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Speaker 1: Welcome to the buck Sexton Show. Everybody, Look, it's been

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Speaker 1: has to happen for Republicans to wake up. But we

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Speaker 1: are in a a state of lawfare with the left,

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Speaker 1: but only one side is really fighting. They use the

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Speaker 1: law as a weapon against us, and we get to

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Speaker 1: have other conservatives lecture us about how we don't want

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Speaker 1: to we don't want to hurt the rule of law

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Speaker 1: and fight fire with fire. Well, okay, so that just

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Speaker 1: means our side takes the casualties. It turns out the

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Speaker 1: Congress is not entirely worthless. I guess they managed to

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Speaker 1: in the Senate at least pass a bill. Oh look

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Speaker 1: at this, Oh my, what a shock. Eighty seven to

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Speaker 1: twelve overwhelmingly passed this criminal Justice reform bill today, And

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Speaker 1: in a Senate it's got to go to the House,

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Speaker 1: but it's expected to easily get through the House, and

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Speaker 1: people are all saying that, you know, it should make

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Speaker 1: it to the President's desk this week for signature, and

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Speaker 1: they're also excited about out this And look, I'm I

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Speaker 1: am very sympathetic to look taking a hard look at

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Speaker 1: the criminal justice system and essentially making sure that we're

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Speaker 1: not sending people away for longer than they should go that,

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean, prison conditions shouldn't be I will

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Speaker 1: say one thing that I always I thought that Obama

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Speaker 1: was I'm gonna say that I thought Obama was spot on.

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Speaker 1: I did not. I did not think that it was funny. Ever,

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Speaker 1: you hear all these jokes in Obama, to his credit,

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Speaker 1: and some things Obama did were good, let's not all.

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Speaker 1: Let's not say it. Everything Obama did was bad, all right,

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Speaker 1: it's not true. To his credit, he said that people

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Speaker 1: in the pop culture, you know, hip hop artists and

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Speaker 1: comedians and others, shouldn't make jokes about getting raped in prison.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing funny about a man raping another man in prison.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing to be joked about that. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: it's horrific. Uh, it's it's just, you know, it's the

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Speaker 1: it's really the word first imaginable conduct. And there used

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Speaker 1: to be this acceptance in the pop culture at some

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Speaker 1: level of like, well that just happens, Like no, that

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Speaker 1: should not happen at all. Um. Sexual violence is never

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Speaker 1: okay against anyone ever, and you know, that was just

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Speaker 1: indicative though of how, you know, prison conditions that should

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Speaker 1: not be occurring in a in a civilized, rule of

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Speaker 1: law society. You should not be in car shoot and

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Speaker 1: have to worry about getting getting raped, for example. So

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Speaker 1: there were clearly areas of criminal justice that that need

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Speaker 1: more attention. And those who were saying, oh, buck and

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Speaker 1: I get conservatives like to be a little bit uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, we tend to say lock them up, you know,

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Speaker 1: throw away the key. Okay, what about non violent offenders?

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Speaker 1: He talked to Bernie Carrick, who went to prison for

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Speaker 1: I think four years for for more or less taking

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Speaker 1: some improvements on his home that he didn't report. You know,

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Speaker 1: I went to prison four years for that, and he

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Speaker 1: was in you know, he was in a federal prison

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Speaker 1: with people that have done really bad stuff. He's not

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Speaker 1: a bad guy. I actually like I like Bernie care.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's been a really strong voice for everyone

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Speaker 1: needs to think long and hard about how long we

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Speaker 1: send people away and what we're sending them away for.

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Speaker 1: You know, we need to stop this idea that just

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Speaker 1: because you get sent to prison, lee your humanity no

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Speaker 1: longer counts. You know. Yeah, the different a different feeling

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Speaker 1: about murders and molesters and uh and rapists, but a

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Speaker 1: lot of people in prison for not that stuff. So

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Speaker 1: they gotta remember that. The stuff that this this bill

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Speaker 1: does the first step back. I spoke to members of

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Speaker 1: Congress about this. It gets people out a little sooner

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Speaker 1: for good behavior. It changes some of the three strikes

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Speaker 1: three strikes situations so that you're no longer getting life.

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Speaker 1: You'll get twenty five years is a maximum for three strikes.

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Speaker 1: Twenty six hundred prisoners sentenced for crack cocaine, we'll get

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Speaker 1: a reduced palty. There's a whole bunch of things that

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Speaker 1: it does, and it's essentially trying to lessen some of

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Speaker 1: the punishments, even out some of what has been done

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Speaker 1: it and I think by and large it's probably it's

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Speaker 1: it's good. I mean, I think this makes sense. There

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Speaker 1: are concerns that people will be getting out earlier who

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Speaker 1: are bad people, and I understand that, and that's you know,

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Speaker 1: we do have a very high rate of incarceration in

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Speaker 1: this country. We also have a plummeting rate of violence.

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Speaker 1: Although I am a little bit against the conservative orthodoxy

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Speaker 1: here and that I think that technology has played the

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Speaker 1: single largest role in the crime drop that we have,

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Speaker 1: and I can't point to any study that tells you that,

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Speaker 1: but just think it. Through the proliferation of cell phones,

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Speaker 1: video cameras, and instantaneous communications has changed crime in a lot,

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Speaker 1: and also the ability to use digital footprint and to

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Speaker 1: track people through electronic meaning. It's just it's it's harder

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Speaker 1: to get away with certain things, and the communication with

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Speaker 1: law enforcement is a lot faster and a lot more efficient.

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Speaker 1: So I think that's been driving a lot of this.

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Speaker 1: You look at the crime drop really has coincided with

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Speaker 1: the proliferation of cell phones. Think about it. Crime in

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Speaker 1: the US, Yeah, I was going out for a while,

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Speaker 1: but the nineties I got really bad in New York

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Speaker 1: and you know, nationwide, you see as technology gets better,

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Speaker 1: crime is going down. I know, it's just a theory

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Speaker 1: that I have. People may disagree with the honor, They

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Speaker 1: got a lot of other things I'll say, But but

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Speaker 1: here's the other part of this that that I can't

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Speaker 1: help but focus on for a moment. The Congress is

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Speaker 1: about to pass and Trump's about to sign a criminal

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Speaker 1: justice reform bill. All right, fine, why is this? You know?

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Speaker 1: Is this the only thing that the Congress is really

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Speaker 1: able to do. Are we supposed to accept that unless

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Speaker 1: you have a supermajority now you can't get as a conservative,

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Speaker 1: you can't get anything done. It really does feel like,

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Speaker 1: you know, heads they win, tails we lose, and really

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Speaker 1: feels like at at a time when we've been told

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Speaker 1: that we can't expect there to actually be a wall,

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Speaker 1: that it's not going to happen, it's not going to

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Speaker 1: come through. Um, well, all right, but what about what

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Speaker 1: about the fact that there should at least be an

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Speaker 1: effort to do it right? Why? Why are we not

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Speaker 1: even having this fight? Oh but you got tax reform

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Speaker 1: and you've got criminal justice reform. That's not what MAGA

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Speaker 1: was all about. That's not what the twenty sixteen election

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Speaker 1: was supposed to bring us. And I'm sorry, but my

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Speaker 1: feelings on the Criminal Justice Reform bill are a little

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Speaker 1: more muted than they would otherwise be because I get

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Speaker 1: the sense that we're supposed to take this and and

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Speaker 1: be so, you know, thankful for the Republican action here,

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Speaker 1: but this isn't something you know, any administration could have

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Speaker 1: done this, any of it was already moving this direction

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Speaker 1: to Rand Paul and others and Mike Lee. They've been

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Speaker 1: pushing for this for years, for years. It's a little

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Speaker 1: surprising that Obama actually didn't push for this, But I

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Speaker 1: think Obama when it came to policy, was disappointing in

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Speaker 1: many ways, even to his base, even to the left.

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Speaker 1: The First Step Act is just what it says. It's

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Speaker 1: moving in the right direction for a more look to say,

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Speaker 1: what is a more fair criminal justice system. There's a

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Speaker 1: lot of talk now also about how there needs to

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Speaker 1: be more done about sentencing and about you know, how

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Speaker 1: long you know about mandatory sentencingment right now, if you're

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Speaker 1: you know, if you go to trial and you're convicted

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Speaker 1: of federal crime, you serve the full sentence. So they're

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Speaker 1: going to try to change that. And really, state prison

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Speaker 1: is where a vast majority of the prison population resides.

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Speaker 1: Federal prison is a pretty small percentage overall. So this

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Speaker 1: doesn't this doesn't tackle what they call the mass incarceration problem,

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Speaker 1: and it also doesn't watch at all upon the most

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Speaker 1: serious federal crime. So just remember that there's no you know,

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Speaker 1: you can't be a you know, a human trafficker or

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Speaker 1: a terrorist and be covered by some of these lesser

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Speaker 1: punishments some of the changes in the First Step Act.

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Speaker 1: But it's just hard for me to get that excited

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Speaker 1: about this the same week that we're told basically there's

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Speaker 1: not going to be a wall. We're supposed to see

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Speaker 1: this and say, oh, look how great this is. We

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Speaker 1: are we are heading into some rough seas in twenty

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Speaker 1: nineteen with this administration, and you know they're going to

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Speaker 1: have to do more than just take it on the chin.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna have to find a way to fight back

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Speaker 1: effectively against the Democrat on slot that's coming. And the

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Speaker 1: First Step Acts as not going to cut it. And

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Speaker 1: soon the House will become the care of a new majority,

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Speaker 1: and what I know will be a spirited Republican minority.

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Speaker 1: I wish the next leads well, but it is. It

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Speaker 1: is precisely because this is so momentary. It's because you

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Speaker 1: are here for just a small part of history that

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Speaker 1: you are inspired to do big things. And on this score,

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Speaker 1: we have achieved a great deal. We have much to

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Speaker 1: be proud of. Three years ago, when we last gathered

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Speaker 1: in this hall, we began a great journey to set

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Speaker 1: our nation on a better path, to move our economy

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Speaker 1: from stagnation to growth to restore our military might, and

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Speaker 1: we have kept our promises. This House is the most

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Speaker 1: productive we have had in at least a generation. Today

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Speaker 1: we have passed one and seventy five bills, more than

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Speaker 1: half of them with bipartisan support. Wow. Paul Ryan outgoing,

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Speaker 1: outgoing Speaker of the House and the most productive in

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Speaker 1: our generation. He's like, we passed a lot of stuff. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like what exactly what that we should care about? Definitely

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Speaker 1: didn't get funding for a wall. Where is the the

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Speaker 1: MAGA agenda right now? Make America great again, as you know,

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00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 1: is the rallying cry of all those who support Trump

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Speaker 1: and early Trump supporter and one who I'm very much

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Speaker 1: curious to hear his take on what's going on right

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Speaker 1: now at the movement is our friend Raheem Kassam, who

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Speaker 1: will also hear filling in on the show next week.

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Speaker 1: He's the author of No Go Zones and has a

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Speaker 1: piece out of the Daily Caller dot com today about

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Speaker 1: sut Us, which we will get to as well. Raheem,

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Speaker 1: good to have you back, any thanks for having me

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Speaker 1: about Hey man, what do you think about what's going

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Speaker 1: on here? Trump is now saying, yeah, it looks like

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Speaker 1: maybe we won't have a shutdown. After all, We're going

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Speaker 1: to come up with some kind of a deal in agreement.

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Speaker 1: I'm concerned. Yeah, it's not great. Um, you know, there's

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Speaker 1: there's no doubt to the early MAGA adopts such as myself,

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Speaker 1: the MAGA agenda is on the ropes at the moment.

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Speaker 1: I don't think anybody should be trying to fool themselves

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Speaker 1: that there's some cunning for d chess plan going on here.

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Speaker 1: You know, with the Muller investigation and with the loss

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Speaker 1: of the midterms. You know, although it wasn't the Blue

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Speaker 1: wave per se, this is the hardest point of the

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Speaker 1: administration so far. And instead of I see a lot

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Speaker 1: of people sort of hungering down and saying, oh, we

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Speaker 1: don't need to worry about this. The President's got it

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Speaker 1: all in hand. I think what we should be doing,

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Speaker 1: what people should be doing out there is doubling down,

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Speaker 1: just as the Establishment is now currently doubling down in

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Speaker 1: order to take the fight to them, not just at

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Speaker 1: the next election, but in right in the new year.

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Speaker 1: You know, twenty nineteen is going to be the Establishments

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Speaker 1: year of retribution. We're seeing all of the things, whether

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Speaker 1: it's the Trump Foundation and the indictments and what's going

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Speaker 1: on with General Flynn right now, and the No Board

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Speaker 1: of Wall funding was seeing all of them coming together

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Speaker 1: at the same time, and that's planned. It's not a coincidence.

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Speaker 1: It's not something that's just sort of happened because it's

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Speaker 1: been a couple of years and these things take a

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Speaker 1: couple of years. They have always had this plan. And

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Speaker 1: it's the same thing across the Atlantic as well, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Brexit movement being thwarted at its current juncture. The

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Speaker 1: establishment always moves in step with one another with itself.

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Speaker 1: You know, they plan together much more than our side

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Speaker 1: plans together. They have all of their international conferences, they

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Speaker 1: exchange information, they're in constant touch. So it is it

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Speaker 1: is a cause for concern. It should be a cause

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Speaker 1: for people's concerns, and it should be a cause for

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Speaker 1: people to actually go out their lobby, their congressman and

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Speaker 1: mean I remember when Paul Ryan was held up as

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Speaker 1: a darling of the Tea Party movement. By the way,

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Speaker 1: it's not about the number of bills passed, as you

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Speaker 1: rightly pointed out, Buck, It's about what has actually got done. Now,

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Speaker 1: there is one area in which this administration is still winning,

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Speaker 1: and that in judicial appointments, whether it's on the Supreme

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Speaker 1: Court or in federal judges. It has something to be

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Speaker 1: very proud of there that there are institutional changes taking

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Speaker 1: place across the court system. And one might argue, in fact,

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Speaker 1: I've heard many people argue, there is perhaps the most

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Speaker 1: important part of this president's legacy so far, and may

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Speaker 1: well be his best legacy going forward into the future.

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Speaker 1: But people wanted that wall belt, you know, they didn't

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Speaker 1: want what did he tweet the other day an artistically

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Speaker 1: designed steel slat wall. They wanted a big, solid, brick

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Speaker 1: and concrete wall. People are realistic, they knew it wasn't

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Speaker 1: going to happen across the entire border, but there are

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Speaker 1: segments that they do know need that, and this president,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think should have and I think the

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Speaker 1: impetus amongst his base at least was there to shut

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Speaker 1: down the government over this and really take the fight

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Speaker 1: to the Democrats over it. But the answer to why

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Speaker 1: that's not happening is because the administration it doesn't have

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Speaker 1: a lot of people. It's it's got fewer people on

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Speaker 1: the front lines than for instance, the Obama administration or

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Speaker 1: the Push administration did, and they're all overwhelmed over this

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Speaker 1: Christmas season. I've got to spend a lot of time

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Speaker 1: with them that Christmas parties here in Washington be seen

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Speaker 1: and the prevailing consentatus where we can only do so much.

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Speaker 1: There are only so many of us, and they're not

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Speaker 1: getting massive institutional support from the legacy Republican think tanks

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Speaker 1: or the RNC or a lot of these sort of Trumpers,

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Speaker 1: or the November ninth brigade of people who just jumped

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Speaker 1: on the administration after the election. So that was the

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Speaker 1: situation as it stands. Sorry to go off on a

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Speaker 1: bit of a rant. No, we wanted a rant. That's why.

