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Speaker 1: Welcome in his verdict with Ted Cruz the Weekend Review,

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Speaker 1: Ben Ferguson with you as always, and here are the

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Speaker 1: big stories that you may have missed that we talked

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Speaker 1: about this week. First, up, Zelenski comes to White House

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Speaker 2: So where's he?

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Speaker 1: Run to Europe and is begging now for support? So

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Speaker 1: what does this mean for American taxpayers? We break it

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Speaker 1: all down for you in just a moment. Also, Democrats

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Speaker 1: decide to stand for nothing during the Joint session of Congress,

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Speaker 1: including supporting us getting a terrorist back to this country.

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Speaker 1: They didn't stand when there was a young man becoming

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Speaker 1: with cancer. So is there anything that Democrats would actually

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Speaker 1: stand for that most Americans would will break that down

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Speaker 1: as well. And finally, almost one hundred known terrorists, those

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Speaker 1: States of American twenty twenty four, and the Biden administration

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Speaker 1: knew about all of them and could have stopped it.

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Speaker 1: So where are they now? We'll break that down for

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Speaker 1: you as well. It's the Weekend Review and it starts

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Speaker 1: right now, which brings us to.

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Speaker 2: Now where we are. And look, you've got.

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Speaker 1: Uk in France and Ukraine that have agreed to quote

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Speaker 1: work on a ceasefire plan and try to get I

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Speaker 1: guess Zolensky back into a conversation with the President of

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Speaker 1: the United States of America. They're having this big meeting

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Speaker 1: over in Europe. A lot of different countries are there.

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Speaker 1: The summit includes France, Germany, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Canada, Finland, Sweden,

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Speaker 1: Security General, and the Presidence of the European Commission and

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Speaker 1: the European Council will also attend. Now you notice I

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Speaker 1: didn't say the United States of America. This is part

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Speaker 1: meeting was Zelenski.

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Speaker 2: It's like, look, thank it's for granted.

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Speaker 1: You're come in here, you lecture us, you have no

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Speaker 1: plan for peace, You clearly aren't here for peace.

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Speaker 2: Good luck. And now all of these.

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Speaker 1: Other leaders are having to step up and say, okay,

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Speaker 2: Because he did so much harm to Ukraine.

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Speaker 3: And look, I say great, if Europe wants to step

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Speaker 3: up and fund the war for another year, knock yourselves out, guys,

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Speaker 3: like our checkbook is done, but it is striking. It's

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Speaker 3: an indication of just how disastrous Zelensky's meeting was that

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Speaker 3: meet with the King of England. All right, here's one

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Speaker 3: story from NPR. UK Prime minister unveil steps towards a

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Speaker 3: Ukraine peace deal urges US cooperation. Here's what NPR reports

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Speaker 3: quote British Prime Minister Kiir Starmer on Sunday laid out

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Speaker 3: of framework for a plan to end Russia's war in Ukraine,

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Speaker 3: one where Europe will lead the charge for securing peace yay,

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Speaker 3: while still relying heavily on US backing boo. The proposal

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Speaker 3: in London following President Trump's heated exchange with Ukrainian President

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Speaker 3: last week. Over the weekend, leaders from over a dozen

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Speaker 3: But he continues quote. Through my discussions over recent days,

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Speaker 3: Now it's interesting to do so. Starmar valve. The United

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Speaker 3: What do you think pick a number?

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Speaker 3: Fifty million, so higher than that, so you're even more pessimistic. Okay,

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Speaker 3: that includes a loan of two point twenty six billion

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Speaker 3: That's part of the fundamental imbalance there.

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Speaker 1: Well, look, I love the breath thing about finding money,

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Speaker 1: in Ukraine. And I'm like, wow, you turn off this

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Speaker 1: They're like, okay, maybe we can give that to them.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, I'm all for the Europeans stepping in and

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Speaker 3: knock yourself out. They're welcome to spend their money, but

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Speaker 3: we're not the welfare provider for the world. And to

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Speaker 3: Look, I will say one of the frustrating things about

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Speaker 3: That agreement was pre negotiated. I think the White House

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Speaker 3: And I actually want you to listen to this exchange

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Speaker 3: But but look, Josh Rogan and and and Scott Jennings

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Speaker 5: I don't know if he needs an apology. He needs

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Speaker 5: Zelensky to recognize the position that he's in. We'll see

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Speaker 5: you as what where their patron. We're their best hope

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Speaker 5: for the killing to stop and for them to emerge

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Speaker 5: from this sovereign and prosperous and we're also their best

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Speaker 5: hope as a business partner. I mean all Zelensky had

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Speaker 5: And he couldn't do that. And this followed ten days

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Speaker 5: We can help them in this and come out okay

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Speaker 5: First of all, I can't believe I'm about to say this,

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 5: So I have a short answer on this. And so

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Speaker 5: and he lost sight of that today in the arguments premedity.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I think Zelenski misplayed it in the room and you

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Speaker 5: We're grateful for your leadership. Where's the papers? And what

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Speaker 5: Everybody knows you're tough, all right. The Ukrainians are tough,

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Speaker 5: they're brave, they're fighting a much larger country. Everybody knows.

