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Speaker 6: Donald Trump took his violent rhetoric to a new extreme,

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Speaker 7: Now you have this threat against Liz Cheney, that Trump

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Speaker 7: Donald Trump's closing argument has been Puerto Rico's an island

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Speaker 7: A firing squad, a military tribunal.

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Speaker 1: Now I could keep playing this for another three minutes

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Speaker 6: And you know, as you're looking at the appointments that

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Speaker 6: someone who's very effective, who doesn't like the limelight, is

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Speaker 6: not out seeking to be in front, is not looking

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Speaker 6: for a bunch of glowing media profiles, but its.

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Speaker 1: Intern election night when Donald Trump tried to get her

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Speaker 1: to talk, and she would she went. She went to

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Speaker 1: the back of the of the of the stage, is like,

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Speaker 1: she walked up to it low and then left.

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Speaker 6: I mean, that's have you ever seen that in all

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Speaker 6: of politics? Have you ever seen that?

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Speaker 1: No, everybody's usually clamoring to get in front of a

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Speaker 1: microphone and talk and have their moment in the sunshine.

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Speaker 2: And it was very clear there. I think her body

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Speaker 2: language at.

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Speaker 1: Night was We've got work to do, Like, yeah, we

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Speaker 1: just won, but now the work begins, and that is

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Speaker 1: her type of focus and also really her mo for

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Speaker 1: her entire career.

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Speaker 6: Look Susie's reputation is as a serious person who gets

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Speaker 6: things done. That's a good thing, I will tell you.

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Speaker 6: Objectively speaking, Trump's twenty twenty four campaign was by far

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Speaker 6: his best run campaign. It wasn't even close. It was

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Speaker 6: much much better than how the twenty sixteen campaign was run.

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Speaker 6: And it was much much better than how the twenty

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Speaker 6: twenty campaign was run. There was greater organization, there was

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Speaker 6: greater discipline, there was better execution. It just they played

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Speaker 6: at a different level. So that's a strong opening appointment.

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Speaker 6: Now right behind it is the deputy chief of staff,

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Speaker 6: the Deputy chief of staff for policy, and that's Steven Miller. Now,

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Speaker 6: Steven is someone I know very very well. Steven used

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Speaker 6: to be a White Hill staffer. He was Jeff sessions

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Speaker 6: top person on immigration policy when Sessions was a senator,

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Speaker 6: was a colleague mine. Sessions was one of the leading

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Speaker 6: immigration hawks in the Senate. And Steven is smart as hell.

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Speaker 6: He knows the substance of immigration law exceedingly well. And

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Speaker 6: I'm confident there's not going to be literally a single

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Speaker 6: person in the administration more committed to securing the border

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Speaker 6: than Steven Miller. He wakes up focused on that. That

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Speaker 6: is his priority. He is someone who he was in

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Speaker 6: the first Trump white House. He was helping drive those policies,

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Speaker 6: but from a lower profile position. Deputy chief of staff

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Speaker 6: for policy is a big deal. I'm glad Steven is

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Speaker 6: in that job. I think he'll do a very good job.

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Speaker 1: Talk about that when you expand out from there to

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Speaker 1: some of the other positions Donald Trump is putting together.

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Speaker 1: I think a team of people that he trusts, that

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Speaker 1: he feels like is ready to go to work. Another

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Speaker 1: example of that is the deep state. We know what

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Speaker 1: the deep state has done to conservatives, We know what

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Speaker 1: the deep state has done to Donald Trump and the

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Speaker 1: people around him. And someone that we both know well,

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Speaker 1: a Texan, has been named CIA director and John Ratcliffe

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Speaker 1: former congressman from Texas in the Dallas area. This is

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Speaker 1: a big appointment, obviously an important one, but also someone

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Speaker 1: that saw from within in those last administration just how

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Speaker 1: corrupt the deep state could be.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm very glad with this pick. John Ratcliffe is

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Speaker 6: a good friend of mine. He's someone I know very well.

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Speaker 6: He's someone who candidly I urged the Trump administration to

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Speaker 6: appoint to this position. I think John is a good choice.

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Speaker 6: You know, John was in the first Trumpet administration. He

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Speaker 6: was he was a member of Congress, and then he

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Speaker 6: was the Director of National Intelligence. And he really did

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Speaker 6: an effective job taking on the deep state, and at

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Speaker 6: a level that is exceptionally rare. It's hard to do,

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Speaker 6: and John showed a seriousness. He'd been a US attorney

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Speaker 6: before the Department of Justice. He has demonstrated a courage

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Speaker 6: to take on embedded bureaucrats who were fighting against the president,

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Speaker 6: fighting against the agenda of the president, and I think

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Speaker 6: really fighting against the national interest. And sadly, after years

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Speaker 6: of Obama and now Biden, you have hardcore leftists who

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Speaker 6: have burrowed into two senior positions, and they don't view

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Speaker 6: their roles in those positions as carrying out the policy

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Speaker 6: priorities of the elected president. They don't view the role

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Speaker 6: of those positions as following the instructions that they're given. Rather,

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Speaker 6: they view their role as fighting against presidents they hate

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Speaker 6: and policies they hate. And I think John is a

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Speaker 6: serious guy who is going to be well positioned to

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Speaker 6: try to turn that around. Look, turning CIA around is

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Speaker 6: not easy, but I think John is a very very

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Speaker 6: good choice. As I said, he was one of the

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Speaker 6: people that I've already leaned in and I urged the

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Speaker 6: transition team to make exactly this appointment.

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Speaker 5: So I think it's the next excellent one.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about DoD Traditionally it's been someone that's been

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Speaker 1: a little bit older at the Department of Defense. It's

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Speaker 1: so funny how quick these things happen and how things

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Speaker 1: can change. You and I were at at the Republican

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Speaker 1: Convention and the night of Trump's acceptance speech, that final night.

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Speaker 2: Afterwards, I went on to.

