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Speaker 1: Trump has drawn a line in the sand. The Democrats

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Speaker 1: That and Moore coming up on The buck Sexton Show.

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Speaker 1: This is the buck Sexton Show, where the mission or

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Speaker 1: mission is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence.

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Speaker 1: Mag no mistake, America, You're a great American Again. The

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Speaker 1: be working very hard to get something passed in the Senate.

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Speaker 1: There's a very good chance it won't get past it's

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Speaker 1: because we've done our thing. When Nancy Pelosi said you'll

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Speaker 1: Everybody looks like that's where this is all going. And

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Speaker 1: do is come up with lots and lots of new

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Speaker 1: reasons why we can't have an orderly immigration system. We

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Speaker 1: can enforce the laws in the books. We can't prevent lawbreaking.

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Speaker 1: If there's a loophole, the loophole has to stay. If

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Speaker 1: there are you know, shortfalls and existing immigration law that

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Speaker 1: can favor people who are being unscrupulous, who are committing

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Speaker 1: fraud against the United States, who are lying, it has

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Speaker 1: to stay. So this is also why we can't rely

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Speaker 1: on executive authority. Because the Obama is able to rely

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Speaker 1: on it in a number of cases, knowing that most

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Speaker 1: of the judiciary was going to be with him on

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Speaker 1: this stuff. The Trump administration has an incredibly hostile judiciary

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Speaker 1: to deal with, and that means any executive order they

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Speaker 1: want to take, whether it's on immigration or it's on

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Speaker 1: building the wall or anything. You know, it's going to

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Speaker 1: get challenged, the Ninth Circuit is going to shut it down,

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Speaker 1: and they're still gonna call Trump a dictator. It is

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Speaker 1: a pretty remarkable state of affairs when any ninth Circuit

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Speaker 1: judge in the country can effectively tell the President the

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Speaker 1: United States, you can't do that, and Trump goes, Okay,

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Speaker 1: well we'll take this to court. And I saying Trump

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Speaker 1: is a dictator. Pretty sure. Dictators don't allow any of

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Speaker 1: hundreds of federal federal judges to shut down their authority

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Speaker 1: on any matter whenever they want, which is what we've

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Speaker 1: seen with Trump so far, because he is respecting the

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Speaker 1: system as messed up as the system often is. The

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Speaker 1: destruction of our immigration system. They want to end immigration

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Speaker 1: to the United States, and that is a step that

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Speaker 1: we will never enter into. That's just a step we're

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Speaker 1: not going to take. Congressman Luis gutierres as always, thank

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Speaker 1: you for being here. Okay, okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: You know there are limits here, folks. Congressman Goodiers. They

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Speaker 1: want to end immigration, how can a member of Congress

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Speaker 1: they notice the Chris Hayes, thank you very much. Congressman,

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Speaker 1: give me a break. They want to end immigration. They

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Speaker 1: just want to control illegal crossings at the southern border.

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Speaker 1: How does that mean they want to end immigration? We

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Speaker 1: are you know, they leave all the context out of

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Speaker 1: this discussion. They're so dishonest about all of this. They

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Speaker 1: just say things like like that that they want to

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Speaker 1: end all immigration. You say to yourself, well, hold on

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Speaker 1: a second. America takes in a million people every year

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Speaker 1: and makes them either a permanent resident or a citizen.

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Speaker 1: A million that is a major US cities worth of

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Speaker 1: immigrants every year through the legal system. We have a

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Speaker 1: half a million visa overstage who are then illegal in

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Speaker 1: this country every year. And that has nothing to do

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Speaker 1: with coming across the border illegally because they all came legally.

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Speaker 1: Then they just stayed until they were illegal. And then

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Speaker 1: you add to that the number of illegal immigrants both

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Speaker 1: in the country and coming into the country all the time.

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Speaker 1: And the truth is, we don't even know how many

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Speaker 1: of them there are. We don't know. This is like saying,

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Speaker 1: you know, we know how many illegal drugs are coming

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Speaker 1: into the country. They can guess, but they don't know

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Speaker 1: because they're sneaking them in. How can they how can

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Speaker 1: they just say things that are so stupid and have

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Speaker 1: people believe them. How can they say things that are

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Speaker 1: so patently false and not get called out. It's because

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Speaker 1: the media is completely in bed with them. They are

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Speaker 1: all in favor of this. They are, you know, hoping

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Speaker 1: that America will become a different country through the immigration process,

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Speaker 1: through mass immigration that is bringing about tremendous change. I mean,

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Speaker 1: when you think about how many people have come into

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Speaker 1: this country in the last thirty years, we are demographically

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Speaker 1: shifting rapidly. And people say, oh, Buck, well do you

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Speaker 1: have a problem with that. Well, when you have assimilation

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Speaker 1: as a process that both takes time and also involves

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Speaker 1: people coming in an orderly process in a way that

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Speaker 1: the overall society can adequately bring them into the society,

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Speaker 1: it is possible to overwhelm that both from a political, legal,

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Speaker 1: and a cultural sense. I've had to say this to people.

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Speaker 1: You know, Germany brought in a million a million migrants

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Speaker 1: in one year from the Middle East and South Asia

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Speaker 1: and some from North Africa, I think too, but a

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Speaker 1: million the migrants essentially in one year back in twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 1: a million. You say, well, Buck, you know Germany is

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Speaker 1: a country of I can't at the top of head,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, sixty seventy million people something like that.

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Speaker 1: Germany is a big country. They can they can handle that.

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Speaker 1: I say, all right, you know, there's a whole discussion

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Speaker 1: to be had there. But what about a million people

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Speaker 1: in Belgium? There's that? Is Belgium still Belgium? If they

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Speaker 1: bring in a million Afghan, Iraqi and Syrian refugees, Okay,

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Speaker 1: what about two million? Does it still feel like the

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Speaker 1: same country? Do they have the same respect for rule

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Speaker 1: of law, the same cultural traditions, same language, same shared

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Speaker 1: national heritage. Right? I mean, America is an idea, but

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Speaker 1: it's an idea that we all have to buy into. Right.

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Speaker 1: It's not skin color, it's not ethnicity base, but it

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Speaker 1: is an idea. And if you have enough people that

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Speaker 1: show up that feel like America is not really an

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Speaker 1: idea that they much care for. It's really just about

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Speaker 1: a place where you can, you know, get access to

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Speaker 1: the welfare state, where there's this whole liberal industrial complex

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Speaker 1: of grievance organizations and telling you, oh, you came here, well,

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Speaker 1: America owes this to you. You know, we have to

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Speaker 1: give you even more than what we've already given you.

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Speaker 1: We're so terrible to have put you in this position

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Speaker 1: where you don't have everything that you want, but you know,

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Speaker 1: we want to end immigration. This is from a congressman

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Speaker 1: on television saying this. The people who act like this

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Speaker 1: is an intelligent thing to say that this is an

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Speaker 1: acceptable thing for him to say. It's just it's just

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Speaker 1: grotesque and it's unfair. But we are dealing with people

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Speaker 1: who are dishonorable on this issue above many others. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is one where you know, we should really just understand.

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Speaker 1: They don't care about the truth. They don't care about

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Speaker 1: what the long term implications are for the country. They

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Speaker 1: have bought into this and there is a degree of

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Speaker 1: hysteria that they have embraced around immigration rhetoric. They have

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Speaker 1: no solutions, no answers, nothing. All they have is more

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Speaker 1: and more and more. If you don't like it, you're racist.

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Speaker 1: That's what they offer up. But I have to say

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Speaker 1: the all time record for lying in the phase of

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Speaker 1: all the evidence was a tweet you, Madam Secretary, sent

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Speaker 1: out on June the seventeenth, and it says, we do

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Speaker 1: not have a policy of separating families at the border period.

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Speaker 1: That's your Twitter account, that's what you put out. Yet

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Speaker 1: you came here today to tell us exactly is your

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Speaker 1: policy of separating families and children from their families another lie.

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Speaker 1: I don't have forty five seconds. I won't take them all. Oh,

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Speaker 1: here it goes. Get ready for goody eras to me

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Speaker 1: and astonishing to me that during Christmas. Of course I

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Speaker 1: had to call them the holiday seasons to be inclusive.

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Speaker 1: But during Christmas, because the majority always wants to just

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Speaker 1: call it Christmas. That during Christmas, a time in which

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Speaker 1: we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. A Jesus Christ

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Speaker 1: who had to flee for his life with Mary and Joseph.

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Speaker 1: Thank god there wasn't a wall that stopped him from

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Speaker 1: seeking refuge in Egypt. That wall wasn't there, and thank

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Speaker 1: god there was an administration like this, or he would

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Speaker 1: have too have perished under twenty eight, I would say

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Speaker 1: of innocence when Herod ordered the murder of every child

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Speaker 1: under two years of age. Maybe I haven't gone a

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Speaker 1: lot to Bible school, but I know that part. I

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Speaker 1: mean shame on everybody that separates children and allows him

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Speaker 1: to stay at the other side of the border. Fearing death, fring, hunger,

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Speaker 1: freeing sickness. Shame on us for wearing our badge of

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Speaker 1: Christianity during Christmas and allow the secretary to all right,

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Speaker 1: I can't, I can't, I can't take any again. I'm

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Speaker 1: sorry that you guys had year as much as he did. Notice, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's right. Everyone runs come across the border illegally as

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Speaker 1: the baby Jesus. This is what we're supposed to take

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Speaker 1: away from all of this. And Republicans are just the big, bad,

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Speaker 1: mean people. By the way, when Joseph and Mary were

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Speaker 1: returning to Bethlehem, it was to be legally counted for

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Speaker 1: the purposes of taxation. You see, they were obeying the law.

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Speaker 1: They were not They were not coming in from some

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Speaker 1: other place and trying to evade. They were trying to

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Speaker 1: get away from border patrol. They were obeying the law

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Speaker 1: of the time. Nonetheless, you know, people get separated from

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Speaker 1: families every day across the country for breaking the law.

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Speaker 1: People get separated from their children every day. You know,

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Speaker 1: Mike gets separated from his children a few months, General Flynn,

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe his grandchildren. I don't know if he

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Speaker 1: has grandchildren not. But people families get separated for criminal

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Speaker 1: justice reasons all the time in this country. And I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying that's good we should celebrate, and I'm just

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Speaker 1: saying this is what happens. You know, there is a

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Speaker 1: trade off between order and liberty. There is a trade

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Speaker 1: off between rule of law and compassion. And all Democrats

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Speaker 1: do is just play this game of you know, we're

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Speaker 1: the kind ones. We're not for open borders, but anything

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Speaker 1: you do that makes the border not open, we're going

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Speaker 1: to call you racist, baby separating, heartless monsters for you know,

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Speaker 1: I think Nielsen's probably done, by the way in twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: I don't think she's gonna last that much longer because

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Speaker 1: she probably is sick of just getting all this abuse

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Speaker 1: from these crazy Democrat loons. And I don't blame her.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's getting it's getting tough. It's getting tough

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Speaker 1: out there for people that try to actually do something

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Speaker 1: about the border. Donald Trump wags the dog as the

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Speaker 1: investigations into him close in. He plays chicken with the

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Speaker 1: lives of federal employees and their families by walking the

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Speaker 1: country toward a government shutdown, and the world is less

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Speaker 1: safe today. After the dramatic resignation of the last human guardrail.

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Speaker 1: Defense Secretary Jim Madison's resignation a clear rebuke of Donald

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Speaker 1: reckless decisions about troop withdrawals in Syria and Afghanistan. The

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Speaker 1: backlash to Donald Trump's impulsivity being felt this afternoon at

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Speaker 1: home and around the world, and reigniting questions about who

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Speaker 1: Trump is working for and whether he's displaying an unsustainable

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Speaker 1: degree of instability and office. From Secretary Mattie's resignation letter,

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Speaker 1: quote my views on treating it. Okay, this is where

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Speaker 1: I have to jump in. So that's Nicole Wallace, who

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Speaker 1: is a former Bushy, you know, she worked for the

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Speaker 1: Bush administration, so a former Republican or just somebody who

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Speaker 1: liked her position within the Republican elite, and now that

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Speaker 1: she doesn't feel like she's as connected or as important,

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Speaker 1: has turned on everything she used to believe in. I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure which it is now. I believe that she

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Speaker 1: is supposed to be an anchor and not an opinion journalist.

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Speaker 1: But although it doesn't even really matter, the point is

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Speaker 1: to just listen to that introduction, The last human in

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Speaker 1: guardrail against President Trump. General maddis the last human guardrail. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: the you know the the number two at the Pentagon

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Speaker 1: is now going to be Well, first of all, Maddis

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Speaker 1: is still there, so you know, there's not even a

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Speaker 1: a an imminent concern of there's nobody in place to

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Speaker 1: do anything that would stop the president from But I

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Speaker 1: just wonder, when does one of these horrible things actually happen,

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Speaker 1: the things that we're always being told are going to

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Speaker 1: happen because of President Trump, When does one actually occur. Oh,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have war with North Korea. No, actually, he's

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Speaker 1: going to try to get a peace deal with North Korea. Oh,

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Speaker 1: the Iranians there, it's gonna do all these terrible things

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Speaker 1: if we end the deal with them. Well, it turns

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Speaker 1: out that the deal is you know, which is it?

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Speaker 1: They tell us that these horrible things are going to happen,

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Speaker 1: and that Trump is so reckless and awful, and yet

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00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:58,920
Speaker 1: these things don't happen. And is it really because everyone

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00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 1: around Trump is so good it's stopping him from making

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Speaker 1: these bad decisions all the time. I'm not saying that

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Speaker 1: Trump doesn't have some impulses that are best raining. I

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Speaker 1: think every president probably has some ideas and impulses that

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Speaker 1: his advisors around him recognize or are able to make

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Speaker 1: him recognize are not the way to go. But did

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Speaker 1: you hear all of that? I mean, you had you

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Speaker 1: had an anchor on MSNBC there suggesting who does the

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Speaker 1: president work for? We know what that is. I don't

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Speaker 1: think that's a I don't think you could even say

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Speaker 1: that's a Russia whistle. I think that's a Russia bullhorn. Oh,

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Speaker 1: that's right, he's doing Putin's bidding. He's doing Putin's bidding.

