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Speaker 1: To be with you.

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Speaker 2: I'm Katie Turror. Donald Trump is meddling, this time in Brazil,

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Speaker 2: using the cover of trade as a way to strong

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Speaker 2: political allies, the former president of Brazil, Yayr Bolsonaro, a

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Speaker 2: attempted insurrection of Brazil's own government. But Bolsonaro, unlike Trump,

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Speaker 2: has gone to trial for his role, and the Supreme

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Speaker 2: Court down there could very well convict him and put

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Speaker 2: him in prison. Later this year, in a letter to

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Speaker 2: Brazil's current president, Lula, mister Trump calls the prosecution to

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Speaker 2: quote international disgrace, but Lula is not backing down, telling

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Speaker 2: Trump Brazil is a sovereign country with independent institutions that

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Speaker 2: will not accept being abused by anyone. But it isn't

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Speaker 2: just a letter from President Trump. He's actively trying to

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Speaker 2: press Brazil financially with fifty percent tariffs, claiming the US

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Speaker 2: as a trade deficit with the country.

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Speaker 3: But that's not.

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Speaker 1: True at all.

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Speaker 2: The US actually has a trade surplus with Brazil. So

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Speaker 2: why is Donald Trump using the cover of trade to

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Speaker 2: interfere in another democracy, what does he get out of it?

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Speaker 2: Joining us out NBC News Business and Data correspondent Brian Chung,

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Speaker 2: Managing editor of The Bulwark at MSNBC contributor Sam Stein,

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Speaker 2: and Senior editor at The Atlantic and host of Radio

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Speaker 2: Atlantic Hannah Rosen. Brian, first off, explain the trade relationship

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so a lot of Americans might be tuning into

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Speaker 4: the news of the Brazil tariffs and wondering how is

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Speaker 4: that going to impact the things that I buy.

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Speaker 1: At the store.

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Speaker 4: Brazil exports a lot of major goods that we see

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Speaker 4: at the grocery store on a daily basis, most namely coffee,

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Speaker 4: so we are a major importer of coffee from Brazil.

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Speaker 4: Also things like orange hues, as well as produce. We

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Speaker 4: for the consumer as well. You make another important point

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Speaker 4: until now, we had seen a lot of the letters

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Speaker 4: that the President have been publishing on truth social two

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Speaker 4: countries where the United States has a trade deficit where

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Speaker 4: they don't buy as many things from the United States

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Speaker 4: as the United States buys from them. Brazil is a

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Speaker 4: first country that we've seen in a letter so far

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Speaker 4: with that country to the magnitude of almost seven and

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Speaker 4: the rhetoric is also from the President about air Bolsonaro

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Speaker 4: as opposed to about the country cheating us through a

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Speaker 4: trade deficit, because we don't have a trade deficit with Brazil. Again,

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Speaker 4: we have a trade surplus.

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Speaker 2: Cap Is there any way to look at our trade

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Speaker 2: relationship with Brazil, Brian and to see something unfair going on?

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Speaker 2: Anything that would justify Donald Trump? Try? Do you use

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Speaker 4: Well, again, even when you look at the letter that

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Speaker 4: he's sent to Brazil, it is completely restructured from what

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Speaker 4: we had seen as the copy and paste shop for

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Speaker 4: every other country that he had sent letters to earlier

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Speaker 4: the president isn't very is going to succeed in using

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Speaker 4: But again the question here is can Brazil then still

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Speaker 4: much relevant to this conversation, as it is with any

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Speaker 4: There is a timeline now, there's a few weeks until

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Speaker 4: August first, and can the Brazilian government convince the United

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Speaker 4: That is the open question at this point.

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Speaker 1: This is the will scream of a dying regime.

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Speaker 5: Pray for our enemies, because we're going to medieval on

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Speaker 5: these people.

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Speaker 1: You've not got a free shot. All these networks lying

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Speaker 1: of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I

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Speaker 3: And where do people like that go to share the

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Speaker 5: I wish in my soul, I wish that any of

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Speaker 5: these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my

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Speaker 5: task and what is my purpose? If that answer is

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Speaker 5: to save my country, this country will be saved.

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Speaker 3: War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Van.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the War Room.

