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Speaker 1: have what He's having. President Biden spoke for one hour

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Speaker 1: Republican Biden age plot, they were dispelled. I am his

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Speaker 1: junior by seventeen years, and I could not possibly talk

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Speaker 1: and despite my attempt to do that tonight. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for joining us here live from Iheartworld headquarters in New York.

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Speaker 1: This is our special Down with Keith Olverman podcast postgame

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Speaker 1: show after one of the more remarkable States of the

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Speaker 1: Union addresses in the history of this nation. The first

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Speaker 1: seven minutes of this State of the Union were not

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Speaker 1: just as powerful as President Biden, or before him, Vice

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Speaker 1: It was perhaps as powerful and as forceful and as

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Speaker 1: expecting what he did. He came out punching, forceful, strong voice.

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Speaker 1: He threw boiling oil on Maga, on Trump, on the Republicans,

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Speaker 1: without ever mentioning a name. He segued from Maga's interference

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Speaker 1: This was all Delver in an extraordinarily forceful voice. He

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Speaker 1: because Joe Biden never took a breath. So I think

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Speaker 1: which he could immediately refute all questions about whether or

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Speaker 1: and it's one that I have some immediate experience with

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Speaker 1: does cast the presidential campaign in an utterly different light

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Speaker 1: commentaries on Twitch, in this case from Thrignar. Good Evening, Thrignar,

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Speaker 1: here's a question for Keith. Well, of course, it's question

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Speaker 1: for Keith. Why else would you be putting it out

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Speaker 1: on Twitch? In today's podcast, it was noted that states

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Speaker 1: of the Union, with one exception, have moved the needle

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Speaker 1: less two percent or less in either direction. Does Keith

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Speaker 1: think this one might be more impactful than the historical trend.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to address this later, but let's go through

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Speaker 1: that now because I went at it at some length

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Speaker 1: because I found this rather exceptional piece of research for

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Speaker 1: one of the guys at five thirty eight, not Nate Silver.

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Speaker 1: And again let me apologize. I was the guy who

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Speaker 1: segued Nate Silver out of baseball statistical predictions into predicting elections.

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Speaker 1: Then he went from what he was good at, which

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Speaker 1: was taking all the numbers and averaging them, to believing

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Speaker 1: that he knew without the numbers, what was going to

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Speaker 1: happen next, and then then he went crazy. Nathaniel Rakisch

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Speaker 1: at five thirty eight did what five thirty eight was

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Speaker 1: supposed to do. He looked at presidential popularity polls both

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Speaker 1: before and after every State of the Union since the

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Speaker 1: year nineteen seventy eight. That would be forty six speeches

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Speaker 1: by Carter Reagan, Bush first, Clinton, Bush second, Obama, Trump,

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Speaker 1: and Biden. The average change in approval after the State

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Speaker 1: of the Union good or bad change in a president's

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Speaker 1: popularity one point nine percent. All of them averaged together,

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Speaker 1: the average result was in a boost of zero point

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Speaker 1: three percent. In other words, it's really not worth the

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Speaker 1: president of the United States since nineteen seventy eight, even

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Speaker 1: bothering to wear a tie to the State of the Union.

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Speaker 1: Only once in the last twenty years has it moved

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Speaker 1: by more than two point one percent. That was Obama,

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Speaker 1: who got to two point six percent after his State

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Speaker 1: of the Union in twenty twelve. Only eight have had

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Speaker 1: more impact than that, and three of those were by

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Speaker 1: Bill Clinton, who might still be the most effective speaker

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Speaker 1: who's held the office of president, including Reagan, including Obama,

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Speaker 1: including Biden. Tonight, in the last fifty years. He gained

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Speaker 1: eight points after his first State of the Union address

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Speaker 1: or his informal State of the Union address in nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety three, gained three in nineteen ninety five, ten approval

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Speaker 1: points in nineteen ninety eight. Even George Bush, on the

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Speaker 1: eve of invading Iraq, only went up three point nine

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Speaker 1: percent in two thousand and three. You can screw it up.

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Speaker 1: His father HW Bush lost five points of popularity after

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Speaker 1: his first speech in nineteen ninety I guess because the

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Speaker 1: comparison to Reagan failed Georgie JH. W. Bush significantly. He

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Speaker 1: regained that popularity in the ensuing year, then gave this

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Speaker 1: next State of the Union in nineteen ninety one and

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Speaker 1: lost another five percent. That's probably why he did not

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Speaker 1: get reelected. The point is the average net effect, the

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Speaker 1: boost of three tenths is actually inflated a little bit

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Speaker 1: because Bill Clinton went up ten points after the nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety eight Monica Lewinsky speech. Obviously, it was not a

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Speaker 1: speech about Monica Lewinsky was simply ten days after the

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Speaker 1: Lewinsky Clinton scandal broke. But the media continues to insist

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Speaker 1: this is vitally important and thus the bar for actually

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Speaker 1: impacting a presidential popularity issue is really high. Most of

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Speaker 1: the media is still pretending that this is nineteen ninety eight,

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight. They want to wake up and find

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Speaker 1: that to be the case. They want to have influence.

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Speaker 1: In other words, in nineteen ninety eight, twenty percent of

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Speaker 1: this country saw the State of the Union address tonight.

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Speaker 1: We don't know obviously what those numbers will represent. We

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Speaker 1: do know that something like fifty five or sixty percent

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Speaker 1: of the audience is above the age of fifty five.

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Speaker 1: We do know that that's probably not going to come

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Speaker 1: in at ten percent. It may be seven or eight

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Speaker 1: percent of the country. The streaming audience for the speech

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Speaker 1: itself is almost non existent. So if Biden's popularity does

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Speaker 1: increase in the next few days, and I would suspect,

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Speaker 1: which you will see, oddly enough, is that his popularity

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Speaker 1: his approval rating will increase among Democrats, among people who

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Speaker 1: have been baited in the last few months pretty much

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Speaker 1: ever since David Axelrod, of all people, brought this topic

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Speaker 1: to the four by questioning whether or not Joe Biden

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Speaker 1: should continue or if the White House was not in

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Speaker 1: fact being realistic about the issue of an eighty one

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Speaker 1: year old man running for president. If there are people

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Speaker 1: worried about this, they would be on the Democratic side.

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Speaker 1: In fact, there is polling, and let me reach for that,

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Speaker 1: because that is a rather extraordinary thing, this Emerson poll,

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Speaker 1: which I'll get into in a moment, there was one

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Speaker 1: statistic in here that pertained to people worried about his age,

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Speaker 1: and it was a small number, an extraordinarily small number.

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Speaker 1: Voter No, that's the independent voters. Emerson's polling not altered

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Speaker 1: by let's see, there was an age question. It was

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Speaker 1: online one twenty five of the new Emerson polling that

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Speaker 1: was done Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. The question

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Speaker 1: was does his age raise doubts about him? Fifty seven

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Speaker 1: percent said it did raise doubts about Joe Biden. Not

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Speaker 1: a serious consideration forty three percent. The White House would

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Speaker 1: probably say that's a pretty good number, and that was

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Speaker 1: before tonight's speech. But for it to be forty three

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Speaker 1: percent saying it's not a serious consideration rather than fifty

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Speaker 1: one or fifty two percent, it means seven, eight, nine,

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Speaker 1: ten percent of Democrats or maybe more than that, were

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Speaker 1: actually worried about it. So if it does move the

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Speaker 1: bar it will move the bar I think, I think

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Speaker 1: among the Democrats, and in any event, we'll go through

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Speaker 1: the Emerson poll in a little bit. But I would

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Speaker 1: point out that there are indications from that Emerson poll

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Speaker 1: that the Biden popularity number was increasing and has been

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Speaker 1: increasing sort of surreptitiously been below the radar for the

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Speaker 1: last month month and a half. Let me resume where

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Speaker 1: we were. We had talked about the first two sort

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Speaker 1: of signal soundbites from this, and again, the real value

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Speaker 1: of the state of the Union perhaps is in viral moments,

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Speaker 1: just like it is the real value of everything else.