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Speaker 1: You know what I remember during the Obama years, and

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Speaker 1: many of you will know exactly what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 1: Every time we were suggesting a more aggressive posture against

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Speaker 1: the Islamic State, we were doing Osama bin Laden's bidding,

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Speaker 1: or isis is bidding or al Qaeda's bidding by trying

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Speaker 1: to fight against them. Now we do Putin and Erduan's bidding.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is just a stupid talking point for

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Speaker 1: people that don't want to actually deal with the reality

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Speaker 1: of what's going on on the ground in either Syria

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Speaker 1: or Iraq or Afghanistan. I mean, there are real conversations

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Speaker 1: to be had here. I get it. I have a

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Speaker 1: personal affinity for the Kurdish people, and what they have

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Speaker 1: done in Iraq and in Syria, and we owe them,

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Speaker 1: and I get it. We need to find a way

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Speaker 1: to keep faith with the Kurds. That doesn't mean we

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Speaker 1: have to set up a permanent base in Syria always

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Speaker 1: and forever, when we don't even know what the purposes

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Speaker 1: of our presence there beyond they're not being an Islamic state.

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Speaker 1: But people are saying, oh, they're doing you're doing er

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Speaker 1: Duan's bidding. All you're doing Putin's bidding. Just because Putin

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Speaker 1: or Erduan wants us to do one thing or another,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't mean that's the wrong thing for us to do.

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Speaker 1: This is a simplistic thinking, and especially from people who

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Speaker 1: have never been in the region, who have no in

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Speaker 1: depth knowledge of any of these matters. Are they're among

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Speaker 1: the most vociferous in this. Oh, well, you know, there's

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Speaker 1: a vacuum will form, A vacuum will form. Okay, well,

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Speaker 1: if that's going to be our posture, then I suppose

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Speaker 1: we should also set up a military, a permanent military presence.

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Speaker 1: You know, a few thousand soldiers in Nigeria, in Somalia,

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Speaker 1: in Libya, you know, go down the list. And by

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Speaker 1: the way, we already have. How many countries do we

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Speaker 1: have a military presence when you add it all up.

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Speaker 1: This notion that by by trying to draw down more

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Speaker 1: quickly from Syria everything is going to collapse and become

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Speaker 1: terrible doesn't take into account the Iraqi forces that are

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Speaker 1: next door. But that's even getting into a serious discussion

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Speaker 1: about this. I'm persuadable on this issue, meaning that you know,

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Speaker 1: I understand why there are concerns about rapid withdrawal from Syria.

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Speaker 1: I understand why people although in Afghanistan, just let's let's

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Speaker 1: be clear. The the two options are stay there forever

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Speaker 1: and withdraw knowing that we have not achieved and enduring

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Speaker 1: stable Afghanistan, but that's not something that we're going to

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Speaker 1: try to do anymore. Those are the options. The option

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Speaker 1: of just give it one more year, just give it

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Speaker 1: one more year, that should be off the table. That

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Speaker 1: should be all that. Either we say we're we're creating

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Speaker 1: a permanent base in Afghanistan similar to what we have

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Speaker 1: in you know, South Korea and Germany and Okinawa, where

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Speaker 1: we're just going to be there forever. And now take

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Speaker 1: into account that it's a it's a country that could

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Speaker 1: rapidly deteriorate and we may have you know, Taliban artillery

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Speaker 1: shelling or air base there. And guess what that means

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Speaker 1: that we're going to have to come back in full

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Speaker 1: force and deal with that. You know. I had an

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Speaker 1: exchange on Twitter today with well with a few people,

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Speaker 1: with Ben Shapiro with what's his what's his? Brit Hume,

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Speaker 1: who I generally really enjoy his Twitter game actually, and

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Speaker 1: Britt was saying, you know, are you opposed to me?

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Speaker 1: Are you opposed to US military being deployed anywhere that's dangerous?

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Speaker 1: And I said no, I'm opposed to US military continue

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Speaker 1: to take casualties in a place where there's no end

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Speaker 1: goal in sight. You know, because I got into some

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Speaker 1: troublesome folks that because I tweeted out the following Ending

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Speaker 1: a policy of endless war is never going to be easy.

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Speaker 1: There will always be trade offs, and yes there are risks,

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Speaker 1: but the alternative is endless war. People are saying, Buck,

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Speaker 1: that's not fair. It's not endless war where you know,

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Speaker 1: this is just a strategic projection of power. And to that,

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Speaker 1: I say, well, the the Twin Towers got hit by

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Speaker 1: al Qaeda when I was a sophomore in college. All right,

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Speaker 1: two thousand and one, it's almost nineteen. It has been

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Speaker 1: eighteen years. We have not one single year we can

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Speaker 1: point to where we have not had US troops involved

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Speaker 1: in active combat operations in a foreign theater, and a

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Speaker 1: foreign theater that you know, was not an imminent threat

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Speaker 1: to the United States. To put it mildly, so, I mean,

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Speaker 1: if that's not endless war, what is endless war? I

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Speaker 1: mean you could always we could be at war for

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Speaker 1: thirty years and they'd say, well, buck, we could end

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Speaker 1: the war next year, So it's not endless. I'd say,

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Speaker 1: all right, But I think the point still stands. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's time to stop doing this to try to

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Speaker 1: build other people's countries for them. We tried very hard

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Speaker 1: in Iraq, at a cost of tremendous blood and treasure.

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Speaker 1: We beat al Qaeda in Iraq, we beat the Taliban

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Speaker 1: in Afghanistan. But we can't make these countries nice places

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Speaker 1: to live. We can't make these societies more functional really

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Speaker 1: then they are, or then their own people want them

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Speaker 1: to be. You know, one of the reasons why we

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Speaker 1: can have bases long term in Germany and Japan is

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Speaker 1: that the societies that sprung up after horrific warfare were

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Speaker 1: incredibly durable, stable and modern. That is not the case

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Speaker 1: in Afghanistan. That is not the case in Iraq. And

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Speaker 1: you also have to look at the surrounding areas, and

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Speaker 1: you know what the likelihood is of imminent conflict that

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Speaker 1: people would say, buck, what about North Korea? They can

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Speaker 1: invade at any point in time. North Korea knows that

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Speaker 1: if we if they were to attack South Korea, we

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Speaker 1: would respond with overwhelming military force. Let's just say, let's

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Speaker 1: just play this out a little bit more. If we

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Speaker 1: were to set up a permanent military base in Syria,

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Speaker 1: which is a sovereign country that we are not at

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Speaker 1: war in that the Congress has not authorized a military

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Speaker 1: intervention in and where we want the Asad regime to

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Speaker 1: continue to be in charge. If the choice is and

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Speaker 1: it is a Sad or the Islamic state, that is

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Speaker 1: the choice. We do not have another choice really that

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Speaker 1: we are aware of or that is realistic. But who

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Speaker 1: what do we do when all of a sudden the

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Speaker 1: base starts coming under assault from mortars all the time?

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Speaker 1: What do we do on our permanent base in Syria

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Speaker 1: has five hundred pound truck bombs, thousand pounds of military

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Speaker 1: grade explosives showing up at the gate, at our security

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Speaker 1: gates and blowing up whoever happens to be. They're trying

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Speaker 1: to do inspections. You know what. We went through this

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Speaker 1: in Lebanon. No less than Ronald Reagan knew that it

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Speaker 1: was a nasty fight, knew the humanitarian situation was terrible,

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Speaker 1: tried to clean things up, realize this is a mess,

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Speaker 1: and got out people. Forget about that. Did things? Was

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Speaker 1: there more violence? Did things grind on eleban after we left, Yes,

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Speaker 1: of course, but it wasn't our fight and we lost

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Speaker 1: almost That was the full number. I mean, it was

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Speaker 1: about three hundred in the bombing of the marine barracks.

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Speaker 1: I'm forgetting off top. I think it was two eighties seven,

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Speaker 1: but I could be wrong on that one. This is

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Speaker 1: the this is the truth of the situation. We have

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Speaker 1: to start understanding that there are limitations to what we

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Speaker 1: can I'm sorry, three hundred and seven people. I said

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Speaker 1: about three hundred, but yeah, three hundred and seven people,

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Speaker 1: two hundred and forty one US, fifty eight French peacekeepers,

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Speaker 1: six civilian and the two attackers. We do not want

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Speaker 1: endless war. I would like the US to be at

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Speaker 1: peace sooner than later. It's time to bring our people home.

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Speaker 1: With a new year comes new hiring decisions, and that

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Speaker 1: a good metaphor for the Trump presidency. It is more

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Speaker 1: base of the party, the House Republicans. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: the the the maddest decision today and the apparent decision

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Speaker 1: I mean, they are they are part of the same

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Speaker 1: governing philosophy, which is the president doesn't reach out to

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Speaker 1: he feels are as close as supporters. I mean, he

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Speaker 1: You know where we are on the budget, on the

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Speaker 1: budget side, and you know, Maddis is a representative of

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Speaker 1: a broad Washington consensus about military matters. You know, he

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Speaker 1: is not known as a particularly political person, but he's

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Speaker 1: out now and you know the phrase, there's so much

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Speaker 1: over at CNN that that one can stomach, one can handle. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know what he's saying that this whole nefarious construct

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Speaker 1: of events that he's pulling together is also known as

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Speaker 1: keeping faith with your base, keeping campaign promises. This is

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Speaker 1: what President Trump said he was going to do. These

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Speaker 1: things that he is pushing for this week are the

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Speaker 1: things he said he was going to do. You will

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Speaker 1: recall just a few days ago, I was very upset

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Speaker 1: with the President, and I was not okay with it.

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Speaker 1: I had a pretty bummed out day here on the

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Speaker 1: show because I thought the President was throwing in the towel.

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Speaker 1: I'm not here because I love Trump so much. I'm

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Speaker 1: not here because I think that, you know, he's such

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Speaker 1: an amazing human being and we should all model our

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Speaker 1: lives or after him. I support the President because the

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Speaker 1: President has said he will do the following things. Fill

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Speaker 1: in the blanks from the campaign traw right, build a wall,

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Speaker 1: fight back against China on its predatory trade practices, deal

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Speaker 1: with political correctness, take the fight to the media, lower

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Speaker 1: taxes bill the booming economy, bring jobs back. I mean

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Speaker 1: all these. You know, Look, I understand a lot of

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Speaker 1: politicians say a lot of things that they don't intend

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Speaker 1: to keep or that they won't be able to keep.

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Speaker 1: You know that that they just know is a false promise.

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Speaker 1: But a wall is a very clear it's a binary proposition.

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Speaker 1: It is or it is not we get a wall

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Speaker 1: or we do not have a wall. So that's something

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Speaker 1: we can hold the president accountable for and he should

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Speaker 1: do everything in his power, you know, to make sure

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Speaker 1: that we get this wall. Um. And you know, on

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Speaker 1: the Maddis issue with the with the consensus, you know,

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00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:41,440
Speaker 1: because the Tuban was just waving around with all this

857
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Speaker 1: different they say he's a legal Analystim he's just a pundit.

858
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:48,120
Speaker 1: It's like Paul Krugman without the without the economics degree. Uh.

859
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Speaker 1: But you know you you hear him talking about how

860
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:55,960
Speaker 1: Manis represents a military consensus. Okay, you know what is

861
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:58,680
Speaker 1: the military consensus gotten us in the last let's just

862
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Speaker 1: say the last ten years. You know that the the

863
00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:04,279
Speaker 1: the elites on foreign policy, the people that have been

864
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:05,800
Speaker 1: calling the shots, what have they gotten us in the

865
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:10,200
Speaker 1: Middle East? What has been achieved? A stable and enduring Iraq?

866
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:14,280
Speaker 1: Not really? I mean we had to put five thousand

867
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 1: troops back, we had to have an air campaign, a

868
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 1: multinational coalition. Um. You know what. Now you could also

869
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:23,920
Speaker 1: argue the Middle Ease has never really been stable, and

870
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Speaker 1: I think that's a. I think that's a fair point.

871
00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 1: The Middle East is not a region of stability, and

872
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:31,360
Speaker 1: there's a lot of a lot of reasons why that

873
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:36,840
Speaker 1: is the case, but that Mattis's departure is Look, I

874
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:38,719
Speaker 1: have a lot of respect for Maddis. I also don't

875
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:41,000
Speaker 1: know the guy. I never worked for him. I don't

876
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:45,920
Speaker 1: have any personal anecdotes about about General Mattis um But

877
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Speaker 1: I would also note that you know that they're I've

878
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:50,799
Speaker 1: heard a lot of four stars tell us that what

879
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:53,240
Speaker 1: we're doing in Afghanistan is going to work, and they're wrong.

880
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 1: They're wrong, over and over again. They're wrong. Stama Crystal,

881
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:01,839
Speaker 1: who is in fredily well respected and was a very

882
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:04,560
Speaker 1: I was impressed with them, a very smart but comes

883
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 1: across as an introspective and somewhat humble guy given who

884
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:13,279
Speaker 1: he is. He was a big proponent of negotiating with

885
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:17,080
Speaker 1: the with the Taliban. He thinks that that's a good

886
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 1: you know, the way to go forward is to negotiate

887
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:22,319
Speaker 1: with the Taliban, get some kind of a deal. All

888
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:25,200
Speaker 1: that is just cover for our exit. That's just political cover.

889
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:27,840
Speaker 1: It's not real cover, meaning that the Taliban is not

890
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:31,719
Speaker 1: going to keep any promise they make everybody knows that. So,

891
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:36,280
Speaker 1: you know, we need to stop holding up people as

892
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 1: just because of who they are. They must be right

893
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:41,799
Speaker 1: on this issue. It's definitely not something that you could

894
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 1: say about the Department of Justice, the CIA, the NSA.

