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Speaker 1: with jihadist terrorists on social media, so we haven't yet

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Speaker 1: seen some of the telltale signs we would expect in

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Speaker 1: this process. Although as we read more about associates of

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Speaker 1: these individuals that are reported in the press, some of

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Speaker 1: them withdrew became much more religious, you know, you see

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Speaker 1: in the New York Times and these other places, and

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00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 1: the New York Times, I should note ended a piece

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Speaker 1: just yesterday that I read with how sad the terrorists

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00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 1: families were, you know, how the emotional scars won't heal

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00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: for the terrorists families. How about the families of the

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00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 1: dead in Camberrill's and Barcelona, UH and the wounded. The

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Speaker 1: New York Times focus on the terrorist families. It just

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00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 1: goes to show you that they're they're always looking to

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Speaker 1: try and find an alternative angle here whenever you're talking

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Speaker 1: about geeh hottest terrorism. That deflects from the rage that

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Speaker 1: we should feel at incidents like this, the anger that

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Speaker 1: we are righteous in summoning when we are condemning this

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Speaker 1: kind of jee hottest terrorist atrocity. UH. A very important

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Speaker 1: point that well, I'm sure we'll get lost in all

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Speaker 1: of the coverage of this because there won't most of

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Speaker 1: the media won't want to focus on this, is that

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Speaker 1: these were UH individuals who had, based on the reporting

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Speaker 1: we've seen, all assimilated quite well. They smoked, they like

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Speaker 1: to party, they like to play sports, they watched TV,

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Speaker 1: they played video games, and so the usual narrative that

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Speaker 1: the leftist jihad apologists come up with. And this happened,

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Speaker 1: as I mentioned to you, when I was speaking on

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Speaker 1: a panel at CNN. Everyone else on that panel was

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Speaker 1: saying that the nice attack in south of France was

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Speaker 1: the result of poor assimilation. Okay, in this case, you

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Speaker 1: have all these young people living in Spain who are

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Speaker 1: uh enjoying life, have access to all the things that

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Speaker 1: one would need. You a civilized Western country like Spain,

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Speaker 1: a beautiful country. I've always wanted to visit. It's a

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Speaker 1: wonderful place. And they're enjoying their lives. They're young, they've

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Speaker 1: got girlfriends, they're watching you know, TV like everybody else.

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Speaker 1: They're they're they're a part of Spanish society, and everyone

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Speaker 1: thinks everything is normal. And then all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: they decided to become a bunch of savages who are

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Speaker 1: murdering people. I mean, they killed a seven year old

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Speaker 1: in Barcelona. They ran over a seven years They ran

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Speaker 1: over everybody they could, but one of the dead is

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Speaker 1: a little seven year old. What kind of savages? What

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Speaker 1: kind of barbarians run down a kid, crush a kid

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Speaker 1: under a vehicle? Because what because this is for a caliphate,

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Speaker 1: because of the violence in the Middle East. If it

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Speaker 1: wasn't for America, you know, there actually be a lot

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Speaker 1: more violence in the Middle East. Hate to hate to

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Speaker 1: be the one to break that to people, but they

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Speaker 1: would be attacking and killing each other in Syria and

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Speaker 1: in Iraq and elsewhere. Whether we had ever set foot

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Speaker 1: in the region or not. Just look at a little

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Speaker 1: bit of the history and I'm right, and you know

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Speaker 1: I'm right. But the left just makes all these excuses.

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Speaker 1: It's pathetic. But back to the whole assimilation jihoti is

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Speaker 1: m discussion. Here, these young men who turned into monsters

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Speaker 1: in Spain were in a wonderful society, a wonderful country,

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Speaker 1: and they turned on their uh. They turned on their

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Speaker 1: Spanish brothers and sisters. They were born in Morocco, but

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Speaker 1: they had been living in Spain for a number of years.

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Speaker 1: How could anyone do this? Why would anyone do this?

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Speaker 1: The answer is not poverty or lack of opportunity, or

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Speaker 1: assimilation problems, or Islamophobia or any of the other stuff

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Speaker 1: that will be offered up by the whiny, dissembling, excuse

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Speaker 1: making left when it comes to Muslim based terrorism, which

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00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 1: is what jihoti is um is, it is from within

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Speaker 1: the Islamic faith. Whenever they want to make excuses, they

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00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: find some way, or at least they'll cover it up

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Speaker 1: and say we'll talk more about this later. But here

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Speaker 1: we have a very interesting case study. These young men

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Speaker 1: were integrated into Spanish society well. By all accounts, they

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Speaker 1: had plenty of opportunity. Spain's youth unemployment is almost You'll

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Speaker 1: notice there are no non Moroccan Muslims in this group

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Speaker 1: of twelve that are running people over and trying to

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Speaker 1: blow people up, men, women and children. That's because this

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Speaker 1: is ideological. That's because within the Islamic faith there is

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Speaker 1: a percentage. There is a minority, but it is large

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Speaker 1: enough to destabilize the world and to threaten if we

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Speaker 1: do not confront it, if we do not name it,

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00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 1: to threaten Western civilization itself. There is a minority within

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Speaker 1: the Islamic faith that is at war with us constantly

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Speaker 1: and always, and our only choice for dealing with them

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Speaker 1: is vigilance and eradication, vigilance against their terrorist attacks and

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Speaker 1: eradicating the terrorists as we can on foreign battlefield, or

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Speaker 1: taking them off the battlefield at home, prosecuting them to

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Speaker 1: the full extent of the law, in some cases death

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Speaker 1: penalty cases. But that's what we have to do. That

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Speaker 1: is all we can do, because otherwise we are already surrendering.

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Speaker 1: Otherwise the battle is already over. We just don't know

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Speaker 1: it yet. And here we see a story where the

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Speaker 1: only basis you could come up with for individuals to

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Speaker 1: do this is that they had been UH brainwashed by

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00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:34,799
Speaker 1: an ideology that they had embraced of Islamic jihad and

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00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 1: jihadism and Islamism, and that UH version of Islamic theology

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Speaker 1: is present in many countries around the world. Many tens

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Speaker 1: of millions of people believe it, and it's going to

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Speaker 1: continue to be the great struggle of our time. And

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Speaker 1: it's not about assimilation and it's not about Islamophobia, and

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Speaker 1: Spain proves it. It's so frustrating to see so much

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Speaker 1: of the idiot commentary on this, people who have never

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Speaker 1: worked a counter terrorism case, know any of the history,

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Speaker 1: know any of this. It's very, very frustrating. Just a

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Speaker 1: quick update team on the other terror attact that happened

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Speaker 1: last week. It didn't get nearly as much attention as

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Speaker 1: it would have otherwise because of what had gone on

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Speaker 1: in Spain. Here's an update from the BBC. Moroccan suspect

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Speaker 1: named over Finland stabbings in turkup Uh suspect held in

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Speaker 1: Finland over a knife attack that killed two people has

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Speaker 1: been named as eighteen year old Moroccan asylum seeker Abda

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Speaker 1: Rahama mihash Uh or Meska sorry. Police shot him in

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Speaker 1: the leg and he is in hospital, but he's expected

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Speaker 1: to appear in court via a video link. The man

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Speaker 1: appeared to choose women as targets. According to police, it's

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Speaker 1: being treated as terrorism. Two Finnish women were stabbed to death.

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Speaker 1: Eight other people were injured. UH. The injured included a

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Speaker 1: British paramedic, a suite and an Italian. There were six

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Speaker 1: women who were injured as well in this UH. This

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Speaker 1: is a horrific incident, and this is somebody who was

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Speaker 1: seeking this suspect another Moroccan involved in terrorism. I should

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Speaker 1: note now, look I've met many Moroccans and there are

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Speaker 1: loads of great people. It's a country at thirty five million.

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Speaker 1: But again, if we're looking at the ideology of Islam

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Speaker 1: broadly and where we have to worry about terrorism coming from,

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Speaker 1: it comes from mostly from within the Islamic community on

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Speaker 1: a global scale. This is just a fact. People like

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Speaker 1: to fight this and feel like they're being righteous for

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Speaker 1: some reason. But I'm not saying and no one who

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Speaker 1: knows anything says that every Muslim is a terrorist, or

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Speaker 1: that everybody who believes in Islam is involved with or

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Speaker 1: supportive of terrorism. But I am saying that there is

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Speaker 1: a disproportionate percentage that there is a large, relatively speaking

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Speaker 1: piece of the terrorism pie that involves Islamic extremists. And

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Speaker 1: I know you already know this, but it just has

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Speaker 1: to be repeated so that we can maintain some sanity

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Speaker 1: as we talk about these issues. But you had Moroccans

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Speaker 1: involved in terrorism in Spain last week, you have this

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Speaker 1: guy involved in terrorism in Finland. Let me just say

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Speaker 1: a couple of things about this. Uh. One is that

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00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:32,400
Speaker 1: this was obviously terrorism from the start, and the Finnish

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Speaker 1: authorities were slow rolling it. And to notice how he

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Speaker 1: goes after women. Repression of women in Islamic societies is

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Speaker 1: one of the most corrosive and destructive aspects of traditional

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Speaker 1: fundamentalist Islam, and it breaks out onto the world stage

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Speaker 1: in these incidents and all of a sudden people say,

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Speaker 1: wait a second, there is some true misogyny, real hatred

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Speaker 1: of women that is a vast problem within Islam, not

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Speaker 1: just for terrorists incidents or just jihad ists, but within

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Speaker 1: the Muslim world. It is the motherload of regression on

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Speaker 1: women's rights. You could say, again, people don't want to

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Speaker 1: talk about it, but it's just true, We'll go and

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Speaker 1: do a break here talking about free speech and just

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Speaker 1: a few he's holding the line for America buck sex

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Speaker 1: in his back number one. We didn't want what happened

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Speaker 1: in um, you know, in Virginia to happen here. We

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Speaker 1: didn't want them at each other's throat. You know. Also,

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Speaker 1: there was a lot of talk in the week leading

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Speaker 1: up about bottles being flown with urine at our offices,

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Speaker 1: and I wanted to make sure that they you know

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Speaker 1: that you had to have a good am to basically

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Speaker 1: it's fall and get at them. So, you know, we

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Speaker 1: basically wanted them separated. And I'm sorry to report we

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Speaker 1: didn't have some bottles cloned at our offices that did

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Speaker 1: have urin in it. Um. A couple of our officers

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Speaker 1: were hit with that. They were hit with a lot

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Speaker 1: of stuff today and I'm very proud of the job

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Speaker 1: they did. And it goes to the professionalism of this

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Speaker 1: to pop Ah. Yes, protesters throwing bottles of urine at

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Speaker 1: police officers up in Boston over the weekend. It's not

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Speaker 1: specified in the media, but of course we can all

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Speaker 1: just guess, and we would be right that those who

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Speaker 1: were throwing bodily fluids at police officers who were there

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Speaker 1: to protect everyone and do their duty in the city

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Speaker 1: of Boston. Uh that that was coming from the left.

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Speaker 1: Those were the counter protesters. Buck Saxton back with you

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Speaker 1: all now, Team. I saw the protests over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I mean I watched them. I wasn't there

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Speaker 1: present for them. I was in Fox News for a

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Speaker 1: little bit looking at some of the live feeds some

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Speaker 1: of what had happened there. And you had tens of

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Speaker 1: thous thousands of counter protesters and a few dozen right

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Speaker 1: wing protesters who are having a quote free speech rally.

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Speaker 1: I always find it fascinating that there's so little information,

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Speaker 1: it's a little reliable information on just what this quote

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Speaker 1: free speech rally really was or who these people were.

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Speaker 1: I didn't see any people walking around with swastikas. I

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Speaker 1: didn't see anything that looked like it had anything to

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Speaker 1: do with Nazism. Again, I don't know. I just saw

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Speaker 1: what I saw on the video feeds of the event,

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Speaker 1: but I certainly saw and so I just think it's

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Speaker 1: interesting that you don't get much background information on any

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Speaker 1: of that. You don't get the opportunity to say, Okay,

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Speaker 1: is this really a free speech rally or is this

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Speaker 1: a an effort to cause trouble for the you know,

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Speaker 1: the alt right, trying to get together and have a

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Speaker 1: big event that will draw attention and perhaps even a

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Speaker 1: situation where there's likely to be violence. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I did, however, see Antifa protesters, or at least members

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Speaker 1: of what's called the Black Block. Now. I'm familiar with

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Speaker 1: these guys from years ago when they were a part

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Speaker 1: of the Occupy Wall Street protests movement and all of

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Speaker 1: the groups that you see that you've seen in recent years,

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Speaker 1: including Antifa, including Occupy Wall Street there and and the

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Speaker 1: Black Block within it. Uh. They the seeds of these

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00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 1: groups were planted years ago. Uh, this is not new.

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Speaker 1: The anarchists that were part of Occupy Wall Street were

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Speaker 1: just as crazy they were Antifa without Trump. That's all.

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Speaker 1: That's all that the differences here. Uh. They ran around

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Speaker 1: and destroyed things, they wore all black. Black Block is

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Speaker 1: a tactic, as I've told you in the past, and

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Speaker 1: it's specifically done so that it's difficult to identify perpetrators.

