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Speaker 1: There's a ton to get to tonight on our right.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes we make a mistake, you and me, a hyper

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Speaker 1: We pay attention to politics. We know what's going on,

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Speaker 1: when I miss the real deal, the big deal. Where

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Speaker 1: you missed the real deal, the big deal in this way.

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Speaker 1: I want to explain it in this way. So we

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Trump and all those things. They matter,

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Speaker 1: They're important. What we talk about matters. I'm not putting

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Speaker 1: I don't want to say go away, that's too dramatic,

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Speaker 1: about sports. Here's why this happens to us. You ever

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Speaker 1: they're all adding to it. In the meantime, we might

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Speaker 6: Economy is one of the voters top concerned. Obviously, polls

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Speaker 6: with recent polling numbers that potentially the policies maybe aren't

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Speaker 1: Of course, they're not going to own anything. That's certainly

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Speaker 1: not going to change anything. To just give these completely

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Speaker 1: it's a nerdy thing. I know a lot of people

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Speaker 1: But I've been screaming about this forever. For years. I've

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Speaker 1: massive spending bills. Truth is, no one cares, and no

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Speaker 1: how this happened, How this happened. Well, here's the hard

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Speaker 1: that's on me. I never demanded better, so I never

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Speaker 1: Is spending an issue for you in this election cycle

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Speaker 8: Prices for everyday things like groceries are still too high.

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Speaker 1: Peter Saint Ae economists with the Heritage Foundation. He's been

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Speaker 9: Eventually they will and then of course we'll get you know,

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Speaker 7: But unfortunately that takes time.

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Speaker 1: Peter. We now know the interest on the debt has

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Speaker 1: gobbled up half of the government revenue. That is just

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Speaker 9: Going to China, and it's paying for past deficits. Never

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Speaker 1: Okay, So what does that debt crisis look like? Because

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Speaker 7: At that point.

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Speaker 9: Again, if we go back through history, the government is

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Speaker 9: It's really just a vicious cycle where the government is

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Speaker 9: Now we got there, we got there fifty years ago.

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Speaker 9: That one would work, but good luck getting that one through.

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Speaker 9: The other possibilities might be, you know, a balance budget

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Speaker 9: amendment where Congress has to balance the budget every single year.

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Speaker 7: Again, that's been tried many times for obvious reasons.

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Speaker 9: Congress doesn't want to play ball because they love spending

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Speaker 9: all that money. That's the reason they come to work,

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Speaker 9: it's the reason they get political donations, is why they're

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Speaker 9: there in the first place. So really, you would either

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Speaker 9: need some kind of structural change like that, or you

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Speaker 9: would need some kind of maverick to come in there.

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Speaker 7: And actually say we're going to slash spending for that.

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Speaker 9: I think in both cases, realistically, our best odds are

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Speaker 9: if we get a crisis, then voters are ready for change.

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Speaker 9: That's what happened with Ronald Reagan. Media, you know, did

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Speaker 9: the same game on him as they did Trump. They

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Speaker 9: said he's a radical, he's going to destroy the country,

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Speaker 9: he's crazy, he's going to start World War three.

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Speaker 7: Exact same playbook as they do today. But guess what.

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Speaker 9: Americans were desperate enough of the nineteen seventies, as they said, enough,

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Speaker 9: we need somebody new. Now, Ronald Reagan did not cut spending,

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Speaker 9: it's true, but he did grow the economy so that

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Speaker 9: the economy could end up growing into the debt.

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Speaker 7: That's probably the best case scenario.

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Speaker 1: Well, fingers crossed, Peter, you were always awesome. Thank you, brother.

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Speaker 1: All Right, we have a panel discussing some Arizona problems.

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Speaker 1: We need that state. We'll talk about that in a moment.

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Speaker 1: Before we talk about that, let's talk about your cell phone,

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Speaker 1: but if it's Verizon AT and TT Mobile, they're not fine.