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Speaker 6: It's Natalie G. Winters hosting, filling in for Stephen K. Van,

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Speaker 6: and we are here a little bit of a different

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Speaker 6: So I guess don't lose faith in this country for

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Speaker 6: a lot of reasons, but certainly in the youth. I've

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Speaker 1: Speak, including Stephen K.

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Speaker 6: You got Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, DHS Secretary Christinome Charlie.

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Speaker 6: Of course the whole turning point and rav crew. Now

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Speaker 6: We're always gonzo. We're gonna have Mike Ben's on shortly

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Speaker 1: The cold open.

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Speaker 6: But before we get there, I went to flag at

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Speaker 6: from Notice this isn't war room. This is a direct

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Speaker 6: quote the story titled Trump fired them. Now they're plotting

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Speaker 6: no paraphrasing, just directly quoting because it's so diabolical.

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Speaker 6: USAID and the State Department are now reapplying the skills

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Speaker 1: To undermine Trump's power.

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Speaker 6: Now this piece goes on extensively reported several quotes, several officials,

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Speaker 6: They were so quick to disband USAID, the group that

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Speaker 1: But they've done a very foolish thing.

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Speaker 6: You just released a bunch of well trained individuals into

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Speaker 6: This is not democracy activists talking about their different worldview

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Speaker 6: in some cases kinetic tactics to oppose President Trunk and

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Speaker 6: his administration. And to that point, they're actually hosting, as

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Speaker 1: Let us just case closed.

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Speaker 6: I think war rooms theory of the case that there

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Speaker 6: I think we're far long gone past that, but that USAID,

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Speaker 1: This is calls for kinetic action. Quote. Widespread practice of

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Speaker 6: And I guess we're exposed to what believe that those

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Speaker 5: Someone had plagiarized my work. I have this concept I've

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Speaker 6: Humble Brake, I apologize, However, I would think for all

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Speaker 6: Welcome back to the war room, the temporary war room.

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Speaker 6: We're here in Tampa. I think it's probably the Tampa

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Speaker 1: This set we were supposed to be in and still

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Speaker 6: We're very excited for a fun week and weekend here,

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Speaker 1: No conspiracies, no coincidences, as you know here in the

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Speaker 6: But speaking of conspiracies and coincidences and pattern recognition, Mike,

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Speaker 5: In a shout across the Bow, this is a fifty

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Speaker 6: And I can't have Mike Benson without asking you the

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Speaker 1: I don't think you've been.

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Speaker 5: Well, I believe quite strongly that Jeffrey Epstein is exactly

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Speaker 5: Part of the reason this is such a hot potato

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Speaker 5: They can't just give us all all three hundred million

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Speaker 5: Americans national security clearance is to access it. It becomes

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Speaker 5: public knowledge, which means the entire network effectively would have

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Speaker 5: its cover blown and it would frankly generate a lot

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Speaker 5: more questions than answers about every single thing. Once Epstein's

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Speaker 5: is an intense, forensic, detailed, microscopic instigation into every single

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Speaker 5: thing that Epstein has done. Everyone that he's handled money for,

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Speaker 5: every company he's invested in, every region he did business in,

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Speaker 5: well was that a CIA operation?

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Speaker 1: Was?

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Speaker 5: That you know is rarely intelligence saut the intelligence UK intelligence?

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Speaker 5: What every single thing you know of a storied four

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Speaker 5: infected by the intelligence label once Epstein does. And so

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Speaker 5: I think that, in combination with donor pressure, has been

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Speaker 5: between the voting base and the donors who provide the money.

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Speaker 1: Mike Ben's as always, we love having you in the

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Speaker 1: war room.

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Speaker 6: I'm sure people are going to want to get those

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Speaker 6: documents you're going to be releasing or calling for tonight.

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Speaker 1: If people want to follow you watch that. Where can

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Speaker 1: they go to get all things?

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Speaker 5: Mike Ben's best place is on x at Mike Ben's

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Speaker 5: cyber I also have a YouTube channel where I upload

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Speaker 5: legacy videos. Have five hundred some there as well.

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Speaker 1: Mike Benz, thank you for joining us and sorry for

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Speaker 1: all the hammer.

