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Speaker 1: This is Buck's first thoughts. The news you need to

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Speaker 1: get for your day in forty five minutes. Make sure

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Speaker 1: your podcasts. How many times have we talked about how

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Speaker 1: Governor Cuomo of New York has the worst results, has

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Speaker 1: been the biggest failure, the most egregious buffoon, and caused

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Speaker 1: the most unnecessary suffering and death of any governor in America.

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Speaker 1: We've been saying it for many months. You're on the

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Speaker 1: show because it's obvious, because we know it's true. But

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Speaker 1: he was important for a while to Democrats. Now why

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Speaker 1: was he important Because he was turning on Trump as

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Speaker 1: soon as things got tough with COVID, and so he

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Speaker 1: was useful. He became a tool for the other side.

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Speaker 1: He decided that the way to get the media to

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Speaker 1: back him up, including of course his brother who has

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Speaker 1: And then it's like you have a cloak of invincibility.

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Speaker 1: Then you can do anything, say anything, and the media

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Speaker 1: will debase themselves to lie for you. Well, Now we

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Speaker 1: have the proof we need that this wasn't even just

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Speaker 1: something that went awry, but that there was an active

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Speaker 1: cover up of the disastrous nursing home order from Governor Cuomo,

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Speaker 1: Democrat of New York, at one point talked about as

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Speaker 1: a possible last minute presidential candidate before Biden had even

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Speaker 1: won the primary. Remember that there were people who were

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Speaker 1: buying Cuomo underwear. There was a there was a trend

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Speaker 1: on social media of people referring to themselves as Cuomo

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Speaker 1: sexuals because he was so hot. This is real, that's true,

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Speaker 1: because he was doing such a great job in those

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Speaker 1: press conferences. He got an Emmy, that's right, an Emmy

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Speaker 1: for his COVID press conferences. And now we find out

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Speaker 1: that they were hiding the nursing home data so that

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Speaker 1: the Trump administration, so the Department of Justice last year,

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Speaker 1: couldn't look into anything, couldn't figure out what had really happened.

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Speaker 1: And of course this was all about the twenty twenty election.

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Speaker 1: More information suppressed that the public should know about on

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Speaker 1: behalf of Democrats doing an awful job. It shouldn't be

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Speaker 1: surprising to anybody. Now we have the proof. I'd also

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Speaker 1: say it feels good to be right. A lot of

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Speaker 1: being right this week for the Buckster, gotta tell you,

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Speaker 1: and with Cuomo, this as yet another one we have

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Speaker 1: Melissa de Rosa admits they hid nursing home data so

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Speaker 1: feds wouldn't find out. God. This is in the New

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Speaker 1: York Post. Governor Cuomo's top aide privately apologized to Democratic

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Speaker 1: lawmakers for withholding the state's nursing home death toll from

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen, telling them, quote, we froze out of fear

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Speaker 1: that the numbers, the true numbers, would be used against

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Speaker 1: us by federal prosecutors. The stunning admission of a cover

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Speaker 1: up was made by Secretary to the Governor Melissa de

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Speaker 1: Rosa during a video conference call with state Democratic leaders,

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Speaker 1: in which she said the Cuomo administration had rebuffed a

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Speaker 1: legislative request for the tally in August because right around

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Speaker 1: the same time, then President Donald Trump turns this into

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Speaker 1: a giant political football. According to an audio recording of

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Speaker 1: the two hour plus meeting, exactly what I've been telling

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Speaker 1: you is what happened here. They lie about the deaths

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Speaker 1: So Cuomo hid the numbers and kept having his press conferences.

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Speaker 1: Let's think about this too. Was this a tough called

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Speaker 1: to make when you have a disease that is overwhelmingly

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Speaker 1: you send them back into nursing homes. I mean, this

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Speaker 1: was the executive order equivalent of a mass casualty attack.

