WEBVTT - What Are You Doing?! This Is So Weird!!

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<v Speaker 1>Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George

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<v Speaker 1>Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty.

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<v Speaker 2>Arm Strong and Jettie and now he Armstrong and Yetty.

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<v Speaker 3>John Stewart was hilarious last night on the Daily Show

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<v Speaker 3>about the whole Biden media Jake Tapper book, thaning, we'll

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<v Speaker 3>get to that later this hour, and then I'm reading

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<v Speaker 3>the damn books. You don't have to and got an

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<v Speaker 3>example of Biden frightening the hell out of high level

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<v Speaker 3>Democrats when he was gonna run in twenty It should

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<v Speaker 3>have ended there, right, but it didn't.

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<v Speaker 2>More on that later.

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<v Speaker 4>Your headline was this book is unintentionally hilarious release. So

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<v Speaker 4>a handful of important headline on the immigration front. First

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<v Speaker 4>of all, you may have heard the Supreme Court has

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<v Speaker 4>allowed Trump to strip the legal status from Venezuelan migrants.

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<v Speaker 4>They'd been granted temporary what's its status by Biden, and

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<v Speaker 4>now Trump has just undone that.

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<v Speaker 2>So their right to.

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<v Speaker 4>Live and work in the US just by the presidential

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<v Speaker 4>fiat has ended. A previous lower court has said no,

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<v Speaker 4>you can't do that. Supreme Court said, yes you can.

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<v Speaker 4>Justice Katanji Brown Jackson, who has no idea what it

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<v Speaker 4>means to be a Supreme Court justice was the only

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<v Speaker 4>noted descent. A couple more headlines very quickly a couple

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<v Speaker 4>of examples. The government of Arlington County, Virginia, which is

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<v Speaker 4>just across from DC, just across the river, is putting

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<v Speaker 4>even more restrictions on police from working with federal immigration authorities.

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<v Speaker 4>Democrat county board members moving to prevent police from working

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<v Speaker 4>with ICE during local rests by eliminating a section of

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<v Speaker 4>the county's trust policy. They are trying to make it

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<v Speaker 4>impossible for the federal authorities to safely take into custody

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<v Speaker 4>illegal immigrants who are felons and.

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<v Speaker 3>Eighty twenty issue nationally, and they're on the twenty side

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<v Speaker 3>of it. It is absolutely insane. Keep doing it, Democrats,

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<v Speaker 3>see if you win any elections.

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<v Speaker 2>And then there's this story out there.

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<v Speaker 4>It is Nashville's Democrat mayor orders police to report ICE

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<v Speaker 4>operations to his Office of New Americans, So if the

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<v Speaker 4>cops see ICE doing anything, they are required to report

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<v Speaker 4>it to the local government so that he and the

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<v Speaker 4>government can again thwart the federal authorities from taking into

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<v Speaker 4>custody illegal aliens who are criminals. It is obscene, It

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<v Speaker 4>is bizarre. Speaking of bizarre and surprising, who is standing

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<v Speaker 4>up against this but the new guy in town in LA.

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<v Speaker 4>Bill Malugin of Fox News. It's gonna tell us about

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<v Speaker 4>Operation Guardian Angel. Michael will start with sixty and roll

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<v Speaker 4>from there.

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<v Speaker 2>Hit it.

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<v Speaker 5>With this operation, we're going to be neutralizing California sanctuary

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<v Speaker 5>state policies.

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<v Speaker 2>Bill A.

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<v Speaker 6>Salee is the US attorney in LA and the architect

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<v Speaker 6>of Operation Guardian Angel.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, guys, thanks for shir going up.

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<v Speaker 6>The sale has created a federal task force made up

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<v Speaker 6>of ICE, HSI, FBI, DEA, and ATF agents.

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<v Speaker 2>How does CRIMINALI street pat the domestic finance?

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<v Speaker 6>They scan these criminal databases daily to find illegal aliens

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<v Speaker 6>in local jails who have been previously deported from the

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<v Speaker 6>United States. If they've returned to the US, they've committed

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<v Speaker 6>a federal felony known as illegal re entry, and A

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<v Speaker 6>Sale's office will immediately seek a criminal arrest warrant against them, which,

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<v Speaker 6>unlike an ICE detainer, jails and sanctuary jurisdictions can't ignore.

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<v Speaker 5>We're going to flood the system with warrants for criminal

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<v Speaker 5>illegal immigrants that are in county jails. They can ignore

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<v Speaker 5>a detainer, but they cannot ignore a criminal arrest warrant.

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<v Speaker 4>Now, this is a half measure. It's brilliant and effective.

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<v Speaker 4>The fact that we can only go this far to

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<v Speaker 4>you know, convicts who've re entered illegally and they're therefore

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<v Speaker 4>guilty of a felony. So an arrest weren't not a

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<v Speaker 4>nice detainer. I mean, it's really frustrating that they have

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<v Speaker 4>to take that tack, but I'm glad they're doing it.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a good strategy.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, I'm on one hand, can't believe it's happening.

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<v Speaker 3>On the other hand, I can't believe it didn't happen earlier. Again,

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<v Speaker 3>it's like an eighty twenty issue.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, absolutely, And it's very odd and frustrating that

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<v Speaker 4>we're having to even argue the point against the Arlington

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<v Speaker 4>County folks or the Nashville mayor.

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<v Speaker 6>Next clip, Michael, the Federal Task Force brought us with

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<v Speaker 6>them as they went to Twin Towers Jail in downtown

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<v Speaker 6>LA to take custody of a previously deported alien they

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<v Speaker 6>found in their database and file the warrant on He

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<v Speaker 6>was facing local charges for robbery, but the jail immediately

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<v Speaker 6>handed him over to Ice. With California's sanctuary policies unable

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<v Speaker 6>to protect him from the criminal warrant.

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<v Speaker 2>They have no choice.

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<v Speaker 5>They will comply, and if they don't comply, if they

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<v Speaker 5>interfere in our ability to arrest a federal felon, they

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<v Speaker 5>can expect to face consequences for that.

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<v Speaker 4>Good Again, that same cooperation ought to be absolutely required.

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<v Speaker 4>This guy has a notice of deportation, you have him

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<v Speaker 4>give him to us.