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Speaker 1: Who's going to sit there and watch through a speech

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Speaker 1: of one hour and six minutes other than you and

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Speaker 1: me and everybody in Washington. But to most people, they

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Speaker 1: will consume this between now and sometime tomorrow in small bursts.

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Speaker 1: So let's anticipate that. And I believe we had not

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Speaker 1: yet gotten to the issue of the role of the

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Speaker 1: power of women in politics, which was greeted not surprisingly,

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Speaker 1: rather strongly by the Vice President. Let's listen to that

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Speaker 1: one again.

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Speaker 2: Many of you in this chamber and my predecessor are

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Speaker 2: promising to pass the National Ban on reproductive freedom. My God,

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Speaker 2: what freedom else would you take away? Look, it's a

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Speaker 2: decision to overturn roeby Wade. The Supreme Court majority wrote

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Speaker 2: the following, And with all due respect, Justices, women are

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Speaker 2: not without electoral power. Excuse me, electoral or political power.

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Speaker 2: You're about to realize just how much you've varrity about. Clearly, Clearly,

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Speaker 2: those bragging about overturning Road we might have no clue

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Speaker 2: about the power of women, but they found out when

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Speaker 2: reproductive freedom was on the ballad we wanted twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: two and twenty twenty, and we went again in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty four. If you, if you, the American people, send

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Speaker 2: me a congress of supports the right to choose, I

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Speaker 2: promise you I'll restore Roe v. Wade as the long

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Speaker 2: Land again.

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Speaker 1: I truly do not think there was a wasted moment

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Speaker 1: in this speech, except perhaps when and this did not

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Speaker 1: I think Carrie as loudly as it was intended to.

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Speaker 1: We have identified someone on the floor who did. As

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Speaker 1: a Stan from YouTube asks who was the idiot who

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Speaker 1: started yelling, well, I would have naturally assumed that Stan

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Speaker 1: is referring to Marjorie Taylor Green, and that would not

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Speaker 1: have anything particularly to do with the state of the Union.

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Speaker 1: That's what she does all day. However, we have now

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Speaker 1: identified that there was a member of Congress who at

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Speaker 1: some point started to yell lies as President Biden talked

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Speaker 1: to about what's the name of the guy Republican President,

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Speaker 1: the guy ap preceded him? What was his name? Again?

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Speaker 1: Couldn't have gotten through this with the with the team

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Speaker 1: of a dog sled team getting him through it. Couldn't

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Speaker 1: have spoken for an hour and eight minutes. What's his name? Humpy?

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Speaker 1: Representative Derek van Orden yelled lies when Biden criticized Trump's.

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Speaker 1: Sources say Manu Raju, who's one of the bright lights

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Speaker 1: at CNN, was he said. Van Orden was the member

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Speaker 1: who yelled lies. According to two sources who heard him,

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Speaker 1: Representative Van Orden has a what was used to be

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Speaker 1: called in polite circles, a disordered mind. Representative van Orden

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Speaker 1: is the guy who came upon a couple of I

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Speaker 1: believe Senate interns who were taking pictures of the Capitol

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Speaker 1: and one of them was lying on the floor shooting

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Speaker 1: up at the Capitol dome with his camera and Van

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Speaker 1: Orden basically tried to scare the hell out of them,

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Speaker 1: threatened them, called the Capitol Hill police on them, and

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Speaker 1: then talked about how they were defiling the capital. Van

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Speaker 1: Orden has several other problems, and I don't mean to

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Speaker 1: assume perhaps you have seen this story. It has been

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Speaker 1: growing and I think it's going to be one of

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Speaker 1: the big news stories of the next year. There was

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Speaker 1: evidence in one of the shooters who conducted one of

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Speaker 1: those nightmares in public of mass shooting, where they have

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Speaker 1: in fact autopsied and analyzed his brain. He was a

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Speaker 1: former member of the military, and there was significant damage

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Speaker 1: to his brain. And it is believed that we have

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Speaker 1: not really looked at the psychological or rather the physical

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Speaker 1: reasons for the psychological condition that was once known as

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Speaker 1: shell shock and has more recently been renamed PTSD among

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Speaker 1: veterans and other members of the military. And it looks

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Speaker 1: like actually that handling ordnance, being around explosives, even just

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Speaker 1: handling some of the high powered machine guns and other

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Speaker 1: equipment and other weaponry inside the military can cause literal

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Speaker 1: brain damage. I'd like to point out that Congressman Van

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Speaker 1: Orden is a proud veteran of our services. A couple

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Speaker 1: of other questions, hell fire Zombie from YouTube comment, that's

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Speaker 1: an interesting family name. What would you suggest to Biden

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Speaker 1: to maintain the momentum he generated tonight? Continue to talk

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Speaker 1: at that speed? Gareth Goodworth off YouTube. Obviously missing from

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Speaker 1: the speech unless I missed something, nothing about Iran and

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Speaker 1: its proxies. I don't think he missed anything. I don't

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Speaker 1: think there's any particular disagreement on Iran and its proxies

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Speaker 1: and its role. I believe, however, that they I'd like

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Speaker 1: to have been now, having seen how good the speech was.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to have been the proverbial fly on the

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Speaker 1: wall and looked at how they this justin thank you,

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Speaker 1: I'd like to have looked at how they composed this

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Speaker 1: and what they decided to leave out, because one of

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Speaker 1: the things that I had thought was we are now

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Speaker 1: entering the age in which people watching something that was

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Speaker 1: going to last for at least an hour, we're probably

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Speaker 1: expecting a halftime show. They were probably expecting him to

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Speaker 1: say I have more to say. We'll be talking about

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Speaker 1: the Middle East, but first Taylor Swift and it didn't happen.

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Speaker 1: But here now, at some point they must have said,

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Speaker 1: look the speech, even if you read it five times

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Speaker 1: the normal rate of the human speech. Read it faster

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Speaker 1: than that Olderman guy reads scripts. It'll still last an

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Speaker 1: hour and eight minutes. We're expecting a few four more years.

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Speaker 1: Interruptions with chance, Well, they had to drop something, And

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Speaker 1: I suspect that, after looking at what he did about

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Speaker 1: the Middle East, in which he successfully traversed, as I

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Speaker 1: said before this wire, this balancing act over a bottomless

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Speaker 1: pit of some kind, I suspect they said, let's not

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Speaker 1: go further into the Middle East. Clear Magenta on YouTube

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Speaker 1: asks where you disappointed that he did not spend the

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Speaker 1: entire hour focusing on Trump's danger to this country as

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Speaker 1: you had hoped he would. No, I was not. One

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Speaker 1: of the things I actually do think that often happens

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Speaker 1: is that the president of the United States knows a

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Speaker 1: lot more than I do. So my thought was, if

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Speaker 1: you're going to give a speech and it's not perhaps

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Speaker 1: going to, based on recent results, move the needle quite

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Speaker 1: as much as you would like it to that, perhaps

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Speaker 1: you know, let's shoot the works here. Do the speech

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Speaker 1: entirely about Trump. He did not spend the entire hour

654
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Speaker 1: focusing on Trump's danger to this country, and only spent

655
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Speaker 1: the first seven minutes, during which, as I said before,

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Speaker 1: if it had been a boxing match, it would have

657
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Speaker 1: been stopped. Lord Barrell asks, what does he think? I

658
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Speaker 1: presume that's me, since I'm the only one out here.