895
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:48,520
Speaker 1: You look at these places and they're just people. They

896
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:51,040
Speaker 1: have ideas, how they have expertise, they anowledged. But these

897
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:53,680
Speaker 1: are judgment calls. They're judgment calls that affect the American

898
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:56,959
Speaker 1: people in the most important ways in matters of life

899
00:52:56,960 --> 00:53:00,719
Speaker 1: and death. We have a right to be involved. We

900
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:02,319
Speaker 1: are citizens. We have a right to be involved in

901
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:06,640
Speaker 1: those conversations and to be heard on them. You know,

902
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:10,720
Speaker 1: if our military action in Syria is such a good idea,

903
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:13,879
Speaker 1: tell us then what the plan is? They say, Oh,

904
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:17,319
Speaker 1: it's Isis hasn't been defeated. Well, if we have to

905
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:20,120
Speaker 1: stay until Isis is defeated, and if we have to

906
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:23,319
Speaker 1: stay until the Turks no longer want to bomb the

907
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:26,400
Speaker 1: Kurds because they hate each other, and if we have

908
00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:29,160
Speaker 1: to stay until the Assad regime is not just waiting

909
00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:31,839
Speaker 1: in the wings to take back this territory, because it

910
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:34,680
Speaker 1: is still the country of Syria and Assad is the

911
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 1: only national government that is even capable of taking control

912
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:45,520
Speaker 1: of this area. We're going to be there forever. So okay,

913
00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:48,400
Speaker 1: if we want to have a discussion where the president

914
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:50,799
Speaker 1: is the slowest role on Syria, we need to get

915
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:54,280
Speaker 1: a firm agreement from the Turks. They will not attack,

916
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 1: they will not destabilize, they'll not go after our Kurdish allies.

917
00:53:57,360 --> 00:53:59,920
Speaker 1: We will continue supplying the Kurds, making sure that they

918
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:02,719
Speaker 1: can hold the territory that they have taken. We will

919
00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 1: back a political process, but we won't have you know,

920
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:07,680
Speaker 1: a few thousand troops there. Maybe we only have a

921
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:12,239
Speaker 1: few hundred troops there. That's a discussion that I think

922
00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:14,480
Speaker 1: we can have. That's that's a place where we can

923
00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:17,359
Speaker 1: go on this strategy. And in Afghanistan, drawing down from

924
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:22,280
Speaker 1: fourteen thousand to seven thousand, it signals to the Afghan

925
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:24,440
Speaker 1: national government, you know that the gravy train is not

926
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:26,520
Speaker 1: going to continue on forever here. We're not going to

927
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 1: just keep throwing billions of dollars into the Afghan into

928
00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:33,160
Speaker 1: the Afghan economy. That just ends up on the you know,

929
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:37,359
Speaker 1: in the corruption market essentially and propping this place up.

930
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:39,520
Speaker 1: The Afghans are going to have to deal with the future.

931
00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:44,600
Speaker 1: That Afghanistan has in store for them. Let's talk about

932
00:54:44,719 --> 00:54:47,440
Speaker 1: a potential government shutdown at ben night tomorrow night, on

933
00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:50,479
Speaker 1: the eve of Christmas. This is what the President told

934
00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:53,800
Speaker 1: Democratic leaders at the White House last week. Stephen, listen

935
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:57,240
Speaker 1: to this. I am proud to shut down the government

936
00:54:57,360 --> 00:55:00,439
Speaker 1: for border security. I will take the mental I will

937
00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:02,239
Speaker 1: be the one to shut it down. I'm not gonna

938
00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:04,399
Speaker 1: blame you for it. The last time you shut it down,

939
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:06,800
Speaker 1: it didn't work. I will take the mantle of shutting

940
00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:09,320
Speaker 1: down and I'm going to shut it down for border

941
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:13,480
Speaker 1: But all right, we're apparently in the same position as

942
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:16,600
Speaker 1: we were a week ago. The President had, as you know,

943
00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:20,080
Speaker 1: two years, a Republican controlled House and a Republican controlled

944
00:55:20,239 --> 00:55:23,840
Speaker 1: Senate to get this done, to build that border wall.

945
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:29,040
Speaker 1: Why did he fail? Well, the House is voting as

946
00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 1: we speak on border security. The fight's only just beginning,

947
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:33,840
Speaker 1: as you know. First of all, we're talking about success

948
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:36,759
Speaker 1: on border security. This president has been unprecedented achievements in

949
00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:40,200
Speaker 1: that area. But right now as we speak, we are

950
00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:43,399
Speaker 1: rallying Republican lawmakers to try and get a bill out

951
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:46,160
Speaker 1: of the House. And the fundamental issue here is whether

952
00:55:46,239 --> 00:55:49,640
Speaker 1: or not Democrats will supply votes to pass border security

953
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:52,759
Speaker 1: or whether they're going to push for open borders, which

954
00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:57,920
Speaker 1: equals massive crime. If the president for every week to

955
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:01,160
Speaker 1: our southern border. I like this, Fire it up, Stephen Miller,

956
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:04,360
Speaker 1: you know. I think Stephen Miller, who is going on

957
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:07,719
Speaker 1: CNN and had given their anchors kind of a kind

958
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:10,640
Speaker 1: of a tough time. I like it. You know, I

959
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:13,280
Speaker 1: think it's I think it's pretty good. It's guys, Stephen Miller.

960
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:17,520
Speaker 1: He's smart on immigration. He's actually got you know, he's

961
00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:20,520
Speaker 1: got some skills on the immigration front for sure. And

962
00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:24,400
Speaker 1: you know this, the media really tries hard here to

963
00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:30,200
Speaker 1: make it sound like what Republicans want is so so unreasonable. Oh,

964
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:32,400
Speaker 1: it's just so unreasonable when you think about it. What

965
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:35,400
Speaker 1: are they really asking for five five billion dollars to

966
00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 1: build border barrier? Really, that's what's that's what's so impossible

967
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:44,600
Speaker 1: given all the things that we spend money on. I've

968
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:49,040
Speaker 1: even seen Democrats Howard Dean was writing about how we

969
00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:53,839
Speaker 1: need to keep our military, keep our military commitments where

970
00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:57,439
Speaker 1: they are in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. Howard Dean, mister

971
00:56:57,520 --> 00:57:01,080
Speaker 1: anti war against the Iraq war, it out by withdrawing

972
00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:04,640
Speaker 1: our troops from Afghanistan. You are condemning millions of women

973
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:09,080
Speaker 1: to the Stone Age. Wow, first of all, that's that's

974
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:12,000
Speaker 1: I'm amazed that he got away with saying that no education,

975
00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:14,880
Speaker 1: no choice about who they marry, they will become property

976
00:57:14,880 --> 00:57:17,560
Speaker 1: when the Taliban takes over. Is that what you really want?

977
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:21,040
Speaker 1: Roe Kana? He's running to Rokana, And I'm wound to say, Okay,

978
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:22,520
Speaker 1: Howard Dean, So what you're saying is we have to

979
00:57:22,520 --> 00:57:27,360
Speaker 1: rebuild Afghanistan and impose a new society upon them. That

980
00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:30,480
Speaker 1: doesn't sound like a short term, limited mission to me.

981
00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:33,480
Speaker 1: And how long before we're told that that's imperialistic and

982
00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:38,880
Speaker 1: it's some some neo colonial white man's burden mission that

983
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:42,080
Speaker 1: we are engaging in there, and that we are oppressors

984
00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:45,120
Speaker 1: and that we are doing bad things. You know, this

985
00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:49,040
Speaker 1: is this is what will happen there. We will be

986
00:57:49,160 --> 00:57:52,760
Speaker 1: told that we are invaders and we are colonialists and

987
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:56,360
Speaker 1: all of those things if we actually try to remake

988
00:57:56,440 --> 00:57:58,680
Speaker 1: afghan society, which Howard Dean seems want to do. But

989
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:00,520
Speaker 1: but I digress. How much money he's going to be

990
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:03,800
Speaker 1: spent though? How much money is going to be spent

991
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:07,240
Speaker 1: on the war in Afghanistan and how much can we

992
00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 1: spend on our border. Stephen Miller is not letting them

993
00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:15,600
Speaker 1: just slip away on this with the usual talking points.

994
00:58:15,600 --> 00:58:17,440
Speaker 1: And this is what you see so often with Democrats

995
00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:21,280
Speaker 1: is that the talking points are designed to attack the

996
00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:25,120
Speaker 1: person who wants to ask questions. The talking points are

997
00:58:25,160 --> 00:58:29,040
Speaker 1: set up on the left to shut down discussion, not

998
00:58:29,120 --> 00:58:31,959
Speaker 1: to convince the other side or even convince somebody who's

999
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:35,680
Speaker 1: listening in that they're right. It's just offense. It's just

1000
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:38,960
Speaker 1: perpetual offense. When it comes to immigration. That's why it's you.

1001
00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:43,760
Speaker 1: They'll say, it's racism, it's xenophobia. Why do you want

1002
00:58:43,760 --> 00:58:46,040
Speaker 1: to separate women and children at the border. Why are

1003
00:58:46,040 --> 00:58:50,200
Speaker 1: you so heartless? Why are you afraid of non white

1004
00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:52,440
Speaker 1: people immigrating to the country. All these things that they

1005
00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:55,040
Speaker 1: say are not meant to convince anyone of anything. They're

1006
00:58:55,080 --> 00:58:58,560
Speaker 1: just meant to make people who are asking questions about

1007
00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:01,160
Speaker 1: border security. And Leila mcgrad should say, I don't want

1008
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:02,960
Speaker 1: to It's this too much for me. I don't want

1009
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:04,720
Speaker 1: to get into this anymore. It's not worth it. It's

1010
00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:08,480
Speaker 1: not worth it. That's what they want you to say, John,

1011
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:12,040
Speaker 1: Do we have that clip of Miller continuing here with

1012
00:59:12,040 --> 00:59:15,000
Speaker 1: Wolf Blitzer. Are you talking to Democrats right now to

1013
00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:17,320
Speaker 1: come up with a compromise. Well, what I've fort midnight

1014
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:20,920
Speaker 1: tomorrow night. The Democrats all they need to do is

1015
00:59:20,920 --> 00:59:23,200
Speaker 1: support border security and the government will be funded. But

1016
00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:27,160
Speaker 1: that that that we're talking about border control. The Democrats

1017
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:30,360
Speaker 1: support border security, they don't support five billion dollars. Could

1018
00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:32,880
Speaker 1: you could you identify Wolf for me some of the

1019
00:59:32,960 --> 00:59:35,560
Speaker 1: kinds of border security you're saying the Democrats. Democrats all

1020
00:59:35,560 --> 00:59:38,240
Speaker 1: say they support border security, like what where they don't. Well,

1021
00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:41,120
Speaker 1: they do respect with you. They voted against Kate's law,

1022
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:44,520
Speaker 1: they voted against ending sanctuary cities. They voted against supporting

1023
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:47,640
Speaker 1: Mster Team gang members, they voted against supporting violent criminals.

1024
00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:50,480
Speaker 1: They voted time and time again against a physical border

1025
00:59:50,480 --> 00:59:52,680
Speaker 1: wal to stop the illegal entry. I mean, where is

1026
00:59:52,680 --> 00:59:55,400
Speaker 1: the evidence that you keep asserting they're for border security.

1027
00:59:55,440 --> 00:59:58,600
Speaker 1: They haven't been. They opposed closing loophole's for asylum that

1028
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:02,560
Speaker 1: flood our sisters with meritless Clay I want to move out.

1029
01:00:03,360 --> 01:00:05,800
Speaker 1: You know, this is what somebody needs to do to

1030
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:10,240
Speaker 1: point out that there's nothing, there's nothing about the Democrats

1031
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:13,960
Speaker 1: that suggest that they really believe in border security. That

1032
01:00:14,040 --> 01:00:17,360
Speaker 1: they keep saying this because because then people okay, well,

1033
01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:20,040
Speaker 1: then Democrats must be reasonable. There is nothing about their

1034
01:00:20,080 --> 01:00:27,360
Speaker 1: policies that indicates a desire to be um to secure

1035
01:00:27,400 --> 01:00:29,760
Speaker 1: our border. And he just ran down this whole list.

1036
01:00:30,320 --> 01:00:33,160
Speaker 1: You know, they want they want people to be able

1037
01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:35,640
Speaker 1: to more easily get in the United States to claim asylum,

1038
01:00:35,640 --> 01:00:37,479
Speaker 1: and then they'll never be deported even when they don't

1039
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:39,959
Speaker 1: get asylum, which is what the law says. Law says,

1040
01:00:39,960 --> 01:00:43,160
Speaker 1: if you don't get it, you gotta go. They don't want,

1041
01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:46,280
Speaker 1: you know, more deportations. They they always try to slow

1042
01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:50,160
Speaker 1: down deporting gang members. They don't want uh, you know,

1043
01:00:50,560 --> 01:00:54,480
Speaker 1: more aggressive border patrolling. They you know, there's no they

1044
01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:57,760
Speaker 1: like sanctuary cities. They don't want enforcement of the interior.

1045
01:00:57,800 --> 01:00:59,720
Speaker 1: They don't want to verify. I mean, just go down

1046
01:00:59,720 --> 01:01:03,600
Speaker 1: the list, Go down the list. Where is the evidence

1047
01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:07,080
Speaker 1: for Democrats want a secure border? They know the American

1048
01:01:07,160 --> 01:01:11,720
Speaker 1: people by a solid majority, want a secure border, so

1049
01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:14,920
Speaker 1: they say that, But when it comes to their actions,

1050
01:01:15,240 --> 01:01:19,240
Speaker 1: where is the evidence that they do in fact want

1051
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:23,800
Speaker 1: a secure border based on the laws that they're willing

1052
01:01:23,840 --> 01:01:28,440
Speaker 1: to pass, based on the specifics of how they can

1053
01:01:28,480 --> 01:01:32,960
Speaker 1: fix different problems. It's just not there Stephen Miller with

1054
01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:36,640
Speaker 1: a drop kit, I mean, Wolf Blitzer also that guy.