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<v Speaker 2>Obviously. Obviously last clip.

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<v Speaker 6>Task force officials tell us once they're up and running

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<v Speaker 6>at full steam, they project they're going to be arresting

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<v Speaker 6>anywhere between forty and fifty aliens from local jails in

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<v Speaker 6>southern California every single week. They say, if they're successful

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<v Speaker 6>in doing this here in Los Angeles, what they're doing

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<v Speaker 6>could be used as a model elsewhere in the country

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<v Speaker 6>to neutralize other sanctuary jurisdictions at.

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<v Speaker 4>Least passingly familiar on the need for confidentiality and some

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<v Speaker 4>of the stuff. But I think it's interesting that it's

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<v Speaker 4>a task force of the ATF and the FBI and

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<v Speaker 4>all those agencies they're talking about.

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<v Speaker 2>The DEA.

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<v Speaker 4>You know, I would volunteer ten hours a week or

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<v Speaker 4>certainly four if all you have to do is go

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<v Speaker 4>through databases and cross match. Okay, who's in jail, has

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<v Speaker 4>been previously deported and is back in town.

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<v Speaker 2>And is subject to this?

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<v Speaker 4>I mean, you have these vigilante folks who want to

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<v Speaker 4>patrol the border. It's not a great idea. I understand

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<v Speaker 4>why they did it, but man, you could have volunteers

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<v Speaker 4>doing this sort of computer work to help out the FEDS.

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<v Speaker 2>Man, I'd do that, Yeah, voluntier in a minute. What's that?

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<v Speaker 3>It's not dangerous? Oh no, what the border is? Well,

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<v Speaker 3>and it's it's a silly data entry thing. You shouldn't

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<v Speaker 3>have some big set of a bit. Youes trained in

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<v Speaker 3>every aspect of policing, including firearms and the rest of it,

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<v Speaker 3>and combat and blah blah.

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<v Speaker 2>He's wearing body are or and the rest of it.

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<v Speaker 4>Sitting there tapping into a keyboard to try to figure out,

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<v Speaker 4>you know, who satisfies these two or three criterion. But anyway,

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<v Speaker 4>I love the program, Bill mallusion of Fox News.

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<v Speaker 3>So Friday, I left the show early. I don't if

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<v Speaker 3>you remember that. I had to get to the I

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<v Speaker 3>had a doctor's appointment and the DMV. They both went

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<v Speaker 3>very quickly, which was fine, but the DMV I got

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<v Speaker 3>my I'm getting my real ID. I got all the

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<v Speaker 3>paperwork in I had. I found a bill that had

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<v Speaker 3>my middle name on it, which was important because without that,

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<v Speaker 3>who do we know.

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<v Speaker 2>Who you are? So I had to dig my mill

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<v Speaker 2>with your middle name on it.

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<v Speaker 3>So I had my original I had my original birth

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<v Speaker 3>certificate from from here in South Dakota. And then I

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<v Speaker 3>had a bill with my uh my middle name on

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<v Speaker 3>it and something else with my middle name on or whatever.

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<v Speaker 2>And I handed over the paperwork or whatever.

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<v Speaker 3>Thank God, now they know and I know I'm not

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<v Speaker 3>there to hijack a plane and fly it into the

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<v Speaker 3>World Trade Center. And I did all that, and then

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<v Speaker 3>I got my picture taken. And also sin Celestia, before.

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<v Speaker 4>You get to that, I'm sorry, before you get to that,

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<v Speaker 4>but can I have a word with uncle Sam very

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<v Speaker 4>very briefly, Samuel, let me point this out. If I

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<v Speaker 4>had signed up for, say, my electrical bill, electrical service,

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<v Speaker 4>and then told them my name my middle name was dog.

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<v Speaker 2>Face, they wouldn't know or care.

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<v Speaker 4>They would say, all right, Joe, dog Face getty, here's

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<v Speaker 4>where you send you your money every month?

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<v Speaker 2>Right, Just make sure he doesn't constitute proof of anything.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know, but I had I had to have

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<v Speaker 3>an original copy of the bill, which I did. I

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<v Speaker 3>get it. You know, it's all online like most people are.

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<v Speaker 3>So I went to downtown to the city Hall and

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<v Speaker 3>had him print out an actual with their logo.

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<v Speaker 2>On it, copy of the bill. I mean, it was

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<v Speaker 2>just ridiculous hoops.

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<v Speaker 3>But one thing that they ancientce The last time I

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<v Speaker 3>re up my driver's license was an option for bald.

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<v Speaker 3>It's always been hair color, which have always me and

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<v Speaker 3>other bald people have always found hilarious.

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<v Speaker 2>I could put.

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<v Speaker 3>Down brown or black or future or whatever you want.

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<v Speaker 3>It doesn't make a difference. I ain't got no hair, right,

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<v Speaker 3>and now you can put bald. Yeah, finally, yeah, I

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<v Speaker 3>haven't gotten it in the rail neck for your people.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know why they don't let you look at

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<v Speaker 3>your picture. They didn't and then and then retake it,

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<v Speaker 3>I guess, sir in a hurry. But I have no

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<v Speaker 3>idea how the picture turned out. It's coming in the mail,

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<v Speaker 3>and this week I'll look at it and I think, oh,

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<v Speaker 3>that looks pretty good. I'll think, well, I got one

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<v Speaker 3>eye squinted shut, and I got something in my teeth

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<v Speaker 3>that's no good, and that's the picture they'll use if

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<v Speaker 3>something bad ever happens. You know, that's the one that'll

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<v Speaker 3>be on the evening news. They'll grab your picture from

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<v Speaker 3>the government database. I'll be this man was unless there's

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<v Speaker 3>a mugshot.

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<v Speaker 2>True. Yeah, I know. If I committed a crime, that's different.

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<v Speaker 2>But yeah, oh right, I go missing or something like that,

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<v Speaker 2>they're gonna use that picture.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, yeah, you know, I fall down a ravine

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<v Speaker 3>and get stuck or something. That's what the evening news

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<v Speaker 3>will use for my picture. And I don't like that.

