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Speaker 2: We captured Maduro. We'll talk about that. The mam Donni

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Speaker 2: era in New York begins. That might get ugly. Liz

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Speaker 2: Collin joins us to talk about the exit of Tim

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Speaker 1: All that and more coming up. I'm right.

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Speaker 3: Last night, on the order of the President of the

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Speaker 3: United States, and in support of a request from the

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Speaker 3: Department of Justice, the United States Military conducted an apprehension

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Speaker 3: mission in Caracas, Venezuela to bring to justice two indicted persons,

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Speaker 3: Nicholas and Cecila Maduro.

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Speaker 4: Nicholas Maduro had his chance until he didn't.

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Speaker 5: He left around and he found out.

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Speaker 6: This was one of the most stunning, effective and powerful

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Speaker 7: Like, I don't understand yet how they haven't figured this out,

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Speaker 7: And now you don't know. Now you know, because this

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Speaker 7: is the way it's going to play out. And I

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Speaker 7: think people need to understand that this is not any

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Speaker 7: president that just talks and does letters and press conferences,

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Speaker 7: and you know, if he says he's serious about something.

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Speaker 8: He means it. Don't play games.

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Speaker 7: Don't play games with this president's in office, because it's

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Speaker 7: not going to turn out.

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Speaker 1: Well, that was awesome.

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Speaker 2: And I'll tell you what we're going to get to

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Speaker 2: the cautionary part of this whole Venezuelan experiment we're going

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Speaker 2: here as red blooded Americans.

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Speaker 1: If you are an American or.

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Speaker 2: Just lovers a freedom, that's an amazing military accomplishment.

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Speaker 1: To leave way, way way far from your home.

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Speaker 2: In filtrate a foreign country that knows you're there, and

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Speaker 2: death of ours. And the we, you and I we

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Speaker 2: get to see the highlights, don't we We get to

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Speaker 2: see but football. It's football season on Sunday. We tune in.

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Speaker 2: If you watch NFL, which actually I don't anymore of it.

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Speaker 2: blocking and the tackling and the running. That's what you

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Speaker 2: and I get to see. But the truth is that

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Speaker 2: everything you see on the field on Sunday took so

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Speaker 2: much preparation behind the scenes, hours in the weight room

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Speaker 2: and practice and film. But that's stuff that you won't

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Speaker 2: to celebrate and cheer. Maybe you're still celebrating sharing the

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Speaker 2: snatching up of that com ball Maduro. But rest assured,

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Speaker 2: this was extremely complicated. It took a very long time

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Speaker 2: to prepare. He was raising kine.

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Speaker 3: This operation, known as Operation Absolute Resolve, was discreete precise,

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Speaker 3: and conducted during the darkest hours of January second, and

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Speaker 3: was in the culmination of months of planning and rehearsal.

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Speaker 3: An extraction so precise it involved more than one hundred

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Speaker 3: for a single purpose to get an interdiction force into

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Speaker 3: me talk a little bit about the preparation. After months

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Speaker 3: of work by our intelligence teammates to find Maduro and

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Speaker 3: understand how he moved, where he lived, where he traveled,

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Speaker 3: In early December, our force was set pending a series

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Speaker 3: force descended into Maduro's compound and moved with speed, precision,

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Speaker 3: and his wife, both indicted, gave up and were taken

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Speaker 1: That's awesome. That's awesome.

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Speaker 2: If you are a red blooded American, you have to

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Speaker 1: So impressive.

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Speaker 2: All the credit in the world to all the people

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Speaker 2: who were involved in pulling this off. Why, what's the why?

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Speaker 2: I know we hear a lot about drugs. It's about fentanyl.

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Speaker 2: It's about fentnil definitely, drugs and drugs and drug boats

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Speaker 2: But President Trump touched on something. He touched on a

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Speaker 1: Here he was.

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Speaker 6: And the Monroe Doctrine is a big deal, but we've

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Speaker 6: superseded it by a lot, by a real lot. They

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Speaker 6: now go with the don Road document. I don't know

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Speaker 6: it's Monroe doctrine. We sort of forgot about it. It

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Speaker 6: forget about it anymore. Under our new national security strategy,

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Speaker 6: American dominance in the Western hemisphere will never be questioned again.

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Speaker 6: Won't happen.

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Speaker 2: Monroe doctrine, Western Hemisphere. What is all this stuff? Let's

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Speaker 2: just do a little Monroe doctrine one oh one. James

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Speaker 2: Monrose be president in the eighteen hundreds. Don't worry about

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Speaker 2: the details of it. But remember, remember the founders of

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Speaker 2: this country were emphatic that we stay out of Europe's business.