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Speaker 1: Nine thousand seniors. That's the number. Nine thousand seniors believed

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Speaker 1: That came from the State Attorney General, Leticia James. Now,

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Speaker 1: was at stake for the Democrats, for the lib power apparatus,

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Speaker 1: nothing was more important than defeating Donald Trump. And it's

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Speaker 1: terrible that they managed to accomplish that, but they did.

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Speaker 1: They were rewarded for this kind of behavior. The mainstream

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Speaker 1: media may have a day or two here where some

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Speaker 1: people open their eyes. I mean, you and I understand

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Speaker 1: who they are already. Some people open their eyes to

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Speaker 1: how disastrously partisan they are. And how they're just so

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Speaker 1: full of it. But at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: They would they really change what they did? Know? Trump lost,

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Speaker 1: That's all that matters to them. Sure, they lied about

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Speaker 1: a mass casualty event in New York. People lost mother's

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Speaker 1: a governor who was a pompous jerk at every step

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Speaker 1: how to manipulate emotions. Have your press conference, sit there,

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Speaker 1: have the slides, tell people how much you care, Tell

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Speaker 1: the people that you have family too, and my grandmother,

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Speaker 1: your grandmother is not disposable. Well, it turns out he

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Speaker 1: was actually disposing of a lot of people's grandparents an

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Speaker 1: executive order to send COVID pos their patients back into

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Speaker 1: nursing homes. You could not have come up with a

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Speaker 1: more disastrous public health policy than that. This was going

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Speaker 1: after the single most vulnerable part of our population. Remember,

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Speaker 1: almost half of all COVID deaths nationwide came in nursing homes,

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Speaker 1: which was a very small percentage of the population. Nursing

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Speaker 1: Nursing homes were the Achilles heel, and we did not

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Speaker 1: people were lying about what was going on in the

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Speaker 1: that would have been the approach to take. But instead

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Speaker 1: people like Cuomo. We're taking a bow getting Emmy's for

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Speaker 1: a disastrous, a simply incomprehensibly awful performances as essentially a

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Speaker 1: He must be held to account. We don't have a

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Speaker 1: For Gavin Newsom. We should. There should be a tsunami

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Speaker 1: won't happen. Do you think they'll do a lot of

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Speaker 1: I don't think so. The news media failed you on this.

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Speaker 1: not through dogged investigative journalism, not because the mainstream the

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Speaker 1: have all of a sudden discovered honor or integrity. No, No,

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Speaker 1: you have to really remember. They pretty much got away

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Speaker 1: Governor Quobo was the single worst governor in the entire

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Speaker 1: that the Democrat Party, the corporate media celebrated him. They

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Speaker 1: lying to the public about the very numbers of those

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Speaker 1: who died. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Follow

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Speaker 1: fuck on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. You know will people

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Speaker 1: have asked me about there was some type of report

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Speaker 1: It would not be based in science. It would purely

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Speaker 1: were not the answer. They were not worth it. They

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Speaker 1: did not work. That's why everyone's fleeing to Florida, not

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Speaker 1: Florida too. They've they've had enough. It's fascinating. There's a

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Speaker 1: piece in the New York Times as Recline, who's just

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Speaker 1: a dogmatic orth the docs left winger. All he does

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Speaker 1: so he must be smart on it all, but not impressed.

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Speaker 1: The whole thing, though, is if if progressivism can't work

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Speaker 1: that workers can perform a deep cleaning. There are two

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Speaker 1: big questions to ask about these actions. How much are

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Speaker 1: they doing to reduce the spread of the virus and

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Speaker 1: do they have any downside? The answer to the first question,

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Speaker 1: according to many experts, is they seem to do little good.

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Speaker 1: Prohibiting outdoor activity is unlikely to reduce the spread of

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Speaker 1: the virus, nor is urging people always to wear a

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Speaker 1: mask outdoors. End quote. Who has been saying this? I

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Speaker 1: don't mean to this, I told you so thing, but

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Speaker 1: I've been telling you this along and I know you

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Speaker 1: listen to me because you grieve me, because you're smart

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Speaker 1: and you understand what's going on. So we've been saying

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Speaker 1: this for how many months. You and I we've been

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Speaker 1: telling anybody who listens for how long outdoor masking is crazy.

