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Speaker 1: There's a great clip from nineteen eighty when George H. W.

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Speaker 1: Bush is challenged on how tough he is, and he

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Speaker 1: talks about toughness is about having values and standing for them,

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Speaker 1: being principles. Toughness is not attacking. He understood that the

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Speaker 1: press wasn't the enemy of the people and even said basically,

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, we're all in this together,

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Speaker 1: and I will be here for you, just like I

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Speaker 1: know you would be here for me. What a remarkable

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Speaker 1: difference between nineteen eighty eight and twenty eighteen. At a

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Speaker 1: lot of kind of back handid praise for Bush forty

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Speaker 1: one from the media establishment, you know, a lot of well,

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Speaker 1: we'll put aside the things that we disagree with them

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Speaker 1: on just so we can bash Trump. You know, there's

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Speaker 1: just there's there's all this dishonesty around around the conversation.

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Speaker 1: I would say this to you, I mean, their favorite,

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Speaker 1: the media's favorite thing about Bush forty one is that

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Speaker 1: he was a one term Republican president. Let's start with that.

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Speaker 1: That is their number one favorite thing is that maybe

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Speaker 1: if he were more of a political pugilist, if he

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Speaker 1: wasn't so gentlemanly in his approach, he might have won

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Speaker 1: a second term. Ohoh, you know, look, it's would it

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Speaker 1: could have showed a who really knows. But you know,

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Speaker 1: the Bush Bush forty one, when he was in office,

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Speaker 1: they were saying that he was a warmonger. Uh you know,

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Speaker 1: no blood for oil. I mean, these were all the

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Speaker 1: things that you would hear about at the time. And

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Speaker 1: now you know, some of those same voices are coming

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Speaker 1: out to say, well, let's just take this as an

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Speaker 1: opportunity to bash to bash Trump, and like Trump went,

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Speaker 1: Trump is he's appearing at the funeral. You know, I

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Speaker 1: think he's handled this. I think he's handled this well.

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Speaker 1: I also think that the country's you know, fascination with

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Speaker 1: every minute of the remembrance in the aftermath of a

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Speaker 1: president's life. It's interesting, it does feel, and I have

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Speaker 1: a lot of respect for Push forty one. Now, I

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Speaker 1: never met him. I obviously met his son a couple

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Speaker 1: of times when I was at the CIA and gave

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Speaker 1: him some briefings. I never met Bush forty one. But

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Speaker 1: I am just gonna say that the pomp and circumstance

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Speaker 1: around Maybe this is just from the media coverage angle

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Speaker 1: of it, right, like the guy should have a safety,

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Speaker 1: but the pomp and circumstance of some of this, it

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Speaker 1: does start to feel a little bit like we have

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Speaker 1: a you know, this is like the king, and I

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Speaker 1: mean this in a in a monarchical sense, right that

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Speaker 1: the monarchy has lost one of its own. You know,

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Speaker 1: there's there are there are limits, So I think to

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Speaker 1: what good taste and and prudence dictate for how much

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Speaker 1: time and how much that you know, the country should

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Speaker 1: have to focus on the passing of a future president.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying we've passed those limits whom, just saying,

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Speaker 1: you know, we need to be aware of it. I

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Speaker 1: think there's a lot of and this ties into a

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Speaker 1: bigger conversation than I always want to have, which is

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Speaker 1: I don't think that we should I don't think that

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Speaker 1: we should call former members of government by there. You know,

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Speaker 1: I don't think that you should still be Speaker when

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Speaker 1: you were Speak of the House and art anymore. I

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Speaker 1: don't think you should be called ambassador even when you're

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Speaker 1: no longer ambassador. I don't think, you know, any government

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Speaker 1: appointed title. I don't think you carry that with you

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Speaker 1: the rest of your life. And I start to see

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Speaker 1: some of this, some aspects of an entrenched political political

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Speaker 1: class here that really does feel I mean, how different

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Speaker 1: is is it really from you know, the court of

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Speaker 1: King Louis or whatever. There's a you know, the whole

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Speaker 1: nation is supposed to look. I mean, did anybody who

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Speaker 1: served under under a president or had personal contact with

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Speaker 1: the president. People can feel however they want about this,

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Speaker 1: but if I knew the man, obviously I'd have a

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Speaker 1: particular connection to it. I just think that the expectation,

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Speaker 1: the expectation for a kind of national not just national mourning,

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Speaker 1: but also adulation whenever a politician, which is quite honestly

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Speaker 1: we're talking about, passes away. It just I'm just saying,

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Speaker 1: I think we should be aware so that it does

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Speaker 1: not carry over into a sense of, you know, we

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Speaker 1: are celebrating our our our what's the you know, our

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Speaker 1: our perman not just a permanent political class, but celebrating nobility.

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Speaker 1: That's that's you know, We're not there with Brush forty

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Speaker 1: one because he's a Republican. But I'm telling you, you wait,

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Speaker 1: until you know, the media has a Democrat president who

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Speaker 1: passes away. I remember, and this is also the good

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Speaker 1: thing here is you got Bush forty one, a life

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Speaker 1: incredibly well lived and and you know, incredible service. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, the guy died of old age. He had

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Speaker 1: done it all, man, I mean, he had done it all.

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Speaker 1: So as much as as much as a funeral can

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Speaker 1: be a celebration of someone's life, I think Bush forty

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Speaker 1: ones is. But I just noticed that there's this, you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, everybody, it feels a little bit like there's

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Speaker 1: almost a forced reverence around this, which and I mean

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Speaker 1: for those of us who are walking around just going

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Speaker 1: about our day to day lives, you know, every time

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Speaker 1: we open a newspaper and everything else, this is the

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Speaker 1: This is the main, the main focus. And there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of stuff still going on in the world. There

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Speaker 1: are a lot of things happening here, a lot of concerns,

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Speaker 1: a lot of problems. We're going pretty deep into. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's let's not have our third twenty four hour news

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Speaker 1: cycle where the main thing we're talking about is the

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Speaker 1: you know, the I don't know, the sort of circumstances

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Speaker 1: and ceremonies surrounding the passing of a former of a

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Speaker 1: former president. I know that maybe maybe I'm off on

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Speaker 1: my own this one. I just, you know, I don't

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Speaker 1: I don't like titles of nobility for people that served.

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Speaker 1: And this is separate from the Bush conversation, but I

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Speaker 1: don't like titles of nobility. I don't like people that

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Speaker 1: walk around are still called congressman when they're not a congressman.

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Speaker 1: You know that, no, we we should not have that.

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Speaker 1: And also, you know, the passing of George H. W.

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Speaker 1: Bush Is is deeply sad for his family members and

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Speaker 1: for his friends and people who knew him the way

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Speaker 1: it would be. But that's true of anyone who passes away, right,

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Speaker 1: So I don't know that the rest of the country

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Speaker 1: should should be told that we have to feel anyway

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Speaker 1: about this other than you know, being respectful. And I

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Speaker 1: just it's also I'm somebody who the few funerals, Thank Heavens,

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Speaker 1: I've been to very few. The few funerals I've been to,

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Speaker 1: I'm never you know, I never really know what to

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Speaker 1: say at them, to anybody. And I know, I know

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Speaker 1: this is a common thing. A lot of people feel

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Speaker 1: that way, But at a Bush at this funeral though,

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Speaker 1: at bushy once funeral, I think it'd be pretty easy.

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Speaker 1: This guy served his country and led a great life

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Speaker 1: and was incredible what he contributed, and you may rest

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Speaker 1: in peace and be with God and the angels. Um.

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Speaker 1: That's my take. But then there's there's Nicole Wallace over

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Speaker 1: at speaking of the forest reverence. She's talking about how

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Speaker 1: uh you know, the Bush motorcade was actually arriving on

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Speaker 1: Capitol Hill and and at that very moment, here's what

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Speaker 1: Nicole Wallace of MSNBC, so you got you gotta imagine

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Speaker 1: Capitol Hill, and then Nicole Wallace has a following play eleven.

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Speaker 1: I think what everyone's getting at is that under Donald Trump,

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Speaker 1: the office of the presidency has been debased in a

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Speaker 1: way that is unimaginable for people who served every past president.

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Speaker 1: I think what's lost in this moment is our reverence

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Speaker 1: with Clinton? I just did the select the selectivity here

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Speaker 1: I mean, everything feels like a partisan battle these days.

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Speaker 1: Even when describing aspects of the presidency that you think

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Speaker 1: on Trump. Everything now has to be a commentary on Trump.

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Speaker 1: The wrong when you say that the America dropped out

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Speaker 1: The United States is still in. Yes, we have a

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Speaker 1: Be the terminator, go back and say stop driving your cause,

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Speaker 1: stop all your economic progress, stop spewing the field two

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Speaker 1: What are you doing with all your economic progress? You're

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Speaker 1: ont realized nation. You have to stop it. Schwarzenegger was

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Speaker 1: at a what was this now in the southern Polish

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Speaker 1: city of Cadavis. I don't know how you say that,

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Speaker 1: where you had thousands of international decision makers holding their

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Speaker 1: holding negotiations at a UN climate conference known as COP

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Speaker 1: twenty four. I've got, oh my gosh, I've got so

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Speaker 1: These climate change conferences are are really a kind of

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Speaker 1: don't mean that in exaggerated, in an exaggerated form. I

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Speaker 1: of these They will suffer not at all. And so

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Speaker 1: that's why who wouldn't want to be a part of this. Right,

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Speaker 1: Once you get in, once you get in good with

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Speaker 1: this climate change crowd, you get to go to the conferences,

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Speaker 1: probably fly on some fancy private jets to get there,

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Speaker 1: and you know that what Trump is I'm sorry what

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Speaker 1: Schwarzenegger was saying about Trump. Schwarzenegger was saying that, you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe the president is out, but all the local and

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Speaker 1: state governments are in. This just goes to show you,

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Speaker 1: I mean, who cares? Who cares? What you know, Vermont

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Speaker 1: about climate change other than the residents who live there.

642
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 1: I have to who have to deal with the crappy

643
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Speaker 1: policies that will come out of all of this. But

644
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Speaker 1: in terms of the difference that it can make to

645
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Speaker 1: the problems such as such as it is or in

646
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 1: my estimation as it isn't they're not even putting a

647
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 1: dent in this. You know, there's just no sense of

648
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 1: perspective or context with these climate angel armist you know,

649
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:03,359
Speaker 1: I mean, here, here's a way to a good way

650
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Speaker 1: to describe this. I think, you know, microbiology, I believe

651
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 1: in microbiology. Microbiology is real germs are real, viruses, bacteria,

652
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: all that stuff that's all real. Now, I live in

653
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Speaker 1: a world surrounded by viruses and bacteria and any and

654
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 1: I'm one of them has invaded my nostrils in my

655
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:27,440
Speaker 1: throat right now. And that's why I sound weird and

656
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:29,759
Speaker 1: I'm having a little bit of a tough time today

657
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 1: speaking because I'm sick. But you know, the reality for

658
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Speaker 1: me is that I'm not going to sit around and

659
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 1: be super worried about possibly, you know, getting some terrible pathogen,

660
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 1: because while that could happen, I think it's unlikely enough

661
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Speaker 1: that I'm not going to worry about it now. When

662
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Speaker 1: you look at that most recent climate change report, the

663
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Speaker 1: worst case scenario, which is very unlikely, is so far off,

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Speaker 1: and I would argue so manageable that to spend any

665
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 1: time at all now worrying about it is similar to say,

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Speaker 1: walking around saying, oh my gosh, I need to wear

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Speaker 1: surgical gloves and a mask all the time because there

668
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:18,799
Speaker 1: are germs everywhere and if I don't, I'm gonna die.

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Speaker 1: That it is true that if you don't walk around

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Speaker 1: with surgical mask and gloves constantly, you are at a

671
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Speaker 1: slightly greater risk of picking up an infection and you

672
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Speaker 1: could die from that infection. How many of you worry

673
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Speaker 1: about that? I'm guessing you know, one or two you're

674
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 1: right now are like taking off slowly, taking off your

675
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Speaker 1: gloves and mask. But I'm guessing most of you who

676
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 1: are saying, yeah, that's it's not something that a normal

677
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Speaker 1: person would do. The risk profile just isn't high enough.

678
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Speaker 1: It doesn't justify those precautionary measures. Well, what we see

679
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:55,360
Speaker 1: now is that with climate change, they say do you

680
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Speaker 1: believe in climate change? It's like saying do you believe

681
00:40:57,239 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 1: in microbiology? Yeah, I believe that the climate has change.

682
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 1: Of course I do. I just don't worry about it.

683
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Speaker 1: And I don't think it's nearly as big of a problem,

684
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 1: if a problem at all, as these other people who

685
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 1: have bought into this idea. And it's an idea that

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00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:14,279
Speaker 1: I would note gives a tremendous amount of latitude for

687
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Speaker 1: the redistribution of wealth via the government, for the redistribution

688
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Speaker 1: of wealth from the first world the developing world, from

689
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Speaker 1: you know, America to third world countries and Europe to

690
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 1: third world countries. You know, that's all. There's a lot

691
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 1: of other goodies that are thrown into this as well

692
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 1: as you know, you get to go to these for

693
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Speaker 1: some people, you get to go to these climate change conferences.