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Speaker 1: That's why you're here. We want a radium rants. Speaking

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Speaker 1: of which, and by the way, I mean I agree

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Speaker 1: with you. I think that it's it would be delusional

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Speaker 1: at this point to think that everything is just going

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Speaker 1: swimmingly for the Trump administration, right. I mean that it's

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Speaker 1: not helpful to anyone, no matter how much one wants

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Speaker 1: Trump to be successful, helpful to ten that there aren't

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Speaker 1: some some real drawbacks and pitfalls that are that are

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Speaker 1: either still out there or that have already happened. But

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Speaker 1: that all said, you know, I guess now we've got

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Speaker 1: to get ready for I've been saying, you said, your retribution.

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Speaker 1: I like that construction of it because it's true. I've

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Speaker 1: been saying political trench warfare, which I think is what

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Speaker 1: we're going to be seeing. M But but also I

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Speaker 1: want to ask you about your peace up in the

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Speaker 1: Daily Caller today about how George Soros is named the

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Speaker 1: Financial Times Person of the Year. What is up with

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Speaker 1: that right here? Yeah? Well, and that's that's a big tell.

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Speaker 1: You know, the establishing refuses to learn any lessons from

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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, whether it was in Europe, the Nited Kingdom,

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Speaker 1: or whether it was here in the United States. They've

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Speaker 1: taken the approach that they can just wear down this movement,

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Speaker 1: where down this president, wear down this administration, where down

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Speaker 1: the global revolt against the sort of wounds neoliberal world order.

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Speaker 1: And my contention is that they can't, but they are

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Speaker 1: going to make a fair crack of it. And there

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Speaker 1: are certain tells out there. And one of the tells

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Speaker 1: is Financial Times, which is arguably the world leading newspaper

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Speaker 1: alongside the magazine The Economists of that sort of traditional

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Speaker 1: neoliberal world order, and they've decided this year to award

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Speaker 1: their manadier Person of the Year. I'm sorry to George Soros.

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Speaker 1: And they said it wasn't just about what Soros has

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Speaker 1: of the year on. They said openly that it's about

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Speaker 1: what he believes in. Now. Sous is obviously a divisive

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Speaker 1: and contentious figure across the political divine, but why he

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Speaker 1: believes in effectively is a pure greed and profit motive

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Speaker 1: cultures and so forth. And it's been very utterly clear

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Speaker 1: about that. And I suggest people, if they can get

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Speaker 1: out of their hands, are on the Financial Times today

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Speaker 1: or on the website read that piece. It's a very

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Speaker 1: hagiographic take of who your source is. But leaving so

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Speaker 1: far as to laud him over owning many homes, one

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Speaker 1: of which being in Marrakesh near an orange grove near

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Speaker 1: the opulent Lammonia hotel. And also they also laud the

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Speaker 1: that I think tells us all we need to know

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Speaker 1: about you know who the standard bearer for the for

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Speaker 1: is And it made me smile at least to note

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Speaker 1: that they couldn't give this award to Angela Merkel because

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Speaker 1: she's leaving. They couldn't give it to Theresa May because

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Speaker 1: she's failing. They couldn't give it to Emmanuel Macron because

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Speaker 1: obviously the yellow vest protests in France are showing that

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Speaker 1: he's also on the ropes. So they've defaulted to this

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Speaker 1: eighty eight year old financier who makes a living out

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Speaker 1: of ruining other people's lives through his hedge fund and

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Speaker 1: through his open society foundations, and again tells you they'

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Speaker 1: everybody to double down in twenty nineteen, and i'd blenty

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Speaker 1: think we are up two right in. Becausam is the

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Speaker 1: author of No go Zones, and you can read his

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Speaker 1: latest on the Daily Caller today. He's got a piece

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Speaker 1: up on George Soros Rare. He'm great to have you, buddy,

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you soon. Thank you. Buck. More bad

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Speaker 1: news for Facebook this week, and you're just reaching this point,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure we are, Like, how much more violation of

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Speaker 1: trust can I endure from these guys? These left wing organizations,

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Speaker 1: these far left social media platforms. Enough enough, right, Well,

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Speaker 1: I've got a place for you to go, snippy dot com.

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Speaker 1: Snippy dot com is a new social media site without

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Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of you have already joined snippy dot com.

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Speaker 1: I'm hoping thousands and thousands more will join because they've

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Speaker 1: that stuff. They're not sharing your information with third parties

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Speaker 1: in egregious fashion to try to profit off your data.

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Speaker 1: None of that stuff's going on, all right. They have

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Speaker 1: I was just posting yesterday snippy dot com. First of all,

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Speaker 1: President Trump is going to only support something that advances

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Speaker 1: his position, you know, and he's laid out a number

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Speaker 1: of things that he wants to do to keep America

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Speaker 1: safe and build the wall, and we're going to continue

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Speaker 1: working with him on that. If there's an opportunity for

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Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi to work with him. President Trump has already

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Speaker 1: said he'll do that. When the President says he's not

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Speaker 1: going to back down from border security, and then he'll

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Speaker 1: find the money. Quote won't way or the other. It's

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Speaker 1: because he has a solemn obligation to all of us,

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Speaker 1: including people who didn't vote and people who didn't vote

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Speaker 1: for him, to make sure that we are protected in

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Speaker 1: our communities. Folks, this is everybody's business. This has to

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Speaker 1: be nonpartist. And this is about border security. It's a sovereignation.

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Speaker 1: They're saying the right stuff, aren't they. They're telling us

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Speaker 1: that they they will fight for a wall, that President

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Speaker 1: Trump is dedicated to border security, to getting us border security,

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Speaker 1: and that there will be a wall. But I'm here

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Speaker 1: to tell you there's not going to be a wall,

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Speaker 1: not unless something really profound changes in the next few days.

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Speaker 1: And this is this is a big disappointment and culture

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Speaker 1: today with her column. And you know, look, I think

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Speaker 1: some of you probably think Anne is great. Some of

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Speaker 1: you are not such a big fans. I've always really

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Speaker 1: liked Anne, both as an author and as a person.

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Speaker 1: She's always been very, very lovely to me, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I'll never forget I bumped into her once with my

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Speaker 1: entire family, I mean, my siblings, my parents, my cousins

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Speaker 1: on the streets in Manhattan, and she was just you know,

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Speaker 1: she took photos with us, and she was just lovely

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Speaker 1: to everybody. And I knew her at that point from

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Speaker 1: working with her a little bit at Fox. But she

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Speaker 1: was the one who gave Trump really the idea to

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Speaker 1: run on immigration, and he read Audios America and went

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Speaker 1: with it, you know, he read Audios America and took

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Speaker 1: the argument and ran with it. And she also was

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Speaker 1: the one who was saying Trump was going to win

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Speaker 1: before anybody else. Well, here's what she writes today in

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Speaker 1: her column. If you were elected president after decades of

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Speaker 1: politicians doing nothing about the millions of illegals pouring into

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Speaker 1: our country every year, committing crimes, dealing drugs, driving drunk,

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Speaker 1: molesting children, and killing Americans like Kate Steinley, and your

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Speaker 1: central campaign promise, repeated every day, was to build a wall.

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Speaker 1: Wouldn't you have spent the entirety of your transition period

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Speaker 1: working on getting it done. Wouldn't you have been building prototypes,

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Speaker 1: developing relationships with key congressional allies and talking to military

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Speaker 1: Engineers to build the wall. Wouldn't you skip the inauguration

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Speaker 1: and take the oath of office in San Diego so

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Speaker 1: you could get started on supervising wall construction immediately after

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Speaker 1: putting your hand in the Bible and being sworn in

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Speaker 1: as the leader of the free world. You would, if

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Speaker 1: you meant it well, Donald Trump didn't do that. Now, obviously,

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Speaker 1: Anne's being a little little facetious with some of that

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Speaker 1: there end quote, by the way, in case you couldn't tell,

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Speaker 1: But she's very frustrated. And I'm very frustrated because all

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Speaker 1: along I had this concern that Trump was saying the things.

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Speaker 1: He was saying revolutionary things about what a president should do,

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Speaker 1: what needs to happen in this country. He was talking

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Speaker 1: about he was talking about the wall, but wasn't serious

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Speaker 1: about it. I don't know if we can say that

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Speaker 1: quite yet, but it's looking like that may be the case.

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Speaker 1: When is the shutdown supposed to happen, where are we

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Speaker 1: going to be in a better place? I mean, here's

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Speaker 1: what Trump used to say about shutdowns Play thirteen. It's

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Speaker 1: like pulling teeth getting these guys to get it done.

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Speaker 1: And you have no idea how tough I've been, And

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Speaker 1: I say, hey, if you have a shutdown, you have

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Speaker 1: a shutdown. The shutdown can also take place after the election.

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Speaker 1: I happen to think it's a great political thing because

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Speaker 1: people want border security one way the other. It's getting done.

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Speaker 1: And you could do it before the election or after

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Speaker 1: the election. If you do it before, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: more pressure to get a great solution, but it's risk here.

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Speaker 1: If you do it afterwards, there's less pressure, there's less risk.

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Speaker 1: I'm just not sure you'd ever make as good a

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Speaker 1: deal that was in August of this year. Does that

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Speaker 1: sound like somebody that is gonna back down from a shutdown?

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Speaker 1: Trump could veto it. He does not. He does not

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Speaker 1: have to allow this to happen. Trump does not have

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Speaker 1: to go forward with business as usual on this. But

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Speaker 1: it looks like that's what he's doing. And we haven't

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Speaker 1: even solved forget about put put aside the wall for

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Speaker 1: a moment, which is a big, a big thing to

853
00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:36,120
Speaker 1: just set aside at all. He hasn't been able now.

854
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:37,840
Speaker 1: I know what people say, Oh, it's not his fault

855
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:40,840
Speaker 1: and it's not okay, guys, but you know, we got

856
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:46,080
Speaker 1: to hold a politician responsible for fulfilling promises that that

857
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:50,719
Speaker 1: politician made. He didn't promise to, you know, to try

858
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:53,759
Speaker 1: really hard. He said there's gonna be a wall. He said,

859
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:55,719
Speaker 1: Mexico's gonna pay for it. I never believe that that

860
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:57,239
Speaker 1: was gonna happen, but you know, it was a it

861
00:51:57,320 --> 00:52:00,160
Speaker 1: was a good applause line. And maybe that they we're

862
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 1: going to have some kind of a teriff for tax

863
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:05,640
Speaker 1: in place that would eventually fulfill that promise in some way.

864
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 1: But I don't even care. I don't care if Mexico

865
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Speaker 1: doesn't paid for the wall. I just want there to

866
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 1: be a barrier so that we have real security at

867
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 1: our southern border, to stop the cartels, stop the drug smuggling.

868
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:21,200
Speaker 1: But Trump isn't even willing to do everything in his power.

869
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:24,719
Speaker 1: I would be more sympathetic here if he had done

870
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:27,680
Speaker 1: everything in his power to get that wall built. He

871
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:30,880
Speaker 1: has not done that. We have not gone to a shutdown,

872
00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:33,360
Speaker 1: the government has not been shut down. We have not

873
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:36,719
Speaker 1: forced the Democrat's hand on this one. See where the

874
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:39,879
Speaker 1: American people are, See where the pressure is when it's

875
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:43,440
Speaker 1: clear that Democrats are unwilling to spend a few billion

876
00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 1: dollars to do something that will only help and could

877
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:53,960
Speaker 1: help a tremendous amount with our border with immigration. You know,

878
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 1: this is a difficult one. There's some very good people

879
00:52:59,719 --> 00:53:01,879
Speaker 1: out there who are making the case. I think Trump

880
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:04,400
Speaker 1: does have a lot of support for his immigration policy. Men.

881
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:07,880
Speaker 1: Here's Thomas Homan, who was acting ICE director. Here's what

882
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:11,080
Speaker 1: he says about how there's just they're just scams going

883
00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:13,520
Speaker 1: on with our border. Playlip bit. Most of these people

884
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:16,200
Speaker 1: are knowledge in the side of the seekers. Violence is

885
00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:21,080
Speaker 1: not acclaimed for asylum and lose it. What the politicians

886
00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:22,680
Speaker 1: all to be doing, rather than going on there pulling

887
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:24,800
Speaker 1: a political point that they're doing, they all to be

888
00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 1: here in Washington, DC fixing the loopholes and our immigration

889
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:30,799
Speaker 1: laws that causes these caravans even exists in the first place.

890
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:33,000
Speaker 1: I've been up on hill many times this past year

891
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:36,800
Speaker 1: with the Secretary close grazing asylum bar you know, addressed

892
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:40,440
Speaker 1: the Florida Settlement agreement. Give ICE attention money so it's

893
00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:42,920
Speaker 1: not back to catching release. If they close these loopholes,

894
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:45,279
Speaker 1: they will stop alaw this ill the immigration but it

895
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:48,160
Speaker 1: isn't about protecting the Barter, it isn't about closing loopholes.

896
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 1: It's about taking on the Trump administration. It's about politics.

897
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:56,160
Speaker 1: Head of Public Safety and National Security, forget the wall

898
00:53:56,200 --> 00:53:58,320
Speaker 1: for a second. They're not even doing other things that

899
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:02,719
Speaker 1: are necessary to built the illegal immigration crisis. They haven't

900
00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:06,080
Speaker 1: closed the loopholes. We haven't figured out what we're gonna

901
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:08,759
Speaker 1: do to stop family units from rhyming by the tens

902
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:12,680
Speaker 1: of thousands at the border and claim asylum. For those

903
00:54:12,719 --> 00:54:15,279
Speaker 1: who are curious, because this came up recently, someone asked me,

904
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:22,200
Speaker 1: this refugee is somebody who wants essentially to claim asylum,

905
00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:26,760
Speaker 1: but does it from outside of US borders. An assy

906
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:29,440
Speaker 1: lee or someone who wants asylum is already inside the

907
00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:31,560
Speaker 1: United States. So if you're in the US, you're you're

908
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:34,560
Speaker 1: asking for asylum. If you're outside the US and want

909
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:38,000
Speaker 1: to come in, you're asking to be a refugee. That

910
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:42,400
Speaker 1: is the difference. But we have not gotten this promise

911
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:47,040
Speaker 1: fulfilled and we cannot forget this. And Trump needs to

912
00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:50,960
Speaker 1: figure something out here. It's not over. Maybe he orders

913
00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:53,960
Speaker 1: he orders some funds shifted around. Maybe the military is

914
00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:56,600
Speaker 1: able to start this in a meaningful way. But just

915
00:54:56,719 --> 00:54:59,719
Speaker 1: telling us the walls being built when it's not is unacceptable.

916
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:06,279
Speaker 1: You are now entering the Freedom Huttle Operation Center. All

917
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:11,080
Speaker 1: programs must be kept strictly neat to know Team Buck

918
00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:16,000
Speaker 1: is cleared and ready to the Buck brief. The decision

919
00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:23,440
Speaker 1: to withdraw American an American presence in Syria is a colossal,

920
00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:26,040
Speaker 1: in my mind, mistake, a grave error that's going to

921
00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:31,439
Speaker 1: have significant repercussions in the years and months to come.

922
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:37,160
Speaker 1: That's right. President Trump today has declared that we are

923
00:55:37,239 --> 00:55:43,239
Speaker 1: going to pull troops out of Syria, and Marco Rubio's

924
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:45,600
Speaker 1: claiming that it is a it is a huge mistake.