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Speaker 2: And they even said, why they're always in some war,

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Speaker 2: get involved. Well, trade with everybody. We don't want to

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Speaker 2: get involved. That is what the founders wanted. They did

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Speaker 2: not want to get involved. However, they understood that proximity matters,

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Speaker 1: That's fine, but we're.

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Speaker 2: Not going to allow hostile nations right by us. We're

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Speaker 2: not going to allow hostile nations. They were worried about

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Speaker 2: it next door to us. That is the most basic

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Speaker 2: and that if let's say you're running Cuba, let's say

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Speaker 6: Cuba is ready to fall. Yes, Cuba looks like it's

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Speaker 6: something with Mexico. Mexico has to get there act together

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Speaker 9: We love Mexico to do it.

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Speaker 6: They're capable of doing it, but unfortunately the cartels.

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Speaker 10: Are very strong in Mexico, very simple.

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Speaker 7: So Columbian President Gustavo Petro, you know, a couple weeks

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Speaker 1: So just what your messages.

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Speaker 10: He has cocaine mills, he has a factories where he

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Speaker 2: Now those leaders of those countries know what that means

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Speaker 2: the United States of America is realigning its foreign policy

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Speaker 2: founding of our country. That foreign policy is your business. Elsewhere,

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Speaker 2: thousands and thousands of miles away is your business. If

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Speaker 2: Trump said, remember, Venezuela's leadership has gone, their vps in Russia,

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Speaker 2: So who's running Venezuela.

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Speaker 1: We are.

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Speaker 6: We're going to run the country until such time as

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Speaker 6: we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition. So

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Speaker 6: we don't want to be involved with having somebody else

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Speaker 2: Right, that's fine, sounds good. I'm not yelling or screaming.

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Speaker 2: But now's the hard part. It's not that the military

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Speaker 2: all the planning, all the everything. Now though, taking a

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Speaker 2: There are going to be some bumps in the road.

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Speaker 2: I guarantee you. Let's pray for a good outcome. My

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Speaker 2: personal belief is that we should simply colonize Venezuela and

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Speaker 2: That won't happen. We'll see where we go from here.

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Speaker 2: All that may have made you uncomfortable, but I am right, Joshua,

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Speaker 2: Philip is going to break all this down for us.

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Speaker 2: Let me break something down for you. You know what

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Speaker 2: I have in our house, have a little cupboard, well,

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Speaker 2: we have several coverage.

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Speaker 1: It's like you do.

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Speaker 2: We have a cupboard and I have I kid you

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Speaker 2: not I'll take picture of it. The top shelf for

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Speaker 2: this cupboard, it's about four feet. I would say it's

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Speaker 2: just massa chips lined up, just the different They even

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Speaker 2: chips are bad for you, right.

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Speaker 1: Not massive chips. That's the beauty of it.

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Speaker 2: I can go to my cupboard of chips anytime I

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Speaker 2: want snatch up. Maybe I want some Hobernario chips. Maybe

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Speaker 2: I want some cherio chips. Maybe I want some lime chips.

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Speaker 2: They have the corn chips you can eat without guilt,

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Speaker 2: no seed oils, none have that filth, basic simple natural ingredients.

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Speaker 2: How about that you want you want to try them,

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Speaker 2: You try one bag. I'm telling you you'll have your

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Speaker 2: own cupboard. Massive Chips dot com, slash Jesse TV.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back.

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Speaker 11: And remember Maduro was handpicked by Chavez, was to push

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Speaker 11: out the United States to eliminate the Monroe doctrine. And

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Speaker 11: so actually, I think it's very telling right now that

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Speaker 11: did peedexa You say they're going to start restoring them

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Speaker 11: in row doctrine. They're gonna begin enforcing it. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: Wow. That's quite a babe ruth shot call, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: We figured we should probably bring the man on to

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Speaker 2: gloat a little bit. Joining me now, Joshua Phillip, host

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Speaker 2: of Crossroads with Joshua Philip. Joshua, I mean, the football

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Speaker 9: Well, you know, it's a thank you for having me

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Speaker 11: But yeah, you know, if you were to if someone

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Speaker 9: This is about.

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Speaker 11: Who controls Latin America. And what's interesting now is this

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Speaker 11: as we talked about in your show last time, Maduro

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Speaker 11: Here's what Rubio said, quote, this is our hemisphere and

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Speaker 11: And you also now have a US spy plane circling

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Speaker 11: I wonder who's next?

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Speaker 9: Right now?

