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Speaker 2: Non farm payrolls a greater one hundred and seventy seven thousand.

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Speaker 2: The unemployment rate remains at four point two percent. Let's

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Speaker 2: earnings on a year over year basis, also one tenth

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Speaker 2: thirty four point three. That's good news. We upticked it

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Speaker 2: thirty four point two. But the revision, I was looking

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Speaker 3: Now let's look at the U six.

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Speaker 3: This is really good news.

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Speaker 2: Sixty two point six a tenth better than both Winshield

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Speaker 2: In November of last year, and I'm sorry September. Let's

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Speaker 2: So that also is indeed good news. You can see

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Speaker 3: But what I missed something Joe?

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Speaker 2: I missed when there was certainty and everybody knew where

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Speaker 3: Everybody knew everything about markets. Listen, there's risks in markets.

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Speaker 3: I'm a market guy, and the markets are.

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Speaker 2: Looking past the rhetoric and the fact that it's man

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Speaker 1: This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray

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Speaker 4: On these people.

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Speaker 8: Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

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Speaker 3: If that answer is to save.

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Speaker 7: Use your host, Stephen k Back.

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Speaker 1: It's Friday, two May in the ear of our Lord,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. What a week. Another epic week. And

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Speaker 1: set in motion the most fundamental reorganization of the world's

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Speaker 9: Absolutely delighted to have a chance to talk about it.

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Speaker 9: four G. Is there anything inherent about it that is

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Speaker 9: anti democratic? Absolutely not. It's just you could do the

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Speaker 9: same kind of you know, if you were going to

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Speaker 9: use it for intofarious purposes. You could essentially do the

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Speaker 9: same thing with any cell phone technology, including four G.

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Speaker 9: You could do anything similar with any powerful wireless networking

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Speaker 9: technology such as Wi Fi, assuming you had adequate coverage.

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Speaker 9: So I don't think that people are wrong to be

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Speaker 9: concerned about potential social implications of just increasing networking capabilities

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Speaker 9: and putting more connectivity and more ability to transmit data everywhere.

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Speaker 9: But I think those are fundamentally social problems making sure

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Speaker 9: that our institutions aren't going to use those new capabilities

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Speaker 9: in some sort of negative way, the way that they

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Speaker 9: could use any communications capabilities, and it's not something specific

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Speaker 9: to five G.

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Speaker 1: You know this audience just the other day with Article

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Speaker 1: three project Mike Davis, the Viceroy and War and Posse

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Speaker 1: working together with Bill Blaster and other of our apps

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Speaker 1: that can get you INSIDT access to congressmen. We shut

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Speaker 1: down the judiciary committees. This one agency where they're trying

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Speaker 1: to roll in a really dual way with the FTC,

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Speaker 1: where the FTC seems to be going after the oligarchs

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Speaker 1: right with Facebook and others. Just this amazing antitrusting. Can

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Speaker 1: you walk people through how the FCC actually works? Get

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Speaker 1: our audience. So you've been selected by President Trump, you're

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Speaker 1: one of the commissioners, You've got a great new chairman.

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Speaker 1: Just take a minute or two and walk form the

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Speaker 1: audience how you guys actually work and what you guys

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Speaker 1: actually do.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: Well, President Trump's selection of Chairman Carr four chairs, so

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Speaker 9: elevating him from the commissioner job he prior held was

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Speaker 9: one of his earliest decisions. I would say that Chairman

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Speaker 9: Carr was put up for that position during the transition,

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Speaker 9: faster than probably at least half the cabinet, and probably

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Speaker 9: the fastest in history. So this is an enormous vote

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Speaker 9: of confidence by President Trump, which has of course been

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Speaker 9: fully justified, and it's fantastic to work with him. As

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Speaker 9: far as how our structure goes, there are five commissioned seats.

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Speaker 9: You can only have up to three from a single party,

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Speaker 9: So traditionally it's been that the majority party gets three

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Speaker 9: and those are all sentate confirmed seats, so there's no

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Speaker 9: definite timeline for seating people. That's up to the Senate.

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Speaker 9: So the majority party gets three and the minority party

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Speaker 9: gets two, and typically commission votes are either going to

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Speaker 9: be on a five zero basis or on a three

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Speaker 9: to two basis, depending how part is in the issue is,

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Speaker 9: although there are no rules saying it has to be

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Speaker 9: that way. Now, what we do it's a very broad remit.

