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Speaker 1: I know that eliminated Russian gas will have costs for Europe.

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Speaker 1: If Puttin feels like he's losing his script politically in Russia,

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Speaker 1: that's more important to him than the battlefield in the ukratis. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: what you're doing with sanctions is you are pressuring the

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Speaker 1: with Joe Matthew on Bloomberg Radio. President Biden makes a

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Speaker 1: run for the border of Poland's the US and EU

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Speaker 1: gang up to replace Russian natural gas. Welcome to the

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Speaker 1: fastest hour in politics. I'm Joe Matthew in Washington. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for making us part if your Friday. We've got a

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Speaker 1: lot to cover as President Biden visits US troops and

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Speaker 1: gets of reefing on the refugee crisis. Will bring you

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Speaker 1: there for the first hand account from Bloomberg's as the

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Speaker 1: Aggie canfrill has been in Poland since the war began. Later,

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump puts his kingmakers status on the line in

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg National political reporter Mark Niquette our panel today Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Politics contributor Geenie Schanzano, along with John Sidality's State Department

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Speaker 1: advisor and partner with Trilogy Advisors, President Biden and the

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Speaker 1: European Union announcing an agreement today that could hit Russia

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Speaker 1: even harder than the sanctions, paving the way to sharply

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Speaker 1: increase shipments of US natural gas to Europe, and by

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Speaker 1: the President's a day in Brussels, the United States, together

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Speaker 1: I know that eliminating Russian gas will have costs for Europe,

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Speaker 1: It will require new infrastructure terminals, probably pipelines, and of

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Speaker 1: It's going to take a lot of work. The President

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Speaker 1: and you know you should think twice about challenge me.

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Speaker 1: You're going to the rally, huh yeah, I'll be there

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Speaker 1: along with Margaret Newkirk, who hum is our reporter in Atlanta,

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Speaker 1: shares the by line with you. Here is the Trump

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Speaker 1: road show what it used to be, sure certainly is

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Speaker 1: it will be interesting if the rally this time changes

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Speaker 1: at all from from what he's been doing. Me. A

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Speaker 1: typical Trump rally is sort of Donald Trump talking about himself,

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Speaker 1: the rigged election, in how great things were when he

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Speaker 1: he sort of also mentions that, hey, there's these other

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Speaker 1: local candidates here who are surprised me or that I've endorsed.

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Speaker 1: He's got putin to talk about this time, though exactly

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Speaker 1: he's talked about putin it at previous rallies too, but

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Speaker 1: only crab in passing It's it's been mostly talking about

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Speaker 1: him and his record and um, you know, looking ahead

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Speaker 1: really to the midterm elections. But this raised this rally

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Speaker 1: and Georgia's um it seems like it's more keenly focused

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Speaker 1: and his other endorsed candidates, because George is a state

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Speaker 1: where he's really focused his attention after the election and

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Speaker 1: in particular, you know, trying to get revenge for what

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Speaker 1: he feels were Republicans who did not do enough to

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Speaker 1: help him overturn the results. In Well, I hope you

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Speaker 1: enjoy the show. In Commerce, Mark Mark Niquette, who shares

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Speaker 1: the byline, has mentioned with Margaret new Kirk our team

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Speaker 1: the headline Trump puts kingmaker status on the line is

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Speaker 1: Georgia recruit falters. This ought to be really something. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for the insights, Mark. We'll talk to you again soon

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Speaker 1: on Bloomberg. Thank you. Coming up, we reassembled the panel

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Speaker 1: for their take on Georgia and the influence of Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump on these races, as we also rap a wild

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Speaker 1: week in Washington. Bloomberg Politics contributor Jeanie Chantano will be

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Speaker 1: here along with John sidlits with us so the fastest

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Speaker 1: hour in politics hit sound on. I'm Joe Matthew. This

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Speaker 1: is Bloomberg. You're listening to Bloomberg you sound on with

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Speaker 1: Joe Matthew on Bloomberg Radio. So the Trump road Show

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Speaker 1: is back, heading for Georgia this weekend. As we were

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Speaker 1: discussing with Mark Muette, you was just in South Carolina

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, and I'm sure while this

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Speaker 1: rally will be wild and likely overflowing, it may not

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Speaker 1: have an impact on the primary with a couple of

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Speaker 1: high profile Trump endorsements on the line. Let's reassemble the

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Speaker 1: panel with Jennie Chanzano, Bloomberg Politics contributor, easy for me

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Speaker 1: to say, and John Sidilds is with us as well

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Speaker 1: on the Fastest Hour in Politics. Thanks to both of

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Speaker 1: you for being here, Genie. These these rallies kind of

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Speaker 1: a carnival type of atmosphere, are fun to cover, sometimes

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Speaker 1: dangerous to cover, depending on who you work for. But

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Speaker 1: can they actually have an impact on this race because

