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Speaker 1: Buck Sexton with you all now. Appreciate you coming to

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Speaker 1: hang out in the freedom hunt. It is quite a

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Speaker 1: day in the news cycle. We have nuclear option, Tomahawk missiles,

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Speaker 1: the lines straight away eight four four to eight to five,

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Speaker 1: and please do column with your thoughts because I have

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Speaker 1: a lot to say on Trump's first major foreign policy action.

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Speaker 1: Here with sixty or so Tomahawk missiles fired off at

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Speaker 1: a Syrian air base, air base suspected to have been

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Speaker 1: used in the deployment of chemical weapons against civilians in Syria.

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Speaker 1: This is multi layered right away. You look at this

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Speaker 1: and there's the political angles of it. There's the foreign

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Speaker 1: we will get to the nuclear option which was exercised

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Speaker 1: instead of course, of course, which is the next Supreme

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Speaker 1: Court is the newest Supreme Court justice. And we'll talk

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Speaker 1: about the terrible terrorist attack in Sweden as well, But

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Speaker 1: I wanted to spend time first on what happened in Syria.

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Speaker 1: It was last night, right after the show that the

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Speaker 1: You have this Shirat Air Base in Syria. The damage

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Speaker 1: assessments differ here from a handful of Russian aircraft too,

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Speaker 1: a little more than that. Casualties seem like they were

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Speaker 1: pretty low in terms of Syrians that were hit in

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Speaker 1: they feel like Trump broke with what he promised during

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Speaker 1: the campaign. He did give some hints, perhaps even more

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Speaker 1: that he was going to be a non interventionist president,

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Speaker 1: not a not an isolationist, which is really meant in

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Speaker 1: a pejorative sense, but a non isolationist, I'm sorry, but

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Speaker 1: a non interventionist, meaning that he would not put us

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Speaker 1: problems of other countries and doing so with our own

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Speaker 1: I don't think that it signals a huge foreign policy

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Speaker 1: So that's a message that all countries should be signed onto.

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Speaker 1: Assade and rebuild them they are claiming. And now you

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Speaker 1: They're claiming the at they being different administration figures. Um, well,

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Speaker 1: there could be this expectation with the Syrian people that

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Speaker 1: after the next strike, meaning the next usage of chemical

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Speaker 1: weapons if there, if there is to be one, which, now,

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Speaker 1: by the way, why would have saw do it? Now?

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Speaker 1: We'll just use old school bombs to kill people. And

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Speaker 1: the fact that we somehow view that is so much less,

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Speaker 1: so much less reprehensible, is not really grounded any moral truth.

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Speaker 1: I have to be honest with you about that. Murdering

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Speaker 1: innocent men, women and children is murdering innocent men, women

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Speaker 1: and children. And the way that people die when they're

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Speaker 1: and I know it's I'm not trying to be uh

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Speaker 1: grizzly here, but the way that people die when when

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Speaker 1: a barrel bomb levels their home and they're buried in

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Speaker 1: the rubble is you know, this is horrific as well.

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Speaker 1: So that's not that's not being stopped by any of this. Um.

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Speaker 1: This is a moment to rethink the strategy, but it

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Speaker 1: is not a moment of the implementation of a new

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Speaker 1: strategy just yet. All Right, I've been talking to this

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Speaker 1: a bunch. Let me take some of your calls here

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Speaker 1: us Stacy in Indiana, you're on the buck Sexton Show.

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Speaker 1: Welcome Phil, Hi Buck, how you doing, Si'll tie? I'm good, sir,

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Speaker 1: Thank you. I got our section movie quote for you. Okay,

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Speaker 1: the good guy runs up to the bad guy, but

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Speaker 1: he can't shoot his gun. Bad guy turns to him

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Speaker 1: and says, what no kiss kiss, no bang bang? I

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Speaker 1: don't know what is that? That is? So vestal demolition man. Uh,

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Speaker 1: first demolition man quote. I have seen demolition Man many times,

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Speaker 1: but you got me on the quote there. I was

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Speaker 1: not not up on that one. But it sounds like

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Speaker 1: you're in the middle of a windmill or something there.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna let you go, Stacy. But thank you

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Speaker 1: very much for calling in. Uh. Steve in Texas, Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the Freedom help my friend? What's up? Hey? Um?

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Speaker 1: I uh, by the way, husband of Dctor Lee from Texas, UM,

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Speaker 1: Mr Mr Dr Lee is calling. All right, very good

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Speaker 1: to talk to you, sir. Indeed you'll die. UM. So

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Speaker 1: I agree with your assessment that the bombing of the

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Speaker 1: air field and in Syria, uh not a lot of

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Speaker 1: military and significant um, but at the very elite. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it did a couple of things. Uh. It showed it

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Speaker 1: was a show of spring. Now it shows the world

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Speaker 1: that we've now got a president that has a back phone,

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Speaker 1: and when we say we're gonna do something, you better

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Speaker 1: watch out because we are going to actually do it.

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Speaker 1: I think that's a pretty that's not something to be underestimated.

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Speaker 1: I think that that uh does have some positives there um.

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Speaker 1: One more positive though I would say about it, though,

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Speaker 1: is the fact that you know, the the Hillary and

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Speaker 1: the rest of Democrats have tried so hard, UH to

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Speaker 1: you know, create this connection between Trump and the Russians

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Speaker 1: and you know, being in cahoots with them on all

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Speaker 1: manner of you. Yeah, I mean, this is the first

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Speaker 1: major foreign pipe But I totally agree with you on this, Steve.

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Speaker 1: Was the first major foreign policy decision that Trump has made,

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Speaker 1: and it's punch in the face to Vladimir Putin. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you were seeing the journalists, the journalist community last

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Speaker 1: night on on Twitter, which is I think that's what

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Speaker 1: Twitter is for. It's for people, It's for like pop

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Speaker 1: stars and journalists to just talk to each other. Um,

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Speaker 1: they were all saying, oh, well, he gave Russia the

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Speaker 1: heads up because he saw in Putin's pocket. I'm like, look,

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Speaker 1: giving giving Russia heads up is not showing your impudence.

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Speaker 1: Pocket that's showing you don't actually want to want to

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Speaker 1: trigger a much larger war, which would be very unwise. Exactly,

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Speaker 1: a compliction notice with another superpower is just uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: that's just good business. Um. So well, my question though,

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Speaker 1: is so if they're Russians, Russian troops on the air base, Um,

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Speaker 1: that's the chemical weapons throughout all. I have no reason

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Speaker 1: to doubt the intelligence that you know says that that

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Speaker 1: was the case. But my question is, what, what on earth?

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Speaker 1: What does Russia have the game? Um from being complicit

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Speaker 1: in the or leads in the very least, you know,

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Speaker 1: lying about helping, you know, getting the weapons. I think

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you see, I think they don't and show time,

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Speaker 1: my friend, thank you for calling in, and give Dr

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Speaker 1: Lee my best. Um, they there, they don't care. They've

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Speaker 1: been dropping bombs on civilian areas in Syria without really

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Speaker 1: much of any concern from the Obama administration for for

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Speaker 1: years now. They've been complicit. I mean, the outside regime

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Speaker 1: is just one long, rolling atrocity after another, and no

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Speaker 1: one's really done anything about it. So why all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden would it be different for the Russians. And

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Speaker 1: if you're willing to drop bombs on crowded marketplaces. And

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Speaker 1: I've seen I've watched that. You can watch it yourself,

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Speaker 1: by the way, on Netflix. The documentary about the White

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Speaker 1: Hats are the white helmets rather um who go in

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Speaker 1: and try to save people who are under the rubble

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Speaker 1: from the air campaign. The Russian jets that are laying

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Speaker 1: waste a whole areas of cities, and there's no real

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Speaker 1: anti aircraft weaponry that most of the rebel areas haven

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Speaker 1: as we know. They're not even going after ISIS. They're

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Speaker 1: going after anti ASSAD non Isis factions because that's if

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Speaker 1: you're gonna prop up the ASSAD regime you want to

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Speaker 1: create and they largely managed to do this. You want

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Speaker 1: to create a bifurcation, a binary choice of its ASSAD

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Speaker 1: or the Islamic State lunatic head chopping, you know, not

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Speaker 1: so evil doers. ASSAD is really bad too, But in

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Speaker 1: a choice of Assad versus Isis, the civilized world goes

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Speaker 1: with a sad you know, like the guy wears a

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Speaker 1: suit and we'll sit down for TV interviews. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's that's really what it comes down to at the

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Speaker 1: end of the day, and that's the decision making process.

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Speaker 1: That the Russians were involved in, which is just get

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Speaker 1: rid of the anti Assad factions that aren't Isis, and

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Speaker 1: then all you'll have left. And that's what they were

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Speaker 1: able to do. And it's one of the terrible legacies

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Speaker 1: of Obama's foreign policy in Syria is just that that

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Speaker 1: they allowed that to happen, because there was an early

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Speaker 1: phase in which they could have done more and and

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Speaker 1: built a more robust assisted, a more robust anti Assad

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Speaker 1: resistance that was not Isis. But I also have very

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Speaker 1: clear eyes about this, my friends. They're not exactly all

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Speaker 1: about Jeffersonian democracy either. These these factions we're talking about.

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Speaker 1: If you look at us, a lot of the non

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Speaker 1: Isis factions that we say we could work with, they're

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Speaker 1: just non j hottest, but they're Islamist and you're still

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Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of women walking around if they're

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Speaker 1: in charge in beekeeper suits. I'm just put that out there.

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Speaker 1: It's it is a concern, all right. I've got to

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Speaker 1: run a break here. By the way, I want to

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Speaker 1: talk to us. I would talk to us. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to you. I want us to talk about Also,

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Speaker 1: the Gorsetch thing is we've been talking about that a lot,

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Speaker 1: but we'll hit it for a little bit. But this

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Speaker 1: terror attack in Sweden is noteworthy. We have some guests.

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Speaker 1: I've got a good friend of mine who's a door kicker,

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Speaker 1: to talk about the so oldier's eye view of what's

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Speaker 1: going on here. And then we'll also we also are

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Speaker 1: joined by a friend of mine, his national security reporter

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Speaker 1: down in d C. To give us a little additional

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Speaker 1: what's what today. We'll hit that in the next hour

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Speaker 1: and a third hour we'll maybe we'll get more into

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Speaker 1: the I know it's tough to do action movie quotes

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Speaker 1: when we're talking about a very serious subject, but um, well,

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Speaker 1: we'll transition into that in third hour. I'm hoping you'll

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Speaker 1: you'll bring some of the action movie flavor my way.

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Speaker 1: Eight four or four nine hundred to eight to five.

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Speaker 1: That's eight four or four nine hundred buck and team,

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Speaker 1: we'll be right back. I do think that conspiracy has

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Speaker 1: gotten more mainstream in general in this country. I think

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Speaker 1: a large part of it is driven by the now

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Speaker 1: months long narrative without a shred of evidence that Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump worked with the Russians or his aids worked with

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Speaker 1: the Russians to hack the election. I don't even like

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Speaker 1: the phrase, but I use it um not if not ironically,

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Speaker 1: then I use it with with this Stein hacked the election?

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Speaker 1: What doesn't even mean? But there are people out there

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Speaker 1: that are saying some pretty wacky stuff about this. Will

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Speaker 1: you you have a completely acceptable and understandable point of view,

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Speaker 1: because I think it's I think it's technically speaking correct.

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Speaker 1: So I think correct is always a good defense for

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Speaker 1: what you say. You got Senator ran Paul out there

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Speaker 1: saying that what Trump did is unconstitutional place it doesn't

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Speaker 1: make any sense for us. I think it's unconstitutional. And

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Speaker 1: then the question whether or not it is actually advisable.

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Speaker 1: We should have a big robust debate. In the Iraq War,

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Speaker 1: everyone was gleeful to go after an evil dictator, Saddam Hussein,

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Speaker 1: and yet the end result was that Iran became stronger.

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Speaker 1: And now the same loud cross for war against Hussein

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Speaker 1: are the same loud cross for war against Iran. So

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Speaker 1: if we topple Hussein, no, if we topple Asade, what

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Speaker 1: comes next? Will we like the Islamic rebels that take over?

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Speaker 1: Perhaps they hate us in Israel more than assad does.

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Speaker 1: That's all, That's all very valid. I know some of

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Speaker 1: you listening, I'm sure agree with that point of view.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I don't see the administration moving to

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Speaker 1: top of Asad, at least not with the US forces.

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Speaker 1: The Kurds have secured a sizeable portion of northern Syria

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Speaker 1: Kurdish YPG militia UM, but they and and they've had

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Speaker 1: U S air cover for for this. But we're not

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Speaker 1: about to send in fifty or a hundred thousand troops.

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Speaker 1: It's just I don't see that happening with this administration

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Speaker 1: at all. But then you got to speaking of the

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Speaker 1: conspiracy side of it. That's what I started with here.

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Speaker 1: Tulsi Gabbard, who is what? She a congresswoman from Hawaii.

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Speaker 1: I'm seeing here that she doesn't she she's not sure

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Speaker 1: that she that this has happened, that the chemical weapons

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Speaker 1: were used. What what does she know? She's also the

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Speaker 1: one I think he went to Syria right and had

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Speaker 1: to sit down with Assad, and people gave her a

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Speaker 1: very yeah here we go. Asked if she believes evidence

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Speaker 1: of it, this is from a seed and reporter of

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Speaker 1: Assad's actions is faulty. Uh, she said, I remind you

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Speaker 1: of what happened before we launched the invasion of Iraq.

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Speaker 1: She was asked about evidence that Asad region that the

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Speaker 1: Assan regime wants to chemical attack. Yes, I'm skeptical. This

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Speaker 1: is a this is a congresswoman from Wow, congresswoman from

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Speaker 1: from Hawaii and a veteran. Uh so, then you've also

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Speaker 1: got the Ron Paul side. Oh, I don't have to

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Speaker 1: wait to play at one or six. Well, good, as

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Speaker 1: much as we can. It doesn't make any sense for

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Speaker 1: SAWD in these conditions to all of a sudden use

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Speaker 1: poison gases. It's zero. I I think it's zero chance

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Speaker 1: that he would have done this and you know, uh,

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Speaker 1: deliberately And it's definitely not zero chance, uh Dr Paul. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And it's not the first time. So if it were

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Speaker 1: the very first time, I could agree, there's some skepticism

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Speaker 1: with why I do this now unless he felt like

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Speaker 1: unless the asodogene felt like its back was up against

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Speaker 1: the wall. But have done this many times, uh, And

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Speaker 1: we just haven't had an administration in the past that

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Speaker 1: cared to do anything about it. That's the big change.

