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Speaker 1: Coming up on Special Report.

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Speaker 2: Trump's Defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth faced the Senate for

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Speaker 2: his confirmation hearing yesterday.

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Speaker 3: We have some of those highlights, and Israel and Hamas

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Speaker 3: have agreed to a cease fire. We will break it

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Speaker 3: all down with retired Colonel Derek Hardy, and.

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Speaker 4: We'll speak with one woman who took a stand against

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Speaker 4: child grooming with her new documentary, American Groomer. All of

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Speaker 4: that and so much more right now on Special Report.

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Speaker 2: Welcome in to Special Report. I'm Michelle back As alongside

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Speaker 2: Bo Davidson, Emily Finn, and Tara dahl Well. A new

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Speaker 2: round of Senate confirmation hearings for President Trump's cabinet picks

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Speaker 2: is on tap for today.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 2: This comes after a I'm sing but fiery first day

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Speaker 2: for Secretary and Defense pick Pete Hegseth. There were many

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Speaker 2: gotcha moments as Senate Democrats grilled hegg Seth, including this

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Speaker 2: one with Senator Elizabeth Warren orr he might know where

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Speaker 2: us Pocahontas.

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Speaker 6: You're quite sure that every general who serves should not

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Speaker 6: go directly into the defense industry for ten years? Are

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Speaker 6: You're not willing to make that same pledge.

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Speaker 7: I'm not a general, Senator.

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Speaker 6: You'll be the one. Let us just be clear in

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Speaker 6: charge of the generals.

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Speaker 8: And Vice President elects J. D.

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Speaker 3: Vance immediately taking to Twitter to say, quote, I find

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Speaker 3: this grand standing from Senate Democrats over the Hegseth confirmation perplexing.

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Speaker 3: We haven't won a war in three decades and we

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Speaker 3: have a major recruitment challenge. Hegseeth is assuredly not more

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Speaker 3: of the same, and that's good.

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Speaker 4: And today Trump Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi took the

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Speaker 4: hot seat, setting the record straight with the Senate Judiciary

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Speaker 4: Committee members considering voting again.

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Speaker 9: As the next Attorney General of the United States, my

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Speaker 9: overriding objective will be to return the Department of Justice

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Speaker 9: to its core mission of keeping Americans safe and vigorously

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Speaker 9: prosecuting criminals. And that includes getting back to basics gangs, drugs, terrorists, cartels,

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Speaker 9: our border, and our foreign adversaries. That is what the

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Speaker 9: American people expect, and that is what they deserve from

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Speaker 9: the Department of Justice. If confirmed, I will do everything

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Speaker 9: in my power and it will be my great responsibility

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Speaker 9: to make America safe.

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Speaker 2: Wait, bo I thought that Trump hated women, and here

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Speaker 2: he has these nominees.

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Speaker 3: Quite accomplished, quite no nonsense, wants to get down to business.

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Speaker 8: I'm all in for PAMBONDI she's the right person for

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Speaker 8: the job.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, one hundred percent. Well, for more on all

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Speaker 2: of this, let's welcome in former federal and state prosecutor

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Speaker 2: Steve Barricks. Steve, thanks so much for joining special report.

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Speaker 5: Thanks for having me, of course.

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Speaker 2: So Steve, I want to first get to it. How

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Speaker 2: do you think Pam Bonnie is doing so far in

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Speaker 2: the hearings?

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Speaker 5: I thought she was amazing. I thought a particularly rich

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Speaker 5: moment was for my senator from California, Adam Shift, to

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Speaker 5: question her on law enforcement and crime issues when we

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Speaker 5: have rampant, out of control crime here in California. I

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Speaker 5: give the guy credit for nerve, but I thought she's

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Speaker 5: been fantastic. She's overqualified for the job, and I think

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Speaker 5: she's going to be an amazing attorney general. And I

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Speaker 5: think she's going to get all fifty three Republican votes

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Speaker 5: and some Democrats to support her as well.

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Speaker 8: I agree, Steve, it's you know, a Blum comes to mind.

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Speaker 3: It's just that the amount of charisma and just stoicness

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Speaker 8: I think is remarkable.

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Speaker 3: Well, Steve, won't you to take a look at this

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Speaker 3: headline from ceing In This Morning says why Pete Hegseth

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Speaker 3: is a perfect fit to be Trump's Pentagon chief. While

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Speaker 3: you might think they're actually supporting Trump's pick, the article

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Speaker 3: goes on to say that Pete Heg Sith could hardly

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Speaker 3: be more suited to be Donald Trump's Secretary of Defense,

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Speaker 3: even though he'd surely be deemed unqualified by any conventional president.

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Speaker 3: Is this only the beginning of a new era of

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Speaker 3: attack campaigns against the future Trump administration?

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Speaker 5: Well, apparently Democrats have learned absolutely no lessons from their

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Speaker 5: crushing defeat in November. I mean, it's the same old playbook.

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Speaker 5: It's the Republicans hate women, that Republicans are evil, that

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Speaker 5: Pete Hegseth has got a drinking problem. I mean, it

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Speaker 5: goes on and on and on, and they leave out

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Speaker 5: the issues regarding the fact that you know, Pete was

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Speaker 5: a warrior, Pete's a decorated veteran. Pete has the support

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Speaker 5: of the rank and file. And we have to get

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Speaker 5: back to basics in this country, you know, we have

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Speaker 5: to get back to the blocking and tackling of running

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Speaker 5: American people. So yeah, look, they're gonna they can't help

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Speaker 5: themselves obviously, and you know what, they're going to pay

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Speaker 5: the price again when they suffer catastrophic defeats again in

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Speaker 5: the midterm. So go right ahead, bring it on. You know,

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Speaker 5: we'll see how it works out for you guys.

