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Speaker 1: welcome to the Buck Saxon Show. Everybody. I hope you

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Speaker 1: Now that's a drop for three months running, a huge

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Speaker 1: thing twice about it. So that's not We're not gonna

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Speaker 1: We're not gonna shoot our way out of the out

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Speaker 1: of the Taliban or out of dealing with the Taliban.

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Speaker 1: It's not gonna happen. So then there became this big

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Speaker 1: media frenzy, not just around the strategy and what should

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Speaker 1: be done here, because the meetia would usually you would think,

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Speaker 1: be in favor of what the administration is trying to do,

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Speaker 1: which is get us out of a war zone. But

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00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,880
Speaker 1: get us out of a war zone is a secondary

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Speaker 1: consideration to the media's favorite thing to consider and think

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00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:27,880
Speaker 1: about here, which is how does this make Trump look bad?

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Speaker 1: And that's why they're pushing him on who, well, who

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Speaker 1: called for this meeting and who canceled this meeting and

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Speaker 1: how did all of it go? No, Actually, in terms

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Speaker 1: of advisors, I took my own advice. I liked the

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Speaker 1: idea of meeting. I've met with a lot of bad

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Speaker 1: people and a lot of good people during the course

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Speaker 1: of the last almost three years, and I think meeting

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00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 1: is a great thing. I think that meeting with you know,

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00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: you're talking about war, there are meetings with war. Otherwise

447
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 1: wars would never end, you'd have them go on forever.

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Speaker 1: We had a meeting schedule. It was my idea, and

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00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 1: it was my idea to terminated. I didn't even I

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Speaker 1: didn't discuss it with anybody else. When I heard, very

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Speaker 1: simply that they killed one of our soldiers and twelve

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Speaker 1: other innocent people, I said, there's no way I'm meeting

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Speaker 1: on that basis. There's no way I'm meeting. They did

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00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 1: a mistake. And by the way they are telling people

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00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 1: they made a big mistake, they're saying it loud and

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00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:31,440
Speaker 1: clear that they made a big mistake. A president made

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00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 1: the right move here by canceling the talk. So I

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Speaker 1: agree with him on that. I just think the talks

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Speaker 1: never should have been scheduled for Camp David on US

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Speaker 1: soil in this way. I think, if anything, you meet

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Speaker 1: them in some third party venue, in some third country,

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Speaker 1: maybe Europe, in the Middle East, have discussions there, but

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Speaker 1: not invite them as guests of the administration on the

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Speaker 1: US soil. I started to get worried. I hope Trump

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Speaker 1: isn't gonna do this with Kim Jong Own. I see

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Speaker 1: here in North Korea is also saying they're ready to

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Speaker 1: resume nuclear or talks with President Trump. You know, he

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00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 1: does need a win here at some point, folks. I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying that we have passed that, we have passed

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Speaker 1: a phase where if he doesn't get a win, it's

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Speaker 1: he's he's clearly already failed. But you know, whether it's

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Speaker 1: China or North Korea or the Taliban, we do need

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Speaker 1: some We do need the ball to move here. It's

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Speaker 1: not enough to just keep saying, well, give him time,

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Speaker 1: give him time, give him time. He's got four years

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Speaker 1: to make something happen to get us to another four years.

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Speaker 1: And I think that right now on you know, our

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Speaker 1: chief negotiator, the pressure is definitely getting stronger. There's more

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Speaker 1: pressure now because he has not yet delivered on any

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Speaker 1: of these very high stakes negotiations. And I also think

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Speaker 1: that we need to be just psychologically prepared as a

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Speaker 1: country for things too. If we do end the war

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Speaker 1: in Afghanistan, we do so, we should do so knowing

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Speaker 1: that things may be very bad. It might get very

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Speaker 1: bad very quickly there, and that's still the choice that

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Speaker 1: we're making. Otherwise, we just have troops there that are

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Speaker 1: keeping this country from boiling over forever, and that should

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Speaker 1: not be our role. That's not what our military should

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Speaker 1: be doing, and it's not a mission set that we

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Speaker 1: should take on. Whereas Press sees this, all is just

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to bash Trumps. No surprise there. They see

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Speaker 1: this as Oh, in the days leading up to nine

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Speaker 1: to eleven, the President of the United States was going

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Speaker 1: to hold a meeting at Camp David with the Taliban.

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Speaker 1: It's so outrageous that he would do this. I think

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Speaker 1: it was a bad move. I don't think it was

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Speaker 1: an outrageous move. I think it was the wrong decision.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it was a decision made for the

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Speaker 1: wrong reasons. I do have this for you, though, as

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Speaker 1: a thought. If the President's stance on this, because I

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00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 1: don't always agree with Trump, especially on some foreign policy areas.

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00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 1: I think that he goes back and forth. Right if

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Speaker 1: the president is correct, and I think he is in

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Speaker 1: this regard, that it was the right move to shut

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Speaker 1: down talks with the Taliban after they killed innocent people

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Speaker 1: in a terror attack in order, in their own words,

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Speaker 1: to gain more leverage for these talks, essentially to show us, see,

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Speaker 1: we still can kill a dozen people at will. We

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Speaker 1: still the Taliban can murder and maime and cause death

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Speaker 1: and destruction. So you know, you better do what we

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00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 1: want and take o take our concern seriously in these negotiations.

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Speaker 1: That is the mentality of a group that is never

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Speaker 1: going to be decent, It's never going to be honorable.

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Speaker 1: Why should we think that the Taliban is going to

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Speaker 1: wake up in six weeks, six months, six years and

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Speaker 1: be an entity that would keep its commitments, that would

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Speaker 1: engage honorably in diplomacy and negotiations. It's not going to

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Speaker 1: It's just not going to happen. So I would prefer

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Speaker 1: that we all prepare for that reality. Understand the enemy

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00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,440
Speaker 1: that we are dealing with and what they're going to

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Speaker 1: do as soon as they can as soon as they

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Speaker 1: have the opportunity. It is very likely that they're going

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Speaker 1: to try to make a run on the rest of

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Speaker 1: the country or ways we can help, but we're not

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Speaker 1: helping by having our men and women in uniform in

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00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:30,960
Speaker 1: that country doing the fighting that afghan should be doing.

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Speaker 1: It has been almost twenty years. What do we really

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Speaker 1: think is going to change this time. I was in

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Speaker 1: Afghanistan a decade ago, my friends. I can tell you

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Speaker 1: I saw the highest level assessments and information in that

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Speaker 1: country for the military, for the intelligence community just wasn't

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Speaker 1: going to happen. Then we cannot create a stable, peaceful

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Speaker 1: Afghanistan for the Afghan people. We can't and we don't

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00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 1: want to because the US would be too high for us.

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00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: It's not our fight. And if we leave, and we should,

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00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 1: and that means that bad things happen. We need to

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00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 1: understand that. So be it bad things happen, I'll be

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Speaker 1: right back. It's just another example of the president treating

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Speaker 1: foreign policy like it's some kind of game show. This

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00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 1: isn't a game show. These are terrorists. Yeah, Democrats now

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Speaker 1: lecturing everybody on taking terrorism seriously. That's right, Democrats that

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00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 1: have so many times in the past, taking the position

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Speaker 1: that what we are doing to fight against terrorists, that's

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Speaker 1: the cause of terrorism. You know, it's our fighting back

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00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 1: against this that creates it all in the first place.

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Speaker 1: But I suppose, even in these very clear areas of

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Speaker 1: what should be some degree of if not bipartisan agreement,

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00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: at least bipartisan respect and the air of Trump, anything

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00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:05,360
Speaker 1: anything goes now. Insult him on foreign policy, insult the

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Speaker 1: commander in chief, Say he's a traitor, Say he's a

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00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:10,280
Speaker 1: more on Sai coward. I mean, here, here's Joe Biden

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00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:13,840
Speaker 1: getting in on it too. Our president isn't up to

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00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:17,360
Speaker 1: this moment. We all know that where he lacks the

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00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 1: moral authority of the league. This president has more in

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00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 1: common with George Wallace than George Washington. A disgusting smear

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00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:29,319
Speaker 1: said by an idiot who will repeat whatever smear as

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00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 1: somebody else tells him to. That's all you really need

558
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:37,400
Speaker 1: to know about Joe Biden. Guy is just intellectually worthless

559
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: and doesn't seem to have a backbone to speak of either.

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Speaker 1: But this Horowitz thing is important when you think about

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Speaker 1: what Jim Comey did. He's the guy solely responsible for

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Speaker 1: putting the country through three years of this saga we

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00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:51,920
Speaker 1: have now lived through. Jim Comey's a guy who started

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Speaker 1: the Trump Russia investigation. Jim Comey's the guy who put

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Speaker 1: Peter Struck, the guy with this bias against the president,

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Speaker 1: the guy who ran the Clinton investing, the guy who

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00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 1: put him in charge. Jim Comey's the guy who's responsible

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Speaker 1: for the dossier being used to go get a warrant

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Speaker 1: to spawn a fellow American citizen. And Jim Comey's the

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Speaker 1: guy who linked the information to the New York Times

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Speaker 1: through his friend to get the special counsel in the

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Speaker 1: first place. So he's the guy who created this hol

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Speaker 1: darned mess. And yet we're not going to bring him

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Speaker 1: in after the scathing report by Michael Horrors, We're not

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Speaker 1: going to bring in the Inspector General to answer questions.

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00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: That's ridiculous. So they're so focused on impeachment they're missing

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Speaker 1: I think the important things that we should be that

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00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:31,280
Speaker 1: we should be addressing. Remember when the Russia collusion story

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Speaker 1: was the most important thing in the world to about

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Speaker 1: ninety percent of the media. It's important to go back

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00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 1: and just take a little trip down memory lane. Here.

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Speaker 1: It was the biggest story in the world, according to

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00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 1: the press, the most important thing. Best sellers were written

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00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:51,720
Speaker 1: about how Trump was a pawn of the Russians working

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00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 1: with them to steal an election. Careers were built on

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00:36:55,160 --> 00:37:02,320
Speaker 1: this fraud, this outright fraud, and now we're supposed to

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00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:05,839
Speaker 1: just walk away from it because Democrats can't make it stick.

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00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:09,840
Speaker 1: People simply who normal people, I should say, I mean,

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00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 1: the media still believes that they can make it go

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00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:17,680
Speaker 1: of this. Normal people don't care. Normal people don't want

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00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:19,480
Speaker 1: to be put through this, don't want to listen to this,

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00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: don't want to hear about how there's a new theory

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00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 1: of Trump Russia collusion, or there's some other level of

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Speaker 1: this that we haven't seen before. I think that one

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00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 1: of the underlying premises that many people who are in

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Speaker 1: the positions of authority and power our society, who hate Trump,

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00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 1: who think that people like you and me that support

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00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 1: Trump do so out of ignorance or bigotry or hatred

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Speaker 1: or whatever it is, because we're just not smart, you know,

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Speaker 1: whatever it is that they say. I think they haven't

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Speaker 1: figured out yet that it's never going back to what

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Speaker 1: it was. We're not going back to a point in

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Speaker 1: time where oh yeah, CNN, they're kind of a moderate

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00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 1: down the middle journalistic enterprise. Whether you believe that was

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00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:13,360
Speaker 1: ever true or not, no serious well informed person couldn't

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00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 1: believe that anymore, and no serious well informed person could

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00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 1: believe that going forward. You know, is the Democratic Party

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00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 1: really just concerned with working people and believes in many

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Speaker 1: of the same fundamental americanisms that the rest of us do,

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Speaker 1: but they just have a different a different approach to

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Speaker 1: get us there. Or are they really a bunch of socialists?

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Speaker 1: We all know the answer is number two, and that's

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Speaker 1: never going to change. That's not We're not going back

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Speaker 1: to a time before that. We're not going to a

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Speaker 1: period in history when all of a sudden we're gonna

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Speaker 1: We're not going back to a period of history where

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Speaker 1: we can have a conversation with them and we say, Okay,

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00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: we want the same thing, So let's just start from

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00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:58,319
Speaker 1: that assumption. I don't think we do want the same

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Speaker 1: thing as the Democratic Party. I don't want them in

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Speaker 1: charge of everything in my life. I don't want them

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Speaker 1: making huge decisions about winners and losers, about the trajectory

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Speaker 1: of the economy, about everything, anything about how America is

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Speaker 1: not really any better than any other country, and we

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00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 1: should probably just fall in line let the UN call

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Speaker 1: the shots. I'm not on board for that. I do

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00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:23,879
Speaker 1: not believe that that's a good idea. But they still

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Speaker 1: think that we're going back to this other place there,

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Speaker 1: that pre Trump America is just one election away, and

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00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 1: it's not true. It's not true. I do wonder still

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Speaker 1: what we're supposed to make of all that, all that

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00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 1: wasted breath, all that bullcrap about impeachment that we heard

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00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 1: from them so many times, so much of it. Where

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Speaker 1: did that all go? The Michael Cohen hearing didn't work

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Speaker 1: out the way they wanted, the John Dene hearing didn't

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00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 1: work out the way they wanted, and of course the

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00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,400
Speaker 1: Bob Muller hearing and that investigation did work out the

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00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:02,719
Speaker 1: way they wanted. But that doesn't stop them. They're going

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Speaker 1: to continue to push this ridiculous impeachment narrative at the

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Speaker 1: cost of I mean, one of the first things you

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Speaker 1: learn in college economies class one on one is opportunity costs.

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Speaker 1: So when they're focused on this warrantless impeachment inquiry, you're

643
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Speaker 1: not getting done the things we need to be doing,

644
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Speaker 1: like fixing the border situation, dealing with the intellectual theft

645
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 1: of intellectual property, theft of China, things we're supposed to

646
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:30,360
Speaker 1: deal with on the Judiciary Committee. And they're also not

647
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:32,399
Speaker 1: going back and saying, you know what, we were wrong.

648
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:35,800
Speaker 1: We were wrong about some of this stuff. We probably

649
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 1: shouldn't have chased down these things the way that we did.

650
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:44,759
Speaker 1: But Democrats can't change who they are. I suppose they

651
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 1: still really believe that this is something the American people

652
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 1: want to see. They still really believe that this is

653
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,880
Speaker 1: something that could be of the I should say, they

654
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 1: haven't decided yet is it of political benefit to them?

