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Speaker 1: more coming up on the Buck Sexton Show. This this

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Speaker 1: is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. Make

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Speaker 1: election interference activities. I am sure that all Americans share

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Speaker 1: my concern about the efforts of the Russian government to

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Speaker 1: we now know that the Russian operatives who perpetrated these

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Speaker 1: No collusion, no conspiracy. The report is out. I have

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Speaker 1: fundamental foundational conclusions were, and none of that changes. The

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Speaker 1: It did not happen. This was a conspiracy theory without evidence.

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Speaker 1: This was an effort at a soft coup by deep

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Speaker 1: just give them some more Pulitzers. That's what they do anywhere.

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Speaker 1: They just give themselves awards talking about how wonderful they are.

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Speaker 1: Now the president finally can look around and say, can

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Speaker 1: political opponents and fueled by illegal leaks. Nonetheless, the White

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Speaker 1: House fully cooperated with the Special Counsel's investigation, providing unfettered

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Speaker 1: access to campaign and White House documents, directing senior aides

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Speaker 1: to testify freely, and asserting no privileged claims. And at

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Speaker 1: the same time, the President took no act that in

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Speaker 1: fact deprived the Special Counsel of the documents and witnesses

436
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Speaker 1: necessary to complete his investigation. Not only, and this is

437
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Speaker 1: what bar is telling, it's so important that the president

438
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 1: not obstruct this investigation, didn't use bleach bit didn't destroy,

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00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 1: you know, phones and servers with hammers or phones with hammers,

440
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:19,479
Speaker 1: didn't try to erase thirty thousand emails. Not only did

441
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Speaker 1: Trump not do that, the Trump team, the Trump White House,

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Speaker 1: the President himself gave more than what was required in

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Speaker 1: terms of sharing, waived executive privilege, said you can, and

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00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 1: they could have very well said now we're going to

445
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Speaker 1: claim executive privilege over the following things that would have

446
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 1: been completely legitimate. But this was very open, very transparent.

447
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 1: Bar didn't have to even share this report with anyone.

448
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 1: It could have been an entirely secret report. Obviously the

449
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 1: politics of that would have been difficult, but it would

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Speaker 1: be legal, would be within the guidelines, would be within

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Speaker 1: this system. You know, we're always told, don't undermine the system,

452
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Speaker 1: don't undermine our you know, our institutions. That's what they

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Speaker 1: always say. But the president, attorney general, they received No

454
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Speaker 1: there's no credit from the other side for this because

455
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 1: it was never about this is this is what if

456
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 1: you get nothing else from what we've seen here. This

457
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:19,080
Speaker 1: was never about getting the truth. This was always about

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Speaker 1: getting Trump. This was always about revenge for Hillary's defeat

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Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen and for the rejection of the elite

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Speaker 1: leftist ideology that Hillary represents, and that in a post

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Speaker 1: Obama America a lot of Democrats thought was the unbounded

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Speaker 1: future of this country without without any real opposition, without

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Speaker 1: any you know, it was going to be Hillary for

464
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Speaker 1: eight years because their side had won, their belief their

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Speaker 1: ideas had won. Turned out that was not the case,

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00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 1: and they could not handle it. I have more on

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Speaker 1: the media reaction to this, and also my friend Sean

468
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 1: Davis from the Federalists will be joining talk about what

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00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 1: he sees. He's a guy who gets very deep in

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Speaker 1: the weeds on this report and has been getting deep

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00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 1: in the weeds on all MULA reporting, stretching back to

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Speaker 1: the very beginning of this whole fiasco. So we're gonna

473
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 1: have a really interesting conversation with him, and then we've

474
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 1: got later on the show some updates on where the

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00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 1: Democrats are in the field, and I've got some thoughts

476
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 1: on in the aftermath of the Notre Dame disaster for you,

477
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 1: a lot of things. So we're gonna not just do

478
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Speaker 1: this topic for the whole show, I promise, but we

479
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 1: got more on this coming up. And they're having a

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00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 1: good day I'm having a good day too. It was

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Speaker 1: called no collusion, no obstruction. There never was, by the way,

482
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Speaker 1: and then never will be. And we do have to

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Speaker 1: get to the bottom of these things. I will say,

484
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Speaker 1: And this should never happen. I say this in front

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Speaker 1: of my friends wounded warriors, and I just call them

486
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Speaker 1: warriors because we just shook hands and they look great,

487
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 1: they look so good, so beautiful. But I said in

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Speaker 1: front of my friends, this should never happen to another

489
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Speaker 1: president again, this hoax, This should never happen to another

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Speaker 1: president again. Thank you. And yet I worry that it

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Speaker 1: will unless there's a real effort to get to the

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Speaker 1: bottom of this. I worry that the Democrats view this

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Speaker 1: whole thing as, in some sense a limited victory for themselves,

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00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:46,719
Speaker 1: because while they didn't prove any of this, because it

495
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: was all a lie, they did manage to slow down

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Speaker 1: the administration, to use this as a tool of opposition,

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00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 1: to grind away at the President and his allies with

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00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 1: this mess, with this disaster of an investigation that, even

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00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 1: though was unsuccessful in the end, really did punish the

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Speaker 1: administration because the process, as I always say, the process

501
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 1: was the punishment they were hoping for. More. But they

502
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 1: certainly got some degree of punishment out of this in

503
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Speaker 1: this entire situation. But if we're looking for the media

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00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 1: to have any honesty about this, we are going to

505
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 1: be looking for a very long time. This is just

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00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 1: a collection of some of the things that you were

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Speaker 1: hearing today from the so called guardians of our Republic,

508
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 1: who just next weekend at the White House correspondence dinner,

509
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Speaker 1: will be celebrating themselves a bunch of self deluding, self loving,

510
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 1: self loathing nerds, all gathered together in one place. Play ten.

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Speaker 1: That is the cardinal. You do not brief the White

512
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Speaker 1: House on criminal investigations before that information is public, let

513
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Speaker 1: alone a criminal investigation into the present hitting. Yeah, sure,

514
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: of course, even though the report says he's not exonerated

515
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 1: choosing to do this press conference using the word spying,

516
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: briefing the president's legal team on this, you know. And

517
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 1: so the difference between bar and Jeff Sessions, I think

518
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:17,800
Speaker 1: is that he was going to be a truck lackey

519
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:21,880
Speaker 1: of the president. It turns out that this Attorney general

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Speaker 1: is I don't know how many Senate Democrats thought that

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Speaker 1: they would say that they missed Jeff Session. I mean,

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00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:30,400
Speaker 1: they aren't even pretending anymore to try to follow the rules.

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Speaker 1: That's the thing that's so disturbing. They just don't even care.

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Speaker 1: By the way, occase you're wondering, what does collusion look like,

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Speaker 1: it looks like the Attorney general briefing the Attorney general's

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Speaker 1: lawyer's briefing the president before Congress of the public. I

527
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Speaker 1: don't know if they're all just idiots and they don't

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Speaker 1: know what the process is. But notice how they complain

529
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Speaker 1: and to the process is being violated, and then don't

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Speaker 1: tell us in what way because they're just complaining. This

531
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: is just whining. They don't even know. They're just unhappy

532
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:56,919
Speaker 1: because they're not getting the toy they want. They don't

533
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 1: know and don't care that they don't deserve the toy,

534
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:02,279
Speaker 1: that it's not for them, that it's for someone else. Right,

535
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 1: they're little, screaming, whiney children. They don't know anything. I mean,

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00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:10,320
Speaker 1: the CNN eight person mega panel that was on that

537
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 1: I saw a little bit of it. It was ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: Not a single person up there had a word of

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00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:20,840
Speaker 1: not even pro Trump, just skepticism of the CNN claims

540
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:22,800
Speaker 1: about how all this looks so bad for the president

541
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 1: looks bad for the president. Look, the whole thing looks

542
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:28,360
Speaker 1: terrible for CNN. The CNN should have to just start

543
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,759
Speaker 1: again from zero, from scratch and actually become a real

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00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 1: news organization. That's what should happen here. I have Sean

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00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:36,839
Speaker 1: Davis joining me in a couple of minutes and he's

546
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Speaker 1: going to break more of this down. Team. We have

547
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:43,400
Speaker 1: so much more show, so stay right there. So one

548
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 1: of the most important things that we should all take

549
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:49,760
Speaker 1: away from Muller Report day, I've got our friend Sean Davis,

550
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:52,880
Speaker 1: who has been digging deep into the details of this

551
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 1: report all day to day as well as for the

552
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 1: last two years when it comes to all things Russia collusion.

553
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Speaker 1: He's a guy who actually reads all the things that

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Speaker 1: are released from Capitol Hill and looks at the footnotes

555
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 1: and does research on them. So someone that we really

556
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 1: do need to talk to here. Sean Davis is co

557
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Speaker 1: founder of The Federalist. The Federalist dot com one of

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Speaker 1: my favorite websites. Also a website that happened to get

559
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Speaker 1: all this Russia stuff right for the last two years,

560
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,359
Speaker 1: which is which is nice. They got that going for them. Sean,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for making the time. Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: So what are the things today you see? You're like, Okay,

563
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Speaker 1: this is new, Like I've already been telling folks. Obviously

564
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Speaker 1: there's no collusion, no obstruction, there's no charges, we know

565
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 1: all that stuff. What did you see in this report

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Speaker 1: that you say, oh, that's really interesting and new. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think the most interesting thing other than the fact

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Speaker 1: that a team of dedicated anti Trump partisans had two

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Speaker 1: years and twenty million dollars to dig up anything they

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Speaker 1: could on collusion and couldn't find any like that. To me,

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Speaker 1: that's a pretty big deal. It's not like these people

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Speaker 1: all went in with an open mind, you know, didn't

573
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Speaker 1: really have strong feelings one way or about the other

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Speaker 1: about Trump. The lead prosecutor on this was a Hillary's

575
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 1: victory night party, which ended up being so sad. So

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00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: these are all people with a really vested interest in

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Speaker 1: the outcome, and even they couldn't find collusions. So that's

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Speaker 1: the most interesting thing to me personally assigned. From that,

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Speaker 1: what was most interesting to me and the report is

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Speaker 1: what was not included, which was any information whatsoever about

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Speaker 1: the Hillary Clinton campaigns admitted collusion with Russians that helped

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Speaker 1: cook up this entire conspiracy theory in the first place.

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Speaker 1: And it's a weird thing given that Muller was ostensibly

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Speaker 1: appointed to investigate Russian interference in our twenty sixteen elections.

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Speaker 1: So Christopher Steele has mentioned i think fourteen times in

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Speaker 1: a four hundred forty eight page report, never once mentions

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Speaker 1: that he was also working on behalf of a sanctioned

588
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 1: Russian oligarch, was even lobbying on his behalf to a

589
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 1: top DJ official while all this was going on, does

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Speaker 1: not mention even the name of Fusion GPS, which, at

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Speaker 1: the same time time it was working for Hillary and

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Speaker 1: employing Christopher Steele, was also working on behalf of a

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Speaker 1: Russian holding company they had been charged with money laundering,

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Speaker 1: invading US sanctions, namely Prevason, and that that company's top attorney,

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Speaker 1: the woman who was in this infamous June ninth Trump

596
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Speaker 1: Tower meeting that created so much hysteria, was the point

597
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:23,439
Speaker 1: person for the Clinton campaign firm that hired the spy

598
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Speaker 1: who cooked all this stuff up in the first place.

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Speaker 1: So it's super weird to me that in a report

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Speaker 1: this four hundred forty eight pages about Russian inclusion, we

601
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:36,400
Speaker 1: don't get a single mention of a pretty glaring example

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Speaker 1: of Russian inclusion that happened during the entire campaign, And

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Speaker 1: I think those emissions really tell the story of this

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Speaker 1: entire investigation from beginning to end. And as to the

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Speaker 1: Muller decision, and I read through the sections and the

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Speaker 1: report where they talk about how they came to the

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Speaker 1: decision essentially to not decide, I found the whole thing

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Speaker 1: deeply disingenuous. If what do they think was going to

609
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 1: happen here, then how are we supposed to react to, Well,

610
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 1: we just decided we're not going to decide, to let

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Speaker 1: someone else decide. Well, I think I have to quote

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Speaker 1: musical and philosophical luminary Getty Lee, if you choose not

613
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:19,879
Speaker 1: to decide, you'd still have made a choice from Rush

614
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 1: great band. Check it out. He clearly made a decision

615
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 1: not to charge, not to indict, and he can dress

616
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:29,239
Speaker 1: up the decision with all the excuses he wants, which

617
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:32,360
Speaker 1: he clearly does. But in reading the obstruction section of

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Speaker 1: the report, I was really reminded of how much it

619
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Speaker 1: resembled that embarrassing press conference that James Comey did in

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Speaker 1: July of twenty sixteen over why he wasn't going to

621
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Speaker 1: indict Hillary. So he goes up there and said she

622
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 1: committed no crime, she did nothing wrong, We're not charging

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Speaker 1: her with anything, and then proceeded to spend an hour

624
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Speaker 1: dragging her through the mud in a way that made

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Speaker 1: it impossible for her to ever defend herself and clear

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Speaker 1: her name. And I say this as someone who doesn't

627
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 1: like Hillary and thinks she should have been charged. But

628
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Speaker 1: the job of a prosecutor is to look at the

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Speaker 1: facts and then to make one decision do I charge

630
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Speaker 1: the person or not? And to not charge and then

631
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Speaker 1: go and completely smear someone and drag them through the

632
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Speaker 1: mud in an unofficial proceeding where they have no way

633
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Speaker 1: of clearing their name. It's just unconscionable. And it's why

634
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 1: Democrats at that time we're calling for Komy's head. Now

635
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 1: fast forward three years and you have Mueller doing the

636
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 1: exact same thing to Trump in his report that Coomy did,

637
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Speaker 1: and it shows just how irresponsible and abusive those two

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Speaker 1: men are as prosecutors. It's no surprise that the BFFs

639
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 1: and that Mueller was Komy's mentor. So I read through

640
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Speaker 1: all that I was so nonplused by it, so unimpressed.