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Speaker 1: There is no data to support this. There's no reason

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Speaker 1: to believe people need to do this unless you are

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Speaker 1: up close to people so that your breath is actively

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Speaker 1: hitting them in the face for ten or fifteen minutes

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Speaker 1: at a time. So yes, you know, should you go

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Speaker 1: shoulder to shoulder one hundred people in a protest, Probably not,

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Speaker 1: But walking around on the street, I mean I want

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Speaker 1: to bang the table. There is no science or data

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Speaker 1: to support outdoor masking. Why won't Fouchi say that? Why

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Speaker 1: won't Fouchie say it? Because he's a little coward, that's why.

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Speaker 1: Because he wants the establishment. He wants the Democrats to

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Speaker 1: like him. He wants to be the man of science.

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Speaker 1: If they were reasonable, I would give greater leeway for

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Speaker 1: them to be wrong on things where they're wrong, based

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Speaker 1: in good faith. Do I think, for example, that the

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Speaker 1: you know that masking is an is an exaggerated defense

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Speaker 1: against this virus because the Left has politicized this, I

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Speaker 1: think it's exaggerated. Yes, I think you can work in

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Speaker 1: certain circumstances, in certain times, or in a hunt, if

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Speaker 1: you wear it one hundred percent of the time correctly

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Speaker 1: a friend mask? Can it help somewhat? Not a lot?

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Speaker 1: Go look at go look at the data on measles,

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Speaker 1: aerosolized virus. Go look at the data on measles, and

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Speaker 1: you'll see if you go into a room and you've

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Speaker 1: got a cloth mask on you and you're susceptible, you're

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Speaker 1: you're still getting measles basically if you're there for more

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Speaker 1: than twenty minutes. So it's not one hundred percent, it's

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Speaker 1: not even close to one hundred percent, and no one

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Speaker 1: knows what the real percentage is. But just based on

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Speaker 1: the observations we have of places where there's widespread masking,

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Speaker 1: it's clearly not as effective as they said, which is

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Speaker 1: why they're demanding double masks now. And I told you

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Speaker 1: they would six months ago, nine months ago. They're going

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Speaker 1: to claim double masking needs to happen. Why would they

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Speaker 1: say if a mask is so effective, why is it

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Speaker 1: double masks now? Because they have to go to the

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Speaker 1: next thing. The logic of the absolutism here is, oh,

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Speaker 1: we just dot didn't do it enough. It's like the

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Speaker 1: logic of supporting communism. Oh my god, it's ruined society. Oh,

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Speaker 1: this wasn't the right kind of communism, right, this wasn't

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Speaker 1: the right kind of fauciism we've suffered through in this country.

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Speaker 1: That's why we didn't stop the virus in its tracks.

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Speaker 1: But you know, if they were willing to be fair

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Speaker 1: and say things like no, there was no reason to

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Speaker 1: mask outdoors. There was never any reason to shut down gyms.

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Speaker 1: That that was also crazy. There was never enough of

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Speaker 1: a risk in restaurants where people are seated at different

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Speaker 1: tables with decent ventilation to shut down all these restaurants.

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Speaker 1: New York City thought that one percent. This is the

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Speaker 1: most restaurants, the densest city in the country. They thought

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Speaker 1: that about one point six percent of COVID cases were

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Speaker 1: coming from restaurants. One point six percent, and you're shutting down,

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Speaker 1: you know, Can we focus on the other eight ninety

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Speaker 1: eight point four percent? Oh no, because that's harder, that's

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Speaker 1: harder to get compliance over. You see, they're wrong. They've

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Speaker 1: been wrong a lot, and some people are starting even

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Speaker 1: Notice that if you don't tell the crazies to stop

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Speaker 1: being crazy, it keeps going. It keeps going. Get exercise

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Speaker 1: when you leave your room for your twice weekly COVID test,

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Speaker 1: they say at the University of Massachusetts. I mean that