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Speaker 1: Host Fox Nation with the guy who's now been appointed

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Speaker 1: Pete Hedgseth as a Secretary of Defense, Jesse Waters and

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Speaker 1: Fi tonight. They were just talking about how much they

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Speaker 1: love this guy, how much, how well they know him,

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Speaker 1: how he's an individual that has not only serve as

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Speaker 1: country in Iraq and Afghanistan, but he's also Ivy League educated,

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Speaker 1: very smart guy, family man, actually lives in Tennessee and

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Speaker 1: would go up to New York on the weekends to

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Speaker 1: host Fox and Friends Weekend. And all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: I think he shocked the world Trump did when he said, hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm appointing Pete as Secretary of Defense, saying no one

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Speaker 1: loves America more than Pete does.

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Speaker 2: And he understands war.

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Speaker 1: He understands how powerful it can be, how hard it

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Speaker 1: can be, how disruptive it can be, and how it

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Speaker 1: can hurt people's families and American soldiers as well.

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Speaker 2: And this is a guy that says, I don't want

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Speaker 2: to start wars, I want to end wars.

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Speaker 1: Referring to Trump, Pete's been to war in both of

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Speaker 1: these countries in our lifetime and seen a lot.

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Speaker 6: Well, that's right, and Pete's someone who's a friend to

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Speaker 6: both of us. I like Pete personally, I consider him

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Speaker 6: a friend. I think he does a great job. You

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Speaker 6: know Pete's background. He was an infantry captain in the

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Speaker 6: Army National Guard and he did tours in both Iraq

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Speaker 6: and Afghanistan, and he ended up earning two Bronze Stars.

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Speaker 6: He is currently one of the co hosts for Fox

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Speaker 6: and Friends Weekend, and he has been since his military service.

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Speaker 6: He has been in the media world more than anything else,

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Speaker 6: including writing an important book on taking on the woke

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Speaker 6: DoD culture. Look, this is a nomination that is going

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Speaker 6: to get some pushback. The Democrats are going to fight

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Speaker 6: against this one. I'm predicting a real battle because typically

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Speaker 6: defense secretaries are people who spent thirty forty fifty years

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Speaker 6: either in they running major military operations or running major

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Speaker 6: logistical corporations, running big institutions, and Pete does not have

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Speaker 6: that background, So I expect Democrats to attack him for that.

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Speaker 6: That being said, I assume that Trump has nominated Pete

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Speaker 6: because he is in particular focused on taking on the

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Speaker 6: generals who were involved in the twenty twenty one Afghanistan withdrawal.

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Speaker 6: That was utterly disastrous. He has also been really courageous

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Speaker 6: and outspoken fighting to eliminate the woke initiatives that have

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Speaker 6: taken over the military. And so I think Pete at

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Speaker 6: DoD will do something very similar to what Ratcliffe is

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Speaker 6: going to do at CIA, which is he's going to

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Speaker 6: come in with a real mission of clearing out the

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Speaker 6: hardcore partisans who burrowed into senior career positions. I think

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Speaker 6: that's a good thing. But I would also anticipate at

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Speaker 6: his confirmation hearings, I think we'll see some fireworks. I

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Speaker 6: think we'll see some Democrats going after Pete, and so

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Speaker 6: that'll be a fight I expect in the Senate.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about arming this audience. This is one of

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Speaker 1: the reasons why I love this show is because we

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Speaker 1: get to give people some of the talking points that

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Speaker 1: they may not hear anywhere else. And you look at

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Speaker 1: Pete in his nomination. You said there's gonna be fireworks.

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Speaker 1: We've already seen a lot of this happen on social

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Speaker 1: media over the last I don't know, six seven hours

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Speaker 1: since this broke and they're like, he's unqualified. You look

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Speaker 1: at Pete, he graduated from Princeton and then he has

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Speaker 1: a graduate degree from Harvard.

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Speaker 2: He's an Army.

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Speaker 6: Comma, wait, let me stop you, Ben, So you're saying,

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Speaker 6: I just want to understand, as an old misgrad you're

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Speaker 6: saying it is a good thing to have a degree

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Speaker 6: from Princeton and Harvard. I just want to specify exactly

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Speaker 6: the meets and bounds of what you're saying.

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Speaker 1: All right, I feel like I'm auditioning now for a

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Speaker 1: job in the administration. What I'm let me clarify to

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Speaker 1: my remarks. So what I'm saying is it's not necessarily

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Speaker 1: a bad thing to go to an ivy school, but

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Speaker 1: obviously common sense and going to by the Way and

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Speaker 1: that then is phenomenal as well.

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Speaker 6: Ben, I didn't get a chance to compliment you on

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Speaker 6: the record for the ass kicking that ole miss unleashed

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Speaker 6: on Georgia.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. I was waiting for the text, I really was.

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Speaker 1: I thought for sure I was going to get a

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Speaker 1: text from you about that game, because it was unbelievable.

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Speaker 5: Like, holy col you got reason to be pretty proud.

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Speaker 1: I knew you were in that moment thinking, man, that

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Speaker 1: would have been fun to go to that school.

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Speaker 2: When you rush the field. At the end, you pulled

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Speaker 2: out a goals post. Have you'all ever done a goalpost

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Speaker 2: of the Ivy League school before? I'm serious?

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Speaker 6: See, we don't actually score goals, so we don't have goalposts.

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Speaker 6: That fair fair enough. So we go to the fifty

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Speaker 6: yard line and we play chess. It's a very different game.

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Speaker 6: We do it in pads, so but it's chest Nonetheless,

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Speaker 6: you know, they.

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Speaker 1: Say the biggest day at a football stadium in at

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Speaker 1: IV league school is graduation day, when you guys are

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Speaker 1: actually getting graduated. Graduating, you know that, right, Like that's

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Speaker 1: the most attended day there is.

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Speaker 6: All right, So I will tell you when I was

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Speaker 6: in college, George Schultz was the Secretary of State under

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Speaker 6: Ronald Reagan, and he's a Princeton grad. And the rumor

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Speaker 6: which everyone acknowledges is that George Schultz had on his

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Speaker 6: rear end a tattoo of a Princeton tiger. And so

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Speaker 6: Schultz would come to Princeton football games, and if you

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Speaker 6: went to the stadium, you would see the band would

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Speaker 6: line up in the shape of Schultz's.