925
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:48,839
Speaker 1: It is a huge mistake. Now, now, there's a lot

926
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:52,719
Speaker 1: of complexity involved in this, and there's a lot of

927
00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:57,719
Speaker 1: different arguments that can be made. Let's together unpack some

928
00:55:57,840 --> 00:56:03,640
Speaker 1: of this, shall we. We have a small contingent of

929
00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:09,239
Speaker 1: US troops in Syria right now. They are working with

930
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:13,399
Speaker 1: Kurdish allies on the ground and still engaged in operations

931
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:20,080
Speaker 1: against the Islamic State. Now isis, despite President Trump's tweet today,

932
00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:26,120
Speaker 1: has been beaten in battle, but is not eradicated. The

933
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:32,440
Speaker 1: movement has been defeated for now, but isis absolutely could rebound.

934
00:56:32,560 --> 00:56:33,960
Speaker 1: One thing that I have to say, and this isn't

935
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 1: a side, but I can't help myself. One of the

936
00:56:36,719 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 1: bizarre idiocies of the Obama administration and on Syria. You

937
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 1: could talk for quite some time just about all of

938
00:56:43,040 --> 00:56:46,959
Speaker 1: the mistakes that were made, all the lack of strategic vision,

939
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 1: the lack of clarity of purpose, the spending five hundred

940
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:54,760
Speaker 1: million dollars to train I think it was seven guys

941
00:56:54,920 --> 00:57:00,279
Speaker 1: or something. I mean, just unbelievable ineptitude from the a

942
00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:04,520
Speaker 1: team of so called geniuses, including Obama himself, in dealing

943
00:57:04,600 --> 00:57:08,160
Speaker 1: with the Syrian civil War. But you know, one thing

944
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:11,320
Speaker 1: about it that always really I just found bizarre was

945
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:12,960
Speaker 1: that Obama. You know, you know, as no one calls

946
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:17,680
Speaker 1: it ISOL anymore, that was an Obama thing. The Obama

947
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:21,960
Speaker 1: administration and Brennan at the CIA and some some executive

948
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:27,320
Speaker 1: branch Obama appointees insisted on calling it ISOL. And people

949
00:57:27,400 --> 00:57:29,360
Speaker 1: that I knew in the intelligence community were as like,

950
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:34,120
Speaker 1: everyone calls it isis, everyone calls it isis. Why do

951
00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:36,480
Speaker 1: they know it's the Islamic state of Iraq and Syria?

952
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:38,880
Speaker 1: Why do they have to do this as Islamic state

953
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:41,400
Speaker 1: of Irakan de levant or if you're really pretentious, you

954
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:45,400
Speaker 1: call it dash. At least dash is correct, that's the

955
00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:49,840
Speaker 1: Arabic acronym. But people that are calling it isola Obama,

956
00:57:50,200 --> 00:57:52,480
Speaker 1: it's gonna be isol working on us. Let's gonna be

957
00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:55,080
Speaker 1: We're gonna freed them. I'n't always say why does he

958
00:57:55,200 --> 00:57:57,200
Speaker 1: do this? And the answer was because he thought it

959
00:57:57,240 --> 00:58:00,000
Speaker 1: sounded smart, just like the same reason Obama would say

960
00:58:00,120 --> 00:58:04,919
Speaker 1: ta Liban and bakthan It's like he does not speak pashtough. Okay,

961
00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:07,160
Speaker 1: we don't need him to do this weird, But that

962
00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:08,960
Speaker 1: was the thing, you know, with Obama, so much of

963
00:58:09,040 --> 00:58:12,880
Speaker 1: it was just he sounded the way smart people think

964
00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:15,320
Speaker 1: a smart person is supposed to sound on these issues.

965
00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:18,760
Speaker 1: You know, he spoke about them, used the verbiage that

966
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:22,400
Speaker 1: the elites would want, and so that to them is

967
00:58:22,440 --> 00:58:24,640
Speaker 1: the signal that you're smart. Meanwhile, the decision making in

968
00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:32,160
Speaker 1: Syria was terrible, terrible, and it was a disaster now

969
00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 1: the Islamic state because of Oh that's right. Another thing

970
00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:38,720
Speaker 1: that the media doesn't talk to you about very much.

971
00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:45,240
Speaker 1: A dramatically accelerated military campaign, and it was a Trump decision.

972
00:58:45,320 --> 00:58:46,800
Speaker 1: He does not get much credit for it, but it

973
00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:49,400
Speaker 1: was a Trump decision as commander in chief that really

974
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:53,040
Speaker 1: turned the tide. He said, you know what, the guys

975
00:58:53,320 --> 00:58:56,919
Speaker 1: on the ground, the people out there on the battlefield,

976
00:58:57,440 --> 00:59:00,800
Speaker 1: they determine, not a bunch of people sitting at desks

977
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:04,640
Speaker 1: in DC, the people on the ground in Iraq, in Syria.

978
00:59:05,080 --> 00:59:07,840
Speaker 1: They determine what we have to go after and when

979
00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:10,080
Speaker 1: we go after it. With the air strikes and with

980
00:59:10,160 --> 00:59:15,800
Speaker 1: any other kinetic military activity in theater, you know what,

981
00:59:15,880 --> 00:59:21,040
Speaker 1: We call that a game changer. The pace and ferocity

982
00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:25,120
Speaker 1: of the air strikes, particularly since Trump came into office,

983
00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:30,520
Speaker 1: was made a huge difference in this fight against the

984
00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:32,760
Speaker 1: Islamic State, and it's what rolled them up and made

985
00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:36,760
Speaker 1: them collapse as rapidly as they did. So that Sir

986
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:38,520
Speaker 1: Trump does a get credit for this, be sugar credit

987
00:59:38,560 --> 00:59:40,920
Speaker 1: for it. Now is the Islamic State? Eradicated, No, it

988
00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:44,520
Speaker 1: is not. In fact, I actually just spoke to a

989
00:59:44,800 --> 00:59:47,560
Speaker 1: former four star general, Stanley Mcrystal about this, what about

990
00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:50,439
Speaker 1: a week ago. He said that the best open source

991
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:54,560
Speaker 1: assessments now of how many fighters the Islamic State has

992
00:59:54,720 --> 00:59:58,400
Speaker 1: under arms in Syrias somewhere in the neighborhood of thirty

993
00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:01,600
Speaker 1: thousand ish, which is what they had a few years ago.

994
01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:04,960
Speaker 1: They rolled into a rock and took Mosul, and so

995
01:00:05,120 --> 01:00:07,000
Speaker 1: they still have a lot of people that they can

996
01:00:07,080 --> 01:00:10,480
Speaker 1: call to arms, but they've mostly gone to ground right

997
01:00:10,520 --> 01:00:13,960
Speaker 1: there now mix again with the civilian population. They have

998
01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:18,760
Speaker 1: one safe haven on the Iraq Syria border that is

999
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:21,760
Speaker 1: roughly the size of the island of Manhattan. It's not

1000
01:00:21,920 --> 01:00:23,840
Speaker 1: a very big area, but they have one area they

1001
01:00:23,880 --> 01:00:27,600
Speaker 1: still fully control. And then there are you know, some

1002
01:00:27,760 --> 01:00:33,400
Speaker 1: other places where they've as I said, taken refuge among

1003
01:00:33,480 --> 01:00:37,200
Speaker 1: the broader population. And this is classic counterin certaincy problems

1004
01:00:37,200 --> 01:00:39,960
Speaker 1: that if you don't eradicate the virus, if there are

1005
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:42,520
Speaker 1: only a few cells of the virus left, it could

1006
01:00:42,560 --> 01:00:45,480
Speaker 1: come back. And that's what we're dealing with the Islamic

1007
01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:48,520
Speaker 1: state now, and that's the big concern in the in

1008
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:53,480
Speaker 1: the short term. Right. This is why people are for example,

1009
01:00:53,560 --> 01:00:55,480
Speaker 1: Mark A. Ruby are out there saying that this is

1010
01:00:55,520 --> 01:00:58,680
Speaker 1: a huge, huge mistake and how could we how could

1011
01:00:58,680 --> 01:01:02,920
Speaker 1: we do this? Oh, you know, Lindsey Graham another one

1012
01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:06,480
Speaker 1: Rubio and Lindsay Graham played fourteen. It is my belief,

1013
01:01:06,840 --> 01:01:09,440
Speaker 1: but we won't know until we'll ask the appropriate parties

1014
01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:14,520
Speaker 1: that this decision by the process was against sound military advice.

1015
01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:18,440
Speaker 1: That he did it himself, which has ever right to do,

1016
01:01:19,120 --> 01:01:23,040
Speaker 1: but he needs to own it. He does own it.

1017
01:01:24,360 --> 01:01:26,720
Speaker 1: I don't think President has the problem with that. I

1018
01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:29,920
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, I like Kavanaugh hearing Lindsey Graham a

1019
01:01:29,960 --> 01:01:33,040
Speaker 1: whole lot. I want to just keep bombing everybody until

1020
01:01:33,240 --> 01:01:35,440
Speaker 1: there's no one left to bomb. Lindsey Graham, I'm not

1021
01:01:35,560 --> 01:01:37,640
Speaker 1: sure that I can agree with that guy quite as much.

1022
01:01:38,680 --> 01:01:43,320
Speaker 1: Now he's losing. Lindsay Graham two point zero from Kavanaugh

1023
01:01:43,440 --> 01:01:45,320
Speaker 1: is going back to one point zero, and that's there's

1024
01:01:45,360 --> 01:01:49,960
Speaker 1: a lot of neo Khan in Lindsey Graham. I can't

1025
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:53,280
Speaker 1: say that I particularly support some of his his never

1026
01:01:53,360 --> 01:01:55,960
Speaker 1: mind just the specifics of his foreign policy, but his inclinations.

1027
01:01:57,160 --> 01:02:01,520
Speaker 1: And now this is the big philosophical debate right now

1028
01:02:01,560 --> 01:02:05,160
Speaker 1: of what's going on in Syria. As we've had US

1029
01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:09,760
Speaker 1: troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, for I mean, obviously Afghanistan

1030
01:02:09,840 --> 01:02:12,080
Speaker 1: was a little earlier than Iraq, but we're going on

1031
01:02:12,280 --> 01:02:16,160
Speaker 1: now two decades of this. It's it's gonna be like

1032
01:02:16,280 --> 01:02:20,320
Speaker 1: twenty years before we really realize, oh my gosh, how long?

1033
01:02:20,560 --> 01:02:22,640
Speaker 1: How long are we going to keep troops in these

1034
01:02:22,680 --> 01:02:26,440
Speaker 1: two countries? And now there's even more acceptance I think

1035
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:31,000
Speaker 1: than ever before in foreign policy circles, at least, that

1036
01:02:31,240 --> 01:02:34,240
Speaker 1: the that the presence in Afghanistan and Iraq is a

1037
01:02:34,720 --> 01:02:38,920
Speaker 1: permanent one, akin to what we have in South Korea,

1038
01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:42,680
Speaker 1: in Germany and you know in Japan that we're just

1039
01:02:42,720 --> 01:02:45,480
Speaker 1: gonna have bases there and a few thousand troops in

1040
01:02:45,520 --> 01:02:47,960
Speaker 1: each place to keep it off and falling apart. We

1041
01:02:48,160 --> 01:02:52,080
Speaker 1: don't want that in Syria, and we need to start

1042
01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:58,800
Speaker 1: scaling back in some of these projection of power circumstances.

1043
01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:01,400
Speaker 1: You don't want to make this our fight. I mean

1044
01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:06,600
Speaker 1: the US history of and forget the US, the Western

1045
01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:12,440
Speaker 1: history of interventions in the Lavant, specifically of Syria and Lebanon,

1046
01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:19,800
Speaker 1: stretches back to now almost a hundred years of unsuccessful

1047
01:03:19,840 --> 01:03:22,840
Speaker 1: military It goes back to Pykes Pico and the Battle

1048
01:03:22,880 --> 01:03:27,720
Speaker 1: four Declaration. You know that era. How many people even

1049
01:03:27,840 --> 01:03:30,080
Speaker 1: would know off the top of their heads or would

1050
01:03:30,160 --> 01:03:32,840
Speaker 1: know a period, but the French, in the earliest days

1051
01:03:32,840 --> 01:03:35,120
Speaker 1: of the French Air Force, I mean, go back to

1052
01:03:35,200 --> 01:03:38,280
Speaker 1: the nineteen twenties, the French were bombing Damascus because of

1053
01:03:38,520 --> 01:03:44,080
Speaker 1: unrest and rebellion and fighting. This is not something that

1054
01:03:44,160 --> 01:03:45,680
Speaker 1: we want to be involved in. This is not a

1055
01:03:45,720 --> 01:03:48,760
Speaker 1: place where we want US troops walking the streets or

1056
01:03:48,840 --> 01:03:51,320
Speaker 1: being in any position where they're going to be deployed

1057
01:03:51,360 --> 01:03:57,160
Speaker 1: on a regular basis and in harms way. Basically, we

1058
01:03:57,280 --> 01:03:59,880
Speaker 1: can't make all of this our fight, and I think

1059
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:04,440
Speaker 1: Trump recognizes that. And this is Trump is sophisticated foreign

1060
01:04:04,480 --> 01:04:08,200
Speaker 1: policy thinker. No he is not. Does he have good

1061
01:04:08,240 --> 01:04:10,560
Speaker 1: instincts and does he understand the basics of who the

1062
01:04:10,600 --> 01:04:12,280
Speaker 1: good guys are, who the bad guys are, and what

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Speaker 1: we need to do with the bad guys? Yes, he does,

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01:04:15,600 --> 01:04:18,080
Speaker 1: which is more than you can say for the Obama administration.

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01:04:19,920 --> 01:04:24,320
Speaker 1: Clarity and decisiveness for the commander in chief are qualities

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01:04:24,360 --> 01:04:28,080
Speaker 1: you really need. He he's got the most impressive military

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01:04:28,440 --> 01:04:30,920
Speaker 1: in the history of the planet to lean on, but

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01:04:31,040 --> 01:04:32,880
Speaker 1: he needs to be clear about what he's trying to

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01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:35,520
Speaker 1: achieve as commander chief and needs to be decisive. And

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Speaker 1: as he has with the air campaign against the Islamic State,

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01:04:39,360 --> 01:04:42,720
Speaker 1: let the experts implement you you come up with division

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Speaker 1: and give the authority. Let the experts on the ground implement.

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Speaker 1: But I understand that. You know, the concern is that

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Speaker 1: if we pull out of Syria, there's gonna be this

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01:04:52,880 --> 01:04:54,640
Speaker 1: domino effect, But the realities, we're still going to have

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01:04:54,720 --> 01:04:58,600
Speaker 1: troops in Iraq next door. So this is just slightly

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01:04:58,720 --> 01:05:02,240
Speaker 1: scaling back our residence in the region. This is this

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01:05:02,480 --> 01:05:05,600
Speaker 1: is not a complete upheaval of a US presence in

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01:05:05,640 --> 01:05:09,160
Speaker 1: the region that's going to lead to a domino effect

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Speaker 1: and a cascade of losses to our allies in the ground.

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Speaker 1: So I think that that's an overstated issue. And I

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01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:21,840
Speaker 1: do think that the the basic approach here of Trump

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01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:24,240
Speaker 1: and those who are seeing this way is we just

1084
01:05:24,440 --> 01:05:27,280
Speaker 1: we got to stop doing this. No more wars to

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01:05:27,280 --> 01:05:30,120
Speaker 1: build other people's countries for them. We're done with that.

