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Speaker 1: biggest and most dangerous scandal in US history. That is

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Speaker 1: exactly what we're seeing unfold and being unveiled with every

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Speaker 1: done to use the nation's chief intelligence and law enforcement

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Speaker 1: Also today, because we are approaching America's most solemn holiday,

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Speaker 1: lot of people thought Kim Jong un has read the

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Speaker 1: President Trump today like uh, like a you know, rolled

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Speaker 1: There is a theory and international relations which I learned

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Speaker 1: rationale of irrationality. The rationality of irrationality also known as

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Speaker 1: the madman theory. Richard Nixon uses to great effect. Ronald

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Speaker 1: You never tell your enemies what you're prepared to do,

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Speaker 1: and you don't tell them what you're not prepared to do,

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Speaker 1: We'll see where the ball bounces. But I wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: at all surprised if this move was a master stroke

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Speaker 1: by Donald Trump. Monica Crowley here today for Sean. How

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Speaker 1: are you for one? Seven to six for one? Sean?

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Speaker 1: Please join the program and tweet me at Monica Crowley.

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Speaker 1: of this is former Speaker of the House Nuke Ingrich,

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Speaker 1: Well that that's an extraordinary comment from somebody who's supposed

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Speaker 1: making the case that if you look at the latest

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Speaker 1: a turn of events. The book is called Trump's America.

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Speaker 1: It is out next we go get it. New Ingridge

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Speaker 1: Thank you, always a pleasure new Ingridge and again the

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Speaker 1: book Trump's America. Go preorder it, go get it Amazon

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Speaker 1: dot com and elsewhere. I am Monica Crowley. We're going

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Speaker 1: to take your phone calls when we come back. Nine

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Speaker 1: for one, Sean. I am Monica Crowley. Sit tight, Monica Crowley.

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Speaker 1: Here for Sean today. How are you? Eight nine, four, one, seven,

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Speaker 1: say hi to Larry listening in Savannah, Georgia. Hi, Larry,

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Speaker 1: Yes you're there. Yeah, go ahead, Yeah, I'm a seven

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Speaker 1: year I'm very nervous. I'm a retired history teacher. Oh

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Speaker 1: don't be, Larry, it's just me. Yeah, I know, but

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Speaker 1: it's it's a combination of nerves and anger. I'm afraid

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Speaker 1: let's just make it all go away and go on

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Speaker 1: with business as usual. Now, this is what drives me insane.

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Speaker 1: We're guilty of jaywalk and they're guilty of murder, and

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Speaker 1: somehow it's going to be all even Stephen and everybody. Um,

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Speaker 1: everybody just goes on with their lives. I've seen this

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Speaker 1: too many times and no, I'm just one of those.

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Speaker 1: And I feel like I'm not by myself on this.

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Speaker 1: I'm out here in real real Ville, as Rush would say,

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Speaker 1: And I feel like, uh more talking, no more voting.

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Speaker 1: We've given them all three branches. They're spineless. They're spineless,

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Speaker 1: and my poor president is by himself. Well he does,

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Speaker 1: thank you, Larry. He does have he does have significant

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Speaker 1: support out there, and you know what, he's got support

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Speaker 1: really weird. It only matters, and that's with the American people.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Larry eight nine one seven, three to six.

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Speaker 1: More of your calls. On the other side, I have

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Speaker 1: a mountain more of stuff to get to. I am

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Speaker 1: Monica Crowley in for Sean. Don't go anywhere. I am

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Speaker 1: Monica Crowley in today for Sean. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for joining me today. We are having arolic in good

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Speaker 1: time eight nine for one. Sean is our number eight

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Speaker 1: hundred nine four one seven, three to six, and we

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Speaker 1: will get back to the phones. I promise you, sir.

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Speaker 1: If you're on the line, hang tight. I will get

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Speaker 1: to you in just just a moment. I've got a

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Speaker 1: couple of other things I want to do. You can

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Speaker 1: also check me out online on social media Twitter at

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Speaker 1: Monica Crowley. You can tweet me there at Monica Crowley,

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Speaker 1: also on Facebook at Monica Crowley and y and on

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Speaker 1: Instagram at Monica Crowley Underscore. We put up a cute

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Speaker 1: little video of me and Sean's studio, a little behind

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Speaker 1: So check me out on Instagram at Monica Crowley Underscore

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Speaker 1: and you can see the behind the scenes shots that

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Speaker 1: I say that, like, I know what I'm talking about

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Speaker 1: on Instagram, and I clearly do not. Eight one Sean

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Speaker 1: is our number. Um. You know, the other day, I'm

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Speaker 1: looking at Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General, who you know,

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Speaker 1: the left always likes to say, Oh, Rosenstein, he's a Republican.

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump appointed him, both of which may very well

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Speaker 1: But so what so what the guy is the swamp.

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Speaker 1: He's not a friend of Donald Trump. He's not just

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Speaker 1: because Trump appointed him means absolutely zero. You look at

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Speaker 1: Jeff Flake, the outgoing senator from Arizona, trashing Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: every day. He's a Republican due it means zero in

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Speaker 1: this new context. So while the smaller investigation rolls on

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Speaker 1: and Rod Rosenstein is uh is clearly protecting the swamp

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Speaker 1: O j um, I noticed something about Rod Rosenstein. Do

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Speaker 1: you watch Billions? You ever see that show one showtime Billions?

