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Speaker 1: Welcome to the warning.

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Speaker 2: I'm thrilled to have again with US fourth District Massachusetts

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Speaker 2: Congressman Jake Auchincloss.

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Speaker 3: Welcome, Congressman, See thanks for having me back on.

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Speaker 2: A lot of stuff to talk about that's going on

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Speaker 2: in the country, but I want to get right into

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles. You are a veteran, a Marine Corps officer

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Speaker 2: led Marines in combat in Afghanistan. One of the most

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Speaker 2: storied units in the history of the United States Marine Corps,

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Speaker 2: second Battalion, seventh Regiment, first Marine Division, has been taken

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Speaker 2: from their training cycle at twenty nine palms, put on buses,

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Speaker 2: sent to Los Angeles with a opaque mission, no ammunition

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Speaker 2: in their rifles, with authority apparently to be able to

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Speaker 2: detain American citizens people that are on the periphery of

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Speaker 2: make charges. I just wanted to get your reaction as

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Speaker 2: in this capacity, any thoughts you have for the young

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Speaker 2: Marines that are being sent into Los Angeles, and any

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Speaker 2: perspective as a Marine officer that you would have as

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Speaker 4: Steve, It's not a use of the Marine Corps. It's

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Speaker 4: an abuse of the Marine Corps. It's deeply unfair, not

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Speaker 4: just to the residents of Los Angeles, but also to

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Speaker 4: the Marines themselves.

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Speaker 3: I trained in twenty nine Palms.

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Speaker 4: Twenty nine Palms is the premier live fire facility for

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Speaker 4: the United States Marine Corps as they train infantry marines

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Speaker 4: to locate, close with and destroy the enemy. And I

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Speaker 4: know what these young officers and non commissioned officers are

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Speaker 4: grappling with right now, and I think it's twofold. The

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Speaker 4: first is this sergeants and corporals. The sergeants and corporals

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Speaker 4: are probably in their late twenties early thirties. These are

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Speaker 4: marines who have been training for five to ten years

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Speaker 4: as infantry marines to do close quarters urban combat. And

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Speaker 4: that means that you train fires on a given building,

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Speaker 4: you clear out that building with three to five marines,

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Speaker 4: and then you train your fires on the next building

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Speaker 4: until you sequentially basically cordon off an entire section of

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Speaker 4: the city. It's the kind of combat that you do

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Speaker 4: against the People's Liberation Army or the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.

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Speaker 3: It is wholly.

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Speaker 4: Unfit for service if you're trying to do crowd control

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Speaker 4: in Los Angeles. And so these sergeants and corporals are

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Speaker 4: sitting there and they have to unlearn ten years worth

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Speaker 4: and they have to really apply their marines to a

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Speaker 4: set of scenarios and skills that are just really inappropriate.

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Speaker 4: So it's deeply unfair of these sergeants and corporals. I'm

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Speaker 4: also thinking about the lieutenants and captains, and I was

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Speaker 4: a lieutenant when I was in twenty nine. Palms take

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Speaker 4: an oath to do two things, One to support and

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Speaker 4: defend the Constitution of the United States and two to

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Speaker 4: obey all orders from the President of the United States.

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Speaker 4: What are they supposed to do when the President issues

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Speaker 4: an order that does not support and defend the Constitution,

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Speaker 4: and that's what he has just done by violating posse commentatus,

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Speaker 4: they are put in an impossible situation. It's so unfair

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Speaker 4: for these twenty five twenty six year old young marine officers.

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Speaker 4: And when this judge rules against Donald Trump, as I

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Speaker 4: hope he does, this battalion commander needs to get these

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Speaker 2: One of the things that I saw this week that

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Speaker 2: I found to be just jarring and alarming, and I

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Speaker 2: was wondering if you had seen it, which is Donald

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Speaker 2: Trump speaking in front of the eighty second Airborne Premiere

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Speaker 1: These are paratroopers, are wearing the maroon beret.