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Speaker 1: These companies hate your guts. They take the money you

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Speaker 1: spend every month. You pay your cell phone bill every month,

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Speaker 1: at least I hope you do. They take that money

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Speaker 1: and they use that money against you, against your culture,

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Speaker 1: against your country. They do it all the time. They

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Speaker 1: brag about it publicly. Go look up your cell phone

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Speaker 1: pure talk dot com slash JSETB and switch. We'll be back. Well,

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Speaker 1: we have big news out of Arizona, and honestly, it's

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Speaker 1: not great news. It sounds great right off the bat,

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Speaker 1: but it's not great. There are abortions about to be

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Speaker 1: on the ballot in November. We'll get into the details

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Speaker 1: in a moment. But the commedis do this very very well.

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Speaker 1: They understand how to drive turn out, how to motivate

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Speaker 1: their base. And there's nothing Democrats love more than slaughtering

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Speaker 1: the un born in mass And if they put that

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Speaker 1: on the ballot, it gets Democrats to the polls in

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Speaker 1: a sun belt state that we really need Trump to win. Remember,

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Speaker 1: if Trump doesn't sweep these Sun Belt states. That means

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Speaker 1: he's got a break off two of the three Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 1: and that's a tough road ho Joining me now, Morgan McMichael,

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Speaker 1: contributor to Turning Point USA, KA Lee McGee white, Senior

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Speaker 1: Fellow Independent Women's Forum. Okay, Morgan, it sounds good, right,

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Speaker 1: it sounds great. We're going to tackle this pro life thing.

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Speaker 1: But man, this is the kind of stuff these people

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Speaker 10: It is I mean, I'm from Arizona, living there for

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Speaker 10: the past two years, and the amount of people that

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Speaker 10: I see out petitioning, trying to get these signatures, which

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Speaker 10: they did get enough signatures to put it on the ballot.

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Speaker 10: What I find incredibly funny is abortion isn't illegal in

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Speaker 10: the state of Arizona.

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Speaker 3: The Democrats want more abortion.

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Speaker 10: They want to kill more innocent lives up until six

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Speaker 10: months four weeks is what they're putting on the ballot.

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Speaker 10: Abortions legal up to fifteen weeks in the state of Arizona.

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Speaker 10: But that isn't enough for the Democrats, so now they

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Speaker 10: have to push the envelope even further. And of course

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Speaker 10: they're hoping that this is going to get the gen

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Speaker 10: Z and the women both turn out in the state

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Speaker 10: of Arizona. But I know that as a turning point

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Speaker 10: USA and Turning Point Action are doing the work on

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Speaker 10: the ground, Turning Point Action chasing those ballots. So hopefully

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Speaker 10: we can't reverse what the left is doing here.

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Speaker 1: Kaylee, am I thinking about this wrong? Obviously? I'm as

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Speaker 1: hardcore pro life as you can possibly get, so I

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Speaker 1: want abortion stopped. Should I be excited? This just looks

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Speaker 1: like something that's going to hurt us.

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Speaker 11: Though to me, well, it will, and we know that

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Speaker 11: because we've seen historically over the past few years what

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Speaker 11: the abortion amendments do in the states where they were

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Speaker 11: put on the ballot. I'm from Michigan. We had our

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Speaker 11: own abortion amendment on the ballot a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 11: and in large part because of that amendment, Governor Gretchen Whitmer,

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Speaker 11: who was pretty unpopular because of her COVID governance, sword

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Speaker 11: to victory by an extremely wide margin that really no

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Speaker 11: one was expecting in the state. And this also has

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Speaker 11: national implications. As you mentioned, the states where abortion is

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Speaker 11: on the ballot are going to be more difficult for

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Speaker 11: Trump to win, even though he's tried to pivot to

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Speaker 11: the center on this issue. He had a sort of

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Speaker 11: a you know, tumble in Arizona and not too long

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Speaker 11: ago over their Civil War era law, and he tried

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Speaker 11: to distance himself from that. He tried to encourage Arizona

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Speaker 11: legislators to repeal that and to take a more moderate approach.

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Speaker 11: But it's very difficult when this is Kamala Harris's only issue.

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Speaker 11: She is going to hammer that repeatedly. She already has

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Speaker 11: in her campaign visits to Arizona, and we're going to

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Speaker 11: expect more of that from her in the days ahead.