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Speaker 1: The whole thing read to me as little more than

642
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 1: a pretext and a roadmap to impeachment that they knew

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Speaker 1: they didn't have the juice to pull off an indictment,

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Speaker 1: let alone in a conviction, so they left all these

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Speaker 1: little breadcrumbs and asserted things like mean tweets is being

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Speaker 1: a facial evidence of obstruction of justice. I found the

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00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 1: whole thing absurd. Now Weissman's obviously an anti Trump Democrat.

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Speaker 1: A bunch of the others, Uh what genie Ree actually

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Speaker 1: just heard from someone today about how in the interactions

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Speaker 1: with the Genie Ree, how nasty she was and how

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Speaker 1: how you know, aggressive she was and in dealing with

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Speaker 1: people who were interacting with special counsel. I thought that

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Speaker 1: was an interesting side note of off camera. But is

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Speaker 1: if someone says to you, Sean proved to me that

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Speaker 1: Muller is an anti Trump partisan, what is you? What

656
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 1: is your your short version case for that? Look at

657
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Speaker 1: the results? I mean, didn't demand, to my knowledge, didn't

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Speaker 1: hire a single Republican. The person who he picked to

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Speaker 1: be in charge U with a guy who was hoping

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Speaker 1: to celebrate Hillary Clinton's victory at the Jabbt Center on

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00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 1: that election night, and that didn't turn out too well.

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Speaker 1: Genie reef Are going to sake was a Clinton Foundation

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Speaker 1: lawyer before she got tapped to go over to the

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Speaker 1: Department of Justice. And it's impossible to read through this report,

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Speaker 1: both the collusion section and the obstruction and not come

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00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:07,279
Speaker 1: away with the belief, having read between the lines and

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00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 1: read the lines and read the footnotes, that this whole

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00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 1: thing was designed and written to get Trump. And so

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Speaker 1: you say, will prove that it was that he was

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00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 1: a partisan, that he's just going after Trump. The proof

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00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:20,319
Speaker 1: is in what he didn't put in there, which is

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00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 1: nothing about the Hillary Clinton campaigns known admitted documented collusion

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Speaker 1: with Russians. Christopher Steele, this foreign spy, by the way,

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Speaker 1: who's hired on behalf of a campaign. I was told

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Speaker 1: that was wrong. This is a guy who, in his

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00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:37,760
Speaker 1: own debunked and discredited dossiers said he had gotten information

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Speaker 1: directly from Kremlin officials. If that's not collusion or conspiracy

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Speaker 1: to spread dirt on a political opponent to interfere with

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Speaker 1: US democracy, then the turn has no meaning. So I've

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Speaker 1: never aller did. This whole thing is absurd. I've never

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Speaker 1: gotten an explanation for this. I'm wondering if any, if

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Speaker 1: any lives have thrown something up in your way on

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Speaker 1: this one. They keep saying, oh, well, the Trump Tower meeting,

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Speaker 1: he should they should have called the FBI right away

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Speaker 1: and not even accepted the meeting. And I say, well,

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Speaker 1: hold on a second. So someone says they have damaging

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Speaker 1: information or political opponent because they're a foreigner, you're supposed

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Speaker 1: to say, I can't even talk to you. Meanwhile, Hillary

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Speaker 1: on behalf of Hillary Clinton, as we all know, there

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Speaker 1: was the hiring of Christopher Steele, who's a foreigner, and

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Speaker 1: the fact that he's British doesn't doesn't change the fact

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Speaker 1: that he's not an American citizen. He's a foreigner working

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Speaker 1: on behalf of a campaign, but using Russian sources who

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Speaker 1: are giving him the information. Like why is that? Okay,

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Speaker 1: I've never gotten that explanation. Oh, they don't explain it.

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Speaker 1: They just ignored and pretend to it will go away,

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Speaker 1: similar to how Muller handled it. Maybe if you just

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Speaker 1: pretend it never happened, you'll never have to explain it.

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Speaker 1: But it's not just that Christopher Steele was a foreigner

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Speaker 1: working on behalf of the campaign. At the same time

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Speaker 1: he was scheming with DOJ to get Trump affiliates spied

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Speaker 1: on using false information. He was also working on behalf

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Speaker 1: of a sanctioned Russian oligarch in Oleg Deripaska. He in

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Speaker 1: fact kept on referring to him in his conversations with

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Speaker 1: Bruce or at Jay is our favorite tycoon. This is

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Speaker 1: a guy who was trying to set up interviews between

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Speaker 1: dry Post and DJ as a pretext to get him

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Speaker 1: into the United States since he couldn't get a visa

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Speaker 1: as a sanctioned of Russian oligard. So there is no

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Speaker 1: explanation for the double standard. Instead, the liberals and left

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Speaker 1: wingers and media just pretend that that never happened and

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Speaker 1: hope that people will forget it. Ever did speaking to

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Speaker 1: Sean Davis, co founder of The Federalist, You know, Sean,

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Speaker 1: I had to do live coverage starting very early this

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Speaker 1: morning and then all through into the afternoon on the Hill,

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Speaker 1: so I missed, but it was seeing snippets here and

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Speaker 1: there and could see the monitors in the distance. CNN.

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Speaker 1: Were you able to watch some of the CNN eight

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Speaker 1: person meltdown panel today? And I'm just wondering if you

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Speaker 1: could give us your your your view of how the

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Speaker 1: lib media is reacting to the report today. Overall, I

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Speaker 1: did not watch CNN today, one because I'm, like you know,

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Speaker 1: all other three hundred and thirty million Americans, completely uninterested

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Speaker 1: in what they have to say. And number two, I'm

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Speaker 1: not massochist. I did see people talking about it. I

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Speaker 1: saw several journalists, Philip Bump at the Washington Post, Julia

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Speaker 1: Aiaf wherever she is now, saying you know what, in

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Speaker 1: reading this Mueller report, I can only conclude that the

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00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:21,920
Speaker 1: American press nailed it. Their journalism was so good that's amazing.

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Speaker 1: They're they're in a different reality. I mean, these are

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Speaker 1: people hanging around at Jamestown ready to gulps and kool aid,

732
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 1: waiting for the spaceship to come down. They're completely delusional.

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Speaker 1: They have more in common with delusional cultists than they

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Speaker 1: do with actual purveyors of fact and reason, and their

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Speaker 1: entire behavior today has been a complete embarrassment, both to

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Speaker 1: them personally and of their profession. The other part of

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Speaker 1: this that really stuck out to be today was we really,

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Speaker 1: we know now beyond any any reasonable doubt. I think

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Speaker 1: you could say that this whole FBI investigation at least

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Speaker 1: according to the FBI, and according to the Department of Justice,

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Speaker 1: was started because George Papadopoulos that this pretense that a

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Speaker 1: guy who is peripherally kind of tied to a presidential campaign,

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Speaker 1: who is mouthing off about something that was widely rumored

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Speaker 1: to have happened, and people have known for a while

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Speaker 1: that there was some hacking that had gone out, that

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Speaker 1: they would start this whole investigation, and then based on

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Speaker 1: a Papadopoulos had said, I feel like it must go

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00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:25,839
Speaker 1: all the way to the top Seawan because otherwise, why

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Speaker 1: didn't they tell the Trump campaign? You got a guy

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Speaker 1: who's running on saying crazy stuff. We're worried the Russians

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Speaker 1: are going to exploit him. Right, if it was a

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00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 1: real counterintelligence investigation, they should have warned the campaign, But

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Speaker 1: they used this as an excuse to pretend like Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump must be the one given the orders. That's exactly right,

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Speaker 1: and we're going to eventually find out that this just

756
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Speaker 1: this claim that nobody in Trump world was being investigated,

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Speaker 1: that the entire thing didn't start until the FBI got

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Speaker 1: wind of this conversation London. That's a total lie. They

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Speaker 1: may have not started a particular investigation with a particular

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00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:06,319
Speaker 1: name on it until pop it off list conversation was transmitted.

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Speaker 1: But they were investigating Trump people long before then, and

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Speaker 1: so I think it's important to step back and look

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Speaker 1: at what was happening in twenty sixteen. They used this

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00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:18,799
Speaker 1: kind of nonsense. They used the dossier, They used innuendo

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00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:21,440
Speaker 1: as a pretext to spy on the Trump campaign. That

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00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 1: was the insurance policy. They then used the intelligence they collected,

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Speaker 1: the information they collected from that campaign to cast down

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Speaker 1: on the legitimacy of Trump's election. This was the execution

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Speaker 1: of the insurance policy. Then when they became when Trump

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Speaker 1: became president, they used that information to force the recusal

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Speaker 1: of Attorney General so they could again take things over

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Speaker 1: and hold Trump hostage. That's what the whole Trump meeting

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Speaker 1: about the dossier on January sixth was about. Was about

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Speaker 1: making it impossible for Trump to take control of this

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Speaker 1: agency from the people who were waiting on Hillary Clint

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Speaker 1: to take it over. And then finally, the Mueller investation

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00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:04,040
Speaker 1: was a pretext and under this justification of it being

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Speaker 1: a counterintelligence program to eventually get rid of the president

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Speaker 1: for obstruction. Okay, that's what happened. It's not even debatable anymore.

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Speaker 1: The facts are clear. There was an attempted coup on

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Speaker 1: the president. It failed. It failed twice, it failed prior

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Speaker 1: to Comy's firing, and it failed with the Moeller investigation,

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Speaker 1: and sadly, nobody on the left is ever going to

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00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 1: let it go. They will take it to their graves,

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00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:27,920
Speaker 1: believing that Trump was a Russian spy who stole the

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Speaker 1: election from Hillary. Sean Davis of the Federalists, everybody follow

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00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:34,919
Speaker 1: him on Twitter and check out the Federalist dot com

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00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:36,560
Speaker 1: for his latest and all the other fund writers over

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Speaker 1: their Sean actual work on this one, sir, Thanks for

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Speaker 1: making the time always a pleasure. Thank you, Buck team.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back with a whole lot more. CIA and

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Speaker 1: Intel agencies have become bastions of liberals. I see is

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Speaker 1: the headline here on the Drudge Report Today World discussing

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Speaker 1: all things Mueller and looking into what was the basis

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Speaker 1: Not just for this investigation, but how did so many

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Speaker 1: people get this so wrong? You got this piece here

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Speaker 1: by Bill Bill Gertz with a subtitle of the former

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Speaker 1: CIA analyst says agency's dominated by liberals. He could be

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Speaker 1: talking about me, folks, but he's not but you all

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Speaker 1: know I have been saying this for a long long time.

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Speaker 1: John Gentry, however, the guy who's named in this piece,

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Speaker 1: he spent twelve years as a CIA analyst, criticized former

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Speaker 1: senior intelligence leaders, including SI director Brennan, Director of National

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Speaker 1: Intelligence James Clapper, former DEPUTYCI director Mike Morell, along with

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Speaker 1: former analyst Paul Polar, for breaking decades long prohibitions of

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Speaker 1: publicly airing their liberal politics in attacking Trump. I gotta

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00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:55,279
Speaker 1: tell you it's it's more than that. Though. It's more

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Speaker 1: than just these guys. There is now an institutional bias.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you this. I have many friends still on

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Speaker 1: the inside they know this too. There is an institutional

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Speaker 1: bias in the federal government toward the left. The federal

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Speaker 1: government donations for federal government employees in the last election,

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Speaker 1: I think it was over ninety percent went to Hillary Clinton.

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Speaker 1: So when you think about this in terms of votes,

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Speaker 1: if you have massive institutions, which the federal bureaucracies are,

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Speaker 1: with a tremendous number of people as well as a

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Speaker 1: whole lot of power and sway because they're the ones

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Speaker 1: who are implementing government authority day to day, especially at

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Speaker 1: places like DJ and FBI. If nine out of ten overall,

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Speaker 1: now I don't think it's not an at ten of

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Speaker 1: the FBI, but if nine out of ten across the

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Speaker 1: federal government are little Hillary Bots, that is really meaningful,

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Speaker 1: and that's really troubling because it means that there is

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Speaker 1: a similar bias at work in the federal bureaucracy and

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Speaker 1: especially in the federal National Security apparatus as you would

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Speaker 1: see on a college campus where nine out of ten

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Speaker 1: professors are super liberal. So I do think that this

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Speaker 1: is a much bigger problem. And one of the reasons

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Speaker 1: that you see this happening is that to get a

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Speaker 1: job at a place like the CIA, to get a

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Speaker 1: job at the place like the DJ the FBI, you

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Speaker 1: tend to have to have advanced degrees and degrees that

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Speaker 1: come from institutions that already lean very left. And so

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Speaker 1: this is the prophecy coming true of if the campuses

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Speaker 1: are overrun with leftist professors and leftist group think, the

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Speaker 1: people that are coming out of them, especially those who

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Speaker 1: have spent additional time through their advanced degree programs, getting

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Speaker 1: a master's in international relations, getting a master's in journalism,

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Speaker 1: or getting as you know, these kinds of things. I

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Speaker 1: guess usually you don't. Some people get masters in journalist

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Speaker 1: And look at Ben Rhodes, Obama's National Security Propaganda director

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Speaker 1: for the for his White House, he was a creative

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00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:06,040
Speaker 1: writing major. So some people do have some some funky degrees.

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Speaker 1: But the era of Trump has only has exposed this.

