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Speaker 1: There's a mass shooting, and immediately there's an effort to

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Speaker 1: for political points. I can't tell you how many people

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Speaker 1: I had already just in my own world of social

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Speaker 1: and I had all these comments about how why won't

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Speaker 1: you talk about the quote Trump supporter end quote? They

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Speaker 1: would say, who just engaged in a mass shooting? The

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Speaker 1: white supremacist Trump supporter that engaged in a mass shooting.

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Speaker 1: There was no evidence whatsoever to support that that was

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Speaker 1: this is what you see people that leverage the Internet

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Speaker 1: A horrific mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado at a grocery store,

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Speaker 1: and what do they do right away? What do they

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Speaker 1: see that the people who were wrong or up to conclusions,

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Speaker 1: they don't care. It doesn't matter. It felt good for

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Speaker 1: It stretches back years. It stretches back to the Obama administration,

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Speaker 1: It has nothing to do with Trump, and no intelligent,

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Speaker 1: they tell us, may orc Us tells us that families

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Speaker 1: are being turned away. And I said, the initial figure

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Speaker 1: me yesterday, I said, and the Axios figure that had

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Speaker 1: I spoke to uh Art Arthur yesterday, the Center for

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Speaker 1: Immigration Studies, and we talked to him. He said, he

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Speaker 1: said he had also read that the figure was this,

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Speaker 1: he's an immigration expert. The figure was over sixty percent

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Speaker 1: of families. And I kept asking him. I kept saying

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Speaker 1: to him in that interview, Well, why is it only

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Speaker 1: sixty Why is it? That doesn't make sense to me.

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Speaker 1: There's there's no way that even though that's a lot, right,

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Speaker 1: that's a pretty good your odds are pretty good. Sixty percent.

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Speaker 1: You get to stay in America forever. And and remember

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Speaker 1: you get expelled, you can just come back because this

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Speaker 1: Biden administration is not gonna have a problem. He just

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Speaker 1: try it again. So you know your odds are really

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Speaker 1: good if you come twice. But I said to you,

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't believe. And I was talking on

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Speaker 1: the First TV yesterday about this with Art Arthur. I said,

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Speaker 1: forty percent of families are getting turned away, no on

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Speaker 1: what grounds. Well, guess what Amember I told you yesterday. Also,

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Speaker 1: I said, they say it's in the sixties, I believe

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Speaker 1: it's more like seventy or eighty. You can, it'd be fun.

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Speaker 1: Go back. If you're listening on radio, you can go

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Speaker 1: back and listen to the Buck Sexton podcast. It's on

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Speaker 1: the iHeart app. It's in the podcast Apple podcast store.

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Speaker 1: Go back and listen to the first part of the

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Speaker 1: show where I talk about this. Because I said, they

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Speaker 1: say it's over sixty, I bet it's more like eighty percent.

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Speaker 1: Guess what comes out today Axios story. According to Byron

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Speaker 1: York here, the Biden administration in the last week expelled

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Speaker 1: thirteen percent of migrant families in the past week. So

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Speaker 1: when Mayorcas goes on TV and says we are expelling families.

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Speaker 1: The reason he leaves out the number, which was a

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Speaker 1: huge tale. It's very obvious what's going on here to

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Speaker 1: anybody who understands these Democrats and how they play the game,

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Speaker 1: is eighty seven percent of families are staying in the

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Speaker 1: United States. Let into the US and they're home free.

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Speaker 1: This is the cause of the crisis. Eighty seven percent

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Speaker 1: of families in the last week. One hundred percent really

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Speaker 1: of children. I mean maybe it's ninety nine percent, but

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Speaker 1: unaccompanied miners are led in the United States. That's an

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Speaker 1: open border, folks. That's as much an open border as

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Speaker 1: anybody's ever seen anywhere really in the modern world, when

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Speaker 1: we have some border enforcement. I mean, this is crazy.

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Speaker 1: Eighty seven percent of families get to stay, the whole

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Speaker 1: family unit. This adds up. This makes sense. This I believe.

