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Speaker 7: A follow up, are you surprised that Zelenski hasn't figured

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Speaker 2: But I'll be meeting very shortly with President Putin.

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Speaker 1: He'd like to meet as soon as possible. I agree

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Speaker 8: With this meeting with Putin, is this Russia's last chance

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Speaker 1: it really does. It's a war that should have never happened.

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Speaker 1: But millions of people have died and very much said

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Speaker 1: But we're actually looking to get some back and some swapping.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, please say it.

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Speaker 9: If I could ask a question of your guests, and

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Speaker 2: Likes mister, I can tell you that that's true. Please

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Speaker 5: So and today's event, I think is a very bright

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Speaker 3: Can I have a suggestion, yes, so maybe we agree

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Speaker 3: Because from the leaders of the countries which were at

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Speaker 2: Certainly will thank you very much. Do we have draft

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Speaker 2: It's very nice. We're looking into that right now.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: All we can do is do our best. We've been

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Speaker 2: And we had two.

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Speaker 2: Please.

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Speaker 1: I put them together, but what they have been able

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Speaker 1: and I don't want to do anything. So we'll talk

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Speaker 1: about it later today. Today, we'll give you a location.

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Speaker 4: Today you were talking about sending military forces to fight

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Speaker 4: against the drug cartels.

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Speaker 10: In Latin America.

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Speaker 4: Do you think it's it's worth sending our forces or

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Speaker 4: US forces there to take this.

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Speaker 11: On cartels where Central Latin America?

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Speaker 1: Well, Latin America's got a lot of cartels, They've got

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Speaker 1: a lot of drugs flowing. So you know, we want

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Speaker 1: to protect our country. We have to protect our country.

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Speaker 1: We haven't been doing it for four years. And we

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Speaker 1: love this country like they love their countries. We have

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Speaker 1: to protect our country. So you know we're playing a

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Speaker 1: tough game. But we'll have more to say about that soon.

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Speaker 11: Yes, ma'am, so President A Musala from Azerbaijan News Agency report.

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Speaker 11: So we are grateful to be here today. You host

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Speaker 11: a truly historic meeting. As a person who values diplomacy

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Speaker 11: and global interaction, do you consider the possibility to visit

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Speaker 11: in Azerbajwan? Actually, you mentioned Azerbaijan and Armenia after this meeting.

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Speaker 3: Well, to visit our countries?

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Speaker 2: Do you consider to visit which one do I consider better?

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Speaker 12: Yes?

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Speaker 1: I think if I ever said that, you would say

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Speaker 1: this guy couldn't have solved the problem. You know what,

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Speaker 1: I consider them both great okay, and you know what,

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Speaker 1: they're going to be even greater. And they're very different

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Speaker 1: in many ways, but they have a lot in common.

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Speaker 1: But they're both great as far as I'm concerned.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Please, it's an interesting question, right, That would have been

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Speaker 1: a hell of an answer if I said, well, I think,

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Speaker 1: I think I like this word of that one.

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Speaker 2: We don't do that. Go ahead please.

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Speaker 13: As a president, first of all, thank you for bringing

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Speaker 13: piece to South Coccus of something that no one has

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Speaker 13: been able to achieve in thirty five years.

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Speaker 10: That's number one.

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Speaker 13: We also noticed that you think highly of the commitments

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Speaker 13: that the sides have taken on and assumed I am, However,

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Speaker 13: considering the long history of conflict and the fact that

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Speaker 13: this is not a legally binding document, will there be

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Speaker 13: consequences if at some point one of the sides takes

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Speaker 13: a step back.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna happen. I think it's going

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Speaker 1: to be very good. And I told them I gave

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Speaker 1: him a personal commitment. If there's you know, there's always

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Speaker 1: little problems here and there. Right, the big ones have

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Speaker 1: been solved. These are the giant ones have been solved.

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Speaker 1: But if there's conflict, they both know. They're gonna call

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Speaker 1: me and we're going to get it straight out. They're

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Speaker 1: not gonna have a problem. Where are you from? Okay, good,

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Speaker 1: very good. I was wondering it was a very unusual question,

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Speaker 1: but it's not unusual considering you're from Armenia. If there's

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Speaker 1: a problem, we will get it worked out. I told

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Speaker 1: them both, don't let the problem last. We get it

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Speaker 1: early and we'll get it. We'll get it solved.

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Speaker 2: Good reporter you have over there, okay please?

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Speaker 14: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: First of all I'd like to say is that today

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Speaker 3: we initialed the piece deal, which was in the process

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Speaker 3: of negotiations for quite a while. The fact that it

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Speaker 3: is initial year in the capital number one of the world,

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Speaker 3: in the office number one of the world, and in

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Speaker 3: front of the Great President of the United States, means

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Speaker 3: that there should be no doubt and no suspicious that

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Speaker 3: any of the site would step back if some of

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Speaker 3: if any of us Prime Minister Pashnan or myself had

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Speaker 3: in mind to step back, we wouldn't have come here.

