WEBVTT - No Caving On The Wall

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<v Speaker 1>You are entering the freedom hunt. A melee at our

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<v Speaker 1>southern border has people asking when are Democrats going to

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<v Speaker 1>finally admit that we need border security? Looks like it's

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<v Speaker 1>not gonna be anytime soon. The shutdown continues. We'll get

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<v Speaker 1>to that. Plus Mitt Romney with a shot across the

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<v Speaker 1>bow of the Trump administration and an op ed what

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<v Speaker 1>is MIT thinking? That are more coming up on The

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<v Speaker 1>buck Sexton Show. This is the buck Sexton Show where

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<v Speaker 1>the mission or mission is to decode what really matters

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<v Speaker 1>with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake American Great, You're a

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<v Speaker 1>Just almost at three am in the morning, about one

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<v Speaker 1>hundred and fifty undocumented migrants quite violently engaged our border

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<v Speaker 1>patrol agents. They breached the border fence. There they were

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<v Speaker 1>in higher ground based on just the layout of the area. There.

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<v Speaker 1>They were up upon a hill just over on the

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<v Speaker 1>other side of that fence, moving women and children ahead

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<v Speaker 1>of them, wrapped in blankets, trying to bring them over

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<v Speaker 1>concertina wire that we had laid beyond the fence on

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<v Speaker 1>the US side. And as our border patrol agents went

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<v Speaker 1>down to try to not just apprehend the women and children,

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<v Speaker 1>but a system so that they would not be injured

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<v Speaker 1>by the wire. The migrants on the other side began

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<v Speaker 1>hurling rocks and throwing rocks at our agents and also

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<v Speaker 1>putting the migrants at peril as well. That's when they deployed.

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<v Speaker 1>The non lethal uses of force dispersed that group and

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<v Speaker 1>ultimately most of them did head back into Mexico. About

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<v Speaker 1>two dozen or so were ultimately apprehended by our agent.

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to the Buck Saxton Show, everybody. I am back.

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<v Speaker 1>I am so happy to be here with you. After

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<v Speaker 1>a break, we'll talk more about this later on in

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<v Speaker 1>the show. I want, I want to get right to it.

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<v Speaker 1>I missed you all, but I missed doing this show,

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<v Speaker 1>so let let me not stand on ceremony. There you

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<v Speaker 1>had Customs and Border Patrol Deputy Commissioner Robert Perez saying,

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<v Speaker 1>look what happened right around Christmas time. What happened at

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<v Speaker 1>the border was a multi pronged incident, an effort to

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<v Speaker 1>oh no, I'm sorry on New Year's desk, said Christmas

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<v Speaker 1>right around New Year's not Christmas. This coordinated effort to

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<v Speaker 1>overrun a sector of our southern border to assault police

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<v Speaker 1>officers and to engage in this kind of aggressive lawlessness.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, those who say it's not an invasion. I

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<v Speaker 1>just want to know, what do you call a coordinated

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<v Speaker 1>breach of a law enforcement barrier using projectiles and you know,

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<v Speaker 1>various tactics of of disorientation against our law enforcement officers.

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<v Speaker 1>What do we call that? Does anyone, anyone have any

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<v Speaker 1>any idea? It's not showing up at a port of

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<v Speaker 1>entry and saying, hey, I'd like to be an American.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not that. It's certainly not going through our legal

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<v Speaker 1>immigration process and showing your respect for this country. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>one of the important things about being an immigrant is

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<v Speaker 1>showing that you respect the laws of this country. You

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<v Speaker 1>want to become a part of it. And if you

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<v Speaker 1>want to become a part of the American family, that's great.

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<v Speaker 1>There's the right way to do it, though, and only

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<v Speaker 1>one political party cares at all about this anymore. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>the Democrats have a ban and they are they are

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<v Speaker 1>complete frauds when it comes to border security, outright frauds.

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<v Speaker 1>And Trump has done the right thing by pushing us

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<v Speaker 1>into this shutdown. At least we're now having the fight

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<v Speaker 1>at least we're going to have this debate publicly and

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<v Speaker 1>we can see what a bunch of scheming, lying, hypocritical

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<v Speaker 1>hyenas Pelosi and Schumer and the rest of the open

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<v Speaker 1>borders Democrat gang really are that The reporting on this,

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<v Speaker 1>of course, focused on how these migrants were exposed to

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<v Speaker 1>tier guys. Oh they're exposed to tier guys. How could

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<v Speaker 1>anyone do anything so terrible? I'm glad that Border Patrol

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<v Speaker 1>agent Rodney Scott wasn't going to just sit there and

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<v Speaker 1>let this get said about the men of men and

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<v Speaker 1>women of Border Patrol who are doing a difficult job

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<v Speaker 1>and a very necessary one play clip two. Our agents

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<v Speaker 1>responded with the least amount of force they possibly could

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<v Speaker 1>to protect themselves in the border, and did actually secure

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<v Speaker 1>the border in this area. One agent was hit in

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<v Speaker 1>a square the face of the rock. Luckily he had

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<v Speaker 1>his helmet and shield on and was not seriously injured,

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<v Speaker 1>but the violence associated that Caerevanes continued, what would the

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<v Speaker 1>open borders cowardly leftist dems like our border patrol to do?

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<v Speaker 1>You know? I would like to ask them, I mean

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<v Speaker 1>I would like to put them maybe through through an

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<v Speaker 1>experiment here. What do they think would happen if if

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<v Speaker 1>a normal American, any American anywhere in the country, walked,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, twenty or thirty paces away from just a cop,

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<v Speaker 1>any law enforcement officer, and through a rock, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>a good be a big chunk of stone at the

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<v Speaker 1>face of that law enforcement officer. Does anyone think that

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<v Speaker 1>that person would get off, first of all, a lot

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<v Speaker 1>worse than tear gas. I mean, if that officer catches

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<v Speaker 1>up to that person and has you know, their their

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<v Speaker 1>baton out. I mean they're going to go to work,

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<v Speaker 1>and rightfully so this person's obviously now a threat try

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<v Speaker 1>to hurt you. So if you close that distance between them,

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<v Speaker 1>and you know, between the rock thrower and the officer,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, officers got gotta take care of that threat.

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<v Speaker 1>You get hit in the face with a rock, could

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<v Speaker 1>knock you out, knock your teeth out, disfigure you give

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<v Speaker 1>you a concussion, could kill you. It could kill you.

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<v Speaker 1>And think of the mentality of people who want to

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<v Speaker 1>come into America and would take an action against our

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<v Speaker 1>law enforcement officers on the border that no American in

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<v Speaker 1>his right mind would ever do on us soil. And

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<v Speaker 1>I know, I know a lot, a lot of folks

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<v Speaker 1>out there that you know, I have all kinds of

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<v Speaker 1>different ideologies and notions about, you know, how they should

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<v Speaker 1>interact with the cops. And I can tell you this,

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<v Speaker 1>No no one thinks that they're going to be able

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<v Speaker 1>to throw a rock at a cop without their being consequences.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, nobody thinks that that's a situation that should

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<v Speaker 1>be allowed, should be allowed to happen. I mean, just

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<v Speaker 1>think of that mentality. And yet you know, here we are, here,

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<v Speaker 1>we are with people that are trying to cross that

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<v Speaker 1>our southern border of throwing rocks at officers and showing

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<v Speaker 1>such blatant, just gross disrespect for our men and women

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<v Speaker 1>in uniform. I like to remind you of this because

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think it's nearly enough play. About a third

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<v Speaker 1>of border patrol is comprised of veterans, A big percentage

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<v Speaker 1>of border patrol or actually minority in particularly Latino American.

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<v Speaker 1>And these are the people on the front lines who

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<v Speaker 1>are getting rocks thrown at them. We're being told that

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<v Speaker 1>who are being told that they're they're responsible for, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>killing killing children at the border because they their face

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<v Speaker 1>with this inundation. I mean, this this flood of people

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<v Speaker 1>and this all stretches back to Obama and Democrat activists

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<v Speaker 1>and the left promoting this idea of yeah, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>come come to the border, come to the border. Here's how,

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<v Speaker 1>here's when. Yeah. Obama, sure, he said we don't come

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<v Speaker 1>to the border, and then he made sure that they

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<v Speaker 1>would come to the border. Don't come to the border,

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<v Speaker 1>but I'm gonna make sure if you get here you

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<v Speaker 1>can stay. Don't come to the border. But you know,

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<v Speaker 1>if you do get here, your the rest of your

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<v Speaker 1>family gets to stay too. You know, we'll do DOC,

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<v Speaker 1>We'll do DAPPA, We'll do all these different executive authority

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<v Speaker 1>based programs. Forget about the law, forget about Congress, the constitution.

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<v Speaker 1>Democrats want this. They want this, and you know that

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<v Speaker 1>there's a problem because they won't own up to the

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<v Speaker 1>fact that this is what they want. They can't be

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<v Speaker 1>honest with the American people about where they stand on

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<v Speaker 1>the border. Tom Homan, who was ICE acting ICE Director,

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<v Speaker 1>I've talked to him numerous times about about all these issues.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, he's somebody who who really gets it on

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<v Speaker 1>what we need to do. I mean, the border is

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<v Speaker 1>in a crisis right now. We are having we are

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<v Speaker 1>having riots, at our southern border of people who claim

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<v Speaker 1>they want to come into this country. And notice how

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<v Speaker 1>they're trying to overrun certain areas. Almost like you can

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<v Speaker 1>have a more secure or less secure border based upon

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<v Speaker 1>the resources and yes, the physical barriers present in that area.

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<v Speaker 1>But home In had this to say about this, the

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<v Speaker 1>rock throwing. He knows there's going to be more, and

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<v Speaker 1>he knows it's going to get worse. Play three. If

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<v Speaker 1>these illegal amiads are throwing stones everywhere, I think the

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<v Speaker 1>use of tear gases, I'm an amused force necessary to

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<v Speaker 1>protect themselves. I mean, and it's going to happen again.

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<v Speaker 1>This is the second time it's happened. It's going to

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<v Speaker 1>happen again. There's chaos in that border which the Democrats

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<v Speaker 1>don't seem to grasp, and meanwhile the President is trying

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<v Speaker 1>to get a fix for the border. Democrats all for nothing.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, they say the border was ineffective border barrier.

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<v Speaker 1>And if you look at the data data speak for yourself.

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<v Speaker 1>Every place they had built a barrier, illeig immigration has decreased,

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<v Speaker 1>that's a fact. Every place they built one percent effective.

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<v Speaker 1>And as far as the cost of the wall, there

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<v Speaker 1>will be offset quickly. In amount of money we will

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<v Speaker 1>saving immigration detention, immigration courts, the cost of so social

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<v Speaker 1>services to illegal aliens in this country, and the US

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<v Speaker 1>citizen born children. If you look at the costs of

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<v Speaker 1>illig immigration, it's aid over one hundred billion dollars a year.

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<v Speaker 1>That is a fraction of what the president's asking for.

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<v Speaker 1>So I truly believe the Democratic leadership understands this, but

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<v Speaker 1>they're putting their political ambitions, their hatred for this Trump administration.

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<v Speaker 1>They don't want to give this president a win at

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<v Speaker 1>the expense of the safety of American people. I truly

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<v Speaker 1>believe that. I think everything that Tom's saying there is accurate,

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<v Speaker 1>and I would add to it. Democrats see this is

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<v Speaker 1>the only issue they have to win on, and then

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<v Speaker 1>they went on all the other issues. This illegal immigration

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<v Speaker 1>is their pathway to a permanent political majority, their pathway

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<v Speaker 1>to a one party state in this country, and that

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<v Speaker 1>means that it takes precedence over everything else. How else

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<v Speaker 1>can you explain how we spend so much time arguing

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<v Speaker 1>with Democrats over the rights of people who aren't even Americans,

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<v Speaker 1>who aren't even supposed to be here. Now, Democrats, oh many,

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<v Speaker 1>they just all they want to talk about is illegal aliens,

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<v Speaker 1>how we need to do more for legal aliens, bring

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<v Speaker 1>more and don't call them illegal aliens, call them undocumented, DOCA, DABA,

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<v Speaker 1>all these different programs. This is their their primary focus,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, not dealing with the debt and deficit, not

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<v Speaker 1>veteran homelessness, not you know, reforming our healthcare delivery systems

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<v Speaker 1>in meaningful ways. You know, none of that, No, nothing

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<v Speaker 1>that's going to affect Americans. They are first and foremost

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<v Speaker 1>concerned with what they can do to help non Americans.

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<v Speaker 1>And they wonder why there's a backlash against the elites.

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<v Speaker 1>They wonder why we don't really trust them. And Homan's

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<v Speaker 1>point one that I make regularly on this show, and

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<v Speaker 1>it's important because you know, I need to say it,

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<v Speaker 1>and I think a lot of you need to hear it,

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<v Speaker 1>because the mainstream media is just making it up as

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<v Speaker 1>they go along on this Walls work. Of course they work.

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<v Speaker 1>You are being lied to, and I know you know it,

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<v Speaker 1>but it's easy to get numb to it. It's easy

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<v Speaker 1>to become numb over time to the media's misrepresentations, to

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<v Speaker 1>the falsehoods that they peddle about immigration, most notably on

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<v Speaker 1>the effectiveness of a wall. You just you keep hearing it,

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<v Speaker 1>and you know, look, I find myself occasionally I'll just

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<v Speaker 1>blurt out, yeah, what are we doing about the undocumented?

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<v Speaker 1>Oh my gosh, that I just say that. It's not

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<v Speaker 1>that I want to it's they say it. They keep

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<v Speaker 1>repeating it. The mere repetition, the propaganda has an effect,

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<v Speaker 1>and they keep telling you a wall that doesn't work.

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<v Speaker 1>After a while you start to think, well, I guess

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<v Speaker 1>there must be a question about walls work. Bullcrap. Walls work, obviously.

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<v Speaker 1>And here's the fear. The Democrats have the American people,

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<v Speaker 1>at least a strong majority of us, you know, the

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<v Speaker 1>the sixty or seventy percent of us who at least

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<v Speaker 1>can still be reasonable on some issues. Right, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>about half of us are reasonable on most issues Republicans,

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<v Speaker 1>and then there's maybe about sixty to sixty five percent

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<v Speaker 1>of us who when it's really clear, we still kind.

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<v Speaker 1>But unfortunately this you know, thirty to forty percent of

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<v Speaker 1>the country is just wacko on their politics. Just they've

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<v Speaker 1>bought all this nonsense and we're never going to be

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<v Speaker 1>able to bring them back into reality. But for those

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<v Speaker 1>of us that do operate in reality and want to

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<v Speaker 1>be want to be correct something. We want to be right.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh I was right, I was right. No, No, I

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<v Speaker 1>want to be correct. I want the positions that I'm

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<v Speaker 1>supporting to be the ones that have the out that

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<v Speaker 1>bring the outcomes that I want, that have the intended effect.

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<v Speaker 1>And a wall would be one of the great slapdowns

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<v Speaker 1>of a Democrat lie of all time, because they once

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<v Speaker 1>once it's up, and the numbers won't lie. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>once it's up, we'll see that they've just been They've

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<v Speaker 1>been clowning themselves on this one because there's both a

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<v Speaker 1>thirst for power that drives a lot of this. They

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<v Speaker 1>know if they keep the border open, and they keep

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<v Speaker 1>this issue for reasons of identity politics and enlarging the

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<v Speaker 1>state and pulling us apart as a as an American

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<v Speaker 1>community that has shared values when it comes to respect

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<v Speaker 1>for rule of law. And they're excited by all that,

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<v Speaker 1>and they're also concerned. I'm not concerned that this is

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<v Speaker 1>going to keep going. They love that it's happening. They're

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<v Speaker 1>concerned that we may actually be able to end this

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<v Speaker 1>scam because that's when the accountability kicks in, when we

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<v Speaker 1>see how they've been lying on them. This is why

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<v Speaker 1>the fight right now, the shutdown, this is necessary. This

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<v Speaker 1>has to happen. You know, I wanted to happen when

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<v Speaker 1>I thought Trump wasn't going through with it, those who

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<v Speaker 1>listen to the the show, No, I was, you know what,

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<v Speaker 1>off about it. I was mad. And the President's going

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<v Speaker 1>He's going to the mount of this one and he's fighting.

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<v Speaker 1>I hope he stays. I hope he does not cave.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm still worried that he will. But so far, I

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<v Speaker 1>gotta give credit where it's due, and he is fighting

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<v Speaker 1>this fight. And man, it is gonna get uglier and

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<v Speaker 1>uglier in the days ahead. I mean, they are gonna

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<v Speaker 1>do everything they can because from there, from the left's perspective,

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<v Speaker 1>the Democrats, if they can hold Trump off on this one,

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<v Speaker 1>if they can withstand the pressure and finally have Republicans

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<v Speaker 1>walk away with nothing. We're talking about five billion dollars. Mean,

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<v Speaker 1>this should be easy, right walk away with nothing. It

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<v Speaker 1>will just create a momentum for all of the most

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<v Speaker 1>anti Trump lunatics going into the investigations and the hearings

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<v Speaker 1>and the over all the stuff that we know is coming.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean this year, man, I'm glad to have all

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<v Speaker 1>of you, because this year is going to be it's

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<v Speaker 1>gonna be rough in that regard. We're gonna be playing.

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<v Speaker 1>We're gonna be playing a lot of defense, a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of a lot of shields eye for real coming up

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<v Speaker 1>this year, so get ready for it. We get a

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<v Speaker 1>lot more show. It is so good to be back

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<v Speaker 1>here with you. I honestly missed it and I'm not

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<v Speaker 1>going anywhere for a long time, so stick with me.

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<v Speaker 1>I'll your back. It's so ridiculous. This is a system

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<v Speaker 1>that we have, and nobody pointed it out until we

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<v Speaker 1>came a law. So you end up in a court

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<v Speaker 1>case to tell somebody normally it's like, hey, you're on

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<v Speaker 1>our land, we don't want you, and you have to

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<v Speaker 1>come through legally get out. So we catch, we do paperwork,

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<v Speaker 1>we bring him to court. You could never have enough

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<v Speaker 1>judges because you're talking about thousands, tens of thousands of people.

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<v Speaker 1>You end up in trials, but the trials don't take

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<v Speaker 1>place because what they have to do, because it's impossible

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<v Speaker 1>to hold all of it. This is by law. This

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<v Speaker 1>is by these idiotic laws given to us by largely

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<v Speaker 1>by the Democrats, mostly by the Democrats, that we can

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<v Speaker 1>change in one hour if people got together. These laws

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<v Speaker 1>that Trump is talking about immigration laws, He's right, they're dumb,

0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:11.320
<v Speaker 1>they're not working. They are invitations to abuse and bureaucratic

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<v Speaker 1>inertia and fraud. And he's totally right, which is why

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<v Speaker 1>a wall is just one step, a necessary one, but

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<v Speaker 1>one step toward dealing with our legal immigration problem, one

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<v Speaker 1>step in the process. You know, we also need a

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<v Speaker 1>more streamlined process to deal with those who want asylum.

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<v Speaker 1>We need to clamp down on all the fraud that

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<v Speaker 1>goes on in people saying that they are have a

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<v Speaker 1>credible fear for just being you know, Honduran. We need

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<v Speaker 1>to get e verified. We need workplace enforcement, we need

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<v Speaker 1>to end sanctuary cities. I mean, there's this whole laundry

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<v Speaker 1>list of very important things, and that's why I just think,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, if we can't get the wall, you start

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<v Speaker 1>to wonder what's the point. I mean, if we can't

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<v Speaker 1>even get that front line. You know, this is like

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<v Speaker 1>saying I want I want you to have to secure

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<v Speaker 1>a home. Let's put a lock on your front door.

