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Speaker 1: You're in the freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show.

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Speaker 1: Buck took the day off, but don't worry, We've still

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Speaker 1: got your covered. This is the best of the Buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show. Welcome friends to the Buck Sexton Show. These

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Speaker 1: are troubling times. We have multiple crises happening. You'd think

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Speaker 1: that right after an election there'd be something of a

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Speaker 1: calm before the storm. You'd either have their preparation for

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Speaker 1: a new administration or the continuation of the old administration,

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Speaker 1: and we'd be thinking about the holidays, Christmas presents, Hanakah gifts,

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Speaker 1: new Year's plans. Instead, we are subjected to more and

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Speaker 1: more lies about what is actually happening in this election

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Speaker 1: recount and auditing process, and we're subjected to increase seeing

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Speaker 1: totalitarianism that doesn't even try to justify itself anymore in

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Speaker 1: order to stop covid as, if that's possible. And let

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Speaker 1: me tell you, and I don't usually complain about these

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Speaker 1: things to you, because I think that oftentimes people use

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Speaker 1: this as an opportunity to just direct attention to themselves

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Speaker 1: or oh look at me. I have found out beyond

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Speaker 1: any doubt. I mean, it's official that because of my

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Speaker 1: stances on COVID nineteen, asking questions mostly because I say,

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Speaker 1: hold on a second, that data does not support this

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Speaker 1: thing that they say, hold on a minute, how does

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Speaker 1: it make sense to do this and not that for

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Speaker 1: those thought crimes for that wrong thing, I'm currently throttled, limited, demonetize,

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Speaker 1: you name it on all of the major social media platforms.

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Speaker 1: That's currently happening right now. Some people have been saying, Buck,

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Speaker 1: you haven't been tweeting as much, you haven't been posting

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Speaker 1: as what's going on. It's because I'm trying to figure

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Speaker 1: out what's happening, and I've gone into the back end

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Speaker 1: of various accounts and looked at the stats and seeing

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Speaker 1: the official warnings you have to look for them sometimes,

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Speaker 1: or the official suspensions, all these things that happen. And yes,

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Speaker 1: what they do now is they bring in quote independent

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Speaker 1: fact checkers, end quote, and they shut you down and

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Speaker 1: they don't even tell you about it necessarily. You'll just

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Speaker 1: find out, oh, your reach is down. Nine. You think

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Speaker 1: that your followers and your followers believe they have access

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Speaker 1: to what you're saying and thinking, but no, you're just

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Speaker 1: putting the penalty box. This is coming at a time

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Speaker 1: when people asking important questions people being willing to say,

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Speaker 1: hold on a second, why are we at in all

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Speaker 1: time high in cases in this country? Why are we

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Speaker 1: being told that California is going into full on stay

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Speaker 1: Bay Area counties, the most extreme lockdown orders that you

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Speaker 1: would find anywhere in this country. And this is all

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Speaker 1: happening after months of masking and social distancing and limitations

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Speaker 1: on gatherings. And they tell us that the reason for

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Speaker 1: all of this is because we haven't done a good

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Speaker 1: enough job. We've had months of restrictions in place. Remember

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Speaker 1: when California over the summer was holding itself up as

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Speaker 1: a great example. We mask up, so we're safe. That's

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Speaker 1: what they were saying. That was what the governor gavenusom

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Speaker 1: That just slimy fraud, that's what he was telling everybody.

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Speaker 1: Great job, you listen to what we tell you, Therefore

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Speaker 1: you're safe. Did they stop listening suddenly? No? But can

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Speaker 1: they admit that now? People in power don't like to

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Speaker 1: have their power taken away, And they also really don't

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Speaker 1: like to look stupid or like they've been swindled or

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Speaker 1: their frauds. Right, They for to avoid that when they can.

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Speaker 1: They certainly don't like looking dumb, though, because mockery of

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Speaker 1: public officials is one thing that they know is destructive

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Speaker 1: to their brand. You can disagree with them, you can

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Speaker 1: really make fun of them and it sticks, that bothers them.

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Speaker 1: That's why this hypocrisy that we see stays in so

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Speaker 1: many people's minds long after it happens. When Gavin Newsom

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Speaker 1: public officials California and elsewhere across the country who don't

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Speaker 1: shut down, they want you to lockdown. But the rest

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Speaker 1: of us, you see, in the elites, we get we

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Speaker 1: get to get out of lockdown free cards. There. That's

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Speaker 1: and big tech is now full on part of this authoritarianism.

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Speaker 1: What purpose does social media serve in a time of

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Speaker 1: Why even have it? What's the point? These are communications platforms,

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Speaker 1: like the New York Times Editorial Board has created this

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Speaker 1: right about things that they the consensus enforcers, have been

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Speaker 1: and they shut people down, and they say, you're violating

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Speaker 1: our terms of service. How am I violenting? Oh that's right.

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Speaker 1: Third party fact checkers say that this is not correct.

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Speaker 1: Third party fact The third party fact checkers are morons.

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Speaker 1: I am smarter than all of these third party fact checkers.

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Speaker 1: I know more than them. I have a longer track

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Speaker 1: record of not just calling things about COVID, but about

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Speaker 1: I'm just telling you right now, I have been directly

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Speaker 1: targeted by this. They're going after me with everything they've got,

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Speaker 1: and they're doing it in the slyest possible way. They can't.

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Speaker 1: They're not suspending me. I haven't broken any rules. So

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Speaker 1: what do they do. They just throttle me. They shadow

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Speaker 1: ban me. Oh, you think you're communicating with your followers,

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Speaker 1: see and then I track it down and there's this

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Speaker 1: not in terms of service. Really, it's that they bring

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Speaker 1: in these fact checkers. You know what the fact checkers do,

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Speaker 1: launders their authoritarianism to a third party. So these billionaires

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Speaker 1: Google affiliated, they're not the ones saying that there's no

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Speaker 1: free speech. Well, they brought in these independent fact checkers.

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Speaker 1: People are losing their livelihoods. California is turning into like

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Speaker 1: a prison state right now for what Because this is

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Speaker 1: gonna make everything so much better. Ask somebody who believes Oh,

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Speaker 1: the lies about the election and how they say that

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Speaker 1: There's all these things that they could do. There's all

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Speaker 1: It's so hard to do a signature match in Georgia.

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Speaker 1: But there's something bigger going on here. I mean, remember this.

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Speaker 1: If they can censor us during a pandemic, when they've

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Speaker 1: gotten countless things wrong already, they can always find an

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Speaker 1: as well. Host of most of the most worst, worthwhile

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Speaker 1: social media and now are getting banned. They may not

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Speaker 1: tell you their band, but their shadow band. And it's

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Speaker 1: happening faster and faster now every day. And the tidal

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Speaker 1: during an election and in the immediate aftermath. You think

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Speaker 1: it's in any way unconnected that Hunter Biden, the shutdown

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Speaker 1: They put these little idiotic disclaimers on everything. This is

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Speaker 1: the scale for the authoritarian left. And they've lied to you,

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Speaker 1: They've lied to society about this. They've said that they

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Speaker 1: are devoted to free speech. These are platforms for the

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Speaker 1: They are acting as publishers, straight up. It's just there's

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Speaker 1: much attention for an idea that opposes this consensus. None

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Speaker 1: this also was applied to the mass hysteria about Trump

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Speaker 1: Russia collusion, all lies for years. Where was all this

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Speaker 1: banning and the suspending of people? Then? No, it's only

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Speaker 1: This is actual tyranny in practice. Now, when someone says

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Speaker 1: That's what it feels like. The founding fathers were drawing

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Speaker 1: Is it because California's Trump country and people are masked

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Speaker 1: the third party fact checker, who are these people? Who

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Speaker 1: it's opinion that they disagree with. But the fact checkers

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Speaker 1: have better opinions. Now, this is of course happening in

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Speaker 1: part because journalism has so thoroughly disgraced itself because of

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Speaker 1: They're rebranding this wing of objective journalism as fact checking.

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Speaker 1: Now they cannot win the argument, so they must control

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Speaker 1: the flow of information. That's what's happening right now. It

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Speaker 1: is real, it is all around you, and big tech

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Speaker 1: just like the old days. No Fox News, no conservative media.

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Speaker 1: Just get your talking points read to you by some

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Speaker 1: imbecile with too much hairspray on the nightly news or,

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Speaker 1: in this case, from the New York Times website. That's

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Speaker 1: the only thing that's allowed. Don't question the election, don't

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Speaker 1: question the COVID lockdown policies. If you do either of

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Speaker 1: those things, they will silence you. Where are the big

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Speaker 1: defenders of our democracy right now? Oh no. The great

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Speaker 1: in fact leftist mountpieces for censorship and totalitarianism, which are

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Speaker 1: in fact mortal threats to our democracy. That is what

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Speaker 1: attention to winning these Georgia Senate seats. It has to happen,

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Speaker 1: because what goes on if we lose this. If we

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Speaker 1: lose and they have a Democrat majority in the Senate, well,

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Speaker 1: first they'll eliminate the filibuster. Then they'll move for expanded

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Speaker 1: amnesty for legal aliens. You know they already have a

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Speaker 1: surge at the border going on right now. Why do

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Speaker 1: you think that is people who are focused on this issue,

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Speaker 1: who want to get into the country and stay here illegally.

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Speaker 1: They know you're probably never going to have a better time.

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Speaker 1: There's never gonna be a better option for you to

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Speaker 1: come into the country illegally than right before a Biden

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Speaker 1: administration that's going to be pushing for amnesty, because even

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Speaker 1: if you're not covered by that amnesty, do you think

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Speaker 1: there'll be any real will to do deportations. No, if

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Speaker 1: you can get here, you'll be able to stay here,

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Speaker 1: So they move for Eventually it'll be legalization for everyone

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Speaker 1: in the US illegally. They'll add to that statehood for

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Speaker 1: DC in Puerto Rico. Some Supreme Court packing could also happen,

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Speaker 1: although it feels like they don't need it these days.

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Speaker 1: Look at the Texas decision. Texas brought suit, many states

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Speaker 1: joined with Texas shot down by the Supreme Court. Trump

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00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:56,399
Speaker 1: is out there tweeting about how no judge has the courage. Right,

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Speaker 1: that's what he's saying, No judge has the courage? What

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Speaker 1: did I tell you all along? And I don't like

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Speaker 1: saying things that I know are going to be frustrated

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Speaker 1: to hear. But I have to tell you the truth.

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Speaker 1: I have to tell you what I know is coming judges.

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Speaker 1: All along, i'd said, who's going to be the judge

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Speaker 1: who wants to be attacked by the Democrats and the

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Speaker 1: left for even giving an opening for this to be

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Speaker 1: overturned because of all the fraud. I just don't think

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Speaker 1: they have the courage That's not me saying I don't

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Speaker 1: care that they don't have the courage. That's me saying,

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Speaker 1: this is the reality that we face. And that's what

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Speaker 1: Trump is saying about these judges, including supposedly conservative justices.

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00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:36,719
Speaker 1: They're saying, nah, we can't we can't touch this thing. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: can't get involved. So we absolutely absolutely need to focus

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Speaker 1: in on this Georgia election and do everything that we

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Speaker 1: possibly can to make sure that the Senate is in

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Speaker 1: Republican control going into a Biden administration, because right now

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Speaker 1: it would it would take something of a legal miracle

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Speaker 1: to prevent the Biden administration from happening. We all, we

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Speaker 1: all need to know that. That's that's where this is heading.

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Speaker 1: Not saying it's over, but I'm saying it's not looking good.

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Speaker 1: We're down two touchdowns and there's you know, a minute

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Speaker 1: thirty left. That's where that's where the situation is. And

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this to you. And even who tells

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Speaker 1: you otherwise right now is not being straight with you.

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Speaker 1: They're not being honest with you. You know, there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of telling people what they want to hear right now,

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Speaker 1: and I don't want to be a part of that.

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Speaker 1: And have our eye taken off the ball in Georgia

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Speaker 1: because some people are squabbling for whatever remnants of the

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Speaker 1: Trump movement they can sort of gather up for themselves

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Speaker 1: in their eyes. I think that's the play. There are

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Speaker 1: people now who are doubling and tripling down and how oh,

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Speaker 1: don't worry. You know the plan and we're gonna win.

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Speaker 1: And there was there was a chance, there was a

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Speaker 1: time we were having that fight. And yes, we see

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Speaker 1: it through to the end. But anyone is telling you

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Speaker 1: that it's looking good right now is lying to you.

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Speaker 1: They're lying to you, all right, and putting too many

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Speaker 1: people on air who are going to tell you that

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Speaker 1: on their air, on their show. There's also a dishonesty

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Speaker 1: in that, right. Yeah, I could bring endless amounts of people. Look,

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Speaker 1: I think Sean Parnell's legal challenge in Pennsylvania it is legitimate.

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Speaker 1: I think he's right, and I think he's got a shot.