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Speaker 2: we will, we said, or Trump said, I should say

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Speaker 9: Well, I think you're gonna have a few different issues.

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Speaker 9: Over all of Latin America.

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Speaker 11: You might have US troops of deploy there, or you know,

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Speaker 11: peacekeeping forces deploy there. Because what's happening now. The remainder

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Speaker 11: maybe not too strong because the military there they do

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Speaker 11: So I think that's going to be the next step.

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Speaker 2: Who's running things there for the military, is there's some

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Speaker 11: Yeah, they got they got an unexpected vacation in New York,

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Speaker 9: Had in mind.

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Speaker 11: I don't know the I don't know who is exactly

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Speaker 9: We don't really.

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Speaker 11: I think it's kind of like if you have a

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Speaker 11: happened to the Venezuelan leadership right now. The other important

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Speaker 11: What you see now happening to Maduro could be used

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Speaker 11: they're now designated as terrorist leaders. The actual US designation

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Speaker 11: I don't I don't think. I don't think they're acting

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Speaker 2: Right now, let's transition to Mexico. It's not hard to

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Speaker 11: What do you envision there, Well, Mexico is in a

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Speaker 11: tough position. The reality of Mexico is, you know, what's

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Speaker 11: It's car man, it's manufacturing car parts, it's you know,

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Speaker 11: The cartel runs the hospitals, the cartel does the food drives.

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Speaker 11: The cartel is basically the government. And there's something I

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Speaker 9: And then control them.

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Speaker 11: Because let's put it this way, if the cartels are

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Speaker 9: To kill their opponents.

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Speaker 11: That means they have a de facto unchallenged, undisputable power structure,

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Speaker 11: whoever controls the cartels controls the country. That that's the

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Speaker 11: And if you question the cartels, they kill you. It's

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Speaker 11: Trump wants to destroy them. What does that mean from Mexico.

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Speaker 11: It means that the It means that the entire higher

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Speaker 11: They're basically a klepto, a kleptocracy, you would call it,

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Speaker 11: But that's going to be a ways out. Trump said

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Speaker 9: What might that look like.

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Speaker 11: It might not be that Trump goes in there and says, hey,

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Speaker 11: Because he knows Mexico cannot survive without America. He knows

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Speaker 11: just pull that out if we really want to. So

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Speaker 11: I think you're going to watch a lot of talking

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Speaker 2: Sleep well, fellas, Joshua awesome as always, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Falls from Grace are something that fascinate everybody, fascinates you,

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Speaker 1: How does that happen?

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Speaker 2: Let's talk to Liz about it. Joining me now great reporter,

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Speaker 2: senior reporter at Alpha News, Liz Colin, Liz, how does

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Speaker 1: What happened.

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Speaker 12: It seems that people are actually paying attention now. That

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Speaker 12: scheme I was just too big to keep Governor Tim

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Speaker 12: Walls on the ticket nine billion dollars in counting at

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Speaker 12: this point. Multiple federal investigations ongoing, kind of just launched

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Speaker 12: in the last few weeks here in Minnesota. Compared to

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Speaker 12: mainstream media here, we have been one of the few

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Speaker 12: and certainly I would say the most prominent in the

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Speaker 12: state criticizing the governor, reporting factually on him. We have

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Speaker 12: been for several years with our exclusive reporting. Perhaps not

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Speaker 12: the end of him, though, Jesse. We are hearing behind

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Speaker 12: the scenes that there may be a deal worked out

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Speaker 12: where we have Senator Amy Klobashar run for governor. Governor

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Speaker 12: Walls gets her seat in the Senate since she was

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Speaker 12: just re elected back in twenty twenty four. Her term

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Speaker 12: would not be up until twenty thirty one, meaning that

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Speaker 12: that Walls could serve a bit there and then there

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Speaker 12: would be a special election. So we have a bit

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Speaker 12: of Joe Biden, you know, backdoor dealing, it seems, going

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Speaker 12: on in Minnesota at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Liz, all these scandals, and like you said, you've been

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Speaker 2: all over these things, how many of them are tied

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Speaker 2: in any way to Tim Walls? Now I realize he's

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Speaker 2: a prominent politician, so there's always going to be.

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Speaker 1: Layers here and layers there, and layers there.

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Speaker 2: But how much of this stuff was he actually or

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Speaker 2: people close to him implicated in.

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Speaker 12: Now in his last seven years here really was quite

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Speaker 12: something to hear this. You know, they called it a

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Speaker 12: press conference today, I wouldn't call it that. They took

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Speaker 12: no questions, and he made this bizarre sort of these

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Speaker 12: statements for about seven minutes or so. Appeared very angry.