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Speaker 2: Well, Steve to follow up on that. How do you

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Speaker 2: think HET's doing so far in the hearings?

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Speaker 5: I thought he's done great. You know, I thought his

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Speaker 5: moment with Elizabeth Warren was quite funny, quite clear. But

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Speaker 5: you know, I think he you know, when he came

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Speaker 5: he bases his decisions on, and that's faith, country, his family.

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Speaker 5: I think he's done a great job and he's shown

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Speaker 5: a lot of poise and I wouldn't expect any less

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Speaker 5: from this great cast of pointees that President Trump has

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Speaker 5: put forward for the American people.

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Speaker 2: Well, speaking of that cast, we stand by another day.

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Speaker 2: Of course, it's stay two of confirmation hearings. Now we're

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Speaker 2: Secretary nominee Christy Nome. Now, GNOME's hearing was postponed to

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Speaker 2: Friday due to paperwork issues. I wanted to ask, do

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Speaker 2: you anticipate any other issues coming up for Nome or,

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Speaker 2: for that matter, any of the other nominees.

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Speaker 5: Well, look, I think the interesting thing is I think

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Speaker 5: Governor Nome is going to be a very well supported candidate.

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Speaker 5: I think she's got a tremendous record of success in

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Speaker 5: her home state. I would also anticipate that Senator Rubio

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Speaker 5: will have an amazing time and will be affirmed without

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Speaker 5: much incident. I think that there might be some more

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Speaker 5: president has promised a new way forward for us, and

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Speaker 5: all of his nominees reflect that. I think they all

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Speaker 5: reflect the fact that, you know, Americ was heading in

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Speaker 5: the wrong direction under the Biden administration, and President Trump

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Speaker 5: has promised us a new way forward. So I think

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Speaker 5: all his nominees will be affirmed. But I do think

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Speaker 5: there'll be some more fireworks down the road over the

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Speaker 5: next week or so.

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Speaker 8: Without a doubt.

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Speaker 3: Well, speaking of other fireworks, Special Counsel Jack Smith's final

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Speaker 3: report says that Donald Trump would have been convicted of

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Speaker 3: election interference related to the twenty twenty election if he

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Speaker 3: hadn't won the twenty twenty four race. Now, Steve, it's

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Speaker 3: beyond clear that Smith weaponized the legal system to politically

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Speaker 5: I think they should. You know, I've talked about this

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Speaker 5: issue quite a bit. I do think that there should

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Speaker 5: be a commission appointed to investigate how we go about

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Speaker 5: appointing special prosecutors in the future. I mean, we've seen

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Speaker 5: issues not only with Jack Smith, but Robert Mueller in

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Speaker 5: the past, so this is not an isolated incident where

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Speaker 5: this office has been utilized for political purposes. So I

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Speaker 5: do think we have to get a handle on this,

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Speaker 5: and we really have to for America's future, whether it

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Speaker 5: that we're not going to stand for lawfare going forward,

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Speaker 5: that justice is blind, and we have to recommit to

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Speaker 5: the rule of law for real, and I think that's

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Speaker 5: going to be very important. You know, I love his

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Speaker 5: statement when he says that President Trump would have been convicted.

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Speaker 5: Jack Smith lost every court hearing he had in the

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Speaker 5: Court of Appeal and including the United States Supreme Court,

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Speaker 5: So he doesn't exactly have a great record of success.

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Speaker 2: So let me ask you this, then, where do you

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Speaker 5: That's a very interesting question. I mean, you know, I

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Speaker 5: think that there's probably, you know, tons of people who

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Speaker 5: share the political philosophy of Jack Smith. In my profession,

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Speaker 5: that's the legal profession. So if he wanted to go

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Speaker 5: no problem. But as far as future government service, I

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Speaker 5: think his service as special prosecutor was disappointing, to say

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Speaker 5: the least. So I don't know if he has a future.

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Speaker 2: In government code you're putting it kindly, just so you know,

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Speaker 2: in very politically correct terms. But moving on to Biden's

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Speaker 2: final farewell to America. Tonight, Joe will give a prime

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Speaker 2: time speech to the nation days before he leaves now

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Speaker 1: Speech will be a.

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Speaker 2: First since deciding to withdraw from the twenty twenty four race,

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Speaker 2: and this is typically a speech that's usually raved and

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Speaker 2: reviewed for years upon years. How do you think this

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Speaker 5: Well, I could make, you know, glib comments about the

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Speaker 5: fact that you know, President Biden hasn't been serving for

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Speaker 5: a very long period of time and hasn't been serving

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Speaker 5: in answer to your question, you know, I would hope

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Speaker 5: that President Biden takes this opportunity to wish the future

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Speaker 5: but more importantly, to set a tone of conciliation with

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Speaker 5: I haven't seen a lot of that from President Biden

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Speaker 8: We hope so well.

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Speaker 3: Steven, want to ask you about Greenland. You know, this

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Speaker 3: is one that Donald Trump has thrown out there. I

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Speaker 3: know Donald Trump Junior was there recently and met with

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Speaker 3: signaling there at least open potentially to acquisition. What are

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Speaker 3: your thoughts on this in the reality of it, and

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Speaker 3: how would something like that come to pass.