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Speaker 6: Noises and it's you may have been hearing that was

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Speaker 6: not the deep state.

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Speaker 1: We have it on good authority. That was really a

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Speaker 1: raerica you're always making. I'm sorry, it's not me.

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Speaker 6: I flew down here to do this show, and this

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Speaker 6: that was already It's all good.

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Speaker 1: We have a beautiful background. We love Tampa Bay.

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Speaker 6: In the meantime, we also have, of course Birch Gold's

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Speaker 6: everything we got going on behind me here. Fun fact,

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Speaker 6: I think this is a very shallow bay. It's about

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Speaker 6: only twelve feet deep. I googled that. In the break,

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Speaker 6: there you go. I will also add this right. If

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Speaker 6: you can't get the Epstein's stuff right, how in the heck,

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Speaker 6: how in the hell are we going to get the

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Speaker 6: twenty twenty election audit right? The origins of COVID Jan six.

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Speaker 6: This is rudimentary stuff. This is easy, This is basic.

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Speaker 6: All it takes is courage. And when I voted, and

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Speaker 6: I'm sure you to two for President Trump, I voted

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Speaker 6: for twenty twenty election audits and audits of stuff like this,

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Speaker 6: going after people like Brennan Laclapp are all these horrible

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Speaker 6: people who have lied and destroyed this country and probably

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Speaker 6: could be tried for treason. Not audits of I don't know,

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Speaker 6: you know, Patriot missile reserve, interceptor reserves and AMMO and

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Speaker 6: munition's reserves to make sure that we've enough so we

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Speaker 6: can continue to send more of them to Israel and Ukraine,

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Speaker 6: right election audits, not auditing Iran's nuclear program on behalf

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Speaker 6: of foreign countries like Israel, or arming Ukraine even more.

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Speaker 1: These are foundational values. But as Steve always.

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Speaker 6: Says, maga you guys, this audience, we're up for a

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Speaker 6: fight and you're the only ones who can do it.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back after the.

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Speaker 3: Four use your host, Stephen k Ban.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the war room.

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Speaker 6: We are still here in Tampa. I think the Hammers

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Speaker 6: have subsided a little bit. That's good. Not the deep State.

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Speaker 6: Just setting up the stage for Steve the whole crew.

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Speaker 6: We're going to be here doing live shows tomorrow throughout

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Speaker 6: the weekend. In this break, I took a quick look

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Speaker 6: at some of the sponsors the other shows. Beautiful booths

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Speaker 6: being set up. I've yet to find the Patriot Mobile booth.

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Speaker 6: You guys know, we love the guys over there. Glenn's

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Speaker 6: story hardcore Patriots. Hence the name seems only fitting. So

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Speaker 6: you got to be checking out Patriot mobile dot com,

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Speaker 6: slash ban and using promo code ban and they have

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Speaker 6: a host of deals get off all these horrible America

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Speaker 1: That's why we love Patriot Mobile.

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Speaker 6: Now sort of linking what we're talking about before we

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Speaker 6: went to break what's going on over at the Pentagon.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, I think.

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Speaker 6: That rare earth Mine the Mountain Pass is a huge,

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Speaker 6: huge win for Secretary heg Seth and Franklin for the country.

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Speaker 6: I want to bring on will Tibau. I hope I'm

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Speaker 6: pronouncing that right from cra who we love so much.

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Speaker 6: For the latest on the NDAA. We've been tracking this

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Speaker 6: a lot, but where we sort of stand in terms

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Speaker 6: breaking news I want to get into, but let's just

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Speaker 3: Thanks Natalie. So you know, we're in the midst of

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Speaker 3: a few really important weeks for the National Defense Authorization Act. Again,

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Speaker 3: that's this annual you know, coloquially or otherwise known as

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Speaker 3: Department of Defense, against which then money money is allocated

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Speaker 3: and appropriators will spend money for the law that is

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Speaker 3: authorized in the National Defense Authorization Act. It is I

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Speaker 3: think a generational opportunity for America first conservatives to permanently

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Speaker 3: redefine how the military has functioned, you know, for too long.

