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Speaker 1: Welcome to this edition of Hits and Misses. The warning.

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Speaker 1: It is the fifth of April. Two hundred and thirteen

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Speaker 1: days remain until America decides who the next commander in

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Speaker 1: chief will be, President Joe Biden or the insurrectionist Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: Each Friday, we look back the biggest hit and the

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Speaker 1: biggest miss of the week. All right, let's go to

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Speaker 1: the video table. Recognet, let's start with the mess. No labels,

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Speaker 1: after years of hype, of blissed promises, over promises and

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Speaker 1: more over promises, did not, in the end come up

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Speaker 1: with a candidate. The whole thing was nonsensical from the beginning,

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Speaker 1: the idea that a small back room would choose a

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Speaker 1: national unity ticket a Democrat and Republican and pair them,

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Speaker 1: discounting completely the nature of individual character, intellect, fortitude, all

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Speaker 1: of the qualities that produced great political leaders in times

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Speaker 1: of crisis. No label said, none of that matters. All

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Speaker 1: that does is the mechanics, the details, the ballot access.

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Speaker 1: No labels promised over and over again, it had the money,

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Speaker 1: it had the resources, it had the interest. Incredibly, one

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Speaker 1: of its coach chairmen, the moderate Republican from Maryland, Larry Hogan,

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden resigns from No Labels, endorses Donald Trump,

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Speaker 1: and a few days later announces his candidacy for the

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Speaker 1: US Senate in Maryland. This supposedly principal man who would

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Speaker 1: never get on board on the Trump train, all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, well he needs the endorsement. I guess here's

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Speaker 1: the deal. There are scams, and there are scams, and

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Speaker 1: whatever No Labels was, it just is in a league

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Speaker 1: of its own. Never has so much been written about

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Speaker 1: so little of nothing. What is it that it has

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Speaker 1: ever done? Has ever accomplished nothing? Zero. It's one of

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Speaker 1: the great misses in all of politics. And it's an

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Speaker 1: even bigger miss that so much has been written about

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Speaker 1: it and nobody truthful could even tell you what it is.

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Speaker 1: So for this week, the miss of the Week goes

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Speaker 1: to No Labels, who, in the end won't do a

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Speaker 1: single thing they promised to do in twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 1: No Labels for the miss of the week. And the

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Speaker 1: hit of the week is literally a hit, a strike

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Speaker 1: the destruction of an Iranian Revolutionary Guard military compound in

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Speaker 1: Syria that the Iranian government is calling a consulate. It

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Speaker 1: was flattened, destroyed, it's gone and along with it. We're

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Speaker 1: seven senior Iranian military commanders. Now. Experts in the region

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Speaker 1: are calling this on the part of Israel a major

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Speaker 1: provocation and it will yield ultimately a Massiveian retaliation. We'll see.

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Speaker 1: But the war in the Middle East is in danger

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Speaker 1: of escalating, spreading to the northern border where Lebanon and

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Speaker 1: Israel come together. What is it that we would call

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Speaker 1: a war that it escalates and spreads in the Middle

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Speaker 1: East and joins with a spreading war in Europe and

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Speaker 1: maybe with conflict in Asia. That war would be called

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Speaker 1: World War three. And it has been the work of

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Speaker 1: eighty years time to make sure it never happens. Today

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Speaker 1: is an epic anniversary in the history of world peace

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Speaker 1: because it is the birthday of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization,

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Speaker 1: the most successful military alliance in world history that has

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Speaker 1: kept the peace peace for eighty years NATO and Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump says he wants to get rid of it. Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump says he'll withdraw from it. Donald Trump says, we

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Speaker 1: won't honor the commitments that have only ever once been triggered,

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Speaker 1: and that was in defense of us by all of

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Speaker 1: our NATO allies. On September eleventh of two thousand and one,

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Speaker 1: when America was attacked. There's a simple truth. Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: is a danger to the peace in Europe, in the

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Speaker 1: Middle East, all over the world because of his ineptitude,

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Speaker 1: his blindness, and his incompetence. Our alliances keep us safe

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Speaker 1: and strong, and democracy safe and strong. This is a

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Speaker 1: week where the Israeli military it's hit on an Iranian

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Speaker 1: command post in Beirut, has escalated the war. This is

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Speaker 1: a week where the Israeli military strike in Syria has

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Speaker 1: escalated the conflict. We will see what happens from here,

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Speaker 1: but next week maybe the beginning of a widening war

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Speaker 1: starting with an Iranian retaliation. That's the miss and that's

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Speaker 1: the hit of this week. Stay tuned for next week

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Speaker 1: as we continue to observe what is happening in this

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Speaker 1: incredible unfolding story a decade old, the rise of MAGA,

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Speaker 1: the rise of an American fascism that heads to the

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Speaker 1: presidential ballot for the third election in a row. This

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