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<v Speaker 1>That doesn't mean I don't want a security system. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't want you to, you know, have a weapon for

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<v Speaker 1>home defense, preferably a firearm, maybe a shotgun, depends on

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<v Speaker 1>what you want. You know, I want you to have

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<v Speaker 1>all those things too. But let's start with a lock

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<v Speaker 1>on your door. Right the wall is the lock on

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<v Speaker 1>the door. If we can't get that, you have to

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<v Speaker 1>wonder what do we even do about the rest of

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<v Speaker 1>That's why this issue is so important, and yes it

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<v Speaker 1>is worth a shutdown. I'll get more into that, and

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<v Speaker 1>I'll also talk about this Romney Trump feud. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>find it as interesting. I think the media is gonna yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>this is just a chance in the trash Trump's Oh

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<v Speaker 1>look a Republican doesn't like Trump. I'll give you some

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<v Speaker 1>some of my thoughts on that. There is an interesting

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<v Speaker 1>foreign policy angle to it that I think you'll definitely

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<v Speaker 1>want to hear. And then I've got a big third

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<v Speaker 1>hour coming to tell you about the whole vacation. So well,

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<v Speaker 1>it's a twelve days of Christmas we've had concluding the day,

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<v Speaker 1>twelve days of a government shut down. He is desperate

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<v Speaker 1>because he fears the Mull investigation. This serves as a

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<v Speaker 1>distraction and Jan's up base that. Frankly, Chris doesn't like

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<v Speaker 1>the federal government anyway. They could care less. His basically

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<v Speaker 1>care less if the government is open. But think about

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<v Speaker 1>this in terms of this wall. We just celebrated Christmas,

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<v Speaker 1>or at least try to federal workers. I was reading

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<v Speaker 1>online Time magazine to the piece some federal workers who

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<v Speaker 1>aren't getting paychecks are having to return to Christmas gifts, okay,

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<v Speaker 1>having to seek second jobs. Get ready for it. An

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<v Speaker 1>endless stream of shutdown emotion theater is coming your way.

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<v Speaker 1>You are going to hear all kinds of new stories about,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, how this family couldn't you know this family

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<v Speaker 1>because one of them are you know, the head of

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<v Speaker 1>households of federal government employee. Couldn't get this mortgage they

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<v Speaker 1>applied for that family, you know, couldn't afford little Timmy's braces.

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<v Speaker 1>You know all these things, And I understand, I get it,

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<v Speaker 1>you get it to that stinks. But I also know,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, and so I feel for those people. And

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<v Speaker 1>I don't mean that I'm not mocking their problems. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>just saying the media is going to exploit their problems.

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<v Speaker 1>Right now, the media's going to exploit the gap in

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<v Speaker 1>pay it. And I would also note that, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>we don't have to live in a country, or rather,

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<v Speaker 1>we don't necessarily live in a country where we should

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<v Speaker 1>expect it. If you work for the federal government, you

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<v Speaker 1>are essentially unfireable and never miss a paycheck, which is

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<v Speaker 1>the that is the expectation. I mean, you're not entirely

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<v Speaker 1>you know, you can't break the law. I mean there's one,

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<v Speaker 1>but generally, if you get a federal government job, you

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<v Speaker 1>expect to have it for life and never miss a

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<v Speaker 1>paycheck a pay period, which is not a luxury that

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<v Speaker 1>the rest of the workforce gets at all. And I

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<v Speaker 1>have been to, you know, been to offices on many

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<v Speaker 1>a day where a lot of my friends and colleagues

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<v Speaker 1>were told you no longer have a paycheck, and you

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<v Speaker 1>longer you no longer have healthcare. And I've been there

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<v Speaker 1>for those conversations. I've been there when that happens. That

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<v Speaker 1>is not fun. I've been there one n told I

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<v Speaker 1>don't longer have a job. So you know, there are limits.

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<v Speaker 1>I think to how far people sympathy here will go

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<v Speaker 1>for those folks who are that doesn't mean there should

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<v Speaker 1>be no sympathy. I'm not trying to be, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>a grinch jerk here, but they're going to really play

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<v Speaker 1>this game, how the Democrats are going to just try

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<v Speaker 1>to make this all about a SOB story. And I

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<v Speaker 1>would offer this as the shutdown showdown continues on. There

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<v Speaker 1>are very real economic and security and safety reasons why

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<v Speaker 1>we need a more secure border. This is not without

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<v Speaker 1>major costs, without major consequence. There are people who are

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<v Speaker 1>losing their lives because the federal government cannot secure the

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<v Speaker 1>border effectively. You know. There there was this incident that

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<v Speaker 1>just happened with police corporal Ronald Singh over the bread

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, just heartbreaking. And what we find out is

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<v Speaker 1>that Gustavo Perez Ariaga was in the country illegally, had

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<v Speaker 1>previous arrests, and is now in custody, you know, for

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<v Speaker 1>allegedly killing this corporal Ronald Singh in California after a

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<v Speaker 1>two day long manhunt. Now, there are a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>reasons that this is enraging. One of them is that

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<v Speaker 1>Immigrations and Customs Enforcement says that they have had no

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<v Speaker 1>contact with this illegal immigrant. Okay, they have had no

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<v Speaker 1>contact with them. How is that possible, Well, it's only

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<v Speaker 1>possible because of the sanctuary city policy of the state

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<v Speaker 1>of California, as well as all the cities of California

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<v Speaker 1>that tries to actively stemy, I mean, tries to prevent

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<v Speaker 1>law enforcement from effectively doing their jobs. That's what's going

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<v Speaker 1>on here. That is why you could have somebody like this,

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<v Speaker 1>who's this I mean, this guy is a criminal. This

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<v Speaker 1>guy is a criminal. I'm by the way, I'm happy

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<v Speaker 1>to see that seven other people have been charged with

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<v Speaker 1>aiding this guy, this scum perez Ariaga for killing Corporal

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<v Speaker 1>sing you know, I mean, here we have It's such

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<v Speaker 1>an interesting story, isn't you have? Corporal sing A, a

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<v Speaker 1>legal immigrant to this country. He immigrated from Fiji, always

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<v Speaker 1>dreamed of becoming a police officer. He had a five

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<v Speaker 1>month old son, and he joined the police force in Newman,

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<v Speaker 1>California in twenty eleven. I mean, this guy, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>this is who we want in the country. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>I want corporal I want Corporal sings. I want people

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<v Speaker 1>that obey the law, that take real responsibility for themselves

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<v Speaker 1>their communities into their hands, that want to contribute, that

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<v Speaker 1>want to be great Americans. I do not want Perez Ariaga,

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<v Speaker 1>who's in the country illegally with a long rap sheet

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<v Speaker 1>and now as a murderer. Okay, that's who we don't want,

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<v Speaker 1>and that's why I'm also important now. I bring this

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<v Speaker 1>up because, yes, federal government employees in this shutdown are hurting,

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<v Speaker 1>and I get that. But seventy thousand plus people ear

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<v Speaker 1>are dying dying from opioid overdoses that are primarily that

0:24:31.240 --> 0:24:36.600
<v Speaker 1>are primarily supplied by these drug cartels. How many thousands

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<v Speaker 1>of people have been in the last five years assaulted, raped, murdered,

0:24:45.640 --> 0:24:50.879
<v Speaker 1>been hit by a drunk driver illegal all from the

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<v Speaker 1>illegal aliens in the country. How many thousands of people

0:24:53.800 --> 0:24:58.480
<v Speaker 1>have suffered life altering or life ending incidents because of

0:24:58.520 --> 0:25:03.000
<v Speaker 1>illegal aliens in the country. Once you start, you know

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<v Speaker 1>this is what government's all about. It's about making difficult decisions.

0:25:07.080 --> 0:25:12.080
<v Speaker 1>It's about weighing the benefits and the costs of different policies.

0:25:13.440 --> 0:25:15.480
<v Speaker 1>This idea that somehow we're going to be able to

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<v Speaker 1>get a border wall with an intransigent open borders radical

0:25:19.480 --> 0:25:23.760
<v Speaker 1>left wing Democrat party without a real fight is a fantasy.

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<v Speaker 1>They want the status quote to continue. They want a

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<v Speaker 1>border that allows people who are not criminal masterminds far

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<v Speaker 1>from it, to be deported and get back into the country.

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<v Speaker 1>Five six, seven, ten times. Who knows they want sanctuary

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<v Speaker 1>city policies to continue only in this area, only in

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<v Speaker 1>this area of our law. Is there such a clear

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<v Speaker 1>and obvious double standard. In fact, if you look at

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<v Speaker 1>in a California, it's a really interesting case. And I'll

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<v Speaker 1>talk more about Victor Davis Hansen later on this hour

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<v Speaker 1>and an article that I read that he wrote, I'll

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<v Speaker 1>talk to you about it. But how you know, California

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<v Speaker 1>is essentially this the hyper nanny state with all kinds

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<v Speaker 1>of regulations and environmental protections that everything. But if you

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<v Speaker 1>go into illegal immigrant communities, you're you're you're able either

0:26:16.160 --> 0:26:18.320
<v Speaker 1>people are able to have all kinds of trash on

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<v Speaker 1>their lawn, They're able to park you know, campers in

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<v Speaker 1>their backyard that don't have a permit, and you know,

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<v Speaker 1>all that stuff goes out the window, all that stuff

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<v Speaker 1>all of a sudden is I you know, we can't

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<v Speaker 1>really enforce that, you know, because we're not We're not

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<v Speaker 1>going to burden this community with the crazy laws or

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<v Speaker 1>even the sensible laws of you know, the rest of California.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, there there are there's a two track legal

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<v Speaker 1>system in place for illegal immigrates for their benefit, and

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<v Speaker 1>the whole situation needs to be reassessed and looked at again. Um,

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<v Speaker 1>I'll have more for you on this right after the break.

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<v Speaker 1>They'll stay with me. Wall is effective, it's a crucial

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<v Speaker 1>part of any kind of border security. Typical argument we

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<v Speaker 1>hear from Democrats that it doesn't make sense, it's too expensive,

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<v Speaker 1>it's medieval. Wait, you know, I'd like to hear some

0:27:01.000 --> 0:27:04.440
<v Speaker 1>reasoning behind that. It's not too expensive. It's point one

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<v Speaker 1>percent of our entire federal budget. Point one percent is

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<v Speaker 1>what we're talking about. That's what five billion dollars ends

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<v Speaker 1>up being. So it's really not about the money for them. Well,

0:27:14.560 --> 0:27:17.240
<v Speaker 1>the president's not willing to compromise on or the outcomes.

0:27:17.280 --> 0:27:20.520
<v Speaker 1>I think he's willing to negotiate inputs, whether it's more

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<v Speaker 1>or less wall, more or less fencing, or slats or

0:27:24.240 --> 0:27:27.320
<v Speaker 1>drones or technology. What he's not going to compromise on

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<v Speaker 1>is the safety of the American family or the protection

0:27:30.960 --> 0:27:33.679
<v Speaker 1>of the American economy. That's needed by ensuring that we

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<v Speaker 1>don't just have flows and flows of illegal immigration with

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<v Speaker 1>no ability to manage it, or ensure that it is

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<v Speaker 1>economically beneficial to American citizens. So look, I know who

0:27:43.720 --> 0:27:46.880
<v Speaker 1>the President is negotiating for. I don't really know who

0:27:46.920 --> 0:27:51.280
<v Speaker 1>Democrats are negotiating. Are they really negotiating for illegal immigrants?

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<v Speaker 1>During the final days of Republican control of the House

0:27:53.600 --> 0:27:56.280
<v Speaker 1>of Representatives, we passed a plan that would have kept

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<v Speaker 1>the government open and would have prioritized the safety, security,

0:27:59.640 --> 0:28:02.560
<v Speaker 1>and mc well being of American citizens. So, if Nancy

0:28:02.560 --> 0:28:06.479
<v Speaker 1>and Pelosian Democrats really believe in border security, if they

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<v Speaker 1>want to make sure that we are a nation of laws,

0:28:08.760 --> 0:28:12.639
<v Speaker 1>I'm eager to see their plan. Yeah, what are the

0:28:12.680 --> 0:28:17.400
<v Speaker 1>Democrats really angling for it here? You know, it's worth

0:28:17.440 --> 0:28:20.760
<v Speaker 1>asking that question. Sure that they oppose Trump because they

0:28:20.800 --> 0:28:23.200
<v Speaker 1>just have to, in their eyes, oppose everything Trump does,

0:28:23.280 --> 0:28:28.600
<v Speaker 1>right hashtag resistance. Okay, but the argument doesn't hold up.

0:28:29.440 --> 0:28:33.280
<v Speaker 1>The argument they're making is nonsensible. First of all, as

0:28:33.320 --> 0:28:38.520
<v Speaker 1>we know Democrats before this, the only issue that they

0:28:38.560 --> 0:28:41.520
<v Speaker 1>ever wanted to cut any spending on was the military,

0:28:42.720 --> 0:28:44.600
<v Speaker 1>which is one of the few things the federal government

0:28:44.640 --> 0:28:46.360
<v Speaker 1>does that it really need to do and it's the

0:28:46.360 --> 0:28:49.600
<v Speaker 1>only thing that can do it. So military spending they're

0:28:49.600 --> 0:28:53.240
<v Speaker 1>willing to cut. But when it comes to securing our border,

0:28:53.440 --> 0:28:58.240
<v Speaker 1>then all of us sudden, we find ourselves in this

0:28:58.280 --> 0:29:04.400
<v Speaker 1>position where the Ocrats are cost conscious, their pinching pennies

0:29:05.720 --> 0:29:07.960
<v Speaker 1>when it comes to the border. That doesn't make any sense.

0:29:09.400 --> 0:29:11.640
<v Speaker 1>This is not a hard people today. I had a

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<v Speaker 1>representative from the federal government federal government employee union come

0:29:17.080 --> 0:29:19.480
<v Speaker 1>on on rising and I asked her she I don't

0:29:19.480 --> 0:29:21.040
<v Speaker 1>think she was prickly fond about told her I used

0:29:21.040 --> 0:29:23.560
<v Speaker 1>to work for the federal government. That didn't help. I

0:29:23.640 --> 0:29:26.280
<v Speaker 1>was an essential employee, so I was funded, didn't matter.

0:29:26.320 --> 0:29:29.920
<v Speaker 1>I didn't have to worry about these things. But I

0:29:30.240 --> 0:29:33.440
<v Speaker 1>told her that, or I asked her, rather, you know,

0:29:33.720 --> 0:29:36.800
<v Speaker 1>why should we even have unions representing the federal government workforce?

0:29:36.840 --> 0:29:38.440
<v Speaker 1>And she looked at me like that was like I

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<v Speaker 1>had three heads, like I was some space alien. And

0:29:40.440 --> 0:29:43.440
<v Speaker 1>I said, you know that at the dawn of unions

0:29:43.440 --> 0:29:46.320
<v Speaker 1>in this country, no less than and then FDR was like,

0:29:46.440 --> 0:29:49.040
<v Speaker 1>I mean public sector unions, that would be crazy. We

0:29:49.040 --> 0:29:53.280
<v Speaker 1>don't need that. That's just going to be essentially a

0:29:53.440 --> 0:29:59.560
<v Speaker 1>legalized form of political theft, you know, corruption and theft

0:29:59.560 --> 0:30:02.080
<v Speaker 1>from the town payer. And that's what it is. By

0:30:02.080 --> 0:30:03.840
<v Speaker 1>the way, that's why you have so many states and

0:30:03.920 --> 0:30:06.400
<v Speaker 1>municipalities that can't balance They can't balance their budgets because

0:30:06.600 --> 0:30:14.240
<v Speaker 1>of the the can the reality of these public sector unions,

0:30:14.280 --> 0:30:17.560
<v Speaker 1>that especially when it comes to benefits and pension plans,

0:30:17.560 --> 0:30:20.720
<v Speaker 1>that's where the real that's where the real juices. They

0:30:20.800 --> 0:30:23.280
<v Speaker 1>just put as much into them as they possibly can.

0:30:23.360 --> 0:30:25.600
<v Speaker 1>It helps Democrats get elected, and it creates this self

0:30:25.640 --> 0:30:29.280
<v Speaker 1>looking ice cream cone of tax tax the taxpayer more

0:30:29.880 --> 0:30:33.440
<v Speaker 1>and take more money for you know, whether it's teachers

0:30:33.560 --> 0:30:37.440
<v Speaker 1>or firemen or whomever. And then they organize and those

0:30:37.560 --> 0:30:40.480
<v Speaker 1>unions push for those Democrats and it just keeps going

0:30:40.520 --> 0:30:42.320
<v Speaker 1>around and around their round. That's why we don't want this.

0:30:42.360 --> 0:30:44.960
<v Speaker 1>But you know, I understand that there are federal government

0:30:45.000 --> 0:30:47.960
<v Speaker 1>employees that are being negatively affected by that's putting aside

0:30:48.000 --> 0:30:51.960
<v Speaker 1>the union point for a moment. They're being negatively impacted,

0:30:52.000 --> 0:30:56.120
<v Speaker 1>and that's that's unfortunate. You know, they didn't do any wrong,

0:30:56.160 --> 0:31:00.440
<v Speaker 1>and many of them are doing their jobs, you know, honorably,

0:31:00.480 --> 0:31:03.880
<v Speaker 1>even valiantly in the case of say border patrol, and

0:31:04.000 --> 0:31:06.760
<v Speaker 1>not getting paid on time or not getting their full pay.

0:31:06.800 --> 0:31:08.800
<v Speaker 1>And I believe they will get back pay. But there's

0:31:09.240 --> 0:31:13.520
<v Speaker 1>there's some some issues here. And the federal government spends

0:31:15.480 --> 0:31:20.680
<v Speaker 1>trillions of dollars, trillions of dollars and we're now going

0:31:20.720 --> 0:31:23.920
<v Speaker 1>to be we're being told that this five billion dollars

0:31:23.960 --> 0:31:27.360
<v Speaker 1>for the border is too much. Sure, the President has

0:31:27.480 --> 0:31:33.920
<v Speaker 1>taken responsibility for the shutdown. I know that that's that's

0:31:33.960 --> 0:31:36.479
<v Speaker 1>something that is being repeated on all the different news

0:31:36.520 --> 0:31:38.160
<v Speaker 1>broadcast and it's true the press he said it. I mean,

0:31:38.280 --> 0:31:42.480
<v Speaker 1>I can't unsay something on the president's behalf. I can't

0:31:42.520 --> 0:31:45.600
<v Speaker 1>say that he did not make a very clear statement

0:31:45.720 --> 0:31:48.320
<v Speaker 1>of I am responsible, not me. Well, that would be

0:31:48.400 --> 0:31:50.880
<v Speaker 1>kind of cool, buck Sexton. Shutdown the government. No, No,

0:31:51.040 --> 0:31:56.760
<v Speaker 1>President Trump is responsible for the shutdown. But the shutdown

0:31:56.840 --> 0:31:58.800
<v Speaker 1>is happening. You know, you get you get down to

0:31:59.560 --> 0:32:01.480
<v Speaker 1>how can you be responsible for this when all you're

0:32:01.480 --> 0:32:04.840
<v Speaker 1>really saying is go with what the House bill is,

0:32:05.800 --> 0:32:08.480
<v Speaker 1>Fund this, fund this effort to secure the border with

0:32:08.560 --> 0:32:11.800
<v Speaker 1>the wall. As I've said to you, I mean, it's

0:32:11.880 --> 0:32:14.960
<v Speaker 1>not just that they don't want to give into Trump.