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Speaker 1: That's why I put Sean on the air. But if

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Speaker 1: you're asking me how I think this is going to

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Speaker 1: go for the election overall, meaning whether or not this

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Speaker 1: thing is pretty much over and done with, we're close

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Speaker 1: and people get mad at me. That's fine. I don't

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Speaker 1: know why they're mad at me. I was saying fight

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Speaker 1: all along. I was saying, this is where we need

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Speaker 1: to be, dig in, do everything we can. But at

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Speaker 1: some point, you know, sometimes you fight and do you

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Speaker 1: give it everything again and you still don't end up

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Speaker 1: getting the result that would be justice. That's life. That's

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Speaker 1: where we are. So I just rather you hear that

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Speaker 1: at this point from me than have me pretend like

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Speaker 1: everything's fine, which I would not do. And then in January,

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Speaker 1: when Biden's a week out from being we're in, say yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, I guess, I guess maybe it is going

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Speaker 1: to happen. You know, we should prepare now for that possibility.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't mean that we give up, but it means we

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Speaker 1: are being smart and strategic, and part of that means

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Speaker 1: winning in Georgia. All right. The response to losing Paris

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Speaker 1: to the Germans, if you're the Allies, is not to say,

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Speaker 1: let's hand them London. And that's what giving them Georgia

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Speaker 1: would be right now, a disaster. So we continue the

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Speaker 1: fight and we understand where we are in this process.

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Speaker 1: Bucks Off spreading freedom coast to coast. This is the

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Speaker 1: best of the buck Sexton show y'all got a twelve check,

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Speaker 1: Wall Street got four trillion in access to liquid funds,

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Speaker 1: and and that to me, just structurally, Will I'm concerned.

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Speaker 1: What keeps me up at night is that it was

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Speaker 1: short term relief that was really important and really necessary,

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Speaker 1: but that the help for working people and everyday people,

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Speaker 1: as we know, drives up super fast. But what we

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Speaker 1: gave away, what we gave away to Wall Street was

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Speaker 1: so large and so structural that frankly like, that's why

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Speaker 1: Republicans I think have not been have been, you know,

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Speaker 1: not as and why Mitch McConnell has not been in

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Speaker 1: a rush. Mitch McConnell has been in a rush. This

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Speaker 1: is complete rewriting of history from AOC who is an idiot,

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Speaker 1: but a dangerous and powerful little propagandist for the ignorant left. No,

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Speaker 1: Mitch is the one who has been pushing for COVID relief.

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Speaker 1: Pelosi blocked it. They can try to rewrite the history

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Speaker 1: as much as they want, it won't change what actually

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Speaker 1: happened here. Pelosi blocked it, said no, we want more.

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Speaker 1: He brings up Wall Street. This is something we have

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Speaker 1: got to change. We have got to We've got to

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Speaker 1: get the public to understand this. Wall Street is dominated

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Speaker 1: by Democrats, by Lib Democrats. The Wall Street Banks, Goldman

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Speaker 1: Sachs is practically a DNC pack in terms of the

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Speaker 1: way that it spends money in elections. It through of

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Speaker 1: all these big investment banks. Because this is the game,

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Speaker 1: the Amazons, the Goldman Sacks, the megacorporations, the global is,

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Speaker 1: the internationalists. They're rich and getting richer, and government policy

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Speaker 1: from big government action continues to benefit them. They like

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Speaker 1: the anti competitive nature of all the endless regulation and

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Speaker 1: the ability of government to come in and shut down

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Speaker 1: their competitors. Look what's going on during COVID. Small business

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Speaker 1: is just getting wiped out. But Wall Street is This

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Speaker 1: is a myth. This is a fable that Wall Street

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Speaker 1: is Republican. Wall Street is absolutely not. I live in

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Speaker 1: New York City. I come from a family with a

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Speaker 1: dad who worked on Wall Street for decades. I got brothers,

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Speaker 1: I got friends that are Wall Street people worked in

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Speaker 1: Wall Street. Wall Street is Democrats. You're in the freedom huh.

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Speaker 1: This is the Buck Sexton Show. Buck took the day off,

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Speaker 1: but don't worry, We've still got your covered. This is

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Speaker 1: the best of the Buck Sexton Show. So how has

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Speaker 1: this whole fight against COVID nineteen gone so far? What

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Speaker 1: have we learned and what should we do going forward? Critical?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely central, This and the election outcome the two biggest,

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Speaker 1: most important stories at this juncture in America, no question

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Speaker 1: about it. We got somebody with a particular and worthy

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Speaker 1: point of view on this one. He's writing a book

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Speaker 1: about just what I mentioned. David Marcus, who is the

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Speaker 1: New York correspondent for The Federalist. He writes to the

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Speaker 1: Federalist dot Com He's got a book coming out on

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Speaker 1: this called Charade. I can only assume that means he's

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Speaker 1: actually been paying attention to all the bs we've been

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Speaker 1: subjected to. David. Good to see it. It's great to

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Speaker 1: see you, Bud. So let's let's start with this. We

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Speaker 1: got Biden telling us today one hundred days of masking.

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Speaker 1: We got Fauci saying the same stuff that he's been

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Speaker 1: saying for nine months now, basically eight months. Now, where's

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Speaker 1: your head on all of this? And you're a fellow

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Speaker 1: New Yorker, So we've been through the worst of this

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Speaker 1: of any place in the country, and I'm I'm actually

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Speaker 1: considering I was just saying this for I'm actually considering

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Speaker 1: civil disobedience for the first time my life. Like, I

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Speaker 1: think I actually need to get arrested over the COVID lockdowns.

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Speaker 1: That's where I'm at. Yeah, look, it's pretty close to that.

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Speaker 1: And you know, we saw that happened this weekend on

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Speaker 1: Staten Island. As far as the one hundred day mask mandate,

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Speaker 1: I mean, according to polling, some are in the neighborhood

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Speaker 1: of eighty five or nine percent of Americans are wearing masks.

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Speaker 1: Um you walk around New York City, they're fairly ubiquitous,

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Speaker 1: even beyond what the CDC has called for. Uh. You know,

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Speaker 1: we also look back to that New New England Journal

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Speaker 1: of Medicine article from the spring that really clearly made

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Speaker 1: the point that in most quick interactions the mask doesn't

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Speaker 1: do any good. That that you know, that it is

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Speaker 1: sort of meaningless because you need to be having a long,

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Speaker 1: like four minute interaction to catch it. And that got

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Speaker 1: clarified by the by the authors, but it never got corrected.

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Speaker 1: They never said oh no, no no, no, no, that's not true.

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Speaker 1: They said, no, you should, you should go wear your mask.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, this is literally the least that

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden can do. It's amazing that so many people

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Speaker 1: think this is almost a revolutionary call from the would

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Speaker 1: be next president, Joe Biden. It's it's almost like he's

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Speaker 1: taking a page from the Fauci book, which you just

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Speaker 1: keep saying the same thing, and then there's no way

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Speaker 1: to gauge it one way or the other, and when

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Speaker 1: it doesn't work out, then just say, well, people didn't

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Speaker 1: do it well enough. Because David, I'm looking at this

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Speaker 1: now day to day, the data we said, we said

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Speaker 1: a new you know, it's terrible. We set a new record, unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: of deaths from COVID in twenty four hours in the

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Speaker 1: United States. Cases over two hundred thousand a day confirmed

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Speaker 1: this week. And I look around that, I say, Okay,

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Speaker 1: in what world does this look like we had figured

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Speaker 1: out how to stop this spread by doing all these

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Speaker 1: things we've been doing. I just don't understand how anyone

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Speaker 1: can come away with that conclusion. No, I don't. I

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Speaker 1: don't think you can. I mean, look, the fact is

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Speaker 1: that this is an extraordinarily contagious virus. When I interviewed

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Speaker 1: doctor Sloughy from my book, who's the head of Operation

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Speaker 1: Warp Speed, he explained to me that if you had

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Speaker 1: a disease that was as infectious or contagious as COVID

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Speaker 1: and as deadly as a bowllet. He described that as

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Speaker 1: something that would be an extinction level situation. I felt

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Speaker 1: a little child up my spine, right, So, I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is a very contagious disease, and you're absolutely right,

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Speaker 1: our efforts to mitigate it um really haven't seemed to

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Speaker 1: make a whole lot of difference. And every time the

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Speaker 1: government sticks its its finger in a hole in the dam,

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Speaker 1: the virus starts coming through something else. So it's restaurants,

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Speaker 1: or it's Thanksgiving dinner, or it's the schools, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's been helpless at best. So in your research

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Speaker 1: for Charade, you just mentioned you you interviewed doctor Slowe.

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Speaker 1: What part of this has been let's just start with

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Speaker 1: your title. What part of this do you feel has

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Speaker 1: been a charade? Well, there's a lot, a lot of

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Speaker 1: it has The book is basically broken down into chapters

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Speaker 1: where I explore um one myth in each of the chapters.

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Speaker 1: So I think maybe the biggest lie or a myth

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Speaker 1: of the lockdown period was we're all in it together, right,

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Speaker 1: This this sort of became the advertising slogan. This sort

639
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 1: of became the way that politicians made us feel that,

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Speaker 1: you know, we couldn't disobey them, or we were somehow,

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Speaker 1: you know, harming the collective, and we were all going

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Speaker 1: through it, and obviously we weren't. I mean, I was

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Speaker 1: very aware of the privileged position that I was in,

644
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Speaker 1: being a journalist who had all basically already worked from home.

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Speaker 1: I kept my income, right, I even got the stimulus money,

646
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Speaker 1: and meanwhile I walked to the grocery store and see

647
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Speaker 1: food lines. We were never in this together. Another is,

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Speaker 1: you know, follow the science. And as we just talked

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Speaker 1: about with the mess, well, I mean the science changes.

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Speaker 1: Jay Batiara, who's a Stanford Professor of Medicine at Stanford,

651
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Speaker 1: he made the point recently that science can't operate if

652
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Speaker 1: you have what I like to refer to as pandemic correctness.

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Speaker 1: Science can only operate if if everybody's ideas are able

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Speaker 1: to be explored, and that clearly didn't happen. We saw

655
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Speaker 1: that with that New England Journal of Medicine article where

656
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Speaker 1: they were scolded and then they work owed. Yeah. I

657
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Speaker 1: got throttled on social media for sharing the Danish mask

658
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Speaker 1: study because you're only allowed to share it. And remember

659
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Speaker 1: now they actually will shut you down for things because

660
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Speaker 1: they claim it lacks context, which is just a fancy

661
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Speaker 1: way of saying, we don't like your editorial bent on this,

662
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Speaker 1: even if it's accurate, we don't like your conclusions, so

663
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Speaker 1: we're going to say that it's not fair and offer

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Speaker 1: something like this to the data, even though it's sharing

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Speaker 1: actual data. So I've had to go through that, which

666
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Speaker 1: has been quite a truly or well inexperience. People overuse

667
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Speaker 1: that term, but it actually does apply here, and I

668
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Speaker 1: just think that in New York City in particular, and

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Speaker 1: some of these large urban areas across the country, David,

670
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Speaker 1: there's been an unwillingness to question any of this because

671
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Speaker 1: I do believe it just got wrapped up in anti Trumpism.

672
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Speaker 1: And now I know there's still this election recount lawsuits

673
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Speaker 1: and all this going on. But every Democrat I know thinks,

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Speaker 1: and I know a whole bunch of them thinks that

675
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden is the president and this is all a joke.

676
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Speaker 1: And they kind of look at me like, Okay, so

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Speaker 1: now you're going to stop pointing out the hypocrisy with

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Speaker 1: the lockdowns when people who are. As you mentioned, the

679
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 1: elites aren't affected by this. We're not in this together.

680
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 1: They are literally sending stay at home, don't see anybody

681
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Speaker 1: orders from their vacation spots in Mexico, as the mayor

682
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Speaker 1: of Austin did, right, like, don't go anywhere. I'm flying

683
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Speaker 1: private to Mexico. I point this out still, and some

684
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Speaker 1: of them are looking at me like, well, no, but

685
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Speaker 1: this isn't about Trump anymore. And I'm looking at them

686
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Speaker 1: and saying, exactly, it was never actually about Trump, you lunatics,

687
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Speaker 1: although I usually leave the lunatics part out right. No,

688
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 1: you're absolutely we'd be very lucky if this was about Trump.

689
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Speaker 1: My fear is that this is less about Trump and

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Speaker 1: more about people like Emperor Cuomo getting a taste of

691
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Speaker 1: absolute power and deciding, hey, this tastes pretty good. And

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Speaker 1: I still have an excuse to tell people that, you know, now,

693
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Speaker 1: for ten months, I have to operate under the emergency

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Speaker 1: powers that were given to me by the state legislature.

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Speaker 1: That's happening all over the country. By the way, that's

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Speaker 1: happening by the same people who accuse Trump of being

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Speaker 1: a authoritarian. I mean, what's going on? Yeah, it can't

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Speaker 1: be all these things. We're speaking of. David Marcus, who

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Speaker 1: is the New York correspondent for the Federalists. You write

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Speaker 1: to the Federalist dot com. So David, what do you

701
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Speaker 1: think is coming? I mean, I made a prediction. I've

702
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Speaker 1: been making a prediction that you're going to see if

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Speaker 1: the Biden mask mandate, which I mean you can't fly

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Speaker 1: right now without a mask, they will actually not fly

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Speaker 1: and they will boot you off the airline permanently. That's

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Speaker 1: what they threaten to do to people. And they've actually

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Speaker 1: done it, I think a few times now if you

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Speaker 1: don't mask up. So it's just adding to this. But

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Speaker 1: my belief is that they're going to have that They're

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Speaker 1: going to try and have this renewed sense of lockdown,

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Speaker 1: and I mean that with the stay at home orders,

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Speaker 1: in the masking, alongside vaccine distribution, and then as if

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Speaker 1: we're all a bunch of idiots, they're going to turn

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Speaker 1: around and say, in right right around March, when the

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Speaker 1: cases God willing, I think they will are cratering and

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Speaker 1: everything's working. They'll say, see, yeah, the vaccine was kind

717
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Speaker 1: of helpful, but it was really all those fauciesque orders

718
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Speaker 1: that got it done. I think that's what's going to happen.