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Speaker 2: Ass, Are you serious?

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Speaker 6: And the mascot would go and lay down on one cheek.

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Speaker 6: And I remember thinking as a nineteen year old, all right,

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Speaker 6: you have really made it in life when your rear

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Speaker 6: end is on the fifty yard line of your alma mater.

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Speaker 1: At an Ivy League alma mater at that that's a

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Speaker 1: valid point, valid valid point.

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Speaker 2: But you would get Pete.

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Speaker 1: He graduated Princeton and then graduate graduate degree from Harvard.

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Speaker 1: The guy's an Army combat veteran who did tours. And

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Speaker 1: again this is where I armed this audience with the facts.

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Speaker 1: Guantanamo Bay, check that mark that box, Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Speaker 1: And as you mentioned earlier, for his actions on the battlefield,

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Speaker 1: he was decorated with not one but two Bronze Stars

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Speaker 1: as well as a combat Infantryman's badge to boot now.

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Speaker 1: I tonight had an interesting text message from a warrior,

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Speaker 1: a Sealed Team six member, who said, it's about blanking

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Speaker 1: time that America has someone that went to war, understands

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Speaker 1: modern warfare, understands PTSD, and advocates for those that are

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Speaker 1: mentally wounded in our armed forces, like Pete has done

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Speaker 1: for years. I don't care what anybody says. I'll re

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Speaker 1: enlist and I will go back, and I would stand

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Speaker 1: under this man. I think there's a lot of military

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Speaker 1: veterans that have that mentality as well well.

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Speaker 6: And I'll say this, Pete does not have the traditional

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Speaker 6: criterion that many DoD secretaries have of twenty thirty forty

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Speaker 6: years experience running massive, multi thousand, hundred thousand person organizations

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Speaker 6: and being dooda secretary is incredibly complicated, because talk about

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Speaker 6: like turning a battleship doesn't even begin that that analogy

656
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Speaker 6: is not even close to out complicated.

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Speaker 2: It is.

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Speaker 6: That being said, what Pete brings in addition to being

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Speaker 6: a combat veteran himself is he brings experience calling out

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Speaker 6: the ideological rot that that Barack Obama and Joe Biden

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Speaker 6: put into our military. And so I think Pete there's

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Speaker 6: a reason I drew the analogy between Pete and John Radcliffe,

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Speaker 6: which is I think both of them, the latter has

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Speaker 6: shown and I think the former will show a willingness

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Speaker 6: to take on the corruption that is damaging the institution

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Speaker 6: they've been sent to. That that courage, that clarity, that

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Speaker 6: is rare, and it's one of the reasons why I

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Speaker 6: think the Left is going to attack him and attack

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Speaker 6: him really hard.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask on another question about this, does this

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Speaker 1: mean that there's a real chance, and we haven't talked

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Speaker 1: about this in a few months, so I think it's

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Speaker 1: the perfect time to go back and really talk about this.

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Speaker 1: Is the reinstatement of men and women in our military

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Speaker 1: that were kicked out because they refuse to get vaccinated

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Speaker 1: with the Republican singer of the House, and that's official.

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Speaker 1: We haven't actually gotten to mention that on the show.

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Speaker 1: So let's just have that little moment of victory that

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Speaker 1: Republicans retain the House, we have, the Senate, we have

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Speaker 1: the presidency. Is there a chance that those men and

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Speaker 1: women that were kicked out of our military could actually

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Speaker 1: come back in Is that an issue you think will

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Speaker 1: come up in January?

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Speaker 6: I hope and pray that it does. As you know, Ben,

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Speaker 6: I am the author of the legislation that ended the maxine,

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Speaker 6: the vaccine mandate in the military. The Biden administration had

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Speaker 6: thrown out thousands, if not tens of thousands of active

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Speaker 6: duty military members, and I drafted the legislation that Congress

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Speaker 6: passed into law that ended that COVID vaccine mandate. It

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Speaker 6: made sense, we got it done. I tried very very

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Speaker 6: hard to make the end of the vaccine mandate retroactive.

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Speaker 6: In other words, there were some ten thousand servicemen and

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Speaker 6: women who'd been thrown out. To say, look, if you're

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Speaker 6: no longer requiring it, you ought to let back in

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Speaker 6: the people you threw out, particularly when we've got a

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Speaker 6: shortage of servicemen and women.

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Speaker 5: These are very experienced.

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Speaker 6: In some cases, you're talking about seal team members, army rangers,

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Speaker 6: very experienced, highly trained military men and women who were

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Speaker 6: thrown out unceremoniously, in many instances, thrown out with a

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Speaker 6: less than honorable discharge, so they received less in terms

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Speaker 6: of pension and benefits. And I'll tell you when I've

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Speaker 6: fought for that, we have not been able to get

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Speaker 6: that legislation to pass. Every single Democrat, all of them,

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Speaker 6: voted no. They voted no, we're not going to allow

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Speaker 6: those who were thrown out of the military for not

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Speaker 6: getting the COVID vaccine back into the military, even though

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Speaker 6: today the military doesn't required anymore. And sadly, we had

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Speaker 6: two Republicans who also voted no, which was really frustrating.

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Speaker 1: What was the reason behind that? Did they give it

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Speaker 1: the time? Because I don't remember.

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Speaker 6: So the two Republicans were mitt Romney mit will be gone,

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Speaker 6: and then Mike rounds and I'm frustrated. I don't know

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Speaker 6: why I disagreed with it. I really was arguing forcefully.

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Speaker 6: I do have some real optimism going forward. We'll get

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Speaker 6: this fixed. I think with the Republican House and Senate,

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Speaker 6: I'm going to fight very hard to get that in

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Speaker 6: the next iteration of the NDAA. The NDAA is the

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Speaker 6: National Defense Authorization Act. I also am going to press

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Speaker 6: the Department of Defense if they can just to do

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Speaker 6: it unilatterally, I'm pretty sure sure they can. Although I

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Speaker 6: say this, I have not studied the legal questions, so

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Speaker 6: that is an instinct rather than the result of a

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Speaker 6: studied analysis. But when Pete is confirmed as Defense Secretary,

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Speaker 6: I'm going to urge Pete that he at the outset says,

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Speaker 6: if you've been discharged for failure to get this vaccine,

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Speaker 6: you were invited to be readmitted and returned to your

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Speaker 6: old rank and your year old old position.

