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Hello, everyone, Welcome back to
another episode of A You're Wrong with Molly

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Hemingway and David Harsani. You know, Molly, some weeks I really worried

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that we're not going to have enough
to talk about, you know, and

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this I think might be one of
those weeks, don't you. Yeah,

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nothing really is going on in the
world at large, the country. The

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country is not falling apart anyway.
Let's talk about the Durham Report. That

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is the news of the day,
but apparently not the news for mainstream oh,

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for establishment media, where it was
barely covered, including I'm sad to

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say, in the Wall Street Journal
on the initial day, though they had

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a very good editorial later about it. Obviously, this is something you've heard,

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I mean, the topic of Russia
collusion, the hoax of Russia collusion

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from nearly the very beginning. I
think the Federalist deserves credit for being onto

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this very early and writing just a
slew of really good stories, great journalism.

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But I'll just start with this because
I don't know how else to get

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into this huge topic. Was there
anything in that report that surprised you or

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anything that you didn't expect, or
was it exactly what you expected, So

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I think I might have had a
better understanding of what to expect than a

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lot of people did. So the
report in some ways was exactly what I

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expected, a really thoughtful, precise
look at how the Russia collusion hoax got

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weaponized by the FBI, and it
is that. But having said that,

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there are lots of surprises for me, including I mean, like, one

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of the things that Durham explains is
that there were more tiple disconcerting issues surrounding

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foreign attempts to bribe Hillary Clinton,
and the way the FBI handled that was

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either to sort of not worry about
it, or to give a defensive briefing,

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certainly not to open up an investigation. In one case, they actually

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tell a confidential human source that they
don't want that source continuing to give information

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about foreign attempts to give money to
the Clinton campaign. So there were lots

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of interesting details about that that I
had no idea about, and even I

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think it's largely surmised that one of
these incidents involves a guy who had been

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publicly saying that he had been an
FBI confidential human source put against the Clinton

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campaign. It's this overstocked CEO Patrick
Byrne, and I think I think a

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lot of people just kind of dismissed
what he was saying, and then it

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looks like he might have been telling
the truth about parts of this because it's

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in the Durham Report. So there's
a lot of stuff that would be like

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any journalist who has a pulse has
a lot to look at here. And

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I've been doing a real close read. I mean I did that thing everybody

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does of getting the report, reading
the executive summary, going through like skimming

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the rest. But now I and
also Mario Cleveland and a few other reporters

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at the Federalists were doing like a
real careful look, and there's a lot

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in there that's very interesting to me. So for me at least just reading

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through it very quickly, and I
haven't taken a deep dive. And honestly,

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people who have been paying attention to
every aspect of the story can contextualize

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it much better than I can,
you know. But still it is such

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a disheartening thing to read. I'm
not even exaggerating here when I say that

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I feel like this is the last
like nail in the coffin for me,

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Like I feel like we can't survive, not only because we have the FBI

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and all these you know, really
powerful people coordinating attacks and being involved in

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this conspiracy to undermine an election.
It's that no one cares that I became

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a journalist because I thought, like, you know, journalists stand up to

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people, empower journalists, defend freedom, all these things. But we have

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nothing. And now, obviously many
of these journalists who involved themselves in this

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were credulous and many of them were
devious. But after reading this report,

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it seems to me like most of
them were probably devious, and few of

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them were actually just dupes, do
you know what I mean? Or they

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were willing dupes because they knew that
this was just incredibly thin. Like to

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me, it seems like there was
dispositive evidence that the FBI ignored, not

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just like not enough evidence, that
there was actually evidence that they were spreading

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Russian or tracking down Russian disinformation.
Am I wrong about this? I'm not

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sure exactly what you mean by that. What I mean is that the FBI

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not only have not pursued this investigation
because they didn't have enough evidence, but

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that they had evidence that proved that
it would have been a bad thing to

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pursue in the first place. Okay, so yeah, this is actually one

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of the really interesting parts of the
Durham Report. And I just want to

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make a real quick point that one
of the things I find disheartening is how

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many people opine on what's in the
report without actually having read it. It's

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quite obvious that a lot of these
corrupt propagandists who are like, oh,

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it's not that big of a deal, they clearly have not read it.

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In some cases, they're mentioned by
name for their wrongdoing, and yet they're

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going out on major media and saying
there's nothing there. But so, one

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of the things that Durham looks into
is the fact that by the end of

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July, US intelligence knew that Russians
were talking about Hillary Clinton personally approving a

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plan to say that Donald Trump was
an agent of Putin. Now, the

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reason why that's significant is because everything
that they got related to this should have

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been viewed through the lens of is
this real or is this a Hillary Clinton

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operation. Now we found out,
you know, a year or two years

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later, that Hillary Clinton had personally
paid for the operation to create the Steel

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dossier with her campaign along with the
DNC. So it was like a they

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actually purchased the Steel dossier. But
even before we knew that conclusively, a

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smart FBI would have thought, gosh, this seems like kind of what we

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heard the Russians seem to know about
what Hillary is doing, and Durham lays

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out everything it's like, so supposedly
the Russians said on this day in July,

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Hillary Clinton personally approved the plan.
We asked her about it, and

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she said, no, I never
said I never personally approved a plan like

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that. That's crazy. But Durham
points out that the very next day there

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are emails from top four and policy
advisers trying to get this whole thing going,

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and then he leads out he talks
about what's happening in July, what's

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happening in August, what's happening in
September, what's happening in October, And

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he actually points out that on one
day, October thirtieth, twenty sixteen,

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multiple stories dropped Alpha Bank, the
Russia investigation at the FBI, Christopher Steele

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being really concerned about Russia collusion with
the Trump campaign. They all dropped on

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the same day. Hillary Clinton put
it at the top of her Twitter feed

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that this was like a real thing, and Durham is like, so she

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denies it, but also, here's
what happened July, August, September,

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and October. That happens to all
be directly related to the campaign and what

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they were funding and fusion GPS contacting
this reporter and that reporter. In other

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words, you'd have to be a
complete idiot to think that this whole thing

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wasn't like one Hillary. If I
could just add one little thing, you

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can add anything you want. My
first story arguing against the Russia collusion hoax

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was published at The Federalist on October
thirty first, twenty sixteen. I loved

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that Durham did the same thing I
did, which was to look at all

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of these stories about Russia, all
dropping on the same day, all seeming

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like an infoof from Hillary Clinton.
And that was my argument, and that's

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his argument. And it was just
kind of nice to have that confirmation from

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someone who had greater access. I
mean, for kind of if I may

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pat myself on the back that I
did it the day it happened, I

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think impressive. It was. It
was not an easy thing to do for

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you, and obviously I was there
with you and I saw you know,

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the attacks on you and all that. But even later in twenty seventeen,

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I think I wrote a story like
stop, you know, like maybe we

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should just listen to Devin Nunez a
little bit, like maybe this isn't crazy,

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Like there was no reason to just
dismiss it and not investigate. And

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the blowback for just saying something like
that of me being a Putin stooge,

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and you know what, all the
stuff from like all these lived journalists.