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Speaker 1: place is now effectively an insane asylum. And now I

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Speaker 1: also have to think about how much real and serious

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Speaker 1: and honest mental health destruction is going on across the

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Speaker 1: country because of this, and it almost becomes a self

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Speaker 1: fulfilling prophecy. Make people terrified, lonely and depressed, and tell

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Speaker 1: them the only way things will get better is if

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Speaker 1: they do the things that are making them more terrified,

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Speaker 1: lonely and depressed. That is our COVID policy. In a nutshell.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure

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Speaker 1: you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or

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Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. More on this COVID absolutism

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Speaker 1: in the New York Times. Finally, some sanity appearing in

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Speaker 1: the pages of the New York Times when it comes

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Speaker 1: to COVID quote. Worldwide, scientists have not documented any instances

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Speaker 1: of outdoor transmission unless people were in close conversation. According

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Speaker 1: to doctor Mooge Savic, an infectious disease specialist at the

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Speaker 1: University of Saint Andrews in Scotland, the small number of

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Speaker 1: cases where outdoor transmission might have occurred. We're associated with

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Speaker 1: close interactions, particularly extended duration or settings where people mixed

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Speaker 1: indoors alongside an outdoor setting, ie. Extreme close contact outside.

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Speaker 1: You know, yeah, if someone spittle is hitting you in

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Speaker 1: the face, you can get COVID from them. Obviously, if

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Speaker 1: you are walking out in open air, there is no

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Speaker 1: risk of COVID to people not next to you. None. Okay,

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Speaker 1: We've had millions and millions and millions of cases around

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Speaker 1: the world. We've had a year of this. Why can't foucy,

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Speaker 1: Why can't the experts come out and say this, Because

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Speaker 1: once they start to release some control and people see

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Speaker 1: it's okay, then they might start to think for themselves

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Speaker 1: in other areas that might think, Wow, maybe I shouldn't

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Speaker 1: be under so much control for all these other things

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Speaker 1: going on too. The new variants of the virus are

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Speaker 1: more contagious, but there is no evidence to suggest they

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Speaker 1: will change this pattern with regard to outdoor transmission. As

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Speaker 1: my colleague Tara Parker Pope puts it, avoid breathing the

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Speaker 1: air that other people exhale. A student walking across campus,

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Speaker 1: let alone a masked student, he writes, presents little risk

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Speaker 1: to another student who remains six feet away. The same

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Speaker 1: goes for joggers in your neighborhood. The story is similar

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Speaker 1: for deep cleaning. Scientists increasingly say there's little to no

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Speaker 1: evidence that contaminated surfaces can spread the virus. The one

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Speaker 1: surface that is important to wash frequently and vigorously is

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Speaker 1: the human hand. That's right, because your human hand goes

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Speaker 1: in your eye, let's be honest, in your mouth, in

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Speaker 1: your nose, and that's why your hand washing does make

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Speaker 1: it difference is helpful. But I mean they have they

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Speaker 1: have a photo here of a guy who's deadlifting with

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Speaker 1: a face mask on, and that hits home because I'm

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Speaker 1: doing that now as often as I can, and it's moronic.

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Speaker 1: I'm usually alone in the gym with a mask on,

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Speaker 1: exercising because they say so, because Cuomo and the morons

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Speaker 1: and the Faucii cowards say so. Taking every possible precaution

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Speaker 1: back to this piece is unrealistic. Human beings are social

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Speaker 1: creatures who crave connection and pleasure and cannot minimize danger

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Speaker 1: at all times. Despite the risks, we eat carbs, drink wine,

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Speaker 1: go sledding, even rideing automobiles. We enjoy taking outdoor walks

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Speaker 1: and drinking a cup of coffee on a public bench. Peep.

