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Speaker 1: Let's talk about local government.

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Speaker 2: What does it mean to be a good Democrat these days?

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Speaker 2: Let's talk to Senator Tommy Tuberville, and China's already met

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Speaker 2: at us coming up, and I'm right, what does it

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Speaker 2: mean to be a good Democrat these days?

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Speaker 1: Well, that's a fascinating question to ask.

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Speaker 2: And one that we're actually seeing play out in front

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Speaker 2: of us with what's happening in New York City. Now

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Speaker 2: stay with me, whether or not you're in the Big Apple,

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Speaker 2: this will apply to you.

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Speaker 1: Let's start back in kind of the beginning.

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Speaker 2: Eric Adams. Eric Adams is current mayor of New York City.

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Speaker 2: Kathy Hochel, the governor of New York State, is reportedly

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Speaker 2: seriously considering removing him as mayor. Very odd law they

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Speaker 2: have in New York allows her to do such a thing.

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Speaker 2: But let's, like I said, and talk about how all

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Speaker 2: this began. Eric Adams was elected in New York City

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Speaker 2: as look, whatever he is, I'm not an Eric Adams fan.

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Speaker 2: He was elected as kind of the anti Bill de

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Speaker 2: Blasiomember Bill de Blasio, that big commie goober who just

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Speaker 2: tore New York City to shreds. I personally over to

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Speaker 2: Blasio's time as mayor went to New York.

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Speaker 1: I always go to New York City. I have to

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Speaker 1: go for work all the time.

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Speaker 2: I watched New York just steadily just go down the

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Speaker 2: longer de Blasio was there. Remember, the cops hated his guts.

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Speaker 2: The cops really really hated his guts. And so New

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Speaker 2: York this is a moderate selection for New York picked

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Speaker 2: Eric Adams, former NYPD cop, thought to be more pro

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Speaker 2: comp but definitely he's not built of Blasio. Again, he's

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Speaker 2: not my guy, but he's not built of Blasio. Eric

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Speaker 2: Adams gets in there, does his thing, and then the

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Speaker 2: Biden administration did, well, what horrible anti American communists do.

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Speaker 2: They not only opened up the border, they used your

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Speaker 2: money to bring in as many foreign barbarians as humanly possible.

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Speaker 2: And of course, originally, you remember this, originally they had

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Speaker 2: just tried to stash them in the reddest states or

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Speaker 2: the border states.

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Speaker 1: Hey hey just leave them all in Texas.

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Speaker 2: But to his credit, Greg Abbott really was the pioneer

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Speaker 2: on this, and Ronda Santas did it as well.

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Speaker 1: They figured out, hey, we can just.

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Speaker 2: Ask these people if they'd rather go somewhere else, and

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Speaker 2: if they say yes, we can ship them there started

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Speaker 2: shipping illegals into New York City.

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Speaker 1: Well, cities are not the country. They can't print money.

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Speaker 2: Cities, especially New York since it's on a freaking island,

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Speaker 2: have limited room, limited resources. And if you're a mayor

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Speaker 2: if you're Eric Adams, you want to do.

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Speaker 1: Things during your time as mayor. You want to be remembered.

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Speaker 2: You have that city budget, you want to figure out.

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Speaker 2: I want to put in an ice rink here, the

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Speaker 2: Eric Adams ice rink. They will always remember me for that.

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Speaker 2: I have no idea whether or not he wants an

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Speaker 2: ice rink. But that's the kind of thing. That's the

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Speaker 2: kind of way you think.

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Speaker 1: When you're the mayor.

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Speaker 2: Except you're starting to have to house all these illegals,

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Speaker 2: starting to have to feed all these illegals. You're watching

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Speaker 2: crime go through the roof. And not only are all

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Speaker 2: these things happening, Eric Adams was elected in large part

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Speaker 2: because the black community of New York City came out

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Speaker 2: and supported his run for mayor. Well, like we've talked

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Speaker 2: about many times before, it's not just the hotels. Where

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Speaker 2: are they putting most of the illegals in these big cities,

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Speaker 2: the Chicagos, the New York's, the putting them in the

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Speaker 2: black neighborhoods. Why, because those are the poor neighborhoods. That's

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Speaker 2: where you can stuff them in the gym, stuff them

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Speaker 2: in the crappy school, have a good time.

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Speaker 1: Long story short. Eric Adams starts.

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Speaker 2: To get tripped at out in public. So let's get

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Speaker 2: to put some pushback. Eric Adams decides, I'm not going

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Speaker 2: to just hand over my reputation as mayor to the

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Speaker 2: Biden administration just so they.

