago that Winston

1705
01:40:29,800 --> 01:40:33,080
Speaker 1: Churchill to battle his depression. Will one drank way too

1706
01:40:33,200 --> 01:40:38,479
Speaker 1: much but also took up painting. Whatever you're constructive outlet is,

1707
01:40:39,200 --> 01:40:42,160
Speaker 1: it's really important to establish it and give yourself the

1708
01:40:42,280 --> 01:40:45,640
Speaker 1: chance and the time to do it, because stress is

1709
01:40:46,000 --> 01:40:50,439
Speaker 1: corrosive on everything on your mindset, on your productivity, on

1710
01:40:50,600 --> 01:40:54,440
Speaker 1: your day to day. And I think over the holidays

1711
01:40:54,479 --> 01:40:57,439
Speaker 1: in particular, people tend to get really stress. You know,

1712
01:40:57,640 --> 01:41:00,840
Speaker 1: end of year bills to pay, you know, how am

1713
01:41:00,880 --> 01:41:04,360
Speaker 1: I doing financially? How am I doing professionally? Oh gosh,

1714
01:41:04,360 --> 01:41:06,720
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to see my brother in law who

1715
01:41:06,800 --> 01:41:11,000
Speaker 1: I have all those annoying political disputes with at the

1716
01:41:11,080 --> 01:41:14,200
Speaker 1: dinner table. And I understand the stress wraps up. But

1717
01:41:14,280 --> 01:41:17,599
Speaker 1: that's why it's also I think a really good time two.

1718
01:41:18,439 --> 01:41:21,760
Speaker 1: You know, watch some Christmas movies. This is this is

1719
01:41:21,800 --> 01:41:25,360
Speaker 1: a health thing. I mean, I'm trying to give unsolicited

1720
01:41:25,600 --> 01:41:29,200
Speaker 1: and non expert health and wellness advice here, you know,

1721
01:41:29,640 --> 01:41:31,839
Speaker 1: And it's really in a sense I'm speaking to myself

1722
01:41:31,880 --> 01:41:36,200
Speaker 1: here too. But you've gotta gotta watch some Christmas movies.

1723
01:41:36,360 --> 01:41:40,080
Speaker 1: Got to allow yourself to listen to from Christmas music. Yeah, sure,

1724
01:41:40,400 --> 01:41:43,479
Speaker 1: egg nog has the calories of like a bacon cheeseburger basically,

1725
01:41:43,560 --> 01:41:46,639
Speaker 1: but you know what, it's delicious. You've got to drink

1726
01:41:46,680 --> 01:41:51,960
Speaker 1: some eggnog and allow yourself to recoup and recuperate and

1727
01:41:52,320 --> 01:41:54,000
Speaker 1: relax somewhat here at the end of the year. Now,

1728
01:41:54,040 --> 01:41:55,240
Speaker 1: I know some of you aren't even gonna be on

1729
01:41:55,360 --> 01:41:59,080
Speaker 1: vacation and so, but I just psychologically, when you're home

1730
01:41:59,160 --> 01:42:01,200
Speaker 1: at night, when you're them with work, or whenever your

1731
01:42:01,240 --> 01:42:05,479
Speaker 1: schedule allows it, force yourself to be good to yourself

1732
01:42:05,680 --> 01:42:08,240
Speaker 1: over the holidays. It will allow you to be better

1733
01:42:08,280 --> 01:42:11,160
Speaker 1: to the people around you that you care about, and

1734
01:42:11,840 --> 01:42:14,400
Speaker 1: all those other things that you're worried about, the stress

1735
01:42:14,479 --> 01:42:18,600
Speaker 1: at work, the uh, you know, bills that are piling up,

1736
01:42:19,080 --> 01:42:22,040
Speaker 1: it will all be better taken care of. You will

1737
01:42:22,040 --> 01:42:24,960
Speaker 1: be more equipped to handle them if you take care

1738
01:42:25,040 --> 01:42:28,880
Speaker 1: of yourself first. And and an essential part of that

1739
01:42:29,200 --> 01:42:32,680
Speaker 1: is stress management. It really really is. I used to