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Speaker 1: It may well. And look, part of the reason that

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Speaker 1: I wanted to write the book is because the history

721
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 1: is already so skewed and and so wrong about what's

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Speaker 1: happened that I believe you're right that that'll continue to

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Speaker 1: be the case. The very first chapter, the very first

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Speaker 1: myth that I bust in this book, is this idea

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Speaker 1: that January and February were wasted months by the Trump administration,

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Speaker 1: that they just weren't doing anything, and then all of

727
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 1: a sudden in March, and it's it's an absolute fabrication.

728
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Speaker 1: As Alexaser pointed out just the other day, it was

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Speaker 1: January ninth when the nih started working with Moderna on

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Speaker 1: a vaccine. To put that in perspective, that's before China

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Speaker 1: admitted that there had been a single death. That's before

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Speaker 1: the World Health Organization said that there was humans in

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Speaker 1: human contact and that is why we have that particular

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Speaker 1: vaccine today. So you know, and that was the story, right,

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Speaker 1: how often did you hear that, Oh, well, Trump didn't

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Speaker 1: do anything in January and February. The media just repeated it,

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Speaker 1: and it's a blatant lie. I was on a Bill

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Speaker 1: Moore show in February, as this audience knows, and was

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00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 1: laughed at and sneered at by that audience, which happens

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Speaker 1: if your conservative doesn't matter who you are, what you do,

741
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,600
Speaker 1: that's what then. Unfortunately, that's the deal. But you got

742
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 1: to go into lines then sometimes. And it was because

743
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 1: they had already decided that Trump had failed. And this

744
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 1: was before a single American had died from COVID. He

745
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 1: was already a catastrophic failure on COVID. So it was

746
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Speaker 1: all baked in before anything even happened. It didn't matter.

747
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Speaker 1: And I think that, you know, tragically, unfortunately, from a

748
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Speaker 1: political perspective, I think it was largely effective. I mean,

749
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Speaker 1: this should not have even been a close election if

750
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Speaker 1: it weren't for COVID, And here we are still counting ballots. Well, look,

751
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:18,840
Speaker 1: I think the news that just broke about Nancy Pelosi

752
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:22,840
Speaker 1: is just about the most horrible thing I can imagine

753
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 1: a politician doing. I mean, she just announced this morning

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Speaker 1: that now because Biden is going to be president, she'll

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Speaker 1: accept a smaller stimulus package. I mean, millions of people

756
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:41,839
Speaker 1: have been suffering who need that money, Millions of businesses

757
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:45,479
Speaker 1: who you know who need that support, and the fact

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Speaker 1: that she's just blatantly admitting that the only reason that

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Speaker 1: she wouldn't do it was because she wanted Joe Biden

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Speaker 1: be president. I mean, why to me, right, tell me

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00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: it's because cases are spiking. Say anything else. Don't blatantly

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Speaker 1: tell me that you lunge people into Missouri for the

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00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:05,840
Speaker 1: sake of winning an election. It's it's it's a shocking admission.

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Speaker 1: Do you think New York has had Is it fair

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Speaker 1: or what would be your your calculation about whether we

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Speaker 1: could say New York specifically has had the worst leadership.

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Speaker 1: We've certainly had the worst outcomes, but is it fair

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Speaker 1: to say we've had the worst leadership During the COVID outbreak,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, man. I was in Chicago last week,

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Speaker 1: and my understanding is that they those kids haven't been

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Speaker 1: back in school at all, and then it's basically like

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Speaker 1: all remote, at least for the public schools. Their restaurants

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00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: are closed, and man, November in Chicago, trying to eat

774
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:44,960
Speaker 1: a steak outside under a heat lamp. That's just about over.

775
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 1: I wasn't able to manage it. But that's just about done, right,

776
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:52,799
Speaker 1: So that's been pretty bad as you met in. Garcetti

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Speaker 1: has been bad Newsome hasn't looked. It's a competitive category.

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Speaker 1: But I'm like, you know, I'm like you. I always

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Speaker 1: want to give New York number one, so we can

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Speaker 1: give a one. But I agree with Garsetti. I love

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Speaker 1: that with Garsetti. He says he has said the quote

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Speaker 1: is canceled everything but podcasting, which near and dear to

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Speaker 1: my heart. Podcasting is an essential activity. So if you

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Speaker 1: have to leave your home or take some risks for

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00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:19,720
Speaker 1: that one, okay, good to know. Because he's got buddies.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's got celebrity friends that want to keep

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Speaker 1: doing their their podcasts and go into their studios. David Marcus,

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Speaker 1: He's got a book. It's not when's it coming out, David.

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Speaker 1: It comes out in March, but it's available for pre

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Speaker 1: order at all the you know, Amazons and Barns of Note,

791
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:36,840
Speaker 1: you know, all the all the companies that are taking

792
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:38,920
Speaker 1: over the world and stomping they're put on small business.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I wouldn't blame anyone for waiting to try

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Speaker 1: to buy it at a bookstore. But they will be

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Speaker 1: out in March. David Marcus of the Federals Everyone, David

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much, man, have a good one. Thanks for

797
00:47:49,600 --> 00:48:02,279
Speaker 1: having me. Liberty, truth, and great hair. You're listening to

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00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:08,520
Speaker 1: the best of the Buck Sexton Show. Joe Biden, now

799
00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:13,279
Speaker 1: every couple of days says something where the only reasonable

800
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:16,840
Speaker 1: reaction is to go, huh, what what? Or maybe to

801
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:20,360
Speaker 1: go womp womp What was that that Joe Biden just said?

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00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:23,839
Speaker 1: Somebody want to try to explain it or make sense

803
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 1: of it. He was asked in this complete puff piece

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Speaker 1: interview with fake fake Jake Tapper, and and I don't

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Speaker 1: know if he was the only one doing the interview.

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00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:36,400
Speaker 1: Who cares he was asked with this because you know

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Speaker 1: CNN now, oh there they are state TV for the Democrats.

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Speaker 1: That's the way this is going to work. Here's Biden

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Speaker 1: asking talking about his disagreements in the past. Rather he's

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00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:50,920
Speaker 1: being asked about this. It disagreement with with Kamala Harris.

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Speaker 1: And I want you to listen very closely to what

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Speaker 1: he says, play too. It's it's a matter of the thing.

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Speaker 1: We are sympatico on our philosoph be of government and

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Speaker 1: Saint patico on how we want to attach approach these

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Speaker 1: issues that we're facing. And so I don't have, and

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00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:09,359
Speaker 1: when we disagree, it'll be just like it. So far

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00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:12,240
Speaker 1: it's been just like Barack and I did. It's in private.

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Speaker 1: She'll say I think we should do ABC or D

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Speaker 1: and I'll say I don't. I like A, don't like

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Speaker 1: B and C, and it's go okay. But and I,

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Speaker 1: like I told Barrock, if if I reach something where

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Speaker 1: there's a fundamental disagreement we have based on a moral principle,

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Speaker 1: I'll I'll develop some disease and say I have to resign.

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Speaker 1: We don't have that. I'm we haven't. And we discussed

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Speaker 1: at length our views on foreign policy, on domestic polish,

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Speaker 1: on intelligence. And the great thing is she has a

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Speaker 1: background in the Senate on intelligence, the Intelligence Committee. She

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Speaker 1: has a background and the Senate on a whole range

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Speaker 1: of things that are going to be pertinent to what

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Speaker 1: we have to do. But it's going to be I

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Speaker 1: think so much is going to be incoming, Jake. It's

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Speaker 1: a matter about who takes what when I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I know it was in the middle there, so I

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Speaker 1: just want to reiterate it here. I'll develop some disease

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Speaker 1: and resign. That's That's what Joe Biden just said I

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Speaker 1: will develop some disease and resign. You heard the audio yourself.

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Speaker 1: What the heck is that if I have a disagreement

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Speaker 1: with kamalaw on a core principle, oh, to develop a

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Speaker 1: disease and resign. Now I understand that people are gonna say, oh,

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Speaker 1: he was just Biden being Biden all this. I said

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Speaker 1: it from the beginning. This guy is not going to

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Speaker 1: finish his four years in office. He will step down

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Speaker 1: another prediction. Will be able to check on this in time.

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Speaker 1: And I know it's not over yet with the election,

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Speaker 1: but they're moving forward acting like it is so we

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Speaker 1: can at least have a conversation about this. They are

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Speaker 1: going to they're gonna tell you that this is crazy. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden's actually saying out loud stuff like I'm going

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Speaker 1: to develop a health issue and resign in an interview

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Speaker 1: on TV. It wasn't like he said it. And you

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Speaker 1: know open mic moment somewhere people would say hot mic.

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Speaker 1: I think that's not producer Mark isn't a hot mic,

853
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Speaker 1: but it makes the weird sound. Do you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean? No, Mike is hot when it's on? Is

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Speaker 1: that really true? Yes, that's a technical behind inside baseball

856
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Speaker 1: type of term. No, but I thought hot. Mike meant that,

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Speaker 1: like it's like, you know, makes the he makes the

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Speaker 1: noise and stuff that's hot. That's called feedback. Well that's

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Speaker 1: why producer Mark runs that stuff. So okay, fair enough,

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Speaker 1: Well that's down at a hot mic. So yeah, anyway,

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Speaker 1: And the point is Joe Biden's saying this. Now, he's saying,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna develop something and I'm gonna step down. Of

863
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Speaker 1: course he would want to do that. He gets to be.

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Speaker 1: If you look at Joe Biden's career, and I hate

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Speaker 1: having to say this, this guy is a deeply unimpressive

866
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Speaker 1: mediocrity at best. And he has the opportunity to be

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Speaker 1: the vice president to the first black president and the

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Speaker 1: president who then brought in and and prepared and handed

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Speaker 1: the torch over to the first black female president you

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Speaker 1: know of the you know and both Democrats of course,

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Speaker 1: Barack and Kamala, and well, what could be a better

872
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Speaker 1: legacy for Joe biby The Biden name will will be

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Speaker 1: better than the Kennedy name. I'm telling you, this is

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Speaker 1: the play. You don't want Joe Biden. If we have

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Speaker 1: to go to war with China or something. Joe Biden

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Speaker 1: doesn't want to be in charge. She'd be like China,

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Speaker 1: No joke, man, big big country, lots of people. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna develop something and step down. Right, That's

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Speaker 1: what we're That's what we're signing up for here, America,

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00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:43,319
Speaker 1: get ready for it. Buck took the day off, but

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Speaker 1: don't worry. We've still got your covered. This is the

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Speaker 1: best of the Buck Sexton Show. There's a case to

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Speaker 1: be name that this will actually strengthen Trump and his base.

884
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Speaker 1: And and here's why, at least for now, the president

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Speaker 1: has had some constraints on him as president. He can't

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Speaker 1: do things that are totally off the charts. There are

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Speaker 1: still people and lawyers around him who tell him, you

888
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Speaker 1: can't do that, sir, you can't fire this guy. You

889
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:13,839
Speaker 1: shouldn't do that when he leaves. And if he's right

890
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:17,160
Speaker 1: about creating his own media empire and a digital platform

891
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:21,399
Speaker 1: and declaring simultaneously that he's the candidate in twenty twenty four,

892
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Speaker 1: what you now have is a totally unchecked actor all

893
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Speaker 1: over the media with seventy million votes of people who

894
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Speaker 1: will will follow him and you know, one hundred million

895
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Speaker 1: or whatever he's got on Twitter following him. He becomes

896
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Speaker 1: unchecked and his people in the eyes of his base,

897
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Speaker 1: he becomes the hero, the wrong hero who must be avenged.

898
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Speaker 1: You know this, this outrage must be avenged. He's our guy.

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Speaker 1: And so add to it the qan on folks who

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Speaker 1: have been elected to Congress, right, and you can see

901
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:58,400
Speaker 1: a recipe where this doesn't go away, this lunacy becomes

902
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Speaker 1: embedded in our society, in our culture. There you have

903
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Speaker 1: a Russia collusion truther who was a former senior FBI guy.

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Speaker 1: I think he was the deputy assistant or something. I

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Speaker 1: mean he was some ord you know, deputy director. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, at some senior FBI title. Who knows he

907
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:17,399
Speaker 1: was a senior guy at the FBI. Who's telling you

908
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Speaker 1: that you need to be on guard, you need to

909
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Speaker 1: be careful because there could be this whole narrative out

910
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Speaker 1: there of a stolen election and that Trump, even if

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Speaker 1: he's not president, will be dangerous. And you know, I

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Speaker 1: think that they're forgetting that we all went through. We

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Speaker 1: all went through three years a four years rather of

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Speaker 1: Russia collusion, lies and attacks and smears, and yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna have a really tough time dealing with a

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump if he's not president, They're gonna have a

917
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Speaker 1: difficult time fighting through the way that Trump and his

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Speaker 1: movement will be able to be a problem for their narrative.

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Speaker 1: But beyond that, I also note that we're all supposed

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Speaker 1: to be so worried. We were worried he wasn't good

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Speaker 1: to accept a loss. Now you got this, this guy's

922
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Speaker 1: moron figure you'd see. I mean, he goes to MSNBC.

