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Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Molly John Fast and this is Fast Politics,

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Speaker 1: where we discussed the top political headlines with some of

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Speaker 1: is now running for Senate, barely shows up to the

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Speaker 1: state House. We have such a great show for you

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Speaker 1: today the Lincoln Projects. Rick Wilson joins us to discuss

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Speaker 1: Trump's further descent into madness. Then we'll talk to Second

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Speaker 1: Gentleman Doug m Hoff about what are really mistakes of

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Speaker 1: this election. But first the News.

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Speaker 2: Sunday shows one of them. Fox's Maria Barbiromo invited mister

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Speaker 2: Trump on and crazy in suit. Let me show you not.

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Speaker 3: Let's remember you've got fifty thousand Chinese nationals in this

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Speaker 3: country in the last couple of years. There are people

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Speaker 3: on the terrorist watch list three hundred and fifty in

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Speaker 3: the last couple of years. Like you said, thirteen thousand

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Speaker 3: murderers and fifteen thousand rapists.

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Speaker 4: What are you expecting?

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Speaker 3: Joe Biden said he doesn't think it's going to be

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Speaker 3: a peaceful election day.

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Speaker 5: Well, he doesn't have any idea what's happening in Rolfers.

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Speaker 5: He spends most of his as day sleeping. I think

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Speaker 5: the bigger problem is the enemy from within, not even

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Speaker 5: the people that have come in and destroying our country

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Speaker 5: by the way, totally destroying our country, to towns, the villages,

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Speaker 5: they're being inundated, But I don't think they're the problem

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Speaker 5: in terms of election. I think the bigger problem are

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Speaker 5: the people from within. We have some very bad people,

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Speaker 5: we have some sick people, radical left lunatics, and I

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Speaker 5: think they're the and it should be very easily handled

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Speaker 5: by if necessary, by National Guard or if really necessary,

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Speaker 5: by the military, because they can't let that.

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Speaker 4: Happen towns and villages.

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Speaker 1: You know, sometimes you feel like it's just taken straight

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Speaker 1: from the original German enemies from within. That's us, Jesse,

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Speaker 1: that is us. I did take that implication opinion columnists.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't like people with dissenting views. And again, look,

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Speaker 1: the guy who starts the camps never just uses the

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Speaker 1: camps for the immigrants, He also uses them for the people.

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Speaker 1: Once you start a camp, it's very hard to sort

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Speaker 1: of just you just sort of put everybody in it.

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Speaker 4: If history is any guide, I'd love to be wrong.

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Speaker 1: I hope to be wrong. Look is not surprising. Trump

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Speaker 1: has said stuff like this before, somehow presented to the

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Last time he wasn't able to do it because he

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Speaker 1: was not able to put this whole thing together. And

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Speaker 1: this moves us to our next news item, which.

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Speaker 2: Is one of the many people who once worked for

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Speaker 2: Trump that really are scared of the idea of him

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Speaker 2: becoming president again.

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Speaker 1: US Army General Mark Milly, you'll remember woke Mark Milly,

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Speaker 1: by the way, not very woke, says that Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: is fascist to the core. I'm sorry, okay, Mark Milly,

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Speaker 1: the US Army general who Donald Trump appointed to Chairman

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Speaker 1: of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has a warning. It

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Speaker 1: is that Donald Trump is fascist to the core. And

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Speaker 1: then he says no person has ever opposed more of

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: This is the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of

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Speaker 1: Staff saying this. In a normal world, right, this would

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Speaker 4: The cover of the New York Times. You will notice

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Speaker 4: it is not on the cover of the New York Times.

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Speaker 1: In fact, the news cycle today is largely devoted to

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Speaker 1: a poor poll for Vice President Harris as opposed to again,

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Speaker 1: we're doing exactly what you're not supposed to be doing.

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Speaker 1: Mainstream media is covering the odds and not the stakes.

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Speaker 1: Once again, twenty three days before possible fascist takeover of

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Speaker 2: Boy, Yeah, well, in other stories that they're missing. Trump

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Speaker 2: was a little waco at the Aurora, Colorado rally. As

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Speaker 4: Unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: So there was a lot of questions about why Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump was going to Aurora, Colorado. It didn't make a

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Speaker 1: it became clear when he got there. He is running

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Speaker 1: on this idea of bringing back the Alien Enemies Act

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Speaker 1: seventeen ninety eight basically gives the president power to sort

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Speaker 1: That and Jim Crow are like two of the darkest

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Speaker 1: running for president on. He's running for president on Jim Crow. Right,

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Speaker 1: of does. And the Japanese internment camps. So, and you

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Speaker 1: have people who want this. I don't want to seem

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump went to Aurora to say that the Denver

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Speaker 4: This is not true. And now he wants to use.