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<v Speaker 4>If you see this squinty eyed freak call the authorities,

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<v Speaker 4>probably still has something in his teeth. So a couple

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<v Speaker 4>of more very brief immigration related stories. Number one great

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<v Speaker 4>feature in a bright part about how trucking companies are

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<v Speaker 4>illegally using migrant truckers instead.

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<v Speaker 3>Of domestic truckers. Everybody knows that. Yeah, yeah, I know.

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<v Speaker 3>People bring a truck driving jobs and it's tough because

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<v Speaker 3>of that.

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<v Speaker 4>I thought we had a big well we do have

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<v Speaker 4>a big shortage, but you can't get it as an

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<v Speaker 4>American because you want to working a reasonable wage. Correct,

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<v Speaker 4>So there's not a shortage of truckers. There's a shortage

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<v Speaker 4>of companies that are willing to pay anything above I'm

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<v Speaker 4>a Mexican illegal immigrant wages.

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<v Speaker 2>Correct, which is true with a lot of industries. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 4>So they cross over into our country with the load,

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<v Speaker 4>they drop off the load. They're supposed to go right back.

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<v Speaker 4>They can carry a load if they want, but no,

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<v Speaker 4>they stay for two three weeks and work illegally and

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<v Speaker 4>nobody checks and nobody cares. And then finally I thought

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<v Speaker 4>this was interesting Wall Street Journal report that the big

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<v Speaker 4>mass deportation push that we've heard so much about it

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<v Speaker 4>has not affected the migrant labor force participation in Iota.

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<v Speaker 4>In fact, it seems to be up the general sentiment being, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>I'm a little concerned about like getting rounded up and deported,

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<v Speaker 4>but I got to go to work.

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<v Speaker 2>I got bills. Well, they're also smart enough to figure

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<v Speaker 2>out they're looking for criminals. No, not a criminal, so yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>and the vast majority cases. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>Interesting essay in the New York Times today about porn

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<v Speaker 3>that I want to mention one my hot topics internet porn.

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<v Speaker 3>We'll get to the Biden book and other stuff this hour,

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<v Speaker 3>so stay tuned.

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<v Speaker 2>Armstrong and yetti.

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<v Speaker 1>The take it Down at criminalizes the creation and distribution

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<v Speaker 1>of any non consensual explicit images, and if someone reports

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<v Speaker 1>imagery like that, the new law now requires websites to

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<v Speaker 1>take it down within forty eight hours. This act was

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<v Speaker 1>championed by First Lady Malania Trump. It had broad bipartisans support.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm for it.

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<v Speaker 3>Good luck with policing the internet, unfortunately, but I'm for it.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, somebody's got to enforce this stuff. That's the real challenge.

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<v Speaker 2>A couple of things that tie together a little bit

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<v Speaker 2>with that. In this world, there is a piece in

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know what was this in. I don't know

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<v Speaker 2>what it was in.

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<v Speaker 3>That I've been meaning to read temptation as a public

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<v Speaker 3>policy problem. Pot porn and burritos are part of an

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<v Speaker 3>ever growing temptation economy.

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<v Speaker 2>What do we do about it?

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<v Speaker 3>They don't mean brios specifically, they just mean unhealthy food.

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<v Speaker 3>Pot porn and unhealthy food part of an ever growing

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<v Speaker 3>temptation economy. What do we do about it? And it's

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<v Speaker 3>pretty interesting. It's sort of thing we've talked about before.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm I lean libertarian on this stuff, but at some

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<v Speaker 3>point on some things you wonder, like if it like,

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<v Speaker 3>would you just take it clear to the end, Like

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<v Speaker 3>if it destroyed society completely, would you stick to But

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<v Speaker 3>the government shouldn't tell us not to gamble. If everybody

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<v Speaker 3>went broken, to decide it to destroyed society would be

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<v Speaker 3>willing to change.

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<v Speaker 2>Your mind on that or not.

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<v Speaker 4>It's the slippery slope of socialism. If you're ruining your

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<v Speaker 4>life doesn't affect me, that's up to you. But if

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<v Speaker 4>I'm expected to bail you out or pay for your

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<v Speaker 4>life because.

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<v Speaker 2>You've ruined it, then I get to talk. I get

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<v Speaker 2>a say.

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<v Speaker 3>But hard drugs wise in some areas, even like Oregon,

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<v Speaker 3>as we've seen, they've decided AD is letting people do

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<v Speaker 3>what they want, is doing more harmed in society than

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<v Speaker 3>I'm willing to put up with. So it's kind of

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<v Speaker 3>interesting a little bit to that point. An essay that's

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<v Speaker 3>in the New York Times to Day about porn. This

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<v Speaker 3>woman Christine Emba, who wrote a book a couple of

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<v Speaker 3>years ago called Rethinking Sex. She's now a Times columnist

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<v Speaker 3>and wrote her first essay for the Times. She explores

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<v Speaker 3>the gap between sexual ethics and sexual liberation, sort of

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<v Speaker 3>thing that we've talked about before. It's been a it's

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<v Speaker 3>a very slow process we're apparently going through, and I'm

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<v Speaker 3>hoping we're getting to the point somewhere along the line

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<v Speaker 3>where women decide this whole sexual liberation thing is not

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<v Speaker 3>working out the way I thought it was going to.

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<v Speaker 3>I hope we get there eventually anyway, She writes, Basically,

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<v Speaker 3>pornography is so clearly bad for women in society, why

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<v Speaker 3>is it so hard to find its critics? As a society,

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<v Speaker 3>We're allowing our desires to continue to be molded in

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<v Speaker 3>experimental ways for profit by an industry that does not

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<v Speaker 3>have our best interests at heart. We want to prove

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<v Speaker 3>that we're chill and modern and skip the inevitable haggling

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<v Speaker 3>over boundaries and regulation and avoid potentially placing limits on

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<v Speaker 3>our behavior. But we aren't paying attention to how we're

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<v Speaker 3>making things worse for ourselves, which I've been saying for

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<v Speaker 3>some time. I don't know why we can't get there

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<v Speaker 3>already at the danger's Internet porn in particularly seems to

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<v Speaker 3>be doing the society and decide that it doesn't make.

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<v Speaker 2>It meprude or uncool or.

