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Speaker 1: From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington

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Speaker 1: Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Show, Jetty Armstrong and Jetty Show.

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Speaker 1: They became incredibly violent, and that's when that surge that

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Speaker 1: you watched in some of the video began, and you

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Speaker 1: or had they accomplished that, they would have trampled us

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Speaker 1: to death. Most certainly you would have had police officers killed.

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Speaker 1: I think you run that experiment a thousand times what

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Speaker 1: happened that day, and you get uh as few dead

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Speaker 1: people as we ended up with that one time. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think it was just a matter of luck and

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Speaker 1: amazement and then that that that more people didn't die

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Speaker 1: as often for known just said there. If they had

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Speaker 1: broken through, they would have trampled them. They certainly would

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Speaker 1: have beaten anybody to death they could have. And I

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Speaker 1: killed some politicians. I really believe that that would have happened. Uh,

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Speaker 1: just stunning. Deborah J. Saunders been a friend of the

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Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty Show for a long time. She's a

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Speaker 1: fellow at the Discovery Center Chapman Center for Citizen Leadership,

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Speaker 1: and she is now She's also a columnist with Creators Syndicate,

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Speaker 1: but she's now on Substack. That's where all the best

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Speaker 1: writers are. You can just search for Deborah J. Sanders

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Speaker 1: if you want to Saunders, if you want to find

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Speaker 1: her on substack. The the you out of her name there,

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Speaker 1: there you go, thank you, thank you handsOn. What was

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Speaker 1: that he changed your name? You have a different spelling

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Speaker 1: there than you have there. I mean, that's crazy. Debor

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Speaker 1: Saunders joined us down on the Armstrong and Getty Show. Hey,

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Speaker 1: how's it going? Fine? Fine, I'm changing the spelling of

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Speaker 1: my name to substack. Substack is where all the best

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Speaker 1: people are. So I'm glad the seat that you're on there.

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Speaker 1: It's a great place to go because you can you can.

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Speaker 1: I love writing my column I'm but it's once a week.

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Speaker 1: It's I have to sort of it's bigger thoughts that

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Speaker 1: you can just jump on sub stack, which is really fun.

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Speaker 1: I like that so so well, just I totally agree

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Speaker 1: with everything you've been saying all morning. Okay, so you

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Speaker 1: heard us earlier. Um yeah, the so the day it

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Speaker 1: happened was just I was just beside myself. I just

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Speaker 1: the way the human mind works, it kind of trailed

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Speaker 1: off in my memory of how awful it was kind

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Speaker 1: of went away. Then, you know, then you see videos again,

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Speaker 1: you think, oh, yeah, that's right. People were trying to

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Speaker 1: beat police to death with US flagpoles. And then the

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Speaker 1: New York Times put together I don't know if you

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Speaker 1: saw that thing that they put together a week or

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Speaker 1: into one hell of a montage that was like being

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Speaker 1: And then seeing it again yesterday, you reminded it's just

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Speaker 1: just how awful that whole thing was. So here's here's

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Speaker 1: my my current sense for Trump and Pelosi. I think

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Speaker 1: I think Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi for completely different reasons.

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Speaker 1: We're okay with things getting a little out of hand,

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Speaker 1: and they thought a little out of hand was going

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Speaker 1: That they didn't think it would be like this. You know,

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Speaker 1: Jim Jordan's who was Kevin McCarthy's pick to be on

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Speaker 1: what he's saying is that Pelosi should have known that

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump should have known was going to happen, right,

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Speaker 1: You should have done something to stop it, because you

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Speaker 1: They're good people, and you can see from the testimony

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Speaker 1: They can't believe that their fellow citizens did this to them. Well,

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Speaker 1: And if these people had succeeded, they would have, um

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Speaker 1: But obviously there are people who are prepared, who showed

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Speaker 1: the peaceful protesters end up becoming enablers for the violence

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Speaker 1: It's just very unhealthy. Yeah. Well, appreciate the conversation with

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Speaker 1: Deborah J. Saunders on substack. Substack, that's a good place

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thanks Jack, you bet that's Deborah J. Saunders

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Speaker 1: S A U N D E R S. Look Forward

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Speaker 1: on substack