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Speaker 1: I didn't believe that sixty was high, but not that high.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, eighty seven percent. That sounds about right. Your

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Speaker 1: odds are almost nine out of ten. Then if you

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Speaker 1: get to the border, you're a family unit, or you're

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Speaker 1: claiming to be a family unit, you're going to be released.

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Speaker 1: The American interior. That's a really good deal for people

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Speaker 1: who want to skip the immigration line and come into

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Speaker 1: a country that has rule law, you know, not a

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Speaker 1: lot of corruption. You know, the police aren't going to

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Speaker 1: kidnap you and murder you here without incident. That stuff

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Speaker 1: happens in Central America. That stuff happens in Mexico. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we all know it. We have a better school system,

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Speaker 1: better healthcare system. But the people who are arriving, we're

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Speaker 1: supposed to have an immigration system for the benefit of America,

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Speaker 1: and you are supposed to be able to ask in

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Speaker 1: a you know, other countries have merit based immigration systems.

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Speaker 1: They give people points, they say, Okay, here's what we think,

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Speaker 1: and it's like an admissions process for a college. Well

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Speaker 1: is that and is that inherently racist? Is that wrong?

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Speaker 1: Is that bad? Because Canada has one, Australia has one. Now,

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Speaker 1: those countries also have asylum and refugee programs. But this

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Speaker 1: is not really going through the asylum refugee program. This

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Speaker 1: is abusing it, and it's dramatically expanding the numbers of

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Speaker 1: what we would expect. But that's really what you need

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Speaker 1: to know. Majorcas goes on TV and says to you

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Speaker 1: looks at the American people through a camera in the

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Speaker 1: eyes all across the country and says, we are expelling

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Speaker 1: families at the border. That's what he said, right, Nine

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Speaker 1: out of ten families they're letting right into the US

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Speaker 1: within seventy two hours. Does anybody think that this crisis

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Speaker 1: is going to go away? Does anybody really think that

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Speaker 1: this is going to change anytime soon? No. The reason

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Speaker 1: the Democrats are frazzled right now, the reason the Biden

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Speaker 1: administration is on defense is because we're actually seeing what's

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Speaker 1: going on. We are aware of the situation and the

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Speaker 1: circumstances right now because the facilities are overwhelmed, and it's

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Speaker 1: hard to hide that. Their challenge isn't isn't there really

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Speaker 1: about what the long term implications of this kind of

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Speaker 1: migration are? Because they're fun with that. Their problem is

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Speaker 1: Hold on a second. If people figure this out, when

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Speaker 1: we're telling them what to do about immigration down the line,

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Speaker 1: will they believe us when we want amnesty? Will they

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Speaker 1: believe Democrats when they say they'll be increased enforcement at

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Speaker 1: the border. How can you trust anything? DHS Secretary of

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Speaker 1: Mayorcer says on behalf of the bid administration when he

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Speaker 1: makes the highly misleading claim that they're turning families away

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Speaker 1: at the border dot dot Yeah, a few thirteen percent

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Speaker 1: of them. The last week. The rest of the business

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Speaker 1: of being in the Senate basically was just you know,

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Speaker 1: put aside. And I think we need to bring back

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Speaker 1: a real legislative process. If you thought you had to

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Speaker 1: actually stand up and vote on something, you'd actually work

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Speaker 1: to get an amendment to change it, as opposed to

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Speaker 1: saying I don't even have to think about it. I'm

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Speaker 1: just going to show up and I'm going to be

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Speaker 1: part of a filibuster that doesn't inspire cooperation. It just

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Speaker 1: keeps people in their separate camps. So I think it's

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Speaker 1: going to take a little bit of change in order

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Speaker 1: to get to where people have to work together. And surprisingly,

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Speaker 1: in my own mind, I think, you know, getting rid

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Speaker 1: of the filibuster will actually have that result. See totally

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Speaker 1: normal change. A process that when there are Democrats in