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Speaker 3: So you can be absolutely sure, as well as azarbaiginic community,

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Speaker 3: that what has happened today will result in peace, long

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Speaker 3: lasting peace, eternal peace in the caucuses.

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Speaker 5: That's a very nice I'm sorry, I'm sorry, fully agree

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Speaker 5: and nothing to it.

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Speaker 2: That's very nice.

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Speaker 1: Two statements, and that's a beautiful, beautifully stated statement.

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Speaker 2: Let's go a couple of more. Yeah, please, the.

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Speaker 12: South Caucases have penned a blame on your predecessor, Joe

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Speaker 12: Biden and the Secretary State Anthony Blincoln for obstacles in

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Speaker 12: America's bilateral relations with Iserbaijan in peace and not part

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Speaker 12: of the world. How important is it to you to

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Speaker 12: elevate your country's partnership and your administration's partnership with Iserbaijan

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Speaker 12: with Armenia, And how important is this for your legacy?

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Speaker 2: Well, to me, it's very important.

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Speaker 1: But it's you know, I just I know the history

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Speaker 1: of what was going on because I do a lot

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Speaker 1: of reading, and they've been had a vicious you know,

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Speaker 1: they've had a very contentious relationship for a long time.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's war. Most of the time was war.

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Speaker 1: And so to get it done. They're great people. I

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Speaker 1: know a lot of people from Armenia. I know a

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Speaker 1: lot of people from both countries and the incredible people

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Speaker 1: and it shouldn't happen what has happened I wish we

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Speaker 1: could have been here sooner.

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Speaker 2: You know, if the election were differently.

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Speaker 1: Going to be nice to them, I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: be controversial and say the election was rigged. That would

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Speaker 1: have had this thing saw four years sooner. But the

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Speaker 1: truth is it's right. If the election weren't rigged, I

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Speaker 1: would have been here four years sooner. We would have

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Speaker 1: signed the same agreement four years sooner. But it didn't happen,

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Speaker 1: and the Biden administration did really very little, actually nothing

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Speaker 1: to get it done. But they did nothing to get

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Speaker 1: really anything done. This country was in very serious shape.

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Speaker 1: And I say it over and over again. I met

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Speaker 1: all the leaders of NATO, I met, I went as

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Speaker 1: you know, the Middle East.

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Speaker 2: I was with the King of Saudi Arabia, the leaders of.

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Speaker 1: Great countries right Qatar and Ue and others in the

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Speaker 1: Middle East, and everyone essentially said the same thing. We

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Speaker 1: had a dead country. One year ago. We had a

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Speaker 1: dead country. Our country was dying. And now we have

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Speaker 1: the hottest country anywhere in the world. It's not even close.

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Speaker 1: We have the hottest country in the world. And it's

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Speaker 1: an honor to use that, if you call it power

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Speaker 1: or respect or whatever it is to settle wars like

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Speaker 1: we have right here to my left and my right.

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Speaker 1: And these two guys are very smart. I got to

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Speaker 1: know them, and they're very smart. They're not gonna I

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Speaker 1: don't think they're going to have to bother with me.

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Speaker 1: And they may call me just to bug me a

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Speaker 1: little bit. Let me put them to a test, and

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Speaker 1: they'll call because they like to call me, but they're

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Speaker 1: not gonna have any problem. We have a very comprehensive agreement.

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Speaker 1: It's a peace agreement, and this isn't ceasefire.

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Speaker 2: This is in we'll hold up.

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Speaker 1: This is a piece agreement, and they're gonna end up

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Speaker 1: doing a lot of business with each other. They're going

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Speaker 1: to do a lot of business with the United States.

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Speaker 1: And I'm going to always remember, at least during the

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Speaker 1: time that I'm here, I'm going to remember how smart

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Speaker 1: they were, how good they were, and when it comes

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Speaker 1: to trade and other things, we're going to always go

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent out.

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Speaker 2: We'll go out of our way to make sure it

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Speaker 2: comes out good for them.

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Speaker 1: They did an amazingly good thing and a very brave thing.

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Speaker 1: It's a very complicated part of the world. They come from,

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Speaker 1: very tough part of the world. It's a tough, tough

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Speaker 1: but smart part of the world. Smart tough people.

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Speaker 2: And great wealth, you know, great energy, wealth.

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Speaker 1: I was talking to Chris and you were saying, in

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Speaker 1: terms of wealth, it's enormous wealth.

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Speaker 2: But wealth doesn't.

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Speaker 1: Often solve problems, takes other things. But they're amazing, two

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Speaker 1: amazing leaders, and it's an honor to be associated with them.

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Speaker 2: How about we'll do one more please.

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Speaker 15: Your gut instincts have always done well in terms of

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Speaker 15: business and in terms of politics. What does your gut

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Speaker 15: tell you as it relates to the possibility of an

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Speaker 15: event like this in the next few weeks, the next

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Speaker 15: few months, in which you have President Putin on one

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Speaker 15: side and President Zelenski on your other side.

