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Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay, Travis and Buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. All Right, our three Clay and Buck

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Speaker 1: kicks off now, and our friend Caroline levi Att, the

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Speaker 1: White House Press Secretary, is crushing Lib's dreams and taking

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Speaker 1: souls over at the West Wigs a lot of fun

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Speaker 1: to watch, making them very sad, very sad, indeed, probably

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Speaker 1: the saddest they've ever been. Some people are saying beautiful

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Speaker 1: sadness from all the LIB journals and a few things

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Speaker 1: we mentioned, the White House Correspondent Association, not you know what.

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Speaker 1: Let's dive into this one first. We've got a few

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Speaker 1: very newsworthy This is just breaking now. To be clear,

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Speaker 1: she just was saying this recently. We wanted to bring

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Speaker 1: this to you. Highlights from the press conference in the

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Speaker 1: West Wind. Clay and I are going to go out

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Speaker 1: there and we're going to go hang with our favorite

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Speaker 1: people in the Trump White House and Pentagon and other

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Speaker 1: places sometime in the next couple of months. So we're

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Speaker 1: planning that I do have a child coming, so that

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Speaker 1: is a thing that I have to be aware of

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Speaker 1: in terms of our planning and scheduling.

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Speaker 2: That's what we're trying to rush around and plan around.

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Speaker 2: What if the tax day is the do date right

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Speaker 2: in theory?

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Speaker 1: Whoa, whoa? I mean no, the day after tax day? Okay,

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Speaker 1: it could come a little bit earlier than that. You know,

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Speaker 1: you don't know.

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Speaker 2: He read fifteenth ish is the baby's projected arrival?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? April sixteenth? Yeah, that's the one. Is tax day

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Speaker 1: this fifteenth? This year? Sometimes it's later, isn't it? Okay,

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Speaker 1: well it's the fifteenth. Another day that America. You know

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Speaker 1: that Rhonda Santis is thinking about removing all property taxes

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Speaker 1: in Florida. He's trying to get this done, which would

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Speaker 1: be amazing. I don't know how we'd make room for

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Speaker 1: all the people that will want to move to this

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Speaker 2: I mean, my property taxes are pretty low, but any

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Speaker 1: So we'll get into taxes and where they're going as

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Speaker 1: in the federal bureaucracy and the bureaucrats who don't seem

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Speaker 1: to do very much as part of this Caroon Levitt

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Speaker 1: press conference. But first let's dive into this. I think

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Speaker 1: that the Democrat media for a long time has actually

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Speaker 1: been more important than the Democrat politicians. I think that

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Speaker 1: the Democrat media has been calling the shots much more

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Speaker 1: so and have been able to give a tremendous amount

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Speaker 1: their side. That's changing. They are on the decline and

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Speaker 1: conservative MAGA and right wing media are all on the ascent.

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Speaker 1: And now it's not just in terms of numbers and

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Speaker 1: also in some of these structures of I guess what

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Speaker 1: we'd have to call journalism. And Caroline Levin, who's the

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Speaker 1: White House Press Secretary, announced this. Clay mentioned it before

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Speaker 1: the top of this hour that the White House Corresponds

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Speaker 1: Association will not control who can gain access play twenty four.

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Speaker 3: As you all know, for decades, a group of DC

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Speaker 3: based journalists, the White House Correspondence Association, has long dictated

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Speaker 3: which journalists get to ask questions of the President of

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Speaker 3: the United States in these most intimate spaces. Not anymore.

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Speaker 3: I am proud to announce that we are going to

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Speaker 3: give the power back to the people who read your papers,

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Speaker 3: who watch your television shows, and who listen to your

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Speaker 3: radio stations. Moving forward, the White House Press Pool will

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Speaker 3: be determined by the White House Press Team. Legacy outlets

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Speaker 3: who have participated in the press pool for decades will

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Speaker 3: still be allowed to join, fear not, but we will

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Speaker 3: also be offering the privilege to well deserving outlets who

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Speaker 3: have never been allowed to share in this awesome responsibility.

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Speaker 1: So mar hierarchy is being changed, Why shouldn't it, Clay,

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Speaker 1: I love it well. Audience changed in a big way.

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Speaker 1: We have on this radio program more people who are

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Speaker 1: consuming us every day than almost any show in the country.

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Speaker 1: We talked about this earlier.