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Speaker 1: This alien Enemy's Act of seventeen ninety eight to basically

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Speaker 1: call it Operation Aurora. So, as you know, with the Republicans,

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Speaker 1: fighting invisible crime is one of their signatures. And it

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Speaker 1: looks like we're going to see more of this unless

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and there really was great journalism done around how

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Speaker 2: much of a made up issue. This was that was

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Speaker 2: just the hysteric fever swamps of right wing citizen journalism

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Speaker 2: who made this all come about this issue in Aurora.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yet again, right, we keep seeing this yep.

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Speaker 2: So I find this particularly disgusting, which is that House

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Speaker 2: Speaker Mike Johnson says that hurricane aid can wait until

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Speaker 2: after the House recess, after the election. What are you

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Speaker 5: Mind?

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Speaker 4: Look, FEMA has money.

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Speaker 1: Now, Hurricane season doesn't end till November, and sometimes it

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Speaker 1: can go even later.

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Speaker 2: You know, in the past presidential elections it's been right

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Speaker 1: Right, So there is still hurricanes, natural disasters, fires. For now,

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Speaker 1: FEMA's okay, but it's a delicate balance. It would be

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Speaker 1: a great time to pull everyone back, especially in the House,

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Speaker 4: More money for FEMA.

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Speaker 1: There's no reason not to do this except that Mike

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Speaker 1: fact making sure that the federal government doesn't have the

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Speaker 1: it's citizens. So I'm not surprised that Mike Johnson didn't

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Speaker 1: and it really does set up a possible cash crunch

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Speaker 4: Very annoying.

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Speaker 2: So another subject that seems to have been very glazed

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Speaker 2: over as Bob wood Word's revelation that Trump and Putin

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Speaker 2: are besties who gets gifts said to them in the

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Speaker 2: form of COVID tests? What are you seeing here with

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Speaker 1: This is something that I think a lot of people

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Speaker 1: hoped that she would do, which is she is really

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Speaker 1: running on some of this stuff. So the idea the

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump during the COVID pandemic was more interested in

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Speaker 1: getting COVID tests to Vladimir Putin, a nefarious Russian dictator,

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Speaker 1: was a pretty good sign about where Donald Trump's loyalties lie.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad that Harris is blasting Trump on this, and

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Speaker 1: I hope she makes this her closing message. Speaking of

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Speaker 1: real hard to try to pump up his bestie. Do

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Speaker 1: you know who that is?

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Speaker 2: One musk?

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Speaker 1: Yes, everyone's favorite South African billionaire, his social media platform

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Speaker 1: is doing all the stuff that he was convinced Twitter

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Speaker 1: the Twitter leaks where he and listened to all of

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Speaker 1: these journalists to spread stories about how old Twitter was

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Speaker 4: Well, guess what Elon Musk is doing it? Can you guess?

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Speaker 2: Is it suppressing links and suppressing speech and manipulaing the

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Speaker 4: Wait, it's like you're in my brain.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So Elon is doing all the things that he

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Speaker 1: accused Twitter of doing. He's suppressing the links, he is

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Speaker 1: taking them down, he's throttling speech. And you know again,

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Speaker 1: why is he doing that? Because this was never He

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Speaker 1: was never a free speech absolutist. All of these people

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Speaker 4: They are absolutely not that. They are just people.

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Speaker 1: Who want to get their own way. And look, Elon

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Speaker 1: want government regulation. So, for example, the fact that you

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Speaker 1: on x is untrustworthy. That is because there's no government regulation, right,

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Speaker 1: there's no They're not trying to regulate Facebook, they're not

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Speaker 1: So if Donald Trump becomes president again, he will and

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Speaker 1: I don't think anyone will be surprised by this, he

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Speaker 1: This is why Elon Musk wants Trump back in office,

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Speaker 1: because he knows that less regulation benefit.

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Speaker 4: Hello, hollast, what's going on.

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Speaker 6: We're racing towards the end of the Trump Apocalypse. The

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Speaker 6: campaign is in his final three weeks. Shit is getting,

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Speaker 6: as the kids say, very real. And Donald Trump went

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Speaker 6: to Coachella and left ten thousand people stranded in the desert.

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Speaker 4: The vibes are anxious.

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Speaker 6: Look, guys, Trump's central strategy right now is to make

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Speaker 6: Democrats feel like the world is over. The election is lost.

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Speaker 6: We're all doomed. There's nothing ahead of us but a

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Speaker 6: thousand year Trump Reich. It's not true. We are moving

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Speaker 6: in the right direction. The race is close. Of course,

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Speaker 6: she's been a cannon for less than ninety days. Donald

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Speaker 6: Trump is one hundred percent well known brand we are

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Speaker 6: not behind. We are ahead in Key State. We are

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Speaker 6: vote because what it does matter this is and look,

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Speaker 6: nothing in Donald Trump's world right now is going the

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Speaker 1: You arek Milly, he is a fascist. He is a fascist.