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Speaker 1: It's been around for much longer than that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I can tell you that the only people in the

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Speaker 1: CIA whoever whine about the Hatch Act are a bunch

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Speaker 1: of whiney liberals. People who are more conservative leaning in

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Speaker 1: the federal bureaucracy are much less quick to point to

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Speaker 1: kind of petty rules about politicization, because, for one, we're

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Speaker 1: just not We're just by nature, and conservatives are not

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Speaker 1: a bunch of little whiny tattle tales. You know, being

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Speaker 1: a whiny tattle tale is very much a characteristic of

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Speaker 1: the progressive left. He said, is he tweeted this get

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Speaker 1: him in trouble? That They love to do that. You know,

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Speaker 1: that's dared to blaycat, that's get this person fired. They

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Speaker 1: love that. That's just that's just culturally and psychologically, the

858
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:55,560
Speaker 1: profile of a leftist tends to line up with somebody

859
00:52:55,560 --> 00:53:00,399
Speaker 1: who's a whiney loser and probably an in cell. But yeah,

860
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:04,120
Speaker 1: that's right. They also are the ones that always complain

861
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 1: about Hatch Act and politicization because they know that they

862
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:11,440
Speaker 1: dominate these institutions and they'll never be held to account

863
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 1: for it. They'll never be told that they're overly political

864
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:16,880
Speaker 1: and what they're pushing or what they're doing in the

865
00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 1: office because they've got the conservative so outnumber. So the

866
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:26,960
Speaker 1: State Department, for example, is just overrun with leftists, just

867
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:31,360
Speaker 1: chuck full of leftists. And you should know this because

868
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 1: it's not just a problem for Trump, It's gonna be

869
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:36,160
Speaker 1: a problem going forward for a long time. We need

870
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:39,319
Speaker 1: ideological balance in the federal bureaucracy, the same way we

871
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:42,200
Speaker 1: need ideological balance on college campuses. And that's going to

872
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:44,840
Speaker 1: have to be an active process, and the first step

873
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:51,719
Speaker 1: is awareness of what's going on. I'm just wondering what

874
00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:56,560
Speaker 1: it would take for there to be some soul searching

875
00:53:56,840 --> 00:53:59,319
Speaker 1: from the media. I mean, I honestly am just just

876
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:02,440
Speaker 1: curious at this point. What would have to happen for

877
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:06,200
Speaker 1: the media to finally admit that they got this whole

878
00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 1: thing wrong. I mean, you had, you had the MSNBC

879
00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:16,720
Speaker 1: panels melting down. Today. You had Nicole Wallace going after

880
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 1: bar saying that he made excuse after excuse for all

881
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:23,680
Speaker 1: this stuff, that they're that he's Mueller's man. I mean,

882
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:29,279
Speaker 1: they're maligning the current Attorney general specifically because the Attorney

883
00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:34,279
Speaker 1: General refuses to go along with what they've done here,

884
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:38,320
Speaker 1: which is a deep state coup to undermine and destroy

885
00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:44,760
Speaker 1: a presidency. I mean, it's it's completely and utterly unacceptable,

886
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:47,839
Speaker 1: and yet they think that they've done a good job.

887
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:52,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I you know, I can't imagine what's going on.

888
00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:58,040
Speaker 1: I can't imagine what's happening in the minds of anybody

889
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:02,160
Speaker 1: who works in any of these newsrooms. Anyone who who

890
00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:07,240
Speaker 1: is a journal out there and didn't actually go along

891
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:09,600
Speaker 1: with this whole Russia collusion thing. They must think that

892
00:55:09,719 --> 00:55:13,480
Speaker 1: they're peers, that the other people that are involved in

893
00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:17,880
Speaker 1: this whole process, that the other journalists that they've been

894
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:21,680
Speaker 1: working with have completely lost their minds. And now, I

895
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:24,080
Speaker 1: don't know if there's a lot of people that fall

896
00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:26,360
Speaker 1: in this category. I do know there are some. However,

897
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:30,200
Speaker 1: I do know there are some individuals for whom this

898
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:32,960
Speaker 1: whole Russia collision. In fact, one of the more entertaining

899
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:37,320
Speaker 1: things that I've seen is that you have Glenn Greenwald,

900
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:41,440
Speaker 1: who was a very far left guy, but he's been

901
00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:46,720
Speaker 1: running around saying that this is crazy. He's been running

902
00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:50,400
Speaker 1: around saying that the journalists should be ashamed of what

903
00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:52,879
Speaker 1: they have done here, ashamed of it. And he's right.

904
00:55:53,560 --> 00:55:56,600
Speaker 1: At least he's taking the perspective of what really matters

905
00:55:56,680 --> 00:56:00,359
Speaker 1: in this profession. And it's a profession that we are

906
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:05,000
Speaker 1: told and often reminded by the journalists themselves, has real

907
00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:10,759
Speaker 1: implications for American society, right. I mean, we're told that

908
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:15,239
Speaker 1: the journals are the the firefighters, so to speak, of

909
00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:19,120
Speaker 1: our democracy, and yet when we ask for accountability from them,

910
00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:22,480
Speaker 1: when we start to say, hold on a second, is

911
00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:25,640
Speaker 1: there some way that you know, we could at least

912
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 1: come to some accountability on this, they say, whoa, WHOA,

913
00:56:30,719 --> 00:56:34,600
Speaker 1: hold on a second, you know, accountability. That's just crazy,

914
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:38,759
Speaker 1: that's just we can't have accountability for what's happened here.

915
00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:43,200
Speaker 1: But how can they demand so much respect? How can

916
00:56:43,239 --> 00:56:47,800
Speaker 1: they demand so much in the way of public acclaim

917
00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:51,239
Speaker 1: and then not be held to account for what they've done,

918
00:56:51,840 --> 00:56:55,520
Speaker 1: not have people say that this was so damaging and

919
00:56:55,600 --> 00:56:59,480
Speaker 1: it's not just a function of damaging politically. I mean,

920
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:02,759
Speaker 1: you know, this is a presidency that was unfairly and

921
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:07,520
Speaker 1: unjustly forced to fight for its life for the last

922
00:57:07,680 --> 00:57:12,680
Speaker 1: two years. And now that we're we're being told that

923
00:57:12,719 --> 00:57:17,120
Speaker 1: there was no collusion. Now we're being told that we

924
00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:22,120
Speaker 1: aren't allowed to give the president any slack in fighting back.

925
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:26,360
Speaker 1: It's it's the pushing back against the lies that's the problem,

926
00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:28,200
Speaker 1: you see. I mean, this is straight out of the

927
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:35,400
Speaker 1: Soviet playbook. This is a stunning, a stunning departure from

928
00:57:35,520 --> 00:57:38,560
Speaker 1: the way that all this is supposed to work, right,

929
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:41,880
Speaker 1: I mean, just the fact that Muller took the presumption

930
00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:45,360
Speaker 1: of innocence and eradicated that all along with it, with

931
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:47,960
Speaker 1: the way the investigation was conducted, and the way they're

932
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:51,480
Speaker 1: going after people prosecutions along the way. This indictment drops,

933
00:57:51,520 --> 00:57:55,040
Speaker 1: that indictment drops. All this meant to muddy the waters

934
00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:58,800
Speaker 1: around Trump. But then when all said and done, it

935
00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:02,480
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, when it's finally time

936
00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:06,840
Speaker 1: to stand up and do the right thing and be

937
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:11,600
Speaker 1: clear about the declination decision, which means that the declining

938
00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:15,440
Speaker 1: of bringing charges that's all he has to do. He

939
00:58:15,520 --> 00:58:18,680
Speaker 1: won't do it won't do it. I mean, others have

940
00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:21,479
Speaker 1: been pointing out today. I think this is a very

941
00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:27,160
Speaker 1: important observation that with Muller, it's clear when you read

942
00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:31,760
Speaker 1: this report that they were desperate, I mean desperate to

943
00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:35,720
Speaker 1: do everything they could to take down Trump. I mean,

944
00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:39,400
Speaker 1: this was the anti Trump dream team that was assembled

945
00:58:40,160 --> 00:58:46,160
Speaker 1: of people that were ideologically, personally, professionally invested in the

946
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:51,280
Speaker 1: destruction of this presidency, in the destruction of President Trump

947
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:54,480
Speaker 1: at all those around him, and even with that right

948
00:58:54,480 --> 00:58:58,360
Speaker 1: against him, they weren't able to do it. And now

949
00:58:58,360 --> 00:59:00,920
Speaker 1: they're saying, oh, but I mean, I can't believe some

950
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:04,040
Speaker 1: of stuff. Maggie Haberman from the New York Times saw saying, well,

951
00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:07,040
Speaker 1: he didn't fire Mueller, but he but he tried to

952
00:59:07,120 --> 00:59:10,160
Speaker 1: fire Muller. Well, no, if he tried to fire Muller,

953
00:59:10,160 --> 00:59:12,760
Speaker 1: he would have fired Mueller because he has that constitutional

954
00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:15,720
Speaker 1: prerogative first of all, and he also could just fire him.

955
00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:18,600
Speaker 1: There's there's no real you know. This is why when

956
00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:21,520
Speaker 1: you when you get into the corruption component of this,

957
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:25,720
Speaker 1: or the corrupt intent component, which is necessary for the

958
00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:29,640
Speaker 1: obstruction charge to be leveled and to stick in a court,

959
00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:35,720
Speaker 1: the president is the opposite of an obstructor. In this case,

960
00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:38,800
Speaker 1: the president shared so much information that he did not

961
00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:44,120
Speaker 1: have to share, and the press still clings to the narrative.

962
00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:50,560
Speaker 1: They cling to this this transparent lie that first of all,

963
00:59:50,720 --> 00:59:52,200
Speaker 1: they were on the right side of this, or they

964
00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:54,760
Speaker 1: knew what was going on all along and they somehow

965
00:59:55,760 --> 00:59:59,120
Speaker 1: now or vindicate. I mean, the press's claims of vindication

966
00:59:59,480 --> 01:00:05,440
Speaker 1: surrounding are just just just completely bonkers. I think the

967
01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:08,280
Speaker 1: media will never really recover from what's happened here. I

968
01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:10,280
Speaker 1: think the media will never really be in a position

969
01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:13,960
Speaker 1: to look any American that was paying attention to what

970
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:16,400
Speaker 1: they've done in the last two years and say, oh, yeah,

971
01:00:16,480 --> 01:00:21,120
Speaker 1: that's right, we know what we're doing here. We were honest.

972
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:22,760
Speaker 1: I mean, I think they do know what they're doing.

973
01:00:22,800 --> 01:00:26,400
Speaker 1: What they're doing is acting as the propaganda arm of

974
01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:30,000
Speaker 1: the Democrat Party in the left, and this was their moment.

975
01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:31,680
Speaker 1: I mean, you have to keep you have to keep

976
01:00:31,720 --> 01:00:36,440
Speaker 1: in mind that an entire I was gonna say, an

977
01:00:36,560 --> 01:00:41,200
Speaker 1: entire generation of journalists, really the boomer journalists. Now all

978
01:00:41,240 --> 01:00:44,360
Speaker 1: the people that are you know, fifties, sixties and their seventies,

979
01:00:45,360 --> 01:00:47,560
Speaker 1: I guess are boomers in their fifties, but you know

980
01:00:47,720 --> 01:00:50,680
Speaker 1: that that range of journalists. So they're at the at

981
01:00:50,680 --> 01:00:53,200
Speaker 1: the pinnacle those who are still working, Uh, they're at

982
01:00:53,200 --> 01:00:56,640
Speaker 1: the pinnacle of you know, the pyramid over at CNN

983
01:00:56,680 --> 01:00:59,720
Speaker 1: and five I mean not not Fox, at CNN and MSNBC,

984
01:01:00,120 --> 01:01:03,520
Speaker 1: in all these places. And they've grown up with this.

985
01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:07,919
Speaker 1: The greatest thing that journalism ever did was destroy Richard

986
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:10,600
Speaker 1: Nixon and get him to resign. You know, that's the

987
01:01:10,600 --> 01:01:12,959
Speaker 1: greatest thing that's ever happened in the history of journalism.

988
01:01:13,000 --> 01:01:17,160
Speaker 1: And they clearly saw this. And it's almost like they

989
01:01:17,200 --> 01:01:20,440
Speaker 1: took out the playbook from Watergate and tried to replay

990
01:01:20,480 --> 01:01:24,520
Speaker 1: it piece by piece. They had former Watergate people that

991
01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:27,200
Speaker 1: were coming on TV trying to always compare this to Watergate.

992
01:01:27,280 --> 01:01:30,520
Speaker 1: This was supposed to be their Watergate moment, the destruction

993
01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:33,360
Speaker 1: of a Republican presidency at the hands of the press,

994
01:01:33,920 --> 01:01:37,640
Speaker 1: the crowning achievement. And you have to keep in mind

995
01:01:38,160 --> 01:01:43,360
Speaker 1: that now for those Democrat boomer journalists, they have been

996
01:01:43,480 --> 01:01:47,439
Speaker 1: deprived of two things. Many of them feel like they've

997
01:01:47,440 --> 01:01:52,720
Speaker 1: been deprived of two things that are essential essential for

998
01:01:52,760 --> 01:01:55,600
Speaker 1: them to feel like their careers have really reached their

999
01:01:55,600 --> 01:01:58,920
Speaker 1: peak and worthwhile one is the coronation of Hillary Clinton,

1000
01:01:59,600 --> 01:02:05,160
Speaker 1: who is the ultimate you know, feminist, glass ceiling breaking

1001
01:02:05,320 --> 01:02:10,120
Speaker 1: left wing democrat made into the president, right, that was

1002
01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:12,720
Speaker 1: what was going to happen. So they were deprived of

1003
01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:16,120
Speaker 1: Hillary's coronation, and they're also now deprived of their Watergate moment.