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Speaker 2: When Meghan Kelly ran through the twenty five to fifty

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Speaker 1: She had fifty nine thousand people.

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Speaker 2: We have fifty nine thousand of you listening in some

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Speaker 1: So the millions of people that we.

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Speaker 2: organizations that have a pinprick of our overall audience do.

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Speaker 2: And so I think as the media environment evolves, it's

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Speaker 2: actually incredibly necessary that the people who are asking questions,

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Speaker 1: Of being being able to ask.

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Speaker 2: Questions, right, I mean to me, this is the essence

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Speaker 2: very small. It looks bigger on television, but the number

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Speaker 1: It's a small room, relatively speaking.

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Speaker 2: And so when you have a limited access point to

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Speaker 2: it seems rational to me, Buck to look at the

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Speaker 2: size of individual audiences of these news organizations and making

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Speaker 2: with your message. That seems imminently rational to me.

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Speaker 1: She spoke also about something that's getting a lot of

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Speaker 1: attention from US and across the country, which is the

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Speaker 1: Elon I should say now second email opportunity for federal

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Speaker 1: workers who write five bullet points of what they had

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Speaker 1: gotten done last week. This was this whole concept that

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Speaker 1: was made famous when Elon wrote the CEO of Twitter

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Speaker 1: when Elon took over, because Twitter had become essentially a

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Speaker 1: conservative speech elevate liberal idiots. And you know that's what

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Speaker 1: And now Elon has freed it from those shackles of lunacy.

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Speaker 1: But for federal government employees, Clay, this is going to

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Speaker 1: be interesting because a lot of them have not responded.

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Speaker 1: Caroline Levitt spoke about this. This is cut twenty five.

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Speaker 1: This is in response to the second Elon email. He says,

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Speaker 1: get fired. Here's what White House Press Secretary Levitt says,

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Speaker 3: All the Office of Personnel Management is asking. All this

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Speaker 3: the President supports that. And let me be very clear,

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Speaker 1: What's unfair about this, Clay. You've run your own company

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Speaker 1: and you've had employees. Would you be okay with people

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Speaker 2: And I actually think that having a job at a

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Speaker 2: you should be thinking at every moment of every day,

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Speaker 2: how do I make my boss more money. How do

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Speaker 2: I make the company more money? That's your job. This

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Speaker 2: do great things. The purpose of any business is to

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Speaker 2: a big part of this that Elon has figured out

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Speaker 1: They aren't doing anything.

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Speaker 2: Some of them may have side gigs, side hustles where

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Speaker 2: they're doing other things. When they claim to be being

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Speaker 2: don't know about you, Buck, I would much rather figure out

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Speaker 1: But see that's the private sector mentality. That's like startup

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Speaker 2: If in an office, imagine what these people are doing

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Speaker 2: But a lot of these guys are eating cheetos and

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Speaker 1: Well, I bet a lot of people and this will

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Speaker 1: be tight if there were if they were reasonably smart

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Speaker 1: You get to you get to have your job working

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Speaker 1: you know, think of an even less important agency, and

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Speaker 1: You know, you start to double dip, right, I mean

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Speaker 2: Like you're an umber driver, right, I mean you're like, hey,

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Speaker 1: Well, what I'm saying is, if you're smart you're doing

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Speaker 4: I've been elected by the American people to restore common

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Speaker 4: My administration is making a decisive break with the foreign

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Speaker 1: The promotion of peace ending a conflict where hundreds of

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Speaker 2: Sometimes in order to get peace, you have to move

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Speaker 1: least in the traditional way, right, I mean, all of

436
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Speaker 1: a sudden, everyone was just hunkering down. Although there was

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Speaker 1: you know, the China virus. I mean, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of foreign policy that you could speak of, but there

439
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Speaker 1: wasn't really a lot of deal making and stuff going

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Speaker 1: on in the traditional sense during COVID. But and Trump's

441
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Speaker 1: first term, what were the big what were the big

442
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Speaker 1: negative what were the big losses? I could sit here

443
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Speaker 1: and I could do a three hour show on the

444
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Speaker 1: disasters of the Obama Biden foreign policy axis. Remember Biden

445
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Speaker 1: was brought in to be Obama's foreign policy brain. True stuff, everybody,

446
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Speaker 1: If people forget that, now, Biden's place on the Obama

447
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:23,080
Speaker 1: ticket was He's the foreign policy genius and he's a moron.