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Speaker 1: I think my instinct really tells me that we have

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Speaker 1: a shot at it. Okay, and you'll find that out

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Speaker 1: later on and maybe even today, But we have a

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Speaker 1: shot at it. Look, it's got to be solved. You know,

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Speaker 1: we're not losing people. A lot of people say, why

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Speaker 1: are you bothering? We're not losing people. We were spending

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Speaker 1: hundreds of billions of dollars. Now we're spending nothing. We're

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Speaker 1: spending no money. I guess we're making money because you know,

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Speaker 1: we're are great. We have the best military equipment in

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Speaker 1: the world. We're selling it to NATO. But you're losing

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Speaker 1: thousands of people a week, Russians and Ukrainians mostly mostly soldiers.

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Speaker 1: But you know, missiles are lobbed into cities and towns, Kiev,

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Speaker 1: lots of places. You've been reading the same stories that

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Speaker 1: I've been reading, and.

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Speaker 2: We've got to get it solved.

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Speaker 15: The Committee will make their announcement as it relates to

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Speaker 15: this year's Nobel Peace Prize on October the tenth, Friday,

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Speaker 15: October the tenth. Is that date circled on your calendar,

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Speaker 15: mister President.

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Speaker 2: I can't say.

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Speaker 1: I mean, a lot of people say you though, no

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Speaker 1: matter what I did, because you know I'm of a

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Speaker 1: certain persuasion, no matter what I do, they won't give

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Speaker 1: it up.

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Speaker 2: And I'm not politiicing for it. A lot of people

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Speaker 2: that are. I know. I mean, I read the same

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Speaker 2: things as you do. But it would be a great honor, certainly,

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Speaker 2: but I would never political.

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Speaker 1: I'm not doing it for that. I'm doing it because

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Speaker 1: of I really. Number one, I want to save lives.

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Speaker 1: That's why I'm involved so much with Ukraine and Russia,

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Speaker 1: saving lives of Russians and Ukrainians non American lives. Now,

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Speaker 1: I would say this that war could have escalated in

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Speaker 1: something much but that could have been.

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Speaker 2: A world war.

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Speaker 1: I think if we didn't come Ukraine Russia would have

631
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Speaker 1: ended up being a world war.

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Speaker 2: And I stopped that. That stopped. Now.

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Speaker 1: The only question is when is it going to be settled?

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Speaker 1: And it could be very soon, but when is it

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Speaker 1: going to be? But that would have been a world

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Speaker 1: war if I didn't come along with a very talented

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Speaker 1: group of people sitting largely right here, But there are

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Speaker 1: others not in the room that are very talented. I

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Speaker 1: think Russia Ukraine would have had a very very high degree.

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Speaker 1: I think even probably would have ended up being in

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Speaker 1: a World war.

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Speaker 2: I don't think people talk about that.

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Speaker 1: Now because they don't see it anymore. But we brought

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Speaker 1: it down a long way. But that was getting to

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Speaker 1: a point when I first came in, I said, Wow,

646
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Speaker 1: this thing is really bad and it could have gone.

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Speaker 2: It could have escalated to a level that few people

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Speaker 2: would have been very unhappy with.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, your great assessor, mister President President Ronald Reagan had

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Speaker 15: a phrase as it relates to dealing with the then

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Speaker 15: Soviet Union and also Mikhail Gorbachev. The phrase was trust

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Speaker 15: but verifyed. Do you subscribe to that same view as

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Speaker 15: it relates to mister Putin and Russia?

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Speaker 2: Well, I do, relating to everybody.

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Speaker 1: I mean not just President Putin, but also people and

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Speaker 1: leaders that I deal with. Look, I'm dealing with trade

657
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Speaker 1: and some of the worst deals we made, some of

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Speaker 1: the worst trade deals we have. I talk about friend

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Speaker 1: and foe. Right, friend and foe two interesting words. Some

660
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Speaker 1: of our worst trade deals were not with the foe.

661
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Speaker 1: They were with the friends. Our friends were just killing

662
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Speaker 1: us on trade. Not anymore, not anymore. We're making you know,

663
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Speaker 1: we're taking in trillions of dollars, and we're respected, and

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Speaker 1: we're settling, you know, through trade, even a little bit here,

665
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Speaker 1: less here than on some but through trade. I got

666
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Speaker 1: things settled with India Pakistan. I think it was trade

667
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Speaker 1: more than any other reason. That's how I got involved.

668
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Speaker 1: I said, you know, I don't want to be dealing

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Speaker 1: with countries that are trying to blow up themselves and

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Speaker 1: maybe the world. You know, they're nuclear nations. That was

671
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Speaker 1: a big one. Getting that one settled. I think you'd

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Speaker 1: agree that that was a big one, and they were

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Speaker 1: going at it.

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Speaker 2: You know, they were shooting airplanes out of the sky.

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Speaker 1: You know, they five or six planes got shot down

676
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Speaker 1: in the last little skirmish, and then it was going

677
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Speaker 1: to escalate from.

678
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Speaker 2: There and they could have gotten to be very, very big.