659
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Speaker 1: What does he think of trying to build a Mulberry

660
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Speaker 1: port in hostile territory and do so without us putting

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Speaker 1: people on the ground to build it. It's off twitch,

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00:37:59,915 --> 00:38:03,875
Speaker 1: you know. It's again if you have seen some of

663
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Speaker 1: the things that the millilitary does. And I'm not a

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Speaker 1: military man. My father was, but I'm not an expert

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Speaker 1: on any of these things. But I do know that

666
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Speaker 1: often some of our great civil engineers, future civil engineers,

667
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Speaker 1: started and honed their skills in the military. I would

668
00:38:18,795 --> 00:38:20,875
Speaker 1: not put this past them when they say they're not

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Speaker 1: going to put any boots on the ground or putting

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Speaker 1: Americans in harm's way by building this humanitarian port to

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Speaker 1: get relief aid into Gaza and get the thing up

672
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Speaker 1: in a matter of weeks, I suspect they are talking

673
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Speaker 1: about assembling it somewhere else in the Middle East, in

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Speaker 1: a friendly zone, perhaps an ally, perhaps an ally with

675
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Speaker 1: a gun pointed to their head, helping us out by

676
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Speaker 1: giving us the space to do so, and I think

677
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Speaker 1: those things can be accomplished. And again I will I

678
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Speaker 1: know this doesn't sound like me. I will defer to

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Speaker 1: other people's expertise on this particular issue. Lord Barrow, that

680
00:38:53,835 --> 00:38:57,995
Speaker 1: borrowing nut bars right. Steve Boyd from YouTube do you

681
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Speaker 1: think the President was able to reach a healthy cross

682
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Speaker 1: section of all Americans DM, GOP and independent or was

683
00:39:02,955 --> 00:39:05,915
Speaker 1: he just preaching to the choir? Again, as I said before,

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Speaker 1: there was some backfilling necessary here. There was certainly some weakness,

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Speaker 1: as I have discussed on the podcast recently, even among

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Speaker 1: personal friends of mine who have known for forty years

687
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Speaker 1: and who I consider absolutely arch and staunch liberals who

688
00:39:20,155 --> 00:39:22,835
Speaker 1: were beginning to get a little bit worried about whether

689
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Speaker 1: or not the president could give that speech that almost

690
00:39:26,995 --> 00:39:29,635
Speaker 1: the content of it was secondary. What he managed to

691
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Speaker 1: pull off was to give the speech reassure anybody who

692
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Speaker 1: had any doubts that he could do it, not just

693
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Speaker 1: do it at this extraordinary Shakespearean speed and eloquence for

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Speaker 1: seven minutes, but continue it for the full hour and eight.

695
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Speaker 1: Not only did he do that, but the content of

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Speaker 1: the speech was inviting to those who were not of

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Speaker 1: the democratic faith. I think particularly this will apply to independence,

698
00:39:53,395 --> 00:39:56,475
Speaker 1: some disaffective GOP. And again I keep teasing this and

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Speaker 1: I don't mean to, but the questions are good and

700
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Speaker 1: they're relevant. There is stuff in the Emerson College poll

701
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Speaker 1: that suggests uptick in Biden's popularity and an uptick in

702
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Speaker 1: his favor in terms of what is happening in the

703
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Speaker 1: polling and what is happening in the presidential campaign. This

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00:40:15,275 --> 00:40:19,875
Speaker 1: uptick began on Tuesday or after Tuesday, when Nicki Haley

705
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Speaker 1: ended her campaign. We'll get to those numbers in a moment.

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Speaker 1: In fact, let's do that right now. We're going to

707
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Speaker 1: do that right now, because those are the questions we

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Speaker 1: wanted to get to immediately. The Emerson poll, I did

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Speaker 1: not see it covered anywhere, And obviously I could not

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Speaker 1: watch everything this afternoon. I was at home with the dogs,

711
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Speaker 1: but I did watch a good deal of cable television,

712
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Speaker 1: and after taking the necessary shower, I finished with a

713
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Speaker 1: few of my preparations for this appearance tonight for this

714
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Speaker 1: live podcast. And I did not see the Emerson poll

715
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Speaker 1: mentioned anywhere. The fundamental number off the Emerson poll is

716
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Speaker 1: Biden and Trump were tied as of Wednesday afternoon, when

717
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Speaker 1: polling ceased at forty five, forty five, and ten percent

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00:41:03,795 --> 00:41:08,835
Speaker 1: going to essentially uncommitted, to use a phrase from the primaries,

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Speaker 1: or undecided. When those undecideds were pressed, the number changed significantly.

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Speaker 1: When they were said, they were asked, you have to

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Speaker 1: make a choice, who do you take? Well, most of

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Speaker 1: them did, one percent apparently did not, But the final

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Speaker 1: number turned out to be just about Biden fifty one

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Speaker 1: Trump forty nine. Trump had been ahead in this particular poll,

725
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Speaker 1: the Emerson Poll, since last September. They've conducted it every month.

726
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Speaker 1: It is pretty good. It yets I believe an a

727
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Speaker 1: rating off the five thirty eight poll of polls. As

728
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Speaker 1: late as December, it was Trump by four forty seven

729
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Speaker 1: to forty three. Biden had not even been even since

730
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Speaker 1: last September. Why did this happen? This was done Tuesday,

731
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Speaker 1: It was done Wednesday. Obviously it was not done after

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Speaker 1: this speech. We await polling, probably won't get any of

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Speaker 1: that until Saturday. Sunday, the Sunday Shows. God help us,

734
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Speaker 1: Kristen Welker can say that Biden is allegedly president. But

735
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Speaker 1: what we saw was this Hailey, voters are breaking sixty

736
00:42:09,715 --> 00:42:12,755
Speaker 1: three to twenty seven for Joe Biden. And again that

737
00:42:12,835 --> 00:42:17,315
Speaker 1: probably is an inflated number because many of the Hailey voters,

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Speaker 1: if they're not being separated out in the polling numbers,

739
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Speaker 1: many of the Hailey voters were either independents or Democrats.

740
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Speaker 1: They weren't just disaffected Republicans. Even though throughout the primaries,

741
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Speaker 1: including the closed primaries that the Republicans have held so far,

742
00:42:31,035 --> 00:42:33,955
Speaker 1: Trump has lost thirty to forty percent of the Republican vote.

743
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Speaker 1: And as I keep harping on in this context of

744
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Speaker 1: the podcast, if he loses thirty percent of Republican votes

745
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Speaker 1: in November, if he loses twenty percent of Republican votes,

746
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden will get four hundred electoral votes. Voting strength.

747
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Speaker 1: This is a surprise to me. Out of the Emerson poll,

748
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Speaker 1: eighty three percent of Trump voters say they will definitely

749
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Speaker 1: vote for him, an impressive and strong and reliable number,

750
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Speaker 1: except it isn't eighty seven percent of Biden voters say

751
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Speaker 1: they will definitely vote for him. Other bullet points that

752
00:43:03,475 --> 00:43:05,635
Speaker 1: Biden can take from this, And again, where was this

753
00:43:05,715 --> 00:43:08,475
Speaker 1: on CNN? Where was this on NBC? Where was this

754
00:43:08,595 --> 00:43:12,595
Speaker 1: on the BBC? It wasn't he leads Trump. Biden does

755
00:43:12,675 --> 00:43:15,715
Speaker 1: in voters under thirty by forty three to thirty seven,

756
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Speaker 1: with twenty percent undecided. Press them, press the twenty percent

757
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Speaker 1: in the youth group under thirty, and they break for Biden,

758
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Speaker 1: and suddenly the voters under thirty are pulled accordingly Biden

759
00:43:29,515 --> 00:43:32,915
Speaker 1: fifty eight, Trump forty two, which is in keeping with

760
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Speaker 1: what happened in twenty twenty. This is actually interesting. Voters

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Speaker 1: who call themselves independent Trump forty two, Biden thirty nine,

762
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Speaker 1: undecided nineteen. When they pressed these undecided and my hat

763
00:43:44,515 --> 00:43:47,675
Speaker 1: is off as a skeptic of polling since I started

764
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Speaker 1: in this in nineteen ninety eight, they pressed undecided people

765
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Speaker 1: to give them a goddamned answer. When the n answers

766
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Speaker 1: are included, it goes from Trump forty two, Biden thirty

767
00:43:58,395 --> 00:44:01,835
Speaker 1: nine to Biden fifty two, Trump forty eight. And this

768
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Speaker 1: is amazing. Thirty percent of Biden's voters poll as recently

769
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Speaker 1: as Wednesday said they were supporting Biden because they opposed Trump.