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Speaker 2: And if I'm thinking about the commanding general of the

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Speaker 2: eighty second Airborne Division, Sergeant Major, these guys should be

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Speaker 2: shamed in themselves like what I saw, total breakdown of discipline,

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Speaker 2: military bearing, bog conduct as they devolved into woops, cheers, oohs,

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Speaker 2: That is very disconcerting to see out of paratroopers of

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Speaker 2: the eighty second Airborne Division.

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Speaker 1: You have a.

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Speaker 4: Reaction to that shameful degradation of good order and discipline,

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Speaker 4: and it is bad for a Spree day Corps, for

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Speaker 4: United States Army and Marine Corps and Navy have thought

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Speaker 4: of themselves as insulated from politics and above politics. And

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Speaker 4: it's worth contrasting Donald Trump's Fort Bragg address with the

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Speaker 4: Newburg Address from George Washington to the Continental Army Officer Corps,

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Speaker 4: and the Newburg address is to me underappreciated in the

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Speaker 4: scope of American history. Basically, his officer corp. At the

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Speaker 4: end of the revolution, we're so frustrated with the Confederation

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Speaker 4: about frankly, they're incompetence. People hated Congress back then too,

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Speaker 4: that they asked George Washington to lead a coup against

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Speaker 4: his Officer Corps in Newburgh and he says to them,

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Speaker 4: this is not what we fought for. This is not

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Speaker 4: the course of this War of Independence.

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Speaker 3: We are not doing this. We are going to respect

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Speaker 3: civilian authority.

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Speaker 4: And it changed the course of American history because if

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Speaker 4: he had wanted to be a king, that was the

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Speaker 3: He could have been a king.

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Speaker 4: And you contrast that remarkable statement of American freedom with

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Speaker 4: what Donald Trump did, and it really is it's enough

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Speaker 4: to make you see clearly the moment that we are in.

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Speaker 1: I want to.

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Speaker 2: Talk about the excellent columns that you're writing on your

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Speaker 2: sub stack, the Newburg address and the Newburg and that

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Speaker 2: you've talked about and how important that is. But before

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Speaker 2: we before we get there, I think one aspect of

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Speaker 2: this is that if you take Donald Trump at his work,

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Speaker 2: you take him both literally and seriously that this moment

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Speaker 2: has been building for some time. They have telegraphed it,

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Speaker 2: they have fetishized it, they've.

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Speaker 1: Drooled over it, and like a.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what the analogy is a fourteen year

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Speaker 2: But there is an enthusiasm that's plainly evident on the

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Speaker 2: part of gleney eyed sick of fans like Christino Corey Lewandowski, Tom.

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Speaker 5: Ho Omen uh Pambondy to employ and use the deadliest

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Speaker 5: into the interior of the country.

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Speaker 1: Uh as a as.

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Speaker 2: A demonstration of political power, political force.

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Speaker 1: Uh. It's it's utter pol politicization. And I just.

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Speaker 2: What do you make of the psychology of that, because

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Speaker 2: I think by by temperament right, and I don't think

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Speaker 2: I'm judging you wrong. I think that if you're in

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Speaker 2: a position in national responsibility, the last thing you would.

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Speaker 1: Ever want to do is deploy power troopers and marine.

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Speaker 2: Infantry units into the interior of the country to places

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Speaker 2: like Los Angeles, And I think it's the first thing

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Speaker 1: How do you explain what we're witnessing.

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Speaker 4: I think there's two vectors here. One is psychology and

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Speaker 4: one is politics. And the psychology front Donald Trump clearly

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Speaker 4: has the complex associated with so many authoritarians. It would

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Speaker 4: be authoritarians where they want to surround themselves with fixtures

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Speaker 4: and symbolisms of strength, right, military and otherwise. I mean,

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Speaker 4: he goes to UFC fights, he deploys the military.

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Speaker 3: He is a sick of fan of.

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Speaker 4: Vladimir Putin, who is to him this sort of strong

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Speaker 4: who's clearly somebody who has some issues that he's wrestling

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Speaker 4: with about his childhood and his relationship with his father,

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Speaker 4: and you know how he feels about himself and projecting

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Speaker 3: That's one element of it.