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Speaker 1: So it's a means of facilitating mob destructive behavior and

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Speaker 1: mob violence without being caught, and it also creates a

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00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 1: perception of a paramilitary protest organization. That's what the Black

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Speaker 1: Block is really trying to do, trying to seem like

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Speaker 1: they are true modern day revolutionaries and anarchists. I saw

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Speaker 1: some of them at the UH, at the protests on

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Speaker 1: Boston Common over the weekend. And of course you have

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Speaker 1: all the fighting back and forth between the left and

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Speaker 1: right in this country, Democrats and Republicans as to whether

648
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Speaker 1: or which side has more crazies, essentially, and I think

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Speaker 1: it should be noted that Black Block shows up in

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Speaker 1: every city across the country. They've been a part of

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Speaker 1: protest movements for years, and they are not disavowed by

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00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 1: the left. That the left will have these these tall

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Speaker 1: box about their tactics and say whether they're helpful or not,

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00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 1: whether they cause more problems than their worth, But they

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00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:09,479
Speaker 1: don't completely disvow the Black Block. UH that you don't

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Speaker 1: see people. All you have to do is look at

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00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 1: these protests. You don't see people telling those who show

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Speaker 1: up to a speech protests wearing black head to toe

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00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:22,120
Speaker 1: UH their own side, so to speak, the counter free

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00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 1: speech protesters, whatever that means. They're not saying, hey, what

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Speaker 1: are you idiots doing here? All dressed in black, wearing masks,

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Speaker 1: uh and in the case of Boston, they weren't allowed

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Speaker 1: to carry weapons very smart by the Boston police. Boston Police,

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Speaker 1: like the NYPD, has the resources and the training to

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Speaker 1: really handle large protest movements. Charlottesville doesn't. This is a

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Speaker 1: huge differentiator. By the way, didn't get nearly enough attention

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Speaker 1: in the initial discussions of just went wrong there. It

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00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:57,239
Speaker 1: was clear that if the Charlottesville police had had more personnel,

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Speaker 1: more training, and most important, only the will to act early,

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Speaker 1: which is a combination. I think their hesitancy was a

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Speaker 1: combination of a political concern about seeming too aggressive with

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Speaker 1: the counter right wing protesters, and also just not really

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Speaker 1: knowing what they were doing. In Boston, the cops knew

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Speaker 1: what they were doing, but you have this Antifa movement there,

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00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 1: or you you have these black block individuals who are

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00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 1: now associated with Antifa, and they're present for this and

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00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:34,840
Speaker 1: they're not being told to disperse by their own side.

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00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 1: They're not so you know, in the same way that

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Speaker 1: people have pointed out, and I think understandably and correctly,

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Speaker 1: you don't get to march next to a guy holding

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Speaker 1: up a swastika, or you don't get to stand beside

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Speaker 1: a neo Nazi and you're saying I believe in I

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00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 1: don't know, you know, secure borders, and the neo Nazis saying,

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Speaker 1: you know, I hate people of this race or you know,

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Speaker 1: blood and soil or some other really horrifying thing, that

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Speaker 1: that's a problem for you if if you're the non

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Speaker 1: blood and soil guy, you don't get to just stand

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Speaker 1: there and be okay with it. I think it's interesting

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Speaker 1: that the left always gives a pass to the Antifa

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Speaker 1: people there, and also there no there's no expectation that

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Speaker 1: the that the black block Antifa groups within who by

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Speaker 1: the way, we're throwing bottles of urine at police in Boston.

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Speaker 1: Let's just put that out there. It's not like they

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Speaker 1: sit there and they're just dressed like these little street

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Speaker 1: combatants and they don't do anything throwing bottles of urina cops.

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Speaker 1: Some of them were arrested. But there's no expectation that

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Speaker 1: the Antifa black block protesters are going to be booted

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Speaker 1: out by their own side or called out by their

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Speaker 1: own side. What starts to make it feel like in

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Speaker 1: these leftist counter fascism proach tests or counter free speech

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Speaker 1: protests or whatever they are. I mean, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of different stuff going on across the country. Are we

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00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:10,839
Speaker 1: talking about on campus? Are we talking about what's just

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Speaker 1: happening now in some of these cities. But it seems

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Speaker 1: to me more like Antifa is the vanguard of the left.

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Speaker 1: There the shock troops. But there's a difference between fringe

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Speaker 1: extremists and shock troops, and I think that that's where

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00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 1: you see the left having some real problems here with

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Speaker 1: their line of argument, which is, oh, we're not extreme,

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Speaker 1: the right is extreme. Oh well, you don't denounce the

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Speaker 1: extremists in your own midst. And to say that somebody

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Speaker 1: who will throw a bottle of urine, which was confirmed

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Speaker 1: by Boston Police, to say that somebody would throw a

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Speaker 1: bottle of urine at a police officer and that is

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Speaker 1: in any way, in any way, shape or form acceptable

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Speaker 1: to anyone's just appalling. I mean, first, that's a cop.

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Speaker 1: They're there to provide safety in order for everybody. The

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Speaker 1: Boston Police did a really professional and admirable job on

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Speaker 1: Saturday from everything that I've seen, just as by the

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Speaker 1: way the NYPD did dealing with the Occupy Wall Street movement.

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Speaker 1: But you know whether it's a male or female cop.

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Speaker 1: Now that's somebody's dad, that's somebody's mom. These little Antifa

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Speaker 1: punks are throwing uh urine at them. You know, where

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00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:32,520
Speaker 1: do we draw the line? Are they allowed to our

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Speaker 1: antifa punks because they're so anti Trump? Are they allowed

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Speaker 1: to throw feces at police officers? Know? What? Why is

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00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:44,960
Speaker 1: that not more highlighted in all? Well we know the answer,

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00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:47,040
Speaker 1: of course. Because the left believes that they're not responsible

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00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 1: for any violence or any problems. Why do we not

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Speaker 1: hear more stories about this? And also the condemnation from

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Speaker 1: within the left. Are are they anti cop or not?

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Speaker 1: I think they should be forced to answer that question.

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Speaker 1: Is Antifi anti cop? I've got other audio of them

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Speaker 1: yelling uh cops and clan, cops and clan. Again, this

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Speaker 1: was in Dallas, this was in Seattle. They chant cops

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Speaker 1: and clan. Now, if we're going to talk about triggering

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Speaker 1: and aggressions that are speech based against people, do we

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Speaker 1: get to ever stop and think about, first of all,

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Speaker 1: how offensive it is to all cops of any race, creed,

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Speaker 1: or color for protesters, and not just offensive, but completely

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Speaker 1: unfair and and insane to say that. But they're black

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Speaker 1: police officers in Dallas, are black police officers in Seattle,

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Speaker 1: black police officers in every major p D in the country,

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Speaker 1: in places like New York is actually very diverse police department.

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Speaker 1: I know because I worked for the NYPD. You've got

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Speaker 1: little punk protesters yelling at those cops who were standing

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Speaker 1: there defending all of us, all of them, but African

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00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:04,600
Speaker 1: American officers as well, hops and clan That's in what

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Speaker 1: universe are we supposed to just overlook that and act

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00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 1: like it's not a big deal. Well, you and I won't,

751
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:15,359
Speaker 1: but the left certainly does. Are you seeing a lot

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00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 1: of stories about that? I mean, can you imagine? Can

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Speaker 1: you imagine what the response would be if you had

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Speaker 1: and any kind of alt right group that was threatening

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00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:35,320
Speaker 1: police officers, throwing human waste at them and chanting vile

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00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 1: and offensive stuff two cops. I mean, it's all you'd

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00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:43,680
Speaker 1: hear about as as you should. But yet when it's

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Speaker 1: on the other side, when it's the left doing this stuff,

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Speaker 1: you have this gap. All of a sudden, there's so

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Speaker 1: much less interest, there's so much less discussion out there,

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Speaker 1: the editorial decisions in the various news rooms and websites

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00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: and TV channels are skewed away from what would be,

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Speaker 1: if nothing else interesting television. People would like to see

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Speaker 1: audio I think of protesters screaming cops end clan. People

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Speaker 1: would like to hear the Boston mayor saying that, sure enough,

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00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:26,000
Speaker 1: there was Boston Police commissioner rather saying there was urn

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Speaker 1: thrown at at officers, not by the alt right, not

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00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:34,799
Speaker 1: that there's anything good about the alt right, but by

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Speaker 1: the left, by the counter protesters. We should know the truth,

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm here to tell you. But they're rejecting

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Speaker 1: reality on the other side when it comes to the

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Speaker 1: violence on their own side. Let's talk about the left

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Speaker 1: argument when with regard to violence and protests. That's audio

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Speaker 1: from the Dallas anti White Supremacy rally that happened over

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Speaker 1: the weekend. So you had this, uh, this rally in

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Speaker 1: Boston against hate, which was originally a free speech rally.

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Speaker 1: But there are only dozens or hundreds of quote free

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Speaker 1: speech people who I have read have completely distanced themselves

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00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:28,799
Speaker 1: from any alts right, or they've publicly said that I

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Speaker 1: don't know enough about the group, very hard as I

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00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:33,719
Speaker 1: had to find information on it. But in Dallas they

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Speaker 1: had another rally, and this was an anti white supremacy rally,

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Speaker 1: the Dallas Dallas against white supremacy. And you had a

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Speaker 1: few thousand people gathered near city Hall and they were

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00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 1: holding up signs like white supremacy is not welcome in

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Speaker 1: our city. Uh. And they also had Donald Trump with

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00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:57,040
Speaker 1: the word racist uh crossed out on his chest and

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00:51:57,080 --> 00:51:59,400
Speaker 1: an an effigy of Donald Trump, I should say, with

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00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 1: reward ray has crossed out of his chest. So I

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00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 1: you know, this is okay, this is what you can expect,

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Speaker 1: I suppose from the left. But chanton cops and clan

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00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:12,520
Speaker 1: hand in hand is just a slur. And that there

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Speaker 1: were protesters who did this in Dallas. They've also done

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00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 1: it in Seattle recently this has become a leftist protest

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00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:23,000
Speaker 1: chant that's catching on across the country tells us a lot.

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00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 1: I think about what the real motives and and motivations

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00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 1: behind some of these movements are. Uh. They are not

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Speaker 1: about police reform. They are in fact anti police because

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Speaker 1: too in any way infer And they're not inferring. They're

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Speaker 1: just outright stating that the police department of a city

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Speaker 1: like Dallas that I should just also note, suffered a

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Speaker 1: mass assassination of police officers. Uh, just what over a

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00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:55,840
Speaker 1: year ago at the hands of a Black Lives Matter devotee,

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00:52:56,719 --> 00:53:00,200
Speaker 1: that you'd have protesters chanting cops and clan hand in

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00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 1: hand is completely unacceptable. But there will be no calls

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Speaker 1: to denounce this. You won't have people asking Nancy Pelosi,

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00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:10,960
Speaker 1: what did you think of that? You know, Miss Pelosi,

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00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:13,960
Speaker 1: you know, Congressman Pelosi, what do you think about people

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Speaker 1: chanting that the police are hand in hand with the

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Speaker 1: vile ku Klux Klan, which, by the way, a Democrat entity.

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Speaker 1: This is now just forgotten in our history. Robert Byrd,

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00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:29,960
Speaker 1: famous U S. Senator, revered in the Democratic Party, grand

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Speaker 1: wizard of the ku Klux Klan. I just segregationists, Democrats.

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Speaker 1: You look at the history of true legal racism, meaning

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00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:46,000
Speaker 1: legalized racism in the South. It's all Democrats. Uh, it's

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00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 1: all the Democrats doing this. And yet now we are

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Speaker 1: led to believe that they're the great defenders of minority groups,

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Speaker 1: minority rights. So that you have this over the weekend

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Speaker 1: in Dallas, and I also remember antipop protesters throwing your

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Speaker 1: earn at cops in Boston, Dallas, Anti white supremacy protesters

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Speaker 1: chanting cops and clan and oh also we're wearing gaps.

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Speaker 1: Some of them were in gas masks. They threw rocks

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Speaker 1: at the police. So they were assaulting cops. To assaulting

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Speaker 1: cops is what leftist protest movements do. This happens, um.

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Speaker 1: But then you had this piece that I just found.

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Speaker 1: I found it fascinating. I think it's really an instance

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Speaker 1: of what could be highbrow trolling. The Washington Post published

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Speaker 1: the same weekend that all this is going on, quote

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00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:38,400
Speaker 1: why the American left gave up on political violence and

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00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:43,520
Speaker 1: why the right increasingly embraced it. It's by a professor

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Speaker 1: at Tel Aviv University, and it just makes this case

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00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:53,839
Speaker 1: that the left doesn't engage in political violence the right

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00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:57,240
Speaker 1: because it's not effective and because, I mean the argument

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00:54:57,280 --> 00:54:59,960
Speaker 1: is nonsensical. I read it through it a few times.

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Speaker 1: He has to admit because of the long history of

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Speaker 1: leftist violence, including labor union violence, including presidential assassins who

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Speaker 1: were leftist. I mean, you just the left has been uh,

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Speaker 1: the self styled revolutionaries of American politics for as long

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Speaker 1: as there's been in America. Right, I mean, the the

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00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:24,200
Speaker 1: left is uh soaked in violence. And I just mentioned

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Speaker 1: you the history of racist violence within the left, and

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00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:33,000
Speaker 1: within two months, two months ago, we had an attempted

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Speaker 1: mass assassination. Somebody opened fire and members of Congress almost killed,

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Speaker 1: a number of them hit three people, almost killed Representative

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Speaker 1: Steve Scalize, and he's a Bernie Sanders supporter. I just

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Speaker 1: say that people on the left aren't violent is just

847
00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:49,480
Speaker 1: to deny It's just to deny reality. It's to pretend

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Speaker 1: that people don't have access to Google and are unable

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Speaker 1: to figure out the most basic, the most basic facts

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Speaker 1: of what's really happening. Um. He interesting. He also says,

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Speaker 1: and this is one part of the argument that thought

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00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:07,480
Speaker 1: was particularly egregiously stupid. Says that, well, the left has

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Speaker 1: given a violence because the left is now dominated by

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Speaker 1: UH by minority groups who have been oppressed and who

855
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:18,200
Speaker 1: have felt the sting of violence and and UH and

856
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:22,799
Speaker 1: discrimination themselves. Which, putting that aside for a second, the

857
00:56:23,040 --> 00:56:30,040
Speaker 1: left is led still primarily by many UH white progressives,

858
00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:35,359
Speaker 1: who in fact use those oppressed groups for their own purposes.