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Speaker 1: We have different administration now, so we don't just see

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Speaker 1: this horrific footage and do nothing about it. He spreads freedom,

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Speaker 1: because freedom is not gonna spread itself. Buck sext in

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Speaker 1: his back. Welcome back, everybody. We are joined by our

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Speaker 1: friend Sean Parnell. He's a former US Army airborne ranger.

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Speaker 1: He served with the tenth Mountain Division for six years,

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Speaker 1: retiring as a captain. He reserved received two Bronze Stars

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Speaker 1: and the Purple Heart. He's also New York Times bestselling

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Speaker 1: author of Outlaw, Platoon, Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood

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Speaker 1: of War in Afghanistan. Shawn, Great to have you, my friend.

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Speaker 1: What's going on? Hey, Buck to be here as usual?

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Speaker 1: So Sean, I've look, I'm giving people my uh, former

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Speaker 1: intelligence CIA analyst guy perspective on all this. We've also

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Speaker 1: we've got some national security journalists that will join and

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Speaker 1: uh and of course the folks at home weighing in.

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Speaker 1: But I wanted to get your opinion as somebody who's

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Speaker 1: been out on the front line, who has been a

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Speaker 1: door kicker and and has really been out there in

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Speaker 1: the teeth of these conflicts against radical Islam and jihadis Um,

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Speaker 1: what do you think about a more this more muscular

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Speaker 1: Trump foreign policy that we may be seeing. I mean,

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Speaker 1: are you are are you thinking it's better to keep

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Speaker 1: our enemies on edge or are you concerned that we're

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Speaker 1: going to quickly find ourselves putting guys who were like

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Speaker 1: you out there on the front lines and having to

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Speaker 1: fight in places where we might not necessarily have a

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Speaker 1: critical US interest. Well yeah, Look, I mean, first of all,

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Speaker 1: I applaud Donald Trump for for his response. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think it was swift, decisive, bold um, and I

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Speaker 1: think it needed to happen. I mean, I think it's

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Speaker 1: really important Buck that we don't allow a precedent to

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Speaker 1: be set globally that chemical weapons are okay to use

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Speaker 1: on the battlef I mean, war as hell enough as

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Speaker 1: it is without them. And so when you've got a

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Speaker 1: brutal dictator committing war crimes and gassing little children to death,

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Speaker 1: that that is not a world that I want my

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Speaker 1: kids to grow up in. And And really, when you

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Speaker 1: think about it, just like any other criminal, they need

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Speaker 1: to be brought to justice. People who commit war crimes

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Speaker 1: do as well. And I think the United States has

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Speaker 1: the power right in the compassion to do it. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And because of that, I think we have a moral

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Speaker 1: responsibility to get involved. Now, Like I wouldn't tell you

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Speaker 1: that I think like sending a hundred thousand troops to

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Speaker 1: Syria is the answer. But we need to do something,

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Speaker 1: whether it's a more active role than we've taken in

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Speaker 1: the last eight years, that's for sure. Do you then

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Speaker 1: you support the deployment of special operations social special operations troops,

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Speaker 1: air combat controllers, other special units out there onto the

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Speaker 1: Syrian battlefield to help ground forces, as long as they're

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Speaker 1: primarily not US ground forces. Or you know, if if

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Speaker 1: ten or fifteen thousand US infantry was all that's needed

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Speaker 1: to get rid of the Islamic State and let's just say, uh,

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Speaker 1: to help topple Asade as well, if we're going to

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Speaker 1: go down that path, do you think that that's a

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Speaker 1: mission set that we should be taking on. Well, I

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Speaker 1: mean so if I don't know, you know, honestly, Box,

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Speaker 1: I'm not sold on the idea of getting on the

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Speaker 1: on the ground and helping the free sneering army or

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Speaker 1: the rebels, because truth be told, I don't really know

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Speaker 1: who a good guy is and a bad guy is

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Speaker 1: on the ground right now. So for me, you know,

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Speaker 1: I would rather see and and by the way, I'm

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Speaker 1: of course, you know, American Special operations soldiers if they're

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Speaker 1: on the ground, you know, conducting missions that they're specifically

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Speaker 1: trained for. I mean, they can handle themselves in any

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Speaker 1: country on the face of the earth. But for me,

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Speaker 1: I think at this point, because Syria is just I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know this, man, it is such a quagmire to me,

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Speaker 1: I think the kinnectic has I think that the solution

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Speaker 1: has to be far, far less kinnetic, you know, like

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Speaker 1: I would I would rather see like the Trump administration

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Speaker 1: getting involved in Syria and saying, Okay, we are going

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Speaker 1: to force a mandatory ceasefire and we're going to evac

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Speaker 1: all the civilians that we can give people a time

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Speaker 1: frame to get out and then just let Asad in

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Speaker 1: the free Syrian rebels and isis just beat the hell

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Speaker 1: out of each other until they're done. And so as

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Speaker 1: far as I'm contured, eye and I hope, I hope

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Speaker 1: that in that process Asad has taken out and somebody

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Speaker 1: else does it for us, and when and when that's

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Speaker 1: all done, and when they've had their fill of blood

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Speaker 1: and death and chaos, the U N would come in

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Speaker 1: to help them pick up the pieces. And the facade

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Speaker 1: hasn't already gone already we figure out a diplomatic solution

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Speaker 1: to get in the heck out of there. But it's

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Speaker 1: very serious. It's just balanced so perilously on a nice

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Speaker 1: edge that I just wouldn't throw American special operators in.

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Speaker 1: There's got a clear cut mission in end state. We've

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Speaker 1: been down that road before it and hasn't worked out

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Speaker 1: well for us. Yeah, what were the lessons that you

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Speaker 1: wish you could have shared having been in having been

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Speaker 1: out there in combat in Afghanistan? And to those who

726
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Speaker 1: are listening, Shawn's book, Outlaw Platoon is an excellent read

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Speaker 1: and one that I can highly commend to all of you. Um,

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Speaker 1: but if you would had the opportunity to speak not

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Speaker 1: just up the chain of command to the Pentagon, but

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Speaker 1: I mean if you could have sat down with with

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Speaker 1: civilian leadership, with the President at the White House and said, look,

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Speaker 1: this is what you need to know about Afghanistan that

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Speaker 1: you probably don't know at your level. I mean, what

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Speaker 1: would that have been and how would you apply that

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Speaker 1: to the Trump administration now dealing with Afghanistan, still Iraq

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Speaker 1: more and more looking like Syria and some capacity and

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Speaker 1: who knows where else. Well, I mean, first of all,

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Speaker 1: if if I had an opportunity to do that. The

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Speaker 1: first thing that I would say is trust the people

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Speaker 1: on the ground to make the best decisions possible in

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Speaker 1: the situation that they're in. I mean, we are trained

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Speaker 1: to do that, and in the United States has the

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Speaker 1: best military in the world. Right now, We've got We've

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Speaker 1: got Secretary of Defense Maddest, who is one of the

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Speaker 1: most well known and respected military leaders in the world.

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Speaker 1: And I think I would even wait to stay in

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Speaker 1: the history of the U. S. Military, and we should

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Speaker 1: be leaning on him very heavily to come up with

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Speaker 1: strategies and and specifically an exit strategy and what the

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Speaker 1: mission in Syria looks like. Just listen to the military

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Speaker 1: leaders that that have been leading our our army and

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Speaker 1: the Marine Corps and the Air Force for the last

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Speaker 1: fifteen years, but during the longest period of war in

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Speaker 1: our nation's history. Guys that are in political positions, Let

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Speaker 1: the war fighters be war fighters. Let the strategic level

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Speaker 1: decision makers like the generals, make decisions, and more than

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Speaker 1: anything else, back them regardless of how things, of how

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Speaker 1: of of what happens. You know, I'm so sick and

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Speaker 1: tired of military strategy shifting with the political winds just

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Speaker 1: because of president changes are a military strategy in a

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Speaker 1: certain countries should be about what's best on the ground

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Speaker 1: and so and so. If I if I could talk

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Speaker 1: to to the Trump administration, and it seems like to

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Speaker 1: to to I'm happy about it. And it seems like

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Speaker 1: doing that with with matters, seems like he's trusting his

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Speaker 1: military commanders UH to make the right call. I think

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Speaker 1: the Tomahawk strike on on two Syrian air bases was

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Speaker 1: a good call, UM, and it was tempered, we didn't

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Speaker 1: throw any ground forces and and all at all. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'd say it was successful. But ultimately I hope Trump

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Speaker 1: just listened to him. Sean, what's your next book? By

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Speaker 1: the way, I know you're you're working on. Can you

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Speaker 1: tell us or is it too early? No, I can

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Speaker 1: tell you. So I am making the jump from non

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Speaker 1: fixing UH to fixture and fiction and and my next

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Speaker 1: book is is a military spy thriller. So what I

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Speaker 1: was trying to go for was like House of Cards

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Speaker 1: and meets Jason Bourne. So they'll be a significant political

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Speaker 1: element UH in the book, as well as well as

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Speaker 1: as my hero and my protagonist boots on the ground

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Speaker 1: in Foreign countries. Uh, you know, kicking button, taking names.

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Speaker 1: So I'm excited for it to come out a year

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Speaker 1: from now. Um, it's kind of a difficult jump for

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Speaker 1: a guy like me who's really never written fiction before

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Speaker 1: to do it. But it's been a it's been a

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Speaker 1: heck of a process and hopefully I can I can

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Speaker 1: keep these books turning out and get a little fixtion

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Speaker 1: thriller series on my own going. Sean Parnell, scholar, veteran patriot,

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Speaker 1: guy you want at your side and a bar fight.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us, sir. Everybody check

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Speaker 1: out Outlaw Platoon Sean. Thank you for your service, my friend,

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Speaker 1: and come back and hang out this again, the Freedom

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Speaker 1: Hop when you get a chance. All right, Yes, thanks

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Speaker 1: so much. Fun, Hi brother, talk to you soon. Shield

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Speaker 1: time man. All right, we're gonna hit a break and

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Speaker 1: we'll be right back. Mike and Alabama on w b UV.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for calling The Freedom Help my friend. What's up? Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm just grateful to get through it is. I've really

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Speaker 1: been enjoying your show since you took over. Uh, and

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Speaker 1: I've just wanted to call in and asked, um, what

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Speaker 1: the current in your opinion? What the current relationship between

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Speaker 1: Syria and Lebanon is because I know that they've been

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Speaker 1: kind of kind of close, closely related in the past,

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Speaker 1: and how that might affect things. Well, I mentioned it

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Speaker 1: first of all, thank you for your kind words about

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Speaker 1: the show, and I mentioned before I think actually yesterday

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Speaker 1: or no, maybe it was a yeah yesterday. Pity the

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Speaker 1: Nation by Fisk is a very good book on the

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Speaker 1: Lebanese Civil War, which deals a lot with the the

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Speaker 1: enormous role that the Assad regime because keep in mind,

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Speaker 1: now it's Bosher. Before it was his father, Huffez Assad

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Speaker 1: who was in charge, and and they had had largely

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Speaker 1: and that has become less so the case. But they still, uh,

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Speaker 1: they still are being charged with you know that the government,

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Speaker 1: the Assad government was involved with according to UN investigators,

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Speaker 1: if I recall the assassination of a senior politician Lebanon

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Speaker 1: some years ago. So the Assad regime right now has

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Speaker 1: its hands full with other things. Lebanon has also been

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Speaker 1: a corridor, but but it's still there's still a very

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Speaker 1: important relationship, not necessarily good relationship, but an important relation

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Speaker 1: between two countries also, uh, Lebanese has Belah has at

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Speaker 1: key moments come to the aid of the Syrian regime.

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Speaker 1: And uh, I remember when when I was actually in

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Speaker 1: Jordan at the at the Autry camp, I spoke to

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Speaker 1: some uh, some non government folks about what was going

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Speaker 1: a time when there had been Lebanese Hezbollah Shia fighters

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Speaker 1: who had crossed over and just just annihilated an entire

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Speaker 1: village that was anti Assad but not isis Um. And

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Speaker 1: so that's they they've been playing. There's been a role

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Speaker 1: play there or playing a role there. Uh So right now,

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Speaker 1: I mean, we don't hear much about it. Um Lebanon

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Speaker 1: has called Lebanon Lebanese Hezbollah has called these the US

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Speaker 1: strike in Syria idiotic. So there that that gives you

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Speaker 1: some sense of where they stand. But that's not surprising

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Speaker 1: from from Hezbollah. I mean Hesbalah as a client organization

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Speaker 1: of President a sad As it is also of the

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Speaker 1: Iranian regime. So that the tentacles of of the of

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Speaker 1: the monster in the Middle East, they touch on Hesbillah, Assad,

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Speaker 1: the Iranian mullahs Um. There's a lot of there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of connectivity between those groups. Okay, I just I

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Speaker 1: don't know how to keep all the players straight. There's

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Speaker 1: there's a there's a lot of them. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: of them, and they also shift their allegiances pretty pretty

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Speaker 1: quickly and frequently. But yeah, that's uh. I mean right

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Speaker 1: now Lebanon is has has plenty of problems, um, but

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Speaker 1: it's not quite in the place where it was before,

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Speaker 1: where where the Syrian government had almost colonized Lebanon and

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Speaker 1: the Syrian government was was calling the shots in Lebanon.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for calling in, Mike on w V. I appreciate it. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to for a couple of minutes here, I

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Speaker 1: want to talk about Gorseich YEA. Let'slet's take a little moment.

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Speaker 1: Everybody stretch out, sort of chill, relax, come out to

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Speaker 1: the coast, have a few laughs. Um, just try to

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Speaker 1: mellow out a little bit here. We'll talk about a victory. Victory.

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Speaker 1: We can all well. Democrats are not excited about it,

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Speaker 1: certainly Chuck Schumer, he's very unhappy about it. But the

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Speaker 1: rest of us, I think, are pretty darnhappy about it.

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Speaker 1: Gorsitch is now the next Supreme Court Justice of the

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Speaker 1: United States. And that is a very good thing, great

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Speaker 1: pick by Trump. This is in the in the plus

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Speaker 1: column for the Trump over Hillary decision. And I had

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Speaker 1: friends who were conservatives, including those who make a living

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Speaker 1: pushing conservative ideas, who were telling me, and some of

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Speaker 1: them were even openly saying this, but we're telling me

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Speaker 1: that they would take Hillary over Trump. And I was like,

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Speaker 1: that's just crazy. You can't do that and be a conservative.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's I just think that's a really bad idea.

