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Speaker 1: our plate today, including UH the Secretary of State Mike

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Speaker 1: rightly defend Trump's statement about the Putin summit, and now

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Speaker 1: which I think is probably very smart. But if you're

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Speaker 1: watching your media, you know, we go from who who

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Speaker 1: crisis to UH crisis to a crisis too, you know,

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Speaker 1: because uh, I see Senator Corker is speaking, Um. Pompeio

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Speaker 1: And you go from Russia and you go to oh,

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Speaker 1: John Brennan, the former communist that's calling the president a

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Speaker 1: Now it's the tape, the Cone Trump tape, which, by

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Speaker 1: There's zero significance in that tape, nor is it any

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Speaker 1: steps forward that happened at the at this NATO summit

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Speaker 1: in there. It was an incredibly productive NATO summit. By

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Speaker 1: from my conversations with Secretary General Stoltenberg, he said among

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Speaker 1: the most productive that he had ever been part of,

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Speaker 1: and he's been doing this a little while. UM. You

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Speaker 1: talked about the four thirties, thirty squadron thirty Italians UH

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Speaker 1: UH at thirty naval combatants ready to go in thirty days.

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Speaker 1: That's something NATO has not been able to do for

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Speaker 1: quite some time. There's now a real commitment we have

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Speaker 1: to follow through to make sure that the implement a

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Speaker 1: should that occurs, it would be UH. It would be

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Speaker 1: a great thing to deter Russia if we can get

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Speaker 1: those countries and our allies to get to that level.

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Speaker 1: You talked about the increase in burden sharing. It seemed

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Speaker 1: to get all the focus. It's certainly important UH that

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Speaker 1: the Europeans are as committed UH to UH deterring Russia

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Speaker 1: as the United States of America and need to demonstrate

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Speaker 1: that through their defense, not only dollars, but readiness as well.

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Speaker 1: We've seen reports about the absence of German readiness. They

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Speaker 1: need to truly be ready. The President also raised another

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Speaker 1: issue about energy and energy security at the NATO summit.

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Speaker 1: He talked about the nord Stream to pipeline and the

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Speaker 1: risk that that creates to the alliance and the event

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Speaker 1: that Russia should decide to use energy as a weapon

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Speaker 1: UH to coerce UH either formally or informally H Germany

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Speaker 1: or other European countries. You raised it to the forefront,

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Speaker 1: and frankly, there are European countries that understand that risk

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Speaker 1: and support America and our position on that as well.

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Speaker 1: And I finally talked a little bit about the NATO mission.

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Speaker 1: It's it's new role in fighting terrorism. Um I want

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Speaker 1: to I want to say thanks to so many of

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Speaker 1: the European countries that have stepped forward, even just this

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Speaker 1: past a few I guess it's now two weeks since

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Speaker 1: the NATO summit. Over a thousand additional commitments from allied

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Speaker 1: NATO partners headed to assist US in Operation Resolute Support

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Speaker 1: in Afghanistan. That's a great commitment, something that President Trump

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Speaker 1: worked hard on at the summit, and really good outcomes

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Speaker 1: for America. Well, thank you so much. You're you're to

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Speaker 1: be personally committed for those great successes, as is the

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Speaker 1: President for leading in that regard. Uh. It's unfortunate that

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Speaker 1: our friends and allies, UH feathers were ruffled a little

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Speaker 1: bit just because we said they weren't paying their bills.

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Speaker 1: But that's been going on for some time and I

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Speaker 1: think we're going to tolerate that. But they've got to

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Speaker 1: step up, and I know you underscored that, and the

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Speaker 1: President has certainly underscored that with him. UM, I want

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Speaker 1: to talk about Iran for just to moment. UH. They're

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Speaker 1: one of the big unreported stories as far as UH

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Speaker 1: foreign relations is concerned. Is the issues and the difficulties

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Speaker 1: that the Iranian people are having internally financially and under

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Speaker 1: and otherwise. And I know we're not in a classified setting,

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Speaker 1: but there there is some open reporting on these sources,

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Speaker 1: and the regime that's there is struggling with this. Indeed,

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Speaker 1: I think that's probably why UH they tried to poke

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Speaker 1: the president the other day to try to take their

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Speaker 1: to try to take the the heat off of the

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Speaker 1: heat they're getting at home. Could you talk a little

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Speaker 1: bit about what's going on internally, again, knowing that we're

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Speaker 1: in in UH an open setting the center, there is

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Speaker 1: UH enormous economic challenge inside of Iran today. It's a

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Speaker 1: it's an economic structure that simply doesn't work when you

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Speaker 1: foment that when you're a country of that scale that

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Speaker 1: moments tear UH through Lebanese has Blah, through Shia militias

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Speaker 1: in Iraq into Yemen. UH conducts assassination attempts in European countries.

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Speaker 1: UH provides enormous support for as ASAD outside of Lebanese

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Speaker 1: has black in Syria. That's expensive and I think the

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Speaker 1: Iranian people are beginning to see that that's not the

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Speaker 1: model that they want. UM, that the Iranian expansion is

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Speaker 1: m that the supreme leader in Costum Sulamani so favor

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Speaker 1: is not what they're looking for. And I think you're

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Speaker 1: beginning to see the economic impact combined with understandings inside

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Speaker 1: of Iran of the cleptocracy that it is UM leading

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Speaker 1: to fundamental decisions that the Iranian people will ultimately have

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Speaker 1: to make. You agree with me that that acceleration of

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Speaker 1: that understanding by the Iranian people has been very rapid

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Speaker 1: over the last six months. Uh, yes, it's I think

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Speaker 1: it's I think it's been going on longer than that,

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Speaker 1: but yes, it's going been going on longer. But I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about the acceleration. Yes, Senator, I think that's a

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Speaker 1: fair statement. Thank you. If I could just one interjection, UM,

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Speaker 1: I know the phrase paying their bills has been used, UM,

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Speaker 1: and we need every NATO country needs to be UH

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Speaker 1: contributing two percent of defense. And I've noticed those near

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Speaker 1: the Russian border always do. Um, But there's that's a misnumber,

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Speaker 1: is it not? What we want them to do is

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Speaker 1: contribute at least two percent. There's not. These NATO countries

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Speaker 1: are not not paying bills to the United States as

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Speaker 1: sometimes as projected. Is that a Is that correct? The

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Speaker 1: shortfalls that the President identified really are in two buckets. Um.

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Speaker 1: There is a NATO Common Fund that is contributed to

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Speaker 1: by every nation, and the United States is by far

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Speaker 1: the largest contributor that fund. And then there are moneys

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Speaker 1: that are paid for nations to raise their own militaries

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Speaker 1: and to defend themselves. That's the that's the two percent

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Speaker 1: number to which we've been with. It's not it would

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Speaker 1: be a mischaracterization to say to make it appear that

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Speaker 1: they're not paying bills to the United States. That's correct,

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Speaker 1: That's that's correct. Center cardon. This is so great. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for being here. It's my understanding that the President

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Speaker 1: is going to invite Mr Putin to the United States

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Speaker 1: to follow up on the understandings reached in Helsinki. Can

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Speaker 1: you just briefly tell me what those understandings or agreements

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Speaker 1: reached in Helsinki at the meeting? Sure, I can certainly

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Speaker 1: share with you the things that we've been tasked to

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Speaker 1: follow up on by President Trump following that meeting. UM,

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Speaker 1: there's a handful. UH. So there there is an agreement

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Speaker 1: to establishing business to business leadership exchanges as historically had

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Speaker 1: been undertaken but had fallen away. UH. The would be

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Speaker 1: business leaders that would participate in this. UM. I understand

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Speaker 1: that this went on for years and years and and

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Speaker 1: and was ceased. UH. And fully, could we could do

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Speaker 1: it briefly? I understand you want to give a complete thing,

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Speaker 1: and I appreciate that, and it's what you asked for.

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Speaker 1: I understand a business to business next issue, the President

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Speaker 1: is asked us to look at re establishing a counter

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Speaker 1: terrorism Council that was held at the level of the

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Speaker 1: Deputy Secretary State for many years but had also ceased

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Speaker 1: to happen. UM. I think at this point, I think

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Speaker 1: that makes sense in terrorist terrorism. UH. We are working

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Speaker 1: to see in Syria what are the possibilities that can

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Speaker 1: be achieved so that the now between six and seven

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Speaker 1: million displaced person externally displaced persons have the opportunity to return.

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Speaker 1: We made clear this should happen through the political process

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Speaker 1: in Geneva. UM. But we are working to see if

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Speaker 1: we can't get Russian Russia to be more cooperative in

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Speaker 1: towards terms of driving towards a political resolution there that

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Speaker 1: would take it. I'm way more interested in this than

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Speaker 1: I thought I would. What we'll do is we're going

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Speaker 1: to take a break the White House. By the way,

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Speaker 1: the President is expected he's been meeting with European leaders

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Speaker 1: issues of trade, and of course the pastor. This pastor

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Speaker 1: has been held hostage for a long period of time,

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Speaker 1: that has been released from Turkey and um his name

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Speaker 1: is Andrew Brunson. By the way, Jay Sekul is representative

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Speaker 1: all this time. And that's really big news actually, and

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Speaker 1: thank goodness for me get an update on that. You know,

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Speaker 1: I didn't think I wanted to air that much of this.

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Speaker 1: This is getting fascinating. Not only is the Secretary of

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Speaker 1: Steve Pompeo talking about Russia, but Iran in North Korea. Well,

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Speaker 1: monitor that the President is expected to make an announcement

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Speaker 1: as it relates to EU trade, which is amazing, and

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Speaker 1: that American pastor Andrew Brunson has been released from Turkey.

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Speaker 1: We had a lot of news to get to straight

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Speaker 1: ahead alright, hour to Sean Hannity Show. We're awaiting the

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Speaker 1: White House is gonna have some announcement. I think it's

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Speaker 1: gonna have to do with the concessions that the President

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Speaker 1: is secured uh from the Europeans to avoid a trade war. Um.

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Speaker 1: And this is interesting, UM because I'm I'm looking at it,

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Speaker 1: and this is pretty amazing. And it's what I said

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Speaker 1: would happen. How many times, Linda, did I not say

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Speaker 1: over and over again, there's not gonna be a trade war.

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Speaker 1: The President's the go shitty. Well, we now have some

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Speaker 1: of the details that finally emerged and that the President

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Speaker 1: secured concessions from Europe. That's not not gonna be a

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Speaker 1: trade war, uh, Dal Jones reporting. And it just came

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Speaker 1: before the Trump European Commission president. You know they're gonna

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Speaker 1: have this joint presser coming up. Um and the major

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Speaker 1: averages uh rallied on the news. I nobody he negotiates,

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Speaker 1: it's what he does. And uh. Anyway, so the NASDAC

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Speaker 1: went up about one percent to DW Industrial went up

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Speaker 1: about a half a percent. Wait of these GDP numbers

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Speaker 1: on Friday, You're gonna be pretty amazing from all indications.

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Speaker 1: Will see for the second quarter. But here's what the

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Speaker 1: president got. The Europeans agreed to lower industrial tariffs and

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Speaker 1: import more US soybeans. The Europeans agreed to work on

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Speaker 1: more US liquefied natural gas exports. And Trump also said

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Speaker 1: he's hoping to work something out on a fair trade

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Speaker 1: deal with Europe and they're gonna have probably more details

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Speaker 1: when they speak. We're literally watching a little box outside

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Speaker 1: of the White Household. I think it's on the South

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Speaker 1: lawn um And in the meantime, we got news today,

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Speaker 1: and I think this is great news. I've known about

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Speaker 1: this case forever. We've talked about this case, and that

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Speaker 1: is the American pastor, his name is Andrew Brunson, US

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Speaker 1: citizen from North Carolina, spent nearly twenty one months in

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Speaker 1: prisoned in Turkey because he's a Christian, and the pastor

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Speaker 1: has been on trial for the crime of Christianization. And

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Speaker 1: our friend Jay Sekulo in the American Center for Law

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Speaker 1: and Justice, we have confirmed that the Turkish government has

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Speaker 1: now issued in order releasing Pastor Andrew Brunson from prison,

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Speaker 1: allowing him to be returned to his home in Turkey.

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Speaker 1: This is the first critical step that we believe will

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Speaker 1: result in the freedom of Pastor Brunson, so he can

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Speaker 1: return to the United States and be reunited with his family.

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Speaker 1: And while all of this is going on, UH, really

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Speaker 1: content just hearing with the Senate and the Secretary of

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Speaker 1: State Mike Pompeo. And let's go back to that, and

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Speaker 1: we'll go to the Russians White House. Uh, and when

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Speaker 1: that announcement happens, thoughts on that. So I have a

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Speaker 1: personal experience. I had a private conversation with North Koreans.

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Speaker 1: We didn't issue a read out on the conversations, quite intentionally,

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Speaker 1: and the North Korean press chose to characterize it, which

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Speaker 1: we thought it was in America's best interest not to

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Speaker 1: respond tip for tat about the nature of that conversation.