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Speaker 5: Well, look, I think a lot of different things can occur.

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Speaker 5: You know, we've seen this way way back in our history,

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Speaker 5: would see that this time. It could be some sort

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Speaker 5: do that. But you know, a lot of people say, well,

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Speaker 5: this is crazy Greenland, why does it matter? And I

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Speaker 5: think this actually shows amazing foresight on the part of

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Speaker 5: the president. I think he's looking at what's going on

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Speaker 5: trade standpoint, very strategic. This shows amazing foresight on the

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Speaker 5: part of the President and I'm looking forward to something

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Speaker 10: Welcome back to your special report.

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Speaker 4: Several of President Trump's nominees for key cabinet positions in

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Speaker 10: Today.

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Speaker 3: we want to welcome in Joe Hoft to the show.

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Speaker 3: He's an author and host of The Joe hoff Show.

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Speaker 3: So thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 8: Joe.

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Speaker 11: Guy's great to be here. Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 3: Well, Joe, do you think any of these nominees that

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Speaker 4: the least. Joe, thank you so much for coming on

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Speaker 4: the show today. Thanks now coming up, Israel and Hamas

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Speaker 7: Sugar here, that you all voted for Secretary of Austin.

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Speaker 13: That was Senator Mark Wayne Mullen during president and like

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Speaker 14: Biden administration.

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Speaker 12: That's point one.

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Speaker 14: And point two is we're going to see this first

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Speaker 14: phase and we may get some hostages out. Probably there

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Speaker 14: are any more than twenty to thirty that are still alive.

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Speaker 14: So for the most part of the ninety six to

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Speaker 14: one hundred that are still there, they're going to mostly

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Speaker 14: mostly be in bodies. And that's very, very unfortunate because

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Speaker 14: we've been dealing there with a very evil regime. So

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Speaker 14: that's point number one. We'll probably get through the first

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Speaker 14: phase of this. And on the counter side, the Israelis

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Speaker 14: are going to release almost a thousand terrorists and criminals

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Speaker 14: that are going to rejoin the ranks of Hamas, So

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Speaker 14: that's a very big problem. That said, I think we'll

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Speaker 14: get through the first phase, but the prospects are not

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Speaker 14: good for real peace.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, you can't have peace when Hamas is

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Speaker 13: controlling Gaza.

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Speaker 1: That's just a fact.

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Speaker 13: And I mean, colonel, so I mean here, we know

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Speaker 13: that it was President elect Trump who was behind all

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Speaker 13: of this. The only reason we have an agreement is

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Speaker 13: because of him. He announced Central Social we have a

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Speaker 13: deal for the hostages in the Middle East, and he

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Speaker 13: was the first leader to make that announcement. And then

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Speaker 13: he followed with another post stating that this epic sees

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Speaker 13: fire agreement could have only happened as a result of

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Speaker 13: our historic victory in November. So we know that he

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Speaker 13: was undeniably it was due to Trump and winning in

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Speaker 13: November his election. But yeah, Biden even this afternoon came

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Speaker 13: on and took credit for it. But what does this

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Speaker 13: tell you, colonel, about Trump's influence even before he takes office.

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Speaker 14: Well, it's significant, and we see that across the board

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Speaker 14: in Europe and in Asia, and in South America Mexico

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Speaker 14: our neighbor to the south, and in Canada to the north.

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Speaker 14: They are recognizing the importance of the president's leadership, his vision.

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Speaker 14: And then when he says something, he means it okay.

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Speaker 14: And he is a very transactional president, and he's going

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Speaker 14: to make deals and he's going to get the best

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Speaker 14: daily can for the American worker and American national security.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, but does this really mean that the war against

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Speaker 13: Hamas is over? In the agreement, it sounds like phase two,

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Speaker 13: phase three. They are expecting, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, the war to be over against Hamas.

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Speaker 13: But we know that Pete Hegseth came ou yesterday and

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Speaker 13: said that he stands by Israel and he agrees with

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Speaker 13: killing every single one of the Hamas members. You heard

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Speaker 13: from Marco Rubio today that said you cannot have peace

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Speaker 13: with Hamas take it having control in the Gaza strip.

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Speaker 13: So from all of the national security and foreign policy

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Speaker 13: policy leaders that Trump has put into place and nominated,

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Speaker 13: they are very strong against tak it saying you could

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Speaker 13: not have peace with Hammas and control. So do you

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Speaker 13: think you will see eventually in eradication of Hamas and Gaza.

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Speaker 14: I think what we're going to see is we're going

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Speaker 14: to go through this first phase of getting the hostages

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Speaker 14: and the bodies back. There will be a release of

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Speaker 14: Palestinian terrorists. The second phase is highly problematic, and I think,

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Speaker 14: you know, the celebration by Hamas and others in Qatar

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Speaker 14: and Turkey is probably premature because we're probably not going

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Speaker 14: to get to that point of peace or real armistice.

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Speaker 14: But they're hoping that the United Nations and NRA and

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Speaker 14: Katari's and the and the Palace Dians, they're hoping to

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Speaker 14: be rebuilt, to rearm themselves and fight again another day. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 14: Israel understands what we have forgotten here in the West

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Speaker 14: and in America. They are fighting a very evil regime

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Speaker 14: like the Nazis in Germany and World War Two, and

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Speaker 14: you have to just destroy and defeat them unconditionally.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, you need an absolute, unconditional surrender, and you need

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Speaker 13: to destroy the ideology as well, like we did with Japan.