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Speaker 1: And the judicial nomination process and having a conservative on

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Speaker 1: the Court was one of the very compelling no matter

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Speaker 1: what she thought about Trump on the campaign trail and

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Speaker 1: everything else, no matter what you thought about any of that,

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Speaker 1: getting a Supreme Court nominee in like Gorsch was a

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Speaker 1: very compelling reason to just eat your peas, pull the

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Speaker 1: lever for Trump, no matter where you no matter what

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Speaker 1: you thought about the administration or what you thought it

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Speaker 1: would be like in terms of its conservative bonafidez, you

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Speaker 1: gotta eat your piece for the Supreme Court here. And uh,

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Speaker 1: of course it was confirmed today everybody, the nomination of

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Speaker 1: Neil M. Gorcis of Colorado to be an Associate Justice

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Speaker 1: of the Supreme Court of the United States is confirmed. Yay,

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Speaker 1: I'll get excited about that. The nuclear option was exercised

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Speaker 1: to do this. I don't see this as a big deal.

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Speaker 1: If we didn't do it, the Democrats were gonna do it.

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00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 1: We were already on this pathway everyone. It just so

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Speaker 1: happened that any of you doubt for a second that

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Speaker 1: if you had a Democrat president and Democrat control of

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Speaker 1: the Senate, they wouldn't have done this. Of course, of

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Speaker 1: course they would have. Of course they would have. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot, even a serious conversation, and they've played these

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Speaker 1: games in the past. But as I say to you,

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Speaker 1: hypocrisy doesn't bother Democrats because the relentless and insatiable lost

894
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Speaker 1: for power that the Democratic Party is really based on

895
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Speaker 1: means that the rules don't matter. Winning is all that matters.

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Speaker 1: Winning power, that's what matters to them. So hypocrisy is

897
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Speaker 1: largely irrelevant. They doesn't bother and doesn't slow them down.

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Speaker 1: And that's why you have Schilmer clip one eleven. Please,

899
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Speaker 1: when history weighs what happened, the responsibility for changing the

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Speaker 1: rules will fall on the Republicans and Leader McConnell's shoulders.

901
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:55,439
Speaker 1: They have had other choices, they have chosen this one.

902
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Speaker 1: No one forced them to act. They acted with free will.

903
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Speaker 1: We offered them alternatives, they refused. When the dust settles,

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Speaker 1: make no mistake about it, it will have been the

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Speaker 1: Republicans who changed the rules on the Supreme Court against

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Speaker 1: the clear words. If the Senate and the Presidency are

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Speaker 1: in the hands of the same party, there's no incentive

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Speaker 1: to even speak to the Senate minority. That's a recipe

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Speaker 1: for more conflict and bad blood between the parties. Not less,

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Speaker 1: you know, this shouldn't be a problem at all because

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Speaker 1: a Supreme Court, the advising can sent function of the

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00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:39,360
Speaker 1: Senate when it comes as Supreme Court nominee should just

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Speaker 1: be as the person qualified. But we all know that's

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Speaker 1: not what it's about. We all know that's not what

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Speaker 1: the discussion turns into from day one. It is about

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Speaker 1: how will this person rule ideologically? Will they do things

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Speaker 1: that make progressives happy or not? That's it. It's not

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Speaker 1: about qualifications. Not no serious person could say Gorsas isn't qualified.

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Speaker 1: By the way, keep in mind that that for a

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Speaker 1: while the Democrat line here was, oh well, Trump is

921
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Speaker 1: an illegitimate president. So until the Russia investigations over. We

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Speaker 1: can't mean they didn't even know what their line was then,

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Speaker 1: they didn't even know what the opposition was supposed to

924
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Speaker 1: be because it was so flimsy and scattered, it was

925
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Speaker 1: so deeply disingenuous. Chuck chill me the public kings. Looking back,

926
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Speaker 1: they'll say it's all nonsense. It really is. But truck

927
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Speaker 1: suring not nothing but nothing really slows this guy down.

928
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Speaker 1: He's he he is. He is relentlessly dishonest and gross

929
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Speaker 1: struck here. You gotta give him credit for that. He

930
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Speaker 1: never there is nothing. What is the line by uh

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Speaker 1: by Flaubert He would willingly pay for the pleasure of selling,

932
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Speaker 1: of selling his office. I mean, you know, it's it's

933
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Speaker 1: just the worst, this guy. And whenever people want a

934
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Speaker 1: lectures all Trump, what am I gonna tell might children

935
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Speaker 1: about Trump? Oh No, because he uses the course Like

936
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Speaker 1: when I'm like Chuck Schumer's like the most powerful democrat

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Speaker 1: in the country. Right now, we're talking about ethics and

938
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Speaker 1: morality and being honest and decent, and uh, Chuck Schumers

939
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Speaker 1: swear we shouldn't ute him on the show. I will

940
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Speaker 1: never go on the Buck Sexton show ever ever. Bucks

941
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Speaker 1: that he changes the rules. He's the worst. Chuck Schumer

942
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Speaker 1: will never never come on here. Uh, Paul and Florida,

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Speaker 1: you're on the I heart app Now you're in the Freedom.

944
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Speaker 1: What what's up? She'll tie? How you doing, She'll tie? Paul.

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Speaker 1: I'm good, Thank you for the call. Any great. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I was just curious. I know that the King of

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Speaker 1: Jordan as well as the King of each I recently

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Speaker 1: met with President Trump. Um, and I was just curious,

949
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Speaker 1: you spent some time in Jordan. Why is Jordan's so

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Speaker 1: peaceful compared to the rest of that area? And is

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Speaker 1: there any way that Jordan could play a role in Syria?

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Speaker 1: And maybe Um, I don't know, kind of uh government,

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Speaker 1: government by proxy or I don't know, some way to

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Speaker 1: get Syria more stable. Yeah, I think you said king

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Speaker 1: of Egyba. You meant you meant President CC right, Just

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Speaker 1: so yeah, just just make sure that's right. We're not

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Speaker 1: we're not we're not bringing back like uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: the the dynasties of of Egypt here. Um. No, the yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 1: the line of the Pharaoh's No. The Jordan is interesting. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's actually funny because people refer to as the Hashamite

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Speaker 1: kingdom of boredom, no fense. Jordan's not the most exciting

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Speaker 1: place in the world. I have some very good friends

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Speaker 1: who are jordan Ian. Um. But and that's actually true,

964
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Speaker 1: that's not just me throwing that's not a throw a line.

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Speaker 1: Actually do have some very close friends with Jordini. Uh,

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Speaker 1: but some of my best friends were ORGINI it is

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Speaker 1: why why is this is a I'm trying to think

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Speaker 1: of a way to say this in sixty seconds, which

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Speaker 1: is what we have to the next break that I'll

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Speaker 1: be worthwhile. Let me see this, I'm going, I'm I'm

971
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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to stall your hold on So it

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Speaker 1: has been a refugee camp for Palestinians, a refugee camp

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Speaker 1: for iraqis a refugee camp now for Syrians. It is

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Speaker 1: the pressure valve of the region that helped prevent things

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Speaker 1: from being much worse than they are. But it's a

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Speaker 1: relatively small country, small population, and uh it is has

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Speaker 1: very good relations with the West, very good relations with America,

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Speaker 1: with Israel. Um. So, I mean, if if we're going

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Speaker 1: to get into why Jordan's is well for well, I

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Speaker 1: could that could be modeled in other other countries in

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Speaker 1: the area. Yeah. No, it's a very interesting question. I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to I'm trying to give it some some new

983
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Speaker 1: thought here. One part of it is that they've realized

984
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Speaker 1: that having allies in the West and working with the

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Speaker 1: Israelis when they can instead of against them is just smart, uh,

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Speaker 1: And I think a lot of it also comes from leadership.

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Speaker 1: Abdullah is a savvy guy and is uh doing a

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Speaker 1: good job as a as a monarch. We gotta hit

989
00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:56,880
Speaker 1: a break. We'll be right back. He's an ex CIA

990
00:57:57,040 --> 00:58:01,000
Speaker 1: officer who knows how to outsmart the enemies of liberty.

991
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Speaker 1: But I do have very particular set of skills. Buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton with America Now Team. Your mission, should you choose

993
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:15,240
Speaker 1: to accept it, called the Freedom Hunt Operations Center nine

994
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:22,120
Speaker 1: hundred Buck make contact unless you're under hostile surveillance to

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Speaker 1: eight to five. All right, everybody, welcome back. Very pleased

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Speaker 1: to be joined by our friend Adam Crado. He is

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Speaker 1: a senior writer for the Washington Free Beacon. He covers

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Speaker 1: national security over there. Adam, great to have you. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for having me. I appreciate it. All right, So we

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Speaker 1: know about the air strikes. I've been talking about it

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Speaker 1: on the show. Um, what can you tell us in

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Speaker 1: terms of some of the more late breaking additions to

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Speaker 1: this story, what else are you following in the aftermath

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Speaker 1: of these Tomahawk missiles getting sent over by President Trump

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Speaker 1: to uh teach a lesson to the Assad regime. Sure? Well,

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Speaker 1: of course is the natural reaction from the Iranians and

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Speaker 1: the Russians both condemning it. We have Russia calling it

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Speaker 1: a dangerous move and the Iranians mimicking that language. But look,

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Speaker 1: these guys have been on the ground for some time

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Speaker 1: trying to bolster aside. We see the Iranians moving a

1011
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:20,640
Speaker 1: little bit more into that conspiracy theory territory that they

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Speaker 1: love so much, saying that, you know, the US works

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00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:27,520
Speaker 1: with terrorists to engineer these chemical attacks and then kind

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Speaker 1: of uses it as pretext to launch a strike. That's,

1015
00:59:31,120 --> 00:59:34,840
Speaker 1: of course nonsense. But over here, what I'm really looking

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Speaker 1: for in the US is one response from Congress. Are

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Speaker 1: we going to get in authorization for use of force

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Speaker 1: UM for formal war on ISIS and Syria militants? And

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Speaker 1: uh too, are we going to see any more from

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Speaker 1: the Trump administration? Yeah, around sixty Tamahawks are great destroying

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Speaker 1: a base, but this this is hardly the end all

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Speaker 1: for this type of strike. We're cleaning up a mess

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Speaker 1: that the Obaman administration like brew for way too long. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is just the beginning. If it's going to have

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Speaker 1: any real impact, it would have to be the beginning

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Speaker 1: of a new approach, both with carrots and sticks. Uh.

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Speaker 1: In this case, the sticks are real though. In this case, UH,

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Speaker 1: the credible threat of force would be much more likely

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Speaker 1: to motivate certain actions, not just on the side of

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Speaker 1: the Assad regime perhaps, but also our allies I think

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01:00:25,360 --> 01:00:29,960
Speaker 1: would take more seriously that there is a realistic possibility

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Speaker 1: that we would do more than just UH talk and

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Speaker 1: talk over this issue. But on the Iranian side US,

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Speaker 1: I know you follow Ran very closely. That to me

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Speaker 1: is where there's the greatest likelihood, or perhaps there should

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Speaker 1: be the greatest degree of concern for a reprisal attack.

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Speaker 1: The Iranians have a lot of cards to play, a

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Speaker 1: lot of leverage across the Middle East, but specifically in Iraq,

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Speaker 1: and given the sensitivity of the counter ISIS operation in

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Speaker 1: and around Mosele right now, I were the Iranians could

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Speaker 1: get us back and do so with a degree of

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Speaker 1: plausible deniability. Yeah, that that's actually a very real concern,

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Speaker 1: and I share it with you. Um Essentially, we've been

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Speaker 1: in quite a mess in Iraq for some time, and

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Speaker 1: it hasn't really been reported out well enough from people.

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Speaker 1: But essentially we're at best working with, at least working around,

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Speaker 1: Iranian forces that work with the same Iraqi forces that

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Speaker 1: we are partners with in Iraq, and it's very easy

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Speaker 1: for these Iranian agents if they wanted to, to potentially

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Speaker 1: carry off either a strike that impacts the US directly

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Speaker 1: or the Iraqi forces that we work with over there.

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Speaker 1: So there's certainly room for meddling. There's also room for

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Speaker 1: meddling in Syria depending on what we do, whether it's

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Speaker 1: more military advisors, whether um it's formal troops. In the future.

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Speaker 1: With this, the Iranians are on the ground, they work

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Speaker 1: with Russia close slee and there's uh really I think

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Speaker 1: an opportunity for a bit of a proxy war. But

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Speaker 1: saying all of that, UM, I do wonder just how

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Speaker 1: much the Iranians will do now that we see Trump

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Speaker 1: is willing to take action. That redlines are not just

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Speaker 1: words you say from behind a podium in Washington, d C. Um,

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Speaker 1: I would not be surprised if the Iranians eternally are

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Speaker 1: expressing a lot of fear. Um, but we could honestly

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Speaker 1: do a lot of damage to them. So I would

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Speaker 1: advise them if if I was in that government, be

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Speaker 1: very careful how you tread with this administration. This is

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Speaker 1: a corollary but not directly related obviously to the to

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Speaker 1: the strikes against Assad's airfield and Syria. But speaking of Iran,

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Speaker 1: do you have a piece here Airplane sales to Iran

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Speaker 1: put under critical review by Trump administration. Just fill us

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Speaker 1: in on what's going on there. Sure, Well, about a

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Speaker 1: month and a half ago, Boeing and Iran announced that

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Speaker 1: they were moving forward with these plane cells. This is

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Speaker 1: um about six years so planes being sold by Boeing

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Speaker 1: to the Iranians. Now, that's already a problem because the

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Speaker 1: Iranians routinely used civilian aircraft two ferry weapons to transport

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Speaker 1: forces across the region. Um, that's just something they've been

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Speaker 1: doing for a very long time undercover of Iran Air

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Speaker 1: their national air carrier and other ones there. So for

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Speaker 1: that reason, the Bowing deal was problematic. But when I

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Speaker 1: first asked the Trump administration about this, um, they had

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Speaker 1: said to me, Well, we're essentially continuing what the Obama

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Speaker 1: administration did under the Iran Nuclear Deal, and that is

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Speaker 1: promoting these cells, granting licenses that will help move them forward. UM.

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Speaker 1: That was very problematic to a lot of lawmakers. So UH,

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Speaker 1: just a couple of days ago, when bowing in Iran

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Speaker 1: announced their next step this memoranda understanding, UM, I went

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Speaker 1: to the Treasury Department in White House again and actually

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Speaker 1: found out that it's very different story now than it

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Speaker 1: had been a month and a half ago. Just about

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Speaker 1: everything under the purview of the Iran Deal is going

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Speaker 1: through the National Security Council for a review. So that

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Speaker 1: is UH sales to Iran with planes that require licenses,

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Speaker 1: we could potentially not grant Boweing these UM licenses to

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Speaker 1: sell planes. But that also expands to the general Iran deal.