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Speaker 9: We cover transmission of signal by radio or by cable,

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Speaker 9: interstate or internationally, and when you think about the implications

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Speaker 9: of that, that's a huge amount of stuff that's broadcasting.

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Speaker 9: That's also the satellite industry because those are communications from

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Speaker 9: space to the United States. That's obviously the wireless mobility industry.

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Speaker 9: We have a lot of economic competition stuff in there.

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Speaker 9: There are some ways in which we look at cable pricing.

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Speaker 9: So you put it all together, it's a very broad

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Speaker 9: remit and we're not a very large agency. It's about

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Speaker 9: sixteen hundred people for all those responsibilities. Some offices and

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Speaker 9: bureaus are larger, some are smaller, but it's about one

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Speaker 9: hundred people per so I think we do a lot

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Speaker 9: with a little and then we fund ourselves off of

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Speaker 9: regulatory fees, so in other words, we don't require appropriations

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Speaker 9: from the public to keep going. The industry pays for

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Speaker 9: us to oversee them, so hopefully we're doing a good

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Speaker 9: job of that and they feel their ging their money's worth.

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Speaker 9: That share controls the agenda, so in terms of what

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Speaker 9: we actually vote upon at the Commission, the chair has

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Speaker 9: the job to develop items to be voted on for

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Speaker 9: regulatory change, with the politically appointed heads of the different

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Speaker 9: offices and bureaus, sometimes working you know, with multiple offices

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Speaker 9: and bureaus on a project to make sure that we

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Speaker 9: fully covered all of the aspects. We might have the

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Speaker 9: Office of Economic Analysis of Economics and Analysis, I should say,

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Speaker 9: looking at potential financial implications. We might have the Wireline

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Speaker 9: Competition Bureau looking at the effects on fiber and cable,

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Speaker 9: you know. So there's a lot of technical back office

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Speaker 9: stuff that we do.

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Speaker 1: Nathan, hang over one sid. I just want to bring

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Speaker 1: you back after short break and get you all your

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Speaker 1: social media so people and start to follow you in depth.

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Speaker 1: Short commercial break, Nathan Simonton joins us be back to

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Speaker 1: the warm in a moment.

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Speaker 7: Use your host Stephen kay.

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Speaker 1: Nathan before we go. Two issues. One is the deep

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Speaker 1: state or the intelligence apparatus on anything on five G.

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Speaker 1: And the other is about this whole thing but not

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Speaker 1: just CBS, but these broadcasters and licensing everything we're hearing

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Speaker 1: about from car about these people just you know, attacking, attacking,

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Speaker 1: attacking President Trump editing video is a new thing today

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Speaker 1: about the Kamala Harris sixty minutes and we understand sixty

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Speaker 1: minutes going to go back after President Trump again on

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Speaker 1: Sunday night. So any thoughts on this five G and

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Speaker 1: the intelligence community.

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Speaker 9: Sir, Yes, absolutely, So what we saw during the prior

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Speaker 9: administration was and at points before that, but let's focus

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Speaker 9: on the prior administration. So what we saw during during

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Speaker 9: them was a use of the apparatus to understand, map

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Speaker 9: out and influence social media and online communitations that had

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Speaker 9: been developed for other purposes, perhaps, but that were being

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Speaker 9: deployed increasingly domestically. So we had a lot of people

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Speaker 9: within the federal government who had direct plug ins to

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Speaker 9: social media companies or who had who had conventional regular

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Speaker 9: communications with them with strongly worded suggestions about the directions

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Speaker 9: in which those social media companies should take things. The

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Speaker 9: thing is, if you look at the Facebook IPO back

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Speaker 9: in twenty twelve, the killer app for Facebook more than

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Speaker 9: anything else was that it went with you in your pocket.

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Speaker 9: So it was the first form of advertising that really

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Speaker 9: had granular information about customer behavior and customer location. And

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Speaker 9: that's really what made the market salivate when Facebook went public.

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Speaker 9: Five G is obviously increasing connectivity possibilities, increasing bandwidth possibilities,

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Speaker 9: and so plugins in the federal government that are meant

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Speaker 9: to manipulate and direct social media in accordance with some

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Speaker 9: kind of a federal policy would thus find their hands

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Speaker 9: strengthened even more by five G. So I think it's

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Speaker 9: important to bring in social controls over the shaping of

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Speaker 9: public opinion. We're supposed to be a democracy. We're supposed

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Speaker 9: to tell the government what it's supposed to do. It's

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Speaker 9: not supposed to try and warp our minds in a

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Speaker 9: direction that's favorable to whatever policy they may think we

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Speaker 9: should be following, whether we like it or not.

