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Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Friday, November twenty first, and we

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Speaker 1: all because of a threat that's come their way. The

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Speaker 1: threat came from President Trump, and with that, Welcome to

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Speaker 1: this episode of Amy and TJ. Robes. I took some

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Speaker 1: liberties in the introduction before the most part. What I

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Speaker 1: The President of the United States called for the death

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Speaker 1: of certain members of Congress.

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Speaker 2: Yes, there's no other way to say it. He suggested

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Speaker 2: Even there was a suggestion a retweeting of being hanged

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Speaker 2: for sedition because of a video that six lawmakers put

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Speaker 1: Yeah. The President's also he didn't like to He didn't

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Speaker 1: like so he reacts, which he often does. Want to

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Speaker 1: say here off the top, I don't want to wait

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Speaker 1: until we get to the bottom of this of this episode,

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Speaker 1: but when you're talking about something in this series. This

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Speaker 1: went on for the most part of the day yesterday.

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Speaker 1: There's back and forth in DC. The President's spokesperson did

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Speaker 1: come out later was asked directly, and she said no,

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Speaker 1: that was the answer. She didn't go farther and explain

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Speaker 1: when she was asked, does the president want any members

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Speaker 1: to something else. So what's happened now is that he

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Speaker 1: amplified this thing with his messages. How many people are

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Speaker 1: going to pay attention? That wasn't a forceful response, it

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Speaker 1: was just no.

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Speaker 2: There was no explanation, there was no impact. She turned

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Speaker 2: the tables, as she often does. We're talking about Carolyn Levitt,

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Speaker 2: the White House Press secretary, back towards the media that

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Speaker 2: you weren't getting what actually the story is, and it's

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Speaker 2: about this video. It's not about what the president said.

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Speaker 2: But what the president said was extraordinary and deeply concerning,

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Speaker 2: and in this era of the President and Republicans saying

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Speaker 2: that words matter, that words incite violence, and they point

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Speaker 2: to Charlie Kirk's asassination as example or exhibit a, what

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Speaker 2: in the hell is the president doing?

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Speaker 1: So we'll tell you exactly what he said. We've said

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Speaker 1: this before. He was kind of on one last night,

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Speaker 1: or at least when he was starting to put these together.

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Speaker 1: If you ever go to his truth Social page. You

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Speaker 1: can tell kind of what was going on with him

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Speaker 1: for the day. Some of them are just sometimes it's

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Speaker 1: this much time to post all of these things. But

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Speaker 1: this was kind of a you tried to piece together,

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Speaker 1: kind of an unhinged rapid fire messages that, frankly, some

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Speaker 1: of them wrote, He's used to explaining a lot in

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Speaker 1: his messages. It seemed like some of these he was

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Speaker 2: Yes, and we can start with some of what he

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Speaker 2: wrote on True Social. The president wrote, it's called seditious

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Speaker 2: behavior at the highest level.

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Speaker 3: That was in all caps.

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Speaker 2: Each one of these traders to our country should be

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Speaker 2: arrested and put on trial. Their words cannot be allowed

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Speaker 2: must be set.

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Speaker 1: Their words he's talking about there. Their words cannot be

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Speaker 1: allowed to stand. He didn't like that these members of Congress,

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Speaker 1: all Democrats. I think all of them had military backgrounds.

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Speaker 3: They all had military service, but they came.

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Speaker 1: Out and put this video together, put out on social media,

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Speaker 1: essentially bringing attention to something and also, I would say

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Speaker 1: urging members of the military and the intelligence community, you

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Speaker 1: have the right, you do not have to follow unlawful orders.

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Speaker 1: That's the message they were getting out, and that's what

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Speaker 1: upset the president.

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Speaker 2: Correct, And so the President went on to say this

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Speaker 2: is really bad and dangerous to our country. Their words again,

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Speaker 2: cannot be allowed to stand. Seditious behavior from traders three

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Speaker 2: exclamation points, lock them up, question mark, question mark, question

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Speaker 1: He seemed like he was fishing for it, like, give

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Does anyone else agree that this should happen? And then

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Speaker 2: in a third post, this is among the scariest seditious

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Speaker 1: We keep talking about temperature going up and down? I

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Speaker 1: don't know how you defend I don't know how you

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Speaker 1: an awful time of political discourse in this country that

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Speaker 1: has led to death, that has led to violence. He

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Speaker 1: didn't just say investigate them. He could have said that

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Speaker 1: flat out rove. This is terrifying because someone sees this

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Speaker 1: as marching orders. Someone sees this as well, he's given

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Speaker 1: me permission. Will someone also see this and go, well,

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Speaker 1: my guys in the White House I do this for him,

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Speaker 1: like he said, maybe he'll pardon me, Like what is

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Speaker 1: the message here? Is clear? Like it's almost it feels

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Speaker 1: like marching orders. And look they came back and they said, no,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't actually want them, but man words, you cannot

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Speaker 1: take this back and these get amplified. Nobody's amplifying her answer, no,

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Speaker 1: because that's all she said.

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Speaker 3: She said, so yes, she's just said Carolyn love it.