923
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Speaker 1: The guy's a complete jackass. It really the FBI and

924
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Speaker 1: the CIA brands are irrevocably or irrevocably sorry, but the

925
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Speaker 1: FBI and CI brands are deeply damaged as a result

926
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Speaker 1: of what's going on here, damaged beyond repair. I think,

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Speaker 1: and I'm somebody who you know, I'd like to think

928
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Speaker 1: the CIA is well regarded. It's it's really not anymore

929
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Speaker 1: because of these senior officials from these agencies who go

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Speaker 1: out and act like partisan morons. More Biden voters, Democrats,

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Speaker 1: Antifa attacking Trump supporters in DC. It's not covered in

932
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Speaker 1: the media. It doesn't even get a mention. The lunacy

933
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Speaker 1: of the left that's going on in Seattle right now

934
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Speaker 1: and in poor Linda and DC. They don't even think

935
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Speaker 1: of it as a news story. I mean, they really

936
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Speaker 1: are like the Soviet media. You know, they're Pravda circa

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Speaker 1: nineteen fifty eight or something. I mean, it's a Paul

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Speaker 1: what they're willing to lie about and cover up. Bucks

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Speaker 1: Off spreading freedom coast to coast. This is the best

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Speaker 1: of the Buck Sexton Show. How does China influence our politics?

941
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Speaker 1: We heard so much about Russian influence the election in

942
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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. It was greatly exaggerated, as you know, by

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Speaker 1: the media because they used it as a weapon against Trump.

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Speaker 1: But now we're starting to wake up to the reality

945
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Speaker 1: of pervasive, widespread, and incredibly powerful Chinese Communist Party influence operations,

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Speaker 1: and they're following our politics closely and trying to direct

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Speaker 1: political outcomes in this country. I've got someone joining now

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Speaker 1: who can speak very much to this issue. Stephen Yates

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Speaker 1: is with us now. He is the principle of DC

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Speaker 1: International Advisory and he's formerly Deputy National Security Advisor to

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Speaker 1: Vice President Dick Cheney under the Bush administration. Great to

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Speaker 1: have you, Thank you, Buck, it's one to join you.

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Speaker 1: And Steve is also a Mandarin speaker, so he's been

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Speaker 1: handling this issue and looking at it for a very

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Speaker 1: long time. Stephen, how does China and walk us through this?

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Speaker 1: I mean, give us a kind of overview brief of

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Speaker 1: what we're seeing now and how China in recent years

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Speaker 1: has tried to influence American politics. Well, Buck, I'll give

959
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Speaker 1: a quick version of it. This is something that's been

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Speaker 1: going on a long time. It's escalated, it's become more sophisticated,

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Speaker 1: and it's been technologized, and all the weapons are at

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Speaker 1: the hands of the Communist Party of China at this point.

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00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:43,680
Speaker 1: But if people might remember, but it seems ancient history

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Speaker 1: that there are influence operations that hit the public in

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Speaker 1: the nineteen nineties, there are fundraising scandals that came up

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Speaker 1: during the Clinton administration. Congress had a full, full scale

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Speaker 1: national security report done under the leadership of Chris Cox that,

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Speaker 1: among other things, gave warnings about this. But the Chinese

969
00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:05,919
Speaker 1: used to use access to their markets as leverage to

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00:58:05,920 --> 00:58:10,120
Speaker 1: try to get more favorable policies from Americas. So the

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00:58:10,200 --> 00:58:13,720
Speaker 1: old argument was China's developing country. We give them a

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Speaker 1: break here or there and treat them like a developing country,

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Speaker 1: sort of like a kid at the kid's table, but

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Speaker 1: with the potential to come to the big tables. Let's

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Speaker 1: give them a break and go ahead and give them

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Speaker 1: special access and they'll grow into their role of being

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Speaker 1: a responsible partner of ours. Over time, they've gone from

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Speaker 1: just giving money to campaigns, which got them in trouble

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Speaker 1: in the nineteen nineties. So then they found out, well,

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Speaker 1: what if we work with churches and chambers of commerce.

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Speaker 1: In other words, let's influence the influencers. And it got

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Speaker 1: from corporate boardrooms to evangelical associations, the Catholic Church itself,

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Speaker 1: other kinds of civic organizations, whether it's sister cities. They

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Speaker 1: just spanded this this outreach effort and they completely co

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Speaker 1: opted a lot of our major universities. So universities are businesses.

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00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:12,120
Speaker 1: I think that they should be treated more like businesses

987
00:59:12,440 --> 00:59:16,840
Speaker 1: if education is only a small fraction of their revenue

988
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:20,600
Speaker 1: and business model. And what they've done is they make

989
00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:23,840
Speaker 1: it so that foreign exchange students, research programs are completely

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Speaker 1: dependent on the good graces of the Communist Party of

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Speaker 1: China to have all of this money things that they

992
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Speaker 1: live on. So they become too big to fail in

993
00:59:34,320 --> 00:59:38,480
Speaker 1: a way that you can't criticize China. We can't question

994
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Speaker 1: government policy towards China or they'll pull the red carpet

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00:59:41,520 --> 00:59:45,120
Speaker 1: out from under our feed. So that that's been growing

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00:59:45,160 --> 00:59:48,880
Speaker 1: over decades. What's much much more pronounced now is their

997
00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:55,720
Speaker 1: role in big tech, big big entertainment, big sports, all

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00:59:55,960 --> 00:59:59,240
Speaker 1: other elements of the culture war. They seem to have

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00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:02,880
Speaker 1: snuck in and taking a monopoly control over just in

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Speaker 1: recent years. Speaking at Steve Yates, he is the CEO

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Speaker 1: of DC International Advisory and a former senior national security

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Speaker 1: official under the Bush administration. Steven tell us about you

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Speaker 1: mentioned the big tech influence, and we're already seeing a

1004
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Speaker 1: lot of problems on the right from American big tech

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Speaker 1: companies involved in censorship. How does China try to leverage

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Speaker 1: big tech to direct American politics or get involved in

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Speaker 1: our political conversations. Well, in some ways it's too easy

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Speaker 1: for them. If you want the greatest freedom free zone

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Speaker 1: to test facial recognition, artificial intelligence ways to monitor and

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Speaker 1: control and influence people, China is the greatest sort of

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01:00:50,080 --> 01:00:53,160
Speaker 1: experimental farm you could go to to try to figure

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Speaker 1: out how applied technology you can be used to manipulate

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Speaker 1: and control people. And so if you're in the business

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Speaker 1: of doing that. In a a tizing you might have a

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Speaker 1: perverse interest in trying to cooperate with China, but the

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Speaker 1: Chinese have all kinds of tentacles back in. They can

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Speaker 1: do it by direct investment, they can do it by

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Speaker 1: way of engineers that are exceedingly well trained but willing

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Speaker 1: to work at a slightly lower rate. And even if

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Speaker 1: we just look at recent controversies about who are the

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01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:23,720
Speaker 1: fact checkers in big tech today that are determining that

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Speaker 1: a warning label needs to go onto the at real

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump account, in many cases those are farmed out

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Speaker 1: to Chinese fact checker farms. And so this is they're

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Speaker 1: tied in in so many different ways that people wouldn't

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Speaker 1: even think about it. You're telling me, you're telling me

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Speaker 1: that some of the some of the fact checking of

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Speaker 1: American because I've been fact checked. I mean I've I've

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Speaker 1: personally been subjected to this in the last few weeks.

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Speaker 1: Some of the fact checking and accompanying censorship that's happening

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Speaker 1: in America around American tech companies, preventing Americans from sharing ideas,

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Speaker 1: will be fact checked by Chinese, by Chinese people in

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Speaker 1: Chinese artificial intelligence. It's been outsourced. I mean the scale

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Speaker 1: of the operation to try to monitor the amount of

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Speaker 1: traffic as we would say on say Twitter, that's bigger

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Speaker 1: than most American companies can really reasonably do. And plus

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Speaker 1: we're talking about international traffic. Think can bounce all over

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Speaker 1: the place and still be about the American election or

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Speaker 1: political process. And so the Chinese Communist Party and they're

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Speaker 1: they're they're invested out outfits. They make themselves available to

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Speaker 1: help out, you know, when needed on things like this.

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Speaker 1: But very very very very plausibly you or anyone else

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Speaker 1: that has a sizable audience has been fact checked by

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Speaker 1: someone who's not even an American. Oh my gosh, almost

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Speaker 1: makes me think that it'd be better to have, you know,

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Speaker 1: live MSNBC watchers. At least at least they feel like

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Speaker 1: there might be some eventual accountability for what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: But if you're talking about outsourcing the stuff, the Chinese,

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Speaker 1: chance you could passed with them, yeah, exactly. At least

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Speaker 1: I could find out what the outfit is and maybe

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Speaker 1: try to get some redress or Speaking of Steve Yates,

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Speaker 1: he is the CEO of DC International Advisory. He's a

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Speaker 1: China policy expert. Steve Tell everyone listening this about the

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Speaker 1: role that the relationship and role that China has to

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Speaker 1: the US agricultural industry and how they've tried to leverage

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Speaker 1: that in recent years. And you have some particular knowledge

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Speaker 1: of this as a guy who ran for lieutenant governor

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Speaker 1: in Idaho. Yeah. Well, one of the more famous examples

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Speaker 1: on the presidential level has been the influence they tried

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Speaker 1: to exert in Iowa. And so there has been a

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Speaker 1: former governor of Iowa that was the President Trump's ambassador

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Speaker 1: to China, Branstead. And so the Chinese would would offer

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Speaker 1: up access to their consumers for all of our wonderful

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Speaker 1: farm products. And if they took kind of a controlling

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Speaker 1: share of say korn in one state, or wheat in another,

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Speaker 1: or hay in other places, they can have tremendous political

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Speaker 1: impact by saying, well, whoa, whoa, don't don't talk about

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Speaker 1: going to Taiwan, or don't support your elected members on

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Speaker 1: these tough on China policies, or I'm so sorry, we

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Speaker 1: might not be able to buy the next billion dollars

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Speaker 1: worth of your product for the coming season. So sorry.

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Speaker 1: So they've been able to exercise that influence for me personally,

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Speaker 1: in a state of Idaho. There's a lot of exports

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Speaker 1: that go to China, but it's people who then associate

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Speaker 1: with the Chinese or use the China angle that can

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Speaker 1: attack you. And so since I have a name in

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Speaker 1: Chinese and people have known me through the media in

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Speaker 1: Chinese language, a whole bunch of fake accounts can start

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Speaker 1: sending criticisms, making fake videos, and they get picked up

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Speaker 1: in the American press and they don't know, you know,

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Speaker 1: we don't have sufficient fact checkers in some part of

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Speaker 1: rural America, and they don't know what's going on. They say, oh,

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Speaker 1: many agents of China. And anyone who's ever known me

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Speaker 1: from the nineteen nineties until now, there probably isn't anyone

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Speaker 1: who has a longer record of being a pain in

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Speaker 1: the backside of the Communist Party than I have. But

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Speaker 1: it just takes a few fake accounts and build a

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Speaker 1: fake audience, and that Twitter farm goes, and the Facebook

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Speaker 1: farm goes, and it looks like there's hundreds of people

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Speaker 1: that don't like this mister Yates from Idaho because he's

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Speaker 1: tough on China. Stephen, what should we do about this?

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Speaker 1: Do you think that there's a recognition of how important,

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Speaker 1: powerful and nefarious Chinese influence is Chinese Communist Party influences

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Speaker 1: in the the United States that there is enough willingness to

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Speaker 1: do something. And if that is the case, and I'm

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Speaker 1: emphasizing if what should be done, well, I think the

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Speaker 1: single most potent force we have in America right now

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Speaker 1: is the Trump movement. It's something that can earn coverage,

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Speaker 1: it can influence people who are active in multiple states,

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Speaker 1: and that's what it's going to take. It's going to

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Speaker 1: take things in state legislatures in addition to Congress and

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Speaker 1: the federal government. People have to forget that the federal

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Speaker 1: government isn't going to be our savior. We're gonna have

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Speaker 1: to save ourselves from the ground up. And they're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to put pressure on universities. They're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: put pressure on the patterns of trade that our states

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Speaker 1: engage in. And that's going to be much much more

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Speaker 1: effective than trying to wait for a federal response. But

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Speaker 1: recognizing that free trip that those college kids got to

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Speaker 1: go to China, it's going to come with some strings.