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Speaker 1: And one other side side note here Assad has won

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01:05:35,600 --> 01:05:39,680
Speaker 1: the Syrians civil war. The Russians, the Iranians, and the

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01:05:39,760 --> 01:05:43,600
Speaker 1: Assad regime accomplished what they wanted in Syria, but that

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01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:45,840
Speaker 1: happened when Obama was in office, and we're not going

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01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:48,760
Speaker 1: to change at anytime soon. We're not about to fight

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01:05:48,800 --> 01:05:50,880
Speaker 1: a war against Assad and it would be insane for

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01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:54,000
Speaker 1: us to do so. And with that in mind, we

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01:05:54,120 --> 01:05:58,400
Speaker 1: also shouldn't have US troops in that country, because what

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01:05:58,480 --> 01:06:01,120
Speaker 1: will end up happening is as Assad grows more powerful

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01:06:01,360 --> 01:06:04,600
Speaker 1: and takes back more of his territory, then there'll be

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01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:09,480
Speaker 1: the real possibility of him wanting us to leave, and

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01:06:09,720 --> 01:06:12,240
Speaker 1: he wouldn't confront us directly. But what happens if all

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01:06:12,280 --> 01:06:15,120
Speaker 1: of a sudden, people under the guise of the Islamic

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01:06:15,200 --> 01:06:18,920
Speaker 1: States start getting really more sophisticated. What if we have

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01:06:18,960 --> 01:06:25,240
Speaker 1: a couple of massive truck bombings take out one hundred,

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01:06:25,320 --> 01:06:29,440
Speaker 1: maybe two hundred US troops. You know what today is,

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01:06:29,480 --> 01:06:33,720
Speaker 1: don't you? If you go back and you look at history,

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01:06:35,880 --> 01:06:38,480
Speaker 1: you know this is. This is a day what I

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01:06:38,560 --> 01:06:44,920
Speaker 1: think will realize that we began to see the limits

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01:06:45,520 --> 01:06:48,080
Speaker 1: of what our mission should be. And I think that's

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01:06:48,120 --> 01:06:52,000
Speaker 1: what Trump. I think that's what Trump is understanding. So

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01:06:52,120 --> 01:06:53,480
Speaker 1: I know people are going to give a really hard

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01:06:53,520 --> 01:06:56,040
Speaker 1: time for this, but I think in Syria it's the

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01:06:56,160 --> 01:06:58,040
Speaker 1: right move. And I think also we're gonna have to

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01:06:58,040 --> 01:06:59,920
Speaker 1: take a really hard look at pulling out of Afghanistan,

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01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:03,400
Speaker 1: and much sooner than a lot of the strategic planners

1112
01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:07,920
Speaker 1: were thinking what Russia has done here and where the

1113
01:07:08,080 --> 01:07:12,120
Speaker 1: true brilliance of this intelligence operation comes from is. Way

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01:07:12,240 --> 01:07:16,200
Speaker 1: back in the early two thousands, the Russian military conducted

1115
01:07:16,240 --> 01:07:21,040
Speaker 1: a strategic study and started carrying out a disinformation plan

1116
01:07:21,480 --> 01:07:24,960
Speaker 1: in which they said that instead of carrying out kinetic

1117
01:07:25,120 --> 01:07:28,040
Speaker 1: warfare against your enemies, the best thing we can do

1118
01:07:28,560 --> 01:07:33,080
Speaker 1: is create a disinformation and frame around that nation to

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01:07:33,240 --> 01:07:36,840
Speaker 1: the point where over time, as we are constantly tearing

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01:07:36,920 --> 01:07:40,680
Speaker 1: them apart and feeding them with false information, they would

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01:07:40,800 --> 01:07:49,200
Speaker 1: actually welcome an invasion. Russian disinformation is not new. Disn't vormatzia.

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01:07:50,200 --> 01:07:53,600
Speaker 1: It's not new. There you have one of MSNBC's favorite

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01:07:53,840 --> 01:07:56,560
Speaker 1: security analysts. They put on this guy, Malcolm Nanci all

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01:07:56,640 --> 01:07:59,600
Speaker 1: the time. None of this is near the KGB was

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01:07:59,680 --> 01:08:03,440
Speaker 1: doing it for decades and decades beforehand. Russian disinformation this is,

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01:08:03,920 --> 01:08:08,160
Speaker 1: this is in the in the very nature of the

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01:08:08,240 --> 01:08:14,840
Speaker 1: Russian state. There is absolutely nothing that is uh. You know,

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01:08:15,320 --> 01:08:17,120
Speaker 1: we're looking at this now like this is some kind

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01:08:17,160 --> 01:08:21,160
Speaker 1: of crazy shock. We're in a period of hysteria over Russia.

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01:08:22,240 --> 01:08:26,080
Speaker 1: I mean, this woman who but Boutina, who was She's

1131
01:08:26,120 --> 01:08:29,679
Speaker 1: been held in solitary confinement, She's facing years and years

1132
01:08:29,720 --> 01:08:33,240
Speaker 1: in prison. She didn't even do anything, I mean in

1133
01:08:33,360 --> 01:08:35,920
Speaker 1: terms of accomplishing anything. You shouldn't even manage to do anything.

1134
01:08:36,439 --> 01:08:40,200
Speaker 1: Didn't move any policy, he didn't steal any information. She

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01:08:40,439 --> 01:08:43,600
Speaker 1: thought she was, you know, advocating for Russian interest and

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01:08:43,680 --> 01:08:46,240
Speaker 1: probably in some ways thought that it was places where

1137
01:08:46,360 --> 01:08:48,240
Speaker 1: US interests coincided. I mean, I don't know, I don't

1138
01:08:48,240 --> 01:08:50,439
Speaker 1: know what she was really pushing for, trying to get

1139
01:08:50,760 --> 01:08:54,040
Speaker 1: Russian influence in the NRA. I mean, whatever was she

1140
01:08:54,200 --> 01:08:56,439
Speaker 1: was doing, it's not the scariest thing that's ever happened

1141
01:08:56,439 --> 01:09:02,240
Speaker 1: in this country by a mile Smith going on the

1142
01:09:02,320 --> 01:09:06,920
Speaker 1: biggest crime in history. Oh my gosh. There's a lot

1143
01:09:06,960 --> 01:09:09,559
Speaker 1: of the dumbest people that go on MSNBC. Are are

1144
01:09:09,640 --> 01:09:12,560
Speaker 1: the conservatives that they find or the former Republicans I

1145
01:09:12,600 --> 01:09:16,360
Speaker 1: should say, speaking of which I think I got Maxim

1146
01:09:16,360 --> 01:09:18,720
Speaker 1: Boot on My Hill Show tomorrow morning. Oh gosh, here

1147
01:09:18,800 --> 01:09:21,360
Speaker 1: we go. That's gonna be That's gonna be a I'm

1148
01:09:21,400 --> 01:09:25,040
Speaker 1: gonna take a shower after that. Um. But Malcolm Nantz

1149
01:09:25,360 --> 01:09:27,840
Speaker 1: is this guy they put on with Brian Williams, and

1150
01:09:28,120 --> 01:09:30,200
Speaker 1: he's really digging into this too, because they had their report,

1151
01:09:30,280 --> 01:09:33,200
Speaker 1: the Senate report about how there's all the Russian social media,

1152
01:09:33,439 --> 01:09:36,840
Speaker 1: the idea that Russian social media changed the election and

1153
01:09:37,040 --> 01:09:39,520
Speaker 1: is a strategic threat to the United States is insane.

1154
01:09:40,040 --> 01:09:43,760
Speaker 1: This is crazy. Even Nate Silver, who's like the statistics

1155
01:09:43,880 --> 01:09:46,599
Speaker 1: guru of the left right, the five thirty eight guy

1156
01:09:46,680 --> 01:09:48,200
Speaker 1: for those of you know five thirty eight dot com.

1157
01:09:48,720 --> 01:09:51,559
Speaker 1: Even he wrote yesterday that it's not even the top

1158
01:09:51,680 --> 01:09:55,560
Speaker 1: one hundred reasons why Hillary lost the election. This is

1159
01:09:55,600 --> 01:09:57,680
Speaker 1: a lefty who looks at data all day. But he

1160
01:09:57,800 --> 01:10:00,760
Speaker 1: understands that spending a few thousand dollars, it spend like

1161
01:10:00,840 --> 01:10:06,160
Speaker 1: four thousand dollars on Google, you know, spent four thousand

1162
01:10:06,200 --> 01:10:11,560
Speaker 1: dollars on Google. Adds that's nothing. This is ridiculous. But

1163
01:10:12,520 --> 01:10:15,280
Speaker 1: nances telling that audience what they want to hear about Russia. Oh,

1164
01:10:15,439 --> 01:10:20,360
Speaker 1: Russia's so scary. Play two. They have amplified racism to

1165
01:10:20,479 --> 01:10:24,000
Speaker 1: the point where the alt right, Steve Bannon's own creation

1166
01:10:24,400 --> 01:10:28,439
Speaker 1: of Gamers is now the wholly owned subsidiary of the

1167
01:10:28,560 --> 01:10:32,080
Speaker 1: Trump campaign and our believers in David Duke the klu

1168
01:10:32,160 --> 01:10:36,439
Speaker 1: klux Klan, Richard and Richard Spencer the neo Nazi, and

1169
01:10:36,600 --> 01:10:40,640
Speaker 1: Robert Spencer the Islamophobe, to the point where they're mainstreamed.

1170
01:10:41,080 --> 01:10:44,680
Speaker 1: This is how effective this information warfare campaign has been

1171
01:10:44,720 --> 01:10:48,120
Speaker 1: carried out they went after to suppress the African American vote.

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01:10:48,240 --> 01:10:50,280
Speaker 1: And there is no doubt in my mind or anybody

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01:10:50,320 --> 01:10:53,240
Speaker 1: else's in the intelligence community that doesn't believe that it

1174
01:10:53,439 --> 01:10:58,439
Speaker 1: took American citizens to assist them in really getting down

1175
01:10:58,560 --> 01:11:02,439
Speaker 1: to where these voters were who needed to be suppressed. Wow,

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01:11:03,080 --> 01:11:05,640
Speaker 1: Malcolm Nanced, this is why we ask you all the

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01:11:05,760 --> 01:11:08,920
Speaker 1: time to come on this podcast. Scary stuff, but it

1178
01:11:09,080 --> 01:11:10,880
Speaker 1: needs to be said, needs to be heard. Wow, you

1179
01:11:11,040 --> 01:11:14,400
Speaker 1: sir so much for joining us once again. Or Brian

1180
01:11:14,560 --> 01:11:20,960
Speaker 1: Williams say, wow, that was sheer lunacy. I played the

1181
01:11:20,960 --> 01:11:23,200
Speaker 1: whole thing for Zoonia here. But this is what passes

1182
01:11:23,240 --> 01:11:26,680
Speaker 1: for insight an analysis now in democrats circles and on

1183
01:11:26,760 --> 01:11:30,040
Speaker 1: the left, the alt right and ben and Blato. Before this,

1184
01:11:30,200 --> 01:11:33,320
Speaker 1: it was Halliburton and Cheney and the evil you know,

1185
01:11:33,479 --> 01:11:36,800
Speaker 1: machinations thereof and these people just they can't handle it.

1186
01:11:36,880 --> 01:11:40,160
Speaker 1: They lost. You lost the election, all right, you lost

1187
01:11:40,240 --> 01:11:45,719
Speaker 1: the election. Hillary was a crappy candidate. Stop blaming Russia.

1188
01:11:45,920 --> 01:11:48,519
Speaker 1: Stop scare mongering with the alt right. What was the

1189
01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:50,280
Speaker 1: last time you even heard about the ault right? You

1190
01:11:50,320 --> 01:11:51,920
Speaker 1: even see there? All right? What is the alt right?

1191
01:11:51,960 --> 01:11:55,680
Speaker 1: Doesn't even exist anymore? It's like five the losers who

1192
01:11:55,840 --> 01:11:59,200
Speaker 1: hang out, you know, in a basement somewhere. But who

1193
01:11:59,400 --> 01:12:01,040
Speaker 1: the ultright? I didn't band. When was the last time

1194
01:12:01,080 --> 01:12:04,439
Speaker 1: you even saw Bannon speaking of people? This is just

1195
01:12:04,600 --> 01:12:08,280
Speaker 1: all nonsense. I'd like to start to get us into

1196
01:12:08,360 --> 01:12:11,400
Speaker 1: the Christmas spirit a little bit here, you know. I'd

1197
01:12:11,479 --> 01:12:14,240
Speaker 1: like us to be able to think a little bit

1198
01:12:14,280 --> 01:12:17,600
Speaker 1: about the holidays and you'll tie, cheer and all that

1199
01:12:17,680 --> 01:12:20,920
Speaker 1: good stuff. And so with that, I will present to

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01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:25,200
Speaker 1: you one of my favorite, one of my favorite viral

1201
01:12:25,479 --> 01:12:29,280
Speaker 1: videos out there right now about I don't know what

1202
01:12:29,360 --> 01:12:31,560
Speaker 1: it is about little British kids. You know, some of

1203
01:12:31,640 --> 01:12:35,759
Speaker 1: you remember Charlie bit my finger, and you know Charlie

1204
01:12:35,800 --> 01:12:37,720
Speaker 1: bit my finger, And I don't know about you. I've

1205
01:12:37,760 --> 01:12:40,479
Speaker 1: watched that video almost as many times I've watched We'll

1206
01:12:40,479 --> 01:12:45,160
Speaker 1: do it live. We'll do it live. H blank it,

1207
01:12:45,439 --> 01:12:49,080
Speaker 1: We'll do it live. Anyway. Another great was that, in

1208
01:12:49,160 --> 01:12:52,000
Speaker 1: fact Bill o Arreley's finest moment in all in all

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01:12:52,040 --> 01:12:54,400
Speaker 1: TV history. Brandon, is that fair? What do you think

1210
01:12:54,880 --> 01:12:57,360
Speaker 1: it's great? Yeah? Yeah, I think it's the most memorable.

1211
01:12:58,080 --> 01:13:02,560
Speaker 1: But a little British kid, Charlie bit my finger, he

1212
01:13:02,760 --> 01:13:06,519
Speaker 1: may actually have been outdone recently by a dad talking

1213
01:13:06,600 --> 01:13:11,320
Speaker 1: to his son, a little son named Jackson, about Father Christmas,

1214
01:13:11,479 --> 01:13:14,280
Speaker 1: which I forget is what what of course, adorable little

1215
01:13:14,360 --> 01:13:20,000
Speaker 1: little British children call Santa Claus right Father Christmas. But

1216
01:13:20,200 --> 01:13:21,960
Speaker 1: but here's just a little I just want to share

1217
01:13:21,960 --> 01:13:24,080
Speaker 1: a little fun. I know, policy and politics, we do

1218
01:13:24,160 --> 01:13:25,840
Speaker 1: this all day long. Here's a little bit of a

1219
01:13:25,920 --> 01:13:28,599
Speaker 1: fun video out there about Jackson and what he says

1220
01:13:28,640 --> 01:13:32,000
Speaker 1: he's gonna do if he's not on the good boy list.

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01:13:32,160 --> 01:13:34,760
Speaker 1: Play it he might absolutely, that's why you're That's why

1222
01:13:34,800 --> 01:13:37,360
Speaker 1: you're on the noty list, I swear, trust me. Well,

1223
01:13:37,400 --> 01:13:39,160
Speaker 1: that's why you're on a note list because because you're

1224
01:13:39,200 --> 01:13:40,840
Speaker 1: being noty right now. So you're going to be a

1225
01:13:40,920 --> 01:13:43,920
Speaker 1: note list if you can talking about that, because Father

1226
01:13:44,120 --> 01:13:48,080
Speaker 1: Christmas's note to me, because you're being noted, So you're

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01:13:48,080 --> 01:13:51,720
Speaker 1: on a noty list. I know I'm a good list.