1740
01:42:32,800 --> 01:42:35,120
Speaker 1: think pushed through, push through, push through, and you know what,

1741
01:42:35,240 --> 01:42:37,679
Speaker 1: I would do that and I would get so sick

1742
01:42:38,000 --> 01:42:41,760
Speaker 1: and I would get so run down. And now I

1743
01:42:41,880 --> 01:42:44,120
Speaker 1: realized that there's a part of this. You know. It's

1744
01:42:44,160 --> 01:42:47,040
Speaker 1: like for those of you who do some weight training,

1745
01:42:47,479 --> 01:42:50,240
Speaker 1: you know, you've got to have your rest days. Holidays

1746
01:42:50,280 --> 01:42:53,160
Speaker 1: are rest days, my friends. So give yourself the time,

1747
01:42:53,600 --> 01:42:59,080
Speaker 1: um and allow yourself to relax and have some joy,

1748
01:42:59,240 --> 01:43:02,400
Speaker 1: you know, enjoy your time here. That's just my that's

1749
01:43:02,479 --> 01:43:05,040
Speaker 1: my two cents today and all that. We're gonna get

1750
01:43:05,080 --> 01:43:07,040
Speaker 1: your more than two cents coming up here. In just

1751
01:43:07,240 --> 01:43:10,879
Speaker 1: a moment, we will get into some Team Bucks speaks.

1752
01:43:11,520 --> 01:43:13,800
Speaker 1: Maybe time will play some holiday music and we come back.

1753
01:43:14,520 --> 01:43:19,240
Speaker 1: Stay right there, Hey, team, I just realized I don't

1754
01:43:19,240 --> 01:43:21,320
Speaker 1: even have a Christmas tree up this year. I really

1755
01:43:21,600 --> 01:43:24,000
Speaker 1: need to need to step up my Christmas game a

1756
01:43:24,080 --> 01:43:28,360
Speaker 1: little bit. That's just I thought, well, my family has

1757
01:43:28,400 --> 01:43:30,559
Speaker 1: a beautiful tree, and they're in New York. So when

1758
01:43:30,600 --> 01:43:33,360
Speaker 1: I visit my parents and with my siblings, we'll all

1759
01:43:33,400 --> 01:43:35,679
Speaker 1: be able to look at their tree, and that'll be great,

1760
01:43:36,560 --> 01:43:38,920
Speaker 1: you know. But I probably should have had a tree up,

1761
01:43:39,040 --> 01:43:41,320
Speaker 1: you know, one of those little trees, you know, a

1762
01:43:41,320 --> 01:43:44,559
Speaker 1: little mini trees that could have pulled that off, I think. Anyway,

1763
01:43:44,560 --> 01:43:45,640
Speaker 1: this is where I want to get into some of

1764
01:43:45,760 --> 01:43:55,400
Speaker 1: your thoughts, your analyzes, your Christmas wishes and limericks about St.

1765
01:43:55,520 --> 01:43:58,320
Speaker 1: Nick if you have any of those, that would be

1766
01:43:58,400 --> 01:44:00,280
Speaker 1: extra points. All right, let's see what we have here

1767
01:44:00,640 --> 01:44:04,800
Speaker 1: this coming into our official team Buck at gmail dot

1768
01:44:04,960 --> 01:44:09,800
Speaker 1: com inbox, Merry Christmas to the Freedom Hut. Several months

1769
01:44:09,840 --> 01:44:16,720
Speaker 1: ago you profile the Bottleworks and Black Rifle Coffee. I

1770
01:44:16,760 --> 01:44:18,800
Speaker 1: had never heard of either company, but a shop with

1771
01:44:18,920 --> 01:44:23,439
Speaker 1: both with great satisfaction. Can you periodically say quarterly have

1772
01:44:23,520 --> 01:44:26,080
Speaker 1: a vet owned company as a guest on your show.