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Speaker 1: We we knew the truth, we knew what had taken

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Speaker 1: place there. Um, And you know, it's the North Korean press,

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Speaker 1: and so I assume that most reasonable people will discount

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Speaker 1: it fairly significant in the same way that one might

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Speaker 1: the Russian press. Uh. These are important decisions about how

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Speaker 1: much disclose about private conversations were it had, because everyone

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Speaker 1: knows that you may have an expectation that you'll have

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Speaker 1: another private conversation one day, and the absence of their

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Speaker 1: belief that that private conversation has the capacity to remain

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Speaker 1: in that space reduces the freedom to have those conversations.

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Speaker 1: And I know you've had this in your life too, Senator.

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Speaker 1: I know you've had private conversations and you valued them.

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Speaker 1: It was just you and someone else in that room,

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Speaker 1: and it was important, and you didn't give anyone to

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Speaker 1: read out from it because you wanted to have the

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Speaker 1: chance to do that again, because you thought you could

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Speaker 1: make real progress with that person. Right, Let's talk about

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Speaker 1: North Korea. You brought it up, um. You mentioned that

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Speaker 1: you traveled the court North Korea to continue on, as

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Speaker 1: you put it, I guess, to follow up on commitments

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Speaker 1: made in Singapore. Let's talk about those commitments for a minute.

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Speaker 1: You you mentioned that they have committed to the denuclearization.

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Speaker 1: They may have a different readout than we do on

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Speaker 1: what that entails, but but so far they seem to

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Speaker 1: be walking back. Uh any commitment, real commitment that was

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Speaker 1: made there, What commitment, firm commitment other than discussion of

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Speaker 1: returning remains. I'm not discounting that, but but in terms

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Speaker 1: of denuclearization, what real commitments were made. Yeah, I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to get into the private commitments that have been shared.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's fair to characterize them walking back

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Speaker 1: from commitments. Um, remember where we were right? So it

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Speaker 1: all depends what you draw as the projected line to say,

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Speaker 1: are we in a better place or a worse place

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Speaker 1: than we would have been absent the Singapore Summit? One

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Speaker 1: can draw counterfactual reference. Will never know where we might

657
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Speaker 1: have been, but I will concede there is an awful

658
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Speaker 1: long way to go. I'm not trying to oversell the

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Speaker 1: accomplishments that we've had towards the path of the nuclearization

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Speaker 1: to date. There remains a great deal of work to

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Speaker 1: do that will will be highly contested. That is, the modalities,

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Speaker 1: the means, the timing of this will be things that

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Speaker 1: I'm confident will be discussing for a period of time. Uh.

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Speaker 1: There there have been public reports and and I know

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Speaker 1: the United States is tracking the disassembly of a missile

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Speaker 1: engine test site. Uh, something that Chairman Kim committed orally.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't in the written agreement itself, but Chairman Chairman

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Speaker 1: Kim committed in his conversation with President Trump to do

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Speaker 1: They're beginning to dismantle that. UM it has to do

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Speaker 1: with their missile program. It's a good thing. UH steps forward. Okay,

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Speaker 1: thank you very quickly for the time. Is out something

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Speaker 1: completely different the country of Rwanda right now, and you

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Speaker 1: may be familiar with this because of this week's focus

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Speaker 1: on religious freedom. Yes, as indicated a move towards severe

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Speaker 1: restrictions on religious freedom, particularly from outside groups. What are

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Speaker 1: the plans of the State Department to uh to let

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Speaker 1: them know that that is not that is not in

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Speaker 1: their own interests nor ours. So I share your concerns.

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Speaker 1: I'll need to get back to in terms of what

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Speaker 1: actions we think we think. I know we'll call it out.

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Speaker 1: I know will will label it for what it is. UH.

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Speaker 1: What we do need to see what we it is

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Speaker 1: tragic and UH. Anyway, I share your concerns and it's

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Speaker 1: a it's a huge challenge for us. Thank you, Thank

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Speaker 1: you Senator Caine, thank you, Mr Chair, thank you, Mr Secretary,

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Speaker 1: Mr Secretary. Just a couple of thoughts, UM, I was

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Speaker 1: very discouraged at the Helsinki summit when the President basically

688
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Speaker 1: was offered a choice in some of the questions, did

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Speaker 1: he believe US intel or did you believe Vladimir Putin's

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Speaker 1: protestations that he had engaged in hacking of the election,

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Speaker 1: And he basically said, my own people have made a

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Speaker 1: great case to me. Vladimir Putin has made a great

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Speaker 1: case to me. I don't see why Russia would have

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Speaker 1: done this. Um He came back and corrected at the

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Speaker 1: next day in the United States, but at the end

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Speaker 1: he said, I believe my Intel community, but there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of people out there. It could have been someone else.

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Speaker 1: And then this dragged on for a couple of days.

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Speaker 1: You know where I live, You know, I have a

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Speaker 1: lot of constituents who used to be your employees at

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Speaker 1: the CIA. People come up to me all the time

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Speaker 1: in Virginia and say I'm with the i C. And

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Speaker 1: they are very demoralized by this. They're very demoralized that

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Speaker 1: when standing next to Vladimir Putin, the president's words were

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Speaker 1: to see jest that he trusted Vladimir Putin over them.

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Speaker 1: Um There was the suggestion, when President um Trump said

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Speaker 1: it was an incredible offer about Ambassador McFall, that he

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Speaker 1: was also potentially willing to throw not just Intel folks

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Speaker 1: under the bus, but State Department diplomats under the bus.

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Speaker 1: They live in Virginia too. They feel the demoralization of

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Speaker 1: your comments today that we're gonna go to bad for

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Speaker 1: current reformer. That's very, very helpful. But what I want

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Speaker 1: to ask you about is is our military um in

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Speaker 1: our military leadership. There was an article yesterday in the

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Speaker 1: Washington Post General Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs

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Speaker 1: of Staff. As of Monday, Dunford still hadn't been briefed

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Speaker 1: on Helsinki, even though it directly affects more than one

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Speaker 1: million troops done for overseas. Do you know why there

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Speaker 1: would be have been no briefing of General Dunford about

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Speaker 1: the discussions that took place at Helsinki? You have to

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Speaker 1: ask that apart Defense or Chairman Dunford. UM. But you

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Speaker 1: don't dispute that that was You have no knowledge that

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Speaker 1: there was a briefing of General dunfer to today about

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Speaker 1: the Helsinki discussion. Do you know you just read me

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Speaker 1: a piece from the Washington Post. Yeah, but I'm asking

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Speaker 1: your knowledge. Do you have any knowledge that the administration

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Speaker 1: has shared discussions about US Russia military issues with the

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Speaker 1: head of the United States Joint chiefs of Staff I've

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Speaker 1: actually spoken with Chairman Dunford about it. I was with

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Speaker 1: him yesterday in a series of meetings and we had

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Speaker 1: a chance to have a conversation about it. Yes, okay,

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Speaker 1: so about our absolutely okay, So yesterday may have been

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Speaker 1: the first time he was briefed about it. I want

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Speaker 1: to ask about I was gonna ask about General Hotel,

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Speaker 1: the the information that Jean Shaheen, Centator Shehen mentioned earlier.

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Speaker 1: Um he expressed wearing it's about working with Russia and

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Speaker 1: the Russian Defense Ministry. I love this is an interesting statement.

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Speaker 1: They went after General Hotel, the head of cent Com

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Speaker 1: who overseas as you know, US military operations and at

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Speaker 1: least including Syria. Quote. With his statements, General Hotel not

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Speaker 1: only discredited the official position of his supreme Commander in chief.

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Speaker 1: Are you aware what the official position is that is

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Speaker 1: being referenced in that statement. You'd have to speak with

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Speaker 1: the Russian Ministry of Defense to know what it was

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Speaker 1: he was referring to. But you can understand why we're

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Speaker 1: concerned if it's being reported in Russian press as Secretary

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Speaker 1: Flake and a Senator Flake and Senator Shaheen said that

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Speaker 1: they're talking about official positions that the President is outlined.

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Speaker 1: Just as far as you know, General hotel statements did

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Speaker 1: not violate any official position the United States? Did they

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Speaker 1: same to be giving a great deal of credit to

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Speaker 1: the Russian Ministry of Defense fruitfulness. Let me ask you

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Speaker 1: by General Hotel, I might not share that same. Let

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Speaker 1: me ask you about General Hotel as far as great

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Speaker 1: credit and have great belief in his truthfulness. So you

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Speaker 1: do not believe that any of the statements that he's made,

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Speaker 1: including those that I read, violate any official position in

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Speaker 1: the United States? Do you if you would that that's

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Speaker 1: the best approach to General Hotel the Department Defense? I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm not when out third three orders removed? If if

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Speaker 1: I could introduced for the record, there's an interesting article

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Speaker 1: in BuzzFeed News just recently today that just lists a

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Speaker 1: whole series of headlines, and I think these are instructive. Mr.

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Speaker 1: Chair Trump's announcement that he will in US career drills

765
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Speaker 1: catches Pentagon off guard. Pentagon and Soul is surprised by

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Speaker 1: Trump pledged to halt military exercises. Pentagon caught off guard

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Speaker 1: by Space Force announcement. Trump signals withdraw very soon of

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Speaker 1: US troops from a serious surprising Pentagon and State Department.

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Speaker 1: Pentagon caught by surprise by Trump's travel ban, pushes for

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Speaker 1: summer rockies to get special consideration. US joint chiefs blindsided

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Speaker 1: by Trump's transgender ban, Northcom caught off guard as Trump

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Speaker 1: orders troops to US Mexico border. If I could introduce

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Speaker 1: this for the record, Mr Chair, I worry about an

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Speaker 1: administration that would take the Putin position over our intel community.

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Speaker 1: I worry about the administration that would suggest it might

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Speaker 1: be a great deal to consider handing over a former

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Speaker 1: diplomat for questioning. I worry about an administration that is

778
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Speaker 1: catching the Pentagon off guard, that is not consulting with

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Speaker 1: General Dunford, are briefing him for a week after a

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Speaker 1: summit of this importance to our military. Mr Secretary, you're

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Speaker 1: aware of the NDA prohibition, the current prohibition on Russian

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Speaker 1: and military Russian and US joint military operations, are you not.

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Speaker 1: I'm aware of the existence of that provision. Yes. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The provision prohibits any use of funds. It's in the NDA,

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Speaker 1: any use of funds to support joint Russia and US

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Speaker 1: military operations. And it also gives the Secretary of Defense

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Speaker 1: the ability to undertake a national security waiver. If he

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Speaker 1: thinks that that's the right idea. Does the administration accept

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Speaker 1: the legality and binding nature of that provision of laws?

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Speaker 1: I think the d D General Council will be the

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Speaker 1: right person. We're gonna step back from this. Pompeo hearing

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Speaker 1: with the Senate and the President meeting with europe and

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Speaker 1: leaders and has come to a trade deal as he

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Speaker 1: takes to the podium, deal potentially with John Bozeman. John,

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Speaker 1: you're here someplace, hi, John, Thank you. Senator Mike crap Po,

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Speaker 1: thank you, Mike. Senator Steve Danes, Senator Hovan thank you.

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Speaker 1: They're all here. Senator Cindy Hyde Smith, Cindy, thank you

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Speaker 1: very much. Senator James Light. We're gonna stay with this.

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Speaker 1: As the President of the European Union UH president literally

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Speaker 1: is named Junker. He's now at the podium with the

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Speaker 1: President as they announced these trade deals and trade talks

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Speaker 1: the e C president. Representative Kevin Brady with a new

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Speaker 1: tax bill. How's it coming, Kevin? Good? Representative Mike Conaway, Mike,

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Speaker 1: thank you, Mike. Represent Editive Dan new House, thank you, Dan.

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Speaker 1: Representative Christie norm I have to call her Governor. Now

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Speaker 1: that was a great win. Thank you, Christie. Representative David Reichert, David,

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Speaker 1: thank you. So we had a big day, very big.

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Speaker 1: We met right here at the White House to launch

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Speaker 1: a new phase in the relationship between the United States

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Speaker 1: and the European Union, a phase of close friendship, of

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Speaker 1: strong trade relations in which both of us will win,

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Speaker 1: of working better together for global security and prosperity, and

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Speaker 1: of fighting jointly against terrors. The United States and the

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Speaker 1: European Union together count for more than eight hundred and

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Speaker 1: thirty million citizens and more than fifty of the global

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Speaker 1: g d P. In other words, together we're more than

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Speaker 1: fifty percent of trade. If we team up, we can

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Speaker 1: make our planet a better, more secure, and more prosperous place.