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<v Speaker 3>A right winger or anything like that to think maybe

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<v Speaker 3>this is doing so society more harm than good.

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<v Speaker 2>Right. I don't know if there's anything I.

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<v Speaker 3>Legally you could do it, but let's just start culturally

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<v Speaker 3>and make you know, looking at Internet porn all the

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<v Speaker 3>time as cool as drunk driving or smoking culturally.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's funny you should bring that up.

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<v Speaker 4>I was going to interject a minute ago that Mad

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<v Speaker 4>Mothers Against Drunk Driving was an entirely private organization, at

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<v Speaker 4>least at first. Then I think they got some help

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<v Speaker 4>from various governmental agencies. But yeah, I think the answer

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<v Speaker 4>to a lot of these problems is societal social as

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<v Speaker 4>opposed to governmental. But on that thought too, you know,

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<v Speaker 4>like the Internet porn and how bad it is for

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<v Speaker 4>young people in particular whose brains are just forming. Guys

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<v Speaker 4>like me sometimes hesitate to talk about it a lot

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<v Speaker 4>because we're afraid the conversation will go to First Amendment

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<v Speaker 4>violating places.

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<v Speaker 2>But I think you can't do that.

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<v Speaker 4>You've got to have more trust in our system and society.

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<v Speaker 4>You got to call a spade of spade. You've got

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<v Speaker 4>to be a realist and say, now, I'm not calling

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<v Speaker 4>for banning this, that or the other, but let's be honest,

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<v Speaker 4>this is horrible for young men and women.

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<v Speaker 2>It's horrible.

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<v Speaker 4>Let's talk openly about it.

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<v Speaker 3>Came up again the other day, someone talking about the

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<v Speaker 3>how difficult it is dating out in the world with

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<v Speaker 3>a number of men who can't get erections because of

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<v Speaker 3>foreign which is just shocking to me. I would think

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<v Speaker 3>that would be once that happened, I would think you'd decide,

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<v Speaker 3>I will do whatever. I've got a change in my

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<v Speaker 3>lifestyle to fix this problem.

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<v Speaker 4>The rewiring of the human brain. And again, if it's adolescents,

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<v Speaker 4>their brains weren't wired in the first.

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<v Speaker 2>Place, right, which is highly troubling.

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<v Speaker 4>Anyway, So just on a social basis, shouldn't everybody know this,

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<v Speaker 4>shouldn't we be talking about it? Is that they're embarrassed

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<v Speaker 4>to talk about pornography, I don't know. I don't know either,

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<v Speaker 4>or that it's so new really societally, I don't know.

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<v Speaker 3>So the new Jake Tapper book about Joe Biden unintentionally hilaria.

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<v Speaker 3>It's also got some interesting nuggets in there. John Stewart

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<v Speaker 3>took the whole story apart on The Daily Show last night.

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<v Speaker 2>We've got a clip of that.

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<v Speaker 3>Some really interesting entertaining stuff on the way, which I

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<v Speaker 3>guess is what we should do every.

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<v Speaker 2>Single Armstrong and Geddy another bomb show.

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<v Speaker 7>Former President Biden apparently forgot the name of his longtime

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<v Speaker 7>nade Jake Sullivan, and called him Steve O my god,

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<v Speaker 7>to be fair.

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<v Speaker 2>When you forget a white guy's name, to be fair.

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<v Speaker 2>And I say this with respect for the Barnshell Steve,

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<v Speaker 2>it's not a bad guess.

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<v Speaker 1>I think even Jake Sullivan at some point was like,

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<v Speaker 1>is my name Steve?

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<v Speaker 8>Because when I'm look in the mirror.

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<v Speaker 2>I could be So that's funny.

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<v Speaker 3>But as Mark Halpern, who is like the only journalist

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<v Speaker 3>in America who's not on Fox who's doing this, keep saying,

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<v Speaker 3>the media is still miles away from covering this story appropriately.

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<v Speaker 2>The question and John Start's a comedian, but the question

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<v Speaker 2>is out of that book.

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<v Speaker 3>Hey, Jake Sullivan, how many other people do you know

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<v Speaker 3>in your life who call you by the wrong name repeatedly?

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<v Speaker 2>Right, who you've worked with for years? What the hell?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, nobody is being held to account on this, right?

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<v Speaker 3>This is just amazing. Anyway, So I started reading the

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<v Speaker 3>Jake Tapper book last night. As I mentioned earlier, it's

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<v Speaker 3>unintentionally hilarious. How seriously they take it and seriously, act

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<v Speaker 3>like we're about to lay a truth bomb on you.

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<v Speaker 2>Sit down.

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<v Speaker 3>This is gonna be hard to take, but it happened,

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<v Speaker 3>and we're the people to tell. Like John Stewart said.

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<v Speaker 2>Are you having kidding? We all knew this? What are

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<v Speaker 2>you doing? What right? This is so weird? Yeah, and

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<v Speaker 2>he all read this. I thought it was kind of interesting.

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<v Speaker 3>And this goes back to twenty twenty, showing that he

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<v Speaker 3>shouldn't have run in twenty twenty, let alone twenty four.

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<v Speaker 4>As we quoted, was it Bartin Swain on the Wall

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<v Speaker 4>Street Journal the other day who was trying desperately to

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<v Speaker 4>report on this and nobody was listening.

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<v Speaker 2>Tapper and Thompson's that's the other guy's name.

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<v Speaker 3>Make the point that everything broke for Joe Biden for

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<v Speaker 3>this to ever happen at all. Anyway, The COVID is

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<v Speaker 3>the only way he got elected president where he was

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<v Speaker 3>able to and we all knew this or no this now,

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<v Speaker 3>but where he was able to not be on the

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<v Speaker 3>campaign trail. If he'd had to be out on the

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<v Speaker 3>campaign trail like a normal presidential election, he would have

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<v Speaker 3>been exposed earlier and wouldn't even have meen it in

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<v Speaker 3>twenty twenty, but COVID happened, So they're trying to figure

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<v Speaker 3>out how to get take advantage of his folk. See

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<v Speaker 3>political style in COVID. Leading up to the Democratic National Convention.