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Speaker 13: But I also want to ask you about one of

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Speaker 13: the concerns that I have is these six hundred humanitarian

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Speaker 13: trucks now that are going to be going into Gaza.

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Speaker 13: Fifty will be carrying fuel and three hundred are allocated

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Speaker 13: to the north into Gaza. So will Hamas just rebuild,

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Speaker 13: regroup and rearm and then you overlay that with the

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Speaker 13: Palestinian prisoners that are going to be released as well,

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Speaker 13: how is that going to impact and be able to

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Speaker 13: get Hamas even more stronger. And we don't know what's

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Speaker 13: all on those humanitarian trucks as well, they could be

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Speaker 13: funneling in arms at other things that Hamas can be using.

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Speaker 14: Well, you're absolutely right, you know, they're going to look

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Speaker 14: at this as a chance to you know, rebuild and recalibrate,

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Speaker 14: and they're going to have to do that, rebuild their military,

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Speaker 14: their political structure because there's been a lot of damage

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Speaker 14: to Hamas inflicted on them by the Israelis. That said,

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Speaker 14: you know, the United Nations, the international community, the Europeans

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Speaker 14: and even the United States has promised billions and billions

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Speaker 14: of dollars of aid to rebuild Gaza, which will allow

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Speaker 14: Hamas to regain power and start another war again unless

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Speaker 14: very difficult decisions are made and unless this president really

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Speaker 14: exerts tremendous leadership the incoming president to shape the post

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Speaker 14: peace armistice phase.

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Speaker 13: So how do you see the Arab countries working out

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Speaker 13: their colonel in Gaza, Because you cannot rebuild and have

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Speaker 13: reconstruction again in Gaza like Hamas has any, they have

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Speaker 13: the expectations. They should have no expectation to rebuild at

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Speaker 13: all for Hamas at all, they should be completely destroyed.

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Speaker 13: But how are the Arab countries, what do you see

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Speaker 13: taking place. Will they have any kind of role in

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Speaker 13: rebuilding Gaza, but only if Hamas is defeated, and only

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Speaker 13: if there is new leadership. But there is no leadership,

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Speaker 13: is there like, who will control Gaza? Palestinian authority doesn't

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Speaker 13: They're not strong enough, they don't exist to be able

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Speaker 13: to control Gaza.

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Speaker 14: Well, you're absolutely right. The question since day one, when

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Speaker 14: we're looking at what happens next the day after, is

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Speaker 14: what type of security for US is going to go

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Speaker 14: in there that has the capability to enforce rule of

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Speaker 14: law and to pressure the terrorists and those that are

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Speaker 14: going to undermine the rebuilding effort and continue to fight

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Speaker 14: and conduct actions against Israel. That's been the number one question.

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Speaker 14: And you know our Arab friends, the Egyptians and others

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Speaker 14: are not going to do that. They will be very vulnerable.

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Speaker 14: And we've seen with United Nations in southern Lebanon and

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Speaker 14: elsewhere they are on the side of Hamas and Hesbelah.

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Speaker 14: So that doesn't look good. So it looks like it's

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Speaker 14: going to have to be a European entity or a

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Speaker 14: United States contingent, which is not anything that this president

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Speaker 14: coming in or the Europeans want to do because they

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Speaker 14: don't want body bags coming home early. So that's the

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Speaker 14: big question. What is next, how do you do it?

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Speaker 14: Who does it?

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Speaker 13: And then when you overlay that with Lebanon too, I

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Speaker 13: just want to go up to Lebanon. You know they

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Speaker 13: have new leadership there, a new prime minister. Can you

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Speaker 13: talk about the new leadership and what that means for

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Speaker 13: what's happening up in southern Lebanon with the war now

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Speaker 13: between Israel and HESBLA.

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Speaker 14: Well, I think you know, there's some opportunity there in

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Speaker 14: Lebanon with a change in the political leadership. But most

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Speaker 14: importantly what has happened in Damascus, and with the success

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Speaker 14: of the IDF and Israel in southern Lebanon going after

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Speaker 14: Syria and shaping Hesblah and diminishing their capabilities, it's opened

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Speaker 14: up a window of opportunity in Lebanon to recalibrate and

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Speaker 14: set them on a pathway to maybe more moderation. It's

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Speaker 14: a lot of work needs to be done, but at

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Speaker 14: least there's an opportunity and there's new leadership. They're going

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Speaker 14: to be severely tested though.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, and it looks like Saudi is behind the new

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Speaker 13: leadership in Lebanon, which really changes the dynamic over there

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Speaker 13: from being procheate too soony now, which is going to

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Speaker 13: really make an impact. But I want to just ask

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Speaker 13: you before we have to go, colonel, about yesterday during

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Speaker 13: the confirmation hearing, you heard Pete talk about Afghanistan and

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Speaker 13: how there has been no accountability towards Afghanistan. Do you

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Speaker 13: see accountability coming at all towards those that are responsible

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Speaker 13: for the treasonous which we're all from Afghanistan. Do you

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Speaker 13: think we'll actually see anyone be released, be held accountable,

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Speaker 13: and any changes when it comes to Afghanistan.

