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Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, December third. This is the morning, and

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Speaker 1: there is great news this morning. Maga is falling apart.

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Speaker 1: The evidence of that is perfectly clear from the results

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Speaker 1: of the special election in the seventh District of Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: The Democratic candidate was Tennessee's state representative, Aten Being Now,

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Speaker 1: she fell short in this race by what looks to

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Speaker 1: be four or five points. May get a little bit closer,

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Speaker 1: but this is a district that Donald Trump won by

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Speaker 1: twenty two points a little over one year ago. The

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Speaker 1: corrupt corporate media that seeks to demonstrate an equilibrium between

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Speaker 1: insanity and patriotism by covering any of this as normal,

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Speaker 1: has beguiled the American people into believing that a great

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Speaker 1: many more of us support this the insanity, than we

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Speaker 1: actually do. Donald Trump's approval numbers are collapsing at a

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Speaker 1: record pace to record low levels. His approval numbers are

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Speaker 1: at thirty five percent. Now, I predicted the trajectory of

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Speaker 1: this over the course of the year, and he's going

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Speaker 1: to get into the twenties before very much longer. Let's

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Speaker 1: look at some of the scenes from the cabinet meeting yesterday.

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Speaker 2: I took my physical I got all a's everything. But

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Speaker 2: they said to me, would you like to take a

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Speaker 2: cognitive test? I said, is it hard?

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Speaker 3: They said yes.

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Speaker 2: I said, well, I'm a very smart person who is

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Speaker 2: the last president to take No president has ever agreed

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Speaker 2: to take it, because when you get into the mid questions,

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Speaker 2: meaning you know, ten question of a ten, eleven, twelve, twenty, eight, thirty,

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Speaker 2: they get horder and harder.

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Speaker 1: They are like a sketch from a Saturday Night Live

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Speaker 1: where everybody, including the audience, is on an acid trip.

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Speaker 1: And here we have the slumbering Trump between little Marco.

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Speaker 4: But this war is going on and the president is

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Speaker 4: trying to end it. Not because listen, we got a

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Speaker 4: million things to focus on in the world as a country,

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Speaker 4: but he's the only leader in the world that can

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Speaker 4: help end it. And that's that's why even as we

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Speaker 4: speak to you now, Steve Woodcoff is in Moscow trying

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Speaker 4: to find a way to end this war, to save

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Speaker 4: lives of eight.

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Speaker 3: Nine thousand people.

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Speaker 4: Mister presidents you want to are dying every week.

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Speaker 1: Let's watch Keet Hagshath.

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Speaker 3: You didn't see any survivors.

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Speaker 5: To be clear, after the first run, I did not

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Speaker 5: personally see survivors. But I stand because the thing was

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Speaker 5: on fire. I was exploded in fire or smoke. You

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Speaker 5: can't see anything. You got digital. There's this is called

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Speaker 5: the folk of war. This is what you and the

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Speaker 5: press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices

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Speaker 5: are up on Capitol Hill, and you nit pick, and.

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Speaker 6: You plant fake stories in the Washington Post about kill everybody,

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Speaker 6: phrases on anonymous sources, not based in anything, not based

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Speaker 6: in any truth at all, And then you want to

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Speaker 6: throw up really irresponsible terms about American heroes, about the

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Speaker 6: judgment that they made. I wrote a whole book on

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Speaker 6: this topic because of what politicians and the press does

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Speaker 6: to warfighters.

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Speaker 3: Not for nothing.

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Speaker 1: The sign that hangs above the entrance at Quantico, Virginia,

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Speaker 1: where he gave his infamous speech to the generals.

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Speaker 3: The sign above the entrance to the Marine Corps.

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Speaker 1: Officer Candidate school says, ductosts examplos lead by example.

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Speaker 3: Look at this buffoon tattooed from.

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Speaker 1: Head to toe with Christian nationalist totems, vised by a

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Speaker 1: sick pastor who believes women shouldn't vote and that slavery

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Speaker 1: was good for blacks. Pete Hag Seth is incompetent. Pete

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Speaker 1: hag Seth is a moral He lacks restraint, he lacks control,

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Speaker 1: he lacks judgment. But he used to have a different position,

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Speaker 1: at least when it came to war crimes. Here's Pete

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Speaker 1: hag Seth way back when the Internet's a great thing,

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Speaker 1: isn't it.

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Speaker 7: There are some guys at Levenworth who made really bad

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Speaker 7: choices on the battlefield. And I do think there have

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Speaker 7: to be consequences for abject war crimes. If you're doing

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Speaker 7: something that is just completely unlawful and ruthless, then there

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Speaker 7: is a consequence for that. That's why the military said

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Speaker 7: it won't follow unlawful orders from their commander in chief.

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Speaker 7: There's a standard, there's an ethos, there's a belief that

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Speaker 7: we are above what so many things that our enemies

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Speaker 1: Now, Hakem Jeffries said he's against and impeachment of Pete

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Speaker 1: Hexas on what basis and why. Now, what is clear

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Speaker 1: from Tennessee is that soon the Democratic Party will have

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Speaker 1: a toe hold by virtue of holding a majority in

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Speaker 1: the House of Representatives. Is entirely possible the Democrats will

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Speaker 1: hold a Senate majority that majority cannot be purposeless, and

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Speaker 1: it cannot be meaningless. It must stand for constant confrontation

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Speaker 1: in the name of the right against right and wrong.