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Speaker 1: That that great welcome that you've got to promise to

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Speaker 1: buy all these crops, This group of visitors that was

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Speaker 1: going to prop up your resort or your hotel or

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Speaker 1: something like that that can be taken away as easily

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Speaker 1: as as it's given, and it's going to come with

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Speaker 1: strings attached. I think Secretary of Pompeio has been an

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Speaker 1: historic Secretary of State in this regard, the most candid

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Speaker 1: in terms of talking to the world but also talking

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Speaker 1: to Americans about with the nature and scope of this

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Speaker 1: challenge has been and we're just at the very beginning

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Speaker 1: of having that real conversation and it seems like nothing,

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Speaker 1: but in my thirty years of working on this topic,

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Speaker 1: this is the first we've even made headway and having

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Speaker 1: that more honest conversation. It just needs to continue. Our

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Speaker 1: allies are getting hit by the Chinese. Two the Brits

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Speaker 1: Australians have had some ugly political attacks on them by

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Speaker 1: the Chinese, and so more of the world is coming

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Speaker 1: around to this isn't Donald Trump the person versus big

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Speaker 1: bad China. This is China declaring war on civilization as

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Speaker 1: we know it, freedom as we've known it, And sadly

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Speaker 1: they've got enablers in our own polity and we've got

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Speaker 1: to get wise. And I think this election experience has

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Speaker 1: awakened more Americans to roll this boulder forward in the

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Speaker 1: right way, I hope before we let you go the

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Speaker 1: story that broke about all these Chinese Communist Party members

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Speaker 1: based on this leaked list, it was named and particularly

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Speaker 1: UK major international United Kingdom base. You know British companies, Steve,

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Speaker 1: what do you make of that? I mean it was

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Speaker 1: I think of a company, you know, Rolls Royce. We

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01:08:08,080 --> 01:08:10,520
Speaker 1: think of these British companies that people all all know

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Speaker 1: off the top of their head they've hired and in

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Speaker 1: some cases put in pretty sensitive positions, not just Chinese workers,

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Speaker 1: which the different thing members active members of the Chinese

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Speaker 1: Communist Party. Yeah. So the target of corporate leaders and

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01:08:25,880 --> 01:08:29,759
Speaker 1: influencers has been something that a lot of nefarious players

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Speaker 1: around the world have gone to, and the Chinese have

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01:08:32,160 --> 01:08:35,200
Speaker 1: made a big, big play for that. And the corporate

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Speaker 1: boards and corporate leadership that allows these people in either

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01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:41,320
Speaker 1: are really really ignorant to let these people into the barn,

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Speaker 1: or they're in on the joke. And what they're trying

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01:08:44,479 --> 01:08:48,040
Speaker 1: to do is to buy access to the ever elusive

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Speaker 1: billion plus Chinese market by allowing these folks into corporate

1153
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Speaker 1: boardrooms and influential positions. What happens most of the time, though,

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01:08:56,360 --> 01:09:00,479
Speaker 1: is technology and talent and other gets stolen away from

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Speaker 1: them and a competitor rises up in China and they

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01:09:02,880 --> 01:09:05,439
Speaker 1: need to learn this sad lesson, But this has happened

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01:09:05,520 --> 01:09:09,679
Speaker 1: in many corporations, in many political organizations. The UK story

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01:09:09,760 --> 01:09:12,519
Speaker 1: could easily be replicated in a lot of America. We

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01:09:12,640 --> 01:09:16,000
Speaker 1: know that members of the Senate and House intelligence communities

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01:09:16,040 --> 01:09:19,800
Speaker 1: have been personally compromised by staffers being on their on

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Speaker 1: their roles for many years, and an FBI briefing ends

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01:09:24,000 --> 01:09:27,000
Speaker 1: that tenure. But the damage is done. That's been done

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Speaker 1: in corporations, have been done in Congress, It's been done

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Speaker 1: in campaigns, and everyone needs to get wiser about how

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Speaker 1: to vet this. Stephen Yates, CEO of DC International Advisory,

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Speaker 1: you follow him on Twitter. Steve, great to have you man,

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much, my pleasure to take care of Buck.

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Speaker 1: You're in the Freedom High This is the Buck Sexton Show.

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Speaker 1: Buck took the day off, but don't worry, We've still

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Speaker 1: got your Coverty. This is the best of the Buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show. He is an entrepreneur, a visionary, a seer,

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Speaker 1: a man who's been in a lot of different games

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Speaker 1: and knows how to play him. Our friend James Altucher

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01:10:11,040 --> 01:10:15,000
Speaker 1: is back podcast host. Check out his latest podcast, Whenever

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Speaker 1: you can. James appreciate you joining us. Man Buck once

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01:10:18,920 --> 01:10:21,360
Speaker 1: again always happy to join the show. So tell me this,

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Speaker 1: what do you see happening going into this what feels

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Speaker 1: like it will be a long cold winter of particularly

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Speaker 1: small business discontent. What do you think? You know, I

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Speaker 1: think small businesses are in trouble. You know, during this pandemic,

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Speaker 1: during the lockdowns, we've gotten addicted to Amazon. You get

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01:10:43,640 --> 01:10:47,280
Speaker 1: paid money and you instantly send it to Seattle. It

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Speaker 1: no longer survives in your community. It no longer usually

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Speaker 1: money would circulate in the community. And that's what makes

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Speaker 1: communities prosperous. It's it's called the velocity of money in

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Speaker 1: economic terms, but it's what makes communities prosperous is that

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Speaker 1: people spend in their local stores. That as that's that's

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Speaker 1: a trend that started fifty years ago, that we started,

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Speaker 1: you know, giving money to the big chains. But now

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Speaker 1: it's firmly set where we just send all of our

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Speaker 1: money to Amazon, no questions asked, and that's going to

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Speaker 1: have a horrific effect on local communities. So what do

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Speaker 1: you think should do that? Do you think the opportunities

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Speaker 1: for entrepreneurs go ahead, go ahead? No, you go ahead,

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Speaker 1: entrepreneurs go How do you think the opportunities for entrepreneurship though,

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Speaker 1: are going to be plentiful for online entrepreneurs? Like more

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Speaker 1: things moving online means more opportunities for entrepreneurship. Is there

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Speaker 1: anything that we could do that we're I mean, obviously

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Speaker 1: there's the PPP program, which has stalled out since August,

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Speaker 1: But you know, how how can people either on their

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Speaker 1: own or how could if the government was trying to

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Speaker 1: be helpful, what could be done to help us adapt

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Speaker 1: during this period? Because here's my concern. I'm already seeing

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Speaker 1: all these posts about out just beloved neighborhood businesses, restaurants,

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Speaker 1: stores that are closing all over New York City. It's

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Speaker 1: the same things happening out in Los Angeles. Same thing

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Speaker 1: is going to be happening, you know. I think I

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Speaker 1: think it hits the big cities first because they've been

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Speaker 1: pretty pretty extreme on the lockdowns and now they're already

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Speaker 1: they've already been in California lockdown for a few weeks.

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Speaker 1: How can places try to you know, or how could

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Speaker 1: they be assisted in the adaptation, James, so that they

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Speaker 1: could at least get through this very difficult period. It's

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Speaker 1: an interesting question because I think you have to think

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Speaker 1: out of the box, and nobody wants to do that.

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Speaker 1: You have to make some tough choices. For instance, New

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Speaker 1: York City owns twenty seven hospitals. Well, New York City

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01:12:48,760 --> 01:12:52,040
Speaker 1: is not in the hospital business, so they they provide

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Speaker 1: good healthcare, but they lose money on it every single year,

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Speaker 1: and New York City can no longer afford to lose money.

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01:12:57,920 --> 01:12:59,519
Speaker 1: New York City is gonna be about one hundred billion

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Speaker 1: dollars the whole next year. So you have to start

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Speaker 1: considering things like should we sell the New York City

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Speaker 1: Hospital system for whatever thirty forty billion dollars in payback

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01:13:09,520 --> 01:13:11,439
Speaker 1: a lot of New York City debt. That would go

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Speaker 1: a long way, but it's a very unpopular choice. We

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01:13:14,080 --> 01:13:16,840
Speaker 1: could sell the Port Authority in New York City, We

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01:13:16,840 --> 01:13:20,639
Speaker 1: could start selling assets. The other thing is there's an

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Speaker 1: idea I've been playing around with, which is let's put

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Speaker 1: in place a negative sales tax, meaning instead of being

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Speaker 1: charged money for shopping locally, which is what happens now,

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Speaker 1: Like you buy potato chips at the deli, you're charge

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Speaker 1: an extra six or seven percent sales tax. Let's give

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Speaker 1: people money who shop locally. Maybe that's implemented with crypto

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Speaker 1: or bitcoin somehow. The implementation is not important, but if

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Speaker 1: you shop locally, you should get extra money that it

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01:13:49,800 --> 01:13:53,639
Speaker 1: is only worth, that's only has value if you use

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Speaker 1: that extra money again, shop locally. That's why I suggest

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Speaker 1: using another currency to implement this, or some kind of

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Speaker 1: Let's call it New York City Bucks. So everybody gets

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Speaker 1: New York City Bucks when they shop at a local store,

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Speaker 1: a mom and pop store in New York City. And

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01:14:08,360 --> 01:14:11,599
Speaker 1: maybe that's redeemable one for one for US dollars in

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Speaker 1: ten years, So for ten years you're encouraged to shop

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Speaker 1: locally with these Again, I'll put it in quotes, New

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Speaker 1: York City Bucks, something like that, like creative out of

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01:14:20,880 --> 01:14:24,639
Speaker 1: the box solutions. You're not gonna you're not gonna solve

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Speaker 1: things like they're doing now in New York City. You're

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01:14:26,760 --> 01:14:29,320
Speaker 1: not gonna solve things by shutting down businesses. You're not

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Speaker 1: going to solve things by raising taxes. Yesterday, yesterday, Goldman

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Speaker 1: Tax Asset Management left for Palm Beach Florida. And in

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Speaker 1: the same article I read seventy other financial firms left

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Speaker 1: for other places. And what does that mean. Some people

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01:14:45,560 --> 01:14:47,400
Speaker 1: might look at that and say, oh, yeah, well the

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Speaker 1: wealthy should leave, good riddance. Well, they happen to be

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Speaker 1: the ones who pay the taxes that afford the teachers,

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Speaker 1: the trash collectors, the EMT, healthcare workers, the transit workers,

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Speaker 1: the police, the fireman, all the services that New Yorkers

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Speaker 1: have grown to depend on and love. That's the New

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Speaker 1: York City pays for that via taxes. And right now,

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Speaker 1: tourism taxes are down, property taxes are down, income taxes

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Speaker 1: are going to be a disaster in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: and a half a million people have moved out of

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Speaker 1: New York City is in the past few months. So

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Speaker 1: that's kind of the long and short of it. Speaking

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Speaker 1: of James Altucher, he's a podcaster, author and an entrepreneur.

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Speaker 1: And James, I know you're in New York City. Now,

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Speaker 1: did you get any sense that people this time around

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Speaker 1: who maybe are let's just say they don't they don't

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Speaker 1: share my politics. There are people who are Democrats are

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Speaker 1: more left wing. Do think they're recognizing more or are

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Speaker 1: you getting any sense that they're starting to see that

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Speaker 1: the people in charge don't know what the hell they're

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Speaker 1: doing and they can't actually fix this and we need

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Speaker 1: to come up with other ideas. Yes and no. I

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Speaker 1: mean I have yet to me a single person who

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Speaker 1: voted for Mayor Bill de Blasio, who magically is finishing

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Speaker 1: his second term in office, So somebody must have voted

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Speaker 1: for him, but nobody will admit voting for him. And

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Speaker 1: so that's the yes. But the no is you know,

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Speaker 1: everybody is you know, has the exact same politics that

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Speaker 1: they have before. They think that they're liberal and conscientious

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Speaker 1: towards others, and yet you know, in private, I find

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Speaker 1: I find New Yorkers to be very much against progressive

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Speaker 1: ideas or creative ideas that will actually help the city

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Speaker 1: that they live and help the people in the city.

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Speaker 1: You know, of course, the virus is affecting a lot

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Speaker 1: of policy decisions, but we have to remember that the

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Speaker 1: virus and the economy are two different beasts, and you're

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Speaker 1: going to as you fight the virus more and more

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Speaker 1: depending on how draconian the policies get, you're going to

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Speaker 1: risk ruining the economy and ruining the city in the

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Speaker 1: long term. And that's and people don't seem to realize that.

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Speaker 1: I think people with a certain kind of politics don't

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Speaker 1: really seem to understand the importance of basic economics. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I and we're speaking of James al Tutor, podcaster, author,

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Speaker 1: and host. James. I think that if people understood that,

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of businesses that have already had

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Speaker 1: a really bad year that are way behind on their

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Speaker 1: rant that and they have had to layoff employees in

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Speaker 1: some cases, I've read about and heard about places that

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Speaker 1: have had to layoff employees multiple times already. So they've

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Speaker 1: already had two rounds of sorry, everybody go home. The

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Speaker 1: first time they might have gotten PPP. Second time they

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Speaker 1: might not have had, you know, they might have had

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Speaker 1: to get rid of half their staff. Or and if

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Speaker 1: they're going to close indoor dining, for example, in New York,

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Speaker 1: they've already closed it in Los Angeles. And this for

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Speaker 1: you know, anyone anywhere else, this is coming to them too,

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Speaker 1: or what's gonna because the pressure works in such a

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Speaker 1: way that when one city gets more extreme another city

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Speaker 1: government also usually democrats in charge, they're gonna say, well,

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Speaker 1: we don't want to be the ones who seem like

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Speaker 1: we're reckless, right, so Philly and Dallas and you name

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Speaker 1: a place. The only exception of this has been Florida,

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Speaker 1: but anyway, I'll get to Florida in a second. It

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Speaker 1: seems to me that people need to be made to

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Speaker 1: understand that we don't have ninety days here of just

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Speaker 1: sorry your business is shut down, because it's going to

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Speaker 1: be much worse this time around than even was the

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Speaker 1: first time around, because they're already hurt. They're already the

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Speaker 1: businesses are already kind of wounded, if you will. And

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Speaker 1: the issue is a lot of smart people don't seem

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Speaker 1: to grasp what the common may I shouldn't say coming.

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Speaker 1: But the main street person is dealing with the bar owner,

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Speaker 1: the rest I own a bar in New York City,

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Speaker 1: So the bar owner, the restaurant owner, the clothing store owner.

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Speaker 1: These people are suffering. There are restaurants that have been

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Speaker 1: in business for generations, or stores that have been business

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Speaker 1: for generations that are now bankrupt, that are out of business,

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Speaker 1: and it's only going to get many times worse during

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Speaker 1: the winter months with none of these stores and rest

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Speaker 1: runs open at least in the late spring and in

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Speaker 1: the summer, there was outdoor dining in places like New

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Speaker 1: York City and in la and restaurants survived barely because

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Speaker 1: of that. By January first, it's estimated that up to

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Speaker 1: ninety percent of the restaurants in New York City might

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Speaker 1: shut down and be bankrupt for good. Not only that,

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Speaker 1: the eviction moratorium is over on January first, one in

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Speaker 1: for New Yorkers haven't paid rent since March. And again,

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Speaker 1: this is not just New York City, this is many cities.