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Speaker 6: And he didn't like walk around that like he has

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Speaker 1: For Mark Milly, I just want you to take him

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Speaker 1: My poor grandfather, my poor communist grandfather in his grave,

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Speaker 6: what Trump is. Don't be afraid of it. Folks call

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Speaker 6: him what he is, call him by his name, right right,

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Speaker 6: And look, the racism is now in is now up

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Speaker 6: because it's that overt. I think all of it, Molly

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Speaker 6: He can never get new customers, fire up his base

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Speaker 1: Realized, I love fascism. It's the best. No, I agree.

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Speaker 4: I think that's fair.

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Speaker 6: He was a hoodoff moment he is he is right

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Speaker 1: you think that? Like, what do you think the thinking

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Speaker 6: He thinks it drives a lot of media.

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Speaker 4: That's the thing.

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Speaker 6: He thought Cochello would drive a lot of media, and

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Speaker 6: to the Coachella rally? Old Trump, old white Trump dudes

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Speaker 6: I see whispers.

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Speaker 1: Jesse really wants us to talk and he's like been

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Speaker 1: about this too. I'm not sure why damning video shows

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Speaker 1: Rogerstone plotting a coup for November. I mean, damning video.

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Speaker 1: Does this surprise anyone? I would be surprised if there

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Speaker 6: You've got videos this weekend out from Roger Stone, from

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Speaker 4: Name, because you're on court with him, because.

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Speaker 6: He's suing me for ten million dollars for being mean

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Speaker 6: to him on the internet the internet for retweeting someone.

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Speaker 4: Yes, well, don't be me and them on the internet.

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Speaker 4: That was the mistake. You've got Robert Stone.

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Speaker 6: You've got this guy. If you guys haven't yet encountered

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Speaker 6: Ivan Rayelkin, who's running around talking about how they're going

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Speaker 1: Of course, is that the guy who got arrested in

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Speaker 6: That's someone else?

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that guy seems great to but any look.

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Speaker 6: At you hear you have Roger Stone admitting on tape, yes,

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Speaker 6: saying to these states that don't do this, you can't

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Speaker 6: Look, I will take any sand thrown in the gears

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Speaker 6: Republican parties curating the vote. Yeah, I've been told by

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Speaker 1: Jesus call me crazy, but it's not how any of

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Speaker 6: This is supposed to work. And look, you've got a

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Speaker 6: January sixth's. Yeah, that's going to get hairy, and it's

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's not what. That's not good. That is not good.

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Speaker 4: It's funny.

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Speaker 1: What's nice about talking to you is you give us

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Speaker 1: stuff to worry about that I actually have talked to

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Speaker 1: you quite.

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Speaker 4: A lot, so I was already worried about that.

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Speaker 1: But before that, I was just worried about the election.

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Speaker 1: But it's nice to know that in twenty days we

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Speaker 4: It's funny.

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Speaker 1: I was talking to someone who's a straight reporter today

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Speaker 6: I think that Ted Crews has a chance to lose.

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Speaker 6: It is in narrow path. It requires Colin Allred spending

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Speaker 6: every minute of the maining part of this campaign in

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Speaker 6: and Ted Cruz can't win if he does that. He

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Speaker 6: should not fuck around with anything else. Don't do any

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Speaker 6: don't take any votes in Washington, don't go out trying

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Speaker 6: going to get a huge percentage, almost a quarter of

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Speaker 1: Let you get to say terrible things about Ted Cruise.

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Speaker 1: What's nice about bringing this up is now you're able

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Speaker 4: We know it. Man.

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, but he's only able to exist in an

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Speaker 6: He lives in DC. He's got his podcasting in Empire

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Speaker 6: doesn't spend a lot of time. He's disengaged from work

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Speaker 6: in the Senate because he knows he'll never get leadership

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Speaker 6: even when the Magas take over, and all of it

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Speaker 6: comes down to this like likability question in a big way.

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Speaker 6: And I think a lot of Texans have seen Ted

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Speaker 6: Shenanigans now for two cycles and he's an unlikable guy.

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Speaker 6: And look, Texas is in transition. If it's not this race,

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Speaker 6: it's won two years from now. A lot of Californians

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Speaker 6: are moving there, a lot of folks from the new

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Speaker 6: Northeastern moving there. A lot of younger people are moving there.

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Speaker 6: It's a young state, it's getting younger every day. It's

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Speaker 6: a Hispanic state, getting more Hispanic every day. And while

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Speaker 6: that doesn't mean one hundred per one to one correlation

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Speaker 6: with the Republican.

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Speaker 4: Votes DEMOCREDA votes, excuse me.

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Speaker 6: It certainly is a much more favorable environment that we

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Speaker 6: would have had eight years ago or even four years ago.

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Speaker 1: Talk to me about sort of what she's doing her

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Speaker 1: closing message, because I did this thing with Carvil last

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Speaker 1: night and Carvil was saying, what's her She has to

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Speaker 1: have a really strong closing message.

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Speaker 4: And also she's.

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Speaker 1: On her way through all of the swing states next week,

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Speaker 1: like a crazy swing stage, putting.

