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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to bok a f Daily

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Speaker 1: with Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Brooklyn Bunker.

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Speaker 1: You know, folks, so much is going on already and

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Speaker 1: it's just Tuesday, so let's get right to it. First

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Speaker 1: of all, what the fuck do you think is wrong

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Speaker 1: with the one six House Commission? Seriously, Like all the

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Speaker 1: news reports coming out right now have Liz Cheney, right,

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Speaker 1: who is the vice chair Republican Vice chair of the

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Speaker 1: one six House Committee, saying in no uncertain terms that

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Speaker 1: it is evident that Donald Trump committed crimes at the

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Speaker 1: federal level, right, that there were crimes that were committed,

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Speaker 1: that everyone around him knew that he lost the election,

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Speaker 1: but we're still actively trying to ensure that he would

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Speaker 1: stay in power. They know this, and as she said,

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Speaker 1: no uncertain terms, but there is tepidness about referring writing

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Speaker 1: a letter on behalf of the committee to the Department

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Speaker 1: of Justice because of what exactly. So let me give

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Speaker 1: you some of the bullshit reasons that are coming out

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Speaker 1: from the House Commission. So here's one of them. Oh,

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Speaker 1: we don't want to rush Merrit Garland because by virtue

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Speaker 1: of the House Committee recommending right that the Department of

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Speaker 1: Justice prosecute or begin investigation or prosecution or whatever of

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump for all of the wrongdoing that they've been

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Speaker 1: able to unearth after a year of investigation or however

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Speaker 1: long they've been doing. It's definitely been longer than we've

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Speaker 1: known that the Department of Justice hasn't been moving. And

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Speaker 1: let me get this straight. So, Congress, these group of

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Speaker 1: select members that have organized over five hundred plus interviews,

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Speaker 1: who have organized getting I don't know how many different documents,

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Speaker 1: including those that were illegally removed by Donald Trump, that

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Speaker 1: sat at Mara Lago probably next to the buffet for

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Speaker 1: the last year or so. And now you're pretty much

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Speaker 1: reaching your conclusion and you're not even done. You still

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Speaker 1: want to potentially interview Jinny Thomas, who we know was

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Speaker 1: actively on the phone with Mark Meadows. How do we

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Speaker 1: know that, oh, well, thank goodness, has been was the

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Speaker 1: lone dissenter and the decision to open up Trump's phone

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Speaker 1: records and those of the folks in the administration so

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Speaker 1: that we know exactly who Jennie was on the phone

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Speaker 1: with Sharon her Q and on theories. So you have

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Speaker 1: all of this information and now you are at the

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Speaker 1: finish line and Democrats, instead of running through the tape,

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Speaker 1: are there and they're like, I know it's been a

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Speaker 1: marathon and this is mild twenty six, but maybe we

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Speaker 1: just don't go the point too right, Maybe we just

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Speaker 1: don't finish. And here's the thing. A marathon, it's twenty

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Speaker 1: six point two miles, right, So stopping at mile twenty

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Speaker 1: six means that you are not in fact a marathoner.

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Speaker 1: Why the fuck would you go through a long, arduous, painful,

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Speaker 1: fucking race to get this information about Donald Trump, about

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Speaker 1: his associates, about getting to the core of who was

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Speaker 1: involved in the insurrection, who were the architects, who were

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Speaker 1: the donors? That you get all the way here, and

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Speaker 1: then you say, nah, we don't want to rush Mary Garland.

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Speaker 1: Merrick Garland is moving at a sloth's fucking pace. I

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Speaker 1: don't think that there is there an animal slower than

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Speaker 1: the sloth. Whatever animal is slower than the sloth is

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Speaker 1: the pace at which Merrick Garland's Department of Justice is

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Speaker 1: moving now. And again here's the other thing, so so

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Speaker 1: second bullshit comments that are being made with regard to

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Speaker 1: there being a split on what to do inside this

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Speaker 1: Select House Commission. The other one is we don't want

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Speaker 1: to seem as if we're playing politics. Bitch, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: what fucking game do you think that we are in

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Speaker 1: right now? What do you think that Donald Trump was

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Speaker 1: doing when he was trying to get his vice president

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Speaker 1: to decertify the fucking twenty twenty election. Do you think

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Speaker 1: he was playing what? Exactly? Tag? Republicans only know how

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Speaker 1: to play one game, and that is politics. You know what,

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Speaker 1: the American people give a fuck about somebody that seems

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Speaker 1: like they are fighting for them, So you can't get

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Speaker 1: on television, get on all these fucking radio shows for

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Speaker 1: their last year plus following the insurrection, and tell people

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Speaker 1: that no one is above the law, including the president

