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Speaker 1: Well, welcome. It is verdict with Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson

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Speaker 1: I need you to narrow that window down next time.

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Speaker 2: Well, it was a stunning victory, a victory for the

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Speaker 2: You're right, we got the timeframe wrong. I said that

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Speaker 5: In light of numerous actions taken by a number of

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Speaker 6: They're going to end up losing their credibility like other organizations,

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Speaker 2: D spent one point five million dollars for advancing DEI

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Speaker 2: in Serbia's workplaces. They spent two million dollars for sex

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Speaker 2: changes in Guatemala. They spent six million dollars for tourism

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Speaker 2: in Egypt. They paid for quote hundreds of thousands of

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Speaker 2: meals that went to al Qaeda affiliated fighters in They

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Speaker 2: gave funding for the production of opium, the primary ingredient

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Speaker 2: in heroin in Afghanistan, which benefited the Taliban. Yeah, they

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Speaker 2: spent one million dollars to help disabled people in Tajikistan

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Speaker 2: become quote climate leaders. They spent one million dollars for

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Speaker 2: Hamas linked charity. And they spent fifteen million dollars for

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Speaker 2: contraceptives and condoms in Taliban controlled Afghanistan. This is all nonsense.

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Speaker 2: This is a waste, and there's a reason Elon Musk

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Speaker 2: is going after it. There's a reason President Trump is

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Speaker 2: going after it, and there's a reason Democrats in the

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Speaker 2: press are horrified that this gravy train is stopping.

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Speaker 1: It is a gravy train, and it's a very very

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Speaker 1: big one that's costing taxpayers massive amounts of money. Elon

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Speaker 1: Musk said early on that he thought there was probably

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Speaker 1: like ten percent waste in our government. He's now changing

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Speaker 1: those numbers. I want to get your reaction. He's saying

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Speaker 1: it could be well above twenty percent.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's massive waste, and it is by design. Understand,

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Speaker 2: it's not just that they picked things out of a hat.

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Speaker 2: These are all ideological. This is the agenda of the

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Speaker 2: radical left. They're funding the agenda of the radical left.

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Speaker 2: But it shouldn't be the taxpayers paying for this nonsense.

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Speaker 2: And let me give you an example of one of

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Speaker 2: the ones that I found frankly funniest. AOC Alexandria Keja

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Speaker 2: Cortez went off on Elon Musk this week, and listen

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Speaker 2: to what she says. Her argument is that Elon Musk

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Speaker 2: is a dummy. Give a listen, This dude.

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Speaker 3: Is probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have

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Speaker 3: ever met or seen are witnessed, which you know, you

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Speaker 3: can probably even glean that from watching these people on TV. Anyways,

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Speaker 3: all of that is to say is that they don't

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Speaker 3: do their homework. Clearly like they're putting nineteen year olds

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Speaker 3: in at the Treasury. This dude is not smart, and

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Speaker 3: the danger in not in the lack of intelligence and

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Speaker 3: the lack of expertise that Elon has. I mean, this

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Speaker 3: guy is one of the most morally vacant but also

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Speaker 3: just least knowledgeable about these systems that we really know of.

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Speaker 3: But the point is is that what that means is

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Speaker 3: that they're going to hit a button. Inevitably, they are

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Speaker 3: going to hit a button and things can go silent.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is one of those moments where you

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Speaker 1: actually get to watch that, you know what, the sausage

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Speaker 1: being made in her brain's making it up and pausing

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Speaker 1: as she goes to try to figure out a way

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Speaker 1: to hit a guy that's having massive success at saving

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Speaker 1: taxpayers dollars.

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Speaker 2: Look, I gotta say I laughed out loud when I

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Speaker 2: listened to that and watch that. It should be a

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Speaker 2: Saturday Night Live skit. Of course, Saturdayight Live wouldn't actually

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Speaker 2: make fun of liberals, so they wouldn't show it. But listen,

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Speaker 2: you can criticize Elon Musk on all sorts of fronts

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Speaker 2: but the one front you can't criticize him on is

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Speaker 2: being a dummy. I've spent a ton of time with Elon. Listen,

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Speaker 2: I've been blessed, Ben. I have known a lot of

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Speaker 2: brilliant people. I've known antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas and

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Speaker 2: Chief Justice William Renquist. I have known brilliant, brilliant scientists

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Speaker 2: and world leaders. And I believe Elon Musk, this is,

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Speaker 2: without exaggeration, is the most brilliant man I've ever met.

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Speaker 2: And I've spent a lot of time with Elon. If

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Speaker 2: you think about the distribution of intelligence, you assume roughly

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Speaker 2: eight billion people on planet Earth. Intelligence is distributed along

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Speaker 2: a bell curve. Someone is at the bleeding edge of

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Speaker 2: that bell curve, and I think Elon Musk is that person.

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Speaker 2: And I mean I've sat with him for two three,

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Speaker 2: three and a half hours talking with him, and it's

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Speaker 2: fascinating watching his brain work. Because the guy, it's not

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Speaker 2: even that he thinks outside the box. He doesn't know

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Speaker 2: there is a box. And and so listening to AOC

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Speaker 2: say he's unintelligent, I got to say, it reminded me

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Speaker 2: of a scene from from my favorite movie with this

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Speaker 2: one and so give a listen to what AOC was saying.

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Speaker 2: And she was really she was channeling Vissini. Give a listen.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's smart. Let me put it this way.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? Yes, morons really,

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Speaker 2: so that's AOC. Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Elon Musk morons, AOC.

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Speaker 2: She knows what's right.

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