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Speaker 1: I wish in my soul, I wish that any of

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Speaker 2: Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

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Speaker 3: If that answer is to save my country, this country

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Speaker 2: Or use your host, Stephen Can.

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Speaker 1: It's Friday, seven March in the year vil Lord, twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five. Thank you for being here for the second

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Speaker 1: hour of the morning show. History being made once again,

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Speaker 1: and Trump is going to open up to a press

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Speaker 2: Our own Brian Glenn.

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Speaker 1: What's your sense of that. Did they just get ahead

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Speaker 2: Sir?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's a great question because the other

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Speaker 4: there are plenty of Russians working within Putin's system who

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Speaker 5: Have get any provotion.

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Speaker 4: As he kind of comes out in the book, this

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Speaker 4: basically saying, I'm furthering Russia's national interests. But if those

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Speaker 4: And so really the crisis came when the Ministry of

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Speaker 1: House in the five o'clock era, John, where do people go?

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Speaker 1: We can tell us a lot of interest in the

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, Well, I mean the book is available in any

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Speaker 5: Seven pm?

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Speaker 1: Seven pm? Okay, note to war and Posse. It's probably

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Speaker 1: it used to be in the old days before I

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Speaker 2: Just go in. You go in undercover. Pretend you're in

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Speaker 5: That don't even worry.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Let's go over to his website now you can explore

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Speaker 1: more about Extraordinary Guy the tales of these and.

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Speaker 2: This is what reality is.

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Speaker 1: First off, it's one of the realities that the young

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Speaker 1: American in Africa and the Middle East. I mean, this

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Speaker 1: And this is Hey, the whole thing with the VA,

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Speaker 1: what's going to happen to it? The restruction of the VA.

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Speaker 1: It's got to be talked about. I mean, this announcement,

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Speaker 1: post COVID. It's really got to be thought through because

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Speaker 1: just read this book and you'll see what You'll see

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Speaker 1: what people are up against because it is the Wagner

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Speaker 1: guys are that mercenary army is very much what's happening

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Speaker 1: in very much happening in Russia in many elements. The

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Speaker 1: other part of the books is quite good is that

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Speaker 1: when President Trump negotiates with Putin, the reality is that

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Speaker 1: there's a little bit like the Roman Republic or Roman Empire,

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Speaker 1: You know, we're not we don't actually live in a democracy.

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Speaker 1: You know, maybe I can make my move now. So

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Speaker 1: it's a it's a very fluid situation over there as

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Speaker 1: president of Like I said, Putin has announced he's prepared

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Speaker 1: for a ceasefire. I think President Trump sending a message,

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Speaker 1: not just publicly, but I'm shore on back channels that

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Speaker 1: he's just not going to sit there. He's not gonna

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Speaker 1: be happy with uh, He's not gonna be happy with

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Speaker 1: games being played. The whole world's got a lot of

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Speaker 1: a line here. President Trump is going out of his way,

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Speaker 1: and so many times he talks about the casualties from Ukraine,

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Speaker 1: he talks about the casualties in Russia, and look the

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Speaker 1: how bad it's been President Trump says, up to a

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Speaker 1: million dead and wounded. I do know because I talked

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Speaker 1: to Ian Bremmer, and Ian's a guy that will get

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Speaker 1: why if you read the book, death is our business, because,

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Speaker 1: this is gonna be like Stalingrad. But you're either going

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Speaker 1: ten or twenty years are some of you guys are

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Speaker 1: going to die here or I'll give you a shot.

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Speaker 2: If you make it through, you're free. Now. It's unlikely

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Speaker 2: you're going to.

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Speaker 1: Get through, but at least you die out there as

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Speaker 1: a warrior instead of dying here as a slave. It's

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Speaker 1: pretty powerful. He gets, He gets a lot of sign ups.

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Speaker 1: That's how nice Russian prison is. It's a different world

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Speaker 1: and we have to understand, and this is why it

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Speaker 2: The elites in this country are prepared.