770
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Speaker 1: The reverse the percentage of Trump voters who support him

771
00:44:15,475 --> 00:44:18,755
Speaker 1: because they oppose Biden, which is supposedly the key. How

772
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden is destroying this country and how Joe Biden

773
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Speaker 1: is this and how Joe Biden is too old and

774
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Speaker 1: could not possibly give a record breaking State of the

775
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Speaker 1: Union addressed for an hour and nine minutes. Twelve percent

776
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Speaker 1: of Trump voters are supporting Trump because they oppose Biden.

777
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Speaker 1: It has almost nothing to do with what Biden does

778
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Speaker 1: here or tonight. We're going forward. No wonder the Republicans

779
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Speaker 1: are so desperate to dirty up Joe Biden as they

780
00:44:44,795 --> 00:44:48,035
Speaker 1: will start to do when Robert Hurr, the former Special

781
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Speaker 1: Council who was actually a Trump operative, is still scheduled

782
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Speaker 1: to speak to a House committee next Monday about Joe

783
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Speaker 1: Biden's age and infirmity and inability to make himself clear

784
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Speaker 1: or understand things that had happened before. I suspect that

785
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Speaker 1: some of the Democratic members of that committee will simp

786
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Speaker 1: Please say, I'd like you to watch this tape of

787
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Speaker 1: this speech that he gave last week. Mister her, what

788
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Speaker 1: kind of life has a man whose name is her? Ben?

789
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Speaker 1: Ask her who him her? Emerson's pulling that's a joke

790
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Speaker 1: about gender. I'm sorry. Emerson's polling is not seriously altered

791
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Speaker 1: even by the presence of third party candidates in the

792
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Speaker 1: multi party universe, of multi candidate universe, Emerson has Trump

793
00:45:29,835 --> 00:45:33,715
Speaker 1: forty three, Biden forty two, Kennedy six West TOI Jill

794
00:45:33,795 --> 00:45:38,195
Speaker 1: Stein one seven percent undecided. So it is still essentially

795
00:45:38,235 --> 00:45:41,755
Speaker 1: a tie even with the other candidates. On issues, and

796
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Speaker 1: the economy is first at twenty nine, immigration twenty, threats

797
00:45:45,555 --> 00:45:48,315
Speaker 1: to democracy at fourteen, healthcare at twelve, and way down

798
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Speaker 1: behind crime and housing costs abortion access at five percent.

799
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Speaker 1: One thing to note, when ever, you see the list

800
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Speaker 1: of issues and what's important to the American voters, these

801
00:45:58,115 --> 00:46:02,035
Speaker 1: are not either or polling is done that way, which

802
00:46:02,115 --> 00:46:05,355
Speaker 1: is your most important issue? As if nine percent of

803
00:46:05,355 --> 00:46:07,755
Speaker 1: the country is worried only about the economy and could

804
00:46:07,835 --> 00:46:11,595
Speaker 1: not give a rats ass about any other topic, including

805
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Speaker 1: access to abortion. In other words, a democracy threat, healthcare,

806
00:46:16,955 --> 00:46:21,235
Speaker 1: abortion access worried voter, those would be those people would

807
00:46:21,275 --> 00:46:23,475
Speaker 1: like me be at around thirty one percent. Those who

808
00:46:23,555 --> 00:46:26,515
Speaker 1: are obsessive about immigration and the border would only be

809
00:46:26,635 --> 00:46:29,075
Speaker 1: at twenty percent. There was the age question that I

810
00:46:29,115 --> 00:46:32,355
Speaker 1: referenced earlier, that it was not a serious consideration forty

811
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Speaker 1: three percent. Compare that to the Trump indictments, forty six

812
00:46:36,515 --> 00:46:39,715
Speaker 1: percent said that raised doubts about Trump. To them, only

813
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Speaker 1: forty six percent underscoring once again that the Biden campaign

814
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Speaker 1: will need to do a lot of analysis, at a

815
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Speaker 1: lot of pressing of the points of what Trump is

816
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Speaker 1: being indicted for, and perhaps perhaps the courts here will

817
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Speaker 1: do something that will help us in that regard. There

818
00:46:55,035 --> 00:46:57,635
Speaker 1: is a pattern in most polls Trump is slightly ahead

819
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Speaker 1: with a lot of undecided This is the first poll

820
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Speaker 1: I've seen in which they press them and they go

821
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Speaker 1: the undecideds two to one or three three to one

822
00:47:05,675 --> 00:47:09,395
Speaker 1: for Joe Biden. What does it all mean? It means

823
00:47:09,475 --> 00:47:14,355
Speaker 1: that and again this does happen. Some politicians were right

824
00:47:15,395 --> 00:47:18,635
Speaker 1: and this guy was wrong. The Biden campaign has been

825
00:47:18,635 --> 00:47:22,475
Speaker 1: insisting this would happen, that the independence would break for them,

826
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Speaker 1: that he not only gets the undecideds and the independence,

827
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Speaker 1: he will get them in droves. They have described this,

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Speaker 1: and I'm quoting them, as the oh shit theory that

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Speaker 1: most independents and undecideds that they found in their own

830
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Speaker 1: internal White House polling or Democratic polling in this case,

831
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Speaker 1: really did not believe that Joe Biden would be facing

832
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump. They did not believe and have not believed

833
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Speaker 1: until this week, that Trump will actually be the Republican

834
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Speaker 1: nominee for a third time, and when that reality hit

835
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Speaker 1: them in the face, as it did when Nicki Haley withdrew,

836
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Speaker 1: they would go to Biden. And that number was once again,

837
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Speaker 1: Haley voter is breaking sixty three to twenty seven for Biden.

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Speaker 1: Almost no news organizations hit this poll because news organizations

839
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Speaker 1: are territorial about their polls. You can't change the narrative

840
00:48:08,675 --> 00:48:11,475
Speaker 1: before the speech that we just saw tonight. Their viewership

841
00:48:11,595 --> 00:48:14,875
Speaker 1: depends upon it. And I did, however, see that the

842
00:48:14,915 --> 00:48:16,915
Speaker 1: age issue was the only one that mattered. Who was

843
00:48:16,955 --> 00:48:19,555
Speaker 1: covered by somebody who had fallen asleep on the air

844
00:48:19,635 --> 00:48:21,915
Speaker 1: twice in the last two years, and somebody else who's

845
00:48:21,915 --> 00:48:25,515
Speaker 1: had two facelifts. So that is where we are with

846
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Speaker 1: the Emerson pole that I've been hyping, and now I

847
00:48:27,955 --> 00:48:29,955
Speaker 1: can't hype it anymore. I did want to play one

848
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Speaker 1: more clip and then I would begin to wrap this

849
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Speaker 1: up because I've taken almost an hour of your time

850
00:48:35,275 --> 00:48:39,635
Speaker 1: the recent moves, and Ran Paul addressed this yesterday. I

851
00:48:39,675 --> 00:48:42,795
Speaker 1: believe that Social Security and Medicare must be on the

852
00:48:42,835 --> 00:48:46,715
Speaker 1: table and must be cut. There was at no point

853
00:48:46,795 --> 00:48:50,035
Speaker 1: in this speech anything that Joe Biden said in a

854
00:48:50,115 --> 00:48:53,115
Speaker 1: half asked manner All of it was strong, all of

855
00:48:53,155 --> 00:48:56,755
Speaker 1: it was designed to get the point across thou shalt

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Speaker 1: not pass. But perhaps he was at his strongest talking

857
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Speaker 1: about this issue. Social Security and Medicare gets cut. As

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Speaker 1: you'll hear the President say now over his strenuous objections.

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Speaker 2: Tonight, let's all agree once again to stand up for seniors.

860
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Speaker 2: Many of my friends on the other side of all,

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Speaker 2: I want to put social security on the chopping block.

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Speaker 1: If anyone here.

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Speaker 2: Tries to cut Social Security, Medicare or raise the retirement age,

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Speaker 2: I will stop you. The working people, the working people

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Speaker 2: who built this country, pay more to social Security than

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Speaker 2: millionaires than billionaires do.

