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Speaker 1: Welcome to Political beat Down. I'm Ben Macellis joined by

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Michael Cohen. Cohen, we should start off Political Beatdown with

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a beatdown some Republican on Republican violence, physical violence. That is,

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in Georgia the State of the State speech. Governor Brian

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Kemp was delivering the speech and there was a kind

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of Trump cultist state senator there by the name of

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Colton Moore. And then the Republican governor, Brian Kemp said

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to Coulton Moore, you got to stay out. You can't

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come into the chambers and watch my speech. Then the

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Maga state senator tried to enter the chambers and then

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another Republican kind of threw him to the ground. I

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want to play it. There's a broader point I want

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to make here though, as we talk about the people

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closest to Trump at this point, people like this guy

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Coulton Moore, who's being thrown to the floor in Georgia.

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Here play this clip.

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Speaker 2: I have an obligation to be in that room. I

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represent two hundred.

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Speaker 3: Thousand people in northwest Georgia who duly elected me to

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be here today.

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Speaker 1: So that's Trump's preferred state senator in Georgia. Trump doesn't

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like Brian Kemp. That went physical right there, Republican on

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Republican physical violence. But even right now, Cohen, we're seeing

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in the House you had Mike Turner, a Republican who

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chaired the Oversight Committee, getting fired by MAGA Mike Johnson.

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Turner was a big supporter of Ukraine and NATO, and

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Donald Trump ordered MAGA Mike Johnson to get rid of

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Turner from chairing the House Intelligence Committee, that is, and

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then they fired him. Know, and this guy has been

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a member of Congress since two thousand and three. So Cohen,

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you've predicted this because you've lived this. This is what

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happens with Trump's lack of leadership, the infighting, the people

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like Turner who tried to be on his good side

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get kicked out. You know, we're seeing the story again,

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the sequel those though.

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Speaker 2: This is not a Trump lack of leadership issue. It's not.

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I'll tell you what it is. It's the knife fighting

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amongst the group. And if you may remember the old

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mythology story of Icarus, right the guy who had the

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wax wings and flew too close to the sun. The

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wings melted and he plummeted to Earth and died. It's

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the same thing. Consider Trump in this case, to be

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the Sun, and all of these folks, including the guy

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that got you know, that got smacked down, all of

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them trying to be Icarus. They're trying to fly close

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to the Sun. Much of the stuff that they're doing

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is performative in hopes that Donald recognizes and that somebody

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sees what they did. In fact, even if Trump didn't

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see what took place, they would make sure that that recording,

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that that clip gets sent to him so he could

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see exactly. Well. When Carlton Moore was arrested today, his

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case will now be prosecuted by the Fulton County DA.

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I believe her name is Fannie Willis. Yeah. My point being,

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they want this performative theater, this political theater, to take

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place in that way. They think that Donald Trump will

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come to their rescue, that Donald Trump will shine his

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light upon them and they will become elevantor in the system.

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And by the way it's worked for many, it has

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failed for even more.

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Speaker 1: You know, when I look though at Trump's approval rating

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right now, fifty five percent disapproved, unfavorable, which is fairly

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unprecedented leading up to it is unprecedented leading up to

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an inauguration, no matter who you are. Usually when you

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get elected, that's like your period of goodwill, right because

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you're incoming. The country usually rallies around someone. So usually

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you're above water. If Trump was even slightly above water,

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that would be underperforming. I think Biden was close to

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sixty five seventy percent at his inauguration. So the fact

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that the approval rating is underwater and really a significant

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amount of the country disapproves of what's going on. At

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some point, the buck stops at the top. I mean,

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as he keeps talking about external revenue service when we

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tarif all of these nations and annex these nations. Cohen,

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I could be wrong. I mean, he's doing all of

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the distraction tactic. But it does seem that a lot

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of people, though, are saying like, like, well, he's.

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Speaker 2: Doing the distraction tactic for himself. It's not done for

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this guy that got slammed down. It's not for anyone else.