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Speaker 12: But it's hard to describe really what Minnesotans have lived

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Speaker 12: through these last seven years. We are the home of

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Speaker 12: the defund the police movement. Tens of thousands of people

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Speaker 12: have moved out of the state. Education rankings have tanked

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Speaker 12: on his much thousands of businesses have shuddered. Many of

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Speaker 12: these mandates we see in place have been instilled by him.

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Speaker 12: It has been twenty years since a Republican held state

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Speaker 12: office in Minnesota, but just on the watch of Governor Walls.

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Speaker 12: He was obviously in Congress before his time as governor

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Speaker 12: in Minnesota. So much has changed. And I guess the

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Speaker 12: question is will he now avoid accountability for fraud? Many

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Speaker 12: people are still wanting answers. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer,

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Speaker 12: we heard from him on XT today, says he's still

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Speaker 12: demanding Walls appear on February tenth to testify in DC,

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Speaker 12: so we'll certainly see if he answers questions at that time. Just,

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Speaker 12: you know, to point out, Jesse, we tried to even

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Speaker 12: attend this you know, so called press conference today, but

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Speaker 12: we were not on the list we were told, so

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Speaker 12: our photojournalist was turned away. But we see that again

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Speaker 12: and again at every turn with the Walls administration. They

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Speaker 12: don't want to take questions.

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Speaker 1: Not all right, Lise.

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Speaker 2: I now I don't want to put words in your mouth,

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Speaker 2: but I could imagine you you being a little frustrated

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Speaker 2: and that you've been covering all these scandals in Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: You've been screaming it from the rooftops. The house has

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Speaker 2: been on fire for years, and just now people like

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Speaker 2: me wake up and we're smelling it for.

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Speaker 1: The first time. Why did this get national? What happened?

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Speaker 2: Is that the Somali daycare stuff that really ticked people off.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you have Nick Shirley.

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Speaker 12: I think he came into some great work with our whistleblower,

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Speaker 12: David in Tow from Minnesota, who'd done much of the research.

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Speaker 12: We've been covering fraud for about ten years over at

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Speaker 12: Elpha News. I've been involved for several years doing a

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Speaker 12: lot of these door knocks as well. I don't have

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Speaker 12: a hoodie on and I'm about twenty years older than

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Speaker 12: the Nick Shirley, but I commend him anything it takes,

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Speaker 12: I think, to get attention. So many of us have

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Speaker 12: been kind of screaming from the rooftops, as you say,

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Speaker 12: And I know you've been nice enough to share our

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Speaker 12: reporting over these years, Jesse, so we're thankful for that.

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Speaker 12: But it does seem in a way that there was

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Speaker 12: some sort of coordination just because of the federal agencies.

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Speaker 12: Multiple federal agencies sort of swooping in at the same time,

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Speaker 12: whether it was, you know, looking to have access to

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Speaker 12: our voter rolls, or what the heck is going on

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Speaker 12: with our snap be benefits, this welfare fraud that we've

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Speaker 12: seen in Minnesota, and these fourteen medicaid programs that are

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Speaker 12: now under the microscope paying out nine billion dollars in

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Speaker 12: tax taxpayer money. So I think there was so many

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Speaker 12: things that kind of came in all at once that

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Speaker 12: it does seem that there was some movement. I'm not

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Speaker 12: sure if that it was that the Democrats have basically said,

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Speaker 12: we need to get walls out of here. He's very vulnerable.

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Speaker 12: We were surprised, in fact, that he even announced he

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Speaker 12: was running for reelection back in September, hearing about these

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Speaker 12: you know, sort of clobashar rumors. Even back then, we've

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Speaker 12: heard that he struggled even fundraising in the state, which

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Speaker 12: is why we saw him on the road out of state,

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Speaker 12: out of Minnesota trying to raise funds for these many months.

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Speaker 12: I don't think he's been very successful there either, Liz.

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Speaker 2: What's been crazy to watch, not surprise and't be crazy

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Speaker 2: to watch, is the lengths the national media and local

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Speaker 2: media there has gone to try to cover up all

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Speaker 2: this fraud stuff. Here's so montage.

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Speaker 13: How do you know that all the allegations that you're

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Speaker 13: making are true?

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Speaker 9: How do I know that they're true?

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Speaker 5: Well, we showed you guys that We showed you guys what.

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Speaker 7: Was happening, and then you guys can go ahead and

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Speaker 7: make your own nuns.

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Speaker 13: We're coming so we can make our own analysis.