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Speaker 1: Morgan, what's it say about us as a country that

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Speaker 1: you can watch that evil tyrant governor Whitmer destroy her

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Speaker 1: state ban people from buying gardening seeds, yet they will

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Speaker 1: crawl over broken glass to vote for her because she

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Speaker 1: allows them to kill their babies. What does that say

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Speaker 1: about us as a culture? Now?

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Speaker 10: I mean, I think it shows this the depravity of

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Speaker 3: Among younger generations.

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Speaker 10: It shows how the feminist movement has truly encapsulated women

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Speaker 10: into being so pro abortion. I don't think that feminists

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Speaker 10: realize that all of the things that they're supporting are

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Speaker 10: truly anti women and we have lost it as a culture,

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Speaker 10: and this continues to snowball effect. I mean, look at

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Speaker 10: also the issue of transgenderism and legalizing having puberty blockers

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Speaker 10: and gender affirming care for young children.

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Speaker 3: You know that's I put that on the same page

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Speaker 3: as abortion.

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Speaker 10: It's really just taking away children's innocence and taking away

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Speaker 10: children altogether from mothers. And I really think we need

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Speaker 10: to as conservatives, speak up and be more proactive in

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Speaker 10: the pro life movement and not allow these more moderate

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Speaker 10: policies to fly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. I'll tell you something that is, at

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Speaker 1: least to her credit, that's the only position Dome seems

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Speaker 1: willing to take out there that Well, this exchange is

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Speaker 1: pretty revealing.

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Speaker 12: It seems like she has time if she wanted to

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Speaker 12: do an interview with a member of the media or

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Speaker 12: do a news conference. Correct, there does appear to be

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Speaker 12: that time if she wanted.

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Speaker 13: Well, look, she is set on the campaign trail that

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Speaker 13: she would be doing an interview at some point. She

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Speaker 13: said that, I think last week during during a ropeline

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Speaker 13: or when she was talking to reporters. But look, what

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Speaker 13: is important here, John, is that she is taking her

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Speaker 13: message directly to the American people. She had a number

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Speaker 13: of battleground states. I think we had fifteen thousand people

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Speaker 13: She's been taking her message to the voters and drawing

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Speaker 13: large crowds. So she's actually having those direct conversations.

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Speaker 1: But not today.

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Speaker 12: The whole thing is the media, not today. She could

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Speaker 12: do an interview today, I would think, you know, because

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Speaker 12: she's not out there today.

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Speaker 3: Well, look, she could.

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Speaker 13: She's taking her message directly to voters. And just because

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Speaker 13: she doesn't have anything an interview schedule in her public

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Speaker 13: schedule doesn't mean that he's not taking a message directly

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Speaker 13: to voters.

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Speaker 1: A Tayley, what do you make of this campaign? They're

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Speaker 1: running a campaign based on nothing. They won't take public

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Speaker 1: positions on policy, they won't actually sit down for interviews.

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Speaker 1: It seems to me like they're banking on the American

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Speaker 1: people being okay with that.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, it's the revised basement strategy that Biden had back

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Speaker 11: into twenty twenty. And you know that CNN exchange, it's

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Speaker 11: pretty pathetic. You know, CNN's hosts trying to sort of

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Speaker 11: waffle on the issue and be like, oh, well, it

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Speaker 11: seems as if she would have time. No, no, she

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Speaker 11: does have time. You know that she has time, so

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Speaker 11: say that. And why furthermore, why aren't they demanding from

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Speaker 11: her campaign spokespeople that Harris sit down with them for

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Speaker 11: a one on one interview. Why aren't there reporters chasing

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Speaker 11: Harris down the tarmac to get some answers on these questions.

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Speaker 11: They're letting her ride out this honeymoon period and they're

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Speaker 11: barely pressing her on any of these important policy issues.

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Speaker 11: And that's why if you go to Kamala Harris's campaign

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Speaker 11: website right now, there's not a single page on policy.

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Speaker 11: It's only donation taps. And that is in large part

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Speaker 11: because media outlets like CNN are allowing her to get.

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Speaker 3: Away with this.

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Speaker 1: Morgan, A lot has been made of women voters. How

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Speaker 1: you handle that? Well, there were the vans cat Lady

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Speaker 1: comments that, of course were blown out of proportion by everybody.