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Speaker 1: I mean, right now on the Romanian Ukraine border, you

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Speaker 2: I mean that could be mo unless she went to

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Speaker 1: But you know, this is sons and daughters of everyday Americans,

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Speaker 1: and they signed up for it.

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Speaker 2: They're not wanting, they're not bitching. This is what they

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Speaker 1: But read the book and to see what we're putting

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Speaker 1: our kids.

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Speaker 2: In the middle of.

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Speaker 1: And there's no need to do this. It's ridiculous. People

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Speaker 1: Europeans are talking. They're all big talk. Now their bluff's

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Speaker 1: getting a little bit called by the bond market. So

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Speaker 1: it's it's and this is President Trump. What he's trying

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Speaker 1: start stop, and then you start talking about some sort

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Speaker 1: the situation in Persia where I think the Russian is

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Speaker 1: it's going to be a year of war, he's talking

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Speaker 1: about in Gaza, he's also talking about in Judea, Samaria.

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Speaker 1: I think he's talking about some cleanup in Syria, maybe

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Speaker 1: I call it Persia.

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Speaker 2: But Iran.

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Speaker 1: And as you know, there's very little to no support,

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Speaker 1: very little support for engagement in any kind of conflict

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Speaker 2: There's got to be another way to solve that.

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Speaker 1: So it's a volatile situation. It's a very volatile situation,

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Speaker 1: very volatile situation. Then you come back here and the

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Speaker 1: audience and you guys are going to have to be

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Speaker 1: kind of the the arbiter here because we have to

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Speaker 1: get serious. And only this audience can make people serious

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Speaker 1: about spending cuts. Nobody wants a cut spending, let's be

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Speaker 1: honest up on the hill. Is because it's too politically painful.

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Speaker 1: The reason we're in this situation is because we've avoided

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Speaker 1: this for decade after decade after decade. If you look

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Speaker 1: years of Trump, before COVID, before COVID hit they're relatively small.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: I think there was an argument we can close that

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Speaker 1: have to get serious about cutting that. The only way

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Speaker 1: you're going to cut it, and I've said this before, Yes,

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Speaker 1: there is waste for an abuse. One you have to

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Speaker 1: identify it. Two, you have to stop paying for it.

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Speaker 1: Three you have to rid it from the system. You

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Speaker 1: have to hold people accountable because it's been all this

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Speaker 1: waste for an abuse. Remember it's been financed for years

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Speaker 1: and people have run the organizations that did it. So

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Speaker 1: you have to do that accountability. But it's not going

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Speaker 1: That's two. It's not a magic one. You're going to

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Speaker 1: have to get into the tough into the tough decisions defense, Medicaid,

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Speaker 1: not going to happen. It's another fantasy. If people tell you, well,

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Speaker 1: you can't do it, until then, they're lying to you.

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Speaker 1: Because you can at least make an effort and close

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Speaker 1: this thing up.

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Speaker 2: You can. It's going to be painful, It's going.

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Speaker 1: To be the media is going to be all over

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Speaker 1: you every day of the week, right, just like in

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Speaker 1: deporting ten million people, they think it's gonna be easy.

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Speaker 1: I think that's going to be you see the deportation, right,

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Speaker 1: So how tough it is even to get the criminals

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Speaker 1: out when you have sanctuary cities, have these governors, guys

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Speaker 1: like Pritzker, these people fighting you tooth and nail. So

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Speaker 1: it's all difficult, right, Stopping the war's difficult. That's why

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Speaker 1: Trump's just doing an extraordinary job standing.

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Speaker 2: In the breach. And I'm glad today because I don't

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Speaker 2: think and.

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Speaker 1: This is why I think was good Scott got on

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Speaker 1: the road. I think Lutnick and Navarro and Hassett and

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Speaker 1: best description of the of the difficulty of this accoudomy

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Speaker 1: of anybody of what President Trump inherited. President Trump is

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Speaker 1: taking the ball by the horns. That's why I think

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Speaker 1: we're having this press a veil, and I don't believe

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Speaker 1: it's around the executive order signing for the for actually

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Speaker 1: getting rid of the Education Department, which I believe is

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Speaker 1: supposed to be today, is supposed to be yesterday. I

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Speaker 1: is going to go on offense, I think here momentarily

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Speaker 1: and talk to you about the jobs for it.

