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Speaker 1: Our back.

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Speaker 2: Normally the show would normally picks for women news.

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Speaker 3: It's weird.

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Speaker 2: I am Mary Catherine.

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Speaker 1: Aner and I'm Carol Markowitz. How are you, Mary Catherine?

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Speaker 1: How is the first week of the New year treating you?

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Speaker 2: We're hanging in there, man, like everybody is just trying

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Speaker 2: not to catch whatever their kids had. And I think

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Speaker 2: I may have fallen victim today. So we shall see.

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Speaker 1: Which version do they have the cough or the no

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Speaker 1: voice or ghostly cough.

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Speaker 2: But you can hear this voice as a little Kathleen Turnery.

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Speaker 2: Yeah good, you could take a turn in the near future.

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Speaker 1: Some of my kids are really enjoying that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I have a little bit of the voice thing, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: my middle son is just like I lost my voice,

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Speaker 1: like extra.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 1: Other things that have happened in the first week of

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Speaker 1: the New Year that we didn't get to last episode,

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Speaker 1: but Zor and mom Donnie became mayor of my old

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Speaker 1: city and he is turns out a communist.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Democratic Socialists just socialists pretty much. It turns out. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: we had suspected, right.

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Speaker 1: You know, I have to say to give credit to

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Speaker 1: Mom Donnie, and you know, that's going to be a

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Speaker 1: rare thing for me to do. He ran on being

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Speaker 1: this guy, So I don't know why anybody is surprised

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Speaker 1: by any of it. The first thing that people are

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Speaker 1: surprised by is that a Zorn Mom Donnie at Point

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Speaker 1: t Sea Weaver, she was tapped to lead his mayor's

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Speaker 1: office to protect tenants, had some old tweets resurface where

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Speaker 1: she's calling basically for property confiscation, and she's saying that

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Speaker 1: people need to rethink the whole idea of private property.

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Speaker 1: Let's roll that clip.

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Speaker 5: I think the reality is is that for centuries we've

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Speaker 5: really treated property as an individualized good and not a

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Speaker 5: collective good, and we are going to and transitioning to

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Speaker 5: treating it as a collective good and towards a model

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Speaker 5: of shared equity will require that we think about it differently,

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Speaker 5: and it will mean that families, especially white families, but

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Speaker 5: some COOC families who are homeowners as well, are going

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Speaker 5: to have a different relationship to property than the one

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Speaker 5: that we currently have a.

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Speaker 1: Different relationships to property. But to be real, is this surprising?

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Speaker 1: Did Zor and Mom Donnie not run as the kind

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Speaker 1: of guy who would nominate people like this. I think

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Speaker 1: he was very honest about who he is. He kept

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Speaker 1: trusting that he is a democratic socialist. He specifically breaks

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Speaker 1: with members of his party because they're not socialists enough.

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Speaker 1: This is who New York elected. And I feel really

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Speaker 1: bad for almost half of New Yorkers who tried really hard.

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Speaker 1: And I have a lot of family, I have a

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Speaker 1: lot of friends, and I root for them and I

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Speaker 1: root for the city. But this is where his election

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Speaker 1: was going to go. And I am not at all surprised, Like,

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Speaker 1: not even a little surprised. I'm actually surprised that she's

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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff anymore. Those are old tweets and

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Speaker 1: you have to give some grace. And she was crying

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Speaker 1: when confronted by it. That's surprising to me. That's the

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Speaker 1: only part that I find surprising in any of this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Also, don't be a baby and cry about this. These

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Speaker 2: are your own words, you said them in public. They

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Speaker 2: are directly related to the job you will be doing

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Speaker 2: in one of the most important cities in the world. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so you have to answer questions about those things. I

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Speaker 2: I think she genuinely believes that she has the power

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Speaker 2: and I find it pretty scary, even with the up

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Speaker 2: way she delivers it, just like, hey, we just need

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Speaker 2: to rethink this, Like she's the HR person for all

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Speaker 2: of our property. I'm not the HR person for my property.

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Speaker 2: Order to get my property, you're going to have to

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Speaker 2: take it from me. And that is stealing. And that

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Speaker 2: is what she wants the state to do. And that's

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Speaker 2: kind of what the state has already been involved in

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Speaker 2: with a lot of these rent control schemes because what

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Speaker 2: And this is what Mundonnie started his first day of

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Speaker 2: turns out that apartment building, with all of its maintenance issues,

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Speaker 2: They can only charge nine hundred and sixty five dollars

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Speaker 2: like it is a is an untenable, unworkable business plan

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Speaker 2: caused by the state. Right then the state shows up

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Speaker 2: and it did this, look at these floors, we have

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Speaker 2: to take your apartment building from you. I mean it

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Speaker 2: is radical, radical stuff.