655
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Speaker 1: And that's what we'll make the final termination as to

656
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:03,719
Speaker 1: whether or not there is an impeachment hearing. I think

657
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:08,279
Speaker 1: if they impeach Trump, they guarantee his reelection because it

658
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:13,879
Speaker 1: shows that this all along was fixed. Now they're saying

659
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:15,800
Speaker 1: that the reason they want to impeach him is there's

660
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:19,359
Speaker 1: a well, you know, it's a combination and now it's

661
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 1: the combo platter, it's the Emolument's clause, the twenty fifth Amendment,

662
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:28,840
Speaker 1: Russia collusion, racism, didn't show his tax return, There's all

663
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: these things. It's like, no, just because you don't like

664
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:36,799
Speaker 1: him doesn't mean that he should be impeached. But that's

665
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 1: where the Democrats are. They can't get beyond their their

666
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 1: anti Trump emotions. They've gone truly pathological with this stuff now,

667
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 1: right now, they hold everybody in line with this one

668
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:51,439
Speaker 1: kind of a piece of doctrine about abortion, right, which

669
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:53,799
Speaker 1: is obviously a tough issue for a lot of people

670
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 1: to think through morally. Then again, you know, there's a

671
00:41:57,719 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 1: lot of parts of the Bible to talk about how

672
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:03,359
Speaker 1: life begins with breath, and so even that is something

673
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:08,800
Speaker 1: that we can interpret differently, and me too. But I

674
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 1: think no matter where you think about the kind of

675
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:14,640
Speaker 1: cosmic question of how life begins, most Americans can get

676
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: on the board with the idea of all right, I

677
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:19,480
Speaker 1: might draw the line here, you might draw the line there,

678
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:21,400
Speaker 1: But the most important thing is the person who should

679
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 1: be drawing the line, is the woman making the decision. Nope, wrong,

680
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:38,000
Speaker 1: ethnically wrong, morally morally wrong, spiritually wrong, doctrinally wrong. I

681
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 1: don't I don't know how much more wrong he could

682
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:47,840
Speaker 1: get bringing up life begins at breath? Is he serious?

683
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:53,800
Speaker 1: That is such a a's a barbaric and utterly stupid

684
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 1: and I have been deeply unimpressed with Mayor Pete, who

685
00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:59,320
Speaker 1: went to fancy schools and has a road that was

686
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 1: a road school. I've tolbably the RhoD scholarships are very political,

687
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 1: and you know Bill Clinton was a RhoD scholar, and

688
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 1: people get all excited about this. It's really a lot,

689
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:14,799
Speaker 1: a lot of nonsense. Mayor Pete has been very unimpressive

690
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:18,880
Speaker 1: to me this entire time, and I just like to

691
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 1: call him Mayor Pete really because I don't his last

692
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 1: name is complicated. Otherwise I would just refer to him

693
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Speaker 1: as Buddha judge. It's hard to say. What he said

694
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:31,800
Speaker 1: there though, is barbaric. And it's interesting that he doesn't

695
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:34,320
Speaker 1: defend the position, but he puts it out there. He

696
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:39,439
Speaker 1: kind of floats this, Well, maybe life begins at at breath, huh.

697
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 1: I wonder how Mayor Pete would feel if he had,

698
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 1: let's say, a great aunt who was on a respirator.

699
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:49,360
Speaker 1: Otherwise totally fine, and somebody went and just said, you

700
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:53,719
Speaker 1: know what, can't breathe on your own life? Life requires breath,

701
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 1: and you can't breathe on your own. So we're just

702
00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: gonna pull the plug. Yeah, she's gonna make a full recovery,

703
00:43:58,000 --> 00:43:59,560
Speaker 1: but don't worry about that. We're gonna pull the plug

704
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 1: because life begins at breath or life continues at breath.

705
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:09,080
Speaker 1: Anybody who believes in medical ethics or just ethics period

706
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 1: would have to hear what may Or Pete said and

707
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 1: think that this is horrific and this is barbaric. This

708
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:17,319
Speaker 1: isn't even an area where we would have a good

709
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 1: faith disagreement. We're not having an argument with may or

710
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 1: Pete here about whether life begins at conception, which some

711
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 1: would say, there's a oh okay, well what is the conception?

712
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:32,879
Speaker 1: And when you know, there's all this is an implantation,

713
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 1: and people get into this. I mean, I think life

714
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 1: the only consistent position is that life begins a conception.

715
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 1: But at least you could see that there's a discussion

716
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:45,799
Speaker 1: to be had, maybe to explain to the other side

717
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:48,040
Speaker 1: that life begins at conception. But I don't want to

718
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 1: sit around and have a conversation about how a baby

719
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:53,279
Speaker 1: that has its own heart, its own brain, its own

720
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Speaker 1: central nervous system, its own genetic material, its own everything,

721
00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 1: but it's just waiting to be brought out into the

722
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:04,359
Speaker 1: world is not really a baby. I don't know how

723
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 1: we can have an honest, good faith discussion with the

724
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:10,360
Speaker 1: other side about this, because if they won't concede this,

725
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 1: then they're just living in a fantasy. The left has

726
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:16,680
Speaker 1: really lost its mind. We see this. Now they've lost

727
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:18,719
Speaker 1: their mind on climate change, they've lost their mind on

728
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:21,319
Speaker 1: open borders, they've lost their mind on socialism, and now

729
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 1: they've lost their mind on abortion too. This is not

730
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:29,359
Speaker 1: in the gray area. This is not oh, what are

731
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:31,400
Speaker 1: we going to do? How do we handle this? This

732
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 1: is complicated. This isn't complicated at all, and it's not

733
00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 1: a moral stance to say, oh, well, it's just up

734
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 1: to the choice of the individual involved. Should mean an

735
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 1: ancient Rome, for example, I mean I could I can

736
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 1: tell you this, as you know, I like history. In

737
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 1: ancient Rome, the head of household, the father, had the

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00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 1: power of life and death over everybody in his household,

739
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 1: could kill a slave. You know, Slavery was widespread throughout

740
00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:00,480
Speaker 1: the Roman Empire. We often think of slavery in this

741
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:03,640
Speaker 1: country because of things like the New York Times sixteen

742
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:06,279
Speaker 1: nineteen project. We think it's a uniquely American institution, when

743
00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:09,560
Speaker 1: in fact, we fought a very large war to end slavery,

744
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:13,360
Speaker 1: and we're part of the revolution in world affairs away

745
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: from slavery, which had been the norm for societies stretching

746
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:22,400
Speaker 1: back for millennia around the globe. Obviously wrong on ethical

747
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:25,840
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, murder and pillaging your neighbor's village

748
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:27,560
Speaker 1: was also the norm. Doesn't mean it's okay, but it

749
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 1: just this was the way it was and then it changed.

750
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 1: But to say that, to say that Pope Pete here

751
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:45,439
Speaker 1: has some moral high ground is stunning. And I think

752
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:48,279
Speaker 1: that he must be a panderer because he can't be

753
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:52,400
Speaker 1: this intellectually inept the things that he said when he

754
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:55,399
Speaker 1: goes to the Bible to justify his things. He loves

755
00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:57,560
Speaker 1: to do this. He's obsessed with talking about Mike Pence

756
00:46:57,600 --> 00:47:00,240
Speaker 1: and obsessed with the Bible says this, and the Bible

757
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 1: says that, you know, the Bible says some things that

758
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 1: I'm sure Mayor Pete really doesn't like, well, like thou

759
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:10,879
Speaker 1: shalt not kill, for example. And if we have any

760
00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:13,400
Speaker 1: question about whether or not this is a real you

761
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:17,360
Speaker 1: know what we were told when you had that the

762
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:20,520
Speaker 1: mayor who not the mayor, the governor Northam who wore

763
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 1: the black face, but of course it's still the mayor,

764
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 1: still the governor. Rather, he said that did make an

765
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 1: infant comfortable before they killed an infant outside the womb

766
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 1: if the mother didn't want it. And then we were told,

767
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:34,239
Speaker 1: oh no, but that's not a real thing, that's not

768
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 1: a real concern. That doesn't really happen. No, no, it does,

769
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 1: it does. Here's a story from the Associated Press, as

770
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:46,480
Speaker 1: mainstream of news outlet as you'll find, about a woman

771
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Speaker 1: who got to be twenty eight weeks pregnant without realizing

772
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Speaker 1: that she was pregnant, and then chose to go across

773
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Speaker 1: state lines to have an abortion. This story is supposed

774
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:06,839
Speaker 1: to be a sympathetic tale of a woman who had

775
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:10,840
Speaker 1: trouble getting access to her constitutional right to an abortion,

776
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:13,239
Speaker 1: which just I choke on the words, because only a

777
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 1: moron thinks that the constitution gives somebody a right to

778
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:18,320
Speaker 1: an abortion. But we have to live in a moronic

779
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:23,520
Speaker 1: society because of people's choice to pervert the law and morality.

780
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:28,879
Speaker 1: But here's here's what the Associated Press quotes, or here's

781
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 1: what they talk about in this piece where this woman

782
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:35,359
Speaker 1: is going to have an abortion at twenty eight weeks

783
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:38,839
Speaker 1: into a pregnancy. What I would learn the hard way

784
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:41,640
Speaker 1: is when you first started taking first control, the first

785
00:48:41,680 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, that first like a few days, you're

786
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 1: your most fertile. So I got pregnant in early February,

787
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:53,880
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't know have the suspicion I was pregnant

788
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 1: until about late July. I wasn't really talking to my

789
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:01,120
Speaker 1: family and so there wasn't any support there. I was

790
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:09,600
Speaker 1: feeling pretty isolated, pretty pretty panicky. I was housing insecure

791
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: at the time, like I had just started a job.

792
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 1: I didn't have any support, and so she then had

793
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:24,480
Speaker 1: to in her mind find a way to relieve herself

794
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:29,240
Speaker 1: of this burden, the burden of bringing life into this world.

795
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 1: And here is what she said happened thereafter. I said

796
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:37,719
Speaker 1: that they would be able to help me, but I

797
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:40,240
Speaker 1: had to get there before I turned twenty eight weeks,

798
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:44,359
Speaker 1: and so I had less than ten days. And they

799
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:49,840
Speaker 1: said that my procedure would cost about ten five hundred dollars,

800
00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:53,799
Speaker 1: so they know who's going to pick them up. It's

801
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:58,319
Speaker 1: not a decision to be made lightly because on top

802
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:02,759
Speaker 1: of or like I didn't make it lightly because it

803
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:08,279
Speaker 1: was on top of a large emotional like turning point,

804
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:11,680
Speaker 1: like decision to make in my life. It was a

805
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:14,680
Speaker 1: large financial decision to make. When I started to put

806
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:16,880
Speaker 1: my story out there, it's then people started reaching out

807
00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 1: to me. They're like, oh, I'm so glad you said,

808
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:21,960
Speaker 1: like you you're open about this because I went through

809
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:24,840
Speaker 1: something similar and I've never known anyone else. This is

810
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 1: right here. What makes it worth it Because if I

811
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:30,400
Speaker 1: can give back to people the one thing that I

812
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:33,080
Speaker 1: wanted more than anything when I was going through this,

813
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:36,400
Speaker 1: then my work is then I've done what I've set

814
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:38,920
Speaker 1: up to do it like my work is done. This

815
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:43,400
Speaker 1: is a very sad story. It's very sad that she

816
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 1: chose just shy, what was it a few days shy

817
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:51,319
Speaker 1: of twenty eight weeks then you have an abortion. It's

818
00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:55,640
Speaker 1: very sad that she has been convinced by leftists here

819
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 1: in America and by liberals, by the abortion lobby, by

820
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:04,959
Speaker 1: you know, nay rowl and planned parenthood and all the rest,

821
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:10,480
Speaker 1: that a baby that is seven months old, if you

822
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:13,320
Speaker 1: would like, and it will be a difficult thing to do,

823
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:16,479
Speaker 1: but you can google what a seven month old baby

824
00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:20,080
Speaker 1: looks like. It looks like a baby, and not only

825
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:24,399
Speaker 1: does it look like a baby, overwhelmingly babies at seven

826
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: months are entirely viable outside the womb. They could do

827
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:32,440
Speaker 1: a quick cesarian section if they had to, and have

828
00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 1: that baby out and breathing and crying and being a

829
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:36,839
Speaker 1: little baby with little tiny hands, a little tiny feet

830
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:41,960
Speaker 1: kicking around in minutes. But she thinks that this was

831
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:46,400
Speaker 1: a moment of coming together, and she received support for

832
00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:51,480
Speaker 1: the decision to terminate the babies, terminate her own baby's life,

833
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:56,759
Speaker 1: and the Democratic Party has convinced young women across the

834
00:51:56,800 --> 00:51:58,840
Speaker 1: country that this is a good thing. In fact, it

835
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:05,200
Speaker 1: is something to be celebrated. It's a right to be cherished.

836
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:13,720
Speaker 1: Whenever you have your doubts about which side is morally

837
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:17,920
Speaker 1: in the darkness, which side is confused, which side is

838
00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:23,560
Speaker 1: fighting for the wrong things, remember this story and think

839
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 1: about all the people that you know that you think

840
00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:29,000
Speaker 1: of as conservatives, whether friends in your day to day life,

841
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:32,279
Speaker 1: whether your pastor people that you see on TV, that

842
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:35,439
Speaker 1: you listen to on radio. Who knows that this is wrong,

843
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 1: what this woman did, what happened here, and who doesn't.

844
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:47,680
Speaker 1: And it really is a very important test because if

845
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:49,279
Speaker 1: someone doesn't know that this is wrong, they don't know

846
00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:52,359
Speaker 1: that anything is wrong. And this society has really lost

847
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:54,320
Speaker 1: its way that we even have to have this conversation

848
00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:57,239
Speaker 1: that May or Pete other Democrat candidates all think that

849
00:52:57,320 --> 00:53:01,480
Speaker 1: what happened here is okay. There will come a time

850
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:03,399
Speaker 1: I've said this to you before where we will look

851
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 1: back on the abortion regime in this country the way

852
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:13,080
Speaker 1: that people now look back on slavery as a horrific, immoral,

853
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:21,320
Speaker 1: inhumane regime of terror and genocide and oppression. That will happen.

854
00:53:21,680 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 1: I don't know if it will happen in my lifetime,

855
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:25,440
Speaker 1: but it will happen because one thing I am very

856
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:29,879
Speaker 1: sure of, science is on our side here, folks, seven

857
00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 1: month old baby. We were told that this doesn't happen. Well,

858
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:35,560
Speaker 1: here the AP is telling us it does happen. Seven

859
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:38,759
Speaker 1: month old baby. At least you're on the right side

860
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 1: of this one. We'll be right back. Well. I think

861
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:45,160
Speaker 1: there's no question that US economy is in very good shape.

862
00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 1: Look around the world. There's no question that China is

863
00:53:48,120 --> 00:53:51,440
Speaker 1: slow and is slowing. The US is the right spot

864
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:54,919
Speaker 1: of the world. And regards to a middle class tax cut,

865
00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:57,480
Speaker 1: you know, we'll be looking at tax cuts two point zero.

866
00:53:58,239 --> 00:54:02,200
Speaker 1: It's something that will be something next year. But right now.