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Speaker 1: Many people who find exercise of exercise find it difficult

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Speaker 1: to do so in a mask. It feels a bit

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Speaker 1: like suffocating. You're damn right. The lockdowners need to stop

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Speaker 1: being crazy. The science is not on their side. This

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Speaker 1: is Buck's first thoughts, the newsy to get through your

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Speaker 1: day in forty five minutes. Make sure you subscribe on

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Speaker 1: the iHeart ASP before wherever you get your podcasts. We

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Speaker 1: got our friend Jack Potsobic from One America News with

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Speaker 1: us now. He's a correspondent and he's a former intelligence analyst.

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Speaker 1: So he's my ic brother from another mother. Jack. Good

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Speaker 1: to see you, Block, always a pleasure man. So you're

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Speaker 1: in DC and we still have this National Guard deployment

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Speaker 1: going on here? What what's happening with this? Why is

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Speaker 1: this continuing on even when it seems any reasonable expectation

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Speaker 1: of threat from the Trump mob or something whatever they

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Speaker 1: were saying before is gone. Right, So and to give

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Speaker 1: people a sense of what this is like, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm right here on Constitution Avenue in Washington, DC. That's

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Speaker 1: where our studios are. That's public and can whip it up,

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Speaker 1: but in this building directly in front of it. For

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Speaker 1: the last month, now over a month, we've had a

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Speaker 1: chain link steel fence top by razor wire put directly

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Speaker 1: on top of our sidewalk, so we can't even got

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Speaker 1: into the street. You know in Camven parked your car there.

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Speaker 1: Immediately behind that are armed troops National Guard, still on

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Speaker 1: a daily basis positioned. It's at least throughout the workday.

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Speaker 1: I would be surprised to note if they weren't there

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Speaker 1: at night. That's where we're seeing some of these parking

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Speaker 1: lot images. They're still coming out. These guys are marching,

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Speaker 1: they're on foot patrol, and they have been doing absolutely

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Speaker 1: nothing other than create a security presence a theater all

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Speaker 1: the way since about January eighth. I because when they

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Speaker 1: really first got everything out here, and it's incredible to

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Speaker 1: me to see these guys. It kind of reminds me

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Speaker 1: of the old Monty Python sketch marching up and down

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Speaker 1: the square right for no reason. There's been no credible

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Speaker 1: threat told to us, but we now hear from the

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Speaker 1: headlines that the being gowners have come down on all

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Speaker 1: of this. They're looking at a five hundred million dollar

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Speaker 1: price tag for this deployment. And keep in mind, this

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Speaker 1: is National Guard. These are people who have other jobs,

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Speaker 1: they have families, they have wive, kids, etc. And yet

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Speaker 1: they're being told to be out here for what. We

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Speaker 1: don't know. The latest that we're hearing is that Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump himself, when he was president, actually requested ten thousand

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Speaker 1: National Guard, not for the inauguration, but for the events

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Speaker 1: of January sixth, because he wanted the Capitol we would

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Speaker 1: be safe. Apparently his request was denied. I didn't know

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Speaker 1: that the commander in chief made requests, by the way,

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Speaker 1: but that's another story. Secondly, Ted lew in the well

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Speaker 1: of the Senate yesterday made a statement that this deployment

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Speaker 1: is going to continue. Why not because there are credible

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Speaker 1: and active threats to our capital, and thank god there aren't,

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Speaker 1: But he said they are going to stay there until

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump concedes the election. What is that? What are

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Speaker 1: you doing with our national securities? Head? What are you

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Speaker 1: doing with our country? Is this all just a struggle

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Speaker 1: session for Trump and Trump supporters? And are you really

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Speaker 1: telling us that you're abusing the power of the United

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Speaker 1: States military for political purposes? Because I gotta tell you,

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Speaker 1: it sure feels an awful lot like that, you know.