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Speaker 1: charge rather when there are Republicans in charge, is absolutely

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Speaker 1: sacred to our institutions and is necessary for defending the

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Speaker 1: rights of political the political minority from majoritaryan tyranny and

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Speaker 1: all that stuff. And then oh my gosh, Democrats are

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Speaker 1: in charge, and all of a sudden, it's whoa, let's

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Speaker 1: let's let's cooperate more. This is like their unity claim

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Speaker 1: Remember what the unity claims were like when Biden came

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Speaker 1: into office. Unify with us or else you better like

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Speaker 1: this unity that we're going to enforce upon you, or

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Speaker 1: we're coming after you. That was the way it was done.

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Speaker 1: That was what they were saying. There was no reaching

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Speaker 1: across the aisle to try to find common ground. It

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Speaker 1: was the ground that you will find is our ground.

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Speaker 1: That's the left's approach. There's no common ground. You want

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Speaker 1: it to be common Come where we are and do

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Speaker 1: what we tell you. That's reaching across the They're going

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Speaker 1: to reach across the aisle to pull you to their

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Speaker 1: side and make you obey. And Hillary Hollow she's back.

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Speaker 1: Hillary's there just to tell you exactly that you know

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Speaker 1: now now it's oh, yeah, we should just get rid

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Speaker 1: of the filibuster so that democrats here's what they know.

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Speaker 1: Democrats believe and there this is pretty widespread among them

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Speaker 1: that they can get or if they can get to

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Speaker 1: a place where they get rid of the filibuster and

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Speaker 1: they just run the table on legislation. I mean they

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Speaker 1: steamroll the Republicans for the next two years roughly that

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Speaker 1: it's it's worth it to them because they can enact

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Speaker 1: structural changes that will offset any backlash from their authoritarian madness. Right.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, people might say, wow, Democrats are really going

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Speaker 1: for broke here. They're really running rough shot. They're using

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Speaker 1: the steamroller approach to the political opposition and even changing

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Speaker 1: the rules of the game as they're playing it, which

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Speaker 1: is what elimiting the filibuster now is all about. But

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Speaker 1: the Democrat calculation here, I think people need to understand

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Speaker 1: this is, well, if they get hr one, and if

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Speaker 1: they get amnesty, and if they get gun control, and

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Speaker 1: if they get you good on this list, if they

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Speaker 1: get DC statehood, it's worth it. Whatever backlash they're concerned

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Speaker 1: about receiving from the other side is worth it. They

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Speaker 1: should just accept it. They should just handle it because

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Speaker 1: they'll win over the long term. These are structural changes

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Speaker 1: to our politics. That's what they're trying to accomplish. That

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Speaker 1: they make it so we're in a different political environment

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Speaker 1: in this country going forward, not just for an election,

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Speaker 1: for all elections. That's the whole point. And Rashida to leave.

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Speaker 1: For example, is out there saying that anyone who opposes

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Speaker 1: DC statehood, which is just stacking two Senate votes, among

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Speaker 1: other things, stacking two Senate votes in the Democrat column,

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Speaker 1: that's why they want it. She's very upset about this

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Speaker 1: play fifteen and opposing DC statehood, which is overwhelmingly supported

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Speaker 1: by the people of Washington. These representatives and their dark

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Speaker 1: money backers over the Heritage Foundation, that's right, are telling

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Speaker 1: over seven hundred thousand Americans to sit down, shut up,

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Speaker 1: and enjoy this all authoritarian system implemented by a bunch

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Speaker 1: of elites who thought it was okay to enslave people

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Speaker 1: for their selfish monetary game hundreds of years ago. It

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Speaker 1: is shapeful that anyone would claim to support democracy and

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Speaker 1: freedom and oppose statehood, That anyone would support democracy and

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Speaker 1: freedom and oppose statehood here. So when the constitution is

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Speaker 1: an argument that Democrats have in their favor on some issue,

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Speaker 1: which is rare. But when they when they think they

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Speaker 1: can make a constitutional argument, it's our sacred democracy in

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Speaker 1: our institutions, When as is the case here, the founding

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Speaker 1: fathers explicitly made clear that DC statehood was not the intent,

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Speaker 1: and this is addressed in the Federalist papers. This is

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Speaker 1: addressed in our founding, during our founding by the great

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Speaker 1: minds that were behind our system of government. Then it's oh,

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Speaker 1: they're a bunch of former slave owners and we can't. Well,

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Speaker 1: who cares what they had to say, Let's make DC

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Speaker 1: a state. The principle at work. Whatever democrats want is justified.