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Speaker 1: But to your point about other cities, not the first

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Speaker 1: tier cities are in big trouble. They've spent massively on

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Speaker 1: providing great services to their citizens and all that money

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Speaker 1: is gone and those services are in trouble. But a

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Speaker 1: lot of people now are fleeing the New York's and

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Speaker 1: Las for Austin Park City, Las Vegas, Miami, Denver, Phoenix,

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Speaker 1: New Orleans, Nashville. So these second tier cities, there's going

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Speaker 1: to be a lot of opportunity, both in real estate

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Speaker 1: and entrepreneurship. Silicon Valley is a ghost town at the

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Speaker 1: moment because in part it's moving to these other cities

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Speaker 1: and it's dispersing, which is not a bad thing. It's

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Speaker 1: it's about time this happens. This was long du and

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Speaker 1: it's just accelerating a trend that was already going to happen.

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Speaker 1: And you believe strongly that the the virtual trend that

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Speaker 1: we're seeing here. I mean, the big question that I

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Speaker 1: see from people, and I think it's an interesting argument,

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Speaker 1: is one we'll travel return to in a way that

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Speaker 1: it's close to at least what it was before. Because

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Speaker 1: there are some who say, well, people aren't gonna be

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Speaker 1: flying for meetings the same way because the zoom calls.

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Speaker 1: I think there's some truth that there's all in person

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Speaker 1: is still better and more I think it has more

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Speaker 1: impact than zoom if we're really looking at this especially,

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Speaker 1: you know, if you're going to ask somebody to give

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Speaker 1: you one hundred thousand dollars for your startup or a

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Speaker 1: million dollars for your startup, if you can be hand

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Speaker 1: you know, hand to hand, in person handshake, that that's

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Speaker 1: still going to be better. But also I think there'll

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Speaker 1: be an explosion of people that want to once the

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Speaker 1: virus is finally there's vaccinations that want to travel, that

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Speaker 1: want to get out there and do things. So there's

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Speaker 1: that part of it. But then also what does it

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Speaker 1: mean for real est state, for commercial realist state for places?

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Speaker 1: You know, yeah, I think people are gonna still want

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Speaker 1: to have offices, but I think office space is going

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Speaker 1: to be at much less of a premium. I think

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Speaker 1: officers are going to be smaller, but you know, it's

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Speaker 1: going to be more of a gathering space and less

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Speaker 1: of a you know, socked me into my cubicle, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, how do you see that playing out? So

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Speaker 1: travel and offices? Right? So travel, I agree with you,

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Speaker 1: better to be in person for meetings that are across

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Speaker 1: the country. However, it's obviously not very productive to spend

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Speaker 1: you know, days of your life traveling from New York

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Speaker 1: to La say, and then traveling back just for one

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Speaker 1: or two meetings. So what's going to happen is we

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Speaker 1: are going to see probably about a thirty to fifty

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Speaker 1: percent reduction in business travel. I'm absolutely convinced of this.

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Speaker 1: Of course, I'm just predicting and you know, being a

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Speaker 1: pundit here, but this is a natural thing that's going

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Speaker 1: to happen. You said that people, of course enjoy and

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Speaker 1: it's better for face to face. That's true, but it's

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Speaker 1: not what companies are gonna want. Companies are already used

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Speaker 1: to saving the money of reduced travel and not that

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Speaker 1: much of a reduction in productivity. There's been a lot

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Speaker 1: of research on this the past few months. There's a

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Speaker 1: significant benefit in productivity happening right now and that's not

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Speaker 1: going away. And companies are going to be able to

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Speaker 1: save costs. Like you said on real estate, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: maybe many industries are going to switch to a hybrid model.

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Speaker 1: Come in one or two days a week, share your

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Speaker 1: desk with somebody who's coming in the other one or

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Speaker 1: two days a week, and we can reduce office space. Now.

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Speaker 1: Office space architecture is going to change as well. Deaths

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Speaker 1: are going to be a little bit more spread out.

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Speaker 1: There's going to be no more open area floor plans.

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Speaker 1: There's going to be more cubicles and offices now because

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Speaker 1: protection from future viruses and pandemics, Like just because this

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Speaker 1: virus is over, we're now aware that viruses and flues

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Speaker 1: and pandemics exist, just like Asia has been aware for

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Speaker 1: the past couple of decades. So that's going to significantly

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Speaker 1: and let's not forget once again, has changed for the

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Speaker 1: first time ever for one of these catastrophes bandwidth is

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Speaker 1: now good enough ten times faster than it wasn't two

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Speaker 1: thousand and nine. Bandwidth is good enough for you and

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Speaker 1: I to have as many meetings as we want at

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Speaker 1: high quality bandwidth for these screens. So four K screens,

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Speaker 1: so I see remote is here to stay. It might

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Speaker 1: not be to the level it is now, but you're

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Speaker 1: not going to see one hundred percent full buildings. You're

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Speaker 1: not gonna be see air travel the way it was.

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Speaker 1: It's all different where James working, folks go to spaces

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Speaker 1: are going to be sorry, go ahead, No trying trying

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Speaker 1: to promote your podcast working. Where should folks go to listen?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but James Altatra show. But I always like

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Speaker 1: coming on Buck Sexton Show, So listen to me. Here

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Speaker 1: there we go, James. I'll tut you everybody. James, thanks

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Speaker 1: so much, Thank you, Buck. Thanks again, Liberty Truths and

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Speaker 1: great hair yours listening to the best of the Buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show. I would say that closing schools due to

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Speaker 1: coronavirus is probably the biggest public health blunder in modern

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Speaker 1: American history. The fallout in communities that are still chafing

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Speaker 1: under school closures. We have some of the biggest school

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Speaker 1: districts in our country that still do not have in

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Speaker 1: person instruction. Incidentally, of the top ten school districts population wise,

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Speaker 1: five are in Florida. All five offer in person instruction.

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Speaker 1: But the harm from this is going to reverberate in

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Speaker 1: those communities for years and years to come. And the

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Speaker 1: tragedy of all this is that the evidence has been

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Speaker 1: remarkably clear since the spring. The closing schools offers virtually

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Speaker 1: nothing in terms of virus mitigation, but imposes huge costs

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Speaker 1: on our kids, on our parents, on our society, an

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Speaker 1: enormous amount of unnecessary suffering thanks to the teachers' unions,

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Speaker 1: are hysterical media and the Democrat Party. That is the

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Speaker 1: reality of what school closures have accomplished. That is the

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Speaker 1: reality of what has gone on here, and enormous, an

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Speaker 1: enormous loss from all of this. And you would say,

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Speaker 1: how could they have made such a bad decision. There

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Speaker 1: was never a point, I want to be very clear,

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Speaker 1: There was never a point at which the data suggested

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Speaker 1: that schools were a high risk for children or that

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Speaker 1: adults were likely to get the virus from children. They

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Speaker 1: never had that data. They just guessed. They just told

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Speaker 1: you have you seen the brilliant public health intellectuals, the

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Speaker 1: blue check mds out there. Have you seen them explain

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Speaker 1: why they weren't all pointing that out. I just want

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Speaker 1: to know. They want to tell us, now, wear a

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Speaker 1: mask because it's the science. And if you don't say that,

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Speaker 1: they'll throttle you on Facebook, they'll ban you on Twitter. Right,

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Speaker 1: that's where we are now as a country. Free speech

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Speaker 1: is almost dead in this country. That's where we really are.

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Speaker 1: But the medical community, the same medical community that was

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Speaker 1: at least willing to come. And when I say the community,

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Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of There are right wing

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Speaker 1: doctors who listen to this show, thank god, right, there

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Speaker 1: are people, there are nurses who listen to this show.

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Speaker 1: I'm not talking about them. I'm talking about the blue

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Speaker 1: check MD mafia that's always on CNN and pointed to

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Speaker 1: in the New York Times and all these people that

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Speaker 1: use their credential the silence everybody else where are their

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Speaker 1: apologies on this. They were wrong, flatly, catastrophically wrong on

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Speaker 1: school closures, and many of them knew, and they were cowards.

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Speaker 1: And it's obvious they knew that schools should be open,

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Speaker 1: but they wouldn't do it. Think about the loss of

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Speaker 1: development for these kids, the psychological durest. You know what

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01:26:58,560 --> 01:27:00,759
Speaker 1: happens to you is a kid plays out as an adult.

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01:27:00,800 --> 01:27:04,720
Speaker 1: Any psychologists will tell you extreme stress events as a kid.

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01:27:05,080 --> 01:27:08,680
Speaker 1: Sometimes even there can be PTSD that children suffer from it.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't really manifest until later on in life. And

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Speaker 1: you know, kids are at this very fragile stage of development.

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01:27:14,520 --> 01:27:17,360
Speaker 1: They need to be around their peers. So there's that cost.

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01:27:17,400 --> 01:27:19,720
Speaker 1: And then think of all the parents that have had

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01:27:19,760 --> 01:27:21,360
Speaker 1: to not be They haven't been able to go do

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01:27:21,439 --> 01:27:25,240
Speaker 1: their job. You know, everyone who writes for Vice and

1486
01:27:25,479 --> 01:27:28,639
Speaker 1: Slate and the Daily Beast, they're all working remote. They're

1487
01:27:28,640 --> 01:27:31,360
Speaker 1: all ordering their door dash. You know, no big deal.

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01:27:32,120 --> 01:27:34,000
Speaker 1: They don't have to go in and deal with this stuff.

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01:27:34,320 --> 01:27:36,080
Speaker 1: And by the way, a lot of them don't have kids.

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Speaker 1: Just just saying, a lot of the journos who are

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01:27:38,240 --> 01:27:41,519
Speaker 1: the biggest advocates of the school lockdowns for safety, they

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01:27:41,520 --> 01:27:43,920
Speaker 1: don't have children. They don't even know. But there's no

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01:27:43,960 --> 01:27:47,400
Speaker 1: apology forthcoming. And what we see is that Florida is

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01:27:47,439 --> 01:27:52,040
Speaker 1: now Sweden where they're showing us Okay, maybe it's not perfect. Obviously,

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01:27:52,120 --> 01:27:53,439
Speaker 1: there are a lot of cases. There's a lot of

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01:27:53,439 --> 01:27:56,320
Speaker 1: problems there too, but there's upside you don't have in

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01:27:56,400 --> 01:27:59,680
Speaker 1: other places that are doing lockdowns, right, and what is

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Speaker 1: the side of the Florida approach remains to be seen,

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01:28:02,840 --> 01:28:06,120
Speaker 1: doesn't it. Buck took the day off, but don't worry,

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Speaker 1: We've still got your covered. This is the best of

1501
01:28:09,439 --> 01:28:15,280
Speaker 1: the Buck Sexton Show. You talked about the fives of

1502
01:28:15,360 --> 01:28:20,760
Speaker 1: warrant to surveil Carter Page, and the Inspector General for

1503
01:28:20,840 --> 01:28:24,240
Speaker 1: the FBI said that that was improper. The lawyer who

1504
01:28:25,000 --> 01:28:28,800
Speaker 1: took actually some statements from the CIA and doctor then

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01:28:28,880 --> 01:28:32,120
Speaker 1: has pled guilty to a crime. What about what seems

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01:28:32,120 --> 01:28:35,759
Speaker 1: to be the pretty total discrediting of the Steel DOOSCII Well,

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01:28:36,439 --> 01:28:39,479
Speaker 1: as we have said previously, the steeldoscy was not used

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01:28:39,520 --> 01:28:43,840
Speaker 1: in any way to undergird the judgments that came out

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01:28:43,840 --> 01:28:47,280
Speaker 1: of the intelligence community assessment about the Russian actions in

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01:28:47,280 --> 01:28:51,000
Speaker 1: the twenty sixteen election, and so the Steel dossier, it

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01:28:51,080 --> 01:28:53,639
Speaker 1: was something that I never you know, looked at from

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01:28:53,640 --> 01:28:57,320
Speaker 1: a standpoint of credibility because it wasn't something that the

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01:28:57,439 --> 01:29:00,600
Speaker 1: CIA had acquired. And so I think people point to

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01:29:00,600 --> 01:29:03,640
Speaker 1: the steal docier as this You know reason why the

1515
01:29:03,640 --> 01:29:06,040
Speaker 1: whole thing was a hoax. No, there was so much

1516
01:29:06,120 --> 01:29:10,280
Speaker 1: other evidence and intelligence to support those judgments. So I

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01:29:10,320 --> 01:29:12,840
Speaker 1: am very comfortable with how the intel's community came out

1518
01:29:12,880 --> 01:29:16,519
Speaker 1: on that twenty sixteen election. Brennan, who you will see

1519
01:29:16,880 --> 01:29:21,640
Speaker 1: an Abiden administration in some advisory role. I'm I'm feeling it.