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Speaker 1: of the United States, and then get to a place

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Speaker 1: where the people finally get to see what we have

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Speaker 1: you don't want to seem like you're playing politics. Like,

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Speaker 1: is Congress a different game? Right? Is the White House

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Speaker 1: is politics to play. We have a fucking election coming,

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Speaker 1: and while Joe Biden and the Biden administration has done

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Speaker 1: a good amount of work to add more jobs, right

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Speaker 1: What everybody is talking about, however, is the indecision around

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Speaker 1: So there's not a lot. There's not a lot for

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Speaker 1: folks to be running on here to say that Democrats

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Speaker 1: have answered the call of the American voter. But there

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Speaker 1: is one thing that we can all agree that everyone

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Speaker 1: who voted for Joe Biden wanted, and that was what

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Speaker 1: is that word? Oh, I'm at a loss for it. Democracy.

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Speaker 1: We wanted democracy to continue. We don't want to live

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Speaker 1: in fucking Hungary, we don't want to live in Turkey.

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Speaker 1: We want to live in the United States of America,

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Speaker 1: the birthplace of democracy, so that the people can feel

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Speaker 1: safe and secure that, regardless of some of the bullshit

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Speaker 1: politicians that seem to inhabit our Congress, that their voices

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Speaker 1: would still matter, that their votes would still matter, and

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Speaker 1: that when we all see criminal activity right with our

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Speaker 1: confident that that criminal activity is it's going to be

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Speaker 1: taken care of, right, that we're not the only ones

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Speaker 1: that will get caught up, right, that those that are powerful,

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Speaker 1: if you don't utilize this opportunity to stamp out American fascism,

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Speaker 1: which was born out of Trumpism, then what the fuck

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Speaker 1: are you doing? And it is this kind of well,

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Speaker 1: I don't even know it is it uncertainty. I don't

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Speaker 1: even know what to refer to it as we don't

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Speaker 1: want to seem like we're playing politics, bitch. The Republican

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Speaker 1: Party is at war. They have been at war with America,

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Speaker 1: with our norms, with our values, with our morals since

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Speaker 1: the Obama years, but damn sure over the last four

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Speaker 1: know all of that to be true, and people came

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Speaker 1: that motherfucker wouldn't have a second term, but you are

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Speaker 1: down with indictments because you're afraid of what it will

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Speaker 1: I don't know how the actions that are being taken,

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Speaker 1: Merrit Garland, who's been asleep at the fucking wheel for

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Speaker 1: the last year and a half. Give me a break.

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Speaker 1: It's this type of shit. It's this type of shit

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Speaker 1: which is this, we're not going to become Republicans. I

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Speaker 1: and then there is no viable third fucking party. But

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Speaker 1: what is happening right now is that you are making

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Speaker 1: people who are progressive and actually believe in moving this

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Speaker 1: You know what frustrates me is that the democratic establishment

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Speaker 1: and this is a Republican beast that they know. This

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Speaker 1: motherfucker has been a transformer for quite some time. They've

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Speaker 1: They are no longer there are no longer reasonable, right

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Speaker 1: I use quotation marks. They are no longer the reasonable

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Speaker 1: Republicans to go to pour your scotch, smoke a cigar,

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Speaker 1: Those days are gone, and they've been gone for almost

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Speaker 1: two decades now. So how is it that we have

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Speaker 1: we are no, I mean I so let me tell

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Speaker 1: were we were excited about history, but we're all deeply

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Speaker 1: That's what Republicans think. This is not democrats. This is

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Speaker 1: what is it that we think that the members are doing? Well,

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Speaker 1: they're fucking showing us right. They showed us during the

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Speaker 1: Brown Jackson hearing where they're at, right, They show us

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Speaker 1: every day what it is that they think about Democrats,

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Speaker 1: and by the people, how do you do that without negotiation? Well,

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Speaker 1: that's what you do when you don't want to advance

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Speaker 1: anything to offer up the American people. They're not trying

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Speaker 1: to make water cleaner, air fresher, right, They're not trying

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Speaker 1: modern times. Four and a half million people have gone

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Speaker 1: to bordering countries and beyond. These people have left behind everything,

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Speaker 1: They've only taken what they could carry. So imagine you

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Speaker 1: in your home right now listening to this, because I

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Speaker 1: want the reminder to really sink in, what are you taking?

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Speaker 1: What are you packing up? Never to see your pictures

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Speaker 1: and your furniture and your plants and your animals again,

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Speaker 1: never to see your home country again. You hope that

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Speaker 1: at some point you'll be able to go back, But folks,

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Speaker 1: you're seeing the images of once thriving, vibrant cities and townships.