1773
01:44:26,640 --> 01:44:28,920
Speaker 1: It's motivating. It makes me so proud to hear how

1774
01:44:29,000 --> 01:44:33,160
Speaker 1: our heroes have transition from the battlefield to capitalism. Honestly,

1775
01:44:33,240 --> 01:44:37,080
Speaker 1: it reinforces that we live on the greatest country on earth. You,

1776
01:44:37,640 --> 01:44:43,320
Speaker 1: Tyrone and producer Amy do outstanding work. You entertain, educated, motivate.

1777
01:44:43,800 --> 01:44:46,360
Speaker 1: As a fifty year old rush limbab baby, you all

1778
01:44:46,439 --> 01:44:48,720
Speaker 1: give me hope that I'll have something worth listening to

1779
01:44:49,000 --> 01:44:52,759
Speaker 1: on whatever app when I'm ninety. Shields eye and prayers

1780
01:44:52,800 --> 01:44:57,080
Speaker 1: for a blessed to the Hut. Well, thank you so

1781
01:44:57,200 --> 01:44:58,920
Speaker 1: much for that wonderful email. I do not have a

1782
01:44:59,080 --> 01:45:02,920
Speaker 1: name for the sen are up here, um, but thank

1783
01:45:03,000 --> 01:45:05,479
Speaker 1: you for whoever sent that email. I really appreciate it.

1784
01:45:06,240 --> 01:45:12,080
Speaker 1: Andy with the following Andy in accounting, it says here, Hi, Buck,

1785
01:45:12,200 --> 01:45:14,920
Speaker 1: I'm just listening to your podcast when you were talking

1786
01:45:14,960 --> 01:45:18,920
Speaker 1: about how we're too connected. I must say, I'm thirty

1787
01:45:19,000 --> 01:45:22,840
Speaker 1: one and I am a zero on social media. I

1788
01:45:22,960 --> 01:45:25,400
Speaker 1: was on Facebook, but I got involved in too many

1789
01:45:25,479 --> 01:45:29,120
Speaker 1: political arguments. Some of my friends do nothing but thumb

1790
01:45:29,320 --> 01:45:33,160
Speaker 1: through updated I'm very happy not to be on social media.

1791
01:45:33,640 --> 01:45:35,960
Speaker 1: I just don't care what other people think, except, of

1792
01:45:36,040 --> 01:45:38,720
Speaker 1: course Buck Sexton. Well, Andy, you're very kind, and I

1793
01:45:38,800 --> 01:45:43,280
Speaker 1: think you are wise to not get too sucked into

1794
01:45:43,360 --> 01:45:46,360
Speaker 1: the social media vortex. You know, it's really just for

1795
01:45:46,479 --> 01:45:49,280
Speaker 1: close friends and family and connecting with the rest of

1796
01:45:49,360 --> 01:45:54,080
Speaker 1: the team here in the Freedom Hunt team. Buck alright, uh,

1797
01:45:54,360 --> 01:45:57,800
Speaker 1: Norb writes in love your impersonations and history lessons you've

1798
01:45:57,840 --> 01:46:02,559
Speaker 1: been You've been slacking on history lessons. I want more, Norb.

1799
01:46:02,720 --> 01:46:06,200
Speaker 1: I hear you loud and clear. More history coming, and

1800
01:46:06,439 --> 01:46:10,240
Speaker 1: it'll be even in a full podcast format in January

1801
01:46:10,280 --> 01:46:13,960
Speaker 1: and the new year. Uh. The podcast is called Shields High,

1802
01:46:14,600 --> 01:46:16,960
Speaker 1: so those of you who already know the Buck Sexton

1803
01:46:17,160 --> 01:46:19,880
Speaker 1: Show will know where that comes from. But also it

1804
01:46:19,920 --> 01:46:22,120
Speaker 1: will be for anybody who likes history. It's not gonna

1805
01:46:22,200 --> 01:46:24,960
Speaker 1: be oh, let me talk politics and then get into history.

1806
01:46:25,040 --> 01:46:28,800
Speaker 1: That's this show. It'll be straight up history stories and

1807
01:46:29,600 --> 01:46:34,000
Speaker 1: picking the coolest battles, heroes, weapons, all that stuff. That's

1808
01:46:34,040 --> 01:46:38,000
Speaker 1: the plan. Okay, now we have another one coming in.