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Speaker 1: Now, I want to save a lot of lives. I

680
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:55,840
Speaker 1: love saving lives. That's what it's about. And you know,

681
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Speaker 1: when you save lives, you really end up having a

682
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Speaker 1: peaceful world.

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Speaker 2: Usually that ends up pretty well.

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Speaker 1: I want to thank everybody, but in particular, these two

685
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Speaker 1: great leaders are having the courage to do what they

686
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Speaker 1: did today, and they're going to go down in the

687
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Speaker 1: history books. And it's a great honor to be involved.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, please remain in your seats until the

691
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Speaker 1: leaders have the part of the room.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 4: All right, Well, I told you he loves that four

694
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Speaker 4: o'clock hour. He does, any folks, Okay, you heard it's

695
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Speaker 4: all about the Nobel Peace Price.

696
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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 4: We're fortunate to have Harmony Dylan, the Assistant Attorney General

698
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Speaker 4: of the United States. We take this just before that

699
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Speaker 4: press conference started.

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Speaker 2: Here. It is.

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Speaker 4: All right, Let's bring in first guest, the Assistant Attorney

702
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Speaker 4: General of the United States of America Civil Rights at

703
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Speaker 4: the US Department of Justice, who's here to discuss many

704
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Speaker 4: many things, including redistricting. Happy to have Harmee dealing with us,

705
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Speaker 4: one of the best attorneys on the planet. Before you

706
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Speaker 4: get the redistricting, there was a some rather breaking news.

707
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Speaker 4: I think it's really really important. We love covering these

708
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Speaker 4: types of things. The State Department, and in conjunction with

709
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Speaker 4: Department of Justice, Pambondi said that there's a fifty million

710
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Speaker 4: dollar reward for the arrests and conviction of Nicholas Maduro,

711
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Speaker 4: the current president of Venezuela. Let's take a listen very quickly.

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Speaker 8: The Department of Justice and State Department are announcing a

713
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Speaker 8: historic fifty million dollar reward for information leading to the

714
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Speaker 8: arrest of Nicholas Maduro. Maduro uses foreign terrorist organizations like

715
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Speaker 8: TDA Sinaloa and Cartel of the Suns to bring deadly

716
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Speaker 8: drugs and violence into our country. Todate the DEA has

717
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Speaker 8: seized thirty tons of cocaine linked to Maduro and his associates,

718
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Speaker 8: with nearly seven tons linked to Maduro himself, which represents

719
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Speaker 8: a primary source of income for the deadly cartels based

720
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Speaker 8: in Venezuela and Mexico. Cocaine is often laced with fitanol,

721
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Speaker 8: resulting in the loss and destruction of countless American lives.

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Speaker 4: Interesting since that was put out, I believe it was

723
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Speaker 4: a twenty five million dollar reward at one point, and

724
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Speaker 4: President Trump set up that to double it, make it

725
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Speaker 4: fifty million dollars. Tell us about it, Harmony, What do

726
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Speaker 4: you think is going to happen with this? And have

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Speaker 4: you heard from Venezuela.

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Speaker 10: Well, look, I'm not dealing with this particular issue in

729
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Speaker 10: the Civil Rights Division, but what I can tell you

730
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Speaker 10: is that this administration and this Department of Justice are

731
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Speaker 10: extremely focused on protecting American citizens from the scourge of

732
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Speaker 10: drug trafficking. And that goes hand in hand with the

733
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Speaker 10: open borders that we've seen under the Biden administration and beyond.

734
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Speaker 10: And so I think this is a very clear sign

735
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Speaker 10: to the drug cartels and the foreign narco terror states

736
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Speaker 10: that the United States is extremely focused on protecting its

737
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Speaker 10: citizens and shutting down these deadly trades. And I can

738
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Speaker 10: tell you from living in San Francisco for so many

739
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Speaker 10: years that the streets of San Francisco are littered with

740
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Speaker 10: middle class young kids who have fallen to this ventinyl crisis.

741
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Speaker 10: And so this is a huge existential threat to our country.

742
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Speaker 10: It's productivity, and it's appropriate to deal with it in

743
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Speaker 10: this kind of a way.

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Speaker 4: And no question, are you talking to someone who lost

745
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Speaker 4: a child to fentanyl. I'm all for this seated president.

746
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Speaker 4: Many people don't think he deserves to be named the

747
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Speaker 4: president of Venezuela. A lot of people thought he didn't

748
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:30,239
Speaker 4: win that last election. It was more he stole it

749
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Speaker 4: something we may or may not be familiar with, harmy.

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Speaker 4: Do you know if this fifty million dollar reward is

751
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Speaker 4: the arrest, capture, and or dead or alive of Maduro?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I couldn't comment on that, but I rather suspect

753
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Speaker 10: that when you're offering that kind of money, it's for

754
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 10: information leading to an arrest, because what we're looking for

755
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:52,200
Speaker 10: is to shut down these practices. And it isn't just

756
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Speaker 10: one person. Of course, he's ahead of a organization that

757
00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 10: is vast, with its tentacles in many countries and many

758
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Speaker 10: different levels of influence, possibly leading even into our own country.