1055
01:01:37,680 --> 01:01:39,600
Speaker 1: He's one of the luckiest people on planet Earth as

1056
01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:41,400
Speaker 1: far as I can tell. You know, he just looks

1057
01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:45,440
Speaker 1: like an anchor and sounds like an anchor and doesn't

1058
01:01:45,440 --> 01:01:47,520
Speaker 1: really seem to know very much. Is certainly not particularly

1059
01:01:47,520 --> 01:01:51,920
Speaker 1: adept or capable on his feet, and yet he's like

1060
01:01:51,960 --> 01:01:54,800
Speaker 1: the most respected anchor at CNN. You know, I don't know,

1061
01:01:56,280 --> 01:01:58,840
Speaker 1: but he also at least doesn't go quite as far

1062
01:01:58,920 --> 01:02:01,960
Speaker 1: as some of the other pundit types that you have

1063
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Speaker 1: on CNN. You know, some of the others who who

1064
01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:07,600
Speaker 1: are who are anchors but are actually pundits, you know,

1065
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Speaker 1: they they claim to be nonpartisan, and yet all they do,

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Speaker 1: you know, they get Chris Cuomo, bro Cuomo, who's like, hey,

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Speaker 1: so like when you become you know, I just want

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Speaker 1: to ask you this question Trump's supporter, and when you

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Speaker 1: become a racist, it's like, oh, well, that's a that's

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Speaker 1: a fair question to ask some you know, Republican congressman

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Speaker 1: who thinks that we should have a secure border. You

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Speaker 1: know that that's what that's the game that they play, though,

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately that's what they do. But Miller is completely correct

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Speaker 1: in laying out that on issue after issue, Democrats make

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Speaker 1: it harder to secure the border and then claim without evidence,

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Speaker 1: you could say that they want to secure the border.

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Speaker 1: There we go, score one for Stephen Miller. I gotta

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Speaker 1: tell you he did a good job. Some of you

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01:02:52,120 --> 01:02:54,080
Speaker 1: have asked me, what's it like to do a show

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Speaker 1: in the morning every day with liberals? Buck? What's that like?

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Speaker 1: I'd say, Well, Buck has a tremendous patience and sometimes

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Speaker 1: has to rely on social charm to uh, I guess

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Speaker 1: just charm, not social charm to diffuse situations. Rising has

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Speaker 1: been a very interesting experiment thus far. It is a

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Speaker 1: left right show. So I have a liberal co host

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Speaker 1: whom I must say, on a personal level I get

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Speaker 1: along with fantastically and she's a lovely person. But it

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Speaker 1: is tough to just have the give and take of well,

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Speaker 1: the two hosts from different perspectives, but more than that,

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Speaker 1: the guests that we have come in. I was actually

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Speaker 1: joking around this week because you know, everybody was kind

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01:03:39,640 --> 01:03:42,800
Speaker 1: of letting it loose, a little, letting loose, letting it

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Speaker 1: loose this week because we had our last week of

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Speaker 1: full shows on the air before next year, and we're

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Speaker 1: talking about how we can always tell when somebody comes

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Speaker 1: in and they've done their homework about the show versus

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Speaker 1: people that just come in and go, oh, it's just

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Speaker 1: you know, a show. It's The Hill. The Hill's kind

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Speaker 1: of a non partisan, maybe slightly center left, although I

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01:04:07,520 --> 01:04:09,200
Speaker 1: know people say it's center right, but you know, it's

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Speaker 1: a pretty both sides website in terms of the news

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Speaker 1: it puts up depending on who you ask, and people

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Speaker 1: say down they go hey Crystal, hey Buck, and you know,

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Speaker 1: they're all happy to be there. And if it's sometimes

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Speaker 1: we're talking about you know, getting dogs trained up for

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Speaker 1: people with you know who a PTSD or you are,

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01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:30,840
Speaker 1: we talking about really nice stuff on the show. So

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Speaker 1: that's that Sometimes is fine, meaning that you know there's

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Speaker 1: no political throwdown expected. But sometimes we get somebody's coming

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Speaker 1: in and you know, we're about to talk about I

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01:04:40,560 --> 01:04:43,360
Speaker 1: don't know the kavanall hearing and and they don't know

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Speaker 1: necessarily who I am and who Crystal who Crystal is,

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Speaker 1: especially if they're a subject matter expert. But other times

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Speaker 1: they'll come in and they'll be like, you know, hi, Crystal,

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Speaker 1: great to see you, and then they look at me

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Speaker 1: and say hello Buck. You know, it's like hello newman,

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Speaker 1: like they know that I'm there not give them a

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Speaker 1: hard time, but just give the other perspective. And so

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Speaker 1: in a sense, they're sitting down looking at me like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I know you're the enemy, and I know I'm terrible person.

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Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. You know that's what they're thinking when they

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Speaker 1: sit down. John and we had some really some spiriting

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Speaker 1: exchanges when we started this show. The idea was, and

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Speaker 1: this is why I love radio so much, because this

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Speaker 1: is just me and I get to tell you what's

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Speaker 1: really top of mind, how I'm thinking about issues, and

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Speaker 1: how the give and take of you know, email and Facebook.

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Speaker 1: And we will take more calls in the new year,

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Speaker 1: by the way, I know that's been something that we

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01:05:36,920 --> 01:05:39,760
Speaker 1: haven't been doing as much of and I miss I

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01:05:39,800 --> 01:05:41,480
Speaker 1: missed hearing from more of you on the phone line.

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Speaker 1: So we just honestly, it's the reason we haven't done

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Speaker 1: calls today is a staffing because we're here in the holidays.

1134
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Speaker 1: I thought, I know, I said, yet I was wrong.

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01:05:49,320 --> 01:05:52,000
Speaker 1: I thought we would have the ability to take calls

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01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:54,560
Speaker 1: to say. I thought we'd have a person to man

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01:05:54,680 --> 01:05:56,240
Speaker 1: the phones because we need one on the board and

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Speaker 1: one on the phones, and producer Mike had to travel

1139
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:00,640
Speaker 1: today to get to his family, and so it's just

1140
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Speaker 1: DJ John Rock in the booth. So I'm sorry that

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01:06:04,400 --> 01:06:06,320
Speaker 1: we don't have calls today, but that's why you should

1142
01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:09,920
Speaker 1: send me Facebook messages or email. You can send me

1143
01:06:09,960 --> 01:06:13,960
Speaker 1: an email Official Team bucket gmail dot com is the

1144
01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:15,840
Speaker 1: email address that we have set up. I keep saying

1145
01:06:15,840 --> 01:06:17,920
Speaker 1: we're gonna get a new one, but it's been a while,

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01:06:18,600 --> 01:06:20,520
Speaker 1: all right. So but you know, with Rising, we do

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01:06:20,560 --> 01:06:23,760
Speaker 1: have these moments where things can get a little tense,

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01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:28,560
Speaker 1: that things can get a little difficult, and the most

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Speaker 1: well known exchange, I kind of want to do a

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Speaker 1: little stop start of it. The most well known exchange

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01:06:33,920 --> 01:06:36,160
Speaker 1: I think that we had on the show. I'm not

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01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:38,880
Speaker 1: including the really big interviews the President, the vice president,

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01:06:39,040 --> 01:06:41,880
Speaker 1: other people, but the one that I think at the

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Speaker 1: most attention was a a throwdown with Candice Owens and

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Speaker 1: my co host, my lovely co host, Crystal Ball, and

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Speaker 1: I just want to play something. You know, this is

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01:06:55,520 --> 01:06:57,280
Speaker 1: what happens when you try to have a show where

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01:06:57,280 --> 01:07:00,720
Speaker 1: you bring everybody in and everyone's going to be nice

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01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:04,600
Speaker 1: and everything's going to be fine, but then things can

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01:07:04,680 --> 01:07:10,920
Speaker 1: sometimes get a little bit tense. Play a John. How

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Speaker 1: do you view the responsibility that comes with that. I

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01:07:13,680 --> 01:07:16,440
Speaker 1: view the responsibility of just being a person that maintains

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Speaker 1: my ability to have an opinion. I express an opinion,

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01:07:19,680 --> 01:07:21,160
Speaker 1: and no means that I say that I have just

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01:07:21,240 --> 01:07:26,040
Speaker 1: found the facts and this is related, and I always yeah.

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Speaker 1: I said, I'm going to go out and say that

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Speaker 1: there is a zero percent chance that this was sent

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Speaker 1: by Conservatives. I find all of these, all the things

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Speaker 1: that are going on, the caravan of illegals, the packages

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Speaker 1: that are being sent right confirmation. I have to I

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Speaker 1: have to jump in here. Candice and Crystal were talking

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Speaker 1: about these pipe bombs, which I never really found out

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Speaker 1: what the full details were about the construction of the bombs,

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Speaker 1: but I don't think any I don't know if it's

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Speaker 1: out there and I just missed it. But I felt

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Speaker 1: like we we didn't really get those questions answered about

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Speaker 1: how they how the bombs were made, and what was

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Speaker 1: the full degree of lethality of them. But regardless, Candy

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Speaker 1: said there's a zero percent chance that a conservative sent

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Speaker 1: those bombs. It turned out that the guy had was

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Speaker 1: driving around and like the Magamobile, so I you know,

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Speaker 1: make of that what you will. But then the issue

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01:08:12,560 --> 01:08:17,200
Speaker 1: kind of turned a little bit to race relations and

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Speaker 1: m Candice Owens is an African American female, Crystal is

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Speaker 1: a white liberal, and then things kind of just went

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01:08:25,560 --> 01:08:28,160
Speaker 1: from there. Keep playing to John, it was to be

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01:08:28,439 --> 01:08:32,040
Speaker 1: incredibly suspicious timing so that they are meant to get

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Speaker 1: to the border um at you know, on the day

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Speaker 1: of the election. Again, this is not root in fact,

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01:08:37,560 --> 01:08:39,599
Speaker 1: but you do have to understand I am very much

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01:08:39,720 --> 01:08:43,000
Speaker 1: entitled to my opinion on Twitter as much I have

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Speaker 1: one one more just when we're here, because I hey

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01:08:45,960 --> 01:08:48,000
Speaker 1: see buck Buck got shut out there. Hey, it was

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01:08:48,080 --> 01:08:52,600
Speaker 1: my turn to ask a question. Whoa hey, hey, you

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01:08:52,720 --> 01:08:54,600
Speaker 1: know that was where I was supposed to get the

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01:08:54,640 --> 01:08:58,439
Speaker 1: jump in KB. That's what I call Crystal. Kb's my turn.

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01:08:58,479 --> 01:09:01,240
Speaker 1: But no, she she was her. You wanted to push

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01:09:01,240 --> 01:09:03,200
Speaker 1: on the issue with Candis, and that happens. Sometimes we

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Speaker 1: decide that we're going to you know, get into it

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01:09:05,920 --> 01:09:08,000
Speaker 1: more with the guests than the other host will, which

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01:09:08,439 --> 01:09:10,800
Speaker 1: that tends to be the way this plays out. Um

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01:09:11,439 --> 01:09:15,040
Speaker 1: But here is how that went. Keep playing it and

1203
01:09:15,120 --> 01:09:16,840
Speaker 1: to get to know you before you came on. I'm

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01:09:16,880 --> 01:09:18,720
Speaker 1: really interested in your perspective because I think you're a

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01:09:18,720 --> 01:09:21,559
Speaker 1: fascinating person. Thank you. There was another tweet that said

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Speaker 1: the Democratic Party is comprised of racist white liberals? That

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01:09:26,560 --> 01:09:29,439
Speaker 1: is correct? Am I racist? White? Well let's go back

1208
01:09:29,840 --> 01:09:31,960
Speaker 1: and let's say I will say this that many people

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01:09:31,960 --> 01:09:33,759
Speaker 1: in the party don't are not aware of the on racism.

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01:09:33,800 --> 01:09:35,600
Speaker 1: Let's go back to an early part of this conversation

1211
01:09:35,640 --> 01:09:37,840
Speaker 1: where you said to me, are you concerned about the

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01:09:37,880 --> 01:09:40,360
Speaker 1: color in the White House? Why? Why would you ask

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01:09:40,400 --> 01:09:45,360
Speaker 1: me that question? Because you speak about black issues? Why

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01:09:45,400 --> 01:09:47,200
Speaker 1: would you ask me? But let's get to really the

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01:09:47,280 --> 01:09:49,599
Speaker 1: nucleus of this. Why did you ask me that question today?

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01:09:49,720 --> 01:09:51,519
Speaker 1: Because why did you feel that I needed to be

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Speaker 1: concerned about that? Because you're bringing a whole group of

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Speaker 1: young African American leaders the way. Okay, So this is

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01:09:57,160 --> 01:09:59,040
Speaker 1: something that I talk about often, is that in many

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Speaker 1: ways white liberals don't realize that you put on that

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Speaker 1: the racism and the conversation that we have. You're saying

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01:10:04,240 --> 01:10:06,200
Speaker 1: I'm a racist. You haven't let me finish my statement,

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01:10:06,200 --> 01:10:08,720
Speaker 1: you keep cutting me off. Go Okay. The emphasis that

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01:10:08,760 --> 01:10:11,280
Speaker 1: you place is always on having a discussion about race. Okay,

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01:10:11,320 --> 01:10:13,599
Speaker 1: you guys are insistent on having a conversation about race

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01:10:13,600 --> 01:10:15,960
Speaker 1: and telling us that we should see and implying that

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Speaker 1: we should see race everywhere. And I don't agree with that.

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Speaker 1: If you don't look in me according to the color

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01:10:19,920 --> 01:10:21,400
Speaker 1: of my skin, you would simply ask me how I

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01:10:21,400 --> 01:10:23,599
Speaker 1: thought that Trump was doing as a president. But instead

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01:10:23,600 --> 01:10:26,200
Speaker 1: you try to jump up a conversation that's surrounded by race.