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Speaker 1: All of these confessions and promises made by the Obama

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Speaker 1: administration are now under review and could be subject to

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Speaker 1: UH A no go essentially from the Trump administration and

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Speaker 1: Russia of course, looms very large going back to these

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Speaker 1: strikes and the aftermath and possible follow on responses and

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Speaker 1: consequences from all this. UH. The Russians are speaking very

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Speaker 1: loudly about their displeasure with what happened. But of course

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Speaker 1: there were no Russian air defense systems that were used

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Speaker 1: to try to shoot down those Tomahawk missiles. The Russians

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Speaker 1: got a heads up before the operation, and people are

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Speaker 1: saying maybe the Russians even gave a little extra heads

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Speaker 1: up to Assyrians. Um, what do you see happening there? Um? Well, look,

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Speaker 1: I actually think that this is a good step in

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Speaker 1: terms of uh our relations with Russia, even if the

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Speaker 1: Russians don't like it. For too long, we have really

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Speaker 1: let them take the lead in the Middle East and

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Speaker 1: on a range of other issues, and the Russians UH

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01:05:20,840 --> 01:05:24,360
Speaker 1: saw the US power vacuum in that region and decided

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Speaker 1: they could bolster their own cloud. This essentially is a

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Speaker 1: very very big sign that this is no longer the case.

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Speaker 1: The US no longer cares to be absent from the

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Speaker 1: Middle East and in the problems that are affecting our

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Speaker 1: allies over there. And I should send a very loud

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Speaker 1: message to Russia that aggression that affects the US end

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Speaker 1: goal is not going to end well for them. Um.

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Speaker 1: And I wouldn't really expect much pushback from Russia. I

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01:05:49,840 --> 01:05:52,800
Speaker 1: know that they like to flex their military might and

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Speaker 1: talk tough, but when it comes down to it, I

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Speaker 1: don't really see them countering U. S forces, certainly not

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Speaker 1: on the behalf of Assad or the Iranians. Now we

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Speaker 1: know that the Israeli Prime Minister, not in Yahoo, has

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01:06:05,760 --> 01:06:11,080
Speaker 1: spoken out strongly in support of the Trump strikes in Syria. Also,

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Speaker 1: the saudiast have spoken out in support of it. There

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Speaker 1: are others that have come out to say that they

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Speaker 1: believe this was the right action. Do you see this

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Speaker 1: turning into a moment to coalesce this coalition? I mean,

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Speaker 1: to bring people together to do something about Syria, more

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Speaker 1: more than what's been done in the past, which quite

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Speaker 1: honestly has been very little. There's been an ongoing, slow,

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Speaker 1: somewhat successful campaign against the Islamic State, but there's really

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Speaker 1: been no strategy, no multinational strategy in place to try

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Speaker 1: and bring the Syrian civil war to a close. Do

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Speaker 1: you think that there's now an opportunity with our allies

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Speaker 1: to move at least more in that direction, Although I

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01:06:49,760 --> 01:06:53,600
Speaker 1: know it's very it would be very preliminary. Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: I do think you're right as an early step, this

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01:06:56,320 --> 01:06:59,720
Speaker 1: is the right direction. Again under the Obama administration, it

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01:06:59,840 --> 01:07:03,240
Speaker 1: was disarray and not much movement. Uh. We sent a

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Speaker 1: message to our allies in the region that sawd easy

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01:07:05,920 --> 01:07:09,439
Speaker 1: Israelies and others that we're not really willing to stick

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01:07:09,520 --> 01:07:13,400
Speaker 1: up for their defenses. This problem is not just impacting Syria,

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01:07:13,560 --> 01:07:17,200
Speaker 1: impacts the region. The Israelies are dealing with Ice as terrorists.

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Speaker 1: The Saudis of course have an issue with this as well,

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01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:24,760
Speaker 1: growing Iranian strength, growing Russia Iran access in the region.

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01:07:24,920 --> 01:07:29,960
Speaker 1: So Trump kind of actually taking UM a concrete step

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Speaker 1: in terms of this redline and not letting a sad

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Speaker 1: drop chemical weapons on his own people, I think is

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01:07:35,920 --> 01:07:39,240
Speaker 1: really a moment where US allies are saying to themselves, well,

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01:07:39,320 --> 01:07:41,200
Speaker 1: maybe we've got our friend back in the region and

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Speaker 1: that's a good thing. One more for you. Out of

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Speaker 1: US officials can't confirm Obama era counter terror efforts ever succeeded.

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Speaker 1: What are we talking about here? There's on the Freebacon

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Speaker 1: dot com. Yeah, so essentially UM government investigators with the

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Speaker 1: Government Accountability Office for years have been tracking this program

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Speaker 1: known as counter violent Extremism or c v e UH

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Speaker 1: for short, and this program have been criticized from the

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01:08:05,920 --> 01:08:09,840
Speaker 1: start because the Obama administration, rather than seeking to address

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Speaker 1: actual problems with Islamic radicalism and terrorism, decided that they

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Speaker 1: were going to be politically correct and abstain from using

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Speaker 1: any of these terms, and they based their counter terror

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Speaker 1: operations on this on the rhetoric rather than the actual problem. UH.

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Speaker 1: Since that time, what they found through DHS and the

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Speaker 1: other agencies that take part in this, there's no way

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Speaker 1: to measure any sort of success of these programs. There's

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Speaker 1: no evidence that this theory that if we don't mention

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01:08:38,120 --> 01:08:42,799
Speaker 1: radical terrorism or Islamic terrorism, that it will empower local

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Speaker 1: Muslim communities and others to kind of galvanize around the

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Speaker 1: US and emphasized the radicalization. There's just no proof this

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Speaker 1: has worked. And I would say, on the other hand,

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Speaker 1: we've seen a lot of proof of u s individuals

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Speaker 1: or or immigrants that have been permitted entrance into view

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Speaker 1: conspiring to work with ISIS. The Trump administration has announced many,

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01:09:05,120 --> 01:09:07,920
Speaker 1: many indictments and convictions on this front, and we sold

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01:09:08,000 --> 01:09:10,760
Speaker 1: them to a lesser extent under the Obama administration because

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Speaker 1: there was an effort to hide them. So I think

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, what we're looking at

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01:09:15,080 --> 01:09:18,880
Speaker 1: is more evidence in proof for the Trump administration to say, look,

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01:09:18,920 --> 01:09:21,400
Speaker 1: that approach did not work, and it hasn't worked for

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Speaker 1: a long time, and we need to fundamentally re shift

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Speaker 1: the way we look at counter terror, particularly in the US.

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Speaker 1: Adam Crados senior writer for the Washington Free Beacon. He

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Speaker 1: has his latest up on Freebeacon dot com. Adam, have

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Speaker 1: a great weekend. Thanks for hanging out with us. Appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Oh is my pleasure, buddy. Alright, team eight four four

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Speaker 1: to eight to five. We are on Friday, which means

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01:09:46,080 --> 01:09:49,479
Speaker 1: action movie quote Friday applies. We can also talk about

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Speaker 1: serious stuff with foreign policy or Syria, whatever is on

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Speaker 1: your mind. My friends, I am here at your disposal. Alright,

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Speaker 1: back in a few action movie quote today my friends

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Speaker 1: Carl in Indiana wants to try his luck. What you got, Carl,

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Speaker 1: You're a funny guy, Sully. That's why I'm gonna kill

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Speaker 1: you last. That's commando, my friend. That's right, and that's

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Speaker 1: right in the that's right in the wheelhouse. So of course,

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Speaker 1: um yeah, yeah. Before that, he's like, he's like, you know,

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Speaker 1: have some drinks, give us a little more time with

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01:10:21,240 --> 01:10:23,400
Speaker 1: your daughter. And then he's like, you're funny. Guys, Sally,

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Speaker 1: so I'm gonna kill you last. Yeah, I know, it's

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01:10:26,360 --> 01:10:29,240
Speaker 1: Camando is a very watchable, very watchaul film. Anything else

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Speaker 1: in your mind, Carl Or we just actually movie quoted out.

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Speaker 1: That's it. Oh Buck, I just gotta say, I love

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01:10:34,960 --> 01:10:37,559
Speaker 1: your show and I love your analysis. I feel you're honest.

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01:10:37,560 --> 01:10:40,240
Speaker 1: I thought you treat the colors with great respect, which

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01:10:40,240 --> 01:10:42,160
Speaker 1: I listened to a lot of radio, and I noticed

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01:10:42,360 --> 01:10:44,640
Speaker 1: a lot of people, you know, they get annoyed and

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01:10:44,920 --> 01:10:48,920
Speaker 1: they cut people off, and but you're patient, you're smart,

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01:10:49,160 --> 01:10:51,960
Speaker 1: and uh, I think you're the future of conservative radio.

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Speaker 1: So thank you very much, Carl. I appreciate that. It's

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Speaker 1: very conny you shield time, my friend. Um. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: I don't understand the the impulse, uh that some have.

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01:11:02,640 --> 01:11:04,560
Speaker 1: And there are a lot of talk radio shows in

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01:11:04,600 --> 01:11:06,840
Speaker 1: the countries, you know, but to be mean to the

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01:11:06,840 --> 01:11:08,400
Speaker 1: people who I mean, it's one thing if someone wants

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01:11:08,439 --> 01:11:11,519
Speaker 1: to challenge you and or or is being rude, but

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01:11:11,600 --> 01:11:14,040
Speaker 1: there are something who are just kind of mean, and

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01:11:14,240 --> 01:11:16,760
Speaker 1: I I don't I don't get that. Maybe maybe there

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01:11:16,800 --> 01:11:19,240
Speaker 1: are some audiences that think that there's a certain sport

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01:11:19,320 --> 01:11:21,400
Speaker 1: to just being nasty to people, and they enjoy that,

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01:11:21,479 --> 01:11:23,080
Speaker 1: but not not here. It's not not we do things.

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01:11:23,080 --> 01:11:26,840
Speaker 1: Anyone who calls in I I respect their willingness to

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01:11:26,880 --> 01:11:28,880
Speaker 1: call and give me their time, and and they will

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Speaker 1: be treated with respect. So oh oh, but speaking of respect,

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Speaker 1: or in this case, the lack thereof Brian Williams, who

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01:11:38,280 --> 01:11:42,040
Speaker 1: is really doesn't exist. The whole notion that you're gonna

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01:11:42,040 --> 01:11:45,719
Speaker 1: have somebody who just has his hair a certain way

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01:11:46,360 --> 01:11:49,679
Speaker 1: and his jaw a certain way, and that he would

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Speaker 1: be America's newsman, and you'd pay him tens of millions

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Speaker 1: of dollars to sound just like this, to look into

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01:11:58,040 --> 01:12:04,720
Speaker 1: a camera and read somebody out sus words. Brian Williams.

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Speaker 1: He is back, as you know, despite why about that

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01:12:09,560 --> 01:12:11,519
Speaker 1: whole what happened to me? When I was in a

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Speaker 1: rock thing? By the way, the Brian Williams memes, They're like,

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Speaker 1: you know I was there. I mean I saw Brian

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Speaker 1: Williams memes of you know, he the landing of the Mayflower. Uh,

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Speaker 1: Brian Williams at the Crucifixion. I mean, people were just

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Speaker 1: making Brian Williams memes left and right. Um, so I'm

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01:12:31,080 --> 01:12:32,320
Speaker 1: not I'm sure the Mayflower, you know what I mean,

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01:12:32,400 --> 01:12:34,599
Speaker 1: I'm generalizing. I forget what they were, but they were crazy.

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01:12:34,479 --> 01:12:37,800
Speaker 1: They were like really going after Brian Williams memes. I

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01:12:38,120 --> 01:12:40,000
Speaker 1: in a sense, I'm kind of impressed that he's willing

1245
01:12:40,040 --> 01:12:42,720
Speaker 1: to put himself back in the but back in the

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01:12:43,040 --> 01:12:46,719
Speaker 1: spotlight and deal with what can be a very nasty business.

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01:12:46,720 --> 01:12:50,000
Speaker 1: I was always amazed and how often I would go

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01:12:50,040 --> 01:12:52,920
Speaker 1: on CNN and I would be talking about something that

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01:12:52,960 --> 01:12:56,200
Speaker 1: wasn't even controversial in my earlier days. There I would

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01:12:56,240 --> 01:12:59,080
Speaker 1: be discussing some aspect of national security, and I was

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01:12:59,120 --> 01:13:02,200
Speaker 1: always anti terrorist. I wanted the terrorists to lose. And

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Speaker 1: I thought that all Americans would be with me on that,

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01:13:04,680 --> 01:13:06,679
Speaker 1: but no, Actually, there are some segments of the CNN

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01:13:06,720 --> 01:13:08,640
Speaker 1: audience that hate you if you're if you're opposed to

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01:13:08,640 --> 01:13:10,960
Speaker 1: the terrorists, believe it or not. But they wouldn't tell

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01:13:11,000 --> 01:13:12,360
Speaker 1: me that. They would just tell me they well they'd

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01:13:12,360 --> 01:13:13,799
Speaker 1: say that, and they all say, and you know, ps,

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01:13:13,840 --> 01:13:16,680
Speaker 1: you're you're really ugly. I always thought that was such

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Speaker 1: an interesting psychological study. People telling you when you're on TV.

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01:13:21,080 --> 01:13:22,960
Speaker 1: I mean, we try to be presentable on TV, but

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Speaker 1: it's you're not an actor, you're a male model or

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01:13:25,080 --> 01:13:27,000
Speaker 1: female model. If you're a lady who's going on TV.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, people always telling me how ugly I was.

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01:13:29,760 --> 01:13:32,280
Speaker 1: That was an interesting that I knew people would say

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01:13:32,280 --> 01:13:35,080
Speaker 1: that I was that the the opposition and the left

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01:13:35,080 --> 01:13:37,639
Speaker 1: would say that I was dumb. But I was like, wow,

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01:13:37,760 --> 01:13:39,439
Speaker 1: they're really people sitting at homework like I'm just gonna

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01:13:39,479 --> 01:13:42,879
Speaker 1: tell you you're ugly. It was an interesting, interesting experience,

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01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:46,240
Speaker 1: like people are really people are the worst, people really

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Speaker 1: have problems. Um. But away back to Brian Williams, who

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Speaker 1: was not ugly, who was looks like if you built

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Speaker 1: a newsman in your garage, sort of like Weird Science

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Speaker 1: when they built Kelly Lebron, if you built a newsman,

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Speaker 1: remember the movie Weird Science in the eighties. Good movie.

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Speaker 1: I enjoyed it. It would be Brian Williams. But he

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Speaker 1: was on the deck of one of the warships, I believe,

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Speaker 1: and he said the following, we see these beautiful pictures

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Speaker 1: at night from the decks of these two US Navy

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Speaker 1: vessels in the eastern Mediterranean. I am tempted to quote

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Speaker 1: the great Menard Cohen, I'm guided by the beauty of

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Speaker 1: our weapons, um, And they are beautiful pictures. I just

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Speaker 1: want to snuggle up to one of those Tomahawk missiles.