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01:13:52,600 --> 01:13:55,719
Speaker 1: You're not because you're not because you ain't being good Bye,

1229
01:13:55,920 --> 01:13:59,519
Speaker 1: I'm on a good list. If you say that again

1230
01:13:59,600 --> 01:14:04,960
Speaker 1: again and then again. Father Christmas sprung me last night

1231
01:14:05,080 --> 01:14:07,320
Speaker 1: when I was at work, I said, you better tell

1232
01:14:07,400 --> 01:14:09,640
Speaker 1: Jackson to start being a good boy or he's going

1233
01:14:09,680 --> 01:14:11,200
Speaker 1: to stay on the naughty list. That he won't. I

1234
01:14:11,280 --> 01:14:13,920
Speaker 1: get no presents for Christmas. That's what he said to me.

1235
01:14:14,200 --> 01:14:15,760
Speaker 1: So you've got to start being a good boy. You

1236
01:14:17,800 --> 01:14:32,160
Speaker 1: want the wow punching must Actually I'm on the good list.

1237
01:14:32,680 --> 01:14:35,800
Speaker 1: I'm not on the naughty list. Appercut. I don't know

1238
01:14:35,840 --> 01:14:37,800
Speaker 1: if you caught that. He gotta mumble that. The dad

1239
01:14:37,840 --> 01:14:40,679
Speaker 1: obvious just being the son. But the little sun God, Yeah, Appercut,

1240
01:14:40,760 --> 01:14:43,800
Speaker 1: Father Christmas like this, he does this, little not on

1241
01:14:43,880 --> 01:14:47,120
Speaker 1: the naughty list. Oh man, just if I had a

1242
01:14:47,160 --> 01:14:52,000
Speaker 1: cool English accent, just think about how how fantastic it

1243
01:14:52,080 --> 01:14:55,000
Speaker 1: would be for radio. Sorry, guys, no cool English accent here.

1244
01:14:55,080 --> 01:14:56,479
Speaker 1: That's why I try to bring on. I bring on

1245
01:14:56,560 --> 01:14:59,160
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of cool English accents. We get Rahee,

1246
01:14:59,280 --> 01:15:02,559
Speaker 1: we get Charles Cook, Chef Tom Rogan, back on, he's

1247
01:15:02,560 --> 01:15:04,280
Speaker 1: going to find one and two. He's got an English

1248
01:15:04,320 --> 01:15:07,000
Speaker 1: accent right here. Uh you know, he's he's a fun one.

1249
01:15:07,320 --> 01:15:09,439
Speaker 1: Charles has them more laid back. Anyway. I'll stop talking

1250
01:15:09,439 --> 01:15:11,800
Speaker 1: about English accents. But I just thought I thought that

1251
01:15:11,840 --> 01:15:13,840
Speaker 1: was kind of a fun one. I'm sure there'll be

1252
01:15:13,920 --> 01:15:18,040
Speaker 1: other fun Christmas Christmas sound bites so we can share

1253
01:15:18,080 --> 01:15:19,920
Speaker 1: with you and maybe Brandon, can we pull a little

1254
01:15:20,000 --> 01:15:22,599
Speaker 1: Christmas music maybe for some of our intros and outros here?

1255
01:15:23,040 --> 01:15:25,400
Speaker 1: You know, what are we? What are we? Chop Liver?

1256
01:15:26,280 --> 01:15:28,400
Speaker 1: You know it'd be nice to get or can I

1257
01:15:28,479 --> 01:15:31,559
Speaker 1: still play Jadel Drade old tradele Oh dude, you can

1258
01:15:31,600 --> 01:15:34,400
Speaker 1: play Tradoldra Okay, then we're cool. Yeah, there we go.

1259
01:15:34,640 --> 01:15:36,880
Speaker 1: Of course, man, drop some Tradel Drado in there. When

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01:15:36,880 --> 01:15:41,600
Speaker 1: does Hanakahan, by the way I think it ended, I'm awful. No,

1261
01:15:41,840 --> 01:15:44,320
Speaker 1: I'm well, I'm obviously not great either because I didn't know.

1262
01:15:44,400 --> 01:15:47,760
Speaker 1: I thought you know, you know, you know what when

1263
01:15:47,800 --> 01:15:50,559
Speaker 1: people say Hanaker song, if you know what comes to mind,

1264
01:15:50,640 --> 01:15:56,719
Speaker 1: Brandon Adam Sandler, of course, yeah, here comes Hanaka. Time

1265
01:15:57,040 --> 01:15:59,920
Speaker 1: for hermonica or whatever. I forget the words, but you

1266
01:16:00,040 --> 01:16:04,080
Speaker 1: get the idea. So yeah, a little Jackson, a little

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01:16:04,120 --> 01:16:06,040
Speaker 1: bit of Hanakka. We've got some fun things to talk.

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01:16:06,120 --> 01:16:09,200
Speaker 1: Oh oh. And then there's there's this this lady over

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Speaker 1: at gosh where is she? Olivia Nutzi, who's a reporter

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Speaker 1: for The Daily Beast. I actually met her once a

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Speaker 1: long time, very briefly. Um, but but she says that Trump,

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Speaker 1: who is fighting the war for Christmas does not like Christmas.

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Speaker 1: I think that she's from New York Magazine. Oh wait,

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Speaker 1: New York Magazine. That's the magazine that employs the guy

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Speaker 1: who said that I have daddy issues and I'm very

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Speaker 1: lonely because I cooked a steak. That's right, that's the guy.

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Speaker 1: He's the the Pulitzer Prize winner in twenty seventeen for criticism,

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Speaker 1: and his criticism of me is that I cooked a

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Speaker 1: steak and therefore I have I have daddy issues. By

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Speaker 1: the way, a lot of people saw that have since

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Speaker 1: have either reached out to be or said something to

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Speaker 1: me like wow, And I said, yeah, I know, I

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01:17:03,040 --> 01:17:07,559
Speaker 1: really I should have had you know miss Molly. Oh anyway,

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Speaker 1: I did not forget. It doesn't matter. She was right

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Speaker 1: there with me though I was cooking the steak. I

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01:17:11,160 --> 01:17:13,200
Speaker 1: was like wow, calling me, calling me lonely and with

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Speaker 1: daddy issues. That seems that seems uncouth, seems unnecessary. Here's

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Speaker 1: what Olivia Nuzzi of New York mag though, which is

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Speaker 1: I think we can say a trashy publication says about

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01:17:24,720 --> 01:17:28,000
Speaker 1: Trump and Christmas parties played twelve. This person went on

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Speaker 1: to say that Christmas is about the Lord Jesus Christ,

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Speaker 1: and it's not about Donald Trump. And that may explain

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Speaker 1: his sort of aversion to celebrating this on a regular basis.

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Speaker 1: But it wouldn't surprise me to talk about Christmas all

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Speaker 1: the time. I don't think he's not very good at

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01:17:42,400 --> 01:17:44,840
Speaker 1: staying on topic when the topic is not Donald J. Trump,

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Speaker 1: even Trump, even Trump haters hate him when it comes

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Speaker 1: to Christmas parties. You know, they say he's not even

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Speaker 1: good at Christmas parties, which I would note. You know, Brandon,

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Speaker 1: I don't have that much fun at work at work

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Speaker 1: Christmas parties. You know, I'm not somebody that tends to

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Speaker 1: spend much time at them, because you know, you can't.

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01:18:06,680 --> 01:18:09,840
Speaker 1: You can't booze it up. That's a bad idea. You

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01:18:09,880 --> 01:18:11,559
Speaker 1: don't want to be that guy that gets lit at

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01:18:11,560 --> 01:18:15,440
Speaker 1: the company Christmas party and starts, you know, starts xeroxing

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01:18:15,600 --> 01:18:17,599
Speaker 1: parts of his anatomy. You don't want to be that guy,

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01:18:18,520 --> 01:18:20,320
Speaker 1: and so, you know, you end up just sort of

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01:18:20,360 --> 01:18:22,920
Speaker 1: standing around and talking to everybody. I understand it's a

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01:18:23,040 --> 01:18:27,400
Speaker 1: nice it's nice people do it. But and I hear

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01:18:27,479 --> 01:18:29,560
Speaker 1: stories about Christmas parties and people used to go to

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Speaker 1: back in the nineties. You know, back when people could

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01:18:32,200 --> 01:18:35,439
Speaker 1: still do fun things, and those Christmas parties sound awesome.

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01:18:36,040 --> 01:18:40,040
Speaker 1: Christmas parties today it's like we're all sitting around drinking

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01:18:40,160 --> 01:18:44,560
Speaker 1: juice and uh, you know, maybe eating some What do

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01:18:44,600 --> 01:18:46,960
Speaker 1: they even serve? I mean obviously general cocktail fair. But

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01:18:47,040 --> 01:18:52,719
Speaker 1: what's Christmas food other than baked ham cookies? Yeah, Christmas cookies. Oh, eggnog,

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01:18:52,800 --> 01:18:55,040
Speaker 1: That's what I was trying to think of, eggnog. I'm

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01:18:55,080 --> 01:18:58,200
Speaker 1: not really an eggnog guy. First of all. Now I'm

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01:18:58,240 --> 01:19:01,080
Speaker 1: gonna sound like somebody that's you know, watching his figure.

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01:19:01,720 --> 01:19:03,760
Speaker 1: But eggnog, if you look at it, is you might

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01:19:03,800 --> 01:19:05,960
Speaker 1: as well have a chocolate milkshake. And so if my

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01:19:06,080 --> 01:19:08,320
Speaker 1: choice is between a chocolate milkshake and eggnog, I go

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01:19:08,439 --> 01:19:10,360
Speaker 1: chocolate milkshake. I don't care what time of year it is.

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Speaker 1: Am I making sense here? Brandon? Is this is too

1325
01:19:14,160 --> 01:19:16,880
Speaker 1: random for you? No, I'm into it. I agree with you.

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Speaker 1: I think like a Christmas party like an office Christmas

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01:19:20,080 --> 01:19:23,120
Speaker 1: parties just hanging out after school because you can't do

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01:19:23,200 --> 01:19:26,240
Speaker 1: anything more work. You just end up talking about work.

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01:19:26,439 --> 01:19:29,120
Speaker 1: It's like, no, I'd rather be home. That's right. Underwear,

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01:19:29,240 --> 01:19:30,640
Speaker 1: you know, it extends the work there. You know what

1331
01:19:30,720 --> 01:19:34,200
Speaker 1: they should do. They should let everybody sign a release

1332
01:19:34,880 --> 01:19:37,840
Speaker 1: that this is not actually a work function for legal purposes,

1333
01:19:38,160 --> 01:19:40,280
Speaker 1: so you can't get in trouble for what you say,

1334
01:19:40,720 --> 01:19:43,519
Speaker 1: or you know, you're just a normal citizen. I think

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01:19:44,080 --> 01:19:46,760
Speaker 1: it up not responsible for office conduct. You can just

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01:19:46,880 --> 01:19:49,280
Speaker 1: kind of hang out. Then office parties would be fun.

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01:19:49,640 --> 01:19:51,680
Speaker 1: I mean, I remember at the Blaze office party a

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01:19:51,720 --> 01:19:54,880
Speaker 1: few years ago. There might even be video that's Buck

1339
01:19:54,920 --> 01:19:57,080
Speaker 1: Sexton may have done some Gangham style. You know that.

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01:19:57,520 --> 01:20:01,240
Speaker 1: I think that happened U. But now it's it's not

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01:20:01,360 --> 01:20:03,960
Speaker 1: really a thing that people people get so excited about,

1342
01:20:04,200 --> 01:20:06,840
Speaker 1: you know, they don't really don't really let it rock out.

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01:20:06,880 --> 01:20:10,360
Speaker 1: I'm not a big egg non guy. I'm definitely not

1344
01:20:10,520 --> 01:20:13,320
Speaker 1: a pumpkin spice latte guy. And I'm finding now that

1345
01:20:13,400 --> 01:20:16,519
Speaker 1: people have like pumpkin spice latte air freshener. And this

1346
01:20:16,760 --> 01:20:19,760
Speaker 1: is just atrocious. By the way, if that video of

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01:20:19,840 --> 01:20:22,360
Speaker 1: you doing Gangham style came out, then I would assume

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01:20:22,400 --> 01:20:26,280
Speaker 1: you're lonely with daddy issues. Well, thank you. I could

1349
01:20:26,320 --> 01:20:29,600
Speaker 1: take that Gangham style. Man. That was a phenomenon for

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01:20:29,680 --> 01:20:32,639
Speaker 1: a while, that video. At one point, if you recall

1351
01:20:33,360 --> 01:20:35,839
Speaker 1: was the most I think it was the most watched

1352
01:20:35,920 --> 01:20:38,880
Speaker 1: YouTube video of all time. Oh speaking, it's from South

1353
01:20:38,960 --> 01:20:43,280
Speaker 1: It's from South Korea. That guy's name was sy Over.

1354
01:20:43,840 --> 01:20:46,280
Speaker 1: I'm taking you guys back. I know, almost as annoying

1355
01:20:46,320 --> 01:20:49,000
Speaker 1: as the Maco Raino, which was also inescapable for a

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01:20:49,080 --> 01:20:55,280
Speaker 1: period of time. Do you know that Aquaman which is

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01:20:55,600 --> 01:20:58,479
Speaker 1: out in international release. I don't even know is it

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01:20:58,560 --> 01:21:00,080
Speaker 1: out in the US. I don't even know what in

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01:21:00,160 --> 01:21:05,559
Speaker 1: the theaters now. But Aquaman has made Brandon two hundred

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01:21:05,600 --> 01:21:10,640
Speaker 1: and fifty million dollars in China alone. That's insane. And

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Speaker 1: the thing is, I've heard that it's a terrible movie,

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Speaker 1: and I don't understand why they have to make these

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01:21:16,320 --> 01:21:19,120
Speaker 1: bad superhero movies. In fact, I would like to have

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Speaker 1: a great Christmas superhero movie made. You know they should

1365
01:21:23,479 --> 01:21:27,080
Speaker 1: have Yeah, Batman Begins what or no Batman Returns rather

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01:21:27,160 --> 01:21:30,000
Speaker 1: not Batman against Batman Returns was a Christmas movie, but

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01:21:30,120 --> 01:21:32,639
Speaker 1: it was a little dark and depressing. I'd like, doesn't

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01:21:32,680 --> 01:21:37,360
Speaker 1: they do Deadpool feature Christmas? I think you're right. I

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01:21:37,479 --> 01:21:39,479
Speaker 1: think Deadpool might have a new one. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if it's come out yet, though, I think Deadpool might

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01:21:42,600 --> 01:21:44,879
Speaker 1: have some Christmas stuff going on at the first Deadpool

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01:21:44,960 --> 01:21:47,200
Speaker 1: was great, But this is this is what I always say.

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Speaker 1: The reason why these superhero movies generally stink, although I

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01:21:50,160 --> 01:21:52,439
Speaker 1: like the first Deadpool movie, is because they're made for

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01:21:52,479 --> 01:21:55,479
Speaker 1: the international market. They're not making it for Americans to

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01:21:55,560 --> 01:21:58,320
Speaker 1: go see. So of course you're gonna have a lot

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01:21:58,360 --> 01:22:01,160
Speaker 1: of CGI because they're really just going to throw up

1378
01:22:01,240 --> 01:22:05,559
Speaker 1: on the screen all this, you know, different flashing lights

1379
01:22:05,600 --> 01:22:08,360
Speaker 1: and boom bang, lots of stuff because when you put

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01:22:08,360 --> 01:22:12,519
Speaker 1: the subtitles, who cares? Right? So I think Jason Momoa

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01:22:12,640 --> 01:22:16,160
Speaker 1: is pretty excellent what he does. I loved him in

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01:22:18,160 --> 01:22:21,800
Speaker 1: Game of Thrones. But my understanding is Aquaman is scarbage.

