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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Radio. Yes, President Biden is going to Saudi Arabia.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the fastest hour in politics, as gas prices

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Speaker 1: and are multifaceted discussions with the Saudias. So what else

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Speaker 1: with Daniel Kurtzer, former US Ambassador to Israel and Egypt's

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Speaker 1: It's a very complicated, substantive agenda with very severe political

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Speaker 1: Consulate General. Every aspect of this trip has complications. You

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Speaker 1: Congrats on getting this series off the ground. Why does

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Speaker 1: It was fascinating to hear from Senator Sander and grahams

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Speaker 1: Chair of the board at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute,

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Speaker 1: thank you for creating this forum for intellectual debate and

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Speaker 1: stay in touch with us as it moves forward. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: and let the healing begin. Coming up, we put it

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Speaker 1: to the next set of primaries. It's Primary Day. Genie

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Speaker 1: Chamzano and Doug High back with us next on the

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Speaker 1: fastest Hour in Politics. I'm Joe Matthew. This is Bloomberg.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Bloomberg. You sound on with Joe Matthew

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Speaker 1: on Bloomberg Radio. The Senate Project Debate. We just talked

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Speaker 1: about between Bernie Sanders and Lindsey Graham was aimed at

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Speaker 1: the line. And if you ask Senator Bernie Sanders, it's

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Speaker 1: we have a form of president. His name is Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: It goes around the country telling people, hey, I won

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Speaker 1: the election. Bat I probably wanted by a landslide, but

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Speaker 1: they stole it. They took it away from me. All right. Now,

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Speaker 1: that happens to me what we call a big lie.

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Speaker 1: And yet many of the Republicans that Senator Graham or

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Speaker 1: asking you to vote for maintaining that big life. What

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Speaker 1: does that mean? It goes beyond Trump, It goes beyond

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Speaker 1: the election. It means what they are saying is the

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Speaker 1: entire system. You can't trust anybody. And if you can't

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Speaker 1: trust the election results, that what is the obvious old turnative.

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Speaker 1: We need a strong man. That would be Donald Trump. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you ask Lindsey Graham, and he's kind of shaking

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Speaker 1: because he acknowledges for him it comes down to a

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Speaker 1: I'm voted to certify the election. President binds the president

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Speaker 1: and whether from the election. Yeah, okay, but what about

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Speaker 1: all of the candidies out there, and we're trying to

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Speaker 1: say that he did your Republican candidates, So you want

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Speaker 1: people to vote for it? Well, you know, court about

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Speaker 1: the people saying defund the police, You talk to them

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Speaker 1: But a good time to reassemble the panel. I'm deeply

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Speaker 1: curious to hear what Genie and Doug think of all

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Speaker 1: of this. Bloomberg Politics contributor, Democratic analyst Genie Chanzyo. Doug

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Speaker 1: High is back today, Republican strategist, former communications director at

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Speaker 1: the Republican National Committee. Doug, when you hear this, I

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Speaker 1: But there there are intractable points of disagreement. They found

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Speaker 1: Committee hearings are taking place, Doug, we're reminded that will

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Speaker 1: compromise is within reach. We are still deeply divided over

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Speaker 1: issues that don't seem like they're going to resolve anytime soon. No, no,

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Speaker 1: they certainly don't. And as these hearings continue, it's clear

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Speaker 1: G D, were you inspired by this exercise or concerned

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Speaker 1: you can't just inspire them, because some are inspired and

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Speaker 1: a Trump endorsed candidate after voting to support impeachment. That's

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Speaker 1: Tom Rice. Representative Tom Rice, Republican from South Carolina. He

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Speaker 1: Tom is a Tom Tom Rice. You don't have to say.

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Speaker 1: He talks about all the horrible things he's done in

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Speaker 1: progress over petting this. Let's put results over revenge. I'm

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Speaker 1: Tom Rice and I approved this message. Results over revenge.

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Speaker 1: Doug High, who are you watching as a potential winner tomorrow?

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Speaker 1: Can he defend this seat? He can look at you know,

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Speaker 1: and from there it's really up to individual districts, individual

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Speaker 1: Having a risky candidate like Eric Gryton's as the nominee

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Speaker 1: how important is it for Tom Rice to win this

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Speaker 1: he's one of ten, you know who voted for impeachments.

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Speaker 1: So this is going to be a real marker today.

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Speaker 1: And you know, Joe, I told you earlier this ad

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Speaker 1: So I was just fascinated by that ad. But you know,

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Speaker 1: Mace has been a lot less vocal um. Of course.

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Speaker 1: You know, her third day in Congress, she votes to

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Speaker 1: vitriol and anger, and now she's got this opponent who

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Speaker 1: And his criticism of lax All is that Laxol did

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Speaker 1: it's almost like who can out maga who at this point, Well,

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Speaker 1: that's I guess that's true, Doug. I mean, it's it's

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Speaker 1: shades of revenge here when it comes to Tom Right.

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Speaker 1: And you you mentioned Nancy Mace. First, she did not

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Speaker 1: It got to the point, thug, and I'm you probably

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Speaker 1: to impeach. Yeah. Absolutely, And you know, it's it's interesting

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Speaker 1: can be. Anyways, Clearly that was the Pennsylvania Senate primary

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Speaker 1: and then we'll see from there and can they nominate

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Speaker 1: Republicans who can win in November? And that's first and

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Speaker 1: Doug Hi Genie Chanzano. Thanks to you both for being

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Speaker 1: our panel these last couple of days. Happy primary Day

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Speaker 1: will have results tomorrow. I'm Joe Matthew, this is Bloomberg,