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Speaker 1: So beautiful, Tomahawk missile. Get cozy with me for a second,

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Speaker 1: Tomawk missile. Do you know what I did in I rock,

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Speaker 1: I've got a story for you. The beauty of our

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Speaker 1: weapons unsurpassed. It was just just want to give a long,

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Speaker 1: sweet smooch to a Tomahawk missile. I mean, it was

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Speaker 1: really weird. It was weird. I don't talking about I

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Speaker 1: am guided by the beauty of our weapons, and they

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Speaker 1: are beauty to full pictures. I always quoting Leonard Cohen,

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Speaker 1: who some people in the generation above me or big

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Speaker 1: Leonard Cohen fans. I know a lot of a lot

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Speaker 1: of folks are I don't know his stuff really, but

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Speaker 1: uh yeah, Bryan Williams that he was the pre in

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Speaker 1: a lot of ways, the pre eminent nightly newsman in

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Speaker 1: the country for a while. Uh based on I don't know,

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Speaker 1: based on just he looks the part. I mean, it

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Speaker 1: really is. Being a one of these TV journalists is

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Speaker 1: so much of it these days. It's changing a little

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Speaker 1: bit now. Now you actually have to if you're coming

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Speaker 1: up the ranks and you're younger, you either have to

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Speaker 1: be well outrageously attractive, or you have to have some background,

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01:15:41,240 --> 01:15:43,280
Speaker 1: you know, like work for the CIA or work in

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01:15:43,320 --> 01:15:48,599
Speaker 1: the military that that helps. UM. But otherwise it's just

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01:15:48,680 --> 01:15:51,519
Speaker 1: like trying to be an actor. You have to look

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01:15:51,600 --> 01:15:53,120
Speaker 1: the part and sound the part, and then you can

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Speaker 1: get the part. Why Bryan Williams was worth the ten

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Speaker 1: million dollars a year that NBC was paying him before

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01:15:58,640 --> 01:16:01,439
Speaker 1: he had that little problem with the but the beauty

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Speaker 1: of our weapons. I just it was such a go

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Speaker 1: back and listen to that one again. Oh, that's a

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01:16:06,040 --> 01:16:10,880
Speaker 1: good moment for me to say, Bug Sexton with America.

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01:16:10,960 --> 01:16:16,400
Speaker 1: Now the Freedom Hut is fired up as team Buck

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Speaker 1: assembles shouldered as shoulder shields high call in eight four

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Speaker 1: four D Buck. That's eight four four D to eight

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Speaker 1: to five. Because of all of the coverage and discussion

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Speaker 1: of the Tomahawk missile strike in Syria that President Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump ordered, it has really overshadowed any coverage or discussion

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Speaker 1: of the latest terrorist attack in which we can assume

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Speaker 1: that jihadism is the motivation. UM. This is similar in

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Speaker 1: tactics to other attacks that we have seen, this one

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Speaker 1: in Stockholm earlier. Today. Stockholm is a lovely city and

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Speaker 1: the Swedes are a wonderful people and it's deeply distressing

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Speaker 1: to see this happened to them. It's a stressing you

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Speaker 1: don't happen anywhere, But in the case of Sweden, there

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Speaker 1: is a growing recognition of reality that I think is

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Speaker 1: seeping into the minds of the general public. Now we've

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Speaker 1: had some press coverage recently, some discussions about uh, the

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Speaker 1: immigrant the immigrant problems that have come to the fore

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Speaker 1: in Sweden, the epidemic of sexual assaults that have been

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Speaker 1: happening in Sweden at the hands of many of these

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Speaker 1: many immigrants in case, in many cases refugees who are

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Speaker 1: brought into the country. And when you have a country

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Speaker 1: of only ten million people with crime rates previously, you know,

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Speaker 1: a couple of decades ago, at least and maybe even

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Speaker 1: ten years ago, Sweden had ten million people and had

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Speaker 1: the crime rate of like sent or Vermont, and that

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Speaker 1: is beginning to slip away. And they have also been

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Speaker 1: very indoctrinated. And it's and it's true indoctrination. It's in

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Speaker 1: the schools, and it's across all media there and it's

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Speaker 1: even even reflected in the legal system that multiculturalism and

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Speaker 1: diversity worship are required required of Swedish people. If you

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Speaker 1: want to be in good standing in Swedish society, you

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Speaker 1: have to be willing to you have to buy into that.

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Speaker 1: But before I get further down that road, let me

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Speaker 1: just give you some of the details. In Stockholm, there

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Speaker 1: was a truck attack. Four people were killed, many more wounded.

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Speaker 1: The New York Times headline here terrorism is suspected. It's

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Speaker 1: when we are sure that a um that an incident

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Speaker 1: is terrorism. I wish they would stop with the hedging.

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Speaker 1: It's not unintentional by the way that the language that

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Speaker 1: they pick in these incidents is meant to slow down

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Speaker 1: the conclusions, is meant to take some of the impact

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Speaker 1: of these events away from the public, because this is

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Speaker 1: not the narrative that the New York Times and many

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Speaker 1: other liberal outlets want to be a part of. And

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Speaker 1: the narrative is that there is a problem in Sweden,

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Speaker 1: and there's a problem in other countries as well, of jihadism,

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Speaker 1: of a holy war that is being waged in many

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Speaker 1: cases by individuals who have come as refugees, which there's

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Speaker 1: something especially perverse and disgraceful. I mean, we're talking about

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Speaker 1: terrorism and murderingness of people so I don't know how

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Speaker 1: much hair splitting we can really do, but there is

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Speaker 1: something that is particularly grating. Uh and UH just disgusting

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Speaker 1: about being in a country that has either taken you

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Speaker 1: or perhaps it was your parents taken them in as

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Speaker 1: an act of kindness, and then you turn around and

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Speaker 1: you kill innocent people because of your ideology in that country.

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Speaker 1: You just kill anybody that you can, which is clearly

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Speaker 1: what happened here. Um. This would be like offering somebody

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Speaker 1: shelter from the storm in your home and you wake

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Speaker 1: up the next morning and you know everything's been stolen

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Speaker 1: out of your house, and you know that that's in

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Speaker 1: this case that we're talking about murder. We're talking about death.

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Speaker 1: And this is not going to get much attention because,

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Speaker 1: of course, there's the story of the strikes in Syria.

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Speaker 1: I have to tell you there, those strikes are much

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Speaker 1: more instring as a policy discussion than as a uh

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Speaker 1: than the event them itself really warrants. It's not as

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Speaker 1: big a deal as we are all being led to

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Speaker 1: believe right now based on the media's coverage of it. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Look at Clinton. He fired missiles at the He fired

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Speaker 1: missiles at a at a pharmaceutical factor in the Sudan

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Speaker 1: he fired missiles on the morning of the convening of

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Speaker 1: the grand jury on the Monica Lewinsky. Try you think

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Speaker 1: that was a coincidence? So uh that Back to Sweden

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Speaker 1: for a second here and Swedens of country, I know

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Speaker 1: a bit about you when I was in the NYPD.

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Speaker 1: There also we have very the m i p D

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Speaker 1: has very good relationships with the police counter terrorism police

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Speaker 1: services of a whole bunch of countries all over the world.

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Speaker 1: The NYPD Intelligence Division does, and the Swedes have been

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Speaker 1: worried for a while, but don't really want to express

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Speaker 1: it too publicly because to express their concerns would be

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Speaker 1: to admit that bringing in hundreds of thousands of Muslim

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Speaker 1: refugees comes with a cost. There are consequences to this

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Speaker 1: as well. And even if a very small minority engage

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Speaker 1: in terrorism and a small minority engage in just general

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Speaker 1: criminal activity, in the case of Sweden, it's quite noticeable.

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Speaker 1: And you also have an inability or unwillingness to assimilate

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Speaker 1: in many cases meaning of people who aren't learning Swedish language.

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Speaker 1: And we get back to the discussion of no go

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Speaker 1: zones and of course, in this country, you have the

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Speaker 1: people that won't hear any of this. They don't want

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Speaker 1: to believe for a second that there could be some

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Speaker 1: truth to the more nationalist pro sovereignty movements that have

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Speaker 1: sprung up in Europe and even here in America. And

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Speaker 1: the context of Trump is m where bringing in foreigners

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Speaker 1: who don't share your culture is okay at a certain level,

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Speaker 1: but at at a at a point, it becomes problematic.

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Speaker 1: It does cross the threshold that is no longer just

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Speaker 1: something that you can do and say, well, this is

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Speaker 1: a good in and of itself. But Sweden and terrorism

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Speaker 1: is a particularly interesting case because there's the immigration aspect

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Speaker 1: of this. And I had maybe it was about two

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Speaker 1: or three years ago. I remember having dinner and now

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Speaker 1: I'm pulling a Tom Friedman, you know the article I'm writing.

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Speaker 1: It just happened to have a great conversation in Dubai

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Speaker 1: with my cab driver and he gave me this perfect quote,

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Speaker 1: moms like, really, isn't that convenient? But I'm having dinner

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Speaker 1: with this uh Swedish lady. I wasn't. Wasn't Just the

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Speaker 1: two of us were at a group dinner and it

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Speaker 1: was like ten of us and I was talking about Sweden,

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Speaker 1: and she was obviously very progressive and very Swedish, tall blonde,

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Speaker 1: very very nice, and I pushed her a little bit

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Speaker 1: on the issue what it's like over the now, and

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Speaker 1: she said, you know, the Swedes have started to feel like,

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Speaker 1: why do we we pay these really high taxes? And

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Speaker 1: now we're sharing services with people that don't buy into this,

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Speaker 1: who don't pay taxes. They just live off the state,

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Speaker 1: and they don't adopt our ways, and they don't want

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Speaker 1: to speak our language and they don't want to be

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Speaker 1: like us. They just want us to pay for their stuff.

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Speaker 1: And Swedes don't feel comfortable talking about this openly. But

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Speaker 1: they realized that there is a problem. They realized that

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Speaker 1: this is uh, not the way it's supposed to be.

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Speaker 1: This isn't what they signed on for, so to speak.

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Speaker 1: And that is but that's more on the immigration side

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Speaker 1: of it. On the terrorism. On the terrorism front, uh,

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Speaker 1: Sweden is a country that if the position of many

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Speaker 1: on the left and and certainly all the islam apologists

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Speaker 1: out there, and there are a lot of them, and

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Speaker 1: I used to deal with them when I would go

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Speaker 1: on CNN that you know, every time that's a terrorist attack,

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Speaker 1: and it's well, why this has nothing to do with Islam,

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01:24:22,479 --> 01:24:24,200
Speaker 1: or you know, why do you you why do you

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Speaker 1: suggest that jihadism is an ideology it comes from despair,

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01:24:29,280 --> 01:24:31,360
Speaker 1: or it comes from poverty, or it's just it's just

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01:24:31,400 --> 01:24:34,800
Speaker 1: the same stupid you know, it's this has nothing to

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Speaker 1: do with Islam, Like, well, does Islam have a bigger

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01:24:38,439 --> 01:24:41,200
Speaker 1: terrorism problem than other world religions? Oh? No, of course

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Speaker 1: it does nothing. No problem that I'm like, ah, we

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01:24:44,320 --> 01:24:46,559
Speaker 1: have to just keep having the same argument because people

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01:24:46,600 --> 01:24:49,840
Speaker 1: are delusional, and the delusion, by the way, it comes

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01:24:49,880 --> 01:24:53,320
Speaker 1: from a virtue signaling impulse meeting. The people that are

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01:24:53,320 --> 01:24:55,519
Speaker 1: often going onto well, there are two aspects of it really.

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Speaker 1: The people that go on TV. And I know some

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Speaker 1: of you are like, book, what are you talking about?

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01:24:59,080 --> 01:25:03,080
Speaker 1: Watch MSNBC, and you'll have every time there's a terrorist attack,

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Speaker 1: MSNBC and CNN in particular, bring on the same quote

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Speaker 1: experts who usually have expertise and nothing, but they will

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01:25:11,000 --> 01:25:14,559
Speaker 1: bring on these They have expertise in being propagandists for

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Speaker 1: the most destructive, uh and regressive political force in the

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Speaker 1: world right now, which is political Islam. But they'll go

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Speaker 1: on TV and they'll defend it. They'll go on TV

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Speaker 1: and say it has nothing to do with Islam. They'll

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01:25:26,320 --> 01:25:28,320
Speaker 1: go on TV and call everybody who does speak the

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Speaker 1: truth racist or or islamophobic, xenophobic, whichever phobic, whichever phobic

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Speaker 1: they can fit into the conversation. And but they usually

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Speaker 1: will say is this is nothing Islam and they pay

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Speaker 1: it to in the real fear is Islamophobia. That's the

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Speaker 1: real concern that we should have. Our real worry is

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01:25:45,280 --> 01:25:50,439
Speaker 1: about Islamophobia. Oh okay. And then they'll even remember I

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01:25:50,479 --> 01:25:52,360
Speaker 1: was on TV once and they we had just they've

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Speaker 1: just been I forget which one it was, because I've

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Speaker 1: been on TV over there many times after horrific, g

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Speaker 1: hottiest Muslim terrorist attacks, and they were saying, well, you know,

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Speaker 1: we've talked about this, but buck shouldn't we be be concerned.

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Speaker 1: There was a mosque in Florida that received a very

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Speaker 1: mean voicemail or something. Well, we've got sixty or eighty

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Speaker 1: or a hundred people who are lying dead right now

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Speaker 1: because of jihadism, and we we don't get to talk

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Speaker 1: about that. I get to talk about a voicemail and

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Speaker 1: a oh but it's on a phobia, Southern poverty Law

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Speaker 1: Center says it's on the rise. Okay. Um. The reason

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Speaker 1: they do this, by the way, because they're not stupid

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Speaker 1: people who go on TV and say this. Um. They're

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Speaker 1: incentivized to do it, and they're incentivized to do it

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Speaker 1: because the liberal media will give them the benefits of

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Speaker 1: towing the party line on this, which means money and

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Speaker 1: TV appearances and contributorships and books and everything else, and

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Speaker 1: also among their cocktail party friends on the left, to

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Speaker 1: go on TV and to always repeat just this, this pablum,

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Speaker 1: this nonsense about how does nothing to do with Islam.