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01:22:21,840 --> 01:22:23,840
Speaker 1: That's disappointing. But I'm just thinking about movies I might

1384
01:22:23,880 --> 01:22:26,880
Speaker 1: see over the holiday season. I'm getting into Battlestar Galactic US.

1385
01:22:26,960 --> 01:22:29,559
Speaker 1: Maybe we can all start talking about that, But let's

1386
01:22:29,560 --> 01:22:32,320
Speaker 1: talk about the Second Amendment and some infringements on it

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01:22:32,600 --> 01:22:37,080
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Speaker 1: Verification Network. The bump stock ban is going into effect.

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Speaker 1: We mentioned this yesterday on the show, and I've got

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01:23:45,560 --> 01:23:47,000
Speaker 1: to tell you, you know, this is one of these

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01:23:47,760 --> 01:23:50,000
Speaker 1: This is one of these areas where at first I

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01:23:50,800 --> 01:23:53,240
Speaker 1: was kind of okay with the idea. In fact, even

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Speaker 1: the NRA, So don't don't blame me. Even the NRA

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01:23:57,760 --> 01:24:02,080
Speaker 1: was favorable to a bump stock ban after the horrific

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01:24:02,680 --> 01:24:06,439
Speaker 1: mass shooting in Las Vegas, which which involved the guy

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01:24:06,520 --> 01:24:10,240
Speaker 1: who had some some rifles with bump stocks on them,

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01:24:10,280 --> 01:24:14,240
Speaker 1: some without bump stocks. But I figured this is this

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01:24:14,400 --> 01:24:17,920
Speaker 1: is a novelty item to me initially when this when

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01:24:17,960 --> 01:24:20,439
Speaker 1: this came out and I knew what a bump stock was.

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01:24:20,479 --> 01:24:22,400
Speaker 1: I've I've never fired with a bump stock. I mean

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01:24:22,400 --> 01:24:25,080
Speaker 1: I've I've fired all kinds of stuff, but I've never

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01:24:25,160 --> 01:24:28,000
Speaker 1: fired anything that had had a bump stock on it. Um.

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01:24:28,960 --> 01:24:32,040
Speaker 1: But to me, it was almost a novelty meaning that

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01:24:32,200 --> 01:24:34,639
Speaker 1: this would be like lawmaker saying, you know, we're gonna

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01:24:34,800 --> 01:24:40,160
Speaker 1: ben chainsaw bonnets, which if you remember that USA Today

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01:24:40,280 --> 01:24:43,200
Speaker 1: article a while ago that had the chainsaw bayonet, which

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01:24:43,240 --> 01:24:46,960
Speaker 1: spawned some of the most amusing memes on the on

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Speaker 1: the internet. Um, the chainsaw bayonet ban would not be

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Speaker 1: a big problem for me. I do not think that

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Speaker 1: we would have destroyed the Second Amendment, or the Second

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01:24:57,760 --> 01:25:01,559
Speaker 1: Amendment would no longer matter if we were a place

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01:25:01,640 --> 01:25:04,439
Speaker 1: that no longer had chainsaw bayonets, right, because they're not

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01:25:04,479 --> 01:25:06,200
Speaker 1: really and that's kind of how I thought of bump stocks.

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01:25:06,200 --> 01:25:09,560
Speaker 1: I thought of them as unimportant. But the problem with

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01:25:09,640 --> 01:25:13,680
Speaker 1: the Second Amendment haters out there, the problem with the

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01:25:13,760 --> 01:25:18,720
Speaker 1: gun grabber crowd is that if you give them a

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01:25:18,840 --> 01:25:21,400
Speaker 1: bump stock, they'll take your ar I mean, you know,

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01:25:21,439 --> 01:25:23,360
Speaker 1: if you give them an inch, they'll take a mile.

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01:25:24,840 --> 01:25:27,280
Speaker 1: And that's what that's what the real concern is here.

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01:25:27,360 --> 01:25:30,160
Speaker 1: Because this is not a hat tip to our friend

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01:25:30,200 --> 01:25:32,320
Speaker 1: Sean Davis yesterday who mentioned this, and I did a

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01:25:32,360 --> 01:25:36,040
Speaker 1: little more reading on it today. This could be a

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01:25:36,080 --> 01:25:39,120
Speaker 1: big problem. You have this, yeah, and you have a

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01:25:39,200 --> 01:25:41,560
Speaker 1: few issues where it. First of all, the idea that

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01:25:41,640 --> 01:25:47,120
Speaker 1: the government could, with just the an act of the

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01:25:47,280 --> 01:25:51,160
Speaker 1: DOJ and an executive order turn you into a felon

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01:25:51,680 --> 01:25:56,519
Speaker 1: who faces ten years in federal prison unless you take

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01:25:56,680 --> 01:26:02,000
Speaker 1: a prescribed action, in this case, turning in a device

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01:26:02,120 --> 01:26:07,400
Speaker 1: that you had legally, legally obtained. That's a that's a

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01:26:07,479 --> 01:26:10,960
Speaker 1: scary thing. That's a power that should not be taken lightly.

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01:26:11,600 --> 01:26:14,479
Speaker 1: And this is also my problem, one of my problems

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01:26:14,560 --> 01:26:19,440
Speaker 1: with what you see whenever they impose new magazine restrictions.

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01:26:19,520 --> 01:26:21,879
Speaker 1: I don't mean like, oh, you can't have maxim magazine

1453
01:26:21,880 --> 01:26:25,559
Speaker 1: it's too naughty. I mean, you all knew that. I know. Wow. Wow,

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01:26:25,840 --> 01:26:29,840
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it's late bad joke. You know. I'm just

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01:26:29,920 --> 01:26:31,760
Speaker 1: trying not to be one of those journals who says

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01:26:31,800 --> 01:26:33,840
Speaker 1: a clip I don't want to I don't want to

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01:26:33,920 --> 01:26:36,880
Speaker 1: tend capacity clip to be allowed, because, as you know,

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01:26:36,960 --> 01:26:40,240
Speaker 1: it's not a clip, it's a magazine. But the magazine

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01:26:40,280 --> 01:26:44,880
Speaker 1: restrictions sound like they're, you know, not that harmful until

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01:26:44,880 --> 01:26:46,519
Speaker 1: you realize, well, in some places it means that some

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01:26:47,240 --> 01:26:50,120
Speaker 1: person is going to be at the range, a lawful

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01:26:50,160 --> 01:26:52,400
Speaker 1: gun owner is gonna be the range, and an undercover

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01:26:53,040 --> 01:26:54,800
Speaker 1: is going to be at the range, you know, checking

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01:26:54,840 --> 01:26:57,960
Speaker 1: on people's stuff. Because this happens. I am YPD. Guys

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01:26:58,000 --> 01:27:00,400
Speaker 1: have told me about cases about the thing like this,

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01:27:01,160 --> 01:27:03,880
Speaker 1: and they'll see you've got a magazine with them greater

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01:27:03,920 --> 01:27:06,559
Speaker 1: than tend capacity, and all of a sudden you're arrested

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01:27:06,680 --> 01:27:09,240
Speaker 1: and now they're gonna make you a criminal based on

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01:27:09,320 --> 01:27:11,439
Speaker 1: a law that's stupid to begin with. It doesn't really

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01:27:11,479 --> 01:27:13,800
Speaker 1: do anything. So there's a lot of reasons why you've

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Speaker 1: got to be very cautious when they start doing this stuff,

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Speaker 1: when they start not even legislating about the Second Amendment,

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01:27:21,360 --> 01:27:24,519
Speaker 1: but just dictating. I mean, this is this is the

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Speaker 1: Department of Justice saying now that if you are an

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01:27:27,640 --> 01:27:32,599
Speaker 1: owner of a bump stock, you are you have ninety

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01:27:32,680 --> 01:27:35,880
Speaker 1: days or else you will be subject to felony prosecution.

1477
01:27:36,479 --> 01:27:40,000
Speaker 1: And what they're doing is by an order of the

1478
01:27:40,120 --> 01:27:42,640
Speaker 1: DOJ member. It's not even an Act of Congress. So

1479
01:27:42,720 --> 01:27:45,719
Speaker 1: it's not like, you know, this is just government overreach.

1480
01:27:46,320 --> 01:27:51,360
Speaker 1: They're saying that a bump stock effectively turns a semi

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01:27:51,400 --> 01:27:56,120
Speaker 1: automatic rifle into a fully automatic rifle, and that is

1482
01:27:56,360 --> 01:28:01,640
Speaker 1: not true. Hashtag not science. This is accurate. This is

1483
01:28:01,680 --> 01:28:04,439
Speaker 1: not a question of you know, what we believe or

1484
01:28:04,479 --> 01:28:08,599
Speaker 1: what we'd like to think. This is just false. Everyone

1485
01:28:08,680 --> 01:28:10,920
Speaker 1: listening to this show, I'm sure already knows, and many

1486
01:28:10,920 --> 01:28:12,720
Speaker 1: of you know in much greater detail than I do,

1487
01:28:13,400 --> 01:28:16,400
Speaker 1: the differences between the actual firing mechanism of a semi

1488
01:28:16,439 --> 01:28:20,800
Speaker 1: automatic versus fully automatic, and what goes on inside the

1489
01:28:20,960 --> 01:28:24,679
Speaker 1: receiver and how the gas operation works, and the trigger mechanism.

1490
01:28:25,840 --> 01:28:27,760
Speaker 1: But the easy way to remember it is a semi

1491
01:28:27,800 --> 01:28:30,639
Speaker 1: automatic as you pull the trigger fires once, fully automatic,

1492
01:28:30,720 --> 01:28:32,679
Speaker 1: as you hold the trigger down, it keeps firing until

1493
01:28:32,680 --> 01:28:36,320
Speaker 1: you run out or you no longer depress the trigger.

1494
01:28:36,920 --> 01:28:40,559
Speaker 1: And they're saying that a bum stock makes a semi

1495
01:28:40,600 --> 01:28:43,560
Speaker 1: amatic fulliomatic. That is not true. And in fact, modification

1496
01:28:43,640 --> 01:28:46,400
Speaker 1: of a semi automatic to make it truly fully automatic

1497
01:28:46,640 --> 01:28:53,200
Speaker 1: is very illegal, and fully automatic weapons have been strictly

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01:28:53,360 --> 01:28:55,599
Speaker 1: regulated by the government. I mean, you have to get

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01:28:55,680 --> 01:28:58,280
Speaker 1: special federal permission. That takes a long time. It's not

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01:28:58,439 --> 01:29:02,200
Speaker 1: easy to do. You know, you have to get special

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01:29:02,280 --> 01:29:06,160
Speaker 1: permission to own one, and a machine gun that's that's

1502
01:29:06,240 --> 01:29:10,840
Speaker 1: manufactured after nineteen eighty six. If you own that, that

1503
01:29:11,160 --> 01:29:15,519
Speaker 1: is that results in a long prison sentence. So here's

1504
01:29:15,560 --> 01:29:18,080
Speaker 1: why this is so problematic. Not only are you now

1505
01:29:18,240 --> 01:29:23,080
Speaker 1: making possibly I don't know how many people I don't know.

1506
01:29:23,080 --> 01:29:25,040
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone knows how many people own bump stocks.

1507
01:29:25,080 --> 01:29:28,040
Speaker 1: I'm guessing it's probably in the thousands, maybe in the

1508
01:29:28,120 --> 01:29:30,040
Speaker 1: tens of thout but I have no idea, that is

1509
01:29:30,040 --> 01:29:32,360
Speaker 1: a guess. But not only are you putting people now

1510
01:29:32,400 --> 01:29:35,840
Speaker 1: in a position where they could be subject to that

1511
01:29:36,120 --> 01:29:39,320
Speaker 1: they could be subject to prison time. You're also setting

1512
01:29:39,360 --> 01:29:44,920
Speaker 1: a president whereby any executive branch, like for example, if

1513
01:29:44,960 --> 01:29:48,679
Speaker 1: there was a Democrat president and Democrat Congress, calling the shots.

1514
01:29:48,720 --> 01:29:51,360
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, any executive branch could come along

1515
01:29:51,439 --> 01:29:54,280
Speaker 1: and say, you know what, we're just gonna ban this

1516
01:29:54,560 --> 01:29:57,439
Speaker 1: type of fill in the blank. And if you don't

1517
01:29:57,479 --> 01:30:01,240
Speaker 1: like it, tough and the constitutional test about common usage

1518
01:30:01,280 --> 01:30:04,800
Speaker 1: and dcv Heller doesn't doesn't behold muster anymore. We don't care.

1519
01:30:05,520 --> 01:30:08,640
Speaker 1: And this is confiscation. I mean, this is forced confiscation.

1520
01:30:09,680 --> 01:30:12,240
Speaker 1: So it's not even a ban on future sale. This

1521
01:30:12,400 --> 01:30:14,880
Speaker 1: is you have to turn in this thing. At the

1522
01:30:14,960 --> 01:30:19,000
Speaker 1: federal level, top down, you can see how this all

1523
01:30:19,040 --> 01:30:23,040
Speaker 1: of a sudden gets abused. They can redefine firearms terminology

1524
01:30:23,640 --> 01:30:27,160
Speaker 1: so that they will cover it under a previous federal law,

1525
01:30:27,920 --> 01:30:30,000
Speaker 1: or they'll they'll shoehorn this into a federal law that

1526
01:30:30,040 --> 01:30:33,439
Speaker 1: should not apply, and then they can say at the

1527
01:30:33,520 --> 01:30:35,320
Speaker 1: national level, you got to turn this stuff in. This

1528
01:30:35,680 --> 01:30:38,800
Speaker 1: does not end well. This is not a place that

1529
01:30:38,880 --> 01:30:41,400
Speaker 1: we can just skip over and say, you know, who

1530
01:30:41,479 --> 01:30:45,920
Speaker 1: really cares? This is for Congress to do. And you know,

1531
01:30:46,320 --> 01:30:48,479
Speaker 1: as my friend Shawn Davis writes here, if the government

1532
01:30:48,560 --> 01:30:52,320
Speaker 1: can get away with lawlessly declaring a piece of plastic

1533
01:30:52,439 --> 01:30:55,040
Speaker 1: to be a machine gun, then it can get away

1534
01:30:55,080 --> 01:30:57,760
Speaker 1: with saying you're a r fifteen is a machine gun

1535
01:30:58,400 --> 01:31:01,800
Speaker 1: knocking in your door, confiscating your guns and throwing you

1536
01:31:01,880 --> 01:31:07,240
Speaker 1: in prison. End quote. Sean's right, So bump stocks, this

1537
01:31:07,400 --> 01:31:33,559
Speaker 1: band is not okay as constituted? What is that? Who

1538
01:31:33,680 --> 01:31:36,519
Speaker 1: wants to guess? Who can guess what that is? And

1539
01:31:36,800 --> 01:31:39,840
Speaker 1: what that comes from? Brandon? I didn't. I didn't tell

1540
01:31:39,840 --> 01:31:41,519
Speaker 1: you what that audio was. I just sent it to you.

1541
01:31:41,640 --> 01:31:44,559
Speaker 1: What do you know what that was? Well, you labeled

1542
01:31:44,600 --> 01:31:47,040
Speaker 1: it something, so I know what it is. Okay, But

1543
01:31:47,120 --> 01:31:51,040
Speaker 1: what movie is it from? Isn't it from The Nature Turtles? No?

1544
01:31:51,280 --> 01:31:54,560
Speaker 1: But not a bad not a bad. Yes, that is

1545
01:31:54,720 --> 01:31:59,679
Speaker 1: the most iconic nunchucku scene in the history of film.

