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Speaker 1: Biden says, yes, America will defend Taiwan militarily if China invades.

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Speaker 1: On with Joe Matthew. We have yet to win the

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Speaker 1: war on COVID cases arising again in a number of cities,

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Speaker 1: traveled to an affective country probably will not have implications

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Speaker 1: as far as limitations and restrictions. Well, I'll tell you,

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Speaker 1: do you ever think we'd be talking about this one?

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Speaker 1: I mean, has this been on your radar? Doctor? It

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Speaker 1: certainly hasn't. But you know, as recently as last year,

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Speaker 1: two cases were identified in the United States, one in

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Speaker 1: Texas and one in a patient in Maryland. So it's

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Speaker 1: not something that we've never seen before. It's just this

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Speaker 1: particular outbreak appears to be large and and show different

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Speaker 1: UH mode of transmissions. Potentially compared to previous outbreaks. Well,

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Speaker 1: I hope that next time we talk to you it's

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Speaker 1: to say, gosh, good thing you will, right, doc, because

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Speaker 1: it does have a different level of urgency in the

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Speaker 1: age of COVID. Dr Matt Lawrence. Great to have you,

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Speaker 1: a professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine,

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Speaker 1: an infectious disease expert with us on monkey pocks here.

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Speaker 1: What's next, Well, the panels next. Maybe we'll get into

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Speaker 1: this for a minute, but we have to prepare you

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Speaker 1: for primary day tomorrow. It's a big one. Brand Trump

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Speaker 1: on the line in Georgia, and Rick and Genie have

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Speaker 1: the analysis coming up on the fastest hour in politics.

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Speaker 1: This is Bloomberg. You're listening to Bloomberg Sound On with

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Speaker 1: Joe Matthew on Bloomberg Radio. Three more states vote tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: another important primary day, one of the most important yet

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Speaker 1: with Georgia voting. It's personal for Donald Trump, they say,

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Speaker 1: and a couple of big races that he could have

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Speaker 1: trouble winning at least his endorsed candidates. But well, we

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Speaker 1: still need still know the outcome of the last one.

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Speaker 1: In Pennsylvania Republican Senate Republican primary this is the big one.

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Speaker 1: We endorsed Dr Oroz over David McCormick. There within hundreds

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Speaker 1: of votes now, and it does appear a recount is likely.

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Speaker 1: Let's get into it with the panel Bloomer Politics contributors,

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Speaker 1: Rick Davis, Genie Chanzano, Rick, Uh, this is I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go to our recount, right It's inevitable at this point, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's inevitable. Right now, the current count has the uh

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Speaker 1: little over nine hundred votes between Dr Oz and David McCormick.

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Speaker 1: So that's about as close as it gets. And right

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Speaker 1: now the expectation is be a recount and then it

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Speaker 1: should be over by and around June seven. They're already

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Speaker 1: arguing about undated ballots. Genius, and we're gonna believe the recount.

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Speaker 1: That's the big question. You know, you heard even Rna McDaniel,

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Speaker 1: the the head of the RNC, she said ballots should

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Speaker 1: not be counted with a date. But of course, in

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Speaker 1: an unrelated case, you had a judge come out in

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Speaker 1: Pennsylvania and say you can count on dated absentee ballots.

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Speaker 1: What timing for that? And of course the McCormick campaign

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Speaker 1: seized on that, and Oz's campaign shot back that they

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Speaker 1: are acting like Democrats, and you know, so what I agree,

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Speaker 1: there's obviously going to be a recount, whether people will

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Speaker 1: believe it. What's so fascinating here is this is Republicans

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Speaker 1: on Republicans, you know, questioning about this vote count and

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Speaker 1: what you can trust and what you can't. And you know,

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Speaker 1: you have to wonder if this keeps going on, at

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Speaker 1: what point do Republicans start to question this entire idea

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Speaker 1: that the election was stolen because now other people and

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Speaker 1: their own party as saying their own votes shouldn't be counted.

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Speaker 1: So it's a big mess for Republicans. John Federman out

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Speaker 1: of the hospital, uh Rick Davis, we talked about this.