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Speaker 1: It keeps you. It shows that you're an been minded, wise,

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Speaker 1: non racist, good person, unlike those Trump people who are

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Speaker 1: also racist and horrible. Meanwhile, people are blowing themselves and

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Speaker 1: many others up time and time again around the world

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Speaker 1: of the name of Islam. There are atrocities that are

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Speaker 1: being visited on large numbers of people on a regular, daily, hourly,

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Speaker 1: minute by minute basis in the name of Islam. Islamic

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01:27:25,240 --> 01:27:29,080
Speaker 1: countries across the Middle East and beyond are well behind

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01:27:29,080 --> 01:27:33,799
Speaker 1: where they should be, economically, socially, and otherwise because of something.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we can start to talk about what that something maybe,

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01:27:36,840 --> 01:27:38,439
Speaker 1: but you have these experts who go on TV you

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Speaker 1: say that there's no problem here, there's nothing to be

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Speaker 1: worried about, and it's very frustrating. Sweden is interesting in

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Speaker 1: this context because you can't find a place that is

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Speaker 1: bending over backwards more that it is trying harder to

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Speaker 1: be accommodating. And that's really the word. It's it's not accepting,

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Speaker 1: it's accommodating. Oh, what can we do to make the

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Speaker 1: what can we do to make the Muslim refugee population

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Speaker 1: this country like us more and be more comfortable here?

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Speaker 1: That that's the Swedish attitude about it. You know, what

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Speaker 1: what benefits can we give them and what programs can

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Speaker 1: we set up? That that's their attitude about this. It's

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Speaker 1: been changing in recent years, but that has been the

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Speaker 1: prevailing attitude. And that you would have a get another

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Speaker 1: one of these attacks where it uses a vehicle. I

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Speaker 1: believe that there was also gunfire. Four people killed. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You have over a hundred people in the last twelve

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Speaker 1: months that have been killed in gee hottest car attacks. Right,

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Speaker 1: they use a truck usually and they just driving and

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Speaker 1: driving and mode people down. As over a hundred people

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Speaker 1: killed in Europe just in those kinds of attacks we

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Speaker 1: have what recently just happened near the House of Parliament

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Speaker 1: on Westminster Bridge in London. Oh, this is just a

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01:28:49,000 --> 01:28:51,680
Speaker 1: worthwhile sanity check. Think of the last time, and think

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Speaker 1: of the last time you can think of a non

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Speaker 1: Muslim gie hottest vehicle attack that killed a bunch of people.

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Speaker 1: Are you thinking? You're thinking real hard? Can you? Can

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Speaker 1: you think of any I'm gonna I'm gonna guess the

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Speaker 1: answers now, think of the last suicide bombing. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: People would say, oh, buck, what about this is where

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Speaker 1: some pseudo intellectual would come in from seeing an excales

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Speaker 1: me Mr Sex did. But what about the tabil taggers

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Speaker 1: who are dead? Okay, yeah, when was the last time

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Speaker 1: one of them? But oh it's been a while, huh,

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Speaker 1: A couple of like a couple of decades maybe, Um,

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Speaker 1: so when what is it? Then? Why do we have this? Oh?

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Speaker 1: It's because the way the media covers it. You mean,

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Speaker 1: the same media that always says that Islama's religion of

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Speaker 1: peace and that Islamaphobia is the real threat. They're the

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Speaker 1: reason we think that there's a terrorism problem with Islam.

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Speaker 1: Of course there's a terrorism problem from within Islam, and

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Speaker 1: it's not all of Islam, but it is from within Islam.

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Speaker 1: And anybody who refuses to say that it's just either

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Speaker 1: an idiet or a liar. Uh So, now that we've

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Speaker 1: established that Sweden as a target, um is interesting to

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Speaker 1: me because the Sweeds do everything they can. We often

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Speaker 1: hear on the left that jihadism comes from a rejection

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Speaker 1: of policies. Right, this is really rooted in WARN policy disputes,

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Speaker 1: US support for Israel or US wars in the Middle East,

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Speaker 1: and in fact, the jihadtest themselves. Those who will take

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Speaker 1: it upon themselves to act in the name of isis

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Speaker 1: will say that, oh, well, because of what, Because of

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Speaker 1: the US bombing campaign that kills innocence in Syria, that's

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Speaker 1: why we are mowing people down in Nice, in Berlin,

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Speaker 1: in London, now in Stockholm, that's why they're doing it. Right.

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Speaker 1: And there are some people on the left and journalists

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Speaker 1: who think of themselves is quite fancy, who agree with

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Speaker 1: that argument that it's court. Let's say, well, yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: really what this is about, objection to US policies. No,

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Speaker 1: what Sweden shows us is that jee hottest, that radical

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Speaker 1: Islam is rooted in a hatred of the other, hatred

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Speaker 1: of us, and and a hatred of those who do

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Speaker 1: not fall in the very narrow parameters of being true Muslims,

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Speaker 1: to them true believers, ji Hottats and Islamists. Um, I

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Speaker 1: wanna finish is a discussion with you, but I have

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Speaker 1: to go into a break here, So let's finish it

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Speaker 1: up on the flip side. Will take a call or

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Speaker 1: two and screens lit up in here. Let's take some calls,

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Speaker 1: UH Bride and North Carolina w p T I, Hey Brad,

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Speaker 1: hey Buck, how are you deceived? Men? Good sir, thank

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Speaker 1: you for calling in. Yes, sir, I wanted to start

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Speaker 1: off saying something about the strike, and then I go

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Speaker 1: with the movie quotes. I feel like you know, um,

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Speaker 1: there was some different media outlets saying that Mr Trump

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Speaker 1: when you campaign that you said you were against things

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Speaker 1: like this, and and I understand that. But until somebody's

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01:31:43,600 --> 01:31:47,400
Speaker 1: put in the position and given the I guess you

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01:31:47,400 --> 01:31:50,200
Speaker 1: could say the knowledge or the or the intel that

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Speaker 1: he's given on on how to act or or or

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Speaker 1: decisions to make it, really, you know, it doesn't make

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Speaker 1: sense at that aspect. He gonna do what's best for

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Speaker 1: the American people, I feel, Um, so you're saying that

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Speaker 1: you can't you can't know how you're gonna be as

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Speaker 1: commander in chief until you're actually sitting in the commander

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Speaker 1: in chief's chair. Basically, that's exactly right. Um. I was

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Speaker 1: in the service and I had a top secret clearance,

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Speaker 1: and uh like say, until you see that intel and

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Speaker 1: you're sitting in his shoes or you know, walking his shoes,

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Speaker 1: you you can't say. I mean, you can say everything

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Speaker 1: you want on the campaign trail, but until you're sitting

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01:32:27,800 --> 01:32:31,920
Speaker 1: behind that desk, it's a totally different ball game. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think that's a fair point to make. And I

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Speaker 1: also don't think this is the sea change that a

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Speaker 1: lot of people are saying. Uh. I don't think Trump

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Speaker 1: ever said he wouldn't he wouldn't fire some missiles if

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Speaker 1: he thought that somebody was uh stepping out a line

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Speaker 1: on the world stage, if he decided that we were

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Speaker 1: going to invade Syria, well, yeah, then the the response

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01:32:52,000 --> 01:32:53,840
Speaker 1: that some of the pro Trump side seemed to have

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Speaker 1: last night to me, suggested they thought this was a

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Speaker 1: prelude to invasion. I don't see that that's that's a

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Speaker 1: long way away from this. You know, we didn't invade

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Speaker 1: the Soudan. We fired missiles at Sudan under under Clinton.

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Speaker 1: Uh so there, and there are plenty of places where

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01:33:08,400 --> 01:33:10,320
Speaker 1: we've been dropping missiles and bomb or fire missiles and

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01:33:10,400 --> 01:33:15,120
Speaker 1: dropping bombs for a while we have not invaded. So yeah,

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01:33:15,640 --> 01:33:17,400
Speaker 1: feel the same way. I mean, it's it's not like

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Speaker 1: we're getting ready to mount up and roll out. It's

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01:33:20,160 --> 01:33:22,920
Speaker 1: it's more of a you know, hey, this is who

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Speaker 1: this is, this is I'm not afraid to use this.

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Speaker 1: We have this, and and this is where I stand. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: although it is a lot of what does the Tomahawk

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Speaker 1: missile cost, I'm assuming it is it is very expensive.

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Speaker 1: So that was an expensive strike we had against that

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Speaker 1: Syrian airfield. Just thinking about thinking about that as a taxpayer,

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Speaker 1: and I read the the Russians said that like a

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Speaker 1: couple of dozen of our missiles didn't hit the target.

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01:33:46,240 --> 01:33:48,600
Speaker 1: We say that only one missed it. But that's a

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Speaker 1: that's an expensive, expensive little piece of hardware to just go,

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Speaker 1: you know, fall in the ocean somewhere. I'm a little like, okay,

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Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like all of them should

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Speaker 1: be hitting the target. I'm a little maybe I'm asking

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Speaker 1: too much. But you've got two boats sitting out there,

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Speaker 1: full of full of sailors, you know, uh uh mann

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Speaker 1: manning manning those boats, you know, to to to send

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Speaker 1: them off like that movie quote was give me your boots,

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Speaker 1: your clothes, and the keys to your motorcycle terminator two

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Speaker 1: in the bar in front of the bikers, the biker gang,

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Speaker 1: And unfortunately for him, he denies Arnold the Cyborg's request

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Speaker 1: and ends up face first on a very hot grill. Yes, sir, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and the sunglasses, yeah, he do get the sunglasses. At

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Speaker 1: the end, um two for one to wait a get

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Speaker 1: two for one this time. That's right, all right, that's

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Speaker 1: that's still maintain the belt. I still have the champion belt. Brat.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much for calling in shields. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Um I guess uh. I was gonna probably talk more

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01:34:56,720 --> 01:34:59,920
Speaker 1: about Sweden and geehoadois m. But that's kind of inten

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Speaker 1: this for the third A, maybe we'll get into that.

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Speaker 1: I also want to discuss um what was I saying?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I want to discuss what's going on at

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01:35:08,479 --> 01:35:12,639
Speaker 1: Harvard because making fun of of crazy college social justice

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Speaker 1: lunatics is a good time. That's a good way to

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01:35:15,160 --> 01:35:16,519
Speaker 1: end the show. So I feel like we'll get into

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Speaker 1: some of that coming up here. But if you want

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01:35:17,840 --> 01:35:20,559
Speaker 1: to call in action movie quotes now, we're we're taking

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Speaker 1: them everybody eight four to five or anything else that

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01:35:25,240 --> 01:35:28,559
Speaker 1: is on your mind. And oh, by the way, if

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Speaker 1: you're listening, please do follow me on Facebook at facebook

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Speaker 1: dot com slash buck Sexton and you'll be in the

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Speaker 1: team buck feed there and it's a great way to

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Speaker 1: keep up with all things we're doing and talk to

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Speaker 1: talk about, talk to the show with, talk about the

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01:35:42,640 --> 01:35:44,960
Speaker 1: show with other people, all that good stuff. All right,

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Speaker 1: quick break, we'll be right back. Welcome back to the

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Speaker 1: Freedom Hut on an island of liberty where you're the

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Speaker 1: party and it's full of fellow patriots. Buck Sexton kicks

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Speaker 1: it off. He does, Indeed, my friends, lines are lit.

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Speaker 1: Let's hit him Alex in Alabama on w b UV. Yes, sir, Hey,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing me that? I'm all right? How

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Speaker 1: are you okay? Movie quote? Friday? You ready? Oh yeah, man?

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Speaker 1: Action movie quote? Let's do it? Okay? Here do you do?

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Speaker 1: You know? Yeah? That's it. You're gonna have to give

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Speaker 1: me more than that. I need I need more context.

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Speaker 1: Than one word. That's not gonna fly. Okay, I'll give

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Speaker 1: you we're hit. You're lousy shot. I hate lousy shots.

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Speaker 1: I guess we'll hit the buzzer. Are you caught me? What?

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Speaker 1: What is this? What is it? Oh? Yeah, okay, actual

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Speaker 1: movie for religion. I mean you have to give me

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Speaker 1: more than Yeah, the lousy shot was a real quote.

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Speaker 1: But okay. Cobra it a Loane Weird movie, but definitely

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Speaker 1: an action movie. And Stallone is one of the action

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Speaker 1: movie great So Alex in Alabama, thank you for calling

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Speaker 1: it appreciated. Lee in Virginia, w p T I what's Uply? Hey?

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Speaker 1: How are you? I'm all right? I got a quote

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Speaker 1: for you. I got a quote. Uh, they blow up

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Speaker 1: a building, we blow up a city. John Travolta and Swordfish, Yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: why don't we do that? Um? What are you asking

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Speaker 1: me in for reels? Yeah? I'm tired of the media.

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Speaker 1: I'm serious. Yeah, I know that would be a more

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Speaker 1: that would be a moral issue, sir. You wouldn't You

1685
01:37:47,720 --> 01:37:49,360
Speaker 1: want to blow up the city with a lot of people,

1686
01:37:49,360 --> 01:37:52,560
Speaker 1: and that would be bad, would be bad. But I

1687
01:37:53,000 --> 01:37:57,360
Speaker 1: give you a Swordfish is a UM is a movie

1688
01:37:57,400 --> 01:37:59,880
Speaker 1: that is action based. So there's that we got that

1689
01:38:00,080 --> 01:38:02,679
Speaker 1: going on for us, which is nice. But Lee in Virginia,

1690
01:38:02,840 --> 01:38:04,559
Speaker 1: have a great weekend, my friend. Thank you for calling in.

1691
01:38:04,600 --> 01:38:06,519
Speaker 1: Thank you for the action movie quote. I'm kind of

1692
01:38:06,520 --> 01:38:07,960
Speaker 1: impressed that I got that one. I am not gonna

1693
01:38:07,960 --> 01:38:10,639
Speaker 1: lie like I'm I'm in. I'm doing a little victory

1694
01:38:10,720 --> 01:38:13,960
Speaker 1: Dadcity right now. That was not an easy one. Uh,

1695
01:38:14,280 --> 01:38:18,280
Speaker 1: original squad Saturday, Lori in New Jersey. She wants to

1696
01:38:18,320 --> 01:38:22,160
Speaker 1: get in on this action movie quote. Action. What's up? Then?

1697
01:38:24,400 --> 01:38:27,240
Speaker 1: I am great, I'm great. I couldn't. I have had

1698
01:38:27,280 --> 01:38:29,960
Speaker 1: a shortage of listening the past week or so because

1699
01:38:30,000 --> 01:38:34,439
Speaker 1: I've been doing some long haul traveling. However, that gave

1700
01:38:34,479 --> 01:38:37,320
Speaker 1: me the opportunity to catch up on some action movies

1701
01:38:38,080 --> 01:38:43,720
Speaker 1: that I actually hadn't seen before. So I have made

1702
01:38:43,760 --> 01:38:45,519
Speaker 1: note of a couple of quotes which I want to

1703
01:38:45,600 --> 01:38:48,960
Speaker 1: run past you. A couple of quotes. Whoa, I'm running

1704
01:38:48,960 --> 01:38:51,960
Speaker 1: the gauntlet. Now let's see what we got all right?