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Speaker 1: It's not fair. We have two ways to go.

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Speaker 2: Republicans can cut social Security and get more tax breaks

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Speaker 2: to the wealthy. I will that's the proposal. Oh no,

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Speaker 2: you guys don't want another two trillion dollar tax cut.

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Speaker 2: I kind of thought that's what your plan. Well, that's

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Speaker 2: good to hear. You're not going to cut another two

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Speaker 2: trillion dollars for the super wealth.

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Speaker 1: That's good to hear.

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Speaker 2: I'll protect and strengthen social security and make the wealthy

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Speaker 2: pay their fair share.

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Speaker 1: I do wonder whether or not the President brought all

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Speaker 1: those rakes the Republicans kept standing on and hitting themselves

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Speaker 1: in the forehead with, or if they just happened to

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Speaker 1: be on the floor of the House Chamber when everybody

881
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Speaker 1: walked in. A couple of more questions, a little other

882
00:50:35,955 --> 00:50:38,155
Speaker 1: news to close it out with, and then let's just

883
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Speaker 1: dive for a second into the other universe and get

884
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Speaker 1: the reaction from Fox News to tonight's speech. Biden State

885
00:50:45,595 --> 00:50:50,475
Speaker 1: of the Union blasted as nakedly partisan campaign speech, utter disgrace.

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00:50:51,115 --> 00:50:54,995
Speaker 1: Biden mentioned former President Donald Trump numerous times during his speech.

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Speaker 1: Actually he never said the name Trump first. He didn't

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Speaker 1: say it at all, Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News ten

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00:51:02,075 --> 00:51:05,675
Speaker 1: twenty nine pm Eastern Time. Biden State of the Union

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Speaker 1: speech was trashed by prominent political pundits for its political nature,

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00:51:10,555 --> 00:51:12,835
Speaker 1: with some likening it to more of a campaign speech

892
00:51:12,995 --> 00:51:16,875
Speaker 1: than an overview of the state of the country. This

893
00:51:17,395 --> 00:51:19,635
Speaker 1: you handed me the script to this. This is the speed.

894
00:51:19,715 --> 00:51:21,435
Speaker 1: This is what I heard him say. He said all

895
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Speaker 1: these things and he didn't really add lib off this.

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Speaker 1: This was the state of the Union. Well, they have

897
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Speaker 1: to do stuff like this, that's what they're paid for

898
00:51:28,955 --> 00:51:31,435
Speaker 1: because they couldn't get work anywhere else. I know many

899
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Speaker 1: of them. There are good people there. They're the ones

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Speaker 1: who have their resumes out every other place in the country.

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00:51:36,835 --> 00:51:39,155
Speaker 1: Attacking his opponent directly in the first minutes of his

902
00:51:39,195 --> 00:51:42,675
Speaker 1: speech is unprecedented and perhaps the most partisans start to

903
00:51:42,715 --> 00:51:45,035
Speaker 1: a State of the Union address in modern his memory,

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Speaker 1: AEI senior fellow and former speech writer for President George W.

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Speaker 1: Bush Mark Tiessen wrote on X during Biden's Thursday night speech, Well,

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00:51:53,195 --> 00:51:57,155
Speaker 1: if Mark Tison hated it, it was an a plus. Congratulations, mister.

907
00:51:57,155 --> 00:52:00,795
Speaker 1: President Biden criticized former President Donald Trump. Blah blah blah.

908
00:52:00,835 --> 00:52:02,995
Speaker 1: This man should never be allowed to take the rostrum

909
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Speaker 1: of the House and deliver a State of the uns

910
00:52:04,795 --> 00:52:07,835
Speaker 1: You an address again, Tisen posted on X moments later,

911
00:52:08,275 --> 00:52:11,115
Speaker 1: while we're covered through the election, Mark, you can dry

912
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Speaker 1: your pants now. There's another bit of Fox News, by

913
00:52:13,635 --> 00:52:16,315
Speaker 1: the way, and it does pertain to Joe Biden's age.

914
00:52:16,435 --> 00:52:21,595
Speaker 1: This just in Rupert Murdoch is getting married again. Rupert Murdoch,

915
00:52:21,915 --> 00:52:25,915
Speaker 1: who is Joe Biden's senior by eleven by one hundred

916
00:52:25,915 --> 00:52:29,475
Speaker 1: and eleven, by two hundred and eleven years, is going

917
00:52:29,515 --> 00:52:32,635
Speaker 1: to marry a retired I can't even say it. He's

918
00:52:32,635 --> 00:52:36,195
Speaker 1: going to marry a retired biologist who is sixty seven

919
00:52:36,755 --> 00:52:40,595
Speaker 1: and again, Rupert Murdoch is two hundred and six. From

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Speaker 1: Jessica Dwyer on YouTube, I have a question I will

921
00:52:43,115 --> 00:52:45,675
Speaker 1: answer for you. Do you think Trump will actually get

922
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Speaker 1: on a debate stage with Biden at this point after

923
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Speaker 1: his lack of GOP attendance. I'm wondering, and I've been

924
00:52:51,635 --> 00:52:54,595
Speaker 1: thinking about this in particular, so thank you for asking me, Jessica,

925
00:52:54,635 --> 00:52:57,315
Speaker 1: because this has been much on my mind of late.

926
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Speaker 1: I'm wondering if he is trying to get Biden to

927
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Speaker 1: refuse to debate him. He's already proposed debating him now,

928
00:53:03,715 --> 00:53:07,675
Speaker 1: rather than waiting until the actual, say months before, directly

929
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Speaker 1: before the election. He's trying to have a debate now,

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00:53:10,635 --> 00:53:13,435
Speaker 1: and I suspect it is there to try to get

931
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Speaker 1: Biden to refuse to do it so he can say

932
00:53:16,475 --> 00:53:19,715
Speaker 1: Biden has refused to do it now, and then at

933
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Speaker 1: the time of year when the debates would actually get

934
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Speaker 1: the attendance and get the attention of those who do

935
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Speaker 1: not follow this as we do, some sort of September

936
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Speaker 1: October range, that he could then come back and say, well,

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00:53:31,555 --> 00:53:34,635
Speaker 1: you didn't want to debate me in April. I'm not

938
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Speaker 1: going to debate you now. On the other hand, we

939
00:53:37,155 --> 00:53:39,275
Speaker 1: do have to address that whatever it is that's wrong

940
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Speaker 1: with him, whether it's aphasia or whether it is dementia

941
00:53:42,275 --> 00:53:45,235
Speaker 1: or something else, that's wrong, and there's another theory as

942
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Speaker 1: to what is going on and why so many of

943
00:53:47,675 --> 00:53:50,715
Speaker 1: the things that he says sound like the word he

944
00:53:50,795 --> 00:53:53,755
Speaker 1: is trying to get but don't quite get there, like

945
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Speaker 1: ballet and billet or something along the nis lines. There

946
00:53:58,835 --> 00:54:01,955
Speaker 1: is a theory that there are a thousand theories and

947
00:54:01,955 --> 00:54:04,075
Speaker 1: they've been working for twenty years, that there is something

948
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Speaker 1: not functioning correctly in his brain. And he may just

949
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Speaker 1: think that what he just saw in the State of

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Speaker 1: the Union address from President Biden is something that he

951
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Speaker 1: could clean the table with, and that would be a

952
00:54:16,955 --> 00:54:19,675
Speaker 1: first evidence that there is something very wrong with Trump's brain,

953
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Speaker 1: because no one on the Republican Party, including Nicki Haley,

954
00:54:23,795 --> 00:54:29,355
Speaker 1: including Chris Christi, including George W. Bush, including Ronald Reagan,

955
00:54:29,435 --> 00:54:32,355
Speaker 1: dug up and propped up, could have competed with Joe

956
00:54:32,395 --> 00:54:36,475
Speaker 1: Biden tonight. Question for Keith from kat Z on YouTube.