1004
01:02:16,160 --> 01:02:18,760
Speaker 1: So they're very angry and very bitter, and this is

1005
01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:25,680
Speaker 1: going to translate into some horrifically nasty bias that will

1006
01:02:27,480 --> 01:02:30,560
Speaker 1: be the defining, defining characteristic of the media I think

1007
01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:34,120
Speaker 1: going into the twenty election when it comes to Trump.

1008
01:02:34,160 --> 01:02:35,640
Speaker 1: I mean, the stuff that they're going to say about

1009
01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:38,000
Speaker 1: this president. The only good thing is this. You know,

1010
01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:41,400
Speaker 1: they've said so much that wasn't true, and they've gone

1011
01:02:41,440 --> 01:02:46,440
Speaker 1: to such a crazy, such extreme lengths to try and

1012
01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:50,560
Speaker 1: defame and destroy this president that most people who don't

1013
01:02:50,560 --> 01:02:56,880
Speaker 1: have Trump's arrangement syndrome, most people who aren't overcome with

1014
01:02:57,000 --> 01:02:59,959
Speaker 1: emotion at the thought of Trump winning perhaps a second term,

1015
01:03:00,760 --> 01:03:02,480
Speaker 1: you know, emotion in a bad way, like they have

1016
01:03:02,520 --> 01:03:07,160
Speaker 1: to cry and scream at the sky. Those people recognize

1017
01:03:07,200 --> 01:03:10,400
Speaker 1: that they say this stuff about Trump all the time,

1018
01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:13,120
Speaker 1: it's not true. It doesn't it just doesn't matter. They

1019
01:03:13,160 --> 01:03:17,200
Speaker 1: have been crying wolf every day for over two years.

1020
01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:20,240
Speaker 1: I mean, you just become numb to it after a while.

1021
01:03:20,280 --> 01:03:23,160
Speaker 1: Everything Trump does is a crisis. Everything Trump says is

1022
01:03:23,160 --> 01:03:26,880
Speaker 1: in atrocity. You know, he's literally worse than a Hitler.

1023
01:03:27,320 --> 01:03:30,760
Speaker 1: This has become it's it's incapable. Actually, I mean, you

1024
01:03:31,120 --> 01:03:35,360
Speaker 1: can't it's impossible to parody this because it's so absurd.

1025
01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:40,120
Speaker 1: You can't out absurd the view that the Democrat main

1026
01:03:40,280 --> 01:03:43,400
Speaker 1: stream has propagated about the President of the the United States,

1027
01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:46,760
Speaker 1: and that there's just there's not even a recognition of

1028
01:03:46,800 --> 01:03:48,919
Speaker 1: that from the press today. I mean that they're they're

1029
01:03:48,920 --> 01:03:50,880
Speaker 1: pretending like, oh, yeah, we've got it right all along.

1030
01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:56,520
Speaker 1: Is completely wacko, but that is what we are dealing

1031
01:03:56,560 --> 01:04:00,200
Speaker 1: with here. I mean, I have been watching everything that's

1032
01:04:00,240 --> 01:04:04,960
Speaker 1: going on in the you know, the different meatia outlets

1033
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:06,240
Speaker 1: that I can see. I mean I was. I was

1034
01:04:06,280 --> 01:04:08,439
Speaker 1: on Fox to Night with Brett Barret, which was obviously fun.

1035
01:04:08,480 --> 01:04:10,480
Speaker 1: Sorry I didn't have more time for a team, but

1036
01:04:11,080 --> 01:04:12,960
Speaker 1: they snuck me in at the end. Believe it or not.

1037
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:15,280
Speaker 1: I'm able to run out sometimes do a hit and

1038
01:04:15,360 --> 01:04:18,680
Speaker 1: come back and do radio. So how do I do that?

1039
01:04:19,400 --> 01:04:23,919
Speaker 1: Ninja moves? But I definitely have some ninja radio, TV moves.

1040
01:04:23,920 --> 01:04:25,680
Speaker 1: I have to pull out, but I did manage to

1041
01:04:25,680 --> 01:04:28,480
Speaker 1: get in there and throw my two cents on the

1042
01:04:28,520 --> 01:04:31,760
Speaker 1: table about what today really means and here's what we

1043
01:04:31,840 --> 01:04:35,320
Speaker 1: just you have to you have to just hold this tight,

1044
01:04:35,720 --> 01:04:38,160
Speaker 1: you know, keep this up against your bosom at night

1045
01:04:38,160 --> 01:04:40,240
Speaker 1: when you're thinking about I mean, do we all have bosoms?

1046
01:04:40,320 --> 01:04:41,680
Speaker 1: Or is that just a lady thing out? I think

1047
01:04:41,680 --> 01:04:43,360
Speaker 1: we all have a bosom, John, do we all have

1048
01:04:43,360 --> 01:04:46,520
Speaker 1: a bosom? Doesn't everyone have a bosom? Right? Yeah? But

1049
01:04:46,680 --> 01:04:53,400
Speaker 1: bosom is is it? Bosoms? Yeah? Bosom, buddy, exactly. Cling

1050
01:04:53,440 --> 01:04:58,240
Speaker 1: to your your bosom this truth. There was no collusion.

1051
01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:03,440
Speaker 1: Obstruction is a stretch and a fantasy for the left.

1052
01:05:04,120 --> 01:05:10,240
Speaker 1: And ultimately justice has prevailed. The cost has been high,

1053
01:05:10,280 --> 01:05:14,200
Speaker 1: and it has not been without downside, but justice ultimately

1054
01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:19,000
Speaker 1: has prevailed here. The president has won after all the

1055
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:21,120
Speaker 1: stuff they've thrown on him, after the Mueller and the

1056
01:05:21,200 --> 01:05:23,960
Speaker 1: angry Democrats and the deep state stuff, who all the

1057
01:05:24,080 --> 01:05:32,000
Speaker 1: stuff that they tried so much, so often, and I

1058
01:05:32,240 --> 01:05:36,560
Speaker 1: just it's it's amazing in a sense, it's amazing that

1059
01:05:36,600 --> 01:05:39,040
Speaker 1: Trump has been able to withstand all of this. I

1060
01:05:39,040 --> 01:05:41,520
Speaker 1: don't I don't know if he didn't. If he wasn't Trump,

1061
01:05:41,560 --> 01:05:44,480
Speaker 1: I think he would have. This would have cracked another person.

1062
01:05:45,160 --> 01:05:46,800
Speaker 1: They wanted to lock him up. They wanted to lock

1063
01:05:46,880 --> 01:05:49,640
Speaker 1: up Don Junior. Whatever happened to those stories. I kept

1064
01:05:49,640 --> 01:05:52,000
Speaker 1: hearing about how Donald Trump Junior lied under oath. Media

1065
01:05:52,080 --> 01:05:54,080
Speaker 1: was repeating this all the time, all the rumors, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna lock up Don Junior. Oh, they didn't bring any

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Speaker 1: charges against Don Junior. In fact, it makes it's made

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Speaker 1: clear in the report itself that Don Junior, you know,

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Speaker 1: there's no charges to bring because he didn't break the law.

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Speaker 1: Is anyone gonna give him an apology and even gonna

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Speaker 1: apologize to Donald Trump Junior? I don't think so, because

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Speaker 1: this served the Left's purpose was to smear the president's son.

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Speaker 1: They wanted to ensnare his family. I mean, nothing was sacred.

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Speaker 1: Nothing was sacred to the Democrats in this process, other

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Speaker 1: than power and their lust for it. We'll be right back.

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Speaker 1: There is no serious person out there who would suggest

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Speaker 1: somehow that you could even you could even rig America's elections,

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Speaker 1: in part because they're so decentralized and the numbers of

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Speaker 1: votes involved. There's no evidence that that has happened in

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Speaker 1: the past or that there are instances in which that

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Speaker 1: will happen. This time that was President Obama three weeks

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Speaker 1: before the twenty sixteen election. This is just I know,

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Speaker 1: we've been talking a lot about the report. Look, it's

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Speaker 1: Mother Report Day, it's a big thing. And next hour

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01:07:00,560 --> 01:07:02,320
Speaker 1: we got some other stuff coming your way. So don't

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Speaker 1: don't think I'm gonna talk to you about the Notre

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Speaker 1: Dame Cathedral. I have some thoughts on that. Also. I

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01:07:07,040 --> 01:07:10,480
Speaker 1: want to do a little in memorium for a teacher

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Speaker 1: of mine who just passed away, and you know that

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01:07:13,600 --> 01:07:17,520
Speaker 1: will obviously not be about the Mulla Report, and something

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01:07:17,560 --> 01:07:19,600
Speaker 1: on the measles outbreaks across the country. So we have

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Speaker 1: other topics that are slated for you coming up here shortly.

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Speaker 1: But I just want to say that one part of

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Speaker 1: this discussion that seems to always get lost is that

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Speaker 1: the whole notion of the Russian interference having an effect,

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Speaker 1: like being something that we need to be concerned about

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Speaker 1: is just completely absurd, absolutely absurd. Meaning Okay, yeah, we

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Speaker 1: can investigate Russian interference and tell the Russians to knock

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Speaker 1: it off, but that any sentient being would take the

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Speaker 1: position that Russia buying. Maybe I'm spending a couple of

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars on Facebook ads. I mean, a US

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Speaker 1: presidential election is a massive, multi billion dollar media fight

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Speaker 1: that involves hundreds of millions of people in this country

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Speaker 1: who have, you know, the views in many cases, that

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01:08:14,040 --> 01:08:18,320
Speaker 1: they've been thinking about or developing for decades. And they're

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01:08:18,439 --> 01:08:21,799
Speaker 1: saturated with all these different all the messaging from our culture,

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01:08:21,880 --> 01:08:25,280
Speaker 1: from our political acts, from our news and information services

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01:08:25,280 --> 01:08:27,799
Speaker 1: that are out there, and you think that some Russian

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Speaker 1: bots here and there may make any appreciable difference in this.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is what I've said to people recently,

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01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:36,040
Speaker 1: is you know, this is like if I walked up

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Speaker 1: to a billionaire and I gave a billionaire a dollar

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01:08:39,360 --> 01:08:42,519
Speaker 1: bill on the street, it would be a true statement

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Speaker 1: for me to say I've made that billionaire richer, and

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01:08:45,920 --> 01:08:49,599
Speaker 1: I could walk around saying I've enriched this billionaire. He

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01:08:49,760 --> 01:08:52,760
Speaker 1: is a wealthier man because of me, folks. That's right,

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Speaker 1: I've made this billionaire even wealthier. And I'd sound like

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01:08:57,240 --> 01:08:59,479
Speaker 1: a lunatic, right, I'd sound like a crazy person because

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Speaker 1: no one, no one would think for a moment that

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Speaker 1: the one dollar I gave this person who has a

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Speaker 1: billion of them makes any difference in any way, shape

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Speaker 1: or form. That's essentially what Russia did here with their

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Speaker 1: whole interference in the election. They did some Facebook ad buys,

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Speaker 1: they release some information about Hillary and Bernie. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Hillary was looking at Federal Espionage Act charges, for Heaven's sake,

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Speaker 1: and she did it. I mean, she was guilty, and

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01:09:28,200 --> 01:09:31,800
Speaker 1: they you know, if you weren't done with Hillary over that,

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Speaker 1: trust me, you weren't going to be done with Hillary

1129
01:09:34,439 --> 01:09:36,960
Speaker 1: because the DNC. We already knew the DNC was in

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Speaker 1: the tank for Hillary. People were openly talking about it.

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01:09:39,120 --> 01:09:42,040
Speaker 1: So you know, you can never prove this one way

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Speaker 1: or the other. And that's why the Left clings to it,

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01:09:44,080 --> 01:09:47,679
Speaker 1: the whole Russian interference the election. But any person who's

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01:09:47,720 --> 01:09:52,719
Speaker 1: being reasonable, reasonable and rational would have to say that

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01:09:54,520 --> 01:09:57,120
Speaker 1: this is silly. I mean, it's it's been absurd from

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01:09:57,120 --> 01:09:59,320
Speaker 1: the beginning. It's not even a good plot to try

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Speaker 1: and steal the election. Today I got very tired because

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01:10:02,080 --> 01:10:04,120
Speaker 1: I had to do I think I did like six

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01:10:04,200 --> 01:10:06,760
Speaker 1: hours of different live coverage, interviews at the Hill, I

1140
01:10:06,800 --> 01:10:09,040
Speaker 1: did Fox and Friends this morning obviously three hour show,

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01:10:09,120 --> 01:10:13,160
Speaker 1: and I did Brett Bear Show, it's been a very

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01:10:13,320 --> 01:10:16,400
Speaker 1: you know, day of a lot of media stuff. And

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01:10:16,479 --> 01:10:19,000
Speaker 1: I said, I stumbled on my words at the hill,

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01:10:19,000 --> 01:10:22,320
Speaker 1: and I said that it's a bad strategy stragedy. And

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01:10:22,400 --> 01:10:25,200
Speaker 1: I think, you know, it's almost like mixing strategy and tragedy.

1146
01:10:25,800 --> 01:10:28,880
Speaker 1: And that's what the Russia collusion narrative was to begin.

1147
01:10:28,960 --> 01:10:32,559
Speaker 1: It's a bad strategedy because it's just a strategic tragedy.

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01:10:32,560 --> 01:10:35,000
Speaker 1: It makes no sense. It's it's a terribly stupid thing

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01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:37,639
Speaker 1: to do. You're gonna put yourself in a position where

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01:10:38,439 --> 01:10:40,640
Speaker 1: And this was how did I know that they're from

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01:10:40,840 --> 01:10:42,960
Speaker 1: day one? How did I know this Russia collusion thing

1152
01:10:43,040 --> 01:10:47,040
Speaker 1: was a fairytale's nonsense because it never made any sense.