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Speaker 2: Senator.

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Speaker 1: There's an interesting and I want to get your take

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Speaker 1: on this because it went viral when it happened. Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump has selected Elon Musk and the Vick Ramaswami to

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Speaker 1: lead the Department of Government Efficiency. Now, I was asked

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Speaker 1: the question right after this broke on social media, Wait,

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Speaker 1: is that even an actual department of the US government or.

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Speaker 2: Is this made up? I laughed.

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Speaker 1: Wait, there's a lot of people that actually want to

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Speaker 1: know what is this doesn't exist?

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Speaker 2: Is this something new?

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Speaker 1: And how big of a deal it is that Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump picked the Tesla CEO and AX owner Elon Musk,

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Speaker 1: and an entrepreneur and former Republican President of CANDIDATEA vic

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Speaker 1: Ramuswati to lead this Department of quote Government Efficiency.

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Speaker 6: Well, it is not currently a government agency. I don't

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Speaker 6: think it's an accident that Department of Governmental Efficiency spells

746
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Speaker 6: out Doge, since Elon is a very vocal supporter of

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Speaker 6: the doge coin cryptocurrency.

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Speaker 5: I think that was quite deliberate.

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Speaker 6: Listen, I'm very glad that Elon is going to play

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Speaker 6: a critical role in the administration focusing on making government

751
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Speaker 6: work more effectively and more efficiently. I'm glad Viveks too.

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Speaker 6: He's a very smart guy. I know them both very well.

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Speaker 6: I'll tell you I spent thirty minutes on the phone

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Speaker 6: with Elon this week talking about precisely this mission, how

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Speaker 6: you make government operate more effectively and Elon is dealing

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Speaker 6: right now with their There is a major difference between

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Speaker 6: government agencies and the private sector.

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Speaker 5: There are lots of differences.

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Speaker 6: And you know, one of the things I pointed out,

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Speaker 6: there's a fantastic economist man named Ludig von Misis, who

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Speaker 6: was one of the founding fathers of the Austrian School

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Speaker 6: of economics. Brilliant man wrote a lot of different things,

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Speaker 6: but he wrote a book called on Bureaucracy and von

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Speaker 6: Mesis and on Bureaucracy, what he argued is that inevitably

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Speaker 6: you have people who come from the private sector who

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Speaker 6: come into government and they say, we're going to make

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Speaker 6: government more efficient, We're going to make it operate like

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Speaker 6: a business. And von Mesis argued that is always, always,

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Speaker 6: always doomed to failure.

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Speaker 5: And he explained why.

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Speaker 6: He said, Listen, government lacks the essential element of any

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Speaker 6: private enterprise, and that is the profit motive and the

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Speaker 6: analogy he uses. He says, Okay, look, Ben, let's say

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Speaker 6: you have a private company. You have, say a barbecue

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Speaker 6: restaurant in Memphis. If you're running your barbecue restaurant in Memphis,

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Speaker 6: every single employee at the restaurant is motivated by the

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Speaker 6: profit incentive. If the janitor, the guy who is sweeping

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Speaker 6: up the spilled barbecue sauce in the restaurant, if he

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Speaker 6: comes to you and says, mister Ferguson, I've got an

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Speaker 6: idea that can reduce our costs by ten percent and

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Speaker 6: that can increase revenues by five percent. So my guess

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Speaker 6: is a ben you'd listen to him. You'd be like, okay,

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Speaker 6: I want to hear that idea. Yeah, my guess is

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Speaker 6: number two. If his idea was right, that guy ain't

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Speaker 6: going to be sweeping floors any longer. He is immediately

786
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Speaker 6: going to get a promotion because for him and everyone

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Speaker 6: else at the restaurant, the incentive is the profit motive

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Speaker 6: that that unifies the incentives of everyone in the private sector.

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Speaker 6: In contrast, and this is what von Misis argues in

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Speaker 6: on bureaucracy. In government, there is no profit motive, and

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Speaker 6: in fact, the incentives are precisely the obverse. Let's say

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Speaker 6: you're running a particular office and a government agency, and

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Speaker 6: you've got a million people who are receiving ten billion

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Speaker 6: dollars in benefits. Your incentives are not to reduce the

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Speaker 6: number of people receiving those benefits. Your incentives are not

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Speaker 6: to reduce the amount of benefits they're receiving. Instead, what

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Speaker 6: are your incentives in government? Your incentives and government are

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Speaker 6: to increase the one million people to a million, five

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Speaker 6: or two million. Your incentives are to increase the ten

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Speaker 6: million dollars in benefits to fifteen billion or twenty billion.

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Speaker 6: Your incentives are to take your say, thousand people that

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Speaker 6: work for you and increase it to two thousand, three thousand.

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Speaker 6: All of your incentives not only are they not aligned

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Speaker 6: on the profit motive, they are exactly the opposite of

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Speaker 6: the profit motive. So actually I recommended to Elon he

806
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Speaker 6: read the book. He did not know the book, and

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Speaker 6: we spent about thirty minutes talking about how do you

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Speaker 6: change this beast that is government. You're never going to

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Speaker 6: make it quickened in. But I also talked about the

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Speaker 6: fact that a huge problem with government is that you

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Speaker 6: cannot fire government employees. Generally speaking, there are civil service

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Speaker 6: protections in place that if you try to fire someone,

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Speaker 6: you have litigation. It's very difficult. And I pointed out

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Speaker 6: to Elon, look, when you went into Twitter, you fired

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Speaker 6: what sixty percent of the employees that is a flexibility

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Speaker 6: that you have and what it means. And I tried

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Speaker 6: to lay this out to him as well, So I said,

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Speaker 6: listen at Tesla's SpaceX. My guess is, you have very

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Speaker 6: very few employees who wake up every day with their

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Speaker 6: mission and life being too stop you to frustrate the

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Speaker 6: objectives of the company and to try to make them fail.