0:32:15.040 --> 0:32:18.800
<v Speaker 1>Well that's i'd say sixty or seventy percent of why

0:32:18.800 --> 0:32:20.880
<v Speaker 1>they don't want because they just can't give Trump the wind.

0:32:20.920 --> 0:32:25.400
<v Speaker 1>They can't let Trump keep faith with his base and deliver.

0:32:25.640 --> 0:32:27.880
<v Speaker 1>I mean, he's already keeping faith with his base by fighting,

0:32:27.920 --> 0:32:30.000
<v Speaker 1>but if he delivers on this promise of the wall.

0:32:30.040 --> 0:32:32.640
<v Speaker 1>Then we're in a hole. Then we're in a whole

0:32:32.680 --> 0:32:36.320
<v Speaker 1>different territory in terms of twenty twenty and the president's

0:32:36.360 --> 0:32:38.640
<v Speaker 1>prospects for reelection, right, I think he's a lock. He

0:32:38.800 --> 0:32:43.040
<v Speaker 1>is ironclad if he manages to get this wall built

0:32:43.120 --> 0:32:46.640
<v Speaker 1>in part even. But then there's the other component, which

0:32:46.680 --> 0:32:49.080
<v Speaker 1>is if they if they start to build a wall

0:32:49.800 --> 0:32:51.280
<v Speaker 1>in you know, they can do it the way we

0:32:51.360 --> 0:32:53.880
<v Speaker 1>have it at the San Ya Cedro port of entry.

0:32:54.440 --> 0:32:58.080
<v Speaker 1>You know, Tijuana had a few thousands Tijuana, as you've

0:32:58.120 --> 0:32:59.600
<v Speaker 1>told me, many of you listen to show tell me,

0:32:59.640 --> 0:33:04.600
<v Speaker 1>stop say Tijuana. Tijuana had over two thousand murders last year.

0:33:04.640 --> 0:33:08.719
<v Speaker 1>I think was approaching three thousand. Has more murders than

0:33:08.760 --> 0:33:14.440
<v Speaker 1>like the top ten US cities combined one Mexican city

0:33:14.560 --> 0:33:17.240
<v Speaker 1>last year. It's a lot of rough stuff going on

0:33:17.280 --> 0:33:19.920
<v Speaker 1>over there, and the drug war going on in Tijuana

0:33:20.400 --> 0:33:26.760
<v Speaker 1>on the Baja Peninsula. But I digress. They could build

0:33:27.000 --> 0:33:29.720
<v Speaker 1>a wall in one sector where there's a high level

0:33:29.760 --> 0:33:32.959
<v Speaker 1>of illegal crossings, where there is road access and an

0:33:33.080 --> 0:33:36.280
<v Speaker 1>urban or semi urban area that really needs a wall

0:33:36.280 --> 0:33:38.160
<v Speaker 1>to short up. And then when they would be able

0:33:38.160 --> 0:33:40.480
<v Speaker 1>to show us in three or six or nine months,

0:33:40.480 --> 0:33:46.320
<v Speaker 1>whatever it is. After that barrier goes up, the precipitous

0:33:46.400 --> 0:33:50.280
<v Speaker 1>drop in illegal crossings, which includes human smuggling, drug smuggling,

0:33:50.320 --> 0:33:52.680
<v Speaker 1>all the other things that the other criminal activity that's

0:33:52.680 --> 0:33:57.480
<v Speaker 1>around illegal crossings of the border, Then what's the Democratic argument,

0:33:57.680 --> 0:33:59.440
<v Speaker 1>We're not going to spend money on this because we

0:33:59.480 --> 0:34:01.240
<v Speaker 1>don't want the border to be secured. Because that's the

0:34:01.280 --> 0:34:03.120
<v Speaker 1>truth of it. They don't want the border to be secure.

0:34:03.480 --> 0:34:05.760
<v Speaker 1>They want the illegals to keep pouring in. They know

0:34:05.840 --> 0:34:08.239
<v Speaker 1>that it puts pressure on the GOP. They know that

0:34:08.280 --> 0:34:13.160
<v Speaker 1>the demographic realities of the United States are being shifted

0:34:13.200 --> 0:34:19.520
<v Speaker 1>in dramatic and rapid fashion toward a permanent Democrat Party majority.

0:34:19.600 --> 0:34:22.480
<v Speaker 1>And this is not not surprising at all that immigrants,

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<v Speaker 1>never mind, the identity politics at the left plays with

0:34:25.040 --> 0:34:28.840
<v Speaker 1>anybody that's considered non a you know, a non white

0:34:29.440 --> 0:34:32.160
<v Speaker 1>or a what is it white, non hispanic, right, anyone

0:34:32.200 --> 0:34:37.000
<v Speaker 1>who's not a white, non hispanic. And then also the

0:34:37.040 --> 0:34:42.840
<v Speaker 1>needs that people have for state assistance, and that's just

0:34:42.840 --> 0:34:44.200
<v Speaker 1>going to keep going up and up and up. And

0:34:44.360 --> 0:34:48.520
<v Speaker 1>there's only one political party that has no qualms at

0:34:48.520 --> 0:34:50.880
<v Speaker 1>all about being the party of big government and a

0:34:50.920 --> 0:34:52.719
<v Speaker 1>big state and that is the Democratic Party, so they

0:34:52.760 --> 0:34:55.200
<v Speaker 1>win on this. I would just note that there's an

0:34:55.280 --> 0:34:59.759
<v Speaker 1>excellent Victor Davis Hansen piece, you guys. You guys all

0:34:59.800 --> 0:35:03.320
<v Speaker 1>know that I really like VDH. But you know, he

0:35:03.600 --> 0:35:06.200
<v Speaker 1>wrote on California, and it's really by the numbers, and

0:35:06.239 --> 0:35:08.120
<v Speaker 1>I think I think it's a new piece. I don't

0:35:08.120 --> 0:35:11.160
<v Speaker 1>think it's an old one that I saw. But he

0:35:11.520 --> 0:35:14.439
<v Speaker 1>just says that this place is maybe it wasn't old

0:35:14.440 --> 0:35:16.120
<v Speaker 1>piece I saw. Well, he lays it on it. He

0:35:16.120 --> 0:35:18.080
<v Speaker 1>writes about California all the time. He's just saying it's

0:35:18.520 --> 0:35:21.360
<v Speaker 1>you know, it's it's turning into like a Latin American

0:35:23.360 --> 0:35:26.640
<v Speaker 1>stratified society. Latin American in the sense that it's similar

0:35:26.680 --> 0:35:29.880
<v Speaker 1>to Brazil or any of these countries where the wealth

0:35:29.960 --> 0:35:36.480
<v Speaker 1>gap is enormous, enormous between the rich and the poor,

0:35:36.680 --> 0:35:38.719
<v Speaker 1>and the poor completely dependent on the large esse of

0:35:38.719 --> 0:35:42.040
<v Speaker 1>the rich and there's no middle class. That's what's happening

0:35:42.040 --> 0:35:43.839
<v Speaker 1>in California. But all right, we got to talk about

0:35:43.880 --> 0:35:48.799
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0:37:00.640 --> 0:37:02.600
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0:37:02.600 --> 0:37:05.920
<v Speaker 1>allow as he had. Mit is a failed candidate. He failed,

0:37:07.520 --> 0:37:11.160
<v Speaker 1>He failed horribly. That was a race that absolutely should

0:37:11.160 --> 0:37:13.680
<v Speaker 1>have been one, and I don't know what happened to him.

0:37:13.800 --> 0:37:18.360
<v Speaker 1>He creates scapegoats and Muslims and Mexican immigrants. He calls

0:37:18.400 --> 0:37:21.320
<v Speaker 1>for the use of torture. This is the very brand

0:37:21.480 --> 0:37:25.160
<v Speaker 1>of anger that has led other nations into the abyss.

0:37:25.480 --> 0:37:28.919
<v Speaker 1>Portman Romney putman, I mean, I have a store that's

0:37:28.920 --> 0:37:31.480
<v Speaker 1>worth more money than he is. Donald Trump is a phony,

0:37:31.760 --> 0:37:35.480
<v Speaker 1>a fraud because promises are as worthless as a degree

0:37:35.520 --> 0:37:38.279
<v Speaker 1>from Trump University. And he walks like a penguin onto

0:37:38.320 --> 0:37:43.919
<v Speaker 1>the stage. You haven't seen like a penguin. So mid

0:37:44.000 --> 0:37:49.799
<v Speaker 1>Romney and Donald Trump are not bf fine, we don't

0:37:49.840 --> 0:37:52.640
<v Speaker 1>need them to be. We don't care. That doesn't really matter.

0:37:53.480 --> 0:37:56.200
<v Speaker 1>Mid Romney and Donald Trump don't have to get along,

0:37:56.239 --> 0:37:59.520
<v Speaker 1>they don't have to like each other. But they are

0:37:59.719 --> 0:38:03.520
<v Speaker 1>supposed to be playing for the same team. They are

0:38:03.560 --> 0:38:08.320
<v Speaker 1>supposed to be aligned when it comes to policy and

0:38:09.080 --> 0:38:14.560
<v Speaker 1>implementing a conservative vision for the United States and quite honestly,

0:38:14.560 --> 0:38:17.319
<v Speaker 1>saving this country from falling into the progressive abyss from

0:38:17.320 --> 0:38:20.040
<v Speaker 1>which it will never recover. That's what they should be

0:38:21.080 --> 0:38:25.680
<v Speaker 1>United on and Mit Rammy just won this Senate race

0:38:25.719 --> 0:38:29.319
<v Speaker 1>out in Utah. And I won't try to psychoanalyze too

0:38:29.400 --> 0:38:32.719
<v Speaker 1>much what really motivates Mit at this point other than

0:38:33.040 --> 0:38:35.840
<v Speaker 1>you know, he ran for president, he was governor of Massachusetts.

0:38:35.840 --> 0:38:37.719
<v Speaker 1>Now he's going to be a centator from Utah. I mean,

0:38:39.000 --> 0:38:42.279
<v Speaker 1>you know, America doesn't need Mitt Romney. Look, I think

0:38:42.280 --> 0:38:44.279
<v Speaker 1>Mit Romney would have been I'm on record for this.

0:38:44.320 --> 0:38:45.960
<v Speaker 1>I think he would have been a good president, a

0:38:45.960 --> 0:38:48.600
<v Speaker 1>lot better than Obama. I think he's I think he's

0:38:49.000 --> 0:38:53.520
<v Speaker 1>a pretty ethical guy. He's obviously led an admirable family life,

0:38:53.520 --> 0:38:55.520
<v Speaker 1>and he's been successful in business. And I think there's

0:38:55.520 --> 0:38:58.160
<v Speaker 1>a lot about he's smart, and I think there's a

0:38:58.200 --> 0:39:00.719
<v Speaker 1>lot about Mitt Romney that's good. He's great immigration, by

0:39:00.719 --> 0:39:02.360
<v Speaker 1>the way, And I'm not going to just abandon that

0:39:02.400 --> 0:39:04.719
<v Speaker 1>because right now he's interfewed with Trump. Mitt was good

0:39:04.760 --> 0:39:07.960
<v Speaker 1>on immigration back in twenty twelve. Mit was a big,

0:39:08.040 --> 0:39:11.320
<v Speaker 1>e verified guy. Look, these are just facts. Mitt was

0:39:11.360 --> 0:39:16.000
<v Speaker 1>the self deportation guy. He knows he knows because he

0:39:16.040 --> 0:39:18.600
<v Speaker 1>actually has an understanding of wages in business and how

0:39:18.600 --> 0:39:23.640
<v Speaker 1>a balance sheet works. That, yeah, it hurts low wage

0:39:23.640 --> 0:39:27.640
<v Speaker 1>workers to have just to have all this unskilled, non

0:39:27.640 --> 0:39:30.360
<v Speaker 1>English speaking labor dumped on the country, you know. And

0:39:30.400 --> 0:39:33.360
<v Speaker 1>it hurts the taxpayer too. He knows this. Anybody knows this,

0:39:33.400 --> 0:39:34.839
<v Speaker 1>who thinks about it, even though they are all these

0:39:34.840 --> 0:39:40.759
<v Speaker 1>think tanks. There's a huge open borders industrial complex that

0:39:40.960 --> 0:39:44.000
<v Speaker 1>is telling so much, so many lives. And one of

0:39:44.040 --> 0:39:48.719
<v Speaker 1>my favorites is, oh, well, immigrants, just add to GDP. Yeah,

0:39:48.760 --> 0:39:52.000
<v Speaker 1>that's like saying, you know, more bodies in your house

0:39:52.640 --> 0:39:55.200
<v Speaker 1>means more mouths to feed, so you're gonna have to

0:39:55.239 --> 0:39:57.960
<v Speaker 1>buy more food. Okay, sure, But is that a good thing?

0:39:58.960 --> 0:40:02.239
<v Speaker 1>What about? Yeah? GDP is good in that there's more

0:40:02.280 --> 0:40:04.520
<v Speaker 1>stuff going on, But what is the downside of that

0:40:04.560 --> 0:40:07.640
<v Speaker 1>added GDP? What are we paying out in tax dollars?

0:40:07.640 --> 0:40:10.240
<v Speaker 1>What does it mean for our social and political fabric

0:40:10.280 --> 0:40:13.680
<v Speaker 1>and for the assimilation processes we have? Oh, just adds

0:40:13.680 --> 0:40:15.719
<v Speaker 1>to GDP. As you know that, this gets me very

0:40:15.800 --> 0:40:17.959
<v Speaker 1>fired up, and I don't want to go too deep

0:40:17.960 --> 0:40:21.120
<v Speaker 1>down this this rabbit hole. But Mitt was good on immigration,

0:40:21.160 --> 0:40:23.560
<v Speaker 1>but he is bad on Trump as you just heard there.

0:40:24.840 --> 0:40:28.720
<v Speaker 1>And his first major public act here at is January first.

0:40:28.719 --> 0:40:32.040
<v Speaker 1>This is published the first day of the new year.

0:40:32.080 --> 0:40:35.080
<v Speaker 1>And so this was planned in advance, and Mit is Look,

0:40:35.080 --> 0:40:37.400
<v Speaker 1>I think MIT's running. Let's just get right to it.

0:40:37.480 --> 0:40:39.600
<v Speaker 1>Let let's call it what it is. I think Mit

0:40:39.680 --> 0:40:43.960
<v Speaker 1>is trying to prepare the groundwork for, you know, for

0:40:44.080 --> 0:40:48.560
<v Speaker 1>him to run as a primary challenger against Trump, and

0:40:48.600 --> 0:40:50.680
<v Speaker 1>he'll just he'll get he'll get crushed. And if he

0:40:50.719 --> 0:40:52.479
<v Speaker 1>doesn't get crushed, and let's just say that he runs

0:40:52.520 --> 0:40:55.399
<v Speaker 1>a run some third party candidacy, you know, it goes

0:40:55.480 --> 0:40:58.200
<v Speaker 1>kind of the Ross Pero angle. He's just going to

0:40:58.320 --> 0:41:01.360
<v Speaker 1>hand the presidency to the Democrats? Is that really? You know,

0:41:01.520 --> 0:41:04.200
<v Speaker 1>you start to wonder at what point do the results

0:41:04.239 --> 0:41:07.000
<v Speaker 1>just not matter to the never trumpers because they're so

0:41:07.560 --> 0:41:11.080
<v Speaker 1>in love with their own sense of righteousness and their

0:41:11.160 --> 0:41:14.560
<v Speaker 1>need to be right. At what point is it clear

0:41:14.640 --> 0:41:18.759
<v Speaker 1>that the results just don't matter to them? And when

0:41:18.760 --> 0:41:21.120
<v Speaker 1>I say results, I'm talking with things like do you

0:41:21.160 --> 0:41:23.919
<v Speaker 1>want Do you want people that are going to be

0:41:24.560 --> 0:41:27.080
<v Speaker 1>telling your ten year old that he or she is

0:41:27.080 --> 0:41:29.080
<v Speaker 1>not a he or she but should be able to

0:41:29.120 --> 0:41:32.799
<v Speaker 1>take Cormon therapary before they're even hitting puberty and have

0:41:32.920 --> 0:41:37.480
<v Speaker 1>that mandated in schools as federal policy. You want people

0:41:37.600 --> 0:41:39.960
<v Speaker 1>who think that we're all going to be better off

0:41:40.000 --> 0:41:44.359
<v Speaker 1>if we just give more money to welfare programs and

0:41:44.440 --> 0:41:46.520
<v Speaker 1>more money to the states in order to spend how

0:41:46.560 --> 0:41:49.200
<v Speaker 1>they see fit. You know, take more money. But you

0:41:49.200 --> 0:41:51.520
<v Speaker 1>think we're all gonna better off? You know, does do

0:41:51.600 --> 0:41:54.120
<v Speaker 1>issues of life matter or not? Do we want abortion

0:41:54.200 --> 0:41:58.400
<v Speaker 1>extremists appointed to the Supreme Court and running state legislatures?

0:41:58.520 --> 0:42:02.239
<v Speaker 1>You know these things matter. There are consequences here. It's

0:42:02.280 --> 0:42:03.960
<v Speaker 1>not just oh, well, you know, we need to we

0:42:04.000 --> 0:42:06.400
<v Speaker 1>need to clear out the GOP. We need a cleansing

0:42:06.440 --> 0:42:09.680
<v Speaker 1>of the GOP. I've heard Republicans say this, prominent ones.

0:42:09.760 --> 0:42:14.680
<v Speaker 1>They've told me. I look at them as say, you

0:42:14.719 --> 0:42:16.200
<v Speaker 1>think that the way to win the battle is to

0:42:16.239 --> 0:42:24.120
<v Speaker 1>lose it. That's your grand plan, man, No wonder Obama

0:42:24.160 --> 0:42:27.439
<v Speaker 1>had eight years in office. But mit Romney's first act

0:42:27.560 --> 0:42:31.480
<v Speaker 1>is to right this right this op ed. And he was,

0:42:31.560 --> 0:42:33.600
<v Speaker 1>as we all know, the twenty twelve nominee. And I was.

0:42:33.640 --> 0:42:35.799
<v Speaker 1>I was supportive of him in twenty twelve. I was

0:42:35.880 --> 0:42:40.520
<v Speaker 1>a a mid Romney supporter, no question about it. I

0:42:40.520 --> 0:42:43.680
<v Speaker 1>thought he I thought he just annihilated Obama in the

0:42:43.719 --> 0:42:47.960
<v Speaker 1>first presidential debate. And then Candy Crowley threw herself in

0:42:48.040 --> 0:42:51.279
<v Speaker 1>front of Obama precious Obama to protect him in that

0:42:51.320 --> 0:42:53.359
<v Speaker 1>second debate and kind of turned the tide for him.

0:42:54.560 --> 0:42:56.439
<v Speaker 1>And what's wrong, by the way, and not just wrong

0:42:56.520 --> 0:42:58.400
<v Speaker 1>to do so, but wrong in how she did it,

0:42:58.480 --> 0:43:01.960
<v Speaker 1>meaning she was wrong on the facts. But you know

0:43:02.000 --> 0:43:05.920
<v Speaker 1>the op ed that mid Romney has written here, I

0:43:06.200 --> 0:43:08.600
<v Speaker 1>want to pull it apart a little bit. I want

0:43:08.600 --> 0:43:11.560
<v Speaker 1>to pull it apart a little bit. And here's what

0:43:11.640 --> 0:43:15.000
<v Speaker 1>it says. Quote, the Trump presidency made a deep descent

0:43:15.320 --> 0:43:17.839
<v Speaker 1>in December. First of all, too much alliteration. He needs

0:43:17.840 --> 0:43:19.600
<v Speaker 1>to tell the staff members that wrote this calm down

0:43:19.640 --> 0:43:23.120
<v Speaker 1>with the triple D. Here a deep descent in December.