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01:10:47,040 --> 01:10:49,879
Speaker 1: It never held up. Even if you believe the president

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01:10:49,920 --> 01:10:52,200
Speaker 1: was evil in a trader, which obviously I don't, it's

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01:10:52,200 --> 01:10:54,800
Speaker 1: not even a good plot. So that's how I knew,

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01:10:55,000 --> 01:10:56,559
Speaker 1: and I was right, and the rest of the media

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01:10:56,640 --> 01:11:02,280
Speaker 1: was wrong. After eight hundred years, we were the steward

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Speaker 1: of this iconic representation of Western civilization and Catholicism Christendom,

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01:11:07,439 --> 01:11:10,280
Speaker 1: and of all years, twenty nineteen, at the height of

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01:11:10,360 --> 01:11:13,720
Speaker 1: our sophistication and technology, we were found wanting and we

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Speaker 1: didn't protect this icon, and we don't build them anymore.

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01:11:16,439 --> 01:11:18,960
Speaker 1: There's great churches and cathedrals that go up all over

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Speaker 1: the world, but they're in Poland, they're in Cairo, they're

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01:11:21,520 --> 01:11:23,839
Speaker 1: in the Ivory Coast, They're in Brazil, they're in India.

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Speaker 1: It's almost as if the places that are less affluent,

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01:11:26,840 --> 01:11:30,559
Speaker 1: without the technology of Western Europe and the United States

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01:11:30,560 --> 01:11:33,640
Speaker 1: are like we used to be. They still believe in transcendence,

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Speaker 1: they still believe in something other than this world. And

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Speaker 1: so it's going to be very hard in our society

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Speaker 1: to ever built a cathedral, get much less to repair them,

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01:11:41,439 --> 01:11:45,920
Speaker 1: because we don't believe in what they represented. There's Victor

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Speaker 1: Davis Hansen, I think, making some really astute points about

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01:11:51,400 --> 01:11:58,240
Speaker 1: why the Notre Dame fire was so emotional for so

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Speaker 1: many people. Yes, it's, as I said, the day of

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01:12:01,520 --> 01:12:05,960
Speaker 1: it was like watching some of the great masterpieces in

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01:12:06,240 --> 01:12:09,519
Speaker 1: one of the great museums of the world, whether it's

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01:12:09,560 --> 01:12:17,080
Speaker 1: the Ufizzi Gallery or the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louver,

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01:12:18,080 --> 01:12:22,040
Speaker 1: watching them just burn in real time. But also, why

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Speaker 1: is it that whenever you talk about the truly incredible

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Speaker 1: and beautiful structures of Western civilization. You are really pulling

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01:12:34,479 --> 01:12:39,559
Speaker 1: from centuries past. Why is it the case that we

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01:12:39,600 --> 01:12:43,759
Speaker 1: don't make something like a Notre Dame cathedral anymore? Why

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01:12:43,920 --> 01:12:47,680
Speaker 1: don't we have that same desire? We certainly we have

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01:12:47,760 --> 01:12:52,920
Speaker 1: better technology than we ever have before. We are we

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01:12:52,960 --> 01:12:56,280
Speaker 1: are more capable in building, we are more capable in

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Speaker 1: marshaling resources. Yeah. I can't think of a time time

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Speaker 1: in this country. I can't speak for all other countries,

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Speaker 1: but I can't think of a time when there was

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Speaker 1: something underway, a construction in a way that was that

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Speaker 1: was truly timeless and beautiful, and that was meant to be,

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Speaker 1: you know, for all time, a structure that was a

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Speaker 1: house of worship, a house of God. You just don't

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01:13:20,720 --> 01:13:23,400
Speaker 1: see that happening the same way. And I think it's

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Speaker 1: worth asking the question why that is. Why is it

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Speaker 1: that when you go to Europe, for example, and you

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Speaker 1: say I want to see the great cathedrals of Europe,

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Speaker 1: you're generally looking at things that have been around, or

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Speaker 1: I mean almost entirely. I think you could argue have

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Speaker 1: been around for centuries, but you're not going to find

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Speaker 1: anything that was built ten years ago and that is

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01:13:47,240 --> 01:13:51,960
Speaker 1: truly awe inspiring and amazing. We have technological marvels now,

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01:13:51,960 --> 01:13:55,799
Speaker 1: we have engineering marvels, but our technology is not being

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01:13:56,000 --> 01:14:01,720
Speaker 1: used for that transcendence, for that desire to connect this

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01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:05,559
Speaker 1: world with the next world. I think that, in fact,

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01:14:05,600 --> 01:14:10,080
Speaker 1: our technological prowess has started to intrude on that part

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01:14:10,080 --> 01:14:12,400
Speaker 1: of the mind and really that part of the of

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Speaker 1: the soul that seeks more in our day to day life,

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Speaker 1: that would that would like there to be manifestations of

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01:14:19,680 --> 01:14:22,960
Speaker 1: the eternal here in this world. We just don't. We

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01:14:23,040 --> 01:14:27,000
Speaker 1: don't have that, at least I don't see it in society.

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01:14:27,120 --> 01:14:29,720
Speaker 1: I don't see this around us. You know. One thing.

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Speaker 1: I live in a part of DC where there's a

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Speaker 1: there's a very beautiful Catholic church nearby, but it's quite old,

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01:14:36,920 --> 01:14:40,519
Speaker 1: and all of the particularly beautiful churches that I know

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01:14:40,680 --> 01:14:46,000
Speaker 1: of are quite old, and they've been around for a

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01:14:46,040 --> 01:14:48,760
Speaker 1: long time. And it's not like we've just recently, or rather,

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01:14:48,800 --> 01:14:53,960
Speaker 1: it's not like we've forgotten how to build stone structures.

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01:14:54,000 --> 01:14:56,439
Speaker 1: It's not. People might tell me, oh, buck, but there's

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01:14:56,439 --> 01:14:59,200
Speaker 1: so much expense involved with this, and well, we're so

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Speaker 1: much wealthier than we used to be as a society

1221
01:15:01,560 --> 01:15:04,120
Speaker 1: as well. I mean the French government is so much

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01:15:04,160 --> 01:15:07,520
Speaker 1: wealthier than it was at the time of the construction

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01:15:07,560 --> 01:15:13,760
Speaker 1: of something like a Notre Dame cathedral. Where is that impulse,

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01:15:13,800 --> 01:15:18,040
Speaker 1: that desire to make something that is truly spectacular so

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01:15:18,080 --> 01:15:20,760
Speaker 1: that people feel an elevation of the spirit when they

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01:15:20,760 --> 01:15:26,479
Speaker 1: walk in. All of the most incredible structures, All the

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01:15:26,520 --> 01:15:31,000
Speaker 1: most incredible things that you see in Western in the

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Speaker 1: countries that we think of as Western civilization, are very old.

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Speaker 1: You know. When I say incredible, I mean those that

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Speaker 1: inspire a belief that there's something, a touch of the

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01:15:42,160 --> 01:15:44,760
Speaker 1: divine in them. Yeah, I know, you could say back.

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Speaker 1: But then the modern marvels, which I think is the

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01:15:48,479 --> 01:15:51,720
Speaker 1: name of a show on Discovery or History Channel, the

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01:15:51,760 --> 01:15:55,160
Speaker 1: marvels we've created. Look at the you know, the empire,

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01:15:55,280 --> 01:16:00,719
Speaker 1: state building and skyscrapers. But those are engineering marvels. They're

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01:16:00,760 --> 01:16:05,400
Speaker 1: not built to create a feeling in people who enter

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01:16:05,439 --> 01:16:08,599
Speaker 1: them or who see them that this world is not

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01:16:08,640 --> 01:16:12,160
Speaker 1: the only world, and that there can be something else

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01:16:12,240 --> 01:16:18,680
Speaker 1: beyond just steel and load bearing walls and functionality. I mean,

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01:16:18,840 --> 01:16:24,040
Speaker 1: I think we've become, esthetically in the West, prisoners of

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01:16:24,040 --> 01:16:26,400
Speaker 1: a kind of functionality. I think we're I think we

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01:16:26,439 --> 01:16:29,360
Speaker 1: are obsessed with a convenience. Not just the convenience of

1243
01:16:29,400 --> 01:16:31,280
Speaker 1: the phones that we carry around in our hands all

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01:16:31,320 --> 01:16:33,840
Speaker 1: the time now that completely run our lives, but the

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01:16:34,160 --> 01:16:37,719
Speaker 1: convenience of you know, the elevators that go super fast

1246
01:16:37,840 --> 01:16:41,880
Speaker 1: and the doorways that are are large enough to meet

1247
01:16:41,880 --> 01:16:44,439
Speaker 1: all the fire code needs. I mean, this is what

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01:16:44,520 --> 01:16:48,960
Speaker 1: we do all the time, and functionality certainly has its place.

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01:16:49,000 --> 01:16:51,559
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that we should try to build, you know,

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01:16:51,600 --> 01:16:54,040
Speaker 1: the pyramids all over again. That would probably be a

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01:16:54,600 --> 01:16:57,479
Speaker 1: waste of time and resources. Right There's there's one of

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01:16:57,479 --> 01:17:00,840
Speaker 1: the reasons that we so revere ancient structures and buildings.

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01:17:00,880 --> 01:17:03,559
Speaker 1: It's because of how incredible it was that they were

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01:17:03,600 --> 01:17:06,479
Speaker 1: built in that time. And when you think about eight

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Speaker 1: hundred years ago Notre Dame, you're you're involved in that

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01:17:09,360 --> 01:17:15,000
Speaker 1: building project. This is before this is before the printing press.

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01:17:15,040 --> 01:17:20,960
Speaker 1: I mean, this is before way before them discovery of electricity.

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Speaker 1: Although I guess, in a kind of dark irony, it

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01:17:23,760 --> 01:17:27,880
Speaker 1: was I believe in electrical fire that took down the

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Speaker 1: roof and the main spire of Notre Dame Cathedral. I

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01:17:30,880 --> 01:17:34,559
Speaker 1: think it was just a minor renovation glitch where some

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01:17:34,760 --> 01:17:37,960
Speaker 1: there was some electrical spark, and that was all that

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Speaker 1: it took. I'm reminded also of how in the In

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Speaker 1: the fountain Head, which is a book I know people

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Speaker 1: have I'm not not going to get too into iron Rand.

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01:17:47,280 --> 01:17:50,960
Speaker 1: I know people have very very strong feelings on her

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Speaker 1: and her work and both both directions. But there is

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Speaker 1: this slamming of the of the the poor esthetics and

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Speaker 1: the illumination of you know, true genius in architecture. And

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Speaker 1: I think that we now have forgotten that there is

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Speaker 1: this part of us that sees buildings and structures as

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Speaker 1: more than just a place to put things and do things.

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Speaker 1: That they can be artwork and in and of themselves,

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Speaker 1: and they also can be portals to the divine for

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Speaker 1: many of us. And I know you've had, those of

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Speaker 1: you who are listening, you've had this feeling. You've walked

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Speaker 1: in I mean, I've walked into Notre Dame. I've walked

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Speaker 1: into some of the other great cathedrals in France and

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Speaker 1: some of the churches in the great churches and cathedrals

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Speaker 1: and basilicas and mausoleums of Italy. I remember walking into

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Speaker 1: the Church of Saint Francis of Assizi in ASSISI, and

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01:18:55,680 --> 01:19:00,719
Speaker 1: there's something of a transportational effect you feel and supported

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Speaker 1: into another era, into another realm when you walk into

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Speaker 1: that church. And we just don't have that anymore. And

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Speaker 1: I don't mean to beat up on the small neighborhood

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Speaker 1: church that obviously doesn't have the incredible resources to make

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Speaker 1: stained glass windows and all. I'm not saying that at all.

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Speaker 1: I do think that we spend a lot of money

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Speaker 1: now and a lot of religious structures in this country

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Speaker 1: seem to be much more concerned with making sure that

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Speaker 1: there's ample parking and air conditioning, and less concerned with

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Speaker 1: is this a place that the very the physical reality

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Speaker 1: of it has its own aspirational intent. It's a fancy

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Speaker 1: way of saying I do think that we end up

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Speaker 1: going to a lot of things that look like a

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Speaker 1: costco in this country, but really it's supposed to be

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Speaker 1: a house of worship. I understand the prayers and the

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Speaker 1: relationship with God or the most important thing. And you

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Speaker 1: lift up your your voice and praise of God through song,

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01:20:02,160 --> 01:20:04,840
Speaker 1: and that matters more than you know, whether you hit

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01:20:04,840 --> 01:20:06,679
Speaker 1: the right notes or not, even doesn't matter. What matters

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01:20:06,760 --> 01:20:08,479
Speaker 1: is what's in your heart. I understand all of that,

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01:20:08,520 --> 01:20:10,479
Speaker 1: and I'm not I'm not trying to get too deep

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Speaker 1: into the theological side of it. I just mean from

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Speaker 1: it an architectural and esthetic side. I think Victor Davis

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01:20:15,720 --> 01:20:19,880
Speaker 1: Hansen makes a very important point that we could use

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Speaker 1: more of that aspiration to what is so beautiful that

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01:20:25,080 --> 01:20:29,479
Speaker 1: it's a reminder that there must be a God. And

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01:20:29,600 --> 01:20:31,920
Speaker 1: that's what the great cathedrals of Europe do, That's what

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Speaker 1: the great works of Christian art throughout the centuries, that's

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Speaker 1: what they that's what they really do. This is why

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Speaker 1: when you go see the Piata, for example, Michelangelo's Piata,

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Speaker 1: which I've seen in real life, you see it and

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Speaker 1: you're a little awe struck for a moment. That's the

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Speaker 1: purpose of it. It's supposed to be so beautiful that

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Speaker 1: it is more than just the skill of the sculpture.