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Speaker 1: Already today, the United States and the European Union have

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Speaker 1: a one trillion dollar bilateral trade relationship, the largest economic

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Speaker 1: relationship anywhere in the world. We want to further strength

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Speaker 1: in this trade relationship to the benefit of all American

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Speaker 1: and European citizens. This is why we agree today, first

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Speaker 1: of all, to work together towards zero tariffs, zero non

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Speaker 1: tariff barriers, and zero subsidies on non auto industrial goods.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you. We will also work

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Speaker 1: to reduce barriers and increase trade in services com coals, pharmaceuticals,

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Speaker 1: medical products, as well as soybeans. Soybeans is a big deal,

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Speaker 1: and the European Union is going to start almost immediately

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Speaker 1: to buy a lot of soybeans. Are tremendous market by

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Speaker 1: a lot of soybeans from our farmers in the Midwest, primarily,

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Speaker 1: so I thank you for that junk load. This will

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Speaker 1: open markets for farmers and workers, increase investment, and lead

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Speaker 1: to greater prosperity in both the United States and the

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Speaker 1: European Union. It will also make trade fairer and more reciprocal,

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Speaker 1: my favorite word, reciprocal. Secondly, we agreed to a strengthened

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Speaker 1: and strengthening of our strategical operation with respect to energy.

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Speaker 1: The European Union wants to import more liquefied natural gas

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Speaker 1: LERGY from the United States, and they're going to be

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Speaker 1: a very, very big buyer. We're going to make it

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Speaker 1: much easier for them, but they're gonna be a massive

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Speaker 1: buyer of l n G so they'll be able to

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Speaker 1: diversify their energy supply, which they want very much to do.

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Speaker 1: And we have plenty of it. Thirdly, we agreed today

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Speaker 1: to launch a close dialogue on standards in order to

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Speaker 1: ease trade, reduce bureaucratic obstacles, and slash costs dramatically. Fourthly,

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Speaker 1: we agreed to join forces to protect American and European

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Speaker 1: companies from better and really better than ever we've We've

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Speaker 1: never done like we're doing. I can say from the

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Speaker 1: standpoint of the United States, we've never done this well.

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Speaker 1: But we're going to do a lot better after we

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Speaker 1: do this deal. I know the deals that were currently

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Speaker 1: working on. Likewise, the European Union is going to do

854
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Speaker 1: a better, stronger, bigger. We will therefore work closely together

855
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: with like minded partners to reform the w t O

856
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:12,040
Speaker 1: and to address unfair trading practices including intellectual property theft,

857
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 1: forced technology transfer, industrial subsidies, distortions created by state owned enterprises,

858
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 1: and over capacity. We decided to set up immediately an

859
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:30,360
Speaker 1: executive working group of very intelligent people on both sides

860
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 1: that'll be our closest advisors, and they're going to carry

861
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:41,279
Speaker 1: out this joint agenda. In addition, it will identify short

862
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:47,720
Speaker 1: term measures to facilitate commercial exchanges and assess existing tariff

863
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:50,880
Speaker 1: measures and what we can do about that to the

864
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 1: betterment of both. While we are working on this, we

865
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:59,080
Speaker 1: will not go against the spirit of this agreement unless

866
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 1: either party terminates the negotiation. So we're starting the negotiation

867
00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:06,719
Speaker 1: right now, but we know very much where it's going.

868
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:13,040
Speaker 1: We also will resolve the steel and aluminum terror fishes,

869
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 1: and we will resolve retaliatory tariffs. We have some tariffs

870
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:22,520
Speaker 1: that are retaliatory and that will get resolved as part

871
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:26,240
Speaker 1: of what we're doing. And with that, Joan Claude, please,

872
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:32,480
Speaker 1: Mr President Lydian, gentlemen. When I was invited but president

873
00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:36,360
Speaker 1: to the White House, I had to one intention. I

874
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 1: had the intention to make a deal today, and we

875
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 1: made a deal today. We have identified a number of

876
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:49,200
Speaker 1: areas on which to work together, work towards. There are

877
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:53,719
Speaker 1: terrorists on industrial goods. That was my main intention to

878
00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:59,919
Speaker 1: propose to come down to zero terrorists on industrial goods.

879
00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:05,480
Speaker 1: We've decided to strengthen our corporation and energy. You will

880
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 1: build more terminals to import liquefied natural gas from the US.

881
00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:15,680
Speaker 1: This is also a message for others. We agreed to

882
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:21,480
Speaker 1: establish a dialogue on standards as far as agriculture, is concerned.

883
00:52:22,239 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 1: The European Union can import more so it means from

884
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:28,120
Speaker 1: the US, and it will be done. And we also

885
00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:32,080
Speaker 1: agreed to work together on the reform of d w T.

886
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:38,319
Speaker 1: This of course is on the understanding that as long

887
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:42,600
Speaker 1: as we are negotiating, unless one party would stop the negotiations,

888
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:48,680
Speaker 1: we hold off further teriffs and Twitters has existing terriffs

889
00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:53,720
Speaker 1: on steel and aluminium. This was a good constructive meeting.

890
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:57,440
Speaker 1: Thank you do not well, Thank you very much, joint

891
00:52:57,520 --> 00:53:04,600
Speaker 1: l and I just want to conclude by saying, this

892
00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:09,880
Speaker 1: was a very big day for free and fair trade,

893
00:53:10,239 --> 00:53:13,320
Speaker 1: very big day indeed, Thank you very much, everybody, Thank you,

894
00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:19,239
Speaker 1: thank you. All right, that's the EC President Junker. The

895
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 1: EU can import more soy beans, they're gonna try and

896
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:26,880
Speaker 1: get natural gas. Trade war looks like it's averted. And um,

897
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:34,839
Speaker 1: the US and Europe working towards zero uh, you know, imports, etcetera, etcetera. Um,

898
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:39,640
Speaker 1: now it it's pretty interesting. Was the you know, the

899
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:42,760
Speaker 1: president was especially looking out in both cases for energy,

900
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:47,880
Speaker 1: the industrial concessions that they gave to and energy as

901
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:49,919
Speaker 1: it relates to natural gas, which by the way, would

902
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:57,239
Speaker 1: be in Europe's best interest for national security purposes. You know,

903
00:53:57,440 --> 00:54:01,239
Speaker 1: it's hard. I gotta make editor real decisions here. And

904
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:06,239
Speaker 1: these hearings with Secretary of State Pompeio is so good. Um,

905
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:10,640
Speaker 1: what just happened is a frankly amazing development and great

906
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:14,640
Speaker 1: for the economy and probably a preview of what's going

907
00:54:14,719 --> 00:54:17,759
Speaker 1: to happen with other countries. But after the President met

908
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:22,879
Speaker 1: with European leaders earlier today and demanding a fair trade deal, yeah,

909
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:26,600
Speaker 1: he actually got them to step up to the plate.

910
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:30,440
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, because the President put tariffs on

911
00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 1: imported steel aluminum, saying that they pose a threat to

912
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:39,240
Speaker 1: national security. Um. And he also threatened to slap tariffs

913
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:41,960
Speaker 1: on cars. Nobody wants a trade war, by the way,

914
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 1: the President never wanted a trade war. But nobody's ever

915
00:54:44,719 --> 00:54:47,680
Speaker 1: stood up to these countries and said, yeah, we want

916
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:51,840
Speaker 1: fair trade, we want something fair. And the President has

917
00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:55,800
Speaker 1: been pushing the EU, which includes many of our oldest

918
00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:58,359
Speaker 1: and yeah, most committed allies, the same people that don't

919
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:00,960
Speaker 1: pay their fair shares relates that atoh, even though it's

920
00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:04,520
Speaker 1: defense for them, and they were warning they were going

921
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:09,239
Speaker 1: to retaliate on American products with twenty billion dollars if

922
00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:13,080
Speaker 1: Trump puts duties, etcetera, etcetera. But well, it looks like

923
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:19,759
Speaker 1: now the the concessions that Trump secured is now avoided.

924
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:24,040
Speaker 1: The trade war that everybody in the media was predicting,

925
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:28,000
Speaker 1: just like they predicted doom and gloom over North Korea,

926
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:31,200
Speaker 1: little rocket man, fire and fury, and my buttons bigger

927
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:34,359
Speaker 1: than yours and mine actually works just like they did

928
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:38,880
Speaker 1: with Vladimir Putin, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, no,

929
00:55:39,080 --> 00:55:42,719
Speaker 1: we're not taking sanctions off of Putin and Russia, and

930
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:47,600
Speaker 1: nor are we gonna recognize the annexation of Crimea. But

931
00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:51,440
Speaker 1: now the Europeans are agreed to lower their industrial tariffs,

932
00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:56,279
Speaker 1: import more US soybeans, which helps our farmers. Also the

933
00:55:56,360 --> 00:56:01,520
Speaker 1: industrial concessions the president god that helps, and steel and aluminum,

934
00:56:02,120 --> 00:56:04,480
Speaker 1: and then of course the Europeans are greening now to

935
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:08,560
Speaker 1: take in more US liquid natural gas exports. And if

936
00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:11,319
Speaker 1: the President had followed the advice of everybody else, don't

937
00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:14,360
Speaker 1: don't skip, don't rock the boat, we would have gotten

938
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:18,200
Speaker 1: these trade concessions. So somebody's fighting for American workers here.

939
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:21,040
Speaker 1: And I know it's a little uncomfortable when you're getting

940
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:23,520
Speaker 1: a fight. I know it's uncomfortable when you say that

941
00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:28,200
Speaker 1: this isn't fair and we expect reciprocity and we're tired

942
00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:30,919
Speaker 1: of one sided deals and you gotta wait it out,

943
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:36,480
Speaker 1: and everybody's sweating. Well, but it helps America. It helps

944
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:43,480
Speaker 1: people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and all

945
00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:47,600
Speaker 1: these other states. UM. Anyway, so it was pretty interesting

946
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:52,160
Speaker 1: to watch this joint presser UH with this guy Junker

947
00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:55,279
Speaker 1: from the European Union. It was representing them, and he

948
00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:58,560
Speaker 1: made his first visit UH to the White House. The

949
00:56:58,600 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 1: guy's name is the EG European Commissioner President. His name

950
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:06,200
Speaker 1: is Jean Claude Genkar And anyway, so they finally spoke

951
00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:11,319
Speaker 1: and yeah, they reached their goal and that's now good

952
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:15,160
Speaker 1: for the American workforce. And then everybody that predicted a

953
00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:18,600
Speaker 1: trade war now has egg on their face again, just

954
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:20,520
Speaker 1: like they said, the economy is not gonna work. Let's

955
00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:22,560
Speaker 1: find out what the second quarter GDP is gonna be

956
00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:25,840
Speaker 1: on Friday, as Barclay has had it at five point

957
00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:27,640
Speaker 1: three percent. I don't think it's gonna be that high.

958
00:57:28,520 --> 00:57:31,160
Speaker 1: But remember Obama never had a single year at three

959
00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:34,760
Speaker 1: percent GDP growth, the only president in history and we

960
00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:37,959
Speaker 1: can see the growth of the economy, the Fed saying

961
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:41,640
Speaker 1: that it's it's roaring at this particular point, Wall Street

962
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:45,200
Speaker 1: reacting positively, the Dow up two hundred, and then we've

963
00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:49,600
Speaker 1: got Nasdak up, you know, literally a hundred. All good

964
00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:52,800
Speaker 1: news for investors on top of the you know, there's

965
00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:54,720
Speaker 1: always gonna be I'm not the big stock market guy.

966
00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:57,240
Speaker 1: I don't trust the stock market. So you got all

967
00:57:57,320 --> 00:58:00,800
Speaker 1: that good news. Today, we've got inter Key, an American

968
00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:04,600
Speaker 1: pastor's name is Andrew Brunson, j Secular. The American Center

969
00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:08,240
Speaker 1: for Law Injustice has been representing him, and the Turkish

970
00:58:08,280 --> 00:58:11,080
Speaker 1: government has finally issued in order to release him from prison.

971
00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:13,560
Speaker 1: Is returned to his home in Turkey, and it's the

972
00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:15,960
Speaker 1: first step towards bringing him home to the United States.

973
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:20,400
Speaker 1: That's big news. Then you've got Mike Pompeo just laying

974
00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:24,280
Speaker 1: out senator after senator, and we're gonna dip back into

975
00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:27,480
Speaker 1: these hearing. Senator Ram Paul is up now with the

976
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:30,120
Speaker 1: Secretary of State. We're gonna move on to other issues,

977
00:58:30,320 --> 00:58:33,200
Speaker 1: probably at the top of the next hour, because you know,

978
00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:35,760
Speaker 1: this is where I'm balancing all this news breaking today.

979
00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:38,640
Speaker 1: Let's listen to. Instead of a smaller group of issues,

980
00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:41,200
Speaker 1: we have a bigger group of issues. The nuclear issues

981
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:43,240
Speaker 1: are back on the table if we have to renegotiate

982
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:46,720
Speaker 1: the nuclear agreement and the ballistic missile issue. And the

983
00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:49,240
Speaker 1: point that I think that we need to think through

984
00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:52,440
Speaker 1: in discussions with Iran is that I think Iran, from

985
00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:55,400
Speaker 1: their perspective, we'd see getting rid of their ballistic missile

986
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:59,400
Speaker 1: program as basically unilateral surrender. It's not my viewpoint. I

987
00:58:59,440 --> 00:59:01,920
Speaker 1: think it's what I believed to be their viewpoint. I

988
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:04,920
Speaker 1: think they also see Saudi Arabia as a great adversary,

989
00:59:05,520 --> 00:59:08,320
Speaker 1: and I think they see Israel as a potential adversary.