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Speaker 1: it looks like the candidates that Donald Trump has endorsed

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Speaker 1: could be in some trouble. Joe Matthew, I don't know

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Speaker 1: what it says about us that we think they're fun

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Speaker 1: to watch and to cover. This is gonna be a

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Speaker 1: revenge rally, um, this is what it has been for

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump. There's no race he has been more invested

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Speaker 1: in than the Wyoming race with with Liz Cheney, and

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Speaker 1: this race with Brian Kemp and Georgia. Of course, he's

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Speaker 1: got six candidates and you talked about several of them

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Speaker 1: with Mark Um, and you know this is a race

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Speaker 1: that he really can't afford to lose. But if you

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Speaker 1: look at what is happening on the other side, meeting

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Speaker 1: the more moderate Republicans, it's a race they really hope

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Speaker 1: he will lose. And we know that because the r

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Speaker 1: g A just put up another commercial. They seldom get

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Speaker 1: involved in primaries, but this is their second commercial in

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Speaker 1: support of Brian Kemp, which speaks the primary speaks volumes.

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Speaker 1: They want Trump to lose, they want Kemp to win,

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Speaker 1: and they want candidates to be free of the shackles

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Speaker 1: of Donald Trump so they can pick up more seats

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Speaker 1: in Congress and across the country, which they feel he's

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Speaker 1: going to cost them again as he did last time

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Speaker 1: in Georgia. John is Mark is reporting for Bloomberg and

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Speaker 1: told his poles show per Due faltering and Kemp holding

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Speaker 1: as much as a double digit lead for the contest,

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Speaker 1: which is by the way, it's coming up pretty soon,

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Speaker 1: nearly fifteen times as much cash on hand. What will

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Speaker 1: this say about the Trump brand if it keeps going

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Speaker 1: in this direction, It'll say some things, But I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: read into this far beyond the dynamics of the actual

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Speaker 1: Georgia race, Joe, And by that I mean that Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump remains absolutely the single most powerful and popular figure

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Speaker 1: in the Republican Party in the United States. But he

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Speaker 1: may have simply picked a lackluster candidate in David Purdue.

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Speaker 1: Governor Kemp is the incumbent governor, which is why the

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Speaker 1: Republican Republican Governors Association is putting in so much money.

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Speaker 1: They want to protect their incumbents. But he's running a

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Speaker 1: pretty disciplined campaign. He's governed as a conservative. He lifted

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Speaker 1: just repealed temporarily a cent gas tacts on every gallon

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Speaker 1: of gas. So he's running a smart campaign. It's a

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Speaker 1: discipline campaign, and Trump may have just made a mistake here,

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Speaker 1: but I don't think this blemish his Trump's ability to

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Speaker 1: influence elections in other parts of the country, and depending

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Speaker 1: on how the rally goes and how much Trump can

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Speaker 1: talk up Perdue. He may be able to shave a

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Speaker 1: couple of points off of Kemp's lead, but it looks

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Speaker 1: like Kemp is going to win this one. As I

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Speaker 1: read in Mark's reporting, Genie, and he reminds us President

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Speaker 1: Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate to lose the

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Speaker 1: state in twenty eight years. So is this more about

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump more about the state of Georgia. He did,

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Speaker 1: and that this is what is frustrating too many Republicans

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Speaker 1: not backing candidates because they are going to they are

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Speaker 1: the best candidates or their best position to win. As

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Speaker 1: if he was choosing in this race, he would have

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Speaker 1: chosen Kemp, you know, to to John's point, but he

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Speaker 1: is picking them because he doesn't like them, because they

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Speaker 1: And we've seen this over and over again. His choices

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Speaker 1: in Alabama, his choice in Pennsylvania, you know, his Nancy

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Speaker 1: Math South Carolina, Rodney Davis in Illinois. You can go

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Speaker 1: on and on. Those people are doing okay. Despite the

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Speaker 1: fact that he is he's not supportive of them. So yes,

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Speaker 1: he does remain a lee as as the former president,

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Speaker 1: the most important voice in the Republican party to date,

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Speaker 1: but it's not going to help Republicans do as well

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Speaker 1: as they should, quite frankly in this mid term if

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Speaker 1: he keeps this up. This is an incredibly busy week

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Speaker 1: in politics, a noisy week, from the campaign trail to

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Speaker 1: a war in Europe, of course, the President traveling. That's

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Speaker 1: been a heck of a lot going on that has

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Speaker 1: distracted the country in in my humble opinion, from the

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court confirmation hearings, and I I I probably am

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Speaker 1: more disposed to say that because I spent the week

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Speaker 1: listening to them and watching them. I know you did

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Speaker 1: to Genie, historic in their own right. Just this process

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Speaker 1: is something that's fascinating, and of course having the historic

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Speaker 1: nominee as the first black woman is an extra layer. Uh.