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Speaker 1: It's supposed to be so beautiful that you think to yourself,

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Speaker 1: there is something more here than just you know, feeding

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01:21:10,200 --> 01:21:13,200
Speaker 1: ourselves tang alive as long as we can, if we're lucky,

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Speaker 1: maybe getting to reproduce and then just turning into dust.

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01:21:16,280 --> 01:21:20,320
Speaker 1: There's something more than that. And whether it's a building

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01:21:20,520 --> 01:21:24,760
Speaker 1: or a painting or a sculpture that can have that effect.

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Speaker 1: I think that that's something that needs to be celebrated.

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Speaker 1: I think that there's something that we need a restoration

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Speaker 1: of that. I mean, I'm here at Washington, DC, and

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Speaker 1: you can tell the architectural sense in DC is meant

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Speaker 1: to evoke Western civilization stretching back to ancient Greece and

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Speaker 1: the kind of grandeur of the federal government and the

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Speaker 1: seat of the government here. And this is all very

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Speaker 1: intentional the way that you know, whether my just talking

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Speaker 1: about the monuments, talking about many of the government buildings themselves.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of columns, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of this kind of neo classical architectural decision decision making.

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Speaker 1: And that's not just because they thought it looked cool.

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Speaker 1: It's because they're trying to show us something. It's a

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Speaker 1: reminder of what our roots are, what our heritage is

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Speaker 1: as a as a as a civilization really does stretch

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Speaker 1: all the way back to ancient Greece and Rome and

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01:22:31,760 --> 01:22:35,679
Speaker 1: the Judeo Christian roots of all of what we see

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Speaker 1: now throughout all what we have seen throughout Europe and

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Speaker 1: in the New World too. So I know, I don't

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Speaker 1: usually talking about architecture and the philosophy of architecture. But

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01:22:45,520 --> 01:22:48,519
Speaker 1: there is something about that is the near destruction of

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame. That's a reminder that we could build things

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Speaker 1: that are more beautiful. And I don't think that that's

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01:22:54,000 --> 01:22:57,880
Speaker 1: a superficial thing. I think that we should try to

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Speaker 1: bring back that divine aspiration in the buildings that we construct.

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Speaker 1: All of us have had those teachers in life, I

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Speaker 1: would guess. I would wager that had a profound impact

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01:23:16,479 --> 01:23:19,839
Speaker 1: on more than just your ability to learn in that subject,

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01:23:19,840 --> 01:23:23,880
Speaker 1: but the way that you thought about maybe an entire field,

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01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:28,040
Speaker 1: or maybe how you thought about yourself, ways that you

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01:23:28,800 --> 01:23:31,200
Speaker 1: grew as a person as a result of that teacher

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01:23:31,800 --> 01:23:35,360
Speaker 1: bringing the best out of you, seeing skills and ability

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Speaker 1: that perhaps others quickly overlooked. I always remember a man

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Speaker 1: at Saint David's, the private Catholic school that I went

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Speaker 1: to growing up in New York City, named Bill Ryan.

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Speaker 1: William Ryan, and my older brother. I think my little

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Speaker 1: brother had him as a teacher as well, but Bill

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Speaker 1: Ryan just had He created this whole world of learning

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Speaker 1: and history and stories. This was in the in the

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Speaker 1: fourth grade. He loved baseball and he loved the Bible.

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Speaker 1: He would tell anecdotes from a history and then intersperse

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Speaker 1: it with talking about sports teams. He would sling starbursts

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Speaker 1: around the room to people with reckless abandoned Sometimes just

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Speaker 1: because he was in a good mood, he would throw

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Speaker 1: you a starburst. Or if you got a tough questioned right,

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01:24:28,200 --> 01:24:30,760
Speaker 1: he would just reach into this little cupboard and throw

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Speaker 1: you a starburst. I was always partial to the red starburst,

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Speaker 1: but also the lemon starburst was pretty good. I would

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Speaker 1: even eat the pink ones, even though I wasn't a

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Speaker 1: particularly a fan of them. But Bill Ryan also read

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Speaker 1: the Lord of the Rings trilogy to us. He would

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01:24:47,000 --> 01:24:48,479
Speaker 1: verset the Hobbit and then The Lord of the Rings,

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01:24:49,040 --> 01:24:54,160
Speaker 1: and in doing so got us all used to understanding

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Speaker 1: story as a necessary part of history and of our learning.

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Speaker 1: And he was just in a credible guy. Played classical

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01:25:02,160 --> 01:25:05,400
Speaker 1: music constantly in the background when he wasn't giving a lecture.

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Speaker 1: If we just had classroom study time, he would put

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Speaker 1: on Tchaikovsky, he would put on Prokofiev, Mozar, Beethoven, and

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Speaker 1: just you never forget that kind of an experience at

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Speaker 1: a very young age, when he created this whole this

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01:25:21,080 --> 01:25:26,639
Speaker 1: atmosphere of a love of history and an understanding of

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01:25:26,680 --> 01:25:28,880
Speaker 1: why you need to know the stories that come before you.

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01:25:28,960 --> 01:25:32,960
Speaker 1: And there's just something in the way that he would

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01:25:33,000 --> 01:25:35,360
Speaker 1: talk about whether it was ancient Greece or ancient Rome,

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Speaker 1: ancient Egypt, with a lot of ancient history, so medieval history.

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Speaker 1: And it was obviously at a fourth grade level, so

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Speaker 1: we weren't going that deep into the subject matter. But

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Speaker 1: he instilled did appreciation in me and I know in

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Speaker 1: many of my classmates that stays with us to this day. Well,

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Speaker 1: there's another teacher very much like that that I had

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Speaker 1: in high school, although he had quite a different and

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01:25:56,560 --> 01:26:03,719
Speaker 1: more I think you could say serious, austere approach maybe,

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01:26:03,760 --> 01:26:07,479
Speaker 1: but it was a truly brilliant guy and was a

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Speaker 1: very dedicated, very dedicated instructor of young men. And his

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Speaker 1: name was John Connolly. He was a teacher at Regis

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Speaker 1: High School for fifty two years. Okay, he taught at

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Speaker 1: my high school for fifty two that's five two years,

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Speaker 1: which is astonishing. He received a lot of awards from

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01:26:32,200 --> 01:26:35,080
Speaker 1: the school for this. But you know John Connolly, who

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01:26:35,080 --> 01:26:37,640
Speaker 1: wore a fedora and a kind of trench coat all

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01:26:37,640 --> 01:26:40,439
Speaker 1: the time as he come into the school. Was a

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01:26:40,439 --> 01:26:43,639
Speaker 1: man of a tremendous learning and tremendous ability and talent,

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01:26:44,240 --> 01:26:48,880
Speaker 1: and really expected everybody to show up ready to go

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01:26:49,040 --> 01:26:50,920
Speaker 1: all the time. He was a big fan of the

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01:26:50,960 --> 01:26:55,799
Speaker 1: pop quiz, but also somebody who every time he would lecture,

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01:26:56,479 --> 01:26:59,960
Speaker 1: you got the sense from him that he never had

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01:27:00,120 --> 01:27:03,519
Speaker 1: enough time because the subject matter was something that if

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01:27:03,520 --> 01:27:05,320
Speaker 1: he could, he would spend the rest of the day

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01:27:05,320 --> 01:27:08,160
Speaker 1: talking to you about it and making you learn more

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01:27:08,200 --> 01:27:11,120
Speaker 1: about it. And you know, he had his funny his

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01:27:11,160 --> 01:27:13,679
Speaker 1: funny moments. He used to claim that whenever he handed

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Speaker 1: out our exams or tests back to us, that all

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01:27:16,520 --> 01:27:19,160
Speaker 1: of a sudden he learned this new word would you get?

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01:27:20,200 --> 01:27:22,680
Speaker 1: And which was what'd you get? Because everyone wants to

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01:27:22,680 --> 01:27:24,599
Speaker 1: know what somebody else got that was sitting next to them,

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01:27:24,720 --> 01:27:29,160
Speaker 1: But would you get? And he told his fair share

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01:27:29,200 --> 01:27:31,720
Speaker 1: of I think what you'd call relatively corny jokes, but

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01:27:31,760 --> 01:27:34,640
Speaker 1: he did so in a very very serious tone. I

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01:27:34,680 --> 01:27:38,640
Speaker 1: think he had a handful of advanced degrees, including a

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01:27:38,760 --> 01:27:40,960
Speaker 1: history and it was the first person who ever taught

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Speaker 1: me economics. But anyway, John Connelly has passed away, and

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Speaker 1: I just think it's remarkable that he taught it at

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01:27:47,080 --> 01:27:49,640
Speaker 1: Regi's High School for fifty two years. And I just

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01:27:49,640 --> 01:27:52,080
Speaker 1: got word of this from my little brother yesterday. But

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01:27:52,200 --> 01:27:55,479
Speaker 1: he's up there in the in the pantheon of great

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01:27:55,560 --> 01:27:58,640
Speaker 1: instructors that I have had, there are a number that

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01:27:58,880 --> 01:28:00,720
Speaker 1: that really stick out. I meant and Bill Ryan to

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Speaker 1: at the beginning, from Saint David's, John Connolly from Regis

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Speaker 1: High School, Professor Hadley Archy's from Amherst College. These individuals

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Speaker 1: really mattered in my life and the lives of many

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Speaker 1: other people. And in the case of each one of

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01:28:16,160 --> 01:28:20,080
Speaker 1: those teachers, I could tell you folks who have studied

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01:28:20,080 --> 01:28:22,960
Speaker 1: with them who have gone on to very prominent roles

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01:28:22,960 --> 01:28:26,320
Speaker 1: in all different walks of life, public sector, private sector.

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01:28:27,040 --> 01:28:29,280
Speaker 1: So it really matters. And so while I'm one that

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01:28:29,320 --> 01:28:32,360
Speaker 1: occasionally gives a bit of pushback on the oh, no

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01:28:32,400 --> 01:28:34,559
Speaker 1: one works as hard as teachers, and you know the

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01:28:34,600 --> 01:28:37,920
Speaker 1: teachers unions and all that stuff, I'm somebody who also

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01:28:38,400 --> 01:28:42,599
Speaker 1: deeply appreciates truly great teachers. And John Connolly at Regis

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01:28:42,720 --> 01:28:45,559
Speaker 1: High School was one of them. So I just wanted

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01:28:45,560 --> 01:28:47,360
Speaker 1: to give him a short tribute here on the air

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01:28:47,400 --> 01:28:51,479
Speaker 1: because I had him for at least two of my

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01:28:51,560 --> 01:28:54,960
Speaker 1: four years in high school, so he was somebody who

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01:28:55,000 --> 01:28:57,280
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time with and studied with him.

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01:28:57,640 --> 01:29:00,000
Speaker 1: I think I had three courses with him over the years,

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01:29:00,000 --> 01:29:03,559
Speaker 1: maybe two courses, but fifty two years teaching the same

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01:29:03,600 --> 01:29:06,880
Speaker 1: high school. It's pretty remarkable, asn't in folks. I know

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01:29:06,960 --> 01:29:12,559
Speaker 1: that he would say Deo at Patria, and God bless

1451
01:29:12,600 --> 01:29:14,880
Speaker 1: John and his family. We'll be back in a moment.

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01:29:18,800 --> 01:29:23,160
Speaker 1: Measles are making a comeback. This is something that should

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01:29:24,000 --> 01:29:27,800
Speaker 1: really concern everyone. This is a disease that had been

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01:29:28,000 --> 01:29:34,559
Speaker 1: in America largely almost entirely eradicated because there's a very

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01:29:34,680 --> 01:29:38,559
Speaker 1: very effective vaccine against it. There have been a number

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01:29:38,640 --> 01:29:45,080
Speaker 1: of pretty high profile cases in the last few weeks

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01:29:45,360 --> 01:29:51,200
Speaker 1: of measles outbreaks across the country affecting hundreds of people.