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Speaker 1: I spoke Jack to House House Intelligence Committee member Devin

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Speaker 1: Nuness earlier this week, interviewed him, and I asked him

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Speaker 1: straight up, I said, have you seen any intelligence at

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Speaker 1: all that indicates that there's a need for a continuing

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Speaker 1: National Guard presence in DC? He said, absolutely not. And

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Speaker 1: he said, in addition to that, why are we having

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Speaker 1: a trial right now for Trump based on an incitement

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Speaker 1: to an insurrection? Where there are still very important questions

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Speaker 1: that need answers and therefore that require investigation, like who

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Speaker 1: was in the chain of command on the day of

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Speaker 1: January sixth, for how many security personnel we're going to

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Speaker 1: be there, what decisions were made? Why can't how can

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Speaker 1: we have a real answer about this if we don't

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Speaker 1: know to what degree was this planned in advance, what

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Speaker 1: decisions were made on the day of These are all

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Speaker 1: things that you would need to know. But it feels

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Speaker 1: a bit like Jack, the Democrats are just planning to

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Speaker 1: run with the narrative irrespective of what holes there are

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Speaker 1: in the actual story. We'll see, But this is where

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Speaker 1: your background and my background come into play, because when

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Speaker 1: we look when there's been a tactical event. We want

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Speaker 1: to know everything that happened, Blue force, red force, right,

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Speaker 1: We want to know what type of planning was there,

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Speaker 1: where where did these pipe bombs come from? That we

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Speaker 1: still haven't identified the perpetrator. You know, we can see

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Speaker 1: their hoodie and their shoes, you know, the Nike Air Maxes,

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Speaker 1: but we can't tell when those pipe bombs were put.

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Speaker 1: Oh wait, was it the sixth or was it the

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Speaker 1: fifth because originally the FBI said it was January sixth.

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Speaker 1: Later we find out that they were actually in place

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Speaker 1: the night before. Who was that? Why were they placed

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Speaker 1: the night before? Obviously this was you know, it goes

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Speaker 1: to the heart of the question. But you know, we

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Speaker 1: don't want to know this stuff for political purposes. We

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Speaker 1: want to know if there actually are domestic terrorists that

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Speaker 1: are trying to bomb the United States capital, regardless of

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Speaker 1: their reasons or political ideology. Right, this is a national

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Speaker 1: security matter obviously. Second, we want to know what was

658
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Speaker 1: the chain in command breakdown? Where was the intelligence failure?

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Speaker 1: Where was the operational fail We've seen the eight page

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Speaker 1: letter now from the former Capitol Police chief chiefs Sons,

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Speaker 1: and he wrote that he requested National Guard multiple times.

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Speaker 1: He was denied that by the now former sergeant Arms

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Speaker 1: the House and Senate clearly was denied by Mayor Bowser,

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Speaker 1: who still has her tweet up bragging about how she's

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Speaker 1: denying Trump's request for National Guard to be deployed because

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Speaker 1: there was this you know, people forget because it's gone

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Speaker 1: so far and the gas lighting is so strong from

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Speaker 1: this eachment. And that's really the point of everything here

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Speaker 1: is that there was a narrative in sort of like

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Speaker 1: the left wing media universe that Trump was going to

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Speaker 1: deploy the National Guard. He wanted to in order to

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Speaker 1: kind of enact his own coup of the government, to

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Speaker 1: stop Congress, to suspend their operations and stay in office.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you remember, like like they were talking about

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Speaker 1: that on MSNBC. Yes, it was. MSNBC has had all

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Speaker 1: kinds of theories out there. I Mean, the one thing

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Speaker 1: that's that's astonishing to me is to this day we

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Speaker 1: have seen an MSNBC pretending that there was a credible

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Speaker 1: threat of overthrow of the government from the so called insurrection.

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Speaker 1: How was that going to happen. The people that were

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Speaker 1: the so called insurrectionists weren't even arm Jack. So the

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Speaker 1: guy with the body pains and the plastic Viking horns

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Speaker 1: and the face you know, the face paint was actually

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Speaker 1: going to try to throw over the US government. It's

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Speaker 1: it just completely flies in the face of reason. Look,

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Speaker 1: we all know that the events were terrible, but we

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Speaker 1: also have to be serious and sober about what actually happened.