448
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Speaker 1: All right, Everybody in foreign policy knows that Biden's been

449
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Speaker 1: wrong more and more egregiously over the last fifty years

450
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Speaker 1: than probably anyone else in American public life. So we

451
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Speaker 1: could sit here and go through all those losses. I

452
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Speaker 1: think Trump has shown that his to your point, clay

453
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Speaker 1: breaking the old molds approach has been successful enough already

454
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Speaker 1: in this term in some ways, but I will give

455
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Speaker 1: it a little more time, but certainly successful enough in

456
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Speaker 1: his first four years that the guy deserves the space

457
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Speaker 1: to try to get it done. He's not saying, let's,

458
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Speaker 1: you know, start a nuclear war with Russia. He's not

459
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Speaker 1: saying crazy things. He's trying to achieve goal that we

460
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Speaker 1: should all want, all want, even Democrats, should want the

461
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Speaker 1: war in Ukraine to end. And the fact that he

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Speaker 1: does it through non traditional means only makes sense when

463
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Speaker 1: you realize the traditional foreign policy access clay and consensus

464
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Speaker 1: got us to this point three years of carnage, no

465
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Speaker 1: end in sight, hundreds of billions of dollars, and what

466
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Speaker 1: putting Ukraine flags in your bio. You know that that's

467
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Speaker 1: that's the big achievement of the foreign policy apparatus. Yeah,

468
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Speaker 1: I had to sneeze there for a second. Here's the

469
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Speaker 1: other thing that's going to happen.

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Speaker 2: Buck, We're now going to have fifty percent of Ukrainian materials,

471
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Speaker 2: their natural resources going forward.

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Speaker 1: But for Russia.

473
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Speaker 2: For Russia, we're going to get I think buck as

474
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Speaker 2: a part of this deal, a huge amount of American

475
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Speaker 2: assets that were left behind in Russia during the boycott

476
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Speaker 2: in the wake of the Ukraine invasion. I think we're

477
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Speaker 2: gonna end up getting back hundreds of billions of dollars

478
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Speaker 2: in American company assets as a part of a piece

479
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Speaker 2: deal with Russia too. In other words, people say, okay, yes,

480
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Speaker 2: the primary goal is we want to end young men,

481
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Speaker 2: almost exclusively young men, dying in a stalemated war where

482
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Speaker 2: nothing is really changing. Now basically you have two sides

483
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Speaker 2: dug in and there isn't much ground being gained in

484
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Speaker 2: either direction. And that is where we're going to be

485
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Speaker 2: for years and years to come. Appears to be the reality.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Now Trump is coming in.

487
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Speaker 2: The American taxpayer is potentially going to get back all

488
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Speaker 2: of the money that we spent on Ukraine and more

489
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Speaker 2: through this mineral rights agreement and the American business entity,

490
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Speaker 2: all of those, many of those that had assets in

491
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Speaker 2: Russia are going to get back hundreds of billions of

492
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Speaker 2: dollars in assets that they were forced to get away

493
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Speaker 2: as a part of our boycott of Russia. So we're

494
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Speaker 2: going to gain resources from both sides, and we're going

495
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Speaker 2: to have far fewer people dying violently in a war. Again,

496
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Speaker 2: in an honest world, Trump would get the Nobel Peace

497
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Speaker 2: Price for this. Everybody says, we can't have any solution

498
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Speaker 2: to Ukraine Russia. Trump comes into office, and right now, Buck,

499
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Speaker 2: I would bet by May first, if you asked me,

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Speaker 2: we will have peace in Ukraine based on what I

501
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Speaker 2: am seeing. And everybody told us that Trump coming into office,

502
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Speaker 2: they said, Oh, it's not going to change anything. Oh,

503
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Speaker 2: there's no way to end this war. I hope the

504
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Speaker 2: ceasefire holds in the Middle East. That wouldn't have happened

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Speaker 2: without Trump. And now we may be close to a

506
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Speaker 2: ceasefire and a form of peace in Ukraine, and that

507
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Speaker 2: wouldn't have happened without Trump. And let me just say this.