957
00:54:36,475 --> 00:54:39,635
Speaker 1: Do you think he missed a great opportunity to highlight

958
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Speaker 1: the GOP's plan to cut spending for police. I think

959
00:54:42,475 --> 00:54:45,475
Speaker 1: that's an extraordinarily good question. In fact, had this in

960
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Speaker 1: my list of was he going to do this? He

961
00:54:47,835 --> 00:54:51,875
Speaker 1: did not do it. I suspect that to bring attention

962
00:54:51,955 --> 00:54:54,835
Speaker 1: to it again goes back to that culling process. If

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Speaker 1: you wanted to, as I face every day, and as

964
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Speaker 1: you do too, if you wanted to analyze everything the

965
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Speaker 1: Republicans were doing, that you could grab from them, row

966
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Speaker 1: up and then poke one of their eyes out with

967
00:55:07,515 --> 00:55:09,835
Speaker 1: You could just analyze it for twenty four hours a day,

968
00:55:09,835 --> 00:55:11,915
Speaker 1: and you're never actually get get around to do it.

969
00:55:12,315 --> 00:55:14,395
Speaker 1: I suspect that some things were put over here in

970
00:55:14,395 --> 00:55:18,755
Speaker 1: this other pile for let's do this next month. From

971
00:55:18,795 --> 00:55:22,235
Speaker 1: twitch Megan two fifty seven. Keith, if Trump's cognitive gas

972
00:55:22,315 --> 00:55:24,755
Speaker 1: continue and or worse than this year, do you think

973
00:55:24,875 --> 00:55:27,635
Speaker 1: it would benefit or hurt Biden's image if he called

974
00:55:27,635 --> 00:55:32,155
Speaker 1: it out. I think he is a man who knows

975
00:55:32,235 --> 00:55:34,355
Speaker 1: when to do it himself and when to let others

976
00:55:34,395 --> 00:55:36,675
Speaker 1: do it. And I would say something else. This is

977
00:55:36,715 --> 00:55:39,275
Speaker 1: another but behind the scenes picture about Joe Biden that

978
00:55:39,315 --> 00:55:41,235
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever told before. In any kind

979
00:55:41,275 --> 00:55:45,555
Speaker 1: of detail. I was the moderator for what was not

980
00:55:45,595 --> 00:55:48,075
Speaker 1: officially called a debate. It was called a candidate's form

981
00:55:48,395 --> 00:55:51,355
Speaker 1: at Soldier Field in Chicago during the height of the

982
00:55:51,355 --> 00:55:54,235
Speaker 1: Democratic race in two thousand and seven, in August, last

983
00:55:54,235 --> 00:55:58,235
Speaker 1: week of August in Chicago outside Now what the temperature was,

984
00:55:58,275 --> 00:56:01,035
Speaker 1: It was one hundred and fifty two degrees. It was

985
00:56:01,115 --> 00:56:04,395
Speaker 1: actually something like eighty nine degrees and equal humidity and

986
00:56:04,435 --> 00:56:07,355
Speaker 1: the red of thunderstorms. And it was the AFL and

987
00:56:07,395 --> 00:56:11,395
Speaker 1: CIO and thirty five thousand guys from mostly the Midwest,

988
00:56:11,475 --> 00:56:15,155
Speaker 1: from mostly Chicago were sitting out behind us, drinking beer,

989
00:56:15,715 --> 00:56:18,115
Speaker 1: and we were having this little debate. It was me

990
00:56:18,275 --> 00:56:21,995
Speaker 1: as the MC. I swept so much through my suit

991
00:56:22,195 --> 00:56:25,035
Speaker 1: that I had to have help peeling off my jacket

992
00:56:25,035 --> 00:56:27,355
Speaker 1: when the show was over. In any event, at some

993
00:56:27,595 --> 00:56:32,555
Speaker 1: point a question was asked of all the candidates, and

994
00:56:33,395 --> 00:56:35,875
Speaker 1: either I did not go to then Senator Biden for

995
00:56:35,955 --> 00:56:40,195
Speaker 1: his reaction to whatever this question was, or he felt

996
00:56:40,435 --> 00:56:43,315
Speaker 1: that someone had missed. I believe somebody had misquoted him

997
00:56:43,435 --> 00:56:44,755
Speaker 1: one of the others. And this was when they were

998
00:56:44,835 --> 00:56:47,115
Speaker 1: all still in it. John Edwards was still in it,

999
00:56:47,115 --> 00:56:49,275
Speaker 1: and obviously Hillary Clinton was still in it, and Bill

1000
00:56:49,355 --> 00:56:52,395
Speaker 1: Richardson and Dennis Kucinich, and they were all out there

1001
00:56:52,435 --> 00:56:55,915
Speaker 1: with the eventual nominee, of course, President Obama and the

1002
00:56:55,915 --> 00:56:58,875
Speaker 1: eventual a vice President Biden, and in we took a

1003
00:56:58,875 --> 00:57:01,075
Speaker 1: break and Joe Biden came over to me and said,

1004
00:57:01,275 --> 00:57:03,995
Speaker 1: when next time you come over to me, I'm going

1005
00:57:04,035 --> 00:57:06,755
Speaker 1: to go in and and address that subject where I

1006
00:57:06,835 --> 00:57:09,035
Speaker 1: was misquoted and you didn't give me the opportunity to

1007
00:57:09,035 --> 00:57:12,355
Speaker 1: correct that. And I went, don't do it, and he said,

1008
00:57:12,355 --> 00:57:13,635
Speaker 1: what do you mean, don't do it? I said, it's

1009
00:57:13,675 --> 00:57:15,715
Speaker 1: going to make bad television. I'm not going to talk

1010
00:57:15,755 --> 00:57:18,075
Speaker 1: to you about the issue, but don't do it. We

1011
00:57:18,195 --> 00:57:20,595
Speaker 1: have coming up in the next segment, and you know

1012
00:57:20,675 --> 00:57:22,995
Speaker 1: this because I just said it. We have the widow

1013
00:57:23,515 --> 00:57:25,915
Speaker 1: of a man, a miner who had just been killed

1014
00:57:26,435 --> 00:57:29,115
Speaker 1: in a mine accident I believe in West Virginia, and

1015
00:57:29,195 --> 00:57:31,355
Speaker 1: she's going to ask a question from the audience, and

1016
00:57:31,395 --> 00:57:33,195
Speaker 1: you're all going to get a chance to talk about it.

1017
00:57:33,475 --> 00:57:37,475
Speaker 1: You're the working man's candidate. I see you're on the

1018
00:57:37,515 --> 00:57:39,635
Speaker 1: list of who gets to talk about this. I can't

1019
00:57:39,635 --> 00:57:41,235
Speaker 1: have you all do it, and you'd be the natural

1020
00:57:41,275 --> 00:57:43,395
Speaker 1: one to do it, and he said, I still think

1021
00:57:43,835 --> 00:57:45,475
Speaker 1: I'm going to bring that up, and I went, don't

1022
00:57:45,595 --> 00:57:48,475
Speaker 1: do it? Sure enough, she asked the question. Everybody in

1023
00:57:48,555 --> 00:57:55,115
Speaker 1: a crowd full of afl CIO members went. The pain

1024
00:57:55,435 --> 00:57:59,035
Speaker 1: was both palpable and professional. It was personal, and it

1025
00:57:59,195 --> 00:58:02,555
Speaker 1: was something that they had experienced firsthand in their blue

1026
00:58:02,595 --> 00:58:05,875
Speaker 1: collar jobs throughout their lives. And Joe Biden knew it too.