859
00:56:36,239 --> 00:56:39,120
Speaker 1: But there are plenty of people on the left who

860
00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:42,200
Speaker 1: are white who have never faced any oppression and who

861
00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:45,960
Speaker 1: have increasingly not just turned to radical politics but also

862
00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 1: have tried to turn the government into an instrument of

863
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:55,279
Speaker 1: forcing their political ideology on other people. So as we

864
00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:58,360
Speaker 1: look at what's really happening and the violence that's occurring,

865
00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:01,120
Speaker 1: the political violence in this country, Uh, look at the

866
00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:03,920
Speaker 1: protest movements, and of course protest in general tends to

867
00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:07,359
Speaker 1: be a more left wing pastime than right. We don't

868
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:10,680
Speaker 1: like to just gather as a mob and scream and shout.

869
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:15,200
Speaker 1: It's not a conservative approach to life. But when you

870
00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:18,160
Speaker 1: see what's really going on with the way that they

871
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:20,960
Speaker 1: are trying to just rewrite the history in front of

872
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:25,040
Speaker 1: our eyes, including recent history, and pretend that the right

873
00:57:25,280 --> 00:57:28,600
Speaker 1: is really where the violence is and the left has

874
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:32,480
Speaker 1: mostly clean hands now when it comes to the street

875
00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:36,760
Speaker 1: battles over political ideology, it's just nonsense. But the Washington

876
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:42,960
Speaker 1: Post will publish it. No surprise. There he's holding the

877
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:48,400
Speaker 1: line for America. Buck Sexton his back. Buck Sexton, back

878
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Speaker 1: with you all now, Team. I had mentioned that I

879
00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:54,520
Speaker 1: would love to get somebody on who was at the protests,

880
00:57:54,560 --> 00:57:56,480
Speaker 1: and we've got somebody. As it turns out, we've got

881
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Speaker 1: Dominic Green joining us. Now. He's a contributor to the

882
00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:04,800
Speaker 1: Weekly Standard, and he was at these Boston protests Dominic.

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00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:07,280
Speaker 1: Good to have you on, sir, Thank you very much.

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00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:10,200
Speaker 1: All right, let's start with it. What just see bring

885
00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:13,360
Speaker 1: us into this? While I saw a very small number

886
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:16,840
Speaker 1: of people from the Boston Free Speech Coalition as they

887
00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:19,840
Speaker 1: call themselves, on a bandstand with a very large number

888
00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:22,520
Speaker 1: of police around them, and an even large number of

889
00:58:22,600 --> 00:58:27,560
Speaker 1: counter demonstration protesters. And in that crowd of counter demonstration

890
00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:32,520
Speaker 1: people there was a few supporters of the Free Speech Coalition?

891
00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:36,480
Speaker 1: Who are the free Speech Coalition? Because the way that

892
00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:39,280
Speaker 1: this was set up for the casual viewer over the

893
00:58:39,320 --> 00:58:42,760
Speaker 1: weekend I happened. I was in Fox News talking about

894
00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:45,600
Speaker 1: terror in Spain and the Barcelona attacks, and then all

895
00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:47,160
Speaker 1: of a sudden we were switching over to look at

896
00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:48,840
Speaker 1: what's going on in Boston. I'm like, wait a second,

897
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:53,120
Speaker 1: who is this free Speech Coalition? Are are they all right?

898
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:55,960
Speaker 1: Or what are they? Who are they? I would describe

899
00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:57,960
Speaker 1: them as as people who seem to have grown up

900
00:58:58,240 --> 00:59:00,720
Speaker 1: with the alt R in the atmosphere around them, they

901
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:05,160
Speaker 1: seem to be a group of local college students. Um

902
00:59:05,200 --> 00:59:09,520
Speaker 1: from my research that I did after attending the demonstrations,

903
00:59:09,960 --> 00:59:12,240
Speaker 1: they seemed to be new to it, and they seem

904
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:14,600
Speaker 1: to have got quite out of their depth quite quickly.

905
00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:18,000
Speaker 1: So this was not so that so everyone's clear listening though.

906
00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:21,280
Speaker 1: This was not Charlottesville in terms of a group of

907
00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:24,160
Speaker 1: a few dozen or a few hundred or whatever it is,

908
00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:29,880
Speaker 1: marching with Nazi insignias, marching with swastikas, marching and yelling

909
00:59:29,920 --> 00:59:31,880
Speaker 1: sig hil and blood and soil. These are a bunch

910
00:59:31,920 --> 00:59:35,440
Speaker 1: of college kids who are free speech activists. Um. There

911
00:59:35,520 --> 00:59:39,280
Speaker 1: was certainly nothing to indicate any visible presence of any

912
00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:44,479
Speaker 1: Nazi sympathizers. The local clan did say that they would

913
00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:47,360
Speaker 1: be attending that they were not visible if any of

914
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:50,760
Speaker 1: them did turn up. Um. Some of the associations that

915
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:54,720
Speaker 1: the Boston Free Speech Coalition people have via I would

916
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Speaker 1: say towards the political extremes, but it's very hard to

917
00:59:58,640 --> 01:00:01,320
Speaker 1: establish exactly what they think. They haven't really put out

918
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Speaker 1: a clear statement, and once people did start to associate

919
01:00:04,720 --> 01:00:07,120
Speaker 1: them with what had happened in Charlottesville, they were very

920
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:09,400
Speaker 1: quick to try and get out of it. Yeah, how

921
01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:11,680
Speaker 1: how did they? How did this come about? So you've

922
01:00:11,680 --> 01:00:14,760
Speaker 1: got a bunch you said, college These are college age kids, right,

923
01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:17,280
Speaker 1: So you've got a bunch of young people that see

924
01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:19,960
Speaker 1: the thing in Charlottesville and now they just want to

925
01:00:19,960 --> 01:00:23,120
Speaker 1: take a stand for free speech. But then it became

926
01:00:23,240 --> 01:00:25,480
Speaker 1: at least portrayed by many on the left as in

927
01:00:25,560 --> 01:00:30,760
Speaker 1: some way being in solidarity with the reactionary right in Charlottesville. Right,

928
01:00:30,760 --> 01:00:32,040
Speaker 1: I mean that that seemed to be at least the

929
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Speaker 1: way that it was set up going into the weekend.

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Speaker 1: But I'm getting a sense that that's not. I mean,

931
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Speaker 1: then the notion that there was any tie in to

932
01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:43,680
Speaker 1: the messages in Charlottesville is not supported by the facts. Um. No,

933
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Speaker 1: the the message certainly that the racists and the fascist

934
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Speaker 1: groups had in charlottesvillem not at all. But there were

935
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Speaker 1: speakers who have connections who are originally booked to be

936
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Speaker 1: in Boston, who do have connections to some of the

937
01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:01,160
Speaker 1: organizers of the events in Charlottesville. So there seems to

938
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Speaker 1: be a very hazy indirect relationship. Now, how was it

939
01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:08,040
Speaker 1: that you had I saw as many as forty thousand

940
01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:12,080
Speaker 1: counter protesters show up. This happened if this was an

941
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Speaker 1: event that was put together somewhat quickly. Was it just

942
01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:18,680
Speaker 1: the spreading like wildfire on social media and people wanted

943
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Speaker 1: to show up? And what stand against fact? What did

944
01:01:22,240 --> 01:01:25,080
Speaker 1: the counter protesters think they were protesting against when you

945
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Speaker 1: tell me that these guys are part of the little

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Speaker 1: free speech coalition. Well, there were two main elements to

947
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Speaker 1: the protest. One of them was people who would have

948
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:36,280
Speaker 1: come out, I think to show their revulsion at what

949
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:39,880
Speaker 1: had happened in Charlottesville, and with directing that towards the

950
01:01:39,920 --> 01:01:43,240
Speaker 1: next best available thing, which was the free speech coalitions

951
01:01:44,040 --> 01:01:48,000
Speaker 1: very unclear rally. And the other about half of the

952
01:01:48,040 --> 01:01:51,480
Speaker 1: demonstrators came from a Black Lives Matter march which marched

953
01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:54,320
Speaker 1: from the from south of Boston Common and joined up

954
01:01:54,760 --> 01:01:57,560
Speaker 1: with the main protest. Now we have some audio here

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Speaker 1: of Boston Antifa Boston Boston to us turn the fascists

956
01:02:12,680 --> 01:02:19,960
Speaker 1: into because Boston. Okay, I'm not going to comment on

957
01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:23,560
Speaker 1: the artistry here or lack thereof, but they also were

958
01:02:23,680 --> 01:02:28,200
Speaker 1: yelling f your free speech. There's some lasting stuff. They're

959
01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:31,120
Speaker 1: out there too. They think they're standing against fascism. The

960
01:02:31,200 --> 01:02:33,600
Speaker 1: kids that are the free speech people are not fascist.

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01:02:33,680 --> 01:02:35,680
Speaker 1: But I did see or at least as far as

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01:02:35,720 --> 01:02:40,400
Speaker 1: we know, non fascist. I did see some black block

963
01:02:40,480 --> 01:02:44,400
Speaker 1: protesters there. So Antifa was present at this protest. Number

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Speaker 1: of people who were there most definitely to prevent the

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Speaker 1: Free Speech Coalition from exercising their right to be offensive. Um,

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01:02:53,680 --> 01:02:56,600
Speaker 1: they did not, i would say, constituted anything like a

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01:02:56,680 --> 01:03:00,640
Speaker 1: significant minority even within the protests. Um. But they were

968
01:03:00,640 --> 01:03:03,640
Speaker 1: most definitely there. And the only moments of which things

969
01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:06,280
Speaker 1: looked like they could have got out of control were

970
01:03:06,360 --> 01:03:11,000
Speaker 1: when the Antifa group tried to block you know, people

971
01:03:11,040 --> 01:03:14,800
Speaker 1: wearing Trump insignia, or supporters of the Free Speech Coalition

972
01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:18,760
Speaker 1: who were looking to create a drama by moving into

973
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Speaker 1: the crowd with the police escort and so on. Um.

974
01:03:21,360 --> 01:03:23,680
Speaker 1: So there were these flash points, but by and large,

975
01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:25,720
Speaker 1: most of the people were there, as I said, to

976
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Speaker 1: demonstrate their absolute disapproval of what had taken place in Charlottesville.

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Speaker 1: Tell me a bit though about this exchange that I

978
01:03:33,600 --> 01:03:36,160
Speaker 1: actually saw it when it when it when it happened,

979
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Speaker 1: because it was being live streamed. This woman. But we're

980
01:03:39,160 --> 01:03:41,760
Speaker 1: speaking of Dominant Green, who's a contributor to The Weekly Standard.

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Speaker 1: He was at the Boston protests over the weekend, which

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Speaker 1: had tens of thousands of people. In his latest on

983
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Speaker 1: Weekly stenter dot com is in Boston, everybody wanted. Nobody died,

984
01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:53,920
Speaker 1: so that's a good thing. But tell me a bit

985
01:03:53,960 --> 01:03:58,080
Speaker 1: dominic about this moment where a woman was grabbed or

986
01:03:58,080 --> 01:04:00,480
Speaker 1: they grabbed the American flag out of her hands, dragged

987
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:02,800
Speaker 1: her on the ground. There's got a lot of attention. Yes,

988
01:04:02,840 --> 01:04:05,400
Speaker 1: it's hard to know the big picture around that. She

989
01:04:05,560 --> 01:04:08,600
Speaker 1: was holding a flag as the Antifa group went past.

990
01:04:08,640 --> 01:04:10,640
Speaker 1: It's not clear what she said. One of them doubled

991
01:04:10,680 --> 01:04:12,920
Speaker 1: back and seems to have pushed or hit her, and

992
01:04:12,960 --> 01:04:15,200
Speaker 1: then there's a scuffle and then the next thing, she

993
01:04:15,280 --> 01:04:18,360
Speaker 1: falls onto the ground. Um, it's typical of the kind

994
01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:20,880
Speaker 1: of confusion that occurs at these events. There are people

995
01:04:20,920 --> 01:04:24,680
Speaker 1: who come to antagonize each other, and you know, these

996
01:04:24,680 --> 01:04:27,560
Speaker 1: things can spin out very quickly. There were also cases

997
01:04:27,600 --> 01:04:30,240
Speaker 1: which I did see of people trying to calm things

998
01:04:30,240 --> 01:04:32,640
Speaker 1: as well. There were there were also people in the

999
01:04:32,640 --> 01:04:35,600
Speaker 1: crowd shouting at the Antifar people not you know, to

1000
01:04:35,640 --> 01:04:39,080
Speaker 1: be so confrontational and aggressive. Oh that's good because usually

1001
01:04:39,120 --> 01:04:42,320
Speaker 1: I've when I've seen black block, which is what everyone's

1002
01:04:42,360 --> 01:04:44,880
Speaker 1: calling Antifa now, I mean it's it's there's a lot

1003
01:04:44,920 --> 01:04:48,320
Speaker 1: of similarities. They usually just are able to operate within

1004
01:04:48,320 --> 01:04:51,760
Speaker 1: these protests, within peaceful otherwise peaceful protest movements without a

1005
01:04:51,760 --> 01:04:55,320
Speaker 1: lot of uh, push back from from those who are

1006
01:04:55,320 --> 01:04:57,920
Speaker 1: just there to make their point and hold up their placards.