1809
01:46:38,520 --> 01:46:43,640
Speaker 1: Uh Robbie Rights, Come on, Tie, you're not considering a

1810
01:46:43,840 --> 01:46:48,400
Speaker 1: great Commonwealth super Bowl. Eiggles beat the Steelers thirty five

1811
01:46:48,520 --> 01:46:50,560
Speaker 1: to thirty one. I'm gonna give Tie the floor for

1812
01:46:50,640 --> 01:46:52,760
Speaker 1: a minute here to let him weigh in on that,

1813
01:46:52,920 --> 01:46:56,080
Speaker 1: and also the question yesterday about football stuff that I

1814
01:46:56,120 --> 01:46:58,960
Speaker 1: don't even know what he's talking about. Tyrone, my friend,

1815
01:46:59,600 --> 01:47:02,880
Speaker 1: the floor is yours. To answer the question, I am

1816
01:47:03,080 --> 01:47:07,680
Speaker 1: considering an all Commonwealth super Bowl Eagles and Steelers, but

1817
01:47:08,520 --> 01:47:11,200
Speaker 1: if the Eagles quarterback hurt, I'm now taking everything week

1818
01:47:11,240 --> 01:47:14,559
Speaker 1: by week. While the Steelers are probably the second most

1819
01:47:14,640 --> 01:47:17,280
Speaker 1: likely team behind the Patriots to make it in who knows.

1820
01:47:17,360 --> 01:47:19,479
Speaker 1: If the referees know what they're doing, they would have

1821
01:47:19,560 --> 01:47:22,080
Speaker 1: won last week. To answer the question from yesterday about

1822
01:47:22,080 --> 01:47:25,360
Speaker 1: the BCS playoffs, I think the issue is with these

1823
01:47:25,640 --> 01:47:28,200
Speaker 1: quote unquote student athletes is they don't know what they're

1824
01:47:28,200 --> 01:47:31,560
Speaker 1: playing for. When the playoffs started, they said it was

1825
01:47:31,600 --> 01:47:35,840
Speaker 1: about the most deserving, the most deserving four teams. Now

1826
01:47:35,920 --> 01:47:39,880
Speaker 1: they've changed it to I guess the best four teams.

1827
01:47:40,400 --> 01:47:44,559
Speaker 1: So to me, I do believe that Alabama was better

1828
01:47:45,120 --> 01:47:47,519
Speaker 1: than Ohio State, but if you look at the resume,

1829
01:47:47,960 --> 01:47:51,120
Speaker 1: Ohio State was more deserving. So I think what they

1830
01:47:51,200 --> 01:47:53,760
Speaker 1: need to do is decide what they really want to

1831
01:47:53,840 --> 01:47:55,880
Speaker 1: do with these kids. Do they want to make it

1832
01:47:56,560 --> 01:47:58,439
Speaker 1: best or do they want to make it most deserving

1833
01:47:58,520 --> 01:48:01,080
Speaker 1: so that the kids know what they're playing for. Alright,

1834
01:48:01,280 --> 01:48:06,559
Speaker 1: Another email in here from Rick, who is original Saturday

1835
01:48:06,760 --> 01:48:10,639
Speaker 1: squad buck. I completely agree that reaching out to those

1836
01:48:10,720 --> 01:48:14,320
Speaker 1: with whom we've either lost touch can have amazing results.

1837
01:48:14,840 --> 01:48:18,720
Speaker 1: Here's my example. I had a client about about five

1838
01:48:18,840 --> 01:48:22,160
Speaker 1: years ago that subsequently became a friend. We didn't hang

1839
01:48:22,200 --> 01:48:24,320
Speaker 1: out much, but we had a strong connection that was

1840
01:48:24,400 --> 01:48:28,200
Speaker 1: important to me. His honesty for passion for his His

1841
01:48:28,320 --> 01:48:32,800
Speaker 1: honesty and passion for his faith and life inspired me. Uh.