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Speaker 1: And this is raising a lot of questions, one that

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01:29:54,880 --> 01:29:58,160
Speaker 1: I think we don't ever get to talk about, and

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01:29:58,200 --> 01:30:01,439
Speaker 1: there's no interest, it seemed to me. And addressing the

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01:30:01,439 --> 01:30:05,960
Speaker 1: following proposition, we have a number of people who are

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01:30:05,960 --> 01:30:08,719
Speaker 1: showing up every day at our southern border who come

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01:30:08,840 --> 01:30:11,400
Speaker 1: from countries and when I say a number of talking

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01:30:11,439 --> 01:30:14,160
Speaker 1: thousands a day, about one hundred thousand a month who

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01:30:14,240 --> 01:30:16,960
Speaker 1: come from countries where they do not have the same

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01:30:17,040 --> 01:30:20,679
Speaker 1: vaccination of vaccination protocols that we do. At what point

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01:30:20,720 --> 01:30:23,200
Speaker 1: are we allowed to say that this poses a health

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01:30:23,280 --> 01:30:26,320
Speaker 1: risk to the broader US population. Now, for anyone who

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01:30:26,320 --> 01:30:31,000
Speaker 1: says that this is unfair, it's unseemly to talk about

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01:30:31,080 --> 01:30:33,360
Speaker 1: illegal aliens in this way, I would just point out

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Speaker 1: that they're already forced at the border, meaning our border

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Speaker 1: patrol has to segregate the population of illegal aliens coming

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Speaker 1: in by infectious or communicable disease. There are people who

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Speaker 1: are separated out because they have had different forms of influenza,

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01:30:53,600 --> 01:30:58,080
Speaker 1: there are people that have lice and scabies, and you know,

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01:30:58,360 --> 01:31:01,400
Speaker 1: you start to break this down, and in particularly, I

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01:31:01,400 --> 01:31:04,720
Speaker 1: believe in McAllen, Texas, they've had these facilities for a

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01:31:04,720 --> 01:31:07,880
Speaker 1: while where they put people who have a serious or

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01:31:07,920 --> 01:31:11,840
Speaker 1: infectious disease. That is a real health concern. I think

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01:31:11,880 --> 01:31:17,160
Speaker 1: that's legitimate public discourse. And the government's unwillingness to even

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01:31:17,240 --> 01:31:21,040
Speaker 1: say that this is a concern, or rather the media

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01:31:21,120 --> 01:31:24,680
Speaker 1: and the Democrat Party pretending that this is rooted in

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01:31:24,880 --> 01:31:28,080
Speaker 1: something other than a concern for public safety and public

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Speaker 1: health just shows you the length of the dishonesty that

1485
01:31:31,720 --> 01:31:35,120
Speaker 1: they're willing to go to here. Measles is not something

1486
01:31:35,160 --> 01:31:38,320
Speaker 1: to mess around with. And I see that there's a

1487
01:31:38,360 --> 01:31:44,080
Speaker 1: story about an airlines that's the Israeli Airline airline stewardess

1488
01:31:45,280 --> 01:31:52,320
Speaker 1: who came down not long ago with measles and now

1489
01:31:52,400 --> 01:31:56,560
Speaker 1: has been an a coma for ten days and cannot

1490
01:31:56,840 --> 01:32:00,559
Speaker 1: breathe because she needs a rest. I mean she cannot

1491
01:32:00,560 --> 01:32:04,560
Speaker 1: breathe out a respirator. So the MMR vaccine, which is

1492
01:32:04,560 --> 01:32:10,960
Speaker 1: a measles momson rubella, is ninety seven percent effective one

1493
01:32:11,000 --> 01:32:13,920
Speaker 1: dose alone. That's for two doses one dose is ninety

1494
01:32:13,960 --> 01:32:17,800
Speaker 1: three percent effective. And a lot of people now are

1495
01:32:17,840 --> 01:32:21,560
Speaker 1: deciding that they're not going to get these vaccinations. You know,

1496
01:32:21,600 --> 01:32:24,120
Speaker 1: they've been three hundred and twenty nine confirmed cases of

1497
01:32:24,120 --> 01:32:27,479
Speaker 1: measles in Brooklyn and Queens just since October, and these

1498
01:32:27,520 --> 01:32:31,720
Speaker 1: tend to be in the ultra Orthodox Jewish community in

1499
01:32:31,800 --> 01:32:34,800
Speaker 1: the New York City area. New York has declared a

1500
01:32:34,840 --> 01:32:39,000
Speaker 1: public health emergency as a result of this. So it's

1501
01:32:39,320 --> 01:32:42,519
Speaker 1: not I'm not saying that it's just from our southern border,

1502
01:32:42,560 --> 01:32:47,280
Speaker 1: but these outbreaks of measles show us that we have

1503
01:32:47,439 --> 01:32:51,479
Speaker 1: to be concerned about public health issues that involve vaccinations,

1504
01:32:51,479 --> 01:32:55,280
Speaker 1: and large numbers of unvaccinated individuals coming across at the

1505
01:32:55,280 --> 01:33:00,320
Speaker 1: southern border is a legitimate public health concern. I mean,

1506
01:33:00,320 --> 01:33:04,040
Speaker 1: the government can or the media can pretend that there's

1507
01:33:04,080 --> 01:33:06,760
Speaker 1: nothing to see here and that nobody should should care

1508
01:33:06,800 --> 01:33:09,120
Speaker 1: about this or give it a second thought. But I'm

1509
01:33:09,120 --> 01:33:11,880
Speaker 1: telling you it will be much worse if, in fact

1510
01:33:11,960 --> 01:33:15,000
Speaker 1: we reach some kind of a pandemic stage, whether it's

1511
01:33:15,040 --> 01:33:20,000
Speaker 1: a form of influenza that's incredibly lethal, which has happened

1512
01:33:20,000 --> 01:33:23,280
Speaker 1: in the past, Folks, this is not just wanton scaremongering.

1513
01:33:23,280 --> 01:33:26,240
Speaker 1: In the twentieth century and the Spanish influenza epidemic killed

1514
01:33:26,600 --> 01:33:30,639
Speaker 1: millions of people around the world, A normal flu season

1515
01:33:31,080 --> 01:33:34,599
Speaker 1: kills many, many, many thousands, tens of thousands of people

1516
01:33:34,720 --> 01:33:38,360
Speaker 1: around the world. So it's not unfair to think about

1517
01:33:38,439 --> 01:33:42,280
Speaker 1: these things. And I just I worry about the trust

1518
01:33:42,479 --> 01:33:44,439
Speaker 1: that the American people will be able to have in

1519
01:33:44,479 --> 01:33:49,320
Speaker 1: their government if it comes to pass that we have

1520
01:33:49,439 --> 01:33:51,200
Speaker 1: had a lot of Americans put in jeopardy and might

1521
01:33:51,200 --> 01:33:56,479
Speaker 1: even start losing people because the government was unwilling, for

1522
01:33:56,560 --> 01:33:59,240
Speaker 1: reasons of political correctness, to say that a massive number

1523
01:33:59,240 --> 01:34:03,360
Speaker 1: of vaccinated people coming across the southern border, among other

1524
01:34:03,439 --> 01:34:06,400
Speaker 1: ways that unvaccinated people come into this country is a

1525
01:34:06,439 --> 01:34:09,400
Speaker 1: public health risk and needs to be understood as such.

1526
01:34:10,400 --> 01:34:13,960
Speaker 1: Government's supposed to protect our security and safety first and foremost,

1527
01:34:13,960 --> 01:34:17,639
Speaker 1: and that includes at the southern border. We'll be right back,

1528
01:34:29,800 --> 01:34:42,400
Speaker 1: seeing Bud. It's time for roll ball team. It's been

1529
01:34:42,479 --> 01:34:46,040
Speaker 1: quite a day to day. I must say, I am

1530
01:34:46,080 --> 01:34:48,920
Speaker 1: looking forward to getting to the weekend here pretty soon.

1531
01:34:49,479 --> 01:34:53,519
Speaker 1: As my friend Reggie aka Redd says at the Hill,

1532
01:34:54,160 --> 01:34:59,799
Speaker 1: Thursday is really just Friday, Junior. So tomorrow I'm hoping

1533
01:35:00,040 --> 01:35:01,439
Speaker 1: we're going to be able to have a little bit

1534
01:35:01,479 --> 01:35:06,480
Speaker 1: of a deep breath moment after this whole Muller report,

1535
01:35:06,720 --> 01:35:12,320
Speaker 1: bombshell situation, all that stuff, and just chill and enjoy

1536
01:35:12,360 --> 01:35:13,880
Speaker 1: the weekend a little bit. I mean, you have to

1537
01:35:13,880 --> 01:35:17,559
Speaker 1: take yourself out of all this stuff ultimately. And maybe

1538
01:35:17,560 --> 01:35:20,080
Speaker 1: this doesn't benefit me because I do a talk radio

1539
01:35:20,120 --> 01:35:25,320
Speaker 1: show mostly about politics, but ultimately none of this really

1540
01:35:25,360 --> 01:35:27,599
Speaker 1: will affect your life all that much. So I can

1541
01:35:27,680 --> 01:35:30,040
Speaker 1: tell you that you can take some comfort in knowing

1542
01:35:30,520 --> 01:35:34,599
Speaker 1: that the fact that the deep state coup was an

1543
01:35:34,680 --> 01:35:39,760
Speaker 1: obvious effort to undermine the election. They weren't successful, and

1544
01:35:39,880 --> 01:35:41,400
Speaker 1: at the end of the day. We all got our

1545
01:35:41,439 --> 01:35:44,479
Speaker 1: own problems to focus on. So that's the happy side

1546
01:35:44,479 --> 01:35:49,519
Speaker 1: of things. I suppose Facebook dot com slash Buck Sexton

1547
01:35:49,880 --> 01:35:51,600
Speaker 1: is where you need to go if you want to

1548
01:35:51,640 --> 01:35:56,599
Speaker 1: get in on this role call action. All right, let's

1549
01:35:56,640 --> 01:35:59,920
Speaker 1: get to it, Jonathan, Right, keep up the good fight. Buck.

1550
01:36:00,560 --> 01:36:03,960
Speaker 1: I'm an African American. I have personally changed careers under

1551
01:36:04,000 --> 01:36:06,719
Speaker 1: Trump to get into an industry and made twenty thousand

1552
01:36:06,720 --> 01:36:09,000
Speaker 1: more per year under the current president. Can't argue with

1553
01:36:09,080 --> 01:36:12,759
Speaker 1: dollar signs, well, one cannot. Like a man personally, Results

1554
01:36:12,800 --> 01:36:15,320
Speaker 1: are results. I'm not sure why anyone would believe a

1555
01:36:15,400 --> 01:36:18,400
Speaker 1: Russian spy would want American economy at the best level

1556
01:36:18,400 --> 01:36:23,800
Speaker 1: in forty years. Lunacy logic will always rule the week.

1557
01:36:24,000 --> 01:36:27,719
Speaker 1: Stay strong, keep them high, Jonathan. All right, well, Jonathan,

1558
01:36:27,720 --> 01:36:29,840
Speaker 1: thank you so much. Man. I appreciate it great to

1559
01:36:29,880 --> 01:36:32,000
Speaker 1: have you listening to the show, and I'm glad that

1560
01:36:32,040 --> 01:36:34,519
Speaker 1: you have been able to capitalize on the strong economy

1561
01:36:34,520 --> 01:36:38,439
Speaker 1: and move forward in your career. Some very very important

1562
01:36:38,479 --> 01:36:42,599
Speaker 1: stuff to be sure, Jeremy. I like how you said

1563
01:36:42,640 --> 01:36:46,200
Speaker 1: the government isn't there to ensure your failures. Life isn't

1564
01:36:46,240 --> 01:36:49,400
Speaker 1: fair and government cannot change that. My dad used to

1565
01:36:49,400 --> 01:36:51,960
Speaker 1: say all the time, but equal does not always mean fair,

1566
01:36:52,040 --> 01:36:54,720
Speaker 1: and fair does not always mean equal. There's a lot

1567
01:36:54,720 --> 01:36:56,920
Speaker 1: of Trump paters that are going to need new prescriptions

1568
01:36:56,920 --> 01:36:59,400
Speaker 1: for their Trump de arrangement syndrome because they're going to

1569
01:36:59,479 --> 01:37:02,000
Speaker 1: have a big flare up today. Keep up the good work,

1570
01:37:02,040 --> 01:37:06,000
Speaker 1: shields high, Jeremy. Yeah, government is not supposed to take

1571
01:37:06,040 --> 01:37:08,959
Speaker 1: away all of your pain. In fact, a good government

1572
01:37:09,320 --> 01:37:13,320
Speaker 1: protects your rights and limits the pain it inflicts on

1573
01:37:13,400 --> 01:37:15,960
Speaker 1: you as a result. One of the reasons why we

1574
01:37:16,040 --> 01:37:19,120
Speaker 1: have a government based on the protection of rights and

1575
01:37:19,200 --> 01:37:23,080
Speaker 1: the restraint of power. Right we are trying to restrain

1576
01:37:23,160 --> 01:37:25,320
Speaker 1: the government's ability to intrude on your lives is that

1577
01:37:26,280 --> 01:37:31,360
Speaker 1: it's usually not for openly malevolent purposes that a government

1578
01:37:31,400 --> 01:37:35,320
Speaker 1: take certain actions. Governments always have an explanation for why

1579
01:37:35,360 --> 01:37:38,400
Speaker 1: they're doing a certain thing, and usually it's to help

1580
01:37:38,439 --> 01:37:41,120
Speaker 1: the very people that can be negatively affected by it.

1581
01:37:41,200 --> 01:37:43,920
Speaker 1: Right the government is or to help other people at

1582
01:37:43,920 --> 01:37:48,519
Speaker 1: the expense of one group. Governments think that they're doing

1583
01:37:48,560 --> 01:37:50,600
Speaker 1: the right thing, that's why they do it. It is

1584
01:37:50,640 --> 01:37:53,880
Speaker 1: not usually the case that they understand that what they're

1585
01:37:53,880 --> 01:37:56,040
Speaker 1: doing is destructive and wrong, and they do it anyway.

1586
01:37:56,040 --> 01:37:58,200
Speaker 1: They always have an explanation for it. That's why we

1587
01:37:58,280 --> 01:38:00,479
Speaker 1: have rights, and that's why we have a system of

1588
01:38:00,840 --> 01:38:07,840
Speaker 1: limited government in place. Brian from Alabama, Good day, Buck.

1589
01:38:08,400 --> 01:38:10,600
Speaker 1: The Green New Deal, No one is bringing up the

1590
01:38:10,600 --> 01:38:12,560
Speaker 1: fact that if all the industries that would be devastated

1591
01:38:12,560 --> 01:38:16,000
Speaker 1: by eliminating cows, the big mac or whopper is going

1592
01:38:16,040 --> 01:38:19,240
Speaker 1: to be a turkey burgher and restaurants in general, many

1593
01:38:19,240 --> 01:38:21,759
Speaker 1: are beef central. Then there are the ranchers, and also

1594
01:38:21,840 --> 01:38:24,880
Speaker 1: no milk or cheese, a central ingredient of pizza and

1595
01:38:25,000 --> 01:38:28,839
Speaker 1: Italian cooking. Then why just cows are no other animals flatulent?

1596
01:38:29,320 --> 01:38:32,639
Speaker 1: I know my dog farts. It's a true fact. And

1597
01:38:32,640 --> 01:38:35,240
Speaker 1: whereas peta on getting rid of cows, not a peep

1598
01:38:35,320 --> 01:38:37,599
Speaker 1: from those liberals. Yeah, Brian, the Green New Deal is absurd.