1007
01:04:57,920 --> 01:05:00,160
Speaker 1: So you're telling you that happened, that's good. H Did

1008
01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:03,640
Speaker 1: you see any of the projectiles, including the bottles of

1009
01:05:03,720 --> 01:05:05,880
Speaker 1: yurine that were thrown at police officers, any of that

1010
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:08,600
Speaker 1: or did that come later on? I was on my

1011
01:05:08,840 --> 01:05:10,560
Speaker 1: way home. I think that was at the very end

1012
01:05:10,600 --> 01:05:13,800
Speaker 1: things broke up and and as often happens with big demonstrations,

1013
01:05:13,800 --> 01:05:15,720
Speaker 1: the people who really want to stay behind and fight

1014
01:05:15,800 --> 01:05:18,760
Speaker 1: the police stay behind. Um. I did see bottles of

1015
01:05:18,760 --> 01:05:22,640
Speaker 1: water being thrown at supporters of the Free Speech Coalition,

1016
01:05:22,760 --> 01:05:25,200
Speaker 1: being thrown from the counter protests, and lots of those

1017
01:05:25,600 --> 01:05:27,600
Speaker 1: ended up hitting the police, who you know, we're in

1018
01:05:27,640 --> 01:05:30,440
Speaker 1: the thick of it and having a hard time. So

1019
01:05:30,600 --> 01:05:32,080
Speaker 1: but all, all in all, I have to say this

1020
01:05:32,240 --> 01:05:36,080
Speaker 1: was a pretty uh, pretty mellow as far as what

1021
01:05:36,120 --> 01:05:39,440
Speaker 1: we've seen in recent weeks goes. I mean, I think

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01:05:39,440 --> 01:05:41,080
Speaker 1: you could even argue some of the protests that have

1023
01:05:41,120 --> 01:05:46,760
Speaker 1: happened in Seattle, Dallas and elsewhere were more confrontational, more dangerous,

1024
01:05:46,840 --> 01:05:49,160
Speaker 1: more violent than what we saw in Boston. Common How

1025
01:05:49,240 --> 01:05:51,600
Speaker 1: much of this do you think is a tributal attributable

1026
01:05:51,600 --> 01:05:56,920
Speaker 1: dominic to Boston BPD and their tactics and their community relations,

1027
01:05:57,240 --> 01:05:59,080
Speaker 1: a lot of it. I do believe that was a

1028
01:05:59,120 --> 01:06:01,400
Speaker 1: major fact. That they used to having big crowds, and

1029
01:06:01,400 --> 01:06:03,840
Speaker 1: they used to trying to keep things friendly. I think

1030
01:06:03,880 --> 01:06:06,720
Speaker 1: a crucial factor also is that only one side turned

1031
01:06:06,800 --> 01:06:10,120
Speaker 1: up in large numbers. There was only a few dozen

1032
01:06:10,360 --> 01:06:12,840
Speaker 1: people from the Free Speech Coalition and maybe a few

1033
01:06:12,840 --> 01:06:16,040
Speaker 1: dozen more of their supporters. There wasn't a situation where

1034
01:06:16,080 --> 01:06:19,120
Speaker 1: large numbers of people turned up and say as in Charlottesville,

1035
01:06:19,160 --> 01:06:21,240
Speaker 1: were given the run of the town and and then

1036
01:06:21,360 --> 01:06:24,000
Speaker 1: things very quickly were out of control. It seems to

1037
01:06:24,040 --> 01:06:29,200
Speaker 1: me that the counter protesters were actually the protest. You

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01:06:29,240 --> 01:06:32,960
Speaker 1: don't say it seems to be the real demonstration were

1039
01:06:33,040 --> 01:06:37,800
Speaker 1: the counter demonstrators here. They were certainly the most dangerous

1040
01:06:37,800 --> 01:06:40,760
Speaker 1: element in the whole thing, and that they were seeking

1041
01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:44,040
Speaker 1: to push things towards a crisis. No, but I mean,

1042
01:06:44,040 --> 01:06:47,440
Speaker 1: even like those who were there to at some level

1043
01:06:47,440 --> 01:06:52,160
Speaker 1: opposed the quote free Speech Coalition, were in such greater

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01:06:52,240 --> 01:06:55,320
Speaker 1: numbers and so much more prominence on Boston Common that

1045
01:06:55,600 --> 01:06:59,160
Speaker 1: to call them counter protesters seems to be understating. This

1046
01:06:59,240 --> 01:07:01,520
Speaker 1: was really a gay The ring of people that are

1047
01:07:01,560 --> 01:07:04,800
Speaker 1: trying to oppose Trump and fascism in their own way right,

1048
01:07:04,880 --> 01:07:06,840
Speaker 1: And there happened to be a few free speech people

1049
01:07:07,040 --> 01:07:10,560
Speaker 1: in the mix, but really they were wildly outnumbered. Now,

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Speaker 1: I think there's a lot to be said for that,

1051
01:07:13,080 --> 01:07:15,640
Speaker 1: I think, and this is Boston, after all, You're never

1052
01:07:15,680 --> 01:07:17,919
Speaker 1: going to have trouble gathering a large crowd of people

1053
01:07:17,960 --> 01:07:23,160
Speaker 1: to turn out against either fascist groups or President Trump. Um.

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Speaker 1: It had the feeling for me almost of a rehearsal

1055
01:07:25,600 --> 01:07:28,760
Speaker 1: in the way that you know teams do an exhibition

1056
01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:31,360
Speaker 1: game before the season really gets going, and it felt

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Speaker 1: like the actual event was elsewhere. Yes, Dominic, I'm not

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01:07:35,640 --> 01:07:37,160
Speaker 1: sure if you're planning to happen on a plan and

1059
01:07:37,200 --> 01:07:40,000
Speaker 1: going to Phoenix tomorrow, but there is a major political

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Speaker 1: rally planned Trump maybe pardoning Sheriff Joe R. Pio. You'd

1061
01:07:45,600 --> 01:07:50,000
Speaker 1: be making that announcement in in Phoenix when he's down there.

1062
01:07:50,320 --> 01:07:52,680
Speaker 1: People are saying that this could get out of hand.

1063
01:07:52,920 --> 01:07:54,440
Speaker 1: What are you hearing and what do you think is

1064
01:07:54,440 --> 01:07:57,440
Speaker 1: going to happen? Well, to be honest with you, as

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Speaker 1: you can tell, I'm I'm an immigrant to this country

1066
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Speaker 1: and I and I think anything can happen in the

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Speaker 1: current mood. I think the relatively small number of extremists

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Speaker 1: at both ends of the spectrum alarmingly close to the

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Speaker 1: center of the action, and what happens from here on

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Speaker 1: really is a matter of luck and accidents. So you

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if things got a little lot of

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Speaker 1: control down, if you. I mean, I can just imagine

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Speaker 1: they're going to try to shut down highways. I know

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Speaker 1: the hardline activist tactics that we've seen in the past

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Speaker 1: from the left and instigating another violent exchange with Trump people,

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Speaker 1: similar to what we saw I think it was in

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Speaker 1: Chicago during the campaign, where people were punching each other

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Speaker 1: outside the step. Well, there are a few instances of

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Speaker 1: this I could see. I could see that happening here.

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Speaker 1: I have to say, I was amazed that nothing like

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Speaker 1: that really happened on Saturday in Boston, and that was

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Speaker 1: in an unusually peaceable and as I and as I said,

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Speaker 1: one sided meeting. Dominic Green is a contributor to The

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Speaker 1: Weekly Standard. He joined us talk about his time firsthand

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Speaker 1: at the Boston protests. You can it his latest on

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Speaker 1: Weekly Standard dot com. In Boston, everybody wanted nobody died Dominant.

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Speaker 1: Great to have you on, man, we hope you'll come back.

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Speaker 1: Thanks very much. Back so team I. I'm glad we've

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Speaker 1: we've covered a lot of the protest movements and everything

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Speaker 1: that's been happening with them in this hour because this

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Speaker 1: is now you can see, this is a recurring situation.

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Speaker 1: This is not going away. And as I've been saying

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Speaker 1: to you, UH, there is a hidden hand here. There

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Speaker 1: is some behind the scenes that there's definitely coordination of

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Speaker 1: these protests. That's that's happening that we're not aware of yet.

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Speaker 1: I remember back from my time covering Occupy Wall Street

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Speaker 1: and it was really one of my first important beats

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Speaker 1: as a young reporter for The Blaze or what was

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Speaker 1: technically I think assistant editor for National Security, but I

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Speaker 1: was reporting a lot on the protests at the time,

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Speaker 1: and I I do remember um seeing the these activists

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Speaker 1: getting together and holding pre rally UH coordination meetings where

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Speaker 1: they would discuss, Okay, if we you know, which is

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Speaker 1: going to be the faction that does stuff that maybe

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Speaker 1: is illegal and gets us arrested, who's going to be

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Speaker 1: the who are gonna be the ones lying down in

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Speaker 1: the streets? Uh? And and what's going to be our

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Speaker 1: messaging on social media? And this is political theater for

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Speaker 1: the digital age. It can be very powerful though. I

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Speaker 1: mean I remember it was actually just blocks away from

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Speaker 1: where I was at the time. I was. I went

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Speaker 1: to most of the major Occupy Wall Street protests. I

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Speaker 1: was there the night that they were evicted from Zukkati Park,

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Speaker 1: I was. I was there as they were getting kicked

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Speaker 1: out by the ny P p D finally after weeks

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Speaker 1: and weeks of being camped out in that square. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I was there for one night when I really thought

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Speaker 1: things were going to get violent with an anti cop

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Speaker 1: movement that was just vicious and how much they despise

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Speaker 1: the police and how open they were about it. But

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Speaker 1: I remember them discussing what the what the messaging would be,

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Speaker 1: what the tactics would be. This is all they understand

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Speaker 1: the impact of this. This is literally for show. This

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Speaker 1: is so that people will latch onto some of these

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Speaker 1: political ideas. It is uh, it is protest as meme.

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Speaker 1: That's what they're trying to do. That's the ideology at

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Speaker 1: work here, and if they can create a circumstance And yes,

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Speaker 1: I know I'm not the you've heard this from others

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Speaker 1: uh in the past. If they can take pages from

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Speaker 1: the Olynsky playbook, make protest fun, make it something people

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Speaker 1: want to do, make it almost a social event. So

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Speaker 1: and then they merge that with digital age technology, social

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Speaker 1: media platforms. Remember Olynsky didn't have Twitter, he didn't have Facebook,

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Speaker 1: he didn't have live streaming. Now that they can do

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01:11:53,160 --> 01:11:57,760
Speaker 1: all of those things, they have the ability to pick

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Speaker 1: and choose what parts of the protests, what they're going

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Speaker 1: to show. Uh, they can make sure that any adverse

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Speaker 1: reaction they get from Trump supporters, right wing or as

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Speaker 1: any of that is immediately highlighted, they know they'll get

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Speaker 1: a lot of media support and cover for it. So

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Speaker 1: what we're seeing play out here is I think Occupy

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Speaker 1: Wall Street for the Trump era. Um. They're calling it antifa,

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01:12:23,640 --> 01:12:27,120
Speaker 1: but Antifa is so associated only with this black block

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01:12:27,200 --> 01:12:29,960
Speaker 1: element um that I don't know if that's really the

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01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:33,240
Speaker 1: branding yet, but it's there. This is a merger that's

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Speaker 1: happening between Black Lives Matter, Antifa, the Occupy Wall Street,

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01:12:37,760 --> 01:12:42,799
Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders Socialist, the sander Nistas. That's all coming together

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01:12:42,920 --> 01:12:46,679
Speaker 1: right now. And this is a major political and protest

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01:12:46,720 --> 01:12:48,960
Speaker 1: movement across the country that we are seeing. It's this

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01:12:49,040 --> 01:12:52,000
Speaker 1: is this is you know what it is. This is

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01:12:52,040 --> 01:12:55,519
Speaker 1: hashtag resistance. That's what it is. This is how it's

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01:12:55,560 --> 01:13:01,280
Speaker 1: all coming together. This is hash tag resistance. The violent left,

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01:13:01,320 --> 01:13:05,880
Speaker 1: the aggressive left is woke. There's a term it's used

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01:13:05,920 --> 01:13:07,960
Speaker 1: on the left for people that are socially conscious and

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01:13:08,439 --> 01:13:11,160
Speaker 1: read the read the Huffington Post and are cool. They

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Speaker 1: are woke right now, Buck Sexton, back with you now. Team.

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Speaker 1: In the next hour, gonna do a deep dive on Afghanistan.

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Speaker 1: I think you'll hear more in depth analysis from me

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01:13:22,840 --> 01:13:27,160
Speaker 1: and also from a really excellent expert on South Asia

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Speaker 1: and counterinsurgency against the Taliban in the next hour than

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01:13:30,439 --> 01:13:33,320
Speaker 1: you will anywhere else tonight or the next twenty four hours.