694
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Speaker 1: If you're Al Gore, you get to make ridiculous movies

695
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Speaker 1: that a lot of very credulous people go to see

696
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:41,640
Speaker 1: and think are really important. And then they realize that

697
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:44,279
Speaker 1: everything he said in the movie was wrong. But oh,

698
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 1: I'm sure he'll make another one. And this is why

699
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Speaker 1: this revolt by the Yellowjackets the Gila jan in France

700
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:01,359
Speaker 1: is I think resonating with so many Americans, and that's

701
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Speaker 1: why they've backed off. I mean, the big news today

702
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 1: was that there, you know, the French government isn't going

703
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 1: to put these gas tax in place because the people

704
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Speaker 1: are so angry about it, and they realize that the

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00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,719
Speaker 1: French people overall aren't supportive of this, and it's like, yeah,

706
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Speaker 1: and understand that this is just because it's a tax

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Speaker 1: on something that people feel and understand and know. And

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00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 1: the problem that, you know, from the climate changer's perspective,

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Speaker 1: the problem that they run into is that what they

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Speaker 1: need to do is what they usually do, is make

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Speaker 1: sure that the costs of combatant climate change are hidden,

712
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Speaker 1: make sure that the downside of these policies is so

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Speaker 1: spread out in the broader economy that individuals can't get

714
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Speaker 1: to that critical mass of anger that they will be

715
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Speaker 1: mobilized and then do something and mobilized to do something

716
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Speaker 1: about this. That's the mistake they made with this gas tax,

717
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 1: because people go to the gas, to go to a

718
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 1: gas tang where they're already paying over six dollars and

719
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:05,359
Speaker 1: now they're gonna be paying you know, six dollars thirty

720
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Speaker 1: cents that equivalent, I know it would be in euros.

721
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Speaker 1: But they say, you know what, this is crazy, what

722
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Speaker 1: I'm paying this money for what? You know? I mean,

723
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Speaker 1: you know, turned down for what they probably ask themselves,

724
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Speaker 1: although maybe not I don't even know what turned down

725
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:23,719
Speaker 1: for what means, but it's fun to say. So they're

726
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 1: at the you know, they're at the pump, and they

727
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 1: understand that people talk about in this country, you know,

728
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 1: the pain at the pump. I mean, how much do

729
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Speaker 1: you pay? You know, in this we're paying to something

730
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Speaker 1: a gallon for gas. Imagine of all of a sudden

731
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Speaker 1: to Phillip a tank of gas for your car and

732
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Speaker 1: you had to commute every day because a lot of

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Speaker 1: in these French cities the cities are not too expensive,

734
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Speaker 1: so people have to come from a pretty far away

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Speaker 1: and I'm so many I am very sympathetic this. I

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Speaker 1: hate commuting, I hate having to travel. Listens to where

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Speaker 1: it just strikes me, as you know, it's a huge

738
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Speaker 1: waste enough time, and it really costs you, you know,

739
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Speaker 1: a piece of your life you never get back. Imagine

740
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Speaker 1: you're driving an hour and a half each way and

741
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 1: you're paying three times as much. You'd be pretty upset too.

742
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Speaker 1: But once this is the achilles heel of climate change alarmism,

743
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Speaker 1: is when the policies are no longer theoretical and the

744
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 1: pain is made real. That's when all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: you have people that step back and say, hold on

746
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 1: a second, how certain are we about these different measurements.

747
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: How clear is it really that if we don't take

748
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Speaker 1: these drastic actions, terrible, awful, horrible things are going to

749
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Speaker 1: befall this country. Because if the answer is, you know,

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Speaker 1: one in a hundred, I think I'm going to ride

751
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Speaker 1: this out. I think I'm gonna let the system that

752
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Speaker 1: we have by and large in the developed world, capitalism,

753
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Speaker 1: private property rights, rule of law. I'm going to keep

754
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Speaker 1: riding with that, which has elevated more people out of

755
00:44:56,080 --> 00:45:00,800
Speaker 1: poverty in the last hundred years, then we're are lifted

756
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 1: out of poverty in all of human history before it.

757
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna ride out this whole capital thing and not

758
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 1: allow the status hysteria of climate change lunacy to take over,

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Speaker 1: you know. I mean I also just on on a

760
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Speaker 1: person a personal level, whenever talked to my liberal friends

761
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Speaker 1: about this, and some of them, really they look at

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00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 1: me like they have discovered some zoo animal when I

763
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 1: tell them that, because they the ones who know me,

764
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Speaker 1: know that I somebody who reads a lot of books,

765
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:30,400
Speaker 1: and I you know, I enjoy learning new things that

766
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 1: I try to be open minded about different ideas and arguments.

767
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 1: They for some reason they know I'm rock solid conservative

768
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 1: on all this other stuff. But I think they say,

769
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 1: blah blah, raise Catholic and you know, look at his parents,

770
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:45,239
Speaker 1: they're conservative or you know they have some but on

771
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:49,360
Speaker 1: climate change, they figure, well, you can't really not be

772
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 1: a believer in that whole thing. And when I look

773
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Speaker 1: at them and I say, not on my a not

774
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 1: a believer? Why why do you think I don't believe?

775
00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:00,720
Speaker 1: And when I'm always fascinated to buy is they assume

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00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 1: it's ignorance. And I sit there and say, I've read

777
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:06,439
Speaker 1: the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports from the UN

778
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Speaker 1: stretching back for years. I've read I don't even know

779
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Speaker 1: how many hundreds, maybe not even going into the thousands

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Speaker 1: of different opinion articles, editorials, new stories on climate change.

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Speaker 1: Why is it that they think that I'm not worried

782
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:26,799
Speaker 1: about this because i don't care about the world ending,

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00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:30,399
Speaker 1: because I'm so in the pocket of big oil, which

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00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:33,880
Speaker 1: has never given me a dollar that you know, this

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00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:36,920
Speaker 1: is what It doesn't make any sense, does it. What

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Speaker 1: data realize is they have a religious belief. And this

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Speaker 1: always brings me back to because that's what climate change is,

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Speaker 1: the religious belief. And this brings me back to one

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Speaker 1: of the great great things we say here on the show,

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Speaker 1: which is that climate change is a religious belief for

791
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:57,840
Speaker 1: people who think they are too smart for religion, and

792
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Speaker 1: they're wrong. If you want to get into the Christmas

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Speaker 1: slash buck. These violations of the ion f Treaty cannot

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Speaker 1: be viewed in isolation from the larger path of Russian

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00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:09,240
Speaker 1: lawlessness on the world stage. The list of Russia's infamous

813
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Speaker 1: acts is long. Georgia, Ukraine, Syria, election, Medai, scir Paul,

814
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Speaker 1: and now the kirch Strake, to name just a few.

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Speaker 1: In a light of these facts, the United States today

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Speaker 1: declares it has found Russia in material breach of the

817
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Speaker 1: treaty and we'll suspend our obligations as a remedy effective

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Speaker 1: in sixty days unless Russia returns to full and verifiable compliance.

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Speaker 1: Drawn a line in the sands here, Secretary of State

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Speaker 1: Pompeio saying that the US within sixty days better see

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Speaker 1: Russia start to do what it says it will do

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Speaker 1: under a treaty called the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

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Speaker 1: ion F treaty. Pompeio saying, look, you guys are coming

824
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:03,040
Speaker 1: too compliance or we're stepping out of this treaty, which

825
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Speaker 1: means that we can start developing things that we know

826
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Speaker 1: said we wouldn't, and it means that you know there's

827
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Speaker 1: going to be consequences for Russian perceptions of its own security.

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Speaker 1: As a result of this, Russia has developed multiple battalions

829
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Speaker 1: of SSC eight missiles, according to Pompeo, which falls out,

830
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Speaker 1: which puts them in violation of this treaty that goes

831
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Speaker 1: back to the Cold War, and it means that it's

832
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Speaker 1: these are a direct menace to Europe and this is

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Speaker 1: a way of directly threatening NATO and NATO allies, that

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Speaker 1: our NATO allies in Europe, and you know, this is

835
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Speaker 1: the undermines trust between US and the Russians such as

836
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Speaker 1: it is. I mean, not that we trust the Russians

837
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Speaker 1: all that much, but you know, there's a very it's

838
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:50,280
Speaker 1: a bold statement from Pompeo today. It's a clear statement,

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Speaker 1: and I think everybody knows, unlike with the Obama administration,

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Speaker 1: when this administration, when Secretary is State Pompeo, when President

841
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Speaker 1: Trump draws a red line, guess what that red line's

842
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:04,440
Speaker 1: going to be enforced. There's not going to be some

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00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:07,720
Speaker 1: erasing of it. They're not going to say, oh, just kidding,

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Speaker 1: and you know no, They're going to make sure that

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Speaker 1: the Russians fall into compliance or suffer the consequences. And

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Speaker 1: then it just also brings me to you know what,

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Speaker 1: one of the storylines that's out there that just annoys

848
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Speaker 1: me to no end, and that is that Trump is

849
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:30,799
Speaker 1: soft on Russia. Trump maybe has a certain personal affinity

850
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Speaker 1: for the character that's in his head of who Putin is.

851
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Speaker 1: But the Trump administration's policies matter a whole lot more.

852
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Speaker 1: And the Trump administration on when it comes to policy

853
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Speaker 1: is strong on Russia more so than his predecessor was

854
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Speaker 1: not even close. Really, Obama's whole hot mic moment with

855
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Speaker 1: Medvedev where you know, I will I'll have more flexibility

856
00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:58,160
Speaker 1: after my election. You know, Obama was always trying to

857
00:50:58,239 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 1: appease everybody, including Russians. Obama was the appeaser in chief.

858
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:05,719
Speaker 1: And now you're always hearing about how Trump is so

859
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:09,680
Speaker 1: in bed with the Russians. Well, here's what Trump's secretary

860
00:51:09,719 --> 00:51:14,320
Speaker 1: of State says about Russia on the world stage in

861
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:18,239
Speaker 1: front of countless members of the international press. Play clip two.

862
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:22,879
Speaker 1: Russia has an embraced Western values of freedom and international cooperation. Rather,

863
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 1: it has suppressed opposition voices and invaded the sovereign nations

864
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 1: of Georgia and of Ukraine. Moscow is also deployed a

865
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:34,799
Speaker 1: military grade nerve age and on foreign soil right here

866
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 1: in Europe, in violation the Chemical Weapons Convention to which

867
00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:40,759
Speaker 1: it is a party. Russia has violated the Intermediate Range

868
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:46,440
Speaker 1: Nuclear Forces Treaty for many years. The list goes on,

869
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:49,720
Speaker 1: we have to account for the world order of today

870
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 1: in order to chart the way forward. Russia has not

871
00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 1: embraced rest and values, he says, suppress his opposition voices

872
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 1: invade sovereign nation. I mean, he is calling Russia out

873
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:09,439
Speaker 1: in clear and in unambiguous terms. And oh, by the way,

874
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:13,759
Speaker 1: we've also sent more lethal assistance than the Obama administration

875
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 1: did to Ukraine, which is the single biggest military concern

876
00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:22,240
Speaker 1: right now for the Russian government. We've sent naval trainers,

877
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:26,920
Speaker 1: We've sent people to Ukraine to assist in all kinds

878
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:30,239
Speaker 1: of military operations and you know, to provide them with

879
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:33,319
Speaker 1: the training and the know how so that they can

880
00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:36,040
Speaker 1: really fight back effectively against the Russians. Right now, the

881
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:39,160
Speaker 1: big problems that the Ukrainians have, and you see this

882
00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:41,600
Speaker 1: in the kurt Straight crisis, is that the Russians have

883
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 1: them completely outmatched when it comes to their air force

884
00:52:46,719 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 1: at navy. I mean, the Russian navy and air force

885
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:51,920
Speaker 1: just dwarf what the Ukrainians can put out there. Remember,

886
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:54,520
Speaker 1: I mean for the Ukrainians, there's something very bitter sweet

887
00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:59,080
Speaker 1: about this whole thing. And I'm sorry, not bittersweet, bitter,

888
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:02,800
Speaker 1: no sweetens very bitter about this whole thing because you know,

889
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:06,960
Speaker 1: they had at one point a very large nuclear arsenal

890
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 1: after the fall of the Soviet Union, and they as

891
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 1: part of the agreement that they had with the with

892
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 1: the Budapest Memorandum where we agreed the Budapest Memorandum on

893
00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 1: Security assistants. We agreed along with the UK and yes, Russia,

894
00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:29,120
Speaker 1: to protect their national integrity, their sovereignty if they gave

895
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:32,400
Speaker 1: up their nuclear weapons. Russia gave up their nukes and

896
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:35,160
Speaker 1: guess what, I'm sorry, Ukraine gave up their nukes and

897
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 1: guess what now it's being picked apart by the Russians.

898
00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:42,880
Speaker 1: We are not really holding up our end of the

899
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:44,719
Speaker 1: deal with the Budapest memory of him. Now, I don't

900
00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:47,080
Speaker 1: think we should go to war with the Russia over Ukraine, honestly,

901
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:50,480
Speaker 1: under any circumstances, So start with that, but we certainly

902
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:53,719
Speaker 1: can give them assistance and provide them with help to

903
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 1: make it harder for Russia to just piece by peace,

904
00:53:56,760 --> 00:53:59,239
Speaker 1: pull the country apart and consume it, which is really

905
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:01,960
Speaker 1: what the Russian plan is here. So you know, I

906
00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 1: just get frustrated with this because we keep hearing about

907
00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:07,920
Speaker 1: how Trump and Putin, Trump and Putin, I mean, this

908
00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:11,120
Speaker 1: has become an obsessional left and I just I just

909
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:13,880
Speaker 1: don't think it's I just don't think it's reflective of reality.

910
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 1: I think it's something that liberals like to say. They

911
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 1: think they sound smart when they say it. They get

912
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:23,440
Speaker 1: a kick out of, you know, pushing this issue in

913
00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:26,120
Speaker 1: front of you know, in conservative faces all the time.