990
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:10,800
Speaker 1: And so I don't think unless you know, be great

991
00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:12,480
Speaker 1: if you've got all three to come together and have

992
00:59:12,560 --> 00:59:15,840
Speaker 1: a multilateral agreement on not developing nuclear weapons and not

993
00:59:15,960 --> 00:59:18,520
Speaker 1: having ballistic missiles, I don't see the other two coming

994
00:59:18,560 --> 00:59:21,360
Speaker 1: to the table frankly to do that. And so I

995
00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:24,160
Speaker 1: think in moving forward, I think it's just importantly you

996
00:59:24,800 --> 00:59:27,800
Speaker 1: understand this isn't going to be easy. The first Rand

997
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:32,480
Speaker 1: Agreement also was a multilateral agreement. You had multilateral sanctions.

998
00:59:32,920 --> 00:59:35,640
Speaker 1: You now have more unilateral sanctions, and you're gonna have

999
00:59:35,640 --> 00:59:39,280
Speaker 1: a unilateral agreement that's sort of your own agreement. So, UM,

1000
00:59:39,640 --> 00:59:41,640
Speaker 1: I just think we shouldn't be so optimistic. And I

1001
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:44,720
Speaker 1: guess i'd like to hear from you. How do you, uh,

1002
00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:46,720
Speaker 1: what makes you believe that a RAND will come to

1003
00:59:46,800 --> 00:59:50,600
Speaker 1: the table to discuss s ballistic missiles center right. I'm

1004
00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:54,840
Speaker 1: under no illusions about how important, UM A RAND views

1005
00:59:54,840 --> 00:59:58,440
Speaker 1: it s ballistic missile program. I I agree with you there. Uh.

1006
00:59:58,640 --> 01:00:01,160
Speaker 1: The question for President President Trump face was was the

1007
01:00:01,240 --> 01:00:03,160
Speaker 1: j c P had good enough? He concluded it wasn't

1008
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:05,240
Speaker 1: remotely good enough. I think he said it was one

1009
01:00:05,280 --> 01:00:06,680
Speaker 1: of the worst deals in history. I don't want to

1010
01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:09,560
Speaker 1: get the language wrong. And so he concluded, UM, we

1011
01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:11,840
Speaker 1: would find ourselves in a better place with an opportunity

1012
01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:14,920
Speaker 1: to revisit all of these issues, the broad spectrum of issues,

1013
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:17,720
Speaker 1: not just the nuclear portfolio, but the missile program, uh,

1014
01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:19,960
Speaker 1: their malign activity around the world, all of them in

1015
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:23,640
Speaker 1: a package. UM. It did accept the understanding that there

1016
01:00:23,680 --> 01:00:26,000
Speaker 1: would be those that wouldn't come alongside of US. UM,

1017
01:00:26,120 --> 01:00:27,960
Speaker 1: but you should know there is a coalition. It's not

1018
01:00:28,080 --> 01:00:30,840
Speaker 1: it's not American America alone. UM. We have others who

1019
01:00:30,920 --> 01:00:33,120
Speaker 1: believe that this was the right decision to the Israelis,

1020
01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:37,320
Speaker 1: the Saudis, the Marats, the Bahrainis, other smaller European governments,

1021
01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:39,560
Speaker 1: not the E three themselves, but there are number of

1022
01:00:39,560 --> 01:00:41,680
Speaker 1: folks who are beginning to coalesce around an understanding of

1023
01:00:41,760 --> 01:00:45,200
Speaker 1: how we can appropriately respond to Round to take down. Uh.

1024
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:47,520
Speaker 1: They're the nuclear risk to the United States as well

1025
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:52,400
Speaker 1: as the risk from these other malign activities. Thank you, Senator,

1026
01:00:52,480 --> 01:00:56,720
Speaker 1: you don't thank you, Mr Chairman, and UH, thank you

1027
01:00:57,360 --> 01:01:01,160
Speaker 1: Secretary pomp Pale for your service Secretary in Pumpeo. We

1028
01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:06,240
Speaker 1: have quite the record of President Trump's business relations with Russia.

1029
01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:10,760
Speaker 1: Extensive reporting and public records show a large amount of

1030
01:01:10,880 --> 01:01:16,000
Speaker 1: money from former Soviet States and Russia into Trump projects.

1031
01:01:17,080 --> 01:01:20,760
Speaker 1: Trump International Tower and Hotel in Toronto, the Trump Hotel

1032
01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:24,800
Speaker 1: in Panama, the Trump Project in Soho in New York

1033
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:27,920
Speaker 1: City are a few of the big examples here. And

1034
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:32,040
Speaker 1: here's another one. A Russian oligarch bought a property from

1035
01:01:32,200 --> 01:01:37,640
Speaker 1: President Trump for candidate Trump at the time or maybe

1036
01:01:37,640 --> 01:01:41,160
Speaker 1: a little before, for nine million in two thousand and eight,

1037
01:01:41,760 --> 01:01:45,120
Speaker 1: less than four years after, President Trump paid forty one million,

1038
01:01:45,440 --> 01:01:49,200
Speaker 1: so more than double this money. Uh. Donald Trump Junior

1039
01:01:49,280 --> 01:01:51,480
Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight, stated at a real estate

1040
01:01:51,560 --> 01:01:54,960
Speaker 1: conference in New York, and I quote here, Russians make

1041
01:01:55,080 --> 01:01:58,040
Speaker 1: up a pretty disproportionate cross section of a lot of

1042
01:01:58,120 --> 01:02:02,160
Speaker 1: our assets. End quote. Uh. Donald Trump tried to build

1043
01:02:02,680 --> 01:02:06,240
Speaker 1: a Trump tower in Moscow for thirty years. He even

1044
01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:11,120
Speaker 1: tweeted in Trump Tower Moscow is next. That's end quotes.

1045
01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:16,560
Speaker 1: In answering a question from indicted Russian operative and alleged

1046
01:02:16,640 --> 01:02:22,440
Speaker 1: by Maria Boutina, candidate Trump made clear as desires with Russia, statium,

1047
01:02:22,920 --> 01:02:25,040
Speaker 1: I would get along well with Putin and that I

1048
01:02:25,200 --> 01:02:29,040
Speaker 1: don't think we need the sanctions now. The Russian ambassador

1049
01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:31,760
Speaker 1: to the United States has said the president made and

1050
01:02:31,920 --> 01:02:37,040
Speaker 1: this is his quote, important verbal agreements with President Prutent

1051
01:02:37,600 --> 01:02:41,600
Speaker 1: and he seems to know more about um, more about

1052
01:02:41,680 --> 01:02:45,320
Speaker 1: Helsinki and what happened there than the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

1053
01:02:46,240 --> 01:02:50,320
Speaker 1: As we saw in Helsinki and throughout his presidency in

1054
01:02:50,400 --> 01:02:54,440
Speaker 1: the campaign, this president is extremely sympathetic to the very

1055
01:02:54,560 --> 01:02:58,280
Speaker 1: Russian government that attacked and continues to attack our democracy

1056
01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:01,600
Speaker 1: and those of our allies. It's a fact of political

1057
01:03:01,680 --> 01:03:05,760
Speaker 1: life today that many Americans are concerned about the unthinkable

1058
01:03:06,240 --> 01:03:10,280
Speaker 1: that a U. S president could have compromised a compromising

1059
01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:14,240
Speaker 1: relationship with a foreign power. President could clear this all

1060
01:03:14,400 --> 01:03:18,080
Speaker 1: up in three simple ways, releasing his tax returns and

1061
01:03:18,120 --> 01:03:21,720
Speaker 1: those of the Trump organization, and the taxes from the

1062
01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:25,320
Speaker 1: various family businesses, some of which we don't even know about.

1063
01:03:25,880 --> 01:03:29,200
Speaker 1: After Helsinki? Do you think that the American people deserve

1064
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Speaker 1: to know what's in President Trump's tax returns and business

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Speaker 1: interests that that are intertwined with Russia. So I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: try to stay out of the same political circus that

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Speaker 1: you and I ended up and last time I was

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Speaker 1: sitting here and simply respond by saying, Uh, this same

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Speaker 1: president with which you seem to express such deep concern

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Speaker 1: is engaged in a massive defense build up which threatens

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Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin's regime. He instructed has to put together a

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Speaker 1: nuclear post review that has said Vladimir Putin on his

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Speaker 1: ear because of its robustness and the recapitalization of our

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Speaker 1: nuclear program. He's kicked at sixties spies, We've been Kaspersky.

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Speaker 1: I've got eleven billion dollars in the secretary. You've already

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Speaker 1: actually haven't even begun described, but you've already you haven't

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Speaker 1: answered my question. So let me try it a little

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Speaker 1: different way. Wouldn't you want to know, as secretary of State?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I I'm taking you, in your sincerity here

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Speaker 1: as secretary of State, whether all these Russian financial interests,

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Speaker 1: oligarchs and others are part of the decision making of

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Speaker 1: the president. I mean, wouldn't you want that out in

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Speaker 1: the open and to understand what went on? It's Helsinki.

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Speaker 1: It's It's an easy kind of yes or no question.

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Speaker 1: I don't need secondhand understandings of what President Trump is

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Speaker 1: instructing his administration to do to push back against rest.

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Speaker 1: I have firsthand understanding and and directive. Let me ask

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Speaker 1: the question a little bit. We've opposed lordstream to We've

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Speaker 1: got a four by thirty out of NATO that said

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Speaker 1: that also is a big setback for Russia. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm happy to continue the list. I'm I'm happy there,

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Speaker 1: but I will I will submit the entirety of this

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Speaker 1: administration's actions against Russia for the record, if I might

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Speaker 1: please do back a truck up and get it on

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Speaker 1: in here. Candidate Trump has failed to keep his promise

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Speaker 1: to disclose his tax returns. Every presidential candidate since Richard

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Speaker 1: Nixon has disclosed. Jimmy Carter even sold his peanut farm

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Speaker 1: to avoid a conflict of interest. The situation with President

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Speaker 1: Trump's potential foreign policy conflicts of interest is unprecedented and unacceptable,

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Speaker 1: and under the emoluments clause, I think it's unconstitutional as well.

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Speaker 1: But let me just ask a couple of questions about Helsinki.

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Speaker 1: You talked about what you were tasked with. UM, the

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Speaker 1: Director of National Intelligence CODE stated that at the Aspen

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Speaker 1: Security Forum that he did not know what happened during

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Speaker 1: the one on one meeting na Helsinki. Did the president

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Speaker 1: personally debrief you on this conversation? Are you confident that

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Speaker 1: you know everything that President Trump discussed with President Putin?

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Speaker 1: That's a very easy yes or no. If you don't

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Speaker 1: want an answer it all, move on to the next one.

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Speaker 1: Yes or no. I'm very confident that I received a

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Speaker 1: comprehensive debriefing from President Trump. Go ahead, Okay, Now do

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Speaker 1: you know for a fact whether President Trump or President

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Speaker 1: Putin discussed any investments in Trump properties or any Trump

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Speaker 1: projects such as the previous attempt to build a Trump

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Speaker 1: real estate project in Moscow. So again, I'm gonna try

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Speaker 1: and stan out of the political circus. No, but were

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Speaker 1: you were you? Were you task with that? You gave

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Speaker 1: us a list of what you came here to talk

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Speaker 1: about American foreign policy today. I have attempted to articulate

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Speaker 1: President Trump. All of these business interests are entwined, sir,

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Speaker 1: with our foreign policy. Yes, a foreign policy that has

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Speaker 1: led to a massive defense build up, a new clear

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Speaker 1: posture review that has frightened Gladi Budden, all sixties spies,

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Speaker 1: I mean, Twitter, nineteen sanctions. Let me also ask you

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Speaker 1: about an additional question on Helsinki. When I was a

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Speaker 1: member of Congress, I tried to desperately get President Obama

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Speaker 1: to do one of those things. President Trump hosted top

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Speaker 1: Russian officials at the White House last year. He bragged

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Speaker 1: about how he had fired James Comey. At his press

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Speaker 1: conference with Putin. President Trump called Special Counselor Muller's investigation

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Speaker 1: a disaster for the country. Can you tell us what

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Speaker 1: President Trump discussed about the investigation during his private meeting

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Speaker 1: with President to I'm not gonna talk about were you

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Speaker 1: task with anything in that respect, Centator. When I'm tasked

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Speaker 1: about something for American foreign policy, I promise you this

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Speaker 1: committee will know okay, and you weren't tasked with anything there, Centator,

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Speaker 1: When I'm tasked with something by the President relates to

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Speaker 1: foreign policy, I assure you that this committee will be

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Speaker 1: made aware of it. Thank you for very much. Thank

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Speaker 1: you Center Gardner, thank you Mr Chairman, and thank you

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Speaker 1: Mr Secretary for your service of the country and your

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Speaker 1: time with us today. When you were last year, I

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Speaker 1: asked you a question about whether or not you agreed

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Speaker 1: with Secretary Mattis that North Korea's the most urgent security

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01:08:14,920 --> 01:08:17,439
Speaker 1: threat the United States faces and light of recent developments,

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01:08:17,479 --> 01:08:18,880
Speaker 1: do you still agree with that at the time you

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Speaker 1: said that you did. Yeah, it's still it's still a

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Speaker 1: real priority. We also talked about what would you believe

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Speaker 1: it's the most urgent national security threat? I do. But

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Speaker 1: but but having said that, I don't recall the precise

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Speaker 1: timing when I was here. Uh, I think it was

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Speaker 1: an April prep Yeah. So, so it is the fact

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Speaker 1: that we're having conversations and we haven't had additional missile

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Speaker 1: tests and nuclear testing. All right, We're gonna leave it there. Well,

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Speaker 1: have full coverage of this proascinating hearings all day today

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Speaker 1: as it relates to the Secretary of State Pompeo. I'm

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Speaker 1: not gonna turn this into the circus that it was

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Speaker 1: the last time I was here. He's got some great answers.