0:43:23.600 --> 0:43:26.520
<v Speaker 1>The departures of Defense Secretary Jim Mattison, White House Chief

0:43:26.520 --> 0:43:29.440
<v Speaker 1>of Staff John Kelly, the appointment of senior persons of

0:43:29.520 --> 0:43:32.200
<v Speaker 1>lesser experience, the abandonment of allies who fight beside us,

0:43:32.239 --> 0:43:34.239
<v Speaker 1>and the president's thoughtless claim that America has long been

0:43:34.280 --> 0:43:37.879
<v Speaker 1>a sucker in world affairs all defined his presidency down.

0:43:39.400 --> 0:43:41.360
<v Speaker 1>It is well known that Donald Trump was not my

0:43:41.480 --> 0:43:44.120
<v Speaker 1>choice to the Republican presidential nomination. Blah blah blah blah blah.

0:43:44.160 --> 0:43:45.720
<v Speaker 1>And he goes in and then I saw these other appointments.

0:43:45.719 --> 0:43:47.440
<v Speaker 1>They're going. Okay, let let's just stop here for a moment.

0:43:48.280 --> 0:43:54.000
<v Speaker 1>Notice how the establishment GOP, what really, it seems has

0:43:54.040 --> 0:44:02.240
<v Speaker 1>set them off is Trump's deviation from their prescribed foreign policy.

0:44:02.760 --> 0:44:05.600
<v Speaker 1>You know, what really is just too much for them

0:44:05.640 --> 0:44:09.279
<v Speaker 1>to handle is this idea that Trump does not have

0:44:09.400 --> 0:44:13.279
<v Speaker 1>to play by the foreign policy rules that they have

0:44:13.440 --> 0:44:15.080
<v Speaker 1>set out, you know, that he does not have to

0:44:15.120 --> 0:44:19.600
<v Speaker 1>approach this as they would. Now, there's a lot to this.

0:44:19.680 --> 0:44:26.040
<v Speaker 1>One is that the the elite GOP types, they they

0:44:26.080 --> 0:44:28.560
<v Speaker 1>think of foreign policy as a realm where they they

0:44:28.600 --> 0:44:34.040
<v Speaker 1>separate themselves intellectually and experientially from the Hoi POLOI. You

0:44:34.120 --> 0:44:37.040
<v Speaker 1>need to be a certain kind of Republican to be

0:44:37.160 --> 0:44:41.520
<v Speaker 1>a well traveled and worldly enough to really understand the

0:44:41.520 --> 0:44:44.480
<v Speaker 1>ins and outs of foreign policy. You know. Meanwhile, I'd

0:44:44.520 --> 0:44:48.239
<v Speaker 1>much rather hear from people who have served in the

0:44:48.280 --> 0:44:52.200
<v Speaker 1>war zones and really know the ground truth about what's

0:44:52.239 --> 0:44:56.840
<v Speaker 1>going on in Rock and Afghanistan than all these very

0:44:57.040 --> 0:45:02.200
<v Speaker 1>arrogant neocon think tank types who just keep saying that

0:45:02.239 --> 0:45:04.239
<v Speaker 1>what we're doing is working. When it's not working. It's

0:45:04.320 --> 0:45:07.719
<v Speaker 1>not working Afghanistan, it is not working. Okay, And we

0:45:07.719 --> 0:45:10.279
<v Speaker 1>could talk more about Iraq. I think the Iraqis. You know,

0:45:10.320 --> 0:45:12.320
<v Speaker 1>here's something you've heard here. I should probably mark this

0:45:12.320 --> 0:45:15.160
<v Speaker 1>down as a prediction. And where everyone's acting like, oh,

0:45:15.239 --> 0:45:17.600
<v Speaker 1>with Iraq, it's all about what the US wants to do.

0:45:17.640 --> 0:45:19.120
<v Speaker 1>I think the Iraqis are going to kick us out

0:45:19.760 --> 0:45:22.439
<v Speaker 1>in the not too distant future. They want us out.

0:45:22.640 --> 0:45:24.160
<v Speaker 1>There are people that are saying, this is why it's

0:45:24.160 --> 0:45:27.399
<v Speaker 1>not South Korea, this is why it's not Germany. They

0:45:27.400 --> 0:45:31.080
<v Speaker 1>don't want us there. They actually want us to leave,

0:45:32.120 --> 0:45:34.000
<v Speaker 1>you know, in the Iraqi problem, and all all the

0:45:34.040 --> 0:45:35.520
<v Speaker 1>idiots that were by the way, I was getting so

0:45:35.520 --> 0:45:38.080
<v Speaker 1>many people yelling me about about Syria, and you know,

0:45:38.400 --> 0:45:40.319
<v Speaker 1>I'll get into that a moment. But all all these

0:45:40.320 --> 0:45:42.520
<v Speaker 1>people they don't know the first thing about what's going

0:45:42.560 --> 0:45:45.200
<v Speaker 1>on are They don't know how many Sodrists meaning supporters

0:45:45.200 --> 0:45:49.360
<v Speaker 1>of Maktada Alsader there are in the Iraqi parliament. Soder

0:45:49.480 --> 0:45:51.000
<v Speaker 1>was a guy that we should have taken out with

0:45:51.000 --> 0:45:54.760
<v Speaker 1>a jadeam a decade ago. And he's a really bad

0:45:54.880 --> 0:45:57.520
<v Speaker 1>dude with a lot of American soldiers blood on his hands.

0:45:58.640 --> 0:46:02.879
<v Speaker 1>And his part is party within the Iraqi system, so

0:46:03.400 --> 0:46:05.560
<v Speaker 1>you know, it is the most powerful party right now

0:46:05.600 --> 0:46:08.799
<v Speaker 1>in the Parliament in terms of seats. Even this is

0:46:09.120 --> 0:46:14.000
<v Speaker 1>whatever gets discussed though, this reality of oh Romney and

0:46:14.040 --> 0:46:17.840
<v Speaker 1>these other goop folks that they act like they understand

0:46:17.880 --> 0:46:20.800
<v Speaker 1>these things so well. They've made a mess, a mess

0:46:20.920 --> 0:46:24.359
<v Speaker 1>of the Middle East for decades, for decades, for as

0:46:24.360 --> 0:46:27.080
<v Speaker 1>long as I've been you know, out of college, these

0:46:27.080 --> 0:46:29.960
<v Speaker 1>guys have just been mucking things up left and right.

0:46:31.000 --> 0:46:33.600
<v Speaker 1>And it's just interesting that that this is what sets

0:46:33.600 --> 0:46:36.200
<v Speaker 1>them off that Trump is debating from them a foreign policy,

0:46:36.239 --> 0:46:39.240
<v Speaker 1>because I think that deep down there's a real concern

0:46:39.440 --> 0:46:44.480
<v Speaker 1>that the Bush era elite GOP folks, um the you know,

0:46:44.520 --> 0:46:47.759
<v Speaker 1>the advisors and the and the so called experts, they

0:46:47.800 --> 0:46:54.120
<v Speaker 1>don't want everyone to realize how poorly they acquitted themselves

0:46:54.160 --> 0:46:55.759
<v Speaker 1>when they were when they were in power. I mean

0:46:55.840 --> 0:46:58.480
<v Speaker 1>it goes to that question. Obama was a disaster. The

0:46:58.920 --> 0:47:01.640
<v Speaker 1>Obama's foreign policy can just be described as unserious. I mean,

0:47:01.640 --> 0:47:03.600
<v Speaker 1>this is not what people that understand the world would do.

0:47:04.680 --> 0:47:06.360
<v Speaker 1>And that's true of his advisors, the true of his

0:47:06.360 --> 0:47:08.520
<v Speaker 1>approach to Iran, It's true of his dithering on SI.

0:47:08.640 --> 0:47:11.480
<v Speaker 1>You know, Obama just had the ability to sit back,

0:47:11.600 --> 0:47:13.640
<v Speaker 1>do nothing, and how the media call him brilliant because

0:47:13.640 --> 0:47:17.560
<v Speaker 1>he's so contemplative. It was a joke. But the Bush people,

0:47:18.000 --> 0:47:23.440
<v Speaker 1>you know, the neo conservative types, you know rip Weekly Standard,

0:47:23.760 --> 0:47:26.720
<v Speaker 1>they do not have a good record on this stuff.

0:47:27.800 --> 0:47:31.160
<v Speaker 1>And I think they're particularly touchy about it because they

0:47:31.200 --> 0:47:33.080
<v Speaker 1>don't want there to be a full accounting for just

0:47:33.120 --> 0:47:36.719
<v Speaker 1>how wrong they've been. But then Romney goes into you know,

0:47:37.080 --> 0:47:38.480
<v Speaker 1>let me, I'm gonna come back into this labe. We'll

0:47:38.520 --> 0:47:42.120
<v Speaker 1>do more of this Romney op ed and I'll explain

0:47:42.200 --> 0:47:44.840
<v Speaker 1>where I am on this. And I think it's important.

0:47:45.080 --> 0:47:47.400
<v Speaker 1>Some of this dominated the news cycle, and the border

0:47:47.520 --> 0:47:50.080
<v Speaker 1>to me and the Wall is so much more important

0:47:50.120 --> 0:47:51.839
<v Speaker 1>than this feud with Romney and Trump, but it does

0:47:51.880 --> 0:47:54.880
<v Speaker 1>illustrate him interesting dynamics when the GOP will be right

0:47:54.920 --> 0:47:58.000
<v Speaker 1>back with this. But Romney's a freshman senator, so I'm

0:47:58.040 --> 0:48:00.319
<v Speaker 1>not sure he's only a top pro publican because he

0:48:00.320 --> 0:48:04.840
<v Speaker 1>was once the nominee and lost. I think eighty or

0:48:04.880 --> 0:48:08.440
<v Speaker 1>eighty five percent of the party supports Trump. I think

0:48:08.680 --> 0:48:12.120
<v Speaker 1>I'm not sure where mid Romney's trying to accomplish. Well.

0:48:12.160 --> 0:48:13.960
<v Speaker 1>I wish it could be more of a team player.

0:48:14.040 --> 0:48:15.839
<v Speaker 1>You know. I'm surprised he did it this quickly. I

0:48:15.920 --> 0:48:18.719
<v Speaker 1>was expecting something, but I was surprised he did it

0:48:18.760 --> 0:48:22.880
<v Speaker 1>this quickly. And you know, look, I endorsed him. He

0:48:22.920 --> 0:48:26.600
<v Speaker 1>thanked me very previously. It was very nice. But I

0:48:26.640 --> 0:48:29.000
<v Speaker 1>am surprised because we've done a lot and he actually

0:48:29.000 --> 0:48:31.799
<v Speaker 1>says it. I read his uped. He said it. You know,

0:48:31.880 --> 0:48:34.319
<v Speaker 1>he agrees, and I don't think he would be able.

0:48:34.360 --> 0:48:35.880
<v Speaker 1>I don't think anybody would have been able to do

0:48:35.920 --> 0:48:37.800
<v Speaker 1>the tax cuts like I did. We got the greatest

0:48:37.840 --> 0:48:43.840
<v Speaker 1>tax cuts ever. There's a very important little point that

0:48:44.400 --> 0:48:47.440
<v Speaker 1>President Trump slipped in there about mid Romney after he

0:48:47.480 --> 0:48:53.160
<v Speaker 1>comes out metaphorically guns blazing with this op ed, and

0:48:53.280 --> 0:48:57.920
<v Speaker 1>it's that Romney sought Trump's indorsement. So just so we

0:48:58.040 --> 0:49:03.440
<v Speaker 1>are all clear, Romney trashes Trump when Trump is running

0:49:04.480 --> 0:49:08.120
<v Speaker 1>and then asks Trump for what we believe, the secretary

0:49:08.120 --> 0:49:12.480
<v Speaker 1>of State job when Trump wins, and then asks Trump

0:49:12.520 --> 0:49:15.880
<v Speaker 1>for his indorsement and wants his endorsement when he's running

0:49:15.880 --> 0:49:18.319
<v Speaker 1>for Senate in Utah. And now his first thing is

0:49:18.360 --> 0:49:21.000
<v Speaker 1>he comes out and trashes Trump. You know a lot

0:49:21.000 --> 0:49:22.560
<v Speaker 1>of this op ed. I haven't gotten to this part

0:49:22.560 --> 0:49:24.239
<v Speaker 1>of it yet. This op ed that Romney or his

0:49:24.320 --> 0:49:28.800
<v Speaker 1>staff wrote, and it's the typical politician boilered plate about

0:49:28.840 --> 0:49:31.080
<v Speaker 1>you know, our allies and our standing in the world

0:49:31.120 --> 0:49:34.240
<v Speaker 1>and blah blah. But this stuff has no real meaning.

0:49:35.200 --> 0:49:38.640
<v Speaker 1>It doesn't mean anything. It doesn't tell you anything. America

0:49:38.719 --> 0:49:42.080
<v Speaker 1>should be good. Thanks, I guess, I guess you've solved

0:49:42.120 --> 0:49:44.399
<v Speaker 1>all the riddles. You know, a miracle should not be bad.

0:49:44.520 --> 0:49:49.400
<v Speaker 1>Thank you. We understand what does that mean? But the

0:49:49.480 --> 0:49:51.359
<v Speaker 1>part of this I find so interesting is Romney really

0:49:51.400 --> 0:49:57.719
<v Speaker 1>focuses in on how character is essential, how character is

0:49:57.760 --> 0:50:03.600
<v Speaker 1>such an important defining characteristic for the presidency. And you know,

0:50:03.640 --> 0:50:05.920
<v Speaker 1>he even says that in the in the titles here,

0:50:05.960 --> 0:50:08.200
<v Speaker 1>the president shapes that the public character of the nation.

0:50:08.239 --> 0:50:11.960
<v Speaker 1>Trump's character falls short. What kind of character does somebody

0:50:12.000 --> 0:50:16.160
<v Speaker 1>have who has no loyalty to those whom he asks

0:50:16.880 --> 0:50:20.400
<v Speaker 1>for favors and for help? You know. One of the

0:50:20.440 --> 0:50:22.880
<v Speaker 1>reasons why there have been plenty of times where I

0:50:22.920 --> 0:50:24.920
<v Speaker 1>could have and look at it probably has hurt my

0:50:24.960 --> 0:50:28.120
<v Speaker 1>career that I don't go after people more, including on

0:50:28.160 --> 0:50:30.799
<v Speaker 1>my own side. It probably you know, I would get

0:50:30.840 --> 0:50:33.400
<v Speaker 1>more attention, which this business is obsessed with attention if

0:50:33.400 --> 0:50:35.560
<v Speaker 1>I would just the moment, you know, I think somebody's

0:50:35.600 --> 0:50:37.440
<v Speaker 1>down and vulnerable that you know I don't particularly like

0:50:37.480 --> 0:50:39.399
<v Speaker 1>in this business, I give them a kick. Or even

0:50:39.400 --> 0:50:41.400
<v Speaker 1>if I do like them, I just know that you

0:50:41.440 --> 0:50:43.840
<v Speaker 1>know I'm gonna pile on when they're at their weakest.

0:50:44.239 --> 0:50:47.279
<v Speaker 1>But as I say to you, I don't. For me,

0:50:47.320 --> 0:50:49.520
<v Speaker 1>it's a question of honor. I do own trash friends

0:50:50.040 --> 0:50:55.560
<v Speaker 1>on air, and I also don't trash people that have

0:50:55.560 --> 0:50:58.600
<v Speaker 1>have been allies of mine. You know, I believe in

0:50:58.719 --> 0:51:01.840
<v Speaker 1>personal I believe in person an a loyalty over professional advancement.

0:51:02.800 --> 0:51:05.960
<v Speaker 1>So what does what does Mit think he's doing here?

0:51:06.400 --> 0:51:09.200
<v Speaker 1>When he asks Trump's for jobs, asked Trump for help,

0:51:09.239 --> 0:51:10.719
<v Speaker 1>I know he'd probably said, oh well, I would. I

0:51:10.719 --> 0:51:12.800
<v Speaker 1>would be serving the American people at the pleasure of

0:51:12.840 --> 0:51:15.560
<v Speaker 1>the president. And Mid clearly has a very high opinion

0:51:15.600 --> 0:51:17.920
<v Speaker 1>of himself, and I don't think it's completely without merit.

0:51:17.960 --> 0:51:19.480
<v Speaker 1>I think I do think he's talented. I'm not going

0:51:19.560 --> 0:51:21.239
<v Speaker 1>to pretend that I'm some Mid hater. I'm not a

0:51:21.280 --> 0:51:25.640
<v Speaker 1>Mid hater. I wish he had been president. I early

0:51:25.719 --> 0:51:28.520
<v Speaker 1>in my career was pushing for Mid to beat Obama,

0:51:28.640 --> 0:51:31.359
<v Speaker 1>but it just was I mean, it was never gonna happen.

0:51:31.440 --> 0:51:35.239
<v Speaker 1>It's just the Obama phenomenon, and with the media just

0:51:35.360 --> 0:51:38.840
<v Speaker 1>running running cover for him in every way, and the

0:51:38.880 --> 0:51:41.879
<v Speaker 1>deck was so stacked against Romney. You know, I think

0:51:41.880 --> 0:51:43.719
<v Speaker 1>he did. People now say, oh, he did a terrible job,

0:51:43.719 --> 0:51:45.320
<v Speaker 1>he's a bad candidate. I think he actually a pretty

0:51:45.680 --> 0:51:48.120
<v Speaker 1>pretty decent job all things considered him. Go back and

0:51:48.160 --> 0:51:50.680
<v Speaker 1>watch that first debate. It was you know, It's why

0:51:50.719 --> 0:51:54.239
<v Speaker 1>I realized debates don't matter all that much because Obama

0:51:54.520 --> 0:51:59.040
<v Speaker 1>just was was smacked around by Romney on that stage.

0:51:59.040 --> 0:52:04.160
<v Speaker 1>It didn't matter, didn't matter. So but this idea of character,

0:52:04.239 --> 0:52:06.759
<v Speaker 1>I also I have a disagreement with a lot of

0:52:06.960 --> 0:52:09.480
<v Speaker 1>my fellow conservatis, including conservatives I really like and that

0:52:09.560 --> 0:52:12.960
<v Speaker 1>I really respect, you know, people at you know, National

0:52:13.000 --> 0:52:14.960
<v Speaker 1>Review and people that I used to work with even

0:52:14.960 --> 0:52:18.680
<v Speaker 1>at The Blaze, who are very anti Trump and really

0:52:18.719 --> 0:52:22.960
<v Speaker 1>think that his character is truly deficient. I don't. I

0:52:22.960 --> 0:52:25.839
<v Speaker 1>don't refute their specific criticisms of the president. I think

0:52:25.840 --> 0:52:27.680
<v Speaker 1>that would be foolish. I mean, I don't think that

0:52:27.760 --> 0:52:30.920
<v Speaker 1>it's unfair to say the plea the president flies off

0:52:30.920 --> 0:52:34.000
<v Speaker 1>the handle and over personalizes things and can be petty

0:52:34.040 --> 0:52:36.320
<v Speaker 1>and all that. I think that's just objective reality. In

0:52:36.360 --> 0:52:39.759
<v Speaker 1>a lot of cases. That said, I also don't take

0:52:39.800 --> 0:52:42.120
<v Speaker 1>my moral cues from the President of the United States,

0:52:42.160 --> 0:52:43.759
<v Speaker 1>and I haven't in a long time. This is a

0:52:43.840 --> 0:52:49.640
<v Speaker 1>guy doing a job. That's it. I don't view this as, oh,

0:52:49.640 --> 0:52:52.120
<v Speaker 1>you know, my children need to emulate the president the

0:52:52.200 --> 0:52:55.200
<v Speaker 1>United States because was that the case under Clinton? Was

0:52:55.239 --> 0:53:03.800
<v Speaker 1>that the case under Nixon? Johnson? JFK LBJ Well, I

0:53:03.840 --> 0:53:07.640
<v Speaker 1>guess already said Johnson. Never mind, you add people like

0:53:07.680 --> 0:53:09.200
<v Speaker 1>Woodrow Wilson in the mix, and then you're like, oh,

0:53:09.239 --> 0:53:13.360
<v Speaker 1>Woodrow Wilson, former President the United States. Huge racist, I

0:53:13.440 --> 0:53:18.319
<v Speaker 1>mean real racist, I mean supporting the clan, thinking people

0:53:18.320 --> 0:53:21.160
<v Speaker 1>of different skin color are less than racist. Racist, like

0:53:21.239 --> 0:53:25.000
<v Speaker 1>the real kind of worst racist in president United States.