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Speaker 1: And the wrongs of this moment are clear. They involved

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Speaker 1: masked men targeting immigrant populations for abuse, guided by a

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Speaker 1: president engaged in fascistic and dehumanizing rhetoric that is precisely

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Speaker 1: of the nature that Goebbels used.

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Speaker 3: Steve Witkoff is.

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Speaker 1: Selling out Ukraine in Moscow because there's opportunity for Trump

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Speaker 1: to enrich himself and corrupt deals. The gateway to World

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Speaker 1: War IREE is through that corruption. The abuses are constant,

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Speaker 1: the lying ever more so, and in this moment there

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Speaker 1: must be a commitment, as it all starts to fall apart,

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Speaker 1: on the part of democratic leaders, that they will use

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Speaker 1: their power to confront the abuses of power. And so

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Speaker 1: for Hakeem Jeffries, who says, in the middle of a

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Speaker 1: crisis where it's clear the Defense secretary has become a

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Speaker 1: war criminal, that the right approach here is to follow

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Speaker 1: the example of Merrick Garland to do nothing. The purpose

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Speaker 1: of a democratic majority above all others must be this,

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Speaker 1: the restoration of the coequality of the the Article one

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Speaker 1: branch of government and assertion of power by the Congress

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Speaker 1: to the executive that ceases the lawlessness and the abuses

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Speaker 1: of the executive of the President. So no Hakim Jeffries

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Speaker 1: saying there will be no impeachment of Pete Hegsath is

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Speaker 1: not the right thing to do.

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Speaker 3: It is the wrong thing, and.

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Speaker 1: More importantly, it is an abdication of duty, because duty

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Speaker 1: will require not just the impeachment of Pete Hegseath, but

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Speaker 1: the impeachment of Robert Kennedy, the impeachment of the lawless Christino,

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Speaker 1: who has violated court orders and is as corrupt as

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Speaker 1: the day is long. It will mean the impeachment of

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Speaker 1: Pam Bondi, the lawless Attorney General, the agent of Trump

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Speaker 1: who is covering up the Epstein files.

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Speaker 3: It will mean the impeachment of Cash Ptel.

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Speaker 1: It will mean that stands must be made on principle

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Speaker 1: for the country. Everybody who cares about the country needs

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Speaker 1: to vote Democratic in November of twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 3: But every Democrat.

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Speaker 1: Who wins need not vote for his King Jeffries to

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Speaker 1: be their leader. A do nothing democratic majority may be

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Speaker 1: even worse than a poisonous mega majority because it will

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Speaker 1: be the gateway to the jackboot coming down on all

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Speaker 1: of us for the last time. A democratic majority must

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Speaker 1: have purpose, It must have meaning, It must have conviction,

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Speaker 1: and it must be ready to act, to conduct oversight,

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Speaker 1: to root out the corruption, to inform the American people

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Speaker 1: of what has happened during the two terrible years when

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Speaker 1: we had no Congress, just a tyrant consolidating power.

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Speaker 3: The moment when Donald Trump will be.

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Speaker 1: Put back on his leash is coming fast. The problem is,

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Speaker 1: Haakim Jeffries looks at Donald Trump and he thinks that dog, well,

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Speaker 1: he's an off leash type of guy, and that is

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Speaker 1: just plain dumb. It's time to put the muzzle on

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Speaker 1: these people. And what that means is using power, using subpoenas,

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Speaker 1: using investigative authority to inform the people who are the

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Speaker 1: bosses of those corrupt politicians exactly what it is that

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Speaker 1: they did in our name. That is what this next

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Speaker 1: election must be about. Aften being took a stand in

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Speaker 1: Tennessee in a district that Donald Trump won by twenty

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Speaker 1: two points, she lost by an inch. The redistricting nonsense

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Speaker 1: is over everywhere. Republicans will be retiring in droves. The

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Speaker 1: path is clear, drowning the tsunami or retire on dry lands,

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Speaker 1: but voter independence.

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Speaker 3: All of us who are part of the.

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Speaker 1: Coalition of opposition must demand something. What we want are

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Speaker 1: not laid down schumercrats. What we want are fighting democrats.

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Speaker 1: What we want is something like this. And so I'll

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Speaker 1: close today with the words of Mark Kelly rebuking Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump and rebuking Pete hagsat the way it ought to

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Speaker 1: be done.

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Speaker 8: He runs around on a stage like he's a twelve

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Speaker 8: year old play an army and it is ridiculous. It

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Speaker 8: is embarrassing, and I can't imagine what our allies think

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Speaker 8: of looking at that guy in this job one of

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Speaker 8: the most important jobs in our country in my view,

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Speaker 8: after the President of the United States, it is the

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Speaker 8: next most important job. He is in the National Command

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Speaker 8: Authority for nuclear weapons. And last night he's putting out

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Speaker 8: on the internet turtles with rocket propelled grenades kill. I mean,

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Speaker 8: have you seen this? This is the Secretary of Defense.

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Speaker 8: This is not a serious person. He should have been

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Speaker 8: fired after Signal Gate and then every single day after that.

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Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I invite you

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