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Speaker 1: He really has been handling himself. Well, we'll show you

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Speaker 1: the highlights tonight. Also media breathless hysteria about everything, um

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01:09:09,840 --> 01:09:12,040
Speaker 1: but great news as it relates to the They're not

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Speaker 1: gonna be a trade war with Europe. That also coming

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Speaker 1: out today. This American pastor held what two years twenty

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Speaker 1: one months in prison in Turkey because he is the

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Speaker 1: crime of Christianization. He's actually now been set free and

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Speaker 1: now we just gotta get him back to the US.

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Speaker 1: So we'll get to all that. Seawan Spicer comes up

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Speaker 1: in the next hour of the program and uh, you

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Speaker 1: know they had to cancel his book event because of

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Speaker 1: the environment in Massachusetts. Unbelievable. Please don't just come here

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01:09:42,200 --> 01:09:44,839
Speaker 1: today and then go home. Go to the hill today.

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Speaker 1: Get up and please get up in the face of

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Speaker 1: some congress people. If you take here, you ain't say

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Speaker 1: nothing yet. Yeah, you have members your cabinet that are

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Speaker 1: being booed out of restaurants. That's just taking up at

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Speaker 1: the house. God is on our side, on the side

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Speaker 1: of the children on the side of what's right, that

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Speaker 1: if we can't protect the children, we can't protect anybody.

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Speaker 1: And so let's say the course, let's make sure we

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Speaker 1: show up wherever we have to show up. And if

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Speaker 1: you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in

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Speaker 1: a department store, at the Castle station, you get out

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01:10:39,320 --> 01:10:42,840
Speaker 1: and you get a cloud, and you got back on

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Speaker 1: them and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, and

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Speaker 1: I welcome any more getting their faces. Remember Obama said that,

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Speaker 1: well send Mr Purchase, tear up Shawn Handy. But think

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Speaker 1: about this cabinet members. Oh, we're talking about Secretary Nielsen,

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Speaker 1: We're talking about Pam BONDI, we're talking about Sarah Sanders.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're talking about I mean, it's never been

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Speaker 1: this bad. And then you got so called leaders of

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Speaker 1: Congress encouraging this. Our friend shaw on Spicery has a

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Speaker 1: brand new book out. It's actually phenomenal. I've been reading.

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Speaker 1: It's great. It's called The Briefing in Anyway, and he

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Speaker 1: shares a lot of the stories in his new book.

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Speaker 1: But he just actually had a book tour stop canceled

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Speaker 1: at what's called Massachusetts. BJ's wholesale club over apparent concerns

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Speaker 1: about the political client climate, which, by the way, it's

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Speaker 1: pretty bad out there. And anyway, Mr Spicer, so tell

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Speaker 1: us about what happened here, because I thought in America

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Speaker 1: you're actually allowed to go out and do book tours

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Speaker 1: and you should be able to do so in a

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Speaker 1: safe environment. Obviously, don't think they don't think it's particularly

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Speaker 1: safe in light of what I guess we just heard

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Speaker 1: and past instances. Thanks for having me. I don't know

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Speaker 1: exactly what's changed. Last few days we've got I think

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Speaker 1: it's close to fifty book stop stops on the book

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Speaker 1: tour right now. I've sold out a stop in San Francisco,

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Speaker 1: another one in California. We've got three in Rhode Island

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Speaker 1: in the next couple of days. But for some reason,

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Speaker 1: these guys pulled back and said that they wanted to

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Speaker 1: because of the political climate, didn't want to go through

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Speaker 1: with it. I think it's unfortunate that the left is

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Speaker 1: able to do that and and trying. I mean, if

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Speaker 1: you notice every time someone comes out with something, uh

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Speaker 1: that talks about what really happened during the election, which is,

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Speaker 1: you know, my book, I think pulls back the curtain

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Speaker 1: on what was going on during the campaign and the

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Speaker 1: convention and the first you know, key months of that

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Speaker 1: of this new administration. I think that there's an attempt

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Speaker 1: to try to silence the left is trying to silence

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Speaker 1: our voices on this. And uh, you know, God bless

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Speaker 1: your outlet and others, your show and others for for

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Speaker 1: actually engaging in discourse on such on these important matters.

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Speaker 1: But I'm just I'm literally shocked that the left is

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Speaker 1: that always talks about transparency and engaging, you know, literally

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Speaker 1: wants to shut down the discourse. Well, the this has

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Speaker 1: been now a little secret that we conservatives have known

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Speaker 1: about for years, and that is, you know, all started

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Speaker 1: on left wing college campuses where they wouldn't even let

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Speaker 1: conservatives speak or or talk um. You know. I I look,

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Speaker 1: your book is penalog of briefing politics to press the president.

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Speaker 1: But you know, everybody kind of forgets that these are

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Speaker 1: real people. Sarah Sanders has real children, in her particular case,

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Speaker 1: getting thrown out of a restaurant because she works for

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Speaker 1: the president and you don't like her views. I'm in

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Speaker 1: business if I owned a restaurant and say, oh, welcome

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Speaker 1: to the restaurant. Can I get you a drink? That's

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Speaker 1: you know, whoever walks in who cares, you know, their

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Speaker 1: money is as good as anybody's. But I mean again,

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Speaker 1: that's that's just one indicator of how bad things are.

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Speaker 1: But now people are being told, um, really you were

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Speaker 1: at the tipping point of all of this in your

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Speaker 1: work in the campaign, and then you became the first

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Speaker 1: press secretary for Donald Trump, and then it was you know,

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Speaker 1: full on attacks all over pop culture Saturday Night Live,

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Speaker 1: you know, culminating I guess in your cameo at the Emmys.

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Speaker 1: But it does take a toll on an individual, and

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Speaker 1: you have a family, and you have friends, and they're

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Speaker 1: watching you go through this every day. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: look Sjohn, I talked about this extensively at the book.

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Speaker 1: I didn't think it's appropriate as a spokesman to go

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Speaker 1: out there and be talking about, you know, exactly, the

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Speaker 1: the intensity that the job hadn't the toll that it's taking,

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Speaker 1: because that's not why you're there. And you're there to

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Speaker 1: serve the President United States and further his his his

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01:14:32,400 --> 01:14:35,559
Speaker 1: policies and advance his agenda. Uh and and make sure

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Speaker 1: that you're conveying what his views are but you know,

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Speaker 1: I talked about one instance in the book where I

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Speaker 1: help people. You know, they a bunch of folks on

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Speaker 1: the left put my house up for sale on Zillo.

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Speaker 1: You know, my wife gives me a cause is uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, what what do we do? And you know,

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Speaker 1: it's that kind of you know, intimidation, it's that kind

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Speaker 1: of attempt to to go after people that I just

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Speaker 1: it's amazing to me if anyone on the right, if

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Speaker 1: you or I and shoot, we've had our own experiences

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Speaker 1: where they attack and criticize and scrutinize every single thing

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Speaker 1: we do. Somebody does you know, goes after us on

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Speaker 1: the left and it's it's excused what you know, they

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Speaker 1: always talked about, well they had to do it, or

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Speaker 1: here's why it's not that bad. You played the clips

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Speaker 1: at the beginning of the show or this segment, rather

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Speaker 1: about them them talking about getting in people's faces, pushing back, resisting.

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Speaker 1: I mean that we have now gone from peaceful protesting

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Speaker 1: and expressing ourselves and peacefully to now trying to encourage

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Speaker 1: and incite intimidation and potentially violence in some cases. You know,

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Speaker 1: why is it that I, in many ways, for myself

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Speaker 1: and I'm speaking for me, um, and I get all

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Speaker 1: of this, believe me, and I've had it going on

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Speaker 1: for a long long time. But I also kind of

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Speaker 1: view it that I signed up for it. In other words,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I purposely went into radio. I give

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Speaker 1: four hours of opinions every day. I know there are

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Speaker 1: people that don't like me personally, don't like my opinions,

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Speaker 1: and they still listen a lot of them, but or

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Speaker 1: some never listen. Then they just have false impressions. But

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Speaker 1: you know, I feel like you or Sarah Sanders, You're

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Speaker 1: you're doing a job as a White House spokesperson, and

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Speaker 1: they want to engage and fight you at a level

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Speaker 1: that I've never seen before. And by the way, that

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Speaker 1: job has always been horrible. It's the worst job in

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Speaker 1: any administration, which is means you know you're crazy to

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Speaker 1: take it. Well, it was an honor and privilege to

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Speaker 1: do it, and part of the reason I wrote the

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Speaker 1: book is to give people an insight into what it's like,

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Speaker 1: what it's like to do that job every day, what

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Speaker 1: it's like to get there, how how I grew up

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Speaker 1: in Rhode Island, and then enough, you know, staying in

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Speaker 1: front of the podium serving the president of the United States.

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Speaker 1: But I wanted to be able to pull back the curtain.

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Speaker 1: And also, I think the other thing is and here's

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Speaker 1: why I thought it was really important. If you go

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Speaker 1: through the section on the campaign, and it talks about

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Speaker 1: how the R and C and the campaign we're working

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Speaker 1: together in the data that sols the media will have

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Speaker 1: you believe that every other every reason in the world,

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Speaker 1: as many as Hillary has gone through, is why Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump's elected. There is actual decisions that people like Brad Carson,

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Speaker 1: Brad car Scales and other during the campaign, We're making

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Speaker 1: des asion based on sound data. We knew where to

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Speaker 1: send our team, and I wanted to codify that so

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Speaker 1: that people could look at that and say, see, these

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Speaker 1: guys actually ran a smart campaign. They had a great

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Speaker 1: data operation. They had a smart field operation going door

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Speaker 1: to door, bringing people to the polls, getting the tastabs

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Speaker 1: and tea ballance or vote early. But the reality is

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Speaker 1: that it was a well run machine. The media didn't

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Speaker 1: want to talk about it. They don't want to acknowledge it.

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Speaker 1: I needed to write this book to make sure that

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Speaker 1: history recorded how well that that operation actually, how was

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Speaker 1: this impacted your own family? Because one of the facts

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Speaker 1: that I found out, and I think I had known

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Speaker 1: it and forgotten it. Um because I live five years

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Speaker 1: in Warren, Rhode Island, which is the adjacent town of

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Speaker 1: where you grew up in Barrington, and you know the

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Speaker 1: three towns actually, you know Barrington, Warren and Bristol is

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Speaker 1: sort of way like the midway point of Portsmouth between

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Speaker 1: between Newport and Providence, which people would know. And I

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Speaker 1: know that like Bristol has the biggest Fourth of July

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Speaker 1: parade I've ever seen in my life. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: really amazing and barring and is an amazing place as well,

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Speaker 1: and so and we had that in common, and it's like,

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Speaker 1: you know, this is you know, small town USA, and

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Speaker 1: then you find yourself standing at that podium. Well, the

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Speaker 1: irony for both of us too is that it's not

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Speaker 1: exactly the hotbed of conservative or Republicans. Oh no, not

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Speaker 1: at all. And until I get a kick out of,

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Speaker 1: you know, when people ask me, I just never thought

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Speaker 1: it was possible to get this because of where I

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Speaker 1: came from, my background, and I constantly pinched myself when

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Speaker 1: I was at the White House going this is an

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Speaker 1: honor that I never thought was possible. Um, considering where

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Speaker 1: I was from, my my my my background, and my

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Speaker 1: parents weren't political, we weren't well connected. Um, but I

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Speaker 1: had a great family that was like you also served

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Speaker 1: in the military. You have a very strong family. Yes,

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Speaker 1: And and again, I just what I loved about writing

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Speaker 1: this book, Sean, was the ability to share that with others.