1842
01:48:33,160 --> 01:48:35,960
Speaker 1: He was one of the true friends I made while

1843
01:48:36,000 --> 01:48:38,799
Speaker 1: living in Florida. When I decided to move to Texas

1844
01:48:38,920 --> 01:48:40,880
Speaker 1: two years ago, I gave him a call to let

1845
01:48:41,000 --> 01:48:43,680
Speaker 1: him know how thankful I was for his friendship and

1846
01:48:43,760 --> 01:48:47,360
Speaker 1: how how I respected the life he leads, living his

1847
01:48:47,520 --> 01:48:51,120
Speaker 1: values each day for all to see. After I finished,

1848
01:48:51,439 --> 01:48:54,200
Speaker 1: there were short silence on the line when he first

1849
01:48:54,240 --> 01:48:56,360
Speaker 1: tried to respond. It was through tears that I could

1850
01:48:56,400 --> 01:48:59,000
Speaker 1: hear in his voice. He thanked me for my words

1851
01:48:59,040 --> 01:49:00,400
Speaker 1: and said that they could not have come at a

1852
01:49:00,439 --> 01:49:03,760
Speaker 1: better time, as his father had passed away less than

1853
01:49:03,800 --> 01:49:06,040
Speaker 1: a fortnight ago, and that he and his wife were

1854
01:49:06,080 --> 01:49:08,320
Speaker 1: having a rough time of it. He said that my

1855
01:49:08,479 --> 01:49:12,479
Speaker 1: call and my words really helped. My innocuous little call

1856
01:49:12,560 --> 01:49:15,120
Speaker 1: to a friend made a difference in ways I never

1857
01:49:15,240 --> 01:49:19,400
Speaker 1: could have anticipated. Two years on, my friends family has

1858
01:49:19,439 --> 01:49:22,720
Speaker 1: grown from two to three, and his career is flourishing.

1859
01:49:23,200 --> 01:49:26,000
Speaker 1: I celebrate that with them now. Remembering back to my

1860
01:49:26,120 --> 01:49:29,720
Speaker 1: phone call, I neither know nor care how great or

1861
01:49:29,760 --> 01:49:31,479
Speaker 1: little a difference it made for him in the grand

1862
01:49:31,520 --> 01:49:33,920
Speaker 1: scheme of things. I just know that it helped him,

1863
01:49:34,280 --> 01:49:36,599
Speaker 1: and I'm thankful that it brought us a bit closer,

1864
01:49:36,720 --> 01:49:40,680
Speaker 1: even though we now lived geographically further apart. So my

1865
01:49:40,840 --> 01:49:44,200
Speaker 1: Chris Christmas wish for Team Buck is that we all

1866
01:49:44,240 --> 01:49:46,240
Speaker 1: reach out to friends or family with whom we haven't

1867
01:49:46,280 --> 01:49:49,559
Speaker 1: connected for too long. It might just end up being

1868
01:49:49,640 --> 01:49:53,920
Speaker 1: the best gift you give this Christmas shield, hie Rick Oss,

1869
01:49:54,360 --> 01:49:56,400
Speaker 1: and he says, Merry Christmas, Buck to you, miss Molly

1870
01:49:56,479 --> 01:49:58,120
Speaker 1: and your whole family. Well, Rick, thank you for the

1871
01:49:58,240 --> 01:50:02,400
Speaker 1: very kind and and inspired ring note greatly appreciated and

1872
01:50:02,840 --> 01:50:06,160
Speaker 1: means a lot. Merry Christmas to you two, Allen writes

1873
01:50:06,240 --> 01:50:08,960
Speaker 1: in this one on Facebook, and for those wondering, you

1874
01:50:09,040 --> 01:50:11,800
Speaker 1: can contact us here in the Freedom Hut. Send us

1875
01:50:11,840 --> 01:50:13,479
Speaker 1: in a note with your thoughts whatever you want to

1876
01:50:13,560 --> 01:50:18,040
Speaker 1: tell us at Facebook dot com. Slash buck Sexton, Allen writes,

1877
01:50:18,800 --> 01:50:20,840
Speaker 1: you are asking about whether it was okay for a

1878
01:50:20,960 --> 01:50:24,439
Speaker 1: hug or a high five. I'll take a respectable nod

1879
01:50:24,600 --> 01:50:28,400
Speaker 1: between equals. How about that? L O L Well, Alan,

1880
01:50:28,920 --> 01:50:31,519
Speaker 1: you are getting your nod between equals right now, my friend.