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Speaker 1: It's crazy. Look, I'm from the Soviet Union. Communal housing

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Speaker 1: be like this, well we should have more of I

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Speaker 1: mean it broke up families. I mean think about when

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Speaker 2: Anew, well, an interesting wrinkle. Did you see this court

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Speaker 2: case that the Mamdani administration brought immediately?

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Speaker 2: So they filed they filed about rent control in a

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Speaker 2: dispute with a property owner. The Mamdani administration opposes the

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Speaker 2: regulations they've imposed have made it an unprofitable business. And

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Speaker 2: then they say we'll just take it and give it

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Speaker 2: to an NGO. But they actually admitted this in court,

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Speaker 2: which a bunch of court watchers are like, that could

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Speaker 2: fingers for a hubristic socialist who takes a bunch of

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Speaker 2: up to I don't know, a pretty conservative Supreme.

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Speaker 1: Court, yeah, or even like a normal liberal right. No, right,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just it's wild to put that in writing that, yes,

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Speaker 2: It's probably be for us, right, I'm sure you'll do

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Speaker 2: the way that turns something into nothing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, very quickly too, So Zora, Mom, Donnie, I have

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Speaker 1: good news actually, Mary Catherine. We're getting free World Cup tickets.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, because why not everybody deserves World

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Speaker 2: There are no scarcity issues, and everything will just fall

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Speaker 1: It's amazing.

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Speaker 4: Let's roll that clip we are seeing. You know, I

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Speaker 4: had a New Yorker the other day come up to

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Speaker 4: saying that the costs that he saw for a game

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Speaker 4: was six hundred dollars. Right, this is increasingly out of reach.

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Speaker 4: We have made what used to be a working class

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Speaker 4: for whom it doesn't matter where the World Cup is

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Speaker 4: being played in the world. They know where they're going

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Speaker 4: to watch it. It's TV, and we want to ensure

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well I'm going to be watching it on TV because, yeah,

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Speaker 1: tickets are expensive. That's how it works. When there's only

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Speaker 2: Also, you know where a bunch of people can watch

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Speaker 2: games on TV, which is, by the way, a modern

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Speaker 2: miracle that you can watch all sports engagements on your

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Speaker 1: Pretty great.

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Speaker 2: A great place you can do that is in capitalist

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Speaker 1: Our friend Adelas Galia tweeted, I'm genuinely concerned at this

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Speaker 1: point that he doesn't know how anything works in the

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Speaker 1: has no influence over FIFA pricing policy, there are also

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Speaker 1: no games in New York City. The good last games

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Speaker 2: Like who are you?

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Speaker 1: Why would you believe that you could change any of this?

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Speaker 1: It just it's bananas.

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Speaker 2: Here's an idea he could buy personally with all of

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Speaker 1: I am at market line and hand them out right.

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Speaker 1: My beloved Scotland is in the World Cup this time around.

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Speaker 1: They haven't been in for many, many years, so my

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Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, yeah, if they're giving them out for free

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Speaker 2: to see of mom, Dani.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll be right back with more on normally and

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Speaker 1: that other socialist paradise, California.

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Speaker 2: You're right back, alrighty. Well, it is January in sunny California,

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Speaker 2: and it is the marking of a sad anniversary, the

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Speaker 2: anniversary of the Palisades Fire and other Southern California fires.

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Speaker 2: Twelve people in the Palisades lost their lives in that fire,

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Speaker 2: headlined by Palisades Fire victim Heidi Montag whose husband Spencer

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Speaker 2: governance and the state governance and why things did not

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Speaker 2: so sixteen k structures burned in that area. There are

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Speaker 2: about twenty five hundred permits that have been issued for

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Speaker 2: things that could be rebuilt. Zero have been completed, some

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Speaker 2: Twenty two. It's crazy in a year for these beachfront

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Speaker 2: with a repeating recurring theme in national media coverage, which

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Speaker 1: We're not rifting. We're not rifting. I thought there were

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that is an important lesson for every.

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Speaker 6: Let me be very clear, there is no rift in

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Speaker 6: these little riffs and the Republicans, oh, oh, you know, they're.

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Speaker 3: Finally starting to break.