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It was, you know, and
it's a bit scary because you don't want

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to come out on the wrong side
of a huge story like this. It

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was the you know, but as
it turned out, this was the most

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successful political you know, disinformation operation
that's ever happened in American history. If

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we went out to again, Brennan
briefs Obama and Komey in July twenty sixteen

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that the Russians say that there's this
info op going to be coming out of

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the Hillary Clinton campaign, like they
knew that early. They knew therefore that

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I mean, at the very least
they knew. The Russians believed this to

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be the case. So any information
that was coming was so obviously Russian disinformation

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or highly possibly Russian disinformation. Turned
out that Christopher Steele was contracting with an

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actual Russian dude who had been investigated
by our own intel services for being a

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Russian spy, who had bragged to
all of his friends that he was former

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Russian intelligence, who bragged about being
involved in military operations on behalf of Russia,

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who had asked some of his callings
at the left wing Brookings Institution if

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they would like money for revealing secrets
to Russia. Like this is the guide

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that was Christopher Steele's primary source.
And our intelligence agencies were so idiotic they

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opened an investigation on him like ten
years prior, but closed it because they

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believed he had left the country and
he had not. Well, thanks for

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bringing up John Brennan. You know
he knew from the and that's why it

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was so difficult, because you had
these people lending their considerable credibility. This

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is the former director of the CIA
saying there's something there. So a normal

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person and not anymore, of course, but in those days would say,

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wow, the former director of the
CIA saying there's something here. The director

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of the FBI is fine with this, Like these are people you know who

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have incredible knowledge that you don't have
and or you know have credibility. But

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the problem was Brennan, we now
know knew not only then, probably from

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the very beginning, but also knew
later when he admitted that he you know,

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inclosed behind closed doors, that he
knew there was no conspiracy. Yet

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that same week I think it was, went on Joe Scarborough Show and said

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there's more to it than Muller's leading
on. There's definitely more to it.

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There's a collusion. This good he
lied. He's a complete liar who belongs

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in prison. Now, when I
wrote this column this week that John Brennan

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belongs in prison, I got a
lot of blowback for it. He belongs

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in prison for other reasons as well. He spied on the Senate and all

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that. He's just an odious person. But how about how about instead of

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prison, not promoting people who did
this like that would be a good start

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for me, or not putting them
on TV anymore, or not celebrating them

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as some sort of heroes of democracy. That would be a good start for

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me. It doesn't have to be
prison. I'm willing to start anywhere.

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I also don't think it has to
be prison. But I'm going in a

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more extreme direction probably than you are. But yes, at the very least,

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nobody should be talking, like every
single time these people talk, it

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should be announced this person lied about
Russia collusion in a way that damaged the

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country. This you know, in
the case of Brennan and Clapper, you

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have other instances that they have lied
to the country in ways that we're very

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harmful to the republic. But our
corporate media actually reward the people who participated

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in the hoax. They themselves were
co conspirators in the operation. I'm never

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actually one hundred percent sure if they're
co conspirators or if they are literally the

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stupidest people on earth and actually believed
this fantastical tale of Russia collusion. I

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think it depends on the person,
and we don't want to need to go

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through the whole list. But it
was funny that the New York Times had

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I think four byline stories saying there's
nothing to see her, and one of

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the authors is Charlie Savage was participated
in the hoax, So of course the

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hoaxter says he doesn't think anything is
there. I'm like, can you can

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you get another person who didn't fall
for this to write about it, at

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least in your newspaper, right,
And I think he knew he was falling

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for it. So it's not that's
not quite the right term. But Charlie

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Savage, I remember, was really
critical of the Nounez memo, even after

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the Inspector General report came out completely
confirming the Devinnunez memo. Once again with

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the Durham report, you know,
So the Nounez memo had like five points,

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and one was that the dossier was
used to secure the Faiza on Carter

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page. Another was that they had
failed to include exculpatory information. Another was

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that Bruce and Nellie Orr were more
involved in this operation than had previously been

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known. There were a few other
things. Every single thing that was that

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memo has been To say it's been
confirmed is an understatement. It was actually

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so much worse than what Devin Newness
as memo said. And I also want

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to point out that when the Newness
memo was coming out, the Department of

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Justice authored a letter saying that if
the American people were to read this memo,

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it would harm the country. And
I had said at the time,

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I thought that what they meant was
that the FBI would be embarrassed, and

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that was absolutely true. The person
who authored that letter is the special counsel

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supposedly investigating for Joe Biden for his
mishandling of classified documents. The guy who

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was a also this same guy ever
get his name? The special counsel was

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one of the few people who understood
that Christopher Steele was who he was and

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that he was compromised by his relationship
with the in campaign. This is the

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guy that Merritt Garland says will do
a really good job investigating Joe Biden's five

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decade career of mishandling classified information.
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to paint Trump as a Russian asset, and yet later or he went and

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basically it agreed that the election had
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know, no one seems to care. But so, I mean, let's

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talk a little bit. Also,
the office of the Vice President is mentioned

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early on in the Durham Report,
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Vice president, the day after Hillary
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by calling him a Russian stuge talk
foreign policy aids to our campaign. We're

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trying to get help from the office
of the Vice president to just like,

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yeah, get things out into the
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they were early participants in the hooks. There are early adopters. The funny,

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it's not funny, it is sort
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of course, the reaction from the
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That's either to ignore it or pretend
that, oh, there's nothing new

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here. No one's even indicted.
You know, he couldn't even find someone

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to indict It's amazing how this story
has gone from the elected president of the

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United States is actually a Russian spy
to hey, they couldn't even find anyone

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to indict for this hoax, right, Like I So much has happened since

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seventeen, But the hysteria this country
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years of writing or talking about politics, maybe nine to eleven, which was

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an actual event, nothing has matched
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you know, I don't even know
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this, this collective hysteria, and
we were talking about it every day,

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and none of it was true,
and every stupid story that came out had

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to be chased down. Do you
remember, like a story would drop and

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everyone would get hysterical in the media
and like for two days, and usually

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it would like fizzle out. But
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of the voter, if you remember. I think it was by like twenty

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nineteen, sixty seven percent of Democratic
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their votes, not bought some Facebook
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is such a success. This was
such a success, and no one has

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been held accountable, and no one
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no one's going to be indicted.
I don't think anyone's going to be

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held accountable for this. I just
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twenty sixteen, on the book Shattered
mentions that Hillary Clinton is devastated by her

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failure to win the presidency, and
within hours she and her brain trust are

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meeting in Brooklyn and they decide to
lean into this Russia, this Russia false

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claim that they had made, and
they used that to try to keep the

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electors from voting for Donald Trump.
There were lots of legitimate stories about how

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maybe Donald Trump wouldn't be inaugurated.
The day of his inauguration, one of

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the major co conspirators in this,
The Washington Post, published a piece saying

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that it's time to impeach Donald Trump. So they run this whole, like

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years long overt campaign to say that
Donald Trump stole the twenty sixteen election by

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colluding with Russia. They knew it
was false, they weaponized it. They

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got it into the idiots at the
FBI who were eager co conspirators. They

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talked about it at length, and
they used it to undermine the will of

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the people who had just elected a
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people from serving in that administration or
to oust them if they did. It

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was like a full on coup that
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you put by comparison what happened in
twenty twenty, which involved a radical shift

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in how we do elections in a
very short period of time without buy in.

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You know, there were all these
changes to laws and processes under the

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cover of COVID that were just pushed
through without legislatures weighing in on them,

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which is what the Constitution requires,
to enable a flood of like tens of

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millions of mail in ballots at the
same time that scrutiny of those ballots was

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like brought to nearly nothing. You
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by Mark Zuckerberg, spending four hundred
and nineteen million dollars in the blue areas

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of swing states to take to gin
up get out the vote efforts for Democrats.

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You had the suppression by big tech
of major media stories like the Hunter

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Biden and the Biden family corruptions stories. You had our corporate media, which

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had just engaged in a four year
long Russia hysteria thing, also inventingle just

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making completely made up stories, like
The Atlantic completely invented a story that Donald

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Trump had disparaged dead World War One
soldiers, a story that was refuted by

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like twenty five on the record sources. And so that's the situation going into

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the twenty twenty election, where Trump
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Clinton lost in twenty sixteen, and
when people are upset about it, the

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media are like, you're not allowed
to ask any questions. You're not allowed

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to say the words rigged or stolen, you know, like all of a

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sudden, it was just, you
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one eighty switch where they went from
adopting the most absurd theory in history and

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then saying you're not even allowed to
like notice the big tech you know,

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interfered in the election. Yeah,
election denialism, which has been a democratic

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hobby since nineteen eighty, right,
but you're not allowed particularly, I would

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say, particularly since two thousand.
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even came close to accepting that they
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I don't even want to dive into
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a story recently in the New York
Times about how the nineteen eighty election was

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actually stolen because Reagan sent agents over
to the Middle East to tell the Iranians

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to keep holding onto the hostages which
would have been released before, and then

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Reagan would have lost, and then
the world would be a better place.