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Speaker 1: It's actually really really good. And I'm watching it the

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Speaker 1: other night and I swear Rod Rosenstein looks just like

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Speaker 1: the character the U S Attorney character, Oliver Dake. Someone

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Speaker 1: think he looks like Dake. Dake on Billions took it out. Now,

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Speaker 1: if only Rosenstein were set set packing the way Dake

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Speaker 1: My column today at The Hill, which we began talking

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Speaker 1: about over the course of the show. Please read it.

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Speaker 1: It's at the Hill dot com. It's also up on

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Speaker 1: my Facebook page. Please read it. Because what I did

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Speaker 1: CIA director John Brennan and what Brennan did at the

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Speaker 1: spying that we're now just learning about that took place

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Speaker 1: on Obama's watch, and we we yet we we still

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Speaker 1: don't know who was involved or what agencies and are involved.

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Speaker 1: This is why I think we need a special council,

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Speaker 1: a second one, even though it's an atrocious solution. Special

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Speaker 1: counsels just tend to go wild. You know. The the

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Speaker 1: Clinton special Counsels started with a land deal in Arkansas

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Speaker 1: terrible solution, these Special Council investigations, but it's it's I think,

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Speaker 1: down here. And again these are these are early days.

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Speaker 1: But I also wonder, um uh in taking a look

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Speaker 1: equipped to ask it. And if any lawyers out there

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Speaker 1: to this, please give us a call at eight one, seven,

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Speaker 1: three to six and let me know the question of

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Speaker 1: statute of limitations. It seems like with the the Mueller

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Speaker 1: of this is intentional, that they are deliberately running the

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Speaker 1: clock out on the Hillary Clinton part of the on everything,

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Speaker 1: but especially on the Hillary Clinton part of this investigation

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Speaker 1: Secretary of State and beyond that. I just wonder if

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Speaker 1: don't know that these investigations can be sped up, but

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Speaker 1: just seems to me that there's something bigger going on,

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Speaker 1: and that is that they're running out the statute of limitations.

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Speaker 1: I could be wrong, but I don't think so. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: let me know if you're an attorney eight for one

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Speaker 1: Sean and let me know about the statute of limitations question. Uh,

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Speaker 1: We've got President Obama sitting atop all of this. Of course,

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Speaker 1: all of this. Then we've got this cast of characters, right,

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Speaker 1: this is just you know, it's just a three hour show.

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Speaker 1: I could do the full list, but we'd be here

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Speaker 1: until tomorrow. And I was thinking, you know, all of

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Speaker 1: You got Bruce and Nelly or Nelly or by the way,

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Speaker 1: scrutiny beyond me. But Bruce or number four at the FBI,

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Speaker 1: The sources and methods is the pillow talk from that

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Speaker 1: administration where everything was transactional, all of it unbelievable. One seven,

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Speaker 1: three to six. Let's go right to the phones and

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Speaker 1: say hi to Charlie listening in Florida. Hi, Charlie Monica,

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Speaker 1: you are awesome. Thank you. I have to say you

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Speaker 1: are the first person that has figured it out. But

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Speaker 1: let's take it a step further. I have never before today.

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Speaker 1: I mean I thought about it point blank. This was

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Speaker 1: nothing about interrupting President Trump's tenure. This all started when

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Speaker 1: he was the candidate. It is Obama's narcissistic plot of

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Speaker 1: revenge on Donald Trump because Hillary was going to be

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Speaker 1: the president. Donald Trump was never gonna win. And the

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Speaker 1: whole thing, I guarantee you. Let's go to a parallel universe.

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Speaker 1: Hillary becomes president, Donald Trump loses billions and is thrown

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Speaker 1: in jail over this stuff that's that's created by Obama.

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Speaker 1: You know, thank you, Charlie. I appreciate the call um

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Speaker 1: in the speeches that I've been giving. I make this point, Charlie,

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Speaker 1: I think you're right on um. They never expected him

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Speaker 1: to be president, obviously, but what they are doing now

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Speaker 1: what they continue to do to this president and to

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Speaker 1: his presidency. They don't. They're out to not just undermine

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Speaker 1: him or even just remove him from office. They want

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Speaker 1: him in federal prison, not the local clink, federal prison,

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Speaker 1: because he represents an existential threat to all of them,

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Speaker 1: the ruling elite class on both sides, the corrupt existing

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Speaker 1: order on both sides. And they know it. They know

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Speaker 1: if he succeeds, it is curtains for them. It's over

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Speaker 1: their power, their influence, their positions, their money, their gravy train,

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Speaker 1: the whole corrupt thing is over. So when you know,

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Speaker 1: when you hear like you're watching watching some of these

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Speaker 1: left wing shows, and they're like, oh, we're very upset.

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Speaker 1: You know that Trump canceled the North Korea summit. We

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Speaker 1: fear his failure. They do not fear his failure. They

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Speaker 1: fear his success. More of your calls on the other side.

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Speaker 1: Eight nine for one. Sean. I am Monica Crowley in

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Speaker 1: today for Sean Hannity. Back right after this. Monica Crowley

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Speaker 1: here today for Sean. How are you. We are heading

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Speaker 1: into the long Memorial Day weekend, Please take a moment

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Speaker 1: and reflect on what the holiday actually means. Which is

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Speaker 1: to honor and respect UH and show love and gratitude

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Speaker 1: to those who paid the ultimate price, made the ultimate

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Speaker 1: sacrifice for this country so that we might live in

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Speaker 1: freedom eight nine for one Sean. Also, please check out

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Speaker 1: my column at The Hill today all about Obama, Brown,

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Speaker 1: Brennan and Clapper and how they laid the groundwork for

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Speaker 1: what we're seeing unfold now. Also before the break, I

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Speaker 1: mentioned that Rob Rosenstein reminds me of the Billions character

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Speaker 1: Oliver Dake. John says Rosenstein reminds him of someone else.