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Speaker 6: And if you did have any employees that were doing that,

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Speaker 6: you'd fire them because they work for you, and that'd

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Speaker 6: be it. In government, particularly with the deep state, there

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Speaker 6: are literally thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of deep

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Speaker 6: state employees who wake up every day with their objective,

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Speaker 6: their mission being to stop everything Donald Trump is trying

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Speaker 6: to accomplish. And so I'm really glad that Elon is

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Speaker 6: doing this, and I think Vivek is very smart.

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Speaker 5: I think Vivek will add to that.

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Speaker 6: We will get some good results out of it, but

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Speaker 6: it is going to be an incredibly important and incredibly

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Speaker 6: challenging endeavor. And I'll say Elon is as smart a

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Speaker 6: person as I have ever encountered.

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Speaker 5: And look, I've been blessed.

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Speaker 6: I've actually run in some circles where I've known some

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Speaker 6: freakishly smart people in including people like Chief Justice William

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Speaker 6: Renquist and Anton Scalia and and Elon is just another

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Speaker 6: level in terms of brilliant. So I'm excited to see

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Speaker 6: what he can do in this role. But it is

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Speaker 6: going to be I think his instinct is going to

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Speaker 6: be to break some China and and we'll see how

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Speaker 6: that plays out in the government world.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, in the government world is a key point there.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about one of the most important appointments, and

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Speaker 1: that is Tom Homan. And there are so many conservatives

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Speaker 1: that voted for Donald Trump, some of the Americans that

848
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Speaker 1: voted for Donald Trump because they want to secure border.

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Speaker 1: He's the former Immigration and Custom Enforcement Director. He has

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Speaker 1: now been named Trump's Borders are tasked with cracking down

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Speaker 1: on immigration and overseeing the southern border the northern border

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Speaker 1: as well. And he said this on Fox yesterday.

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Speaker 8: Look, I've seen I've seen some of these democratic governors.

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Speaker 8: So they're going to stand in the way, They're going

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Speaker 8: they're going to make a hard force. Well, you know

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Speaker 8: a suggestion, if you're not going to help us get

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Speaker 8: the hell on the way, when we're going to do it.

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Speaker 8: So if we can't get assistance from New York City,

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Speaker 8: and we may have to double the number raises we

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Speaker 8: send in New York.

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Speaker 2: City because we're going to do the job. We're going

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Speaker 2: to do the job without here.

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Speaker 8: Or with you.

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Speaker 1: It's very clear Democrats are already gearing up to fight

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Speaker 1: against the government and deportations. He has said their number

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Speaker 1: one goal is what you and I mentioned on the show.

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Speaker 1: I think it was even before election day. They're going

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Speaker 1: to go after the criminals first. They're going to go

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Speaker 1: after the people that have already had due process and

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Speaker 1: have been told that they are to be deported from

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Speaker 1: this country. And again, this is where I love doing

872
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:44,960
Speaker 1: the show. Let's remind listeners and arm you guys with

873
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:48,280
Speaker 1: the facts. When you hear the left say it's inhumane

874
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:53,080
Speaker 1: to deport people, do not forget Barack Obama deported more

875
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:56,920
Speaker 1: than three million illegal immigrants while he was president. So

876
00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:59,359
Speaker 1: this idea that we are doing a million plus at

877
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Speaker 1: or allens that have been convicted of crimes that have

878
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:05,840
Speaker 1: already had due process, don't fall for this, because remind

879
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:10,280
Speaker 1: all of the people that say otherwise, Barack Obama deported

880
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Speaker 1: more than three million illegal immigrants when he was president.

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Speaker 6: So Tom Homan is a serious guy. He cares passionately

882
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Speaker 6: about defending this nation, securing our borders. I am very

883
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Speaker 6: very happy that Trump has named him borders are.

884
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Speaker 5: He also named.

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Speaker 6: Christy Nome, the governor South Dakota, to be the Secretary

886
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Speaker 6: of the Department Homeland Security. Homan and Nome will work

887
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 6: hand in hand. I think that's going to be very effective.

888
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Speaker 6: Tom Homan understands the border, he understands what is what

889
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Speaker 6: it takes to secure the border, and I think he

890
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Speaker 6: is going to be the point person driving the agenda,

891
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Speaker 6: as I've predicted before. But I want people to hear this.

892
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:52,400
Speaker 6: It's November. We are still facing an invasion at our

893
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Speaker 6: southern border. We are going to secure the border, and

894
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Speaker 6: it is not going to take a year. It's not

895
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Speaker 6: even going to take six months. It will be done

896
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Speaker 6: by January and February of next year. And in February, Ben,

897
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Speaker 6: I want you to play this clip back and either

898
00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:13,439
Speaker 6: we're going to say the results are in Cruz was right,

899
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Speaker 6: or hold me to account and say, Okay, it didn't happen.

900
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:19,680
Speaker 5: What went wrong? But either way, that's.

901
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Speaker 6: My prediction, and I think Tom Homan is going to

902
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Speaker 6: be driving the effort to get that done. And I

903
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Speaker 6: also think Stephen Miller, is Deputy chief of Staff, will

904
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Speaker 6: be driving it alongside him. I'm very optimistic about what

905
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Speaker 6: we're going to get done on that front.

906
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Speaker 1: And finally, when we're talking and there's more names are

907
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:36,799
Speaker 1: going to come out, and we will continue to let

908
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:39,880
Speaker 1: you know what we think about them and how exciting

909
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Speaker 1: this moment is. But there's one of your colleagues in

910
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Speaker 1: the Senate, someone you know very well. There was a

911
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Speaker 1: lot of people that were on the short list. I

912
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:50,880
Speaker 1: say a lot, a lot that you and I knew

913
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Speaker 1: that were floated for the shortlist for Secretary of State.