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<v Speaker 3>If you remember the conventions those that year were like

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<v Speaker 3>all virtual with nobody there and all that sort of

0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:14.000
<v Speaker 3>stuff was very, very weird. So a creative team worked

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<v Speaker 3>up a plan. Biden would sit in a room with

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<v Speaker 3>several monitors beaming the faces of real Americans in front

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<v Speaker 3>of them so they could discuss issues of importance. It

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<v Speaker 3>was a way to do a town hall and take

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<v Speaker 3>advantage of Joe Biden's gift for that sort of thing

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<v Speaker 3>without you know, being an actual room with people. The

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<v Speaker 3>videos came back, hours of footage. Some on the team

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<v Speaker 3>couldn't believe their eyes. The videos were horrible. One top

0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:42.960
<v Speaker 3>Democrat said he couldn't follow the conversation at all. I

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<v Speaker 3>couldn't believe it, said a second Democrat, who hadn't seen

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<v Speaker 3>Biden in a few years. It was like a different person.

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<v Speaker 3>It was incredible. This was like watching Grandpa who shouldn't

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<v Speaker 3>be driving again. This was and this was probably in

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<v Speaker 3>twenty nineteen. A special team was brought in and told

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<v Speaker 3>to edit the videos down to make them arable, if

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<v Speaker 3>only a few minutes worth, they had to get creative.

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<v Speaker 3>The Racial Justice Conversation aired the first night of the

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<v Speaker 3>convention for less than five minutes, the Healthcare Exchange on

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<v Speaker 3>the second night under four minutes. Edited, the videos likely

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<v Speaker 3>appeared fine to viewers, Biden no worse than any other

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<v Speaker 3>senior on zoom, but two of the Democrats who were

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<v Speaker 3>involved in the film's production together were dumbfounded. I didn't

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<v Speaker 3>think he could be president?

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<v Speaker 2>Is this in twenty twenty?

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<v Speaker 3>The second Democrat said, after what they'd seen, they couldn't

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<v Speaker 3>understand how Biden could be capable of doing the job.

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<v Speaker 3>This was when some top Democrats entered an angry phase.

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<v Speaker 3>I became disillusioned with the entire apparatus because what I

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<v Speaker 3>was seeing on this video in twenty twenty, that means

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<v Speaker 3>people were working for him every day see this and

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<v Speaker 3>were keeping it a secret.

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<v Speaker 2>Wow from a distance of four years.

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<v Speaker 3>A second Democrat reached a harsh conclusion about the team

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<v Speaker 3>around Biden.

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<v Speaker 2>They've been gaslighting us in twenty twenty.

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<v Speaker 4>There's so much to say about this. I mean the

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<v Speaker 4>fact that Bernie and Elizabeth Sanders were ascendant. The mainstream

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<v Speaker 4>Democrats were desperate to find a solution, but the idea

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<v Speaker 4>that the best solution they could find was a senile

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<v Speaker 4>Joe Biden, And that's just embarrassing. Or maybe he was

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<v Speaker 4>the only name big enough I suppose to get the

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<v Speaker 4>Bernie's in lizes to sit down and shut up.

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<v Speaker 3>But the damage this is done is immeasurable in that

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<v Speaker 3>on already cynical country about politicians, both parties and the

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<v Speaker 3>media has turned it to eleven.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, and it'll never go back in my lifetime.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know if the damage can be undone at all.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, it's it's actually kind of pathetic and sad to

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<v Speaker 4>see Jake Tapper, specially because again, Alex Thompson did some

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<v Speaker 4>pretty good reporting about Biden's sinility at the time, but

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<v Speaker 4>he's just not as big a name as Tapper. But

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<v Speaker 4>to have Jake Tapper essentially being pleading, can I have

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<v Speaker 4>my credibility back?

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<v Speaker 2>Can I have my credibility back?

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<v Speaker 6>No?

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<v Speaker 2>They lied to me, they misled me. I didn't notice.

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<v Speaker 4>No, it's gone, Jake. Haven't you heard all those sayings

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<v Speaker 4>throughout your life? How you know it takes a lifetime

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<v Speaker 4>to build a reputation in a moment to lose it,

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<v Speaker 4>you lost.

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<v Speaker 3>It, As John Stewart said of the book, forgetting about

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<v Speaker 3>the fact of how effing weird it is that the

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<v Speaker 3>News is selling you a book about news they should

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<v Speaker 3>have told you.

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<v Speaker 2>Was news a year ago, for free. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>I think this is actually underappreciated as a story. Way

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<v Speaker 3>too many people are turning it into a like a

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<v Speaker 3>partisan thing. How does this hurt that party or help

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<v Speaker 3>that party or whatever? Just the overall cynicism. I'm I'm man.

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<v Speaker 3>If you listen to the show, I talk about being

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<v Speaker 3>cynical all the time, I'm pretty damn cynical. I'm now

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<v Speaker 3>willing to believe practically anything that that. I mean, conspiracy

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<v Speaker 3>theories are ripe for the pick and now, because you

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<v Speaker 3>had people who.

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<v Speaker 2>Are willing to go this far in twenty twenty.

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<v Speaker 3>Hiding a guy that had no business being president of

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<v Speaker 3>the United States.

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<v Speaker 2>How many people had to know, how many hundreds.

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<v Speaker 3>Of people had to know that and keep it a

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<v Speaker 3>secrete along with the media. Why would I believe anything

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<v Speaker 3>at this point? Yeah, you've got the importance of the lie. Obviously,

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<v Speaker 3>the guy's running for Potos. You've got the enormity of

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<v Speaker 3>the lie because he is just so clearly gone. And

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<v Speaker 3>then you've got the duration of the lie, and that's

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<v Speaker 3>an all three matter. But that's astounding. That's the part

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<v Speaker 3>that makes me really cynical. I mean, because we all

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<v Speaker 3>had all this information, the polls said what they said,

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<v Speaker 3>but the inner circle just lied and lied and lied,

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<v Speaker 3>and those who would tend to want to believe those lies,

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<v Speaker 3>Jake Tapper went along with it for years and years.

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<v Speaker 3>That is enough to make you cynical. We do have

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<v Speaker 3>a fresh new clip of Tapper and well this is

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<v Speaker 3>from the deceat themselves CBS News today as Jake Tapper. So,

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<v Speaker 3>the book officially came out today. I started reading it

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<v Speaker 3>last night. Asking presidential candidates about their health is difficult.