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Speaker 1: And then in response to that, the GOP does what

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Speaker 1: it usually does and grabs its angles for people who

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Speaker 1: hate it. And it had to be all about women

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Speaker 1: outreach and reaching single women. Okay, can we discuss what

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Speaker 1: the GOP should and shouldn't be doing on outreach for

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Speaker 1: their base.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I absolutely think that the GOP needs some serious reform,

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Speaker 10: especially when it comes to attracting women voters and young voters.

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Speaker 10: Look at the strategy that the Harris campaign has been

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Speaker 3: And if you think about it, there's forty.

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Speaker 10: One million members of gen Z that are going to

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Speaker 10: be eligible to vote in this next election. Why aren't

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Speaker 10: conservatives doing a better job of talking to.

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Speaker 3: Us gen Zers?

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Speaker 10: We need to be the ones that are actually curating

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Speaker 10: trends and participating in trends and exposing what the left

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Speaker 10: is promoting.

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Speaker 3: And like you guys said, you know, Harris had.

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Speaker 10: Zero policies present or transparent with any of the American people.

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Speaker 3: She's going out and doing these.

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Speaker 10: Huge rallies with multiple women there and not talking about

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Speaker 10: anything to them other than hey, we're going to legalize

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Speaker 10: abortion in reverse Roe v. Wade, And that's really not

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Speaker 10: a policy to run an entire campaign on. And I

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Speaker 10: really think they're just writing on the coattails of you know,

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Speaker 10: we are the social justice campaign. The GOP, I think

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Speaker 10: really needs to just be talking to female voters more

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Speaker 10: and ensuring that vote, because otherwise the left is going

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Speaker 10: to continue to dominize or dominate those voter blocks.

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Speaker 1: Hayley, what is that message to women voters that would

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Speaker 1: bring out the women vote?

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Speaker 3: Well, I think.

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Speaker 11: We need to be clear about which kind of women

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Speaker 11: were appealing to, because the only demographic that tends to

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Speaker 11: lean liberal out of all married men, single men, married women,

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Speaker 11: and single women, is single women. Married women aren't the problem.

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Speaker 11: Married men tend to vote much more conservative than single women.

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Speaker 11: And not to be too cynical here, but I actually

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Speaker 11: don't think the Republican Party should revise its campaign strategy

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Speaker 11: to only appeal to single women. I do think to

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Speaker 11: a certain extent, we need to give up on that

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Speaker 11: demographic and push for a more cultural change instead, because

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Speaker 11: the single best indicator of whether a woman is going

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Speaker 11: to vote in a conservative manner is if she gets married,

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Speaker 11: if she has kids, if she invests in things that

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Speaker 11: are worth her time and effort, like her community, her church,

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Speaker 11: her family. That is the ground game for Republicans moving forward.

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Speaker 11: It's not changing our policy positions to try to win

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Speaker 11: over the elusive childless cat ladies. It's actually pushing for

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Speaker 11: long term, systemic change that will make a difference in

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Speaker 11: women's lives and more than just their politics.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a cultural change more than politics. Ladies. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. All right, let's talk about some overseas things,

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Speaker 1: because there's a lot going on overseas. Victoria Coach joins us.

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Speaker 2: Next, we're mobilizing the whole country effort to cut American

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Speaker 2: cancer dess and half by twenty twenty five years.

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Speaker 1: Okay, joining me now, Victoria Coach's VP of foreign policy

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Speaker 1: at Heritage Foundation.

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Speaker 7: Just.

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Speaker 1: The only reason I played that for you is we

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Speaker 1: have a carrier group in the Middle East right now.

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Speaker 1: Ukraine is officially in control with three hundred and ninety

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Speaker 1: miles of Russia, and we don't have a president who's

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Speaker 1: running the country. Victoria, who's running the country right now?

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Speaker 1: Who gave the order to the carrier group? Does anyone

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Speaker 1: actually know?

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Speaker 14: This is a huge concern because at this point the

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Speaker 14: president seems completely checked out. We have pictures of the

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Speaker 14: commander in chief of the United States snoozing soundly on

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Speaker 14: the beach over the weekend. I've never seen a picture

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Speaker 14: of an American president sleeping before. I mean, obviously they

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Speaker 14: have to sleep, but I mean, this isn't something you

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Speaker 14: advertise in a time of crisis. And as you say, Jesse,

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Speaker 14: I mean, we have massive assets flowing.