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He's doing it all for himself. This guy again, Yeah,

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he didn't. He didn't reach out to Trump and said, hey,

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I want to go in What do you think you know?

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Should I make a spectacle. No, that's not what happened.

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I've watched this knife fighting for years. I watched it

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take place when the when the campaign in twenty fifteen

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started and there were only, believe it or not, a

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handful of people that were even involved. It was less

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than six and the knife fighting started there with Corey Lewandowski,

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and then again it started with Paul Manifort. Wow, the

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fighting between Lewandowski and Manifort was insane. And if you

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think that was bad, after Maniford got his problems, then

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you had Steve Bannon come in. You could only imagine

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the knight fighting between Steve Bannon and Lewandowski. It wasn't

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even a fair fight. It was like Steve Bannon had

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a bazooka and Lewandowski had a rubber band. And so

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Lewandowski of course got outed and Steve Bannon became the

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macher amongst the group. The only thing that I'm curious

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and I bring up. I bring this up because now

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that's right, it's Bannon versus Musk. And you know, this

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is a tough one because Trump knows the value of

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Steve Bannon, and there is a value to him in

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that specific group. But he also is not ignorant to

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the fact that Elon Musk wields a mighty powerful stick,

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really powerful all right, in multiple different sectors. In fact,

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it's so there's so much fighting, internal fighting going on,

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especially now that Musk put out that he's going to

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have an office in the executive building across the street

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and wants to know what his actual ability within which

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to walk around the White House. I mean, this is

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crazy shit, my friends. It's why I'm going to say

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this from now till the end of time. It's why

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networks like this, independent media are so important. It's why

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all of the properties on my Just Touched network are

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important to listen to. Because you're not getting this from

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lane stream media or cable news. You're not. You're getting

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it from somebody myself specifically, who's been there. And I

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know this game inside better than anyone, and I'm trying

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to give you the benefit of the knowledge that I

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experience living through it. And there are other people that

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had that experience too, guys like in Anthony Scaramucci, who

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actually knows what he's talking about here. In this specific situation,

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Elon Musk is actually talking about the availability that he

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will have the unfettered access to the White House. Now,

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I want to remind everybody that neither Elon Musk nor

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Vivik Ramaswami are actual agencies. It is a program designed

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by Donald Trump or on behalf of Donald Trump. And

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so why they have an office in the Executive Building,

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I don't know why they believe that they should have

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unfettered access to the White House and the President, I

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don't know. Is it a dangerous proposal? Is it a

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dangerous proposition? Absolutely? Does that mean it's not going to happen. No,

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Steve Bannon turned around and said, over his dead body,

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is he going to allow it? Which is kind of

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interesting because Steve Bannon, while he's in the mix, he's

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really on the outs. So we're in for a real,

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real shit show, there's no other way to describe it.

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And that shit show, my friends, starts on Monday. It

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starts on Monday because the first thing we know that's

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going to happen is there is going to be a party,

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a post inauguration party that is going to include the

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signing by Trump of hundreds of executive orders. And that's

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the danger, that's all the danger.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, it's Uh, surprising to me, Well, not

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surprising to me, but you have so many people saying,

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is he gonna do the tariffs? Is he gonna do Yes?

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He is, Yes, he's gonna do the tariffs on day one.

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He's gonna put twenty five percent. It's and then the

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markets get shocked as though, h.

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Speaker 2: He did it. Oh you did it. Yeah, yeah, he

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Speaker 1: He said he's gonna do it. What do you think

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he's gonna do? Twenty five percent tariffs on Canada, twenty

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five percent tariffs on Mexico, a huge tariff on our

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allies in the European Union, an additional ten percent tariff

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on China. And then what will start to see happen immediately,

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and all of these countries are preparing for it right

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now are their retaliatory tariffs against US, where they're going

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to order their industries not to purchase American products. So

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the soybean farmers, for example, saw this in Trump administration one.

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China was their biggest market. They made a lot of money.

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So what happened China said, we're not getting soybeans from

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America anymore. We're going to Brazil. We'll invest in Brazil.

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So then the soybean farmers had a huge surplus of product.