1705
01:38:52,000 --> 01:38:56,800
Speaker 1: Are you ready? Yes, ma'am. As for our problem with Providence,

1706
01:38:57,240 --> 01:39:01,120
Speaker 1: let's not cry over spilt guineas. Oh, I don't know

1707
01:39:01,120 --> 01:39:06,360
Speaker 1: if we can drop that. Yeah, no, Laurie, we can't say,

1708
01:39:07,000 --> 01:39:10,320
Speaker 1: we can't say things like that in the air. Okay,

1709
01:39:11,000 --> 01:39:13,599
Speaker 1: I have no idea who that movie is. So okay,

1710
01:39:13,680 --> 01:39:15,519
Speaker 1: then I'm going to give you a second quote from

1711
01:39:15,520 --> 01:39:19,120
Speaker 1: the same movie to give you a chance. I mean,

1712
01:39:19,160 --> 01:39:22,360
Speaker 1: I think this is a really legit movie. I'm not

1713
01:39:22,400 --> 01:39:28,240
Speaker 1: pulling your leg. Here here's the second quote. No, okay,

1714
01:39:29,680 --> 01:39:34,759
Speaker 1: one more. I'll always have a job. I'll just arrest

1715
01:39:34,840 --> 01:39:41,639
Speaker 1: innocent people. I don't know what is this. I can't

1716
01:39:41,720 --> 01:39:46,280
Speaker 1: believe it. My imperfections are showing through here. What is it? No? No,

1717
01:39:46,680 --> 01:39:52,719
Speaker 1: the Departed? Ah okay, Now do you consider that legit?

1718
01:39:53,920 --> 01:39:56,800
Speaker 1: I mean action movie. That's a little bit of that's

1719
01:39:56,840 --> 01:40:01,120
Speaker 1: a little bit of a um, that's a little bit

1720
01:40:01,120 --> 01:40:03,559
Speaker 1: of a stretch. Maybe. I think it's really more crime

1721
01:40:03,640 --> 01:40:06,519
Speaker 1: thriller than a straight up action movie. But I don't

1722
01:40:06,520 --> 01:40:10,040
Speaker 1: like to part too much. Well, no, I mean, I'm

1723
01:40:10,080 --> 01:40:13,360
Speaker 1: not trying to be unfair. That's all right. What action

1724
01:40:13,360 --> 01:40:15,360
Speaker 1: movies did you see since you've called in? What? What?

1725
01:40:15,360 --> 01:40:18,439
Speaker 1: What did you add to your repertoire? Oh my gosh,

1726
01:40:18,479 --> 01:40:21,880
Speaker 1: so so some of them were repeat because um, you know,

1727
01:40:21,960 --> 01:40:25,960
Speaker 1: I do like to revisit some stuff. So um I

1728
01:40:26,000 --> 01:40:31,200
Speaker 1: saw um And now you're so this was going back

1729
01:40:31,240 --> 01:40:33,760
Speaker 1: to a Friday a couple of weeks ago. There was

1730
01:40:33,800 --> 01:40:37,840
Speaker 1: The Departed, there was Oh, I watched the original die

1731
01:40:37,880 --> 01:40:41,080
Speaker 1: Hard because I hadn't seen that for a while, which

1732
01:40:41,200 --> 01:40:43,120
Speaker 1: which is always good view. Which was a book I

1733
01:40:43,200 --> 01:40:46,920
Speaker 1: found out last week. I did not even know that. No, yeah,

1734
01:40:47,040 --> 01:40:50,360
Speaker 1: actually it was a book. Um, and I saw something

1735
01:40:50,400 --> 01:40:52,759
Speaker 1: I've never seen before. I'm not sure it quite fits

1736
01:40:52,800 --> 01:40:56,960
Speaker 1: in the category. Mr and Mrs Smith. It was very entertaining. Yeah,

1737
01:40:56,960 --> 01:40:59,040
Speaker 1: that's I think that's action movie comedy. It's sort of

1738
01:40:59,040 --> 01:41:04,800
Speaker 1: like true Lies with that's with That's with brand Jelina, Right, Yeah, yeah,

1739
01:41:05,960 --> 01:41:08,280
Speaker 1: I'm ashamed to admit I've seen that movie. I've seen

1740
01:41:08,320 --> 01:41:10,760
Speaker 1: that movie. Well me me too. All I have to

1741
01:41:10,800 --> 01:41:12,800
Speaker 1: say I would never watch it if I wasn't sat

1742
01:41:12,800 --> 01:41:15,240
Speaker 1: in an airplane seat for twelve hours. Well, the thing

1743
01:41:15,240 --> 01:41:17,840
Speaker 1: about airplanes is that it's a great excuse. Whether you're

1744
01:41:17,840 --> 01:41:20,080
Speaker 1: doing it on a laptop or or you're you know,

1745
01:41:20,360 --> 01:41:22,960
Speaker 1: running your credit card to it, it's a great excuse

1746
01:41:23,640 --> 01:41:26,680
Speaker 1: to watch movies that you would otherwise not be able

1747
01:41:26,680 --> 01:41:28,599
Speaker 1: to bring yourself to watch. So, I mean, I've seen

1748
01:41:28,600 --> 01:41:31,280
Speaker 1: something to tell you. That's when I catch up on

1749
01:41:31,320 --> 01:41:35,559
Speaker 1: my movie. Another couple of things I saw were at

1750
01:41:35,920 --> 01:41:38,600
Speaker 1: This is not an old one though, Allied, which is

1751
01:41:38,640 --> 01:41:41,560
Speaker 1: another Brad Pitt movie, which I have to say was

1752
01:41:41,600 --> 01:41:45,879
Speaker 1: pretty good. Um. Maybe not action movie, It's more drama

1753
01:41:45,960 --> 01:41:51,919
Speaker 1: slash thriller, I think, but definitely a good watch. Um.

1754
01:41:52,240 --> 01:41:54,280
Speaker 1: That's where I catch up on my movies. All right, Well,

1755
01:41:54,680 --> 01:41:56,320
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you for calling in. I have a

1756
01:41:56,320 --> 01:42:00,320
Speaker 1: great weekend, appreciate it. Um. So you know what I'm

1757
01:42:00,360 --> 01:42:02,960
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna hit a break here and we're gonna

1758
01:42:03,000 --> 01:42:06,439
Speaker 1: talk about the Dumbledore Army I think at Harvard on

1759
01:42:06,479 --> 01:42:08,200
Speaker 1: the other side of this, and I'll tell you some

1760
01:42:08,400 --> 01:42:11,360
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll tell you some college college crazy stories of

1761
01:42:11,680 --> 01:42:14,320
Speaker 1: my own, not of a like beer drinking animal house variety,

1762
01:42:14,439 --> 01:42:18,960
Speaker 1: but of the the progressive lunacy that even I was

1763
01:42:19,040 --> 01:42:22,240
Speaker 1: exposed to. I've got I've got some stories and some stuff. Um,

1764
01:42:22,280 --> 01:42:27,800
Speaker 1: and we'll be right back. Harvard students, according to heat

1765
01:42:27,840 --> 01:42:32,840
Speaker 1: Street here have formed something they're calling Dumbledore's army to

1766
01:42:33,040 --> 01:42:38,760
Speaker 1: fight Donald Trump. What is it with these now? Now,

1767
01:42:38,800 --> 01:42:43,360
Speaker 1: even the most elite schools don't seem to have any

1768
01:42:43,360 --> 01:42:47,559
Speaker 1: shame at all about their students acting like a bunch

1769
01:42:47,760 --> 01:42:52,400
Speaker 1: of uh coddled little babies. Um, this is let me

1770
01:42:52,439 --> 01:42:53,920
Speaker 1: let me just give you some of the background here,

1771
01:42:53,920 --> 01:42:58,120
Speaker 1: students at Harvard University have launched a resistance school to

1772
01:42:58,200 --> 01:43:01,200
Speaker 1: fight against the tyranny of Donald Trump Ump. The students

1773
01:43:01,200 --> 01:43:04,240
Speaker 1: at Harvard's prestigious John F. Kennedy School of Government compare

1774
01:43:04,280 --> 01:43:07,559
Speaker 1: their movement to Dumbledore's Army, inspired by J. K. Rowling's

1775
01:43:07,600 --> 01:43:12,479
Speaker 1: Harry Potter fantasy novels. I also, I never I've never

1776
01:43:12,560 --> 01:43:14,800
Speaker 1: read a Harry Potter book, and I know that makes

1777
01:43:14,800 --> 01:43:20,200
Speaker 1: me some kind of uh, some kind of cultural ignoramus

1778
01:43:20,320 --> 01:43:22,519
Speaker 1: in some circles, because Harry Potter is supposed to be

1779
01:43:22,560 --> 01:43:25,360
Speaker 1: so amazing. My girlfriends read all the Harry Potter books.

1780
01:43:25,360 --> 01:43:28,599
Speaker 1: I haven't read any of the Harry Potter books. And uh,

1781
01:43:28,640 --> 01:43:30,639
Speaker 1: I get I've seen one or two of the movies.

1782
01:43:30,720 --> 01:43:34,479
Speaker 1: I was not It wasn't really my thing. But but

1783
01:43:34,640 --> 01:43:36,960
Speaker 1: this is at four back to Harvard and the activism here.

1784
01:43:36,960 --> 01:43:40,320
Speaker 1: It's a four week program that will quote sharpen the

1785
01:43:40,360 --> 01:43:42,320
Speaker 1: tools we need to fight back at the federal, state

1786
01:43:42,360 --> 01:43:48,040
Speaker 1: and local levels to combat Trump's agenda. First of all,

1787
01:43:48,439 --> 01:43:52,680
Speaker 1: I wish that I had the self regard that I

1788
01:43:52,800 --> 01:43:56,200
Speaker 1: would be a one man or one woman, well and

1789
01:43:56,240 --> 01:43:58,400
Speaker 1: in my case a man, because gender is binary. But

1790
01:43:58,479 --> 01:44:01,040
Speaker 1: I mean, in theoretically we're talking, but here the royal,

1791
01:44:01,120 --> 01:44:03,680
Speaker 1: we are the Royal I or whatever that I could

1792
01:44:03,720 --> 01:44:06,639
Speaker 1: be on campus and think that as a college student,

1793
01:44:06,680 --> 01:44:09,120
Speaker 1: i'd come up with a resistance movement to over to

1794
01:44:09,240 --> 01:44:14,280
Speaker 1: fight back against the politics of the Trump administration. But

1795
01:44:14,439 --> 01:44:18,080
Speaker 1: a bigger thing for me is I don't understand how

1796
01:44:18,120 --> 01:44:20,880
Speaker 1: all the how all these college kids and and everyone

1797
01:44:20,920 --> 01:44:23,400
Speaker 1: else really thinks that Trump is going to be so

1798
01:44:23,560 --> 01:44:27,479
Speaker 1: terrible for them. Um And I also wonder sometimes how

1799
01:44:27,520 --> 01:44:31,920
Speaker 1: it is that I missed this hysteria by all, by

1800
01:44:31,960 --> 01:44:36,919
Speaker 1: all rights and and by all metrics and historical reality

1801
01:44:36,960 --> 01:44:39,920
Speaker 1: everything else. I mean, I should be not one of

1802
01:44:39,960 --> 01:44:42,200
Speaker 1: these kids that thinks he's double doors army, but I

1803
01:44:42,400 --> 01:44:45,200
Speaker 1: should at least buy into some of this, and I

1804
01:44:45,280 --> 01:44:48,719
Speaker 1: never have, So that's a part of me I can't

1805
01:44:48,760 --> 01:44:52,000
Speaker 1: really explain. I grew up here in New York City,

1806
01:44:52,040 --> 01:44:54,040
Speaker 1: in Manhattan, in the center of in the center of

1807
01:44:54,080 --> 01:44:57,320
Speaker 1: the city, in the progressive heartland of the city. The

1808
01:44:57,800 --> 01:45:00,479
Speaker 1: not the heartland, the progressive heartlantic city, though I think

1809
01:45:00,600 --> 01:45:05,120
Speaker 1: now Brooklyn is probably more cutting edge progressive in some ways.

1810
01:45:05,240 --> 01:45:09,520
Speaker 1: Brooklyn is really a very it's it's the heart of Hipsterdam,

1811
01:45:09,560 --> 01:45:11,840
Speaker 1: and you can go back and forth, but but the

1812
01:45:11,840 --> 01:45:14,679
Speaker 1: whole city is it's a giant Democrats stronghold, of course,

1813
01:45:15,840 --> 01:45:19,160
Speaker 1: And I don't go to bed at night worried about Trump.

1814
01:45:19,160 --> 01:45:24,200
Speaker 1: Obviously I support his agenda. I don't understand what it

1815
01:45:24,320 --> 01:45:26,960
Speaker 1: is about all these other people that I somehow missed

1816
01:45:27,280 --> 01:45:29,200
Speaker 1: right as somebody who grew up it is he Usually

1817
01:45:29,200 --> 01:45:32,360
Speaker 1: you'd say it's about background, or it's about those who

1818
01:45:32,360 --> 01:45:34,639
Speaker 1: are around you. But I just look at all them

1819
01:45:34,800 --> 01:45:37,479
Speaker 1: like they're crazy, Like what is wrong with these people

1820
01:45:37,520 --> 01:45:42,599
Speaker 1: at at Harvard all the Kennedy School. Um, I don't

1821
01:45:42,600 --> 01:45:44,000
Speaker 1: want to get I don't want to get myself into

1822
01:45:44,040 --> 01:45:47,840
Speaker 1: trouble here because I'm somebody who chose not to get

1823
01:45:47,840 --> 01:45:50,800
Speaker 1: a masters or an m b A. But could have

1824
01:45:50,920 --> 01:45:52,920
Speaker 1: and applied and got into some of these places. But

1825
01:45:52,960 --> 01:45:54,439
Speaker 1: I just didn't want to spend the money because I

1826
01:45:54,439 --> 01:45:56,240
Speaker 1: didn't want to be paying back loans for a very

1827
01:45:56,280 --> 01:45:58,720
Speaker 1: long time. Maybe it was a good move, maybe it's not. Um,

1828
01:45:58,920 --> 01:46:01,040
Speaker 1: you know, keep keep telling people at the radio show, everybody,

1829
01:46:01,040 --> 01:46:02,439
Speaker 1: it will be a good move, So help me out

1830
01:46:02,479 --> 01:46:06,160
Speaker 1: on that. Uh. But Kennedy School is one of these

1831
01:46:06,200 --> 01:46:07,880
Speaker 1: places now that you pay a lot of money for

1832
01:46:07,920 --> 01:46:10,600
Speaker 1: a master's degree. That sounds fancy. But most people I

1833
01:46:10,640 --> 01:46:13,720
Speaker 1: know who went to the Kennedy School, when I asked them,

1834
01:46:13,720 --> 01:46:15,040
Speaker 1: what they've learned, and I know a lot of them,

1835
01:46:15,080 --> 01:46:17,160
Speaker 1: because it's a common choice for those who are in

1836
01:46:18,160 --> 01:46:21,400
Speaker 1: government and want to get a fancy degree, who are

1837
01:46:21,400 --> 01:46:24,800
Speaker 1: in international relations and and want to work in politics

1838
01:46:24,800 --> 01:46:28,160
Speaker 1: in some capacity. What do you learn? Man? You know,

1839
01:46:28,200 --> 01:46:30,760
Speaker 1: it took some classes on some stuff. It's not like

1840
01:46:30,800 --> 01:46:32,320
Speaker 1: you come out of there and all of a sudden

1841
01:46:32,360 --> 01:46:37,200
Speaker 1: you're here. You're a different um. You're operating with a

1842
01:46:37,240 --> 01:46:39,720
Speaker 1: different skill set than when you got in there. A

1843
01:46:39,760 --> 01:46:41,280
Speaker 1: lot of these places, it's just if you can pay

1844
01:46:41,280 --> 01:46:43,200
Speaker 1: six or seven if you're willing to pay six or

1845
01:46:43,240 --> 01:46:45,479
Speaker 1: seventy thousand dollars a year, which is what they cost,

1846
01:46:46,240 --> 01:46:49,960
Speaker 1: you can get yourself a master's degree. That sounds really fancy. Uh.