914
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Speaker 1: I was paying very close attention to this one, as

915
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Speaker 1: I know you were. And the nominee is going to

916
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Speaker 1: be your colleague, the Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I think this is terrific. I think Marco is going

919
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Speaker 6: to do a good job. He has focused on foreign

920
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Speaker 6: policy quite a bit his entire time in the Senate.

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Speaker 6: Marco is smart, He cares about foreign policy. He cares

922
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Speaker 6: about standing up to communists, especially in Cuba. He cares

923
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Speaker 6: about standing up to communist in China. Marco is more

924
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Speaker 6: interventionist on foreign policy than I am. But that being said,

925
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Speaker 6: he cares deeply about it, and and and so I

926
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Speaker 6: think he is more interventionist on foreign policy than Trump is.

927
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Speaker 6: And at the end of the day, Trump is going

928
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Speaker 6: to make the decisions. But I think Marco is someone

929
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Speaker 6: who is diplomatic, He is articulate, he will be he

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Speaker 6: will be a very effective diplomat for America. I think

931
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Speaker 6: it's a great choice. I think it's a natural fit.

932
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Speaker 6: I will tell you so. So I sent Marco a

933
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Speaker 6: text tonight which I'll go ahead and and and and

934
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Speaker 6: read to you what I send him. I sent Mark

935
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Speaker 6: of the following text, Congrats, sir, a big damn deal.

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Speaker 6: You join an historic roster including John Jay Thomas, Jefferson,

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Speaker 6: John Marshall, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay,

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Speaker 6: Daniel Webster, John Calhoun, William Jennings, Bryan Charles Evans, Hughes,

939
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Speaker 6: Henry Stimpson, George Marshall, Dean Atchison, John Foster, Dulles, Dean Rusk,

940
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Speaker 6: Henry Kissinger, George Schultz, and James Baker. Truly rarefied air.

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Speaker 6: Every Cuban is deeply proud. And then I finished it

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Speaker 6: with and I'm confident at least that you'll kick the

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Speaker 6: ass of Hillary and John Kerry.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that low bar. But I couldn't agree with you

945
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Speaker 1: more on that one. Right, it's I have no idea,

946
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Speaker 1: I have no doubt. I should say that Marco was

947
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Speaker 1: gonna laugh when he reads that last part of the text.

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Speaker 6: So he did laugh, and he responded, I will almost

949
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Speaker 6: never out my colleagues text, but I think Marco would

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Speaker 6: forgive me for this. His response was, he said, there

951
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Speaker 6: is hope for the Cuban Caucus and then he sends

952
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Speaker 6: me a story from Latin Times. Social media users launch

953
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Speaker 6: campaign to get Pitbull appointed to Marco Rubio's Senate seat.

954
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Speaker 6: Ron de Santas has only one choice, and I could

955
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Speaker 6: only respond to that senator.

956
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Speaker 1: One other story is Donald Trump is getting his cabinet

957
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Speaker 1: together and making appointments. That has not gotten a lot

958
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Speaker 1: of attention.

959
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Speaker 2: Is the.

960
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Speaker 1: Take out the trash, everybody throwing everybody under the bus

961
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Speaker 1: in the Biden camp, the Harris camp. We find out

962
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Speaker 1: she blew through a billion dollars, she's upside down in debt.

963
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Speaker 1: They're begging for money with text messages to liberals saying

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Speaker 1: we need your help with accounting of the votes and

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Speaker 1: give money.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: I wish I was joking, but I'm not, and I

968
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Speaker 1: don't know. Someone said eighteen twenty million upside down. And

969
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Speaker 1: then we found out where a lot of the donations

970
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Speaker 1: actually went. The donations were going to celebrities. Oprah's had

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Speaker 1: to come out after there was a million dollar check

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Speaker 1: given to her Quote production company for production of a

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Speaker 1: one day sit down interview that we many people saw

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Speaker 1: on TV with Oprah. It doesn't cost a million dollars

975
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Speaker 1: to produce that, but that was the price tag.

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Speaker 2: And then we found out that there were a lot.

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Speaker 1: Of celebrities that were being paid to act like they

978
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Speaker 1: loved Kamala Harris. And there are some Democratic donors that

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Speaker 1: are livid right now over the price tag on this.

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Speaker 6: You know, there's a terrific article in the Spectator World

981
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Speaker 6: entitled Kamala Harris ran the Fry Festival of Campaigns, and

982
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Speaker 6: it points out that Trump's campaign spent roughly four hundred

983
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Speaker 6: and eighty eight million dollars and Kamala spent more than

984
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Speaker 6: a billion, so she outspent Trump more than two to one.

985
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Speaker 6: And Kamala's campaign ended up twenty million dollars in debt. Well,

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Speaker 6: it turns out where did that money go. Well, one

987
00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:14,640
Speaker 6: of the things that went to is they paid many

988
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Speaker 6: of the quote unquote celebrities who supported her were getting

989
00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:25,280
Speaker 6: paid and getting paid significant sums. So for example, remember

990
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Speaker 6: the Call Me Daddy podcast. Yeah, Well, apparently the campaign

991
00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:34,760
Speaker 6: spent upwards of six figures to build a custom set

992
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:38,280
Speaker 6: for her appearance on the podcast, and the podcast netted

993
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 6: only eight hundred thousand downloads, less than a million downloads. Look, Ben,

994
00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:47,400
Speaker 6: you and I we have roughly a million unique listeners.

995
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Speaker 6: If she wanted eight hundred thousand downloads, I'll tell you,

996
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Speaker 6: Kamala right now, even though you've lost Ben and I

997
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 6: will invite you on Verdict right now. We will welcome you.

998
00:56:57,080 --> 00:56:58,920
Speaker 6: We will not charge you to build a set, so

999
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:01,520
Speaker 6: you can save all your money. And you paid Oprah

1000
00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:04,920
Speaker 6: a million dollars for production costs, we will charge you

1001
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:08,000
Speaker 6: for production costs on Verdict. What do you think fifty bucks?

1002
00:57:08,400 --> 00:57:10,800
Speaker 2: Sure, I think that's a fair price.

1003
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Speaker 5: Fifty bucks.