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Speaker 6: In the work. Okay, Yeah, that matters. That counts a lot.

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Speaker 6: Remember Donald Trump is still skipping days on the trail

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Speaker 6: two golf even right now this week.

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Speaker 1: Even now I thought they weren't letting him golf because

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Speaker 1: of security.

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Speaker 6: He's still He's still sneaking it in Florida.

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Speaker 4: I'm told at doraw.

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Speaker 6: But she's doing the work, She's getting out there. I

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Speaker 6: don't think of campaigns in the same way I think

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Speaker 6: of thought of campaigns even two years ago. I think

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Speaker 6: going on Call Her Daddy was more important for her

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Speaker 6: campaign than any ten rallies. You can't buy that level

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Speaker 6: of media coverage and that level of audience engagement. I

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Speaker 6: think going on Howard Stern as Scott Gallows of the day,

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Speaker 6: this is this maybe the year of the podcast presidency.

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Speaker 6: Trump is going on Crypto Bro podcasts and the Manisphere

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Speaker 6: podcasts and the Milk Brothers. Whatever the hell that is

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Speaker 6: sounds like amboys, milk boys. Excuse me THENLK.

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Speaker 4: I don't even I don't even know what any of that.

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Speaker 6: I'm just honestly, I don't even think you do want

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Speaker 6: to know about it these But she's out there talking

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Speaker 6: to people with audiences in the tens of millions. He's

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Speaker 6: out there talking to people of audiences of guys who

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Speaker 6: have a den crippling Hentai fetish in their mom's baseball.

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Speaker 1: Also, Trump did Let's talk about Trump's stranding people in

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Speaker 1: Coachella for a minute. How is that a good way? Like,

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Speaker 1: don't let the followers get mad that they're stranded somewhere

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Speaker 1: or now.

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Speaker 6: They're blaming the deep state, they're some they're blaming the

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Speaker 6: mayor of Riverside. They're blaming everybody else except for the

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Speaker 6: motherfucker who organized the buses for the event. And that

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Speaker 6: was Donald Trump's campaign. And when they left these people

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Speaker 6: hanging out in the desert, all of a sudden, the

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Speaker 6: tough guy. Look your feelings, They're like, I feel so

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Speaker 6: abed and it alone in the desert. I okay, boo

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Speaker 6: fucking who blame Donald Trump? You want to blame somebody,

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Speaker 6: Blame Donald Trump because Donald Trump was a motherfucker who

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Speaker 6: left you in the desert. Donald Trump was the guy

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Speaker 6: who didn't get the buses set up in a way

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Speaker 6: where they had enough capacity and enough gas in the

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Speaker 6: buses to do the entire operation.

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about Liz Cheney again, went on She's

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Speaker 1: really doing God's work here.

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Speaker 4: She went on the Sunday Shows.

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Speaker 1: She said she doesn't think that Maga Mike Johnson will

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Speaker 1: do his job certifying the election. She was in the

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Speaker 1: Republican leadership up until two years ago. I mean, this

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Speaker 1: is wild tough.

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Speaker 6: She knows who he is, She understands who Mike Johnson is.

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Speaker 6: She is correct, and let's remember on this same Sunday

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Speaker 6: shows this week, Mike Johnson said we had a peaceful

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Speaker 6: transition of power in twenty I want to say this,

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Speaker 6: like very bluntly to my friends in the media. Anytime

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Speaker 6: a Republican official says that you had a peaceful transfer

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Speaker 6: of power in twenty twenty, or says, well, Donald Trump

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Speaker 6: was shooting in the election, the solution is not to say, well,

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Speaker 6: let me ask you another question. The solution is to

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Speaker 6: frog marks them out of the fucking building as security

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Speaker 6: comes and takes them off the set, and that you

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Speaker 6: never invite them back, because these people are willfully engaging

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Speaker 6: in what they know, and the hosts and the networks

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Speaker 6: know to be egregious lies. The idea we had a

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Speaker 6: peaceful transfer of power in twenty twenty is truly epic

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Speaker 6: in its shamelessness less, having none of it. She's having

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Speaker 6: none of it. And look, I think her performance in

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Speaker 6: this role that she is in right now as a

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Speaker 6: truth teller about what the has become and is becoming,

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Speaker 6: is peerless. I think she's absolutely I think she's absolutely

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Speaker 6: gone out there and truely put country over party.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, just agree with.

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Speaker 6: Kamala Harris on everything. I don't agree with on everything.

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Speaker 4: I know you don't you both well.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, but I'm more of a sick guy it anyway,

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Speaker 6: But I own some glocks. But long story short, this

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Speaker 6: idea that you've got two types of people, the people

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Speaker 6: telling you the truth about the world actually looks like

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Speaker 6: the list Chinese and the people demanding that you accept

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Speaker 6: a lie that they know and to be a lie

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Speaker 6: and that they know that you are stuck in this

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Speaker 6: media generated self referential frame of oh god, if I'm

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Speaker 6: not if I'm not objective, and I don't pretend that

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Speaker 6: this is a real. No, you don't have to. Martha

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Speaker 6: Raddick should have said, get the fuck off my get

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Speaker 6: the fuck off my set, or Walker, get the fuck

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Speaker 6: off my set, leave go, you're out, shut the mic off.