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Right. It is interesting though that
now since then, I mean you could

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sort of retroactively see this, but
now you can see these things, these

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operations unfold from like ten miles away. For instance, the dark money concerted

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effort to smear and destroy the Supreme
Court as one of these sort of efforts

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that everyone is involved in. But
the Hunter Biden laptop story effort was very

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similar. You had the former the
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Barrel, maybe you know, cooking
up talking points for Joe Biden, enlisting

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people again who have credentials, who
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to sign a letter that it reeked
of what was it like had all

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the characteristics of Russian disinformation. The
New York Post story, which incidentally had

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more corroboration and journalistic ethics behind it
than any Russia collusion, hoak story,

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mostly all of them put together,
all of them put together with their one

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sourced you know, leaks, and
to interfere in an election, to interfere

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in free speech and debate, using
giant corporations, using the people from the

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CIA and FBI and so on.
It is just it's far more dangerous to

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democracy than January sixth was. It's
not even in the same realm. It

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is. I've never said these words, these words that I'm about to say

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in my life. I don't think, not sarcastically, worse than Watergate by

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any conception, this was worse.
This was a soft coup on the government.

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They basically tied up the duly elected
president for four years with this nonsense.

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So how many investigations were there into
this, how many much money did

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they spend? How many tens of
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in the end, Devin Nunez was
right about everything, and Adam Schiff lied

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about everything, you know what I
mean? And Adam Shift is going to

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be the maybe be the Senator from
California running the country. It is really

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it's like what Harry Reid said about
lying about Mitt Romney's taxes, and then

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when he was confronted on it,
he said, well it worked. I

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mean, can you mentioned that?
Yeah, I thought about that the other

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day. That is an encapsulation of
what these things are about. And I

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see these I don't want to mention
all these reporters. We call them at

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by name all the time, but
they are not upset because it worked.

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They're happy that it worked. They're
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I'm completely I'm not saying, like
the average Democrat walking around in Cleveland

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once a one party state. But
these media types, these journalists, these

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pundits, these people in government,
they want a one party state. The

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only thing they don't runs the Supreme
Court. They're going to destroy that as

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well. And they're happy when the
FBI does this because they think they're on

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such a moral plane that whatever needs
to be done is fine. So there's

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why I'm just ranting about this because
it upsets me. But I just I

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think this is like to me,
I don't know how you come back from

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stuff like this, because I just
don't know how you come back from it.

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Just one additional thing that I think
relates to this, which is when

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the Russia collusion hoax started. I
think most Americans who aren't crazy just thought

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it was stupid. You know,
the theory was put forth by Washington DC

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media that the reason why Donald Trump
had won was because he had colluded with

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Russia to steal the election. That
was you know, Hillary Clinton and her

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allies in the media. And then
a lot of Americans said, I think

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he won because we didn't want to
vote for Hillary and we voted for Donald.

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We liked his ideas better. So
immediately, like just Middle America was

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like, this is stupid. But
in DC it was incredibly difficult to fight

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against this. And I would go
on these panels on TV and the latest

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story would drop, and of course
we would talk about it. It's not

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like the Biden corruption story, like
we've got actual government documents that are on

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the record showcasing Biden family influence pedaling. Do we talk about it at night?

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I don't think we talk about it
that much, right, Like,

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I don't think many media outlets are
really paying much attention to it at all.

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But it didn't matter how absurd the
Russia story was. We talked about

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it. And so every time I
would talk about it, I would get

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all this pushback from other people,
you know, mockery, anger, derision,

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you know, like sniping, and
now that it all has come out

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once again as being like that you
had to be a freaking idiot to believe

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this stuff. You do not see
a lot of apologies from these people who

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were so disdainful of those of us
who were skeptical about this Hillary Clinton operation.

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My favorite formulation is I'm happy it
wasn't true. I'm happy he wasn't

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a spy like you know, Oh, I'm happy Brett Kavanaugh was not a

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rapist like I said he was before. Or you know, this is good

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for the country. You know,
they do this all the time. They're

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doing it now with the Supreme Court. I just think it's a good example,

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though, you know, is that
they throw out accusations and it sort

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of becomes the accusations, though never
proven, become embedded in the way they

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talk about everything, like all these
ethical problems we've been wrangling with, you

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know, yeah, you made it
up. And then they're like, oh,

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no one trusts the Supreme Court.
We have to reform it. Yeah,

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because you destroy trust in the Supreme
Court, you do trust. You

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destroy trust in the FBI, you
destroyed trust in the CIA and basically every

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institution, and now we trust no
one, and that's where we are right

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now. I don't know. I
guess it's all big picture stuff. But

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you know, I think a lot
of Americans I think you're wrong by the

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way. I think there was a
contagion on the there's sort of like conspiratorial

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contagion on the left, and I
think tons of people believe that there was

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some I should have been clear.
Yes, a majority of Democrats to this

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day, I think actually believe the
twenty sixteen election was stolen to this day.

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That's how effective the lie the election
denihalism was. What I'm talking about

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is what we experienced in DC,
which is that you would have, you

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know, all of these liberals on
TV pushing the Russia collusion hoax. You

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have like a limited number of slots
for people who aren't openly on the left.

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Most of those slots were held by
never Trump idiots, like just straight

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up not very bright idiots. They
also pushed the Russia collusion hoax. So

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what I'm saying is if you're if
you're talking to like conservative America, they're

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all like, this thing sounds crazy, But it was very difficult for those

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few of us who were not never
Trump like madmen to say I don't think

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this. I think I don't think
this sounds right. There's so much pushback,

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I mean extreme pushback places that there
should not have been pushedback, including

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right the way. One time they've
briefed the Senate on the Russia collusion hoax

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and meant Romney himself like attacked me
because he thought he believed it, and

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he thought, basically like Trump deserves
this, which is what I heard one

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of these never Trump aloo pundits say
just this week, like, Okay,

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well it turns out I was wrong
to trust Come more than Trump, but

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he deserved to have people lie about
him and claim that the election was stolen

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and be subjected to four years of
a soft coup. So that's the level

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of thinking you get from the idiots
that run the never Trump movement. Well,

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parent, you know I'm an idiot
because someone will quote I'm an idiot,

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Dartsani. I am an idiot because
I actually, you know, I

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care about process and stuff like that. I think it's more important than actual

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issues sometimes. You know, how
we deal with issues, how we debate,

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and all these norms people and process
people. They didn't care at They

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didn't give one wit about anything to
do with process. None of the almost

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none of those never trumpers really cared
because none of them care right now about

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this. But you know, so
I'm a sucker. I'm a sucker because

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I care about process and I think
it matters. And I'm a sucker because

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no one does anymore, No one, David. We have so much we

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have to cover. We have to
move on to the what's the next thing

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I'm going to talk about? We're
off the Durham report. Do you think

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do you even more to say?
Say it? No? I just I

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like ranting because I don't talk to
anyone all week, and this is where

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I come to rant. Let's talk
a minute. Let's talk for a second,

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just just very quickly about because we've
covered these this Hunter Biden investigations and

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what's going on with that quite a
bit. But there was a whistleblower,

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I believe, this week who says
that the Biden administration had replaced maybe the

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entire team at the IRS that was
investigating hunters, hunters, you know,

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financial doing, you know the stuff
he was doing, the whole family's stuff.

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Apparently, Yeah, So there had
been reports of a whistleblower at Treasury

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who was aware of very significant information
that he wanted to tell Congress about,

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but he was worried about violating his
own requirements not to reveal information. So

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he went through like a very formal
whistleblowing process and he got approval to give

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some information to his attorneys and to
Congress. And this week we learned that

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he was retaliated against. In fact, his entire team was retaliated against.