867
00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 1: The economy isn't very very good changed. It was just

868
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:08,680
Speaker 1: announced that we had a record setting jobs report for

869
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:12,680
Speaker 1: the month of August, and African American jobs were the

870
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:17,080
Speaker 1: lowest unemployment rate in the history of our country. Likewise,

871
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:21,719
Speaker 1: Hispanic job report just came out, lowest unemployment rate in

872
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:24,960
Speaker 1: the history of our country. The women are doing great,

873
00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:29,359
Speaker 1: Asians also lowest in the history of our country. It's

874
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:33,480
Speaker 1: incredible what's happening. Our economy is strong, our country is great.

875
00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:37,080
Speaker 1: We've never been at a better position. More people are

876
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 1: working today in the United States than at any time

877
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 1: in the history of our country, almost one hundred and

878
00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:48,320
Speaker 1: sixty million people. So to all fellow American citizens, I

879
00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:54,360
Speaker 1: say one simple word, congratulations. Sometimes I do a segment

880
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:58,360
Speaker 1: with you here on the Buck Sexton Show where I

881
00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:00,520
Speaker 1: feel like, maybe this isn't going to be the most

882
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:02,759
Speaker 1: This isn't the most compelling radio it's not. It's not

883
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:05,560
Speaker 1: a new insightful idea, but I think you need to

884
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:08,640
Speaker 1: hear it. And maybe it's just I think I need

885
00:55:08,719 --> 00:55:15,040
Speaker 1: to say it too. The economy is booming. Remember if

886
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:19,360
Speaker 1: you will, the narrative after Bill Clinton dragged the country

887
00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:24,040
Speaker 1: through all kinds of his personal mess is lying under

888
00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:26,839
Speaker 1: oath and you know all that stuff. What you would

889
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:29,920
Speaker 1: hear from from so many Democrats was but we were

890
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:34,440
Speaker 1: at peace and we were prosperous, and that was that.

891
00:55:34,760 --> 00:55:36,480
Speaker 1: That was all that you had to say. That was everything.

892
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:41,200
Speaker 1: We were at peace and we were prosperous. Whatever Bill

893
00:55:41,239 --> 00:55:43,239
Speaker 1: Clinton did in the Oval Office, whoever he did it with,

894
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:45,560
Speaker 1: and whatever he said about it didn't matter. This was

895
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:48,920
Speaker 1: the story. So I just got so excited. I just

896
00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:51,560
Speaker 1: like whacked the microphone by accident. Hopefully it didn't make

897
00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:55,200
Speaker 1: too much noise. Take that to microphone. It's gonna cost

898
00:55:55,280 --> 00:55:58,239
Speaker 1: us money buck watching. Oh yeah, they're gonna find me

899
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:02,200
Speaker 1: microphone abuse. I've heard some other radio shows. They gotta

900
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:03,879
Speaker 1: tell you a lot of microphone abuse going on there,

901
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:09,880
Speaker 1: but not with anyone's hand. So just saying, here's the

902
00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:17,320
Speaker 1: situation the media. The media is focusing in on the

903
00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:23,799
Speaker 1: most minute, nonsensical stories in part to distract, I think,

904
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:28,120
Speaker 1: to prevent any coverage of the really strong economy, and

905
00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:31,200
Speaker 1: also just because they can't help themselves. They think that

906
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:35,799
Speaker 1: their audiences really just want to see anti Trump propaganda,

907
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:39,160
Speaker 1: that that's what matters. Everything else is secondary to that,

908
00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:42,320
Speaker 1: and I do believe that they have convinced themselves and

909
00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:45,239
Speaker 1: not just bad Stouter. It's like, I just understand how

910
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:49,319
Speaker 1: the President doesn't think they were. It's all fair. I mean,

911
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:51,520
Speaker 1: we're stell fair. But I also think that we need

912
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:54,480
Speaker 1: to double down at batch the president even more because

913
00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:59,480
Speaker 1: he's a terrible Okay, this is what we're heading into, though,

914
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:04,680
Speaker 1: the most important decisions about news coverage in the country

915
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:06,359
Speaker 1: leading into an election, and I don't you know, if

916
00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:07,759
Speaker 1: you're listening to this show, you must care about the

917
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:12,480
Speaker 1: news somewhat, But the most important decisions will be what

918
00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:16,600
Speaker 1: is and is not covered. That's even more powerful than

919
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:18,880
Speaker 1: how they cover things. Although as you know, based on

920
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:22,240
Speaker 1: what we saw with Trump, you know, they always find

921
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:26,680
Speaker 1: a way to make it about how he's bad. And

922
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:29,880
Speaker 1: that's why the coverage of the of Hurricane Dorian was

923
00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:34,080
Speaker 1: interesting because it was decided before any before the first

924
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:36,720
Speaker 1: rain drops had fallen on dry land anywhere, it was

925
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:40,880
Speaker 1: decided that Trump needed to have a this needed to

926
00:57:40,920 --> 00:57:44,640
Speaker 1: be used as a weapon against Trump. And that's when

927
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:47,960
Speaker 1: you Molly Hemingway, she was on I was on Fox

928
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:50,120
Speaker 1: on Sunday and Molly was on right before me. Yet

929
00:57:50,200 --> 00:57:52,640
Speaker 1: she had a great, a great mini rant on this.

930
00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:57,840
Speaker 1: They're completely beclowned themselves. And think about that Chiron. It says,

931
00:57:57,960 --> 00:58:00,720
Speaker 1: as people die, Trump is doing this, So as people die,

932
00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:04,400
Speaker 1: CNN and other media outlets are focusing on what exactly

933
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:07,600
Speaker 1: almost because you almost get the feeling that the media

934
00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:09,320
Speaker 1: decided at the beginning of the week they were going

935
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:11,960
Speaker 1: to make Trump's handling the hurricane a major story, and

936
00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:14,200
Speaker 1: then it turned out that the hurricane didn't make landfall

937
00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:15,960
Speaker 1: in a way that was as devastating as they planned,

938
00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:17,600
Speaker 1: and so all they were left with was the map,

939
00:58:17,680 --> 00:58:19,600
Speaker 1: and then they went with that. Anyway, at some point

940
00:58:19,640 --> 00:58:21,440
Speaker 1: you have to, you know, a you shouldn't have just

941
00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:24,520
Speaker 1: an oppositional stance as you as your approach, but if

942
00:58:24,560 --> 00:58:27,600
Speaker 1: you need to have better news judgment, I mean I

943
00:58:27,640 --> 00:58:29,880
Speaker 1: would I would like to ask any of the and

944
00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:33,760
Speaker 1: Molly's totally right, although I think that this is now

945
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:36,720
Speaker 1: our expectation is that they're always they've always decided what

946
00:58:36,880 --> 00:58:38,520
Speaker 1: they're going to do when it comes to Trump before

947
00:58:38,600 --> 00:58:41,600
Speaker 1: he does anything. But I would like to know does

948
00:58:41,640 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 1: anyone hold the position, does any serious person hold the

949
00:58:44,920 --> 00:58:50,120
Speaker 1: position that CNN is not oppositional that The New York Times,

950
00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:58,360
Speaker 1: the Washington Post, MSNBC, NPR, ABC News, CBS News. Does

951
00:58:58,440 --> 00:59:02,600
Speaker 1: anyone hold the position that they are not oppositional through

952
00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:05,920
Speaker 1: this president? I would love to have that. There's not

953
00:59:06,040 --> 00:59:09,440
Speaker 1: a person in America that I would be the leastmit

954
00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:13,920
Speaker 1: concerned about debating on that point. In fact, I would throttle,

955
00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:18,760
Speaker 1: I would shellack, I would annihilate anybody in public on

956
00:59:18,840 --> 00:59:20,920
Speaker 1: that debate because it's so obvious, it's so clear, and

957
00:59:21,040 --> 00:59:24,320
Speaker 1: yet they don't agree to it. They still keep this

958
00:59:25,720 --> 00:59:29,800
Speaker 1: this facade going of oh no, though, we're just covering

959
00:59:29,840 --> 00:59:34,520
Speaker 1: Trump as he needs to be covered. I don't think so,

960
00:59:35,600 --> 00:59:52,680
Speaker 1: not on my watch. Not acceptable, not true. It's time

961
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:56,160
Speaker 1: for a woman in the White House. They're yelling, whoa

962
00:59:58,440 --> 01:00:02,200
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren fans there, everybody, buddy, time for a woman

963
01:00:02,320 --> 01:00:08,160
Speaker 1: in the White House? Can we just can we just

964
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:11,680
Speaker 1: may the best man or a woman win the race?

965
01:00:11,760 --> 01:00:14,640
Speaker 1: That do we have to segregate this contest by gender

966
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:16,880
Speaker 1: all of a sudden or or right at the at

967
01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:19,160
Speaker 1: the outset, do we have to do that? I'd rather not.

968
01:00:20,320 --> 01:00:24,080
Speaker 1: I'd rather see who is good at this. I'd rather

969
01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:29,960
Speaker 1: see who the best option may be for the American people.

970
01:00:30,120 --> 01:00:32,840
Speaker 1: But no identity politics going to be very very strong

971
01:00:32,960 --> 01:00:35,640
Speaker 1: in this whole thing, and that's not going to change.

972
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:38,520
Speaker 1: That's not going to change at all. In fact, Bernie Sanders,

973
01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:40,400
Speaker 1: I mean, you have Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, two

974
01:00:40,480 --> 01:00:43,840
Speaker 1: of the despite what Elizabeth Warren said, for most of

975
01:00:43,880 --> 01:00:47,200
Speaker 1: her professional life, two of the whitest human beings you

976
01:00:47,240 --> 01:00:50,640
Speaker 1: will ever see anywhere. I mean, they are, you know,

977
01:00:50,720 --> 01:00:55,280
Speaker 1: there is nothing but whiteness when you're talking about Warren

978
01:00:55,400 --> 01:00:59,280
Speaker 1: and Sanders. And yet they're both obsessed with appealing to

979
01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:07,560
Speaker 1: the tenets of diversity, multiculturalism, and identity politics all all

980
01:01:07,640 --> 01:01:10,880
Speaker 1: put together, I mean here here, And what's amazing is

981
01:01:10,920 --> 01:01:14,600
Speaker 1: that they think that those who don't embrace that, who

982
01:01:14,680 --> 01:01:18,560
Speaker 1: don't think that skin color determines political or should determine

983
01:01:18,600 --> 01:01:23,120
Speaker 1: political beliefs as Democrats do, that individuals of different ethnicities

984
01:01:23,680 --> 01:01:25,840
Speaker 1: should not think for themselves, they should think the way

985
01:01:25,880 --> 01:01:29,000
Speaker 1: that they are told to think based on their skin color,

986
01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:33,760
Speaker 1: as Democrats do. That the people that have a problem

987
01:01:33,840 --> 01:01:36,560
Speaker 1: with that, they're they're the ones that are dividing us

988
01:01:36,640 --> 01:01:40,320
Speaker 1: up right, the people that believe in individual thought, who

989
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:43,480
Speaker 1: believe that we all should be able to think through

990
01:01:43,560 --> 01:01:45,920
Speaker 1: what matters to us what's important, what is just, and

991
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:50,040
Speaker 1: what is good as human beings, we're the bad guys

992
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:53,280
Speaker 1: whore he send us for example, he's the good gun

993
01:01:53,760 --> 01:01:56,600
Speaker 1: because you know, it's Trump who wants to divide us.

994
01:01:56,680 --> 01:01:59,400
Speaker 1: I think that all the Democrats do is divide us

995
01:02:00,520 --> 01:02:06,040
Speaker 1: because the things that should be neutral in American life

996
01:02:06,120 --> 01:02:10,160
Speaker 1: with respect to with respect to race and gender. You know,

997
01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:12,720
Speaker 1: we all want a strong economy, we all want rule

998
01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:15,080
Speaker 1: of law. We all want a secure or at least

999
01:02:15,080 --> 01:02:17,479
Speaker 1: we used to all want a secure border. Those things

1000
01:02:17,520 --> 01:02:19,840
Speaker 1: that it used to be that we would argue with

1001
01:02:19,960 --> 01:02:23,320
Speaker 1: the other side over how to get there. Now we're

1002
01:02:23,400 --> 01:02:28,200
Speaker 1: increasingly told no, we want fundamentally different things. And oh,

1003
01:02:28,320 --> 01:02:30,520
Speaker 1: by the way, the Democrats want you to think that

1004
01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:37,080
Speaker 1: we want fundamentally different things based upon ethnic origin, background,

1005
01:02:37,200 --> 01:02:43,080
Speaker 1: skin color, etc. That there's only one acceptable belief that

1006
01:02:43,240 --> 01:02:47,600
Speaker 1: people of certain skin colors can have, and if you

1007
01:02:47,880 --> 01:02:50,280
Speaker 1: veer outside of that, you're you know, you're a tool

1008
01:02:50,360 --> 01:02:52,720
Speaker 1: of the right, you're a conservative, you're a fake, you're

1009
01:02:52,720 --> 01:02:58,000
Speaker 1: a phony. Here's Bernie Sanders hitting the identity politics issue.

1010
01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:04,360
Speaker 1: So gad, we are going not only to win this election,

1011
01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:11,120
Speaker 1: but together we are gonna build an unprecedented grassroots movement.

1012
01:03:11,960 --> 01:03:15,560
Speaker 1: Trump wants to divide us up. We're gonna bring our

1013
01:03:15,760 --> 01:03:21,400
Speaker 1: people together, black and white, Latino, Native American, Asian American,

1014
01:03:21,800 --> 01:03:26,920
Speaker 1: gay and strike immigrant Native board. I don't think that

1015
01:03:27,040 --> 01:03:29,200
Speaker 1: that's really what Democrats want to do. I think that

1016
01:03:29,320 --> 01:03:34,760
Speaker 1: they would much prefer a coalition of different identity politics

1017
01:03:34,800 --> 01:03:39,080
Speaker 1: based constituencies that they can call upon. But it's gonna

1018
01:03:39,120 --> 01:03:41,200
Speaker 1: be very hard for them to pretend that they want

1019
01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:44,520
Speaker 1: unity when they will tell people, one, if you voted

1020
01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:47,640
Speaker 1: for Donald Trump, even if you voted for Obama once

1021
01:03:47,760 --> 01:03:49,560
Speaker 1: or twice before, if you vote for Donald Trump this

1022
01:03:49,720 --> 01:03:52,840
Speaker 1: time around, then you're clearly a racist. It's a very

1023
01:03:52,960 --> 01:03:58,040
Speaker 1: divisive and very nasty thing to say, an unfair thing

1024
01:03:58,120 --> 01:04:01,560
Speaker 1: to say. And you look at the way that they

1025
01:04:01,640 --> 01:04:06,160
Speaker 1: talk about any number of policy initiatives and they break

1026
01:04:06,240 --> 01:04:10,440
Speaker 1: it down by race, they talk about, well, you know,

1027
01:04:10,640 --> 01:04:13,280
Speaker 1: there must be a different focus. You know, communities of

1028
01:04:13,360 --> 01:04:16,000
Speaker 1: color will view this this way versus everybody else will

1029
01:04:16,080 --> 01:04:20,080
Speaker 1: view it that way. I always I just stumble for

1030
01:04:20,160 --> 01:04:23,520
Speaker 1: a moment. I'm flabbergasted by how much that strikes me

1031
01:04:23,640 --> 01:04:29,400
Speaker 1: as wrong and often really condescending from Democrats. That is

1032
01:04:29,440 --> 01:04:31,320
Speaker 1: what they do but you know what, what might actually

1033
01:04:31,400 --> 01:04:36,680
Speaker 1: unite us, the reality that Medicare for all is a

1034
01:04:37,160 --> 01:04:42,320
Speaker 1: horrible idea, a terrible idea. I'm going to complain to

1035
01:04:42,360 --> 01:04:46,200
Speaker 1: you later about my latest trials and tribulations with the

1036
01:04:46,320 --> 01:04:48,800
Speaker 1: cable guy. And this is what The problems with moving

1037
01:04:49,120 --> 01:04:51,640
Speaker 1: are always the little things that turn into nightmares and

1038
01:04:51,720 --> 01:04:54,560
Speaker 1: you feel like you're losing your life to little, unimportant

1039
01:04:54,640 --> 01:04:57,320
Speaker 1: squabbles when you want to be focusing on the big stuff.