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Speaker 1: Sweep the link it was, it was, it got spicy

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01:10:33,800 --> 01:10:35,559
Speaker 1: in there for for a little bit. I was like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I was you know, Charlie Kirk was also on set

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Speaker 1: with me. Were You couldn't see this on the well

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01:10:40,800 --> 01:10:42,080
Speaker 1: maybe you see a little bit on the clip if

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01:10:42,080 --> 01:10:43,680
Speaker 1: you watch the video, but we were kind of looking

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01:10:43,680 --> 01:10:46,280
Speaker 1: at each other like, oh man, that's getting it's getting intense.

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01:10:46,320 --> 01:10:48,320
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know it's gonna go here. And

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Speaker 1: I would say this that, you know, Crystal is a

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01:10:50,320 --> 01:10:53,280
Speaker 1: is a really good sport about how she likes to debate.

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01:10:53,280 --> 01:10:55,000
Speaker 1: I mean, she wants to really mix it up. She

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01:10:55,080 --> 01:10:56,960
Speaker 1: had no problem with that exchange. In fact, she wanted

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Speaker 1: to keep going. And we're thinking in the new year,

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01:11:00,000 --> 01:11:03,200
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this about setting up a show that

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01:11:03,240 --> 01:11:06,120
Speaker 1: would be kind of an in addition to Rising, which

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01:11:06,160 --> 01:11:09,080
Speaker 1: is more just news of the day and really based

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01:11:09,080 --> 01:11:13,040
Speaker 1: on getting newsmaker kind of interviews. We would set up

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Speaker 1: a show that would just be a debate a debate show,

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01:11:17,280 --> 01:11:19,920
Speaker 1: and we would moderate it in a way where, you know,

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01:11:19,960 --> 01:11:23,320
Speaker 1: we'd give equal time and we'd have cross examination by

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01:11:23,320 --> 01:11:26,240
Speaker 1: the hosts, cross examination you know each other, and really

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01:11:26,320 --> 01:11:31,160
Speaker 1: structure it so we could have you know, a worthwhile

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01:11:31,200 --> 01:11:33,960
Speaker 1: intellectual throat out, I mean, old school firing line, but

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01:11:34,080 --> 01:11:39,400
Speaker 1: with you know, new school techniques and technology. That's the

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01:11:39,800 --> 01:11:42,000
Speaker 1: that's the idea. So we're banding that about. We're hoping

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01:11:42,040 --> 01:11:44,880
Speaker 1: we can make that happen in twenty nineteen. We're already

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01:11:44,880 --> 01:11:47,040
Speaker 1: talking the powers that be about it. So I've got

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01:11:47,080 --> 01:11:49,840
Speaker 1: some thoughts on twenty eighteen that'll be coming your way,

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01:11:49,840 --> 01:11:52,759
Speaker 1: and obviously end of your thoughts in just a moment.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to spoil a surprise. I know Santa's

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01:11:56,479 --> 01:11:58,720
Speaker 1: coming soon, but if you're getting a gift from me

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01:11:58,840 --> 01:12:01,799
Speaker 1: this Christmas, you're get the gift a Black Rifle coffee.

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Speaker 1: That's right. It is my favorite coffee company out there.

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01:12:04,400 --> 01:12:07,280
Speaker 1: I start every day with a delicious hot cup of

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Speaker 1: Black Rifle, and I throw some heavy cream in there,

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01:12:09,600 --> 01:12:11,640
Speaker 1: because you know what, you only live once. That's right.

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Speaker 1: Don't be a whim Drink delicious coffee that is brought

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Speaker 1: to you by veterans of the United States military. And

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Speaker 1: they love their coffee all right, and they make things

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Speaker 1: easy with the Coffee Club. Black Rifle Coffee lets you

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Speaker 1: pick your blend, the amount you want, and then they'll

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Speaker 1: ship it right to your door. I just got a

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Speaker 1: country will read the whirlwind the behavior of several of

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Speaker 1: the Democratic members of this committee at my hearing a

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Speaker 1: few weeks ago was an embarrassment, but at least it

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Speaker 1: was just a good old fashioned attempt at borking. Those

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Speaker 1: efforts didn't work. When I did, at least okay enough

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Speaker 1: at the hearings that it looked like I might actually

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Speaker 1: get confirmed. A new tactic was needed. Some of you

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Speaker 1: were lying in wait and had it ready. This first

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Speaker 1: allegation was held in secret for weeks by a democratic

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Speaker 1: member of this committee and by staff. It would be

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Speaker 1: needed only if you couldn't take me out on the merits.

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Speaker 1: When it was needed, this allegation was unleashed and publicly

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Speaker 1: deployed over doctor Ford's wishes. And then and then, as

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Speaker 1: no doubt was expected, if not planned, came a long

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Speaker 1: series of false, last minute smears designed to scare me

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Speaker 1: and drive me out of the process before any hearing occurred.

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Speaker 1: Crazy stuff, gangs, illegitimate children, fights on boats in Rhode Island,

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Speaker 1: all nonsense reported breathlessly and often uncritically by the media.

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Speaker 1: This has destroyed my family and my good name. A

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Speaker 1: good name but built up through decades of very hard

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Speaker 1: work and public service at the highest levels of the

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Speaker 1: American governments. I spoke into a lot of friends in

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Speaker 1: the last few days, a lot of people about what

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Speaker 1: the single most important story of twenty eighteen has been,

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Speaker 1: and almost all of them, including liberals that I know,

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Speaker 1: agree that it was the Kavanaugh hearing. Of course, the

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Speaker 1: left and the rights, Democrat and Republican, conservative and progressive,

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Speaker 1: we take very different things away from it. But the

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Speaker 1: Kavanaugh hearing was one of the most troubling public spectacles

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Speaker 1: that I have ever witnessed in American in life in

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Speaker 1: America in my time. It's one of the most disgusting, dishonest,

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Speaker 1: and dishonorable mass media democrat character assassination attempts I have

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Speaker 1: ever seen, maybe the worst one I have ever seen.

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Speaker 1: It was utterly appalling, and it was a reminder, I

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Speaker 1: think for many of us that there is right and

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Speaker 1: wrong in public life, that the media still has the

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Speaker 1: power to destroy. Maybe not quite as easily as they

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Speaker 1: used to, but the left wing dominated Democrat aligne mainstream

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Speaker 1: media is not beyond ruining a man or a woman's

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Speaker 1: life in its pursuit of power and for the perpetuation

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Speaker 1: of their preferred narrative. I watched that Kavanaugh hearing and

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Speaker 1: I remember getting to talk to you about it right

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Speaker 1: as it was concluding, And it was one of those

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Speaker 1: moments when I actually could I felt a physical manifestation

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Speaker 1: of injustice. It felt evil, it felt wrong, and what

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Speaker 1: those smiling hyenas, those senators on the Democrat side were

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Speaker 1: doing was an evil thing. And there was clarity among conservatives.

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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, we realized that the left on

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Speaker 1: some issues disagrees. On other issues, they are just wrong.

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Speaker 1: They are immoral. On the issue of life, for an example,

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Speaker 1: they are wrong, and what they're doing is immoral. But

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Speaker 1: on this the destruction of the presumption of innocence and

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Speaker 1: the abandonment of cross examination, of just reason and the

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Speaker 1: presentation of evidence, all of that they were willing to

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Speaker 1: completely dispense with to ruin a man, to ritually torture

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Speaker 1: him on television for the amusement of progressive jackals across

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Speaker 1: the country, who, unfortunately, in many cases, have been fed

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Speaker 1: this idea that white males are the enemy, that white

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Speaker 1: males are the enemy of women. In fact, that the

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Speaker 1: patriarchy is really just another way of saying the white

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Speaker 1: maleminance of American society. And even if maybe Kavanaugh didn't

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Speaker 1: do the things he was accused of doing. Perhaps it

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Speaker 1: was a necessary sacrifice, you know, to even things out

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Speaker 1: to destroy him. That was a that was a mentality

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Speaker 1: that was much more widespread than I think a lot

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Speaker 1: of people outside of the you know, coasts, outside of

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Speaker 1: the corridors would realize, you know, the Assella corridors it's called.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the media was very much in favor of

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Speaker 1: this for a whole host of reasons, not the least

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Speaker 1: of which was they kind of wanted a really prominent

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Speaker 1: prep school, white male, Yale educated scalp on the right.

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Speaker 1: They really liked that idea. Maybe maybe he was innocent,

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Speaker 1: but they thought it was still worth it to destroy him.

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Speaker 1: I can think a few things more horrible than being

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Speaker 1: accused of being a serial gang rapist. Remember how insane

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Speaker 1: these accusations were. And it's very important that you also

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Speaker 1: remember who was willing to be a part of this

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Speaker 1: who I would note that you usually could count on

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Speaker 1: perhaps in the media and the press, public intellectuals who

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden became a coward, who was saying, well,

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Speaker 1: she has a right to be believed, because they didn't

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Speaker 1: want their email inbox to be filled with nasty comments

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Speaker 1: from people across the country who say that, you know,

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Speaker 1: women are women never lie. We were told things that

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Speaker 1: are just themselves lies, that women never lie about this. No,

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Speaker 1: women do lie about this, not all women, not even

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Speaker 1: a majority of women. But it does happen, So why

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Speaker 1: spread the lie that it never happens. They were saying that.

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Speaker 1: They were saying that, you know, a lie can be

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Speaker 1: a very useful thing, unfortunately for unscrupulous people, and we

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Speaker 1: were seeing that on full display in the cabin at hearing.

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Speaker 1: So it was the biggest for me, The biggest story

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Speaker 1: of twenty eighteen was in fact, that two or three

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Speaker 1: week period of the Brett Kavanaugh hearing, and it serves

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Speaker 1: as a very important reminder for all of us, a

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Speaker 1: very important reminder that the Left is willing to act

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Speaker 1: in ways that are really demonic, that go beyond just

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Speaker 1: a question of different, you know, different means to reach

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Speaker 1: the same end. It's not just well, you know, you

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Speaker 1: have your way and we have our way, and maybe

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Speaker 1: we can find some way to make it all, you know,

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Speaker 1: go down the middle. No, this was this was the

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Speaker 1: acceptance of immorality to destroy a human being publicly for

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Speaker 1: all time. And they failed. But they just barely failed.

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Speaker 1: As I've told you many times here on the show.

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Speaker 1: I was talking to people in the White House during

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Speaker 1: those weeks as well as others around this town in DC.

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Speaker 1: And it was a close fought battle. There were times

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Speaker 1: when it looked like maybe the President, just for the

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Speaker 1: reasons of, you know, preserving the Republican Party's reputation or

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Speaker 1: whatever the fear was, they might withdraw the cabinal nomination

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Speaker 1: was it was close. And if Blasi Ford, who you

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Speaker 1: know now of course, is a celebrity, and we all

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Speaker 1: understand that, and you know, they spent a tremendous amount

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Speaker 1: of time working with her on her presentation, and this

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Speaker 1: was all stage managed. This was all There was collusion,

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Speaker 1: you could say, in this effort. There was not just

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Speaker 1: some woman coming forward on her own without anyone telling

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Speaker 1: her what to say, how to say it, how to present.

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Speaker 1: Every aspect of it was very closely managed for maximum

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Speaker 1: impact against Cavanaugh. If he had not come out, and

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Speaker 1: we started by playing some of his defense if he

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Speaker 1: had not come out, as any man of honor, Wood

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Speaker 1: accused of the things that he was accused of and

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Speaker 1: responded to it with indignation and outrage and righteous fury.

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Speaker 1: He would not be on the Supreme Court, and he

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Speaker 1: would have been destroyed. Everything that he had built over

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Speaker 1: his life, everything that he ever stood for, would have

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Speaker 1: been destroyed. He would have had to seek justice in

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Speaker 1: the next life, because in this one there would have

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Speaker 1: been no justice for him. This was forced on us

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Speaker 1: by the same media that tells us all the time

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Speaker 1: that Trump is so immoral, so unethical, so distasteful. I

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Speaker 1: don't trust any of them to be the arbiters of

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Speaker 1: what is fair or right. I don't really want to

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Speaker 1: hear it. I don't really think I need their lectures.

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Speaker 1: But it was a warning for us all as well.

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Speaker 1: This next year, twenty nineteen, is going to be very,

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Speaker 1: very ugly. The political temperature will go even higher. How

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Speaker 1: is that even possible. It's tough to say, but it will.

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of people who I think have

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Speaker 1: lost touch with what really matters in their lives, a

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Speaker 1: lot of people who are who are scared, who are angry,

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Speaker 1: who have been brainwashed, whether it's on on climate change,

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Speaker 1: or Trump's xenophobia, or the threat of nuclear annihilation that

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Speaker 1: he poses, or Russia collusion, any one of these areas

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Speaker 1: of hysteria and hysteria, unfortunately, is contagious. That's how you

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Speaker 1: get to a mass hysteria, and that's where we are.

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Speaker 1: This is going to now be funneled through a Democrat

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Speaker 1: majority in the House representatives that, as we saw from

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Speaker 1: the Kavanaugh situation on the Senate side, has no scruples

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Speaker 1: to protect. We'll do anything that's effective. We'll destroy anyone

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Speaker 1: that stands in their way, and so we are going

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01:24:01,520 --> 01:24:07,080
Speaker 1: to have to be prepared for things to get nasty, messy,

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Speaker 1: and very very difficult. You will have people in your

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01:24:11,080 --> 01:24:13,960
Speaker 1: day to day life who will think less of you

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01:24:14,080 --> 01:24:16,760
Speaker 1: if you don't agree with them that Trump should be impeached.

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01:24:17,760 --> 01:24:20,680
Speaker 1: You will have old friends, this has happened to me,

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01:24:21,479 --> 01:24:29,160
Speaker 1: who say really really unfair and hurtful and destructive things

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01:24:29,280 --> 01:24:32,920
Speaker 1: to you about you because you don't agree with them.

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01:24:33,640 --> 01:24:37,840
Speaker 1: Be prepared for that, don't back down. But also, you

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01:24:37,880 --> 01:24:39,880
Speaker 1: don't have to fight every fight. You don't have to

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Speaker 1: engage every time. It's some fights are just not worth it.