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Speaker 1: There is no principle. Whatever they want to do, that's

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Speaker 1: what they should do. If it enhances their power, if

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Speaker 1: they get their way, justify it. After the fact, we

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Speaker 1: don't even justify at all. Just do it, Just cram

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Speaker 1: it down the other side's throat, and how them to

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Speaker 1: deal with it. This is the This is the Biden

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Speaker 1: approach on a whole range of issues, and just getting started.

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Speaker 1: What is the latest and what should we take from

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Speaker 1: this shooting in Boulder, Colorado, The politics around this, and

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Speaker 1: the way that it's already being used by Democrats who

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Speaker 1: see this as an opportunity to push an agenda while

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Speaker 1: also not caring about the fact that many of them

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Speaker 1: jump to conclusions right away on this one and we're incorrect.

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Speaker 1: Our friend Kurt Schlichter is with us now senior columnists

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Speaker 1: at Townhall Dot com army veteran lawyer and guy who

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Speaker 1: knows some things, mister Schlichter. Good to have you back,

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Speaker 1: Good to be here. Buckets. Kind of a sad day,

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Speaker 1: but I think it's important that we talk about this stuff.

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Speaker 1: I think it is too because I was trying to

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Speaker 1: shed some light on the Christie Gnome nonsense. And I'll

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Speaker 1: talk to you about that too last night on social

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Speaker 1: media because I thought she had an abominable showing on

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Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson Carton. We'll get to that. We'll get to

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Speaker 1: that in a moment. But I say something about that.

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Speaker 1: I didn't even I hadn't even said anything about the shooting,

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Speaker 1: and Bolt hadn't read about it and know about it.

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Speaker 1: I just was following the stories that I was following,

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Speaker 1: and I have all these people saying, yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe you should actually spend some time thinking about the

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Speaker 1: white supremacist Trump supporter that just shot a bunch of

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Speaker 1: people in Boulder, Colorado, as if that in any way

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Speaker 1: attached to what I was talking about, which is transgender

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Speaker 1: sports in South Dakota. But anyway, that's just the way

644
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 1: this seems to go. Now we find out the guy's

645
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:38,320
Speaker 1: name is Ahmad al Issa, and he frequently posted, according

646
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 1: to journalist Andy No, on social media, about Islamophobia and

647
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:47,359
Speaker 1: depression of him because of his devout Islamic faith. I

648
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 1: don't know that this goes in the white supremacist Trump

649
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 1: supporter category, Kurt, I think it's safe to say that

650
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 1: we should wait until more facts are in. Well, you know,

651
00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 1: if this was a good faith argument instead of a

652
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 1: blatant power grab and a lie, I would agree with you.

653
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 1: But of course it's beyond the point. It's not even

654
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:09,759
Speaker 1: close to the point. Truth is just a bourgeois concept,

655
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,440
Speaker 1: a buck. It doesn't matter. Now. I want to be

656
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 1: really clear here. A lot of conservatives are pointing out

657
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 1: the hypocrisy and the lies that have been used against them,

658
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 1: But this is not We are not doing the same

659
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:28,560
Speaker 1: thing they are doing. We are not blaming all Muslims

660
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 1: because this one particular idiot went out and did something

661
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 1: horrific for which I hope he hangs. We are pointing

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00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:39,719
Speaker 1: out that the narrative that the left attempts to make

663
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 1: is a lie. It's an attempt to grab power. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't rely on facts, it relies on blatant dishonesty, and