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Speaker 1: Can burn out America.

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Speaker 2: And he it wasn't even it was a little forceful,

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Speaker 2: I guess, but it's not as if he was belligerent.

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Speaker 1: Started speaking out publicly.

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Speaker 3: The city is being destroyed by the migrant crisis.

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Speaker 1: This is in the lap of the President of the

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Speaker 3: And the White House has failed New York City on

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Speaker 2: Okay, now that's a call out for sure. It's not

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Speaker 2: calling Joe Biden every name in the book, say hey,

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Speaker 2: this issue. He understands that. Well, the Biden administration did

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Speaker 2: something next, and it's very difficult to give them the

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Speaker 2: benefit of the doubt. About five minutes after Eric Adams

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Speaker 2: eric Adams, like among Holly and Hoarde, immediately we're told there.

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Speaker 1: Were corruption charges corruption.

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Speaker 2: They love saying that, and let me be perfectly clear

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Speaker 2: about this.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they were. He's a New York City politician. There

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Speaker 2: I don't have any idea the validity of the charges.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, You don't know, No one knows.

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Speaker 2: But if you're the by deministration, and you already have

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Speaker 2: a record of setting the FBI after your political opponents,

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Speaker 2: You've rated mar Lago, You've arrested pro lifers. He's sent

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Speaker 2: the counter Terrorism Division after school board moms because you

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Speaker 1: You were hardly going to get the benefit of the doubt.

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Speaker 2: When the mayor of New York City complains about you

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Speaker 2: publicly and then the FBI shows up at his doorstep,

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Speaker 2: it looks political.

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Speaker 1: Probably was.

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Speaker 2: Even if the charges are legit, it probably was political.

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Speaker 2: But then Eric Adams pretty crafty move. Eric Adams starts

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Speaker 2: after him. Sure, the FBI is after him. But these

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Speaker 2: poll numbers for Donald Trump are looking real good. Looks

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Speaker 2: like Trump may be forty seven after all, meaning me

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Speaker 2: get another turn time in office. So Eric Adams reportedly

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Speaker 2: goes and meets with Donald Trump, starts to speak kindly

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Speaker 2: with Donald Trump, doesn't sit down with Tucker Carlson. Donald

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Speaker 2: Trump does win the election, and Eric Adams is now

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Speaker 4: I came to New York City. I wasn't gonna leave

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Speaker 4: up nothing I did the last time, and I told

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Speaker 4: got was showing back into Rikers. That's huge, but we

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Speaker 4: got other things we're working on.

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Speaker 1: So I'm hoping.

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Speaker 4: And now I got him on the couch in front

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Speaker 2: Talking about the new alliance between Ice and Adams.

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Speaker 1: So thank you very much for coming in.

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Speaker 3: Alliance was never I mean, he doesn't come from Toware.

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Speaker 4: If he doesn't come true, I'll be back in New

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Speaker 4: the hell is the agreement we came to so.

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Speaker 3: I want to live, and I want I said, we're

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Speaker 2: So now they're chumming, and just like that, the charges

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Speaker 2: have been dropped. Very clearly, a political decision has been made,

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Speaker 2: a political alliance and agreement, if you will. Donald Trump

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Speaker 2: access to grind. Eric Adams gets to not go to prison,

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Speaker 2: and we're all off nice and clean. Now that's the backstory.

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Speaker 2: But there's something Eric Adams came out and said about

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Speaker 2: his interaction with the Biden administration that I thought was

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Speaker 2: that there was a throwaway line. It was a few

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Speaker 2: just so incredibly revealing, is what he said about.

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Speaker 1: I spoke with the President himself. I spoke with the

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Speaker 3: Then the President came here to New York City. The

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Speaker 3: mister President, I'm not sure what they're telling you about

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Speaker 3: this problem, but this is a terrible problem. That's planning

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Speaker 5: And so you tell the President and his aids this,

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Speaker 5: and what do they say?

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Speaker 1: Basically, be a good Democrat, Eric, be a good Democrat.

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Speaker 1: That was the basic overall theme.

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Speaker 3: You know, one of his ages told me that, listen,

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Speaker 3: this is like a goldstone.

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Speaker 1: It'll pass. It's like a gallstone. It'll pass.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it'll hurt now, but it'll pass.

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Speaker 1: Will you pee it out? Then? Why do you have

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Speaker 2: Say, be a good Democrat. That actually brings me to

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Speaker 2: my point. The Democrat Party will come back.

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Speaker 1: They will, they will.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't look like it right now, which we'll get

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Speaker 1: But where are we as a country.