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Speaker 1: People ask me all the time, what was the greatest

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Speaker 1: thing you liked about serving in the White House, And

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Speaker 1: honest to God, the best part was sharing it. Whether

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Speaker 1: it was family, friends, or sometimes there's like a weak

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Speaker 1: stranger on a tour and I could said, hey, Ken,

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Speaker 1: I can I there anyway, I can see the briefing

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Speaker 1: or whatever, and they might forget who I was, but

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Speaker 1: they will never forget that moment um, And to make

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Speaker 1: their lives have that special moment was something that I

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Speaker 1: always will treasure. That was awesome being able to share it,

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Speaker 1: knowing how special it was for me, and being able

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Speaker 1: to write a book that talked about my trajectory from

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Speaker 1: you know, growing up in Rhode Island tending up to

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Speaker 1: the White House. Um, it really is specially to be

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Speaker 1: able to share those those you know experiences with others.

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Speaker 1: You know, look I know it's been hard. Uh. In particular,

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Speaker 1: what is you What would you want people to know

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Speaker 1: about Donald Trump being so close to him in the

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Speaker 1: campaign and in the White House that they don't know

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Speaker 1: because there's an image of the president that I know

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Speaker 1: is very different than the man and the guy that

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Speaker 1: I saw in the campaign and know it as president.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you read them, if you listen to

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Speaker 1: the media, which is now all opinion, there's there's no

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Speaker 1: reporting anymore. It's all a bias against him I've never

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Speaker 1: seen in my life, and they under the so called

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Speaker 1: guys a journalism. What would you want people to know?

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Speaker 1: Two things? Number One, when it comes to the man,

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Speaker 1: I write about this extensively, both personally in their actions

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Speaker 1: that interactions that we had and watching him deal with

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Speaker 1: some others, he can be unbelievably empathetic and caring and concerned. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's it's a side that doesn't get out. Number Two,

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Speaker 1: there's this view that I get on a lot of

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Speaker 1: interviews that you know I heard he doesn't listen to

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Speaker 1: anybody and nothing could be further from the truth. He

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Speaker 1: invites input, he wants a briggers debate on the issues,

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Speaker 1: but ultimately he's the decider. And I think what happens

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Speaker 1: is often the media says, well, because they don't like

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Speaker 1: the outcome that clearly he didn't listen to anybody. Nothing

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Speaker 1: could be furtherest from the truth. He invites critique to debate,

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Speaker 1: he encourages it to hear from all sides, and but ultimately, yes,

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Speaker 1: he does make that decision and makes it clear once

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Speaker 1: he's heard everything. Uh. And I think those are the

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Speaker 1: two big takeaways that I have. What do you make

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Speaker 1: of this tape that was released by Michael Cohen of

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Speaker 1: him and then candidate Trump. Honestly, you know, I I

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Speaker 1: look at it. Obviously, the content piece of it, which

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Speaker 1: is what everyone's talking about. I'm really disappointed that somebody

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Speaker 1: that he trusted is running around keeping him. UM. I

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Speaker 1: just I think that that is a betrayal of trust

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Speaker 1: that I wouldn't do, you know, I just I think

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Speaker 1: it's the betrayal of trust. The idea that you're secretly

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Speaker 1: doing this is something that I I'm rather disgusted with. UM.

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Speaker 1: As for the substance of it, I mean, a lot

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Speaker 1: of this was known. UM As far as I'm concerned,

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Speaker 1: I didn't see, you know, every legal scholar on TV.

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Speaker 1: But we're in an environment. I don't care if it's

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Speaker 1: the putin UH press conference or maybe after that, the

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Speaker 1: the idea that John Brennan, the former communist that is

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Speaker 1: calling the president treasonists, might lose his his security clearance,

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Speaker 1: which I think he should, or this particular tape and

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Speaker 1: the media's reaction to it. I mean, it is ad

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Speaker 1: on NonStop. You know, just go for the jugular every

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Speaker 1: second of everyday, hysteria. You lived it in that room.

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Speaker 1: I mean I watched the exchanges. I'm like again, I

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'll debate anybody, but I couldn't do your

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Speaker 1: job without telling him to go blank off. But here's

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Speaker 1: the thing. It didn't start then. It started well before then.

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Speaker 1: And that's the thing. I think everyone wants to look

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Speaker 1: at everything in isolation. I walked through this in the book,

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Speaker 1: that this was something that started well before he became

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Speaker 1: the nominee, that this idea of taking him down and

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Speaker 1: coming after him in very very personal and visceral ways,

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Speaker 1: and then anybody around him started well before that. And

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Speaker 1: what happens is everybody wants to stop and say, well,

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Speaker 1: this all began with Donald Trump's you know, inauguration. It

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Speaker 1: didn't happened well before this came. It happened the day

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Speaker 1: that he and Malania came down the escalator at Trump Towers.

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Speaker 1: All right, stay right there. Sean Spicer with Us is

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Speaker 1: a new book is out, uh, and he's obviously in

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Speaker 1: an environment whether I guess you know, people are afraid

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Speaker 1: uh to talk. That's called The Briefing Politics to Press,

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Speaker 1: Us and the President, and it's on Amazon dot com,

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Speaker 1: Hannity dot com, bookstores everywhere. Well, and as we continue,

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Speaker 1: Sean Spicer with Us as a brand new book, The

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Speaker 1: Briefing Politics, the Press and the President. All right, so

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Speaker 1: let's talk about some of the people in that room

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Speaker 1: you saw every day, you know, like Jim Acosta as

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Speaker 1: if he's a real objective and balanced reporter. Um, I

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Speaker 1: don't you know, how do you deal with somebody that

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01:23:25,160 --> 01:23:28,559
Speaker 1: obviously has an agenda, obviously wants to pick a fight.

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Speaker 1: So it's on TV that night? Well, what what do

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Speaker 1: you do? I mean? I I think what I really

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Speaker 1: thought was, you know, concerning me, is that the behavior

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Speaker 1: that he exhibited, the antics I think are unbecoming. I

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Speaker 1: think if you're a journalist and you don't call that

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Speaker 1: out and say that's not representative of who we are

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Speaker 1: our industry and how we should act. That's the biggest

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01:23:49,240 --> 01:23:50,920
Speaker 1: problem there. I think a costic gets away with it

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Speaker 1: because his colleagues not only encourage it, but tolerated and

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Speaker 1: the idea that that's why, that's how a journalist should act.

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Speaker 1: We when a conservative did this to Obama in the

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Speaker 1: Rose Garden, the media called it out and said that

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Speaker 1: it was unbecoming. But now when a constant does it

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Speaker 1: on a daily basis, and he did it last week

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Speaker 1: to the President himself, he does it on a daily

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Speaker 1: basis in the press briefing room, that that it's tolerated

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Speaker 1: and it's acceptable. You I don't know where we've lost

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Speaker 1: the decorum in the press room that you you get,

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Speaker 1: you raise your hand, you get called on. There's a

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Speaker 1: level of entitlement and elitism that he believes he is

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Speaker 1: entitled to as many questions as he wants, as often

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Speaker 1: as he wants, when he wants them. And I think

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Speaker 1: that that that is unbelievable and it leads to the

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Speaker 1: decay and why people really it's like it's like a

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Speaker 1: cancer that metastasize and spread all over the room. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I see it almost every day. But well, listen, congratulations

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Speaker 1: on the book. Um go to when you're in Rhode Island. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you want to go to the Black Pearl for their

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Speaker 1: clam chowder. It's my favorite place on earth. And uh,

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Speaker 1: we always appreciate you being with us. The books phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: It's called the Briefing, Politics, the Press, the President. We'll

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Speaker 1: take a quick break. We'll come back on the other side.

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Speaker 1: We'll get your calls in final half hour Sean Hannity Show,

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Speaker 1: straight ahead, top of the hour. We're gonna get to

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Speaker 1: your calls here in just a second. You know, one

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Speaker 1: of the things that really ticked me off about the

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Speaker 1: Republicans after seven and a half years of Repeal Replace Obamacare.

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Speaker 1: For twenty years, we talked about big ideas like Musgrave

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Speaker 1: and and good men and patient power and health care

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Speaker 1: savings accounts, and you know, for almost a decade, for

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Speaker 1: crying out loud, we've been harassing poor Josh Umber, the

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Speaker 1: doctor down in Wichita, Kansas. As he was explaining the

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Speaker 1: paradigm he created, which is a medical co op where

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Speaker 1: adults pay fifty bucks a month, kids ten bucks a

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01:25:36,800 --> 01:25:41,479
Speaker 1: month unlimited care. Uh, he literally negotiates directly with the

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Speaker 1: major pharmaceutical companies. You leave the doctor's office with the

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01:25:44,600 --> 01:25:48,439
Speaker 1: medicine in hand and at a ninety discount that he

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01:25:48,479 --> 01:25:51,680
Speaker 1: gives back to you. And he's not making money on this, um,

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01:25:51,880 --> 01:25:55,000
Speaker 1: but uh, it is the best concierge care at the

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01:25:55,040 --> 01:25:58,439
Speaker 1: most affordable rate. And if you couple that your daily

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01:25:58,640 --> 01:26:02,760
Speaker 1: daily average medical needs with catastrophic insurance that would take

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01:26:02,760 --> 01:26:05,559
Speaker 1: care of a bad accident or god forbid, a cancer

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01:26:05,640 --> 01:26:08,240
Speaker 1: or a heart attack or something horrible, although that would

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01:26:08,280 --> 01:26:10,680
Speaker 1: be covered, but you pay a low rate because you

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01:26:10,760 --> 01:26:12,519
Speaker 1: know as high as the deductible that you will want

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01:26:12,560 --> 01:26:15,640
Speaker 1: to pay. But your everyday doctor needs are handled as

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01:26:15,640 --> 01:26:18,439
Speaker 1: an adult for fifty bucks a month. There's now hundreds

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01:26:18,479 --> 01:26:21,080
Speaker 1: of these co ops that he's helped develop around the

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01:26:21,160 --> 01:26:25,400
Speaker 1: country and apparently now they're at risk because of a

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01:26:25,560 --> 01:26:27,599
Speaker 1: bill the past in the Senate and I didn't even

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01:26:27,640 --> 01:26:29,479
Speaker 1: know about it, And uh, that's why I wanted to

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01:26:29,560 --> 01:26:31,720
Speaker 1: have you on dr number. How are you? Yeah, thank

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01:26:31,760 --> 01:26:33,920
Speaker 1: you very well, Sean. Thanks for having us and I

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01:26:34,000 --> 01:26:38,559
Speaker 1: appreciate you bringing attention to the cause. Um. Yeah, there

1504
01:26:38,920 --> 01:26:40,760
Speaker 1: was a bill that came out of Ways and Means

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01:26:40,840 --> 01:26:44,479
Speaker 1: Committee that's just maybe not great for supporting the direct

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01:26:44,520 --> 01:26:48,799
Speaker 1: care movement and patients overall. And so the whole coalition

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01:26:48,840 --> 01:26:51,840
Speaker 1: of doctors have been working hard to try to educate

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01:26:51,960 --> 01:26:54,840
Speaker 1: legislators on the best way to move forward. And wait,

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01:26:55,439 --> 01:26:58,040
Speaker 1: who is responsible for this? Because I know Ram Paul

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01:26:58,200 --> 01:27:02,479
Speaker 1: is very cooperative in the Senate for healthcare cooperatives, and

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01:27:02,800 --> 01:27:04,599
Speaker 1: we're hoping to fix it in the Senate. It came

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01:27:04,600 --> 01:27:07,920
Speaker 1: out of Ways and Means committee. Um, and uh. I

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01:27:08,000 --> 01:27:09,960
Speaker 1: think there was a bit of lobbying in the background

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01:27:10,360 --> 01:27:15,799
Speaker 1: by more corporate groups, uh, who are are less standard

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01:27:15,840 --> 01:27:18,560
Speaker 1: DPC and so the only one you're lobbying for is

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01:27:18,640 --> 01:27:21,080
Speaker 1: the patient to get better care at a lower cost

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01:27:21,520 --> 01:27:25,880
Speaker 1: and concierge's attention. And you know, for fifty bucks a month,

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01:27:25,880 --> 01:27:27,519
Speaker 1: I could see you every day of the week. If

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01:27:27,600 --> 01:27:29,360
Speaker 1: I was in your co op, by the way, I

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01:27:29,400 --> 01:27:32,560
Speaker 1: would harass the living daylights out of you. Oh I

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01:27:32,680 --> 01:27:35,120
Speaker 1: banged my foot. Oh I banged my knee. Oh I

1522
01:27:35,360 --> 01:27:37,680
Speaker 1: I got a bruise on my head. Oh, Linda hit

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01:27:37,760 --> 01:27:43,639
Speaker 1: me again. You know it was all my big connected absolutely. Um. Yeah.