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Speaker 2: Inside the jobs report, there's some nuggets.

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Speaker 1: I think nine thousand jobs created in one month in

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Speaker 1: January in the automotive industry is shows you what President

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Speaker 1: Trump's doing about the automotive industry. This is part of

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Speaker 1: this is part of the whole tariff strategy and bringing

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Speaker 1: manufacturing back here. What Honda has already announced, I think

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Speaker 1: there's been some other announcements also. I think these extraordinarily important,

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Speaker 1: and President Trump's going to talk about that. He's also

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he's going to bring up the fact that

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Speaker 1: shelling overnight by the Russians in Ukraine that he's you know,

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Speaker 1: he's got somebody's attention, and now putin saying and he's

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Speaker 1: willing to have a ceasefire.

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Speaker 2: That's a big movement, very big movement.

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Speaker 1: President Trump and Witchcoff and these are thinking about this

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Speaker 1: overall rough prochemonde with the Russians, how it's going to look,

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Speaker 1: and it's extraordinarily important. And you got the Europeans and

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Speaker 1: the Ukrainians nipping at your snapping at your heels. They

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Speaker 1: clearly they're going to have some say so it's got

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Speaker 1: to be minor and it's got to be not It

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Speaker 1: cannot drive this deal because this is between principles. I

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Speaker 1: it's an overall strategic relationship that can solve the situation

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Speaker 1: in Europe. The potential for a European war, which is

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Speaker 1: how World War two kind of started a start as

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Speaker 1: but then in nineteen thirty nine and it was a

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Speaker 1: And guess what happened six months later, the sneak attack

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Speaker 1: at Pearl Harbor.

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Speaker 2: Very much close.

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Speaker 1: You know, people don't tie this together, very very inextricably linked.

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Speaker 1: Dealing with, and this is why the spending has to

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Speaker 1: audience wouldn't be upset as you should be upset if

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Speaker 1: Johnson and these guys I said for months and months

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Speaker 2: Get on the table and tell the truth.

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Speaker 1: Don't don't say we spent all this time of reconciliation

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Speaker 2: Deal with twenty six. We didn't do that. Okay, short break,

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Speaker 2: Maybe back to the White House. When we return, we

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Speaker 1: B Okay, we will go live to the White House

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Speaker 1: America's Voice is going to cover it live. Of course,

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Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk follows us. If you haven't seen Charlie's podcast

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Speaker 2: Why is that?

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Speaker 6: Yes, sir, so later.

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Speaker 9: This afternoon, we're going to have prepared for your.

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Speaker 7: Signature and executive order dealing with the Public Service Loan

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Speaker 7: Forgiveness Program. This is a program that's designed to expedite

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Speaker 7: the basically a conclusion of payments on student loans for

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Speaker 7: people who have taken out federally back student loans. The problem, though,

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Speaker 7: is that a lot of these people work for MG organizations,

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Speaker 7: for nonprofit organizations that engage in illegal or what we

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Speaker 7: would consider to be improper activities supporting, for example, illegal

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Speaker 7: immigration or foreign terrorist organizations or otherwise of law breaking activities.

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Speaker 7: So this executive order will direct your Department of Education

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Speaker 7: and Department of the Treasury to basically print about modifications

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Speaker 7: to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program in order to

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Speaker 7: ensure that people who are engaged in these sorts of

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Speaker 7: activities can't benefit from a program that's really not intended

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Speaker 7: to support those sorts of things.

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Speaker 3: And what are the consequences if they are not good?

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Speaker 9: The conse consequences would be that they wouldn't get forgiveness

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Speaker 9: of their student loans as they would be eligible for

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Speaker 9: if they were working for the government or a normal nonprofit.

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Speaker 9: That's not violating the law.

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Speaker 3: Any questions of that, anybody of any questions. So we'll

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Speaker 3: talk about the manufacturing turnaround, and.

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Speaker 6: It's been very early, but it's pretty significant.