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They were all removed from this Department
of Justice investigation that is like the longest

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investigation in the history of mankind.
Like the dude is on tape breaking laws,

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he's got paperwork up the ying yang
of how much he has avoid to

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00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:04,119
taxation and stuff, and the Department
of Justice it is just gosh, they

409
00:32:04,119 --> 00:32:07,400
couldn't be kinder. It's almost Hillary
Clinton, Like how gentle they're being with

410
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:12,759
this guy. But the whistleblower was
retaliated against, he was removed, He

411
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:16,759
and his entire team were removed from
the investigation. So, which is not

412
00:32:16,799 --> 00:32:23,079
supposed to happen in is a violation
of whistleblower protections. Hunter Biden lied on

413
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:28,559
like we know he lied on his
background check form for a gun, right,

414
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,200
and why isn't he being prosecuted.
I don't even understand, Like,

415
00:32:31,359 --> 00:32:35,119
I don't care about Hunter Biden.
Like I said, I care about Joe

416
00:32:35,119 --> 00:32:37,799
Biden, and I think I want
to know if Joe Biden got any money.

417
00:32:37,799 --> 00:32:42,920
There is tons of circumstantial evidence pointing
in that direction, But I still

418
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,079
don't understand why he hasn't been prosecuted
for gun crimes, for tax crimes,

419
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:49,680
Hunter. I mean, it's clearly
there's got to be some interference in the

420
00:32:50,519 --> 00:32:53,279
drug and sex issues in there too, But most of what people are interested

421
00:32:53,279 --> 00:32:58,839
in, I think is the influence
peddling. And this person I correspond with

422
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:05,000
had this great point about how easy
it would be for the Biden family to

423
00:33:05,119 --> 00:33:10,920
just make all of the news go
away, which is just explain why every

424
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,759
member of the Biden family, except
for the dogs and the four year old

425
00:33:15,839 --> 00:33:20,359
daughter that they refuse to acknowledge her
exists. Why is every other family member

426
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,480
at the receiving end of why our
transfers from foreign governments. I'm sure there's

427
00:33:24,519 --> 00:33:29,119
a perfectly sensible reason, right if
nothing bad is happening, they could just

428
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:32,119
say, yeah, you know,
the reason why we're all creating shell companies

429
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:37,400
to funnel money from these foreign oligarchs. Is villa in the blake. You

430
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:42,519
can't even get the people in the
White House Press briefing room to ask the

431
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:49,319
question, But I was going to
ask you, has anyone asked anyone asked

432
00:33:49,319 --> 00:33:52,759
the White House Press Secretary or Biden? Has anyone asked him about this?

433
00:33:52,960 --> 00:34:02,079
Just to quick pet Peeves since today's
day of ranting, it enrages me to

434
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:09,079
just remember every single day of the
Trump administration featured not one, not two,

435
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:16,519
but like four hundred journalists screaming at
any possible member of the Trump administration.

436
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:22,159
They were just hysterical every single day. They were rude, they were

437
00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:25,360
dismissive, they were antagonistic, they
never accepted any answer. They were just

438
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:35,079
like rabid hyenas. And then now
we have this subliterate, frankly incompetent Press

439
00:34:35,119 --> 00:34:39,559
secretary who does not appear to have
any education whatsoever, and they're like ms

440
00:34:39,679 --> 00:34:44,480
Krinn, may we please ask you
a gentle question? And then she'll yell

441
00:34:44,519 --> 00:34:46,760
at them in response, and they
haven't even asked anything talk and instead of

442
00:34:47,119 --> 00:34:53,159
even having one one billionth of the
hysteria that they had under Trump, they're

443
00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:59,159
just like all the meekest, mildest. It's like they all have frontal lobotomies.

444
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,760
On the day they walked into the
into the White House Press briefing room,

445
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:05,559
not all of them, but like
ninety nine point nine percent of them,

446
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,599
like they. She keeps saying,
with this debt ceiling and debate,

447
00:35:09,639 --> 00:35:13,679
that the Republicans need to do their
job and lift the debt ceiling, and

448
00:35:13,679 --> 00:35:17,480
no one's like, yo, they
passed a bill and lifted the debts like

449
00:35:17,559 --> 00:35:22,519
no one challenges her. Real quick
point on that. I think it's under

450
00:35:22,159 --> 00:35:30,239
noticed that Joe Biden completely caved on
his on his stance. So for months

451
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,760
he said, I'm not going to
negotiate with these people, their hostage shakers.

452
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:37,079
They're never going to raise the debt
limit no matter what. So I'm

453
00:35:37,079 --> 00:35:40,719
not even going to bother negotiating with
them. A few weeks ago, Republicans

454
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:45,360
did it, and finally earlier this
week he announced that he's sending in a

455
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:50,719
negotiating team. I mean, he
totally caved. I mean today but yeah,

456
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:58,440
today he they brought up the work
work requirements for Medicaid and he didn't

457
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:00,400
dismiss it, Like he didn't say
Oh no, that's never going to happen.

458
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:04,960
He just sort of war you know, went around it, and even

459
00:36:05,039 --> 00:36:08,239
Chuck Schumer was talking about negotiating.
So I think the Republicans on this issue

460
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:13,280
have done a good job, though
sometimes I'm like, we take these smallest

461
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,400
little victories, you know, and
really it's not that much. There is

462
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:22,880
no spending cut. It's going to
be one, you know, percent hikes

463
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:25,599
in spending every year. And by
the way, they're never gonna stick to

464
00:36:25,679 --> 00:36:30,159
this, like just like they didn't
stick to that a Banner Obama deal.

465
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:34,840
It'll just spend money. But because
you were talking about all the way the

466
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:39,039
press treated Trump in comparison to Bama, let's talk about the CNN town hall,

467
00:36:39,079 --> 00:36:42,599
which happened the day we recorded last
week, so we didn't get to

468
00:36:42,639 --> 00:36:45,599
speak about it. I just want
to say a few things on it,

469
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:49,400
just three quick points. One,
it was entertaining as usual. The thing

470
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,480
that people I think underestimate about Trump
is that he's actually quite entertaining, even

471
00:36:52,519 --> 00:36:55,639
when he's saying things you know,
you don't like or whatever. He's just

472
00:36:55,800 --> 00:37:01,800
fun to watch. Two, he
is completely unafraid of doing interviews with people

473
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:06,559
who are antagonistic to him, which
I actually have argued with you about I

474
00:37:06,559 --> 00:37:12,880
think I think is a good thing, so so so that that part's also

475
00:37:13,039 --> 00:37:17,800
entertaining. And the third thing was
the what was her name again? Who?

476
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:22,440
Okay, she did what they always
Dooh that's not true, that's not

477
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,920
I have no problem with an aggressive
press, by the way, I just

478
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:29,800
wish they were aggressive against everyone.
But if you're going to say that's not

479
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:34,199
true, come with some facts,
challenge him specifically. They don't do that.

480
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:36,440
They're just like, oh, you're
just a liar. Oh, you're

481
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:38,440
just lying. Oh, you're just
lying. And Trump does a good job

482
00:37:38,519 --> 00:37:44,159
and he is. Last thing,
it made me recall that during his presidency

483
00:37:44,199 --> 00:37:47,800
he was maybe the most open president
of modern times. He was he literally

484
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:52,719
answered any question it literally answered it
from all kinds of antagonistic journalist all the

485
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,199
time. I think it was a
mistake for him because he was not,

486
00:37:55,559 --> 00:37:59,760
you know, very disciplined in his
answers. But you know, you can't

487
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:01,719
even compared. And yet, yeah, here we are again with the you

488
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:06,119
know, with the press just doing
what they always do with the new presidents

489
00:38:06,159 --> 00:38:12,239
whenever it's a democrat. Okay,
So I also agree it was entertaining and

490
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:16,239
I was thinking about how this left
wing censorship industrial complex that we have,

491
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:22,599
the one that has been trying to
silence or remove from any platform any effective

492
00:38:22,599 --> 00:38:27,880
conservative voice, had done like a
pretty good job of getting Trump off the

493
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:32,239
airwaves, off of you know,
just he kind of like went away.