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Speaker 10: And so I think we're looking at, you know, an

760
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Speaker 10: information type of request but I wouldn't swear to that.

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Speaker 4: Okay, got it, got it, Let's move on. I know

762
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Speaker 4: you had sent a letter to Texas. Let's talk about

763
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Speaker 4: redistricting Texas other states as well, Ohio, Florida, Missouri, Indiana.

764
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Speaker 4: And then the threats by states like Illinois, New York

765
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Speaker 4: Governor hockl threatening to do the same thing, and California.

766
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Speaker 4: I believe that's your home state, if I'm not mistaken.

767
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Speaker 4: But anyway, so tell us about this idea of the

768
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Speaker 4: government getting involve, the federal government getting involved. Senator John

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Speaker 4: Cornyn of Texas has asked the FBI, if you can

770
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Speaker 4: locate some of these folks, the Democrats from Texas, arrest

771
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Speaker 4: them and bring them back, what do you tell us

772
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Speaker 4: the plan?

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Speaker 10: Okay, So, first of all, I mean, I don't have

774
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Speaker 10: a political plan in this regard. At the Department of Justice,

775
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:56,360
Speaker 10: we're not focused on the politics. We're focused on the

776
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Speaker 10: federal civil rights laws. And the Voting Rights Act has

777
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Speaker 10: laws that govern, has opinions that govern and interpret this

778
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Speaker 10: law that require equal access to the ballots. And so

779
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Speaker 10: for many decades, the Voting Rights Act has been interpreted

780
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Speaker 10: to require in some instances and certainly to permit racial

781
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Speaker 10: jerry mandering to allow minority groups to have carved out districts. Now,

782
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Speaker 10: that concept is that direct tension with both this administration's

783
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Speaker 10: DEI policies, but more importantly with equal protection under the

784
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Speaker 10: law and justice. Thomas has written about this in a

785
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Speaker 10: very recent opinion, a dissent from kicking the can down

786
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Speaker 10: the road in one of these voting right side cases

787
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Speaker 10: and otherwise. And so I think you're going to see

788
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Speaker 10: the court actually confront and determine that case. And the

789
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Speaker 10: case in this next term involves the Louisiana district that

790
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Speaker 10: is two hundred and fifty miles long, and it is

791
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Speaker 10: a complete jerrymander, very narrow, very long, to carve out

792
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Speaker 10: a majority minority district. The letter that I sent to

793
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Speaker 10: Texas took issue with four of its districts because there's

794
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Speaker 10: a recent opinion from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

795
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Speaker 10: last year that says that it is illegal under the

796
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Speaker 10: Voting Right sect to use multiple minority groups or a

797
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Speaker 10: minority group plus plus predicted crossover white votes to make

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Speaker 10: up an argument for a majority minority district. So unless

799
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Speaker 10: you have a true majority minority district, you can just

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Speaker 10: sort of fake and paste and cabble one together. So

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00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 10: we told Texas it's in violation of federal law and

802
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:24,719
Speaker 10: Texas needs to fix that. To its credit, Texas has

803
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Speaker 10: responded to that call by calling a special session of

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Speaker 10: the legislature that's required for redistricting. And that is where

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00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 10: the Democrats on the LAMB come in. They have attempted

806
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Speaker 10: to prevent a quorum by going to other states. Then

807
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 10: they've got their cronies in these other blue states to

808
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:42,360
Speaker 10: have this drama over making threats. The problem for California,

809
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 10: for California, New York and some of these other states

810
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Speaker 10: is they're jerrymandered to the hilt. I don't know how

811
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Speaker 10: they could possibly be more gerrymandered than they already are.

812
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Speaker 10: So they're making like wild threats about it. But that's

813
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Speaker 10: not free. If they do illegal jerrymandering that is inappropriate

814
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:01,480
Speaker 10: under federal law, there could be consequences for that as well.

815
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Speaker 10: So you know, bottom line is, for decades, there's been

816
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 10: what some would call an unholy alliance between you know,

817
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:10,920
Speaker 10: the sort of minority groups who want their carved out

818
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:13,600
Speaker 10: districts and even Republicans who want safe seats around those.

819
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Speaker 10: What's more, American. It's for everyone in twenty twenty five

820
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Speaker 10: who actually have to compete for these positions. And I

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Speaker 10: think the United States Supreme Court is going to confront

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Speaker 10: the definition of the Voting Rights Act and the extent

823
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Speaker 10: to which it even permits this type of Rachel jerry

824
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Speaker 10: manderin anymore. I for one, would welcome Rachel Jerrymanderin coming

825
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:30,960
Speaker 10: to an end because I think it's on American that's

826
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Speaker 10: for the Court to decide.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I will get through the Dems who have

828
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Speaker 4: they're on the lamb, they're fleeing. I saw Texas legislature

829
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Speaker 4: coming out saying, if you want to get paid, you

830
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Speaker 4: better get your butt back to Texas and then they

831
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Speaker 4: can get their quarm and get these these rules that

832
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:49,840
Speaker 4: you've asked them to change in the place. But for man,

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Speaker 4: let's just stay in states like California, New York. If

834
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Speaker 4: you look at the district map, some of it looks

835
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Speaker 4: like spaghetti. I mean it looks like a bull of spaghetti.