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Speaker 1: And of course Donald Trump giving a speech tonight, major

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Speaker 1: address to the nation on Afghan Afghanistan policy. So, uh,

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Speaker 1: this is a critical issue right now. It's time to

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Speaker 1: either end this or get this right. That's where I

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01:13:46,680 --> 01:13:49,200
Speaker 1: come down in Afghanistan. We either know what we're doing

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Speaker 1: and we do it and we execute as a country

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Speaker 1: and the White House pushes this forward, or else we've tried,

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Speaker 1: We've done our thing, We've given the Afghans the best

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Speaker 1: we can and now it's time to move on to

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Speaker 1: a different phase. And they're gonna have to do this

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Speaker 1: on their own. It is it is time for us

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Speaker 1: to come to a resolution here one way or another.

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Speaker 1: It has been already too long, too much blood and

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Speaker 1: treasure spent in Afghanistan. Um I am favorable to the

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Speaker 1: notion of stabilizing situation now and making a program for

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Speaker 1: UH for a a U S presence there that is

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Speaker 1: day minimous, so a very limited U S military training

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Speaker 1: and assist presence, and that's it, unless we want to

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Speaker 1: go the South Korea Germany route and leave a US

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01:14:36,360 --> 01:14:39,040
Speaker 1: leave US forces. Keep in mind, in South Korean Germany

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Speaker 1: we're not an engaged in active hostilities though you know,

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Speaker 1: you don't have mortar rounds flying onto the base all

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Speaker 1: the time, So it is different to keep a long

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Speaker 1: term presence in Afghanistan. But well, I'll give you my

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Speaker 1: sense of where all that is in the next hour.

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Speaker 1: I also didn't want to completely skip over this because

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Speaker 1: the UH Navy. I don't know much about the Navy.

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Speaker 1: I've just been seeing these stories, but the Navy has

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Speaker 1: been having a very difficult time recently, we've lost sailors

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Speaker 1: and no one seems to have any good answers. Here's

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Speaker 1: a piece in the Wall Streetjournal Navy to pause operations

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Speaker 1: and review collisions with ten missing. You've had two major

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Speaker 1: collisions with naval vessels over the last couple of months,

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Speaker 1: and the most recent one left ten sailors missing. No

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01:15:21,600 --> 01:15:24,120
Speaker 1: answers yet from the Navy on this. Something fishy going

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Speaker 1: on here, something very strange. So any of you who

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Speaker 1: have a background in naval service warfare or just ships,

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Speaker 1: Facebook dot com, slash buck sex and let me know.

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Speaker 1: I've got to dive deeper into this one. I don't

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01:15:34,760 --> 01:15:36,360
Speaker 1: have the answers on it, and I needed to do

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Speaker 1: a little more research. But obviously I feel terrible for

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01:15:40,320 --> 01:15:43,200
Speaker 1: what's happened to those sailors and their families. So we'll

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01:15:43,240 --> 01:15:48,920
Speaker 1: revisit that store and we have more. He's back with

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01:15:49,040 --> 01:15:51,799
Speaker 1: you now, because when it comes to the fight for truth,

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01:15:52,160 --> 01:15:56,120
Speaker 1: the buck never stops. Buck Sexton back with you all now.

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Speaker 1: Soon after this radio broadcast, President Trump will be giving

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Speaker 1: speech on the new strategy in Afghanistan, and I wanted

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Speaker 1: to give you my thoughts before the speech, and of

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Speaker 1: course i'll give you tomorrow some after action analysis or

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Speaker 1: after speech analysis, and I also expect that I will

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Speaker 1: be on Fox News tomorrow morning nine fifteen ish Eastern

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Speaker 1: Eastern I think talking about President Trump's speech on Afghanistan.

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Speaker 1: Here is the necessary background to understanding Afghan US policy

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Speaker 1: at this point, and it's not going well. I've been

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01:16:39,280 --> 01:16:42,840
Speaker 1: telling you this for months, but by every metric that

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Speaker 1: we can use to gauge the trajectory of the conflict

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01:16:47,080 --> 01:16:52,719
Speaker 1: in Afghanistan, it is getting worse. And as we look

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Speaker 1: now and see that the President is going to be

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Speaker 1: taking a new strategy or taking a new approach to this,

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Speaker 1: we first have to understand the depth of the problem.

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Speaker 1: We have been involved in Afghanistan for sixteen years. Before

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Speaker 1: we can do anything in Afghanistan, we should at least

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Speaker 1: come to grips with the fact that what has been

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Speaker 1: tried thus far has not achieved the objectives set forth

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Speaker 1: by the International Security Assistance Force I have, and that

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Speaker 1: objective has changed over time. It was a stable, secure,

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Speaker 1: democratic Afghanistan, and then it became an Afghanistan that was

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Speaker 1: able to defend itself against the Taliban and stable, and

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Speaker 1: now it's really more an Afghanistan that just won't descend

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Speaker 1: into chaos and anarchy and become a home for jihadas

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Speaker 1: groups like al Qaeda and UH and others. The Islamic

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Speaker 1: State has a faction in Afghanistan, but that moving goalposts,

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Speaker 1: which we have been moving has yet to be met.

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Speaker 1: And we've been there for over fifteen years of combat.

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Speaker 1: And the central government in Kabul in Afghanistan is unable

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Speaker 1: to fully control the east or the south of the

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Speaker 1: country and over the last twelve months has even lost

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Speaker 1: major cities in the north and is under pressure in

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Speaker 1: the west. So the US is expected to send four

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Speaker 1: thousand more troops and they would be joining with the

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Speaker 1: roughly nine thousand total ISAF troops that are in country

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Speaker 1: right now. ISAF is our alliance there well. There are

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Speaker 1: fourteen thousand NATO troops in total, nine thousand of them

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Speaker 1: are American, but the fighting has been largely done, especially

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Speaker 1: in the last six to twelve months, by the Afghan

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Speaker 1: security forces, and they are getting beat up bad. Afghan

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Speaker 1: army casualties were over fifteen thousand in twenty sixteen. The

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Speaker 1: US has been providing logistics and intelligence support, but that

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Speaker 1: logistics and intelligence support and UH and air power and

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Speaker 1: other areas where we are helpful to the Afghans is

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Speaker 1: not enough because we can't do the fighting for them.

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Speaker 1: And the Taliban is a very resourceful and very resilient,

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Speaker 1: perhaps most importantly, a very resilient enemy. So the violence

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Speaker 1: metrics against the central government, the violence metrics against Afghanistan

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Speaker 1: have been going up UH dramatically, and the control metrics.

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Speaker 1: So you've got more casualties that the Afghan national security

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Speaker 1: forces are facing now than really at any time, with

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Speaker 1: the exception of the Obama era Obama administration surge of

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Speaker 1: over a hundred thousand troops into Afghanistan, really in the

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Speaker 1: middle of President Obama's time in office, we are seeing

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Speaker 1: a huge spike in violent attacks against government forces and

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Speaker 1: and UH, mass casualty attacks, very complex attack stage in

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Speaker 1: Cobble in what are supposed to be the most secure

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Speaker 1: areas of the capital city and also in the So

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Speaker 1: that's on the violence metrics, you know, that's how we

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Speaker 1: gauge as we look at the numbers, because if you're

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Speaker 1: just trying to gauge us by perception, well then it

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Speaker 1: all depends on who you ask, right. Oh, well, Afghanistan

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Speaker 1: has made some progress on women's literacy or something the

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Speaker 1: last few years, or you know, there's much cleaner water

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Speaker 1: now in some areas that used to be Those are

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Speaker 1: good things, but that doesn't really tell you much about

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Speaker 1: the security picture. So violence numbers way up, and also

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Speaker 1: control areas of the country that are either contested, I mean,

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Speaker 1: the Afghan government and the Taliban are fighting over who's

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Speaker 1: really calling the shots. Those areas are uh there, there

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Speaker 1: are more of those areas now than the word before.

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Speaker 1: Things have gotten eurse and depending on the estimates, you

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Speaker 1: see really thirty to forty and as many as fifty

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Speaker 1: percent of Afghanistan is either controlled by the Taliban or

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Speaker 1: contested by the Taliban. And the strategy shift that we had,

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Speaker 1: if you can call it that, it really just the

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Speaker 1: uh the approach that the Obama aministration was taking became

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Speaker 1: much more uh well, much more attuned to the possibility

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Speaker 1: of a deal with the Taliban, which is just never

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Speaker 1: going to come. This idea that we're going to have

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Speaker 1: a negotiated settlement with the Taliban that will be respected

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Speaker 1: by the Taliban is uh, it's just not realistic. I

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Speaker 1: don't know what else to say. I know, we'd like

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Speaker 1: to think that there's some way to work through intermediaries

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Speaker 1: or interlock euters come up with some kind of an

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Speaker 1: agreement to end this now sixteenth year of war in Afghanistan.

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Speaker 1: But it does not take into account that idea, does

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Speaker 1: not take into account whom would be on the other

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Speaker 1: side of that, And it is aj hottest totalitarian ideology

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Speaker 1: with the Taliban. They are absolute hardliners. They are deeply

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Speaker 1: opposed to not just the liberalization of Afghanistan, but they

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Speaker 1: are they hate the United States for obvious reasons. So

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Speaker 1: if we were to negotiate a deal and then pull

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Speaker 1: out troops, we would be fooling ourselves. There's no deal

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Speaker 1: that can be had with the Taliban. And and I

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Speaker 1: don't care what the experts say on this or how

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Speaker 1: much they promised that it would. Yeah, there might be

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Speaker 1: a deal for six months or even two years, but

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Speaker 1: then it will fall apart and the Taliban will be ascended.

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Speaker 1: And that's just the reality that we face there. So

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Speaker 1: now you also have to look at the other regional

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Speaker 1: proxy players that are involved in this. You have Pakistan

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Speaker 1: plays an enormous role with the sanctuary that it provides,

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Speaker 1: and remember Pakistan has a large Pashtun community. The Taliban

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Speaker 1: is a Pashtun ethnic group. You have many layers of

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Speaker 1: conflict inside Afghanistan right now. Okay, You've got the UH,

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Speaker 1: the insurgency against the Afghan government, which the Taliban is leading,

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Speaker 1: and it views the Afghan government as a puppet regime,

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Speaker 1: and it views democracy as illegitimate, and so that's the

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Speaker 1: primary fight that we focus on. But you also have

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Speaker 1: a Pashtun a Pashtun versus other tribes fight. The Pashtun

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Speaker 1: are the pride predominant or they they are the ethnic

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Speaker 1: tribal group of the Taliban, but you also have Uzbeks

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Speaker 1: and Tajiks and Hazaras UH. These are other groups inside

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Speaker 1: of Afghanistan that are fighting with the Taliban and fighting

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Speaker 1: with the Pashtun militants in the country. And you have

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Speaker 1: a fight between rural areas that are very resistant to

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Speaker 1: change and very regressive in their ideology with the more progressive,

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Speaker 1: if you can call it that, the more liberalized urban Afghans,

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Speaker 1: who are the ones who are saying that the country

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Speaker 1: needs to move forward and needs to capitalize on its

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Speaker 1: mining deposits and and have a more modern economy and

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Speaker 1: rule of law and all of that. So there are

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Speaker 1: all these different layers of tension in the country. And

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Speaker 1: then you've got the great game, the major powers that

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Speaker 1: are using Afghanistan as a place for them to work

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Speaker 1: out their own problems with each other, so to speak.

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Speaker 1: The biggest one, the most important one in the region. Well,

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Speaker 1: there's really two that are actually very very important. You

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Speaker 1: have Pakistan and India that and they're both squaring off

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Speaker 1: in Afghanistan. The way this works is that Pakistan views

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Speaker 1: Afghanistan as a threat because the because the Indian government

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Speaker 1: tries to cozy up to the Afghan government, which makes

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Speaker 1: the Pakistani's, who are facing a much larger Indian population

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Speaker 1: and much more capable Indian military than what Pakistan has,

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Speaker 1: and of course nukes on both sides, they feel like

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Speaker 1: they now could have an enemy on on all sides

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Speaker 1: or on on on all sides because of India, right, India,

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Speaker 1: they square off and look at each other across across

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Speaker 1: India and Pakistan across the border. Um. But then you

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Speaker 1: add Afghanistan into the mix and there are major concerns

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Speaker 1: for the Pakistani's about that, and so they use the

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Speaker 1: Taliban and the hardliners and the you know, the Hakani

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Speaker 1: network as a means of asserting Pakistani and yes, Pashtun

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Speaker 1: interests in Afghanistan as a means of preventing India from

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Speaker 1: establishing a kind of forward operating base in Afghanistan against Pakistan.

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Speaker 1: As crazy as I know that may sound, that is

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Speaker 1: what's going on. The other major regional player is Iran,

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Speaker 1: which is on the border of Afghanistan to the west.

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Speaker 1: And in fact, the Tajiks in Afghanistan speak Dori, which

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Speaker 1: is really just a way, it was really just a

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Speaker 1: dialect of Farsi, which is the predominant language of Persians

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Speaker 1: in Iran. And so Iran has cultural, ethnic, linguistic ties

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Speaker 1: to western Afghanistan and doesn't like because Iran is a

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Speaker 1: Shia state, doesn't like the Taliban, which is a Sunni

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Speaker 1: a Sunni Muslim group, but has been willing to play

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Speaker 1: games in the past to undermine US interests in Afghanistan's.

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Speaker 1: You've got Iran as a regional player. That is, there

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Speaker 1: are already reports that Iranians are helping the Taliban and

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Speaker 1: deepening their ties to it. And another one is Russia.