494
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:38,840
It made his appearance at the CNN
town hall almost seem like the opening of

495
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:44,559
his presidential campaign. And it couldn't
have gone better for him in the sense

496
00:38:44,599 --> 00:38:47,719
that, you know, he can
be kind of exhausting, to put it

497
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:52,280
mildly, and it was like oddly
refreshing to have him back on the scene,

498
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:57,519
just saying things directly in a way
that so few politicians do. And

499
00:38:57,559 --> 00:39:00,679
I'm not saying like I agree with
everything or anything like that, but yeah,

500
00:39:00,679 --> 00:39:05,440
it was very it was very I
don't know, it just it's like

501
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:09,079
the time away from him had served
him well. The refreshing is the right

502
00:39:09,119 --> 00:39:12,559
word. Now. I know that
this is not the word that most people

503
00:39:12,599 --> 00:39:15,920
think of when they describe Trump,
but I will say this here. It's

504
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:21,400
just it's a visceral thing, Like
you're like, these people are complete hacks,

505
00:39:21,599 --> 00:39:25,480
they've hacks, they're constantly being dishonest, and this guy they deserve this

506
00:39:25,519 --> 00:39:30,039
guy. They deserve this guy to
say that you're a terrible person or whatever

507
00:39:30,039 --> 00:39:34,000
he said to her, Like he
is treating them like they treat us.

508
00:39:34,119 --> 00:39:37,000
I think that's what a lot of
voters see, and they like that because

509
00:39:37,039 --> 00:39:39,039
they're sick of being pushed around.
Now. I know everyone thinks they're always

510
00:39:39,079 --> 00:39:43,440
losing in politics, and sometimes they
are and sometimes they are. But he

511
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:45,960
is the only person who goes on
there. Maybe DeSantis will do it in

512
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:50,199
the future or whatever, but he's
the only person who regularly goes on there

513
00:39:50,199 --> 00:39:53,320
and treats them the way they treat
voters or so what I want to say

514
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:57,480
about I know what you're saying.
Also about how you like that he will

515
00:39:57,519 --> 00:40:01,199
go into the lions den, and
I agree with that at the when he

516
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:06,559
does it. The problem is he
also talks to these corrupt reporters when he

517
00:40:06,639 --> 00:40:09,840
has no control over the situation.
So he could say something to a Maggie

518
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:14,840
Haberman type who was a participant in
the Russia collusion hope she actually won an

519
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:19,000
award for her participation in that you
should not talk to people like that.

520
00:40:19,119 --> 00:40:22,960
There's no reason unless you're completely in
control of the situation. And he just

521
00:40:23,039 --> 00:40:29,239
like rewards these idiots and then they
write stupid stories. And also he's not

522
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:32,199
as prepared as he should be when
he goes into some of these discussions.

523
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:36,679
So what I like about Ron de
Santis is handling up this and Ronda Santis

524
00:40:36,679 --> 00:40:39,000
does not have the skills of a
Donald Trump on this. I'm not saying

525
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:44,159
he does. But his media team
operates I think at a very high level.

526
00:40:44,559 --> 00:40:47,079
They are well informed and why they're
not going to talk to different people.

527
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:52,199
They are very specific about reminding people
of their errors and their falsehoods and

528
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:57,519
their lies. And Ron de Santis
does a really good job of pushing back,

529
00:40:57,559 --> 00:41:01,920
like in the moment on the law's
very He's very well informed in a

530
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:06,599
way that inspires trust. But yeah, I mean, I don't want anyone

531
00:41:06,639 --> 00:41:08,960
to think that I'm saying that I
like everything Trump says or anything like that.

532
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:14,440
I'm looking at it purely as just
a spectacle. And why the you

533
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:19,559
know why I got good ratings?
Why the next week CNN's like un been

534
00:41:19,599 --> 00:41:22,639
behind Newsmax and audience and when he's
on, you know they're doing well.

535
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:25,480
I just I look at it in
that way, and I agree with you

536
00:41:25,519 --> 00:41:28,480
as well. He has this weird. I don't think it's weird. I

537
00:41:28,519 --> 00:41:30,599
just think it's the world he's in. He has this weird need to be

538
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:37,519
liked or have a relationship with these
big media reporters that doesn't serve him at

539
00:41:37,559 --> 00:41:40,400
all. All they do is attack
him, But for some reason he likes

540
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:43,400
to talk to them. I don't
know why he does that. I don't

541
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:45,920
think I just wouldn't do so.
I agree when you control the situation,

542
00:41:46,119 --> 00:41:49,719
if you can have an interview,
if you can tape it yourself to make

543
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,880
sure things aren't taking it out of
context, I think being out there is

544
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,960
a good thing because I think the
Conservatives, at least if you believe in

545
00:41:57,039 --> 00:42:00,079
what they're believing what they're saying,
have good arguments to make. Sorry.

546
00:42:00,519 --> 00:42:07,360
I want to just also touch on
some of the ostensibly Republican pushback to this

547
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:12,440
town hall that I thought was worth
noting. So the first is I saw

548
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:16,599
that it was like Johnson new Knew
and Larry Hogan, those types of people.

549
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:24,519
They were really upset that the audience
agreed or like laughed when Trump mocked

550
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:30,840
Ejean Carroll, and they were like
and I think even like Matthew Continetti,

551
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:34,840
who's normally you know, at least
as like sensible about these things. He

552
00:42:35,639 --> 00:42:39,519
kind of suggested that this was not
appropriate, that these are very serious things

553
00:42:39,519 --> 00:42:44,960
that happened with Ejean Carroll, and
that you shouldn't make fun of stuff like

554
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,400
this. And I would just say, to these people, how are you

555
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:53,599
supposed to, like, why not
mock Democrat claims of you know, Brett

556
00:42:53,679 --> 00:42:59,400
Kavanaugh being a serial gang rapist.
I don't think like it's a I actually

557
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:02,639
think they should. Mockery is the
least that should be done, you know.

558
00:43:02,679 --> 00:43:08,440
Byron York wrote an excellent deep dive
into how this entire Egene Carol thing

559
00:43:08,599 --> 00:43:15,360
was a left wing plot to as
one of the many legal efforts to you

560
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:22,480
know, putin style removed Donald Trump
from political life. The even even this

561
00:43:22,639 --> 00:43:28,760
left wing crazy New York jury did
not find that her claim that he had

562
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:31,559
raped her plausible, and I mean
even just hearing Trump talk about it.

563
00:43:31,599 --> 00:43:39,360
There she claims that when she was
in her fifties in a Bergdorf Goodman public

564
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:43,480
space, she was raped. Like, I think it's okay to mock this.

565
00:43:45,119 --> 00:43:49,519
Yeah, people who falsely accuse others
of horrible crime should be destroyed in

566
00:43:49,519 --> 00:43:52,400
every way possible. I mean,
that's just it. I don't know though

567
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:55,199
in this case, she didn't.
Her story did not sound plausible to me.

568
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:58,719
I did not like take a deep
dive into it or anything. But

569
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:00,440
if Trump didn't do it, doesn't
believe it did it, he has every

570
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:04,400
right to mock her. She seems
like a crazy person, right, I

571
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:07,039
mean, I've seen her on TV. So but you know, a crazy

572
00:44:07,079 --> 00:44:10,960
but incredibly well financed by the left
person. And I mean, yeah,

573
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:15,719
so certainly if you believe that Donald
Trump in a public place raped a fifty

574
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:20,360
year old, fifty something year old
woman, if you if you believe that

575
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:23,519
as apparently, I mean even the
jury didn't believe that, but they still

576
00:44:23,559 --> 00:44:29,719
held him like responsible in some way
for defaming her. Make any sense to

577
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:32,199
me? The decision made no sense. I have no doubt it would appealed,

578
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:35,800
and who knows what will happen there. But like, if you believe

579
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:38,360
it, that's fine, but don't
gaslight the rest of the country into being

580
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:42,519
like you shouldn't make fun of that. I'm sorry, Like, listen,

581
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:46,719
if you don't don't accept democrat claims
of sexual assault after decades of experiencing how

582
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:52,239
well founded they are. No one
undermines the seriousness of sexual assault and rape.