1040
01:04:58,600 --> 01:05:01,400
Speaker 1: But when you I have no recourse, when you are

1041
01:05:02,400 --> 01:05:05,200
Speaker 1: only given one option for a product and that is it,

1042
01:05:06,440 --> 01:05:08,320
Speaker 1: things are bad all of a sudden. You know, I

1043
01:05:08,840 --> 01:05:11,960
Speaker 1: walk into a restaurant in New York City, and if

1044
01:05:12,080 --> 01:05:16,200
Speaker 1: I feel like they're being rude, you know, the staff,

1045
01:05:16,520 --> 01:05:19,000
Speaker 1: the matre d or the that makes it sound like

1046
01:05:19,040 --> 01:05:21,320
Speaker 1: I go to a fancy places. Oh buck, the matre

1047
01:05:21,520 --> 01:05:24,760
Speaker 1: d is being very rude. Do you no? But you know,

1048
01:05:24,800 --> 01:05:26,240
Speaker 1: if you're going somewhere and you don't like it and

1049
01:05:26,320 --> 01:05:27,919
Speaker 1: you feel like they're being weird you or you don't

1050
01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:31,080
Speaker 1: like the table, and this is true in most places

1051
01:05:31,160 --> 01:05:35,960
Speaker 1: now where there's at least some critical massive population. You

1052
01:05:36,000 --> 01:05:37,960
Speaker 1: don't like the place, get up, leave, go find somewhere else.

1053
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:40,000
Speaker 1: There's always somewhere else to eat in America. I mean,

1054
01:05:40,080 --> 01:05:42,240
Speaker 1: with very few exceptions, there's always somewhere else you can go.

1055
01:05:43,080 --> 01:05:44,800
Speaker 1: But that's a good thing because it means that when

1056
01:05:44,800 --> 01:05:47,800
Speaker 1: you go into a restaurant, there's a real incentive for

1057
01:05:47,880 --> 01:05:52,200
Speaker 1: the people in that restaurant to keep your business. This

1058
01:05:52,360 --> 01:05:54,600
Speaker 1: is a this is a real thing that you see

1059
01:05:54,880 --> 01:05:57,600
Speaker 1: working in your own life all the time, whether you're

1060
01:05:57,600 --> 01:06:01,880
Speaker 1: going into Shay Fancy Pants or you know, the staff there,

1061
01:06:01,920 --> 01:06:04,080
Speaker 1: the individuals there. You know, is the place clean, is

1062
01:06:04,080 --> 01:06:05,840
Speaker 1: it well kept? Are they being nice to you? Is

1063
01:06:05,880 --> 01:06:09,240
Speaker 1: it welcoming? The answers, no, you go somewhere else. And

1064
01:06:09,480 --> 01:06:13,720
Speaker 1: so because of that cause and effect, there's a real

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Speaker 1: effort to keep you when you have a Medicare system

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Speaker 1: that is entirely that that becomes the whole system. Get

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Speaker 1: ready to wait forever for practitioners to start retiring early

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Speaker 1: and not get replaced, for government bureaucrats to tell you

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Speaker 1: what services you can and can't get, how long you

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Speaker 1: will wait, and that's going to be it. And unless

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Speaker 1: you are and this is what this is what's true

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Speaker 1: of so many of the libs that are pushing this.

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Speaker 1: Unless you are wealthy enough and part of the elite

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Speaker 1: such that you will just pay out of pocket for

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Speaker 1: whatever services you need. That's always going to be an option.

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Speaker 1: There's always somebody that won't take any insurance who will

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Speaker 1: be able to give you. And but you'll create a

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Speaker 1: multi tiered medical system, gonna have everybody that's in the

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Speaker 1: government medicare program, and then you're going to have people

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Speaker 1: who are paying out of pocket who can afford to

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Speaker 1: do it, and then they're gonna be the ones, I'm sure,

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Speaker 1: because there'll be a lot of lives saying, oh, but

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Speaker 1: isn't it a great system we have? I mean, I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to get healthcare in this system, but isn't

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Speaker 1: it a great system we have? Interesting to hear a

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Speaker 1: voice from the Democrats side of things who is considered

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Speaker 1: a kind of a tough as tough as nails guy,

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Speaker 1: and he was very very tight with Obama. So you know,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of a lot of baggage, a lot

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Speaker 1: of problems there. But he's not dumb. I don't think

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Speaker 1: anyone has ever said that Ram Emmanuel is dumb. He's

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Speaker 1: not a dumb guy. He's a sharp guy. Doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: he's a good guy. But he's sharp. He knows that

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Speaker 1: Medicare for All is for the Democrats, just bonkers positions

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01:07:58,600 --> 01:08:01,040
Speaker 1: so far in the candidates have through the process. If

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Speaker 1: you have not about on basically Medicare for all, which

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01:08:04,360 --> 01:08:06,080
Speaker 1: is we're going to eliminate one hundred and fifty million

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Speaker 1: people's healthcare and we're going to provide healthcare for people

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01:08:09,080 --> 01:08:11,640
Speaker 1: that just come over the border. That is an untenable

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Speaker 1: position for the general election. As you know, George, I

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Speaker 1: just biked around Lake Michigan, nearly a thousand miles through

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Speaker 1: Michigan and Wisconsin, two really important states. Nobody had a

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01:08:21,520 --> 01:08:23,679
Speaker 1: diner ran at me and said take my healthcare away.

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01:08:24,280 --> 01:08:27,800
Speaker 1: Nobody is this is reckless as it relates to and

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01:08:27,880 --> 01:08:30,000
Speaker 1: you don't have to take the position to win the primary,

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01:08:30,240 --> 01:08:33,920
Speaker 1: and you're basically literally hindering yourself for the general election.

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01:08:35,040 --> 01:08:40,600
Speaker 1: It is a loser idea, the loser policy that the

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01:08:40,640 --> 01:08:44,719
Speaker 1: Democratic Party is I think so stuck in the throes

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01:08:44,800 --> 01:08:47,880
Speaker 1: of anti Trump psychosis that they couldn't figure this out.

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01:08:49,040 --> 01:08:50,960
Speaker 1: It tells you a lot about where the modern left

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01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:53,080
Speaker 1: has really gone. I mean tells you about where the

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01:08:53,160 --> 01:08:56,880
Speaker 1: Democratic Party is today in this country. But this is

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01:08:56,920 --> 01:09:00,160
Speaker 1: a non starter, and you're gonna hear on third say

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01:09:00,200 --> 01:09:02,760
Speaker 1: the Democratic debate, You're going to hear them talk about

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01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:06,519
Speaker 1: Medicare for all like it's not crazy, it's a horrible idea.

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Speaker 1: It would be incredibly expensive, and it would be very,

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Speaker 1: very bad healthcare. And every doctor that I know that

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Speaker 1: I've asked about this is said, yeah, this is And

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01:09:19,320 --> 01:09:21,280
Speaker 1: I know a lot of I know some lefty doctors too,

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Speaker 1: but I've talked to a few a few mds about

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Speaker 1: this and they say, yeah, this is going to be

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Speaker 1: a big problem as it is. A lot of them

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Speaker 1: don't want to take Medicare as it is. They don't

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Speaker 1: want to deal with it. So now now basically ninety

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Speaker 1: percent of the people walk in their office are going

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Speaker 1: to be on some kind of a Medicare program. It's

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01:09:39,280 --> 01:09:42,320
Speaker 1: not going to work. It's a something for nothing situation.

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Speaker 1: And then back to my initial point about incentives, there's

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01:09:45,680 --> 01:09:48,519
Speaker 1: no incentive for anybody to give you good care. You

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01:09:48,600 --> 01:09:53,320
Speaker 1: don't matter. It have to be a systematic catastrophic failure

1131
01:09:53,360 --> 01:09:55,200
Speaker 1: in the Medicare for All system for anyone to pay

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01:09:55,200 --> 01:09:58,360
Speaker 1: attention to anything. You think that if all of a

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01:09:58,439 --> 01:10:00,880
Speaker 1: sudden you can't get the surgery you can't get the

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01:10:01,400 --> 01:10:05,120
Speaker 1: medical treatment that you need. That Nancy Pelosi or Chuck

1135
01:10:05,160 --> 01:10:07,000
Speaker 1: Schumer are going to lose a night's sleep, absolutely not.

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01:10:08,400 --> 01:10:10,479
Speaker 1: All they care about is what does it look like

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01:10:10,880 --> 01:10:14,400
Speaker 1: on the scoreboard for the Democratic Party? Does everybody now

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01:10:14,479 --> 01:10:16,679
Speaker 1: have health insurance? It might might mean that you can't

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01:10:16,720 --> 01:10:18,879
Speaker 1: get care. But if everyone's got insurance, that's a compelling

1140
01:10:19,000 --> 01:10:26,040
Speaker 1: story that gets people re elected. Central planning is flawed.

1141
01:10:26,320 --> 01:10:30,040
Speaker 1: It fails because it has to fail. This will fail too.

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01:10:30,120 --> 01:10:32,759
Speaker 1: This will be healthcare central planning on a massive scale.

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01:10:33,880 --> 01:10:37,080
Speaker 1: It's a terrible idea. Even Democrats who know anything though,

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01:10:37,120 --> 01:10:39,759
Speaker 1: it's a terrible idea. But man, get ready for Elizabeth

1145
01:10:39,760 --> 01:10:41,920
Speaker 1: Warren and Bernie Sanders to battle it out on Thursday.

1146
01:10:42,240 --> 01:10:45,920
Speaker 1: Really worthwhile peace that I would recommend for all of

1147
01:10:45,960 --> 01:10:48,439
Speaker 1: you in the Wall Street Journal. I'll tell you about

1148
01:10:48,439 --> 01:10:49,680
Speaker 1: it now, though, so you can just listen to me

1149
01:10:49,720 --> 01:10:52,760
Speaker 1: if you don't feel like starting a journal subscription to

1150
01:10:52,800 --> 01:10:58,599
Speaker 1: see it. It is by Robert Pondicio and the title

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01:10:58,720 --> 01:11:03,920
Speaker 1: is the Secret of a Charter School Success Parents. This

1152
01:11:04,120 --> 01:11:09,760
Speaker 1: is a controversial topic. It shouldn't be. It's obvious. I've

1153
01:11:09,760 --> 01:11:11,560
Speaker 1: said to you before. I mean, the greatest advantage that

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01:11:11,600 --> 01:11:15,439
Speaker 1: I feel I've had in life is having parents who

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01:11:15,479 --> 01:11:18,280
Speaker 1: were involved, who cared, who stayed married, who kept the

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01:11:18,360 --> 01:11:22,639
Speaker 1: family together, and who made the family a priority. Greatest

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01:11:22,640 --> 01:11:27,280
Speaker 1: advantage I've had in life, more than anything else. And

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01:11:28,040 --> 01:11:31,439
Speaker 1: you see this in all of the research. Whenever there's

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01:11:31,479 --> 01:11:36,840
Speaker 1: an honest study done about what the most important factor is,

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01:11:38,000 --> 01:11:41,880
Speaker 1: for example, in charter school success, just to take that

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01:11:41,920 --> 01:11:48,000
Speaker 1: as a subset's parental involvement. That's the secret to the

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01:11:48,120 --> 01:11:54,680
Speaker 1: success here, because the parental involvement generates greater student involvement,

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01:11:55,000 --> 01:11:58,760
Speaker 1: and it means everyone's on board from the household during

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01:11:58,840 --> 01:12:02,040
Speaker 1: the commute to this school to picking them up. This

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01:12:02,280 --> 01:12:06,720
Speaker 1: was a fascinating piece because Success Academy, of which there

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01:12:06,760 --> 01:12:09,960
Speaker 1: are fifty of these charter schools called Success Academy in

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01:12:09,960 --> 01:12:14,240
Speaker 1: New York City, serves seventeen thousand students, over ninety percent

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Speaker 1: of them or minorities. I mean, the Success Academy is

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01:12:17,439 --> 01:12:21,800
Speaker 1: almost entirely black and Hispanic students. And these are Black

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Speaker 1: and Hispanic students that come from socioeconomic backgrounds that are struggling. Right.

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Speaker 1: These are not wealthy people. A lot of them are unwelfare,

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Speaker 1: a lot of them are struggling financially, vast majority of

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Speaker 1: them would be considered low income. That was the phrase

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Speaker 1: I was looking for. And their kids are kicking butt,

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Speaker 1: kicking butt in math and in English in the statewide

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Speaker 1: tests that are the only real metric that anybody could

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Speaker 1: look at. They're doing great. Over ninety percent of the

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Speaker 1: young African American students in Success Academy are proficient math.

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Speaker 1: Over eighty five percent are proficient in English, you know,

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Speaker 1: in language arts, whatever the specifics are, what they call it.

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Speaker 1: Why is that the case? Well, the way they've set

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01:13:11,400 --> 01:13:15,880
Speaker 1: up Success Academy, and this is this is controversial, They say, Oh,

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01:13:15,920 --> 01:13:20,200
Speaker 1: it's controversial. Why is it controversial? The way they set

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01:13:20,240 --> 01:13:22,880
Speaker 1: it up is that there's it's a lottery system, but

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01:13:22,920 --> 01:13:26,400
Speaker 1: the lottery system gets winnowed down very quickly, so that

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01:13:26,520 --> 01:13:29,560
Speaker 1: if you do everything you're supposed to do, you have

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Speaker 1: a very good chance about fifty fifty of being able

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Speaker 1: to get into a Success Academy school. But you have

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01:13:33,840 --> 01:13:36,360
Speaker 1: to show up. The parents have to show up, parents

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01:13:36,439 --> 01:13:38,680
Speaker 1: have to pick you up. There's no after school programs.