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Speaker 4: Into the Middle East. We have a potential attack by

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Speaker 4: the Iranians on Israel. We have the situation in Ukraine, and.

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Speaker 14: Nobody's even talking about the Pacific, and we're not sure

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Speaker 14: who's calling the shots. Do we have four hands on

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Speaker 14: the wheel? Which is deeply dangerous? Is the vice president

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Speaker 14: calling the shots? It's very murky, and that makes the

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Speaker 14: situation we're in all the more perilous.

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Speaker 1: That really does Okay, Victoria break down for us what's

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Speaker 1: going on with Iran? In Israel? Iran has all this bluster.

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Speaker 1: Israel assassinates a bunch of people that was really cool,

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Speaker 1: by the way, and Iran says you're going to die,

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Speaker 1: kill all the Jews and all the stupid stuff they

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Speaker 1: normally say. But this attack has still not come. It's

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Speaker 1: been what a week now, it's still not come. What

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Speaker 1: are they doing preparing?

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Speaker 14: It's actually two weeks and there are two possibilities of

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Speaker 14: what's happened. And what Israel did two weeks ago was

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Speaker 14: assassinate Ismail Hania, who.

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Speaker 4: Was the political head of Haama.

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Speaker 14: I actually don't differentiate between the political and the military

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Speaker 14: wings of Hamas.

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Speaker 4: I think they're all terrorists.

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Speaker 14: But in this case, he was technically the political head

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Speaker 14: who had been living in Qatar. He was visiting Iran

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Speaker 14: for the inauguration of Iran's new president, and he was

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Speaker 14: assassinated literally in his bedroom in a safe house. And

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Speaker 14: so the Israelis demonstrated an ability which they have demonstrated before,

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Speaker 14: but this was a very dramatic example of it, of

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Speaker 14: being able to reach into Iran and touch senior leadership

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Speaker 14: who are technically very well protected. And so I think

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Speaker 14: that should be what would think of in a sports

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Speaker 14: analogy as being a brushback pitch for the Iranians. They

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Speaker 14: were very startled and very concerned. And if the United

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Speaker 14: States had leaned in heart at the same time and said, oh,

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Speaker 14: by the way, we fully back Israel, you guys should

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Speaker 14: back down on de escalate, I think we would have

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Speaker 14: more clarity on our situation. But we're now two weeks

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Speaker 14: out from that, so either they are backing down or

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Speaker 14: they're preparing something that's more substantial than what they did

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Speaker 14: in April, and we're unfortunately in the position of just

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Speaker 14: having to wait and see.

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Speaker 4: We're not shaping events at all.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I have too much I need to get to

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Speaker 1: with you, Victoria. I could just stay with you for

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Speaker 1: an hour on this stuff. But ISIS there were rumors

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Speaker 1: now of an ISIS resurgence, re emergence, however you want

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Speaker 1: to use that word in Syria. Please don't tell me

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Speaker 1: these scumbags are coming back.

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Speaker 14: Unfortunately, the scumbags are back in town. And what we're

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Speaker 14: seeing is we'd started to see some burblings from ISIS

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Speaker 14: in Africa. We just had the spectacle of all the

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Speaker 14: Taylor Swift concerts being canceled in Vienna because of ISIS

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Speaker 14: in Europe. And now we have reporting that they are

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Speaker 14: re emerging in the site of their former caliphate. And

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Speaker 14: the reason this is so maddening is when President Trump

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Speaker 14: came into office, one of the first things he did,

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Speaker 14: I remember clearly in January of twenty seventeen, as he

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Speaker 14: went to the Pentagon, gathered the Joint chiefs in the

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Speaker 14: tank and said, Okay, let's defeat ISIS. Let's not inconvenience them,

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Speaker 14: let's not manage them, let's defeat them. We got to

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Speaker 14: wipe this caliphate off the map. And the United States

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Speaker 14: military performed brilliantly as they did, and we were successful

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Speaker 14: in six months. What you have to do is give

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Speaker 14: the military the tools they need, give them a specific mission,

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Speaker 14: let them complete it, and then end the mission so

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Speaker 14: we don't drift into these endless wars. And it was

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Speaker 14: one of the great things anyone's ever done for the region.