914
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:28,680
Speaker 1: But when you look at policy and you look at

915
00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:33,839
Speaker 1: what is really moving the needle, you know, the Trump administration,

916
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:38,640
Speaker 1: it's just a more muscular administration in every sense. It's

917
00:54:38,680 --> 00:54:42,200
Speaker 1: just less willing to be deferential. It's less willing to

918
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 1: go along to get along. And that that's what, at

919
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:51,160
Speaker 1: least certainly what I think America should be. You know,

920
00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:54,719
Speaker 1: we should lead you A leadership doesn't mean what's the consensus.

921
00:54:54,800 --> 00:54:58,160
Speaker 1: I'll do that on the world stage or on any

922
00:54:58,239 --> 00:55:01,719
Speaker 1: stage for that matter. This is the very definition of

923
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:05,000
Speaker 1: the deep state. The deep state is that the intelligence

924
00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:09,719
Speaker 1: agencies do things, conclude things, make conclusions, but then the

925
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:13,560
Speaker 1: elected officials are prevented from knowing about this. So if

926
00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:15,480
Speaker 1: we aren't told about this, if I'm not allowed to

927
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:18,680
Speaker 1: know about these conclusions, then I can't have oversight. And

928
00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:21,359
Speaker 1: so then the state grows. The intelligence the deep state

929
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:23,879
Speaker 1: grows and has more and more power. So I've read

930
00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:26,600
Speaker 1: in the media that the CIA has said with high

931
00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:30,000
Speaker 1: competence that the Crown Prince was involved with killing Kashogi.

932
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:33,160
Speaker 1: I have not seen that intelligence nor I've even seen

933
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Speaker 1: the conclusions. And today there's yet another briefing and I'm

934
00:55:37,120 --> 00:55:39,839
Speaker 1: being excluded from that. So really, this is the deep

935
00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:42,600
Speaker 1: state at work that your representatives don't know what is

936
00:55:42,680 --> 00:55:45,600
Speaker 1: going on in the intelligence state. So that was last

937
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:49,080
Speaker 1: week Senator round Paul obviously very upset about the fact

938
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Speaker 1: that he didn't feel like he was getting full access

939
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:59,560
Speaker 1: to the intelligence, the information involving because involving Nbas Moham

940
00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:04,960
Speaker 1: had been almond in the Kashogi murder. And so sure enough,

941
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 1: even though we remember we heard from Madison Pompeo last

942
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:12,839
Speaker 1: week on this when they saw everything, and I think

943
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:14,919
Speaker 1: it's so funny. I think a lot of journalists don't

944
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:18,279
Speaker 1: realize that the Secretary of Defense, if he wants to

945
00:56:18,320 --> 00:56:21,400
Speaker 1: see something, the CIA shows it to him. There's no

946
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:26,480
Speaker 1: there's no oh sorry, sorry, guy who runs the US military,

947
00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:30,360
Speaker 1: person in charge of the Pentagon. That's too sensitive for you.

948
00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:32,680
Speaker 1: That that does not exist. That is not a thing.

949
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:37,880
Speaker 1: And true also of the Secretary of State. Um but

950
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:43,360
Speaker 1: Madison Pompeo sect deaf and sec state. They had this

951
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:45,560
Speaker 1: to say about this just this as a refresher before

952
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:46,880
Speaker 1: we get into the latest to day on This is

953
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:49,600
Speaker 1: what Maddison and Pompeo said last week. Play for we

954
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:55,520
Speaker 1: have no smoking gun that the Crown Prince was involved,

955
00:56:55,640 --> 00:57:00,440
Speaker 1: not the Intelligent Community or anyone Else's no smoke gun.

956
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 1: There is no direct reporting connecting Prince to the Order

957
00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:10,440
Speaker 1: and murders offer. That's all I can say. No direct

958
00:57:10,520 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 1: information connecting him to Kashogi's murder. That's what they said. Today.

959
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:18,640
Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham comes out of briefing with Gina Haspell, the

960
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:23,560
Speaker 1: CIA director, who looks like the world's most unassuming librarian.

961
00:57:24,040 --> 00:57:25,520
Speaker 1: For those of you who for those of you who

962
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:27,160
Speaker 1: don't understand, this is when people say me, look, you

963
00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:29,200
Speaker 1: were in the CIA. You don't look like you're in

964
00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:32,960
Speaker 1: the CIA. I'm like, why, because I don't have, you know,

965
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:36,880
Speaker 1: a pocket protector and wander the hallways muttering to myself

966
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:40,160
Speaker 1: in a in an ill fitted button up sweater, because

967
00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:42,960
Speaker 1: that's that's what you generally, that's what you generally get

968
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:46,120
Speaker 1: at the CIA. Think mad Professor, not James Bond, and

969
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:49,680
Speaker 1: you'll be much closer to the archetype of what of

970
00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:53,760
Speaker 1: what a CIA? You know bureaucrat is like anyway. Um,

971
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:57,160
Speaker 1: but Lindsey Graham came out of the Haspell briefing today

972
00:57:57,200 --> 00:58:00,120
Speaker 1: and here's And I knew Lindsay was gonna say this

973
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:04,520
Speaker 1: because you know, he's he's really strutting his stuff, you know,

974
00:58:05,080 --> 00:58:08,080
Speaker 1: letting his feathers kind of flutter or I don't know

975
00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:09,640
Speaker 1: if that's really a thing. You know what I'm saying,

976
00:58:09,720 --> 00:58:11,840
Speaker 1: Lindsay Graham, He's walking around with his chest pumped up

977
00:58:11,920 --> 00:58:15,040
Speaker 1: after his puffed out gosh, I am, My metaphors are

978
00:58:15,160 --> 00:58:19,160
Speaker 1: getting mixed. I'm terrible of this today. After yes, he

979
00:58:19,320 --> 00:58:22,800
Speaker 1: saved the Kavanaugh hearing in parts, so yes, I and

980
00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:25,640
Speaker 1: I kind of will forever love Lindsay for that. But

981
00:58:26,160 --> 00:58:28,240
Speaker 1: I think he's pushing this koshogi thing a little bit

982
00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:31,400
Speaker 1: too far. Play five. I went into the briefing believing

983
00:58:31,440 --> 00:58:35,480
Speaker 1: it was virtually impossible for an operation like this to

984
00:58:35,560 --> 00:58:40,720
Speaker 1: be carried out without the Crown Prince's knowledge. I left

985
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:44,880
Speaker 1: the briefing with high confidence that my initial assessment of

986
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:50,800
Speaker 1: the situation is correct. Here's my takeaway that Saudi Arabia's

987
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:56,320
Speaker 1: a strategic ally and the relationship is worth saving, but

988
00:58:56,520 --> 00:59:00,720
Speaker 1: not at all costs. We'll do more damage star standing

989
00:59:00,760 --> 00:59:06,000
Speaker 1: in the world and our national security by ignoring MBS

990
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:12,120
Speaker 1: than dealing with him. MBS, the Crown Prince is a

991
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:15,920
Speaker 1: wrecking ball. I think he's complicit in the murder of

992
00:59:15,960 --> 00:59:21,840
Speaker 1: mister Katshogi to the highest level possible. You know, I

993
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:24,120
Speaker 1: don't want to overly parse that was from today. I

994
00:59:24,160 --> 00:59:28,080
Speaker 1: don't want to overly pars Lindsay's words. But complicit or

995
00:59:28,760 --> 00:59:32,640
Speaker 1: responsible for you know, complicit means you know, you're you,

996
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:35,880
Speaker 1: you bear some responsibility. Did he give the order or not?

997
00:59:37,160 --> 00:59:40,080
Speaker 1: You know, did he order the cred so to speak,

998
00:59:40,120 --> 00:59:43,880
Speaker 1: in this case the assassination, And the answer is that

999
00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:46,400
Speaker 1: better be one hundred percent yes or else. What are

1000
00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:49,640
Speaker 1: we even really talking about? But let's just assume for

1001
00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:52,240
Speaker 1: a second, and you know, I tire of the Koshogi

1002
00:59:52,320 --> 00:59:55,800
Speaker 1: story just because one I know that if it ultimately

1003
00:59:55,880 --> 00:59:57,920
Speaker 1: doesn't go anywhere. And this falls into that realm of

1004
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:00,840
Speaker 1: foreign policy where they're all a lot of people in

1005
01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:06,400
Speaker 1: the establishment media and in politics who love to talk

1006
01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:08,960
Speaker 1: about foreign policy because that it's you know, it sounds

1007
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:11,440
Speaker 1: interesting and they think they sound smart when they're doing it.

1008
01:00:12,080 --> 01:00:14,840
Speaker 1: But it's all pretty irrelevant. I mean, it doesn't nothing's

1009
01:00:14,840 --> 01:00:17,480
Speaker 1: gonna change. They don't have any ideas or solutions or

1010
01:00:17,520 --> 01:00:19,800
Speaker 1: any bold vision for anything. It's just kind of more

1011
01:00:19,920 --> 01:00:22,560
Speaker 1: the same. But you get the sense that a lot

1012
01:00:22,600 --> 01:00:25,400
Speaker 1: of these senators are excited to share with everybody that

1013
01:00:25,560 --> 01:00:28,080
Speaker 1: now they can name like the main ethnic groups in X,

1014
01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:30,240
Speaker 1: y or Z country, and they want to kind of

1015
01:00:30,240 --> 01:00:34,280
Speaker 1: strut their stuff, you know. Lindsey Graham on the Kashogi situation,

1016
01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:37,400
Speaker 1: what are we really gonna do? We're gonna not deal

1017
01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:39,480
Speaker 1: with the leader of Saudi Arabia. That's not an option

1018
01:00:40,440 --> 01:00:42,920
Speaker 1: if we're gonna deal with Saudi Arabia, right? I mean,

1019
01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:45,400
Speaker 1: would would we as a as a sovereign nation, would

1020
01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:49,400
Speaker 1: we continue a relationship with a country that said that

1021
01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:51,800
Speaker 1: they would not meet with President Trump, that their their

1022
01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:54,960
Speaker 1: president will no longer take phone calls from Trump, will

1023
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:57,280
Speaker 1: no longer have any relationship with the President United States.

1024
01:00:57,600 --> 01:00:59,480
Speaker 1: I think the answer that's I mean, we've never really

1025
01:00:59,520 --> 01:01:00,880
Speaker 1: come up again into that before, but I think the

1026
01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:06,640
Speaker 1: answer is no. And why also should we abandon all

1027
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:10,560
Speaker 1: US foreign policy interests in Saudi Arabia because of this

1028
01:01:11,080 --> 01:01:15,240
Speaker 1: one incident? Is? What is the acceptable punishment? And how

1029
01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:18,720
Speaker 1: do we get people to stop harping on this issue.

1030
01:01:18,760 --> 01:01:21,439
Speaker 1: I mean, there have been Magnitsky sanctions put in place.

1031
01:01:21,800 --> 01:01:25,400
Speaker 1: The administration has given a statement about this, They've said

1032
01:01:25,400 --> 01:01:28,160
Speaker 1: it's completely unacceptable. What has to be done and I

1033
01:01:28,240 --> 01:01:30,320
Speaker 1: really mean this. What has to be done for this

1034
01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:33,919
Speaker 1: to no longer be something that we hear about day

1035
01:01:34,040 --> 01:01:37,800
Speaker 1: in and day out. Now, what has to happen for

1036
01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:42,560
Speaker 1: the Libs to stop acting like there's nothing more important

1037
01:01:42,600 --> 01:01:45,480
Speaker 1: for the country to focus on than the murder of

1038
01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:49,400
Speaker 1: Jamalka showed what do we what do we have to do?

1039
01:01:49,600 --> 01:01:51,600
Speaker 1: And I mean that as an open question. I don't

1040
01:01:51,640 --> 01:01:54,240
Speaker 1: know what they think. The answer is, we're going to

1041
01:01:54,360 --> 01:01:58,760
Speaker 1: sanction the leader of Saudi Arabia. We're going to seize

1042
01:01:58,840 --> 01:02:02,200
Speaker 1: his assets. By the way, he's going to claim that

1043
01:02:02,280 --> 01:02:04,560
Speaker 1: he's innocent, that he's been framed, that this isn't you know,

1044
01:02:04,680 --> 01:02:07,560
Speaker 1: there's really no We have no jurisdiction here, there's no

1045
01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:10,120
Speaker 1: criminal proceeding to speak of. There's nothing that we can do.

1046
01:02:11,120 --> 01:02:12,640
Speaker 1: And he gets no problem. Now, I mean, I know

1047
01:02:12,680 --> 01:02:14,640
Speaker 1: people don't think of this way. He gets no due process.

1048
01:02:15,280 --> 01:02:18,880
Speaker 1: We're talking about intelligence collection. The reason that intelligence collection

1049
01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:24,160
Speaker 1: is not a part of you know, your standard when

1050
01:02:24,160 --> 01:02:26,000
Speaker 1: you're dealing with US citizens, for example, it's not a

1051
01:02:26,040 --> 01:02:28,480
Speaker 1: part of your of your standard toolkit for law enforcement

1052
01:02:28,960 --> 01:02:30,600
Speaker 1: is that intelligence collection. A lot of it is what

1053
01:02:30,680 --> 01:02:33,080
Speaker 1: you'd call hearsay in court. A lot of it is

1054
01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:35,440
Speaker 1: you know, third parties that think they heard this thing

1055
01:02:35,560 --> 01:02:38,160
Speaker 1: from this guy and you just want the information or

1056
01:02:38,160 --> 01:02:41,400
Speaker 1: you're making assessments, but it's not all vetted, it's not

1057
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:43,960
Speaker 1: all clear. And I just also have to take a

1058
01:02:44,040 --> 01:02:47,920
Speaker 1: moment to remind everyone that the same libs who just

1059
01:02:48,520 --> 01:02:52,600
Speaker 1: hammered hammered the intelligence community and the CIA in particular

1060
01:02:53,240 --> 01:02:57,040
Speaker 1: for the intelligence leading up to the Iraq War, and

1061
01:02:57,280 --> 01:02:59,520
Speaker 1: you know, it was one of the biggest blunders in history,

1062
01:02:59,640 --> 01:03:02,360
Speaker 1: and you know, terrible. The cias blood understands all that.