1027
00:58:06,195 --> 00:58:08,515
Speaker 1: And Joe Biden could not stop himself in two thousand

1028
00:58:08,515 --> 00:58:11,675
Speaker 1: and seven and went off topic, consoled the woman on

1029
00:58:11,715 --> 00:58:13,515
Speaker 1: her loss, and then went back, I'd like to go

1030
00:58:13,635 --> 00:58:15,355
Speaker 1: back to And it was at that point that I

1031
00:58:15,395 --> 00:58:18,915
Speaker 1: knew that his candidacy for president was over. At that point,

1032
00:58:19,075 --> 00:58:22,035
Speaker 1: today and in the years since, one of the things

1033
00:58:22,275 --> 00:58:25,595
Speaker 1: in his elder years, and we can't say old age,

1034
00:58:25,595 --> 00:58:28,915
Speaker 1: because he's got another five years in him. Clearly after

1035
00:58:28,915 --> 00:58:31,515
Speaker 1: tonight he may have another fifty years in him. But

1036
00:58:31,755 --> 00:58:35,235
Speaker 1: clearly he has learned when to let other people do

1037
00:58:35,555 --> 00:58:38,315
Speaker 1: the dirty work for him and when to leave a

1038
00:58:38,395 --> 00:58:41,675
Speaker 1: less than perfect situation alone and have others handle it.

1039
00:58:41,995 --> 00:58:44,555
Speaker 1: And I believe what he would do in this is

1040
00:58:44,595 --> 00:58:47,435
Speaker 1: to just sit back and go accept in the debate

1041
00:58:47,475 --> 00:58:49,755
Speaker 1: format in which it might be necessary to point out

1042
00:58:49,875 --> 00:58:52,075
Speaker 1: that the man had just started speaking in tongues. I

1043
00:58:52,115 --> 00:58:54,555
Speaker 1: don't think it would serve him at all to mention

1044
00:58:54,795 --> 00:59:06,875
Speaker 1: Trump's increasing imbecility. That's my job, awakening death right, Awakening death,

1045
00:59:07,475 --> 00:59:10,835
Speaker 1: awakening death right. So on twitch. How many of you

1046
00:59:10,915 --> 00:59:17,155
Speaker 1: responded to mister awakening death in the chat rooms here? Okay?

1047
00:59:17,315 --> 00:59:20,635
Speaker 1: Can we get the Olderman poll calculation conversions on an

1048
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Speaker 1: upcoming podcast? The poll calculation conversions? Oh, the Olderman number.

1049
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Speaker 1: I could do that again, Yes, thank you, Awakening Death

1050
00:59:36,235 --> 00:59:39,355
Speaker 1: from b p J on YouTube. Do you think that

1051
00:59:39,435 --> 00:59:42,435
Speaker 1: President Biden should address or comment in more detail about

1052
00:59:42,435 --> 00:59:45,235
Speaker 1: the developing criminal cases against Trump. Frankly, I'd like to

1053
00:59:45,275 --> 00:59:49,035
Speaker 1: see more of that. Most people are uninformed. They are uninformed.

1054
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Speaker 1: We noticed this that about the all the comments you

1055
00:59:52,395 --> 00:59:55,155
Speaker 1: saw this polling. It was done in the swing states

1056
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Speaker 1: of potential Biden voters. In other words, everybody who disbelieved

1057
00:59:58,835 --> 01:00:01,635
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election, everybody who said they supported Trump.

1058
01:00:01,635 --> 01:00:05,595
Speaker 1: We've thrown out of this internal calculation, internal polling that

1059
01:00:05,675 --> 01:00:08,475
Speaker 1: was done for the Democrats. They came back in three

1060
01:00:08,515 --> 01:00:11,555
Speaker 1: swing states with an indication that the total number of

1061
01:00:11,595 --> 01:00:17,075
Speaker 1: people who had heard all of the truly frightening dictatorship,

1062
01:00:17,235 --> 01:00:21,035
Speaker 1: and violent quotes and poisoning, the blood quotes and everything

1063
01:00:21,035 --> 01:00:24,835
Speaker 1: else that Trump was doing. Thirty one percent had heard

1064
01:00:24,875 --> 01:00:27,555
Speaker 1: these statements. And when they were told these statements, apparently

1065
01:00:27,635 --> 01:00:30,675
Speaker 1: for the first time, the negativity score for Trump jumped

1066
01:00:30,715 --> 01:00:34,795
Speaker 1: by seven or eight points during the polling. So one

1067
01:00:34,835 --> 01:00:37,475
Speaker 1: can assume, and I haven't seen polling on it, that

1068
01:00:37,915 --> 01:00:40,435
Speaker 1: there is perhaps a similar although I wouldn't think it

1069
01:00:40,435 --> 01:00:43,075
Speaker 1: could possibly be thirty one percent. But if it's fifty

1070
01:00:43,115 --> 01:00:46,155
Speaker 1: one percent, if half the public is fully unaware of

1071
01:00:46,195 --> 01:00:49,355
Speaker 1: the criminal cases against Trump, both by the Special prosecutor

1072
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Speaker 1: and in New York, and even the case in Georgia,

1073
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Speaker 1: perhaps there should be more efforts made in getting those

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Speaker 1: things out. But the answer, like the answer about Trump's instability,

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Speaker 1: the answer is how much money did they put into

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Speaker 1: those swing state ads online and on television and on

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Speaker 1: radio for the last couple of months of the campaign?

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Speaker 1: Was it one hundred and two hundred and forty million?

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Speaker 1: Put them in ads. They're much more effective that way,

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Speaker 1: And all you have to do is run the tape

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Speaker 1: of Trump. If you don't have to have anybody saying anything,

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Speaker 1: least of all being President Biden, or at the end

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Speaker 1: you can just have him go in like this. I'm

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden and I approved that message. Does God help us?

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Speaker 1: It's true, Paul Dolan. Did he go hard enough on

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Speaker 1: the Supreme Court justices? Well, it was hard to say.

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Speaker 1: I've had my own negative comments, and I've been misquoted.

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Speaker 1: I did not tell any of them to fu, but

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Speaker 1: I've had my own comments about what the three liberals

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Speaker 1: remaining on the on the Supreme Court did not do

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Speaker 1: in the Colorado case, which was to state sort of

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Speaker 1: the obvious that the other six were apparently incapable of

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Speaker 1: actually reading and could not see what the fourteenth Amendment said,

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Speaker 1: nor the fact that that since there was a Senate

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Speaker 1: and House overright of the fourteenth Amendment, it meant that

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Speaker 1: it was automatic. And yes, the Senate and the House

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Speaker 1: were the venues in which something could be done about

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Speaker 1: someone being called disqualified for the presidency, but that thing

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Speaker 1: would be to override it. Did he go hard enough

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Speaker 1: on them? The ones who did the damage were too

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Speaker 1: chicken shit to show up tonight, so it wouldn't have

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Speaker 1: made that much difference. Celtic Ray Film Works from YouTube.

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Speaker 1: What the hell was Mike Johnson's deal. It was like

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Speaker 1: he was spot welded into his seat. Again, you're looking

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Speaker 1: at probably what I saw, which was the second half

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Speaker 1: of that speech when he realized perhaps someone sent him

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Speaker 1: a text, perhaps someone in the crowd from the Republican

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Speaker 1: Party held up a big sign saying you're nodding in agreement, moron,

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Speaker 1: and he decided the next best opportunity was just to

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Speaker 1: sort of sit there and, as you suggest, not only

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Speaker 1: weld but seemingly melt into his seat like this. There's

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Speaker 1: something very odd about Mike Johnson. And that's quite a

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Speaker 1: quote to say when you consider his predecessor and the

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Speaker 1: other people who were candidates for that job. There's something

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Speaker 1: really odd about Mike Johnson, really really odd. One last question,

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Speaker 1: then we'll close with the other news before we sign

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Speaker 1: off for the night. Twitch comment Ray MM three eighty

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Speaker 1: five to two underscore zero one. You chose that or

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Speaker 1: was it assigned to you? Mister Olderman. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: the formality. I'd like to hear your spicy thoughts on

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Speaker 1: how MTG others acted. I'm not going to resort to

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Speaker 1: something that was sent to me by an actual respectable

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Speaker 1: member of the media, which was a picture that was

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Speaker 1: supposedly of Neanderthal woman, and it looked exactly like Marjorie

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Speaker 1: Taylor Green. Although I have called her congresswoman cave woman before,

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Speaker 1: and I think that fits. There's nothing out of character

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Speaker 1: for that. The House won't do anything to her for

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Speaker 1: violating the regulations against wearing a campaign insignia, especially not

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Speaker 1: just on the House floor, but especially in the occasion