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Speaker 6: That's the correct answer, and then that will be the

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Speaker 6: one thing that punishes the lie. These guys. For all

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Speaker 6: that they hate the mainstream media, they are desperate to

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Speaker 6: use it to overturn the freedoms and liberties that make

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Speaker 6: the mainstream possible.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, so I play you guys one thing before

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Speaker 2: we go live from a Trump rally right now, All right,

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Speaker 2: this is Trump talking about a chart to have a

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Speaker 2: strong order, and.

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Speaker 5: That's why we had that beautiful chart.

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Speaker 4: Was my favorite yard in history.

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Speaker 1: Sleepy that I kiss it, just making a face I

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Speaker 1: sleep on day.

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Speaker 4: I kiss it.

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Speaker 6: Well and to that, Melania says, thank fucking good.

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Speaker 4: Written tomorrow night, Monday night.

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Speaker 6: Yes, indeed, Monday night, dude, nude all no, not.

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Speaker 4: Nope, not that is nope, not that.

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Speaker 1: Are you concerned about Project twenty twenty five and how

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Speaker 1: awful Trump's second term could be?

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Speaker 4: Well so are we, which is why.

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Speaker 1: We teamed up with iHeart to make a limited series

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Speaker 1: with the experts on what a disaster Project twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: five would be for America's future. Right now, we have

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Speaker 1: just released the final episode of this five episode series.

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Speaker 1: They're all about By looking up Molly Jong Fast Project

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five on YouTube, and if you are more

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Speaker 1: of a podcast person and not say a YouTuber. You

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Speaker 1: can hit play and put your phone in the lock

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Speaker 1: screen and it will play.

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Speaker 4: Back just like a podcast. All five episodes are online.

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Speaker 1: Now we need to educate Americans on what Trump's second

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Speaker 1: term would or could do to this country.

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Speaker 4: So please watch it and spread the word.

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Speaker 1: Doug Emhoff is the second Gentleman of the United States.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fast Politics, Doug.

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Speaker 7: I'm Mollie.

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Speaker 4: It's good to do this.

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Speaker 7: I'm a listener. Now I get to be beyond. So

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Speaker 7: this is cool.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm delighted to have you and I think of

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Speaker 1: Now I'm not going to ask you to do the

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Speaker 1: borad voice. I'm not going to ask you, okay, I'm

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Speaker 1: just going to clear the air.

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Speaker 7: No asking you to do or was it or was

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Speaker 7: it there's a whole controversy.

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Speaker 4: Was it or was it for art?

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Speaker 7: Or was it just you know? Who knows?

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Speaker 1: It is so cool, all right. I was born in

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Speaker 1: the seventies hippie parents. They had a marriage that sort

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Speaker 1: of imploded over my mother's career, among other things. So

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Speaker 1: you have this really strong marriage where you have stopped

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Speaker 1: doing your career to support your spouse, like I also

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Speaker 1: have a marriage like that, but I'm just hoping you

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Speaker 1: could talk about what that is like.

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Speaker 7: So it's funny when this comes up. I don't think

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Speaker 7: it's so unique. This is just a husband and a

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Speaker 7: wife who love each other very deeply. We support each other,

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Speaker 7: and we are there for each other. We're there for

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Speaker 7: our family, and we've got this big, huge, blended family.

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Speaker 7: And I'm pretty old school. I mean, my main thing

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Speaker 7: in life is to protect those that I love and

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Speaker 7: be there for my family and support them. And so

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Speaker 7: because my wife, in her chosen career, went from United

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Speaker 7: States Center vice president, and because of that unbelievable career move,

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Speaker 7: it was a no brainer. I worked right up until

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Speaker 7: the time that Joe Biden called her to be on

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Speaker 7: the ticket. Very happily. I was very successful. I felt

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Speaker 7: left a full play to work. But for my partner,

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Speaker 7: who I love very much, who had this opportunity, it's

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Speaker 7: just part of who I am. Again, it's very old school.

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Speaker 7: I don't think it's a new thing. And this is

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Speaker 7: what you know you should do is be there for

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Speaker 7: those who love and this is something that was necessary

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Speaker 7: to support her. And it's okay. Now I get to

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Speaker 7: be second gentleman, and I get to support her as

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Speaker 7: a vice president. I get to travel the world representing

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Speaker 7: this country that I love so much. I get to

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Speaker 7: stand up for US Jews in this fight against anti Semitism.

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Speaker 7: I get to focus on issues regarding you know, the

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Speaker 7: Dobbs decision and encouraging men. Hey look, I'm focused on

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Speaker 7: this issue because it affects all of us, not just women,

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Speaker 7: women or dying, but it affects family planning, it affects

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Speaker 7: other rights potentially, which we saw in the Dops decision.