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Speaker 1: So John, Hey, Monica, how you doing good? How are

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Speaker 1: you comparison? I think Radar on Mesh, Radar from mash Well.

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Speaker 1: I guess maybe, thank you John? Maybe, Yeah, I guess

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Speaker 1: it could be. I still like my Olive Hedake character

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Speaker 1: on Billions. Better. Let's say hi to James listening in Boca,

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Speaker 1: Florida High James. Hello, Uh, yeah, him, Monica, I watch

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Speaker 1: you on shown all the time. You're very good. Thank you. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I just want to say that the American people don't realize,

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Speaker 1: you know, how much uh constinution to a republic was

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Speaker 1: threatened in the last election, because if Hill we would

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Speaker 1: have won. All this stuff coming out would have been

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Speaker 1: swept under the rug and it would have been business

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Speaker 1: as usual. I mean, the Democrats want globalist, you know,

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Speaker 1: they want us to join the global economy. They want

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Speaker 1: to destroy the United States Republic so they could uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, join the world new were old order, and uh,

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Speaker 1: the American people have really gotta come out and vote,

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Speaker 1: I mean the Conservatives to prevent the House from becoming

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Speaker 1: Democrats because their main agenda is to get rid of

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Speaker 1: uh all great President Donald Trump. And if they gained

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Speaker 1: the House, it's it's all over. It's done. The work

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Speaker 1: that we did to get him into office will be

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Speaker 1: really basically, thank you, James, thank you. And look, you're right,

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Speaker 1: and the numbers we're going to do this. In the

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Speaker 1: next hour, the polling numbers have shifted to Republicans um

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Speaker 1: in Republicans favor. The momentum is with the gf P.

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Speaker 1: Then again, the Republican Party has never missed an opportunity,

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Speaker 1: to miss an opportunity, like they used to say about

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Speaker 1: the Palestinian same thing. Um, so we do. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you're absolutely right that we cannot let our guard down

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Speaker 1: and we need to stay vigilant and get this vote

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Speaker 1: out in November. I think you're starting to see that happen,

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Speaker 1: and we'll talk a little more about that after the

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Speaker 1: it's an intricate science in determining when psychological shifts happen

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Speaker 1: among voting populations. I think we're starting to see a

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Speaker 1: little bit of that now. Over the last year and

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Speaker 1: a half, Democrats have done very well in special elections,

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Speaker 1: and I think what's happening now that Republicans are starting

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Speaker 1: to to win these elections, is that that Republican voting

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Speaker 1: base that you just referred to, we're starting to wake

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Speaker 1: up and we're starting to say, oh, holy smokes, we

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Speaker 1: might not be thrilled with the GOP, but we're gonna

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Speaker 1: come out and support them because this president needs back up.

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Speaker 1: I am Monica Crowley in today for Sean. Much more

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Speaker 1: on the other side of the break back right after this.

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Speaker 1: Monica Crowley in today for Sean. Very happy to be here.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to Sean for allowing me to drive the mothership

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Speaker 1: today we head on into Memorial Day weekend. How are you?

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Speaker 1: Eight one? Seawn is our number eight one, seven, three

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Speaker 1: to six, and you can find me on social media.

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Speaker 1: You can tweet at me be nice at Monica Crowley,

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Speaker 1: on Facebook at Monica Crowley n Y for New York,

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Speaker 1: and on Instagram at Monica Crowley Underscore. We put up

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Speaker 1: a cute little video before I began the program today.

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Speaker 1: Uh so you can see me behind Shawn's incredible microphone

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Speaker 1: and some behind the scenes shots of us here in

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Speaker 1: the studio before we did the show today. So please

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Speaker 1: check that out at Monica Crowley Underscore on Instagram. Also,

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Speaker 1: I've got a major column up at The Hill today

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Speaker 1: and I recommend it to you. Please take a look

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Speaker 1: at it. It's at the Hill dot com and it

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Speaker 1: deals with the the latest revelations on the Obama era

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Speaker 1: spying on Donald Trump and his campaign and his associates,

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Speaker 1: with a particular focus on Obama's CIA director John Brennan

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Speaker 1: and his CIA and the groundwork that they laid early

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Speaker 1: on that may have kicked in to allow the kind

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Speaker 1: of abuses that we're starting to see come to light now.

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Speaker 1: So you can see that column at the Hill dot

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Speaker 1: com right now. It's also on my Facebook page at

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Speaker 1: Monica Crawley and why. Earlier in the show, I also

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Speaker 1: mentioned the latest on the Harvey Weinstein Saga. The New

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Speaker 1: York Daily News was the first to report that Harvey

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Speaker 1: is scheduled to surrender to authorities tomorrow in New York.

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Speaker 1: There had been a story yesterday that the FEDS had

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Speaker 1: opened a federal investigation into Weinstein, which was, as I said,

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Speaker 1: it was unusual because for sex crimes and that sort

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Speaker 1: of thing, those are usually investigated at the state and

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Speaker 1: local levels, So a federal investigation was unusual. But now

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Speaker 1: The New York Times is reporting that the reason the

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Speaker 1: feds have now opened this investigation is because they're not

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Speaker 1: just looking at sex crimes, but they're also now investigating stalking,

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Speaker 1: felony stalking, I think, and some financial improprieties on the

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Speaker 1: part of Harvey, and I guess on the part of

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Speaker 1: his businesses. This now being reported by the New York Times.