1063
01:03:03,080 --> 01:03:06,120
Speaker 1: They now believe that that that we can turn to

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Speaker 1: CIA and they'll tell us whether somebody is responsible for

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Speaker 1: giving the order for a murder in a foreign country

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Speaker 1: with one hundred percent certainty. That just seems like a

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Speaker 1: standard that has been changed to fit the needs of

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Speaker 1: the moment. That doesn't seem like it's based in the

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Speaker 1: objective reality. To me, that doesn't seem like it's something

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Speaker 1: that you know, we should all just accept. On its face.

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Speaker 1: So and I don't think that the Koshogi, the Koshogi

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Speaker 1: murder is enough for America to turn its back on

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Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia. I just I as a country. Sure there

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Speaker 1: are individuals was we've taken action against them, but it's

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Speaker 1: just not enough. And you know, it's a cold, cruel

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Speaker 1: world that we live in. But I remember we we

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Speaker 1: look at this situation from the perspective of not just

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Speaker 1: what's happening right now. We might have to deal with

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Speaker 1: this guy MBS for the next forty years. So a

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Speaker 1: lot of whining about this, no solutions. That tells you

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Speaker 1: a lot who wants to take a little trip to

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Speaker 1: crazytown with me right now? In this case Seattle and

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Speaker 1: the latest the latest nonsense from an Antifa courtesy of

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Speaker 1: our friend Andy no over at Quillette. We played that

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Speaker 1: audio for you earlier the week. We played yesterday for you.

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Speaker 1: That guy who's eventually saying that you know death is

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Speaker 1: coming for you, and you know people are willing to

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Speaker 1: die for this cause. Guy's clearly clearly a loon. Now

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Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that he's not a problem, right, Loons

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Speaker 1: can be very very dangerous. It just means I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying that his mentality is representative of all of the

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Speaker 1: hard line left. But I'm not saying it's not either.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, he's because because the radicals on

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Speaker 1: the left are increasingly I think, you know, embolden is

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Speaker 1: the word they always used for Trump and white nationals. Oh,

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Speaker 1: Trump has embolden white national And I'm saying by calling

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Speaker 1: them losers and by being a billionaire who's married to

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Speaker 1: an immigrant from Eastern Europe, what do you mean he's

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Speaker 1: emboldening white nationals. I mean, this is just this is

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01:05:09,440 --> 01:05:11,800
Speaker 1: just something that people say because they think it sounds good.

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01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:16,880
Speaker 1: But in the case of the far left, you know,

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Speaker 1: you'll you have important voices in the Democratic Party who

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01:05:21,480 --> 01:05:28,520
Speaker 1: will make excuses for these real hardline, hardcore activists slash rioters,

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Speaker 1: And as you know, riots get results, as we saw

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Speaker 1: in France. You know, riots gonna be a very powerful tool.

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Speaker 1: But this is what I think really shocks people when

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Speaker 1: they dig a little deeper into what it's like out

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Speaker 1: in and some of these West Coast cities like Portland

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Speaker 1: and Seattle and Oakland, where you have official complicity with

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Speaker 1: some of these riots, or at least a kind of

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01:05:51,760 --> 01:05:57,000
Speaker 1: apathy slash excuse making for the worst actors on the left.

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Speaker 1: You know, this is why you had Occupy Ice in

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Speaker 1: Portland for a while, where people were harassing an ICE

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Speaker 1: office there. They gathered outside of it. They have this

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Speaker 1: encampment and you know they could have cleared it, but

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01:06:08,120 --> 01:06:10,200
Speaker 1: you know, they don't want to clear it. They could

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01:06:10,240 --> 01:06:11,760
Speaker 1: have taken action, but they don't want to. You know,

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Speaker 1: it wouldn't have these protesters who start getting rowdy and

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01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:18,520
Speaker 1: violent and breaking laws and the police don't swoop in.

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Speaker 1: You know, you'll have some you know, the mayor of

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Speaker 1: Portland for example, and another prominent leftists in local politics,

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Speaker 1: depending on the city we're talking about, they'll say, yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: you know, we want to give them. Member in Baltimore

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Speaker 1: wanted to give them space to destroy. That's a perfect example,

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Speaker 1: you know that Black Lives matter whatever that riot, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you can't even really call it a protest. They're burning

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Speaker 1: things down, and they said it was because they wanted

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Speaker 1: to give those those protesters space to destroy. That was

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Speaker 1: the either the police chief of the mayor of Baltimore,

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Speaker 1: I can't remember which one it was, but Andy who

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01:06:56,680 --> 01:06:59,800
Speaker 1: was gathered or rather was around a gathering of a

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty self describe anti fascist protesters in downtown Seattle,

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Speaker 1: UM and there was a conservative group that says it

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01:07:10,120 --> 01:07:13,600
Speaker 1: is a constitutionalist group. There. The anti VA has the

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01:07:13,840 --> 01:07:17,360
Speaker 1: has the flag of the Soviet Union flying first of all,

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Speaker 1: so start with that. I mean, these people are celebrating

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Speaker 1: a a genocidal regime. I don't even think they realize

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01:07:24,160 --> 01:07:27,600
Speaker 1: that it's a genocidal regime because they're they're ignorant of history,

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01:07:27,600 --> 01:07:32,400
Speaker 1: and they're generally not very smart. But Andy had an

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Speaker 1: exchange with a police officer, a police officer that I

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01:07:36,480 --> 01:07:40,080
Speaker 1: thought was really interesting and is indicative of a much

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Speaker 1: more widespread problem. Play fifteen. The boy you're inciting, we're

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01:07:46,440 --> 01:07:49,720
Speaker 1: gonna dix some attinute to move you from Mary. Understand that,

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01:07:50,040 --> 01:07:54,280
Speaker 1: how am, because we're ending up in confrontation here, and

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01:07:54,320 --> 01:07:57,240
Speaker 1: it becomes this can become a public safety issue for

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01:07:57,360 --> 01:07:59,680
Speaker 1: it's difficult for us to advantage the other people potentially

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01:07:59,680 --> 01:08:02,440
Speaker 1: getting heart. Okay, okay, Now, if you want to protest,

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01:08:02,520 --> 01:08:06,080
Speaker 1: you have the absolutely right expersation. I'm not protestation. You

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01:08:06,160 --> 01:08:08,240
Speaker 1: have right to be where you want to beat a

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01:08:08,320 --> 01:08:13,880
Speaker 1: cl extent as well. But if we're creating if we're

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01:08:13,880 --> 01:08:17,439
Speaker 1: exciting a potential. Okay, just let me know when you

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01:08:17,560 --> 01:08:20,719
Speaker 1: think that I'm doing that in how I can de escalate. Okay.

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Speaker 1: So look, I know the cops here have a tough job.

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01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:29,160
Speaker 1: I get it, okay, And they really just want everybody

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01:08:29,200 --> 01:08:31,080
Speaker 1: to go home with all their teeth in place and

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01:08:31,280 --> 01:08:34,600
Speaker 1: and all the red I get that too. But I

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01:08:34,720 --> 01:08:37,040
Speaker 1: also think that what you see here is is a

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Speaker 1: more commonplace issue on on the left or when when

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01:08:42,800 --> 01:08:44,519
Speaker 1: you're dealing with the left, and that is that because

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01:08:44,680 --> 01:08:49,040
Speaker 1: they're willing to escalate to violence, it becomes your problem

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01:08:49,280 --> 01:08:52,600
Speaker 1: and your rights are truncated. Right. You see this on

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01:08:52,640 --> 01:08:57,280
Speaker 1: the college campuses, the presence of a conservative speaker is

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01:08:57,360 --> 01:09:02,000
Speaker 1: a safety issue, and that's why conservatives are not allowed

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Speaker 1: on the campus. It's not that it's not that they're

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01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:06,840
Speaker 1: shutting down speech. It's a safety issue, they will say.

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Speaker 1: And actually the Young America's Foundation, I think just one

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01:09:11,280 --> 01:09:15,960
Speaker 1: a lawsuit against Berkeley very much related to this, where

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Speaker 1: you know, Berkeley and then these other schools will say,

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Speaker 1: you know, we can't have conservatives come and speak because

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Speaker 1: the security costs are too high, you know, because it's

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Speaker 1: a safety issue. Well I'm sorry, but that doesn't fly.

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Speaker 1: You're not allowed to eliminate somebody's First Amendment rights because

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Speaker 1: other people, you know, you can't give them a heckler

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Speaker 1: or in this case, a rioter's veto because other people

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Speaker 1: don't want them to be speaking. And that's what this

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Speaker 1: police officer wasn't It was just dancing around the edge

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Speaker 1: of doing here. And he's just there with a camera.

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Speaker 1: He's just just Antifa knows him. They've now and they've

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Speaker 1: been threatening him, but he gets death threats. I mean,

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01:09:53,320 --> 01:09:58,200
Speaker 1: Antifa is aware that he is exposing their idiocy on

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Speaker 1: a regular basis, and so whenever they see him, they

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01:10:01,600 --> 01:10:07,040
Speaker 1: get very you know, very aggravated and vengeful and everything else.

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01:10:07,479 --> 01:10:08,920
Speaker 1: But for a cop to come up to you and

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01:10:09,040 --> 01:10:12,280
Speaker 1: say that they're going to remove you, which you know,

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01:10:12,400 --> 01:10:14,160
Speaker 1: sounds a lot like, you know, come with us, or

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01:10:14,200 --> 01:10:16,880
Speaker 1: else you're going to get arrested because there's a there's

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01:10:16,880 --> 01:10:20,000
Speaker 1: a safety threat here from the people around you who

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01:10:20,040 --> 01:10:21,759
Speaker 1: are going to attack you. I mean, this is almost

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Speaker 1: it's almost like they were going to arrest Andy for

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Speaker 1: his own safety, you know, that was that was the head.

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Speaker 1: Look at extreme circumstances. I guess he could come up

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01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:31,080
Speaker 1: with it sounds like something out of a movie. You

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01:10:31,120 --> 01:10:33,599
Speaker 1: can come up with a situation though where that's that's

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01:10:33,680 --> 01:10:36,800
Speaker 1: probably the best move in terms of pure safety. But

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Speaker 1: you know, you you we have to be on guard

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Speaker 1: for this because the olynsky I left is willing to

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01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:47,960
Speaker 1: raise the temperature and raise the stakes to get the

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Speaker 1: outcome that they want, which is shutting down speech, not

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Speaker 1: allowing people to expose the Left for what it really is.

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Speaker 1: And if all they have to do is threatened violence,

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Speaker 1: and then they have authorities, law enforcement politicians who say, well,

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Speaker 1: hold on, you know, we can't allow we can't allow

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01:11:07,280 --> 01:11:10,680
Speaker 1: there to be this this, you know, this speech that

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01:11:10,880 --> 01:11:15,200
Speaker 1: incites the other side so much not that incites against

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01:11:15,240 --> 01:11:18,160
Speaker 1: the other side, but that the other side takes as

1206
01:11:18,280 --> 01:11:22,760
Speaker 1: incitement for its own violence against the speaker. Then we

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01:11:22,880 --> 01:11:25,120
Speaker 1: really don't have much of a First Amendment anymore. Then

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01:11:25,120 --> 01:11:27,600
Speaker 1: we don't really have the protections that we think we do.

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01:11:27,880 --> 01:11:30,960
Speaker 1: So I just would know that you see this happening.

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Speaker 1: It happens on campuses, that happens to some of these

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Speaker 1: protests where the craziest, loudest, angriest voices are just able

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Speaker 1: to create a disturbance or or create a perception that

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Speaker 1: there's imminent violence, and then that perception alone is enough

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Speaker 1: for the person against whom the violence would be committed

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Speaker 1: to be in some way punished or have his rights

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Speaker 1: or her rights violated. So this is like the Left

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Speaker 1: comes at us with everything they've got. We've got to

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Speaker 1: tariff barriers. Okay, and that opens the door for American exporters,

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Speaker 1: all our farmers, all our manufacturers, even our automobile producers

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Speaker 1: that exports to China. If you'll give us open markets,

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Speaker 1: we will claber them. We will sell everything. We are

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Speaker 1: the most competitive economy in the world. We'll knock them dead,

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Speaker 1: and we'll lower the trade deficit while we're doing it.

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Speaker 1: So Larry, if Larry Kudlow saying that there's greener pastures ahead,

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Speaker 1: bluer skies, all that stuff. Trump still knows what he's

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Speaker 1: doing on tariffs. We just need to see this through.

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Speaker 1: Is he right? How are we handling this situation with China.

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Speaker 1: To answer that question, we've got Gordon Chang with us

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Speaker 1: he's the author of The Coming Collapse of China and

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Speaker 1: a columnist. Gordon, great to have you back. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much, buck Well. Gordon, what do you make of

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Speaker 1: where we are right now in the wake of the

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Speaker 1: g twenty sit down with Hijin Ping and President Trump?