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Speaker 12: Are you one hundred percent sure you're true?

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Speaker 9: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I am hundred percent sure I'm true.

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Speaker 8: CNN is looking into Shirley's claims.

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Speaker 9: Hi, my name's Whitney Wild.

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Speaker 3: I'm a correspondent for CNN.

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Speaker 13: We reached out to several of the daycares featured in

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Speaker 13: the now viral video.

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Speaker 11: Only one daycare facility answered and said they are a

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Speaker 11: legitimate business in this case.

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Speaker 14: You know, we know there are inaccuracies in this video,

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Speaker 14: and it wasn't fact check like it would be at

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Speaker 14: a major news organization.

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Speaker 9: And yet JD.

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Speaker 14: Vance and others are holding this up and saying that

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Speaker 14: the legacy media should take notes, which is of course

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Speaker 14: pretty ridiculous.

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Speaker 15: Daycares many of them were written up for safety violations,

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Speaker 15: things like maybe busted equipment or staff training issues, but

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Speaker 15: that's not the same as being fraudulent. So it's important

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Speaker 15: to put all of this into context. Granted, fraud is

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Speaker 15: indisputably an issue in Minnesota, and there are fourteen programs

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Speaker 15: Medicaid funded programs that are currently under investigation by state

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Speaker 15: and federal government, but childcare is not one of them.

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Speaker 2: Liz, the question is why why would the media run

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Speaker 2: cover for such a thing now that they've been exposed?

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Speaker 2: What is the driving motivation here? I know you've been

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Speaker 2: seeing this for years. You've been a journalist for a

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Speaker 2: long time.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 12: I guess if I wasn't laughing at this question, I'd

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Speaker 12: be crying at this point, Jesse. But we see this

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Speaker 12: again and again on so many levels. So the Star Tribune,

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Speaker 12: the guy running the place over there, Steve Groves, is

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Speaker 12: a former commissioner of Governor Tim Walls. They're very good friends.

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Speaker 12: That's well well documented. I saw this myself as a

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Speaker 12: longtime news anchor for the CBS affiliate WCCO in Town.

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Speaker 12: Not so much what the media is telling you, but

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Speaker 12: what they are not. You really have a media in

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Speaker 12: Minnesota controlled by the left, controlled by the DFL party.

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Speaker 12: So many of them are just indoctrinated believing that they

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Speaker 12: can trust so many of these leaders and they're just

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Speaker 12: fine to perpetuate these lies. It's almost like common sense

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Speaker 12: doesn't even exist. We saw that with Nick Shirley's video.

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Speaker 12: The story wasn't about the fraud. The story was about

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Speaker 12: Nick Shirley. There were hit pieces about this whistleblower that

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Speaker 12: came forward, and in fact, this is how they were

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Speaker 12: spending their time. In fact, you had the media go

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Speaker 12: out to some of the same sites that Nick Shirley

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Speaker 12: documented in his video and they would report, you know,

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Speaker 12: there's nothing to see here, everything is filled up, there

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Speaker 12: are kids being bust in. Nothing to see here. Well,

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Speaker 12: don't you think they might have something to do with

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Speaker 12: the fact that this was exposed on such a global

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Speaker 12: scale in Minnesota and we've seen the media quickly pivot

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Speaker 12: and they've already moved on.

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Speaker 1: Liz hang in there, keep bringing us the truth. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate you very much.

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Speaker 2: Well, anyway, let's discuss something, maybe even worse than Minnesota,

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Speaker 2: New York City and where it's going. It doesn't look

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Speaker 2: good before we discuss that. Let's talk about something terrific.

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Speaker 2: It's the year twenty twenty six and life is expensive.

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Speaker 1: I get that, what if right now.

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Speaker 2: What if you made a little bit of a late

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Speaker 2: New Year's resolution to save some money and patronize a

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Speaker 2: business that loves your values and shares your values this year?

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Speaker 2: You know, when you switch to pure top, the average

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Speaker 2: family saves a grand or more a year.

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Speaker 1: Thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: Could you use an extra thousand dollars this year? I'm

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Speaker 1: We'll be back.

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Speaker 4: Today begins a new era. We will draw this city

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Speaker 4: closer together. We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism

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Speaker 4: with the warmth of collectivism. I was elected as a

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Speaker 4: democratic socialist, and I will govern as a democratic socialist.

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Speaker 4: I will not abandon my principles for fear of being

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Speaker 4: deemed radical.

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Speaker 1: That's not good.