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Speaker 1: Most fights, quite honestly, in your day to day life

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01:24:46,360 --> 01:24:49,839
Speaker 1: are just not worth it, at least over politics. Rarely

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01:24:49,960 --> 01:24:52,000
Speaker 1: is it the case that you hand out your own

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Speaker 1: version of the buck slap. Although sometimes you should. There

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Speaker 1: was this news today about Ruth Bade Ginsburg, around whom

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Speaker 1: a kind of creepy cult has formed, the cult of RBG,

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01:25:06,640 --> 01:25:12,280
Speaker 1: you know, the crossfitter and the Supreme Court Justice extraordinaire.

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Speaker 1: She had surgery to remove cancerous growths from her lungs,

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Speaker 1: and because we are all decent human beings, we wish

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Speaker 1: her a speedy recovery in all the best. She has

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Speaker 1: another human being, she has, you know, she has feelings

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Speaker 1: and family and people love her, and we wish her

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Speaker 1: all the best. I bring it up only because it

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Speaker 1: sent a bit of an alarm through the left wing ranks,

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01:25:37,680 --> 01:25:42,920
Speaker 1: because their their plan is that Ruth Bader Ginsberg will

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Speaker 1: stay through the twenty twenty election. But that's a ways off.

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Speaker 1: Ginsberg is eighty five years old and obviously has just

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Speaker 1: has had a very serious healthcare and this is after

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Speaker 1: she had broken a number of ribs. She's going to

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Speaker 1: try to make it all the way through, but her

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Speaker 1: health may fail. She may have to step down. If

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Speaker 1: that happens, I can't even begin to picture. I can't

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Speaker 1: even really understand how much rage and hysteria and and

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Speaker 1: over emotional craziness is going to fall on the left

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Speaker 1: wing of this country and people that really think that,

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Speaker 1: you know, RBG is the last hope of you know,

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Speaker 1: women's rights and minorities and abortion, and you know, you

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Speaker 1: go down all these different things that they're so concerned about.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how that plays out, other than to

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Speaker 1: say that this country will be it will be more

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Speaker 1: divided than it has been, certainly in my lifetime over

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Speaker 1: that issue. Kavanaugh was a a vision of what is

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Speaker 1: to come again in the future. I think, so we

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Speaker 1: will have to be prepared for that in twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: Social media is not just a platform, it's also increasingly

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Speaker 1: a publisher. That means that people can determine what you

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Speaker 1: see and how you see it, and they can also

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Speaker 1: don't want to bum everybody out, you know, I know

1501
01:27:59,479 --> 01:28:01,320
Speaker 1: that we just get pretty intense there for a second.

1502
01:28:01,400 --> 01:28:03,679
Speaker 1: My year, my year in review, I don't I don't

1503
01:28:03,720 --> 01:28:06,680
Speaker 1: have a lot of stock markets kind of in the

1504
01:28:07,520 --> 01:28:10,760
Speaker 1: in the toilet right now. You know, the Democrats won

1505
01:28:10,840 --> 01:28:14,160
Speaker 1: the House, Trump, the Muller probe still goes on, and

1506
01:28:14,160 --> 01:28:15,960
Speaker 1: there's not a whole lot that I think we could

1507
01:28:16,000 --> 01:28:19,360
Speaker 1: we could celebrate all that, all that openly um right now,

1508
01:28:19,479 --> 01:28:21,200
Speaker 1: but there's also a lot we can celebrate in our

1509
01:28:21,280 --> 01:28:23,599
Speaker 1: day to day lives. Like John, what are you going

1510
01:28:23,640 --> 01:28:29,840
Speaker 1: to be doing over the Christmas break? I'm gonna be working, Buck, Okay,

1511
01:28:30,040 --> 01:28:34,120
Speaker 1: I'll be here working. Yeah, I've got to do some

1512
01:28:34,160 --> 01:28:35,679
Speaker 1: things here and there. I'm gonna take a few days

1513
01:28:35,680 --> 01:28:38,120
Speaker 1: off from radio, though I have to. I'm on call

1514
01:28:38,240 --> 01:28:39,840
Speaker 1: for the Hill, which means that I have to stay

1515
01:28:39,840 --> 01:28:41,799
Speaker 1: in DC for Are you doing anything for your birthday?

1516
01:28:43,000 --> 01:28:46,439
Speaker 1: Miss Molly's gonna make me a big dinner. She I

1517
01:28:46,560 --> 01:28:50,120
Speaker 1: usually ask her to make something that's really usually glutenous,

1518
01:28:50,120 --> 01:28:52,040
Speaker 1: and she makes a delicious gluten free version. But she

1519
01:28:52,080 --> 01:28:55,000
Speaker 1: makes incredible gluten free pizza, which I would say some

1520
01:28:55,040 --> 01:28:56,640
Speaker 1: of you are like, oh, gluten free pizza. No, no no, no,

1521
01:28:57,120 --> 01:28:59,800
Speaker 1: it's really good. Make it for yourself at home. I'm

1522
01:28:59,840 --> 01:29:04,799
Speaker 1: in Crust gluten free pizza is excellent. Beat crust gluten

1523
01:29:04,840 --> 01:29:08,719
Speaker 1: free pizza. I know it sounds funky, you know, he's

1524
01:29:08,760 --> 01:29:12,400
Speaker 1: a super beat, super beat um, but you you should

1525
01:29:12,400 --> 01:29:15,800
Speaker 1: try beat crust pizza. But John, I'm sure you're gonna

1526
01:29:15,840 --> 01:29:19,479
Speaker 1: take some You're gonna take some time off, right. My

1527
01:29:19,560 --> 01:29:24,439
Speaker 1: first day off will be January second, all right? All right? Yeah,

1528
01:29:24,680 --> 01:29:27,120
Speaker 1: you're you're a hard working mad brother. I appreciate it.

1529
01:29:27,240 --> 01:29:31,000
Speaker 1: That's the nature of radio. You're usually working holidays and

1530
01:29:31,200 --> 01:29:35,320
Speaker 1: late nights and weekends, and you're going in in a snowstorm.

1531
01:29:35,360 --> 01:29:37,519
Speaker 1: I'm trying to tell people I'm too tired to go

1532
01:29:37,680 --> 01:29:40,880
Speaker 1: on vacation this year, I'm just taking vacation meeting. I

1533
01:29:40,960 --> 01:29:43,479
Speaker 1: just need to regroup. I just need a lot of sleep.

1534
01:29:44,040 --> 01:29:47,120
Speaker 1: I need to eat, you know, healthy food and not

1535
01:29:47,760 --> 01:29:51,200
Speaker 1: just keep on throwing gluten freemac and cheese in the microwave.

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01:29:51,320 --> 01:29:54,240
Speaker 1: So you know, I've I've got I've got those those

1537
01:29:54,240 --> 01:29:56,799
Speaker 1: plans going on. But you know, it'll be fun Christmas.

1538
01:29:56,840 --> 01:29:58,479
Speaker 1: I'll be up in New York for Christmas Day. It's

1539
01:29:58,479 --> 01:30:01,280
Speaker 1: always very pretty up there, and that's that's very nice.

1540
01:30:01,760 --> 01:30:05,080
Speaker 1: And you know, the good news is what really matters

1541
01:30:05,200 --> 01:30:07,120
Speaker 1: is the stuff that you're dealing with every day, folks.

1542
01:30:07,160 --> 01:30:09,679
Speaker 1: You know what really matters is this holiday over Christmas

1543
01:30:10,000 --> 01:30:13,040
Speaker 1: or the Christmas holiday itself and being with your family

1544
01:30:13,080 --> 01:30:15,720
Speaker 1: and friends, being with loved ones. That's the stuff that

1545
01:30:15,800 --> 01:30:20,120
Speaker 1: really Yeah, whether we win on you know, this Supreme

1546
01:30:20,120 --> 01:30:22,439
Speaker 1: Court case or that, or whether you know, taxes go

1547
01:30:22,560 --> 01:30:25,240
Speaker 1: up or down, we can manage all that stuff. So,

1548
01:30:25,320 --> 01:30:27,360
Speaker 1: you know what, maybe this is the one time it's

1549
01:30:27,400 --> 01:30:30,439
Speaker 1: probably bad from a radio business perspective because usually people

1550
01:30:30,439 --> 01:30:33,000
Speaker 1: are like, oh my gosh, the country is falling apart.

1551
01:30:33,520 --> 01:30:37,160
Speaker 1: They're abandoning their pencibles on the constitution. Yeah, you know,

1552
01:30:37,200 --> 01:30:38,880
Speaker 1: I get it right. This is what most people do

1553
01:30:38,920 --> 01:30:40,840
Speaker 1: on radio all the time, and you know they're trying

1554
01:30:40,880 --> 01:30:44,360
Speaker 1: to discress. But I'm here to tell you that it's

1555
01:30:44,400 --> 01:30:47,599
Speaker 1: actually all good. It's all gonna be okay. Not every day,

1556
01:30:47,720 --> 01:30:50,040
Speaker 1: not day to day. You know there's gonna be problems,

1557
01:30:50,080 --> 01:30:51,839
Speaker 1: but it's all gonna be all right. And this Christmas

1558
01:30:51,880 --> 01:30:56,400
Speaker 1: takes some time to reset. You know, just just give yourself.

1559
01:30:56,520 --> 01:30:58,960
Speaker 1: It is important. You actually owe it to yourself, no

1560
01:30:59,000 --> 01:31:02,080
Speaker 1: matter how much of a of a fighter you are,

1561
01:31:02,280 --> 01:31:04,600
Speaker 1: whether in your personal or professional, if you owe it

1562
01:31:04,600 --> 01:31:09,240
Speaker 1: to yourself to spend some time recharging this holiday, reflecting,

1563
01:31:10,400 --> 01:31:14,000
Speaker 1: maybe think about Baby Jesus and God. That's up to you.

1564
01:31:14,920 --> 01:31:16,760
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of stuff that you should be

1565
01:31:16,800 --> 01:31:19,639
Speaker 1: doing that will help you push into twenty nineteen strong.

1566
01:31:19,760 --> 01:31:22,040
Speaker 1: So there we have it, a little bit of uplift

1567
01:31:22,120 --> 01:31:24,040
Speaker 1: before we get into some roll call and some closing

1568
01:31:24,080 --> 01:31:41,800
Speaker 1: thoughts for twenty eighteen. It's time for roll call. This

1569
01:31:41,880 --> 01:31:44,880
Speaker 1: is our final roll call of the year, which is

1570
01:31:44,960 --> 01:31:50,599
Speaker 1: pretty amazing. Really, all right, let's get to it. Brian. Oh,

1571
01:31:50,680 --> 01:31:53,400
Speaker 1: by the way, I'm I'm going to close out with

1572
01:31:53,520 --> 01:31:57,559
Speaker 1: some final thoughts for the year in the next segment.

1573
01:31:57,640 --> 01:31:59,679
Speaker 1: So roll call will not, in fact be our last

1574
01:31:59,720 --> 01:32:02,559
Speaker 1: segment of the It will not be your last segment

1575
01:32:02,560 --> 01:32:03,800
Speaker 1: in the year. I'll just get to talk to you

1576
01:32:03,800 --> 01:32:06,479
Speaker 1: all for a few minutes to close out a very

1577
01:32:06,479 --> 01:32:12,040
Speaker 1: successful twenty eighteen. Brian writes, Happy birthday, Buck, have a

1578
01:32:12,080 --> 01:32:14,640
Speaker 1: well deserved relaxing week off. Hope you're getting out of

1579
01:32:14,680 --> 01:32:18,080
Speaker 1: the swamping back to NYC. Get ready for a very

1580
01:32:18,120 --> 01:32:21,480
Speaker 1: interesting twenty nineteen. We're gonna need your insight and decorum

1581
01:32:21,560 --> 01:32:24,360
Speaker 1: more than ever next year. Ps I sent you and

1582
01:32:24,560 --> 01:32:28,080
Speaker 1: Porter an email a while back on blockchain and global

1583
01:32:28,160 --> 01:32:32,040
Speaker 1: currency transitions that will happen when the overdue and expected

1584
01:32:32,080 --> 01:32:36,479
Speaker 1: market correction happens. Really want yours and Porter's feedback on

1585
01:32:36,520 --> 01:32:39,720
Speaker 1: the company known as Ripple. When the correction happens, I

1586
01:32:39,760 --> 01:32:43,360
Speaker 1: think we'll see a large scale transition to XRP in

1587
01:32:43,439 --> 01:32:46,400
Speaker 1: banks and institutions. Take a look, as I appreciate your

1588
01:32:46,560 --> 01:32:51,240
Speaker 1: research well, Brian, I will certainly take a look, and

1589
01:32:51,360 --> 01:32:54,120
Speaker 1: thank you so much for your kind words. And yeah,

1590
01:32:54,120 --> 01:32:56,559
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen is going to be wild. I'm gonna be

1591
01:32:56,560 --> 01:32:58,920
Speaker 1: talking more about that next but twenty nineteen is going

1592
01:32:58,960 --> 01:33:04,960
Speaker 1: to be a particularly interesting year to be doing radio

1593
01:33:05,040 --> 01:33:10,519
Speaker 1: and covering politics. MASONA writes, Hey, you read my message

1594
01:33:10,560 --> 01:33:12,960
Speaker 1: on air Awesome on my way home now and catching

1595
01:33:13,040 --> 01:33:16,400
Speaker 1: the show, so bummed about Matdis resigning. He was definitely

1596
01:33:16,439 --> 01:33:18,800
Speaker 1: my favorite cabinet member. Keep up the great work, Buck

1597
01:33:18,960 --> 01:33:23,000
Speaker 1: shields high. Yeah, Mason, A lot of people really like Matdis,

1598
01:33:23,040 --> 01:33:28,080
Speaker 1: and you know, I think that there's a sense that they,

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01:33:28,120 --> 01:33:30,040
Speaker 1: you know, they won't be able to find someone who

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01:33:30,120 --> 01:33:34,719
Speaker 1: can fill his shoes. But I think the military has

1601
01:33:34,760 --> 01:33:39,439
Speaker 1: a whole lot of incredibly adept, skilled and wise minds,

1602
01:33:39,720 --> 01:33:43,400
Speaker 1: and we'll be able to get a really fantastic Secretary

1603
01:33:43,400 --> 01:33:46,360
Speaker 1: of Defense in the next year. I think that that's

1604
01:33:46,439 --> 01:33:48,479
Speaker 1: likely to happen to him. I have a feeling Mattis

1605
01:33:48,479 --> 01:33:51,519
Speaker 1: will probably want to waigh in on the transition at

1606
01:33:51,560 --> 01:33:54,160
Speaker 1: some degree, Although I don't know how how strained the

1607
01:33:54,240 --> 01:33:56,800
Speaker 1: relationship really is with President Trump. I've certainly read a

1608
01:33:56,800 --> 01:34:02,080
Speaker 1: fair amount about that being the case. Scott rights, Hey, there, Buck,

1609
01:34:02,080 --> 01:34:04,679
Speaker 1: Considering that my little town of sixteen thousand souls here

1610
01:34:04,680 --> 01:34:08,920
Speaker 1: in Laconia has lost twelve people the drug overdoses this year,

1611
01:34:09,160 --> 01:34:12,120
Speaker 1: and we all know where they're coming from. Where are

1612
01:34:12,160 --> 01:34:14,640
Speaker 1: the people that will start asking truly hard questions to

1613
01:34:14,800 --> 01:34:18,439
Speaker 1: Democrat lawmakers that have zero interest in securing our border.