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Speaker 1: They are completely and utterly destroyed. So even if war,

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Speaker 1: even if the fighting were to end tomorrow, those four

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Speaker 1: because it's been utterly destroyed. Wrapping my mind around this

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Speaker 1: on a daily basis is it's really hard to watch,

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Speaker 1: you know, it really is. It's really difficult to take in.

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Speaker 1: And you know, there are times when I'm watching like

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Speaker 1: the news cameras zoom in on crying grandmothers and grandfathers

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Speaker 1: and people who have just learned that their loved ones

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Speaker 1: that they thought were hiding, you know, are now dead.

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Speaker 1: And I see the camera's pan in to get the

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Speaker 1: most emotion, and part of me is just like, God,

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Speaker 1: this is disgusting and exploitative. And then the other part

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Speaker 1: of me is like, the only way that we're going

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Speaker 1: to get these countries to act, including our owns, outside

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Speaker 1: of sanctions, because I think that Putin is playing for keeps.

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Speaker 1: I've said that since the beginning. This isn't just about Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: It's the beginning. He wants the USSR back, and these

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Speaker 1: sanctions that are being placed while they are, you know,

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Speaker 1: threatening to really upend the Russian economy. You think that

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Speaker 1: this motherfucker hasn't hid money in other places. Do you

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Speaker 1: think that the maneuvers that he's making right now to

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Speaker 1: hold oil and gas in Russia hostage for the rest

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Speaker 1: like be on the verge of prices that they have

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Speaker 1: never seen and causing their economies to constrict. Like, I

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Speaker 1: think that we're underestimating the long game that is being

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Speaker 1: of who putin just put in charge of his fucking army.

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Speaker 1: So this is a report. According to NBC News, Russia's

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Speaker 1: reported appointment of General Alexander Ronikoff to take over operations

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Speaker 1: in Ukraine marks what some military analysts see as an

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Speaker 1: indication that the war could be set to enter a

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Speaker 1: brutal new phase, as Moscow ready's a major offensive in

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Speaker 1: its neighbors east. Let me say this again, this man,

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Speaker 1: according to active generals and former generals in the United States, Varnikoff.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know if it's Devarnikov, because I don't

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Speaker 1: know if the d is silent, So I will listen

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Speaker 1: out for that when I hear his name again. They

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Speaker 1: refer to this man as the butcher of Syria. I

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Speaker 1: don't think that when you decide to appoint a man

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Speaker 1: that is known for butchering civilians, that that means that

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Speaker 1: the war is coming to an end. I think that

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Speaker 1: it means exactly what NBC News reported. They're going all

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Speaker 1: in on rape, on torture, on chemical weapons, on creating

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Speaker 1: as much mayhem and despair as they possibly can putin

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Speaker 1: there is he is not saying to himself, you know,

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Speaker 1: as this fucking quote unquote strong man, right, And everybody

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Speaker 1: and every reporting of people who have studied Putin all

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Speaker 1: these years have said he only responds to strength, that

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Speaker 1: is it him. Retreating from this war would be Putin's

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Speaker 1: worst fucking nightmare, which is on the global stage to

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Speaker 1: look like a lose and to look weak. So I

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Speaker 1: think that this man would rather lose everything, do you

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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying then to admit defeat. I think

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Speaker 1: that he will push this to its brink. I think

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Speaker 1: that he will push it to the fucking button on

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Speaker 1: the nuclear warhead. That's what I believe. And I think

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Speaker 1: that all of these calculated economic responses are just slow

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Speaker 1: walking the inevitable, which is that everybody's going to war.

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Speaker 1: Because the only way that this ends is exactly what

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Speaker 1: Biden said and was admonished for several weeks ago, is

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Speaker 1: if this motherfucker is removed, and he ain't going to

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Speaker 1: be removed by a quote unquote election, that's for fucking sure.

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Speaker 1: So he just hired the butcher who was known in

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Speaker 1: Syria to target civilians. That's what Putin is doing. There's

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Speaker 1: no oh military operation at play to take over military

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Speaker 1: bases and nuclear sites. No, he is bombing train stations

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Speaker 1: and fucking apartment buildings and schools and hospitals and movie

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Speaker 1: theaters and museums. He is bombing where people are, and

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Speaker 1: if he can't control Ukraine, he's going to make sure

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Speaker 1: that the only thing that has left of it is

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Speaker 1: a crater in the fucking ground. So how do you

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Speaker 1: respond to that? That's the question on the table, not

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Speaker 1: only for the Biden administration but for the world. That

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Speaker 1: is it for me today, dear friends, here on woke

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Speaker 1: f as always, Power to the people and to all

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Speaker 1: the people. Power, Get woke and stay woke as fuck.