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Speaker 1: And we're they're bad actor elements that went in to

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Speaker 1: try to incite this violence, to try to actually make

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Speaker 1: this this what was purported to be a peaceful protest

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Speaker 1: was planning to be a peaceful protest, which, by the way,

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Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of the people remained peaceful and stood outside.

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Speaker 1: I was I was there across the street watching the

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Speaker 1: entire thing. Um, you know, I was on the roof

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Speaker 1: right here again, right across the street from the Capitol Dome.

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Speaker 1: And for the most part you stood. You saw people

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Speaker 1: just standing around the lawn who didn't know what was

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Speaker 1: going on. Even funny enough, I was there outside. I

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Speaker 1: didn't know what was going on inside the Capitol until

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Speaker 1: one of my producers called me and said, have you

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Speaker 1: seen these videos on Twitter? I said, no, I'm outside.

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Speaker 1: There's no signal what's going on. And they're they're telling

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Speaker 1: me about this and I said, really, because outside it's

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Speaker 1: it's it's dead. People are just kind of standing around.

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Speaker 1: Nobody knows what's going on. Jack, I want to switch

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Speaker 1: gears for we're speaking of Jack Posobic of one American

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Speaker 1: news network, and Jack, and tell everybody. I like to

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Speaker 1: tell everybody that you're not only former Intel analyst, but

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Speaker 1: you're a China specialist and a Mandarin speaker. So this

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Speaker 1: is right in the center of your wheelhouse. What are

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Speaker 1: we seeing from she and what are we seeing from

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Speaker 1: Shijinping a Chinese communist party? With this new Biden administration

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Speaker 1: that you find troubling and explain to people why, you know,

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Speaker 1: a lot of foreign policy just sounds like an intellectual

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Speaker 1: exercise when it comes to China. It affects everybody. Everyone

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Speaker 1: who's listening to this. If they don't care about China,

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00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:37,440
Speaker 1: China cares about them, well, I would point it to

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Speaker 1: everybody else that you know, if you're in one of

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Speaker 1: these states that's still locked down, if you're going into

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Speaker 1: a restaurant or a movie theater, or you can't go

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Speaker 1: into a restaurant or a movie theater staring a mask,

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Speaker 1: if your kids are stuck at home because there's no school.

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Speaker 1: That's because of China, and that's because of the leadership

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Speaker 1: of the Chinese Communist Party shi Jinping and their mafia

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Speaker 1: regime that they have controlling their country that's been there

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Speaker 1: for almost a hundred years. Now, this is the regime

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Speaker 1: that's responsible for it. Now. Look, we don't know yet

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Speaker 1: if this thing came from the Wuhan lab or this

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Speaker 1: thing came from the wet market there and the pangolins

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Speaker 1: and the bats. But what we do know is that

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Speaker 1: when the WHO spends a couple of days going into

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Speaker 1: that lab a year after the fact, after they had

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Speaker 1: a year to clean up everything that they were doing there,

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Speaker 1: and sure Jong Lee, the batwoman of China and the

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Speaker 1: gain of function experiments that she was working on, and

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Speaker 1: then they come out and say we're not going to

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Speaker 1: look at the lab anymore. Within just a couple of

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Speaker 1: days of this, it really makes you want to start

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Speaker 1: asking questions how much power does the CCP and how

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Speaker 1: much influence do they have over these international institutions. That's

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Speaker 1: the same thing we're seeing now with the Biden administration,

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Speaker 1: where you saw that in that interview with sixty Minutes,

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Speaker 1: he was deferential to Chijin pink. He said, I don't

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Speaker 1: want to insult him. I think he's undemocratic, but I

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Speaker 1: don't mean it as an insult. What kind of a

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Speaker 1: statement is for an American president to make. We were

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Speaker 1: Tony Blanket during his confirmation, the new Secretary of State say,

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Speaker 1: we wanted to exercise strategic patients. Strategic patients really while

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Speaker 1: they're encroaching on the Taiwan Strait, while they're pushing through

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Speaker 1: the South China see it, through international waters and building

751
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Speaker 1: militarized islands. But we want to be patient with them.