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Speaker 4: It's been so jerry mandered. Let's pick up a piece here.

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Speaker 4: Do all the areas within the district have to be contiguous?

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Speaker 4: In other words, can you almost satellite or island a

839
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Speaker 4: portion of another area and counted into this district, or

840
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Speaker 4: do they have to be continuous districts.

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Speaker 10: Well, the Court Supreme Court has developed certain principles in

842
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:23,360
Speaker 10: cases under the Voting Right sect that consider different factors,

843
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 10: and so there's no sort of bright line test, if

844
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:26,560
Speaker 10: you will. But the factors that are meant to be

845
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Speaker 10: considered include compactness of a district, which is desirable, contiguity

846
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Speaker 10: of a district, which is also desirable. But states have

847
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Speaker 10: gotten around the contiguity requirement by running districts up a highway.

848
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Speaker 10: So sometimes you have districts that, for portions, are literally

849
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Speaker 10: as wide as the highway. This is silly, it's counterintuitive.

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Speaker 10: Lines are also supposed to generally follow other political subdivisions

851
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:55,400
Speaker 10: like county lines or other types of districts in the state,

852
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:58,719
Speaker 10: and they don't these days. And so this system is

853
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:00,200
Speaker 10: way out of date. And now I want to just say,

854
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:02,719
Speaker 10: look under the Voting Rights Act when we passed it,

855
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:05,640
Speaker 10: there were states that were unfair to African American voters.

856
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:08,759
Speaker 10: There were literacy tests and poll taxes and other things

857
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:10,959
Speaker 10: that have since been outlawed. And now it's twenty twenty five,

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00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:13,840
Speaker 10: I think it is time for us to really revisit

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Speaker 10: this and have this reinterpretation. So I'm eagerly awaiting the

860
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Speaker 10: Supreme Court's ruling on this Louisiana case in this next term.

861
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 10: But until then, we do know that what Texas has

862
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Speaker 10: been doing with its old districts is illegal. Other states

863
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:29,279
Speaker 10: are doing it too, and so everything is on the

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Speaker 10: table when there's gerrymandering.

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Speaker 4: About thirty seconds on this topic, very quick question after that,

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Speaker 4: So HARMI. In the state of California, for example, they

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Speaker 4: are about forty percent of the population is not registered Democrat.

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Speaker 4: So forty percent is a large number. Unfortunately, the representative

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Speaker 4: the House of Representatives numbers comes in around ten percent

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Speaker 4: for those folks. Right, So there's a big disparity between

871
00:49:56,600 --> 00:50:00,040
Speaker 4: the number of folks who aren't Democrats being represented with

872
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Speaker 4: only ten percent of the represents House of Representative votes. Right,

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Speaker 4: Can we fix that?

874
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Speaker 10: California has a so called independent redistricting commission, and I

875
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Speaker 10: say so called, and it was a brainchild of a

876
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:19,000
Speaker 10: very well meaning Republican billionaire donor. It's a complete failure

877
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:22,279
Speaker 10: in my opinion. It is far from independent. And so

878
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:26,800
Speaker 10: even with that fake redistricting, independent redistricting commission that they have.

879
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:31,240
Speaker 10: They're the governors trying to go around that and threatening

880
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:36,640
Speaker 10: to try to eliminate those few handful of Republican congressmen

881
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 10: in their seats representing red areas, rural areas of the state,

882
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:44,319
Speaker 10: farming areas of the state Orange County. So I think

883
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:47,240
Speaker 10: this is an existential war that we're at in terms

884
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 10: of the definitions of these requirements and even permissions under

885
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:52,799
Speaker 10: the voting right sect. So, like I said, I think

886
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:54,399
Speaker 10: this is going to play out on the courts over

887
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 10: the next few months and years. I'm not into politics

888
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:00,920
Speaker 10: mode anymore temporarily while I'm in the Department of Justice,

889
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:04,759
Speaker 10: but I do think it's unfair that we have some

890
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:08,480
Speaker 10: pretty gross imbalances, and one would argue that maps in

891
00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:11,320
Speaker 10: these states are not representative of the populations, and I

892
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:13,120
Speaker 10: think at some point that's going to need to fixed.

893
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:15,319
Speaker 4: I will just tell you very quickly. I just looked

894
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:19,719
Speaker 4: it up. There fifty two representatives in the California Stay

895
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:24,120
Speaker 4: of California, fifty two members, forty three are Democrat, only

896
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:26,759
Speaker 4: nine are Republicans, So that does and.