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00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:49,360
Speaker 1: it is immune to reason. So I don't believe in

666
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:52,759
Speaker 1: reasoning with them. I believe in mocking them. And that's

667
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:55,239
Speaker 1: what we're doing. And you know, I think normal people

668
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 1: we're seeing a buck. I think normal people are going, yeah, well,

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00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 1: they've lied to me again and again and again, and

670
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:05,319
Speaker 1: this is just the latest one. And I'm hoping that

671
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 1: this NonStop barage of lies helps people wake up. And

672
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:16,960
Speaker 1: I see the initial Democrat leadership response to this in Congress,

673
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 1: and you know, the Democrat media, and it's all the

674
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 1: it's all the stuff that we always say, Oh, this,

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00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 1: this needs to be the grounds for pushing a national,

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00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:30,400
Speaker 1: national universal background check, or this this shows that you know,

677
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's rhetoric or either they do all these things

678
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 1: and there's no accountability for this now. I mean, no

679
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:38,319
Speaker 1: one apologizes, no one cares. You know, we learned up.

680
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:40,800
Speaker 1: Maybe this guy passed a background check. Maybe he actually

681
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 1: went in and you know, and and actually sat down

682
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 1: and bought a gun legally through the process, but people

683
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:50,399
Speaker 1: didn't know that he was a psychopathic, murderous lunatic, and

684
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:53,359
Speaker 1: so he managed to buy a gun. But they're still saying, oh,

685
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:56,239
Speaker 1: background checks, right, And if it turns out that I'm

686
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:59,399
Speaker 1: right in my prediction, I don't know that this guy

687
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 1: probably out this gun legally, They're still gonna say there

688
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 1: needs to be a background check system. So you say, well,

689
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 1: if the incident is not the reason for this new push,

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00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:11,720
Speaker 1: why are you tying the incident to the political push

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00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:13,400
Speaker 1: for background checks in the first place? And I think

692
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 1: we know the answer, but it's worth pointing out for everybody. Well, look,

693
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 1: it's a fact free environment. Look we're not going to

694
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:23,359
Speaker 1: reason our way to convince these people of anything because

695
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:26,280
Speaker 1: they're not trying to be reasonable. They're trying to exercise power.

696
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 1: They're trying exercise power by disenfranchising us and disarming us.

697
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:34,280
Speaker 1: They at the same time they want to defund the police,

698
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 1: which is just amazing. The idea that the solution to

699
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 1: terrorist violence is to make ourselves more vulnerable to terrorist

700
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:49,920
Speaker 1: violence by disarming us is insane. If you're being reasonable,

701
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 1: if your purpose is to create a nation of serfs,

702
00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 1: then it is a terrific, terrific idea to proceed this

703
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 1: way because they want us vulnerable, they want us scared,

704
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 1: they want us unable to defend our liberty and our lives.

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00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 1: That's what they want. How do I know, because that's

706
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 1: what they tell me on social media. This isn't a fantasy.

707
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:14,839
Speaker 1: I'm not drawing conclusions. I'm simply repeating what I hear

708
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 1: directed against me and other people on social media. They

709
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 1: like this. They like the idea of us being afraid

710
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 1: and cowering. Look at what's happened over the last year.

711
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:29,280
Speaker 1: This whole COVID thing would be ble locked inside and terrified.

712
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 1: This gives them more power, and they like it. I

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Speaker 1: think that. And we're speaking of Kurt Schlichter. He's a

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Speaker 1: senior columnist at townhall dot com, army veteran lawyer. I think,

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Speaker 1: Kurt that now more than ever, I've been saying this

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Speaker 1: to people, the idea of the Second Amendments as a

717
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:51,840
Speaker 1: check on government tyranny should be taken very you know,

718
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:53,800
Speaker 1: it's something that should ever have not been taken seriously,

719
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:56,759
Speaker 1: but it should be more apparent to us why that

720
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:59,919
Speaker 1: need exists when you have the government, as we've seen

