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Speaker 1: This, like all weeks of the Trump era, was filled

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Speaker 1: with one thousand lies, a thousand depravities, and a million idiocies.

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Speaker 1: Too many to count, but there are three stories that

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Speaker 1: stood out. Let's review them as we come to the

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Speaker 1: end of this week. On Friday the thirteenth, I'm Steve Schmidt,

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Speaker 1: and if you get a moment, check out our new

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Speaker 1: membership program over eight YouTube. This is the morning Christy

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Speaker 1: Nome is no more. Her husband sitting behind her to

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Speaker 1: show support in the end was not convincing enough for

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump, who fired her brutally and coldly. And now

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Speaker 1: the knives are out. It's all over for Christine noam.

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Speaker 1: There's no more Coastguard Admiral's house to live in. There

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Speaker 1: is no more motorcades to cut through the red lights in.

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Speaker 1: There is no more airplane with a bedroom for her

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Speaker 1: Cory to shack up, and there is no more dress up.

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Speaker 1: There are no more masked Gestapo to commands. There are

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Speaker 1: no Americans left to smear. Christie Nome is no more.

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Speaker 2: In fact, it reminded me of the quote that is

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Speaker 2: often attributed to George Orwell that states people sleep peacefully

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Speaker 2: in their beds at night only because rough men's stand

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Speaker 2: ready to do violence on their behalfs, which means you

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Speaker 2: step up in order to protect people, and you do

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Speaker 2: it in a way that other people often are never

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Speaker 2: going to be required.

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Speaker 1: To except for it's just beginning. Christy Nome is being

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Speaker 1: exposed second by second, minute by minute. What she's learning

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Speaker 1: is the magaway, which she knows is there were a

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Speaker 1: lot of knives in the hands behind hers and Cory's backs,

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Speaker 1: and now they're plunging forward. The knives are slipping, The

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Speaker 1: abuses are becoming known, and for Christy Noan that being

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Speaker 1: known will be a very difficult come uppance in the

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Speaker 1: years ahead, as she faces prison, as she faces accountability

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Speaker 1: for her immense corruption. The second major story of this

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Speaker 1: week is shoes. There are little Marcos and gasoline. Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump promised no wars.

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Speaker 3: I am the candidate of peace. I am peace.

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Speaker 4: A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for a

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Speaker 4: man who wants to end wars, not start them.

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Speaker 1: We do not want war with Iran. We actually want peace.

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Speaker 5: The Iranians are clearly not very good at war. Perhaps

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Speaker 5: they should follow President Trump's lead and give piece a chance.

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Speaker 3: Kamalaz campaigning with warmongers like Liz Cheney. How do you

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Speaker 3: think that is? She picks Liz Chaney, whose father virtually

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Speaker 3: destroyed the Middle East. You know Liz Jenny. She talks

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Speaker 3: to me, Oh, I want war. She always wants war.

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Speaker 3: Every time I was with her in the White House.

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Speaker 3: We should attack this nation, that nation, nations that people

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Speaker 3: never even heard of. We should attack some big, big

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Speaker 3: tough guys. She sits back in Washington. Oh, we are

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Speaker 3: to go and attack Iran, Iraq. We're gonna attack everybody.

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Speaker 3: That's why I broke up with hers. All she wanted

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Speaker 3: to do is go to war with everybody. These warhawks,

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Speaker 3: they want to draft your kids to die in wars

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Speaker 3: and they will never fight themselves.

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Speaker 1: And he promised low gas prices a.

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Speaker 3: Fake news networks, and they say costs her up, No,

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Speaker 3: no costs her down. Gasoline is down. It's gonna soon,

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Speaker 3: I believe, be less than two dollars a gallon. It's

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Speaker 1: Now we are at war, and soon gas will be

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Speaker 1: seven dollars a gallon. And this is entirely the fault

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Speaker 1: of Donald Trump. And by the way, the person who

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Speaker 1: surgeon gas prices. You guessed it. Vladimir Putin, the Russian gangster,

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Speaker 1: Trump's idol, the great dictator of Russia, the war criminal.