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Speaker 1: We've got this ninety day window to try and hammer

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Speaker 1: out some kind of a deal. Has Trump been playing

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Speaker 1: this right so far? I think President Trump has done

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Speaker 1: a great job, at least up until Saturday. On Saturday

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Speaker 1: at the dinner with Sijn Ping at twenty in Argentina,

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Speaker 1: I think you have to score the round for the

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Speaker 1: Chinese for a number of reasons. I know that they've

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Speaker 1: made a lot of promises, but they've made a lot

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Speaker 1: of promises in the past and they haven't been really

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Speaker 1: very good in keeping them. Also, you know, on a

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Speaker 1: ninety day truth means the Chinese are going to steal

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Speaker 1: more US intellectual property. And I don't know exactly what

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Speaker 1: that number is, but it's going to be in the

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Speaker 1: tens of billions of dollars. Because each year or the

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Speaker 1: Chinese steal hundreds of billions of dollars. So we're giving

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Speaker 1: them like a seventy eighty billion dollar free pass on

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Speaker 1: more USIP. We've heard a lot of what China will do.

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Speaker 1: It would be nice to think that they actually do it,

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Speaker 1: But at this particular time, I think we just need

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Speaker 1: to be very concerned because Siejin Ping believes in a

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Speaker 1: state dominated economy, believes in closing up China to foreign competitors,

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Speaker 1: and this just does not sound like the sieging thing

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Speaker 1: that we've known for about five and a half six years.

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Speaker 1: Where are the areas that you think he is willing to,

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Speaker 1: you know, bend are What are the negotiables as you

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Speaker 1: see them on this tariff and trade issue Gordon from

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Speaker 1: the Chinese perspective, and where are we probably just you know,

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Speaker 1: screaming into an empty room trying to get them to

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Speaker 1: change their ways. I think that they will reduce tariffs,

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Speaker 1: but I don't think they'll actually reduce non tariff barriers.

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Speaker 1: And if they reduced some of them, they'll put new

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Speaker 1: ones up. So that's I think not going to be Well,

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Speaker 1: we'll win a little bit on terms of trade deficit,

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Speaker 1: but not terribly much. But the most important thing buck

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Speaker 1: is not trade deficit, although that is something that we

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Speaker 1: would want. The most important thing is the theft of

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Speaker 1: US intellectual property, and I don't see China slowing that

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Speaker 1: down at all. You know, as we've seen from the

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Speaker 1: NSA report and also from the report from the US

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Speaker 1: Trade Representative, they've been stealing much more stuff. It ramped

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Speaker 1: up a lot in the middle of twenty seventeen, and

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Speaker 1: I don't see that making those structural changes to so

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Speaker 1: that they would no longer steal our stuff. And in

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Speaker 1: terms of you know, the Chinese economies paying up to

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Speaker 1: this point versus our payman, the Chinese market, I know

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Speaker 1: has gotten gotten hit pretty hard, and obviously people are

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Speaker 1: a little more concerned about the US market. You know,

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Speaker 1: how do you assess our leverage in dealing with them

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Speaker 1: on this issue? Do you think that the American people

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Speaker 1: are willing to see this through? You know, people a

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Speaker 1: few months ago we're looking at farmers who were suffering

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Speaker 1: a bit because of China's retaliatory tariffs on our retaliatory tariffs,

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Speaker 1: much delayed tariffs, but farmers in the Midwest. We're saying, well,

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Speaker 1: you know, I want to give Trump the leeway for

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Speaker 1: him to actually try his policy, see his policy through

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Speaker 1: to fruition. Do you think that we I mean, is

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Speaker 1: it possible that we could stick together on this one

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Speaker 1: and actually get to that point, or are you worried

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Speaker 1: that we're going to buckle under the pressure of the

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Speaker 1: economic pain we're going to feel. I think that political

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Speaker 1: will is the big question mark. When you look at

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Speaker 1: the objective factors, we have overwhelming leverage over China. When

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Speaker 1: you look at trade deficit, you look at the size

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Speaker 1: of economy, you look at trade dependency. All of these

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Speaker 1: factors show that we've got much more pull over the

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Speaker 1: Chinese and may have over us, and it's not even close.

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Speaker 1: Buck The only thing that is unknown, and it's really

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Speaker 1: the most important factor is political will. And you know,

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Speaker 1: forget the American people for a moment. On Saturday, we

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Speaker 1: saw that the President of the United States, who is

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Speaker 1: passionate about this issue, didn't have the political will to

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Speaker 1: confront the Chinese. What he decided to do was to

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Speaker 1: go for delay. Now, maybe that's the right decision, but

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Speaker 1: I actually don't think so, because what we're doing right

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Speaker 1: now is, you know, we Americans think, you know, if

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Speaker 1: we give them a concession, which we did by not

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Speaker 1: going through with the scheduled teriff increases from ten to

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Speaker 1: twenty five percent, we think, oh, if we give them

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Speaker 1: a concession, they'll be generous to us and they'll return

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Speaker 1: the gratitude. That's not the way the Chinese think. That's

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Speaker 1: not the way the Chinese treat other countries. You just

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Speaker 1: got to keep the pressure up until they have no

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Speaker 1: choice but to do the right thing. We don't have

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Speaker 1: the will to do that, and I think we'll eventually

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Speaker 1: get there, because the Chinese will push us too far.

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Speaker 1: But I'm not liking what I'm seeing out of the

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Speaker 1: Trump administration for the last three or four days. And

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Speaker 1: I certainly don't like it when I hear people say, oh,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's different this time, because for an administration

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Speaker 1: official to say that, I think is just inappropriate. And

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Speaker 1: we're speaking of Gordon Chang, author of The Coming Collapse

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Speaker 1: of China, Gordon, is there a future that's a win

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Speaker 1: win for everybody here? Is that something that's possible? You think?

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Speaker 1: Is there a world in which, at some point down

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Speaker 1: the line, China liberalizes its trade policy, stops cheating in

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Speaker 1: its trade policy, and therefore gets richer and better. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I feel like at the center of all this free

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Speaker 1: trade thinking is the rising tide that lifts all boats.

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Speaker 1: Is that a possible future for the Chinese as well,

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Speaker 1: or are they going to basically just lose out by

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Speaker 1: not continuing to cheat the way they have Well, Buck,

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Speaker 1: it is possible, especially if the Communist Party is no

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Speaker 1: longer rule in China, if CGM pain is around. He

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Speaker 1: doesn't believe in win win solutions. He doesn't even believe

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Speaker 1: in the notion of comparative advantage, which is the fundamental

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Speaker 1: concept that underlies the global trading system. So it's extremely

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Speaker 1: unlikely there's a win win solution. As long as Seach

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Speaker 1: and Ping is around, as long as the Communist Party

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Speaker 1: is around, we can get there. But China's got to

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Speaker 1: be a much better China than it's been for the

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Speaker 1: last four decades before we let you go, Gordon, how

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Speaker 1: are we doing with North Korea? Well, we're not doing

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Speaker 1: too well. Especially we haven't been doing too well since

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Speaker 1: the middle or so of May. Up until May or so,

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Speaker 1: President Trump's policy was extraordinarily effective. But you know, since then,

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Speaker 1: he's let the pressure off. And he's done that because

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Speaker 1: he wants to create this favorable environment so that Kim

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Speaker 1: Jong un can make the right decision. As the President

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Speaker 1: talked about before the Singapore summit, but the North Koreans

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Speaker 1: are not returning the gratitude, They're not returning the gesture.

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Speaker 1: And so I think President Trump's going to have to

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Speaker 1: go back to that maximum pressure campaign. He may not

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Speaker 1: like to do it, but unless he wants Kim Jong

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Speaker 1: un to make him look a little bit foolish, he's

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Speaker 1: going to have to go back to what made him

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Speaker 1: successful through the middle of May. And if not, Kim

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Speaker 1: Jong un is just going to run over not only

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Speaker 1: the United States but South Korea. We're going to probably

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Speaker 1: lose our ally there. As Moon Jay in the pro

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Speaker 1: North Korean president takes advantage of this, as the Chinese

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Speaker 1: take advantage of it, as the Russians take advantage of it.

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Speaker 1: President Trump can still win this, but he's got a

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Speaker 1: change course. Gordon Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China,

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Speaker 1: also go check out his website Gordon Z. Chang dot com.

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Speaker 1: Gordon always great to have you all, my friend. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk to you soon. Thanks. Buck All right, team, we

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Speaker 1: got more coming up here in just a moment. Remember

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Speaker 1: I just had a fall for you about impeachment because

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Speaker 1: you were talking about the hypothetical standard of the GOP

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Speaker 1: set in the nineties. What did you mean by that

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Speaker 1: standard and what do you how does that apply to

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Speaker 1: today with Trump? Well? I just think, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think what overall when you look at the Broach

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Speaker 1: stroke they took, how far they would take, um, and

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Speaker 1: how how granularly they would dig into that process and

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Speaker 1: so um. Sorry, I'm in the middle of office picking,

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Speaker 1: so I just like I can't act right now. Aside right, No,

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Speaker 1: I understand you've been supportive of impeaching for a while though,

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Speaker 1: So what do you think after the Russia developments? Do

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Speaker 1: you think the Democrats should go in that direction? I

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Speaker 1: would be supportive, and anyone we're seeing here is really

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Speaker 1: serious questions emoluments. I gotta tell you, you wouldn't want

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Speaker 1: Okazio Cortez to be the captain of your team on

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Speaker 1: trivia night. Just just a little safety tip for me

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Speaker 1: to you. You would not want her to be the

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Speaker 1: one in charge of getting the right answers to the

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Speaker 1: trivia questions. Okay, it would not go Well, she's gone

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Speaker 1: the hallway there. This is what you reporters do. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: they come up and ask it. Look at the people's house, right,

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Speaker 1: you're in Congress they come up there and they try

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Speaker 1: to ask you questions. I've done it before, ask questions

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Speaker 1: the hallway to remembers of Congress. So I understand she's

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Speaker 1: on the move everything else. But she's like, well, like

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Speaker 1: I just think overall, like when you look at like

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Speaker 1: the broad stroke they took, like how far they would

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Speaker 1: take and how granularly they would dig into that process.

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Speaker 1: O'casio Cortez is so fascinating, I think to conservative you know,

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Speaker 1: the left is already throwing up the usual defenses. Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's because she's a woman. Oh it's because she's a minority.

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Speaker 1: That's why conservatives are so hard on her. No, it's

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Speaker 1: because she's so symbolic, really or really emblematic. I mean,

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Speaker 1: she's somebody who is, in a sense, the epitome of

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Speaker 1: a progressive millennial. And now you finally have that progressive

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Speaker 1: millennial in a national political light, and what you see

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Speaker 1: is somebody who has picked up all of the buzzwords

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Speaker 1: and the slogans. I mean, she's certainly been around a

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Speaker 1: lot of social justice talk for a long time and

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Speaker 1: has also understood that there are just phrases that you

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Speaker 1: can say, there are things that you can paret. I mean,

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Speaker 1: just repeat that you have heard that are a way

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Speaker 1: of signaling to your own side that you are one

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Speaker 1: of them. That the very specific word choice, saying things

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Speaker 1: like talking about always democracy and social justice and now

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Speaker 1: these days saying things like undermining institutions whenever you're talking

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Speaker 1: about Trump. You know, there are certain words redistributive. Throw

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Speaker 1: throwing the term redistributive when you mean Marxists. You know,

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Speaker 1: throw in the term equality when you really mean special

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Speaker 1: rights for or new rights created for. There there's a

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Speaker 1: way of speaking that signals to people that you are

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Speaker 1: of a certain mindset, and Okazio Cortez has that down.

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Speaker 1: But what you see with her is those phrases, those words,

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Speaker 1: there's very little knowledge beneath them, and knowledge does matter.

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Speaker 1: Knowledge matters. You can't, in fact, just go on on style.

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Speaker 1: There has to be something below that, because without knowledge

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Speaker 1: it's very hard to have wisdom, and without wisdom, it's

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Speaker 1: very difficult to have good judgment. But what you see

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Speaker 1: in the case of Ocasio Cortez is somebody who sounds

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Speaker 1: the part, emotes the way she's supposed to connect, connects

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Speaker 1: the way she's supposed to on the left, but does

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Speaker 1: not have the underlying substance to back it up. And

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Speaker 1: I don't think she's going to get it anytime soon either,

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Speaker 1: and they're just going to continue to prop her up

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01:26:48,680 --> 01:26:51,400
Speaker 1: and back her up. It really reminds me in a way. Look,

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01:26:51,479 --> 01:26:55,800
Speaker 1: Obama had a much more impressive academic pedigree, although people

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01:26:55,800 --> 01:26:57,200
Speaker 1: always get mad at me and say, you know, the

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01:26:57,240 --> 01:27:00,560
Speaker 1: guy was, you know, a student in the eighties or

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01:27:00,680 --> 01:27:02,680
Speaker 1: whatever it was in the late seventies that I guess

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01:27:02,800 --> 01:27:07,759
Speaker 1: late in the seventies at Occidental College, which is fine,

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01:27:08,000 --> 01:27:10,880
Speaker 1: but you know, it's not like this guy was some

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Speaker 1: academic superstar. He somehow got into Columbia as a transfer

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01:27:14,840 --> 01:27:16,120
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden is like at the

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01:27:16,160 --> 01:27:20,400
Speaker 1: top of Harvard Law Review. That's a very unusual rise

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Speaker 1: for someone to make. And there are, I think, very

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01:27:23,040 --> 01:27:25,920
Speaker 1: honest questions to ask about how much of that was

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01:27:26,240 --> 01:27:31,160
Speaker 1: understanding the system versus real academic superstardom. That all said,

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01:27:31,280 --> 01:27:35,080
Speaker 1: he clearly has a more impressive academic pedigree than Occasio Cortez.