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Speaker 1: What about this whole the battle, or at least car

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Speaker 1: it looks like it threw down immediately against the broadcasters.

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Speaker 1: So is that you're not actually threatening or talking about

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Speaker 1: taking their licenses away, which I don't understand how they

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Speaker 1: get the license and say they're going to do public

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Speaker 1: good and their news is so slanted. But this is

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Speaker 1: more targeted to the own and operate a station groups.

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Speaker 1: Is that what it is?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, that's right. So the FCC doesn't really have jurisdiction

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Speaker 9: to reach any players in the media ecosystem unless they

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Speaker 9: are in some way using wireless communications, and that's of

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Speaker 9: course what broadcasting is. So in other words, most people

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Speaker 9: just turn on their TV and they don't necessarily have

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Speaker 9: to think too hard about whether that whether weather you're

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Speaker 9: seeing is coming from there from a local broadcaster or

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Speaker 9: as part of a network affiliation agreement that their local

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Speaker 9: broadcaster is putting out but that originated with at the

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Speaker 9: network level, or if it's something else. People are subscribing

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Speaker 9: to individual specialty TV channels on a direct to consumer

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Speaker 9: basis through the smart TVs. So there are a lot

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Speaker 9: of different things out there in the media ecosystem, but

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Speaker 9: the SEC doesn't regulate most of them. The online content

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Speaker 9: we don't regulate, you know, people ask me what are

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Speaker 9: you doing about Disney Fubo And my answer is nothing,

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Speaker 9: because I don't have jurisdiction there. So there's it says

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Speaker 9: communications on the building, but really it should say broadcast

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Speaker 9: communications on the building. That would be more accurate. So

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Speaker 9: with Chairman Carr, his focus is on the specific question

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Speaker 9: of whether broadcast news distortion, which is actionable at the

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Speaker 9: broadcaster level, and potentially whether that took place. Both he

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Speaker 9: and I put out statements on that in December and

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Speaker 9: did some interviews on it. At the time. I saw

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Speaker 9: what I think is the first well pleated broadcast news

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Speaker 9: distortion complain I've ever seen in my career across my desk,

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Speaker 9: and so that seems like that's a predicate to look

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Speaker 9: into the question. But there's no way that the FCC

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Speaker 9: can regulate CBS as a whole. On the other hand,

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Speaker 9: if there were some sort of improper behavior at the

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Speaker 9: stations that were owned and operated by the CBS network,

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Speaker 9: then the fact that those are broadcasters does give us

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Speaker 9: jurisdiction to start raising questions the public about the integrity

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Speaker 9: of what was broadcast and whether that's an appropriate use

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Speaker 9: of the airwaves, which are after all, the common property

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Speaker 9: of the American people.

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Speaker 1: Great, Nathan, I will tell you the audience loved it,

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Speaker 1: but there's still the juries out in the warm posse

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Speaker 1: on the health effects of five G. We'd probably get

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Speaker 1: to get Bobby over here for that, Nathan Simonson, where

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Speaker 1: do people go on social media to find all your

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Speaker 1: writings and to follow you as you continue to battle

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Speaker 1: for President Trump and the nation at the Federal Communications Commission.

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Speaker 9: Sir, Well, sir, you can, first of all go to

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Speaker 9: FCC gov and on my page there there's access to

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Speaker 9: all of my written statements on which are pretty technical

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Speaker 9: and didn't turn into press releases. There is also an

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Speaker 9: op ed tab under me on the FCC's web page.

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Speaker 9: In addition, I'm at Simington FCC, so you got it

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Speaker 9: right there. That's my ex account, my official X account.

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Speaker 9: It's the same handle on Instagram and on true social

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Speaker 9: So if anyone's interested in finding out more what I

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Speaker 9: think about stuff, then that's an easy counduit.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, brother, appreciate your great job.

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Speaker 9: Thank you, sir.

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Speaker 1: Always you guys want the receipts. This is the warriors

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Speaker 1: at the front line that are making massive changes. It's

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Speaker 1: just incredible. Lara Lumer and Lara's out and about today.