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01:13:39,360 --> 01:13:42,960
Speaker 1: This isn't a glorified all day long babysitting program, which

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Speaker 1: is what you have in a lot of these public schools,

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01:13:45,720 --> 01:13:47,360
Speaker 1: they say, oh, we need you know, this and that

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01:13:47,520 --> 01:13:50,200
Speaker 1: program and this and that. You know, the kids have

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01:13:50,280 --> 01:13:52,200
Speaker 1: been in school for a long time already to say

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01:13:52,240 --> 01:13:55,400
Speaker 1: that the expectation should be that they could be taken

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01:13:55,479 --> 01:13:57,599
Speaker 1: care of by the state until six or seven o'clock

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Speaker 1: at night. That's a very long day. That's asking a

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Speaker 1: lot from a school district. But a lot of parents

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01:14:04,920 --> 01:14:08,559
Speaker 1: don't show up, even those who initially enter their kids

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01:14:08,600 --> 01:14:13,120
Speaker 1: into lottery, even those who seem to want a better

1202
01:14:13,240 --> 01:14:15,080
Speaker 1: future for their kids, they're not willing to do the

1203
01:14:15,120 --> 01:14:18,479
Speaker 1: basic work of show up and do what you say

1204
01:14:18,479 --> 01:14:21,920
Speaker 1: you're gonna do, be involved. The parents who do that

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01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:29,800
Speaker 1: their kids overwhelmingly successful. And this just gives the lie

1206
01:14:29,920 --> 01:14:33,800
Speaker 1: to oh, if only we had more money in the

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01:14:33,840 --> 01:14:36,360
Speaker 1: school system, if only we had different or better resources,

1208
01:14:36,439 --> 01:14:38,400
Speaker 1: or you know, whatever the case may be, then everything

1209
01:14:38,439 --> 01:14:40,640
Speaker 1: would be better. Then everything would be fun. It's not

1210
01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:47,040
Speaker 1: about more money in the schools. I have friends here

1211
01:14:47,040 --> 01:14:49,680
Speaker 1: in New York City who teach in some of the

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01:14:49,800 --> 01:14:57,160
Speaker 1: most well funded public schools you can find anywhere. They

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01:14:57,240 --> 01:15:01,040
Speaker 1: have this whole school school renaissance program, and there's there's

1214
01:15:01,200 --> 01:15:05,280
Speaker 1: these exceptional teachers and they have brand new, brand new

1215
01:15:05,400 --> 01:15:09,560
Speaker 1: laptops and computers in every classroom, and the classrooms are spotless,

1216
01:15:09,640 --> 01:15:13,960
Speaker 1: and there's the kids show up and they're rowdy, and

1217
01:15:14,040 --> 01:15:16,559
Speaker 1: they're disrespectful, and they don't want to learn, and they

1218
01:15:16,600 --> 01:15:20,719
Speaker 1: don't care to learn, and they're just glorified babysitting programs

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01:15:21,640 --> 01:15:24,080
Speaker 1: where in many cases the teachers are being asked to

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01:15:24,200 --> 01:15:28,840
Speaker 1: be in loco parentis in place of parents. That's never

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01:15:28,920 --> 01:15:32,679
Speaker 1: gonna work. Every veteran teacher I know in the school

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01:15:32,760 --> 01:15:36,439
Speaker 1: system who's not just a little automaton of the teachers

1223
01:15:36,600 --> 01:15:40,080
Speaker 1: unions and doesn't view it hasn't just taken all the

1224
01:15:42,000 --> 01:15:44,720
Speaker 1: look because public schools are a form of socialism. It

1225
01:15:44,800 --> 01:15:46,600
Speaker 1: is a form of central planning. Everybody who hasn't just

1226
01:15:46,680 --> 01:15:51,040
Speaker 1: completely drank all the kool aid on how great our

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01:15:51,080 --> 01:15:53,559
Speaker 1: public school system is. If only there was more money,

1228
01:15:53,600 --> 01:15:56,080
Speaker 1: if only there was more money. They'll tell you that

1229
01:15:56,840 --> 01:15:58,599
Speaker 1: you don't even really need to know much about the kids.

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01:15:58,600 --> 01:16:01,240
Speaker 1: You know, if they have a chance of success. Did

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01:16:01,280 --> 01:16:04,439
Speaker 1: the parents show up to parent teacher Knight, Is there

1232
01:16:04,479 --> 01:16:06,800
Speaker 1: an adult, a guardian who will pick the child up

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01:16:06,840 --> 01:16:12,280
Speaker 1: after school and who's on time after school? Oh but no,

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01:16:12,439 --> 01:16:15,240
Speaker 1: you see, no one wants to hear this. This is

1235
01:16:15,320 --> 01:16:18,760
Speaker 1: not a politically popular thing to say. It's a much

1236
01:16:18,840 --> 01:16:22,400
Speaker 1: better narrative for the teachers in the schools to say

1237
01:16:22,560 --> 01:16:25,080
Speaker 1: that they just need more money, which of course we

1238
01:16:25,160 --> 01:16:27,760
Speaker 1: know goes to the adults. And there's been an explosion

1239
01:16:28,040 --> 01:16:32,840
Speaker 1: of non teaching adults making all kinds of salaries, getting

1240
01:16:32,840 --> 01:16:35,479
Speaker 1: all kinds of benefits in the system for doing very

1241
01:16:35,560 --> 01:16:38,479
Speaker 1: very little that you would consider real educating. There's been

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01:16:38,560 --> 01:16:40,680
Speaker 1: a sixfold increase of the last I think ten or

1243
01:16:40,720 --> 01:16:46,240
Speaker 1: fifteen years in an administrative staff in these schools and

1244
01:16:47,120 --> 01:16:51,000
Speaker 1: in failing schools. Parents don't want to be told that

1245
01:16:51,360 --> 01:16:53,960
Speaker 1: they're supposed to be involved in their kids' education. They

1246
01:16:54,040 --> 01:16:57,559
Speaker 1: think that that's what the school does. Parents don't want

1247
01:16:57,600 --> 01:17:00,000
Speaker 1: to be told that they need to encourage their children

1248
01:17:00,000 --> 01:17:01,960
Speaker 1: and to read at home, they need to make sure

1249
01:17:02,040 --> 01:17:04,599
Speaker 1: the homework is done. They think that's what the school

1250
01:17:04,720 --> 01:17:09,519
Speaker 1: is for. But that's wrong, that's wrong. By the time

1251
01:17:09,680 --> 01:17:12,240
Speaker 1: the kid shows up and sits down in the classroom,

1252
01:17:13,680 --> 01:17:16,240
Speaker 1: it has already been largely decided what his or her

1253
01:17:16,280 --> 01:17:18,000
Speaker 1: fate is going to be. And the decision is not

1254
01:17:18,120 --> 01:17:21,639
Speaker 1: the states, it's not the localities. It is the home

1255
01:17:22,680 --> 01:17:25,759
Speaker 1: who is raising this child, who's in charge of this child?

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01:17:26,800 --> 01:17:29,200
Speaker 1: What is he or she being told about his education?

1257
01:17:29,439 --> 01:17:33,200
Speaker 1: About respect for authority, about trying to better oneself, about

1258
01:17:33,240 --> 01:17:36,240
Speaker 1: trying to learn to be a good citizen, a good person.

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01:17:39,280 --> 01:17:41,760
Speaker 1: Those are the that's really all you need. That's those

1260
01:17:41,800 --> 01:17:45,519
Speaker 1: are the data points that will tell you whether or

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01:17:45,600 --> 01:17:50,280
Speaker 1: not there's a real prospect of academic success for the student.

1262
01:17:50,320 --> 01:17:53,880
Speaker 1: And that's what this charter school. These charter schools prove.

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01:17:54,880 --> 01:17:57,839
Speaker 1: If the parents show up and care and they're involved,

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01:17:58,240 --> 01:18:00,479
Speaker 1: the kids don't just have a shot, they do very well.

1265
01:18:01,640 --> 01:18:04,080
Speaker 1: The parents who think that this is a taxpayer funded

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01:18:04,120 --> 01:18:07,800
Speaker 1: babysitting program, they don't care. They're too busy, they don't

1267
01:18:07,800 --> 01:18:09,320
Speaker 1: want it to they don't want to back the teacher

1268
01:18:09,439 --> 01:18:11,120
Speaker 1: up and say yes you need to learn, yes you

1269
01:18:11,160 --> 01:18:17,160
Speaker 1: need to be quiet. They are never going to have

1270
01:18:17,280 --> 01:18:20,360
Speaker 1: the results they want, and we're just going to keep

1271
01:18:20,400 --> 01:18:22,240
Speaker 1: being told there needs to be more marty, They needs

1272
01:18:22,240 --> 01:18:25,720
Speaker 1: to be more money. We've been shoveling money to the

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Speaker 1: Department of Education and to the public school system now

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Speaker 1: for decades. Scores don't budge charter school school. Charter school

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01:18:33,680 --> 01:18:38,120
Speaker 1: scores do. There's a reason for that, as this guy says,

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01:18:38,240 --> 01:18:41,639
Speaker 1: parental involvement is the secret sauce. We must change almost

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01:18:41,720 --> 01:18:46,519
Speaker 1: everything in our current societies. The bigger your combon footprint

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01:18:46,640 --> 01:18:51,040
Speaker 1: is the bigger your more duty, the bigger your platform,

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01:18:51,640 --> 01:18:58,080
Speaker 1: the bigger your responsibility. Adults keep saying we owe it

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01:18:58,160 --> 01:19:02,760
Speaker 1: to the young people to give them hope. But I

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01:19:02,800 --> 01:19:06,519
Speaker 1: don't want your hope. I don't want you to be hopeful.

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01:19:07,479 --> 01:19:10,800
Speaker 1: I want you to panic. I want you to feel

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01:19:10,840 --> 01:19:15,880
Speaker 1: the fear I feel. At least she's being honest. She's

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01:19:16,320 --> 01:19:19,280
Speaker 1: holding press conferences here. I'm not looking for this stuff.

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01:19:19,360 --> 01:19:24,880
Speaker 1: This is a a global climate change celebrity. And she

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01:19:25,200 --> 01:19:28,680
Speaker 1: is a child. I don't mean, oh, she's really young,

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01:19:28,840 --> 01:19:31,960
Speaker 1: like she's twenty four or something. No, I mean she's

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01:19:32,200 --> 01:19:35,599
Speaker 1: literally a child. I think she's ten, eleven, twelve, something

1289
01:19:35,680 --> 01:19:43,360
Speaker 1: like that. She is a preadolescent who is giving lectures

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01:19:44,160 --> 01:19:47,599
Speaker 1: two major media outlets about how we need to change

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01:19:47,720 --> 01:19:52,519
Speaker 1: everything in our society. They are creating a platform for

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01:19:52,760 --> 01:19:57,320
Speaker 1: this child to tell us about one of the most

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01:19:57,360 --> 01:20:01,120
Speaker 1: complicated issues that you could ever conjure up. I mean,

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01:20:01,360 --> 01:20:03,000
Speaker 1: we might as well have a twelve year old tell

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01:20:03,080 --> 01:20:04,479
Speaker 1: us all about the meaning of life and that we

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01:20:04,560 --> 01:20:07,639
Speaker 1: need to you know, get get rid of all law

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01:20:07,720 --> 01:20:10,120
Speaker 1: and possessions, and just prepare for the end of days tomorrow.

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01:20:10,120 --> 01:20:13,439
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's really on the same intellectual plane

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01:20:13,479 --> 01:20:19,680
Speaker 1: as that. It is absurd beyond absurdity, And yet here

1300
01:20:19,720 --> 01:20:24,120
Speaker 1: we are media is treating it like she knows what

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01:20:24,240 --> 01:20:27,400
Speaker 1: she's talking about, but she's in a sense giving away

1302
01:20:27,439 --> 01:20:29,920
Speaker 1: the game here. She said, I don't want you to

1303
01:20:29,960 --> 01:20:33,720
Speaker 1: be hopeful. I want you to panic. That's what so

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01:20:33,880 --> 01:20:36,960
Speaker 1: much of the climate change hysterius driven by, I want

1305
01:20:37,040 --> 01:20:42,920
Speaker 1: you to panic. They believe that it's better if people

1306
01:20:43,200 --> 01:20:46,479
Speaker 1: think that the world is going to end, because then

1307
01:20:46,520 --> 01:20:48,560
Speaker 1: you'll listen to anything. I mean, what won't you do

1308
01:20:49,920 --> 01:20:53,280
Speaker 1: if somebody tells you that you know your your house

1309
01:20:53,400 --> 01:20:55,040
Speaker 1: is on fire and they're the only person who can

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01:20:55,120 --> 01:20:57,479
Speaker 1: put it out, You're not really going to think long

1311
01:20:57,560 --> 01:21:00,840
Speaker 1: and hard about, well, are you a good firefighter? And

1312
01:21:01,439 --> 01:21:03,519
Speaker 1: what's in my house? And do I have fire insurance?

1313
01:21:03,560 --> 01:21:06,560
Speaker 1: And know you're just anything to get that problem dealt with.

1314
01:21:07,800 --> 01:21:13,040
Speaker 1: But this is textbook propaganda and using a child to

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01:21:13,120 --> 01:21:15,680
Speaker 1: do it. I notice that you have some journalists who

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01:21:15,760 --> 01:21:18,360
Speaker 1: like to do the How dare you criticize her? She's

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01:21:18,400 --> 01:21:20,519
Speaker 1: just a child? How dare you elevate her. She's just

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01:21:20,640 --> 01:21:24,280
Speaker 1: a child. As I've said, I don't blame her. She

1319
01:21:24,400 --> 01:21:28,240
Speaker 1: does she doesn't know anything if somebody took and I

1320
01:21:28,280 --> 01:21:30,760
Speaker 1: don't think that. I know that liberals are not beyond this.