1004
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:15,200
Speaker 6: Fifty bucks will get you a very nice coffee cup

1005
00:57:15,719 --> 00:57:19,520
Speaker 6: with some Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee. That's what we'll spend

1006
00:57:19,560 --> 00:57:22,960
Speaker 6: the fifty bucks on. And you can reach the same

1007
00:57:23,040 --> 00:57:25,520
Speaker 6: number of people, all right, By the way. She also

1008
00:57:25,600 --> 00:57:28,800
Speaker 6: turned down Joe Rogan. So call me Daddy, got eight

1009
00:57:28,880 --> 00:57:31,439
Speaker 6: hundred thousand downloads. How how many do you think Joe

1010
00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:33,080
Speaker 6: Rogan's interview of Donald Trump got?

1011
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:34,360
Speaker 2: Ah a lot more than that?

1012
00:57:35,440 --> 00:57:36,480
Speaker 5: Forty seven million?

1013
00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:38,240
Speaker 2: Wow, that's a lot.

1014
00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:40,560
Speaker 5: Okay, that's a lot.

1015
00:57:41,080 --> 00:57:47,920
Speaker 6: So there were also seven Swing state concerts with expensive performers,

1016
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:50,480
Speaker 6: and it turns out every one of them they got

1017
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Speaker 6: a price. It is the world's oldest profession and they

1018
00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:55,920
Speaker 6: are charging for it. So who are the performers that

1019
00:57:56,000 --> 00:58:01,320
Speaker 6: got paid millions of dollars? Katie Perry, Lady Yaga, John

1020
00:58:01,360 --> 00:58:03,360
Speaker 6: bon Jovi, Ricky Martin.

1021
00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:04,440
Speaker 2: Hold on, you're.

1022
00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:06,160
Speaker 1: Telling me none of these people were like doing it

1023
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:08,160
Speaker 1: for free because they were all in for Kama.

1024
00:58:08,200 --> 00:58:09,320
Speaker 2: They wanted to get paid.

1025
00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:13,640
Speaker 6: Show me the money. They ended up spending more than

1026
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:17,840
Speaker 6: twenty million dollars on event production alone. Oprah, as you noted,

1027
00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:25,320
Speaker 6: charged a million dollars, and they went so far into

1028
00:58:25,360 --> 00:58:30,400
Speaker 6: debt that the campaign allegedly had to scrap Alnas Morisset.

1029
00:58:30,440 --> 00:58:32,200
Speaker 6: They were planning to do a lot of Moris set

1030
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Speaker 6: and they said, no, okay, we can't afford her anymore.

1031
00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:35,400
Speaker 5: Nevermind.

1032
00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:40,120
Speaker 6: I mean it is truly stunning, and you've got to wonder, like,

1033
00:58:41,720 --> 00:58:45,560
Speaker 6: I gotta say, I don't get paying millions of dollars

1034
00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:49,520
Speaker 6: for celebrities to fake endorse someone she spent paid money to.

1035
00:58:49,520 --> 00:58:50,160
Speaker 5: What Beyonce.

1036
00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:52,560
Speaker 2: Let's go over the big ones.

1037
00:58:52,800 --> 00:58:55,760
Speaker 1: This is coming from Fox and I'm gonna play this

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00:58:55,760 --> 00:58:56,400
Speaker 1: this audio.

1039
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Speaker 2: Take a listen.

1040
00:58:57,640 --> 00:59:01,400
Speaker 1: This is again from Fox as they were going through

1041
00:59:01,520 --> 00:59:03,000
Speaker 1: how much cash was spent.

1042
00:59:03,760 --> 00:59:05,120
Speaker 2: I can't get over these numbers.

1043
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:10,120
Speaker 7: Ten million dollars for Beyonce to step up and back

1044
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Speaker 7: Kamala Harris publicly, five million for Megan thee Stallion, three

1045
00:59:14,240 --> 00:59:17,480
Speaker 7: million for Lizzo, one point eight million.

1046
00:59:17,240 --> 00:59:20,480
Speaker 1: For M and M mean is that those numbers are

1047
00:59:20,720 --> 00:59:24,360
Speaker 1: unbelievable if you just look at them. And I was like,

1048
00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:26,880
Speaker 1: hold on a second, And I went back and watched

1049
00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:29,600
Speaker 1: that clip a couple of different times because you look

1050
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:29,960
Speaker 1: at them.

1051
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:31,400
Speaker 2: Ten million for Beyonce.

1052
00:59:31,600 --> 00:59:34,439
Speaker 1: If you're a donor and you wrote a big check

1053
00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:38,560
Speaker 1: Meghan the Stallion five million, Lizzo three million and one

1054
00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:40,600
Speaker 1: point eight million, I called on, I just raised all

1055
00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:42,960
Speaker 1: this money for you, and this is how you spent it.

1056
00:59:44,120 --> 00:59:46,560
Speaker 6: Look, I gotta say I've run a bunch of campaigns.

1057
00:59:47,240 --> 00:59:49,880
Speaker 6: I ran my first campaign for Senate in twenty twelve.

1058
00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:53,640
Speaker 6: I ran my next campaign for president in twenty sixteen.

1059
00:59:53,720 --> 00:59:56,560
Speaker 6: We won twelve states all over the country. I ran

1060
00:59:56,640 --> 01:00:00,240
Speaker 6: my next campaign for Senate again in twenty eighteen, and

1061
01:00:00,280 --> 01:00:03,280
Speaker 6: I just finished running my most recent campaign for Senate

1062
01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:07,560
Speaker 6: reelect a third term in twenty twenty four. I can

1063
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:09,280
Speaker 6: tell you, in the whole time, I've never paid any

1064
01:00:09,280 --> 01:00:12,960
Speaker 6: one a million dollars for anything. I don't think we

1065
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:17,080
Speaker 6: paid any entertainers. I don't know of any entertainers we paid.

1066
01:00:17,080 --> 01:00:19,800
Speaker 6: Maybe at some point we paid five or ten grand

1067
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:22,560
Speaker 6: for someone performing at some party. I'm not aware of it.