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Speaker 5: The question for Zelenski is can you take off the

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Speaker 1: He failed to test it, yeh, he failed diplomacy that

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Speaker 2: It was not a hard meeting.

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Speaker 1: This wasn't something that was gonna It was harder to

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Speaker 3: Look, he needed mostly to be saying sir, yes, sir,

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Speaker 3: thank you, sir. May I have another it? And Scott

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Speaker 3: is right. Look, this deal on minerals had the advantage

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Speaker 3: Ukraine's prospects are really dim. And so if you know

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Speaker 3: Trump supports you, in what universe do you come in

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Speaker 3: and start attacking and insulting him?

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Speaker 1: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,

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Speaker 1: from earlier this week.

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Speaker 2: Now onto story number two.

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Speaker 1: I want to go back to one other point that

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Speaker 3: Look, I agree with you. I think the American people

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Speaker 1: As before, if you want to hear the rest of

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Speaker 3: they were arrested again. And yet over ninety of them,

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Speaker 3: nearly one hundred the Biden administration released into America into

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Speaker 3: your community, into my community in a single year. This

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Speaker 3: is in twenty twenty four. That is stunning. And I

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Speaker 3: got to tell you, bet, I've never heard a single

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Speaker 3: Democrat give any justification for what is just idiocy. Let's

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Speaker 3: release terror linked illegal immigrants into America.

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Speaker 2: What possibly could go wrong with that?

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Speaker 1: When you look at the and you sometimes it's just

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Speaker 1: people are stupid, is it? But it also could be

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Speaker 1: more I could be more sinister than that.

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Speaker 2: I guess.

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Speaker 1: I look at this, I'm like they knew it, did

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Speaker 1: They just not want to admit that the open border

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Speaker 1: with many that may just be coming across right for

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Speaker 1: a better life, a job if you put it in

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Speaker 1: the best like possible center. And so they knew that

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Speaker 1: didn't release them and they actually prosecute them or sent

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Speaker 1: them back to their country, there's a lot of options

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Speaker 1: here that was going to sign a huge light on

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Speaker 1: the problem. So therefore, hey, we can't admit it's happening.

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Speaker 1: So we're just gonna go with this anarchy and in

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Speaker 3: Look, bet, I really don't know. You know, I had

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Speaker 3: My very first boss had a phrase he used to say.

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Speaker 3: He said, never attribute to incompetence and never attribute to malice.

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Speaker 3: What can be explained with incompetence. And look, I think

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of wisdom to that that. A lot

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Speaker 3: of times people are just they just do dumb things.

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Speaker 3: That being said, listen, I do I believe the Biden

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Speaker 3: administration wants terrorists to attack America? No, But then why

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Speaker 3: the hell would you release these people? And I guess

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Speaker 3: the only plausible explanation I can come up with is

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Speaker 3: there such radicals on open borders. They're so committed to

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Speaker 3: their open borders because they want millions and millions of

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Speaker 3: illegal immigrants because they can. They view them as future

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Speaker 3: Democrat voters. That they're just deportation was off the table.

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Speaker 3: They're not in that business. They don't do it. I

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Speaker 3: don't know. Listen, this is related to a story we

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Speaker 3: covered in a pod a couple of weeks ago. We're

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Speaker 3: in Massachusetts right now. They're taking violent child abusers, child molesters,

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Speaker 3: people who are raping children, who are illegal aliens, and

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Speaker 3: even with violent child rapists, the Massachusetts authorities are releasing

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Speaker 3: them rather than give them over to Ice to be deported. Now, look,

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Speaker 3: reasonable people, you could have an argument about what should

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Speaker 3: be the level of illegal immigration. You could. There are

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Speaker 3: all sorts of things you'd have reasonable disagreements on. But

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Speaker 3: I mean, Ben explained to me why someone says, you

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Speaker 3: know what we need more of, We need more child

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Speaker 3: rapists in our community. Let's let these go. Like I

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Speaker 3: my brain cannot wrap itself around those repeated actions. And

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Speaker 3: yet that's what's happening. This is the same sort of thing.