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Speaker 1: This comes as UH CNN reported today about the actor

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Speaker 1: Morgan Freeman eight women accusing him of inappropriate behavior, sexual harassment, etcetera.

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Speaker 1: Morgan Freeman has now issued a statement apologizing for any

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Speaker 1: inappropriate behavior. I don't I just I don't think we're

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Speaker 1: anywhere near the end of this. Uh and I think

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Speaker 1: you know, we mentioned Harvey. Harvey is the benchmark of

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Speaker 1: really bad behavior and possibly criminal behavior as is now

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Speaker 1: that's the benchmark Harvey Weinstein, so he may may very

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Speaker 1: well be held accountable. Looks like uh, the NYPD was

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Speaker 1: preparing to arrest him anyway, which is why he's going

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Speaker 1: to surrender to them tomorrow for one seven, three, two six.

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Speaker 1: I also I want to get to some of these

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Speaker 1: good economic numbers and what we're seeing politically. But there's

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Speaker 1: a story that caught my eye today from the Daily Caller,

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Speaker 1: great website, which I think, you know, I'm I'm a

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Speaker 1: little surprised. Well maybe I'm not so surprised given the

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Speaker 1: subject matter, but this, this story actually should be getting

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Speaker 1: a lot more traction, which is why I want to

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Speaker 1: bring it to you today. The Daily Caller is reporting

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Speaker 1: that the actually they reported this a couple of days ago,

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Speaker 1: pardon me, a couple of days ago. The articles written

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Speaker 1: by Richard Pollock, he posted on May seventeen, and it

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Speaker 1: was just brought to my attention today. The water Shington

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Speaker 1: Post and eleven other American media outlets and internet companies

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Speaker 1: hired a major Russian I T firm. Daily Caller reports

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Speaker 1: a dozen major American media and internet outlets hired a

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Speaker 1: Russian company called east Bank Technologies to help with I

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Speaker 1: T and web services. According to a Daily Caller News

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Speaker 1: Foundation investigation, the companies include The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, Slate, Facebook,

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Speaker 1: a o L, Comcast, and US News and World Report.

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Speaker 1: Former US Intel officers slammed the media companies for hypocrisy

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Speaker 1: in retaining a Russian firm while criticizing others who even

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Speaker 1: have tangential ties to Russians. They also considered their decision

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Speaker 1: to trust their web back end to a foreign company

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Speaker 1: very naive. So this is a very interesting article, and

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Speaker 1: I you know, I think if you have a chance

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Speaker 1: to check it out at the Daily Color, you should

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Speaker 1: because Michael Waller, who's on the editorial board of NATO's

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Speaker 1: Defense Strategy Communications Journal, he's quoted as saying this, Let's

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Speaker 1: say your Newsweek and you have a reporter who's been

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Speaker 1: there for a long time, who has built his career

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Speaker 1: with sources within the CIA, wouldn't you, if you were

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Speaker 1: Russian intelligence, want to know who his sources are within

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Speaker 1: the CIA? Yeah. So let's get this straight. All of

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Speaker 1: these left wing media companies are pounding the Trump, Russia collusion,

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Speaker 1: lie and basically saying everything that is Russian, even Russian dressing,

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Speaker 1: is bad. And at the same time their companies were

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Speaker 1: relying on a Russian company to do key web and

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Speaker 1: internet work for them. Sure looks like a lot of

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Speaker 1: left wing media as a tool of Russia, right. What's

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Speaker 1: good for the is good for the gander. These people

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Speaker 1: in the media using this Russian I T firm while

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Speaker 1: pounding Trump into the ground. These people are true useful idiots,

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Speaker 1: as Vladimir Lenin once called, the folks in the left

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Speaker 1: who fell in love with Marxism and socialism and promoted

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Speaker 1: it everywhere in the West, doing the dirty work of

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Speaker 1: the Soviets, doing the dirty work of the Marxists. Useful idiots.

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Speaker 1: Here you do, here you go, You've got another whole

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Speaker 1: batch of them right here. So moving on to the

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Speaker 1: American political landscape, very interesting dynamic going on. You know,

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Speaker 1: this much hyped blue wave supposedly coming in November myth

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Speaker 1: or reality sounds like it could be a reality ja

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Speaker 1: myth or reality blue wave. Well now it looks more

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Speaker 1: and more like it was or it could be a myth,

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Speaker 1: probably never was a reality. Need to begin with based

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Speaker 1: on where the country is. Check out these latest polls

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Speaker 1: pretty significant. A Reuter's poll released in the last couple

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Speaker 1: of days. Reuters a left wing organization. No friend of

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump, no friend of Republicans, no friend of Conservatives.

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Speaker 1: They have a rolling poll on the generic ballot for Congress.

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Speaker 1: Would you vote for a Republican or Democrat for Congress

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Speaker 1: in November? No names, just the generic poll. These numbers. Uh.

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Speaker 1: This is the result of the poll that ended on

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Speaker 1: Monday of this week. Routers found that the Republicans on

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Speaker 1: the generic ballot now hold a six point advantage. That

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Speaker 1: is stunning. Over the last like year or so, we

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Speaker 1: have seen the Democrats with a twelve fifteen point advantage

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Speaker 1: over the Democrats having this advantage over the Republicans up

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Speaker 1: to fifteen sixteen points, and now, according to Reuters and

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Speaker 1: other polls, don't have the Republicans that high. But they've

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Speaker 1: got it now, I mean, well within like a two

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Speaker 1: point spread. This is stunning. This is like a twenty

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Speaker 1: point swing in about six months. It shows you that

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Speaker 1: the momentum momentum is clearly with the GOP going into November.