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Speaker 2: When being a good Democrat means you have to be

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Speaker 1: Is that where we are as a country?

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Speaker 2: Because if it's where we are, then we are in

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Speaker 2: very very serious trouble, extremely serious trouble. In fact, look

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Speaker 6: enforce civil detainers regarding federal immigration law. It's you know,

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Speaker 1: Well, you've lined up the state.

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Speaker 6: And so I can't you know, it's hard enough to

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Speaker 6: and certainly in the city. In the city of Boston,

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Speaker 6: we don't have authority to enforce federal immigration law. And

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Speaker 6: comes to visit our city, lives in our city, is

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Speaker 1: That, of course, would be a good Democrat.

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Speaker 2: Where are we as a country when we have two

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Speaker 2: major political parties and in order to be in good

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Speaker 2: standing with one of them, you have to believe in

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Speaker 2: the open border importation of barbarians, rapists, and murderers.

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Speaker 1: I know we're all excited right now. I'm excited.

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Speaker 2: Right now, I'm excited about the Trump administration. I'm doing

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Speaker 2: backflips about the things I've seen. I've never had a

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Speaker 2: my entire forty three years on the planet.

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Speaker 1: I'm happy, but.

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Speaker 2: I can't stop thinking about where we are as it

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Speaker 1: I am not one and will never be one.

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Speaker 2: The truth is, in order to continue for another one

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Speaker 2: hundred years, five hundred years as a country, we have

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Speaker 2: to have a Democrat Party that is not what it

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Speaker 2: currently is.

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Speaker 1: We can't do this.

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Speaker 1: About your cell phone service.

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Speaker 2: Let's save you a little bit of money, but more importantly,

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Speaker 8: It's probably the most screwed up agency we have in

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Speaker 1: Why did the FBI get so bad.

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Speaker 8: Particular politics, We got more people that were involved in

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Speaker 1: Yeah, sure is, coach. Why the delay?

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Speaker 8: Then there's so many days that you have to wait

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Speaker 8: He's the perfect person for the job. He'll get it done.

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Speaker 8: And he's been hadn't been doing anything behind the scenes

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Speaker 8: The day one that he gets in, he's going round running.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd hate to be a corrupt agent.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's shift gears here, because Doge is all in

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Speaker 1: But the Pentagon cometh that audit is going to be

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Speaker 2: And I think the American people are going to bet

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Speaker 8: Yeah, the Pentagon, the RS, there's a lot of agencies

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Speaker 1: So it's just it's a total disaster.

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Speaker 2: Coach, I did not expect yesterday to wake up and

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Speaker 1: Is there one with Fort Knox? Did Bob Menendez take

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Speaker 1: It and and.

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Speaker 8: Squashed this, uh, this mystery. But again it's you just

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Speaker 1: And fifty years old. It's a disaster. How it is

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Speaker 2: All right, Let's shift gears to something that near and

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Speaker 8: Yeah, we fought back every day, and we saw it

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Speaker 1: In terms of recruiting.

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Speaker 8: All the dei woke social justice nonsense that they're pushing

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Speaker 8: Nobody's fought back against it.

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Speaker 2: Finally, let's talk about Chinese farmland, Iranian farmland, North Korean

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Speaker 2: It's astounding to a lot of people that this is

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Speaker 1: But apparently you're trying to put a stop to this.

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Speaker 8: That's it's a bill that we put out to just

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Speaker 2: All right, chi cooms are mad at us already. I

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Speaker 2: Maybe so you can perform the way you should, not

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Speaker 1: Wake up feeling great the next day. Sound good?

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Speaker 2: Go to shotbeam dot com slash Jesse Kelly, we'll be back. Okay,

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Speaker 2: let's talk about China because this is going to be

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Speaker 2: all this stuff is too confusing for me.

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Speaker 1: We better bring in Stephen Yates to talk about it.

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Speaker 2: National security expert with the wonderful Heritage Foundation.

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Speaker 1: Always makes us a little bit smarter.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Steve, why are the chi coms mad at us already?

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Speaker 7: But really, there is this really strange thing that I

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Speaker 7: then that was deleted and put in place instead that

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Speaker 7: we oppose unilateral use of force or coercion. That coercion

444
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Speaker 7: word is getting after all the pressure tactics that China

445
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Speaker 7: has tried to put in place that looked like a

446
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Speaker 7: blockade or otherwise in recent times, and the Prime Minister

447
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Speaker 7: of Japan and Prime Minister of India have supported this

448
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Speaker 7: new language, so low behold. The State Department fact sheet

449
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Speaker 7: changed that too, and the mandarins in Beijing's puzzle palace

450
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Speaker 7: decided that was too far and they needed to warn

451
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Speaker 7: us against fanning the flames of Taiwan independence.