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Speaker 2: And I actually wanted to read what she went on

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Speaker 2: to say, many in this room want to talk about

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Speaker 2: the president's response, but not what brought the president to

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Speaker 2: responding in this way. You have sitting members of the

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Speaker 2: United States Congress who conspired together to orchestrate a bit

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Speaker 2: to active duty service members, to members of national security apparatus,

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Speaker 2: encouraging them to defy the president's lawful orders. That is

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Speaker 2: not true. If you read the video, they specifically say

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Speaker 2: to defy illegal orders.

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Speaker 1: Yes, that's all they're talking about, obviously, clearly, plainly, it's

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Speaker 1: exactly what they're talking about here. And it's difficult to

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Speaker 1: she justified him calling for the death possibly of members

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Speaker 1: of Congress. It's justified because what you should be talking

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Speaker 1: about is that video that caused him to react this way.

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Speaker 1: If it's really difficult in you, look, we do not

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Speaker 1: do politics here. We do not go back and forth

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Speaker 1: do that. But at some point we all have to

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Speaker 1: he didn't really mean it, you can if you want to, fine,

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Speaker 1: But you still cannot argue that this is not helpful

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Speaker 1: and where.

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Speaker 2: We are and we are not ad living or inferring

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Speaker 3: By no, we are reading exactly what he said.

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Speaker 2: And I do appreciate, Babe, that you pointed out this

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Speaker 2: right and what's wrong, and how can anyone defend that language.

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Speaker 3: And I will say this again.

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Speaker 2: Having Carolyn Levitt put out in that press briefing room

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Speaker 2: misinformation that these lawmakers were calling for members of the

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Speaker 2: US military to defy the president's lawful orders is just

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Speaker 2: a boldfaced lie.

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Speaker 1: Their argument, I guess she would say, is that they

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Speaker 1: believe every order the president has given is lawful. I

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Speaker 1: think that is what they would say. Now, plenty of

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Speaker 1: judges at this point courts have said no, that is

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Speaker 1: not lawful. Deployment of National Guard in this city on

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Speaker 1: in his mind it's lawful. I'm just saying in a

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Speaker 1: That's true.

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Speaker 2: I believe she believed what she was saying, she went

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Speaker 2: the President on that, and then she added, I'm not

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm just discouraged. I'm really really well. Just the

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: We talked about this, go back to January sixth, even

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Speaker 1: right well, people were arguing, is was he inciting an

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Speaker 1: insurrection in that moment in that speech, And people will

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Speaker 1: all these things. So how how can anyone here or

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Speaker 1: This is my god. The president just said their words

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Speaker 1: can't be allowed to stand. He didn't just say trial,

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Speaker 2: Punishable by death. I just reposted someone suggesting that they

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Speaker 2: it's not it's not cute, koy. This is serious. And

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Speaker 2: six democratic lawmakers again who have military service, who served

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of times and you know what,

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Speaker 1: even the piggy thing, even when that happened, he called

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Speaker 2: Teachers are fired, people are losing their jobs because they

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Speaker 1: Well, aren't there people out there, including maybe many of

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Speaker 1: as treasonous as seditious. It does it right. I'm trying

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Speaker 2: I would like to read what they said because I

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Speaker 2: haven't watched the video, certainly you should. It's on Senator

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Speaker 2: Alissa Slotkin's social media pages that the whole video is

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Speaker 2: We know you are under enormous stress and pressure right now.

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Speaker 2: Americans trust their military, but that trust is at risk.

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Speaker 2: The administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community

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Speaker 1: They stated facts, and they stated law, and they stated

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Speaker 2: Jogi right coming from the President of the United States.

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Speaker 2: You knew it was a joke. Yes, immediately today not

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Speaker 2: Wow, it's frightening. So we went and looked up what

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Speaker 1: This is the way it has to This involves conspiracy, right.

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Speaker 2: At least two people, two or more people in the

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Speaker 1: Okay, this is why it jumped out to me when

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Speaker 2: But this is the caveat here that really got me

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Speaker 1: By that definition. This is a non sense.

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Speaker 1: But has impact who knows what kind. Yes, they're not

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Speaker 2: No. Yes. And the interesting thing is, if you are

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Speaker 1: And we tried to find there are not a lot

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Speaker 3: But this is really really rare.

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Speaker 3: He's not on this list.

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Speaker 1: The point is you have to go back a ways.

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Speaker 1: This isn't used a lot.

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Speaker 3: I'm serious.

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Speaker 2: So basically, any person subject to this chapter who willing

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Speaker 3: Then if the offense is committed.

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Speaker 2: You end up outside of a war time, you can

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Speaker 2: An order is considered lawful, and this is where I

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Speaker 2: So it is a little confusing.

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Speaker 1: Well, who gets to say whether or not this order

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Speaker 2: So where whose orders are the lawful ones? It is confusing.

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Speaker 2: It's an interesting conversation. It just doesn't need to be

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Speaker 1: That's a good point, we could still be having the

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Speaker 1: if you can. If that's even with a conversation on

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Speaker 2: Or around the Thanksgiving Thanksgiving dinner this coming week.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot to talk about here. Thank you for listening, everybody.

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Speaker 3: We always appreciate you. I may be Robock alongside TJ. Holmes.

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Speaker 3: We will talk to you soon.