0:53:25.040 --> 0:53:27.239
<v Speaker 1>There's a big building named after him at Princeton, a

0:53:27.239 --> 0:53:29.920
<v Speaker 1>whole school named after him at Princeton for international relations

0:53:29.960 --> 0:53:32.520
<v Speaker 1>no less, you know, mister League of Nations. That worked

0:53:32.560 --> 0:53:37.960
<v Speaker 1>out great. So I don't. I don't agree with this

0:53:38.040 --> 0:53:40.439
<v Speaker 1>idea that the president is this kind of moral leader. First,

0:53:40.440 --> 0:53:42.320
<v Speaker 1>and I also think that and this is where Romney

0:53:42.360 --> 0:53:44.759
<v Speaker 1>really loses people. All of a sudden, we're supposed to

0:53:44.760 --> 0:53:46.880
<v Speaker 1>care that Europeans don't really like him. You know, he

0:53:46.960 --> 0:53:49.520
<v Speaker 1>brought this up. You know, in this Pew research poll,

0:53:49.560 --> 0:53:51.759
<v Speaker 1>how people eighty four percent of people used to think

0:53:51.840 --> 0:53:54.840
<v Speaker 1>in Germany, Britain, France, Sweden, the American president would do

0:53:54.880 --> 0:53:57.600
<v Speaker 1>the right thing, and now it's only sixteen percent. Here's

0:53:57.600 --> 0:54:01.480
<v Speaker 1>what Trump said about that play fourteen when they say

0:54:01.520 --> 0:54:04.400
<v Speaker 1>I'm not popular in Europe. I shouldn't be popular in Europe.

0:54:04.640 --> 0:54:06.640
<v Speaker 1>If I was popular in Europe, I wouldn't be doing

0:54:06.680 --> 0:54:10.520
<v Speaker 1>my job because I want Europe to pay. I don't

0:54:10.520 --> 0:54:13.800
<v Speaker 1>care about Europe. I'm not elected by Europeans. I'm elected

0:54:13.800 --> 0:54:19.360
<v Speaker 1>by Americans that had presidents and other people within administrations

0:54:19.400 --> 0:54:23.239
<v Speaker 1>in the past that allowed them to get anyway. Like

0:54:23.400 --> 0:54:24.919
<v Speaker 1>some of them would say, well, no one ever asked

0:54:25.000 --> 0:54:28.800
<v Speaker 1>us to pay. We have negotiations going on with numerous

0:54:28.800 --> 0:54:31.439
<v Speaker 1>countries right now. Is it to pay a lot? From's

0:54:31.520 --> 0:54:34.399
<v Speaker 1>essential point here is why the heck should he care

0:54:34.440 --> 0:54:37.759
<v Speaker 1>what the European populations think about him. He's not the

0:54:37.760 --> 0:54:40.480
<v Speaker 1>president of Europe. He's a president of America. This is

0:54:40.520 --> 0:54:46.200
<v Speaker 1>a revolutionary concept in this country. Apparently, here's one of

0:54:46.200 --> 0:54:48.759
<v Speaker 1>these stories that as soon as I read it, I

0:54:48.800 --> 0:54:54.440
<v Speaker 1>think to myself, these should get ten times the attention.

0:54:54.480 --> 0:54:57.320
<v Speaker 1>Then it will. But for a whole bunch of reasons

0:54:57.320 --> 0:55:00.440
<v Speaker 1>that I'm about to go into. It will be largely

0:55:00.480 --> 0:55:03.319
<v Speaker 1>glossed over or ignored. It and it ties into too

0:55:03.400 --> 0:55:06.320
<v Speaker 1>many things that we're discussing, and now ties into the

0:55:06.320 --> 0:55:11.279
<v Speaker 1>fifth columnist Republicans who do the work of the left

0:55:11.360 --> 0:55:14.680
<v Speaker 1>from inside the party and pretend that it's because they're

0:55:14.719 --> 0:55:19.160
<v Speaker 1>so moral and so ethical, But as we've discussed with Romney,

0:55:19.360 --> 0:55:23.040
<v Speaker 1>it's really just all about advancing their own very narrow,

0:55:23.200 --> 0:55:27.000
<v Speaker 1>very immediate self interests. You know, they decide it. They're

0:55:27.560 --> 0:55:31.239
<v Speaker 1>so worthy and decent and honorable when it's useful for

0:55:31.280 --> 0:55:35.440
<v Speaker 1>them to bash Trump, But sometimes they don't need to

0:55:35.440 --> 0:55:37.040
<v Speaker 1>bash Trump, so then they don't really care. I mean,

0:55:37.040 --> 0:55:38.640
<v Speaker 1>you know, they go back and forth on this. It's

0:55:38.680 --> 0:55:42.360
<v Speaker 1>not really about maintaining or enforcing a set of principles.

0:55:42.400 --> 0:55:49.160
<v Speaker 1>It's just opportunism masquerading as being principled. And let me

0:55:49.200 --> 0:55:50.879
<v Speaker 1>say before I get into this, and I know I'm

0:55:50.960 --> 0:55:52.359
<v Speaker 1>keeping you on the edge here with what this new

0:55:52.480 --> 0:55:56.399
<v Speaker 1>story is. It's important, it's it's big. Let me say that,

0:55:56.680 --> 0:55:59.760
<v Speaker 1>you know, the elites, and especially the elites within the GOP,

0:56:00.040 --> 0:56:02.399
<v Speaker 1>because that's still a thing. They're still there, They're still

0:56:02.440 --> 0:56:04.719
<v Speaker 1>behind the scenes and still involved very much. They're just

0:56:04.800 --> 0:56:08.400
<v Speaker 1>not openly running things the way they were before Trump

0:56:08.440 --> 0:56:12.920
<v Speaker 1>came along. They think, and Romney among them, that they

0:56:12.920 --> 0:56:17.640
<v Speaker 1>have to remind us of President Trump's ethical and personal

0:56:17.680 --> 0:56:20.799
<v Speaker 1>failings as if we don't know. And there's a lot

0:56:20.840 --> 0:56:24.880
<v Speaker 1>of condescension in that. I know about Trump's failings. Okay,

0:56:24.920 --> 0:56:27.280
<v Speaker 1>I know about the three wives, and I know about

0:56:27.320 --> 0:56:29.440
<v Speaker 1>the porn star payoffs, and I know about all and

0:56:29.480 --> 0:56:30.799
<v Speaker 1>we know whether you believe he did that or not,

0:56:30.920 --> 0:56:33.439
<v Speaker 1>and you know, I kind of go back and forth

0:56:33.480 --> 0:56:35.880
<v Speaker 1>on some of the aspects of that, but uh, you know,

0:56:36.040 --> 0:56:39.200
<v Speaker 1>clearly this was a guy who was a philanderer, and

0:56:39.440 --> 0:56:41.680
<v Speaker 1>you know, I get all that, and look, no one's

0:56:41.760 --> 0:56:43.640
<v Speaker 1>no one is perfect, and that shouldn't be you know,

0:56:43.680 --> 0:56:45.880
<v Speaker 1>you don't want to say that, well, you know, you know,

0:56:45.920 --> 0:56:48.160
<v Speaker 1>Saddam Hussein, nobody's perfect, and then that can't just be

0:56:48.200 --> 0:56:50.600
<v Speaker 1>a catch all that you use for everything. But we're

0:56:50.600 --> 0:56:54.600
<v Speaker 1>not talking about somebody who did unpardonable and horrific, you know,

0:56:55.440 --> 0:56:59.440
<v Speaker 1>murderous things. But I'm a guy that he's imperfect. He's

0:56:59.440 --> 0:57:03.160
<v Speaker 1>a playboy, and I think that well, but we all

0:57:03.200 --> 0:57:07.560
<v Speaker 1>know this, and that's why when the Romneys of their

0:57:07.560 --> 0:57:10.399
<v Speaker 1>GOP come forward and say this to us, It says,

0:57:10.480 --> 0:57:13.360
<v Speaker 1>though they think we need to be told that because

0:57:13.400 --> 0:57:16.360
<v Speaker 1>we're either so much less principle than them, that we

0:57:16.400 --> 0:57:18.600
<v Speaker 1>need to be scolded into caring, or that maybe we

0:57:18.760 --> 0:57:22.360
<v Speaker 1>just are so out of touch, out of the loop,

0:57:22.400 --> 0:57:24.840
<v Speaker 1>that we don't know. Well. I would just like to

0:57:24.880 --> 0:57:28.440
<v Speaker 1>assure Romney and the rest that we know we know

0:57:28.480 --> 0:57:31.800
<v Speaker 1>about the allegations and the realities of Trump's failings. It's

0:57:31.800 --> 0:57:35.600
<v Speaker 1>that we also know that we want somebody who can

0:57:36.880 --> 0:57:41.560
<v Speaker 1>serve an agenda that will benefit the American people, and

0:57:41.600 --> 0:57:46.040
<v Speaker 1>that is a righteous and just agenda effectively, and that

0:57:46.120 --> 0:57:47.600
<v Speaker 1>means that you've got to be able to engage in

0:57:47.600 --> 0:57:51.480
<v Speaker 1>the messy, nasty game of politics. Okay, here's speaking of

0:57:51.520 --> 0:57:54.560
<v Speaker 1>all that. This was on Fox News today. An associate

0:57:54.600 --> 0:57:59.080
<v Speaker 1>of the late Arizona Republican Senator John McCain shared with

0:57:59.200 --> 0:58:05.520
<v Speaker 1>BuzzFeed News a copy of the unverified, sellacious opposition research

0:58:05.640 --> 0:58:09.800
<v Speaker 1>dossier alleging that Russians had compromising material on President Trump,

0:58:09.880 --> 0:58:15.520
<v Speaker 1>according to a federal court filing earlier today. Now, McCain

0:58:15.680 --> 0:58:21.160
<v Speaker 1>had on numerous occasions denied being the source for BuzzFeed.

0:58:21.160 --> 0:58:23.720
<v Speaker 1>Remember BuzzFeed was the first one CNN reported on the

0:58:23.720 --> 0:58:27.760
<v Speaker 1>existence of the dossier. BuzzFeed actually published the dossier, and

0:58:27.880 --> 0:58:31.919
<v Speaker 1>now there are court cases about the legality of BuzzFeed's

0:58:31.920 --> 0:58:35.080
<v Speaker 1>decision to do that, because, as we know, there were

0:58:35.120 --> 0:58:38.080
<v Speaker 1>some falsehoods in there. Michael Cohen traveling to Prague and others.

0:58:38.120 --> 0:58:41.000
<v Speaker 1>And this is the pp dossier. I mean, this is

0:58:41.120 --> 0:58:45.000
<v Speaker 1>the Golden Showers the President United States. It's just look,

0:58:45.040 --> 0:58:46.479
<v Speaker 1>I don't know how else to describe it. I gotta

0:58:46.480 --> 0:58:48.800
<v Speaker 1>tell you what it is. I know, look, I know

0:58:48.840 --> 0:58:54.720
<v Speaker 1>it's gross, but this is disgraceful that this was briefed.

0:58:55.240 --> 0:58:57.120
<v Speaker 1>I mean, if I were still in the CIA and

0:58:57.160 --> 0:59:00.400
<v Speaker 1>I found out that the DNI or the FBI director

0:59:00.960 --> 0:59:05.080
<v Speaker 1>had taken some APO Hillary Clinton d NC paid for

0:59:05.240 --> 0:59:10.440
<v Speaker 1>APO research document full of you know, third hand garbage

0:59:10.520 --> 0:59:13.600
<v Speaker 1>Russian sourcing, and briefly to the President United States and

0:59:13.880 --> 0:59:18.040
<v Speaker 1>what was essentially a blackmail operation. I remember, Comey wanted

0:59:18.080 --> 0:59:20.600
<v Speaker 1>to keep his job, right, so Comy presents this to Trump.

0:59:20.640 --> 0:59:23.200
<v Speaker 1>Wanted to suck up to him a little bit, but also,

0:59:23.520 --> 0:59:24.560
<v Speaker 1>you know, because you got to be the one to

0:59:24.600 --> 0:59:26.280
<v Speaker 1>break the news to him, but also to let him know,

0:59:26.320 --> 0:59:28.120
<v Speaker 1>but we've got this on you. You know, this is

0:59:28.160 --> 0:59:32.560
<v Speaker 1>out there. And then CNN somehow knew about this and

0:59:32.640 --> 0:59:34.720
<v Speaker 1>was able to report on how it was briefed and

0:59:34.760 --> 0:59:40.560
<v Speaker 1>it was essentially a form of laundering the dossier. Well,

0:59:40.640 --> 0:59:42.880
<v Speaker 1>what we find out today from and we only found

0:59:42.880 --> 0:59:46.080
<v Speaker 1>out about it because of this court filing, is that

0:59:46.240 --> 0:59:52.560
<v Speaker 1>associates of John McCain, associates of John McCain, one in

0:59:52.600 --> 0:59:59.880
<v Speaker 1>particularist Guy Kramer, allegedly passed along the dossier to the media.

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<v Speaker 1>Now McCain, John McCain passed it on to the FBI,

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<v Speaker 1>which you can decide for yourself whether that was wise

1:00:10.680 --> 1:00:14.480
<v Speaker 1>or necessary under the circumstances. I mean, remember, this is

1:00:14.520 --> 1:00:16.920
<v Speaker 1>just this is essentially a collection. This is a collection

1:00:16.960 --> 1:00:21.120
<v Speaker 1>of rumors. There's no verification, no sourcing, no nothing on it,

1:00:22.240 --> 1:00:25.400
<v Speaker 1>and a lot of it has actually been disproven or

1:00:25.600 --> 1:00:28.160
<v Speaker 1>is unable to be proven, which in this case should

1:00:28.200 --> 1:00:31.840
<v Speaker 1>be taken as nearly the same thing. And now we're

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<v Speaker 1>being told that a McCabe associate, I mean sorry, a

1:00:35.320 --> 1:00:39.040
<v Speaker 1>McCain associate was the one who made sure that the

1:00:39.080 --> 1:00:42.800
<v Speaker 1>media had this to run with against Trump. We have

1:00:43.840 --> 1:00:46.720
<v Speaker 1>we have to deal with friendly fire in the GOP

1:00:46.880 --> 1:00:51.520
<v Speaker 1>in a way that Democrats just don't. And it's really pathetic.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, we have to as conservatives, as Republicans, we

1:00:55.200 --> 1:00:58.200
<v Speaker 1>always have to be ready for yet another person from

1:00:58.200 --> 1:01:01.960
<v Speaker 1>within our own rank ranks to just shank a fellow

1:01:01.960 --> 1:01:05.919
<v Speaker 1>Republican when nobody's looking, with an editorial, with a TV

1:01:06.040 --> 1:01:09.560
<v Speaker 1>news appearance, or in this case, you know, behind the scenes,

1:01:10.280 --> 1:01:14.320
<v Speaker 1>just to do it when nobody's looking. And Democrats just

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<v Speaker 1>don't have this the same way. I mean, yes, you could,

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<v Speaker 1>you could say that, you know, with Hillary and with

1:01:18.680 --> 1:01:23.720
<v Speaker 1>Hillary and Bernie, that was unfair, but they weren't. They

1:01:23.760 --> 1:01:28.080
<v Speaker 1>weren't destroying Bernie's political career always and forever. They just

1:01:28.080 --> 1:01:31.000
<v Speaker 1>wanted Hillary to win. I'm not saying that justifies it,

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<v Speaker 1>but it's different. This was spiked. This isn't somebody trying

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<v Speaker 1>to run. Yeah, people run hard against candidates because they

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<v Speaker 1>want to win races. This is somebody on my own team.

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<v Speaker 1>A Republican is the only person that's going to prevent

1:01:49.400 --> 1:01:52.280
<v Speaker 1>Hillary Clinton from appointing a whole bunch of Ruth Bader

1:01:52.320 --> 1:01:55.200
<v Speaker 1>Ginsburg clones the Supreme Court. The only person is going

1:01:55.280 --> 1:01:58.040
<v Speaker 1>to save us from another eight years of Democrat misrule.

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<v Speaker 1>And this is John McCain's people, and I'm sure with

1:02:01.160 --> 1:02:07.400
<v Speaker 1>John McCain's full knowledge and consent passing along damaging oppo

1:02:07.520 --> 1:02:11.880
<v Speaker 1>research to just to just to smear Trump. And I

1:02:11.920 --> 1:02:14.840
<v Speaker 1>know they're gonna say, oh, it's it's you know, it's

1:02:14.880 --> 1:02:17.160
<v Speaker 1>for the country, it's for patriotism. That's why, you know.

1:02:17.200 --> 1:02:20.320
<v Speaker 1>And John McCain always because military service, we're supposed to

1:02:20.360 --> 1:02:23.840
<v Speaker 1>say everything that he did was was great. No. I

1:02:23.960 --> 1:02:27.040
<v Speaker 1>refused to play that game. His military service was great

1:02:27.080 --> 1:02:29.640
<v Speaker 1>and honorable. What he does after that fair game for

1:02:29.720 --> 1:02:31.960
<v Speaker 1>us to talk about. And he did a lot of

1:02:32.000 --> 1:02:35.160
<v Speaker 1>things that were really just about him. It was really

1:02:35.200 --> 1:02:38.480
<v Speaker 1>just about sticking his thumb in the eye of those

1:02:38.560 --> 1:02:43.560
<v Speaker 1>who were overshadowing the greatness of John McCain from within

1:02:43.600 --> 1:02:46.640
<v Speaker 1>his own party. There's no question that the Russians are

1:02:46.680 --> 1:02:50.280
<v Speaker 1>a problem. We've known this a long time. The Russian

1:02:50.360 --> 1:02:53.160
<v Speaker 1>government is not a friend of the United States, and

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<v Speaker 1>there are very real concerns that we should all share

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<v Speaker 1>about what the Russians are trying to do visa Americans

1:03:00.400 --> 1:03:05.360
<v Speaker 1>and American interests. I don't get nearly as energized as

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<v Speaker 1>many on the left to about all things Russia, because

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<v Speaker 1>for them, it's just a it's gotten tied up in

1:03:10.480 --> 1:03:12.960
<v Speaker 1>this whole narrative of why Hillary didn't win and it's

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<v Speaker 1>because Russia stole the election and all this other nonsense,

1:03:15.720 --> 1:03:18.680
<v Speaker 1>this fantasy that they have concocted. But that doesn't mean

1:03:18.720 --> 1:03:21.479
<v Speaker 1>that there is no problem with Russia. And we've seen

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<v Speaker 1>yet another instance of this where an American who was

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<v Speaker 1>in Russia to attend a wedding, an American named Paul Whalen,

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<v Speaker 1>who's a US citizen, is now being held by the

1:03:36.720 --> 1:03:40.680
<v Speaker 1>Russian government. He's being held in the Leffertovo Prison, which,

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<v Speaker 1>as I understand, is a pretty hellish place, and he

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<v Speaker 1>just got a visit, well, he got a visit from

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<v Speaker 1>a US ambassador of Russia, John Huntsman, and the ambassador saying, look,

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<v Speaker 1>we're going to get our guy out. I mean, this

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<v Speaker 1>is I'm sure it's all nonsense, and the Russians are

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<v Speaker 1>just doing this just because this is just a Russian

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<v Speaker 1>thing to do, like to rub our noses and things.