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Speaker 2: Okay, first of all, let's talk about the coersion they're doing.

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Speaker 2: It seems like every single morning you wake up and

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Speaker 2: you see some Chinese naval vessel is brushed up against

455
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Speaker 2: the fishing boat in Taiwan. What exactly are they doing

456
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Speaker 2: over there?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you're not wrong about that, And it's not just Taiwan.

458
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Speaker 7: They've got their fishing vessels or coastguard like vessels that

459
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Speaker 7: are blasting massive hoses at innocent bystanders who are in

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Speaker 7: their own sovereign waters in the Philippines, southern Japan. But yes,

461
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Speaker 7: there's aircraft that have been buzzing close to Taiwan's airspace.

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Speaker 1: They've launched missiles.

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Speaker 7: Over in landing zones that are not far from Taiwan,

464
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Speaker 7: and all these vessels keep approaching and encroaching. It's meant

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Speaker 7: to just sort of have slow simmering terror effect on

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Speaker 7: the people of Taiwan where they might beg for mercy

467
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Speaker 7: and take a bad deal. So far, they haven't reached

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Speaker 7: for that option. I don't think they will, but the

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Speaker 7: pressure continues. It violates rules and norms that Beijing, of

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Speaker 7: course laughingly says that it wants to uphold and the

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Speaker 7: international rules based order.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so we've talked about this before, you and I,

473
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Speaker 2: and it does get confusing because our policy seems to

474
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Speaker 2: be intentionally confusing when it comes to Taiwan. When they

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Speaker 2: stop doing or I should say, if God forbid, they stop.

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Speaker 1: Doing that, I'm not touching you. I'm not touching you

477
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Speaker 1: thing that like they're doing right now.

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Speaker 2: What if they happen to start landing amphibious vehicles on

479
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Speaker 2: the shore, and we have a combined arms exercise where

480
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Speaker 2: the Chinese divisions are storming into Taiwan. What are we

481
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Speaker 2: going to do?

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Speaker 7: Well, According to policy as we've had it for decades,

483
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Speaker 7: we should be arming them in a timely basis to

484
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Speaker 7: have an adequate self defense capability. Now, our supply chains

485
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Speaker 7: have not been what they should be, and our timelines

486
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Speaker 7: for manufacturing our way off and the beltweight bandits have

487
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Speaker 7: been pocketing billions, if not trillions of dollars to deliver

488
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Speaker 7: things late, and so deterrence isn't what it should be

489
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Speaker 7: on taime wwan one part. But our policy should be

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Speaker 7: that we've sold them enough that they have the capability

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Speaker 7: to deter that from happening, and then we would come

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Speaker 7: in after the initial move to try to support.

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Speaker 1: Now the United States, Japan.

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Speaker 7: And maybe others are on the blocks to decide what

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Speaker 7: do we do on a quicker time horizon to intervene

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Speaker 7: or not, And so that I think is a very

497
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Speaker 7: different place. Americans are not hungry for another undefined entanglement.

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Speaker 7: I can completely understand that, and the Japanese have their

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Speaker 7: own national interests, which the Prime Minister made clear I

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Speaker 7: thought that helped with the President that it.

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Speaker 1: Should not be the US standing alone.

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Speaker 7: But we have got to get our house in order

503
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Speaker 7: when it comes to our defense supply chains, get them

504
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Speaker 7: strategically decoupled from China, for heaven's sake, and make sure

505
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Speaker 7: that we're delivering things on time that matter. And if

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Speaker 7: we're not able to help our allies do more, South

507
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Speaker 7: Korea and Japan and others can do a lot more

508
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Speaker 7: to fill this space. And that's better than it being

509
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Speaker 7: a binary thing between the US and China.

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Speaker 1: Steve, what are quote things that matter?

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Speaker 2: I hate to nerd out on the details, but I

512
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Speaker 2: geek out.

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Speaker 1: On things like this.

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Speaker 2: How does an island like Taiwan, how can it possibly

515
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Speaker 2: defend itself against a juggernaut like China even to slow

516
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Speaker 2: it down?

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Speaker 1: What are we talking about? Missile defense? What is it?

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Speaker 7: Well, there's a lot of things that would fill in

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Speaker 7: the blank, and they're better minds than mine that could

520
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Speaker 7: probably do a better job of filling in that blank.