1520
01:29:22,120 --> 01:29:24,200
Speaker 1: They're bringing him back. They want to reward him for

1521
01:29:24,320 --> 01:29:27,160
Speaker 1: being the deep State henchman that he was. Brennan is

1522
01:29:27,200 --> 01:29:32,160
Speaker 1: a filthy, slimy liar, explain to US former CI director Brennan,

1523
01:29:32,840 --> 01:29:36,160
Speaker 1: And you know, this is hurts. I wish the CIA

1524
01:29:36,240 --> 01:29:40,800
Speaker 1: brand wasn't getting so tarnished by these partisan imbeciles, but

1525
01:29:40,880 --> 01:29:43,519
Speaker 1: it is. I'm a CIA is never really going to

1526
01:29:43,560 --> 01:29:45,800
Speaker 1: be the same. You know, there was this period after

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01:29:45,920 --> 01:29:49,240
Speaker 1: nine eleven where we realized that we needed to track, hunt,

1528
01:29:49,280 --> 01:29:53,280
Speaker 1: and destroy al Qaeda, and the CIA was essential in that.

1529
01:29:53,479 --> 01:29:55,560
Speaker 1: And now we're seeing once again it's a lot of

1530
01:29:56,040 --> 01:29:58,880
Speaker 1: a lot of bureaucrats pushing paper around and whining about

1531
01:29:58,880 --> 01:30:00,920
Speaker 1: the Hatch Act. When anybody's says, you know, they want

1532
01:30:00,920 --> 01:30:02,920
Speaker 1: to put an American flag over their desk or something.

1533
01:30:02,920 --> 01:30:04,640
Speaker 1: These people are nuts. A lot of a lot of

1534
01:30:04,720 --> 01:30:12,040
Speaker 1: left wing loons in the CIA. It's unfortunate. But what

1535
01:30:12,120 --> 01:30:14,280
Speaker 1: Brennan says, it's clearly not true. Where is all this

1536
01:30:14,520 --> 01:30:17,320
Speaker 1: Notice how he says it for this, the Steel dossier

1537
01:30:17,439 --> 01:30:19,719
Speaker 1: is total crap. We know this, this is this is official.

1538
01:30:19,760 --> 01:30:21,880
Speaker 1: This is clear, this is obvious. There's no argument to

1539
01:30:21,880 --> 01:30:24,320
Speaker 1: be had to that was all lit. It was briefed

1540
01:30:24,840 --> 01:30:27,200
Speaker 1: by the FBI director. The FBI is part of the

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01:30:27,200 --> 01:30:30,320
Speaker 1: intelligence community. So when Brennan says the intelligence community looks

1542
01:30:30,360 --> 01:30:32,559
Speaker 1: good on this, no, that's not true. The FBI is

1543
01:30:32,560 --> 01:30:36,040
Speaker 1: part of the intelligence community. It's briefed by the FBI

1544
01:30:36,120 --> 01:30:39,840
Speaker 1: director to the incoming president of the United States. You know,

1545
01:30:39,920 --> 01:30:43,560
Speaker 1: it's essentially the FBI director saying, yeah, you know, nice administration.

1546
01:30:43,600 --> 01:30:45,519
Speaker 1: You gotta be ashamed if something happens to it. Better

1547
01:30:45,560 --> 01:30:47,479
Speaker 1: keep me in my job. I can protect you from this.

1548
01:30:48,600 --> 01:30:53,320
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's our own. FBI chief basically went

1549
01:30:53,360 --> 01:30:56,280
Speaker 1: to Trump in twenty sixteen with I've got Russian compromat

1550
01:30:56,320 --> 01:30:59,759
Speaker 1: on you. Just fyi, oh yeah, so that the presidents

1551
01:30:59,760 --> 01:31:03,320
Speaker 1: will air of this to protect himself. Before they did this,

1552
01:31:03,479 --> 01:31:05,960
Speaker 1: the thing was a joke. Nobody was taking it seriously.

1553
01:31:06,560 --> 01:31:09,799
Speaker 1: Oh but once you brief it then all of a sudden,

1554
01:31:09,840 --> 01:31:13,200
Speaker 1: you've got a whole different situation here because it's been briefed,

1555
01:31:13,479 --> 01:31:16,720
Speaker 1: it's been given this seal of intelligence community credibility that

1556
01:31:16,800 --> 01:31:20,240
Speaker 1: it did not have before. So Brennan is just he's

1557
01:31:20,280 --> 01:31:22,439
Speaker 1: just lying to you. But but this is already I'm

1558
01:31:22,479 --> 01:31:25,320
Speaker 1: telling you. You know, I said this earlier in the show.

1559
01:31:25,479 --> 01:31:28,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep hitting this point. They're going to rewrite

1560
01:31:28,560 --> 01:31:31,960
Speaker 1: the whole Russia collusion history. They're gonna rewrite the whole thing.

1561
01:31:32,600 --> 01:31:36,320
Speaker 1: You're gonna see, it's gonna be this. Oh, we actually

1562
01:31:36,400 --> 01:31:40,599
Speaker 1: were right all along. The Trump people just lied about it.

1563
01:31:40,680 --> 01:31:45,240
Speaker 1: They hid the truth from us. So get ready for that,

1564
01:31:45,280 --> 01:31:47,639
Speaker 1: because we're gonna have to keep fighting on this. We're

1565
01:31:47,680 --> 01:31:52,960
Speaker 1: gonna have to continue to push back on the lies. China.

1566
01:31:53,120 --> 01:31:58,600
Speaker 1: Speaking of enemies, enemy espionage, China is looking to be

1567
01:31:58,600 --> 01:32:01,720
Speaker 1: more and more of a problem for the Democrats. For

1568
01:32:01,720 --> 01:32:03,759
Speaker 1: those of us who are paying attention to what's happening.

1569
01:32:05,040 --> 01:32:07,280
Speaker 1: You have this story and Axios, which is a left

1570
01:32:07,280 --> 01:32:13,760
Speaker 1: wing publication that there was a suspected Chinese spy who

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01:32:13,840 --> 01:32:19,479
Speaker 1: was targeting politicians between twenty eleven and twenty fifteen. Her

1572
01:32:19,560 --> 01:32:25,759
Speaker 1: name was Feang Fang and Fang Fang was looking for

1573
01:32:26,040 --> 01:32:29,920
Speaker 1: up and up and coming politicians in California to establish

1574
01:32:30,320 --> 01:32:34,479
Speaker 1: close report and relationships, perhaps even sexual relationships with to

1575
01:32:34,680 --> 01:32:38,519
Speaker 1: have access to their thinking, and to run what is

1576
01:32:38,680 --> 01:32:45,679
Speaker 1: essentially a long term influence operation. Here's the actual AXIOS report.

1577
01:32:46,680 --> 01:32:49,120
Speaker 1: We'll get into why this once again. You know, Diane

1578
01:32:49,160 --> 01:32:54,920
Speaker 1: Feinstein reportedly had a Chinese spy as her personal driver

1579
01:32:55,200 --> 01:32:58,800
Speaker 1: for years and years. It didn't notice anything, but they

1580
01:32:58,920 --> 01:33:03,439
Speaker 1: want to talk to you about rush. Russia is nowhere

1581
01:33:03,600 --> 01:33:11,200
Speaker 1: near the economic and just national national strategic threat that

1582
01:33:11,280 --> 01:33:15,200
Speaker 1: China is. Russia is a country that really actually could

1583
01:33:15,240 --> 01:33:17,040
Speaker 1: use some help to get on its feet, get things

1584
01:33:17,040 --> 01:33:22,840
Speaker 1: cleaned up. Here's the Axios here's the Axios piece. The

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01:33:22,920 --> 01:33:25,400
Speaker 1: woman at the center of the operation, a Chinese national

1586
01:33:25,479 --> 01:33:28,840
Speaker 1: name Fang Fang or Christine Fang, targeted up and coming

1587
01:33:28,920 --> 01:33:32,160
Speaker 1: local politicians in the Bay Area and across the country

1588
01:33:32,280 --> 01:33:33,920
Speaker 1: who had the potential to make it big on the

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01:33:34,000 --> 01:33:39,280
Speaker 1: national stage. Through campaign fundraising, extensive networking, personal charisma, and

1590
01:33:39,479 --> 01:33:42,799
Speaker 1: romantic or sexual relationships with a couple of Midwestern mayors,

1591
01:33:43,240 --> 01:33:46,400
Speaker 1: Fang was able to gain proximity to political power. According

1592
01:33:46,479 --> 01:33:49,799
Speaker 1: to current and former intelligence officials and one former elected official.

1593
01:33:50,560 --> 01:33:54,679
Speaker 1: Although US officials do not believe Fang received or passed

1594
01:33:54,680 --> 01:33:58,040
Speaker 1: on classified information, decays was a big deal because there

1595
01:33:58,080 --> 01:33:59,760
Speaker 1: was some really sense that if people caught up in

1596
01:33:59,760 --> 01:34:05,719
Speaker 1: this network, private but unclassified information about government officials, their habits, preferences, schedule,

1597
01:34:05,840 --> 01:34:08,120
Speaker 1: social networks, even rumors about them is a form of

1598
01:34:08,120 --> 01:34:11,760
Speaker 1: political intelligence. Collecting such information is a key part of

1599
01:34:11,800 --> 01:34:16,080
Speaker 1: what foreign intelligence agencies do. Among the most significant targets

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01:34:16,080 --> 01:34:23,120
Speaker 1: of Fang's efforts was Congressman Eric Swalwell. Yeah, the gas passer,

1601
01:34:23,680 --> 01:34:27,920
Speaker 1: Eric Swalwell. He was a huge Russia collusion truther, if

1602
01:34:27,920 --> 01:34:31,600
Speaker 1: you remember so, while he's telling the whole country and

1603
01:34:31,720 --> 01:34:35,920
Speaker 1: has the media magnifying his efforts to focus our attention

1604
01:34:36,320 --> 01:34:41,679
Speaker 1: on Russia. While that's happening, Eric Swowell is the target

1605
01:34:41,760 --> 01:34:46,080
Speaker 1: of a Chinese influence operation, according to this piece in Axios.

1606
01:34:46,120 --> 01:34:48,880
Speaker 1: And I'm look, he's a good target for them. Guy's

1607
01:34:48,920 --> 01:34:52,920
Speaker 1: not very smart, desperate for attention and influence, and he's

1608
01:34:52,960 --> 01:34:56,360
Speaker 1: really a kind of a ruthless up and coming democrat.

1609
01:34:57,560 --> 01:35:00,240
Speaker 1: And this gives you a sense though, of the long game.

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01:35:00,400 --> 01:35:03,120
Speaker 1: You know, if you ever watch the if you ever

1611
01:35:03,120 --> 01:35:05,559
Speaker 1: watch the show, the Americans, very good show for what

1612
01:35:05,600 --> 01:35:08,200
Speaker 1: it is very well done. You watch the Americans. You

1613
01:35:08,200 --> 01:35:12,439
Speaker 1: see that the Russians ran these uh, these spies in

1614
01:35:12,479 --> 01:35:15,120
Speaker 1: the US called illegals, and this is known I mean

1615
01:35:15,120 --> 01:35:17,559
Speaker 1: now post Cold War era. A lot of this has

1616
01:35:17,600 --> 01:35:20,680
Speaker 1: been talked about and declassified. They run these illegals and

1617
01:35:20,720 --> 01:35:23,760
Speaker 1: their deep cover operatives, and this continued past the Cold War.

1618
01:35:24,000 --> 01:35:26,520
Speaker 1: You remember that there was that whole network with Anna

1619
01:35:26,640 --> 01:35:29,759
Speaker 1: Chapman and this, you know, this pretty redhead who's supposed

1620
01:35:29,800 --> 01:35:32,960
Speaker 1: to get close to these different officials. And it just

1621
01:35:33,000 --> 01:35:35,519
Speaker 1: went to show you the extent to which some of

1622
01:35:35,520 --> 01:35:41,960
Speaker 1: these forward countries realized that long standing espionage, intelligence and

1623
01:35:42,040 --> 01:35:44,920
Speaker 1: influence operations like that can really bear fruit, and so

1624
01:35:45,040 --> 01:35:47,960
Speaker 1: they will take a very long view. The Soviets would

1625
01:35:47,960 --> 01:35:51,360
Speaker 1: take a very long view the Russians. But the Russian

1626
01:35:51,400 --> 01:35:56,639
Speaker 1: influence operations against the United States are a pittance, are

1627
01:35:56,720 --> 01:36:00,600
Speaker 1: a joke compared to what the Chinese going on for

1628
01:36:00,640 --> 01:36:06,360
Speaker 1: the last twenty years. The Chinese government understands that over

1629
01:36:06,400 --> 01:36:11,880
Speaker 1: the long term they are our only real nation state competitor,

1630
01:36:12,439 --> 01:36:16,400
Speaker 1: and they seek to supplant us, and they want influence

1631
01:36:16,400 --> 01:36:18,720
Speaker 1: at the top level. They want to be able to

1632
01:36:18,720 --> 01:36:21,280
Speaker 1: steer US foreign policy, and yes, they want to be

1633
01:36:21,280 --> 01:36:26,519
Speaker 1: able to buy people off. Much easier, right, much better

1634
01:36:26,600 --> 01:36:30,519
Speaker 1: to just have somebody in your pocket. Oh right. And

1635
01:36:30,560 --> 01:36:33,320
Speaker 1: then there was that whole Joe Biden son Hunter Biden

1636
01:36:33,920 --> 01:36:38,519
Speaker 1: running what was effectively an influence operation on behalf of

1637
01:36:38,600 --> 01:36:41,559
Speaker 1: China to his own dad. But the Democrats don't care

1638
01:36:41,560 --> 01:36:46,360
Speaker 1: about that. Democrats have been trained to think China is

1639
01:36:46,560 --> 01:36:50,240
Speaker 1: not a concern because Democrat elites who are ultra wealthy

1640
01:36:50,240 --> 01:36:56,679
Speaker 1: and influential have been benefiting from China personally. Right, they

1641
01:36:56,720 --> 01:36:59,920
Speaker 1: as individuals, their companies are wealthier. These are huge market

1642
01:37:00,120 --> 01:37:04,280
Speaker 1: Here's a perfect example of this. NBA. Do you think

1643
01:37:04,280 --> 01:37:06,280
Speaker 1: what could be more American than the NBA? I mean,

1644
01:37:06,320 --> 01:37:09,920
Speaker 1: the whole world now plays basketball, loves basketball as a sport,

1645
01:37:10,000 --> 01:37:15,160
Speaker 1: spectator sport. The NBA should be in a place where

1646
01:37:15,160 --> 01:37:18,719
Speaker 1: they would you be willing to put American interest first?