1068
01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:25,400
Speaker 6: But I can tell you this. Look our stars now,

1069
01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:28,840
Speaker 6: to be clear, the stars we have at our events

1070
01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:34,960
Speaker 6: are our international, supermodeled, global talents like Ben Ferguson.

1071
01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:38,640
Speaker 5: And I gotta tell you.

1072
01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:41,200
Speaker 1: What that ten million dollar payday Once in my career,

1073
01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:43,640
Speaker 1: I oh, yeah, beyond say yeah, yeah, I'm all in

1074
01:00:43,720 --> 01:00:46,080
Speaker 1: for the cause, but I just need ten million to.

1075
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Speaker 2: Make it happen.

1076
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Speaker 5: Okay, Ben, To be clear, we don't pay you ten dollars.

1077
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Speaker 2: No, that's.

1078
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Speaker 5: Look.

1079
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Speaker 6: I'm a fiscal conservative, dammit. If you want to be

1080
01:00:54,720 --> 01:00:56,560
Speaker 6: there and you believe in saving the country, stand up

1081
01:00:56,560 --> 01:00:58,320
Speaker 6: and save the country, and if not, get the hell out.

1082
01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:02,520
Speaker 6: But like, what what is it with these lefties who

1083
01:01:02,680 --> 01:01:06,800
Speaker 6: ironically they want to put socialists in office, who make

1084
01:01:06,840 --> 01:01:10,640
Speaker 6: it impossible for people to earn a living, and yet

1085
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Speaker 6: they're such capitalists that they're like, show me the money

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Speaker 6: to do it. I mean, there is an intense hypocrisy

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Speaker 6: on this.

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Speaker 2: I believe this.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not just saying this because this moment in

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Speaker 1: this headline, but I'm being dead serious. This could be

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Speaker 1: a huge problem for Democratic candidates moving forward, because when

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Speaker 1: you see this type of abuse of campaign finance money

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Speaker 1: from donors, those same donors, somebody's going to be asking

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Speaker 1: them for money.

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Speaker 2: And four years or less than four years from now, and.

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Speaker 6: I'm the next time Beto O'Rourke, Collin all Red jumps

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Speaker 6: on a stage with Willie Nelson, Everyone's going to ask

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Speaker 6: how much you pay him?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: How much of my money that I gave you? Did

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Speaker 1: you just give him for that thirteen minutes of him singing?

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Speaker 1: It's a question.

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Speaker 6: And it under the entire credibility that I'm here because

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Speaker 6: I love America so much and you've got to vote

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Speaker 6: for this candidate. Look, I'll give you an example in

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Speaker 6: the presidential race. So one of the cooler people that

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Speaker 6: I got to meet and spend time with was Phil Robertson,

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Speaker 6: you know from Duck Dynasty.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and he was a I mean massive back

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Speaker 1: in the day, like unbelievable star.

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Speaker 5: Huge star.

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Speaker 6: And so he invited me to Monroe, Louisiana to come

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Speaker 6: stay at his place. And I went out duck hunting

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Speaker 6: with Phil, which, by the way, ranks among the coolest

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Speaker 6: things I've ever gotten to do. And we went to

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Speaker 6: the duck blind. We're there at four in the morning. Look,

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Speaker 6: I like to hunt in Texas. I gotta be careful

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Speaker 6: about what I say because there's so many really serious

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Speaker 6: hunters that I can't overstate. I go hunting a couple

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Speaker 6: times a year. I enjoy it, but I'm not someone

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Speaker 6: who like lives and breathes it. Phil in that duck blind,

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Speaker 6: I have never seen a person who is a better

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Speaker 6: shot with a shotgun. He would drop birds at a

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Speaker 6: distance that I wouldn't pick up my gun. They were

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Speaker 6: too far away. I'm like, yeah, the duck flies over here,

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Speaker 6: I'll shoot it, but I can't shoot it way over there.

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Speaker 6: And he would just boom and then the dogs would

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Speaker 6: swim out and grab the duck and bring it back.

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Speaker 6: And Phil, I'll tell you so. So I went there

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Speaker 6: and spent the day when hunting with him. He recorded

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Speaker 6: an ad for our campaign that we put out. It

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Speaker 6: remains one of my favorite ads we've ever done. I'm

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Speaker 6: all like wearing camo grease pain and I'm in the

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Speaker 6: duck blind with Phil.

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Speaker 5: It was really cool.

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Speaker 6: But Phil, it was during the Iowa Caucuses and we asked, Phil,

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Speaker 6: will you come to Iowa on campaign with me? And Phil,

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Speaker 6: for something like forty years, had not missed a single

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Speaker 6: day of duck season. He'd been out there every single

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Speaker 6: day for four decades, and we'd invited him to come.

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Speaker 6: And that morning he went to the blind at four

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Speaker 6: in the morning and he's sitting there in the blind,

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Speaker 6: and I guess you know, it weighed on his heart.

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Speaker 6: I can't do this today. I need to go fight

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Speaker 6: to save America. And Phil left the blind and he

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Speaker 6: went and hopped on a plane and he flew to

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Speaker 6: Iowa and he did a big rally with me in Iowa.

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Speaker 6: And I told him then, I'm like, Phil, I am

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Speaker 6: beyond humboldt that you missed the first day of duck

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Speaker 6: season in forty years to be here in campaign alongside me. Now,

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Speaker 6: I didn't write them a damn check to do that.

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Speaker 1: I just said, if you gave him Beyonce money, you

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Speaker 1: know you're like, oh, and by the way, here's ten

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Speaker 1: million dollars.

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Speaker 6: No. No, I just said, come help save America. And

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Speaker 6: it meant a lot like for him to miss it.

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Speaker 6: And that day we were literally touch and go. We

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Speaker 6: didn't know who's gonna come, but it meant a big

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Speaker 6: deal when he came. If you're paying Beyonce ten million dollars,

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Speaker 6: I mean, my good I mean goodness. Who would she

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Speaker 6: not endorse for ten million dollars? Don't forget this show.

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Speaker 6: We do it every day.

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Speaker 1: Hit that subscriber auto download button wherever you were listening

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Speaker 1: right now, please write us a five star review and

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