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Speaker 1: All right, This is Jeffrey, Lord of the American Spectator

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Speaker 1: in Newsmax, sitting in for our friend Sean Hannity. You

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Speaker 1: to one, Sean. And we have a great guest coming

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Speaker 1: up right now is Jeff Bardos, who happens this is

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Speaker 1: to the United Nations for Management and Reform since this

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Speaker 1: past year of twenty twenty five. So Jeff, good to

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Speaker 2: My friend, Jeffrey. It's always great to speak with you.

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Speaker 2: And I think we have a nice tradition at the

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Speaker 2: two Pennsylvanians. At this point though, two Pennsylvanians sitting in Manhattan,

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Speaker 2: and I don't know, there's something wrong with that we

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Speaker 2: Side in Turtle Bay, and I hope you and your

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Speaker 2: family are well and all your listeners had a wonderful Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Exactly, Well, thank you very much. You know, I was

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Speaker 2: Well, it's the honor of a lifetime to serve President

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Speaker 2: in my hearing before the United States Senate Chairman Rich said,

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Speaker 2: And with President Trump's leadership, and the way I answered

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Speaker 2: And we've been sent up here by the President, by

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Speaker 2: Well, we're the largest contributor Americans have since the founding

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Speaker 2: but we I mean, Jeffrey, it's come visit any time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's wow, that's a great story, and

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Speaker 1: and I think continues that tradition. So that is a

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Speaker 1: that is a great thing. Well, in the meantime, Jeff,

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Speaker 1: And I don't know whether you're familiar with Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 2: I think my Twitter it says husband, father or father,

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Speaker 1: Well, they are having we taught on on this show.

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Speaker 1: Earlier we spoke with day Security, who is going to

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Speaker 1: But I think he also and this may be an

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you have any thoughts on the

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Speaker 2: Having run twice, it is a strange for me to

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Speaker 2: answer this but you know, we don't do electoral politics

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Speaker 2: are lots of rules around that. So you know, obviously

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Speaker 2: I think and Jeff.

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Speaker 1: Bhil with that, what that really says is you're a diplomat.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I'm proud registered in Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania resident, have been

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Speaker 2: my whole life, and certainly follow things. But you know,

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Speaker 2: it's it's do you remember we've had some senators in

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Speaker 2: who when penn State would play Pitt or the Eagles

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Speaker 2: would play the Steelers. The ones who were maybe less

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Speaker 2: courageous in their expressing their views would say, I'm just

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Speaker 2: rooting for a good game or I'm reading for Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 2: and I would always shake my head and say, come on,

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Speaker 2: just take a side. But when it comes to this stuff,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna demur, and you know,

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Speaker 2: just simply say that I love our commonwealth. And gosh,

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Speaker 2: you know, with Pence, he's always been at the forefront.

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Speaker 2: So it's gonna be an interesting It'll be an interesting

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Speaker 2: every day. And you said something before about about the

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Speaker 2: UN being a special place, and it is. It needs

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Speaker 2: massive reform and we're executing on those reforms. And I

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Speaker 2: think that's the number one message you share with you

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Speaker 2: and your listeners, that the American taxpayers have not been

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Speaker 2: and we are squarely thinking about the taxpayers. We're thinking

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Speaker 2: about the farmers and the mechanics and the I mean

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Speaker 2: small business owners, teachers, firefighters, first responders all over Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 2: all over the nation who pay their hard earned tax dollars.

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Speaker 2: So some of that can go to international organizations and

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Speaker 2: they have the absolute right and they should demand of us,

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Speaker 2: and we think about it every day that we're here

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Speaker 2: to make sure every dollar the American taxpayers spend to

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Speaker 2: the UN sent to the UN is fit for purpose,

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Speaker 2: well spent and you know, no waste for round abuse.

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Speaker 2: So that's what that's really you know, you asked me

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Speaker 2: before what we do. That's that's what me and our team,

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Speaker 2: that's what we spend a lot of our time on.

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Speaker 1: Well. I think that's I think that's great and hopefully

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Speaker 1: and having you here on Sean's show gives a little

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Speaker 1: more attention to what you guys are involved with in

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Speaker 1: working at the United Nations and dealing with all the

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Speaker 1: you know, the problems that I mean, this is not

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Speaker 1: you finally get to the point where you realize that.

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Speaker 1: And so I'm glad you're there. And as I say,

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Speaker 1: I hope you're taking notes and that there's a book

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Speaker 1: down the road when you're done, because I do think

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Speaker 1: that history needs to be told so that people down

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Speaker 1: the road who are who are not involved with all

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Speaker 1: of this or too young or what have you eventually

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Speaker 1: begin to understand what it is that being at the

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Speaker 1: UN means and how it is and how you had

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Speaker 1: to deal with it and all of that kind of thing.

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Speaker 1: So so thank you very much, mister Jeff Bardos. It

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Speaker 1: was great to talk to you.

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Speaker 2: Wishing you and your family and your listeners a very

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Speaker 2: healthy and happy new year, and just thankfully thank you

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Speaker 2: for having me on and please come over love to

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Speaker 2: show you around.

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Speaker 1: All right, I may, I may. I'll put that on

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Speaker 1: my bucket list. Okay, thank Jeff, Bye, buye, We'll be

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Speaker 1: right back. The interviews you won't hear anywhere else every day,

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Speaker 1: every day.

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Speaker 2: That's what we do. You're on the Sean Hannity Show.

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Speaker 1: All right, well, this is Jeffrey Lord sitting in for

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Speaker 1: our friend Sean Hannity. I want to thank Sean for

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Speaker 1: the opportunity and our friend Linda of course, and on

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Speaker 1: we go to twenty twenty six. We are going to

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Speaker 1: have I think a very interesting year. It's an election year.

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Speaker 1: President Trump is not on the ballot, but in the

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Speaker 1: peculiar way of American off your elections, he will be

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Speaker 1: on the ballot in the sense that he will be

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Speaker 1: around the country campaigning for Republican candidates, which is something

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Speaker 1: that he is very very good at. I'm sure some

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Speaker 1: of you have been at Trump rallies. I've been in

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Speaker 1: my fair share. There are quite an amazing experience to see.

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Speaker 1: So that will be very interesting these elections. Just by

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Speaker 1: a little history background, you know me as the history buff.

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Speaker 1: Two years after a president gets elected, these elections can

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Speaker 1: tend to go south for the president, whomever that might be.

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Speaker 1: It's very bipartisan and president President Reagan won a landslide

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Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty and two years later got clobbered in

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Speaker 1: the congressional elections. Then he won again big time, even

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Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty six two years after, so that kind

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Speaker 1: of thing can, in fact happen. And one of the

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Speaker 1: good things about President Trump is he is the team

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Speaker 1: leader for Republicans and conservatives and he will be out

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Speaker 1: there making the case. So buckle in for twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: As I say, I'm Jeffrey Lord from Newsmax and the

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Speaker 1: American Spectator. Have a great time and we will see

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Speaker 1: you in the new year. Bye bye,