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Speaker 1: He had a stroke couple of days before the primary. Wanted,

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Speaker 1: uh without you know, any issue at all, a commanding

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Speaker 1: lead here. Is this the best thing that could happen

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Speaker 1: to him? This recount underway? Now, Well, it's certainly Stimey

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Speaker 1: is a Republican launching and consolidating his campaign and consolidating

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Speaker 1: the Republican Party of Pennsylvania. So sure, I mean, anytime

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Speaker 1: you can get a couple of weeks head start in politics,

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Speaker 1: you want to take it. But he's got to do

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Speaker 1: it himself, right, He's got to convince people that he's

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Speaker 1: healthy enough and vigorous enough to amount a campaign. So

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Speaker 1: I'd say both Republicans and nevergrets have their own challenges

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Speaker 1: to overcome. Uh, and it will be interesting to see

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Speaker 1: who's best at doing that even before the real campaign starts.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of stealing elections, Genie, it's onto Georgia tomorrow kind

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Speaker 1: of the I don't know if you could say that,

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Speaker 1: call it ground zero or for the controversy at least

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Speaker 1: because Donald Trump blames governor, Brian Campy blames the Secretary

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Speaker 1: of State, and these are the two races that we're

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Speaker 1: watching here. It appears his chosen candidate, at least for

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Speaker 1: governor and former senator for Due is just it's it's

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Speaker 1: it's such a long shot that it's basically impossible for

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Speaker 1: him to win this. Now he's he's down boy over

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Speaker 1: twenty points. Yeah, it's pretty much over. Kemp has started

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Speaker 1: focusing on the general election obviously versus Stacy Abrams. And

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Speaker 1: you know what's fascinating to me was when Kemp has

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Speaker 1: been asked by reporters, he says, oh, I have a

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Speaker 1: good relationship with Pence who's obviously endorsing him and Trump,

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Speaker 1: and then he went on to say I'm not mad

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Speaker 1: at Trump, He's mad at me, which is you know,

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Speaker 1: it's actually a really interesting response because you can bet

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Speaker 1: that when this is over and certainly Kemp wraps this up,

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Speaker 1: that Trump is going to find a way to turn

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Speaker 1: this around. But I think Kemp has been telling voters

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Speaker 1: throughout the state that listen, let's focus on what's going

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Speaker 1: on here. We're not going to listen to outsiders, and

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Speaker 1: that has worked for him. He's twenty points up over Perdue,

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Speaker 1: who stopped even running ads at this point, so it

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Speaker 1: is very much over. It's got the r g A

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Speaker 1: behind him here. Rick. He's also got a guy named

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Speaker 1: Mike Pence bold enough to campaign for him against the

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Speaker 1: Trump endorsed candidate. Uh. There was a tweet earlier today

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Speaker 1: from Jonathan Martin at the New York Times and came

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Speaker 1: out with that most recent book about Trump that had

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Speaker 1: all the Kevin McCarthy tape on it. He started the

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Speaker 1: tweet by saying, the rupture is now complete? Is he right?

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Speaker 1: You know? Look, I mean the Republican governors met recently

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Speaker 1: in Arizona and said they're tired of this vendetta tour

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Speaker 1: and they're gonna take a position against it. Um. So

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Speaker 1: there are there are a lot of Republican governors who

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Speaker 1: that the president, the former president has done against them

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Speaker 1: because they because they counted and certified an elections, got

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Speaker 1: nothing to do with the election today. I would say

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Speaker 1: Brian Kempt is right. Donald Trump does not like him.

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Speaker 1: He spent two and a half million dollars of his

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Speaker 1: pack money, which for him to spend any pack money

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Speaker 1: is uh really interesting development. But uh, this is a

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Speaker 1: hard fought race, and I would say not only Mike Pence,

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Speaker 1: but his former chief of staff Mark Short who's now

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Speaker 1: been working for Brian Kemp, wants to make sure that

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Speaker 1: they exceed the fifty percent threshold to not have to

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Speaker 1: do a runoff and that they can do a victory

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Speaker 1: lap around Donald Trump. That is the number one thing

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Speaker 1: that's gonna happen tomorrow. The brad Raevensburger the Secretary of

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Speaker 1: State race, the other big one that people are watching.

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Speaker 1: You ever heard rick of a congressman stepping I guess

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Speaker 1: down to run for a state office like this? Well,

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Speaker 1: this is another uh Donald Trump inspired campaign. I mean

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Speaker 1: he really is to take out um Brad Rafsenburger and

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Speaker 1: and recruited Jody Heist to run in this race. So

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Speaker 1: you're right, Uh, he's taken one for the team in

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Speaker 1: this regard, but the team Trump Uh really Uh this

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Speaker 1: is another dangerous one though it's a dead heat right now.

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Speaker 1: But if Brad Rathsenburger pulls this out, it'll be a

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Speaker 1: real down day for Donald Trump. Well, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: Uh what's your expectation on that one, Jennie, You know,

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Speaker 1: I think it's really too close to call, Like like

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Speaker 1: Rick was saying that they are neck and neck at

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Speaker 1: this point. But if you can imagine if you have

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Speaker 1: Jody Heist, Wind and mast Triano in Pennsylvania, in two

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Speaker 1: critical states, you will then have secretaries of state in

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Speaker 1: place who questioned the validity of the election. And of

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Speaker 1: course reports out this weekend shows that that is, you know,

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Speaker 1: where we have many candidates on the Republican side and

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Speaker 1: those that Trump endorsed, and that raises real trouble for

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Speaker 1: well this time tomorrow and of course the once we

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Speaker 1: have the results on Wednesday, we're gonna be talking a

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Speaker 1: lot more about this. There's got some good ones in Arkansas.