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Speaker 2: I just got back from New York City like a

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Speaker 2: week ago, and I'll be honest with you. When we

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Speaker 2: got back, we ought to ourselves, well that that might

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Speaker 2: be it. That friggin dirtball just got sworn in on

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Speaker 2: the Quran. That's that's a great place to be only

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Speaker 2: to me. Now, somebody who's probably about to suffer is

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Speaker 2: Lydia moynihan, New York Post correspondent. Lydia, I hope you've

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Speaker 2: already got some plans to move or something, because that

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Speaker 2: city's about to go to crap.

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Speaker 13: I'm joining you live from the People's Republic of New

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Speaker 13: York City. No, I'm here. I'm here to stay.

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Speaker 9: You know.

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Speaker 13: I'm a little better armed. I have about five canisters

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Speaker 13: of pepper spray, one on each coat. So it's baby steps.

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Speaker 13: But for now I think I have to be live

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Speaker 13: on the ground doing some shoe leather reporting. So you

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Speaker 13: can see how horrible.

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Speaker 2: It is, Lydia, when I say things like that, or

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Speaker 2: when you say things like that. People were attempted to say, well,

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Speaker 2: Build a Blasio was a radical, right, he was a Sandinista.

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Speaker 2: I mean his parents were. But they say, what we've

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Speaker 2: New York's gone through this stuff before. I don't think

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Speaker 2: people fully grasp that this guy is a true believer

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Speaker 2: who's going to be so much worse than Build a Blasio.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, and it's alarming and there's actually a new poll

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Speaker 13: that came out recently that said as many as sixty

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Speaker 13: percent of New Yorkers now support socialism. So I also

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Speaker 13: think we're looking at a demographic change that didn't exist

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Speaker 13: under Dblasio. So we have way more people from third

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Speaker 13: world countries, way more socialists here than ever before, who

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Speaker 13: I think will be much more supportive of these policies.

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Speaker 13: The other thing, too, is when Deblasio came in, there

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Speaker 13: was so much impressive governance for so long. And I

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Speaker 13: love this Adam Swift quote, there's a lot of ruin

658
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Speaker 13: in a nation. So it felt like New York was

659
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Speaker 13: in a really good place. And there was a lot

660
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Speaker 13: of ruin in this city because you'd had Juliani, you'd

661
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Speaker 13: had Bloomberg, people who were super efficient technocrafts, who understood

662
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Speaker 13: how to govern, how to keep people safe, how to

663
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Speaker 13: keep business leaders happy. And so when Deblasio came in,

664
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Speaker 13: things were already pretty good. And so he, you know,

665
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Speaker 13: obviously took us down many notches, but we were already

666
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 13: doing so well. Zora Mumdani is coming in in a

667
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Speaker 13: moment where New York is already struggling. Obviously, the pandemic

668
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:02,240
Speaker 13: people have fled. It's feels very unsafe. A lot of people,

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Speaker 13: even just anecdotally, young women I speak with, don't want

670
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Speaker 13: to take the subway. It's more expensive. It's He's coming

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Speaker 13: in in a time where I think his leadership could

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Speaker 13: be perilous. And I guess there's There's two things that

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Speaker 13: I have in my takeaways in his very short reign

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Speaker 13: thus far. The first is alarming. Personnel is policy. And

675
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Speaker 13: so the big question obviously when he won was who

676
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Speaker 13: is he going to put in place? You know, who's

677
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Speaker 13: going to run schools, who's going to run the police force.

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Speaker 13: We have Jessica Tish, who actually is a really smart

679
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 13: and capable police commissioner. But the other people that he's appointing,

680
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:45,880
Speaker 13: the tenant Czar essentially to advocate for tenants rights. She

681
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:49,800
Speaker 13: socialist and communist doesn't even describe her. She thinks owning

682
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Speaker 13: property is basically white privilege, and she wants to abolish that.

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Speaker 13: The gentleman who he's appointed as school commissioner is all about.

684
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Speaker 13: He wants to get rid of all of the gifted

685
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Speaker 13: and talented school programs. So I'm looking at people that

686
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Speaker 13: he's putting in place, and they are just as if

687
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Speaker 13: not more radical than mum Donnie is, and so the

688
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:15,479
Speaker 13: more people that he puts who are aligned with him,

689
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Speaker 13: the worst it is for the city. One thing that

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Speaker 13: I actually this was a hilarious viral moment over the

691
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Speaker 13: weekend where mum Donnie basically said that he'd called President

692
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Speaker 13: Trump to register his opposition to bringing Maduro to New York.