508
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Speaker 2: People may say, Okay, what's the negative. Here's something that

509
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Speaker 2: I do think could be a negative. Once we take

510
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Speaker 2: fifty percent of Ukraine's mineral rights, it actually becomes potentially

511
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Speaker 2: a major issue if Russia decides to invade again, because

512
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Speaker 2: then not only are they invading Buck, but they're invading

513
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Speaker 2: and trying to take away an American asset. And we

514
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Speaker 2: may not have boots on the ground. But if those

515
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Speaker 2: assets of minerals are worth potentially which seems to be

516
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Speaker 2: the report trillions of dollars into the future, certainly hundreds

517
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Speaker 2: of billions of dollars into the future, then our economic

518
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Speaker 2: interest could actually create an issue with Russia in the future. Now,

519
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Speaker 2: the argument against that would be, well, without having to

520
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Speaker 2: put boots on the ground, the United States is providing

521
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Speaker 2: some form of security for Ukraine through our commoditized interest

522
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Speaker 2: in their mineral rights. I do think if you want

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Speaker 2: to spin out something into the future, what would happen

524
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Speaker 2: if Russia tried to take away those mineral rights with

525
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Speaker 2: the United States allow that to happen, could not create conflict.

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Speaker 2: Those are concerns because Russia has invaded multiple times into Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: But in the.

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Speaker 2: Meantime, this feels to me like a pretty rational compromise

529
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Speaker 2: that's designed to try and just get us to a

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Speaker 2: place where less people are dying.

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Speaker 1: It's also a recognition that people and nation states are

532
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Speaker 1: really guided by interests. I mean, we can talk about principle,

533
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Speaker 1: and principle is a nice thing to have, but ultimately

534
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Speaker 1: we're guided by our interests, and our decisions should be

535
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Speaker 1: made along what are in US interests. We saw this

536
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Speaker 1: even with USAID or US eight. It was for a

537
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Speaker 1: lot of people some kind of revelation that it's not

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Speaker 1: a global charity. It's supposed to pursue and this is

539
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Speaker 1: why it got way off its mission. It's supposed to

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Speaker 1: pursue programs that advance US interests, that also provide you know,

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Speaker 1: funding and a service to some foreign external entity. But

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Speaker 1: those things are it's it's not a global charity. It's

543
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Speaker 1: not the you know, forty billion dollar soup kitchen fund

544
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Speaker 1: for the rest of the world. That's not what it's

545
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Speaker 1: supposed to be. And for foreign policy to be run

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Speaker 1: along interests instead of you know, ephemeral and vague. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think ephemeral and vague principle in the context of

548
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Speaker 1: war and peace gets you to endless war. Oh, you know,

549
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Speaker 1: we can't stop this because if we do, then you know,

550
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Speaker 1: the terrorists of one or whatever, then putin the evil

551
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Speaker 1: guy has won. Well, what will get us to an

552
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Speaker 1: end in this conflict? A negotiated settlement, and a settlement

553
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Speaker 1: that brings European peacekeepers perhaps into the mix, so that

554
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Speaker 1: they've got skin in the game. And also that brings

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Speaker 1: US strategic interests in mineral rights and you know, the

556
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Speaker 1: fin let's be honest, the financial interest in this. I

557
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Speaker 1: think this is the way that we actually should run

558
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Speaker 1: our foreign policy, which is to say, yeah, we're getting

559
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Speaker 1: something out of this, and if Russia wants to cause problems,

560
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 1: they're causing problems for us. They're not just making us

561
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 1: sad because they're being mean to somebody that's not us.

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Speaker 2: We also get many of the benefits that Ukraine wanted

563
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Speaker 2: from NATO without the guarantee that we're going to.

564
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Speaker 1: Go to war with Russia.

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Speaker 2: So it feels like a very reasonable compromise to me,

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Speaker 2: and something that we were told was impossible and yet

567
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Speaker 2: to me, if I were setting a over under deadline

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Speaker 2: on when I think a ceasefire might take effect.

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Speaker 1: I would say May first. And the reason some of

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Speaker 1: you may say, why would you say.

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Speaker 2: May first, Because in the spring, when all of this

572
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Speaker 2: starts to thaw, maybe April first is even a better example.

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Speaker 2: That's when the fighting tends to get ratcheted up, which

574
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Speaker 2: is why solving it now while it's still very cold, muddy, snowy,

575
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 2: hard to move men in material, now is the time

576
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 2: to get this deal in place and take care of it. Look,

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Speaker 2: I want to tell you, maybe you're out there in

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Speaker 2: your history, want to be nerd. Maybe you haven't read

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Speaker 2: as much history as both and I have read over

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Speaker 2: the years. Maybe you want to know more about what

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582
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Speaker 1: Maybe you've been.