721
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 1: the last twelve months, telling you that you cannot go

722
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 1: to church, that they will they will. Actually they were

723
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:06,920
Speaker 1: in some parts of the country they were threatening to

724
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:10,600
Speaker 1: arrest you if you gathered with more than five family

725
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:13,719
Speaker 1: members in your own home. That they will arrest you

726
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 1: if you try to open your business, you know, for

727
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:18,640
Speaker 1: the crime of wanting to serve food to people that

728
00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:21,319
Speaker 1: are looking to buy it from you. That they will

729
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 1: take away your freedom, They will destroy your business because

730
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 1: a bunch of little lab coat tyrants, because little Fauci,

731
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 1: the fascist says. So that should be a wake up

732
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:33,920
Speaker 1: call to everybody. And I mean that. I mean this government.

733
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:38,399
Speaker 1: This government locked people away in nursing homes and then

734
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 1: filled nursing homes with people with COVID in places like

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Speaker 1: New York and New Jersey and now we're seeing Michigan.

736
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Speaker 1: And if you had a problem with that, if you

737
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:50,279
Speaker 1: were trying to protest against it, they were willing to

738
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:53,359
Speaker 1: lock you up in jail. That's the actual government you're

739
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 1: dealing with. An armed citizenry is a d to preventing tyranny, however,

740
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 1: I mean, it is a backstop. It's not had to

741
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:04,359
Speaker 1: be in you. I guess you could arguably say they

742
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:09,720
Speaker 1: used once or twice in very very small incidents like Athens, Tennessee.

743
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 1: We are so far now. The fact that we are

744
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:17,439
Speaker 1: so far away from having to use armed violence to

745
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 1: protect our rights is not to say that that could

746
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 1: never happen that that needs to be there as a

747
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:29,279
Speaker 1: final backstop. But Buck, We've got a whole bunch of

748
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:32,880
Speaker 1: other things. We can still, at least at least outside

749
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:35,960
Speaker 1: of big blue cities, elect representatives who support our interests.

750
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 1: We can still appeal to the court, sometimes will get

751
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:41,800
Speaker 1: a fair hearing. All we can still speak our mind.

752
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:46,399
Speaker 1: Sometimes there are still things that we can do and

753
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 1: we should be doing. However, none of that. The mere

754
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:53,879
Speaker 1: fact that we are not completely oppressed by net right

755
00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:57,400
Speaker 1: now does not eliminate the fact that that could happen

756
00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 1: down the road. I believe that every healthy, law abiding

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00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:07,480
Speaker 1: American adult who is willing to bear arms because there's

758
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:10,759
Speaker 1: some people are consciousential sly object to it, should be

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00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:13,760
Speaker 1: armed and ready to defend themselves, their family, their community,

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00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 1: and their constitution if necessary. I lived through the La riots.

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00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 1: I saw what happened when order broke down. It's not

762
00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:24,120
Speaker 1: a hypothetical. I had some I had some live from

763
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 1: some website. You talk about these, these these collapses of society,

764
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:31,680
Speaker 1: and they never seem to happen. Well, I spent three

765
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:34,320
Speaker 1: weeks in the streets in Los Angeles with an M sixteen.

766
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,919
Speaker 1: It happens. It's not common. But all I can say

767
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:42,800
Speaker 1: is an American who was carrying in that supermarket yesterday

768
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 1: might have been able to stop it. Yes, I know,

769
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:47,400
Speaker 1: an armed policeman was shot and killed and several others

770
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:54,319
Speaker 1: were wounded. The carrying weapons is not a one percent

771
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:58,719
Speaker 1: guarantee that you will always be victorious over a criminal,

772
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:03,920
Speaker 1: terrorist or other a violent scumbag, but it does give

773
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 1: you a fighting chance. And I believe every American should

774
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:11,320
Speaker 1: do two things. Every American should be able to lawfully

775
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 1: use violence in the rare, rare occasions it's necessary to

776
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:17,640
Speaker 1: defend life and liberty. And I believe every American should

777
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 1: be trained and keep themselves proficient on basic life saving techniques.