1:04:01.360 --> 1:04:04.920
<v Speaker 1>I'd like to cause problems where there are no problems.

1:04:04.960 --> 1:04:07.440
<v Speaker 1>And obviously the lie about people, to lie about this

1:04:07.520 --> 1:04:11.920
<v Speaker 1>man's activities, and you know, I don't know why they

1:04:12.040 --> 1:04:15.240
<v Speaker 1>chose to grab him, but they've clearly grabbed this guy.

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<v Speaker 1>And you know, it's it's one of these moments where

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<v Speaker 1>you you got to remember that one part of us

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<v Speaker 1>that you know that that should feel like we're all

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<v Speaker 1>united in is we want the US government when you're

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<v Speaker 1>traveling abroad, you want the US government to really go

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<v Speaker 1>to bat for you and go to bat for its people. Uh.

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<v Speaker 1>And you know, and when you're dealing with countries like

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<v Speaker 1>Russia and China, you know, we've got leverage, but we don't.

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<v Speaker 1>We don't get to dictate to them. We have to coax, cajole, bargain, negotiate,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, threaten a little bit. But it's it's not

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<v Speaker 1>an easy dance. And I certainly hope that we're able

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<v Speaker 1>to get this guy Whalen out of prison soon. His brother,

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<v Speaker 1>David Whalen wrote on Twitter that to quote, my brother

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<v Speaker 1>was detained by the Russian government as an alleged spy.

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<v Speaker 1>And you know it's just Whalen was a Marine Corps

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<v Speaker 1>So not only we got an American that's being held,

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<v Speaker 1>but a Marine Corps vet. He was in the Marine

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<v Speaker 1>Corp from ninety two thousand and eight, deployed to a

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<v Speaker 1>rock twice, was a staff sergeant, and he was discharged

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<v Speaker 1>for bad conduct on charges related to larceny. It says,

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<v Speaker 1>but look, he served his country and um, you know

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<v Speaker 1>this just in no way, in no way does this

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<v Speaker 1>strike me as anything other than the Russians trying to

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<v Speaker 1>thumb their nose at us. They grabbed this guy, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>just because I know that seemed so weird. Why were

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<v Speaker 1>the Russians random the grab? They decided to grab somebody

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<v Speaker 1>and they're holding him, um on BS on BS allegations

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<v Speaker 1>and CNN. You'd think though, you know, and this is

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<v Speaker 1>what what really got me all fired up. You think

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<v Speaker 1>that here, here we got an American, a former marine.

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<v Speaker 1>I know he was son it will be discharged, but

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<v Speaker 1>you know he's a former marine. Would employ do a

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<v Speaker 1>rock twice? All right? The guy made some mistakes, but

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<v Speaker 1>he also served his country and you know he wore

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<v Speaker 1>the uniform and you know, carried a rifle and showed up,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, showed up for his country when it mattered.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, he he should expect that. The journalists, right,

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<v Speaker 1>the same journalist where I was like, oh my gosh,

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<v Speaker 1>it's so scary to be a journalist now and oh,

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<v Speaker 1>Trump is destroying the First Amendment at all. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>they're always whining about something Trump related, and they're always

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<v Speaker 1>looking for solidarity with each other. Oh, you know, Trump

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<v Speaker 1>is destroying journalism. You think that when there's an American

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<v Speaker 1>being held unjustly in Russia, there would the focus would

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<v Speaker 1>just be on telling the story and letting the American

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<v Speaker 1>people know what's going on, but also that we need

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<v Speaker 1>to keep an eye on this and pressure our government

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<v Speaker 1>representatives to get our guy back. You know, we want

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<v Speaker 1>our guy back. This We're not dealing with North Korea here, okay.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, we don't expect the Russian regime to act

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<v Speaker 1>like total psychopaths, although sometimes they can. And yet CNN,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean you, you can't make this stuff up. CNN

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<v Speaker 1>decided to to poke it and they got this guy's

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<v Speaker 1>brother on TV and they ask, I can't you know what?

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<v Speaker 1>I just want you to hear it. Remember, this guy's

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<v Speaker 1>being held in a prison. Who knows if he's ever

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<v Speaker 1>going to see us soil, see his family again. Who

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<v Speaker 1>knows if he's gonna, you know, face the same fate

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<v Speaker 1>as you know some of the other folks that the

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<v Speaker 1>Russians have decided to go after and they've just you know,

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<v Speaker 1>they look, people get beaten to death in Russian prisons,

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<v Speaker 1>they get stabbed, and the Russians say, oh, we had

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<v Speaker 1>no idea. I mean, terrible things happened in Russian prisons

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<v Speaker 1>all the time. And CNN decides to ask the brother

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<v Speaker 1>of this detained American former marine about social media posts

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<v Speaker 1>about CNN. Play it. He had this social media account,

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<v Speaker 1>the equivalent in Russia of Facebook. It's called VK and

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<v Speaker 1>he's had it for thirteen years, and he had various

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<v Speaker 1>postings on their pictures of him in Russia. I think

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<v Speaker 1>the first one that we have is where he took

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<v Speaker 1>like sort of rust and relaxation. Well, here's one. I

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't planning to go to this one yet, but let's

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<v Speaker 1>talk about this one. Here's one where he says just

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<v Speaker 1>drinking coffee and watching fake news. Now I'm not taking

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<v Speaker 1>this personally that he's pictured with CNN, but I just

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<v Speaker 1>am wondering, is this a statement on his part somehow?

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<v Speaker 1>What the heck does that have to do with anything?

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<v Speaker 1>This guy is in a Russian prison on trumped up

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<v Speaker 1>nonsense charges, you know, about being an alleged spy. Complete,

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<v Speaker 1>complete crap, and you know who, his family must be

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<v Speaker 1>absolutely horrified, terrified, And his brother is on with CNN

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<v Speaker 1>the gold standard and TV journalism, which is a joke.

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<v Speaker 1>And you have a CNN anchor saying, well, I'd really

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<v Speaker 1>like to know you know, here I am standing in

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<v Speaker 1>front your brother, standing in front of a photo calling

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<v Speaker 1>CNN fake news? Did he call CNN fake news? You

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<v Speaker 1>know what, there's a lot of fake news on CNN.

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<v Speaker 1>CNN is a lie. CNN is a lie. Let's start

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<v Speaker 1>from that. It is not an objective news organization, period

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<v Speaker 1>full stop. It's all about laundering liberalism for people who

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<v Speaker 1>are pathetically attached to this idea that they their version

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<v Speaker 1>of events, their version of the news is just the truth.

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<v Speaker 1>It's just objective journalism. It's not left wing propaganda. And

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<v Speaker 1>CNN still tries to operate in this this ground that

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<v Speaker 1>is a lie. It tries to hold this position on

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<v Speaker 1>the news spectrum that is just no longer tenable. But

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<v Speaker 1>think about this, this story. Is this they're going to

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<v Speaker 1>ask about about whether he called sn in FA news?

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<v Speaker 1>Does that mean that they don't want to tell his

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<v Speaker 1>story anymore? Does that mean that now we don't have

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<v Speaker 1>an American being held by Russian thugs that we need

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<v Speaker 1>to be concerned about because because he said a mean

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<v Speaker 1>thing about CNN, is that where we should take away

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<v Speaker 1>from this. I just want to know why this overpaid,

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<v Speaker 1>pompous CNN anchor is pushing on this issue to his brother.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, I just put myself in this guy's shoes.

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<v Speaker 1>If one of my brothers, God forbid, I've got two brothers,

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<v Speaker 1>two of the greatest guys you'd ever meet. If one

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<v Speaker 1>of my brothers was being held by a foreign power

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<v Speaker 1>and I was being interviewed in my capacity as a

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<v Speaker 1>as a family member of somebody detained by that foreign power,

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<v Speaker 1>and and CNN was like, well, is it is it

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<v Speaker 1>true that you wrote that CNN is fake news? I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>I'd probably start dropping f bombs on live air, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, how dare you? And this is why people

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<v Speaker 1>this is why people don't trust They don't trust CNN.

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<v Speaker 1>They don't like CNN. Only people that still that for

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<v Speaker 1>their own purposes so that they feel smart, that they

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<v Speaker 1>feel like they're part of the elite in cool set.

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<v Speaker 1>You know. Oh yeah, CNN, that's real journalism, Yeah really, yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Don Lemon is a real journalist. Idiot. You know, Bro Cuomo,

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<v Speaker 1>Hey do I live Bro? You know he's a real journalist.

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<v Speaker 1>He's the biggest draw they have right now for ratings.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, I give him credit. He somehow pulled off this.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't I don't know. He's there's this swindle into

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<v Speaker 1>think of the people that into convincing people that they

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<v Speaker 1>should watch this guy as some kind of a source

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<v Speaker 1>for news. I don't know. But yeah, CNN, we got

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<v Speaker 1>an American former marine detained and CNN wants to know

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<v Speaker 1>if he committed the unpardonable sin of calling CNN fake

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<v Speaker 1>news on his Russian social media account. Wow, it's a

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<v Speaker 1>I'm lad you're here. So who've we got here? So far?

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<v Speaker 1>Um that I can see I'm gab mark, good to

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<v Speaker 1>see you. Oh gosh, yeah, who do we have here?

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<v Speaker 1>It's brutal, folks, It's brutal. Elizabeth Warren has you know,

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<v Speaker 1>put out this this little video of her just I'm

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<v Speaker 1>just gonna get me a beer because I'm just like you.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm just a Bruski drinking American, and I have no

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<v Speaker 1>baggage that I bring to this whole thing at all.

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<v Speaker 1>It's all great. Oh man, she has kicked off her

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<v Speaker 1>presidential campaign. She's one of the earlier ones here to

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<v Speaker 1>throw her her hat in the ring, so to speak.

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<v Speaker 1>And everyone's looking at this and they're just saying, Wow,

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<v Speaker 1>she's she I just think she has no chance. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know why she's wasting her time or everyone else's time.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe it's necessary for her to feel like she's still

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<v Speaker 1>relevant in some way. You know. It's even though she

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<v Speaker 1>knows she can't win, she's going to have some kind

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<v Speaker 1>of an ill fated presidential campaign because she figures, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>might as well go for it. But just this is

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<v Speaker 1>someone who does not have the ability to easily connect

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<v Speaker 1>with average Americans because she's someone who's built a career

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<v Speaker 1>on fraud, really, which is what took place at Harvard.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, people that say that she's some great intellectual,

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<v Speaker 1>they always say, well, it's because she was a professor

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<v Speaker 1>at Harvard. Well, she was only professor at Harvard because

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<v Speaker 1>she claimed to be a minority Native American professor, and

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<v Speaker 1>as we found out from her one one twenty fourth

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<v Speaker 1>Native American DNA result, she's not in any meaningful way

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<v Speaker 1>a Native American. And I can just say that I

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<v Speaker 1>think the President has it nailed here when he says, well,

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<v Speaker 1>this is what he said about Elizabeth Warren running Clay

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<v Speaker 1>clip bit, Elizabeth Warren will be the first. She did

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<v Speaker 1>very badly in proving that she who is of Indian heritage.

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<v Speaker 1>That didn't work out too well. You know, we'll see

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<v Speaker 1>how she does. I wish her well. I hope she

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<v Speaker 1>does well. I'd love to run against her. She says

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<v Speaker 1>she's in the fight all the way. Mister president, do

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<v Speaker 1>you do you really think she believes she can win?

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<v Speaker 1>Well that, I don't know. You'd have to ask her psychiatrist. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't even think she believes she can win. But

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<v Speaker 1>there are lots of reasons people run for the presidency

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<v Speaker 1>even when they know that they have no shot. The biggest,

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<v Speaker 1>most obvious and unnecessary own goal I think I've ever

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<v Speaker 1>seen in American politics was the fiasco of her of

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<v Speaker 1>her DNA results. I've never seen anything like that. Nobody

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<v Speaker 1>was there was no clamor for the results. Nobody was

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<v Speaker 1>pushing to hear or see the results. And whomever I

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<v Speaker 1>think it should be made public record, whomever on her

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<v Speaker 1>advisory staff or whatever it is, whoever told her that's

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<v Speaker 1>a good idea that that person it should be known

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<v Speaker 1>so that nobody ever takes political Actually, don't forget that.

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<v Speaker 1>We want as many Democrats as possible to listen to

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<v Speaker 1>that person's That's a much better way to go about this.

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<v Speaker 1>That's a much better way forward. So we'll see what

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<v Speaker 1>ends up happening. Elizabeth Warren. Also, I saw this guy

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<v Speaker 1>who is it in a Washington State The governor of

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<v Speaker 1>Washington State is going to be running for president. He

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<v Speaker 1>also put his he put Jay Insley, he put his name.

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<v Speaker 1>I had never even heard of this guy. I would

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<v Speaker 1>think it's funny. People say, Buck, you cover politics, how

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<v Speaker 1>could you not have heard of you know, state assemblyman

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<v Speaker 1>so and so or even Congressmen so and something like.

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<v Speaker 1>There's a lot of these people, and most of them

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<v Speaker 1>are not particularly relevant or important. Jay Insley, the governor

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<v Speaker 1>of Washington State, it's going to be running. And this

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<v Speaker 1>is what I think is so fascinating. He's a single

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<v Speaker 1>a single focus candidate, according to the press reports out

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<v Speaker 1>on him already, he's somebody who who really believes that

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<v Speaker 1>there's only one thing that we have to pay attention to,

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<v Speaker 1>or one thing you should pay attention to, and why

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<v Speaker 1>you should vote for him, And who wants who wants

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<v Speaker 1>to guess what it is? Is it the twenty two

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<v Speaker 1>trillion dollars in death that we've piled up? Is it

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<v Speaker 1>that America is? As I've started to read in a

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<v Speaker 1>book by Charles Murray, Coming Apart, Coming Apart, we no

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<v Speaker 1>longer have a shared culture between the various political ideologies,

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<v Speaker 1>and we also actively are encouraged to hate each other

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<v Speaker 1>for our political differences by the media, by the elites. No,

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<v Speaker 1>it's none of those things, that's right. This single issue

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<v Speaker 1>focus of his campaign of Washington State Governor Jay Ensley's

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<v Speaker 1>campaign will be climate change. Oh yes, climate change. It

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<v Speaker 1>really is an amazing state of affairs when you can

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<v Speaker 1>have one political party in this country that takes the

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<v Speaker 1>position that the single most important issue that we face,

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<v Speaker 1>the most important thing of all, is something that the

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<v Speaker 1>other side does not even concede is a little bit important,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, just a just a tad important. Bernie Sanders

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<v Speaker 1>you know, because that's what I would say. Yeah, the

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<v Speaker 1>climate has changing, the climate has always been changing, is

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<v Speaker 1>you know, it's humanity playing a role in this. Is

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<v Speaker 1>human behavior involved in some way and in accelerating the

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<v Speaker 1>climate change? Maybe, But as I say, it's the same

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<v Speaker 1>you get the same answer for me if if I said, uh,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, if I walk into Yankee Stadium, or let's

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<v Speaker 1>do a coverage state, if I walked into Dallas Cowboys Stadium?

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<v Speaker 1>Have I changed the temperature of the stadium? I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>theoretically it's it's imperceptible, right, but my body heat, I

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<v Speaker 1>am another person in that stadium, and depends on I guess,

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<v Speaker 1>on on how how effectively and at what level you

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<v Speaker 1>could gauge the you know, that's what I mean. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>have you changed the temperature of a swimming pool by

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<v Speaker 1>pouring you know, a cup of hot tea into one end?

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<v Speaker 1>Kind of? But not really? Have human beings changed the

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<v Speaker 1>temperature of the globe in a meaningful way? I think

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<v Speaker 1>the answers must certainly know. Anyway, I don't have to

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<v Speaker 1>get into all that right now because the other side

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<v Speaker 1>is just nuts looney tunes. Here's Bernie Sanders and I'll

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<v Speaker 1>read it to you in sender knees. We must look

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<v Speaker 1>at climate change as if it were a devastating military

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<v Speaker 1>attack against the United States and the entire planet, and

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<v Speaker 1>we must respond accordingly. End quote. He put that out

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<v Speaker 1>on Twitter last night. We should respond to climate change

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<v Speaker 1>as if it were a devastating military attack. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know if if he thinks that we need to nuke

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<v Speaker 1>the climate, or if we're supposed to unleash our b

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<v Speaker 1>one bombers on the coal industry. And I don't even

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<v Speaker 1>know what he thinks he's trying to say. And this

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<v Speaker 1>got thousands and thousands, tens of thousands of likes and retweets,

1:20:28.760 --> 1:20:32.280
<v Speaker 1>and people just think it's it's it's brilliant, absolutely brilliant.

1:20:32.800 --> 1:20:37.080
<v Speaker 1>And then you have that that complete fraudster who's going

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<v Speaker 1>to be making a big comeback this year, that fraudster

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<v Speaker 1>known as Oh Gore. He's back and he's trying to

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<v Speaker 1>push once again for well, his favorite pet issue. He

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<v Speaker 1>was on the Daily Show. Here, I'll play it for you.

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<v Speaker 1>There's an interesting report that came out last month from

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<v Speaker 1>the UN, and in many ways I feel like Trump

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<v Speaker 1>is using this as a arguments. It basically predicted, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>hell on Earth, and it talked about how things are

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<v Speaker 1>really going bad. But but the emissions gap was really interesting.

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<v Speaker 1>That was released yesterday by the United Nations. Yeah, and

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<v Speaker 1>what they said is the G twenty countries are collectively

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<v Speaker 1>not on track to meet their unconditional emissions pledges for

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<v Speaker 1>twenty thirty. So countries that are not on track to

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<v Speaker 1>make it include Argentina, Australia, Canada, the EU twenty eight, Korea,

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<v Speaker 1>Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and the US right. Yeah, and

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<v Speaker 1>the EU right. So now Trump is arguing, if nobody

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<v Speaker 1>else is meeting their requirements, why should the US put

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<v Speaker 1>themselves at a disadvantage and you know, lose money and

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<v Speaker 1>work with regulations, yes, when the rest world is not

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<v Speaker 1>going to come to the table. Yeah. Well, first of all,

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<v Speaker 1>since the end of World War Two, there's been one

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<v Speaker 1>leader of the Community of Nations, and that has been

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<v Speaker 1>the United States of America. If we add our leadership role,

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<v Speaker 1>then that lets some of the other country is off

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<v Speaker 1>the hook. We really need it is the reassertion of

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<v Speaker 1>US leadership and the good news. Leaders have the solutions available.

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<v Speaker 1>We don't need any miraculous news. We have the logical brooch.

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<v Speaker 1>You've got one, fine, we'll take it all right, which

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<v Speaker 1>is just the same. It's the same crap from this guy,

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<v Speaker 1>different day. Nothing changes. And this is the biggest this

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<v Speaker 1>is the biggest scam ever. Go back and just you

1:22:24.400 --> 1:22:26.280
<v Speaker 1>don't have to take my workfare. Go back and watch

1:22:27.439 --> 1:22:30.360
<v Speaker 1>an Inconvenient Truth and you'll be like, this is laughable.