897
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:28,680
Speaker 10: It was as few as I think seven, you know,

898
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:30,799
Speaker 10: a couple of terms ago. So it has been a

899
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 10: dire circumstance for those candidates. And look, I think I

900
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:38,759
Speaker 10: think with the Supreme Court's upcoming decision, a lot of

901
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:40,359
Speaker 10: things are going to change in this country and it

902
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:43,080
Speaker 10: may mean the end of many careers very quickly.

903
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:44,160
Speaker 2: Now.

904
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:48,720
Speaker 4: John Cornyn Greg Abbott in Texas have said they've petitioned

905
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:51,680
Speaker 4: the FBI, which falls under the Department of Justice Attorney

906
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:57,240
Speaker 4: General Assistant Attorney General Will Lee, FBI arrest and bring

907
00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:59,759
Speaker 4: back those Democrats who are on the land from Texas.

908
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 10: I'm going to decline to comment on that. I will

909
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:06,840
Speaker 10: say that the whole thing playing out in Texas is

910
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:10,840
Speaker 10: pursuing to Texas state law. Texas has some interesting laws

911
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:15,839
Speaker 10: that allow the marshals to go pursue people and bring

912
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:18,040
Speaker 10: them back, and it's not a criminal arrest, it's a

913
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:20,439
Speaker 10: sort of civil arrest. They're putting other penalties in place.

914
00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:23,360
Speaker 10: And look, Texas tried the stunt. Texas Democrats tried the

915
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:26,120
Speaker 10: stunt three years ago in another fact pattern, and they

916
00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:28,200
Speaker 10: all ended up coming back with their tail between their legs.

917
00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 10: So it's a stunt. I do expect they're all going

918
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 10: to come back, particularly when now their paychecks have to

919
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:35,160
Speaker 10: be picked up in person. That's very motivating for many

920
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:37,279
Speaker 10: of us, and so hopefully the Texas folks will go

921
00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:38,680
Speaker 10: back home and do their jobs.

922
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 4: All right, Harmey Dillon, the system Attorney General, United States.

923
00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:43,799
Speaker 4: Very very good to have you. I hope to have

924
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:47,040
Speaker 4: you on again. So so much going on in the

925
00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 4: law fare and legal world. Appreciate your time, Armie, thank.

926
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:51,279
Speaker 10: You, thanks for having me.

927
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:51,600
Speaker 2: Eric.

928
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:54,120
Speaker 4: All right, folks, before we had a break, I just

929
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:56,480
Speaker 4: want to remind you about I have something very very interesting.

930
00:52:56,560 --> 00:52:59,279
Speaker 4: Let's put up that logo if you can, mad Dog.

931
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:01,040
Speaker 4: Put it up there, the edge. You want to know

932
00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:04,000
Speaker 4: what that is? Right, you told me not to do it.

933
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:07,040
Speaker 4: I'm going to do it anyway. I can't tell you yet.

934
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 4: Coming soon, very very soon. Were right back, Dog, I

935
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:20,600
Speaker 4: think that should be our theme music. It's like the

936
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:24,000
Speaker 4: surfing so I love that that surfing music. Dog, where'd

937
00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:24,360
Speaker 4: you get it?

938
00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:26,080
Speaker 16: You like the You like the surfing music?

939
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:27,399
Speaker 2: I like the surfing music.

940
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:30,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm digging it. I am, especially on Friday afternoon.

941
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:33,080
Speaker 4: All right, Hey, I got a question for you.

942
00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:33,319
Speaker 6: Dog.

943
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 4: Put up that edge logo again. Throw that edge logo.

944
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 4: Everyone's asking what is it?

945
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:37,080
Speaker 2: What is it?

946
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:38,880
Speaker 4: What do you think it is? Doctor? That, folks, I

947
00:53:38,880 --> 00:53:41,000
Speaker 4: haven't told anyone. I've literally told no. I'm going to

948
00:53:41,040 --> 00:53:43,120
Speaker 4: be in New York on Monday working on it further.

949
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:45,600
Speaker 4: It something big man, thog. What do you think it is?

950
00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 2: I don't really know.

951
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:52,640
Speaker 16: It looks very intense.

952
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 4: You are so right, You are so right, my friend.

953
00:53:57,200 --> 00:54:00,160
Speaker 4: All right, let's see a couple of voicemails. Let's do it.

954
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:05,120
Speaker 16: So this first one, someone has a prediction for what

955
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:07,440
Speaker 16: the edge is, so here could go.

956
00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:13,080
Speaker 17: Hello, Eric, this is Donovan from Mesa, Arizona. I bet

957
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:16,520
Speaker 17: you're going to talk about jd Vance taking a month

958
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:20,920
Speaker 17: to study UFOs. That's pretty out there. You'll have a

959
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:21,399
Speaker 17: great day.

960
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:24,879
Speaker 4: Well, thank you for the call. Uh No, you're wrong.

961
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:27,799
Speaker 4: You believe you're wrong. Nope, not even close. Another one.

962
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:28,080
Speaker 2: Dog.

963
00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:39,719
Speaker 18: Oh hey, Eric, I hear Steve Bannon might just be

964
00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:42,680
Speaker 18: running for president in twenty twenty eight.