1599
01:38:38,760 --> 01:38:42,479
Speaker 1: It's absurd. It's not that I think that it's not great,

1600
01:38:42,680 --> 01:38:44,360
Speaker 1: or that there's some parts of it I disagree with.

1601
01:38:44,400 --> 01:38:49,800
Speaker 1: It is a preposterous document. The ideas that it contains

1602
01:38:49,880 --> 01:38:56,080
Speaker 1: are ridiculous, meaning worthy of ridicule, not things that should

1603
01:38:56,160 --> 01:38:59,000
Speaker 1: have to be taken seriously. But unfortunately, because the Left

1604
01:38:59,040 --> 01:39:02,879
Speaker 1: has embrace climate change as this kind of insane religion.

1605
01:39:03,560 --> 01:39:05,360
Speaker 1: We have to take it seriously because they want to

1606
01:39:05,400 --> 01:39:09,000
Speaker 1: make us do these things. They want to make our

1607
01:39:09,040 --> 01:39:13,599
Speaker 1: lives more difficult with all these different programs that they

1608
01:39:13,600 --> 01:39:17,240
Speaker 1: would put in place. Remember, just like I said before,

1609
01:39:17,280 --> 01:39:19,599
Speaker 1: all under the rubric of making our lives better. They

1610
01:39:19,640 --> 01:39:24,000
Speaker 1: don't think they're making our lives bad. They don't think

1611
01:39:24,000 --> 01:39:28,160
Speaker 1: that they're creating a more difficult situation for us. They

1612
01:39:28,200 --> 01:39:31,599
Speaker 1: think that they're helping us with the Green New Deal.

1613
01:39:31,760 --> 01:39:34,960
Speaker 1: They think that things are going to be better because

1614
01:39:35,120 --> 01:39:38,160
Speaker 1: of the Green New Deal. So that's why we have

1615
01:39:38,280 --> 01:39:43,120
Speaker 1: those limitations on government in place. Joshua, all right, Buck,

1616
01:39:43,160 --> 01:39:45,599
Speaker 1: thanks for coming out to talk tank in Fort Wayne

1617
01:39:45,680 --> 01:39:47,360
Speaker 1: last weekend. I thought i'd give you a hand, and

1618
01:39:47,479 --> 01:39:49,880
Speaker 1: you'll be forced to talk about Mayor Pete more and

1619
01:39:49,920 --> 01:39:53,000
Speaker 1: more in the coming months. His only real accomplishments as

1620
01:39:53,000 --> 01:39:56,759
Speaker 1: a mayor are his smart roads, and that are actually

1621
01:39:56,840 --> 01:40:00,760
Speaker 1: quite dumb. He turned the two lane one roads in

1622
01:40:00,760 --> 01:40:03,480
Speaker 1: and out of downtown into one lane road to accommodate

1623
01:40:03,680 --> 01:40:07,759
Speaker 1: bike traffic. Now commutes have doubled in time. The residents

1624
01:40:07,760 --> 01:40:12,160
Speaker 1: of Indiana are known as hoosiers. Indianian is a mouthful,

1625
01:40:12,200 --> 01:40:15,559
Speaker 1: and Indian isn't quite appropriate either Oh good, good point.

1626
01:40:15,880 --> 01:40:18,240
Speaker 1: My family has been here since eighteen o three, and

1627
01:40:18,320 --> 01:40:20,559
Speaker 1: even we don't know where the name comes from. It's

1628
01:40:20,560 --> 01:40:23,800
Speaker 1: either a slurring of who's here, which you could call

1629
01:40:23,840 --> 01:40:26,479
Speaker 1: out if someone sensed outside your camp, or who's ear,

1630
01:40:27,160 --> 01:40:29,519
Speaker 1: which would be asked after picking up a body part

1631
01:40:29,600 --> 01:40:35,240
Speaker 1: after frontier tavern brawls. WHOA, that's pretty intense, hoosiers. I

1632
01:40:35,280 --> 01:40:38,680
Speaker 1: did not. This is what usually political pundits will say,

1633
01:40:38,720 --> 01:40:41,679
Speaker 1: Oh the Granite State, or oh the Hoosiers from Indiana,

1634
01:40:41,920 --> 01:40:44,759
Speaker 1: Granite State from New Hampshire. People say this stuff because

1635
01:40:44,880 --> 01:40:47,040
Speaker 1: it's a little bit of trivia that makes it seem

1636
01:40:47,120 --> 01:40:49,559
Speaker 1: like you have some as a political person I'm talking

1637
01:40:49,600 --> 01:40:52,280
Speaker 1: about now, some connection to this state that you just

1638
01:40:52,320 --> 01:40:54,679
Speaker 1: flew into for the interview or to cover the primary

1639
01:40:54,760 --> 01:40:59,559
Speaker 1: or whatever. But yes, you're right, Indiana Nansen's is not

1640
01:40:59,680 --> 01:41:03,400
Speaker 1: a not a thing, not an easy thing to say.

1641
01:41:04,200 --> 01:41:09,120
Speaker 1: Let's see here we have next up, Sean. It writes

1642
01:41:09,160 --> 01:41:12,280
Speaker 1: a question for you. If a pregnant woman has a

1643
01:41:12,280 --> 01:41:15,800
Speaker 1: few drinks before driving herself to abortion clinic and gets

1644
01:41:15,800 --> 01:41:19,720
Speaker 1: in an accident, the baby dies before it can be aborted,

1645
01:41:20,280 --> 01:41:23,080
Speaker 1: is the mother charged with murder? I believe if someone

1646
01:41:23,160 --> 01:41:25,080
Speaker 1: hid her car and baby dies, they would be charged

1647
01:41:25,080 --> 01:41:30,479
Speaker 1: with murder. What's up with that? Well, Sean, Uh, that's wait.

1648
01:41:30,520 --> 01:41:32,160
Speaker 1: If a pregnant woman has a few drinks, gets in

1649
01:41:32,160 --> 01:41:34,360
Speaker 1: an accident, the baby dies, the mother charged with murder,

1650
01:41:35,160 --> 01:41:37,920
Speaker 1: that's a good question. I don't. I don't believe she

1651
01:41:38,000 --> 01:41:42,080
Speaker 1: would be. But there are cases where a third party,

1652
01:41:42,240 --> 01:41:45,920
Speaker 1: not the mother, kills a woman or and the baby

1653
01:41:45,960 --> 01:41:48,559
Speaker 1: inside her, and they do charge it as a double murder.

1654
01:41:49,240 --> 01:41:50,800
Speaker 1: So I don't. I don't know. It might be up

1655
01:41:50,800 --> 01:41:55,479
Speaker 1: to the discretion of the prosecutor. I'm not sure how

1656
01:41:55,560 --> 01:41:58,439
Speaker 1: this this case, this theoretical that you have developed for

1657
01:41:58,479 --> 01:42:02,280
Speaker 1: me to muse over her, how this would be handled.

1658
01:42:02,439 --> 01:42:06,080
Speaker 1: I really don't know. Andre's my man andres Hotty Buck.

1659
01:42:06,080 --> 01:42:09,120
Speaker 1: I appreciate your insight and recommendations. The books you know

1660
01:42:09,200 --> 01:42:11,639
Speaker 1: go right to my Amazon wish list. Movies I check

1661
01:42:11,680 --> 01:42:15,639
Speaker 1: them out. That brings me to Unplanned I saw it.

1662
01:42:15,640 --> 01:42:19,439
Speaker 1: It's a very touching, emotional watch. I can't comprehend how

1663
01:42:19,479 --> 01:42:23,040
Speaker 1: people find the killing of babies just something that's done.

1664
01:42:23,680 --> 01:42:26,240
Speaker 1: It's a traumatic experience women may or may not talk about,

1665
01:42:26,280 --> 01:42:28,840
Speaker 1: but as a fella, it tugs at my mind and heart.

1666
01:42:28,960 --> 01:42:34,040
Speaker 1: Sad stuff, Shield's Eye andres I need to see I planned.

1667
01:42:34,040 --> 01:42:39,360
Speaker 1: I haven't yet. I'm sure it's a very emotionally, you know,

1668
01:42:39,640 --> 01:42:43,559
Speaker 1: difficult to watch, and that's maybe one reason why I

1669
01:42:43,560 --> 01:42:45,400
Speaker 1: haven't gotten around to it quite yet. But I will

1670
01:42:46,160 --> 01:42:50,519
Speaker 1: see it. Richard, Hey, Buck, you really should consider setting

1671
01:42:50,560 --> 01:42:53,120
Speaker 1: up a fact checker site in the future. In the

1672
01:42:53,200 --> 01:42:55,639
Speaker 1: judgment of the truthfulness of statements. The fact checkers could

1673
01:42:55,680 --> 01:42:58,840
Speaker 1: issue something like one to five buck slaps based on

1674
01:42:58,920 --> 01:43:01,559
Speaker 1: how bad the lie is. Each slap could have a name.

1675
01:43:01,600 --> 01:43:04,639
Speaker 1: For example, five could be five could be the nuclear

1676
01:43:04,680 --> 01:43:08,040
Speaker 1: buck slap. I kind of like it, Richard, I just

1677
01:43:08,080 --> 01:43:11,599
Speaker 1: don't have the time right now to set up a

1678
01:43:11,640 --> 01:43:15,720
Speaker 1: website specifically devoted to knocking down all the lies that

1679
01:43:15,760 --> 01:43:21,080
Speaker 1: are out there. Bill, forget Fortnite. If you do, try

1680
01:43:21,120 --> 01:43:24,759
Speaker 1: a new video game, check out Tom Clancy's The Division two,

1681
01:43:25,560 --> 01:43:27,600
Speaker 1: played out on the streets of a Washington, DC and

1682
01:43:27,680 --> 01:43:30,360
Speaker 1: ruins after the collapse of the government following a terrorist

1683
01:43:30,400 --> 01:43:34,880
Speaker 1: attack on the us PS. Keep up the great work well, Bill,

1684
01:43:34,920 --> 01:43:37,920
Speaker 1: That sounds cool. I have not played video games in

1685
01:43:37,920 --> 01:43:39,840
Speaker 1: a very long time. The only video game I allow

1686
01:43:39,880 --> 01:43:43,519
Speaker 1: myself to play in recent years has been Chess, on,

1687
01:43:43,680 --> 01:43:46,519
Speaker 1: I have a chess program on my phone because I

1688
01:43:46,600 --> 01:43:52,960
Speaker 1: do enjoy chess. Mark right, Buck love the show. Need

1689
01:43:53,040 --> 01:43:56,960
Speaker 1: to set you straight on English language usage. The word

1690
01:43:57,080 --> 01:44:06,280
Speaker 1: is cacophony, not okay, wait what cacophany? Not cacafany. It's

1691
01:44:06,320 --> 01:44:10,320
Speaker 1: a kaka, not caca. Thank you, thank you for the correction,

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Speaker 1: my friend. Alrighty. Next up here in our inbox, which

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Speaker 1: remember facebook dot com slash buck sexon. That's the way

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Speaker 1: to do it. We got Jeffrey who writes, hey, Buck,

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Speaker 1: greetings from Post Falls, Idaho, home of Buck Knives. So

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Speaker 1: the last couple of days you talked about Bernie the

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Speaker 1: socialist Sanders as a Cudley grandpa. Just wondering where you

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Speaker 1: ever came up with the idea on Earth that the

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Speaker 1: old wrinkley curmudgeon from Vermont was Cudley. I'd rather hug

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Speaker 1: a porcupine or cuddle with a king Cobra. I'd disowned

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Speaker 1: my grandpa if he was anything like the burn Do.

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Speaker 1: The Freedom had a huge favor. Never referred to Bernie

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Speaker 1: as Cuddley. Love you, Buckman, shields high and keep up

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Speaker 1: the good fight, my beloved brother. You are the best.

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Speaker 1: Jeff Well, Jeff you're the best and you're my beloved brother,

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Speaker 1: So thank you so much for writing in. And I

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Speaker 1: agree with you on the Bernie thing. I'm just saying

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Speaker 1: that's the way they try to they try to position him.

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Speaker 1: You know. The positioning the media created for Joe Biden

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Speaker 1: was that he was kind of the wild, loose cannon

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Speaker 1: uncle that just shows up and says crazy things sometimes,

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Speaker 1: but you gotta love him anyway. And then turned out

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Speaker 1: that Joe Biden's actually a weird hair sniffer and a

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Speaker 1: definitely a bizarre guy who makes people uncomfortable. And with

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Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders, you know, they're trying to say that he's

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Speaker 1: the Cudley old grandpa. But yeah, he's the cull old

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Speaker 1: grandpa who honeymooned in the Soviet Union, all right, So

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Speaker 1: he's a commie Cudley grandpa. And I don't think he's

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Speaker 1: anywhere near as as nice and as affable as he

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Speaker 1: is presented to be. I just think that that's a

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Speaker 1: construct of the media. Remember what we've seen on display

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Speaker 1: from this whole Russia collusion mess is still the power

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Speaker 1: of the need of the media to come up with

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Speaker 1: a constructing idea and then make it a reality through

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Speaker 1: just repetition and the practices of propaganda. All right, we

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Speaker 1: got through today, team. It has been a wild ride.

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Speaker 1: No collusion, no obstruction, a president exonerated. The fight's not over,

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Speaker 1: my friends. We have a lot more ahead of us,

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Speaker 1: and we know the twenty twenty election is already looming.

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Speaker 1: But at least tomorrow it's Friday. Hopefully we'll get to

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Speaker 1: just kick back, relax, let the good times roll a bit.

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Speaker 1: I will talk to you then, Shields high,