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Speaker 14: I think the bigger story is it's not going to

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Speaker 14: stop just with an examination of who was involved in

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Speaker 14: the decision making in Afghanistan and holding them accountable. I

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Speaker 14: think there's going to be a removal and retirement of

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Speaker 14: scores of general officers at the three and four star

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Speaker 14: rank because there are problems and how they have politicized

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Speaker 14: the military, how they've not been effective, and why continue

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Speaker 14: military officers in leadership roles who have shown that they

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Speaker 14: are political, they're oppositional, and they are not competent.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 13: Well, thank you colonel so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you coming on the show.

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Speaker 14: Take care, Thank you, thanks well.

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Speaker 13: Coming up later in the show, we speak with the

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Speaker 13: base mother Elena Barbara, about her fight for parental rights

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Speaker 13: and her new documentary American Groomer. Will be right back

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Speaker 13: in a moment.

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Speaker 8: We welcome back to Special Reports.

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Speaker 3: The weather is absolutely frigid in many parts of the US,

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Speaker 3: and people are getting sick.

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Speaker 8: The question is are they getting.

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Speaker 3: Cold, the flu, RSV or neurovirus and how can we

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Speaker 3: protect ourselves from these illnesses. Here to give us some

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Speaker 3: insight is Chief Patient Officer of the Wellness Company, doctor

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Speaker 3: Drew Penske.

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Speaker 8: Welcome doctor Drew to Special Report.

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Speaker 15: Nice to meet you guys, and good to see you again.

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Speaker 15: But I got to tell you something. It's so odd

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Speaker 15: to me that this sort of thing is something that

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Speaker 15: you understand that there we are. We've seem to have

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Speaker 15: lost track of the fact as a country that we

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Speaker 15: are biological agents and things happen to us as biological agents,

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Speaker 15: not the least of which is aging and dying. We've got,

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Speaker 15: God forbid, we don't ever address that. But now we've

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Speaker 15: decided safety ubbril us. We can't even get a cold,

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Speaker 15: and I just want to start by saying people should

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Speaker 15: not worry. One of the things that we are worried about, however,

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Speaker 15: There's good documentation of gain and function research underway, so

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Speaker 15: our emergency kits at the TWC. So you have tama flu.

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Speaker 15: It's been shown to have some activity against that virus.

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Speaker 15: And even so that is should that oh there we

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Speaker 15: are in our there's our website. But even so, if

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Speaker 15: it should become pathogenic to the point that people are

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Speaker 15: actually getting sick and it's actually being transmitted to hum

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Speaker 15: human to human, the point is be ready. I will

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Speaker 15: tell you what. I'm here in Pasadena in the middle

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Speaker 15: of the fires. They came pressing down on us, and

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Speaker 15: I'll tell you what. I was so glad. The one

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Speaker 15: kid I was glad I had was my field kit

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Speaker 15: from TWC, which we opened more than once during this

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Speaker 15: whole episode of warning you're going to be evacuated any minute.

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Speaker 15: So it is it is something that patients should be empowered. Now,

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Speaker 15: you shouldn't have to spend money going to an er.

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Speaker 15: You certainly shouldn't have to wait three weeks for an appointment.

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Speaker 15: Just head of it at TBC. If you have needs,

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Speaker 15: we've got you covered there now. In terms of differentiating

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Speaker 15: amongst these different illnesses, look, if you're not very very

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Speaker 15: young or very very old, the differentiation is not going

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Speaker 15: to be a big issue for you. Except to say

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Speaker 15: that neuro virus when it hits people seem very confused

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Speaker 15: about this. When we've been through many waves of neurovirus,

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Speaker 15: it is prominently GI and fever and prostration. So diarrhea, sick, diarrhea, fever,

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Speaker 15: and you're out of it for a few days. And

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Speaker 15: guess what, provided you have no severe underlying health conditions,

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Speaker 15: you will get better. Just keep the fluids up, big

659
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 15: tinnel for the egs and pains. And remember, being a

660
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 15: biological agent has certain proclivities, has certain liabilities associated with it,

661
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Speaker 15: but we should celebrate it and not hide from it.

662
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Speaker 2: Well, doctor, I hope my mom's listening, by the way,

663
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Speaker 2: because she panics anytime any of us have a cold.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, I get it, listen. I get it. As a parent.

665
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:01,799
Speaker 15: When my kids were little there in their thirties now,

666
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:03,759
Speaker 15: thank god. But when they were little, you know, I

667
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 15: know too much, so I would always deny, deny, deny.

668
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 15: It's no big deal. It's no bod deal. Oh my god,

669
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Speaker 15: it's leukemia. So I understand being a parrot and how

670
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 15: you are denial and if you're panic pron which I am,

671
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 15: how it can get the best of you. But there

672
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 15: are lots of things to panic about as a biological being.

673
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:26,239
Speaker 15: Viruses generally are not for young, healthy people. Think about it.

674
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 15: There are a few that are of concern, but for

675
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Speaker 15: the most part. Look, we had dangy fever transmitted by

676
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 15: an indigenous mosquito twice here in southern California. That is

677
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:39,840
Speaker 15: a huge deal. That is going to be a major

678
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Speaker 15: infection control issue. And the press isn't interested in that

679
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 15: because they don't know what dangy fever is and don't

680
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 15: know how big a deal this is. We're focusing on

681
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 15: things that are routine, that are part of the process

682
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Speaker 15: of being a biological agent, and it's for the physicians

683
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Speaker 15: and the epidemiologists and the CDC for us to worry

684
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Speaker 15: about these things.