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Speaker 1: You've got to remember that during the Soviet era, all

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Speaker 1: these countries, the stands that are above Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, who's

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Speaker 1: Bebekistan and Tajikistan. They all uh that they were under

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Speaker 1: the Soviet orbit and so on. The Soviet Union, of

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Speaker 1: course invaded Afghanistan, and we all know about that Charlie

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Speaker 1: Wilson's War, the Mouja Hadeen. So the Russians know this

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Speaker 1: part of the world well, have very bitter memories of

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Speaker 1: it uh and are continuing to look for ways to

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Speaker 1: exert their influence. But they also want to try to

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Speaker 1: leave the mess to America, and they wanted to be

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Speaker 1: our problem. So anyway, we'll continue to look at Afghanistan.

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Speaker 1: I'll have more for you on what I think is

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Speaker 1: going on there and what we can expect from tonight's

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Speaker 1: speech on the other side of this break Um buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton dot com for news stories throughout the day, by

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Speaker 1: the way, and also if you're not already, please do

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Speaker 1: follow me on Twitter. The way to do that is

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Speaker 1: at buck Sexton. Alright, team, we've got an expert joining

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Speaker 1: us now on Afghanistan, Bill Roggio. He's a senior fellow

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Speaker 1: at the Foundation for Defense of Democracy and editor at

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Speaker 1: f d D Long War Journal, which is a phenomenal

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Speaker 1: resource for those who interested in what's going on in

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Speaker 1: Afghanistan and other hotspots around the globe. Bill gred to

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Speaker 1: have you. Thanks for having me, always a pleasure. All Right,

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Speaker 1: before we get into the Trump speech tonight and what

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Speaker 1: Trump policy going forward should be, how bad are things

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Speaker 1: right now in Afghanistan, walk me through some of the

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Speaker 1: numbers comparatively to what it's been in the past. Sure,

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Speaker 1: I would say the situation in Afghanistan is as bleak

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Speaker 1: as it's been since the US forces invaded immediately after

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Speaker 1: nine eleven into in late two thousand and one. UM.

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Speaker 1: To put it in perspective, the US military claims that

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Speaker 1: the Taliban controls or contests of Afghanistan staratory. And keep

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Speaker 1: in mind, this is going to be the best case scenario.

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Speaker 1: The US military is going is going to end is

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Speaker 1: painting the rosiest picture possible, because that's what US commanders do. UM.

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Speaker 1: The Afghanistan in earlier this year claimed the controlled controlled

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Speaker 1: or contests are over and had a presence in probably

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Speaker 1: another forty percent of the country. So UM and I,

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Speaker 1: by the way, I put a lot of credence into

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Speaker 1: the Taliban's claims, given on what they were claiming they

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Speaker 1: controlled and what they were claiming they did in control, uh,

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Speaker 1: the Afghan forces are having their bases overrun, They're being

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Speaker 1: killed and captured in probably on US commanders have said

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Speaker 1: this in unsustainable numbers, so that it's it's bleak to

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Speaker 1: put it mildly. Now, why would a few thousand troops

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Speaker 1: or how would a few thousand troops make a difference

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Speaker 1: given the situation that you've just outlined. What what can

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Speaker 1: Trump do now? Is assuming that it is three or

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Speaker 1: four thousand, is he buying time for a grand strategy

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Speaker 1: to be put in place? Is this just now the

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Speaker 1: new normal that it's a stopgap measure that's indefinite. What

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Speaker 1: do you think should What do you think is happening

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Speaker 1: with the Trump policy? What I think is going on

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Speaker 1: here is I think he is going to put a

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Speaker 1: small number troops. It's not just the number, it's also

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Speaker 1: how they're used. So if there will rules engagement or

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Speaker 1: relax if the US can use air power to greater effect,

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Speaker 1: um not be limited on how it can conduct strikes,

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Speaker 1: a small surge and forces can at least arrest the

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Speaker 1: Taliban's gains and perhaps set them set them back a

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Speaker 1: little bit. And if the U. S Military can show

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Speaker 1: some success in doing this, I think there's an opportunity

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Speaker 1: for additional resources to be brought to bear in Afghanistan,

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Speaker 1: whether that's troops, air, air support, whatever. And also I

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Speaker 1: think that I also think accompanying the policy, you're probably

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Speaker 1: going to see an increased pressure on Pakistan because without Pakistan,

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Speaker 1: that's the lifeblood of the Taliban, and without Pakistan, the

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Speaker 1: Taliban would be it would be hard pressed to maintain

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Speaker 1: its insurgency and fight as it has. It's Afghanistan. Pakistans

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Speaker 1: provide safe even material support, you know too, training camps,

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Speaker 1: you name it, Pakistan provides it. We're speaking of Bill Roggio,

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Speaker 1: Senior fellow at the Foundation for Defensive Democracy. Those of

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Speaker 1: you who want to know what's going on in the

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Speaker 1: world of counterinsurgency Long War Journal, just type it in

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Speaker 1: a lot on Google. It's a resource for all of you.

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Speaker 1: And Bill is the editor there. Bill, you mentioned Pakistan.

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Speaker 1: People are saying put more pressure. This reminds me a

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Speaker 1: little bit though, when we say, well, let's get China

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Speaker 1: to put more pressure on North Korea. Okay, how and

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Speaker 1: how much? Well, I would argue that China really could

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Speaker 1: put pressure on North koreaan it chooses not to it

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Speaker 1: chooses to let North Korea be the thorn in the

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Speaker 1: side the Pakistan. What we have to do is we

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Speaker 1: have to instead of what we've done over the last

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Speaker 1: fifteen plus years is give money to Pakistan and tell

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Speaker 1: them we're they're best friends and hope they change their behavior.

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Speaker 1: It's it's akin to given crack to a crack addict

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Speaker 1: and expect them to stop um being a drug user.

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Speaker 1: That's that's been our policy in a nutshell with Pakistan.

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Speaker 1: We have to cut off the money and then we

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Speaker 1: have to slowly start lamping up the pressure, you know,

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Speaker 1: going from it could be stopping you know, halting imports,

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Speaker 1: it could be stopping visas or stopping travel from the country,

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Speaker 1: all the way up to listing Pakistan as a state

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Speaker 1: sponsor of terrorism and perhaps declaring India major ally. That

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Speaker 1: is probably Pakistan's worst nightmare. At the US and India

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Speaker 1: became he became real partners. And I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: we haven't tried any of this because we fear that Pakistan, well,

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Speaker 1: it's a nuclear armed state and we they've been an

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Speaker 1: ally in the past, but they haven't. They're responsible for

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Speaker 1: the deaths of thousands of American soldiers and I would

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Speaker 1: say directly responsible as well as a failed failure of

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Speaker 1: US policy in Afghanistan. The Trump administration is coming out

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Speaker 1: of Afghanistan out with fresh eyes, and they're putting in

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Speaker 1: place a new strategy. We'll look got about a minute bill,

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Speaker 1: but I wanted to know from you what should their

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Speaker 1: desired end state be. What's a realistic win or a

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Speaker 1: realistic end at least to the US conflict in Afghanistan.

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Speaker 1: In the short term, it has to be to stop

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Speaker 1: the Taliban gains and maybe roll some of them back.

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Speaker 1: In the long term, if you want to have success,

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Speaker 1: Afghanistan is never going to be the United States. It's

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Speaker 1: probably you know, never going to be you know Somali. Well,

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Speaker 1: now that's probably going way to low Somalities, probably akin

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Speaker 1: to to Afghanistan. However, we um we have to we're

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Speaker 1: not going to have a successful, flourishing democracy. A good

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Speaker 1: end state, a decent end state, would be the Taliban

1486
01:33:14,120 --> 01:33:17,240
Speaker 1: is beaten down to a low level insurgency where it

1487
01:33:17,280 --> 01:33:20,880
Speaker 1: doesn't control territory, where Al Qaeda camp running training camps,

1488
01:33:20,880 --> 01:33:24,479
Speaker 1: as it's done as recently as October two thousand fifteen,

1489
01:33:24,479 --> 01:33:27,000
Speaker 1: when it was running one of the largest camps the

1490
01:33:27,040 --> 01:33:31,559
Speaker 1: United States has seen since nine eleven. So that's you know,

1491
01:33:31,640 --> 01:33:33,960
Speaker 1: it's that is what success is going to look like

1492
01:33:34,000 --> 01:33:38,160
Speaker 1: in US. US providing the enablers to get Afghanistan to

1493
01:33:38,280 --> 01:33:41,559
Speaker 1: just fight its enemies. That's has to be our primary goal.

1494
01:33:41,640 --> 01:33:44,000
Speaker 1: Fight their enemies who are are in the best case scenario,

1495
01:33:44,120 --> 01:33:46,080
Speaker 1: real quick, Bill, we are years away from that, aren't

1496
01:33:46,080 --> 01:33:49,160
Speaker 1: we best case It could be a decade away from that.

1497
01:33:49,360 --> 01:33:51,479
Speaker 1: And so this is the most important thing that US

1498
01:33:51,520 --> 01:33:53,960
Speaker 1: president has to do is has to explain it to

1499
01:33:54,000 --> 01:33:56,320
Speaker 1: the American public, and not just once, but has to

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01:33:56,320 --> 01:34:00,200
Speaker 1: do it continually. Bill Roggio, Foundation of Defense Democracies got

1501
01:34:00,280 --> 01:34:03,200
Speaker 1: long World Journal, Bill, thanks so much for joining. Thank

1502
01:34:03,240 --> 01:34:05,560
Speaker 1: you always a pleasure to join you. Team. Hitting a

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01:34:05,600 --> 01:35:07,120
Speaker 1: break here will be right back. Stay would be s

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01:35:23,920 --> 01:36:15,320
Speaker 1: S S S S S S S S S S

1505
01:36:16,720 --> 01:36:32,920
Speaker 1: S S s s s s s s s s

1506
01:36:37,760 --> 01:36:49,600
Speaker 1: s s s s s s s s s s

1507
01:36:51,960 --> 01:37:04,840
Speaker 1: s s s s s s s s s s

1508
01:37:06,200 --> 01:39:35,920
Speaker 1: S s s s. Time to see Papa sat Si

1509
01:39:41,240 --> 01:40:19,360
Speaker 1: se si stunt sis statists. Yeah, he's holding the line

1510
01:40:19,760 --> 01:40:24,320
Speaker 1: for America. Buck sex in his back the eclips once

1511
01:40:24,360 --> 01:40:27,640
Speaker 1: today everybody buck sex didn't back with you now. I

1512
01:40:27,800 --> 01:40:31,519
Speaker 1: know there hasn't been an eclipse full eclipse in this

1513
01:40:31,680 --> 01:40:35,400
Speaker 1: country since nine eighteen, and so today was a day

1514
01:40:35,560 --> 01:40:42,479
Speaker 1: of a lot of celebration of the Earth, well of

1515
01:40:42,560 --> 01:40:45,400
Speaker 1: the of the Sun being temporarily blocked by the moon

1516
01:40:45,760 --> 01:40:51,120
Speaker 1: and then casting a shadow on the Earth. Yeah, it was.

1517
01:40:51,880 --> 01:40:54,920
Speaker 1: I wish I knew enough about astrology to have some

1518
01:40:55,080 --> 01:40:58,160
Speaker 1: interesting things to say about it. My father is actually,

1519
01:40:58,960 --> 01:41:03,400
Speaker 1: oddly enough, quite knowledgeable about astrology. In retrospect, I probably

1520
01:41:03,439 --> 01:41:06,360
Speaker 1: should have had him come on the show as a guest.

1521
01:41:06,760 --> 01:41:08,719
Speaker 1: And I was gonna say the next time there's an eclipse,

1522
01:41:08,760 --> 01:41:12,439
Speaker 1: I will, but that won't be for a hundred years,

1523
01:41:12,520 --> 01:41:15,040
Speaker 1: so we might not be around for that one. But

1524
01:41:15,240 --> 01:41:18,120
Speaker 1: perhaps another time when there is a major solar event

1525
01:41:18,680 --> 01:41:21,240
Speaker 1: of some kind, I'll have my dad, who is just

1526
01:41:21,920 --> 01:41:24,760
Speaker 1: as a as a hobby as very knowledgeable about astrology

1527
01:41:25,680 --> 01:41:27,920
Speaker 1: on the show to shed some light on these things,

1528
01:41:28,400 --> 01:41:32,040
Speaker 1: or shed some shadow, if you know. It was. It

1529
01:41:32,160 --> 01:41:36,960
Speaker 1: was weak. The news anchor puns today and the plays,

1530
01:41:37,479 --> 01:41:40,840
Speaker 1: the plays on words or play on words, uh, that

1531
01:41:41,160 --> 01:41:46,360
Speaker 1: we're going on, we're pretty pretty pretty outrageous. I was

1532
01:41:46,439 --> 01:41:48,320
Speaker 1: walking around the streets in New York on my way

1533
01:41:48,360 --> 01:41:51,000
Speaker 1: into Fox today. I did a few Fox Hits and

1534
01:41:51,080 --> 01:41:56,160
Speaker 1: Fox Business with the exceptional and uh and brilliant Trish Reagan.

1535
01:41:56,760 --> 01:41:59,559
Speaker 1: And I was on the street and I saw people

1536
01:41:59,680 --> 01:42:01,559
Speaker 1: and they're all standing and looking, and I could tell

1537
01:42:02,160 --> 01:42:05,599
Speaker 1: there was this sense of you know, man, we should

1538
01:42:05,640 --> 01:42:07,800
Speaker 1: be this should be so awesome right like there was

1539
01:42:07,920 --> 01:42:10,560
Speaker 1: this It reminded me of when people came out of

1540
01:42:10,640 --> 01:42:15,160
Speaker 1: Avatar in three D and they were like me, it

1541
01:42:15,320 --> 01:42:18,360
Speaker 1: wasn't really as great as everybody said it was. Now

1542
01:42:18,400 --> 01:42:20,599
Speaker 1: there was some cloud cover here in New York City,

1543
01:42:21,160 --> 01:42:26,040
Speaker 1: and so perhaps the eclipse wasn't quite as fantastic as

1544
01:42:26,160 --> 01:42:30,519
Speaker 1: as everybody thought it would be. But I don't know. I'm,

1545
01:42:30,680 --> 01:42:33,639
Speaker 1: first of all, I am very protective of my vision.