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01:27:35,320 --> 01:27:38,160
Speaker 1: But Obama was a guy who would get away with

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01:27:38,320 --> 01:27:43,920
Speaker 1: saying really flimsy things on a regular basis. You know,

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Speaker 1: I saw today on Twitter. I would give him credit

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01:27:46,400 --> 01:27:48,120
Speaker 1: but I can't remember who did it. I'm just I'm

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01:27:48,280 --> 01:27:50,240
Speaker 1: so much of my life has spent reading an online

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01:27:50,760 --> 01:27:54,360
Speaker 1: But there you had somebody who was making the case that,

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01:27:54,439 --> 01:27:58,280
Speaker 1: you know, dan quail who is actually a very smart guy.

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01:27:59,200 --> 01:28:04,439
Speaker 1: Dan Quaile misspelled potato once and was turned into a

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01:28:04,680 --> 01:28:07,680
Speaker 1: laugh line, and people said he was stupid. I mean,

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01:28:07,920 --> 01:28:12,439
Speaker 1: dan Quayle equals stupid is a complete construct of the media.

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01:28:13,240 --> 01:28:16,280
Speaker 1: And I think that's a very good example of how

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01:28:16,400 --> 01:28:19,599
Speaker 1: the two sides, or rather how they treat people from

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01:28:19,640 --> 01:28:22,400
Speaker 1: the two sides of the media. You know, O'caozio Cortes

1508
01:28:22,520 --> 01:28:28,120
Speaker 1: can say endless dumb thing after another, just one foolish,

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01:28:28,640 --> 01:28:33,200
Speaker 1: ignorant thing, and they'll say it's a gaff. Oh it's adorable,

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01:28:33,400 --> 01:28:37,639
Speaker 1: Oh she's a dorcable without the numbers that she got wrong.

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01:28:38,000 --> 01:28:41,200
Speaker 1: It's like not that big got dale. But when a

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01:28:41,280 --> 01:28:44,960
Speaker 1: Republican says anything that's wrong, they're in an idiot who

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01:28:45,240 --> 01:28:48,840
Speaker 1: can't tie can't tie their shoes. And it's very clear

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01:28:49,040 --> 01:28:51,120
Speaker 1: that this is this is the standard that they've been

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01:28:51,160 --> 01:28:54,760
Speaker 1: operating under, this double standard, and with Ocazio Cortez, you're

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01:28:54,760 --> 01:28:57,760
Speaker 1: going to continue to see this. I also like though

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01:28:57,800 --> 01:29:01,880
Speaker 1: that this is somebody who is part of this vanguard

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01:29:01,960 --> 01:29:06,200
Speaker 1: of the kind of new age socialism in this country,

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01:29:06,640 --> 01:29:09,840
Speaker 1: this new wave, I mean you now have and Obama

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01:29:09,960 --> 01:29:12,720
Speaker 1: paved the way for this. You know, we forget how

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01:29:12,880 --> 01:29:16,240
Speaker 1: far down the road of progressivism the Obama administration really

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01:29:16,320 --> 01:29:19,000
Speaker 1: took us. But after eight years of Obama, the way

1523
01:29:19,320 --> 01:29:24,200
Speaker 1: was cleared for the next generation of Democrats in elected

1524
01:29:24,240 --> 01:29:26,800
Speaker 1: office to say, you know what, don't you like some

1525
01:29:26,920 --> 01:29:29,320
Speaker 1: of the stuff we did well to complete it. You know,

1526
01:29:29,400 --> 01:29:31,320
Speaker 1: if you want to really savor the flavor and get

1527
01:29:31,400 --> 01:29:34,680
Speaker 1: all the all the best free stuff the government has

1528
01:29:34,760 --> 01:29:37,600
Speaker 1: to offer, you gotta go full socialist. You can't do

1529
01:29:37,760 --> 01:29:41,160
Speaker 1: this quasi socialist thing. And the truth is that a

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01:29:41,240 --> 01:29:44,280
Speaker 1: lot of the Democrats, even more mainstream Democrats, know this

1531
01:29:45,240 --> 01:29:48,479
Speaker 1: and understand that they are playing a role in this

1532
01:29:48,600 --> 01:29:52,000
Speaker 1: transformation of the country. But it's really this Sanders Warren

1533
01:29:52,080 --> 01:29:56,040
Speaker 1: Okazio Cortes wing of the party, even though Okazi Cortez

1534
01:29:56,120 --> 01:29:58,439
Speaker 1: hasn't even been sworn in yet as a as a

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01:29:58,479 --> 01:30:01,360
Speaker 1: member of Congress. But it's it's people who fall into

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01:30:01,479 --> 01:30:05,080
Speaker 1: that part of the Democrat spectrum. They are the ones.

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01:30:06,200 --> 01:30:08,400
Speaker 1: They're the ones who are openly saying you know, we

1538
01:30:08,680 --> 01:30:12,400
Speaker 1: would like to be socialist. We want this country to

1539
01:30:12,439 --> 01:30:16,520
Speaker 1: be a Democrat socialist country. And you know that designation

1540
01:30:16,600 --> 01:30:20,000
Speaker 1: of Democrats social it doesn't really make all that much

1541
01:30:20,040 --> 01:30:23,840
Speaker 1: difference because it's you know, socialism starts with some very

1542
01:30:23,880 --> 01:30:26,519
Speaker 1: basic concepts and once they're in place, Yes, there there

1543
01:30:26,560 --> 01:30:29,519
Speaker 1: are more extreme versions of it than others. But when

1544
01:30:29,560 --> 01:30:34,599
Speaker 1: the government has essentially complete authority or takes upon itself

1545
01:30:34,680 --> 01:30:40,080
Speaker 1: the right to dispense with property rights, then it can

1546
01:30:40,120 --> 01:30:44,320
Speaker 1: dispense with individual rights. And then from there things just

1547
01:30:44,520 --> 01:30:48,599
Speaker 1: get really bad, really quickly. Maybe it takes a bit

1548
01:30:48,640 --> 01:30:51,840
Speaker 1: of time, maybe it's not right away, but once we

1549
01:30:51,960 --> 01:30:57,519
Speaker 1: start down that slippery slope, things to get very very dark. Indeed,

1550
01:30:58,080 --> 01:31:01,200
Speaker 1: so Okaz and Cortez, oh, and on impeaching Trump, I

1551
01:31:01,280 --> 01:31:05,000
Speaker 1: just would say that the only thing that would prevent

1552
01:31:05,080 --> 01:31:07,320
Speaker 1: them from impeaching Trump is if they think that it's

1553
01:31:08,040 --> 01:31:11,400
Speaker 1: not in their political interest to do it. And I

1554
01:31:11,760 --> 01:31:15,559
Speaker 1: do not. I do not think the Democrats have enough

1555
01:31:16,360 --> 01:31:20,120
Speaker 1: self control. I do not believe the Democrat Party has

1556
01:31:20,200 --> 01:31:25,880
Speaker 1: the impulse control to avoid giving into the rapid left

1557
01:31:25,920 --> 01:31:29,880
Speaker 1: wing base and impeaching President Trump. I just think that

1558
01:31:29,960 --> 01:31:32,080
Speaker 1: when push comes to shove, there are going to be

1559
01:31:32,160 --> 01:31:36,920
Speaker 1: too many people wearing pink hats, marching, yelling, screaming, you know,

1560
01:31:37,000 --> 01:31:40,840
Speaker 1: wearing handmaid's tail costumes, saying that Trump is Hitler and

1561
01:31:41,240 --> 01:31:44,920
Speaker 1: you know kkk Usa and all this crazy stuff. There'll

1562
01:31:44,960 --> 01:31:47,800
Speaker 1: be too many of them, and they will go forward

1563
01:31:47,840 --> 01:31:52,000
Speaker 1: with impeachment, even if it is not in their political

1564
01:31:52,040 --> 01:31:57,840
Speaker 1: interest to do so. I certainly think it's a good

1565
01:31:57,920 --> 01:32:03,599
Speaker 1: thing that President George HW. Bush is receiving the honor

1566
01:32:03,800 --> 01:32:08,080
Speaker 1: that he earned and that he deserves as a veteran,

1567
01:32:08,360 --> 01:32:13,759
Speaker 1: a war hero, a former president, somebody who spent decades

1568
01:32:13,800 --> 01:32:15,920
Speaker 1: in the service of his country and did so with

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01:32:16,080 --> 01:32:21,879
Speaker 1: a tremendous amount of decency and kindness by all accounts.

1570
01:32:22,760 --> 01:32:25,840
Speaker 1: But I also think that over this holiday season, it's

1571
01:32:25,880 --> 01:32:28,960
Speaker 1: important for us all to remember, as we as we

1572
01:32:29,080 --> 01:32:34,680
Speaker 1: get closer to Christmas, that not everyone who deserves a

1573
01:32:34,840 --> 01:32:40,360
Speaker 1: hero's remembrance gets it. In fact, very very few of

1574
01:32:40,520 --> 01:32:44,800
Speaker 1: those who have led exemplary lives, who have sacrificed a

1575
01:32:44,880 --> 01:32:48,519
Speaker 1: tremendous amount in the service of their country, and who

1576
01:32:48,680 --> 01:32:53,200
Speaker 1: are in fact, by every by every definition of the

1577
01:32:53,320 --> 01:32:57,679
Speaker 1: word heroes, very very few of them are celebrated as such.

1578
01:32:57,960 --> 01:33:03,599
Speaker 1: This this really strung me A fellow named Patrick Meade

1579
01:33:04,479 --> 01:33:07,640
Speaker 1: wrote this online. He is a he's a minister and

1580
01:33:07,720 --> 01:33:11,360
Speaker 1: a guitarist, and this got a lot of attention. Over

1581
01:33:11,360 --> 01:33:13,840
Speaker 1: the weekends, A lot of people shared this. He wrote

1582
01:33:13,880 --> 01:33:18,040
Speaker 1: the following, I had to place my father in dementia

1583
01:33:18,160 --> 01:33:21,360
Speaker 1: care today and drive away. I can only be there

1584
01:33:21,439 --> 01:33:24,920
Speaker 1: every couple of weeks, so I tape this to his door.

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01:33:25,880 --> 01:33:29,080
Speaker 1: I want the staff to know who the man in

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01:33:29,479 --> 01:33:36,920
Speaker 1: number fourteen, Room fourteen truly is. And he writes this

1587
01:33:37,200 --> 01:33:39,599
Speaker 1: speaking from the perspective of his dad, who is now

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01:33:39,680 --> 01:33:45,000
Speaker 1: in full time care because of his dementia. Quote. My

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01:33:45,160 --> 01:33:49,519
Speaker 1: name is Bill Mead. I was born in abject poverty.

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01:33:50,600 --> 01:33:56,920
Speaker 1: I became a warrior US Navy Korean War Korean War era.

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01:33:59,120 --> 01:34:03,000
Speaker 1: I then laid aside my weapons and became a minister

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01:34:03,320 --> 01:34:07,559
Speaker 1: and a missionary. I traveled the world spreading the Gospel

1593
01:34:07,600 --> 01:34:11,880
Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ, bringing hope, medicine, and love to the

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01:34:12,040 --> 01:34:18,120
Speaker 1: United States, Europe, South America, and Africa. I am slowly

1595
01:34:18,200 --> 01:34:22,559
Speaker 1: leaving this earth for my heavenly home. This may take

1596
01:34:22,600 --> 01:34:26,640
Speaker 1: a while. Thank you for remembering who I was and

1597
01:34:26,840 --> 01:34:33,480
Speaker 1: who I am. I am a man, a warrior, a missionary,

1598
01:34:34,160 --> 01:34:41,559
Speaker 1: a father, a friend, and much more so in a way.

1599
01:34:42,760 --> 01:34:46,559
Speaker 1: I think now we can take a moment to step

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01:34:46,600 --> 01:34:50,960
Speaker 1: back and say, how would we treat the people in

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01:34:51,120 --> 01:34:56,479
Speaker 1: our lives if we assumed that many of them had

1602
01:34:56,560 --> 01:35:02,160
Speaker 1: overcome tremendous challenges, had in their own way served, had

1603
01:35:02,240 --> 01:35:06,479
Speaker 1: in their own way been a soldier, a soldier of Christ,

1604
01:35:06,680 --> 01:35:09,240
Speaker 1: if not a soldier on the actual battlefield. How would

1605
01:35:09,280 --> 01:35:13,599
Speaker 1: we treat people if we didn't know, but always took

1606
01:35:13,680 --> 01:35:18,080
Speaker 1: the approach that there was something beautiful and great and

1607
01:35:18,520 --> 01:35:22,920
Speaker 1: worthwhile within them. I understand that over the holidays that

1608
01:35:23,000 --> 01:35:28,000
Speaker 1: can feel like we are saturated with all this commercialism,

1609
01:35:28,800 --> 01:35:32,280
Speaker 1: this desire to try to get nice gifts and take

1610
01:35:32,360 --> 01:35:36,320
Speaker 1: these vacations, and that's pete. Look, people work hard. They

1611
01:35:36,439 --> 01:35:40,720
Speaker 1: deserve to show their love for their family members and

1612
01:35:40,800 --> 01:35:45,280
Speaker 1: friends with gifts to do things that you bring us

1613
01:35:45,320 --> 01:35:48,120
Speaker 1: all together, whether it's a big dinner or vacation or

1614
01:35:48,200 --> 01:35:51,320
Speaker 1: whatever it may be. But I also think that there's

1615
01:35:51,400 --> 01:35:54,519
Speaker 1: room four reflection on how we all go about our

1616
01:35:54,960 --> 01:35:57,320
Speaker 1: day to day lives and one of the most important

1617
01:35:57,360 --> 01:35:59,000
Speaker 1: things because it's one of the areas where we can

1618
01:35:59,160 --> 01:36:05,240
Speaker 1: always improve, Where self assessment and self improvement are never

1619
01:36:05,360 --> 01:36:07,880
Speaker 1: out of place, and that is how we treat one another.