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Speaker 13: We got you covered, We.

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Speaker 3: Got you well, doctor Drew. I happen to know that

687
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Speaker 3: you were a singer. I do know this that you

688
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,359
Speaker 3: are a very gifted singer. I'm a singer as well.

689
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 3: When I travel, sometimes illness happens.

690
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Speaker 8: It just happens.

691
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Speaker 3: I want to know about the povidone iodone immunemis that

692
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:16,960
Speaker 3: you guys have. It has been suggested before. Tell me

693
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 3: a little bit about it. What it does. Is it

694
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 3: good for someone like me who's traveling, who wants to

695
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:22,320
Speaker 3: be able to sing and stay healthy.

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00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 8: Tell me about it and I can attest.

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00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 2: He's been asking about this for a base So I.

698
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Speaker 15: Am a huge fan of nasal levage. So the reality

699
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:35,880
Speaker 15: is that a simple sailine nasal levage that you can

700
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:40,319
Speaker 15: get anywhere probably would have been more effective than all

701
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 15: the masking we did during the pandemic. It is this

702
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 15: is where the viruses get in and attach and then

703
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:50,759
Speaker 15: get into our system through the nasal passages, and they

704
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:56,360
Speaker 15: are dislodged by simple sailing levage. But even more efficacious

705
00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:01,360
Speaker 15: is a poviodine solution that is really effective for you. However,

706
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Speaker 15: I'm a little concerned. As a singer, the one thing

707
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 15: you have to always worry about is your chord's drying out. Yes,

708
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:11,399
Speaker 15: and the pavidine is a little drying, so you might

709
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 15: want to mix and match a little bit like I

710
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 15: don't know if you're using any other kinds of inhalers

711
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 15: or anything of that sort, but you know, a lot

712
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 15: of hot teas, a lot of good stuff. Keep the

713
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 15: lubrication going, Obi and I want today and maybe the

714
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Speaker 15: naisy the saline twice a day for a singer, it's funny.

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Speaker 16: I was.

716
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:30,759
Speaker 15: I sang opera for many, many, many years. And take

717
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Speaker 15: care of your chords. I've got reflox. I've got some

718
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 15: verises in my chord. My whole pisade, Joe is completely gone.

719
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Speaker 15: When you lose that stuff, it's disturbing.

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Speaker 12: I know.

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Speaker 8: Well, thanks time you have that. We're doing a singing

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Speaker 8: segment here we.

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Speaker 2: Got to do for the wellness of the tw Don

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Speaker 2: Hell's slash voice, by.

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Speaker 8: The way, appreciate it that well. Coming up, the kids

726
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Speaker 8: are not all right. In fact, grooming has been happening

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Speaker 8: for a while now.

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Speaker 3: We'll discuss with the creator of a new documentary when

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Speaker 17: Up until about five minutes ago. I was your average

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Speaker 17: American mother. Then Sonny put me on YouTube and we

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Speaker 17: started speaking our minds.

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Speaker 8: Have you heard of The Based Mother?

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Speaker 17: But began as fun turned into a mission I never

758
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Speaker 17: saw coming to stop the sexualization of children in American schools.

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Speaker 17: If you won't believe what I found out.

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Speaker 8: Welcome back to Special Report.

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Speaker 3: You just saw a clip from the new documentary American

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Speaker 3: Groomer by Elena Barbera aka The Based Mother. The film

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Speaker 3: depicts how our children have become hyper sexualized by modern

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Speaker 3: culture in a way that has even become interwoven into

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Speaker 3: schools and curricula.

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Speaker 4: Once just an average mom, Elena Barbera decided to get

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Speaker 4: off the sidelines and take action by creating this documentary,

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Speaker 4: which exposes the fact that the kids are not in

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Speaker 4: fact all right. Here to speak with us is the

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Speaker 4: creator of this film, and we are about to get based.

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Speaker 4: So welcome Elena Barbera.

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Speaker 8: Let's do it Allada.

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Speaker 12: Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 3: Well, Elena, you know from your film, which we just

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Speaker 3: saw a little clip of, we learn that in thirty

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Speaker 3: nine states it is perfectly legal to show kids pornographic

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Speaker 3: material in school. Here's one of your experts from the

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Speaker 3: film describing it.

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Speaker 8: Take a look.

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Speaker 16: Thirty seven states have what's called obscenity exemption statutes, and

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Speaker 16: that allows them to put pornographic books in schools. So

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Speaker 16: what's happening is you can be in a school and

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Speaker 16: show children in a classroom books like gender queer books

784
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Speaker 16: like Let's talk about It, whatever porn it is, doesn't matter.

785
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Speaker 16: You could show it to But if you walk outside

786
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Speaker 16: that school to the playground across the park, you show

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Speaker 16: those same children the same material, you'll be arrested.

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Speaker 3: So Elena, firstly, how did you come to learn this statistic?

789
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Speaker 3: Because it's highly shocking and disturbing.

790
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Speaker 18: The moment that I was interviewing Terry showing from the

791
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Speaker 18: Principles projects that you just showed was the moment that

792
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Speaker 18: I learned this. I came into this project and I

793
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Speaker 18: started researching, and the amount of information is so abundant

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Speaker 18: and overwhelming that you know, when I called him and said,

795
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Speaker 18: you know, can I come in for an interview you,

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Speaker 18: I hadn't even gotten that far.

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Speaker 12: Yet, and I was shocked.