583
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:54,440
The people who who use it as
as a weapon to her people they

584
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:58,159
disagree with in politics or something.
I mean, those are the people who

585
00:44:58,199 --> 00:45:02,960
are really undermining the serious nature of
sexual assault, not someone who's mocking some

586
00:45:04,079 --> 00:45:07,840
woman who's making up a story.
I don't know, okay. So another

587
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:14,039
thing that I saw the same type
of people say is that Donald Trump was

588
00:45:14,079 --> 00:45:17,800
a Putin stooge or something, because
Caitlin Collins asked him to say the magic

589
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:22,280
words. Vladimir Putin is a war
criminal and if he could just say those

590
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:27,000
magic words then everything would be okay, And he said, I actually don't

591
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:30,679
think that's like a smart way to
build to resolution. Like once you start

592
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:35,360
saying stuff like this, then it's
harder to go into peace talks, which

593
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:40,119
is a very wise and statesmanlike thing
to say, not very common in our

594
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:45,400
political class right now. And then
these Larry Hogan whatever Sono new types were

595
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:49,760
like he loves Putin. Or when
he said she said, will you just

596
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:52,239
say the magic words that you want
Ukraine to win, he was like,

597
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:55,159
I want the war to end.
I want people to stop dying. Again,

598
00:45:55,679 --> 00:46:00,480
very statesmanlike, a statesmanship that we
have been missing in our political rhetoric

599
00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:07,639
since this war began, and they
are I don't know, there's just clowns.

600
00:46:07,639 --> 00:46:10,679
It's like virtue signaling, who no
matter how destructive this war is,

601
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:15,679
no matter how much it puts that
puts the entire world at risk of world

602
00:46:15,679 --> 00:46:19,960
war, Like, if you just
say these magic words, then everything's okay.

603
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,519
Yeah, I have no problem with
what he said in that regard,

604
00:46:22,519 --> 00:46:24,400
other than I'm going to fix this
in one day. I mean that kind

605
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:28,400
of like in my you don't believe
it it will be fixed in a twenty

606
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:32,239
four hundred period. I do not
believe it will be fixing, which is

607
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:37,119
a very sort of New York way
of speaking. Um, I'll get this

608
00:46:37,159 --> 00:46:39,719
done in a day, no worries. But overall, just say, you

609
00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:43,800
know, I just don't think the
president should be speaking that way. I

610
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:46,320
think it's different for us. I
do want Ukraine to win, but I

611
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:50,599
feel like it's already kind of one. So I don't know what the what

612
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:52,400
the point of this war going on
is anyway. I don't want to get

613
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:55,599
into that time. Gosh, well
no, okay, I know I want,

614
00:46:55,719 --> 00:47:01,360
I wanna. I feel like that's
fine, but you feel Ukraine has

615
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:05,679
won the war with Russia. Well, I feel that they've repelled Russia in

616
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:07,840
a serious way and that now this
is a good time to start talking to

617
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:12,880
try to deal with the situation.
I don't what is the what does winning

618
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:15,440
look like? No one ever tells
me. Is it taking Moscow? Is

619
00:47:15,519 --> 00:47:20,719
it arresting Putin? I don't understand
when the winning happens. So okay,

620
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:23,599
so I think I think the general
definition would be what I've heard people who

621
00:47:23,639 --> 00:47:28,960
are big supporters of US like risking
World War three to support Ukraine here is

622
00:47:29,039 --> 00:47:36,599
getting all Russians out of Ukraine at
the borders from the nineties. It's good,

623
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:38,000
that's not going to happen. But
I but I, you know,

624
00:47:38,039 --> 00:47:42,199
as I've been wrong about many things
related to this, including like I did

625
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:45,159
not expect Putin to come in so
hard at the beginning. I think the

626
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:51,639
fact that they kept him out of
Kiev, kept the Russians out of Kiev,

627
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:54,639
is like great. I mean,
that's like a great opportunity to be

628
00:47:54,679 --> 00:47:58,800
like, Okay, we know we've
got some issues here, but they have

629
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:05,559
they haven't. Both could negotiate to
an end. But I don't fashion MYSELFE

630
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:07,519
Yeah, I don't fashion myself some
expert on this, but it seems to

631
00:48:07,559 --> 00:48:14,599
me like Putin's prestige has been incredibly
damaged. The Russians have been unmasked as

632
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:20,039
a third rate power. Basically,
I just don't know why continue how continuing

633
00:48:20,039 --> 00:48:23,039
this war indefinitely helps anyone. So
sorry, David, that's what I never

634
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:27,280
these people say these things that don't
even make sense. But he'll say,

635
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:30,199
okay, so Putin's army is the
worst army in the history of the world.

636
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:37,480
And also no, no talking about
these people who are Putin's army is

637
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:44,159
the most incompetent, like weird,
awful force in world history. And also

638
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:49,960
if we don't give hundreds of billions
of dollars more, he's going to take

639
00:48:50,079 --> 00:48:53,599
Poland you know, it's like they
don't really make sense on this happens with

640
00:48:53,639 --> 00:48:55,880
all the time. And this will
be my last comment on this where I

641
00:48:55,920 --> 00:49:00,360
am supportive. I'm supportive of Ukraine. I think that Russia was the aggressor

642
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:04,840
and all that, and then the
argument becomes so stupid that you feel a

643
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:07,800
need to point out that actually Ukraine
is not defending democracy. It isn't even

644
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:10,599
a very good democracy at all.
In fact, it's one of the most

645
00:49:10,599 --> 00:49:15,559
corrupt countries on earth. Or you
know, no, Russia was not going

646
00:49:15,599 --> 00:49:20,119
to march into Berlin and Paris.
They had no. They don't want to

647
00:49:20,119 --> 00:49:22,039
do that. They can't do it. It's ridiculous and all this stuff.

648
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:27,079
But yeah, the longer war like
this goes on, the more danger there

649
00:49:27,159 --> 00:49:30,639
is pulling others in of something terrible
happening of you know, all you need

650
00:49:30,679 --> 00:49:34,559
to do is read a history book
to know this, of any kind of

651
00:49:34,599 --> 00:49:37,760
conflict that's ever happened. So I
thought Trump's answers are fine on that.

652
00:49:38,039 --> 00:49:40,440
I have no problem with it.
Listen, there are a lot of other

653
00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:43,519
things we needed to talk about,
but I'm going to skip them and get

654
00:49:43,599 --> 00:49:47,039
right to culture because I actually watched
a bunch of stuff and talking about politics,

655
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:50,800
but let's hear about it. I
watched a show called Jury Duty.

656
00:49:51,159 --> 00:49:54,039
The premise oh because so many,
so many listeners had recommended it to you.

657
00:49:54,800 --> 00:50:00,239
The only reason I did it so
everyone the judge, that urry,

658
00:50:00,599 --> 00:50:04,639
everyone on the jury, everyone in
the courthouse, everyone is an actor except

659
00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:09,599
one guy. And they sort of
subtly make it just an insane place.