1546
01:32:00,240 --> 01:32:04,200
Speaker 1: That is Bruce Lee from Enter the Dragon when he

1547
01:32:04,439 --> 01:32:09,280
Speaker 1: takes the nunchucks or nunchuckoo off of an attacker and

1548
01:32:09,439 --> 01:32:12,439
Speaker 1: then has that moment that it is probably one of

1549
01:32:12,479 --> 01:32:15,080
Speaker 1: the most very famous Bruce Lee moments of all time. Actually,

1550
01:32:16,320 --> 01:32:20,519
Speaker 1: and you might be saying, Buck, why why are you

1551
01:32:20,640 --> 01:32:24,720
Speaker 1: telling us about about numb nunchucks. People call them numbchucks,

1552
01:32:25,120 --> 01:32:29,960
Speaker 1: nunchuck o nunchucks. The truth is that it's actually in

1553
01:32:30,000 --> 01:32:31,920
Speaker 1: the news right now, believe it or not. I've got

1554
01:32:32,000 --> 01:32:36,240
Speaker 1: good news for you. When it comes to your ability

1555
01:32:36,320 --> 01:32:39,160
Speaker 1: to carry a weapon that I don't think is a

1556
01:32:39,240 --> 01:32:44,360
Speaker 1: particularly useful one, but it looks cool. A judge in

1557
01:32:45,200 --> 01:32:49,360
Speaker 1: New York, no less, a federal judge. US District Judge

1558
01:32:49,439 --> 01:32:55,799
Speaker 1: Pamela Chen struck down New York's nunchuck ban as unconstitutional

1559
01:32:55,880 --> 01:32:58,439
Speaker 1: earlier this week. Did you know this one, Brandon? I

1560
01:32:58,560 --> 01:33:00,920
Speaker 1: did I hear? I heard of that? Is that pretty awesome?

1561
01:33:01,360 --> 01:33:04,320
Speaker 1: I mean, apparently this is still America. You could walk around,

1562
01:33:04,720 --> 01:33:08,439
Speaker 1: eat a big mac and carry your numb chucks, driving

1563
01:33:08,479 --> 01:33:11,320
Speaker 1: your pickup truck with a big old American flag out

1564
01:33:11,400 --> 01:33:15,240
Speaker 1: the back in peace. I think this is I think

1565
01:33:15,280 --> 01:33:20,599
Speaker 1: this is exciting out that. No, I couldn't in New York.

1566
01:33:20,640 --> 01:33:23,160
Speaker 1: It was illegal. They'll they'll rescue for which is insane.

1567
01:33:23,240 --> 01:33:25,680
Speaker 1: By the way, it's two sticks with a string between them,

1568
01:33:26,080 --> 01:33:28,960
Speaker 1: makes no sense at all. But in New York in

1569
01:33:29,160 --> 01:33:34,840
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four, band the bandy weapon known as as

1570
01:33:35,160 --> 01:33:41,280
Speaker 1: nunchucks along with brass knuckles because kung fu was really big,

1571
01:33:42,000 --> 01:33:45,080
Speaker 1: and people actually saw the movie Enter the Dragon, and

1572
01:33:45,200 --> 01:33:47,599
Speaker 1: they saw what was done with numchucks in that movie,

1573
01:33:47,640 --> 01:33:52,479
Speaker 1: and they thought, oh gosh, it must be so incredibly dangerous.

1574
01:33:52,600 --> 01:33:55,760
Speaker 1: These numbchucks, so they banned them. It was it was

1575
01:33:55,840 --> 01:34:01,080
Speaker 1: a criminal violation and considered a deadly weapon. Um and

1576
01:34:01,280 --> 01:34:04,320
Speaker 1: that was That was the way it was for gosh

1577
01:34:04,439 --> 01:34:11,840
Speaker 1: over over forty years. And now finally to the karate

1578
01:34:13,000 --> 01:34:15,639
Speaker 1: enthusiasts in the audience, you can carry your num numbchucks

1579
01:34:15,720 --> 01:34:17,479
Speaker 1: or I like to say numb chucks, even though that's

1580
01:34:17,520 --> 01:34:20,960
Speaker 1: not really it is numchucky for those who really want

1581
01:34:21,040 --> 01:34:27,120
Speaker 1: to know. Numbchucks they believe come from a flail that

1582
01:34:27,240 --> 01:34:30,599
Speaker 1: we're used in Southeast Asia for the purpose of threshing

1583
01:34:30,760 --> 01:34:36,160
Speaker 1: rice or soybeans. People have come up with different reasons

1584
01:34:36,360 --> 01:34:41,400
Speaker 1: or different etymology for this thing. It is common in

1585
01:34:42,200 --> 01:34:46,160
Speaker 1: okin now in karate, and it has also been picked

1586
01:34:46,240 --> 01:34:49,240
Speaker 1: up by other martial arts as well. It is two

1587
01:34:49,520 --> 01:34:53,880
Speaker 1: sticks that are connected with a with a string or

1588
01:34:53,960 --> 01:34:56,960
Speaker 1: with a chain. And and I will say that the

1589
01:34:58,840 --> 01:35:01,679
Speaker 1: the numb chuck is is among the coolest to watch

1590
01:35:01,800 --> 01:35:05,040
Speaker 1: somebody you know play with. But also if you hit

1591
01:35:05,120 --> 01:35:07,320
Speaker 1: yourself with them, because I may have I may have

1592
01:35:07,439 --> 01:35:10,360
Speaker 1: fiddled with some numbchucks in my day, Brandon, you don't

1593
01:35:10,400 --> 01:35:11,640
Speaker 1: want to you don't want to catch yourself in the

1594
01:35:11,720 --> 01:35:15,040
Speaker 1: nose with them, it's not fun and other places. Among

1595
01:35:15,360 --> 01:35:18,840
Speaker 1: among other places, there's definitely some If you go on

1596
01:35:19,000 --> 01:35:23,720
Speaker 1: YouTube and you check out some numb chuck fail, it

1597
01:35:23,920 --> 01:35:26,519
Speaker 1: is a It is a reminder that there are really

1598
01:35:26,560 --> 01:35:28,960
Speaker 1: two kinds of people, trained and untrained, and when you're

1599
01:35:29,000 --> 01:35:31,040
Speaker 1: playing with numb chucks, you want to be you want

1600
01:35:31,080 --> 01:35:33,880
Speaker 1: to be trained so you can It is a good day,

1601
01:35:34,600 --> 01:35:37,680
Speaker 1: a good time for U. For the Second Amendment with

1602
01:35:37,800 --> 01:35:40,360
Speaker 1: regard to numbchucks, not so good with the bump stocks,

1603
01:35:40,439 --> 01:35:43,400
Speaker 1: but definitely better. And it reminds me that my favorite

1604
01:35:43,520 --> 01:35:48,720
Speaker 1: Ninja Turtle um by personality type was always Raphael but

1605
01:35:48,880 --> 01:35:50,880
Speaker 1: Michael Angelo of the teenager being Nina Turtles had you

1606
01:35:50,960 --> 01:35:53,559
Speaker 1: brought up, he was the numbchuck guy. And I think

1607
01:35:53,600 --> 01:35:57,040
Speaker 1: that that was probably the coolest weapon. Yeah, I think

1608
01:35:57,080 --> 01:35:59,240
Speaker 1: so too. And it's funny they should have banned it

1609
01:36:00,040 --> 01:36:02,880
Speaker 1: to band because when I was I would say this facetiously.

1610
01:36:03,439 --> 01:36:06,120
Speaker 1: When I went to see the Nikja Turtles at Radio

1611
01:36:06,160 --> 01:36:08,320
Speaker 1: City Music Hall, they had a musical. Back when I

1612
01:36:08,400 --> 01:36:13,840
Speaker 1: was a kid, they sold nunchucks outside the place like foam.

1613
01:36:14,479 --> 01:36:16,800
Speaker 1: I was using it like Michelangelo, and I hit my

1614
01:36:16,840 --> 01:36:19,120
Speaker 1: brother in the face and I was grounded for two weeks,

1615
01:36:19,880 --> 01:36:23,400
Speaker 1: true story, two weeks. Man, then they didn't mess around

1616
01:36:23,479 --> 01:36:25,880
Speaker 1: in the Brandon household. I know, I got violent. I

1617
01:36:26,000 --> 01:36:28,840
Speaker 1: wanted to. Uh I had I had foam, a foam

1618
01:36:28,960 --> 01:36:30,880
Speaker 1: version of it when I was a kid, because in

1619
01:36:30,960 --> 01:36:33,439
Speaker 1: the eighties there was that martial arts craze where they're

1620
01:36:33,479 --> 01:36:38,000
Speaker 1: opening up karate dojo's everywhere. But but then then things

1621
01:36:38,280 --> 01:36:41,080
Speaker 1: now with mixed martial arts, people actually see how how

1622
01:36:41,200 --> 01:36:45,160
Speaker 1: fighting tends to tends to go down. And usually, and

1623
01:36:45,280 --> 01:36:47,439
Speaker 1: every time I say this, somebody, someone who's like, I'm

1624
01:36:47,439 --> 01:36:49,640
Speaker 1: a ninth degree black belt, sends me a message it

1625
01:36:49,680 --> 01:36:52,200
Speaker 1: gets mad at me. I'm just saying, for most of us, okay,

1626
01:36:52,280 --> 01:36:57,559
Speaker 1: for us mortals, a spinning roundhouse kick when you're leaping

1627
01:36:57,960 --> 01:37:00,600
Speaker 1: off the top of the roof of a car is

1628
01:37:00,760 --> 01:37:03,040
Speaker 1: not a great move to pull in a street fight,

1629
01:37:03,520 --> 01:37:06,000
Speaker 1: just from what I've seen, from what I'm told. That's

1630
01:37:06,640 --> 01:37:08,840
Speaker 1: but numb chucks are legal in New York now courting

1631
01:37:08,960 --> 01:37:11,679
Speaker 1: this judge under the Second Amendment, by the way, because

1632
01:37:11,720 --> 01:37:14,840
Speaker 1: they're saying that it's a weapon in common usage before

1633
01:37:14,880 --> 01:37:20,200
Speaker 1: they banned it. There you have it. The show ain't

1634
01:37:20,240 --> 01:37:29,080
Speaker 1: over yet, folks. Keeping it real it's time for roll call.

1635
01:37:41,080 --> 01:37:45,040
Speaker 1: I can't believe how few days there are left for

1636
01:37:45,320 --> 01:37:49,599
Speaker 1: roll call for anything in twenty eighteen. Just a little

1637
01:37:49,680 --> 01:37:53,479
Speaker 1: preview next week, my friends, I am going to be

1638
01:37:53,560 --> 01:37:57,559
Speaker 1: taking a few days off, so that means that I'm

1639
01:37:57,560 --> 01:37:59,360
Speaker 1: going to be hanging out with family and Miss Molly

1640
01:37:59,400 --> 01:38:02,960
Speaker 1: for the holiday. And the good news is though, I

1641
01:38:03,320 --> 01:38:09,360
Speaker 1: have a lot of excellent fill in guest hosts scheduled

1642
01:38:09,400 --> 01:38:11,240
Speaker 1: for next week. I mean people that you're really gonna

1643
01:38:11,240 --> 01:38:14,120
Speaker 1: want to hear from. You'll have a Rahim Kassam in

1644
01:38:14,200 --> 01:38:17,120
Speaker 1: the mix. You'll have Harlan Hill doing his thing. I

1645
01:38:17,160 --> 01:38:20,800
Speaker 1: think Harlan's a first timer. Also going to see if

1646
01:38:20,840 --> 01:38:24,600
Speaker 1: we can get the Godfather doctor Mike Opelka in the

1647
01:38:24,680 --> 01:38:27,120
Speaker 1: mix again I guess not technically a doctor, but you

1648
01:38:27,160 --> 01:38:30,720
Speaker 1: know what I mean, and maybe even Ben Weingarten if

1649
01:38:30,800 --> 01:38:33,839
Speaker 1: we can make that happen. So we've got some great

1650
01:38:34,160 --> 01:38:36,720
Speaker 1: guest hosts. So don't think that the Hut is not

1651
01:38:36,800 --> 01:38:38,680
Speaker 1: going to be a rock and next week and then

1652
01:38:39,240 --> 01:38:41,519
Speaker 1: once we get into the new year, oh, they're not

1653
01:38:41,560 --> 01:38:43,640
Speaker 1: going to be able to pry this microphone out of

1654
01:38:43,680 --> 01:38:45,360
Speaker 1: my hand. We're gonna have a lot of work to do.

1655
01:38:46,240 --> 01:38:47,800
Speaker 1: But I just wanted to give you that heads up

1656
01:38:47,840 --> 01:38:50,720
Speaker 1: for next week. So don't think that there won't be

1657
01:38:50,840 --> 01:38:53,240
Speaker 1: action in the Freedom Hunt. There will be. There will

1658
01:38:53,280 --> 01:38:56,120
Speaker 1: be every day next week, so make sure you tune

1659
01:38:56,160 --> 01:38:59,320
Speaker 1: in and hear from some of our favorite guest hosts,

1660
01:38:59,360 --> 01:39:03,280
Speaker 1: some of our favorite buddies. I with that. That was

1661
01:39:03,360 --> 01:39:05,080
Speaker 1: kind of an eye that got a little a little

1662
01:39:05,120 --> 01:39:07,800
Speaker 1: more guttural than I intended. But I here we go.

1663
01:39:08,800 --> 01:39:12,639
Speaker 1: Let's see what the action is. I want some new

1664
01:39:12,760 --> 01:39:15,880
Speaker 1: Facebook messages, well, not new messages, we got a lot

1665
01:39:15,920 --> 01:39:18,400
Speaker 1: of those. I want those two. I want new people

1666
01:39:18,479 --> 01:39:22,280
Speaker 1: to write, though. I've got some of my usual buddies

1667
01:39:23,000 --> 01:39:25,080
Speaker 1: lighten up the box, which I appreciate, but I'd like

1668
01:39:25,160 --> 01:39:26,599
Speaker 1: to hear from some of you folks out there who

1669
01:39:26,640 --> 01:39:29,639
Speaker 1: have never written before. Facebook dot com slash buck sexon

1670
01:39:29,880 --> 01:39:33,720
Speaker 1: is the way to do it. So now that we've

1671
01:39:33,840 --> 01:39:39,760
Speaker 1: established that, we can get into it. First up in

1672
01:39:41,280 --> 01:39:45,639
Speaker 1: this piece, we've got Michael who writes, honey glazed hams

1673
01:39:45,640 --> 01:39:51,639
Speaker 1: are baked, not roasted. Best stay back on those skis, dude, Well, Michael,

1674
01:39:51,720 --> 01:39:54,360
Speaker 1: savor the flavor, because you are correct on this one.

1675
01:39:54,479 --> 01:39:58,560
Speaker 1: Honey baked hams are baked and not roasted. So I

1676
01:39:58,680 --> 01:40:02,160
Speaker 1: guess I just I just lost out in the pork

1677
01:40:02,320 --> 01:40:07,800
Speaker 1: knowledge contest. So there's that. Speaking of knowledge, I think

1678
01:40:07,840 --> 01:40:10,960
Speaker 1: I'm going to do a Filet mignon tonight. And I

1679
01:40:11,080 --> 01:40:13,800
Speaker 1: even have a lobster tale that I managed to get

1680
01:40:14,280 --> 01:40:16,240
Speaker 1: that I might. I might make my own surf and

1681
01:40:16,360 --> 01:40:20,519
Speaker 1: turf baby, That's how I roll. Lisa writes, can someone

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Speaker 1: please tell the Republican Party that we don't care about

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Speaker 1: a government shutdown, but we do care about border security? Well, Lisa,

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Speaker 1: I think you might know from listening to the show

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Speaker 1: that I'm with you one hundred percent on this one.