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that basically funded them, a government handout that funded them,

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and the subsidies a little bit less now, but basically

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a lot of the farming industry from Trump administration tariff

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number one, they're being funded by the government. At the

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same time the government saying it wants to do all

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of these other cuts and so Cohen, you're right, I mean,

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up until this point, look, it's already been chaos. It's

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already been one of the most chaotic, strange, dangerous, harmful

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transitions I think in American history. But it's a show

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right now until the power actually take place on the

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date of the inauguration, and then when the power is

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implemented and these concepts become real things that nobody really

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asks for other other than Donald Trump, it's going to

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have a major impact. It's gonna send I think a

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shockwave through the markets. Now, I'll show you this Cohen

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as well, and Jeremy, I think we've got these clips.

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This is a bunch of Canadian leaders who have been

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uniting and they've been coming up with their plans for

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how they're gonna do this.

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Speaker 4: Let me show you this is a unified Canadian front

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other than the Alberta premiere, all the other provincial premiers,

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many of who are conservative, some are Liberal. And then

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you have on the federal side Justin Trudeau Liberal Party.

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This is a conservative from Ontario, doug Ford. Let me

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show you what he says here about he goes and

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this is the David Bidone clip. Jeremy doug Ford knows

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how to pump Canada's tires here.

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Speaker 5: Let's play this clip.

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Speaker 6: Political parties sitting down and we have a robust conversation.

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We may agree or disagree, but we're coming out united.

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the US, you would never see a group of Democrats

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and Republicans sitting here collaboratively. I promise you one thing.

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President and Trump's off as a whole bunch of Democrats

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and Republicans saying, how can we attack Canada. That's not happening.

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We have the greatest country, we have the greatest elected officials,

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the greatest democracy in the world. That we can sit

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here from one extreme to the other extreme.

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Speaker 2: In the middle.

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Speaker 6: And I have always said I don't care about political stripes.

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Blue Party or the Red Party. We're going to be united.

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We're Canadian. We're going to get this done.

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Speaker 5: As fall up to the Prime Minister is Auto and Cohen.

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Speaker 1: That guy used to be a Magas supporter. He used

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to be a Trump supporter, Doug Ford, What do you

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make of about it?

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Speaker 2: What I make of it is keep talking. You know,

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one thing Trump understands better than most is power and

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also how to abuse it when he turns around. I

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don't think that Canada is going to get annexed. I don't.

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I think that would be I just think that would

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be insane. To be very honest with you, I don't.

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I don't even know what the right adjective is in

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order to describe it. But one thing I can tell

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you for certain is that he will impose tariffs on Canada.

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He did it in twenty seventeen. I don't know why

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people refuse to read. I don't know why they refuse

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to do. Just the most minutia of research, and you

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will see that Trump went ahead and he imposed tariffs

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on Canada, for example, on lumber. What happened to the

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lumber market. The price of soft lumber shot up through

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the roof. He then went ahead and he also imposed

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tariffs on aluminum. Well, that pissed the shit off of

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Pepsi and Coca Cola and others, and the price of

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cans right bottling shot up through the roof. Well, this

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and so on. So what did he do? He gave

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them a waiver. So he did put in tariffs, but

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then he gave them a waiver. He didn't just do

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that with Canada, he did it with other countries as well.

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give everybody a waiver except for the little guy? Well,

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how does that actually work? How does that help? And

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on top of that, please understand, twenty seven of the

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twenty nine most prestigious economists in the United States have

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all turned around and they put forth it would be

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like in law called an amicus brief. They put together

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explanation a memo explaining the danger and the damage that

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a tariff on Canada, on China and other countries would

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cause to this country. And yet the Tom mccrachums. The

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geniuses amongst geniuses there that are going to be part

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of this new administration, many of them are in finance.

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to be taking over are actually finance guys. Whether it's

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the Lutnx of the world, whether it's the John Phalans

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of the world, they all know finance really, really well,

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and whether they're turning on oh yeah, they do. Let

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me tell me ask you.