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Speaker 1: We're trying to anybod Lara Lumer made the front page.

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Speaker 1: Gotta love this. Lara Lumer makes the front page of

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Speaker 1: the beloved Financial Times of London. Trump ditches Waltz after

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Speaker 1: MAGA wrath builds against National Security Advisor, and the whole

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Speaker 1: story is about Laura Lumber and the exposa she did

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Speaker 1: on the people at the National Security Council and Alex

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Speaker 1: Wang and all of them. We're going to try to

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Speaker 1: get Laura. Do we have time? I got so another.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about people driving President Trump's agenda, not simply

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Speaker 1: for the MAGA movement, not simply for President Trump, but

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Speaker 1: also for the folks here in the United States of America,

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Speaker 1: all her citizens. One of the great warriors we have.

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Speaker 1: We talked about a little bit yesterday. Ed Martin just

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Speaker 1: an incredible guy. Phillis Schlaffley's right hand. Phyllis Schlaffley was

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Speaker 1: her endorsement in President Trump was an inflection point in

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Speaker 1: the twenty fifteen primary. In the twenty sixteen campaign, She's

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Speaker 1: one of the great icons of the conservative movement in

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Speaker 1: an absolutely total warrior, and so is Ed Martin, who's

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Speaker 1: her roomate. Ed Martin is now a waiting confirmation as

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Speaker 1: the US Attorney for the District Columbia. And you under stand,

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Speaker 1: besides the top people at Main Justice, this is along

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Speaker 1: with the Southern District of New York, the two most

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Speaker 1: important US attorneys in the nation. We have a and

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Speaker 1: there's a full scale war against Ed Martin right now.

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Speaker 1: And why is that? Because Ed Martin is how do

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Speaker 1: we say, setting things right, Let's go and play this

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Speaker 1: package and I'll come right back. I heard the name

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Speaker 1: Ed Martin.

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Speaker 8: I know there's a lot of people to keep track

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Speaker 8: of in Donald Trump's new administration, but this guy is,

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Speaker 8: I would say, a standout, and I don't mean that

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Speaker 8: in a good way. He is the guy that Trump

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Speaker 8: appointed to be the US Attorney for Washington, DC. So

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Speaker 8: he's not yet sid confirmed. He's an acting right now.

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Speaker 8: He is to my mind, completely unqualified and truly a

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Speaker 8: bit unhinged. One of the things he is doing a

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Speaker 8: lot of since he got into powerful office basically day

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Speaker 8: one as the acting US attorney not confirmed yet and

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Speaker 8: he's trying to be confirmed, is this habit of firing

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Speaker 8: off these menacing letters all over the place, for instance,

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Speaker 8: to medical journals from the New England Journal of Medicine

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Speaker 8: to the Journal of Strettstrix and Gynecology to Chess. That's

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Speaker 8: a scientific journal for chess doctors. If I'm being honest,

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Speaker 8: it's the first time I've ever heard of it. In

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Speaker 8: these letters, Martin accused of the journals. This is the

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Speaker 8: US attorney, acting US attorney, accusing the journals of bias

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Speaker 8: and demands that they report back to him.

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Speaker 4: This is the kind of thing that Martin does. It's

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Speaker 4: sort of his thing.

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Speaker 8: You might recall that he sent a letter, apparently only

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Speaker 8: on social media, threatened to chase federal employees to the

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Speaker 8: end of the earth to hold them accountable for anyone

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Speaker 8: pushing back on Elon Musk's government efficiency. Folks were flooding

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Speaker 8: into agencies with barely any notice. This is someone, it

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Speaker 8: would seem to me, based on these letters, who is

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Speaker 8: under the impression that he lives in an authoritarian state,

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Speaker 8: not a free country, where people with the policing power

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Speaker 8: that he's been invested with get to just impose their

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Speaker 8: will at any institution whatsoever. From the CHEST Journal to

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Speaker 8: Georgetown Law School to Wikipedia. Now, the Senate Judiciary Committee

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Speaker 8: has yet to vote to start Martin's confirmation hearing, but

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Speaker 8: Republican chair Chuck Grassley said today it is not on

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Speaker 8: the agenda because Republicans still have questions, as they should,

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Speaker 8: and there is really just a really long list of

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Speaker 8: reasons not to nominate this guy. Is other people who

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Speaker 8: are nominated for the position don't already hold it, and

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Speaker 8: so at some level it's a little speculative what will

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Speaker 8: they do in the job. In this case, he was

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Speaker 8: named the acting on day one, and I have to say,

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Speaker 8: these letters he's been sending. Here's a you know, three

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Speaker 8: different medical journals, the Journal of Chess Medicine. I want

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Speaker 8: you to respond to the US attorney about whether you

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Speaker 8: have bias. Get back to me on that Georgetown Law school.