1620
01:36:08,560 --> 01:36:12,679
Speaker 1: And I think there's a reason why this man Patrick

1621
01:36:12,840 --> 01:36:15,960
Speaker 1: Mead's message written in the voice of his father for

1622
01:36:16,040 --> 01:36:18,760
Speaker 1: the staff at the facility that's taken care of him

1623
01:36:18,800 --> 01:36:23,280
Speaker 1: in his period of dementia really resonated with people because

1624
01:36:23,800 --> 01:36:27,560
Speaker 1: this man Bill Mead, was a warrior, was a missionary,

1625
01:36:28,360 --> 01:36:30,880
Speaker 1: was a man working in the service of God, and

1626
01:36:31,080 --> 01:36:36,640
Speaker 1: deserves all of the respect and kindness and support that

1627
01:36:36,800 --> 01:36:40,120
Speaker 1: that entails. And a lot of the people in our

1628
01:36:40,160 --> 01:36:44,240
Speaker 1: lives are also, in their own way, warriors for what

1629
01:36:44,479 --> 01:36:48,600
Speaker 1: is good. We should give them that respect and that

1630
01:36:48,720 --> 01:36:53,240
Speaker 1: support as much as we possibly can. The show ain't

1631
01:36:53,280 --> 01:37:02,400
Speaker 1: over yet, folks. It's time for roll call. All right.

1632
01:37:02,479 --> 01:37:06,000
Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, which gets us halfway to hump Day, so

1633
01:37:06,439 --> 01:37:09,960
Speaker 1: it's like half hump day. That doesn't sound about much fun.

1634
01:37:10,240 --> 01:37:13,840
Speaker 1: Facebook dot Com slash buck Sexton if you want to

1635
01:37:13,960 --> 01:37:16,760
Speaker 1: have your message read on air, If you don't, by

1636
01:37:16,800 --> 01:37:19,160
Speaker 1: the way, just right at the top for you only,

1637
01:37:19,320 --> 01:37:22,240
Speaker 1: or don't read on air that way, it'll just be

1638
01:37:22,400 --> 01:37:25,599
Speaker 1: to me and the team. All right. We have John

1639
01:37:25,680 --> 01:37:28,720
Speaker 1: who writes all right, man, I had to chime into

1640
01:37:28,760 --> 01:37:32,280
Speaker 1: here about all this best accent talk your best is

1641
01:37:32,439 --> 01:37:36,639
Speaker 1: soros by far. Thank you very much for this touto stuck.

1642
01:37:38,680 --> 01:37:40,559
Speaker 1: Also called a new show on Netflix you'd like. It's

1643
01:37:40,560 --> 01:37:43,559
Speaker 1: called Bodyguard. It's set in the UK and the main

1644
01:37:43,680 --> 01:37:46,840
Speaker 1: character is an anti terrorism intelligence officer. The show has

1645
01:37:46,880 --> 01:37:50,320
Speaker 1: a very realistic deep state twist on things. It also

1646
01:37:50,640 --> 01:37:53,280
Speaker 1: builds up quick you'll be hooked in ten minutes. So

1647
01:37:53,640 --> 01:37:57,320
Speaker 1: I watched the first episode almost all the way through

1648
01:37:57,520 --> 01:38:00,519
Speaker 1: of that show, John, and I thought the opening sequence

1649
01:38:00,600 --> 01:38:03,720
Speaker 1: with the suicide bomber was very very well done, and

1650
01:38:03,840 --> 01:38:07,240
Speaker 1: then I got really bored as this as the episode

1651
01:38:07,280 --> 01:38:10,680
Speaker 1: went on. So I haven't gotten yet to the interesting

1652
01:38:11,360 --> 01:38:13,560
Speaker 1: deep state component of it yet, but I'm willing to

1653
01:38:13,600 --> 01:38:16,200
Speaker 1: go back and and watch again because you're not the

1654
01:38:16,240 --> 01:38:18,280
Speaker 1: only person. They've been a number of people who've told

1655
01:38:18,320 --> 01:38:21,640
Speaker 1: me that it's a very very good show, and then

1656
01:38:21,680 --> 01:38:27,040
Speaker 1: I should really give it a shot. Rob Rights, Oh wait,

1657
01:38:27,080 --> 01:38:30,360
Speaker 1: no wait, we got more from John Sorry, also caught

1658
01:38:30,400 --> 01:38:32,280
Speaker 1: a new show and oh no, you know that is

1659
01:38:32,320 --> 01:38:35,320
Speaker 1: the also Okay, so we got that Rob Rights. Mission

1660
01:38:35,439 --> 01:38:39,360
Speaker 1: complete brought a tear to my eye too. Your thoughts

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01:38:39,479 --> 01:38:42,320
Speaker 1: on that image of man's best friend make you trustworthy?

1662
01:38:42,360 --> 01:38:45,920
Speaker 1: Will thank you Rob, Rob's referring to George H. W.

1663
01:38:46,080 --> 01:38:50,439
Speaker 1: Bush's service dog, Sully. It was just a It was

1664
01:38:50,479 --> 01:38:53,759
Speaker 1: just a very powerful, very powerful image, very powerful photo.

1665
01:38:53,840 --> 01:38:59,559
Speaker 1: And perhaps no surprise, but somebody from slate dot com,

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01:38:59,680 --> 01:39:02,880
Speaker 1: which is one of these left wing news sites, one

1667
01:39:02,960 --> 01:39:06,639
Speaker 1: of many many left wing sites all for the millennial

1668
01:39:06,800 --> 01:39:11,880
Speaker 1: pajama boy generation, wrote something that was more or less

1669
01:39:12,360 --> 01:39:15,439
Speaker 1: telling us that Sully had only been with the president

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01:39:15,520 --> 01:39:19,439
Speaker 1: for six months, to which I had to think, why

1671
01:39:19,520 --> 01:39:22,559
Speaker 1: would anybody take their time to write this? Here? Let

1672
01:39:22,600 --> 01:39:25,519
Speaker 1: me give you the Sully. This is from Slate. Sully

1673
01:39:25,960 --> 01:39:29,120
Speaker 1: HW Bush is a service dog who had been with

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01:39:29,240 --> 01:39:32,240
Speaker 1: the president for six months, not his lifelong companion. This

1675
01:39:32,400 --> 01:39:36,840
Speaker 1: is what an author at Slate decided to write, as

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01:39:36,880 --> 01:39:39,720
Speaker 1: if we needed to be told that. And I would

1677
01:39:39,760 --> 01:39:42,320
Speaker 1: just note that the bond between a human being and

1678
01:39:42,560 --> 01:39:45,679
Speaker 1: his or her dog is not a time constrained thing,

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01:39:46,040 --> 01:39:48,240
Speaker 1: and anybody who's ever had a dog and had a

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01:39:48,360 --> 01:39:51,639
Speaker 1: very close relationship with a dog understands why that image

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01:39:51,720 --> 01:39:54,120
Speaker 1: was so powerful. I just wish the left would stop

1682
01:39:54,200 --> 01:39:58,439
Speaker 1: being such a bunch of foolish haters, but they can't

1683
01:39:58,479 --> 01:40:05,760
Speaker 1: help themselves. Thea rights whoa first Veep then president was

1684
01:40:06,040 --> 01:40:09,000
Speaker 1: John Adams, one of the greatest men that lived and

1685
01:40:09,120 --> 01:40:13,120
Speaker 1: extremely underrated. We would not have had our country with Adam. Yes,

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01:40:13,200 --> 01:40:17,120
Speaker 1: you are correct. The last time, before hw Bush, we

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01:40:17,200 --> 01:40:21,240
Speaker 1: had a VP who then became the elected then was

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01:40:21,320 --> 01:40:24,840
Speaker 1: elected to the presidency, not became president because of an assassination.

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01:40:25,040 --> 01:40:32,320
Speaker 1: Or was the fellow that I mentioned yesterday Martin van Buren.

1690
01:40:32,840 --> 01:40:36,439
Speaker 1: The issue is whether somebody was elected to be president

1691
01:40:36,520 --> 01:40:40,200
Speaker 1: for being a vice president. So there you go. You

1692
01:40:40,280 --> 01:40:43,160
Speaker 1: are correct. John Adams was vice president and then became

1693
01:40:43,240 --> 01:40:49,320
Speaker 1: President of the United States. Judy writes, Titanic, are you kidding?

1694
01:40:49,439 --> 01:40:52,559
Speaker 1: Everyone dies? Save myself the money? I like you anyway,

1695
01:40:53,400 --> 01:40:56,840
Speaker 1: Original Saturday Squad shield side Judy, I'm not saying that

1696
01:40:56,960 --> 01:41:01,880
Speaker 1: I like Titanic. I think it's a sappy, pretty ridiculous

1697
01:41:02,080 --> 01:41:06,360
Speaker 1: movie all things considered. I'm not somebody who is pro

1698
01:41:07,160 --> 01:41:10,679
Speaker 1: Titanic as a film. I'm just saying we all saw

1699
01:41:10,800 --> 01:41:13,439
Speaker 1: that movie, and people who tell you that they haven't

1700
01:41:13,439 --> 01:41:15,760
Speaker 1: seen Titanic, I just think they're playing a little fast

1701
01:41:15,800 --> 01:41:17,639
Speaker 1: and loose with the truth. I think it's very clear

1702
01:41:18,200 --> 01:41:21,400
Speaker 1: that Titanic is a movie that pretty much everybody who

1703
01:41:21,520 --> 01:41:26,400
Speaker 1: sees movies probably went to at some point in time.

1704
01:41:27,280 --> 01:41:32,360
Speaker 1: Kimberly writes, my favorite story is the Christmas story. It's

1705
01:41:32,360 --> 01:41:35,479
Speaker 1: beautiful on its own. It deserves no distractions. We made

1706
01:41:35,520 --> 01:41:39,280
Speaker 1: it the meeting of our holiday. And I agree about

1707
01:41:39,360 --> 01:41:42,040
Speaker 1: Santa boom Buck. I got a lot of pushback. However,

1708
01:41:42,479 --> 01:41:45,639
Speaker 1: I felt uncomfortable telling my children Santa was real. As

1709
01:41:45,680 --> 01:41:47,360
Speaker 1: a person of faith, I did not want them to

1710
01:41:47,400 --> 01:41:50,320
Speaker 1: think the Christmas story was another tall tale. I made

1711
01:41:50,360 --> 01:41:53,960
Speaker 1: a choice, and we still have wonderful celebrations. My favorite

1712
01:41:53,960 --> 01:41:56,160
Speaker 1: stories were My oldest son in public said, look, Mom,

1713
01:41:56,240 --> 01:41:59,760
Speaker 1: it's the Christmas Man. Yeah. I don't really understand why.

1714
01:42:00,040 --> 01:42:03,439
Speaker 1: You're also just quick to tell our kids things that

1715
01:42:03,600 --> 01:42:09,240
Speaker 1: are not true. I don't know why that's something that

1716
01:42:09,320 --> 01:42:12,400
Speaker 1: we're all okay with. With the Santa Claus story, we

1717
01:42:12,520 --> 01:42:15,000
Speaker 1: could just say there's this myth of Santa, and we

1718
01:42:15,040 --> 01:42:18,240
Speaker 1: could just tell it like a story without convincing kids.

1719
01:42:18,680 --> 01:42:21,720
Speaker 1: Oh no, this is a thing that happens. I don't know.

1720
01:42:21,960 --> 01:42:24,000
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that I agree with that approach, but

1721
01:42:24,120 --> 01:42:27,479
Speaker 1: I'm open to my mind being changed on it. I

1722
01:42:27,560 --> 01:42:29,640
Speaker 1: know it's your tradition and people do it, and I

1723
01:42:29,720 --> 01:42:32,040
Speaker 1: sound like a grinch and all that stuff Remember, the

1724
01:42:32,080 --> 01:42:34,720
Speaker 1: Grinch has a happy ending. The Grinch in the end

1725
01:42:34,800 --> 01:42:39,720
Speaker 1: realizes that Whoville everyone's happy even though their presence have

1726
01:42:39,840 --> 01:42:42,800
Speaker 1: been taken, and the Grinch's heart kind of melts in

1727
01:42:43,160 --> 01:42:46,920
Speaker 1: a good way. Josh Right, Shield's high, Buck, there's no

1728
01:42:47,120 --> 01:42:50,840
Speaker 1: genre more misogynistic than rap music. Gonna have to ban

1729
01:42:51,040 --> 01:42:54,280
Speaker 1: an entire industry. Merry Christmas to you, Ada, miss Molly Well,

1730
01:42:54,320 --> 01:42:57,360
Speaker 1: thank you so much just for writing in. And yes,

1731
01:42:57,439 --> 01:43:02,160
Speaker 1: there's clearly a double standard when it comes to banning

1732
01:43:02,320 --> 01:43:06,439
Speaker 1: misogyny in artwork and music. Specifically, when it comes to

1733
01:43:06,560 --> 01:43:10,960
Speaker 1: hip hop music, there's a lot of not even casual misogyny,

1734
01:43:11,040 --> 01:43:14,960
Speaker 1: there's a lot of really aggressive misogyny in hip hop music.