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Speaker 18: You could have bowled me over and hearing it again

799
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Speaker 18: every time I hear it, hearing it again now it

800
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Speaker 18: flips me out to think how I was one of

801
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Speaker 18: millions of Americans who were just asleep, trusted that our

802
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 18: government was doing the right thing by us and our children.

803
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Speaker 18: And to come to find out that they were placing

804
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Speaker 18: these laws in all these states to make sure that

805
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Speaker 18: they could hand children pornography is beyond mind blowing.

806
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Speaker 10: Yeah, to say the least.

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Speaker 4: Now, some of this hyper sexualization comes from the LGBTQ

808
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 4: community's influence. When you think about drag queens reading to

809
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Speaker 4: kids and this whole notion of allowing children to mimic

810
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Speaker 4: sexualized scenarios as if it's just a game of dress up.

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Speaker 10: I mean, how did this happen?

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Speaker 18: Well, it's been a slow burn over i'd say the

813
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Speaker 18: last forty fifty years or so. And you know a

814
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Speaker 18: lot of people are quick to say, oh, this is

815
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Speaker 18: just the Biden administration. Absolutely, it unfortunately is not how

816
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Speaker 18: did it happen? It's not just the lgbt community. A

817
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Speaker 18: lot of obscene and I'm talking about hardcore pornography and erotica,

818
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:25,839
Speaker 18: sado masochism that we're seeing in the schools in.

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Speaker 12: Literature is about straight people.

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Speaker 18: It's not even all just LGBTQ. But we're called homophobes

821
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Speaker 18: and transphobes. So you have the federal government and on it,

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Speaker 18: you have both teachers unions in on it. Planned Parenthood

823
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Speaker 18: seekis the American Library Association and the Human Rights Campaign.

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Speaker 18: They all have influence and materials in our schools, and

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Speaker 18: they all work in concert to get sex in front

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Speaker 18: of kids, starting in as little as pre k from

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Speaker 18: what I can find, where they start talking to children

828
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Speaker 18: about their genitals and how they feel about them.

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Speaker 3: My god, Well, you know, Elena, it's not not all

830
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Speaker 3: gay people are for this. You did speak with gays

831
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Speaker 3: against groomers or group who wants to protect children.

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Speaker 8: Let's take a look at that clip.

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Speaker 12: What's happening.

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Speaker 19: The backlash is growing against all of us, you know,

835
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Speaker 19: and it's hard to even blame people for it. But

836
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Speaker 19: I think that that's why what we're doing is so important.

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Speaker 19: We get comments all the time every day saying you're

838
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Speaker 19: changing my perception of the gay community of gay people,

839
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Speaker 19: because you know, all you see coming out of the

840
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Speaker 19: community right now is stuff like this and the drag

841
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Speaker 19: Queen Story Hours and the half naked drag shows with

842
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Speaker 19: kids involved, and you know, a normal person seeing that

843
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 19: that isn't that doesn't really know many gay people, they're like,

844
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Speaker 19: they're thinking that this is just what all of us

845
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Speaker 19: want and this is all of our agenda, and that's

846
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Speaker 19: not true. And so I always remind people that it's

847
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Speaker 19: actually a fringe minority within our community that want to

848
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Speaker 19: do this and that are pushing this, but the majority

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Speaker 19: of them are straight that are actually at the top

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Speaker 19: controlling what.

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Speaker 12: You know, these books that get into schools, are.

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Speaker 19: Funding these uh you know, pushing for the medicalization, you know,

853
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Speaker 19: these therapists and these doctors.

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Speaker 3: Well lend you know that they say that drag queens,

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Speaker 3: story hours and half naked drag shows is really a

856
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Speaker 3: fringe group, but it seems pretty prevalent. And one thing

857
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Speaker 3: I took away from that maybe you can speak to it,

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Speaker 3: and you just said it a minute ago, is a

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Speaker 3: lot of straight people are somehow at the top of

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Speaker 3: this too.

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Speaker 8: And I think about even a lot of minority groups.

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Speaker 3: You even go to BLM other liberal causes, it seems

863
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Speaker 3: like it's the straight white liberal that's at the top

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Speaker 3: of all of this somehow, that it's not actually some

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Speaker 3: of the minority groups doing some of this. So will

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Speaker 3: you speak to that please, and why some of the

867
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Speaker 3: stuff seems so prevalent.

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Speaker 18: Well, I think that these straight white liberal from where

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Speaker 18: I stand, is just looking for people to save, and

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Speaker 18: so they if you can convince them that there's a

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Speaker 18: victim somewhere drowning in some sort of oppression, they're going

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Speaker 18: to jump on board. So when somebody like me says

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Speaker 18: this vulgar book is inappropriate for a child, they will say,

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Speaker 18: you're just trying to oppress the LGBT community because it's

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Speaker 18: wrapped in this rainbow.

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Speaker 12: And that's just.

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Speaker 18: I can't figure out why there is a normal an

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Speaker 18: attempt to normalize sex for children, an attempt to normalize

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Speaker 18: pedophilia with children, because my mind just isn't dark and

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Speaker 18: sick enough to even go there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it just seems like common sense to protect children

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Speaker 4: from those kind of threats.

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Speaker 10: Now, I want to get your take on this.

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Speaker 4: There was also another very disturbing statistic that you reveal

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Speaker 4: in the film that shows that sexual abuse survivors are

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Speaker 4: three times more likely to commit suicide. Tell us about

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Speaker 4: how dangerous sexual abuse is mentally to children.