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Speaker 8: You have to tell me how you're strucking your kids.

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Speaker 8: This is Wikipedia. He sent a letter to the nonprofit

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Speaker 8: that runs Wikipedia, accusing the tax extempt organization of allowing

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Speaker 8: foreign actors to manipulate information and spread propaganda the American public.

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Speaker 3: I have to say, these.

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Speaker 8: Letters strike me as as flatly authoritarian as anything we've

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Speaker 8: seen the trum administration. And one does have to wonder

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Speaker 8: if he were actually confirmed, what he would be doing

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Speaker 8: with the prosecutorial power.

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Speaker 10: I mean, he calls the hundreds of lawyers who work

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Speaker 10: at the US Attorney's Office, which is a pretty venerated

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Speaker 10: office of prosecutors, the president's lawyers. And he has openly

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Speaker 10: said that his job is to go out there and

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Speaker 10: attack the critics of the president. I have colleagues in

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Speaker 10: Congress who receives threatening letters from mister Martin. In his

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Speaker 10: first days in office, one of the first things he

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Speaker 10: did was to dismiss cases against his own defendants, that is,

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Speaker 10: rather his own clients, people who were criminal defendants in

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Speaker 10: the January sixth case. He was there on January sixth,

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Speaker 10: and he experienced the events of the day, as Marty

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Speaker 10: Gras he said in a tweet that he sent out,

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Speaker 10: as he observed the mass vices against our police officers,

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Speaker 10: the attempt to storm the capitol, the storming of the Capitol,

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Speaker 10: and then the attempt to overthow the election. As Marty

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Speaker 10: grat it was a big day of celebration for him.

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Speaker 10: And he has partaken of every form of January sixth

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Speaker 10: denialism and conspiracy theory out there, like the FBI director

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Speaker 10: as well.

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Speaker 3: Capitojec.

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Speaker 1: Okay. So he has the endorsement of Chris Hayes and

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Speaker 1: Jamie Raskin. And what I mean by that is that

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Speaker 1: they hate him. So what does that tell you? He's

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Speaker 1: got to be great? Whatever they hate is good, and

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Speaker 1: they hate him, and it's a NonStop barrage. And this

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Speaker 1: has nothing to do with Democrats right now. This is

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Speaker 1: the acid test on are we going to get serious

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Speaker 1: about going after this apparatus, taking apart brick by brick

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Speaker 1: and getting to the bottom, getting to the bottom of

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Speaker 1: what's going on. Because Ed Martin ain't looking to co

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Speaker 1: host Fox News shows. This guy's a grinder and a

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Speaker 1: warrior and will not back down at all. This all

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Speaker 1: goes back to Grassley and to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Speaker 1: Number one, when you have these confirmations of US attorneys,

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Speaker 1: We've never had confirmation hearings. I think you have ninety

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Speaker 1: three ninety two to ninety three US attorneys right, and

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Speaker 1: then you have hundreds of attorneys underneath it. But if

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Speaker 1: you had to confirm in a hearing the US attorneys,

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Speaker 1: you'd never get anybody appointed. It would take forever. They

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Speaker 1: do it all in kind of paperwork. This is all

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Speaker 1: about the Senate Judiciary Committee and this gets back to

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Speaker 1: the controlled opposition of the Republican Party. There are many

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Speaker 1: many people that are just not moving with urgency and alacrity,

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Speaker 1: and hey, we got to get this done. Let's grind.