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Speaker 3: For decades, we've seen this sclerotic combination of acquisition policy

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Speaker 3: that's inefficient and five years too slow. We've seen diversity

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Speaker 3: acuit inclusion take a stranglehold on every military personnel decision

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Speaker 3: So let's not let this chance go to waste. As

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Speaker 3: an opportunity to ensure the military serves the American people

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Speaker 3: well throughout the twenty first century. This effects a few things.

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Speaker 3: It's everything from ensuring that good states, good conservative states,

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Speaker 3: can regulate artificial intelligence and that our AI companies don't

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Speaker 3: run amok over the American way of life. It's about

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Speaker 3: codifying the important changes of Sexuary Headseeth and President Trump

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Speaker 3: of ending wokeness in the Pentagon, ridding the bureaucracy of

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Speaker 3: diversity acuit inclusion. That should be law, it shouldn't be

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Speaker 3: an executive branch action that ends at the next Democrat president.

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Speaker 3: And then we should ensure that our military isn't beholden

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Speaker 3: to the typical defense industrial base, but is responsive and

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Speaker 3: building the kinds of systems and technology that can deter

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Speaker 3: war and if it comes to it, win the ones

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Speaker 3: that matter protect our homeland. It is not enough to

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Speaker 3: rest on conservative laurels and assume that Sexuary Heaseeth and

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Speaker 3: President Trump have it. They do. They're implementing exceptionally important

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Speaker 3: policy for the nation, but it is still the job

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Speaker 3: of Congress to make sure that's real. So you'll probably

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Speaker 3: see the House and Senate released versions of the NBA

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Speaker 3: in the next ten days or two weeks, and that'll

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Speaker 3: be the mark on the line. But what comes next

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Speaker 3: is a little squirrely and uncertain. There are some secret

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Speaker 3: committee votes. There will be the understanding of what's in

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Speaker 3: the base text or what's an amendment, and it's imperative

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Speaker 3: is voted on, is as good for America as possible

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Speaker 3: on all the issues I mentioned. You know, when amendment

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Speaker 3: when that's when we start to lose accountability over who

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Speaker 3: supports what. And I think the American people should expect

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Speaker 3: a lot more from the Conservative majority the Republican majority,

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Speaker 3: at least in both the House in the Senate. Now

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Speaker 3: any other year. And so it's about holding, you know,

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Speaker 3: to the fire so that they're making permanent the actions

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Speaker 3: But I think you're already starting to sense that the

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Speaker 3: blob is going to try and move the NDA in

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Speaker 3: a typical direction that guarantees status quo interests without good

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Speaker 3: change in some of the key areas, like we talked about,

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Speaker 3: you know, we have to make sure that the NBA

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm curious to bring this to the news that

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Speaker 6: what was going on before him.

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Speaker 1: Obviously a lot of holdovers there.

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Speaker 6: Admiral Donnelly, the person who was responsible for, I guess,

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Speaker 6: commissioning a lot of these drag shows on if I'm

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Speaker 6: not mistaken actual Navy vessels for cash prizes. Never thought

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Speaker 6: I'd be saying that, but maybe I guess under Joe Biden,

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Speaker 6: I can actually.

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Speaker 1: Totally believe that. Walk us through what happened today with him.

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Speaker 3: Right, Natalie, It's a great point to bring up Admiral Donnelly,

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Speaker 3: frankly and otherwise exceptional naval officer, but he was in

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Speaker 3: twenty eighteen, and during that time, again this is the

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Speaker 3: first Trump administration, the USS Ronald Reagan hosted Navy sanctioned

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Speaker 3: drag shows while the aircraft carrier was deployed. This was not,

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Speaker 3: you know, kind of a private, offhand activity. This was

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Speaker 3: an official event where the drag queens were awarded cash prizes,

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Speaker 3: and then a lot of those drag queens became official

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Speaker 3: representatives of Navy recruiting efforts. And the point is, and

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Speaker 3: I think this is the point that Sexuary Hexeth especially understands.