1647
01:37:19,640 --> 01:37:22,720
Speaker 1: He would think, speak up for American values. But no,

1648
01:37:22,760 --> 01:37:25,200
Speaker 1: they won't. Why because China, because they need that money.

1649
01:37:26,160 --> 01:37:28,559
Speaker 1: And that means that NBA players and even their social

1650
01:37:28,600 --> 01:37:32,200
Speaker 1: media presence is always filtered through this prism of what

1651
01:37:32,280 --> 01:37:35,400
Speaker 1: we need to keep China happy. Well, if that's true

1652
01:37:35,439 --> 01:37:37,200
Speaker 1: of the NBA, and it's true of athletes who are

1653
01:37:37,280 --> 01:37:40,479
Speaker 1: making tens of millions of dollars and NBA commissioners and

1654
01:37:40,520 --> 01:37:43,800
Speaker 1: other senior NBA corporate types or making millions and millions

1655
01:37:43,840 --> 01:37:46,200
Speaker 1: of dollars. What do you think, what do you think

1656
01:37:46,280 --> 01:37:50,280
Speaker 1: China is able to accomplish with Google? What do you

1657
01:37:50,320 --> 01:37:53,960
Speaker 1: think China is able to accomplish with other companies? That

1658
01:37:54,000 --> 01:37:58,759
Speaker 1: they're they're both making them bend to China's will and

1659
01:37:59,680 --> 01:38:02,080
Speaker 1: is the other part of it. And they are going

1660
01:38:02,120 --> 01:38:06,160
Speaker 1: out of their way to steal from these companies as

1661
01:38:06,200 --> 01:38:08,360
Speaker 1: much as they possibly can. So it's this is what

1662
01:38:08,439 --> 01:38:10,360
Speaker 1: you have to do to do business in China. The

1663
01:38:10,400 --> 01:38:13,479
Speaker 1: companies say, okay, okay, fine, you know, because they want

1664
01:38:13,479 --> 01:38:16,519
Speaker 1: access to that market and they'll steal their intellectual property

1665
01:38:16,560 --> 01:38:18,439
Speaker 1: the process. But they don't want to complain too much

1666
01:38:18,439 --> 01:38:21,639
Speaker 1: about it because they want that they want those shares,

1667
01:38:21,920 --> 01:38:23,800
Speaker 1: they want those shares to stay up, they want their

1668
01:38:23,880 --> 01:38:27,439
Speaker 1: corporate compensation packages to be fat, so they don't say

1669
01:38:27,520 --> 01:38:30,280
Speaker 1: very much about it. And we've started to realize in

1670
01:38:30,320 --> 01:38:34,080
Speaker 1: the last five to ten years the scale and scope

1671
01:38:34,080 --> 01:38:38,760
Speaker 1: of this theft, which is extreme. But how many Democrats

1672
01:38:38,800 --> 01:38:42,200
Speaker 1: do you think have been influenced on behalf of the

1673
01:38:42,320 --> 01:38:46,320
Speaker 1: Chinese Communist Party in this country. You know we're gonna start.

1674
01:38:46,800 --> 01:38:49,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you this another another prediction. I've got

1675
01:38:49,120 --> 01:38:50,880
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of visions in my head

1676
01:38:50,880 --> 01:38:53,080
Speaker 1: today that I think are going to come true, and

1677
01:38:53,520 --> 01:38:55,880
Speaker 1: we'll revisit them as we continue to do this show,

1678
01:38:56,240 --> 01:38:58,240
Speaker 1: because for now, at least, the social media companies can

1679
01:38:58,240 --> 01:39:00,680
Speaker 1: try to throttle me, but my and you know, by

1680
01:39:00,680 --> 01:39:02,720
Speaker 1: the way, you can always also follow me at bucksexton

1681
01:39:02,800 --> 01:39:05,840
Speaker 1: dot com if you want to read our stories there.

1682
01:39:05,840 --> 01:39:08,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have an editorial up tomorrow they I'm gonna

1683
01:39:08,200 --> 01:39:12,320
Speaker 1: deal with this issue of China. So Bucksexton dot com

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Speaker 1: and I hope you're making that a page where you'll

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Speaker 1: go and download and listen to the podcast. And we've

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Speaker 1: got a lot of things happening there at the site.

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Speaker 1: But as we continue forward here, what I think you're

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Speaker 1: going to see are the Democrats, because they've focused so

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Speaker 1: much of this attention on Russia and Russia collusion nonsense.

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Speaker 1: The way they can cover up for this going forward,

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Speaker 1: the way they can try to to be you know,

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Speaker 1: try to distract the American public would be to say, well,

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Speaker 1: this is now a new red scare that the Chinese

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01:39:47,000 --> 01:39:50,360
Speaker 1: Communist Party is not really a threat, and this is

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01:39:50,400 --> 01:39:54,599
Speaker 1: exaggerated by Republicans because if we dig into this deeper,

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Speaker 1: we're going to find out is that China has been

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01:39:56,160 --> 01:39:59,040
Speaker 1: buying off Democrats for a very long time, and buying

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01:39:59,040 --> 01:40:01,960
Speaker 1: off Democrat elite. You know, people that are talking all

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Speaker 1: about climate change. They're doing all kinds of business with

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Speaker 1: China knowing that Chinese don't give a crap about climate change, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, and that's just one example of countless examples.

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Speaker 1: But I'm saying, think this through, you'll see. Look at

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Speaker 1: what our policy. It's an amazing it's really a stunning

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Speaker 1: foreign policy success the Chinese government has had for the

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Speaker 1: last twenty years us on a pretty bipartisan basis. Now,

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Speaker 1: now we've got to bring the Republicans in here too,

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01:40:28,240 --> 01:40:30,840
Speaker 1: because there are Republicans who need to be looked at

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01:40:30,880 --> 01:40:33,000
Speaker 1: for this. There are Republicans who have not been putting

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Speaker 1: American interests first. The bipartisan foreign policy consensus on China

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Speaker 1: was as they get wealthier, they will be a better

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Speaker 1: partner and player on the world stage. So let's not

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01:40:46,880 --> 01:40:49,800
Speaker 1: make too much noise about the espionage. Let's not have

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01:40:50,000 --> 01:40:52,120
Speaker 1: you know, when they've got dens of spies all across

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Speaker 1: the country, we find out about them occasionally, Let's not

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01:40:54,479 --> 01:40:57,880
Speaker 1: get too upset about it, and you know, let's let

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Speaker 1: them steal a lot of intellectual property from billions and

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Speaker 1: billions of dollars. You know, we don't want to make

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Speaker 1: too much noise about this. Somehow we thought this was

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Speaker 1: going to get better. No one ever answers how, but

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Speaker 1: the belief was that there would be a way that

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Speaker 1: in time the Chinese would would you know, stop doing

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Speaker 1: this stuff? How much of that was also driven by

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Speaker 1: people who were close friends, business associates, perhaps making introductions,

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01:41:25,920 --> 01:41:32,200
Speaker 1: perhaps paying consulting fees for people in the media, in academia,

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Speaker 1: in politics, the infiltration of the CCP into the nodes

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01:41:38,120 --> 01:41:41,639
Speaker 1: of power in America has been one of the most

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Speaker 1: underreported and honestly suppressed critical stories of the last twenty years.

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Speaker 1: And the more we look into this, you're gonna see

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Speaker 1: there are Republicans who are certainly caught up in this too.

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Speaker 1: The Democrats as a party have been bought and paid

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Speaker 1: for by the Chinese Communist Party. That's what we're going

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01:41:59,760 --> 01:42:02,639
Speaker 1: to find and the way they're going to fight against

1733
01:42:02,880 --> 01:42:05,000
Speaker 1: the public coming that realization is to say that this

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Speaker 1: is a new red scare and that this is McCarthy ism.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna hear all these phrases, but it's actually because

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Speaker 1: the truth is that the Democrats are bought and paid

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Speaker 1: for by China. Get ready for them, Bucks Off spreading

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Speaker 1: freedom coast to coast. This is the best of the

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01:42:23,840 --> 01:42:30,040
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton show. You look at the real challenge on

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Speaker 1: the global stage, and that challenges China. We are once again,

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01:42:34,920 --> 01:42:38,400
Speaker 1: we've moved into a bipolar world, much like Truman face

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Speaker 1: with the Soviet Union and the United States. But the

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01:42:41,800 --> 01:42:45,800
Speaker 1: best way to address that is first rebuild your alliances

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01:42:46,479 --> 01:42:49,639
Speaker 1: and then work together with your allies and the best

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01:42:49,640 --> 01:42:54,799
Speaker 1: approach towards China. And there's really no need while China's arrival.

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01:42:54,840 --> 01:42:58,680
Speaker 1: There's no need to make China our enemy. And you

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01:42:58,720 --> 01:43:00,920
Speaker 1: can say the same thing with Russia as well. So

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Speaker 1: been before Joe Biden does that, he obviously has to

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Speaker 1: rebuild America's alliances. Uh, that's a lesson that certainly Truman

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01:43:11,640 --> 01:43:14,880
Speaker 1: still can teach Joe Biden and other presidents in the

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01:43:14,920 --> 01:43:18,280
Speaker 1: coming years doing doing a great job of making sure

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Speaker 1: that no one really thinks that China is a big

1753
01:43:20,640 --> 01:43:23,040
Speaker 1: problem here, Scarborough over and Morning Joe. I mean that

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01:43:23,040 --> 01:43:26,880
Speaker 1: that show is it really is just an intellectual sewer.

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01:43:27,240 --> 01:43:29,840
Speaker 1: It's intellectual sewer of people who puff up their chests

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01:43:29,840 --> 01:43:31,880
Speaker 1: and think that what they say is worthwhile. You've got

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01:43:31,920 --> 01:43:33,960
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of rich people, mostly who

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01:43:33,960 --> 01:43:36,800
Speaker 1: are in the right place at the right time, who

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01:43:36,960 --> 01:43:39,280
Speaker 1: who show up and they stood on these panels and

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01:43:39,400 --> 01:43:42,080
Speaker 1: what they say is just dumb. And what he's saying

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Speaker 1: here is is just frankly absurd. What what what alliances need

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01:43:45,200 --> 01:43:46,760
Speaker 1: to be repaired? Notice they just say this, this is

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01:43:46,800 --> 01:43:48,960
Speaker 1: a talking point. What what country do we not have

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Speaker 1: a good relationship with because of Trump? I'm gonna want

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01:43:51,280 --> 01:43:54,000
Speaker 1: to try. Oh, China, the only place where we've act

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01:43:54,000 --> 01:43:56,720
Speaker 1: where Trump has really taken an aggressive posture against that

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01:43:56,800 --> 01:43:59,240
Speaker 1: country in a way that was a huge departure from

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Speaker 1: the past. Is the one threat that we have on

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Speaker 1: the the global stage. And he says, well, we don't

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Speaker 1: have to be enemies with Russia. Really, after pushing the

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01:44:07,120 --> 01:44:10,639
Speaker 1: Russia stole an election hysteria for four years now they're

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Speaker 1: going to pretend that Russia's not really Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it turns out China is the bigger threat. You don't

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01:44:14,520 --> 01:44:17,400
Speaker 1: say we knew that, but Democrats didn't want to admit it.

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01:44:17,760 --> 01:44:21,120
Speaker 1: Democrats thought that they had more a more important threat.

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Speaker 1: You see. Ultimately, what this comes down to is that

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01:44:23,760 --> 01:44:26,000
Speaker 1: the Democrats believe the biggest problem for them is not

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01:44:26,040 --> 01:44:29,120
Speaker 1: actually China, it's Donald Trump. The biggest problem for America

1779
01:44:29,240 --> 01:44:32,360
Speaker 1: was never the threat from China. They viewed Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: as the bigger threat, and so whatever was necessary in

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Speaker 1: their minds for that agreement. I'm sorry, whatever's necessary for

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01:44:40,360 --> 01:44:44,640
Speaker 1: that situation was what they would do. That's that was

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01:44:44,680 --> 01:44:47,120
Speaker 1: the plan here. But this is just all blather. There

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01:44:47,200 --> 01:44:50,599
Speaker 1: is no Trump's foreign policy was better than Obama's foreign

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01:44:50,640 --> 01:44:53,360
Speaker 1: policy by every observable metric you can see, not even

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01:44:53,400 --> 01:44:56,639
Speaker 1: close by everything that you can actually point to. It

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01:44:56,800 --> 01:45:00,439
Speaker 1: was that had impact or any meaning. It is better,

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01:45:00,520 --> 01:45:02,880
Speaker 1: and confronting China was a centerpiece of it. You think

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01:45:02,920 --> 01:45:05,040
Speaker 1: the Democrats are going to confront China. No, They're gonna

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Speaker 1: want to say, what's my cut