778
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 1: That is our job as citizens, you know, buckets like

779
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:28,480
Speaker 1: we've given over so much of what it means to

780
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 1: be an American citizen to other people. We've outsourced it

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00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 1: to a police or the EMTs, or the teachers or

782
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 1: somebody else. But democracy is hard work. Freedom is hard work.

783
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:43,640
Speaker 1: As citizens, we have to be able to stand up

784
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 1: and take a personal stand. And that's why I believe

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00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 1: that every American should have the right to keep in

786
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:52,799
Speaker 1: bear arms and then includes carrying a concealed or open

787
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:58,680
Speaker 1: weapon in order to lawfully be able to enforce the

788
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:02,760
Speaker 1: law and protect the defenseless. We're speaking of Kirchlichter, Townhall

789
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:06,359
Speaker 1: dot com senior columnist and a former well he's still

790
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:09,719
Speaker 1: a lawyer actually, and an United States Army vetter. And yeah,

791
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:12,120
Speaker 1: I guess you're a lawyer for life, Kurt. Let's let's switch.

792
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:14,080
Speaker 1: Let's let's put her lawyer hat on here for a

793
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:18,399
Speaker 1: moment to what happened with Christy Noum last night. I've

794
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:22,360
Speaker 1: been critical of her on social media before the Tucker interview.

795
00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:25,239
Speaker 1: She went on the Tucker Interview to say, you know,

796
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 1: to say her her side of things. I will also

797
00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 1: point out that the comparisons with Governor Ron de Santis

798
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:34,440
Speaker 1: of Florida, I think have always been overblown. Florida is

799
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:37,760
Speaker 1: the fourth largest state in I'm sorry, the third largest

800
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 1: state actually in the country, and has major cities like

801
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 1: Miami and Tampa and others. South Dakota, lovely place, lovely people,

802
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:52,759
Speaker 1: has the population less than the population of San Jose, California,

803
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:57,799
Speaker 1: and has an actual population density that's right along what

804
00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:00,480
Speaker 1: you'd expect in an island chain in the South Pacific. Now,

805
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:02,840
Speaker 1: I know a lot of South Dakotain's love that. That's

806
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:06,799
Speaker 1: very different for the purposes of dealing with COVID than

807
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:08,840
Speaker 1: what you have in Florida. Okay, so put that aside

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00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 1: for a second. I think people were way too Oh

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00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:13,720
Speaker 1: she's so great, She's withstanding the pressure. It's an entirely

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00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 1: red state, and you know there's there's eleven people every

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Speaker 1: mile or something, which is totally different when you get

812
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:23,799
Speaker 1: other places. All right. On this transgender bill, which would

813
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:27,879
Speaker 1: protect transgender which would protect women from competing against transgender

814
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 1: males and sports, she claims that this is because she

815
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:34,480
Speaker 1: can't win a lawsuit against the NC double A. That's

816
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 1: why she did it. What do you make of that claim?

817
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:39,960
Speaker 1: Because she she sent it back for style revisions or

818
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:42,240
Speaker 1: whatever it's called, right, she sent it back down, wouldn't

819
00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 1: sign it. What do you make of this? I think

820
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 1: she I think she has blown it. I think she

821
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:52,239
Speaker 1: has completely screwed this up. I think she's destroyed her chances. Now,

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Speaker 1: you and I were both at Seaback. I don't know

823
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:55,560
Speaker 1: if you met her. I met her when she walked

824
00:49:55,560 --> 00:49:58,320
Speaker 1: through the bar, got my picture with her. Tiny little

825
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:01,239
Speaker 1: thing I loved, like the incredible bulk next to her,

826
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:07,960
Speaker 1: but I was unimpressed. I always I don't know, I

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Speaker 1: you know, I was willing to give her a hearing.

