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Speaker 1: The world is in flames, the Arab street is erupting,

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Speaker 1: the Israeli and American embassies across the world are under siege,

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Speaker 1: and the president has landed in Israel. Yet despite that,

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Speaker 1: despite the biggest regional war in the Middle East in

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Speaker 1: fifty years, despite the risk of war between Azerbarjan and Armenia,

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Speaker 1: despite escalations on the borders between Serbia and Kosovo, despite

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Speaker 1: the migrant crisis and chaos in Central and South America,

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Speaker 1: nothing can disrupt the chaos in the Republican House of Representatives.

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Speaker 1: It is quite extraordinary. Two hundred federally elected officials voted

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Speaker 1: for Jim Jordan to become the Speaker of the United

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Speaker 1: States House of Representatives. It is extraordinary. This man is unfit,

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Speaker 1: and profoundly so. It's not just that he covered up

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Speaker 1: a systemic sexual assault ring at the Ohio State University

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Speaker 1: when he was involved in the wrestling program, all of

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Speaker 1: which will be made much more clear when the George

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Speaker 1: Clooney produced documentary focused on that scandal airs later this year.

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Speaker 1: But Jordan, besides covering up a sexual scandal demonstrating his immorality,

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Speaker 1: is unfit for public service. He's a vandal, a nihilist

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Speaker 1: and a demagogue. And the one thing that Jim Jordan

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Speaker 1: will make certain of is that the Ukrainian defense forces

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Speaker 1: are choked off from the vital supplies they need to

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Speaker 1: fight and win the war Againstussian aggression. The Russian aggression

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Speaker 1: is being stopped with Ukrainian blood and American weapons. Should

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Speaker 1: those American weapons cease to flow to Ukraine under a

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Speaker 1: Jim Jordan speakership, the results will be dire. It will

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Speaker 1: increase exponentially the likelihood that Americans will be killed again

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Speaker 1: on European soil in a European war fought because of

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Speaker 1: the aggression of a European power, this time Russia, not Germany.

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Speaker 1: This war can be stopped and American lives protected. In

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Speaker 1: one way, the Ukrainians must win. But Jim Jordan doesn't

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Speaker 1: want the Ukrainians to win. He's a putin guy. He

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Speaker 1: is not in favor of America's ideals and ideas. He

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Speaker 1: does not support democracy. He has done everything he can

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Speaker 1: over his short congressional career to break the institution. And

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Speaker 1: he stands singularly a top a pyramid of dysfunction. Near

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Speaker 1: the top is the Nazi dentist from Arizona, Paul Gosar,

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Speaker 1: the trashy congresswoman from Colorado, Lauren Bobert, the conspiracy loon,

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Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green, the attention seeking diva Nancy Mace. These

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Speaker 1: people cannot be trusted with the nation's safety. They're reckless,

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Speaker 1: they're silly, and they're small. There's a question at hand.

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Speaker 1: The Republican Party is often described, including by me, as Locke,

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Speaker 1: stock and barrel, controlled by Donald Trump, and that's true.

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Speaker 1: The question is is it completely controlled? Are there twenty

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Speaker 1: people who will hold the line through the second ballot

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Speaker 1: and the third and the five thousand, five hundred and

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Speaker 1: tenth if necessary? Saying never, I will never vote for

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Speaker 1: this unfit person to be second in line to the

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Speaker 1: office of President of the United States because I care

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Speaker 1: about my country. I have a duty of responsibility to

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Speaker 1: its citizens, because I'm a federally elected member of Congress,

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Speaker 1: and i have the honor to sit under the Capital

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Speaker 1: Dome where I'm charged with the nation's safety. How many

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Speaker 1: people will hold that line? Over and over again? Over

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Speaker 1: these recent years, that line has collapsed over and over again.

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Speaker 1: I'm not confident that it will hold this time, but

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Speaker 1: it's held so far. Jim Jordan, like his predecessor Kevin McCarthy,

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Speaker 1: is simply unfit. He's unfit for a position of national

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Speaker 1: responsibility in a serious time, and his unfitness endangers us.

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Speaker 1: All the drama that's playing out in Washington is a

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Speaker 1: foreshadowing of what is to come. The last warning America

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Speaker 1: will receive about the terrible, terrible storm that is gathering

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Speaker 1: was the attack in Israel. There you see the price

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Speaker 1: of political decay, of division. You see what happens when

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Speaker 1: your enemy thinks you're weak. What follows his death are

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Speaker 1: existential threats to the country, to the way of life.

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Speaker 1: There is a cost to placing over and over and

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Speaker 1: over again the most unfit people in a society into

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Speaker 1: its most important positions of political power. The cost is chaos.

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Speaker 1: The cost is suffering and ultimately death. This Jim Jordan

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Speaker 1: election is no small thing. It's a big thing. And

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Speaker 1: if somehow that line doesn't hold and Jim Jordan swings

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Speaker 1: that gavel down, You'll know one thing. This country, the

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Speaker 1: United States of America, has taken one giant leap towards

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Speaker 1: the edge of the cliff and the edge of the

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Speaker 1: abyss