693
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Speaker 13: And it's just hilarious to think that anybody would care

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Speaker 13: what he think, least of all President Trump. And of

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Speaker 13: course you had Jim Hines, who's the House ranking member

696
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Speaker 13: on the Intelligence Committee. He's talking about how he hasn't

697
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:44,880
Speaker 13: talked to President Trump, he hasn't talked to anyone in

698
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Speaker 13: the administration. But mum Donnie is claiming that actually he

699
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Speaker 13: has spoken to Trump and people in the administration. I'm skeptical.

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Speaker 13: The reason I bring this up, though, is because what

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Speaker 13: we've seen from Mumdanni over the last year is an

702
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Speaker 13: obsession with relevance and session with being on the national stage.

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Speaker 13: And so my theory, this is the best case scenario,

704
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 13: is that Momdannie just likes making headlines, he likes being

705
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Speaker 13: in the news, and that he just wants to basically

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Speaker 13: stay as a national figure make sure that he's sort

707
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Speaker 13: of part of the zeitgeist and that that's his motivation.

708
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Speaker 13: So that's the best case scenario, is that he just

709
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:24,439
Speaker 13: really wants to be relevant and he's going to post

710
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Speaker 13: all these crazy things on Twitter and not actually govern.

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Speaker 13: And of course the reality is he's never had a job.

712
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Speaker 13: He didn't show up to the majority of votes when

713
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Speaker 13: he was in the council in New York State, so

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Speaker 13: he is very feckless, and there is still a hope

715
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Speaker 13: that maybe he just isn't going to be that good

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Speaker 13: at actually implementing the radical policies that he has. That's

717
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Speaker 13: the best case scenario. The worst case scenario is he

718
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Speaker 13: has appointed some pretty terrifying people and the city will

719
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Speaker 13: go to hell in hand basket.

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Speaker 2: What do you know, a communist leader who never had

721
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Speaker 2: a job and is now going to destroy everything. And

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Speaker 2: speaking of those fac leaders, let's meet really quickly the

723
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Speaker 2: new head of the New York Fire Department and also

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Speaker 2: I'm assuming softball team.

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Speaker 8: Lillian Bond Signor is a career first responder. In just

726
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Speaker 8: nine days, she'll be running the world's busiest fire department.

727
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Speaker 8: One of the most important appointments of the incoming administration.

728
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Speaker 8: Although she never served as a firefighter, she's confident that

729
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Speaker 8: won't matter.

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Speaker 5: I know the job, I know what the firefighters need,

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Speaker 5: and I can translate that to this administration who's willing

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Speaker 5: to listen. I know what EMS needs. I have been

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Speaker 5: GMS for thirty plus years.

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Speaker 8: Bond Signor is a trailblazer for the LGBTQ community who

735
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Speaker 8: will serve as the fdny's first openly gay commissioner. She's

736
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Speaker 8: a highly respected, detail oriented manager whose style has been

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Speaker 8: compared to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tish, who will remain in

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Speaker 8: her post in the new administration.

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Speaker 1: Lydia, I've just had it to you. It's your commissioner.

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Speaker 13: Di is alive and well in New York. Look, we

741
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 13: saw what happened in California when you prioritize identity politics

742
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Speaker 13: over competence, and it was just a year ago that

743
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Speaker 13: the Palisades were completely destroyed. People's lives have been completely

744
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Speaker 13: decimated as a result of that. And I think my

745
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 13: concern is that again it's not just that she is

746
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:31,960
Speaker 13: ill equipped and unqualified. It's the ripple down effect. And

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Speaker 13: so we in New York have and as we know,

748
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Speaker 13: from nine to eleven. We have the bravest, the best,

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Speaker 13: the smartest police officers and firemen, and the concern is

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Speaker 13: when you have somebody who's running those organizations. I think

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00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 13: Jessica Tish is excellent what she does. When you have

752
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Speaker 13: an FDNY commissioner who's all about identity politics, that's going

753
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Speaker 13: to have a massive triple down effect where people who

754
00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:59,839
Speaker 13: otherwise would be motivated to work really hard are going

755
00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:03,240
Speaker 13: to be like, this is the most poorly run organization.

756
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:06,960
Speaker 13: Why am I here? And so we're already seeing members

757
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Speaker 13: of the police force, members of environment leaving, and there's

758
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Speaker 13: kind of I think the force is gonna get a

759
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 13: bit hollowed out because if you're a young person, you're

760
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 13: gonna just flee. Go to Florida, go to Texas. There

761
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Speaker 13: are actually a lot of other states that are actively

762
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Speaker 13: recruiting NYPG people who are firemen in New York because

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Speaker 13: they know they're really smart and talented people and are

764
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:32,799
Speaker 13: probably looking for an exit opportunity. So people who are

765
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Speaker 13: younger and still able to sort of flee are gonna leave.