1735
01:43:15,160 --> 01:43:18,400
Speaker 1: And we're told that that's just the way that it is,

1736
01:43:18,520 --> 01:43:20,720
Speaker 1: that this is just something that people can accept. And

1737
01:43:20,840 --> 01:43:24,040
Speaker 1: I wish that was. I wish that we had a

1738
01:43:24,160 --> 01:43:28,320
Speaker 1: more clear standard on this one. How about that? Johann

1739
01:43:28,560 --> 01:43:30,720
Speaker 1: Right listening as I write this, and the solution to

1740
01:43:30,800 --> 01:43:33,200
Speaker 1: covering the border would be to deputize the many Americans

1741
01:43:33,200 --> 01:43:35,439
Speaker 1: who would do it for free. Buck, you have the

1742
01:43:35,520 --> 01:43:38,880
Speaker 1: best voice, including today and pace of delivery, of all

1743
01:43:38,920 --> 01:43:41,920
Speaker 1: the talk show hosts. You are the WFB of our time,

1744
01:43:42,320 --> 01:43:45,240
Speaker 1: William F. Buckley going up in the sixties on Long Island.

1745
01:43:45,280 --> 01:43:47,040
Speaker 1: The movie that meant Christmas to me was Laurel and

1746
01:43:47,160 --> 01:43:49,519
Speaker 1: Hardy in the March of the Wooden Soldiers. Wow, I've

1747
01:43:49,520 --> 01:43:51,960
Speaker 1: actually seen that many times too. That's interesting, Johan, I

1748
01:43:52,040 --> 01:43:54,640
Speaker 1: forgot about that movie. Buck. One thing I disagree with

1749
01:43:54,680 --> 01:43:57,560
Speaker 1: you about is coffee. We have a supermarket here that

1750
01:43:57,640 --> 01:44:00,760
Speaker 1: always has was one brand on sale. Recently I got

1751
01:44:00,840 --> 01:44:02,519
Speaker 1: the big can at Chalk Full of Nuts for four

1752
01:44:02,720 --> 01:44:05,040
Speaker 1: ninety nine. In the queue. We also have cans of

1753
01:44:05,160 --> 01:44:08,800
Speaker 1: Maxwell House. The thing I am sure many veterans work

1754
01:44:08,840 --> 01:44:10,880
Speaker 1: for those companies too. Know. Something I don't like that

1755
01:44:11,040 --> 01:44:13,280
Speaker 1: is now happening is the inclusion of first responders with

1756
01:44:13,360 --> 01:44:16,120
Speaker 1: the military, including the line thank you for your service.

1757
01:44:16,640 --> 01:44:19,519
Speaker 1: I was okay with my compensation in both, and I'm

1758
01:44:19,560 --> 01:44:21,680
Speaker 1: no fan of the current adoration, but if we were

1759
01:44:21,720 --> 01:44:23,160
Speaker 1: to have it, the military should be the ones that

1760
01:44:23,240 --> 01:44:27,400
Speaker 1: get it, Johan. So a few things are. First of all,

1761
01:44:27,479 --> 01:44:29,759
Speaker 1: thank you for your kind words about my voice and delivery.

1762
01:44:29,800 --> 01:44:32,080
Speaker 1: And hopefully you didn't like it more yesterday than you

1763
01:44:32,160 --> 01:44:35,479
Speaker 1: normally do, because that means that my cold, you know,

1764
01:44:35,640 --> 01:44:38,200
Speaker 1: my cold, and sinus infection voice is my best radio

1765
01:44:38,280 --> 01:44:40,640
Speaker 1: voice because today I'm still in the misery of all that.

1766
01:44:41,479 --> 01:44:43,200
Speaker 1: But hey, if you like it, you like it, so

1767
01:44:43,360 --> 01:44:45,400
Speaker 1: I'm just glad you're enjoying the show. But you're very

1768
01:44:45,520 --> 01:44:48,400
Speaker 1: kind and your support means a lot. As to March

1769
01:44:48,439 --> 01:44:50,320
Speaker 1: with the Wooden Soldiers, I've seen that many times too,

1770
01:44:50,360 --> 01:44:53,080
Speaker 1: and I really liked that movie. I remember liking as

1771
01:44:53,120 --> 01:44:55,800
Speaker 1: a kid. I can't remember it that well now. And

1772
01:44:55,920 --> 01:44:58,960
Speaker 1: then as to coffee, like I just I'm friends with

1773
01:44:59,040 --> 01:45:01,479
Speaker 1: the guys who run Black Rifle. It's a great company.

1774
01:45:01,520 --> 01:45:04,240
Speaker 1: The coffee is really honestly delicious. I mean it's not

1775
01:45:04,320 --> 01:45:05,960
Speaker 1: just because they're a sponsor of the show, as you know,

1776
01:45:06,040 --> 01:45:08,440
Speaker 1: they are a sponsor of the show. Their coffee is phenomenal,

1777
01:45:08,920 --> 01:45:11,280
Speaker 1: and they're great guys and they're doing really, really good things.

1778
01:45:11,760 --> 01:45:15,720
Speaker 1: As to the issue of first responders and veterans, you know,

1779
01:45:16,000 --> 01:45:18,160
Speaker 1: I can only speak to it from this perspective. I

1780
01:45:18,600 --> 01:45:21,560
Speaker 1: always feel a little I think there's a bit of

1781
01:45:24,120 --> 01:45:27,360
Speaker 1: discomfort that many of us who were civilians who served

1782
01:45:27,400 --> 01:45:30,400
Speaker 1: in the war zones feel when it comes to how

1783
01:45:31,160 --> 01:45:34,080
Speaker 1: we're supposed to present what we did or how especially

1784
01:45:34,200 --> 01:45:36,679
Speaker 1: in my case where I can't even really talk about

1785
01:45:36,840 --> 01:45:39,160
Speaker 1: some of what I did any I can get pretty

1786
01:45:39,160 --> 01:45:41,439
Speaker 1: annoyed sometimes because people say things like, oh, well, you

1787
01:45:41,479 --> 01:45:43,840
Speaker 1: were just an analyst, you were back at Langley. It's like, well, no,

1788
01:45:44,040 --> 01:45:47,920
Speaker 1: actually I actually traveled with military and was armed and

1789
01:45:48,120 --> 01:45:51,360
Speaker 1: was trained to fight. I mean, I was not somebody

1790
01:45:51,400 --> 01:45:53,800
Speaker 1: who was expected to just sit there at a desk,

1791
01:45:53,960 --> 01:45:56,599
Speaker 1: never go outside the wire or never do anything that said.

1792
01:45:56,600 --> 01:45:58,200
Speaker 1: I was also not a door kick or not a

1793
01:45:58,320 --> 01:46:01,360
Speaker 1: frontline person at all. Most of my time was spent

1794
01:46:01,880 --> 01:46:05,000
Speaker 1: on bases. Keep in mind, you could also die on

1795
01:46:05,120 --> 01:46:07,120
Speaker 1: base if there's an ambush, or if you're not an ambush,

1796
01:46:07,160 --> 01:46:09,600
Speaker 1: an assault or mortar rounds. I mean, so it's not

1797
01:46:09,640 --> 01:46:11,479
Speaker 1: like it's some picnic being on these bases in the

1798
01:46:11,520 --> 01:46:14,519
Speaker 1: war zones either. But you know, where do we gauge that?

1799
01:46:15,120 --> 01:46:16,640
Speaker 1: And I was think it's interesting, you know, so if

1800
01:46:16,680 --> 01:46:19,280
Speaker 1: somebody was if somebody served in the Coastguard, but I

1801
01:46:19,360 --> 01:46:23,040
Speaker 1: served in a rocket Afghanistan for the CIA, do I

1802
01:46:24,040 --> 01:46:26,640
Speaker 1: do people tell me thank you for your service or not?

1803
01:46:27,120 --> 01:46:28,960
Speaker 1: Did they tell a person who serving the Coastguard thank

1804
01:46:29,000 --> 01:46:31,960
Speaker 1: you for your service? Somebody? You know, you get into

1805
01:46:32,040 --> 01:46:34,719
Speaker 1: and I think ultimately it's just serving your country, serving

1806
01:46:34,760 --> 01:46:38,000
Speaker 1: your nation, serving your fellow Americans is a good thing

1807
01:46:38,080 --> 01:46:41,880
Speaker 1: no matter what. And I leave the verbiage about this

1808
01:46:42,320 --> 01:46:46,680
Speaker 1: to other people. But yeah, I mean, first responders obviously

1809
01:46:47,240 --> 01:46:49,280
Speaker 1: have a very important role to play in society, and

1810
01:46:49,360 --> 01:46:51,519
Speaker 1: what they do is great. But it's a big difference

1811
01:46:51,560 --> 01:46:54,880
Speaker 1: in being a first responder and being an Army ranger

1812
01:46:55,160 --> 01:46:57,840
Speaker 1: who served three tours in Afghanistan. Right, there's a big

1813
01:46:57,880 --> 01:47:00,640
Speaker 1: difference between being quite honestly, if we're really going to

1814
01:47:00,640 --> 01:47:02,320
Speaker 1: go there are a big difference in being somebody who

1815
01:47:03,560 --> 01:47:06,720
Speaker 1: served in the Air Force for a few years and

1816
01:47:07,040 --> 01:47:10,439
Speaker 1: never went anywhere outside the United States and somebody who

1817
01:47:10,560 --> 01:47:13,200
Speaker 1: did multiple tours as a marine in Iraq. Right, So

1818
01:47:14,040 --> 01:47:16,479
Speaker 1: you know, and I think that we probably do ourselves

1819
01:47:17,040 --> 01:47:19,599
Speaker 1: a disservice if we try to parse those things out.

1820
01:47:19,680 --> 01:47:22,639
Speaker 1: So it's just best to say thank you for your service.

1821
01:47:22,680 --> 01:47:24,000
Speaker 1: And those are you say thank you for your service

1822
01:47:24,040 --> 01:47:26,240
Speaker 1: to me. I always appreciate it. It's it's kind of

1823
01:47:26,280 --> 01:47:29,560
Speaker 1: you to say. But I joined the CIA for my

1824
01:47:29,640 --> 01:47:31,960
Speaker 1: own reasons, and I joined the cias I wanted to

1825
01:47:32,000 --> 01:47:35,160
Speaker 1: help US country after nine eleven, And quite honestly, there

1826
01:47:35,200 --> 01:47:37,479
Speaker 1: are many days where I wish I joined the military instead,

1827
01:47:37,640 --> 01:47:39,880
Speaker 1: and I think that that's if I could go back

1828
01:47:39,960 --> 01:47:41,960
Speaker 1: in life and do it over, I probably would do that.

1829
01:47:43,080 --> 01:47:45,200
Speaker 1: But I did what I thought would be the best

1830
01:47:45,280 --> 01:47:47,680
Speaker 1: way for me to serve at the time, and I

1831
01:47:48,080 --> 01:47:51,120
Speaker 1: had my frustrations with it. But you know, you can

1832
01:47:51,160 --> 01:47:56,200
Speaker 1: see this turns into a complicated discussion pretty quickly, Josh Right.

1833
01:47:56,960 --> 01:47:59,479
Speaker 1: Everyone remembers die Hard as a Christmas movie, but no

1834
01:47:59,560 --> 01:48:02,880
Speaker 1: one remember it, so is lethal Weapon. I honestly couldn't

1835
01:48:02,920 --> 01:48:05,320
Speaker 1: choose a winner over those two. Both were iconic action

1836
01:48:05,400 --> 01:48:08,080
Speaker 1: films for films for their own separate reasons. Your take,

1837
01:48:09,439 --> 01:48:12,479
Speaker 1: die Hard is a Christmas movie, I didn't. I'm sorry,

1838
01:48:12,800 --> 01:48:14,960
Speaker 1: of course, die is a Christmas movie. Lethal Weapon, though,

1839
01:48:15,000 --> 01:48:19,120
Speaker 1: is a Christmas movie. I didn't know. I'm trying to

1840
01:48:19,200 --> 01:48:21,400
Speaker 1: think back, I haven't. I haven't seen Lethal Weapon a while,

1841
01:48:21,439 --> 01:48:24,080
Speaker 1: and I've seen it so many times that I probably

1842
01:48:24,120 --> 01:48:27,760
Speaker 1: shouldn't watch it again. I think I've maxed out on

1843
01:48:28,000 --> 01:48:31,599
Speaker 1: Lethal Weapon viewings. As to which movie is better, die

1844
01:48:31,640 --> 01:48:35,280
Speaker 1: Hard is a better movie's better plot, better execution, better

1845
01:48:35,320 --> 01:48:37,599
Speaker 1: bad guys, Gary Abuse. He's pretty good as a psycho

1846
01:48:37,680 --> 01:48:41,720
Speaker 1: and lethal Weapon, but die Hard is arguably the best

1847
01:48:41,760 --> 01:48:44,880
Speaker 1: action movie of all time, all things considered, It's certainly

1848
01:48:44,960 --> 01:48:48,280
Speaker 1: in my top five, up there with Predator and a

1849
01:48:48,320 --> 01:48:52,439
Speaker 1: few other movies. So I think Diehard really almost created

1850
01:48:52,479 --> 01:48:55,920
Speaker 1: its own genre of the smart action thriller. Jeam, that's

1851
01:48:55,920 --> 01:48:57,840
Speaker 1: gonna be it for today. Thank you so much for

1852
01:48:57,960 --> 01:49:00,479
Speaker 1: being here. Please tell somebody about the show. Talk to

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