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Speaker 1: of the State of the Union address. The only people

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Speaker 1: who will be able to take care of her would

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Speaker 1: be a Democratic state legislature in Georgia by redistricting that area,

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Speaker 1: which apparently consists entirely of people with IQ's under forty.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's close with the other news. I mentioned

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Speaker 1: Rupert Murdoch getting married again, and I should mention that

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Speaker 1: we are expecting him to get married again. Number one,

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Speaker 1: he is ninety two years old. Two The last time

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Speaker 1: he was engaged to I believe a woman who lost

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Speaker 1: a bet it didn't happen. She called it off. Perhaps

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Speaker 1: there was family intervention. Here's the other news. If Trump

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Speaker 1: disappears over the weekend, check to see if he has

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Speaker 1: faked his own death because Judge Lewis Kaplan denied his

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Speaker 1: bid on Thursday, to stay the depositing of the eighty

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Speaker 1: three million he now owes Egen Carroll or forfeit his

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Speaker 1: right to appeal that finding. That is five hundred and

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Speaker 1: forty eight million dollars that Trump has to come up

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Speaker 1: with by the end of the month. But don't worry,

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Speaker 1: he boasted on Fox that he has enough money to

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Speaker 1: do anything he wants, so he better want to pay

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Speaker 1: up to Egene Carroll. And also this of New York

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Speaker 1: all right, second of six stories to close with. MSNBC

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Speaker 1: and CNN both sold time to a Trump super pack

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Speaker 1: to attack President Biden's age. The first running of this

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Speaker 1: jungular commercial was during Biden's favorite show, Morning Joe. I

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Speaker 1: love your President, Biden, but that's what you get for

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Speaker 1: watching Joe Scarborough. I mean, I worked at both networks,

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Speaker 1: so I get it. The network sales divisions, commercials divisions

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Speaker 1: are brothels. But once again, I'd like to apologize for

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Speaker 1: MSNBC number three. I'm sure you saw this, but I

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Speaker 1: had a thought. Biden tweeted out highlights of a zoom

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Speaker 1: call with actors who have portrayed presidents in movies, ranging

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Speaker 1: from Geena Davis to Bill Pullman to Morgan Freeman. Somehow

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Speaker 1: they left out Marty Sheen, my friend Martin Sheen from

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Speaker 1: the West Wing. Of all of the guys who portrayed presidents,

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Speaker 1: who's better known for it still than Martin Sheen from

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Speaker 1: the West Wing? And I might add Martin Sheen alone

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Speaker 1: among all of these distinguished actors who gave something to

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Speaker 1: that role, he was the one who just happened to

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Speaker 1: have fleece jackets and letterhead stationary that reads the acting

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Speaker 1: President of the United States to me, one of the

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Speaker 1: great troll jobs of all time. Here's happy news from

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Speaker 1: retiring Democratic congress and Derek Kilmer of Washington. He's filing

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Speaker 1: a bipartisan bill instructing each member of the House to produce,

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Speaker 1: upon taking office, a list of five backup congressmen, one

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Speaker 1: of whom would be immediately appointed to their office to

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Speaker 1: serve out their term, or at least until a special

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Speaker 1: election could be arranged if they get assassinated. Congressman Kilmer

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Speaker 1: is very worried about political violence in this country, and

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Speaker 1: I really don't know on this one story whether to

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Speaker 1: laugh or cry. Eileen Cannon, the former yoga correspondent of

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Speaker 1: the Miami Nuevo Herald, and now Trump's concierge. Federal judge

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Speaker 1: ruled on Thursday that there will be a hearing a

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Speaker 1: week hence next Thursday, to address Trump's motion to dismiss

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Speaker 1: counts one through thirty two of the Stolen Document's case

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Speaker 1: on unconstitutional vagueness. That was the filing from the Trump attorneys.

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Speaker 1: It's not an evidentiary hearing. It's also not likely to

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Speaker 1: lead to such dismissals, just to more evidentiary hearings unconstitutional vagueness.

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Speaker 1: We are told I'm waiting for a jack Smith filing

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Speaker 1: in reply citing legal snideness. And lastly, perhaps the highlight

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Speaker 1: of the day, other than the President kicking the shit

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Speaker 1: out of the Republicans. Since he left the Navy to

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Speaker 1: run for Congress, doctor Ronnie Jackson has referred to himself

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Speaker 1: as a retired rear admiral. Trump has called him that

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Speaker 1: as recently as last week. It turns out that when

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Speaker 1: he left in twenty nineteen, shortly thereafter he was busted.

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Speaker 1: He was busted in rank to captain from rear admiral

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Speaker 1: because of misconduct while he was White House physician and

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Speaker 1: the world's only actual living breathing vending machine that spewed

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Speaker 1: out ambience if you put in a quarter and frankly,

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Speaker 1: and I'll close with this. Ronnie Jackson is lucky, but

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Speaker 1: the Navy did not make him walk the plank. So

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Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. It's being eleven forty

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Speaker 1: three Eastern time. Those of you who like to get

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Speaker 1: the podcast at twelve oh nine am on Friday morning,

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Speaker 1: you may have to wait a little bit. I hope

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Speaker 1: this was valuable to you. We will meet with the

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Speaker 1: entirety of management and iHeart five thousand different people and

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Speaker 1: discuss in the next few days how many more of

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Speaker 1: these we will do in the future. We may have

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Speaker 1: a guest, although I have surprised myself because I have

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Speaker 1: talked longer than the President did. Have I not? I

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Speaker 1: just got over that, did I. I thank you for

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Speaker 1: your support on the podcast. As you know, there is

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Speaker 1: an award ceremony over the weekend in which we will

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Speaker 1: not win Political Podcast of the Year. However, the nomination

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Speaker 1: really does count and I'm honored by it, and I

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Speaker 1: am honored by your continuing support for the podcast. And

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Speaker 1: I'd also like to say that I finally found a

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Speaker 1: boss that I like most of the time. Me So

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Speaker 1: on behalf of everybody, including the dogs who contributed my

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Speaker 1: not being home doing the podcast in my suit closet

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Speaker 1: where I normally record it. I must do a video

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Speaker 1: for you on what that looks like. Maybe not. I

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Speaker 1: thank you and I wish you all of the good luck,

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Speaker 1: and I hope this was of use to you. I

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Speaker 1: hope you agree with me on everything that I say,

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Speaker 1: because why else would I say it?

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Speaker 3: Thank you, good night, I had good luck? Well, wasn't

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Speaker 3: that exciting? Live?

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Speaker 1: And then on tape. I've done all the damage I

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Speaker 1: can do here. Thank you for listening to this special

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Speaker 1: edition State of the Union Postgame Show Countdown podcast. Our

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Speaker 1: musical directors, Brian Ray and John Phillip Chanel arranged, produced,

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Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. That's because they're musical directors.

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Speaker 1: Mister Ray on good our base and drums. Mister Chanelle

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Speaker 1: handled orchestration in keyboards. It was produced by Tko Brothers.

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Speaker 1: Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions, were arranged

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Speaker 1: and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. The sports

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Speaker 1: music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by

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Speaker 1: Mitch Warren Davis. Courtesy of ESPN Inc. Our satirical and

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Speaker 1: pithy musical comments are by Nancy Faust, the best baseball

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Speaker 1: stadium organists ever. Our announcer today was well, I guess

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Speaker 1: it was President Biden, wasn't it. Everything else was pretty

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Speaker 1: much my fault. That's countdown for this two hundred and

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Speaker 1: forty third day before the twenty twenty four presidential election.

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Speaker 1: One one hundred and fifty seventh day since dementia J

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Speaker 1: Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of

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Speaker 1: the United States. Use the Fourteenth Amendment, the Insurrection Act,

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Speaker 1: the justice system, and the mental health system to stop

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Speaker 1: him from doing it again while we still can. The

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Speaker 1: next schedule countdown is Monday. Bulletins is the news warrants

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Speaker 1: Until then, I'm Keith. Good morning, good afternoon, good night,

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Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olreman is a production

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Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app,

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Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.