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Speaker 1: You pair that with a brand new CBS poll again

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Speaker 1: not a news organization known for its love of Republicans.

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Speaker 1: Brand new CBS poll showing nearly two and three Americans

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Speaker 1: think that the economy is in good shape, and most

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Speaker 1: believe that Trump's policies tax cuts, deregulation are at least

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Speaker 1: somewhat responsible. So the American people are not buying the

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Speaker 1: leftist fake argument that somehow this is Obama's economy. Remember

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Speaker 1: was George W. Bush's economy for years into the Obama era.

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Speaker 1: Remember that when Obama could not or would not get

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Speaker 1: the economy going off the ground. Oh, this this is

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Speaker 1: George W. Bush's economy. Now the left is like, oh,

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Speaker 1: now that the economy is doing well, this is Obama's economy.

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Speaker 1: Obama hasn't been president in a year and a half,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. But the American people are not fooled.

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Speaker 1: And you can see these poll numbers where you've got

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Speaker 1: nearly two and three Americans, at least according to CBS.

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Speaker 1: But I've seen other polls that similarly track saying the

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Speaker 1: economy is in good shape. They are optimistic about their

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Speaker 1: own economic situations and their family's economic situation. They feel

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Speaker 1: more economically secure, and they are giving Donald Trump and

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Speaker 1: the Republicans credit for that. Now that's starting to show

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Speaker 1: in the political shift. Charlie Cook of the Cook Political Report, Um,

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Speaker 1: you know is sort of mainstream, you know, some conservatism

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Speaker 1: might argues on, you know, tends to the left whatever,

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Speaker 1: but he tries to do straight up analysis of where

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Speaker 1: races are. Charlie Cook at the Cook Political Reports switched

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Speaker 1: for racests this week from Democrat to at least leaning Republican.

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Speaker 1: Two in California, one in Florida, and one I think

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Speaker 1: in Ohio. That's the first time in about a year

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Speaker 1: and a half that Cook has switched any races whatsoever.

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Speaker 1: Why is this. You've got a much stronger economy thanks

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Speaker 1: got lower taxes, fewer oppressive regulations, and that means a

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Speaker 1: booming economy, more and better jobs, higher wages, more new

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Speaker 1: businesses starting up, businesses that are are already existing, they're expanding,

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Speaker 1: lower and lower unemployment, especially in core democo crowded constituencies

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Speaker 1: like African Americans and Hispanics. You've got more money in

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Speaker 1: the economy moving through the economy, and that means you've

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Speaker 1: got more growth and innovation. It also means you've got

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Speaker 1: more freedom, You've got more economic freedom, and that's what

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Speaker 1: it's all about. There's something bigger going on here too,

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Speaker 1: and I want to hit a quick break and when

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Speaker 1: I come back, I'm going to tell you there's something

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Speaker 1: much bigger going on here. Okay, So I'm going to

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Speaker 1: give you the bigger picture and you're not gonna want

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Speaker 1: to miss this because essentially this is the whole game.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring it to you on the other side.

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Speaker 1: Eight one Sean. I am Monica Crowley in today for

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Speaker 1: Sean Hannity. Monica Crowley in today for Sean Hannity. How

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Speaker 1: are you? Eight for one Sean is our number? Before

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Speaker 1: the break, we're breaking down the booming economy. Really we've

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Speaker 1: got we've got a growing economy that nobody can deny.

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Speaker 1: But there's something bigger going on here that we all

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Speaker 1: need to understand. In two thousand and eight, when Obama one,

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Speaker 1: the far left grabbed the brass ring. They then spent

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Speaker 1: eight years trying to re engineer the American economy toward

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Speaker 1: the direction of socialism and toward a socialist status command

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Speaker 1: economic model. In order to do that, they had to

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Speaker 1: attack every major pillar of the u S economy, energy, healthcare, banking,

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Speaker 1: and so on. Crush them with reforms and regulation. It

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Speaker 1: was what Obama called the fundamental transformation of the nation.

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Speaker 1: That's what he meant, and the left under Obama they

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Speaker 1: largely succeeded in doing that. Of course, socialism has always

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Speaker 1: been a dismal failure, and the Obama run was no

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Speaker 1: better than than any their socialist experiment we've seen around

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Speaker 1: the world. The economy sucked salt for eight years, and

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Speaker 1: we were told, look, Obama's got you. He's got this

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Speaker 1: this high unemployment and little to no economic growth. That's

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Speaker 1: just the new normal. We're gonna have to live with it.

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Speaker 1: Get used to it. Sure, Yeah, okay. Then Trump runs

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Speaker 1: on a pro growth, pro business, pro taxpayer economic message

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Speaker 1: and he wins, and over the past year and a

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Speaker 1: half his policies of tax cuts and deregulation have generated

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Speaker 1: a booming economy, so much so that it cannot be denied.

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Speaker 1: The left cannot cover it up, although they try. Here's

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Speaker 1: the important point to all of this. President Trump is

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Speaker 1: putting the lie to leftism, to progressive ism, to a socialism.

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Speaker 1: His policies are putting into bold relief the abject failure

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Speaker 1: of leftist economic policies of Obama. That's another reason why

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Speaker 1: the left, Obama and his crew, everybody in the media,

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Speaker 1: that's why they are doubling down trying to destroy him.