1:22:31.000 --> 1:22:33.559
<v Speaker 1>The thing could and look at the date and time stamp,

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<v Speaker 1>so these different models they have of you know what,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, Florida underwater by you know, twenty thirty or

1:22:39.080 --> 1:22:40.479
<v Speaker 1>whatever it is. I mean, go back and look at this.

1:22:40.680 --> 1:22:43.640
<v Speaker 1>The predictions in that movie are laughable, and now we

1:22:43.680 --> 1:22:45.479
<v Speaker 1>know they're laughable, but we're still supposed to think that

1:22:45.520 --> 1:22:48.400
<v Speaker 1>this is going to happen in their right. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know what it is that it's going to take for

1:22:50.760 --> 1:22:53.879
<v Speaker 1>people to finally give up this uh, this this delusion.

1:22:53.880 --> 1:22:55.960
<v Speaker 1>I mean that the climate change alarmists are living in

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<v Speaker 1>a delusion. And there's a lot of day we talked

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<v Speaker 1>about everyone's everyone's been bought off by big cole. Think

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<v Speaker 1>about green energy or big oil, big coal, big oil, whatever,

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<v Speaker 1>same thing. Think about the Democrat platform going forward, I

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<v Speaker 1>mean they're gonna be running on a green energy new deal.

1:23:13.320 --> 1:23:14.680
<v Speaker 1>I mean they really talked with this. They're trying to

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<v Speaker 1>bring back FDR, who they love, even though he put

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<v Speaker 1>the Japanese in internment camps. I mean, FDR somehow gets

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<v Speaker 1>a pass for being, in a lot of ways a

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<v Speaker 1>pretty terrible president. But they want to bring this back

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<v Speaker 1>and make this the centerpiece of the Democrats going forward.

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<v Speaker 1>It's going to be all these jobs. And you want

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<v Speaker 1>to talk about cronyism and chrony capitalism. Green energy is

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<v Speaker 1>rife with that crap. And if the Democrats come back

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<v Speaker 1>into power, a lot of people are going to be

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<v Speaker 1>very wealthy by making you pay more for your energy

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<v Speaker 1>while they get sweetheart deals not by the free market

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<v Speaker 1>but by the government. I don't know what your New

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<v Speaker 1>been a lot of names floated. None of them have

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<v Speaker 1>been really solid or really pushed by any one sort

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<v Speaker 1>of party. Bu parties are sent scrambling in this issue. Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>that congressional district that we are talking about does is

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<v Speaker 1>the most democratic district in the whole state of Connecticut.

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<v Speaker 1>Or I'm sorry, Republican in the state of Connecticut, but

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<v Speaker 1>there's more independent voters than voters that are affiliated with

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<v Speaker 1>any party. So either party is going to have to

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<v Speaker 1>work really hard in order to get people's votes in

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<v Speaker 1>that district. And I think you know that you're right

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<v Speaker 1>when you bring up the point a clip that we

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<v Speaker 1>wanted to pull up of Bree Peyton doing what she

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<v Speaker 1>was known to do it should be a writer and

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<v Speaker 1>TV talking head, pundit analyst. She was a contributor at

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<v Speaker 1>the Federalist website. Those of you who listened to the

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<v Speaker 1>show No pretty well, because I go back quite away

1:25:44.720 --> 1:25:47.080
<v Speaker 1>as with the founder, Ben Dominic and with Sean Davis,

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<v Speaker 1>and so you know the Federalist well, Bree who was

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<v Speaker 1>one of their not just star writers, but was increasingly

1:25:54.720 --> 1:26:00.479
<v Speaker 1>a visible national presence on Fox News and an other places.

1:26:00.479 --> 1:26:05.320
<v Speaker 1>She was a frequent guest on my panel on Hill TV.

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<v Speaker 1>Bre passed away. As I'm sure many of you listening

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<v Speaker 1>to this heard, it became a national news story that

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<v Speaker 1>this incredibly kind, smart, very beautiful, twenty six year old

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<v Speaker 1>conservative rising star just died died in a very short

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<v Speaker 1>period of time. From what they believe is swine flew

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<v Speaker 1>and I wasn't even aware that swine flu was something

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<v Speaker 1>we still had to be on guard for it. It

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<v Speaker 1>just this news came as a shock. I know it's

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<v Speaker 1>been out there for a while, but I haven't had

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<v Speaker 1>a chance to talk to you about it yet. This

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<v Speaker 1>came down on my birthday, I remembered. I went from

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<v Speaker 1>receiving a slew of texts from friends, colleagues, family members,

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<v Speaker 1>but friends and colleagues in the morning saying happy Birthday,

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<v Speaker 1>to all of a sudden, there was a shift, and

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<v Speaker 1>my phone all day was people trying to get the

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<v Speaker 1>news to me of first that Bree was in dire

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<v Speaker 1>straits in the hospital, and then that she had actually

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<v Speaker 1>passed away. I saw a notification on Twitter that they

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<v Speaker 1>were asking for thoughts and one of her her friends

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<v Speaker 1>was asking for thoughts and prayers for Bree. And within

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<v Speaker 1>thirty minutes I saw another another notification that she had

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<v Speaker 1>passed away, and it was it. Look it rattled me,

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<v Speaker 1>It rattled a lot of people that I know. She

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<v Speaker 1>was in very good health. Last time I saw her,

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<v Speaker 1>I was with Molly and Bree and her boyfriend. He

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<v Speaker 1>came up and introduced himself to me. It was quite

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<v Speaker 1>a quite a moment because he had actually been Bree's

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<v Speaker 1>longtime boyfriend, had been an intern at the Blaze TV

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<v Speaker 1>on my show on Real News there, so he knew

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<v Speaker 1>a bit through that, and we had met each other,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, maybe gosh five or six years ago now

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<v Speaker 1>when he was an intern, and Molly and I had

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<v Speaker 1>talked about meeting up for them with dinner, or meeting

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<v Speaker 1>up with them for dinner, and now she's gone. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>not somebody who pretends to have the words in situations

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<v Speaker 1>like this. And I know I speak for a living

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<v Speaker 1>and this is I'm a radio host. It's strange for

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<v Speaker 1>me to say I don't have the words. But when

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<v Speaker 1>someone who is that much of a positive presence in

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<v Speaker 1>so many lives, who is making all the all the

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<v Speaker 1>right decisions, has nothing but bright future ahead of her

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<v Speaker 1>and so much upside and just so much to contribute

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<v Speaker 1>in every way. I don't just mean to professionally, but

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<v Speaker 1>in data to life. And Bree was a really sweet,

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<v Speaker 1>really good person and a very Christian person, a believer

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<v Speaker 1>and somebody who really practiced her faith. And for someone

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<v Speaker 1>like that to be taken from us, to be taken

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<v Speaker 1>out of my world here in DC, just as a

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<v Speaker 1>colleague of hers, I can't imagine the sense of loss

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<v Speaker 1>and grief that her family has her. She has many siblings,

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<v Speaker 1>that her boyfriend has, that her close friends and people

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<v Speaker 1>that have known her for many, many years feel. And

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<v Speaker 1>I don't have any anything, you know, certainly don't have

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<v Speaker 1>anything to make this seem any less terrible and tragic

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<v Speaker 1>than it is. All I can say is that we

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<v Speaker 1>are all on borrowed time. We don't know when it's coming,

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<v Speaker 1>we don't know how it's going to come, but we

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<v Speaker 1>will all we will all meet our end, and it's

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<v Speaker 1>it's I took it as a real wake up call,

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<v Speaker 1>and the fact that it occurred on my birthday obviously

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<v Speaker 1>was just coincidental. But I think already I was in

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<v Speaker 1>a contemplative mood and either thinking about what I've what

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<v Speaker 1>I haven't achieved so far, and I know a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of you probably have the same thing. I tend to

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<v Speaker 1>be more negative on myself, more hard on myself for

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<v Speaker 1>what I haven't done yet than what I have done.

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<v Speaker 1>And I was thinking about I'm thirty seven, and you

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<v Speaker 1>know I needed to do this and neither that, And

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<v Speaker 1>then I realized I got these messages about Brie, and

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<v Speaker 1>I just thought the stuff that I'm wearing, it doesn't matter.

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<v Speaker 1>What matters is you know who you are every day

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<v Speaker 1>that you have and how you treat the people around you,

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<v Speaker 1>how loving and loyal and dependable and kind you are

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<v Speaker 1>to the people that you are dealing with, you're interacting with,

1:30:44.040 --> 1:30:47.880
<v Speaker 1>that are your people every day, and what you do

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<v Speaker 1>in the world, and how you decide to spend your

1:30:50.640 --> 1:30:54.080
<v Speaker 1>energy and your time, That's what matters. Yeah, sure, we

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<v Speaker 1>all we all want success, we all want recognition and

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<v Speaker 1>all these different things, but we also don't know if

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<v Speaker 1>we're ever going to just fall into a high grade

1:31:06.160 --> 1:31:08.080
<v Speaker 1>fever and then a coma and then die one day.

1:31:08.080 --> 1:31:10.559
<v Speaker 1>And it can I mean, if it happened to Breed

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<v Speaker 1>in this way, it's just a reminder that it can

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<v Speaker 1>happen absolutely any of us. Anyone listening to this, me, you, anyone.

1:31:18.760 --> 1:31:21.040
<v Speaker 1>You just don't know. I mean, she was with family

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<v Speaker 1>on Christmas and with friends the next day and everything

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<v Speaker 1>was fine, and then she probably went to sleep feeling

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<v Speaker 1>a little off and had never would have thought in

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<v Speaker 1>a million years that it was swine flew and then

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<v Speaker 1>woke up the next day, or maybe never woke up

1:31:34.960 --> 1:31:37.559
<v Speaker 1>the next day, she was unresponsive when her roommate founder,

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<v Speaker 1>so cherish every moment you have. I really mean that

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<v Speaker 1>you think about what you're doing with your life right now,

1:31:45.400 --> 1:31:48.800
<v Speaker 1>what you're doing every day, and focus more on how

1:31:48.840 --> 1:31:53.960
<v Speaker 1>you contribute than you know how you could achieve more

1:31:54.080 --> 1:31:56.639
<v Speaker 1>personalized goals. You know, who are you? Are you making

1:31:56.640 --> 1:32:01.439
<v Speaker 1>the world around you better every day? And Bree, you

1:32:01.479 --> 1:32:04.800
<v Speaker 1>are missed. So you may be asking yourself, well, what

1:32:04.840 --> 1:32:08.840
<v Speaker 1>did you do Buck over this holiday break? Actually none

1:32:08.840 --> 1:32:10.479
<v Speaker 1>of you are asking that, but let's just pretend for

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<v Speaker 1>a second. Let's just assume for a moment that maybe

1:32:12.960 --> 1:32:15.439
<v Speaker 1>some of you care. I hope you all had had

1:32:15.479 --> 1:32:18.360
<v Speaker 1>a great time. The most unexpected gift that I got

1:32:18.600 --> 1:32:20.640
<v Speaker 1>was actually from our friends at Black Rifle Coffee. They

1:32:20.680 --> 1:32:24.519
<v Speaker 1>sent me a huge, really a war chest out of

1:32:24.600 --> 1:32:28.920
<v Speaker 1>black Rifle goodies of all kinds. So Black Rifle Coffee

1:32:28.920 --> 1:32:30.920
<v Speaker 1>dot com slash buck if you want to go get

1:32:30.960 --> 1:32:33.559
<v Speaker 1>some for yourself. But I mean, I mean an actual

1:32:33.680 --> 1:32:36.120
<v Speaker 1>large Black rifle wooden chest. They sent it to me

1:32:36.120 --> 1:32:38.680
<v Speaker 1>to the Christmas gift. Those guys are awesome, so so

1:32:38.800 --> 1:32:40.479
<v Speaker 1>kind of them, and it was one of the nicest

1:32:40.479 --> 1:32:43.040
<v Speaker 1>gifts I've gotten in a long time as to what

1:32:43.120 --> 1:32:46.640
<v Speaker 1>I did with my time. For those who're curious about that,

1:32:46.680 --> 1:32:50.160
<v Speaker 1>I read a lot, I slept a lot, I read

1:32:50.200 --> 1:32:55.000
<v Speaker 1>a lot. And the books that I read two books

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<v Speaker 1>in their entirety. One is a history because obviously I

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<v Speaker 1>tend to try to read a history book, a political

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<v Speaker 1>or philosophy book, and that a general interest book at

1:33:04.360 --> 1:33:07.400
<v Speaker 1>any given time. And the history book that I so,

1:33:07.520 --> 1:33:10.040
<v Speaker 1>I'm somebody who does multiple books at once, meaning I

1:33:10.080 --> 1:33:13.080
<v Speaker 1>do chapter by chapter of different things. I read The

1:33:13.200 --> 1:33:17.680
<v Speaker 1>Sea Wolves by Lars Brownworth, which if you are in

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<v Speaker 1>any way a fan of the show Vikings on the

1:33:21.280 --> 1:33:25.160
<v Speaker 1>History Channel, or if you are a fan of the

1:33:25.240 --> 1:33:29.960
<v Speaker 1>Last Kingdom I Am Utrid, son of Utred, you will

1:33:30.040 --> 1:33:34.800
<v Speaker 1>be very into this book. It's essentially a much more

1:33:34.880 --> 1:33:41.600
<v Speaker 1>detailed history of that same period of the Viking invasion

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<v Speaker 1>of not just England but Ireland and the kingdoms of

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<v Speaker 1>northern Germany and what was going on in that part

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<v Speaker 1>of the world, and just some really interesting perspective on that.

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<v Speaker 1>Also worth noting that this idea that the Vikings were

1:33:57.320 --> 1:34:00.320
<v Speaker 1>this invincible army and would always beat everybody fought it,

1:34:00.439 --> 1:34:05.480
<v Speaker 1>it's really not the case. In fact, well armed Saxon

1:34:05.800 --> 1:34:10.160
<v Speaker 1>kingdoms were very able to confront and even sometimes defeat

1:34:10.200 --> 1:34:14.240
<v Speaker 1>these Vikings. The real advantage the Vikings had was speed

1:34:14.280 --> 1:34:18.280
<v Speaker 1>and mobility based on their ships and their seamanship, and

1:34:18.320 --> 1:34:20.799
<v Speaker 1>they you know, if you look at a map of England,

1:34:20.840 --> 1:34:22.960
<v Speaker 1>for example, we don't think of it this way, but

1:34:23.000 --> 1:34:28.720
<v Speaker 1>England has rivers that essentially make much of even inland

1:34:29.800 --> 1:34:35.559
<v Speaker 1>England proper accessible by the sea, certainly accessible by any

1:34:35.680 --> 1:34:40.519
<v Speaker 1>narrow draft water vessel. And so the Vikings were able

1:34:40.560 --> 1:34:43.599
<v Speaker 1>to for that at the time with lightning speed, hit

1:34:43.600 --> 1:34:46.800
<v Speaker 1>different areas and they would go after soft targets. And

1:34:46.800 --> 1:34:49.679
<v Speaker 1>the Vikings are really just a it was a culture

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<v Speaker 1>of piracy. It was really a whole society built on piracy.

1:34:54.640 --> 1:34:56.920
<v Speaker 1>And when you think of them more as pirates or

1:34:57.000 --> 1:35:01.000
<v Speaker 1>experger with the big wooden shield and the and the

1:35:01.120 --> 1:35:03.080
<v Speaker 1>acts and all that stuff. Then and they had better

1:35:03.280 --> 1:35:07.400
<v Speaker 1>quality iron as well, which is obviously helpful for hand

1:35:07.439 --> 1:35:10.679
<v Speaker 1>to hand combat back in the day. But the book

1:35:10.720 --> 1:35:14.559
<v Speaker 1>that I really enjoyed a whole lot that I wasn't

1:35:14.560 --> 1:35:17.280
<v Speaker 1>necessarily thinking i'd like as much as I did, was

1:35:17.320 --> 1:35:20.320
<v Speaker 1>by Tom Wright. And the book is The Billion Dollar Whale,

1:35:21.200 --> 1:35:25.280
<v Speaker 1>and it is you got to read it. I mean,

1:35:25.280 --> 1:35:30.280
<v Speaker 1>this is about this guy Joel, who managed to completely

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<v Speaker 1>hoodwink some of the most sophisticated banks, investors, financial institutions

1:35:39.760 --> 1:35:43.840
<v Speaker 1>in the world. And this guy is in his late

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<v Speaker 1>in late twenties when he's doing this. He essentially used

1:35:46.560 --> 1:35:50.679
<v Speaker 1>his social connections to set up a phony Bologny sovereign

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<v Speaker 1>wealth fund in Malaysia, use some Saudi contacts, and then

1:35:54.320 --> 1:35:56.640
<v Speaker 1>throw a bunch of big parties. Next thing you know,

1:35:56.720 --> 1:36:00.320
<v Speaker 1>this guy's hanging out with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Fox going

1:36:00.400 --> 1:36:04.000
<v Speaker 1>on dates with Miranda Kerr, bought her eight million dollars

1:36:04.000 --> 1:36:06.160
<v Speaker 1>of jewelry. She's the Australian supermodel for those of you

1:36:06.240 --> 1:36:08.720
<v Speaker 1>don't know, used to be married to Orlando Bloom. And

1:36:09.240 --> 1:36:11.840
<v Speaker 1>this guy funds the movie The Wolf of Wall Street

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<v Speaker 1>with the ill gotten proceeds of this Malaysian one MDB

1:36:16.600 --> 1:36:20.720
<v Speaker 1>sovereign wealth fund. He spends eighty five million dollars on

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<v Speaker 1>parties in a less than twelve month period. Eighty five

1:36:25.080 --> 1:36:29.360
<v Speaker 1>million on parties and travel and booze, and it was

1:36:29.400 --> 1:36:32.880
<v Speaker 1>all all stolen money. It's an incredible story how this

1:36:32.920 --> 1:36:35.400
<v Speaker 1>guy pulled it off, and you should check it out.

1:36:35.400 --> 1:36:39.439
<v Speaker 1>So the billion dollars Whale highly recommend, and the Sea Wolves.

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<v Speaker 1>For those of you that are into history, roll call

1:36:41.920 --> 1:36:51.639
<v Speaker 1>coming up. The show ain't over yet, folks, keeping it real,

1:36:53.920 --> 1:37:09.080
<v Speaker 1>it's time for roll call. Well, Team, I have missed you,

1:37:09.320 --> 1:37:12.479
<v Speaker 1>so it's great to be back here in the Freedom Hut.

1:37:12.840 --> 1:37:15.920
<v Speaker 1>Thank you for allowing me a bit of a breather there.