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Speaker 3: The point is that it's not you know, frankly, it's

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Speaker 3: kind of absurd to just punish these enlisted service members

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Speaker 3: who are perhaps you know, confused about a lot of

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Speaker 3: things in life, and you know, doing this during their

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Speaker 3: tour of duty. But the people whom we really need

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Speaker 3: allow this to happen.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: The point is is this is a disqualifying event to

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Speaker 3: of your audience knows, when you're in the military, you

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Speaker 3: happen in your ship, on your platoon, of your military

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Speaker 3: infantry platoon. Right, So Admiral Donnelly was in charge of

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Speaker 3: those sanctioned events, and he allowed drag shows to happen routinely.

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Speaker 3: That's a bad thing. And so you know, he was

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Speaker 3: promoted once during the first Trump administration, promoted again under

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Speaker 3: President Joe Biden, and he slipped through the cracks of

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Speaker 3: the this time around to command the seventh Fleet. But

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of great opposition from groups like Claremont

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Speaker 3: cra and others to show that to show the administration that, hey,

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Speaker 3: you know, the deep state of the military got one

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Speaker 3: past you. You know, it's okay, these are the first

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Speaker 3: light of promotions. But now we've got to reel it

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Speaker 3: back in. It's not too late. We don't have to

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Speaker 3: seat that officer as commander of the seven of the

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Speaker 3: seventh Fleet. We can put someone who is not interested

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Speaker 3: in politicizing the military in charge, because there are a

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Speaker 3: lot of great naval officers out there who are not

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Speaker 3: interested in promoting drag or paying drag means thousands of

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Speaker 3: dollars to perform on Navy ships. You know, this is

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Speaker 3: about restoring the principles of war fighting in lethality that

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Speaker 3: President Trump and Secretary Heckseeth have been talking about for

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Speaker 3: months now. You know, it's somewhat tragic that Admiral Donnelly

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Speaker 3: got caught up in this, but it is such an

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Speaker 3: important signal to send to the rest of the general

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Speaker 3: and thaw grate officer class that no longer will this

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Speaker 3: kind of politicization be tolerated, and it will cost you

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Speaker 3: your career because it used to cost you to your

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Speaker 3: career to be a conservative or to be pro life,

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Speaker 3: as it was for peter Pace under the Obama administration.

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Speaker 3: But now we're restoring the military to lethality and merit.

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Speaker 3: And that's why the story of Admiral Donnelly is so important,

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Speaker 3: because it's about the people you put in charge of

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Speaker 3: critical organizations like an aircraft carrier.

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Speaker 1: And well, just give me a few minutes.

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Speaker 6: You had a great peace following Operation Midnight Hammer, talking

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Speaker 6: about really what is I think a quite large vulnerability

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Speaker 6: of the United States.

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Speaker 1: That is, in terms of drug owns, particularly cheap drones.

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Speaker 6: We obviously dominate the you know, high tech five time

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Speaker 6: million dollars and.

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Speaker 1: Erroll type dro mark of it really cheap drones. Obviously

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Speaker 1: China dominates that market.

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Speaker 6: A lot of the dji hik vision those type companies

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Speaker 6: are rightfully so banned or on entity list or whatever blacklisted.

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Speaker 1: Here in the United States. But just walk the audience

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Speaker 1: through a few minutes.

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Speaker 6: I think it's important for them to know where we

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Speaker 6: stand on that front.

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Speaker 3: Right the article you reference, Natalie, you know, wrote one

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Speaker 3: in the American Mind and the Federalist is kind of

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Speaker 3: about moving forward past Operation Midnight Hammer. You know, a

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Speaker 3: lot of rightful I think consternation and discussion about that operation.

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Speaker 3: But what should be acknowledged, and I think people of

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Speaker 3: all foreign policy stripes can can agree on, is that

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Speaker 3: we used a massive fleet to accomplish that mission. We

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Speaker 3: used probably over half of our functional B two bombers.

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Speaker 3: We almost certainly depleted our ascu as your bunker busks

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Speaker 3: or stockpile by over half. We expended a ton of

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Speaker 3: military resources to make this happen, and that's not insignificant, right.

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Speaker 3: We have to make sure that we can project power

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Speaker 3: in other ways in other theaters. We won't always be

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Speaker 3: able to fly from Missouri to the Middle East and

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Speaker 3: drop these kinds of bombs. China, for example, has hundreds

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Speaker 3: of four dohs. What we need now is a massive

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Speaker 3: fleet of unmanned drones in the air and dot sea

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Speaker 3: who can provide for deterrence in lethality in multiple different spheres.