660
00:50:10,039 --> 00:50:15,320
So very quick seeing the guys,
like another guy said, an actor says

661
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:17,960
to the real guy, you know, like, how do you get out

662
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:20,800
of this? I really want to
get it out of jury duty? So

663
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:24,719
he mentions a Family Guy episode where
Peter pretends to be a racist. So

664
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:30,880
the actor pretends to be a race
because I'm racist, Like, I can't

665
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:32,920
because the judge says, why can't
you be on the jury? He goes,

666
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:37,320
because I'm racist. There are a
lot of you know, African Americans

667
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:38,719
and so forth. So they's like, no, no, no, I

668
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:43,159
was just kidding whatever. But so
they do a lot of crazy stuff and

669
00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:47,039
it's a pretty funny show. I
watched a movie called A Man a Man

670
00:50:47,079 --> 00:50:50,920
Called Auto, which is based on
a book called A Man Called Ova.

671
00:50:51,519 --> 00:50:55,760
Now I am I hate Tom Hanks. I hate him. You just stepped

672
00:50:55,760 --> 00:51:00,920
on my line. I hate Tom
Hanks. I cannot stand his voice.

673
00:51:00,039 --> 00:51:04,840
I cannot stand exacting. I think
he's one of the most overrated actors in

674
00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:08,320
America. He's like a parody of
himself. Yeah, the movie was okay,

675
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:13,440
Like, if if Tom Hanks doesn't
make you ill, you could probably

676
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,280
watch it. I didn't hate it. There's some stuff in there you would

677
00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:21,639
hate. I would not recommend it
to you. Um I read I saw

678
00:51:21,639 --> 00:51:27,000
the movie called Air. We heard
about this again, Ben Affleck, Matt

679
00:51:27,079 --> 00:51:30,440
Damon, Jason Bateman, a bunch
of other of these type of actors about

680
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:37,400
about the Air Jordan sneaker and how
they got Michael Jordan. Listen. It

681
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:42,280
hits the right spots for someone who
was a kid in the eighties. And

682
00:51:42,559 --> 00:51:45,480
you know, if you like that
sort of thing, it's not too deep.

683
00:51:45,519 --> 00:51:49,079
You'll probably forget it in about five
minutes after you're done. And then

684
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:52,840
finally, I would mention that I
have started reading a great book by Quentin

685
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:59,000
Tarantino. Oh, I think it's
called Cinema. Something damn escapes me.

686
00:51:59,079 --> 00:52:00,719
But he goes through the movies he
loves from the seventies, which I have

687
00:52:01,039 --> 00:52:06,599
all writing down, and I'm going
to watch like The Outfit, The Getaway,

688
00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:09,039
things like seventies movies that he liked. And it's a really good book.

689
00:52:09,039 --> 00:52:12,880
And if you're a fan of Quentin
Taranty you knows movies, I would

690
00:52:13,039 --> 00:52:16,280
highly recommend it. He's really blunt
about like directors of movies he likes and

691
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:22,000
what he doesn't like, and he
insults movies sometimes that most people are beloved

692
00:52:22,039 --> 00:52:24,239
like heat, like he thinks the
ending was terrible and stuff like that.

693
00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:30,000
So it's fun if you're if you're
a cinophile, right, and that I

694
00:52:30,039 --> 00:52:31,920
think is it? I did?
Yeah, go on, now let me

695
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:37,360
hear hear from you anything. So
there's something that we had been watching for

696
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:42,199
a while that I was too embarrassed
to admit. But we're done now,

697
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:46,400
so I can just share my shame, which is this TV show called The

698
00:52:46,599 --> 00:52:52,360
Night Agent. I've not heard of
it, no. Mark said it was

699
00:52:52,400 --> 00:53:00,280
like a like a show for people
whose lips move when they read, Like

700
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:05,920
it was just like a stupid detective
mystery, but like you could figure out

701
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:09,239
things, not just like before before
it was revealed, but like four episodes

702
00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:13,800
before it was revealed. You know, that's the bad guy, here's the

703
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:15,840
twist that's going to come. But
for some reason, I felt compelled to

704
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:22,079
launch it anyway, So recommend it
necessarily people whose lips move when they read.

705
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:25,480
That's not anything. Ever. Now, the funny thing about that is

706
00:53:25,519 --> 00:53:30,960
I read really fast, so I'd
lately tried to move my lips when I

707
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:34,480
read so that I read every word
rather than sort of skipping over. So

708
00:53:34,519 --> 00:53:37,320
I have to stop doing that.
In front of Mark Hemingway, yeah.

709
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:39,360
Also, that's just not a good
way to read. I mean I speed

710
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:43,400
read and if you're slowing down to
our team, no, but if you

711
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:46,440
read literature, you should slow down. That's what someone told me. Okay,

712
00:53:46,519 --> 00:53:50,920
well, m yeah, I speed
read too. We also started The

713
00:53:51,079 --> 00:53:57,280
Marvelous Missus masl the latest season,
so it's okay. And we watched a

714
00:53:57,320 --> 00:54:00,119
movie with the kids that I hated. I don't know how to say this

715
00:54:00,159 --> 00:54:06,079
director's name. Is it Sukor or
kukor George Sukor Probably it sounds Hungarian.

716
00:54:06,159 --> 00:54:13,280
Actually that means I'm in sugar and
check. Okay, So it was well

717
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:16,639
done. It was Carrie Grant and
Katherine Hepburn was from nineteen thirty eight,

718
00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:22,920
and the people were also immoral or
just like. It's like a guy is

719
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:29,559
engaged to marry this socialite whose dad
is very wealthy, and as it comes

720
00:54:29,599 --> 00:54:31,559
out that he doesn't really want to
go into the family business. He wants

721
00:54:31,599 --> 00:54:37,599
to just travel and find himself.
It literally uses the phrase find himself or

722
00:54:37,639 --> 00:54:42,440
like find myself in nineteen thirty eight, and so the socialite daughter ends up

723
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:47,039
rejecting him, and then the Katherine
spoiler alert, Katherine Hepburn character runs off

724
00:54:47,039 --> 00:54:50,760
with him. But I was,
like I told the kids at the end,

725
00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:52,440
it was like nobody in this movie
was good, Like these were really

726
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:59,039
bad people making really bad decisions and
not understanding what responsibility means. Okay,

727
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:07,920
And then I am continuing reading my
Bible, which has been so awesome.

728
00:55:07,199 --> 00:55:14,960
I just really enjoying this. And
so spoilers, so a lot of people

729
00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:19,800
had said something about getting bogged down
in numbers. I did not find numbers

730
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:22,480
to be It was actually one of
my favorites that I've read this far.

731
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:28,440
I'm now in Deuteronomy. I'm only
like maybe fifteen chapters in, and it's

732
00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:32,400
a lot of repeat of the previous
few books, so I'm not loving that

733
00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:36,000
quite as much. But it's nice, like it's a nice summation of what

734
00:55:36,039 --> 00:55:40,679
we've done before. But I don't
know, I just have really enjoyed reading

735
00:55:40,719 --> 00:55:45,960
it the way I'm reading it,
where you get everything in context and you

736
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:47,760
start to get this like, I
don't know, I'm really enjoying seeing the

737
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:53,000
relationship between God and his people and
how they interact with each other. And

738
00:55:53,239 --> 00:56:00,079
I don't know, it's been great. That's great, That's it been busy.

739
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:02,840
I wanted to see Jerry Duty and
Mark heming White said he didn't have

740
00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:07,000
any interest in it, So that's
what I'm up against. The trailer made

741
00:56:07,039 --> 00:56:09,519
me laugh, like it was so
stupid, but it made me laugh.

742
00:56:10,119 --> 00:56:15,199
It's it moves somewhat slowly at least. I haven't only watched a few episodes.

743
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:19,599
I mean, it's funny, but
it's not like you know. I

744
00:56:19,599 --> 00:56:22,280
also watched something else that just hit
me. I watched a stand up comedian

745
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:25,920
Nick Kroll. Uh, it was
pretty funny, Oh I did. We

746
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:30,800
also watched the John Mulaney said his
name, Yeah, what do you think?

747
00:56:30,079 --> 00:56:32,760
I kind of agree with what we
published at the Federalist about it.