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Speaker 1: I know they have big finance jobs, Cohen, but how

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come every time?

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, please. Howard Lutnik is the CEO

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of cant Fitzgerald. He's purchased many, many companies. He knows finance.

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John Fhalen is going to be Secretary of the Navy.

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He ran Michael Dell's money for I don't even know.

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As long as I know him twenty five years, get

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twenty four years, give or take. He is wickedly bright

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in finance. They know finance, and they know what the

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tariffs will do to this country. But out of fear

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and I just mentioned these two because I know them

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both personally for over two decades. They both know the

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damage that tariffs will do to this economy. They're just

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concerned about expressing that concern for fear that they'll get

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booted before they even get started.

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Speaker 1: You know, every time the people who know finance seem

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to take control of government, it always seems that we

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wind up in recessions. They always pitch us on trickle

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down economics, which never actually benefits the people. The stock

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market never does as well. Again, jobs not really being created.

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I mean you look at the you know, the Democrats

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have the rap as being not as strong on the economy, right,

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that's the wrap the public perception, right, is Republicans better

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on the economy. Well, when you look at the past

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thirty or forty years, of the fifty million jobs that

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were created, forty eight million of the fifty million jobs

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were created by Democratic administrations. With all of these finance

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people complaining about the Biden economy, right, their biggest metric

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at the high levels, not the average person. They're going

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at the high levels the markets. Right where the market

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or the market's doing good with Biden. The markets were

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up fifty five to sixty percent over Donald Trump. So

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if you're a smart finance person and you go which

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one do you like better? The fifty to sixty percent

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return or the person who had the economy basically sinking

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to levels that weren't as bad as it's the great.

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Speaker 2: Totally agreed, but I think that that aspect has to

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be broken down into two, into two different areas. Let

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me go back and say, for example, during the Trump

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earlier his first administration, Steve Minuchin, who is a finance

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guy with a big had a big hedge fund, was

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actually a pretty decent Treasury secretary, all right. And I

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just want to say to our brigaders, I need you

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all to understand something. This isn't Michael Cohen bending and knee.

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This is Michael Cohen telling you a fact. Now that

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fact may not comport to what you want to hear.

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It's just the difference. I'm not here to play that game.

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There's facts and then they're non fact all right, And

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I want to give to you what I know to

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be factually accurate, whether you like it or not, because

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when the shit hits the fan, and I'm telling you

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it will, the shit will be hitting the fan. You

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really need to be armed with facts, not Disneyland, in

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order for us to be able to as a community

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do what is needed in order to ensure that things

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don't occur the way that many believe this administration is

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going to try to shove it down our throats. All right,

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That's that's the problem. And I know a lot of people,

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you know, Yeah, you rather have Michael Cohen come on

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here and turn around and you know, say this, to

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say that I understand what's going on in that world

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better than all of you because I lived it. And

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not only did I live it on the side of Trump,

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I lived it as the enemy, all right, So I

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really have a very different perspective. I've seen all of

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these players in action, and again, I just want to

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arm you with information, all right, with legitimate information, because again,

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I live in reality. If you want to live in Disneyland,

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you know, that's in California, or it's in Florida. That's

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where you need to go. There's too many people that believe, Oh,

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just because Michael Cohen's not shitting on Donald Trump, you know,

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doesn't mean I'm taking a knee. I'm certainly not running scared.

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I'm living in a fucking Trump building, for God's sakes,

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the same building Ivanka and Jared live in. Where the

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fuck am I running? So it's time for people to

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open up their eyes, listen, listen to what's being told

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to you. And I'm not trying to preach to you.

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I'm trying to tell you we as a community are

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going to desperately need to band together. It's why this

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is not the time to shy away from the Midas

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Touch network or from my Maya Kulpa podcast YouTube channel. No,

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this is the time to not only become cohesive with

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this network and it's different properties, but also to get

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your friends to join so that they understand what is

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actually coming down the road, all right, Not listening to

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the nonsense off of whether it's the far left of

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the far right believing that you know, one that the

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world is coming to a complete end it's not all right,

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or two that Trump is going to be able to

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accomplish every single thing that he says that he and

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his people want to do, which they will not. But

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there are many things that are coming down this road

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that are not beneficial to the American people, to the

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to the ten eleven, twelve megabillionaires mega megabillionaires that are

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helping to become or to make America become some form

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of an oligarchy, a constitutional oligarchy. We as a community

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must be there and we must be vigilant in terms

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of getting the correct, the true, and the factually accurate

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information to each and every one of you. And that's

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what I will continue to do.