521
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Speaker 7: But there's just some simple lessons learned from the Ukraine experience.

522
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Speaker 7: Land war is different than taking an island that's one

523
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Speaker 7: hundred miles off shore, but it's also an important reminder

524
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Speaker 7: that in many ways it's easier to defend and thwart

525
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Speaker 7: what's coming at you than it is to attack, secure

526
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Speaker 7: and control another territory. So all those things that are capabilities,

527
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Speaker 7: whether its surface to air, drones and other kinds of

528
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Speaker 7: vessels that are under sea, surface and air, that can

529
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Speaker 7: complicate things for China. But we shouldn't limit it to

530
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Speaker 7: just the things that people consider to be defensive. I mean,

531
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Speaker 7: if your life is being threatened, your livelihood's being threatened,

532
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Speaker 7: targets on the mainland should be fair game. And Taiwan

533
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Speaker 7: should be developing and is developing capabilities to strike the

534
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Speaker 7: mainland in ways that would make it so that there's

535
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Speaker 7: some pain to be felt if there's a kind of

536
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Speaker 7: an attack. But the US and allies should be doing

537
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Speaker 7: more in the financial services side of things too, to

538
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Speaker 7: make it clear that should this balloon go up, that

539
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Speaker 7: Chinese money will be seized anywhere in the international financial system,

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Speaker 7: that China's banks will be immediately insolvent, and the whole

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Speaker 7: host of measures that we have that really haven't been

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Speaker 7: put onto the table by the white glove diplomat talks

543
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Speaker 7: we've had for the last few decades.

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Speaker 2: Steve House panel just released a report on Chinese espionage,

545
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Speaker 2: documenting more than sixty ops twenty states of this country. Now,

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Speaker 2: spy lovers like me believe that's all James Bond stuff,

547
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Speaker 2: but of course that's not the case. What kind of

548
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Speaker 2: ops are these? What are they doing here?

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Speaker 1: Oh, this is tip of the Iceberg stuff.

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Speaker 7: Now, So, Jesse, if you've got an unlimited population, and

551
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 7: you've got a massive program to indoctrinate and train and

552
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Speaker 7: then deploy people to other countries and have them go

553
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Speaker 7: in as students and researchers or working in an investment

554
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Speaker 7: house or other seemingly innocuous things, and they can also

555
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 7: engage in community organization, and I think was Barack Obama's

556
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 7: euphemism for how communists organize to influence American politics. You'd

557
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 7: have groups that are in New York, LA, other major

558
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Speaker 7: cities that look like they're just celebrating their Chineseness, but

559
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 7: what they're really doing is tracking and harassing dissidents, soaking

560
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Speaker 7: up any gaps in open source information, which is to say,

561
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:57,320
Speaker 7: people who might have access to sensitive information, they go

562
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Speaker 7: walk off their jobs. You make nice with them. They

563
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 7: spill the beans over a beer or a meal, or

564
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 7: give them a promise of a nice trip somewhere. That

565
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Speaker 7: all of these kinds of compromising efforts have been going

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Speaker 7: on for decades, but they've really picked up pace in

567
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Speaker 7: recent years. Some of them have been exposed, like in

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Speaker 7: New York the person who is really close to Governor

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Speaker 7: hokl and was based out of New York City. We've

570
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Speaker 7: had the driver for Diane Feinstein that was there for

571
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Speaker 7: twenty years, seemingly, but it's really amped up in recent years.

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Speaker 7: And we've just been very bad as Americans, and the

573
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Speaker 7: Chinese Communist Party is really good at saying, well, if

574
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Speaker 7: you go after me being a bad Communist spy, you're

575
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 7: really just racist. And Americans go ooh, I don't want

576
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Speaker 7: to be called that, so maybe I just let this

577
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Speaker 7: person compromise my institutions.

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Speaker 1: How much of this.

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Speaker 2: Do you feel is American politicians possibly being in bed

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Speaker 2: with the Chinese. It's hard not to think about a

581
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Speaker 2: Chinese spy balloon that had American tech inside of it

582
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Speaker 2: starting in Alaska, the Biden administration finding out about it

583
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Speaker 2: and allowing it to simply traverse the entire country collect

584
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Speaker 2: all that data before they shoot it.

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Speaker 1: Down over the Atlantic.

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Speaker 2: When I'm on the outside looking in at that Steve,

587
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Speaker 2: it looks to me like a president who's been compromised

588
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Speaker 2: by the communist Chinese.