1881
01:50:31,560 --> 01:50:33,920
Speaker 1: Thank you very much for writing in and Merry Christmas.

1882
01:50:35,080 --> 01:50:37,560
Speaker 1: Lonnie writes in with the following, Hey, Buck, are you

1883
01:50:37,680 --> 01:50:40,960
Speaker 1: doing a poll on the new name for Team buck Speaks?

1884
01:50:41,360 --> 01:50:45,000
Speaker 1: What about Team bucks corner? Well, Lonnie, team Bucks corner

1885
01:50:45,080 --> 01:50:47,680
Speaker 1: would certainly work as an option, so I will put

1886
01:50:47,840 --> 01:50:50,760
Speaker 1: that on the list. Thank you so much for writing in.

1887
01:50:50,840 --> 01:50:54,800
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas to you. Chris writes in with the following Buck,

1888
01:50:55,280 --> 01:50:58,760
Speaker 1: why are you body shaming me? I sport and advanced

1889
01:50:59,080 --> 01:51:01,479
Speaker 1: dad bod with all the bells and whistles. Thank you

1890
01:51:01,640 --> 01:51:05,040
Speaker 1: very much. Dad's are people to Chris, I totally hear you,

1891
01:51:05,680 --> 01:51:09,040
Speaker 1: and uh, I tremendous respect for actually being a dad.

1892
01:51:09,120 --> 01:51:12,720
Speaker 1: I'm still working on that, but don't worry. I'm I'm

1893
01:51:12,760 --> 01:51:16,040
Speaker 1: an honorary dad BOD member to my friend, especially after

1894
01:51:16,439 --> 01:51:18,960
Speaker 1: this this fall. I really, I really went after the

1895
01:51:19,040 --> 01:51:21,839
Speaker 1: French fries, the chocolate and the whole milk with reckless abandon.

1896
01:51:22,880 --> 01:51:25,960
Speaker 1: Uh we have Uh well, actually I don't really have

1897
01:51:26,040 --> 01:51:27,439
Speaker 1: time to get in another one. We've got so many

1898
01:51:27,520 --> 01:51:30,360
Speaker 1: more notes, but I'll save something for tomorrow and obviously Friday,

1899
01:51:30,400 --> 01:51:33,080
Speaker 1: which will be our last show here in the Freedom

1900
01:51:33,200 --> 01:51:37,040
Speaker 1: Hunt of twenty seventeen. It's crazy to say it out loud.

1901
01:51:38,000 --> 01:51:41,920
Speaker 1: Please do share the podcast with friends, tell people about

1902
01:51:41,960 --> 01:51:45,800
Speaker 1: the show. Over the holiday, we grow. We have more

1903
01:51:45,880 --> 01:51:47,720
Speaker 1: and more folks that are tuning in and becoming a

1904
01:51:47,840 --> 01:51:50,360
Speaker 1: part of Team Buck because those of you who listen

1905
01:51:50,560 --> 01:51:53,000
Speaker 1: care about what we're doing here every day in the Hut,

1906
01:51:53,120 --> 01:51:56,080
Speaker 1: and you know that we rely on you to spread

1907
01:51:56,120 --> 01:51:59,880
Speaker 1: the words. So take that holiday opportunity to say, hey,

1908
01:52:00,240 --> 01:52:03,320
Speaker 1: this Buck guy, give him a shot, and you're gonna

1909
01:52:03,360 --> 01:52:04,960
Speaker 1: hear me repeating that the next few days. I hope

1910
01:52:05,000 --> 01:52:07,479
Speaker 1: you don't mind. Alright, Team, have a great rest of

1911
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Speaker 1: your day or evening, talk to you tomorrow. Shields High