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm doing everything that I can here to get

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Speaker 1: the word out. I'm disappointed, disappointed with Trump on this one.

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Speaker 1: And this might be a recurring theme because the president,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's one thing for him to be slapping

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Speaker 1: around CNN on Twitter and doing all the stuff that

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Speaker 1: he does when I feel like he's trying to execute

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Speaker 1: on the agenda. But I did not, in fact vote

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Speaker 1: for President Trump for his any Twitter game or his

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01:41:01,560 --> 01:41:05,080
Speaker 1: sparkling personality. I definitely didn't vote for him for his

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01:41:05,320 --> 01:41:09,200
Speaker 1: personal ethics. I voted because he made promises as a

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Speaker 1: politician to fulfill an agenda and to take this thing

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Speaker 1: all the way to the promised Land, so to speak,

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01:41:19,080 --> 01:41:22,320
Speaker 1: and that is not exactly happening right now. I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying he has failed. I'm not saying I don't support

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01:41:24,600 --> 01:41:26,960
Speaker 1: him anymore anything. I'm just saying we have to keep

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01:41:27,040 --> 01:41:30,760
Speaker 1: him honest. We gotta call balls and strikes, and this

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01:41:31,240 --> 01:41:37,840
Speaker 1: unwillingness to make the wall a essentially sene qua non

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01:41:38,280 --> 01:41:42,000
Speaker 1: right without which what it's not gonna fly. It's not

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01:41:42,080 --> 01:41:46,200
Speaker 1: gonna fly. With me, I think I'm I'm annoyed by

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01:41:46,280 --> 01:41:50,800
Speaker 1: this and I can't hold it back. Thomas right, it's

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01:41:50,800 --> 01:41:53,200
Speaker 1: a great day, buck. President Trump has spent two years

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01:41:53,320 --> 01:41:55,000
Speaker 1: d esclaim in the middle of these conflicts and has

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01:41:55,000 --> 01:41:57,519
Speaker 1: reached a point where d D is confident we have

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01:41:57,720 --> 01:42:01,560
Speaker 1: outlived are welcome in Iraq. In Afghanistan. He announced we

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01:42:01,640 --> 01:42:03,960
Speaker 1: will be with drawing troops from Syria and their support

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01:42:04,040 --> 01:42:06,959
Speaker 1: in Iraq will follow. I'm hopeful we'll hear an announcement

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01:42:06,960 --> 01:42:08,439
Speaker 1: in a few weeks. The troops in Iraq will be

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01:42:08,479 --> 01:42:11,000
Speaker 1: fully withdrawn by March. The scale down of troops in

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01:42:11,040 --> 01:42:13,160
Speaker 1: Afghanistan will begin in February and complete about the end

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01:42:13,160 --> 01:42:15,120
Speaker 1: of next year. It's time the leadership of those Middle

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Speaker 1: Eastern countries to side their own fate. We will be

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01:42:17,400 --> 01:42:21,639
Speaker 1: watching Shield tie well. Tom. I don't know. I don't

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01:42:21,680 --> 01:42:23,680
Speaker 1: think that he's going to pull troops out of Afghanistan,

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01:42:23,760 --> 01:42:27,000
Speaker 1: and I think he might even balk At pulling troops

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01:42:27,040 --> 01:42:30,040
Speaker 1: out of Iraq and maybe even Syria too. In Syria,

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01:42:30,080 --> 01:42:32,519
Speaker 1: we've got a relatively small footprint, and so that's a

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01:42:32,640 --> 01:42:36,080
Speaker 1: much that's a much easier operation than it would be

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Speaker 1: in some of these other places. You know, we shouldn't

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01:42:39,520 --> 01:42:42,559
Speaker 1: be rebuilding these countries though. We shouldn't be the ones

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01:42:42,560 --> 01:42:47,840
Speaker 1: who are in charge of making a successful nation in

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Speaker 1: any Middle Eastern country. It's not our fight. And I

1727
01:42:52,080 --> 01:42:54,479
Speaker 1: have tired of this, and I think the whole country

1728
01:42:54,520 --> 01:42:56,720
Speaker 1: has tired of this. And it's a lesson. It's a

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01:42:56,800 --> 01:42:58,240
Speaker 1: less than we have learned. Even when you are the

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01:42:58,320 --> 01:43:00,960
Speaker 1: hedge Amon, even when you are the super hour of

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01:43:01,040 --> 01:43:06,040
Speaker 1: the whole world, you can't want a decent rule of law,

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01:43:06,360 --> 01:43:11,919
Speaker 1: representative democracy more than the people in that country. Sometimes

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01:43:12,000 --> 01:43:14,840
Speaker 1: they wanted to Germany wanted it to Japan wanted it

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01:43:14,880 --> 01:43:19,519
Speaker 1: to do the Afghan people, some of them, not the

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01:43:19,560 --> 01:43:22,080
Speaker 1: way that we necessarily would Walt them too though, and

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01:43:22,400 --> 01:43:24,640
Speaker 1: not enough. It's just and it's just not going to

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01:43:24,680 --> 01:43:26,719
Speaker 1: be our problem. It's not going to be our fight anymore.

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01:43:26,720 --> 01:43:28,920
Speaker 1: And I think that's a good thing. But I also

1739
01:43:29,000 --> 01:43:31,240
Speaker 1: would keep an eye on Trump backtracking on this one.

1740
01:43:31,600 --> 01:43:40,160
Speaker 1: The establishment is very much invested in us continuing, you know.

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01:43:40,320 --> 01:43:43,439
Speaker 1: I mean, you've got guys like Rubio and others who believe,

1742
01:43:43,560 --> 01:43:46,920
Speaker 1: you know, Lindsay Graham, I miss I miss Kavanaugh hearing

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01:43:46,960 --> 01:43:49,799
Speaker 1: Lindsay Graham. I don't like, let's bomb bomb bomb everybody,

1744
01:43:49,880 --> 01:43:54,839
Speaker 1: Lindsay Graham. I don't think that's a good a good idea. Carla,

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01:43:55,400 --> 01:43:57,680
Speaker 1: Thank you, Buck. I was feeling discouraged today about the

1746
01:43:57,760 --> 01:44:00,640
Speaker 1: same things you were the guests you had clarify the

1747
01:44:00,680 --> 01:44:02,920
Speaker 1: flint stuff. At least I stayed up too late listening,

1748
01:44:02,960 --> 01:44:04,640
Speaker 1: but it was worth it. Well, Carla, thank you for

1749
01:44:04,720 --> 01:44:07,560
Speaker 1: giving me your time. I really do appreciate it. Ed.

1750
01:44:07,640 --> 01:44:10,120
Speaker 1: I'm glad that you feel like you can come here

1751
01:44:10,160 --> 01:44:14,000
Speaker 1: and I bring on guests who I respect and who

1752
01:44:14,040 --> 01:44:17,920
Speaker 1: I know bring something to the table, and they're not

1753
01:44:18,080 --> 01:44:20,840
Speaker 1: just going to tell you whatever they think that the

1754
01:44:21,439 --> 01:44:25,560
Speaker 1: overwhelming percentage of this audience wants to hear, or that

1755
01:44:25,720 --> 01:44:28,720
Speaker 1: Republicans or conservatives want to hear, we're gonna tell you

1756
01:44:28,760 --> 01:44:30,439
Speaker 1: what they think is true, and I do the same thing.

1757
01:44:30,840 --> 01:44:32,960
Speaker 1: And that's a standard that I have for people that

1758
01:44:33,040 --> 01:44:34,680
Speaker 1: we put on this show, and I think we do

1759
01:44:34,760 --> 01:44:36,960
Speaker 1: a pretty good job of always sticking to it. You know,

1760
01:44:37,000 --> 01:44:40,200
Speaker 1: Occasionally some bloviators slip in or also I try out

1761
01:44:40,280 --> 01:44:42,600
Speaker 1: new people. We put new people on as guests, and

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01:44:42,920 --> 01:44:45,320
Speaker 1: I can't really know till I hear from them, But

1763
01:44:45,479 --> 01:44:50,080
Speaker 1: by and large, the repeat, the repeat customers we have

1764
01:44:50,400 --> 01:44:53,000
Speaker 1: in terms of our guests are I think as good

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01:44:53,040 --> 01:44:56,880
Speaker 1: as as anybody in this business, and they do a

1766
01:44:56,920 --> 01:44:59,160
Speaker 1: phenomenal job. So I'm glad that they were able to

1767
01:44:59,280 --> 01:45:01,719
Speaker 1: illuminate it for are you? And yeah, the Flint situation

1768
01:45:01,920 --> 01:45:05,839
Speaker 1: was disappointing. Look, it's been a disappointing week for Trump supporters,

1769
01:45:05,880 --> 01:45:10,879
Speaker 1: for people that care about this movement and the populous

1770
01:45:10,920 --> 01:45:16,280
Speaker 1: conservatism that has been promised and in some ways acted upon.

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01:45:16,600 --> 01:45:18,880
Speaker 1: I don't really want to hear that much more about taxes, though,

1772
01:45:18,960 --> 01:45:23,160
Speaker 1: because yes, we had some tax reform, but it wasn't sweeping.

1773
01:45:23,280 --> 01:45:25,559
Speaker 1: It certainly wasn't a flat tax or a fair tax,

1774
01:45:26,240 --> 01:45:31,880
Speaker 1: and that's establishment GOP one on one, nothing different about that.

1775
01:45:32,280 --> 01:45:36,920
Speaker 1: The thing that Trump has been most successful in thus

1776
01:45:37,040 --> 01:45:41,160
Speaker 1: far are his Supreme Court and federal federal court picks,

1777
01:45:41,640 --> 01:45:43,880
Speaker 1: which he has outsourced largely to people who know more

1778
01:45:43,960 --> 01:45:45,519
Speaker 1: than him about that. But that's good. That's what he

1779
01:45:45,560 --> 01:45:47,280
Speaker 1: should do, right, and that's why he has experts in

1780
01:45:47,320 --> 01:45:52,960
Speaker 1: those matters. So his picks for judges and his ability

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01:45:53,040 --> 01:45:56,000
Speaker 1: to fight back against the media narrative and to create

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01:45:56,600 --> 01:46:02,240
Speaker 1: space for conversation that was even under previous GOP regimes

1783
01:46:02,439 --> 01:46:05,720
Speaker 1: disallowed because of political correctness. That's where Trump has been

1784
01:46:05,760 --> 01:46:08,240
Speaker 1: most successful, and also shining a real light on the

1785
01:46:08,320 --> 01:46:10,000
Speaker 1: media for being a bunch of clowns and a bunch

1786
01:46:10,000 --> 01:46:14,000
Speaker 1: of fake news jerks. But in terms of immigration, no,

1787
01:46:14,400 --> 01:46:19,360
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, not successful. Healthcare, no, I'm sorry, not successful.

1788
01:46:19,479 --> 01:46:23,519
Speaker 1: There are some areas where we have not won yet,

1789
01:46:23,680 --> 01:46:28,120
Speaker 1: you know, or haven't even seen real progress. You know,

1790
01:46:28,400 --> 01:46:30,320
Speaker 1: the border right now is as bad as it was

1791
01:46:30,400 --> 01:46:34,920
Speaker 1: before Trump came into office. That's just the truth, and

1792
01:46:35,000 --> 01:46:37,840
Speaker 1: I'm here to tell you the truth. Bob writes Buck

1793
01:46:37,920 --> 01:46:40,160
Speaker 1: been listening to talk about wanting to learn how to cook.

1794
01:46:40,600 --> 01:46:42,599
Speaker 1: I've always liked to cook, but the past few years

1795
01:46:42,600 --> 01:46:45,160
Speaker 1: have really kicked it. Up. One of the best resources

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01:46:45,200 --> 01:46:47,360
Speaker 1: I found was a show called good Eats. I really

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01:46:47,400 --> 01:46:50,639
Speaker 1: recommend you take a look. It's a combination of Julia Child,

1798
01:46:50,760 --> 01:46:53,400
Speaker 1: Mister Wizard, and the Muppets. The main thing I like

1799
01:46:53,680 --> 01:46:55,600
Speaker 1: is that he teaches you why you do things a

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01:46:55,680 --> 01:46:59,519
Speaker 1: certain way. Shields High love your show, Bob, Well, Bob,

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01:46:59,640 --> 01:47:02,040
Speaker 1: thank you. I'll definitely check that out. I'm really I'm

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01:47:02,080 --> 01:47:04,160
Speaker 1: really working on my cooking these days. One because I'm

1803
01:47:04,200 --> 01:47:07,439
Speaker 1: obviously trying to impress Miss Molly with new skills. And

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01:47:07,720 --> 01:47:11,559
Speaker 1: two i am honestly too worn out from my day

1805
01:47:11,560 --> 01:47:13,720
Speaker 1: to day schedule, which is up at five am, done

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01:47:13,720 --> 01:47:17,240
Speaker 1: at nine pm to be much of a much use

1807
01:47:17,280 --> 01:47:20,840
Speaker 1: in the gym. You know, I've definitely lost whatever whatever

1808
01:47:20,960 --> 01:47:23,800
Speaker 1: muscle that I had acquired from previous gym outings. From

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01:47:23,800 --> 01:47:25,840
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. Some of you would probably

1810
01:47:25,840 --> 01:47:27,680
Speaker 1: noticed I got I got very lean and mean for

1811
01:47:27,760 --> 01:47:31,000
Speaker 1: a while there. That is kind of fading away. So

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01:47:31,800 --> 01:47:34,840
Speaker 1: I'm spending more time in the kitchen and embracing that.

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01:47:34,880 --> 01:47:36,479
Speaker 1: But I'll get back into the gym. I'm gonna have

1814
01:47:36,560 --> 01:47:38,559
Speaker 1: to change my schedule up a little bit in twenty nineteen,

1815
01:47:38,640 --> 01:47:42,080
Speaker 1: but more on that later. Nothing will change on radio,

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Speaker 1: So that's the good news. Shanna writes, Can I learn

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Speaker 1: more about your background? Well, Shanna, you could have just

1818
01:47:49,200 --> 01:47:52,920
Speaker 1: Wikipedia and me before, but now there are people that

1819
01:47:53,720 --> 01:47:57,920
Speaker 1: have changed my Wikipedia page and deleted it, so that

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01:47:58,040 --> 01:48:00,479
Speaker 1: doesn't really work. If you google me all more about

1821
01:48:00,479 --> 01:48:02,519
Speaker 1: my background. There should be a fair amount of stuff

1822
01:48:02,560 --> 01:48:06,200
Speaker 1: up there, some interviews and things here and there. But yeah,

1823
01:48:06,640 --> 01:48:08,439
Speaker 1: or you could just listen to this show and know

1824
01:48:08,600 --> 01:48:11,400
Speaker 1: that I'll occasionally tell you anecdotes or a little bit

1825
01:48:11,439 --> 01:48:14,080
Speaker 1: of personal stuff, and that's the way it's going to be.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's it form for me and my friends.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for hanging out with me here

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Speaker 1: in the Freedom Hunt. As always, I will see you tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: Shields High. It's time for conservatives to no longer live

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Speaker 1: by the leave of the left when it comes to

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Speaker 1: social media. These big companies out there, Twitter, Facebook, they

1832
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Speaker 1: are dominated by progressives and that filters all the way down,

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Speaker 1: not just into their algorithms, but how they have terms

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Speaker 1: of service violations enforced, all the stuff that they're doing.

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