1:37:16.200 --> 1:37:20.160
<v Speaker 1>I know that the guest host that we had were

1:37:20.640 --> 1:37:24.439
<v Speaker 1>very well received and people generally, we're quite pleased, I

1:37:24.479 --> 1:37:27.280
<v Speaker 1>think with how that all turned out. So we will

1:37:27.320 --> 1:37:32.000
<v Speaker 1>certainly keep Raheem and Ben and Harlan as well as

1:37:32.040 --> 1:37:35.600
<v Speaker 1>the Godfather doctor Opelka. He's not a doctor, nor is

1:37:35.600 --> 1:37:38.719
<v Speaker 1>he a godfather, but Mike is going to be joining

1:37:38.720 --> 1:37:41.760
<v Speaker 1>in on all that too. So with that, I'm just

1:37:41.920 --> 1:37:43.400
<v Speaker 1>happy to be back here with all of you and

1:37:43.400 --> 1:37:46.000
<v Speaker 1>get a chance to do some roll call. Man, It's

1:37:46.160 --> 1:37:48.320
<v Speaker 1>it's like i've It's like I've just been able to

1:37:48.320 --> 1:37:53.759
<v Speaker 1>return home now. Good things, good times, Team Brad. Ryan's

1:37:53.760 --> 1:37:55.439
<v Speaker 1>Happy New Year, Buck. I hope you had a great

1:37:55.479 --> 1:37:58.240
<v Speaker 1>holiday and got some rest. Yeah, Brad, I think I

1:37:58.320 --> 1:38:00.680
<v Speaker 1>just slept for three days straight. At one point, I

1:38:00.760 --> 1:38:02.840
<v Speaker 1>just wanted to know how much I wanted you to

1:38:02.920 --> 1:38:04.599
<v Speaker 1>know how much I enjoyed all your guests, so it's

1:38:04.680 --> 1:38:08.000
<v Speaker 1>especially Ben Weinearten. I think we could get our young

1:38:08.080 --> 1:38:11.760
<v Speaker 1>up and comers and those interested in politics to take

1:38:11.800 --> 1:38:13.479
<v Speaker 1>a moment and listening people like you and Ben, this

1:38:13.520 --> 1:38:15.680
<v Speaker 1>world would be a much better place. I know you

1:38:15.760 --> 1:38:18.160
<v Speaker 1>try to avoid the whole global warming topic, but I

1:38:18.200 --> 1:38:22.520
<v Speaker 1>thought you might enjoy reading Bjorn Lomberg's The Skeptical Environmentalist.

1:38:22.840 --> 1:38:24.760
<v Speaker 1>It's an older read from two thousand and one, but

1:38:24.800 --> 1:38:28.360
<v Speaker 1>I found it very enlightening. Thanks again for a great show,

1:38:28.400 --> 1:38:30.879
<v Speaker 1>and I wish you all the best in twenty nineteen.

1:38:31.400 --> 1:38:33.599
<v Speaker 1>Brad Well, Happy new year to you, Brad, and thank

1:38:33.640 --> 1:38:36.920
<v Speaker 1>you for your kind message. I'll pass along your a

1:38:37.080 --> 1:38:40.519
<v Speaker 1>kudos to my friend Ben wine Garden. I've known Ben

1:38:40.600 --> 1:38:42.840
<v Speaker 1>for gosh, I don't know five or six years now.

1:38:42.880 --> 1:38:45.040
<v Speaker 1>We go back quite a ways to when we were

1:38:45.080 --> 1:38:48.960
<v Speaker 1>both at the Blaze. But he's a great guy, very sharp,

1:38:49.120 --> 1:38:52.360
<v Speaker 1>very insightful fellow, and I'm glad that he did such

1:38:52.360 --> 1:38:54.920
<v Speaker 1>a good job here when he was guest hosting. And Brad,

1:38:54.960 --> 1:38:57.320
<v Speaker 1>in terms of getting the word out to the conservative youth,

1:38:57.400 --> 1:39:00.519
<v Speaker 1>please tell any young conservative this goes for all of

1:39:00.520 --> 1:39:03.400
<v Speaker 1>you listening. Please tell any young conservatives. You know, Hey,

1:39:03.880 --> 1:39:07.840
<v Speaker 1>have you downloaded the Buck Sexton Show. It's a podcast

1:39:07.920 --> 1:39:10.759
<v Speaker 1>you can download anytime you want on iTunes listen anytime

1:39:10.760 --> 1:39:13.799
<v Speaker 1>you like. You can also listen to the iHeart app.

1:39:14.479 --> 1:39:17.080
<v Speaker 1>So it's really easy for anybody to listen whenever they

1:39:17.120 --> 1:39:19.559
<v Speaker 1>want to listen. And I hope you can spread the

1:39:19.560 --> 1:39:23.040
<v Speaker 1>word Julie right, it's happy birthday, Buck. I heard you

1:39:23.040 --> 1:39:27.320
<v Speaker 1>mentioned you have a birthday or did so? Hope it

1:39:27.400 --> 1:39:29.880
<v Speaker 1>was great. I had a birthday the twenty first. Can't

1:39:30.120 --> 1:39:31.840
<v Speaker 1>have you can't wait to have you live against She'll

1:39:31.920 --> 1:39:34.200
<v Speaker 1>tie well, Julie, thank you, and it's great to be

1:39:34.240 --> 1:39:38.160
<v Speaker 1>back live with all of you. And I'm just thankful

1:39:38.200 --> 1:39:41.679
<v Speaker 1>to be still going strong here on radio. Thirty seven

1:39:41.800 --> 1:39:45.200
<v Speaker 1>years young, thirty seven man, I'm as Miss Molly calls it,

1:39:45.479 --> 1:39:48.200
<v Speaker 1>I'm the oldest thirty seven year old she knows, which

1:39:48.240 --> 1:39:51.840
<v Speaker 1>is true. I'm starting to get creaky bones, I really

1:39:51.880 --> 1:39:53.599
<v Speaker 1>do you know. I know everyone has their news resolution

1:39:53.640 --> 1:39:56.120
<v Speaker 1>with getting back into shape. I'm going to find the

1:39:56.240 --> 1:39:58.600
<v Speaker 1>energy to get back to the gym. I have not

1:39:58.680 --> 1:40:01.200
<v Speaker 1>been lazy. I've just been over to hired. There's a difference, right,

1:40:01.240 --> 1:40:05.479
<v Speaker 1>overtired is is when we're sorry. Lazy is oh? I

1:40:05.560 --> 1:40:08.479
<v Speaker 1>finished work at five. I got there at you know,

1:40:08.680 --> 1:40:11.120
<v Speaker 1>nine thirty this morning, and I just sat at a

1:40:11.160 --> 1:40:12.920
<v Speaker 1>desk and now I just want to watch TV. I

1:40:12.960 --> 1:40:14.320
<v Speaker 1>don't want to go to the gym. That's me being

1:40:14.400 --> 1:40:17.320
<v Speaker 1>lazy overtired has I've been up since five am. I

1:40:17.360 --> 1:40:19.680
<v Speaker 1>finished radio at nine pm, and I have not a

1:40:19.680 --> 1:40:22.920
<v Speaker 1>lot of time in between. I can't go to the gym.

1:40:23.280 --> 1:40:25.600
<v Speaker 1>So I'm gonna try to overcome that. That's one of

1:40:25.640 --> 1:40:27.479
<v Speaker 1>my resolutions for this year. I've got a few of them,

1:40:27.479 --> 1:40:31.559
<v Speaker 1>but that's definitely one of them. At m Rights, I'm

1:40:31.560 --> 1:40:34.600
<v Speaker 1>wondering in relation to the border, could we resurrect the

1:40:34.720 --> 1:40:38.599
<v Speaker 1>private Tiers license to secure the border and add much

1:40:38.680 --> 1:40:43.200
<v Speaker 1>needed incentive to stay at home. By the way, happy birthday.

1:40:45.000 --> 1:40:48.679
<v Speaker 1>Private tiers license, you mean essentially set up the border

1:40:48.840 --> 1:40:53.240
<v Speaker 1>like for bounty hunters to grab illegals who cross. That's interesting.

1:40:53.439 --> 1:40:58.160
<v Speaker 1>Would they be using force? That could get very tricky,

1:40:58.280 --> 1:41:02.000
<v Speaker 1>very quickly. But at least you are. You are thinking

1:41:02.040 --> 1:41:05.960
<v Speaker 1>outside the box, Adam, and for that I give you thanks.

1:41:07.240 --> 1:41:11.040
<v Speaker 1>Carolyn Writes, better start practicing your Elizabeth Warren voice. It's

1:41:11.040 --> 1:41:14.560
<v Speaker 1>a different screech than Hillary Happy New Year. Wow. I

1:41:14.840 --> 1:41:18.280
<v Speaker 1>raw I was a Harvard law professor, and I, you know,

1:41:18.479 --> 1:41:22.360
<v Speaker 1>I just want the redistribution of wealth, and I've got

1:41:22.360 --> 1:41:24.360
<v Speaker 1>to find a way to kind of get into She

1:41:24.479 --> 1:41:28.120
<v Speaker 1>has a there's a faint Midwestern twang, but it's mostly

1:41:28.160 --> 1:41:33.679
<v Speaker 1>just her her unpleasant screech that that comes to mind.

1:41:34.479 --> 1:41:36.360
<v Speaker 1>I'll have to think if I can do a really

1:41:36.400 --> 1:41:38.760
<v Speaker 1>good Elizabeth Warren impression that doesn't just sound like a

1:41:38.840 --> 1:41:43.639
<v Speaker 1>Hillary redux how wow. But we'll see. Um. I will

1:41:43.960 --> 1:41:46.519
<v Speaker 1>keep that one mind. You know, I've never developed a

1:41:46.520 --> 1:41:49.240
<v Speaker 1>Trump impression, and some of you asked me why that is.

1:41:49.479 --> 1:41:51.800
<v Speaker 1>I just think there are so many bad Trump impressions

1:41:51.800 --> 1:41:54.200
<v Speaker 1>out there that I don't want to fall into that

1:41:54.320 --> 1:41:59.160
<v Speaker 1>category of being yet another dumpster fire of Trump impersonation.

1:42:01.320 --> 1:42:05.920
<v Speaker 1>Tia writes, Hi Buck, happy belated birthday. I always love

1:42:05.920 --> 1:42:08.400
<v Speaker 1>your show and love your high quality subs. When you're

1:42:08.400 --> 1:42:12.559
<v Speaker 1>not with us. Raheem is a favorite. Of course. Just

1:42:12.720 --> 1:42:15.479
<v Speaker 1>listen to Harland Harland Show on podcast and his show

1:42:15.520 --> 1:42:19.200
<v Speaker 1>was outstanding, great guests, how to PAUSI frequently to take notes,

1:42:19.360 --> 1:42:22.439
<v Speaker 1>but we still look forward to your return. Well to you.

1:42:23.439 --> 1:42:26.640
<v Speaker 1>I like to have great feelings, you know, some in

1:42:26.680 --> 1:42:30.680
<v Speaker 1>the radio business, there's a there's conflicting ideas in this

1:42:30.840 --> 1:42:35.599
<v Speaker 1>conflicting advice. And I will tell you that some people

1:42:35.920 --> 1:42:40.760
<v Speaker 1>take the opinion that they want to have people fill

1:42:40.800 --> 1:42:43.320
<v Speaker 1>in for them that make the audience miss them. And

1:42:43.320 --> 1:42:46.439
<v Speaker 1>this is a well, this is a longstanding, well known

1:42:46.560 --> 1:42:48.200
<v Speaker 1>radio trick. You know. It's like you always want your

1:42:48.240 --> 1:42:51.920
<v Speaker 1>understudy to be a level or two below if you're

1:42:52.000 --> 1:42:54.559
<v Speaker 1>the lead, if you're the star on the play. I

1:42:54.680 --> 1:42:57.519
<v Speaker 1>don't take that approach at all. I want the best

1:42:57.560 --> 1:43:00.679
<v Speaker 1>fellains that we can get on the show. And that's

1:43:00.720 --> 1:43:03.600
<v Speaker 1>why you know, I'm trying to get new people involved

1:43:03.640 --> 1:43:05.559
<v Speaker 1>and have you and I listen to all of you,

1:43:05.640 --> 1:43:09.559
<v Speaker 1>all of your feedback. I want this this time and

1:43:09.600 --> 1:43:12.719
<v Speaker 1>this whether you're listening live, you're listening on the download,

1:43:12.800 --> 1:43:14.920
<v Speaker 1>the podcast after the fact. I want this to be

1:43:14.960 --> 1:43:17.360
<v Speaker 1>something you look forward to whether I'm here or not,

1:43:18.240 --> 1:43:20.400
<v Speaker 1>but hopefully a little more look forward to it when

1:43:20.439 --> 1:43:23.200
<v Speaker 1>I'm here. That's the plan, But I want you to

1:43:23.240 --> 1:43:25.320
<v Speaker 1>like it no matter what. You know. A good example

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<v Speaker 1>this is I used to fill in, as you know,

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<v Speaker 1>for a Rush Limball, and I can tell you that

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<v Speaker 1>to fill in for Rush is such an honor and

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<v Speaker 1>is considered such a fantastic opportunity and such exposure, such

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<v Speaker 1>a good stepping stone for your career, that even to

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<v Speaker 1>be a fill in for Rush is very, very competitive.

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<v Speaker 1>I know some of you're like, well, Buck, you know

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<v Speaker 1>you and Mark Snein and Eric Ericsson, and you know

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<v Speaker 1>there are a few others that I'm sure come to

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<v Speaker 1>your mind right away. Yeah, But for every for everyone

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<v Speaker 1>who's me, Mark or Eric or anyone else who's filled in,

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<v Speaker 1>there are one hundred people that are hoping to fill

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<v Speaker 1>in for Rush, that have pitched themselves to Rush's team,

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<v Speaker 1>that you know are waiting in line to fill in

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<v Speaker 1>for Rush. So I want that to be the vibe.

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<v Speaker 1>And I will tell you that there are many more

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<v Speaker 1>people that ask to fill in on this show than

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<v Speaker 1>I'm able to accommodate, especially in the last twelve months

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<v Speaker 1>or so, because you know, now that it's in national.

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<v Speaker 1>It was one thing when it was digital only, but

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<v Speaker 1>now that we're in national syndication and people have an

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<v Speaker 1>understanding of how many individuals listen to the show live

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<v Speaker 1>and on replay, they want to they want to get

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<v Speaker 1>to speak to all the U folks. D Rites, Happy Birthday, Buck,

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<v Speaker 1>a longtime listener, What are you coming back to the

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<v Speaker 1>EIB microphone? Well, do you speak in of the EIB.

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<v Speaker 1>There is a a longstanding policy of you can't be

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<v Speaker 1>a Rush fill in if you have your own syndicated show,

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<v Speaker 1>which which I understand. I mean, really, if you think

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<v Speaker 1>about this way, it's it's a way of saying, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>if you're going to be a fill in for Rush

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<v Speaker 1>and you can promote your you're doing, that's great. But

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<v Speaker 1>if you're going to fill in for Rush and you

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<v Speaker 1>have your own show, you know you're promoting it on

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<v Speaker 1>his air, that's his audience. You know, I understand why

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<v Speaker 1>that's not something that's done. So the answer is, as

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<v Speaker 1>long as this show is going, I don't think I'll

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<v Speaker 1>be back at the EIB microphone. But that doesn't mean

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<v Speaker 1>that I'm not constantly in contact with those guys. And

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, you know, the EIB team Rush obviously at

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<v Speaker 1>the head of it are you know, they are amazing

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<v Speaker 1>and I have nothing but nothing but love and respect

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<v Speaker 1>for those folks. Britney writes, hurry up and come back.

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<v Speaker 1>The Freedom Hutt needs you. Brittany, thank you so much,

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<v Speaker 1>thank you. It's very very kind. To you. Very nice

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<v Speaker 1>to you to say, and I'm glad to be back Jennifer,

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<v Speaker 1>whoa quite a long message here. Hello and happy birthday, Buck.

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<v Speaker 1>I hope you're enjoying your birthday on the holiday season

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<v Speaker 1>with some well deserved R and R. I'm sure you've

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<v Speaker 1>heard by now about the Newman, California law enforcement officer,

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<v Speaker 1>Corporal Singh, who was shot and killed at what I

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<v Speaker 1>am onto Suber twenty six. This was the town I

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<v Speaker 1>grew up in. When I was there mostly in the eighties,

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<v Speaker 1>it was practically Mayberry and Andy Griffith show reference. The

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<v Speaker 1>population was about thirty five hundred nowns around eleven thousand.

1:46:12.560 --> 1:46:15.840
<v Speaker 1>My grandparents owned a small restaurant there. There were no stoplights,

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<v Speaker 1>no fast food chains, and the fire department was made

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<v Speaker 1>up of volunteers. This little town is in the heart

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<v Speaker 1>of California's agricultural valley. As you can imagine, there are

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<v Speaker 1>many Mexican immigrant laborers that lived there. Everyone that I

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<v Speaker 1>know still lives or lived in Newman in the small

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<v Speaker 1>towns that surround that, are just heartbroken by the loss

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<v Speaker 1>of this law enforcement officer. He's the first who have

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<v Speaker 1>been killed in the line of duty in Newman. I

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<v Speaker 1>feel a sense of loss, even though I didn't know him.

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<v Speaker 1>I pray for his young family. Buck. I've been listening

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<v Speaker 1>to you since the Real News days on the Blaze.

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<v Speaker 1>I look forward to listening to you when you come

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<v Speaker 1>back to your show. I hope you give this topic

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<v Speaker 1>the discussion deserves. This is everything right now. The man

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<v Speaker 1>arrested for a killing, Corporal Sing, is an legal alien

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<v Speaker 1>with ties to this Sereno gangs that has been busted

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<v Speaker 1>for DUI's Corporal Sing was a legal immigrant who did

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<v Speaker 1>everything in the proper manner to become a citizen and

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<v Speaker 1>a law enforcement officer, and then he was killed in

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<v Speaker 1>this way as sickening. I listen to every one of

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<v Speaker 1>your shows. I appreciate all you're doing. Shields High, Jennifer Well.

1:47:09.040 --> 1:47:10.960
<v Speaker 1>Jennifer Well said at all that, and you know it's

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<v Speaker 1>it is, especially when you are from a community as

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<v Speaker 1>tight en it as the one you're talking about, and

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<v Speaker 1>you lose a law enforcement officer. It rattles the whole community.

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<v Speaker 1>People definitely have a sense of unease and anxiety and

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<v Speaker 1>honestly a little bit of fear when that happens. So

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<v Speaker 1>I can understand why it's as upsetting to you as

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<v Speaker 1>it is, and clearly this the problem of illegal immigration.

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<v Speaker 1>It's just going to continue until we force political consequences

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<v Speaker 1>and the Democrats and some of the Republicans who are

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<v Speaker 1>aiding and abetting this whole process. Donna writes, Happy birthday, Buck.

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<v Speaker 1>Mary Beth writes Happy birthday, Buck, and Donna says, it's

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<v Speaker 1>the same birthday as your son. I hope that, in

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<v Speaker 1>spite of the shocking loss of Bree, you had an

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<v Speaker 1>awesome birthday. Enjoy your time off. I'm looking forward to

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<v Speaker 1>your return. Love you original Saturday Squad. Donna, Well, Donna,

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<v Speaker 1>thank you so much, Thank all of you. I've got

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<v Speaker 1>way more birthday messages than I can respond to here,

1:48:07.640 --> 1:48:09.880
<v Speaker 1>but every single one of them was really appreciated and

1:48:11.160 --> 1:48:14.040
<v Speaker 1>it meant a lot to read them. And that was

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<v Speaker 1>I just took a kind of a day of, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>chilling on my birthday. I did not really do anything

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<v Speaker 1>particularly important, So thank you so much for writing to me,

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<v Speaker 1>and it made the day a lot more special. And

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<v Speaker 1>we've otherwise been and that's gonna be it for today.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow another first show, first show in of twenty nineteen. Wow,

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<v Speaker 1>how time does fly? Like I said, tell somebody this year,

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<v Speaker 1>your resolution as a member of Team Buck is to

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<v Speaker 1>get this month one new person to download this show.

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<v Speaker 1>That's all I want for Christmas, all I want for

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<v Speaker 1>my birthday. And I'm telling you we're gonna be doing

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<v Speaker 1>amazing things with your help. So I just tell one person.

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<v Speaker 1>Each one of you listening to this hey the Buck

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<v Speaker 1>Sex and Show should check it out downloaded on iTunes,

1:48:58.040 --> 1:49:00.880
<v Speaker 1>or listen to the iHeart app and without my friends

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<v Speaker 1>until tomorrow and every day thereafter. She'ls high