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<v Speaker 3>They say, okay, well, let's hear from Jake Tapper and

0:25:29.160 --> 0:25:30.800
<v Speaker 3>Alex Thompson trying to defend their book.

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<v Speaker 9>One of the things that this news does, I think,

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<v Speaker 9>is highlight how difficult health issues are for reporters to cover,

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<v Speaker 9>because these are the most sensitive, personal, intrusive questions that

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<v Speaker 9>you can ask, so separately on what we uncovered in

0:25:47.240 --> 0:25:50.960
<v Speaker 9>our book, these are difficult questions to ask people in

0:25:51.000 --> 0:25:54.320
<v Speaker 9>the White House about and we were repeatedly Alex was

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<v Speaker 9>very aggressive covering this as a White House reporter, we

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<v Speaker 9>were repeatedly lied to by people in the White House

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<v Speaker 9>who were always saying, he's fine, he's fine, he's fine.

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<v Speaker 9>After the election, Alex and I said we need to

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<v Speaker 9>find out what really happened because that was just crazy.

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<v Speaker 9>What did the American people just go through? And we

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<v Speaker 9>talked to more than two hundred Democratic insiders, all of

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<v Speaker 9>these interviews, almost all of them after the election, and

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<v Speaker 9>what we found out was shocking, just the degree to

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<v Speaker 9>which he was addled. Increasingly, they were almost like two Bidens,

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<v Speaker 9>a fine Biden, the one you saw on the rag

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<v Speaker 9>in twenty twenty in a non functioning Biden.

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<v Speaker 1>So but did you guys think the age were being

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<v Speaker 1>deceitful or did you think that they really believed that

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<v Speaker 1>he was going to be okay elese then he would

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<v Speaker 1>be able to do the job.

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<v Speaker 10>I think some of the early steps were done with

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<v Speaker 10>innocent enough reasons you want your principle to look good.

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<v Speaker 10>But as his diminishment increased, some of those actions became

0:26:47.600 --> 0:26:50.879
<v Speaker 10>increasingly deceitful. Because the fact is that the Biden that

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<v Speaker 10>we saw on the debate stage last June.

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<v Speaker 2>He had other.

0:26:54.080 --> 0:26:57.440
<v Speaker 10>Moments like that behind the scenes, and increasingly so, and

0:26:57.800 --> 0:27:00.679
<v Speaker 10>they started structuring his schedule, his public schedule to make

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<v Speaker 10>sure that the public didn't see it, and even some

0:27:02.880 --> 0:27:05.600
<v Speaker 10>people inside their own administration, their own white House, their

0:27:05.600 --> 0:27:06.240
<v Speaker 10>own cannet.

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<v Speaker 3>Now, so the question that Gail King, astronaut Gail King

0:27:10.080 --> 0:27:14.440
<v Speaker 3>should have asked as an astronaut, is and nobody's asked

0:27:14.480 --> 0:27:17.280
<v Speaker 3>this yet to my knowledge, how do.

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<v Speaker 2>You square this?

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<v Speaker 11>Jake?

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<v Speaker 3>Two thirds of more Americans knew it and you didn't

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<v Speaker 3>go right.

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<v Speaker 2>What is your answer for that? Jim? What is it about.

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<v Speaker 4>You, your job, your attitudes that blinded you to what

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<v Speaker 4>was so plainly true to the vast majority of Americans?

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<v Speaker 2>Jake?

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<v Speaker 4>Seriously, literally two hundred million people knew it and you didn't.

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<v Speaker 3>Now talk, Jim and Cheyenne in a little house in

0:27:46.800 --> 0:27:49.840
<v Speaker 3>a cul de sac knew it, got no sources. And

0:27:49.960 --> 0:27:53.359
<v Speaker 3>Linda in Florida, who lives in an apartment, she knew

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<v Speaker 3>it with no sources.

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<v Speaker 2>Explain that.

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<v Speaker 4>I mean, come on, well, Jake would say, people we

0:28:01.359 --> 0:28:02.960
<v Speaker 4>knew and trusted lied to us constantly.

0:28:03.000 --> 0:28:04.160
<v Speaker 2>We were a misled.

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<v Speaker 4>I would argue, well, they told you to ignore the

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<v Speaker 4>evidence of your eyes and ears.

0:28:09.280 --> 0:28:11.119
<v Speaker 2>That's always a bad idea.

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<v Speaker 4>And you don't bs a BS or Jake his opening

0:28:14.800 --> 0:28:18.639
<v Speaker 4>stuff about health concerns are always very, very sensitive. Now

0:28:18.680 --> 0:28:20.639
<v Speaker 4>we're not talking about whether he has IBS or a

0:28:20.760 --> 0:28:24.400
<v Speaker 4>rectile difficulties. We're talking about whether he has dementia, which

0:28:24.440 --> 0:28:28.760
<v Speaker 4>is undeniably obviously fundamental to his ability.

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<v Speaker 2>To carry out the duties of the president of the

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<v Speaker 2>United States.

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<v Speaker 3>Really, and you can't get around the fact that you

0:28:36.440 --> 0:28:39.000
<v Speaker 3>didn't ask the hard questions of guests on your show,

0:28:39.040 --> 0:28:40.760
<v Speaker 3>as we pointed out last week, when you hear the

0:28:41.320 --> 0:28:42.680
<v Speaker 3>long versions.

0:28:42.280 --> 0:28:45.360
<v Speaker 2>Of those you didn't push back. He was the opposite.

0:28:45.440 --> 0:28:47.960
<v Speaker 2>He was an activist in shooting them down.

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<v Speaker 3>It's so frustrating because it doesn't matter what happens to

0:28:53.080 --> 0:28:56.680
<v Speaker 3>Jake Tapper's career, but it does matter that now everybody

0:28:57.480 --> 0:29:02.760
<v Speaker 3>is willing to believe any crazy conspiracy theory.

0:29:02.960 --> 0:29:06.200
<v Speaker 2>And it got added to in the last four days.