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Speaker 7: So it's given me an ability to have this platform,

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Speaker 7: which is really satisfying in terms of, you know, like

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Speaker 7: a career. It's actually just been an incredible experience. I

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Speaker 7: get to teach at Georgetown Law School to keep my

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Speaker 7: head in the legal profession. So this is this has

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Speaker 7: been great. This is not I have not become less

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Speaker 7: of a dude. I'm not less of a person because

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Speaker 7: of this. She loves me the same that I love her.

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Speaker 7: She supports me just as much as I support her.

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Speaker 7: So this is this is kind of business as usual.

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Speaker 1: We're both Jews and you're just talking about that. One

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Speaker 1: of the things I see a lot in my life

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Speaker 1: are fancied Jews, because that's a group that you know,

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Speaker 1: I sort of know, and Trump has managed to get

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Speaker 1: this insane message to them that somehow he is better

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Speaker 1: for Jews.

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Speaker 4: Just make it make sense.

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Speaker 7: I've spoken on this several times. You know, Look, if

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Speaker 7: you go back to Charlottesville with the tiki torches and

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Speaker 7: Jews will not replace us. And when Trump got up

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Speaker 7: there and a woman died and he's saying to neo

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Speaker 7: Nazis and people holding tiki torches, saying Jews shall not

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Speaker 7: replace us, that they will fine people on that side

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Speaker 7: of it, this is who he is. He's had dinner

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Speaker 7: with known anti Semites. There's a long record of anti

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Speaker 7: Semitism and Donald Trump. And then just go back a

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Speaker 7: couple of weeks. He was literally at an event purporting

657
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Speaker 7: to be against anti Semitism, and he committed anti semitism

658
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Speaker 7: at that event, with the dual loyalties bs and blaming

659
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Speaker 7: the Jews when he loses the election. This is who

660
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Speaker 7: he is. And listen to what Kamala Harris is saying.

661
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Speaker 7: She just did a big call to the Jewish community today.

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Speaker 7: She gave beautiful remarks at our home on October seventh,

663
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Speaker 7: just listen to what she's saying, and like, I literally

664
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Speaker 7: have to tell people, Look, do you think I would

665
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Speaker 7: literally be married to someone who didn't support Jews or

666
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Speaker 7: Israel as a Jewish person? Come on, this is somebody

667
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Speaker 7: who supported Jews and Israel well before she met me.

668
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Speaker 7: She was the one who took me to Israel when

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Speaker 7: she was the United States Senator. She's the one who

670
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Speaker 7: pushed me to really lean into this fight against anti Semitism.

671
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Speaker 7: She's the one who pushed me to spearhead our White

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Speaker 7: House National Strategy to counter anti Semitism. And every day

673
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Speaker 7: since that horrific day of October seventh, even when it's

674
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Speaker 7: been so hard for me to do, push me to

675
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Speaker 7: speak out loudly in this now crisis of anti Semitism

676
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Speaker 7: since October seventh. I would not be doing this but

677
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Speaker 7: for Kamala Harris.

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Speaker 1: You have a really good sort of divorce, like one

679
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Speaker 1: of the great divorces. Your ex wife is really committed.

680
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Speaker 1: She was at the DNC. She is one of the

681
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Speaker 1: biggest supporters of Harris. As a child of divorce parents.

682
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Speaker 1: It is super moving to watch. How does that work?

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Speaker 7: Well, you're talking about Kirsten, She's incredible, so look, even

684
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Speaker 7: during our divorce, we committed to each other that we

685
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Speaker 7: were going to remain very close together and also be

686
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Speaker 7: there for the kids, and whatever other issues were happening,

687
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Speaker 7: we would just deal with those separately and make sure

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Speaker 7: that she and I had an excellent relationship and an

689
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Speaker 7: excellent relationship with the kids. And that's exactly what we

690
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Speaker 7: did from day one, and that carried over into when

691
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Speaker 7: I met Kamala, and so she accepted Kamala into her life. Personally,

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Speaker 7: they are close themselves and as parents, and you know,

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Speaker 7: everyone talks about Kamala to Mamala, but I love what

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Speaker 7: Ella said after a couple of years. She said, you're

695
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Speaker 7: a three headed parenting machine. And that's because of the

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Speaker 7: relationship of Kirsten and Kamala and the relationship that Kirsten

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Speaker 7: and I preserved and actually gotten closer over the years.

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Speaker 7: So she is a fierce protector of our family like

699
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Speaker 7: we all are. And you know, every time something comes

700
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Speaker 7: at us, she's the one out there pushing back because

701
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Speaker 7: that's how we roll, and that's how close we are.

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Speaker 7: And it's a testament to Kirsten and to Kamala, and

703
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Speaker 7: it's great and it's just really brought our family even

704
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Speaker 7: closer going through this experience the last two plus months,

705
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Speaker 7: it's brought us all closer. So you know, this is

706
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Speaker 7: it's been great.