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Speaker 1: This is all a turn back to the Obama Bush

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00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 1: Clinton era of allowing China to get away with whatever

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Speaker 1: they want to turn over this massive the keys to

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Speaker 1: this massive economic engine that is US capital to have

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Speaker 1: that continue to flow into Chinese coffers in Shanghai and

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00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 1: Beijing and of course in Wuhan, and then also to

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Speaker 1: put up this sort of I would almost call it

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Speaker 1: like a like a fake opposition, you know, like a

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Speaker 1: controlled opposition. You know. So I was in the Navy

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Speaker 1: as a Navy officer, right, and we constantly would run

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00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:59,880
Speaker 1: these freedom of operation or freedom of navigation operations in

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Speaker 1: South China. See, we just ran one again through the

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Speaker 1: Taiwan straight. That's what they call it, when two carriers

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Speaker 1: will operate or destroyer. We'll go through the Taiwan straight.

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Speaker 1: Here's and we make such a big deal out of it.

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00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:12,360
Speaker 1: The Navy makes a huge deal about it. The Pentagon

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00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 1: makes a huge deal. We're standing up to the Chinese.

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Speaker 1: We're standing up to Chinese expansionism of the PLA. And

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Speaker 1: and here's the thing. The People's Republic of China could

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Speaker 1: care less. They say, Great, you can watch us as

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Speaker 1: we're building our fleets. You can watch us as our

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Speaker 1: aircraft carrier capability expands. You can watch us as we

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00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 1: steal your technology and then use it against you. You

775
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 1: can watch as our cybersecurity or as our cyber operations

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Speaker 1: move to dismantle your ships and disrupt your operations. Right

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00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 1: and again, you saw this on that phone call, the

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Speaker 1: readout we got from Chijin Pingham Joe Biden, he wishes

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Speaker 1: him happy Chinese New Year. He's talking about, Wow, you

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Speaker 1: know we care so much about these, about the human

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Speaker 1: rights abuses, Shinjong. It's all very very bad. Bringing the hands,

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Speaker 1: no discussion whatsoever at the economic levers of power that

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Speaker 1: can be used that is something that you know, regardless

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Speaker 1: of you know you want to be a Trump supporter

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00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 1: and not a Trump supporter. But he understood that economic

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Speaker 1: leverage is America's best and really only level of influence

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Speaker 1: with the People's Republic of China. Now you're seeing that

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Speaker 1: is that failed policy from beforehand, which really is their

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Speaker 1: intention to allow China to expand, to allow this economic

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Speaker 1: and financial engine to be fueled and financed by who

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Speaker 1: us in many cases, and then really to just put

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Speaker 1: up this sort of well I puffed my chest and

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Speaker 1: I beat my hands and rattled my sabers, but in

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Speaker 1: the end, China is still one. What do you think

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Speaker 1: China is going to do? We only got about a

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Speaker 1: minute or two here, Jack, But what do you think

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Speaker 1: China is going to do in order to win against

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Speaker 1: this Biden administration. Well, we need to be very careful

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Speaker 1: about in the next one to two years, coming up

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Speaker 1: to twenty twenty two, is looking at Shijin Ping and

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Speaker 1: his interest in Taiwan. If he feels that his position

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Speaker 1: is threatened. Twenty twenty two is ear he was supposed

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Speaker 1: to step down as president. He then declared himself the

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Speaker 1: Chairman for Life General Secretary of the Party. If he

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Speaker 1: feels threatened, if he feels his positioned his threatened, I

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Speaker 1: guarantee you he will institute a naval blockade of Taiwan,

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Speaker 1: and he will try to force Taiwan and the West

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Speaker 1: into a Hong Kong style turnover agreement to solidify his

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Speaker 1: position within the Pologro Standing Committee as that Secretary Chairman

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Speaker 1: of the Chinese Communist Party. Jack Bosobic One American News, Jack,

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Speaker 1: my friend. Always good to see you, always going to

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Speaker 1: talk to you. Thanks so much. Thanks block always a pleasure.