0:29:07.080 --> 0:29:11.600
<v Speaker 3>The Biden people put out their new prostate cancer information

0:29:12.080 --> 0:29:15.200
<v Speaker 3>the day the her tape drops. I mean, come on,

0:29:15.520 --> 0:29:19.640
<v Speaker 3>nobody's gonna buy that. Every doctor I saw on every

0:29:19.680 --> 0:29:22.920
<v Speaker 3>show yesterday said they knew it years ago. They had

0:29:22.960 --> 0:29:23.280
<v Speaker 3>to have.

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<v Speaker 4>It's just it doesn't make it well right in the

0:29:28.600 --> 0:29:32.600
<v Speaker 4>her tapes are pretty devastating to have you actually listened.

0:29:32.640 --> 0:29:34.920
<v Speaker 3>I don't think most people have heard clips like we played.

0:29:35.000 --> 0:29:37.520
<v Speaker 3>Has anybody sat down and listened to his full eleven

0:29:37.560 --> 0:29:41.000
<v Speaker 3>minute answer? If you listen to the whole thing in

0:29:41.080 --> 0:29:45.400
<v Speaker 3>its entirety, it is jaw dropping. There's something about hearing

0:29:45.440 --> 0:29:48.480
<v Speaker 3>the whole thing that makes you go, oh my god.

0:29:49.120 --> 0:29:50.880
<v Speaker 2>And what was he asked? What was the question?

0:29:51.080 --> 0:29:54.400
<v Speaker 3>It was fairly straight, so some simple question like you

0:29:54.440 --> 0:29:56.680
<v Speaker 3>know what your did bode or something? Anyway, goes on

0:29:56.720 --> 0:30:01.080
<v Speaker 3>this eleven minute tells his entire placeolitical story from when

0:30:01.120 --> 0:30:05.200
<v Speaker 3>he was a kid, rambling old man's story, whispering it

0:30:05.600 --> 0:30:09.440
<v Speaker 3>with all kinds of wrong details. It's it's and to

0:30:09.520 --> 0:30:14.080
<v Speaker 3>think that that guy was in meetings with Steve Sullivan

0:30:14.720 --> 0:30:17.720
<v Speaker 3>regularly discussing whether or not we should bomb a ran

0:30:17.880 --> 0:30:18.360
<v Speaker 3>or something.

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<v Speaker 8>It's crazy.

0:30:20.760 --> 0:30:22.920
<v Speaker 2>Speaking of dementia. I don't remember. Did we play the

0:30:23.000 --> 0:30:25.120
<v Speaker 2>Van Jones clip this segment? No, we have not.

0:30:25.280 --> 0:30:28.320
<v Speaker 3>We get we got we ought to play that and

0:30:28.480 --> 0:30:32.800
<v Speaker 3>Joe Scarborough went on Halprin's show to defend his this

0:30:32.960 --> 0:30:35.400
<v Speaker 3>was the best Biden and f you if you don't

0:30:35.440 --> 0:30:37.560
<v Speaker 3>believe me, and I haven't heard that defense yet.

0:30:37.960 --> 0:30:40.440
<v Speaker 4>Another guy saying, can I have a credibility back?

0:30:40.840 --> 0:30:41.040
<v Speaker 6>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 2>No, No, that's not how it works. More in the way,

0:30:44.120 --> 0:30:44.479
<v Speaker 2>stay hear.

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<v Speaker 12>This is the Emperor's new clothes playing itself out in

0:30:51.840 --> 0:30:55.800
<v Speaker 12>real time. There are people who knew and said nothing,

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<v Speaker 12>and that is a crime against this republic. And I

0:31:00.360 --> 0:31:02.440
<v Speaker 12>think the Democrats's going to pay for a long time

0:31:02.800 --> 0:31:04.960
<v Speaker 12>for being a part of what is now being revealed

0:31:04.960 --> 0:31:06.480
<v Speaker 12>to be a massive cover up.

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<v Speaker 2>Van Jones and CNN yesterday.

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<v Speaker 3>I hope there's a price to pay, and not just

0:31:10.800 --> 0:31:13.960
<v Speaker 3>because it hurts Democrats and helps Republicans. There should be

0:31:14.000 --> 0:31:16.080
<v Speaker 3>a price to pay for this sort of thing. And

0:31:16.240 --> 0:31:19.760
<v Speaker 3>He's right, is a crime against the republic, and it's

0:31:19.800 --> 0:31:21.120
<v Speaker 3>not being treated like that.

0:31:22.040 --> 0:31:22.320
<v Speaker 2>Right.

0:31:22.720 --> 0:31:26.440
<v Speaker 3>It's not just an interesting anecdote that the Secretary of

0:31:26.520 --> 0:31:30.560
<v Speaker 3>State was okay being regularly called the wrong name and

0:31:30.880 --> 0:31:32.280
<v Speaker 3>never went to the press.

0:31:32.000 --> 0:31:37.760
<v Speaker 4>With it, or that it's a partisan question one that

0:31:37.840 --> 0:31:42.200
<v Speaker 4>Republicans pounce as da dada. Yeah, that's terrible speaking of that.

0:31:42.160 --> 0:31:42.640
<v Speaker 2>Sort of thing.

0:31:42.760 --> 0:31:46.200
<v Speaker 4>Amy Bublack is a hero and she may well bring

0:31:46.280 --> 0:31:49.680
<v Speaker 4>down Gavin Newsom. We will tell you about Amy and

0:31:49.760 --> 0:31:55.200
<v Speaker 4>her efforts in the scandal. That's the opposite scandal that

0:31:55.320 --> 0:31:57.520
<v Speaker 4>a lot of the media is reporting. Next Hour. If

0:31:57.560 --> 0:32:00.480
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0:32:04.480 --> 0:32:06.720
<v Speaker 2>The other day, Mark ca Alprin said, this is making

0:32:06.760 --> 0:32:07.280
<v Speaker 2>me mental.

0:32:07.680 --> 0:32:11.200
<v Speaker 3>I feel that way too. I feel like, okay, this

0:32:11.360 --> 0:32:14.160
<v Speaker 3>is like if the Emperor's new clothes. That old story.