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Speaker 2: Paying attention to Ukraine Russia and you're cognizant of the

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Speaker 2: fact this is the biggest war in Europe since World

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Speaker 1: Buck.

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Speaker 2: I don't know you like Star Wars right, like you

607
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Speaker 2: grew up watching all the Star Wars movies, Star Wars

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Speaker 2: movies and everything else.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say I like it. I'm not a

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Speaker 1: diehard fan like I don't where I don't dress up

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Speaker 1: like Obi Wan and have a lightsaber at the premiere

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Speaker 1: kind of a thing. But yeah, well I liked it.

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Speaker 2: But then also my boys, my three kids were all in,

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Speaker 2: so I went through it as both kid who grew

615
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Speaker 2: up a fan of Star Wars and then dad whose

616
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Speaker 2: kids were This is for many of you out there,

617
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Speaker 2: a story that's very they have fired. Kathleen Kennedy, she

618
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Speaker 2: is the woman who has been blamed for destroying the

619
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Speaker 2: Star Wars franchise as they've had to put a pause

620
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Speaker 2: in making these movies the revenues collapsed. They basically went

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Speaker 2: super woke. As many of you know out there who

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Speaker 2: were fans of Star Wars, She's out so DEI this

623
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Speaker 2: sort of woke Disney universe continues to give up the

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Speaker 2: ghost a bit more every single day. And I give

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Speaker 2: credit to Donald Trump. By the way, cool video out there.

626
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Speaker 2: They opened back up the White House for tours. I

627
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Speaker 2: didn't know that it had been closed for years. First

628
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Speaker 2: group walking through, Donald Trump surprised them. Really really cool.

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine getting to go on a White House tour?

630
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Speaker 2: How exciting that is. I did it as a kid.

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Speaker 2: And then the President just comes by and shakes hands

632
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Speaker 2: with everybody. Really kind of awesome, I thought, moment, and

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Speaker 2: we have that cut twenty six that happened a little

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Speaker 2: bit earlier today.

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Speaker 1: Listen.

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Speaker 5: But I want to thank you very much for coming

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Speaker 5: the tour is so great to send a good job

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Speaker 5: first lady who worked very hard and making it perfect.

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Speaker 5: And I think you gotta really love it. And I

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Speaker 5: heard you were here, and I said, let's stop by

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Speaker 5: and say doing it. Very smart looking people, I must say,

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Speaker 5: very smart. Maybe someday you'd be You'll be here as

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Speaker 5: the precedent, right, somebody, somebody in this group, as the shads,

644
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Speaker 5: have a good time, have a great tour, and you're

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Speaker 5: gonna give them a special tour. Okay, you're gonna get

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Speaker 5: a special tour.

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Speaker 2: Have fun, everybody, Buck, you know this. I think a

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Speaker 2: lot of our audience has, oh, they started chanting us

649
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Speaker 2: say that is just awesome. A lot of our audience

650
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Speaker 2: has come to get this. Trump's retail politicking skills are

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Speaker 2: off the charts good.

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Speaker 1: I mean just interacting with people like that. There is

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Speaker 1: honestly no person on earth that would be more fun

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Speaker 1: and entertaining to get a White House tour from than

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump. At really thanks, really, Donald Trump. I mean,

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Speaker 1: think about what that could go for a charity auction.

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump giving you a White House tour would be

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Speaker 1: incredible because he would tell you, you know, slightly off color

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Speaker 1: and hilarious stories about different you know.

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Speaker 2: People that frankly may or may not be true, but

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Speaker 2: be wildly entertaining. I'm not sure. By the way, Buck,

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Speaker 2: praise for you as we finish here, the show Junior

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Speaker 2: in Hicksville, New York.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Buck, this here is Junior living up in Hicksville,

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Speaker 1: New York. That's Long Island, and the rest of you is.

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Speaker 1: It's good to see you eating steak, buddy, instead of

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Speaker 1: that pistachio business you've been eating. It means that you

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Speaker 1: eat a steak. You being a man, now you go

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Speaker 1: and eat that steak. Was always eating steak and pistachio crembroulet.

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Speaker 1: I can have both sleeve.

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Speaker 2: Travis and Buck Sexton on the front lines of truth.