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Speaker 1: Trump's success is showing up their failures, and not just

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Speaker 1: the failures of their insane economic policies, but the failure

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Speaker 1: of their entire ideology. They cannot and they must not

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Speaker 1: allow it. That's why they did everything in their power

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Speaker 1: during the campaign to try to stop him from becoming president,

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Speaker 1: the insurance policy and so on. That's why they continue,

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Speaker 1: through the media, through through the lead ruling class, through

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Speaker 1: the attacks of the deep state, through all of it.

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Speaker 1: They cannot and must not allow Donald Trump to succeed.

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Speaker 1: On top of that, they have no economic message, so

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Speaker 1: they're left with, you know, a mini movement to try

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Speaker 1: to repeal the tax cuts because none of them voted

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Speaker 1: for them, so they're embarrassed. They voted against success, and

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Speaker 1: they're left with impeachment. Those are the two things. That's it.

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Speaker 1: That's all they've got to offer. Oh, in a faded

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Speaker 1: copy of Dust Capital by Karl Marx, real winning message

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Speaker 1: their Democrats. But the big point is that Trump cannot

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Speaker 1: be allowed to succeed because he is putting the lie

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Speaker 1: to the left. I'm Monica Crowley more right after this

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Speaker 1: from work today, DearS rolled down my face. Gooden, help

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Speaker 1: stop and pring be for your face, Emily Wooden. But

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Speaker 1: just last mate told him about your fiance. Now, proud

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Speaker 1: you were that Grambery go in oversee. You knew your

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Speaker 1: head in the hell, but you had gone. That was

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Speaker 1: bigger and your I am Monica Crawley in today for Sean,

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Speaker 1: and we are we're heading into America's most solemn holiday,

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Speaker 1: Memorial Day, during which we honor and pay our respects

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Speaker 1: to the men and women who wore this country's uniform

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Speaker 1: and made the ultimate sacrifice, gave their lives to our

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Speaker 1: defense and in service of our freedom. That song that

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Speaker 1: you just heard, it's an amazing song. It's called West

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Speaker 1: Point to Arlington. It was written by an Iraq war veterans,

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Speaker 1: Sean Niquette. Through the Nashville nonprofit Operations Song Operations song

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Speaker 1: Dot Org pairs hit songwriters with military veterans and their

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Speaker 1: families and helps connect them through music. Sean wrote this

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Speaker 1: song about his friend Army Captain Andrew Peterson Keel of

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Speaker 1: Miami Florida, who died at the age of twenty eight

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Speaker 1: in Afghanistan on March eleven. We remember him as we

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Speaker 1: go into this week. And also this great song West

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Speaker 1: Point to Arlington. That song is available on iTunes. All

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Speaker 1: proceeds go to a p K Charities, the charity which

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Speaker 1: was set up in the memory of Army Captain Andrew

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Speaker 1: Peterson Keel, So please check out the song on iTunes again,

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Speaker 1: it's called West Point to Arlington. Also, as we head

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Speaker 1: into Memorial Day, I want to tell you about two

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Speaker 1: extraordinary groups doing extraordinary things for our extraordinary military heroes.

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Speaker 1: The first is a group that I am honored to

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Speaker 1: do some work with and actually newly appointed to its board,

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Speaker 1: which is also an honor. It's called Operation Restored Warrior.

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Speaker 1: Operation Restored Warrior or o rw UM feels a void

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Speaker 1: that that the v A just can't do. As so

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Speaker 1: many of you know, many of our veterans come back

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Speaker 1: from their service broken individuals, broken physically broken, emotionally broken spiritually.

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Speaker 1: We are losing twenty two of our military vets per

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Speaker 1: day per day to suicide. That is unacceptable and like

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Speaker 1: I said, the v A other government services, they just

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Speaker 1: cannot address the challenge. It's too it's just too big.

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Speaker 1: Operation Restored Warrior actually does address it. They step into

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Speaker 1: the breach and they heal with the one thing that

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Speaker 1: the government services don't heal with, and that's with God.

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Speaker 1: It's really an incredible group, and I can tell you

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Speaker 1: having done some work with them seeing them in action,

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Speaker 1: I have seen the results. Big, strappy, former special ops guys,

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Speaker 1: Navy seals, Army rangers, and enlisted guys from every walk

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Speaker 1: of life. These guys are in They come to r

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Speaker 1: W in tears because they're broken, literally on the verge

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Speaker 1: of life and death, and they literally have their lives

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Speaker 1: saved by this group. It is extraordinary. So if you

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Speaker 1: are a military veteran or you know someone who who

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Speaker 1: is who feels broken and lost in need of healing,

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Speaker 1: please reach out to Operation Restored Warrior. Their website is

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Speaker 1: Operation Restored Warrior dot org and they answer every single email. Also,

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Speaker 1: if you'd like to donate and support o RW, they

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Speaker 1: would be grateful for whatever you can give. Operation Restored

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Speaker 1: Warrior dot org. Again, if you can go there and

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Speaker 1: donate and support them, if you are able, they will

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Speaker 1: be so grateful. They have saved hundreds and hundreds of

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Speaker 1: lives just in the nine years that they've been in existence.

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Speaker 1: The second group I want to tell you about is

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Speaker 1: called Troops Direct. Their website is troops direct dot org.