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Speaker 6: They're starting to break from don Trump.

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Speaker 3: It ain't happen.

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Speaker 6: And at least when it comes to the approval writing,

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Speaker 6: look at this eighty four percent six months ago, eighty

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Speaker 6: five percent. Now, you don't have to be a mathematical

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Speaker 6: genius to know eighty five percent and eighty four four

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Speaker 6: percent of basically the same number. Eighty five percent is

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Speaker 6: one point higher than eighty four Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I think he also showed some polling the other day

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Speaker 2: that showed overall, like a sixteen point increase in support

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Speaker 2: And so I think, as we noted on the show,

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Speaker 2: and if it doesn't drag them into something that they're

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Speaker 2: more worried about, then yes, that will, that will be important.

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Speaker 2: But particularly among Republicans who are pretty comfortable with that.

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Speaker 2: And I think that is also a lesson for those

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Speaker 2: of Vance, who is more skittish about intervention than Trump,

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Speaker 2: is that often the voting public does not have as

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Speaker 1: Right, and look, you know they pulled Democrats and Independence,

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Speaker 1: and one third of Democrats supported the strike and sixty

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Speaker 1: Like I said, nothing succeeds like success. And I admit

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Speaker 1: that I don't know that I would have been for

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Speaker 1: it after. It was a wild of success and that's

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Speaker 1: where most Americans will end.

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Speaker 2: Up well, and people could shift as we move through

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Speaker 2: this and we see what happens is unpredictable. However, let

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Speaker 2: me say this, and this goes back to our first

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Speaker 2: lot of people who really understand what socialism and communism

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Speaker 2: look like. All over social media saying you do not understand,

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Speaker 2: here's what actually happens. There was a great free press

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Speaker 2: bit where Daniel di Martino, who's a Manhattan Institute a fellow,

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Speaker 2: went out or scholar went out and about telling New

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Speaker 2: Yorkers who had voted for Momdanni, Okay, well this is

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Speaker 2: what actually happens. And they all were like, huh right really,

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Speaker 2: And I think that education part, and the part where

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Speaker 2: people are unafraid to make these points on social media

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Speaker 2: right now and they are doing it with absolute moral authority,

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Speaker 2: that is a good moment.

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Speaker 1: It really goes a long way. Yeah. So look, you know,

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Speaker 1: is could MAGA split, I don't know if you know

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Speaker 1: that's that's definitely possible. Could the Republican party split frequently?

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Speaker 1: Does not? You know, Republicans love the infighting, but the

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Speaker 1: idea that there is a foreign policy split, even you know,

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Speaker 1: we mentioned Vance. Vance never says anything publicly that would

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Speaker 1: lead us to believe that he opposes Trump's actions. We're

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Speaker 1: just kind of left to like read his eyebrows sometimes,

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Speaker 1: like which I am an expert in same Yeah, look,

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Speaker 1: I'm a poker player, Like I get what we're supposed

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Speaker 1: to think about Vance. It's just you know, and I've

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Speaker 1: mentioned this on my ex before, like if he has

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Speaker 1: a different foreign policy than Donald Trump. I'd love to

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Speaker 1: hear about it from him.

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Speaker 2: I would.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we should be guessing what the vice

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Speaker 1: president believes, but a lot of people think that they know,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of people think that it is in

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Speaker 1: opposition to the president, in which case I ask, does

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Speaker 1: the president know that his vice president doesn't support his actions?

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Speaker 1: You know, I'd love to know all about that publicly.

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Speaker 2: He definitely seems to be in line when.

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Speaker 1: Called upon exactly. Yeah, so you know whether he will

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Speaker 1: lead a more isolationist wing of the party going into

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Speaker 1: the next presidential election. I just don't think that is

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Speaker 1: a successful endeavor. Look, these numbers paint a picture of

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Speaker 1: who the Republican Party are, what they support, and I

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Speaker 1: don't think it's that, you know, heart clutching, my gosh,

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Speaker 1: Like we should never use our military might.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not a constant deference to international law, as

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Speaker 2: those less would like us to.

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Speaker 1: Indulge international law. Yeah, they could take their international law.

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Speaker 2: International law will let Maduro just sit there and torture

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Speaker 2: everyone for decades. But if you do something about it,

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Speaker 2: that's when international law has a problem.

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Speaker 1: Right, A law that can never be enforced, like international

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Speaker 1: law is not actually a law like let's just be

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Speaker 1: real here.

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Speaker 3: So well.

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