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Speaker 1: It just does.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, well, there's a huge quotion of this that I

591
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 7: put up there with ignorance and incompetence. But there is

592
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 7: definitely a segment of this that is compromised when you

593
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Speaker 7: start throwing around millions of dollars in private accounts for

594
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Speaker 7: family members. That is textbook compromise when you're working in

595
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Speaker 7: intelligence and counter intelligence, and so you don't get these

596
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Speaker 7: no show jobs or massive balloons in family accounts with

597
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Speaker 7: the expectation that you just want to send nice holiday

598
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Speaker 7: letters and go.

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Speaker 1: To good receptions.

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Speaker 7: It means when it matters, you're going to make something

601
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Speaker 7: easily available to me. And we don't have part evidence

602
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Speaker 7: on where that went into that stupid balloon situation. That

603
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 7: was a horrific humiliation that we allowed that to just

604
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Speaker 7: float over and spend millions of dollars to shoot in

605
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 7: the Atlantic. But that compromises a very very real part

606
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Speaker 7: of this. That's what the New York stuff was with

607
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 7: money close to politicians. There are several ethnic Chinese people. Again,

608
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 7: we're not ethnically profiling but the Communist Party sure does,

609
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 7: and they go and they bring donations to get access

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Speaker 7: and access to do what.

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Speaker 1: This is a real effect in our system.

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Speaker 7: We've got to get better at recognizing it and building

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Speaker 7: firewalls against it.

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Speaker 2: All Right, finally, Steve, before I let you go, Russia Ukraine?

615
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Speaker 1: Are we at the beginning of the end of all this?

616
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Speaker 2: Trump administration appears to want to wrap this thing up.

617
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Speaker 2: I have no earthly idea how long wrapping it up

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Speaker 2: will take.

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Speaker 1: But is this the beginning of the end? I believe

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Speaker 1: it is.

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Speaker 7: There's a lot of momentum moving in that direction, although

622
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Speaker 7: I would not want to underestimate how hard it is

623
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Speaker 7: to stop these kinds of things. I mean, this has

624
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Speaker 7: been three years of a grinding war of attrition and

625
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 7: it's going to take a lot to have a verified

626
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Speaker 7: halt of hostilities. Figure out what happens with land that

627
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Speaker 7: was taken and or is there some kind of peacekeeping?

628
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Speaker 7: What are the Europeans going to do for other Europeans?

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Speaker 7: What other powers are going to do things? So the

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Speaker 7: United States is not everyone's first and most nine to

631
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Speaker 7: one one call for a bailout. I mean, there's still

632
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Speaker 7: a lot to work out but what the Trump administration

633
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Speaker 7: is doing is definitely not isolationism.

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Speaker 1: It's like half the National Security.

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Speaker 7: Cabinet is out there in the world in pursuit of

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Speaker 7: this piece.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's hope they get it done. Steve, thank you, brother,

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Speaker 2: appreciate it as always, all right, Apparently someone's leaking to

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Speaker 2: I guess you could call it. And sometimes it's hard

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Speaker 2: to know. What are you supposed to know? What are

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Speaker 2: you supposed to believe? How many media leaks are supposed

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Speaker 2: to happen? How many are just some idiot and the

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Speaker 2: government running his mouth? Why are we sending reaper drones

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Speaker 2: over Mexico? Joining me now to talk about many of

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Speaker 2: these things. Todd Bensman, fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies,

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Speaker 2: love them very much, author of the book Overrun. Okay, Todd,

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Speaker 2: somebody told CNN that we're flying drones over the cartels

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Speaker 2: in Mexico. Is this one of those well we wanted

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Speaker 2: them to know? Or is this one of those? We

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Speaker 2: have a leaky ship in the Central Intelligence Agency, which

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Speaker 2: would be the least surprising things in the world.

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Speaker 1: What is it?

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Speaker 9: Well, I mean, I can't say for sure, but we

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Speaker 9: definitely know from at least the Mexicans who were complaining

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Speaker 9: about this briefly and saying, hey, listen to there. You know,

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Speaker 9: we didn't give them permission to be over our territory,

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Speaker 9: or that some of them were permitted but others were not.

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Speaker 1: That sort of thing.

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Speaker 9: So we do have the Mexicans talking about it, and

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Speaker 9: maybe they just want to start doing some We want

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Speaker 9: to start doing some psyops on the cartels, let them

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Speaker 9: know that, you know, we're coming after them in some way,

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Speaker 9: that they should start looking over a shoulder, maybe start

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Speaker 9: watching out for themselves and be nervous. And it's not

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Speaker 9: just the drones, the spy planes, but it's also you know,

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Speaker 9: the green berets. Just we're sitting down there to start

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Speaker 9: training Mexican naval infantry in unconventional warfare, and you know,

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Speaker 9: we're starting to put naval assets on the Gulf of America,

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Speaker 9: off the coast there for the first time. We're doing

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Speaker 9: a lot of things that we haven't done in a while.