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Speaker 1: We've got three states voting tomorrow. Georgia, though, is going

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Speaker 1: to be taken up all the ink, likely because of

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Speaker 1: these two races. I'm gonna take this opportunity to just

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Speaker 1: remind everybody, encourage everybody, especially if you're just showing up now,

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Speaker 1: to subscribe to the sound on podcast. And I I

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Speaker 1: feel more of a need to do that knowing that word.

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Speaker 1: I didn't realize this. There's ever more competition. Even Ted

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Speaker 1: Cruz has his own podcast now. Of course people use

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Speaker 1: the term podcast loosely. This is an online video segment

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Speaker 1: that he produces, uh and boys getting a lot of attention.

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Speaker 1: He even got Genie's attention, which is why I'm talking

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Speaker 1: about it now. I don't First of all, I don't

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Speaker 1: know why every elected official needs a podcast, but then again,

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Speaker 1: that's the age we're in. Everyone gets a show and

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Speaker 1: he's making news. Not talking about a politician, but Pete Davidson.

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Speaker 1: You guys watched Saturday Night Live Pete david I was

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Speaker 1: actually excited when I found out, you know, we had

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Speaker 1: to wear masks because I figured this sounds really crappy

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Speaker 1: to say, but like I figured lest people would recognize me,

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Speaker 1: but it didn't work, because everyone can still recognize me

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Speaker 1: from my eyes. You see someone who looks like he

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Speaker 1: just woke up and hasn't slept in days. That guy

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Speaker 1: he just had his last show on Saturday Night dating

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Speaker 1: Kim Kardashian. Now, and Ted Cruz just doesn't get it.

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Speaker 1: He's got a podcast, it's called The Verdict. He talks

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Speaker 1: to some other guy remotely about it while he's sitting

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Speaker 1: in a big easy chair with a microphone, big mic

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Speaker 1: stand the senator from Texas as they talked about something.

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Speaker 1: I what was it? Toxic femininity? Kim seems fine, she

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Speaker 1: U B s N L. Guy. I don't, I can't.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what uh I mean? Pete david said,

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Speaker 1: all right, how come that dude gets all of these

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Speaker 1: like hot women because of toxic femininity? Senator? What that

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Speaker 1: is the evidence that something has gone wrong? Pete Davidson

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Speaker 1: was dating Kate beckins Dale. I mean, you're talking underworld.

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Speaker 1: You're talking like super hot vampires in black leather trench code,

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Speaker 1: and you're like, really this an L dude? Like wow,

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Speaker 1: that's Ted Cruz, the senator, Harvard educated senator from Texas.

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Speaker 1: It's even been mentioned as possibly being on the shortlist

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Speaker 1: for the Supreme Court. Genie, you own this wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: talking about it right now without you should elected members

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Speaker 1: of Congress have podcasts for starters, well for starters. Everybody

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Speaker 1: should go to sound On listen to that podcast is

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Speaker 1: the best podcast. Um. And you know, I'm so sorry

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Speaker 1: I brought this up. I was just so stunned. As

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Speaker 1: much as I cover everything going on, he's making an

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Speaker 1: ad with this, though, come on to learn that Ted

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Speaker 1: Cruz had this podcast and it wasn't policy oriented. He

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Speaker 1: was there focusing on why you know, women find Pete

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Speaker 1: Davidson attractive and so you know, it was stunning to me,

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Speaker 1: which is why I brought it up. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I think I will just join with Bihar Joy Behar

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Speaker 1: who said today that people like people men and women

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Speaker 1: like Pete Davidson because he's funny. Ted Cruz, He's very funny,

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Speaker 1: and I'll leave it at that. Just make him laugh, Rick,

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Speaker 1: just make him laugh. Uh. But you know, look to

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Speaker 1: hear the senator there describing his affinity for leather clad

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Speaker 1: vampire women, seems like it might be a liability someday

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Speaker 1: down the road. Is that just me? Well, I can't

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Speaker 1: wait to see what his wife is wearing on Halloween.

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Speaker 1: That's all I can say. Super hot vampires everywhere in

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Speaker 1: the neighborhood, tidy, Come on now, I mean, this is

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Speaker 1: the kind of stuff that that people wish for when

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Speaker 1: they're running ago. Although I don't know in this day

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Speaker 1: and age we're in the Trump age, Rick does it matter?

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Speaker 1: I think it will help him if he's I mean,

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