1614
01:34:18,800 --> 01:34:21,200
Speaker 1: Who's going to stand up and ask Nancy Pelosi next

1615
01:34:21,240 --> 01:34:24,320
Speaker 1: year and ask her, Madam speaker, sixty thousand people died

1616
01:34:24,400 --> 01:34:27,600
Speaker 1: last year from drug overdoses. How many American citizens do

1617
01:34:27,640 --> 01:34:31,160
Speaker 1: you think are acceptable to sacrifice to opioid streaming over

1618
01:34:31,240 --> 01:34:36,320
Speaker 1: our borders on the open border? Altar thirty thousand? Is

1619
01:34:36,360 --> 01:34:38,599
Speaker 1: it truly? It is truly time rather to take these

1620
01:34:38,640 --> 01:34:41,320
Speaker 1: people to the woodshed. Keep up the good fight, and

1621
01:34:41,320 --> 01:34:43,920
Speaker 1: I'm keeping my shield high. Brother, Marry Christmas, well, Scott,

1622
01:34:44,479 --> 01:34:48,760
Speaker 1: Marry Christmas to you two. And on the opioid issue,

1623
01:34:48,760 --> 01:34:52,559
Speaker 1: i'man I agree. I think it's a an incredibly serious issue,

1624
01:34:53,040 --> 01:34:57,639
Speaker 1: and I am troubled by the fact that people just

1625
01:34:57,720 --> 01:35:00,400
Speaker 1: don't seem to want to believe or want to accept

1626
01:35:00,479 --> 01:35:04,240
Speaker 1: the reality that the drugs are coming across our southern border.

1627
01:35:04,439 --> 01:35:08,400
Speaker 1: That's what is happening. That is the truth of where

1628
01:35:08,479 --> 01:35:14,080
Speaker 1: most of the illegal opioids are making their way into

1629
01:35:14,120 --> 01:35:17,160
Speaker 1: this country. So with that in mind, I just would

1630
01:35:17,160 --> 01:35:20,080
Speaker 1: have to say, we have to keep the pressure on,

1631
01:35:20,240 --> 01:35:24,080
Speaker 1: keep spreading the truth, keep talking about what you know

1632
01:35:24,160 --> 01:35:27,840
Speaker 1: the likeliest ways of dealing with this or that the best,

1633
01:35:27,880 --> 01:35:29,840
Speaker 1: most effective ways of dealing with this problem will be

1634
01:35:30,040 --> 01:35:32,240
Speaker 1: It was very troubling. I was reading an analysis of

1635
01:35:32,280 --> 01:35:36,360
Speaker 1: the opioid epidemic and there was a case being made

1636
01:35:36,439 --> 01:35:39,920
Speaker 1: just based on the statistics, that we are likely to

1637
01:35:39,960 --> 01:35:44,960
Speaker 1: see a significant decrease in opioid addiction after there has

1638
01:35:45,000 --> 01:35:50,200
Speaker 1: been essentially a massive death toll that has gone on

1639
01:35:50,320 --> 01:35:54,679
Speaker 1: long enough that the people who have already been introduced

1640
01:35:54,720 --> 01:35:57,840
Speaker 1: to opioids, already have some dependency, are no longer with us.

1641
01:35:57,840 --> 01:36:03,120
Speaker 1: I mean, it was a horribly uh macabre view of

1642
01:36:03,240 --> 01:36:07,160
Speaker 1: where the opioid crisis is going. It. It would almost

1643
01:36:07,200 --> 01:36:09,439
Speaker 1: like be saying that the war will end when when

1644
01:36:09,560 --> 01:36:12,960
Speaker 1: enough people have died. When when you know, when enough

1645
01:36:12,960 --> 01:36:14,800
Speaker 1: people have died, that neither side has the will to

1646
01:36:14,840 --> 01:36:17,880
Speaker 1: fight anymore. So I think we need to head that off.

1647
01:36:17,920 --> 01:36:20,639
Speaker 1: We can't just wait for there to be uh die,

1648
01:36:20,720 --> 01:36:24,800
Speaker 1: you know, people dying. That's that's unacceptable. James Rights, Hey,

1649
01:36:24,800 --> 01:36:27,960
Speaker 1: Buck Shields time. Banning bump stocks is really just banning

1650
01:36:28,000 --> 01:36:31,599
Speaker 1: a firing technique. With a little practice, anyone can use

1651
01:36:31,640 --> 01:36:34,880
Speaker 1: the recoil of the weapon to fire like that. It

1652
01:36:34,920 --> 01:36:40,280
Speaker 1: really makes no sense. Love the work you do, sincerely, James. Yeah, James,

1653
01:36:40,280 --> 01:36:42,240
Speaker 1: I know that you can. You can create a bump

1654
01:36:42,280 --> 01:36:47,439
Speaker 1: fire effect by looping the by using your belt loop

1655
01:36:47,960 --> 01:36:50,960
Speaker 1: and firing it that way. So that there there are

1656
01:36:51,080 --> 01:36:54,040
Speaker 1: ways to do this um that don't involve a piece

1657
01:36:54,080 --> 01:36:57,320
Speaker 1: of plastic. And remember that is that is what has

1658
01:36:57,400 --> 01:37:01,680
Speaker 1: been banned here. A piece of plastic is now an

1659
01:37:01,680 --> 01:37:05,000
Speaker 1: illegal thing to own. I think that should be troubling

1660
01:37:05,040 --> 01:37:07,400
Speaker 1: for everyone. I mean, when the government can make something

1661
01:37:07,439 --> 01:37:11,400
Speaker 1: that is an ananimate object that is very easy to

1662
01:37:12,520 --> 01:37:16,879
Speaker 1: make and is in and of itself not dangerous to anyone,

1663
01:37:16,920 --> 01:37:20,120
Speaker 1: When they can make that a felony to possess that,

1664
01:37:20,120 --> 01:37:24,519
Speaker 1: that is that is troubling. James writes, Hey, Buck, I

1665
01:37:24,520 --> 01:37:27,280
Speaker 1: have two possible solutions to the wall handed to the

1666
01:37:27,360 --> 01:37:30,400
Speaker 1: Army Corps of Engineers. Fund it with the military budget,

1667
01:37:30,560 --> 01:37:33,799
Speaker 1: or sell government bonds to fund it. Let people willingly

1668
01:37:33,800 --> 01:37:35,400
Speaker 1: pay for it. If it's going to save the government

1669
01:37:35,400 --> 01:37:39,040
Speaker 1: money in the long run, they can pay the bonds back.

1670
01:37:41,360 --> 01:37:43,880
Speaker 1: The Army Corps of Engineers certainly could do it, but

1671
01:37:43,960 --> 01:37:46,800
Speaker 1: I think that there are there are issues with how

1672
01:37:46,840 --> 01:37:51,719
Speaker 1: it would actually get how you could transfer over funds

1673
01:37:52,200 --> 01:37:56,080
Speaker 1: to use for that purpose. So I would say that's

1674
01:37:56,920 --> 01:38:00,240
Speaker 1: that's something to keep in mind and think about. I mean,

1675
01:38:00,280 --> 01:38:01,600
Speaker 1: it's not as simple as just well, we're going to

1676
01:38:01,640 --> 01:38:03,640
Speaker 1: spend the money on this. Congress has to appropriate it

1677
01:38:03,680 --> 01:38:07,280
Speaker 1: for certain purposes. But nobody really knows, and except for

1678
01:38:07,280 --> 01:38:10,600
Speaker 1: the people who work in Congress, how these budget processes

1679
01:38:10,640 --> 01:38:13,960
Speaker 1: and how the appropriations really go. It's a kind of

1680
01:38:14,000 --> 01:38:18,760
Speaker 1: an arcane and down in the weeds process. So that's

1681
01:38:18,920 --> 01:38:20,599
Speaker 1: that's what I've got for you on that for now,

1682
01:38:20,680 --> 01:38:24,759
Speaker 1: my friend. Let's see what else do we have here,

1683
01:38:25,880 --> 01:38:29,040
Speaker 1: Tim writes Buck, I'm listening to Ben Shapiro and he

1684
01:38:29,120 --> 01:38:31,720
Speaker 1: just blamed you for the Syrian pull out. He said

1685
01:38:31,760 --> 01:38:37,120
Speaker 1: this was not driven by nicky Nicky Hailey, Pompeo, Bolton,

1686
01:38:37,160 --> 01:38:39,559
Speaker 1: and Madis. We're all against it, but the president must

1687
01:38:39,600 --> 01:38:44,280
Speaker 1: be listening to Buck and the dictator of Turkey. Good job, Buck.

1688
01:38:45,080 --> 01:38:48,920
Speaker 1: He referred to you as a big headed fellow. Tucker, Well,

1689
01:38:49,080 --> 01:38:50,960
Speaker 1: my head is large, so there's nothing I can do

1690
01:38:51,000 --> 01:38:54,000
Speaker 1: about that. It is a it is a serious cranium.

1691
01:38:54,040 --> 01:38:56,160
Speaker 1: I think Ben was probably referring to a Twitter exchange

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Speaker 1: that we had earlier where I said, look, we've got

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01:38:58,600 --> 01:39:02,320
Speaker 1: to deal with this, this concept of endless war. I'm

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01:39:02,360 --> 01:39:04,880
Speaker 1: not reading a tweet exactly, but a concept of endless

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01:39:04,920 --> 01:39:09,680
Speaker 1: war and didn't like that idea. And I just look Afghanistan.

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01:39:09,720 --> 01:39:12,360
Speaker 1: There is no let's not delude ourselves. The policy is

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Speaker 1: to be there forever. I've been told that by four

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Speaker 1: star generals. I was told that by four star generals

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01:39:17,600 --> 01:39:19,799
Speaker 1: ten years ago when I was in Afghanistan. The policy

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01:39:19,880 --> 01:39:22,280
Speaker 1: is to be there forever. So if you want to

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01:39:22,360 --> 01:39:24,800
Speaker 1: keep US troops there forever, then that's fine, but that

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01:39:24,840 --> 01:39:27,880
Speaker 1: should be the argument. And in Syria, remember, a pullout

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01:39:27,880 --> 01:39:30,000
Speaker 1: from Syria is not the same as the pullout from Iraq,

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01:39:30,080 --> 01:39:32,880
Speaker 1: because we have five thousand troops in Iraq next door.

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01:39:33,439 --> 01:39:36,559
Speaker 1: And as long as we maintain security guarantees for the

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01:39:36,640 --> 01:39:40,479
Speaker 1: Kurds visa VI the Turks, which wouldn't require very much.

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01:39:40,640 --> 01:39:43,240
Speaker 1: I mean, it probably would just require leaving some Special

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01:39:43,280 --> 01:39:46,080
Speaker 1: Forces teams there and letting the Turks know we still

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01:39:46,120 --> 01:39:48,280
Speaker 1: have some guys, because I remember, I mean, there's a

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01:39:48,280 --> 01:39:51,160
Speaker 1: difference between having a few thousand people and having a

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01:39:51,160 --> 01:39:54,600
Speaker 1: few dozen people that are working with allies in the

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01:39:54,600 --> 01:39:56,640
Speaker 1: front lines. We have special forces that are deployed in

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01:39:56,680 --> 01:39:59,160
Speaker 1: places all over the world that nobody ever thinks about

1714
01:39:59,160 --> 01:40:00,960
Speaker 1: because they just don't know about it, or because the

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01:40:01,000 --> 01:40:04,320
Speaker 1: footprint is light enough. But we do have a debt

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01:40:04,320 --> 01:40:06,519
Speaker 1: of honor to the Kurds, and I don't think that

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01:40:06,520 --> 01:40:08,880
Speaker 1: we should just leave them high and dry and allow

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01:40:08,880 --> 01:40:12,439
Speaker 1: the Turks to pound them with aerial bombardment. That would

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01:40:12,479 --> 01:40:16,000
Speaker 1: be that would be bad, bad conduct on our part.

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01:40:16,200 --> 01:40:19,120
Speaker 1: And I understand the irritation with that. That said, we

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01:40:19,320 --> 01:40:22,680
Speaker 1: have no future. And this is and I offered to

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01:40:22,760 --> 01:40:24,880
Speaker 1: Band to call into the show by the way, or

1723
01:40:25,000 --> 01:40:26,680
Speaker 1: you know, I would call into his show. I don't care.