748
00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:37,960
Um just it just it was not
my favorite. It was he seemed to

749
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:42,880
still be sort of enamored with his
addict life, and it was just I

750
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:45,519
don't know it. I mean,
he's on he's own a journey. I

751
00:56:45,559 --> 00:56:49,400
wish him well. He I did
like that he kind of made a point

752
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:52,880
of reference that he wasn't really able
to dig as deep as he should.

753
00:56:52,199 --> 00:56:58,199
You know, when he tells the
story about the how he told his accountant

754
00:56:58,199 --> 00:57:00,400
not to give him money so he
wouldn't do the drugs, and he like

755
00:57:00,920 --> 00:57:05,320
pawns a rolex, and he says
something at the end like, keep in

756
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:08,159
mind, this is a story I'm
willing to tell you, which I thought

757
00:57:08,199 --> 00:57:13,719
was like a nice bit of honesty
about how bad addicts get and how the

758
00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:17,559
stories aren't actually so charming as pawning
a rolex. Yeah, yeah, I

759
00:57:17,599 --> 00:57:20,639
didn't love it. It's hard for
me to put my finger on what I

760
00:57:20,639 --> 00:57:22,840
didn't like about it, but I
think it was that he still seemed enamored

761
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:27,519
with that lifestyle and didn't feel like, I don't know, it just it

762
00:57:27,519 --> 00:57:30,360
didn't seem maybe earnest or no,
it didn't seem sincere enough in some way,

763
00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:32,480
I don't know. I was a
little worried about him, but you

764
00:57:32,480 --> 00:57:37,000
know, who knows, maybe he'll
maybe he'll improve here in the days to

765
00:57:37,039 --> 00:57:40,000
come. Also, you need to
tell everybody about the picture that you showed

766
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:45,159
me right before we started this.
So, as you know, I moved

767
00:57:45,199 --> 00:57:50,400
to a more an undisclosed but more
nature foresty sort of area. Right,

768
00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:54,159
So now I have run ins with
all kinds of wildlife, owls and stuffs.

769
00:57:54,159 --> 00:57:58,639
But now my neighbor sent me a
picture of a snake and it's huge

770
00:57:58,800 --> 00:58:02,679
and it looks like a cobra to
me basically, I don't know, and

771
00:58:02,679 --> 00:58:07,519
then he told me, so he's
you know, he told me it's a

772
00:58:07,559 --> 00:58:12,000
black adder or a hognose snake,
which is very venomous, which concerned me,

773
00:58:12,239 --> 00:58:15,400
you know, but then he had
the you know, then he told

774
00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:19,039
me these words. He said,
it is venomous, but it isn't interested

775
00:58:19,079 --> 00:58:23,159
in attacking human beings, like he
has any clue what the snake is thinking,

776
00:58:23,559 --> 00:58:27,239
or that the snake told him.
Yeah, don't worry, I'm only

777
00:58:27,239 --> 00:58:32,840
going to bite deer or something.
It is horrifying the snake, so I

778
00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:37,719
might have to move back to some
kind of city area and listen, I've

779
00:58:37,719 --> 00:58:39,679
seen a giant black snake in the
back before, but someone told me it

780
00:58:39,719 --> 00:58:44,159
was a rat eat or rats.
You're fine, Yeah, yeah, they're

781
00:58:44,159 --> 00:58:46,559
fine snakes. But I'm not worried
about like those rat snakes. Yeah,

782
00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:50,679
I'm a little worried. But anyway, you sent looked like you were in

783
00:58:50,719 --> 00:58:53,800
a South American jungle and that it
was like, I mean, it had

784
00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:58,079
that flare out at the neck,
which is only like I know, that's

785
00:58:58,119 --> 00:59:01,679
not good. Yeah, so I'm
concerned about that. But you know,

786
00:59:01,719 --> 00:59:05,840
I, uh, what am I
going to do. What am I going

787
00:59:05,920 --> 00:59:07,440
to do about it? Nothing?
So I'm hoping that an owl will eat

788
00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:09,599
it. I don't know if owls
will eat a snake that big. I

789
00:59:09,599 --> 00:59:14,760
don't know. Every time I mention
an animal is here that I don't want

790
00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:17,320
to be here, like lizards where
I live, which I didn't think there

791
00:59:17,320 --> 00:59:21,239
would be lizards here. Just want
to point that out, and they're pretty

792
00:59:21,239 --> 00:59:24,719
big. They tell me some other
animal will eat it, like they'll say,

793
00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:28,079
I'm saying, I'm like, there
are a lot of bugs here,

794
00:59:28,079 --> 00:59:30,760
and they're like, well, don't
worry, the mice will eat it or

795
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:34,000
whatever. And then they're like,
oh no, the lizard will eat the

796
00:59:34,039 --> 00:59:36,480
mouse. And then they're like the
hawks will eat the lizard, and then

797
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:40,440
the snake will eat it. Like
it's a it's a big circle of life.

798
00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:44,639
But at the top I think is
the giant, venomous snake that picture,

799
00:59:44,679 --> 00:59:46,880
I say, And I don't think
anything's gonna eat that thing, So

800
00:59:47,159 --> 00:59:51,400
I'm concerned. But oh, you
know, I saw the other day too.

801
00:59:51,400 --> 00:59:53,559
I couldn't believe it. I'm out
of my driveway and there's a giant

802
00:59:53,639 --> 01:00:00,480
snapping turtle just walking across my driveway. Yeah, okay, And I wanted

803
01:00:00,519 --> 01:00:04,400
to move it, and then they're
like, I wouldn't put my finger near

804
01:00:04,719 --> 01:00:07,199
like its head. I'm like,
it can't reach all the way back here.

805
01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:08,559
They're like, no, it can
pop its little head out really far.

806
01:00:08,719 --> 01:00:12,519
So I took a shovel, I
lifted, and I took it back

807
01:00:12,519 --> 01:00:17,119
to safety. Okay, I can't
imagine anyone on Earth wants to hear these

808
01:00:17,159 --> 01:00:23,440
stories. So I'm sorry, and
I apologize, but but it is,

809
01:00:23,679 --> 01:00:30,480
it is. It is pretty crazy
anyway. I like to say, yeah,

810
01:00:30,519 --> 01:00:32,920
but I know we need to go, but since we get such amazing

811
01:00:32,960 --> 01:00:37,320
feedback from listeners, we haven't.
We have to take a couple of these

812
01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:42,760
where where I'll be traveling, we
should do a you know, question and

813
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:46,320
answer one where people send in questions
and we answer them. What do you

814
01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:51,880
think? Sure, so we're going
to take a sort of a little break

815
01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:53,559
for the summer, right, Well, I mean, I'm just there'll be

816
01:00:53,599 --> 01:00:57,519
a week, a couple of weeks
at some point in the summer where I

817
01:00:57,840 --> 01:01:00,960
where I can't do So, so
you're saying we should have people send us

818
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:04,199
q and as on anything they want, Like anything doesn't mean we're going to

819
01:01:04,239 --> 01:01:07,920
answer all these questions, but it
can be answer every single question. I'm

820
01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:09,239
going to send it a few for
Molly myself. I want to know more

821
01:01:09,239 --> 01:01:14,280
about her life. But you can
also, and you can send them to

822
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:19,199
radio at the Federalist dot com and
hopefully we'll get at least a show out

823
01:01:19,199 --> 01:01:22,039
of it. Maybe we'll get two
shows out of it, and ask anything

824
01:01:22,280 --> 01:01:27,079
movies, what your favorite band was
growing up? I want to know all

825
01:01:27,119 --> 01:01:29,920
these things about Molly, so please
send them. Maybe I'll make something.

826
01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:35,840
Yeah, all right, I love
how you wrap me up. Alright.

827
01:01:37,639 --> 01:01:40,039
Anyway, we look forward to talk
to you next week. Until them,

828
01:01:40,119 --> 01:01:49,639
The Lovers of Freedom and Right