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Speaker 1: Let's grind seven days of wa week. Let's hit it,

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Speaker 1: Let's hit it, Let's hit it. Action action, action. You

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Speaker 1: have a lot of these people around here just lazy,

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Speaker 1: or they don't want to do it, or they're too

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Speaker 1: you know, they're concerned about Jamie Raskins saying something bad

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Speaker 1: about them. They're concern and worried about Chris hayes having

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Speaker 1: a segment and Chris Hayes's producers cutting together you know,

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Speaker 1: footage and having your letters up there where they're attacking you,

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Speaker 1: attacking you and attacking you. They don't like that because

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Speaker 1: they're not courageous. This game is not for the faint

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Speaker 1: of heart. Did they not put and it was it

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Speaker 1: not Matthew Graves in that crowd over as the dc

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Speaker 1: US attorney put all the January sixth people in prison?

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Speaker 1: Did they not? Did they not try to put President Trump?

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Speaker 1: Working with Jack Smith put President Trump in prison for

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Speaker 1: I don't know, three hundred years. Short commercial break, let's stick.

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Speaker 7: Use your host Stephen came back.

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Speaker 1: There are things that main justice that are happening. Okay,

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Speaker 1: there are other things happening around town. You get the

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Speaker 1: great tom fitting when you look at the convergence of

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Speaker 1: the crises we are coming to. The budget today was

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Speaker 1: kind of initial, and it's it's directionally. We're getting there.

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Speaker 1: It's not great, but it's a start, at least from

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Speaker 1: what I've seen in the you know, the little bit

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Speaker 1: I've seen. We're going to get it all to that.

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Speaker 1: It's clearly not cut enough. But this is part of this,

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Speaker 1: the crises we're coming to now, folks, So plan out

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Speaker 1: for the next hundred days. Let's go to the end

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Speaker 1: of July. Let's go to July twenty ninth basically or thirtieth.

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Speaker 1: So the next ninety hundred days, I guess be the

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Speaker 1: first week. Let me do some rate math, it'll be

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Speaker 1: the first week of August when they part, when they

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Speaker 1: all get ready to leave here. You're going to have

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Speaker 1: this constitutional crisis is driven by what the judge said,

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Speaker 1: your day of stepping in between President Trump being commander

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Speaker 1: in chief number one, the deportations, and they're winning because

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Speaker 1: they're jamming us up on the criminal element hoping to

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Speaker 1: break our will. Because this is all about will, political will.

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Speaker 1: They hope to break our will on the ten million

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Speaker 1: that have to leave, and you have to do it humanly,

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Speaker 1: of course, but they got to go. That's number one.

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Speaker 1: Number two is the one tonight today New York Posts

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Speaker 1: has got it. I think, you know, Secretary of State Rubing,

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Speaker 1: the guy say, hey, look, we signed the Mintals deal,

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Speaker 1: but it looks like we're not making progress. We're kind

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Speaker 1: of going to take a time out or at least

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Speaker 1: some worthy the effect that the Ukraine thing. You guys

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Speaker 1: slug it out, but we're not putting up any more money.

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Speaker 1: So this is the kinetic part of the Third World War.

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Speaker 1: And you saw President Trump came out yesterday on the

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Speaker 1: Persians and said, hey, how about this one percent stopping

804
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Speaker 1: the oil? All the oil. I would just say in

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Speaker 1: the two and a half billion, a million barrels a

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Speaker 1: day going to the Chinese companis party but blockaded all,

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Speaker 1: stop it all. So you got that part. Then you

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Speaker 1: had the finance and the economics and how youre going

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Speaker 1: to find So all those are converging over the next

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Speaker 1: hundred days, which is phase two of this right two

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Speaker 1: one of the most contentious, complicated inflection points in the

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Speaker 1: history of the Republic. That's the stakes that are on

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Speaker 1: the table. That's the stakes Trump's plan for. He's not

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Speaker 1: doing small things. He's doing the biggest things you could

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Speaker 1: do at the highest level with a sense of urgency. Trump.

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Speaker 1: We did that town hall the other day on News Nation.

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Speaker 1: He's calling in at it from his desk at the

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Speaker 1: Resume in the Oval office at eight o'clock a night,

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Speaker 1: and they're talking about it was just after the speech

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Speaker 1: we did live for the tech CEOs. He's saying, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I got a bunch of these guys backed up Eli.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna meet with these guys right afterwards. He's gonna

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Speaker 1: sit down with these guys again. He's gonna work at

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Speaker 1: ten or eleven o'clock at night every night and then

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Speaker 1: be up at five in the morning. It's dropping truth

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Speaker 1: bombs on true social That's one of his superpowers. It's this,

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Speaker 1: you know, energy at a level that you've never seen before.