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01:27:43,800 --> 01:27:47,840
Speaker 1: The bill said, for the sake of the federal definition

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01:27:47,960 --> 01:27:50,800
Speaker 1: that direct care is a form of insurance. And then

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01:27:51,120 --> 01:27:54,240
Speaker 1: tried to give it an exemption um as to not

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01:27:54,360 --> 01:27:57,559
Speaker 1: be regulated as insurance for the time being, and then

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01:27:57,640 --> 01:28:00,960
Speaker 1: put some caps on how patients can use health savings

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01:28:01,040 --> 01:28:04,479
Speaker 1: dollars to pay for affordable care. And it's just it's

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01:28:04,560 --> 01:28:08,400
Speaker 1: completely messy, uh and confuses the issue because we're clearly

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01:28:08,479 --> 01:28:12,680
Speaker 1: not insurance, insurances, insurance. We're just doctors providing affordable care

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01:28:13,120 --> 01:28:16,120
Speaker 1: um and so this really, you know, is a roadblock

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01:28:16,240 --> 01:28:20,920
Speaker 1: to patients being able to access just high quality, affordable care.

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01:28:21,120 --> 01:28:23,360
Speaker 1: Have you gotten in touch with the Freedom Caucus guys,

1535
01:28:23,400 --> 01:28:25,439
Speaker 1: because they're the ones that I think would understand that

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01:28:25,680 --> 01:28:27,360
Speaker 1: the most and be able to help fix it for

1537
01:28:27,439 --> 01:28:29,120
Speaker 1: you if you talked to any of them. We are,

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01:28:29,280 --> 01:28:32,559
Speaker 1: We're working diligently behind the scenes and working with John

1539
01:28:32,600 --> 01:28:35,400
Speaker 1: Goodman and other uh you know fathers of h s

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01:28:35,520 --> 01:28:39,400
Speaker 1: A uh to maximize this, and I think we'll get there,

1541
01:28:39,520 --> 01:28:42,200
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be you know, patients might need to

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01:28:42,280 --> 01:28:45,000
Speaker 1: really be involved and let their senators know that they

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01:28:45,120 --> 01:28:48,280
Speaker 1: want a free market in their health care system. Well,

1544
01:28:48,360 --> 01:28:50,360
Speaker 1: let me let me We'll put up the number of

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01:28:50,439 --> 01:28:53,000
Speaker 1: people want to call just to save Listen, I don't

1546
01:28:53,000 --> 01:28:55,320
Speaker 1: care if they bring health care savings accounts in which

1547
01:28:55,360 --> 01:28:57,360
Speaker 1: they should have done a long time ago. Anything but

1548
01:28:57,479 --> 01:28:59,960
Speaker 1: Obamacare is going to be better. But these healthcare cooper

1549
01:29:00,000 --> 01:29:02,479
Speaker 1: because it's the best idea I've ever seen in medicine.

1550
01:29:02,680 --> 01:29:05,200
Speaker 1: And you know what, I just know that you know

1551
01:29:05,280 --> 01:29:07,880
Speaker 1: all these other doctors that are duplicating your model, and

1552
01:29:07,960 --> 01:29:11,240
Speaker 1: you're generously helping them. You're not getting paid for it. Um.

1553
01:29:11,520 --> 01:29:14,880
Speaker 1: It just shows that how committed you are to healing

1554
01:29:14,960 --> 01:29:18,040
Speaker 1: your patients. UM. Anyway, two oh two, two to four

1555
01:29:18,240 --> 01:29:20,760
Speaker 1: three one is the number. We'll put it up on

1556
01:29:20,840 --> 01:29:23,439
Speaker 1: Hannity dot com. Keep us in the loop. And if

1557
01:29:23,760 --> 01:29:25,840
Speaker 1: you need any help getting in touch with these congressmen,

1558
01:29:25,920 --> 01:29:28,639
Speaker 1: let Linda, you know, we'll just open up the phones

1559
01:29:28,680 --> 01:29:30,719
Speaker 1: for her. And they get they run for the hills.

1560
01:29:30,800 --> 01:29:34,639
Speaker 1: So that's right, Josh, I mean you corna right, Josh.

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01:29:34,720 --> 01:29:37,639
Speaker 1: I mean your corner knows how I roll. First of all,

1562
01:29:38,200 --> 01:29:40,599
Speaker 1: I roll harder than anybody. I ne would tell lays

1563
01:29:40,640 --> 01:29:43,160
Speaker 1: either from singlepool. That's right. I'm fighting for the freedom

1564
01:29:43,200 --> 01:29:46,439
Speaker 1: of healthcare, that's true. I mean that's a great thing.

1565
01:29:46,479 --> 01:29:49,280
Speaker 1: I mean everybody could afford fifty bucks a month, and

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01:29:49,360 --> 01:29:51,000
Speaker 1: that's the thing in an unlimited care and it takes

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01:29:51,040 --> 01:29:53,200
Speaker 1: care of the blood pressure, it takes care of cholesterol,

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01:29:53,320 --> 01:29:56,519
Speaker 1: takes care of cuts and bruises and and even broken

1569
01:29:56,560 --> 01:29:58,880
Speaker 1: bones in most cases. I mean, for crying out loud,

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01:29:59,520 --> 01:30:01,640
Speaker 1: we've done all those things. Um you know. I just

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01:30:01,800 --> 01:30:03,960
Speaker 1: in fact, today we had a patient, she's twenty one

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01:30:04,040 --> 01:30:07,360
Speaker 1: year old with brain tumor. Her insurance was charged twenty

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01:30:07,400 --> 01:30:10,559
Speaker 1: four dollars for medicaid. I think they denied it. We're

1574
01:30:10,600 --> 01:30:13,160
Speaker 1: able to get it down to forty one per treatment

1575
01:30:13,360 --> 01:30:16,320
Speaker 1: over the course of the term, it'll be nineteen dollars.

1576
01:30:16,680 --> 01:30:19,599
Speaker 1: But you know, that's what we're fighting for, the ability

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01:30:19,600 --> 01:30:22,519
Speaker 1: to help our patients. And that's not partisans. You gotta

1578
01:30:22,520 --> 01:30:24,360
Speaker 1: say that again. Can you just say those numbers again?

1579
01:30:24,400 --> 01:30:27,960
Speaker 1: That is unbelievable. Okay, is this your show or mine?

1580
01:30:27,960 --> 01:30:30,000
Speaker 1: I'm just helping. I'm just helping out. I don't need

1581
01:30:30,040 --> 01:30:33,800
Speaker 1: your help. With Sean Hannity show go Ahead. Insurance was

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01:30:33,920 --> 01:30:37,000
Speaker 1: charged four thousand dollars and we can get it down

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01:30:37,040 --> 01:30:39,320
Speaker 1: to as low as forty one dollars to treatment, but

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01:30:39,720 --> 01:30:41,519
Speaker 1: over the course of the six month treatment. But you

1585
01:30:41,560 --> 01:30:44,920
Speaker 1: don't what the why does the insurance companies embrace you.

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01:30:45,720 --> 01:30:47,280
Speaker 1: I mean, that would be the best thing they ever

1587
01:30:47,400 --> 01:30:50,639
Speaker 1: did they should and I think often. Um, that's why

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01:30:51,000 --> 01:30:53,280
Speaker 1: we're confident we can fix a lot of this because

1589
01:30:53,479 --> 01:30:55,600
Speaker 1: we're on the right side of it. Everybody wants to

1590
01:30:55,680 --> 01:30:58,560
Speaker 1: support affordable care, but we do got to get to

1591
01:30:58,680 --> 01:31:02,479
Speaker 1: legislators to be knowledge about how this system works, and

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01:31:02,840 --> 01:31:06,240
Speaker 1: and ultimately get employers and patients and then eventually insurance

1593
01:31:06,280 --> 01:31:08,880
Speaker 1: companies to see that we're all on the same side

1594
01:31:09,120 --> 01:31:12,960
Speaker 1: and we're innovating in the direction that helps patients, proves

1595
01:31:13,000 --> 01:31:16,320
Speaker 1: access to lower costs. Really dramatic stuff here, all I

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01:31:16,360 --> 01:31:20,839
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Dr Umber uh Atlas M. D Wichita, Kansas.

1597
01:31:21,000 --> 01:31:23,639
Speaker 1: I wish you were in New York. Um, I would

1598
01:31:23,760 --> 01:31:25,439
Speaker 1: use you in a heartbeat. Although one of my best

1599
01:31:25,520 --> 01:31:27,360
Speaker 1: friends with my doctor so I have, I couldn't leave

1600
01:31:27,400 --> 01:31:29,600
Speaker 1: him hanging. He's well, I just harass him. I just

1601
01:31:29,800 --> 01:31:32,280
Speaker 1: you know, I sent him a picture the other day

1602
01:31:32,280 --> 01:31:35,040
Speaker 1: because you know, my my poor mother in law turned

1603
01:31:35,080 --> 01:31:37,080
Speaker 1: her ankle. I'm like, what should she do? What do

1604
01:31:37,160 --> 01:31:39,519
Speaker 1: you think? He diagnosed it on the phone, and just

1605
01:31:39,680 --> 01:31:41,160
Speaker 1: to be safe, we got to our picture. But she's

1606
01:31:41,160 --> 01:31:44,600
Speaker 1: better now. All right, thank you, sir, all I appreciate it.

1607
01:31:45,560 --> 01:31:49,240
Speaker 1: One Sean, let's go to uh let's say hi to

1608
01:31:49,640 --> 01:31:52,280
Speaker 1: is it howdy in Florida? Howdy? How are you? Hi?

1609
01:31:52,680 --> 01:31:55,160
Speaker 1: How you do when you're a great American? Oh? Good sir,

1610
01:31:55,320 --> 01:31:58,479
Speaker 1: thank you for joining us, and we appreciate you calling great.

1611
01:31:58,600 --> 01:32:00,600
Speaker 1: So keep it short and sweet, Yes, sir, what do

1612
01:32:00,640 --> 01:32:03,439
Speaker 1: you got like? Like Linda said, well, you know, I'm

1613
01:32:03,439 --> 01:32:05,680
Speaker 1: a problem solver, been a problem solver all my life,

1614
01:32:05,720 --> 01:32:07,760
Speaker 1: and so I look at this problem of the whole

1615
01:32:07,800 --> 01:32:09,840
Speaker 1: fist Accord and all that kind of stuff, and the

1616
01:32:10,080 --> 01:32:13,160
Speaker 1: I think that the recourse we should use is that

1617
01:32:13,280 --> 01:32:16,360
Speaker 1: the House of Representatives should impeach the fist A Court

1618
01:32:16,479 --> 01:32:18,599
Speaker 1: to be able to flip it up into the open

1619
01:32:18,640 --> 01:32:21,519
Speaker 1: air so that the way that it does business shows up.

1620
01:32:21,640 --> 01:32:23,640
Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta you gotta know that in the

1621
01:32:24,280 --> 01:32:27,240
Speaker 1: first what thirty five years, thirty eight years of the

1622
01:32:27,280 --> 01:32:30,880
Speaker 1: fist Accord, they only turned back twelve applications, and then

1623
01:32:30,960 --> 01:32:33,960
Speaker 1: somehow mysteriously in two thousand and sixteen and two thousand

1624
01:32:34,000 --> 01:32:36,800
Speaker 1: and seventeen they turned back thirty four in each of

1625
01:32:36,840 --> 01:32:40,160
Speaker 1: those years. But it's assuming the fist A Court assumes

1626
01:32:40,400 --> 01:32:43,920
Speaker 1: that the applicant is has got the best interests of

1627
01:32:43,920 --> 01:32:46,560
Speaker 1: the United States, and that they're that they're honest, and

1628
01:32:46,600 --> 01:32:50,120
Speaker 1: they will remember it was first rejected according to reports,

1629
01:32:50,400 --> 01:32:52,320
Speaker 1: the only thing that put it over the top, and

1630
01:32:52,400 --> 01:32:55,240
Speaker 1: Andrew mcga McCabe even said so, the only thing to

1631
01:32:55,320 --> 01:32:58,000
Speaker 1: put it over the top was the dossier. Without the dossier,

1632
01:32:58,080 --> 01:33:00,400
Speaker 1: there's no fis a warrant. Now we know that sea

1633
01:33:01,000 --> 01:33:03,559
Speaker 1: was never verified. Now we know it's full of bought

1634
01:33:03,640 --> 01:33:07,400
Speaker 1: and paid for Russian lies, and it was and everybody

1635
01:33:07,520 --> 01:33:09,479
Speaker 1: knew it, but they didn't tell any of the judges.

1636
01:33:09,800 --> 01:33:13,639
Speaker 1: So the judges were lied to and manipulated. And it's

1637
01:33:13,760 --> 01:33:17,040
Speaker 1: unbelievable to me that there's not consequences for this. Who's

1638
01:33:17,040 --> 01:33:18,880
Speaker 1: going to do the consequences. It would have to be

1639
01:33:19,040 --> 01:33:21,559
Speaker 1: the judges on the Fife Accord would have to turn

1640
01:33:21,640 --> 01:33:23,600
Speaker 1: around and say and they would have to be the

1641
01:33:23,640 --> 01:33:26,439
Speaker 1: ones that would put the pressure back on the Department

1642
01:33:26,479 --> 01:33:28,680
Speaker 1: of Justice. They would have to do it. So the

1643
01:33:28,800 --> 01:33:30,519
Speaker 1: only way to do that is to get the House

1644
01:33:30,560 --> 01:33:33,479
Speaker 1: of Representatives to impeach them so that that pressure is

1645
01:33:33,560 --> 01:33:35,720
Speaker 1: there of Okay, tell us what happened, who did it,

1646
01:33:35,840 --> 01:33:37,600
Speaker 1: why did it happen? And this doesn't need to be

1647
01:33:37,640 --> 01:33:39,479
Speaker 1: in a public forum, but it needs to be to

1648
01:33:39,520 --> 01:33:42,160
Speaker 1: the House of representatives who they are accountable to, and

1649
01:33:42,240 --> 01:33:44,240
Speaker 1: then turn all that upside down so that the Fife

1650
01:33:44,280 --> 01:33:46,640
Speaker 1: Accord goes, hey, we can't let them do this to us.