1321
01:21:31,040 --> 01:21:36,280
Speaker 1: This is a a desperation that they have psychologically. This

1322
01:21:36,439 --> 01:21:39,280
Speaker 1: is why you have many blue checks and this became

1323
01:21:39,479 --> 01:21:42,000
Speaker 1: a joke in response to it. Many blue checks will

1324
01:21:42,040 --> 01:21:44,760
Speaker 1: tell you, you know, I just think that I don't

1325
01:21:44,800 --> 01:21:46,920
Speaker 1: know how to respond to my four year old when

1326
01:21:46,960 --> 01:21:49,040
Speaker 1: she looked into the eyes and said, I think that

1327
01:21:49,200 --> 01:21:52,800
Speaker 1: Trump's fighting against universal injunctions in the federal courts is

1328
01:21:52,880 --> 01:21:57,120
Speaker 1: undermining our constitutionality and destroying our democracy. Like your four

1329
01:21:57,200 --> 01:22:00,640
Speaker 1: year old didn't say that clearly, right. I mean these

1330
01:22:00,760 --> 01:22:03,800
Speaker 1: journals that pretend this, but they believe that there's some

1331
01:22:05,080 --> 01:22:11,840
Speaker 1: there's some purity, some authenticity, some some emotional secret weapon

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01:22:11,920 --> 01:22:16,880
Speaker 1: that comes from a child holding certain political beliefs. I mean,

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01:22:17,040 --> 01:22:18,680
Speaker 1: I remember when I was four or five years old.

1334
01:22:18,720 --> 01:22:21,040
Speaker 1: I think my parents were trying to keep me from,

1335
01:22:21,680 --> 01:22:26,120
Speaker 1: you know, picking my nose too much and making sure

1336
01:22:26,240 --> 01:22:28,400
Speaker 1: that you know everything that needed to win in the

1337
01:22:28,439 --> 01:22:29,680
Speaker 1: potty or I don't know. I don't know if that's

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01:22:29,680 --> 01:22:31,519
Speaker 1: when you're four or when you're two. I'm not good

1339
01:22:31,560 --> 01:22:34,479
Speaker 1: with the kids stuff. But I know that I wasn't

1340
01:22:34,560 --> 01:22:38,000
Speaker 1: lecturing people on climate change though, But I have seen

1341
01:22:38,680 --> 01:22:41,640
Speaker 1: I have seen libs running around at gun rallies. It's

1342
01:22:41,680 --> 01:22:43,439
Speaker 1: just not just climate change. Gun rallies too, with their

1343
01:22:43,520 --> 01:22:45,360
Speaker 1: kids have big placards on. You know, I want to

1344
01:22:45,439 --> 01:22:50,240
Speaker 1: live vote against guns. Kid didn't make the placard. This

1345
01:22:50,439 --> 01:22:53,519
Speaker 1: is like people trotting out their babies and onesies. That's say,

1346
01:22:53,560 --> 01:22:57,040
Speaker 1: you know, vote for Elizabeth Warren because your baby has

1347
01:22:57,080 --> 01:22:58,920
Speaker 1: a onesie on. That says so. I mean, look, people

1348
01:22:59,000 --> 01:23:02,040
Speaker 1: can dress their however they want, but it doesn't mean

1349
01:23:02,080 --> 01:23:06,120
Speaker 1: that I could take the political messaging seriously. Oh it's

1350
01:23:06,200 --> 01:23:09,759
Speaker 1: really stunning, it really is. But you have a child

1351
01:23:09,880 --> 01:23:12,280
Speaker 1: that's still lecturing the whole world. It's not just the

1352
01:23:12,280 --> 01:23:16,280
Speaker 1: American people. She's a global she's a global celebrity who

1353
01:23:16,360 --> 01:23:18,559
Speaker 1: knows nothing about this, but she does want you to panic.

1354
01:23:18,640 --> 01:23:22,559
Speaker 1: This is about panicking. This is like the little kid

1355
01:23:22,760 --> 01:23:29,759
Speaker 1: from what's that m Night Shamalan movie I see dead people?

1356
01:23:29,920 --> 01:23:32,560
Speaker 1: Remember that what was that one called producer Mark? You

1357
01:23:32,560 --> 01:23:35,960
Speaker 1: know I'm talking about forget what it's didn't remember the

1358
01:23:36,040 --> 01:23:37,760
Speaker 1: name yet. I don't remember the name either, but it's

1359
01:23:37,760 --> 01:23:40,200
Speaker 1: the one with Bruce Willis when oh, big spoiler, he's

1360
01:23:40,200 --> 01:23:43,720
Speaker 1: actually the ghost. This is like the little girl who's saying,

1361
01:23:43,720 --> 01:23:46,519
Speaker 1: you know, I see climate change. It's like, well, okay,

1362
01:23:47,680 --> 01:23:52,479
Speaker 1: so what Meanwhile, there's somebody with childlike intelligence who's not

1363
01:23:52,520 --> 01:23:55,759
Speaker 1: a child at all. He's actually quite old, who's essentially

1364
01:23:55,960 --> 01:24:00,360
Speaker 1: parroting the same kind of rhetoric she uses. But the

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01:24:00,439 --> 01:24:04,240
Speaker 1: greatest crisis of our time is climate change. We must

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01:24:04,320 --> 01:24:07,960
Speaker 1: begin to get this under control, ladies and gentlemen. I

1367
01:24:07,960 --> 01:24:11,639
Speaker 1: immediately would call for a four hundred billion dollars increase

1368
01:24:11,960 --> 01:24:16,479
Speaker 1: in funding for alternatives, the new science and technology that

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01:24:16,520 --> 01:24:20,200
Speaker 1: will bring us down to zero net zero emissions by

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01:24:20,560 --> 01:24:27,320
Speaker 1: twenty fifty. And I'll immediately immediately rejoin the Paris Climate Accord,

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Speaker 1: which our administration put together because the rest of the

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01:24:30,640 --> 01:24:34,400
Speaker 1: world is accountable for eighty five percent of the problem

1373
01:24:34,640 --> 01:24:39,040
Speaker 1: and we need to lead them and there's no leadership. Now, yeah,

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01:24:39,160 --> 01:24:43,160
Speaker 1: that's right. China, India, the developing world, they're really going

1375
01:24:43,240 --> 01:24:47,320
Speaker 1: to make themselves much poorer because of climate change. I

1376
01:24:47,360 --> 01:24:51,280
Speaker 1: don't think so. What they're going to do is swindle

1377
01:24:51,360 --> 01:24:56,120
Speaker 1: the developing world into transfer payments, which is just nationality

1378
01:24:56,240 --> 01:25:00,519
Speaker 1: based redistribution of wealth from us to them, and they

1379
01:25:00,560 --> 01:25:02,639
Speaker 1: can laugh all the way. And then what happens when

1380
01:25:02,640 --> 01:25:04,479
Speaker 1: there are emissions are how do they how can we

1381
01:25:04,520 --> 01:25:06,400
Speaker 1: even measure the emissions in these countries? They don't know.

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01:25:07,479 --> 01:25:09,479
Speaker 1: I don't know. When I was in China, it is.

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01:25:09,680 --> 01:25:14,760
Speaker 1: It is really unsettling when you see the skyline over

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01:25:14,880 --> 01:25:18,200
Speaker 1: Shanghai or the skyline over Beijing and it has a

1385
01:25:18,560 --> 01:25:21,960
Speaker 1: when the pollution is really dense and the sun is

1386
01:25:22,000 --> 01:25:24,439
Speaker 1: trying to break through it but can't. It does have

1387
01:25:24,720 --> 01:25:27,880
Speaker 1: a post apocalyptic feel to it. It looks like you're

1388
01:25:28,080 --> 01:25:32,320
Speaker 1: you're seeing the the horizon in a movie where people

1389
01:25:32,520 --> 01:25:36,240
Speaker 1: are rolling around in modified pickup trucks with like big

1390
01:25:36,880 --> 01:25:39,920
Speaker 1: axes and scythes and things coming out of the sides,

1391
01:25:40,160 --> 01:25:42,720
Speaker 1: desperate to find, you know, whatever little water there is.

1392
01:25:42,720 --> 01:25:43,880
Speaker 1: I don't know how many of you have seen the

1393
01:25:44,000 --> 01:25:46,439
Speaker 1: Mad Max movies, but it feels a little bit like that,

1394
01:25:46,680 --> 01:25:51,800
Speaker 1: like it's a post nuclear situation. It's and you see

1395
01:25:51,800 --> 01:25:55,439
Speaker 1: it and that's answer it. But that's pollution. That's actual

1396
01:25:55,560 --> 01:25:59,719
Speaker 1: pollutants in the air. It's not CO two. Does anybody

1397
01:25:59,760 --> 01:26:01,320
Speaker 1: really think that they're going to curb all their CO

1398
01:26:01,560 --> 01:26:04,519
Speaker 1: two emissions because Joe Biden tells them to. Who can

1399
01:26:04,600 --> 01:26:13,160
Speaker 1: believe this, But I'm prepared for even greater degrees of lunacy.

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01:26:13,320 --> 01:26:17,320
Speaker 1: At the Democrat debate coming up this Thursday, they're going

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01:26:17,400 --> 01:26:22,439
Speaker 1: to try and out lefty one another because the current

1402
01:26:22,840 --> 01:26:26,639
Speaker 1: trend is that some of the lower level left wing

1403
01:26:26,720 --> 01:26:30,280
Speaker 1: candidates are losing some support. And it's going to that's right,

1404
01:26:30,560 --> 01:26:33,800
Speaker 1: it's going to Warren, and it's going to Bernie. It's

1405
01:26:33,920 --> 01:26:37,240
Speaker 1: not going to Biden. Biden's support so far seems to

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01:26:37,280 --> 01:26:42,800
Speaker 1: be what it is the Democrat left wing base, a

1407
01:26:42,960 --> 01:26:46,200
Speaker 1: true progressives the Democratic Party. They're not for Biden. And

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01:26:46,360 --> 01:26:49,360
Speaker 1: so as you have fewer candidates, you'll see I think

1409
01:26:49,400 --> 01:26:53,000
Speaker 1: that that's a bigger percentage than certainly they're going to

1410
01:26:53,120 --> 01:26:55,519
Speaker 1: pretend it is. When it comes time for the general election,

1411
01:26:55,560 --> 01:26:59,000
Speaker 1: they're gonna act like, oh, they're a normal party. But

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01:26:59,400 --> 01:27:02,040
Speaker 1: on climate change, you just you hear them say these things.

1413
01:27:02,280 --> 01:27:06,360
Speaker 1: Biden says, four hundred billion dollars, four hundred billion dollars

1414
01:27:06,400 --> 01:27:08,800
Speaker 1: of your money, it's taking money from you spend on

1415
01:27:08,840 --> 01:27:14,000
Speaker 1: a make believe problem. And with that four hundred billion

1416
01:27:14,040 --> 01:27:17,919
Speaker 1: dollars spent. I would want to know how many lives

1417
01:27:18,200 --> 01:27:20,800
Speaker 1: for example, and I understand that this has now become

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01:27:20,840 --> 01:27:22,439
Speaker 1: a thing that I'm repeating for you, but I think

1419
01:27:22,479 --> 01:27:25,000
Speaker 1: it's important. How many lives could be saved with four

1420
01:27:25,120 --> 01:27:30,639
Speaker 1: hundred billion dollars spent on opioid making sure that first

1421
01:27:30,680 --> 01:27:33,360
Speaker 1: responders have the drug, I forget what it's called, that

1422
01:27:33,479 --> 01:27:37,280
Speaker 1: will save somebody if they're going through an overdose. How

1423
01:27:37,360 --> 01:27:42,360
Speaker 1: many lives are saved from the treatment programs that could

1424
01:27:42,400 --> 01:27:46,360
Speaker 1: be set up, the law enforcement efforts to eliminate this

1425
01:27:46,400 --> 01:27:48,720
Speaker 1: stuff from the streets. You know, there's a lot of

1426
01:27:48,880 --> 01:27:52,040
Speaker 1: mislabeling of these drugs that goes on. In fact, the cartels,

1427
01:27:52,760 --> 01:27:56,080
Speaker 1: as I've told you before, try to make the opioids

1428
01:27:56,160 --> 01:27:59,880
Speaker 1: that they are selling look like they come. They copy

1429
01:28:00,040 --> 01:28:03,760
Speaker 1: the imprints of pharmaceutical grade opioid, so it looks like

1430
01:28:03,840 --> 01:28:05,600
Speaker 1: a pharmaceutical grade, but it's not. It's just what they

1431
01:28:05,680 --> 01:28:10,519
Speaker 1: made in some that somewhere in the hinterlands of Mexico,

1432
01:28:11,400 --> 01:28:13,479
Speaker 1: and then people take it and it's the dosage is

1433
01:28:13,560 --> 01:28:15,800
Speaker 1: rog or the chemical compound is stronger, and then they die.

1434
01:28:17,320 --> 01:28:19,880
Speaker 1: How many lives would be saved, the number of lives

1435
01:28:19,960 --> 01:28:22,719
Speaker 1: that would be saved by the government spending four hundred

1436
01:28:22,760 --> 01:28:26,240
Speaker 1: billion dollars to try to transition us even faster than

1437
01:28:26,280 --> 01:28:28,559
Speaker 1: we are currently transitioned to green energy. The number of lives,

1438
01:28:28,560 --> 01:28:34,040
Speaker 1: says is zero. It will save zero lives. The benefit

1439
01:28:34,200 --> 01:28:36,599
Speaker 1: to all of us from that spending will be nothing.