0:32:15.840 --> 0:32:18.040
<v Speaker 3>You get to the park where the little kid says

0:32:18.040 --> 0:32:21.920
<v Speaker 3>he's naked, yeah, and like half of the people in

0:32:21.960 --> 0:32:27.200
<v Speaker 3>the crowd say, no, he's not. What well, yeah, So

0:32:27.360 --> 0:32:29.760
<v Speaker 3>you're still hanging on to the fact that he's not naked.

0:32:30.080 --> 0:32:32.280
<v Speaker 4>If we had time, we'd play this montage for you,

0:32:32.440 --> 0:32:35.360
<v Speaker 4>and if a year later several of the most powerful

0:32:35.360 --> 0:32:37.600
<v Speaker 4>people in the kingdom were continuing to say, oh, no,

0:32:37.640 --> 0:32:41.560
<v Speaker 4>he had beautiful clothes on, or look, we shouldn't look

0:32:41.640 --> 0:32:42.840
<v Speaker 4>back till last year.

0:32:42.880 --> 0:32:43.560
<v Speaker 2>We need to look.

0:32:43.440 --> 0:32:46.080
<v Speaker 3>Forward, okay to that, And I just I want to

0:32:46.120 --> 0:32:47.960
<v Speaker 3>hear this because I haven't heard it yet. So Joe

0:32:47.960 --> 0:32:52.160
<v Speaker 3>Scarborough pretty famously this was after The Wall Street Journal

0:32:52.240 --> 0:32:56.080
<v Speaker 3>put out their piece about Biden's mental decline. Joe Scarborough

0:32:56.080 --> 0:32:58.680
<v Speaker 3>wanted to push back against it hard and said in

0:32:58.760 --> 0:33:00.640
<v Speaker 3>his screen this start.

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<v Speaker 8>Your tape right now, because I'm about to tell you

0:33:02.720 --> 0:33:05.200
<v Speaker 8>the truth and f you if.

0:33:05.080 --> 0:33:06.320
<v Speaker 2>You can't handle the truth.

0:33:07.840 --> 0:33:16.280
<v Speaker 8>This version of Biden intellectually, analytically is the best Biden ever.

0:33:17.640 --> 0:33:21.640
<v Speaker 3>So Joe Joe Scarborough saying, fu if you think Joe

0:33:21.680 --> 0:33:25.280
<v Speaker 3>Biden's slipping mentally, this is late in the game. I mean,

0:33:25.320 --> 0:33:29.960
<v Speaker 3>this is what everybody knew. Crazy anyway, So he was

0:33:30.000 --> 0:33:33.440
<v Speaker 3>on with Mark Alperton. They're actually friends on Mark Alperton's

0:33:33.760 --> 0:33:36.200
<v Speaker 3>very got like nine different TV shows right now.

0:33:36.360 --> 0:33:38.840
<v Speaker 2>He was on one of them and helper and ask

0:33:38.920 --> 0:33:39.400
<v Speaker 2>him about it.

0:33:39.640 --> 0:33:42.400
<v Speaker 3>But looking back at that, do you say, well, it

0:33:42.480 --> 0:33:45.280
<v Speaker 3>was misleading to say best Biden never without a caveating

0:33:45.320 --> 0:33:47.280
<v Speaker 3>it and say except on the days when he's not

0:33:47.320 --> 0:33:47.880
<v Speaker 3>the best Biden.

0:33:48.120 --> 0:33:49.720
<v Speaker 2>I mean, put in the proper context.

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<v Speaker 11>I'm just not going to freak out and meltdown on

0:33:52.480 --> 0:33:55.160
<v Speaker 11>one or two clips here or there. And again he

0:33:55.320 --> 0:33:57.920
<v Speaker 11>bumbled around, and he stumbled around, but he has for

0:33:58.040 --> 0:34:01.760
<v Speaker 11>quite some time. That didn't seem to me to get

0:34:01.760 --> 0:34:05.800
<v Speaker 11>in the way of Joe Bining being able to analyze

0:34:06.240 --> 0:34:09.359
<v Speaker 11>the most important issues. And I certainly think he has

0:34:09.800 --> 0:34:13.520
<v Speaker 11>a better grasp on it than probably the overwhelming majority

0:34:13.520 --> 0:34:14.839
<v Speaker 11>of his critics there certainly did.

0:34:14.880 --> 0:34:18.799
<v Speaker 2>When I spoke with him and Scarborough, we cut that down.

0:34:18.840 --> 0:34:21.120
<v Speaker 3>But Scarborough says he spent three hours with him and

0:34:21.200 --> 0:34:23.200
<v Speaker 3>a dinner or something like that, and Biden was sharp

0:34:23.280 --> 0:34:26.080
<v Speaker 3>that day, and so he was going off of that. Okay,

0:34:26.120 --> 0:34:30.399
<v Speaker 3>So I guess that's another the ability to I mean,

0:34:30.400 --> 0:34:33.840
<v Speaker 3>because the hatred Scarborough and his wife have for Trump,

0:34:34.320 --> 0:34:37.680
<v Speaker 3>I mean, that's beyond Trump derangement syndrome. They deeply hate

0:34:37.719 --> 0:34:40.759
<v Speaker 3>him and have pretty good reason for it. But he's

0:34:40.760 --> 0:34:42.719
<v Speaker 3>got all kinds of reasons to turn his mind into.

0:34:42.840 --> 0:34:47.319
<v Speaker 3>Not that doesn't say anything that could possibly help Trump

0:34:47.360 --> 0:34:51.879
<v Speaker 3>get elected, right emotion, But that's just this crazy say

0:34:52.320 --> 0:34:58.000
<v Speaker 3>sad series irrationals. Everybody would say he always had gaffs. No, no, no,

0:34:58.040 --> 0:35:03.200
<v Speaker 3>not like this. What are you talking about. Let's all

0:35:03.239 --> 0:35:06.120
<v Speaker 3>just take the lesson that apparently we can delude ourselves

0:35:06.840 --> 0:35:09.680
<v Speaker 3>about important things at a high level and remember that

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<v Speaker 3>and be afraid, be very afraid.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, they can delude themselves.

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<v Speaker 4>I think everybody has that capacity in different levels, and

0:35:18.600 --> 0:35:20.680
<v Speaker 4>apparently it runs high among journalists.

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