1651
01:33:46,680 --> 01:33:48,760
Speaker 1: They're making us look bad, and then you get the

1652
01:33:48,800 --> 01:33:51,280
Speaker 1: pressure the Department of Justice. Listen. I don't think your

1653
01:33:51,320 --> 01:33:53,720
Speaker 1: idea is bad in any way. I just think that,

1654
01:33:53,960 --> 01:33:57,080
Speaker 1: you know, the sad reality is what we talked about

1655
01:33:57,120 --> 01:34:00,000
Speaker 1: with Jason chaff Fits earlier, and what Monica Crowley said

1656
01:34:00,360 --> 01:34:02,080
Speaker 1: is that they're not going to do their job. And

1657
01:34:02,200 --> 01:34:04,560
Speaker 1: here you got Meadows in Jordan's fighting like hell to

1658
01:34:04,600 --> 01:34:07,040
Speaker 1: get that job done and they're still not doing it. Uh,

1659
01:34:07,160 --> 01:34:09,120
Speaker 1: let's say how to Bob Is in Florida. To Bob,

1660
01:34:09,200 --> 01:34:12,040
Speaker 1: how are you glad you called? Thanks Sean for taking

1661
01:34:12,080 --> 01:34:13,439
Speaker 1: my call. I want to make a quick couple of

1662
01:34:13,520 --> 01:34:17,080
Speaker 1: quick comments on the Greg Jared book. I ordered The

1663
01:34:17,160 --> 01:34:19,800
Speaker 1: Russian Hoax, The Illicit Scheme to clear Hillary Clinton and

1664
01:34:19,840 --> 01:34:22,559
Speaker 1: frame Donald Trunk from from Amazon in advance. It showed

1665
01:34:22,640 --> 01:34:26,599
Speaker 1: up yesterday afternoon. You got it on released. Good for you. Yeah,

1666
01:34:26,800 --> 01:34:29,639
Speaker 1: and and I really wanted to tell you a couple

1667
01:34:29,640 --> 01:34:32,880
Speaker 1: of surprises. So why I ordered the book was primarily

1668
01:34:33,439 --> 01:34:36,840
Speaker 1: because I wanted to support Greg Jared's effort. And uh,

1669
01:34:37,360 --> 01:34:40,519
Speaker 1: you know, I I've paid attention to this matter since

1670
01:34:40,600 --> 01:34:43,800
Speaker 1: it first started, so I felt I was knowledgeable on it.

1671
01:34:43,880 --> 01:34:46,400
Speaker 1: So I didn't think I would learn much from his book.

1672
01:34:46,400 --> 01:34:48,679
Speaker 1: But I encourage everybody to order it because I've learned

1673
01:34:48,720 --> 01:34:52,760
Speaker 1: a lot already. And Uh, this guy has written something

1674
01:34:52,840 --> 01:34:56,920
Speaker 1: that's very important here, and everybody who is unhappy about

1675
01:34:57,040 --> 01:35:01,120
Speaker 1: this whole hoax thing should order a copy today. Look,

1676
01:35:01,320 --> 01:35:03,840
Speaker 1: I I it's number one in the country right now

1677
01:35:04,280 --> 01:35:07,120
Speaker 1: on Amazon. It was the last time I looked. And

1678
01:35:07,439 --> 01:35:09,800
Speaker 1: there's a reason for it. And I watched this guy

1679
01:35:09,920 --> 01:35:12,240
Speaker 1: write the book. I mean, I have no financial interest

1680
01:35:12,320 --> 01:35:14,439
Speaker 1: in it except to get the truth out. And I

1681
01:35:14,560 --> 01:35:18,000
Speaker 1: watched him literally footnote and pound out every word of

1682
01:35:18,080 --> 01:35:21,679
Speaker 1: this book. And it's got everything. It's like the Bible

1683
01:35:22,080 --> 01:35:26,360
Speaker 1: of this the biggest abusive power scandal in the in

1684
01:35:26,560 --> 01:35:30,000
Speaker 1: US history, and he's got it all there, and intelligent

1685
01:35:30,080 --> 01:35:32,000
Speaker 1: people are gonna read it, and then the case is

1686
01:35:32,120 --> 01:35:35,320
Speaker 1: so overwhelming, and then you're gonna read it, you're gonna think, well,

1687
01:35:35,439 --> 01:35:38,080
Speaker 1: what about all the fake news people that don't cover this? Why?

1688
01:35:38,600 --> 01:35:41,160
Speaker 1: And you'll know why because they don't care and they

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Speaker 1: don't care about equal justice and all they care about

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01:35:44,640 --> 01:35:48,760
Speaker 1: is the political destruction of any conservative at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day and protecting their precious Hillary. Sad but anyway,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate your call. Uh, make sure that Gregg hears

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01:35:55,920 --> 01:36:00,280
Speaker 1: about your endorsement big time. A J Houston, Texas. What's

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01:36:00,320 --> 01:36:07,720
Speaker 1: going on, baby? What's happening? First of all, as my

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01:36:07,840 --> 01:36:12,360
Speaker 1: girl says, the fake media ought to know. Nobody's paying

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01:36:12,400 --> 01:36:16,360
Speaker 1: attention to them anymore. Second of all, the Rhino Republicans

1697
01:36:16,520 --> 01:36:20,840
Speaker 1: better know if a good Republican running against they're gone.

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01:36:21,040 --> 01:36:23,599
Speaker 1: They can kiss the good back because we the people shot.

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01:36:24,040 --> 01:36:27,000
Speaker 1: We the people are tired of all the talking. You

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01:36:27,520 --> 01:36:30,960
Speaker 1: and the risk Joe, all these guys, y'all got the

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01:36:31,080 --> 01:36:34,240
Speaker 1: news out. Y'all got the truth out. What is taking

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01:36:34,280 --> 01:36:38,800
Speaker 1: them in that Congress don't want to do their job. Well,

1703
01:36:38,880 --> 01:36:41,840
Speaker 1: here's the problem. If they get elected. They want their

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01:36:41,880 --> 01:36:45,200
Speaker 1: crumbs back. They want open borders, they want to keep Obamacare,

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01:36:45,600 --> 01:36:48,240
Speaker 1: they want to impeach Donald Trump so that they want

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01:36:48,280 --> 01:36:51,240
Speaker 1: to end the they want to end investigations into the

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01:36:51,320 --> 01:36:53,960
Speaker 1: truths Now, I gotta tell you something this, This is

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01:36:54,000 --> 01:36:57,680
Speaker 1: a horrible choice for for for conservatives because that means

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01:36:57,720 --> 01:36:59,880
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to hold your nose and vote for

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01:37:00,120 --> 01:37:03,160
Speaker 1: weak people a lot of people. That's why I say

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01:37:03,240 --> 01:37:05,960
Speaker 1: they better hope a good Republican not running against them.

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01:37:06,240 --> 01:37:08,400
Speaker 1: I know if they running again, the them, we got

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01:37:08,479 --> 01:37:11,360
Speaker 1: the whole I know. Just keep what's going on. But

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01:37:11,560 --> 01:37:15,040
Speaker 1: at the same time, John, we the people. They're getting

1715
01:37:15,040 --> 01:37:18,559
Speaker 1: to them people chances to hide, reach and get rid

1716
01:37:18,600 --> 01:37:26,720
Speaker 1: of seeking. Congress's doing nothing. Don't go to y'all got it?

1717
01:37:27,280 --> 01:37:30,280
Speaker 1: Why don't they do the job? Man? That's what we're asking.

1718
01:37:30,360 --> 01:37:33,000
Speaker 1: Just do your job, keep your promises. It's not that hard.

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01:37:33,400 --> 01:37:35,320
Speaker 1: It's not that hard. You know what it's like if

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01:37:35,360 --> 01:37:37,920
Speaker 1: I if I say to my kid, my kids, all right,

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Speaker 1: if you do good in school, I'm gonna take you

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Speaker 1: to Disney. Well they're past the Disney I guess you

1723
01:37:42,760 --> 01:37:45,040
Speaker 1: never passed the Disney age, except I am. I'm over it,

1724
01:37:45,360 --> 01:37:48,000
Speaker 1: and that my kids do whatever was that I needed

1725
01:37:48,080 --> 01:37:50,240
Speaker 1: him to do that I don't take him to Disney.

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01:37:50,640 --> 01:37:53,599
Speaker 1: My kids would rightly be piste off at their dad

1727
01:37:54,280 --> 01:37:57,400
Speaker 1: and think their dad doesn't keep his word and his promises.

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01:37:57,800 --> 01:38:01,360
Speaker 1: And it won't be slightly they were say with, they

1729
01:38:01,439 --> 01:38:05,560
Speaker 1: will be pissed off. It ain't no fight in the

1730
01:38:05,640 --> 01:38:08,360
Speaker 1: fake news. They won't even tell you about the shooter

1731
01:38:08,439 --> 01:38:12,080
Speaker 1: in Canada. I mean, come calling people, we all know,

1732
01:38:12,600 --> 01:38:16,960
Speaker 1: come home now. Good word, y'all got keep it up

1733
01:38:17,120 --> 01:38:19,640
Speaker 1: and keep the truth coming, all right, big time. I

1734
01:38:19,680 --> 01:38:22,280
Speaker 1: gotta role here though, But listen, we love you. You're

1735
01:38:22,280 --> 01:38:25,000
Speaker 1: a great American. Keep up the fight, all right. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's check in. Amanda is in North Carolina. Amanda, Hi,

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Speaker 1: how are you glad you called? We have about a minute, Amanda,

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Speaker 1: It's all yours. I don't know. It was such a

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01:38:34,680 --> 01:38:37,400
Speaker 1: joy to hear your daughter yesterday at the video. That

1740
01:38:37,560 --> 01:38:40,240
Speaker 1: was so fun. My my daughter beating up on me too.

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01:38:40,320 --> 01:38:43,439
Speaker 1: But yeah, thank you. You know, by the way, she's

1742
01:38:43,479 --> 01:38:45,360
Speaker 1: not that shy in real life. I can tell you

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01:38:45,520 --> 01:38:47,920
Speaker 1: that part I was. It was. He did come across

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01:38:47,960 --> 01:38:51,000
Speaker 1: a little bit as shy. My question is, I'm just curious,

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01:38:51,120 --> 01:38:53,880
Speaker 1: what is the what's the end game here? I mean,

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01:38:54,520 --> 01:38:56,599
Speaker 1: we all know it's fogus, we all know, I mean,

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01:38:56,680 --> 01:38:58,760
Speaker 1: but who actually I can tell you what the end

1748
01:38:58,840 --> 01:39:00,920
Speaker 1: game is. It's simple. This is why this is the

1749
01:39:01,000 --> 01:39:03,400
Speaker 1: most important midterm election in our lives. The end game

1750
01:39:03,400 --> 01:39:07,879
Speaker 1: is simple. They want to impete Trump absolutely do everything

1751
01:39:07,960 --> 01:39:10,639
Speaker 1: they can do to destroy him. They want their crumbs back,

1752
01:39:10,960 --> 01:39:14,479
Speaker 1: they want open borders, they want Obamacare, and they don't

1753
01:39:14,520 --> 01:39:18,040
Speaker 1: want the deep state that helps them get exposed. It's

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01:39:18,120 --> 01:39:22,200
Speaker 1: that simple. It's all about power. I gotta run though, Amanda.

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Speaker 1: We love you, Thank you for being with us. All Right,

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Speaker 1: Hannity Tonight, nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel. We'll

1757
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Speaker 1: loaded up. We have Rudy Julianni, Allen Dershwitz, Joe de

1758
01:39:31,000 --> 01:39:34,760
Speaker 1: Jenev has been on fire, Jesse and Jessica Herman, Kane,

1759
01:39:34,960 --> 01:39:39,600
Speaker 1: Sarah Carter, and so much more as we literally we

1760
01:39:39,800 --> 01:39:43,880
Speaker 1: break down these hearings with Mike Pompeo, the tapes that

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Speaker 1: show nothing. And then of course we have a freed hostage.

1762
01:39:47,560 --> 01:39:49,720
Speaker 1: Nobody talks about that, and we we don't have a

1763
01:39:49,760 --> 01:39:53,479
Speaker 1: trade war with Europe. Tonight at nine on Hannity, Fox

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Speaker 1: News News. You won't get anywhere else. See it tonight,

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Speaker 1: back here tomorrow