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Speaker 1: Are the kids, they're like young adults. That has to

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Speaker 1: be a huge strine.

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Speaker 7: So Cole is thirty now and married, he's been married

710
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Speaker 7: for a year. El's twenty five. So it's interesting though, Molly,

711
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Speaker 7: they still need us, and especially now with all this

712
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Speaker 7: going on. So we're really whatever little free time we have,

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Speaker 7: we're really focused on Cole and Ella and Cole's wife Greenley,

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Speaker 7: and you know, Kamala's grand nieces, and we just want

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Speaker 7: to make sure that they know that we are still

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Speaker 7: there for them and we're going to be around. So

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Speaker 7: we're taking them on the trail. So I was just

718
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Speaker 7: on a west coast swing and I picked up Cole

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Speaker 7: in La and then he came to Phoenix, Arizona with

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Speaker 7: me for a couple of days with Greenley. Ella is

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Speaker 7: going to meet me this weekend in Philadelphia for an

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Speaker 7: event or two, which happens to be my birthday, so

723
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Speaker 7: I get to spend part of that day with her,

724
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Speaker 7: and so we're just including them and making sure we're

725
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Speaker 7: in constant contact. From the road. But yeah, I mean, look,

726
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Speaker 7: this whole experience has been surreal for all of us.

727
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 7: It came about so suddenly, and it's just been a

728
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 7: rocket ship for two plus months. But everyone understands we've

729
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Speaker 7: got to win this election. And between Kamala and I, like,

730
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Speaker 7: there's very little couple time right now. We're not really

731
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Speaker 7: seeing each other. We're trying to FaceTime stay in touch.

732
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Speaker 7: But we know the mission, we know what our responsibility is.

733
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Speaker 7: We're very accountable to it. We spend whatever time we

734
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Speaker 7: have talking about I give her notes from the field,

735
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Speaker 7: here's what I'm hearing from these states I'm going to,

736
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Speaker 7: And it's all about what more can we do to

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Speaker 7: make sure we're doing everything we can as a couple

738
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Speaker 7: to win this election. That's it. That's all we're focused on,

739
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Speaker 7: right and.

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Speaker 1: That goes to the stakes of this election and the

741
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Speaker 1: case for why this is not a usual election.

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Speaker 7: She said it, This is not only the most important

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Speaker 7: election of our lifetimes, it's the most important election of

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Speaker 7: the nation's lifetime. And what I'm now saying is people

745
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Speaker 7: need to kind of what you're talking about with your

746
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,400
Speaker 7: Jewish friends, we need to just get out of this

747
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Speaker 7: Trump has this fog that he's created, this fog of disinformation, gaslighting,

748
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Speaker 7: misinformation to try to run out the clock because they

749
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Speaker 7: try this character to her of her as she's not qualified,

750
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Speaker 7: she's not competent, she's not intelligent. All got debunked when

751
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Speaker 7: the American people got to see her in person and

752
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:04,800
Speaker 7: got to know her, saw how she literally just kicked

753
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Speaker 7: his ass on that debate stage to a point where

754
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 7: he's now trying to run out the clock and run

755
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Speaker 7: away from her. Won't debate her again, won't go on

756
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:15,480
Speaker 7: sixty minutes. He's avoiding her, and all he does is lie,

757
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:19,279
Speaker 7: lies about the female relief. He's lying in, gaslighting and

758
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 7: creating this fog around him to just run out the clock.

759
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 7: People need to just push that fog away and just

760
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Speaker 7: see what's in front of them. You've got somebody with

761
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 7: a horrible president the first time. He's way more dangerous

762
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Speaker 7: now he's degrading in front of our eyes and the

763
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 7: things that he's talking about. Dictator on day one, terminating

764
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Speaker 7: the Constitution Project twenty twenty five, extrapolating out the Dobs

765
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Speaker 7: decision to take away more freedoms, damage to the environment,

766
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Speaker 7: more guns on the street. This is not a world

767
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Speaker 7: that any of us would want to live in. So

768
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Speaker 7: if people can actually see what's in front of them,

769
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Speaker 7: one hand, terrible president the first time, way more dangerous, chaotic,

770
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Speaker 7: will make everyone's life worse. And then Kamal Harris, who

771
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Speaker 7: has been a prosecutor for twenty years putting away murders, rapists,

772
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Speaker 7: and sexual offenders. She was an elected district attorney, elected

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Speaker 7: attorney general where she took on the transnational gangs at

774
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Speaker 7: the border, United States senator and vice president for four

775
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Speaker 7: years in which she's in the Oval office with the

776
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Speaker 7: President helping make decisions in the situation room. She's already

777
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Speaker 7: a world leader. This woman is eminently qualified. She has

778
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Speaker 7: exceeded the most unrealistically high expectations every step of the way,

779
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Speaker 7: DNC speech, debate, you name it. She's on a media

780
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Speaker 7: blitz right now. Do you want to learn more about her,

781
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 7: go watch Stern and all these things she's doing. And

782
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:47,840
Speaker 7: she's relentless focused and determined. She's going to be a

783
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Speaker 7: president for everyone. She's not going to embarrass us on

784
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Speaker 7: the world stage. And this is why a bunch of

785
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Speaker 7: Republicans are for her. List Cheney, General McCrystal, and others.