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Speaker 3: The numbers were much better, as you know, than projected

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Speaker 3: by the media, and a little surprising actually, how strong,

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Speaker 3: how fast because we have many many companies are moving

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Speaker 3: into our country. As you probably know, it's a statistic

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Speaker 3: that everyone talks about, but nobody seems to have done

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Speaker 3: much about. Since the beginning of NAFTA, there's been ninety

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Speaker 3: thousand plants and.

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Speaker 6: Factories closed in this country. Think of that.

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Speaker 3: Ninety thousand plants and factories have been closed in this country,

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Speaker 3: many of them have been car manufacturing plants. And that's

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Speaker 3: a terrible statistic, and we'll be turning that around.

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Speaker 6: You're gonna see it already.

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Speaker 3: We already have numerous that are being built or starting

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Speaker 3: to be built, and numerous that were being built in

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Speaker 3: other countries and they stopped and they're coming here now

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Speaker 3: because of the tariffs.

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Speaker 6: And that's a big deal. That's what you want to hear.

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Speaker 3: During the last year, the Bidened administration saw a loss

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Speaker 3: of more than one hundred and ten thousand manufacturing jobs,

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Speaker 3: or nine thousand manufacturing jobs every single month. It averaged

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Speaker 3: about nine thousand a month, one hundred and ten thousand

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Speaker 3: manufacturing jobs during the first full month in office. We've

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Speaker 3: not only stopped that manufacturing collapse, but we've begun to

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Speaker 3: rapidly reverse it and major gains. We created ten thousand

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Speaker 3: manufacturing jobs in February alone. That hasn't happened in a

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Speaker 3: long time. And these aren't government jobs, which actually we cut.

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Speaker 3: These are private sector manufacturing jobs. So we gained all

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Speaker 3: of those jobs, ten thousand jobs, and we barely started.

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Speaker 3: It's a very unusual number of people were surprised by it.

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Speaker 3: I'm even a little surprise on auder jobs. We created

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Speaker 3: almost nine and new jobs in the auto production field,

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Speaker 3: and the reason for that is largely they think things

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Speaker 3: are happening, so they're already geared up. In some cases,

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Speaker 3: they had rooms in their plants or they had empty

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Speaker 3: plants that they were able to put into use quickly

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Speaker 3: because they see because of the tariffs, they don't want

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Speaker 3: to be dealing with other places, and they don't want

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Speaker 3: to go back and forth and around and through the

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Speaker 3: borders and across Mexico border and Canada border, and they

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Speaker 3: want to have the jobs in one location. And they've

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Speaker 3: had space and a bad space. They were able to

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Speaker 3: create the jobs almost immediately. In some cases they'll be

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Speaker 3: building plants to take care of those. So we created

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Speaker 3: nine thousand new jobs already in the auto production autoparts manufacturing.

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Speaker 6: So we want the autoparts.

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Speaker 3: Ideally, and I think from a simplicity standpoint too, to

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Speaker 3: be built and made in the United States. It's in

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Speaker 3: a single month that all took place in a single month,

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Speaker 3: nine thousand new auto jobs.

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Speaker 6: You haven't heard that in a long time.

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Speaker 3: After autoworkers lost more than twenty seven thousand auto jobs

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Speaker 3: in the final year of Biden.

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Speaker 6: These are also high paying jobs. These are very prime jobs.

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Speaker 3: The ISM Manufacturing Survey and the SMP Manufacturing Survey have

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Speaker 3: also confirmed that our administration is presiding over a brand

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Speaker 3: new domestic manufacturing boom after major.

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Speaker 6: Collapse under Biden. It was a collapse.

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Speaker 3: All he did is keep adding new government jobs, which

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Speaker 3: are not the jobs you want. We're trying to shrink

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Speaker 3: government and grow the private sector.

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Speaker 6: That's what we've been doing.

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Speaker 3: Under the final two years of Biden, one in every

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Speaker 3: four jobs created in America was a government job.

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Speaker 6: That's a tremendous percentage.

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Speaker 3: But under the first full month of President Trump, which

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Speaker 3: we haven't even got