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Speaker 1: But we learned today that Senator Joe Manchin is going

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Speaker 1: to support the President's nomination of Judge Kitanji Brown Jackson.

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Speaker 1: After everything you saw this week, Genie, is it now

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Speaker 1: said and done? I think it is. I think she will,

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Speaker 1: you know, very narrowly win, but you know, there are

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Speaker 1: still some potential wrinkles ahead. You know, what would happen

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Speaker 1: if the committee deadlocked? Um, you know there is a

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Speaker 1: way out of that, but we haven't seen that in

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Speaker 1: you know, this is what we're facing. So I do

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Speaker 1: think in the end, she moves out of committee, she

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Speaker 1: gets to the floor, right, I am not thinking she

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Speaker 1: gets many Republican votes, if if even one. But you know,

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Speaker 1: it is stunning because she is a very strong nominee.

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Speaker 1: She is also this historic pick, so it is stunning

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Speaker 1: that she is going to go probably at fifty one.

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Speaker 1: You know, is it a problem, John, that we're talking

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Speaker 1: nomination or is that just politics now? Unfortunately, I think

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Speaker 1: it's Supreme Court politics and the Senate of recent years,

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Speaker 1: almost every candidate now goes through just kind of very

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Speaker 1: very difficult, challenging grilling. Um. And we don't know yet

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Speaker 1: how Senator Kristen Cinema will vote, although I don't see

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Speaker 1: much leverage available to her because it looks like there

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Speaker 1: may be one or two Republicans that decide to vote

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Speaker 1: for her, and so those negotiations will likely be quick.

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Speaker 1: I think there are about seven Republicans, one or two

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Speaker 1: of whom might vote for UM for Judge Jackson, and

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Speaker 1: so this likely will pass. But it would be a

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Speaker 1: rather odd situation if, as you say, in this historic nomination,

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Speaker 1: we have a fifty vote in the Senate and the

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Speaker 1: Vice President has to be the tiebreaker, and it's entirely possible.

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Speaker 1: Are you thinking of the same names that we all

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Speaker 1: are based on Judge Jackson's prior vetting and confirmation votes, John,

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Speaker 1: it would be Collins, Murkowski or Graham, who's clearly not

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Speaker 1: going to vote yes. Yeah. I don't think Graham is

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Speaker 1: going to be voting yes anytime soon, not after his

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Speaker 1: either Senator Murkowski, who did vote for Judge Jackson last

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Speaker 1: So unless there's something sp cific or telling from from

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Speaker 1: the nomination process this week the hearing that would make

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Speaker 1: her reverse her judgment on the judge last year. UM,

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Speaker 1: but we don't know. We'll see what happens there. And

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Speaker 1: Susan Collins, she could be mercurial on so many issues

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Speaker 1: from a Republican standpoint. I know that I believe President

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Speaker 1: Biden has called on her three times to discuss this nomination,

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Speaker 1: so there could be a lot of pressure on her

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Speaker 1: as well. Uh So we'll see. It'll play it over

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Speaker 1: the next several days. What's your take on that, Genie

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Speaker 1: or those names in play or are we talking about

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Speaker 1: likely no Republicans voting in favor? You know, at this point,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to be surprised if she gets more than

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Speaker 1: one Republican. And if there is one Republican, I agree

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Speaker 1: with John my bet is probably it's Murkowski. If there

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Speaker 1: is one republic already been named though, yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: see anybody newing. I certainly don't see Lindsay Graham after

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Speaker 1: that performance this week, going over and supporting her. So

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Speaker 1: I do think we're looking probably after the same question, Gennie,

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Speaker 1: is that a problem based on the historic nature of

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Speaker 1: this nomination or is this what we should accept now?

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Speaker 1: This is this is the rule, right, simple majority. This

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Speaker 1: is the way it goes politically in Washington. This is

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Speaker 1: the way it goes now. You know, hopefully we see

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Speaker 1: it change in the future, but it's been going this

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Speaker 1: way since the Boork nomination. Many many years ago. It's

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Speaker 1: heading in this direction for a long time. It's never

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Speaker 1: been this close and against Sandra Day O'Connor to nothing,

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Speaker 1: Katangi Brown Jackson, she'll narrowly get through if she does. Way,

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Speaker 1: isn't that something else? It looks like April fourth we

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Speaker 1: get the committee vote. Uh are you concerned John about

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Speaker 1: this getting out of committee? Um? I really don't have

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Speaker 1: an answer for you on that. We'll see how this

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Speaker 1: all plays out. I think the larger issue will be,

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Speaker 1: as Jeannie said this, we'll get out of committee at

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Speaker 1: one point of another, and then the question will be

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Speaker 1: can they get this to the floor by April nine,

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Speaker 1: before the east of the recess. I mean that's the

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Speaker 1: larger goal here. Well, I'll tell you, well, of course,

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Speaker 1: cover it all together here, and that's in the very

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