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Speaker 1: They do an unbelievable job in getting our active duty

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Speaker 1: troops the things they need but they aren't getting. Joining

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Speaker 1: me now to tell us more is Jake Jones of

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Speaker 1: Troops Direct. Hi Jake, Hi Monica, thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 1: Of course welcome. So you guys, I'm learning more about

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Speaker 1: your organization as well. And you guys, you saw a

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Speaker 1: need with our military and you're filling it. Tell us

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Speaker 1: exactly what you do. So what Troop tret does is

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Speaker 1: we expedite the acquisition of requested gear and equipment to

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Speaker 1: service members that typically cannot obtain the critical it is

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Speaker 1: that they need through the d D supply chain in

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Speaker 1: the time frame that they need them for deployment. How

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Speaker 1: does that happen? I mean, we think that the d

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Speaker 1: D is probably you know, the most efficient of the

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Speaker 1: government agency, is really taking great care of our troops,

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Speaker 1: especially those who are abroad active duty. How did these

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Speaker 1: kinds of gaps even happen? Well, I think right now

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Speaker 1: we're on the uh the backside of the previous administration

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Speaker 1: and due to sequestration, you know, continue resolution after continuing resolution,

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Speaker 1: you know, we're still operating under a lot of those constraints.

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Speaker 1: And on top of that, you know, a lot of

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Speaker 1: our forces deployed very quickly, and especially with the Special

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Speaker 1: Operations Forces, their missions are so fluid to where they

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Speaker 1: change in a moment's notice. So US being the backstop

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Speaker 1: or the quick reaction force allows them to come to us.

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Speaker 1: When when the d D supply chain, who typically does

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Speaker 1: a phenomenal job of supporting US, can't get it done,

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Speaker 1: troops direct it's done. What kind of items are troops

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Speaker 1: to requesting? What? What would you say is the most

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Speaker 1: requested item? Well, i'll tell you, if you don't mind,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. Ever, what I've gotten in the

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Speaker 1: last twenty four hours. Does that work for you? So

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Speaker 1: in the last twenty four hours, I've I've gotten requests

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Speaker 1: for over a hundred and fifty thousan dollars worth of equipment,

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Speaker 1: and I'm actually in the process of purchasing. Some of

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Speaker 1: those things are twenty two ballistic helmets, two handheld mind detectors,

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Speaker 1: sixteen heel tour headsets, twenty two uh pieces of body

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Speaker 1: armor in thirty six sets of specialized optics. And that's

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Speaker 1: just within the last twenty four hours. I mean I

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Speaker 1: get this all of the time. On top of those things,

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Speaker 1: we get a lot of requests for medical equipment. I

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Speaker 1: had a request for an auto clave, major surgical kits,

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Speaker 1: specialized backpacks, s for equipment, explosive ordinance equipment. This is

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Speaker 1: just a day in life at Troops Direct. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: a lot of the equipment that you're mentioning, Jake is

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Speaker 1: very specialized, military grade equipment, and we certainly don't want

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Speaker 1: our troops and active duty in harms way with equipment

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Speaker 1: that is not up to military standards and d D standards.

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Speaker 1: How do you guys have access to that kind of

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Speaker 1: stuff to get it to our troops. So we work

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Speaker 1: through a lot of the same vendors that the Department

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Speaker 1: of Defense works with, and all the vendors that we

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Speaker 1: work with our our compliant vendors, which allows us to

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Speaker 1: immediately received the request and then you know, contact the

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Speaker 1: ir compliant vendor and ship those items either directly overseas

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Speaker 1: or we ship them here in the United States to

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Speaker 1: allow them to train with them become more familiar with

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Speaker 1: them before they go into harm's way and the military,

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Speaker 1: the Defense Department has no issue with you guys doing this, No,

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Speaker 1: not at all. I mean, if anything, I think that

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Speaker 1: we we increase the readiness of the Department of the

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Speaker 1: Fence of our service members because like I said before,

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Speaker 1: there there will be gaps. There will be times when

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Speaker 1: you know, the d D is unable to meet the

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Speaker 1: time constraints because of their bureaucratic red tape or things

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Speaker 1: of those of that nature. Really, we're not constrained by anything.

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Speaker 1: I can go to any website and click on a button,

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Speaker 1: order the piece of gear, and ship it within fifteen minutes.

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Speaker 1: That's called the power of the private sector. Jake, Yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: it's pretty amazing. You must hear from grateful troops all

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Speaker 1: of the time. What did they tell you, Uh, they

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Speaker 1: come back to us and they tell us how grateful

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Speaker 1: they are and how mission enhancing it was, and just

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Speaker 1: what a pleasure it was working with you know, the

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Speaker 1: not for profit which relies on you know, mom and

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Speaker 1: pop don't ers to donate to us, so they feel like,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's a it's not political. They're truly being

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Speaker 1: supported by the regular people. Back in the United States.

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Speaker 1: So there their thanks cannot be explaining words. We're talking

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Speaker 1: to First Sergeant Jake Jones, United States Military, retired and Jake,

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Speaker 1: I understand that you were in the United States Marines, Surah,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for your service. I also understand

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Speaker 1: that Troops Direct helped you directly. How so, UM, I've

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Speaker 1: worked with Troops Direct over a number of years within

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Speaker 1: the conventional military as well as special Operations forces. And UH,

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Speaker 1: I'll give you two examples. UM. One example, UH, one

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Speaker 1: of my one of my teams was deployed to US

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Speaker 1: an austere environment and they were doing an area familiarization

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Speaker 1: and they came to a local hanging where people were

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Speaker 1: jumping off cliffs. And Troops Direct prior to our deployment,

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Speaker 1: had purchased us some high angle rescue equipment and rope

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Speaker 1: rescue equipment. And when we arrived, this one girl had

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Speaker 1: jumped off the nine cliff and entered the water and

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Speaker 1: ended up breaking her back. UM. So my guys immediately

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Speaker 1: jumped in action, jumped in the water, got her stabilized.