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Speaker 13: And then you're gonna see people on this sort of

767
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:41,839
Speaker 13: upper end, people who've served for quite some time. Maybe

768
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 13: they'll finish out their their tenure, get their pension, and

769
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Speaker 13: then they're gonna leave. They're gonna do private security for billionaires.

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Speaker 13: This is sort of the trajectory for a lot of

771
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 13: really great and YPD people is they get their pension

772
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Speaker 13: and then they also work full time for a billionaire

773
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 13: as a driver and security. Because obviously there's gonna be

774
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 13: a lot more billionaires wanting to hire their own private

775
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 13: security because it doesn't seem like Mum Donnie is going

776
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 13: to be supportive of the NYPD. And then you're going

777
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 13: to see in the middle there's going to be a

778
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,279
Speaker 13: lot of people who are stuck and can't leave. But

779
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:13,919
Speaker 13: this is the big concern is that it's it doesn't

780
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Speaker 13: even matter that or of Mum Donnie has backtracked and said,

781
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 13: actually he doesn't want to defund the police. This is

782
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 13: about in practice, people are going even if he doesn't

783
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 13: defund them, even if he keeps funding exactly the same.

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Speaker 13: People are not going to want to serve under a

785
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:32,360
Speaker 13: man and under a mayor who has just called them

786
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 13: racist and horrible things, who is not going to be

787
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:37,440
Speaker 13: supportive of the work that they need to do. And

788
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Speaker 13: I mean, you look what Alvin Bragg did to Daniel Penny.

789
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Speaker 13: That's that's going to be happening tenfold. And as a

790
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Speaker 13: police officer, I can't imagine wanting to ever get involved.

791
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:50,320
Speaker 13: They're just going to be sitting on the sidelines. And

792
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 13: you know, even if they're still there, they're just gonna

793
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 13: be on their phone. They're not going to want to

794
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:55,360
Speaker 13: step in because they're not going to have a mayor

795
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Speaker 13: or a police commissioner. If Jessica Tish leaves who support

796
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:03,680
Speaker 13: them and who are their advocates, well.

797
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Speaker 1: This is all pretty much terrible.

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Speaker 2: Lydia, protect yourself, all right, Hopefully we talk to you

799
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Speaker 2: again soon. Light in the mood next. You know what

800
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 2: cracks me up. I think about this sometimes. A few

801
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 2: years ago, three, four or five years, I don't keep

802
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 2: track of time. At my age, started to realize that

803
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:37,719
Speaker 2: we're dealing with communists. You know, they're not democrats, they're

804
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 2: not liberals, they're not even lefties or whatever whatever progressive,

805
00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 2: whatever word they want to put on themselves. They're just communists.

806
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:48,440
Speaker 2: Our democrats in our country are communists. They know their communists.

807
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:50,720
Speaker 2: For the most part, they know their communists, some don't,

808
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 2: but that's what they are. There's not an inch of

809
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:56,719
Speaker 2: daylight between them, and in a Soviet apparatric there's just

810
00:44:56,760 --> 00:45:00,239
Speaker 2: not And you can see this all the time with

811
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:03,920
Speaker 2: the affinity they have for other communists around the world.

812
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Speaker 2: You know Chavez, Hugo Chavez, he was the guy who

813
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:11,479
Speaker 2: took Venezuela from being the super wealthy country in South

814
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Speaker 2: America to a place where people eat their pets. Why

815
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 2: he was a communist. He took power, destroyed everything like

816
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Speaker 2: communists do. So after that operation in Venezuela, we vaporized

817
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:26,320
Speaker 2: his tomb, which is a hilarious, spiteful thing to do. Now,

818
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:29,920
Speaker 2: how was that received by American democrats?

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Speaker 16: Java Is made sure that millions of kids who never

820
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Speaker 16: had access to education woe.

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Speaker 1: He did so by.

822
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Speaker 16: Sometimes using the Venezuelan army to seize the property of

823
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:50,800
Speaker 16: US companies. He sees the oil and used that money

824
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Speaker 16: for the Venezuelan oil, nationalized the oil to pay for

825
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Speaker 16: social services, the quality of life for the poor in Venezuela.

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Speaker 1: Scys I rocketed, and today.

827
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Speaker 16: The US Empire bombed his grave.

828
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Speaker 5: They want to destroy.

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Speaker 16: The memory of the hero, Hugo Chaves diva Chavez.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll see itable

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Speaker 10: H