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Speaker 3: That means we have to rapidly expand our acquisition policies

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Speaker 3: to be more flexible and to account for all these

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Speaker 3: great startups that are building drones. Sectary Heseth's just signed

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Speaker 3: a memo today as a matter of fact that does

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Speaker 3: just that. But there's time is of the essence. Ukraine

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Speaker 3: and Russia each build fifty thousand drones per month. China

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Speaker 3: is ordering one million one way attack drones in twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty five. In the US, you know, we're just starting

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Speaker 3: to think in terms of quantities like five or ten

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Speaker 3: thousand a year. That's not enough, it's not fast enough.

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Speaker 3: We have to move so that no matter the theater

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Speaker 3: of war, no matter the kind of threat, we're ready

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Speaker 3: to confront it. Because although Operation Midnight Hammer was a

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Speaker 3: pretty stunning show of force, pretty incredible in a lot

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Speaker 3: of ways, it's not necessarily going to scale all the

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Speaker 3: time in other theaters of war. And that's I think

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Speaker 3: just the sober minded assessment of what our military needs

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Speaker 3: to look like into the twenty first century. It goes

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Speaker 3: back to the NDA, because the NDA sets the conditions

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Speaker 3: and the framework for what you know, military acquisition needs

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Speaker 3: to look like. So our service members have the weapons

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Speaker 3: that they need to deliver capability when it matters in

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Speaker 3: a way that's repeatable and enduring and in service of

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Speaker 3: the American interest.

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Speaker 6: How about this drones not drag shows. That's I think

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Speaker 6: the way for it. I'm sure you would agree, will

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Speaker 6: before we have you back on in the meantime with

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Speaker 6: the audience wants to stay update with everything you and

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Speaker 6: the team over there are working on.

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Speaker 1: Where can they go to follow you and.

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Speaker 6: Call their senators, members of Congress, get get engaged in

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Speaker 6: this very critical fight.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm at William Tebow, you know, I'm a director

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Speaker 3: of the American Military Project at Claremont, a visiting fellow

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Speaker 3: at CRA. Check out those wonderful organizations because there's a

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Speaker 3: ton of great work that happens there. To again, keep

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Speaker 3: the military the military, make sure the institutional integrity is

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Speaker 3: something that serves the American people and not the other

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Speaker 3: way around. That's in a way that's disconnected from American interests.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, sir for joining us. We'll have you back

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Speaker 1: on soon.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I hope so.

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Speaker 1: Thanks of course.

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Speaker 6: And to link whatever you want to call it, that misprioritization,

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Speaker 6: I think that's probably too euphemistic a term. Frankly, the

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Speaker 6: outright sabotage of the United States military, whether it's drag

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Speaker 6: shows or depleting dronestocks, not having adequate numbers or a

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Speaker 6: number I always like to cite for every one ship

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Speaker 6: we build, China builds three hundred, not necessarily all military.

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Speaker 6: But you guys know very well the idea of the

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Speaker 6: concept of military civil fusion, so they all are essentially.

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Speaker 1: Dormant military vessels.

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Speaker 6: When you think about those USAID, those State Department, all

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Speaker 6: those bureaucrats right who espouse the idea that they're going

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Speaker 6: to sabotage President Trump, that they're going to use these

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Speaker 6: tactics to undermine the America First movement, really makes you

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Speaker 6: wonder how we got here right to a place where

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Speaker 6: America's national security, where we need to be opening up

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Speaker 6: mines in the eleventh hour because we don't have adequate

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Speaker 6: rare earth supplies so much so that China can run

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Speaker 6: circles around us in a trade war, and that we

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Speaker 6: have to essentially buckle and give them what they want

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Speaker 6: because we can't sustain life from the United States for

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Speaker 6: more than what a week or two, all by design

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Speaker 6: on both sides of the trade China and here in

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Speaker 6: the United States.

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Speaker 1: Will be right back from Tampa War Room. Don't go anywhere,

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Speaker 1: four room.

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Speaker 3: Use your Stephen k Man.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Warroom. We are here live and Tampa.