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Speaker 1: And I understand it's a small state. Uh. Maybe she

829
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:16,759
Speaker 1: had some good ideas, but she made no connection with

830
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Speaker 1: the activists who were hanging out there, and she seemed

831
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 1: distinctly uncomfortable with people who were you know, ideological. Uh.

832
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:28,320
Speaker 1: There's been a lot of hype about her. I think, Uh,

833
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:32,240
Speaker 1: she has shown here that she will roll over under pressure.

834
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Speaker 1: This idea about well i'd lose a lawsuit, Well, how

835
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:38,560
Speaker 1: do you know? How do you know what the lawsuit is? Uh?

836
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Speaker 1: And and are you telling me it's not worth fighting

837
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:43,080
Speaker 1: for that? We just just oh, well, it's gonna be hard.

838
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:45,200
Speaker 1: We should give in. Sorry. I don't need that as

839
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Speaker 1: a president. I don't need that at all. I think

840
00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:50,759
Speaker 1: she really messed herself up. Uh. And I think it's

841
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Speaker 1: going to take a lot for her to come back

842
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:55,120
Speaker 1: and fix it. You know, if this bill was terrible,

843
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:58,799
Speaker 1: why was she not working with the Republicans to fix

844
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:01,719
Speaker 1: it before? This is what I've said, I mean, this

845
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:05,080
Speaker 1: is sometimes you know the answer without even getting that

846
00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:08,279
Speaker 1: deep into the details here, Kurt, Because there's no way

847
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 1: that you just figured out in the last few days

848
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Speaker 1: that there was this big problem of lawsuits to me,

849
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:15,839
Speaker 1: and I mean, it's laughable. Anybody believes that is being

850
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 1: put on. I mean they're being they're being fooled. Well,

851
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Speaker 1: it's like saying, yeah, I mean competent, but in a

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Speaker 1: different way, because I can't work with my own you know,

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Speaker 1: deep bread legislature to get the laws passed that I want.

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Speaker 1: That's that's her argument. That's why it's better. I found

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Speaker 1: her appearance on Tucker overly rehearsed. Uh smarmy too. I

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Speaker 1: thought she was smartie, and I don't think Tucker was

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Speaker 1: being unfair to her. Yeah, No, it was totally descending.

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Speaker 1: I thought Tucker was actually very easy on her. I

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Speaker 1: thought he let her talk and talk and talk. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't expect him to be a cross examiner. You know,

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Speaker 1: he brings a guest on, they should say what they want,

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Speaker 1: he should ask tough questions, which he did. I was

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Speaker 1: distinctly unimpressed. And I think she uh, I think she

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Speaker 1: believes we're stupid. I think she thinks that we are

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Speaker 1: stupid and we're going to take another camp. I've got

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Speaker 1: an article on town Hall coming out on her on Thursday,

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Speaker 1: and it's not going to be pretty. I'm I'm greatly disappointed,

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Speaker 1: but I'm glad too. I'm glad that we found this

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Speaker 1: out now instead of being disappointed after we elected her. Look,

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Speaker 1: people don't understand why we like Donald Trump. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: the TV show. We don't watch that crap. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: because he was a nudeological conservative. He was not. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't because of his mean tweets. Okay, maybe a little

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Speaker 1: about his mean tweets. It was because he stood behind

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Speaker 1: us and did what he said he was going to do.

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Speaker 1: She said, I'm going to sign this bill, and then

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Speaker 1: she changed her mind. Then she folded under pressure to

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Speaker 1: Nancy AA, Amazon, Chamber Commerce, corporate interests. You know she

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Speaker 1: wants to be in tight with them. I think you

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Speaker 1: can all see what happened here. I think I look,

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Speaker 1: I hope that people realize. I hope people realize who

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Speaker 1: she really is as a politician. Now. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: it's not personal. I don't care, but this is not

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Speaker 1: This is not the leader we need. We got to

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Speaker 1: leave it there, Kurt. But check out Kurt's column Attownhall

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Speaker 1: dot com. Mister Schleector. Thank you so much, sir, thanks

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Speaker 1: for having me