1440
01:28:37,320 --> 01:28:39,600
Speaker 1: It's just a lot of spending. It's like taking a

1441
01:28:39,680 --> 01:28:41,360
Speaker 1: lot of money, putting it in a hole in the

1442
01:28:41,439 --> 01:28:44,000
Speaker 1: ground and lighting it on fire. That's what Biden wants

1443
01:28:44,040 --> 01:28:47,880
Speaker 1: to do because climate change. So I had a victory today,

1444
01:28:49,360 --> 01:28:55,800
Speaker 1: victory day, after four consecutive appointments Producer Mark, four of

1445
01:28:55,880 --> 01:29:01,720
Speaker 1: them spanning many hours I must have spent. I think

1446
01:29:01,800 --> 01:29:07,479
Speaker 1: it was I would conservatively estimate three hours on the

1447
01:29:07,600 --> 01:29:13,000
Speaker 1: phone in addition, in addition to the four appointments with

1448
01:29:13,280 --> 01:29:16,479
Speaker 1: the Verizon FiOS to try to get them to just

1449
01:29:16,600 --> 01:29:19,680
Speaker 1: install my cable and internet properly. And this morning they

1450
01:29:19,720 --> 01:29:24,040
Speaker 1: finally did it. They finally did it after they had

1451
01:29:24,120 --> 01:29:26,120
Speaker 1: some glitch in the system where they kept listing me

1452
01:29:26,200 --> 01:29:27,880
Speaker 1: as part of a group outage. But I wasn't part

1453
01:29:27,920 --> 01:29:30,120
Speaker 1: of a group outage. So every time I'd make an

1454
01:29:30,120 --> 01:29:32,920
Speaker 1: appointment to get this fixed, they would cancel it. Out

1455
01:29:33,000 --> 01:29:35,080
Speaker 1: the last second, because that's how their system works, because

1456
01:29:35,080 --> 01:29:36,680
Speaker 1: they thinking, oh, you're part of this group outage. I

1457
01:29:36,800 --> 01:29:39,679
Speaker 1: wasn't part of the group out it's I was starting

1458
01:29:39,720 --> 01:29:41,560
Speaker 1: to turn into Jack Nicholas in the Shining, like I

1459
01:29:41,680 --> 01:29:44,240
Speaker 1: was losing my mind. And then I'd have to explain

1460
01:29:44,320 --> 01:29:46,760
Speaker 1: to somebody on the phone for thirty minutes, you know,

1461
01:29:46,800 --> 01:29:48,479
Speaker 1: I have to wait for fifteen minutes and then get

1462
01:29:48,520 --> 01:29:50,800
Speaker 1: on the phone what happened. And then they would do

1463
01:29:50,840 --> 01:29:52,880
Speaker 1: another appointment, and then they would cancel it out again,

1464
01:29:53,640 --> 01:29:56,240
Speaker 1: and you know what, at the end of the day,

1465
01:29:56,320 --> 01:29:58,360
Speaker 1: do you know what my prize is for getting cable

1466
01:29:58,400 --> 01:30:03,840
Speaker 1: and internet installed properly? A really expensive bill correct, way,

1467
01:30:03,960 --> 01:30:05,680
Speaker 1: way way more money than I should be spending on

1468
01:30:05,760 --> 01:30:07,920
Speaker 1: cable and internet, of which they will waive none of

1469
01:30:07,960 --> 01:30:11,840
Speaker 1: the fee they had. Their Their official Verizon FiOS Twitter

1470
01:30:11,880 --> 01:30:14,639
Speaker 1: account keep sending me these dms being like, We're so sorry,

1471
01:30:15,080 --> 01:30:16,800
Speaker 1: we know we're messing up. I'm like, first of all,

1472
01:30:16,800 --> 01:30:18,760
Speaker 1: you're not sorry, and second of all, your multi billion

1473
01:30:18,760 --> 01:30:21,479
Speaker 1: dollar corporation, you know, how about free cable and internet

1474
01:30:21,520 --> 01:30:23,840
Speaker 1: for a couple of months. That would make me feel

1475
01:30:23,840 --> 01:30:26,280
Speaker 1: like you're sorry, but they're not sorry. I bring this

1476
01:30:26,400 --> 01:30:31,680
Speaker 1: up not just because it's very frustrating, and I like

1477
01:30:31,840 --> 01:30:35,040
Speaker 1: to point out the frustrations of massive companies because I

1478
01:30:35,160 --> 01:30:38,400
Speaker 1: hate them, but also because it is a little bit

1479
01:30:38,439 --> 01:30:40,680
Speaker 1: of a reminder of what happens when you have a

1480
01:30:40,760 --> 01:30:44,160
Speaker 1: marketplace without competition. What are really what are my options

1481
01:30:44,200 --> 01:30:46,719
Speaker 1: than a building that a that's wired for Verizon FiOS?

1482
01:30:47,800 --> 01:30:49,639
Speaker 1: What are my options in dealing with them? The option

1483
01:30:49,800 --> 01:30:52,040
Speaker 1: is don't have Internet, which is a tough thing to

1484
01:30:52,120 --> 01:30:54,200
Speaker 1: do in this modern era we live in, or just

1485
01:30:54,320 --> 01:30:57,280
Speaker 1: deal with them, deal with them and choke on whatever

1486
01:30:57,880 --> 01:31:01,080
Speaker 1: nonsense they tell you you have to choke down. By

1487
01:31:01,080 --> 01:31:02,280
Speaker 1: the way, the guy came today, you know what he

1488
01:31:02,360 --> 01:31:06,080
Speaker 1: told me, the original tech two weeks ago. It's taken

1489
01:31:06,160 --> 01:31:09,080
Speaker 1: me two weeks to get this resolve. The original tech

1490
01:31:09,439 --> 01:31:13,960
Speaker 1: had forgot to plug in a plug in the you know,

1491
01:31:14,160 --> 01:31:16,120
Speaker 1: in the other server room or whatever down the hallway

1492
01:31:16,160 --> 01:31:18,160
Speaker 1: where they have the one plug. The guy just didn't

1493
01:31:18,200 --> 01:31:21,880
Speaker 1: do it. And you know, you sit here, you say

1494
01:31:21,920 --> 01:31:24,280
Speaker 1: to yourself, what can I take from this? I don't

1495
01:31:24,320 --> 01:31:26,639
Speaker 1: get any benefit from it. Nothing good happens as a result,

1496
01:31:26,680 --> 01:31:29,040
Speaker 1: except there's this. Now I know what it would be

1497
01:31:29,120 --> 01:31:32,360
Speaker 1: like to be in a centrally planned economy, and imagine

1498
01:31:32,680 --> 01:31:36,519
Speaker 1: everything that you were buying, every medical service, everything you

1499
01:31:36,600 --> 01:31:38,240
Speaker 1: were dealing with day in and day out on a

1500
01:31:38,360 --> 01:31:43,000
Speaker 1: consumer basis, was like dealing with Verizon FiOS. You wait,

1501
01:31:43,479 --> 01:31:47,280
Speaker 1: you wait, they screw up, doesn't matter, it's on you

1502
01:31:47,800 --> 01:31:50,720
Speaker 1: wait more, wait around for three hours, guy doesn't show up.

1503
01:31:50,920 --> 01:31:54,519
Speaker 1: You know, the the abuse that we have of the

1504
01:31:54,720 --> 01:31:56,640
Speaker 1: cable guy, which has been a long standing thing. I

1505
01:31:56,680 --> 01:31:58,840
Speaker 1: mean I remember this from even my youth, right, I

1506
01:31:58,880 --> 01:32:02,400
Speaker 1: mean you you know that the cable they they have

1507
01:32:02,600 --> 01:32:04,599
Speaker 1: you in their grip if you if you want cable,

1508
01:32:04,640 --> 01:32:07,040
Speaker 1: and now for I mean Wi Fi, you just can't

1509
01:32:07,080 --> 01:32:09,360
Speaker 1: function as a professional person in media. And if you

1510
01:32:09,360 --> 01:32:14,360
Speaker 1: don't have Wi Fi, just can't do it. There's no escape,

1511
01:32:14,439 --> 01:32:19,519
Speaker 1: there's and there's no justice. And that's that's my reminder

1512
01:32:19,600 --> 01:32:21,479
Speaker 1: of what we would all be dealing with. And I

1513
01:32:21,560 --> 01:32:22,840
Speaker 1: know this seems like a bit of a leap, but

1514
01:32:22,880 --> 01:32:26,280
Speaker 1: it's not. If you had single payer healthcare, every time

1515
01:32:26,320 --> 01:32:27,560
Speaker 1: you went to the doctor, it would be like a

1516
01:32:27,680 --> 01:32:30,080
Speaker 1: dealing with Verizon. Sometimes it's fine, sometimes it's you get

1517
01:32:30,120 --> 01:32:32,840
Speaker 1: through it, it's all. But when there's a problem, you

1518
01:32:32,960 --> 01:32:37,559
Speaker 1: are totally screwed. And there is no. There is no way.

1519
01:32:37,680 --> 01:32:44,000
Speaker 1: You have no recourse nothing. So Verizon FiOS, you're terrible.

1520
01:32:44,520 --> 01:32:48,439
Speaker 1: Slash Central planning is bad. Let's do roll call. Ain't

1521
01:32:48,479 --> 01:32:51,360
Speaker 1: no party. Look a Team Buck party, because a Team

1522
01:32:51,439 --> 01:33:00,840
Speaker 1: Buck party. Don't stop. Yeah, we got Buck turned up

1523
01:33:00,840 --> 01:33:18,080
Speaker 1: to eleven. It's time for roll call. Facebook dot Com,

1524
01:33:18,160 --> 01:33:21,920
Speaker 1: slash Buck Sexton plus appending email address that we'll be

1525
01:33:21,920 --> 01:33:24,760
Speaker 1: able to give you for roll call, right, producer Mark soon,

1526
01:33:24,880 --> 01:33:30,519
Speaker 1: I promise soon. The request is in. The request is in.

1527
01:33:32,200 --> 01:33:34,880
Speaker 1: So that's what we got. Let's see what else we

1528
01:33:35,040 --> 01:33:42,200
Speaker 1: got here? All right? John John rides by the way

1529
01:33:42,320 --> 01:33:48,519
Speaker 1: Saturday Original Squad Here. I remember when I missed the

1530
01:33:48,600 --> 01:33:52,800
Speaker 1: Overseas Deep Dives. I still love the show. Um yeah, man,

1531
01:33:52,920 --> 01:33:55,599
Speaker 1: I wish the Deep Dive. I don't know if if

1532
01:33:55,680 --> 01:34:00,400
Speaker 1: Overseas Deep Dives were more of a national crowd pleaser,

1533
01:34:00,640 --> 01:34:04,680
Speaker 1: I think I could do them. But people like their

1534
01:34:04,760 --> 01:34:06,880
Speaker 1: news of the day stuff. It seems. I don't know.

1535
01:34:07,840 --> 01:34:10,960
Speaker 1: I'm these days. I'm just trying to trying to keep

1536
01:34:10,960 --> 01:34:13,120
Speaker 1: all the people happy. And sometimes you're trying to keep

1537
01:34:13,200 --> 01:34:14,479
Speaker 1: When I say all the people, I mean all of

1538
01:34:14,560 --> 01:34:16,760
Speaker 1: Team Buck happy. And it's not an easy not an

1539
01:34:16,800 --> 01:34:20,479
Speaker 1: easy go to know what is going to get that done?

1540
01:34:20,960 --> 01:34:26,799
Speaker 1: Brian rights Buck. I hope people are documenting the extreme

1541
01:34:27,000 --> 01:34:30,320
Speaker 1: weather events of today. According to the twelve year timeline

1542
01:34:30,320 --> 01:34:32,640
Speaker 1: Democrats have set, by the time people start running for

1543
01:34:32,720 --> 01:34:36,559
Speaker 1: president for the twenty twenty four election cycle, we should

1544
01:34:36,600 --> 01:34:38,920
Speaker 1: be a third of the way to absolute disaster. I

1545
01:34:39,040 --> 01:34:42,719
Speaker 1: wonder what that will look like, probably a lot like today.

1546
01:34:44,080 --> 01:34:47,800
Speaker 1: Democrats have become the new doomsday predictors. At some point

1547
01:34:47,840 --> 01:34:50,400
Speaker 1: everyone just needs to admit just how ridiculous they are. Well,

1548
01:34:51,439 --> 01:34:54,240
Speaker 1: I'm already at that point. I am here to tell

1549
01:34:54,280 --> 01:34:58,640
Speaker 1: you that they are ridiculous. So there is that I

1550
01:34:58,760 --> 01:35:04,479
Speaker 1: can tell you. They are a RIDICULOUSO. Kristen, Well, actually,

1551
01:35:04,479 --> 01:35:06,920
Speaker 1: before I go to Christen, I just say, it's not

1552
01:35:07,080 --> 01:35:10,320
Speaker 1: possible for somebody who has not been brainwashed to watch

1553
01:35:11,640 --> 01:35:16,920
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes or more of that climate change bonanza, that

1554
01:35:17,040 --> 01:35:22,400
Speaker 1: extravaganza that went on what was it last week on CNN.

1555
01:35:22,479 --> 01:35:24,240
Speaker 1: It's not possible to watch more than fifteen minutes of

1556
01:35:24,320 --> 01:35:27,639
Speaker 1: that and come away from thinking anything other than these

1557
01:35:27,680 --> 01:35:31,160
Speaker 1: people are nuts. That's what you come away from that thinking.

1558
01:35:31,320 --> 01:35:34,120
Speaker 1: If you're a normal person, they are nuts. It is true,

1559
01:35:34,760 --> 01:35:37,439
Speaker 1: all right, Kristen writes, I heard Sheldon from Texas Is

1560
01:35:37,479 --> 01:35:42,000
Speaker 1: comment about paper straws. I have to wonder, is that

1561
01:35:42,080 --> 01:35:47,120
Speaker 1: Sheldon Cooper from the Big Bang Theory Christian Wow? Wow,

1562
01:35:48,280 --> 01:35:56,200
Speaker 1: thanks for writing in, Karen, Let's see live. The left

1563
01:35:56,320 --> 01:35:59,719
Speaker 1: has no desire to do anything about the opioid problem

1564
01:36:00,040 --> 01:36:05,400
Speaker 1: that plays directly into population control Live. I don't know

1565
01:36:05,479 --> 01:36:09,760
Speaker 1: if that's why the left doesn't care about the opioid

1566
01:36:09,880 --> 01:36:12,800
Speaker 1: problem as much as they should. Just based on the

1567
01:36:12,880 --> 01:36:16,160
Speaker 1: body count, just based on how many people have lost

1568
01:36:16,240 --> 01:36:18,560
Speaker 1: their lives, you would think there'd be a much a

1569
01:36:18,720 --> 01:36:23,880
Speaker 1: much greater number of journalist stories on this, just much

1570
01:36:23,920 --> 01:36:27,240
Speaker 1: more of a focus on it. But the opioid epidemic

1571
01:36:27,760 --> 01:36:36,400
Speaker 1: overwhelmingly hurts people who are in rural areas or outlying

1572
01:36:36,439 --> 01:36:41,040
Speaker 1: areas of cities or suburbs. And it is mostly, although

1573
01:36:41,080 --> 01:36:45,000
Speaker 1: not certainly, not entirely, but as mostly affecting the white

1574
01:36:45,680 --> 01:36:49,320
Speaker 1: working class community. And so that's why the media doesn't

1575
01:36:49,320 --> 01:36:53,080
Speaker 1: really see an urgent need to tell those stories. I

1576
01:36:53,240 --> 01:36:56,040
Speaker 1: think that at some level, the mainstream media believes that

1577
01:36:56,800 --> 01:37:02,560
Speaker 1: people who have white privilege and don't aren't able to

1578
01:37:02,720 --> 01:37:05,600
Speaker 1: use that white privilege to get beyond the trials and

1579
01:37:05,680 --> 01:37:09,000
Speaker 1: tribulations of substance abuse. Well, that's that's on them at

1580
01:37:09,080 --> 01:37:12,040
Speaker 1: some level, right. I really believe that there's a bit

1581
01:37:12,080 --> 01:37:14,160
Speaker 1: of a cold heartedness from much of the media toward

1582
01:37:14,200 --> 01:37:18,639
Speaker 1: the opioid epidemic because they don't view white working class

1583
01:37:18,640 --> 01:37:22,600
Speaker 1: Americans as victims of anything. So there is a sense that,

1584
01:37:23,560 --> 01:37:27,880
Speaker 1: especially in elite media corridors New York, DC, LA, that

1585
01:37:28,160 --> 01:37:30,800
Speaker 1: people that are caught up in the opioid epidemic it's

1586
01:37:30,840 --> 01:37:33,400
Speaker 1: on them to deal with it and get beyond it,

1587
01:37:33,760 --> 01:37:37,160
Speaker 1: that there's no need to raise the alarm. So and

1588
01:37:37,280 --> 01:37:41,840
Speaker 1: if you think that I'm being too harsh, just tell me,

1589
01:37:41,960 --> 01:37:46,400
Speaker 1: why is it that you've seen so much more coverage

1590
01:37:46,520 --> 01:37:52,520
Speaker 1: and fervent coverage. I mean people acting like it's the apocalypse,

1591
01:37:52,600 --> 01:37:55,680
Speaker 1: over climate change or over any number of issues, then

1592
01:37:55,720 --> 01:37:58,599
Speaker 1: you do over something that is a public health crisis

1593
01:37:59,000 --> 01:38:02,799
Speaker 1: that has direct to illegal immigration, by the way, obviously

1594
01:38:03,040 --> 01:38:09,200
Speaker 1: enormous impact on law enforcement. They don't tell these stories.