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Speaker 1: I consider myself a very hard worker. You guys, I

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Speaker 1: do this seven days a week. I can't keep up

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Speaker 1: with him. In fact, on this show, our specialty is

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Speaker 1: to cover this in depth. Knowing that We've worked on

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Speaker 1: her for four years, et cetera. It's so complicated just

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Speaker 1: to keep up with it because it's so much and

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Speaker 1: he's boom in the opposition. He broke Ratechel matt out.

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Speaker 1: She had a nervous breakdown. She's going back to the

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Speaker 1: She's going back to the barn in Connecticut. She's done,

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Speaker 1: done and dusted. Which gets me back to the other

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Speaker 1: element is the deconstruction the administrative state, in the destruction

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Speaker 1: of the deep state, and this is not getting the

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Speaker 1: priority it needs to get. That's where Ed Martin's a

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Speaker 1: battering ram. He's a battering ram. When President Trump picked

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Speaker 1: him in the early days, that go, oh my god,

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Speaker 1: what a brilliant pick for that billet and replace Graves,

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Speaker 1: who was so often you remember everything that came out

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Speaker 1: of Graves, everything that came out of the US Attorney.

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Speaker 1: When you have because with Rachel maddele student, with Rachel

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Speaker 1: Matto gone, Hayes is kind of her product. They've got

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Speaker 1: other people to call, but Hayes is her acolytes. She

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Speaker 1: created crusades, so he'll be the light version. He'll never

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Speaker 1: be Rachel Mattow. But he lays it out he cannot

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Speaker 1: get on this story more of Ed Martin. Now here's

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Speaker 1: the heart of the story. This is a Republican issue.

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Speaker 1: We control the Judiciary Committee and we control the Senate,

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Speaker 1: so this has nothing to do with Democrats. This has

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Speaker 1: to do and yesterday you heard Tom Tillis, and my

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Speaker 1: understanding is after you guys carpet bombed Tillis's office, upon

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Speaker 1: further review, he's open. But you've got others on the

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Speaker 1: Judiciary Committee and including the beloved Senator Grassley. So we're

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Speaker 1: going to get organized today and then tomorrow, but on

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Speaker 1: Monday we're going up. This is getting ready to go

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Speaker 1: fix banets on Ed Martin. We've already done quasi, but

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Speaker 1: they ain't seen nothing. But we're prepared to do because

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Speaker 1: this is totally within control of yourself. And this gets

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Speaker 1: to the heart of what the problem has been, and

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Speaker 1: that is that the Republican Party is controlled opposition, controlled opposition.

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Speaker 1: The number of fighters you got up there is a handful.

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Speaker 1: Don't let them come back and talk to you about

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Speaker 1: everything they're doing. The number of fighters you have in

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Speaker 1: the House, in the Senate, in this house a little

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Speaker 1: bit more. Maybe I'm a twenty five, thirty thirty five

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Speaker 1: in the Senate a handful, just a tiny handful, and

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Speaker 1: they can sit there and they can talk all the

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Speaker 1: MAGA talk they want to talk. They can talk all

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Speaker 1: the populism, they talk, all the economic nationalism. When this

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Speaker 1: beyond talk, this is action. Where are you are you

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Speaker 1: standing in the breach? Because Ed Martin is a blunt

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Speaker 1: force instrument. He's kind of a mini blunt force. If

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Speaker 1: Trump's the big blunt force instrument, this guy's a couple

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Speaker 1: of levels down. But trust me, it's blunt and it's

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Speaker 1: a force. You got. Raskin and Hayes are as two

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Speaker 1: smarter guys on the other side, as they got Chris

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Speaker 1: Hayes's show. They do not waste their time when they

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Speaker 1: get something in the gun sights. They know it's important,

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Speaker 1: and they they got they got brother Ed Martin in

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Speaker 1: the gun sights because they understand there's enough cowardice in

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Speaker 1: the Republican Party to blink. We cannot we cannot blink.

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Speaker 1: We cannot blink in the and there's still this amazing

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Speaker 1: lack of urgency with with this administrative and deep state.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get into the administrative state and the DOJE

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Speaker 1: efforts about how hard it is to penetrate this of

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Speaker 1: how hard it is to smash it, and the people

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Speaker 1: like Ed Martin, they're prepared to step into the breach

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Speaker 1: and say, hey, I'm all in only a handful. We

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