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Speaker 3: You apprehend someone who's a known terrorist who was smuggled

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Speaker 3: into America bi ISIS, and you say, oh, let's let

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Speaker 3: them go, Like I don't know, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, The poll numbers that came out from the president

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Speaker 1: speech the other night were truly incredible. Seventy six percent

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Speaker 1: approved of Trump's address to Congress. That is a massive

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Speaker 1: win for the president. You look at some of the

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Speaker 1: other ones and poll numbers. Not only that, ninety one

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Speaker 1: that is a home run seventy one percent. So the

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Speaker 1: speech was quote inspiring, and sixty two percent said it

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Speaker 1: was unifying. And they said that this speech sixty eight percent,

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Speaker 1: so they felt hopeful fifty four percent, so they felt

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Speaker 1: proud of the country from the speech.

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Speaker 2: And when you look at these numbers, even on.

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Speaker 1: The issue of inflation, where Democrats leaned in heavy over

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Speaker 1: the last few weeks to try to say everything that's

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Speaker 1: you know, eggs and everything else are the problem of

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump, the American people aren't buying that either. When

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Speaker 1: they were asked for the president a clear plan to

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Speaker 1: battle inflation, sixty eight percent said yes to that as well.

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Speaker 1: And then on the issue of immigration the border, the

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Speaker 1: people watched in seventy seven percent said they were in

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Speaker 1: favor of Donald Trump's plan on immigration at the border.

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Speaker 1: When you see this right and you look at what

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Speaker 1: the President's saying, and then all those that are working

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Speaker 1: towards this. You've got the Vice President, You've got told you,

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Speaker 1: you've got the Secretary of State. Everyone seems to be

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Speaker 1: in lockstep on this issue of the border. Is that

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Speaker 1: the reason why you think the President's winning so much

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Speaker 1: right now on securing this border, because he's explaining it

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Speaker 1: the way we are right.

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Speaker 3: Now as well because he is not absolutely frigging nuts. Yes,

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Speaker 3: I think the Democrat Party has gone insane. Releasing murderers

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Speaker 3: and rapists and child molesters into America is a really

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Speaker 3: bad idea. It turns out it's a really unpopular idea.

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Speaker 3: Releasing terrorists into America is a really bad idea. It

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Speaker 3: turns out it's a really unpopular idea. Look, you and

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Speaker 3: I the we cover did pod the Night of the

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Speaker 3: State of the Union, and we talked a lot about

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Speaker 3: how the Democrats for the first time ever, didn't applaud

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Speaker 3: for the President of the United States, didn't stand for

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Speaker 3: the President of the United States, didn't applaud and anything.

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you actually yesterday and the Senate, Jim I

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Speaker 3: had a conversation with a Senate Democrat. I'll keep him anonymous.

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Speaker 3: But he was a Senate Democrat, one of my colleagues,

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Speaker 3: and he.

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Speaker 2: Made a comment.

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Speaker 3: He said something about he thought we were just living

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Speaker 3: in a surreal world. And I said, look, I got

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Speaker 3: to say, I was shocked that you guys didn't applaud

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Speaker 3: or stand for the president at all. And he was like, well,

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Speaker 3: you got to understand, we just think he's destroying the constitution.

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Speaker 3: And I said, look, I stood and applauded every year

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Speaker 3: for Barack Obama, I stood and applauded every year for

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Speaker 3: Joe Biden. And I disagreed with almost everything they were doing,

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Speaker 3: but I respect the office and I respect the America people.

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Speaker 3: And he just kind of shrugged and said, we're living

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Speaker 3: in different universes and we're and we're our bases are

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Speaker 3: fundamentally different. You look at Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

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Speaker 1: He also announced the policy to penalize foreign countries that

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Speaker 1: allow the transit of illegal immigrants and is pressuring many

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Speaker 1: countries that refuse to accept to the return of their

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Speaker 1: migrants as well. This could also have a big impact

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Speaker 1: on this country. I want to get your thoughts on that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, look, this administration is securing the border they're doing

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Speaker 3: it right now, and they are going to deport illegal aliens.

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Speaker 3: They are going to send out of the country, especially

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Speaker 3: the violet criminal illegal aliens, the murderers, the rapists, the

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Speaker 3: child molesters, the gang bangers, and the countries that don't

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Speaker 3: take it, they're they're going to make them take it.

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Speaker 3: And that's what a strong president who's actually defending this

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