1546
01:42:34,680 --> 01:42:36,559
Speaker 1: For those of you who are curious, I actually don't

1547
01:42:36,560 --> 01:42:40,160
Speaker 1: even do radio with headphones on. I do radio with

1548
01:42:40,439 --> 01:42:44,200
Speaker 1: an earpiece just in my right ear because it's very

1549
01:42:44,400 --> 01:42:48,559
Speaker 1: easy to overtime do damage to your hearing in this business,

1550
01:42:48,800 --> 01:42:52,400
Speaker 1: and I got used to a right earpiece for TV

1551
01:42:52,560 --> 01:42:55,240
Speaker 1: purposes and I just decided to stay with it. So

1552
01:42:55,320 --> 01:42:58,600
Speaker 1: a lot of people have they have earphones in so

1553
01:42:58,680 --> 01:43:01,479
Speaker 1: they can hear themselves that they have our headphones. Rather

1554
01:43:01,880 --> 01:43:04,799
Speaker 1: they can hear themselves back. And there's even some very special,

1555
01:43:04,960 --> 01:43:09,680
Speaker 1: high end, expensive radio specific headphones. I just have. I

1556
01:43:10,120 --> 01:43:12,360
Speaker 1: use like the same earpiece that you use for your

1557
01:43:12,400 --> 01:43:15,840
Speaker 1: iPhone in my ear during radio, I can't hear myself back.

1558
01:43:16,439 --> 01:43:19,320
Speaker 1: I don't feel the need to. I just talk to

1559
01:43:19,400 --> 01:43:22,040
Speaker 1: you like I'm talking to friends or if I'm sitting

1560
01:43:22,040 --> 01:43:24,599
Speaker 1: around with my family. I don't listen to myself back

1561
01:43:24,720 --> 01:43:27,439
Speaker 1: the way that is done in traditional radio. Part of

1562
01:43:27,479 --> 01:43:29,240
Speaker 1: that that was also I just don't want to damage

1563
01:43:29,280 --> 01:43:32,080
Speaker 1: my hearing, and I am very protective of my site.

1564
01:43:33,080 --> 01:43:35,840
Speaker 1: And so the notion that I would look at the

1565
01:43:36,000 --> 01:43:40,280
Speaker 1: sun and in some way even even put out any

1566
01:43:40,520 --> 01:43:44,400
Speaker 1: chance of damaging my vision, even just a little bit,

1567
01:43:44,520 --> 01:43:46,800
Speaker 1: maybe if it was maybe it wouldn't even matter for

1568
01:43:47,080 --> 01:43:50,760
Speaker 1: fifty years, assuming I make it another fifty years, let's hope.

1569
01:43:50,760 --> 01:43:54,120
Speaker 1: So knock on wood. There's just no chance whatsoever that

1570
01:43:54,280 --> 01:43:59,320
Speaker 1: I would um anyway. Uh yeah, so o oh, I

1571
01:43:59,439 --> 01:44:00,840
Speaker 1: meant to tell, why else am I talking with the

1572
01:44:00,880 --> 01:44:04,280
Speaker 1: eclipse other than people who are looking up at the sun. Uh.

1573
01:44:04,560 --> 01:44:07,240
Speaker 1: There was this article. You can't make this stuff up.

1574
01:44:07,439 --> 01:44:10,720
Speaker 1: It reminds me of the movie PCU when there's this

1575
01:44:11,160 --> 01:44:15,799
Speaker 1: group walking around that is like the the militant African

1576
01:44:15,880 --> 01:44:19,840
Speaker 1: American students on campus, uh you know who who are

1577
01:44:20,000 --> 01:44:23,000
Speaker 1: are talking about oppression and you know, the the white

1578
01:44:23,520 --> 01:44:27,400
Speaker 1: white white oppression and everything, and and how yeah that

1579
01:44:27,520 --> 01:44:30,519
Speaker 1: the the guys, the more militant students on KEVI say

1580
01:44:30,600 --> 01:44:33,479
Speaker 1: that the the facts machine is white and the chalk

1581
01:44:33,640 --> 01:44:36,040
Speaker 1: is white and it's a white devil's conspiracy. It's from

1582
01:44:37,200 --> 01:44:41,160
Speaker 1: movie PCU, which I highly recommend to those of you

1583
01:44:41,280 --> 01:44:43,840
Speaker 1: who have not seen it. By the way, it's it's

1584
01:44:43,880 --> 01:44:47,920
Speaker 1: a movie that you, um, you're definitely in the current

1585
01:44:48,000 --> 01:44:50,200
Speaker 1: context of everything that's going on. I think you'd really

1586
01:44:50,240 --> 01:44:57,280
Speaker 1: appreciate how PCU is. It's it's telling the stories of

1587
01:44:57,360 --> 01:45:00,960
Speaker 1: our of our time when it comes to political correctness anyway. Um,

1588
01:45:01,240 --> 01:45:04,040
Speaker 1: but yeah, and then he goes from the militant black

1589
01:45:04,120 --> 01:45:07,080
Speaker 1: students on campus yelling that it's a white devil conspiracy.

1590
01:45:07,800 --> 01:45:10,639
Speaker 1: There's this preppy student running around with a side part

1591
01:45:10,880 --> 01:45:14,519
Speaker 1: and blue blazer on and boat shoes. So there's that.

1592
01:45:15,240 --> 01:45:18,839
Speaker 1: And then he runs into the the vegan, the militant vegans,

1593
01:45:18,880 --> 01:45:23,080
Speaker 1: and they're yelling meat tasa. So but the parody, of

1594
01:45:23,120 --> 01:45:25,000
Speaker 1: course is that there was a period in the nineties,

1595
01:45:25,040 --> 01:45:28,280
Speaker 1: and people are saying everything is racist, right, everything is racist,

1596
01:45:28,680 --> 01:45:30,840
Speaker 1: and it and it was true in the sense that

1597
01:45:30,960 --> 01:45:34,040
Speaker 1: people were pushing racism too much as a charge for

1598
01:45:34,080 --> 01:45:37,479
Speaker 1: it to even have meaning. But here's what's written in

1599
01:45:37,520 --> 01:45:41,360
Speaker 1: the Atlantic. I you cannot you cannot make this stuff up, folks.

1600
01:45:42,240 --> 01:45:45,560
Speaker 1: This is about the eclipse. And the shorthand version of

1601
01:45:45,640 --> 01:45:51,120
Speaker 1: this is the eclipse is racist quote American blackout. A

1602
01:45:51,280 --> 01:45:55,280
Speaker 1: tour of the solar eclipses path reveals a nation that

1603
01:45:55,520 --> 01:46:00,560
Speaker 1: thought to maintain a different sort of totality to totality

1604
01:46:00,680 --> 01:46:03,760
Speaker 1: is everything, say those who chase solar eclipses. When the

1605
01:46:03,840 --> 01:46:07,040
Speaker 1: Moon fully obscures the Sun and casts its shadow on Earth,

1606
01:46:07,439 --> 01:46:10,760
Speaker 1: the result is like nothing you've seen before, not even

1607
01:46:10,960 --> 01:46:16,040
Speaker 1: a partial eclipse. Uh. In this path of totality, night

1608
01:46:16,200 --> 01:46:18,320
Speaker 1: comes suddenly and one can see the shape of the

1609
01:46:18,400 --> 01:46:21,640
Speaker 1: Moon as a circle darker than black, marked by the

1610
01:46:21,760 --> 01:46:27,120
Speaker 1: faint backlight of the Sun's corona. On August one, today,

1611
01:46:28,120 --> 01:46:32,439
Speaker 1: a total total solar eclipse will arrive mid morning on

1612
01:46:32,520 --> 01:46:38,000
Speaker 1: the coast, etcetera, etcetera. It has been dubbed the Great

1613
01:46:38,200 --> 01:46:42,720
Speaker 1: American Eclipse, and along most of its path there live

1614
01:46:43,040 --> 01:46:47,160
Speaker 1: almost no black people. Um this is a quote every

1615
01:46:47,200 --> 01:46:50,479
Speaker 1: I'm quoting from the Atlantic here. Presumably this is not

1616
01:46:50,840 --> 01:46:54,600
Speaker 1: explained by the implicit bias of the solar system. It

1617
01:46:54,760 --> 01:46:59,200
Speaker 1: is a matter of population density and more specifically geographic

1618
01:46:59,560 --> 01:47:04,120
Speaker 1: very a stians uh in population density by race, for

1619
01:47:04,280 --> 01:47:09,439
Speaker 1: which the Sun and the Moon cannot be held responsible. Still,

1620
01:47:09,640 --> 01:47:12,640
Speaker 1: an eclipse chaser is always tempted to believe that the

1621
01:47:12,720 --> 01:47:16,920
Speaker 1: skies are relaying a message. At a moment of deep

1622
01:47:17,040 --> 01:47:21,400
Speaker 1: disagreement about the nation's best path forward, here comes a giant,

1623
01:47:21,600 --> 01:47:26,000
Speaker 1: round shadow, drawing a line either to cut the country

1624
01:47:26,120 --> 01:47:30,120
Speaker 1: in two or to united as one. The Great American

1625
01:47:30,160 --> 01:47:32,879
Speaker 1: Eclipse may or may not tell us anything about our future,

1626
01:47:33,479 --> 01:47:37,160
Speaker 1: but it's peculiar path could remind us of something about

1627
01:47:37,240 --> 01:47:40,920
Speaker 1: our past. What it was we meant, what it was

1628
01:47:41,120 --> 01:47:44,080
Speaker 1: we meant to be doing, and what we actually did

1629
01:47:44,160 --> 01:47:46,640
Speaker 1: along the way. Um, that's that. I'm just reading what

1630
01:47:46,720 --> 01:47:49,479
Speaker 1: it says. And if it seemed we need no reminding,

1631
01:47:49,560 --> 01:47:55,439
Speaker 1: consider this. As as the eclipse approaches, the temperatures will

1632
01:47:55,479 --> 01:47:57,679
Speaker 1: fall and birds will roost, and then suddenly the lights

1633
01:47:57,720 --> 01:48:01,839
Speaker 1: will go out. Uh. And then it goes on. Oregon,

1634
01:48:01,920 --> 01:48:05,360
Speaker 1: where this begins is almost entirely white. The ten percent

1635
01:48:05,479 --> 01:48:07,479
Speaker 1: or so of state residents who do not identify as

1636
01:48:07,520 --> 01:48:11,599
Speaker 1: white are predominantly Latino American, Indian, Alaskan, or Asian. There

1637
01:48:11,640 --> 01:48:17,240
Speaker 1: are very few black Oregonians. Uh, I mean this is

1638
01:48:17,280 --> 01:48:19,760
Speaker 1: a subheading from this. The astronomers tell us where lies

1639
01:48:19,840 --> 01:48:22,479
Speaker 1: the path of totality. The census tell us we're live,

1640
01:48:22,800 --> 01:48:25,960
Speaker 1: Where lived the people and what colors they are? I

1641
01:48:26,240 --> 01:48:28,600
Speaker 1: don't even know. I mean, I don't even know what

1642
01:48:28,720 --> 01:48:33,599
Speaker 1: to tell you. This is trying to make a point

1643
01:48:33,640 --> 01:48:36,160
Speaker 1: about racism through the eclipse. I mean, you've got to

1644
01:48:36,200 --> 01:48:41,200
Speaker 1: read this thing to really see where where it goes

1645
01:48:41,400 --> 01:48:45,040
Speaker 1: here in terms of the peace. Uh, here's let me

1646
01:48:45,080 --> 01:48:46,759
Speaker 1: just give you the finish. This is how it finishes.

1647
01:48:47,000 --> 01:48:51,480
Speaker 1: The Great American Eclipse illuminates or darkens a land still segregated,

1648
01:48:51,760 --> 01:48:54,360
Speaker 1: a land still in search of equality, a land of

1649
01:48:54,439 --> 01:48:58,400
Speaker 1: people still trying trying to dominate each other. When the

1650
01:48:58,520 --> 01:49:02,440
Speaker 1: lovely glow of a back light fades, history is relentless,

1651
01:49:02,840 --> 01:49:06,599
Speaker 1: just one damn fact after another, one damning fact after another.

1652
01:49:07,000 --> 01:49:09,680
Speaker 1: America is a nation with debts that no honest man

1653
01:49:09,920 --> 01:49:18,240
Speaker 1: can pay. Uh, you know, the eclipses. The eclipse is political. Now,

1654
01:49:19,800 --> 01:49:23,000
Speaker 1: I forget about nothing. Is sacred. Nothing is beyond politics.

1655
01:49:23,160 --> 01:49:27,200
Speaker 1: Just like in PCU in the chalk is white, the

1656
01:49:27,280 --> 01:49:29,880
Speaker 1: facts machine is white. It's a white devil's conspiracy. That's

1657
01:49:29,960 --> 01:49:31,479
Speaker 1: that's a quote from the movie. And they're trying to

1658
01:49:31,600 --> 01:49:38,960
Speaker 1: mock a very uh bizarre but somewhat real mindset that

1659
01:49:39,040 --> 01:49:45,080
Speaker 1: exists among some hardline leftists that everything is a racial conspiracy. Here,

1660
01:49:45,120 --> 01:49:47,120
Speaker 1: you've got a piece just published in The Atlantic. It's

1661
01:49:47,160 --> 01:49:50,000
Speaker 1: a really bad piece, by the way, it's just bad writing.