1724
01:40:26,720 --> 01:40:30,200
Speaker 1: We could have this discussion, and he didn't respond. But

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01:40:30,520 --> 01:40:33,840
Speaker 1: there is no future for a permanent ford operating base

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01:40:33,920 --> 01:40:38,360
Speaker 1: for US forces in Syria. The Assad regime has won

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01:40:38,400 --> 01:40:41,200
Speaker 1: the Syrian Civil War. People who keep saying the vacuum

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01:40:41,280 --> 01:40:43,800
Speaker 1: is going to be filled by Iran and Russia, the

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01:40:43,880 --> 01:40:46,160
Speaker 1: vacuum has already been filled. It was filled in the

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01:40:46,160 --> 01:40:50,760
Speaker 1: Obama years. US having a light footprint along with some

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01:40:50,840 --> 01:40:55,360
Speaker 1: Kurds does not, in fact prevent Russia and Iran from

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01:40:55,840 --> 01:40:58,439
Speaker 1: using the region as a ford operating base for all

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01:40:58,520 --> 01:41:02,840
Speaker 1: kinds of operations, because they're already doing that. And what

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01:41:02,920 --> 01:41:05,200
Speaker 1: we really don't want to have is US getting pulled

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01:41:05,240 --> 01:41:08,600
Speaker 1: in the middle of a regional conflict, which is increasingly

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01:41:08,640 --> 01:41:12,280
Speaker 1: likely the longer we stay. There's a lot of complexity

1737
01:41:12,360 --> 01:41:16,440
Speaker 1: these issues, and I think people of goodwill and of

1738
01:41:16,600 --> 01:41:21,360
Speaker 1: serious minds can differ on it. And while I appreciate

1739
01:41:21,439 --> 01:41:24,839
Speaker 1: Ben's reference to me being a big headed tucker like Fellow,

1740
01:41:25,439 --> 01:41:27,360
Speaker 1: I would appreciate even more if you wanted to call

1741
01:41:27,400 --> 01:41:30,160
Speaker 1: into the show sometime and discuss this issue in a

1742
01:41:30,160 --> 01:41:33,040
Speaker 1: way where we could probably get to some worthwhile conclusions,

1743
01:41:33,680 --> 01:41:35,960
Speaker 1: and I could tell him about my time in Iraq

1744
01:41:36,000 --> 01:41:38,920
Speaker 1: and Afghanistan and what I draw from that and how

1745
01:41:38,960 --> 01:41:44,040
Speaker 1: that affects my thinking about these issues. Now, let's go

1746
01:41:44,200 --> 01:41:48,960
Speaker 1: to Nathaniel, who writes, Yo, buck Shield time, brother, this

1747
01:41:49,080 --> 01:41:52,719
Speaker 1: Syria withdrawal is rather curious. I'm speculating one of two things.

1748
01:41:53,000 --> 01:41:55,360
Speaker 1: Either we are certain that the Kurds and Syrian Democrat

1749
01:41:55,400 --> 01:41:58,519
Speaker 1: forces have the capability to keep any Isis resurgence at bay,

1750
01:41:58,880 --> 01:42:01,800
Speaker 1: or this is a tactic to draw Isis out, meaning

1751
01:42:01,800 --> 01:42:04,679
Speaker 1: their ideology is based on landownership, so fake a vacuum.

1752
01:42:04,720 --> 01:42:06,880
Speaker 1: See if they established territory as a way to draw

1753
01:42:06,920 --> 01:42:09,040
Speaker 1: them out and use that opportunity to finish them. Any

1754
01:42:09,080 --> 01:42:11,800
Speaker 1: thoughts on this being a head fake, Nathaniel. I don't

1755
01:42:11,800 --> 01:42:16,240
Speaker 1: think it's a head fake, but it's I hate being

1756
01:42:16,280 --> 01:42:19,600
Speaker 1: the person just as it's a complicated situation. But I

1757
01:42:20,120 --> 01:42:24,320
Speaker 1: think that the President is trying to shake up the

1758
01:42:24,360 --> 01:42:29,160
Speaker 1: current paradigm, which is just the continuation of a US

1759
01:42:29,200 --> 01:42:32,479
Speaker 1: Force presidents everywhere we go. So that's where I think

1760
01:42:32,479 --> 01:42:36,080
Speaker 1: we are, I you know, meaning once we've deployed troops,

1761
01:42:36,080 --> 01:42:37,600
Speaker 1: it's very very hard to ever just say we're not

1762
01:42:37,640 --> 01:42:40,639
Speaker 1: going to have troops there anymore. I'm going to come

1763
01:42:40,680 --> 01:42:43,200
Speaker 1: back with some closing thoughts for the year. Team stay

1764
01:42:43,240 --> 01:43:04,280
Speaker 1: with me, Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree. And I

1765
01:43:04,320 --> 01:43:07,840
Speaker 1: feel like we probably shouldn't close out twenty eighteen with

1766
01:43:08,720 --> 01:43:13,280
Speaker 1: muzak of Oh Christmas Tree. But nonetheless, here we are,

1767
01:43:14,520 --> 01:43:16,920
Speaker 1: you know, every year round this time because it's the holidays,

1768
01:43:17,000 --> 01:43:20,920
Speaker 1: and I have my Christmas obviously coming up just like

1769
01:43:20,920 --> 01:43:22,680
Speaker 1: the rest of you. And also my birthday, which for

1770
01:43:22,680 --> 01:43:26,160
Speaker 1: those who don't know, is December twenty eighth, I will

1771
01:43:26,200 --> 01:43:32,120
Speaker 1: be thirty seven years young, which feels like it feels

1772
01:43:32,120 --> 01:43:35,680
Speaker 1: like quite a ways. But yeah, I'm gonna be with

1773
01:43:35,760 --> 01:43:39,040
Speaker 1: family and with Miss Molly for the holiday. But this

1774
01:43:39,240 --> 01:43:41,799
Speaker 1: is where I have to take a couple of minutes

1775
01:43:41,840 --> 01:43:44,920
Speaker 1: to just say that, with all of the change that

1776
01:43:45,000 --> 01:43:49,240
Speaker 1: I have had in the last really eight years since

1777
01:43:49,280 --> 01:43:52,320
Speaker 1: I got into media, and with certainly the changes of

1778
01:43:52,360 --> 01:43:54,880
Speaker 1: the last couple of years leaving the Blaze, going to

1779
01:43:55,800 --> 01:44:00,840
Speaker 1: national radio syndication, and then spending some time at CNN,

1780
01:44:01,240 --> 01:44:06,720
Speaker 1: where I was ritually ambushed and abused for the amusement

1781
01:44:06,720 --> 01:44:10,479
Speaker 1: of Democrats, and then leaving and starting at the Hill

1782
01:44:10,520 --> 01:44:15,080
Speaker 1: with this new Hill TV venture. The one constant that

1783
01:44:15,120 --> 01:44:18,479
Speaker 1: has always kept me getting up every day, staying up

1784
01:44:18,560 --> 01:44:21,720
Speaker 1: late at night, reading as much as I can, doing

1785
01:44:21,720 --> 01:44:24,320
Speaker 1: as much research as I can, and just giving it

1786
01:44:24,439 --> 01:44:27,240
Speaker 1: my all are all of you, the people who listen

1787
01:44:27,640 --> 01:44:33,519
Speaker 1: to this show. I have a tremendous gratitude, respect, and

1788
01:44:33,560 --> 01:44:36,960
Speaker 1: affection for all of you, who might refer to as

1789
01:44:37,400 --> 01:44:40,120
Speaker 1: Team Buck. Although you're just the team, you're the people

1790
01:44:40,160 --> 01:44:42,400
Speaker 1: that listen to the show and that give me a

1791
01:44:42,439 --> 01:44:45,280
Speaker 1: reason for doing the show. And I've learned a lot

1792
01:44:45,320 --> 01:44:48,120
Speaker 1: from all of you over the years. You have been

1793
01:44:48,160 --> 01:44:53,599
Speaker 1: there to support me during some really incredibly difficult, challenging

1794
01:44:53,640 --> 01:44:58,320
Speaker 1: professional and personal times, and it's just such a privilege, honestly,

1795
01:44:58,320 --> 01:44:59,760
Speaker 1: every day to get to talk to all of you,

1796
01:45:00,280 --> 01:45:02,840
Speaker 1: and I do cherish it each day. I will say

1797
01:45:02,840 --> 01:45:05,200
Speaker 1: the one thing that I always look forward to is

1798
01:45:05,280 --> 01:45:08,280
Speaker 1: doing this radio show and getting to speak to all

1799
01:45:08,320 --> 01:45:11,000
Speaker 1: of you across the country, those of you who listen

1800
01:45:11,160 --> 01:45:14,440
Speaker 1: on your local station or those who listen on podcast.

1801
01:45:15,320 --> 01:45:18,960
Speaker 1: It really is an incredible gift to have this platform

1802
01:45:19,120 --> 01:45:24,360
Speaker 1: and to share thoughts and this experience of this ongoing

1803
01:45:24,400 --> 01:45:30,280
Speaker 1: intellectual and honestly spiritual exchange that goes on with this

1804
01:45:30,400 --> 01:45:33,880
Speaker 1: radio show on a day to day basis, And it

1805
01:45:34,040 --> 01:45:36,639
Speaker 1: is something that you know, and as my parents hear

1806
01:45:36,720 --> 01:45:38,479
Speaker 1: me talk about this, I know my mom gets a

1807
01:45:38,520 --> 01:45:41,759
Speaker 1: little gets a little misty eyed sometimes. But it's pretty

1808
01:45:41,800 --> 01:45:45,920
Speaker 1: astonishing that a kid who had a speech impediment when

1809
01:45:45,960 --> 01:45:50,439
Speaker 1: he was in the first, second third grade had to

1810
01:45:50,479 --> 01:45:53,880
Speaker 1: get special tutoring because he wasn't doing well in school,

1811
01:45:54,280 --> 01:45:57,080
Speaker 1: had to have a special speech therapist to teach him

1812
01:45:57,120 --> 01:45:59,280
Speaker 1: how to sound like other people around him and not

1813
01:45:59,680 --> 01:46:03,240
Speaker 1: per anounced words incorrectly and even pronounce his own name,

1814
01:46:03,360 --> 01:46:06,280
Speaker 1: believe it or not, incorrectly. That you would fast forward

1815
01:46:06,360 --> 01:46:08,760
Speaker 1: two years later when I'd be able to address you

1816
01:46:08,960 --> 01:46:12,200
Speaker 1: here on this platform. Almost one hundred and thirty radio

1817
01:46:12,240 --> 01:46:14,759
Speaker 1: stations now across the country, I believe carrying this show,

1818
01:46:15,560 --> 01:46:19,000
Speaker 1: but also having been able to sit at the Golden

1819
01:46:19,040 --> 01:46:23,880
Speaker 1: Mic for Rush Limball and do Sean Hannity's massively successful

1820
01:46:23,960 --> 01:46:27,240
Speaker 1: radio show and Glenn Beck's radio phenomenon, to have sat

1821
01:46:27,280 --> 01:46:30,200
Speaker 1: at the Helm on those different of those different ships

1822
01:46:30,360 --> 01:46:35,040
Speaker 1: and had those experiences, it's been. It's been a pretty incredible,

1823
01:46:35,360 --> 01:46:39,040
Speaker 1: pretty incredible ride. And this this year on my birthday,

1824
01:46:39,080 --> 01:46:44,080
Speaker 1: the thing I will be most happy about when I

1825
01:46:44,120 --> 01:46:47,600
Speaker 1: reflect back, other than my health and my family and

1826
01:46:48,640 --> 01:46:50,439
Speaker 1: and you know, the love that I have in my life,

1827
01:46:50,680 --> 01:46:53,320
Speaker 1: the thing that I am most proud of in my

1828
01:46:53,520 --> 01:46:57,679
Speaker 1: professional career in media, the one area where I always

1829
01:46:57,680 --> 01:47:01,000
Speaker 1: feel like every bit of effort is it and everything

1830
01:47:01,000 --> 01:47:06,759
Speaker 1: that I can do to bring entertainment and information and

1831
01:47:06,880 --> 01:47:10,400
Speaker 1: just connection with like minded people across the country to

1832
01:47:10,560 --> 01:47:13,720
Speaker 1: this show is worth it. So thank you all so

1833
01:47:13,840 --> 01:47:17,040
Speaker 1: much for that. I'm excited for twenty nineteen. I have

1834
01:47:17,080 --> 01:47:20,639
Speaker 1: all kinds of plans in the works. There so many

1835
01:47:20,680 --> 01:47:22,360
Speaker 1: things I can't even get into them right now. I

1836
01:47:22,360 --> 01:47:25,559
Speaker 1: also don't want to overpromise and get ahead of myself

1837
01:47:25,600 --> 01:47:27,160
Speaker 1: with things that are going to take a little more

1838
01:47:27,160 --> 01:47:29,040
Speaker 1: time than I'd like them to but we have a

1839
01:47:29,080 --> 01:47:31,320
Speaker 1: lot going on. If you get a chance over the

1840
01:47:31,320 --> 01:47:33,600
Speaker 1: holiday to talk to people about shows they listen to,

1841
01:47:33,840 --> 01:47:35,960
Speaker 1: you know, I always always appreciate it if you can

1842
01:47:35,960 --> 01:47:39,120
Speaker 1: tell them to try downloading the Buck Sexton Show. That's

1843
01:47:39,160 --> 01:47:40,920
Speaker 1: all I want for my birthday from all of you,

1844
01:47:41,080 --> 01:47:43,479
Speaker 1: is to get one person who has not heard this

1845
01:47:43,479 --> 01:47:47,560
Speaker 1: show before to listen to The Buck Sexton Show on podcast.

1846
01:47:47,720 --> 01:47:51,439
Speaker 1: That is my Birthday request and my Christmas request. You

1847
01:47:51,479 --> 01:47:53,240
Speaker 1: all mean a lot to me. I appreciate all the

1848
01:47:53,280 --> 01:47:57,000
Speaker 1: support and I want you to have a fantastic holiday.

1849
01:47:57,000 --> 01:48:00,639
Speaker 1: I'll be back with you in the new year. Shield

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01:48:00,640 --> 01:48:00,920
Speaker 1: tie