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Speaker 18: So yes, three times more likely to commit suicide. Children

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Speaker 18: who are sexually abused are more likely to certainly have

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Speaker 18: PTSD they're more likely to abuse drugs, abuse alcohol, ultimately

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Speaker 18: not take care of their bodies in a lot of ways,

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Speaker 18: and that would include, you know, leading them downroads where

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Speaker 18: they could they have higher risks of cancer and heart disease,

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Speaker 18: higher risks of divorce and having you know, just dysfunctional

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Speaker 18: relationships as they grow up. And that's when they turn

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Speaker 18: into adults. So what we're doing by grooming fifty million

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Speaker 18: American public school children every day to talk and think

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Speaker 18: about sex constantly is setting up the future for people,

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Speaker 18: just a whole nation of traumatized people. And that's what

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Speaker 18: we're doing the entire country. If we don't put nip

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Speaker 18: this in the bud now, the entire country is going

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Speaker 18: to be the cuckoo's nest in twenty years. I don't

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Speaker 18: know how we're going to handle the mental health crisis

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Speaker 18: that's coming.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's significant. Well, hopefully RFK can do something about it.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, God bless them for coming in

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Speaker 3: there and at least, you know, addressing some of these issues.

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Speaker 3: You know, Elena, the outgoing Biden administration you referenced earlier,

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Speaker 3: they spent over one hundred million dollars on DEI initiatives.

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Speaker 3: And over a billion in DEI grants. So it seems

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Speaker 3: to me that the fish rots from the head down

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Speaker 3: that some of the blame. I know you mentioned other

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Speaker 3: administrations to lie in this Democrat administration. Did you see

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Speaker 3: it accelerate in the past four years?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 12: Absolutely, so.

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Speaker 18: I didn't mean to sound like a friend to the

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Speaker 18: Biden administration, because everything that's been happening over the past

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Speaker 18: several decades, slowly they hit the gas on this and

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Speaker 18: they went all in on trying to teach children that

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Speaker 18: they're born in the wrong body, teaching children that you

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Speaker 18: are either the oppressed.

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Speaker 12: Or the oppressor, and to look at each other with suspicion.

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Speaker 18: America is bad. You know, everybody's really gay on the inside.

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Speaker 18: Everything like that they have done, right from the Department

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Speaker 18: of Education down. Why the Department of Justice spent one

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Speaker 18: hundred million dollars on sending DEI and indoctrination grants to

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Speaker 18: schools is a mystery. I haven't heard one person give

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Speaker 18: me a good reason why they felt it was their

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Speaker 18: job to get involved in that.

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Speaker 10: Absolutely.

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Speaker 4: I think, you know, the left, they've just taken it

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Speaker 4: way too far. They've gone way too progressive, and that's

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Speaker 4: why President Trump was elected last November. We've been watching

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Speaker 4: this week his nominees for his cabinet, their confirmation hearings.

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Speaker 4: Pete Hegseth was yesterday, and we know that Trump wants

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Speaker 4: to rid the Apartment of Defense of DEI nonsense. So

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Speaker 4: do you think that the same thing will happen in

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Speaker 4: schools under the Department of Education nominee Linda McMahon.

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Speaker 12: I sure, hope.

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Speaker 18: So there's a lot that they can do where they

942
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Speaker 18: could just immediately cut off all these grants for this,

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Speaker 18: for this destructive information. There is not. But unfortunately, when

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Speaker 18: it comes to say the pornographic books, that actually has

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Speaker 18: to be done on a school board by school board

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Speaker 18: basis per an old ruling called Island Trees versus Pico

947
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Speaker 18: that the Supreme Court rolled on back in the eighties.

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Speaker 18: But we're still hopeful that we can get a good

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Speaker 18: start with a new new UH person at the help.

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Speaker 3: So people who are concerned about this, like yourself, who

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Speaker 3: are watching, what do they do do? The parents have

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Speaker 3: to go to the local school boards and put pressure there.

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Speaker 3: If they can't happen on a national scale, they do.

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Speaker 18: So the first thing I would say is, please watch

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Speaker 18: my film it's free for that reason because I just

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Speaker 18: want to wake people up. It's at American Groomerfilm dot

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Speaker 18: Com and I work closely with an organization called take

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Speaker 18: Back the Classroom and then so I'm going to people

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Speaker 18: know what's happening.

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Speaker 12: And then they teach people exactly.

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Speaker 18: How to approach their school board so that they will

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Speaker 18: not be challenged and they can win.

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Speaker 4: Elena, we only have about thirty seconds left here, but

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Speaker 4: I want to know what your biggest advice to parents

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Speaker 4: that want to protect their kids from this is.

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Speaker 18: Well, not many will take my advice, but if you

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Speaker 18: really want to protect your kids, pull them out of

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Speaker 18: the schools.

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Speaker 12: And rearrange your life in any way.

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Speaker 18: You have to to homeschool because not only are your

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Speaker 18: children being indoctrinated in our public schools, they're not even

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Speaker 18: being taught what they're supposed to be being taught. The academically,

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Speaker 18: the institutions are failing our children. You would do better

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Speaker 18: at home.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, definitely something to consider.

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Speaker 4: Thank you Elena so much for being on the show

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Speaker 4: today and for all of your hard work and exposing.

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Speaker 10: Grooming in schools. Thank you and thank you to our viewers.

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