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Speaker 9: It seems like we're setting the table for something. And

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Speaker 9: the context of that is Trump says we're going to

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Speaker 9: wipe them out, and they're using sort of hyperbolic language

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Speaker 9: about what we're going to do that.

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Speaker 1: We're going to go kinetic. And that's the big context

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Speaker 1: to all.

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Speaker 9: This, including troubling down on the CIA operations down there.

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Speaker 9: So that's a big Washington Post story out today.

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Speaker 2: Todd, talk to me about the Mexicans in the cartels,

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Speaker 2: because it's unsurprised and that we get a lot of

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Speaker 2: mixed messaging, as you just kind of pointed out from

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Speaker 2: the Mexican side of it. Now, we're looking forward to

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Speaker 2: working with this administration. We will not work with this administration.

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Speaker 2: We of course will smash the cartels. Hold on, we

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Speaker 2: never said we'd sign up for this exactly. Ex what

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Speaker 2: help can we expect from this government.

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Speaker 9: Well, the Mexican government under Claudius shinebamb adapt to adopt

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Speaker 9: did the prior president's policy toward the cartel, which and

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Speaker 9: I'm not making this up, was hugs not bullets. In

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Speaker 9: other words, we're just going to let you operate, unless

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Speaker 9: occasionally it's inconvenient for us and we have to go

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Speaker 9: in and pick somebody up. But for the most part,

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Speaker 9: you're free to make as much money as you want.

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Speaker 9: We'll leave you alone if you leave us alone and

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Speaker 9: maybe pay us. But the Trump administration isn't down with that.

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Speaker 9: The Trump administration wants bullets, not hugs.

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Speaker 1: And if the.

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Speaker 9: Mexican government doesn't like that, you know, we put a

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Speaker 9: twenty five percent tariff in place with Trump's finger hovering

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Speaker 9: over that button if you don't, and that'll send them

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Speaker 9: into recession right away. So they're under the gun, so

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Speaker 9: to speak, the Mexican government to do what Trump to

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Speaker 9: change their own policy so that their economy doesn't suffer.

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Speaker 9: That's why you're getting yet this and then that, and

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Speaker 9: then this and then that, because they really don't want.

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Speaker 1: To go up against the cartels.

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Speaker 9: It's hard to do that, but we are going to

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Speaker 9: make them do it. We're coercing them into doing it.

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Speaker 9: And that's kind of what the problem is there, why

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Speaker 9: we're getting confusion.

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Speaker 2: Todd, how concerned are you, because you know a lot

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Speaker 2: more about this stuff than I do. How concerned are

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Speaker 2: you about what kind of an operation this would be?

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Speaker 1: You know, the average American.

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Speaker 2: Understandably, I'm not insulting them, thinks the cartels are all

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Speaker 2: up in cartel headquarters at some fancy hacienda. And I've

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Speaker 2: seen clear and present angy. You just drop a bomb

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Speaker 2: on it and they're all dead.

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Speaker 1: Of course, but that is not how it works in

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Speaker 1: real life.

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Speaker 2: Very similar to other places we've been, they are ingrained

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Speaker 2: in many of these communities where they operate. They are

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Speaker 2: not in one central warehouse. Very scary looking. They're ingrained.

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Speaker 2: How do we uningrain them? For lack of a better term,

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Speaker 2: it's it's true.

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Speaker 9: The cartels are what we call a wicked homeland security problem,

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Speaker 9: very very difficult to just simply destroy them militarily. Hundreds

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Speaker 9: of thousands of Mexicans work for the cartels in various

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Speaker 9: kind of roles. The economy is Mexican economy is dependent

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Speaker 9: on a lot of that drug trade and human smuggling trade.