1595
01:38:09,280 --> 01:38:11,080
Speaker 1: They don't want the American people to focus on this

1596
01:38:11,200 --> 01:38:13,439
Speaker 1: because it doesn't fit into a narrative of the media likes.

1597
01:38:13,479 --> 01:38:16,120
Speaker 1: It's just the truth, and it's uncomfortable to think about

1598
01:38:16,160 --> 01:38:19,400
Speaker 1: because there are so many people who have lost their

1599
01:38:19,800 --> 01:38:22,040
Speaker 1: lost their lives. This I had to I've mentioned this

1600
01:38:22,120 --> 01:38:25,200
Speaker 1: before on air. I had two very good friends of

1601
01:38:25,360 --> 01:38:27,720
Speaker 1: mine growing up here in New York City who both

1602
01:38:27,840 --> 01:38:33,760
Speaker 1: died of what were accidental prescription drug overdoses. Not I

1603
01:38:33,960 --> 01:38:36,960
Speaker 1: was never told specifically what the drugs were, but there

1604
01:38:37,000 --> 01:38:39,400
Speaker 1: are only so many drugs that one can be prescribed

1605
01:38:39,479 --> 01:38:43,759
Speaker 1: that are likely candidates for a possible overdose. One happened

1606
01:38:43,840 --> 01:38:46,040
Speaker 1: when I was in college. One happened right after college,

1607
01:38:46,760 --> 01:38:49,760
Speaker 1: so and I still remember being at one of those

1608
01:38:49,840 --> 01:38:54,160
Speaker 1: funerals and seeing that family and hearing the father give

1609
01:38:54,200 --> 01:38:59,880
Speaker 1: the eulogy for his son, and it was completely heartbreaking.

1610
01:39:01,240 --> 01:39:03,160
Speaker 1: I still remember the sounds that he made to this

1611
01:39:03,320 --> 01:39:06,400
Speaker 1: day at that microphone, and it haunts me to this day.

1612
01:39:07,000 --> 01:39:11,320
Speaker 1: So the opioid epidemic is something that you would think

1613
01:39:11,400 --> 01:39:14,479
Speaker 1: journalists would really want to dig into and try to raise,

1614
01:39:14,800 --> 01:39:18,439
Speaker 1: not just raise awareness, raise public action, raise public funds,

1615
01:39:19,640 --> 01:39:21,720
Speaker 1: and by the way, raising awareness of something that does

1616
01:39:21,840 --> 01:39:25,880
Speaker 1: have an individual action component is really useful. People should

1617
01:39:25,960 --> 01:39:28,960
Speaker 1: know that one pill, one pill can kill you. They

1618
01:39:28,960 --> 01:39:31,200
Speaker 1: should know that. I don't think everyone knows that. I

1619
01:39:31,240 --> 01:39:33,559
Speaker 1: didn't know that till a few years ago. I had

1620
01:39:33,600 --> 01:39:38,040
Speaker 1: assumed that if you were overdosing on opioids, you must

1621
01:39:38,080 --> 01:39:39,760
Speaker 1: have been Look, I'll just say it, you must have

1622
01:39:39,800 --> 01:39:42,439
Speaker 1: been an addict. You know that it was primarily something

1623
01:39:42,479 --> 01:39:46,680
Speaker 1: that would affect people who were who were almost you know, junkies.

1624
01:39:47,600 --> 01:39:51,360
Speaker 1: It's just not true affects people that take the drugs

1625
01:39:52,320 --> 01:39:55,479
Speaker 1: because they're prescribed and then they developed dependence. And if

1626
01:39:56,080 --> 01:39:58,599
Speaker 1: people die because they take the drug one time more

1627
01:39:58,640 --> 01:40:02,240
Speaker 1: than they should or one time and the dosage just

1628
01:40:02,439 --> 01:40:07,719
Speaker 1: wasn't wasn't properly, you know, properly meet it out because

1629
01:40:07,760 --> 01:40:10,519
Speaker 1: they're doing it recreationally and they certainly shouldn't because it's very,

1630
01:40:10,560 --> 01:40:12,519
Speaker 1: very dangerous. So there's just there's a lot more to it.

1631
01:40:13,160 --> 01:40:16,840
Speaker 1: And yet look at how upset the Libs get when

1632
01:40:16,840 --> 01:40:20,000
Speaker 1: they talk about climate change versus the opioid epidemic, which

1633
01:40:20,040 --> 01:40:23,800
Speaker 1: they treat the opioid epidemic like it's, you know, the

1634
01:40:23,960 --> 01:40:27,479
Speaker 1: same as dealing with traffic fatalities or something. There's much

1635
01:40:28,000 --> 01:40:31,680
Speaker 1: there should be much more urgency in this issue. But

1636
01:40:33,320 --> 01:40:38,360
Speaker 1: all right, let's see we have Adam who writes buck

1637
01:40:38,400 --> 01:40:43,280
Speaker 1: on the millennials, strangely talking all taking all the factor

1638
01:40:43,360 --> 01:40:46,519
Speaker 1: into account and deciding tear down the mountain instead of climate.

1639
01:40:47,000 --> 01:40:50,439
Speaker 1: From their point of view, with crushing debt and all avenues, difficult,

1640
01:40:50,560 --> 01:40:54,240
Speaker 1: not impossible, one might say, I'm not playing shields high

1641
01:40:56,760 --> 01:40:59,320
Speaker 1: Adam usually very astute, not really sure what you're going

1642
01:40:59,360 --> 01:41:01,720
Speaker 1: for here, by you write again, my friend, maybe I'm

1643
01:41:01,720 --> 01:41:04,240
Speaker 1: just a little, a little distracted that I've got I've

1644
01:41:04,280 --> 01:41:06,639
Speaker 1: got a lot on my mind, which usually the good

1645
01:41:06,640 --> 01:41:08,639
Speaker 1: thing about radio is that it forces you to focus

1646
01:41:08,760 --> 01:41:11,400
Speaker 1: on not things that are in your own personal life

1647
01:41:11,439 --> 01:41:15,599
Speaker 1: on your mind for the most part, but sometimes especially

1648
01:41:15,640 --> 01:41:17,200
Speaker 1: for the end of the show, can creep in, like, oh,

1649
01:41:17,240 --> 01:41:19,120
Speaker 1: I've still I've still got to deal with that thing.

1650
01:41:20,520 --> 01:41:25,960
Speaker 1: Steven Right's best action movie is Raid two. Check it

1651
01:41:26,040 --> 01:41:29,160
Speaker 1: out well, Stephen. It sounds like something used to kill cockroaches.

1652
01:41:29,920 --> 01:41:31,880
Speaker 1: In fact, I believe it is something used to kill

1653
01:41:31,920 --> 01:41:35,280
Speaker 1: cockroaches thrucer mark fact check. I'm right, aren't I? Yeah,

1654
01:41:35,320 --> 01:41:38,800
Speaker 1: I use right to kill cockroaches exactly. So Raid two

1655
01:41:39,720 --> 01:41:42,880
Speaker 1: doesn't sound that awesome just based on that. But I

1656
01:41:42,960 --> 01:41:45,760
Speaker 1: suppose we could look beyond that and see what is

1657
01:41:46,960 --> 01:41:54,280
Speaker 1: next on the best action movie list. Perhaps then Buck

1658
01:41:54,520 --> 01:41:57,639
Speaker 1: I personally cannot wait until the podcast is out earlier,

1659
01:41:58,160 --> 01:42:00,439
Speaker 1: so that I'm not at the mercy of my low station.

1660
01:42:00,520 --> 01:42:02,760
Speaker 1: Also be interested in seeing the Buckman in action when

1661
01:42:02,800 --> 01:42:05,320
Speaker 1: you get your video stream. All that and an email

1662
01:42:05,320 --> 01:42:08,400
Speaker 1: address too. Talk about safe and warm. I truly enjoy

1663
01:42:08,479 --> 01:42:10,559
Speaker 1: your second with Sean Parnell. I too, love the Jack

1664
01:42:10,720 --> 01:42:13,799
Speaker 1: Reacher book series. I certainly have to check out Shawn's

1665
01:42:13,800 --> 01:42:16,720
Speaker 1: books as well. Shields High. Yeah, I mean, Van, thank

1666
01:42:16,760 --> 01:42:19,160
Speaker 1: you for your kind words about it. The thing about

1667
01:42:19,160 --> 01:42:21,240
Speaker 1: doing a second with Shawn is we're friends. We've been

1668
01:42:21,280 --> 01:42:23,519
Speaker 1: friend now for years. So it's fun when you get

1669
01:42:23,520 --> 01:42:25,320
Speaker 1: to do work like that with a friend, you know,

1670
01:42:25,360 --> 01:42:26,840
Speaker 1: when you get to sit and have a conversation. And

1671
01:42:26,960 --> 01:42:29,559
Speaker 1: that's part of part of what my job is here,

1672
01:42:29,600 --> 01:42:32,160
Speaker 1: which is just to do a show. And Shaan's just

1673
01:42:32,560 --> 01:42:36,679
Speaker 1: he's such a good guy. He's never there's no false

1674
01:42:36,760 --> 01:42:40,200
Speaker 1: bravado in him. I mean, he was a decorated combat

1675
01:42:40,280 --> 01:42:43,320
Speaker 1: veteran and he was right right in this stuff. And

1676
01:42:43,479 --> 01:42:44,960
Speaker 1: you hang out with them, you have a burger, you know,

1677
01:42:45,040 --> 01:42:46,439
Speaker 1: you have a drink, and you're just like, this guy

1678
01:42:46,600 --> 01:42:49,679
Speaker 1: is totally cool and chill and nice dude. Nice dude,

1679
01:42:49,720 --> 01:42:53,320
Speaker 1: and it writes great books. I mean, the Outlaw Platoon

1680
01:42:53,439 --> 01:42:57,160
Speaker 1: is fantastic. I might. I might read some fiction just

1681
01:42:57,200 --> 01:42:59,519
Speaker 1: so I can read my buddy Sean Parnell's book. I

1682
01:42:59,680 --> 01:43:03,160
Speaker 1: might actually put it into the mix. I'm very It's

1683
01:43:03,280 --> 01:43:08,120
Speaker 1: very rare for me to do fiction, very rare. I've

1684
01:43:08,160 --> 01:43:10,559
Speaker 1: done it in recent years, but it's not a usual thing.

1685
01:43:11,960 --> 01:43:16,120
Speaker 1: Buckman shields High and the Shield. I think it's fate.

1686
01:43:16,200 --> 01:43:19,240
Speaker 1: This is from Benny. Shield was great on the first show.

1687
01:43:19,439 --> 01:43:22,000
Speaker 1: That conflicted me mentally and emotionally because I found myself

1688
01:43:22,080 --> 01:43:25,080
Speaker 1: rooting for Vic even though he is clearly not a

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Speaker 1: good guy the way I expect law enforcement protagonist to

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Speaker 1: be happy viewing Benny in Mississippi. All right, I mean

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Speaker 1: the Shield is going to have to get I don't

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Speaker 1: know where I can watch it exactly, so I gotta

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Speaker 1: I gotta check it out. I gotta make it, gotta

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Speaker 1: make it happen. Kyle, do you know it's probably as

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Speaker 1: I gotta be on Hulu or Netflix, gotta be one

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Speaker 1: of the other Kyle rides Buck. I have a ton

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Speaker 1: of professional respect for General Mattis that being said, I

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Speaker 1: think the American public has a tendency to revere their

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Speaker 1: generals too much because they're perceived to be different and

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Speaker 1: ahaps more respectable than our politicians. A clause of its

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Speaker 1: observed that war is just a continuation of politics by

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Speaker 1: other means. So if we consider our generals to have

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Speaker 1: mastered the art of war, then we shouldn't forget that

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Speaker 1: by extension, many have also risen to that rank in

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Speaker 1: part by mastering the art of politics. And as any

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01:44:18,160 --> 01:44:22,360
Speaker 1: adept politician knows, the perception of persona you create for

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Speaker 1: others is an important component of the political process. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure someone as well read as General Mattis is quite

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Speaker 1: aware of that. Yes, you know, I agree with you,

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Speaker 1: my friend. I think that the Kyle, I mean, no

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Speaker 1: one can ever take away, nor should they try to,

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Speaker 1: the really outstanding career of service to his country the

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Speaker 1: General Madnis Habit. That doesn't mean that he's an emperor,

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Speaker 1: god king. It doesn't mean that he can't be wrong,

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Speaker 1: and it doesn't mean that sometimes perhaps he focuses a

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Speaker 1: bit more on his own reputation and image then one

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Speaker 1: would expect for a your military figure. I mean, at

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Speaker 1: that level, you are talking about somebody who's acting often

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01:45:05,280 --> 01:45:08,720
Speaker 1: like a has to be acting like a politician when

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01:45:08,760 --> 01:45:11,599
Speaker 1: you're somebody who's running a combat in command when you're

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Speaker 1: somebody who's the Secretary of Defense. Politics is a reality

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Speaker 1: of your day to day life, so I think it's

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Speaker 1: impossible to completely extricate that. That's going to be it

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Speaker 1: here in the Hut. For today, we're getting our countdown

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Speaker 1: to earlier podcasts, So please everybody download the Buck Sexton Show.

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Speaker 1: I'd rather subscribe to the Buck Sexton Show on iTunes.

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Speaker 1: Just go on your iTunes and type in the Buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show, or however you listen to podcasts, subscribe there

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Speaker 1: because you're going to start seeing it popping into your

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Speaker 1: feed by three Eastern with the next two weeks exciting stuff.

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Speaker 1: Shields Eye