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Speaker 6: Just ahead of turning points to Student Action Summit, which

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Speaker 6: you can't see below me, but there are hundreds of

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Speaker 6: young kids getting their lanyards, their badges, getting ready to

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Speaker 6: attend a bunch of breakout sessions and chapters to focus

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Speaker 6: on their campuses and their communities.

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Speaker 1: How to bring the turning point conservative America.

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Speaker 6: First, MAGA message you name It Home, which I think

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Speaker 6: is a wonderful thing, and I'm sure for those of

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Speaker 6: you who are maybe feeling slightly defeated right now, it's

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Speaker 6: a wonderful sight to see.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure they're not much younger than I am, but

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Speaker 1: still even it gives me hope. Something else that gives

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Speaker 1: me hope.

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Speaker 6: So of course, people like Brandon Showalter and doctor Miriam

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Speaker 6: Grossman who join us now. Doctor Grossman, I want to

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Speaker 6: start with you on the heels of a wonderful event

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Speaker 6: hosted by the FTC, which has been doing wonderful work

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Speaker 6: really going after the transing course of America's youth walk

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Speaker 6: the audience through I think there's a link of people

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Speaker 6: want to watch it, but what exactly you guys did,

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Speaker 6: And then Brandon will bring in.

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Speaker 7: Well, thank you Natalie for having me on. Yesterday really

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Speaker 7: was a watershed moment in this country in the fight

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Speaker 7: against the transgender industry.

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Speaker 3: And the reason I.

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Speaker 7: Say that is because it was the first time that

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Speaker 7: a government agency, the Federal Trade Commission, actually had an

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Speaker 7: entire day in which the microphone was given to the

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Speaker 7: victims of the trans transgender ideology, meaning young people, their

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Speaker 7: parents who have been harmed, and the doctors and therapists

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Speaker 7: and attorneys who are fighting.

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Speaker 3: Against the ideology.

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Speaker 7: Now, the point of the day was to discuss fraud

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Speaker 7: and to uncover the fraud that's occurring day in and

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Speaker 7: day out regarding transgender ideology and the way that young

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Speaker 7: people are led to believe things that are just not true.

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Speaker 7: And for example, that they could be born in the

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Speaker 7: wrong body and that they need to have their bodies

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Speaker 7: medically and surgically altered in order to feel better. This

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Speaker 7: is an untruth. There's no evidence of being able to

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Speaker 7: be born in the wrong body, and when young people

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Speaker 7: in their families are sold that falsehood, it's fraud. Furthermore,

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Speaker 7: when they are encouraged that the only solution to their issues,

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Speaker 7: to their suffering, their mental health suffering, is to sign

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Speaker 7: up for hormones and other intervention, surgical interventions, that is

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Speaker 7: also false.

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Speaker 3: That is fraudulent.

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Speaker 7: So we have tens of thousands of people who have

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Speaker 7: been harmed by the fraud of the gender industry, and yesterday,

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Speaker 7: for the first time we had an entire day of

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Speaker 7: people speaking the truth and in a government agency. It

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Speaker 7: was amazing, and I really urge your audience to go

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Speaker 7: to the link. I believe that you have it there,

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Speaker 7: the FTC link, and you can watch the entire thing.

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Speaker 7: It's very disturbing that we've reached this point where so

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Speaker 7: many people have been wrongly pulled into these false beliefs

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Speaker 7: about what is a man and what is a woman.

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Speaker 7: Sex is determined at the moment of conception, when the

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Speaker 7: sperm and the egg unite. You have either a male

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Speaker 7: or female life at that time that is permanent, that

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Speaker 7: cannot be changed. And those are the truths that we

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Speaker 7: need to come back back to in medicine.

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Speaker 6: Indeed, return to tradition, return to truth. Brandon, just give

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Speaker 6: us a few minutes on how this links to the

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Speaker 6: breaking news kind of about yesterday today what the DOJ

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Speaker 6: is doing to sort of complement this.

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Speaker 8: Yes one of the most encouraging developments from this FTC

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Speaker 8: workshop that doctor Grossman was a keynote speaker for in

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Speaker 8: the morning was Chad Maizell showing up Attorney General Pam

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Speaker 8: Bondi's chief of staff, and he announced there and it

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Speaker 8: has since been put out on the DOJ's website that

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Speaker 8: twenty subpoenas have been issued toward these clinics and hospitals

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Speaker 8: who have been involved in performing these mutilating surgeries on children.