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Speaker 1: Another one of my guys ran two kilometers away back

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Speaker 1: to our trucks, got the rope rescue equipment that Troops

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Speaker 1: Direct provided with backboards, and we created a hoist system

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Speaker 1: from the nine Cliff and we hoisted her out of

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Speaker 1: the water and to a local National medical boat where

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Speaker 1: she was transported to the hospital and is recovering from

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Speaker 1: her injuries. So beyond saving her life, you know, the

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Speaker 1: American service member was painted in a positive light being

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Speaker 1: in a predominantly Muslim country, UM, where the Americans are

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Speaker 1: actually saving their citizens, and you have two countries working

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Speaker 1: shoulder to shoulder together to save life. On another occasion, UM,

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Speaker 1: we were isolating the city of missoul in late two

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Speaker 1: thousand sixteen and we started doing more sensitive and more

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Speaker 1: smaller unit type operations and I didn't have enough optics

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Speaker 1: for my guys. So I called Aaron, who was our

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Speaker 1: founder and executive director of Troops Direct, and said, Aaron,

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Speaker 1: I need optics now. And Uh he literally put me

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Speaker 1: on a three way call with the vendors of the

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Speaker 1: optics that I requested, and we got them into Iraq

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Speaker 1: within seven days and we immediately put them to use

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Speaker 1: um to where the specialized optics that I requested allowed

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Speaker 1: one of my snipers UH to engage and reduce an

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Speaker 1: isole fighter at fift hundred yards with this sniper rifle

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Speaker 1: based upon the highly specialized optic that Troops Direct provided us. Incredible,

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Speaker 1: just incredible, Jake. You know you're really filling a vacuum

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Speaker 1: that needs to be filled. God bless you for what

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Speaker 1: you're doing. Thank you for your service and semplify. And

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Speaker 1: I want to tell everybody if you want to support

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Speaker 1: Troops Direct, please visit their website troops Direct dot org.

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Speaker 1: Troops Direct dot org are thanks to First Sergeant Jake Jones,

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Speaker 1: United States Marines retired. Thank you so much, Jake. And

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Speaker 1: just a reminder that the other group I mentioned, Operation

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Speaker 1: Restored Warrior. It's Operation Restored Warrior dot org and if

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Speaker 1: you want to support them and donate to them as well,

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Speaker 1: just go to their website. They read every single email.

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Speaker 1: And if you're a military veteran who needs help, um

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Speaker 1: spiritual help, if you're in need of healing, or if

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Speaker 1: you know of a military veteran who does, please reach

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Speaker 1: out to r W Operation Restore Warrior dot org and

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Speaker 1: support them. Both groups however you can on this Memorial

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Speaker 1: Day weekend. I'm Monica Crowley in today for Sean back

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Speaker 1: right after this every time feelingly Monica Crowley in for

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Speaker 1: Sean today. Thank you so much for joining me. Uh,

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Speaker 1: this is another fantastic song in honor of our fallen troops.

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Speaker 1: As we head into Memorial Day weekend, let's make sure

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Speaker 1: while we enjoy all of the freedoms and and liberties

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Speaker 1: that we um were so blessed with in this country,

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Speaker 1: and as we enjoy our lobster rolls and our fried clams,

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Speaker 1: and our hot dogs and hamburgers, that we keep in

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Speaker 1: mind what this weekend is really all about. And it's

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Speaker 1: about honoring and paying respects to the men and women

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Speaker 1: who have worn this country uniform and died in its defense.

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Speaker 1: Please keep that first and foremost. And while we're on

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Speaker 1: messages of hope, I just want to mention that, Uh,

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Speaker 1: in Minneapolis last weekend, there was an incredible thing. You know,

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Speaker 1: the US Bank Stadium where the Super Bowl was played

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Speaker 1: this year. Well, there was something called the Pulse Event.

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Speaker 1: Pulse like pulse in your arm, Uh, the Pulse Event,

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Speaker 1: and it's it's the Pulse Movement, which is about reaching

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Speaker 1: young people through faith. And at US Bank Stadium last

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Speaker 1: Friday night, seventy thousand millennials assembled for this extraordinary event

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Speaker 1: of faith, hope, and love. And what struck me about

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Speaker 1: it is that happened on the same day as the

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Speaker 1: Texas school shooting, and I thought, what a powerful counterpoint

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Speaker 1: the media ran with gun control and kids in crisis

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Speaker 1: and so on, and yet the counterpoint to that was

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Speaker 1: what was going on in the Twin Cities at this

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Speaker 1: Pulse event where you had seventy thousand millennials praying and

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Speaker 1: worshiping and and showing their faith in God. It was

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Speaker 1: a remarkable, remarkable thing. So I just wanted to bring

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Speaker 1: that to your attention. Also calling to your attention my

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Speaker 1: column at the Hill today the Hill dot com. Please

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Speaker 1: check it out. It's also on my Facebook page Monica

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Speaker 1: Crowley and why end up on my Twitter feed at

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Speaker 1: Monica Crowley, also on Instagram at Monica Crowley Underscore. But

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Speaker 1: my column today at the Hill is all about Obama

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Speaker 1: and Brennan and Clapper. Oh my, check it out. My

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Speaker 1: big thanks to Sean Hannity for inviting me to sit in.

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Speaker 1: I'm Monica Crowley.