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Speaker 14: Nobody likes ISIS. Even ISIS doesn't like ISIS. They're awful,

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Speaker 14: So this was very positive. But in the permissive atmosphere

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Speaker 14: that's been created by President Biden and Vice President Harris,

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Speaker 14: you know, there isn't that kind of strong approach. They've

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Speaker 14: reverted to the Obama playbook, which was managing a problem

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Speaker 14: rather than solving it, and so that's what they're doing.

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Speaker 14: And we have heaven knows how many uses groups in Syria.

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Speaker 14: They've been there for a decade, it's not clear under

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Speaker 14: what authorities.

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Speaker 4: And I'm just deeply.

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Speaker 14: Concerned that they're big enough to be a target, but

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Speaker 14: not big enough to actually defend themselves effectively.

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Speaker 1: Victoria. Should I be thrilled or terrified that Ukraine has

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Speaker 1: launched an offensive into Russia? By the way I applot

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Speaker 1: them for it. You can't play defense the whole time.

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Speaker 1: But Ukraine controlling three hundred and ninety miles of Russian

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Speaker 1: territory is not something Russia is going to stand for.

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Speaker 1: They'll do anything to stop that. Should I be worried.

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Speaker 14: Again, this is another example of the situation getting out

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Speaker 14: of US control because we're not exerting firm leadership, and

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Speaker 14: we had heritage, have had concerns about the Biden Harris prosecution.

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Speaker 4: Of the Ukraine War from the earliest days.

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Speaker 14: Their approach has been to sort of incrementally help Ukraine,

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Speaker 14: but never enough to win the war. Had we gone

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Speaker 14: in two years ago, absolutely demanded of our European allies

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Speaker 14: that they take the lead of what was the last

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Speaker 14: time I looked at a map a war in Europe

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Speaker 14: and that but we would help them get to victory

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Speaker 14: in under a year. But what we've done, as I said,

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Speaker 14: is sort of dribble and drabble out support and then

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Speaker 14: sort of lift these restrictions.

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Speaker 4: It's not clear why the restrictions.

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Speaker 14: Were on in the first place, but it doesn't seem

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Speaker 14: to be happening strategically, and so you know, I agree,

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Speaker 14: you know the the I don't have tremendous respect for

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Speaker 14: Russia's sovereign boundaries because they don't have respect for anybody else's.

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Speaker 14: But yes, that kind of incursion into Russia while Russia

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Speaker 14: is also making advances in Eastern Ukraine, creates a very

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Speaker 14: fluid dynamic.

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Speaker 4: And our presidents asleep on the beach.

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Speaker 1: Victoria, thank you come back, so please, we don't we

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Speaker 1: don't have a commander in chief right now. Let's think

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Speaker 1: about that, all this stuff going on, we don't even

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Speaker 1: have a commander in chief. Whatever, we need to light

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Speaker 1: in the mood. Let's do one of those. Thanks h

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Speaker 1: it's time to lighten the mood. And this is such

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Speaker 1: wonderful news. I'm just bubbling with joy here. There's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a lot more me out there.

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Speaker 13: Now.

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Speaker 1: Let me clarify the First TV. Now it's available in

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Speaker 1: seven million more homes than it was before. First TV

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Speaker 1: partnered with HC two Broadcasting. What does that mean that

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Speaker 1: that doesn't it may not mean anything to you. Well,

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Speaker 1: allow me to read a little list. Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, Phoenix, Tampa, Minneapolis, Charlotte,

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Speaker 1: Saint Louis, Philly, New York City. That's where you can

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Speaker 1: watch the first This is in addition to Direct TV

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Speaker 1: Direct TV stream Samsung TV Plus, Uverse, Pluto TV, Flubo TV,

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Speaker 1: and many other fast channel platforms. Essentially, this is a

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Speaker 1: long way of me telling you I'm not going anywhere.

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Speaker 1: Were we here at the first. We're not going anywhere.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna keep bringing you everything we've been bringing you,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna bring it to a lot more people.

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