965
00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:46,960
Speaker 17: Would you consider being his VP? Love to hear it.

966
00:54:47,640 --> 00:54:48,280
Speaker 18: Great show.

967
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:52,760
Speaker 4: I will just tell you I talked to Steve a lot.

968
00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:55,120
Speaker 4: He hasn't told me that. I keep reading that too.

969
00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:58,280
Speaker 4: I will tell you he would take a great president.

970
00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:01,880
Speaker 4: Nothing would make me beer and Steve Bann in twenty

971
00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:05,480
Speaker 4: twenty eight. But that's just me talking. Folks have absolutely

972
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:10,520
Speaker 4: no inside knowledge. If Steve is considering thinking about it, YadA, YadA, YadA.

973
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:12,640
Speaker 4: One of our chatter says, Bowlie, I know what edges

974
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:14,440
Speaker 4: You're going to write a book. No, I've written two

975
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:17,080
Speaker 4: New York Times bestsellers. I will wait for another one.

976
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:19,319
Speaker 4: Not yet. The edge is big, mad dog. What else

977
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 4: we got?

978
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:23,120
Speaker 16: This is grant from Wisconsin, and he is obsessed with

979
00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 16: your beard.

980
00:55:24,840 --> 00:55:28,759
Speaker 14: Oh, mister Bowling. This is grant from Mike Tenago, Wisconsin,

981
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:32,200
Speaker 14: and I love your show Comlin sens is finally get

982
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:35,960
Speaker 14: restored in our nation. But if you ever shave off

983
00:55:36,080 --> 00:55:39,320
Speaker 14: your beard or wear a tie on your TV show,

984
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:40,040
Speaker 14: I am out.

985
00:55:41,239 --> 00:55:44,919
Speaker 4: Don't worry, mister Wisconsin was a grant from Wisconsin. Don't worry, sir.

986
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:47,839
Speaker 4: I'm never shaving off the beard, and I promise I'll

987
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:49,480
Speaker 4: never wear a tie unless I have to do something

988
00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:51,880
Speaker 4: in an interview with the President of the United States.

989
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:54,480
Speaker 4: I'll wear the tie. Other than that. Hell no, I

990
00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 4: did that for fifteen years at Fox and Newsmax. No

991
00:55:57,680 --> 00:56:00,359
Speaker 4: more ties, beard stays, Thank you, Doug.

992
00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:04,799
Speaker 16: Another one, Pamela from Florida, says not all people with

993
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:06,320
Speaker 16: purple hair are liberal.

994
00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:10,719
Speaker 18: Hi, just as Pamela Rossi from Inglewood, Florida, and I

995
00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:14,480
Speaker 18: heard there was some remarks about being referred to as

996
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:18,800
Speaker 18: a Democrat with purple hair, and blah blah blah. Well,

997
00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:21,799
Speaker 18: I have very dark hair with some gray, and I

998
00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:26,680
Speaker 18: do a plumb purple and everybody gives me so many compliments.

999
00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:29,880
Speaker 18: It says looks good together. So I'm highly offended to

1000
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:31,520
Speaker 18: be considered a democrat.

1001
00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:33,080
Speaker 12: So please don't do that again.

1002
00:56:34,080 --> 00:56:37,799
Speaker 4: Ah, you went out. You're right. I apologize. I begrudge

1003
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:41,759
Speaker 4: nobody how you look, absolutely nobody. Listen. You may like

1004
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:43,719
Speaker 4: this or hate this. I'm a libertarian. I don't even

1005
00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:45,759
Speaker 4: care what you wear. Just leave the kids out of it.

1006
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:48,520
Speaker 4: So you'll got purple hair, you rocket, you're feeling good

1007
00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:51,200
Speaker 4: about it. You rock, You feel good about yourself when

1008
00:56:51,239 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 4: you wear purple hair.

1009
00:56:52,120 --> 00:56:52,360
Speaker 2: Do it.

1010
00:56:52,360 --> 00:56:55,560
Speaker 4: I'm being very serious. Do what you feel, Do what

1011
00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 4: makes you feel good. You should always stick to what this,

1012
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:02,040
Speaker 4: what your heart tells as you do. Pamela, You're right,

1013
00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:05,160
Speaker 4: I apologize. It's just sometimes those lunatics on the left,

1014
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:08,200
Speaker 4: they tend to have funky color hair. I apologize for that,

1015
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:10,440
Speaker 4: all right, man, the great weekend, I will be Monday.

1016
00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:13,279
Speaker 4: Can see you guys from New York City working on

1017
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:15,000
Speaker 4: the edge and some other stuff. Have a great night,

1018
00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:17,320
Speaker 4: have a great weekend. Be safe, take care of yourself.

1019
00:57:17,520 --> 00:57:20,200
Speaker 4: Be you. The War Room is coming up next. I'm

1020
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:21,760
Speaker 4: not sure if Bannon. It might not be Bann, it

1021
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:24,080
Speaker 4: might be the other young lady that hosts