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Speaker 4: The other element of it is politics, which is the

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Speaker 4: military is the last national institution that has brought bipartisan

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Speaker 4: trust and support. And if you're the MAGA movement, what

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Speaker 4: you're seeing right now is that actually you are certainly

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Speaker 4: ceiling at about forty two percent, And if you're Donald Trump,

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Speaker 4: You're seeing that the reluctant Trump voters of twenty four

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Speaker 4: really don't approve of your handling of tariffs, of your

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Speaker 4: a deportation agenda, they don't like the visuals they're seeing

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Speaker 4: of people being harassed by ice agents. So you're seeing

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Speaker 4: your political standing slip on issues that you campaigned on,

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Speaker 4: the economy and immigration. So what do you do is

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Speaker 4: that you become a political parasite. You try to burrow

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Speaker 4: and you try to use its favorable ratings with the

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Speaker 4: of this. He wants to be seen right now, not

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Speaker 4: as the steward of the economy, not as the president

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Speaker 4: like he can inflate what has been sagging approval ratings.

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Speaker 4: And these Marine Steve second Battalion, seventh Marines, seven hundred

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Speaker 1: No, they did not. And it is it is just

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Speaker 1: it is just.

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Speaker 2: Appalling your substack, which is growing quickly, and I think

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Speaker 2: it's the best substack by any member of Congress, House Senate.

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Speaker 2: And it's a place where the contours of the Democratic

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Speaker 2: Party agenda of the future are starting to be written.

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Speaker 1: Out in my estimation.

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Speaker 2: And so the name of the sub stack is simple,

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Speaker 2: not easy. And I love that. I've said that to

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Speaker 2: my kids. Right, you know, the simplest thing you got

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Speaker 2: And that's a perfect example of simple not easy. But

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Speaker 2: you go into in your sub stack. Really, it's an

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Speaker 2: idea generation substack about what the agenda of the future

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Speaker 2: has to be talked about the necessity for fundamental ethics reform.

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Speaker 2: You've talked about the necessity for there to be a

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Speaker 2: restraint on executive power, and that's what the Newburg agenda is.

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Speaker 1: And you laid it out. And before we.

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Speaker 2: Get back into what the agenda is is you talk

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Speaker 2: about this moment with George Washington. This is an incredible

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Speaker 2: moment in the career of Washington, who is a tightly

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Speaker 2: controlled man, to say the least, he is emotionally constricted

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Speaker 2: to use the analysis language of the day, and George

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Speaker 2: officers and the revolution is hanging by a threat. What

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Speaker 2: the revolution was called by the people who fought it was.

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Speaker 1: The cause, right, the cause. When you have a cause.

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Speaker 1: Everyone knew what the cause was. It was freedom, it

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Speaker 1: was independence.

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Speaker 2: People had grievances in the seventeen seventies, in the seventeen eighties.

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Speaker 1: Just like they do today.

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Speaker 2: And you had somebody who advanced the idea that we

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Speaker 2: can take power. We're strong, we got the guns in

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Speaker 2: George Washington comes in full of emotion, addresses his officers

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Speaker 2: is why we have the monument made to him in Washington,

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Speaker 1: Ahead this weekend. But talk about.

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Speaker 2: This idea of restraint of executive power that's going to

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Speaker 2: An area that you've been particularly focused on your congressional

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Speaker 2: It's an extraordinary moment here in these United States. In

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Speaker 3: And so it does matter.

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Speaker 4: It matters that Garcia is brought back from Al Salvador,

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Speaker 4: it's on us as Democrats to not make this about

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Speaker 4: We oppose an authoritarian and we welcome everybody to a

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Speaker 2: I just want to thank you very much for your time.

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Speaker 2: well they're here, they are clear, and we're gonna have

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Speaker 1: So thank you very much.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate it, Steve. Thanks having me.

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Speaker 2: On you bet my pleasure. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is

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