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Speaker 1: That's who benefits. Now. The third story, and the most important,

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Speaker 1: World War three. When shall we call it such? When

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Speaker 1: it reaches a million casualties or when it reaches its

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Speaker 1: thirtieth country twenty so far are impacted. The world not

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Speaker 1: It is on fire. And it is on fire because

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Speaker 1: Trump has threatened to wage war against NATO while bowing

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Speaker 1: second by second basis. The contradictions. Well, you just said

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Speaker 6: Well, it's both. It's both.

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Speaker 3: It's a an excursion that will keep us out of

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Speaker 6: Turned out to be easier than we.

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Speaker 5: Ultimately the aftermath is going to be in America's interests,

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Speaker 5: our interests. We won't live under a nuclear black male

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Speaker 4: And Marco Rubio, the second question they've been asked is

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Speaker 6: Well, there's two reasons why now.

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Speaker 4: The first is it was abundantly clear that if Iran

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Speaker 6: The United States. The orders had been.

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Speaker 4: Delegated down to the field commanders. It was automatic, and

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Speaker 4: within an hour of the initial attack on the Leadership compound, the.

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Speaker 6: Missile forces in the South and.

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Speaker 4: In the North, for that matter had already been activated

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Speaker 4: so the President made the very wise decision. We knew

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Speaker 4: we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them

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Speaker 4: and perhaps even hire those killed. And then we would

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Speaker 7: And Trump the situation was very quickly approaching the point

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Speaker 7: of no return in the United States found it intolerable

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Speaker 7: in my opinion, based on what Steve and Jared and

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Speaker 7: I thought that they were going to attack us. I

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Speaker 7: thought they would if we didn't do this. At the

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Speaker 2: So how do you see this ending?

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Speaker 6: This war? I don't know.

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Speaker 5: Sarah, I know this that President Trump is the wrong

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Speaker 6: That's what I know.

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Speaker 1: And it's all nonsense. And here's the propaganda.

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Speaker 2: You have said that the US military is essentially ariels

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Speaker 6: Supriority over Iran. Yet we're not escorting ships to the

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Speaker 6: Strait aforem you? Why how did you not plan for this?

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Speaker 5: We plan for it, We recognize it because ultimately we

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Speaker 5: how that we want them to see and understand the conflict.

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Speaker 5: It's like this whole idea of the war widening. That's

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Speaker 5: what the press wants to make it look like, like

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Speaker 5: it's widening and chaos. And now we're actually closing in

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Speaker 7: Shape.

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Speaker 5: It's called shaping operations and setting the conditions. But when

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Speaker 5: you shape the environment. You don't always tell. I mean,

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Speaker 5: foolish political leaders and foolish military leaders of the past

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Speaker 5: when we'll do what we're going to do, or here's

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Speaker 5: how it's going to take us. And then if you

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Speaker 5: what we're shaping and why we're sending those signals working

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Speaker 5: across the Inneragency. The straight of horn moves is something

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Speaker 5: we've paid attention to from the beginning, and the American

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Speaker 1: It's sick and Donald, in the middle of the night

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Speaker 1: to end the week, comes up with this beauty. He's

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Speaker 1: proud now to do the killing, our beautiful Donald, the

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Speaker 1: president denied the Nobel Prize. He now glories into killing.

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Speaker 1: For Pete Hegsath, it is a quiet killing, but for Donald,

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Speaker 1: it is a prideful killing. And that is what the

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Speaker 1: MAGA government has come to stand for now, killing in

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Speaker 1: Miller says, it's the law of the jungle where Mike

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Speaker 1: knowing what depredations are yet to come, it's time to

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Speaker 1: wrap this week up with saying Christy Nome goodbye, was

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Speaker 1: saying no man should wear another man's shoes, and when

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Speaker 1: too many do, gas prices go sky high. In number three,

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Speaker 1: America is at war and no one knows why, and

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Speaker 1: certainly not the people who started it. They seem to

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Speaker 1: have the least idea of all, at least if you

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Speaker 1: listen to all of them closely. And this is the warning.

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Speaker 1: Have a good weekend. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning.

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Speaker 1: I invite you to join this community where I promise

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Speaker 1: to be honest, blunt and direct about what is happening

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Speaker 1: in this country. America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe

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