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Speaker 9: That Sineloa cartel has sixty thousand employees by one report,

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Speaker 9: and so it's not going to be easy to just

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Speaker 9: wipe them out. And furthermore, under the administration of President

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Speaker 9: Philippe Calderon from two thousand and six through about twenty twelve,

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Speaker 9: they waged all out military war. They tried with everything

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Speaker 9: they had to wipe out those cartels, and they got

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Speaker 9: their butts kicked and withdrew and as a result, we

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Speaker 9: got hugs not bullets. As a policy. Two hundred thousand

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Speaker 9: Mexican dead. I think that the way this is going

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Speaker 9: to yeah, I think that the way this is going

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Speaker 9: to go down. And by the way, the drug smuggling

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Speaker 9: never stopped during any of that, so it's not that

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Speaker 9: is a wicked problem. I think that military action is

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Speaker 9: going to maybe suppress some things. It's going to you know,

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Speaker 9: it's maybe it might be better than nothing. Maybe the

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Speaker 9: cartels will give up fentanyl and as long as they

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Speaker 9: can keep sending the rest of the drugs over, maybe

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Speaker 9: just not fentanyl. That seems to be what the Americans

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Speaker 9: are worried about. I think that the way it'll play out,

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Speaker 9: if I have another second here, is kind of like

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Speaker 9: we'll use the Mexican army and military as our proxy

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Speaker 9: for any kinetic action, but they're going to have CIA support,

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Speaker 9: intell American military intelligence support, maybe weaponry, aircraft will be

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Speaker 9: behind the scene advisors, like in Columbia for years and

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Speaker 9: years where we backed a war against the FARC, which

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Speaker 9: was a major cocaine smuggling cartel down there. Ultimately it

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Speaker 9: was successful, but it took decades. So I think we'll

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Speaker 9: see if we see anything, it'll be something like that.

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Speaker 9: And one last thing, there is a possibility that if

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Speaker 9: there is kinetic action down there, I mean military action

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Speaker 9: by the Mexicans with US under US pressure, that the

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Speaker 9: cartels could attack us on our soil, on our side,

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Speaker 9: shoot at border patrol, take out some American military personnel

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Speaker 9: down there or something in retaliation. And in that case,

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Speaker 9: they're moving in some pretty serious military forces. The tenth

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Speaker 9: Mountain Division has just arrived, five hundred of them light

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Speaker 9: infantry in Fort Watchuka in Arizona.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 9: That's a a we mean business outfit. Uh, fully armed

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Speaker 9: and equipped with all their their weaponry and spy planes

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Speaker 9: and everything else. So I think that's intended maybe to

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Speaker 9: deter any kind of attack on US soil.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the boys at the Tent Mountain are very very

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Speaker 2: serious individuals, that is for sure. So that jails you

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Speaker 2: we mean business. I've been to Fort Watchuka. Actually, Todd,

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Speaker 2: that was awesome. Come back soon, brother, we'll rooff.

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Speaker 1: On this some more interesting. It's it's not gonna be clean. Okay.

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Speaker 2: That's that was all I was trying to convey, and

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Speaker 2: I hope Todd brought that home with his expertise.

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Speaker 1: It's not it's not easy. It's not clean.

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Speaker 2: You know, you don't just send it, just sending the

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Speaker 2: seals to take them out. That's that's stuff from the movies.

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Speaker 2: We're talking large this a war. It would be a war.

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Speaker 2: It would be Afghanistan. Something to keep in mind. All right,

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Speaker 2: we have light in the mood, ext it is time

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Speaker 2: to lighten the mood. And I love watching communists embarrass themselves.

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Speaker 2: And Mark Hamill is one of those fascinating people where

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Speaker 2: everyone knows his face because everyone watched Star Wars. Everybody

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Speaker 2: has seen Star Wars. Nobody can name a single other

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Speaker 2: movie he's ever been in. Yet he's parlayed that popularity

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Speaker 2: from Star Wars into being the most obnoxious, outspoken, moronic

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Speaker 2: communists in Hollywood, which is actually saying something. So I

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Speaker 2: did enjoy this video quite a bit.

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Speaker 5: So what makes us love cinema so much that we're

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Speaker 5: all gathered here to celebrate tonight? For me, it's that

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Speaker 5: films create world so vivid and stories so powerful that

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Speaker 5: we lose ourselves in them completely. They create immersive cinematic

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Speaker 5: landscapes that feel alive, whether they're set here in London

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Speaker 5: or anyways. That films create world so vivid and stories

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Speaker 5: so powerful that we lose ourselves in them completely. They

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Speaker 5: create immersive, cinematic landscapes that feel alive, whether they're set

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Speaker 5: here in London or anywhere.

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Speaker 2: I just, I guess I don't understand how that can happen.

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Speaker 2: Haven't you've been in a place where your pants have

828
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Speaker 2: fallen down, your shorts have fallen down.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you've got your phone, your keys in there.

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Speaker 2: You can feel you can feel it, right, you can

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Speaker 2: feel it before it happens. You can feel it. Our

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Speaker 2: camel can't feel it. Apparently the force was not with him.

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Speaker 2: I'll see it tomorrow