1847
01:46:50,000 --> 01:46:53,439
Speaker 1: The Harvard m A Program and political science is actually

1848
01:46:53,520 --> 01:46:58,000
Speaker 1: much more rigorous, as I understand it than the Kennedy

1849
01:46:58,040 --> 01:47:01,519
Speaker 1: School of Government program. But I digress. That's quite a digression,

1850
01:47:01,560 --> 01:47:03,840
Speaker 1: I know, But I do wonder sometimes I read about

1851
01:47:03,880 --> 01:47:07,120
Speaker 1: these dumbledore's army kids at Harvard and these other places?

1852
01:47:07,960 --> 01:47:10,760
Speaker 1: What what? What is so different about? How do I

1853
01:47:10,840 --> 01:47:12,679
Speaker 1: see all of this so differently from all of them?

1854
01:47:12,720 --> 01:47:15,680
Speaker 1: I mean, let's be let's be real here. Everyone you've

1855
01:47:15,680 --> 01:47:22,439
Speaker 1: got Trump is a billionaire um thrice married New Yorker

1856
01:47:22,640 --> 01:47:27,000
Speaker 1: with some centrist leanings, to be sure, and they've been convinced,

1857
01:47:27,000 --> 01:47:31,000
Speaker 1: these people have been convinced that are otherwise very high functioning,

1858
01:47:31,040 --> 01:47:36,280
Speaker 1: intelligent human beings, that he is evil like Voldemort and

1859
01:47:36,360 --> 01:47:38,880
Speaker 1: needs to be opposed at all costs. If you show

1860
01:47:38,960 --> 01:47:40,120
Speaker 1: up at a school and you want to give a

1861
01:47:40,160 --> 01:47:43,120
Speaker 1: speech and you want to support Trump in some capacity,

1862
01:47:43,400 --> 01:47:47,880
Speaker 1: you run the risk of being shouted down and run

1863
01:47:47,920 --> 01:47:52,800
Speaker 1: the risk of being told you support fascism? What you know?

1864
01:47:53,400 --> 01:47:59,040
Speaker 1: Where is the I just I don't understand. I actually so,

1865
01:47:59,160 --> 01:48:01,439
Speaker 1: I know. I talk about it and I understand it

1866
01:48:01,479 --> 01:48:04,760
Speaker 1: an analytic level, but at a gut level, like where

1867
01:48:04,920 --> 01:48:06,479
Speaker 1: it's either where did they go wrong? Where did I

1868
01:48:06,520 --> 01:48:09,000
Speaker 1: go wrong? I'm pretty sure they went wrong. It just

1869
01:48:09,080 --> 01:48:12,439
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense. These are master students who are

1870
01:48:12,479 --> 01:48:15,920
Speaker 1: comparing themselves to an Dumbledore's army. They're comparing herself to

1871
01:48:16,120 --> 01:48:20,479
Speaker 1: a children's novel fighting group or something. These kids are

1872
01:48:20,479 --> 01:48:24,639
Speaker 1: like in their mid twenties. They think Trump is so evil.

1873
01:48:24,760 --> 01:48:27,960
Speaker 1: I just it's crazy to me. Oh, we got a

1874
01:48:28,000 --> 01:48:30,080
Speaker 1: lot of calls. I'm I'm rambling. He let me take

1875
01:48:30,080 --> 01:48:34,040
Speaker 1: some calls. Uh, Logan in Florida. Welcome to the Freedom Hunt.

1876
01:48:37,000 --> 01:48:41,320
Speaker 1: How you doing. I'm grand you you know, I'm good.

1877
01:48:41,400 --> 01:48:43,120
Speaker 1: I excited to get the weekend started here in a

1878
01:48:43,160 --> 01:48:49,439
Speaker 1: few minutes. Yes, Friday, anything, anything else? You have a

1879
01:48:49,439 --> 01:48:51,280
Speaker 1: movie quote for me? I'm assuming this sounds like a

1880
01:48:51,280 --> 01:48:55,639
Speaker 1: movie quote. Call. Oh it is, Uh, but there's a caveat.

1881
01:48:55,720 --> 01:48:57,760
Speaker 1: It's a sci fi action movie. So if you don't

1882
01:48:57,760 --> 01:49:00,439
Speaker 1: get I can't blame you. Okay, but we'll still we'll

1883
01:49:00,439 --> 01:49:01,920
Speaker 1: still keep it. We'll keep tracking. They'll go up on

1884
01:49:01,960 --> 01:49:05,640
Speaker 1: the board one way or another. All right, all right,

1885
01:49:05,680 --> 01:49:07,960
Speaker 1: So about being twenty minutes into the film, the two

1886
01:49:07,960 --> 01:49:11,040
Speaker 1: man carters are about to go on patrol. Make yourter

1887
01:49:11,160 --> 01:49:14,880
Speaker 1: one says to their manuter. Twelve serious crimes commit every

1888
01:49:14,880 --> 01:49:17,920
Speaker 1: min seventeen thousand per day. We can respond to around

1889
01:49:17,920 --> 01:49:23,000
Speaker 1: six heat, says which six percent? Major says your show Revie.

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Speaker 1: You tell me, m M. This is a Tom Cruise

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Speaker 1: like future crime thing. Uh without Tom Cruise. It is

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Speaker 1: sci fi action. Yeah, obviously hit the buzzer, all right,

1893
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Speaker 1: what is it? Alright, it's Dread and the MANK Carter

1894
01:49:43,600 --> 01:49:46,639
Speaker 1: was Judged Dread. That's an action movie. It's terrible from

1895
01:49:46,640 --> 01:49:51,080
Speaker 1: what I understand that it's an action movie. Well, be honest,

1896
01:49:51,200 --> 01:49:52,479
Speaker 1: is it kind of a terrible I mean it can

1897
01:49:52,520 --> 01:49:54,479
Speaker 1: be terrible good, but is it a terrible movie? Don't.

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01:49:54,680 --> 01:49:57,920
Speaker 1: Let's be real. I just watched it last night. It's

1899
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Speaker 1: my fair movie of the year, which was the thing

1900
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Speaker 1: to thousand and twelve. Uh. The Sylvester Stallone Judge Dread. No, no, no,

1901
01:50:07,680 --> 01:50:09,720
Speaker 1: I can't remer the actor, but he plays bones in

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01:50:09,800 --> 01:50:12,200
Speaker 1: the new Star Truck movies. He plays Judge Dread and

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01:50:12,240 --> 01:50:14,760
Speaker 1: the New One. Oh, I'm thinking of the one, the

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Speaker 1: Sylvester Stalone one from like fifteen years ago or something.

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Speaker 1: That's that's because I remember reading a review of it

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01:50:20,479 --> 01:50:21,679
Speaker 1: and it was like, this is one of the worst

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01:50:21,680 --> 01:50:26,400
Speaker 1: things that's ever been filmed. Yeah, that's the Saloon one. Yeah, well,

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01:50:26,600 --> 01:50:29,599
Speaker 1: you know Stallone, you know, he's Stallone. Is it's not

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01:50:29,640 --> 01:50:32,160
Speaker 1: all it's not all great. It's like it's like it's

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Speaker 1: not all Mozart on the screen. That's that I could say,

1911
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Speaker 1: I'm the law. I don't know what you just said,

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Speaker 1: but anyway, thanks looking for calling in, Um Felix in

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Speaker 1: Pennsylvania on w A E B Hey Felix, Hey buck

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Speaker 1: shield Tielli Felix. I got one for you, maybe slightly outside.

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01:50:53,200 --> 01:50:56,360
Speaker 1: But if God did not intend them to be sheared,

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01:50:56,439 --> 01:51:01,400
Speaker 1: he would not have made them cheap. I mean these

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01:51:01,439 --> 01:51:05,880
Speaker 1: are like, Okay, I'm having a rough one. What is this?

1918
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Speaker 1: Eli Wallack from the Magnificent Original Magnificent seven? Uh, come on, Calvera, alright,

1919
01:51:13,600 --> 01:51:16,559
Speaker 1: we're calling the Magnificent. Magnificent seven is a Western. It's

1920
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Speaker 1: not an action movie. This is action. This is action movie.

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Speaker 1: Quote Friday, like, I need guys with with I need

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01:51:23,720 --> 01:51:29,160
Speaker 1: guys smoking cigars, wearing wearing preposterously little for being in

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01:51:29,240 --> 01:51:33,839
Speaker 1: a tactical military exchange of fire, and you know, carrying

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01:51:34,000 --> 01:51:37,400
Speaker 1: like bandoliers with grenades that they never used but they

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01:51:37,479 --> 01:51:40,519
Speaker 1: just look cool. I mean action movie stuff. All right,

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Speaker 1: here here's one for you. Alright, you've been sitting behind

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01:51:43,240 --> 01:51:45,280
Speaker 1: the desk so long you forgot the feel of a

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01:51:45,360 --> 01:51:51,439
Speaker 1: loaded gun in your hands. Um Leaf one of lethal

1929
01:51:51,479 --> 01:52:01,240
Speaker 1: weapon movies. Nope, Ah, Liam Neeson and taken. Okay, before

1930
01:52:01,600 --> 01:52:04,840
Speaker 1: before he shoots the French, we've played a couple of

1931
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Speaker 1: leaves and quotes. Here are a particular sense of that one. Actually,

1932
01:52:09,640 --> 01:52:11,680
Speaker 1: now you were the suggestor or thank you? That was

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01:52:11,800 --> 01:52:14,120
Speaker 1: the there we go. Now now you're putting a happy

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01:52:14,200 --> 01:52:16,680
Speaker 1: face or I'm putting a happy face on. I appreciate that.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, Felix, you got you got me on

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Speaker 1: the second one I give you. I have a Magnificent seven.

1937
01:52:20,800 --> 01:52:23,760
Speaker 1: That's an old school Western. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. There's

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01:52:23,800 --> 01:52:25,840
Speaker 1: not a single member of the Magnificent Seven that has

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01:52:25,880 --> 01:52:28,360
Speaker 1: ever taken steroids to my knowledge. So I just don't

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01:52:28,400 --> 01:52:29,880
Speaker 1: know if it's an action movie. I just don't know

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Speaker 1: if it if it qualifies. But thank you for calling in.

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Speaker 1: Um let's do one more call here because we got one.

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01:52:35,760 --> 01:52:40,559
Speaker 1: Alex and Alabama w BUV. How are you doing? Good? Sir?

1944
01:52:40,600 --> 01:52:43,799
Speaker 1: How are you? I want to ask you a question,

1945
01:52:43,920 --> 01:52:47,400
Speaker 1: but I want to do before I ask you a quote.

1946
01:52:48,560 --> 01:52:52,879
Speaker 1: Oh then the movie quotes are coming fast and furious, Yes, sir, Okay,

1947
01:52:53,240 --> 01:53:01,840
Speaker 1: here we go. That's a smile, smile, that's it. I

1948
01:53:01,880 --> 01:53:04,000
Speaker 1: don't know, but it's what is that he hit the

1949
01:53:04,080 --> 01:53:07,040
Speaker 1: bother man? We're gonna We're gonna erase this second from

1950
01:53:07,040 --> 01:53:09,000
Speaker 1: the podcast because I'm getting too many. I'm getting too

1951
01:53:09,040 --> 01:53:12,320
Speaker 1: many gongs here, too many buzzed out situation. What is it?

1952
01:53:13,600 --> 01:53:19,280
Speaker 1: Godfather run? That's not no, No, retract off the list.

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01:53:19,439 --> 01:53:21,519
Speaker 1: It is, yeah, thank you, No, we need to undo.

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01:53:21,680 --> 01:53:24,800
Speaker 1: The Godfather is not an action movie, Alex. No, I

1955
01:53:24,880 --> 01:53:28,280
Speaker 1: have to draw the line somewhere as the dude. As

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Speaker 1: the dude says, this is not non there are rules.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. No, don't be sorry, Alex. I appreciate you

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Speaker 1: calling it. I'm just messing with you, man. Did you

1959
01:53:36,680 --> 01:53:41,519
Speaker 1: have something else in your mind? One question? Uh, the deal?

1960
01:53:43,520 --> 01:53:47,080
Speaker 1: If we were to go ahead of it? Question shipping?

1961
01:53:47,200 --> 01:53:50,640
Speaker 1: Where do you all think would happen? If we were

1962
01:53:50,680 --> 01:53:54,360
Speaker 1: to go ahead with what were go ahead and take

1963
01:53:55,400 --> 01:54:00,759
Speaker 1: go ahead attack Russian shipping in SA attack Russian shipping,

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Speaker 1: we would have a very big problem on our hands. Alex.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for calling in. We're at the end of the show.

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01:54:04,880 --> 01:54:07,400
Speaker 1: But yeah, no, attacking anything Russian would be a very

1967
01:54:07,479 --> 01:54:10,080
Speaker 1: big no. Not right now, um and any time in

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Speaker 1: the future I think as well. So alright down on

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Speaker 1: the podcast buck section with American Now on iTunes. Uh,

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Speaker 1: have a great weekend. Everybody shields high