1662
01:49:50,600 --> 01:49:54,760
Speaker 1: It's just not a quality piece. But you see, this

1663
01:49:54,920 --> 01:49:58,080
Speaker 1: is part of what we see with writing on race.

1664
01:49:58,200 --> 01:50:02,960
Speaker 1: Any issue that touches on race has to be handled differently. Right,

1665
01:50:03,040 --> 01:50:07,080
Speaker 1: anything that is an analysis of of racism in America

1666
01:50:07,640 --> 01:50:10,759
Speaker 1: you better elevated, assuming that it talks about how racist

1667
01:50:10,840 --> 01:50:11,880
Speaker 1: we are. I mean, if you're gonna go in the

1668
01:50:11,920 --> 01:50:14,960
Speaker 1: other direction, then of course the opposite rules apply. It

1669
01:50:15,000 --> 01:50:16,680
Speaker 1: has to be censored, it has to be shut down,

1670
01:50:16,800 --> 01:50:20,920
Speaker 1: shouted down, maybe even violent protests to stop it, maybe

1671
01:50:20,960 --> 01:50:24,040
Speaker 1: even putting explosives on a statue to make a point. Right,

1672
01:50:24,479 --> 01:50:28,240
Speaker 1: that's what happens in this country now. But if you're

1673
01:50:28,240 --> 01:50:30,320
Speaker 1: writing on race and you're trying to say that the

1674
01:50:30,360 --> 01:50:36,600
Speaker 1: country is deeply racist, is beset by racism. And you

1675
01:50:36,720 --> 01:50:39,120
Speaker 1: can even go so far as to make a piece

1676
01:50:40,200 --> 01:50:42,600
Speaker 1: or to write a piece on how the eclipse is

1677
01:50:43,280 --> 01:50:46,559
Speaker 1: illuminating racism in America and there are only white people

1678
01:50:46,640 --> 01:50:51,200
Speaker 1: in the major pathway of the eclipse. Guys, it's not

1679
01:50:51,400 --> 01:50:53,840
Speaker 1: Nothing is too crazy anymore for the left right, they

1680
01:50:53,840 --> 01:50:57,200
Speaker 1: are they have gone fully delusional. Uh they have so

1681
01:50:57,439 --> 01:51:03,160
Speaker 1: disconnected from reality and and the abandonment of rationality and

1682
01:51:03,280 --> 01:51:06,400
Speaker 1: first principles that is animating much of progressive thought these

1683
01:51:06,479 --> 01:51:12,519
Speaker 1: days is evident even in a piece on the solar eclipse. Uh,

1684
01:51:12,960 --> 01:51:15,720
Speaker 1: this is it was amazing. I'm trying to who's the

1685
01:51:15,800 --> 01:51:17,800
Speaker 1: author of this? Just if you want to look it up,

1686
01:51:17,840 --> 01:51:19,680
Speaker 1: we'll put it up on buck sex and dot com.

1687
01:51:19,760 --> 01:51:24,000
Speaker 1: Alice Ristroff in The Atlantic American Blackout, a tour of

1688
01:51:24,040 --> 01:51:26,760
Speaker 1: the solar eclipses path reveals a nation that fought to

1689
01:51:26,840 --> 01:51:34,599
Speaker 1: maintain a different sort of totality. Uh. And it's it's amazing,

1690
01:51:34,720 --> 01:51:37,680
Speaker 1: you know, this really is. You can't make fun of it.

1691
01:51:37,760 --> 01:51:41,800
Speaker 1: It's beyond it is beyond parody. It is a completely

1692
01:51:43,040 --> 01:51:48,760
Speaker 1: uh nonsensical analysis of astronomy really and and and of

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Speaker 1: the planets and astrophysics, and uh it is it is

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Speaker 1: really amazing. Now it is considered to be on the

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01:51:57,280 --> 01:51:59,960
Speaker 1: cutting edge to try to use a solar eclipse to

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01:52:00,040 --> 01:52:04,040
Speaker 1: make political points about race in America. That it's just nonsense.

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Speaker 1: It really reminds me of the parody articles that have

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Speaker 1: gotten published recently, the one in particular, UH that was

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01:52:11,640 --> 01:52:15,760
Speaker 1: called that parody article, the penis as Social construct that

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Speaker 1: was published in a peer of view journal. This is

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Speaker 1: almost as farcical as that, and that was intended to

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Speaker 1: be farcical. Um. I want to just close with some

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Speaker 1: nice thoughts about uh seeing some old friends over the

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Speaker 1: weekend and and what what is necessary for us all

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01:52:33,160 --> 01:52:36,320
Speaker 1: these days we've just taken a moment, taking a breather

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Speaker 1: and not just focusing on what is political and what

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01:52:39,600 --> 01:52:45,080
Speaker 1: is uh contested right now in our debates and discussions.

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Speaker 1: So I'll just share some closing Oh. By the way,

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Speaker 1: Bucks Exton dot Com, slash store T shirts, T shirts,

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Speaker 1: check them out. Hats to suck Sexton back with the

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Speaker 1: team here in the Freedom Hunt. I moved into a

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Speaker 1: new place, as I've been telling you, and it's been

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun, a lot of work. I haven't

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Speaker 1: tried to set up what I think could be called

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Speaker 1: a reasonably adult home where you have more than one room.

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Speaker 1: Well really, ever, this is I guess. When I was

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Speaker 1: in d C, I actually I lived in a one

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Speaker 1: bedroom apartment, although I had or two bedroom apartment. I

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Speaker 1: had a roommate, so I had I had a living

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Speaker 1: room and a couch. But here in New York City,

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Speaker 1: if you're a guy on his own, unmarried, and you

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Speaker 1: have a one bedroom apartment, you are you are shelling

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Speaker 1: out a lot of cash. So I've been living in

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Speaker 1: a one room apartment for a long time. So now

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Speaker 1: I have an actual living space area that doesn't just

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Speaker 1: have a big bed in the middle of it. I

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Speaker 1: have a place for a couch, and I've been setting

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Speaker 1: up some home and decors gone with a nice theme

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Speaker 1: for the a nice sort of almost beach theme for

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Speaker 1: the bedroom, which I'm very pleased with. And I'm getting

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Speaker 1: all settled. I have been doing more cooking reasly than

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Speaker 1: ever before. I will say that Molly made me and

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Speaker 1: if you, by the way, if you're looking for something

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Speaker 1: to make, this was incredible. She made pulled chicken zucchini

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Speaker 1: enchiladas for me over the weekend. I was going to

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Speaker 1: post it up on social media on Instagram, but it

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Speaker 1: didn't really or on Facebook dot com slash box Sexton,

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01:54:19,520 --> 01:54:23,560
Speaker 1: which you should be following everybody, but the visual of

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Speaker 1: this dish didn't do a justice. It was among the

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Speaker 1: most delicious Mexican cuisine I've ever had. Now, Molly is

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Speaker 1: half Mexican, so she does literally have h Mexican cooking,

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Speaker 1: as she would say, in her blood. Her mother is

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01:54:38,400 --> 01:54:44,680
Speaker 1: a fantastic Mexican cuisine cook and comes from a Mexican background.

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Speaker 1: So you know, Molly made me this amazing food of

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01:54:47,600 --> 01:54:49,600
Speaker 1: the weekend I've been cooking and I know by the

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01:54:49,640 --> 01:54:54,040
Speaker 1: way the enchilana's made with zucchini, it's great. It means

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01:54:54,080 --> 01:54:57,240
Speaker 1: that it's really low it's it's a really low carb

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Speaker 1: dish and you replaced the floured or corn tortilla. You

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01:55:02,320 --> 01:55:04,200
Speaker 1: don't even know the difference, and telling it's all about

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01:55:04,200 --> 01:55:06,480
Speaker 1: the sauce and the pulled chicken, and the zucchini actually

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01:55:06,480 --> 01:55:09,480
Speaker 1: absorbs them pretty well if you do it properly. It was.

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Speaker 1: It was phenomenal. I couldn't compliment Molly enough on it.

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Speaker 1: In fact, she made so much, or she made extra

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01:55:14,800 --> 01:55:16,360
Speaker 1: so that she could take some into work, and I

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01:55:16,400 --> 01:55:19,360
Speaker 1: had to apologize because I I snuck some while she

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Speaker 1: was away. I know, I was like the kid who

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01:55:21,640 --> 01:55:23,520
Speaker 1: was sneaking into the cookie jar, but I had a

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01:55:23,560 --> 01:55:27,960
Speaker 1: little bit of her pulled chicken, zucchini Enchilada's leftovers that

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01:55:28,000 --> 01:55:29,840
Speaker 1: were meant for her to Daniel. I left some for her,

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01:55:29,920 --> 01:55:31,320
Speaker 1: but I had like a little bit of what was

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Speaker 1: going to be taken to the office. It was so

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01:55:32,880 --> 01:55:35,200
Speaker 1: good sometimes to steal a little food. She knows better

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Speaker 1: than to get in between me and a chocolate part too,

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01:55:37,080 --> 01:55:40,400
Speaker 1: because I need need my chocolate fix. But I've been

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Speaker 1: cooking more, been doing a lot more of that, And

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Speaker 1: yesterday I finally took a break to see some friends

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Speaker 1: and those of you who have been listening to me

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Speaker 1: for a while and been a part of my career.

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01:55:51,640 --> 01:55:55,840
Speaker 1: Because everybody who watches, listens, downloads, reads, and and and

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Speaker 1: follows my work is a part of my career, and

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Speaker 1: I have to I can't thank you all enough for that.

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Speaker 1: I took a moment, though, yesterday to see some old friends,

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01:56:04,240 --> 01:56:07,320
Speaker 1: friends that some of you will no doubt recall. I

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Speaker 1: had brunch, which is a thing here that everybody does

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Speaker 1: pretty much New York City everybody brunches, so I know

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01:56:13,200 --> 01:56:14,680
Speaker 1: in some parts of the country they're like, isn't that

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01:56:14,760 --> 01:56:18,040
Speaker 1: just lunch? But trying to sound fancy. We did brunch

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Speaker 1: and I saw my old friends Brandon Webb and Tara

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Speaker 1: set Mayor. Tara is now an ABC. Well, let me

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01:56:25,880 --> 01:56:28,720
Speaker 1: start with Brandon. Brandon, of course is a guest on

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Speaker 1: the show. I think we had him even last week.

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01:56:30,760 --> 01:56:33,480
Speaker 1: Good buddy of mine, former Navy seal sniper. Great to

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01:56:33,560 --> 01:56:35,680
Speaker 1: catch up with him and we were talking about how

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Speaker 1: we met on this set of Real News at the

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Speaker 1: Blaze years ago. That's and since then we've become very

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Speaker 1: good friends. Brandon and I hang out regularly. We hang

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Speaker 1: out on the weekends. He's got an awesome new dog

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Speaker 1: named Ace. It's an Australian Shepherd. So he's got a

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Speaker 1: puppy too. I mean, you know, so the guy's got

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Speaker 1: he's got great stories and a puppy. As you can imagine,

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Speaker 1: the ladies love him. Um. And then Tara set Mayor,

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Speaker 1: who was my old buddy at the Real News table

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01:57:02,800 --> 01:57:05,480
Speaker 1: there with me, a staunch conservative. She's now over at

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Speaker 1: ABC doing political analysis for them and also sometimes appears

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Speaker 1: on CNN. And it was just great to catch up

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Speaker 1: with Tara and hang out with her a bit. And

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Speaker 1: you know, for those of you who are Tara fans

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Speaker 1: from the Real News Tara set mayor fans from the

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Speaker 1: Real News days, she's doing great. She's she's happy, career

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Speaker 1: is going well, and she's just doing her thing, and

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Speaker 1: she's she's a big talent. I think we're gonna see

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Speaker 1: a very she has. She's got a bright and and

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01:57:33,280 --> 01:57:36,800
Speaker 1: I think powerful future in the media business, as does Brandon.

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01:57:36,840 --> 01:57:40,320
Speaker 1: Brandon's really more on the entrepreneur side than anything else.

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01:57:40,360 --> 01:57:43,920
Speaker 1: He's actually building media businesses. But more on that perhaps later.

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Speaker 1: But it was just great to catch up with those friends.

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Speaker 1: And I appreciated that those of you who saw some

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01:57:47,800 --> 01:57:49,880
Speaker 1: of the photos I posted realized that these are all

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Speaker 1: from the Blaze days. These are some of my they've

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Speaker 1: become some of my close friends offset as well. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: as always team for joining. I'm glad that despite the eclipse,

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01:57:59,880 --> 01:58:02,040
Speaker 1: the world has not ended, and you know that the

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01:58:02,120 --> 01:58:04,440
Speaker 1: cs have not boiled over, so that's good news. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna have a lot to talk about tomorrow, the President's

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Speaker 1: speech on Afghanistan. Going to give you a breakdown of

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01:58:10,160 --> 01:58:12,520
Speaker 1: what I think comes what what what I think is

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Speaker 1: coming out of that, plus the big Phoenix political rally

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Speaker 1: he's planning, things could get really out of hand there.

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Speaker 1: We'll see. Um, We've got that and a lot more

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Speaker 1: coming up tomorrow, so be sure to download the podcast,

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Speaker 1: share it with friends. Buck Sexon with America now on iTunes.

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Speaker 1: Please subscribe, See you tomorrow. Shields Hot