786
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Speaker 7: So it's all out there. People just need to open

787
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Speaker 7: their eyes and see what's right in front of them.

788
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Speaker 7: In this way, it's a binary choice.

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Speaker 4: You guys have a gun, She's got a gun.

790
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Speaker 7: Yeah, she's a responsible gun owner.

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Speaker 4: Is that super scary?

792
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:12,400
Speaker 6: No.

793
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Speaker 7: She believes in the Second Amendment, and she's talked about

794
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Speaker 7: her career law enforcement and having a gun. But she's

795
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Speaker 7: responsible gun owner and also believes in reasonable and effective

796
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Speaker 7: gun safety laws. So children are not being murdered at school.

797
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Speaker 7: Do you know that the number one cause of death

798
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Speaker 7: for young people in this country is gun violence? Yeah,

799
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Speaker 7: and it's so preventable. So both things can be true.

800
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Speaker 7: You can be a responsible gun owner, you can believe

801
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,439
Speaker 7: in the Second Amendment. Nobody's taking your guns away. She's

802
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 7: not doing that. But she wants to make sure that

803
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Speaker 7: gun violence is not the number one cause of death

804
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Speaker 7: for our young people in this country, that you can

805
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:49,319
Speaker 7: go to school, and go to the market, and go

806
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Speaker 7: to the bank and not be gunned down by a

807
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Speaker 7: weapon of war.

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of people Listener's podcast who are

809
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Speaker 1: voting for her, is not a question, but they have

810
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Speaker 1: a lot of anxiety, a lot. Number one anxiety is

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Speaker 1: the campaign, reactive to what they're seeing on the field, etc.

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Speaker 7: Oh definitely, that's why we are all out there each

813
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Speaker 7: and every day in all seven swing states. It should

814
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Speaker 7: not be this close, and people should have anxiety because

815
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Speaker 7: we can't have Donald Trump come back. So instead of

816
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 7: just quivering and doing what Dems often do, channel that

817
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 7: into action. Folks, Channel that into door knocking and sending

818
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:36,320
Speaker 7: out messages and coming to some of these seven swing states,

819
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Speaker 7: come to the office, go canvas with us, and do

820
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Speaker 7: what she and I are doing each and every day

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Speaker 7: that we've been doing since July twenty first, NonStop, twenty

822
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Speaker 7: four to seven. This is what we're doing. So join

823
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Speaker 7: us in taking action, channeling that rage, that fear, that

824
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:57,839
Speaker 7: anxiety into helping her win, rather than hand ringing.

825
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Speaker 4: Thank you, Doug no momently, Jesse Cannon.

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Speaker 2: My junk fast. So Trump is really really playing with

827
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Speaker 2: a hand that is dangerous. He's suggest that a heckler

828
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Speaker 2: should get the hell knocked out of her after a

829
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Speaker 2: rally the other day.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to normalize fascist rhetoric or autocratic rhetoric,

831
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Speaker 1: but I would say, is it not the first time

832
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump has hoped that hecklers would get beaten up.

833
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Speaker 1: He also did this earlier in twenty seventeen. I think

834
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Speaker 1: he called he said to be rough with a Heckler. Look,

835
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Speaker 1: it's part of the whole autocrat thing, right, that you

836
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 1: should punish people. He's low key encouraging his supporters to

837
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 1: dehumanize the other, to go after the other. This is

838
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 1: very much textbook stuff, but it's really dark and it

839
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Speaker 1: shows where we are. I think it's really important to

840
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 1: remember this is setting the table for worse stuff. Right.

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Speaker 1: He's not saying to go after a Heckler because it's

842
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 1: this one Heckler, Right, He's saying it because he wants

843
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:06,400
Speaker 1: them to do the stuff they did at January sixth.

844
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Speaker 1: He is encouraging violence, and it's really scary. It's really bad,

845
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Speaker 1: and it's also just really from the autocraft playbooks. So

846
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Speaker 1: look again, this cannot be more clear. This is an

847
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Speaker 1: election about these stakes, not the odds. We should be

848
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:27,399
Speaker 1: thinking about the stakes of this, not the odds. Voting canvassing,

849
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:30,960
Speaker 1: talking to your friends, make a voting plan, make them

850
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Speaker 1: make voting plans. This is a real moment for American

851
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Speaker 1: democracy and is a real question of if we're going

852
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Speaker 1: to be able to keep it. That's it for this

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Speaker 1: episode of Fast Politics. Tune in every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday,

854
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Speaker 1: and Saturday to hear the best minds in politics make

855
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