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Speaker 8: And I just can't say enough how much I appreciate

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Speaker 8: Attorney General Bondi's statement that medical professionals and organizations that

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Speaker 8: mutilated children in service to a warped ideology will be

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Speaker 8: held accountable by this Department of Justice. And I can

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Speaker 8: tell you that doctor Grossman and other presenters yesterday at

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Speaker 8: this work shop provided ample receipts. There is so much

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Speaker 8: evidence of fraud, and of course the entire premise of

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Speaker 8: gender ideology is a fraud. It's fraudulent that you can

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Speaker 8: be born in the wrong body. So of course anything

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Speaker 8: I said this yesterday and during my panel, anything that

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Speaker 8: begins with a lie is going to do damage. But

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Speaker 8: there's now concrete evidence of so many crimes and healthy

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Speaker 8: wealst diagnoses fraudulent practices. And I'm looking forward to seeing

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Speaker 8: what the FTC and the dojdo.

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Speaker 1: What a difference the year makes, all.

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Speaker 6: Right, real quick, We're coming up against the end of

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Speaker 6: the show, Doctor Grossman, if people want to follow you,

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Speaker 6: where can they go to stay up to date with

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Speaker 6: everything you guys are working on.

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Speaker 7: I think the best place is probably my website, which

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Speaker 7: is Miriam GROSSMANMD dot com.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, ma'am.

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Speaker 6: The audience loves you and the work that you guys

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Speaker 6: are doing. And Brandon, where can people go for you?

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Speaker 8: Brandon mshow on x dead Namdocumentary dot com, Generation Indoctrination

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Speaker 8: dot com. I would just echo doctor Grossman's words and

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Speaker 8: now he the entire NPC workshop that has already been

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Speaker 8: archiding on their website. I sent it to your producer

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Speaker 8: so the war room posse can watch it in full

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Speaker 8: of theay so.

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Speaker 1: Desire, amazing. Thank you sir, Thank you the two of you.

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Speaker 1: The work you guys are doing.

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Speaker 6: Let's just hope, not hope, make it so use action

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Speaker 6: action action that Bondie brings the same justice and protections

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Speaker 6: for the kids who were victimized by Epstein and his

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Speaker 6: elite cabal type associates. Of course, before we jump for

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Speaker 6: our final guests, you can probably hear the young turning

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Speaker 6: take you off the playing field, out of the game,

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Speaker 6: for being able to make the critical essential phone calls

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Speaker 6: to your members of Congress to defend whether it's San DIAA,

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Speaker 6: take your pick. We need to restore this country, not

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Speaker 6: even to its former grainness.

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Speaker 1: That's great, but just to what President Trump promise.

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Speaker 6: Mike Lindell, you got a minute hit us with the

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Speaker 6: latest all things my Pillow well.

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Speaker 9: Well, Warmroom Posse. I wish I could have been down

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Speaker 9: there at the turning point event, but I've had to

884
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Speaker 9: be here my pillow, and you guys have made it,

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Speaker 9: possibly won the big trial.

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Speaker 3: But what we're doing for you, we're doing We've done

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Speaker 3: with it.

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Speaker 9: We're getting our closing out. Are my pillow original slippers

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Speaker 9: and sandals is exclusive to the Warm Room Posse.

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Speaker 3: We are that we need the cash at my Pillow

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Speaker 3: right now.

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Speaker 9: We're we're closing these out thirty nine ninety eight, get

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Speaker 9: all the sizes. These our one hundred and some dollars,

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Speaker 9: the best flippers ever. Go to go to the website

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Speaker 9: My and MyPillow dot com. Scroll down, click on Steve.

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Speaker 9: Use that promo.

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Speaker 3: Code war Room.

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Speaker 9: There's the number eight hundred and eighty seven three one

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Speaker 9: zero six two seventy more nets.

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Speaker 1: You guys, we gotta go. We'll see you tomorrow on

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Speaker 1: Tampa wam posse. Thank you,