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Speaker 1: And Cohen the correct, true, factual information, though, is that

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this is coming from Donald Trump. This is because of

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Donald Trump.

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Speaker 2: It's because of him. It's not necessarily coming from him,

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I Project twenty twenty five. It's not coming from him.

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It's coming from a disgusting group of individuals who have

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set up a manifesto to destroy our democratic republic.

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Speaker 1: The fact that he's implemented.

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Speaker 2: Is, well, he hasn't implemented it yet. But the conversation said.

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Speaker 1: Going to impl But you said on day one, he's

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going to the executive orders. You reference that he was

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going to implement on days one.

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Speaker 2: Whole lot in Project twenty twenty five, there's a whole lot,

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more than one hundred of them.

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Speaker 1: Well, I never it's going to be thousands of executive

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orders on day one. The omb head that Donald Trump

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appointed Russ Vote. He spoke before the Senate at his

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confirmation hearing, and this is the guy who you know,

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we previously played clips of him months ago. He said,

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I'm working with Donald Trump behind the scenes, and we're

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going to have thousands of orders on day one. So

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it's coming from Trump. Trump appointed the Project twenty twenty

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five guy to implement Project twenty twenty five. It's not

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a complicated thing to me. This is Russ's vote saying

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it at the confirmation hearing. This is who Trump put

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in power, the guy who wrote it to do it.

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Speaker 2: I absolutely will abide by the Constitution at all times.

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Speaker 7: And your interpretation does not pardon the pun Trump, the

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interpretation of the Supreme Court or at current practice on

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the books.

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Speaker 5: Again, administration. There's a very, very extensive policy process with this.

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Speaker 7: I see how this bureaucratic, wonky answer you keep giving. Right,

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you're claiming to be an outsider that says you're going

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to shake things up, but you're giving the.

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Speaker 5: Most wonky answers.

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Speaker 7: I just want to hear that when you hold up

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your hand like many of us have done in this

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room to put themselves in harm's way, that you're going

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to protect and defend the Constitution as interpreted by the

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people who are in a position to interpret it, like

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our Supreme Court and that's what it bothers me about you.

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It's not that we disagree on policy. It's that basic

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tenet that a lot of us have had to do

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in this room on both sides of the aisle.

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Speaker 8: That's all I care about.

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Speaker 7: I just I wish from nominees that we see across

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the board just be straight on the US Constitution.

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Speaker 1: Trump was like, I want that guy on my team.

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He's the Project twenty twenty five guy to lead the OMB. Also,

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this guy, Scott Scott Bessant. Take a look at this exchange.

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And by the way, Scott Bessant, he worked for George Soros.

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He was George Soros's top guy for all of the

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magas George Soros money managing. This guy literally was George

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Soros's guy. Then started his own hedge fund. And he's

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asked this question by Bernie about will you agree to

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raise the minimum wage which is seven dollars and twenty

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five cents, And the guy says, no, I'm not going

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to do that. We're not we are against living wages.

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Speaker 3: Right now, in America, we have over twenty two million

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workers who are making less than fifteen dollars an hour.

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Speaker 5: And nearly forty million people.

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Speaker 3: In our country earning less than seventeen dollars an hour. Shamefully,

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the federal minimum wage, despite the efforts of myself and

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other people here, have not been raised since two thousand

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and nine and remains an unbelievable well seven dollars and

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twenty five cents. And now, will you work with those

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of us who want to raise the federal minimum wage

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to a living wage to take millions of Americans out

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of poverty?

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Speaker 9: Senator, I believe that the minimum wage is more of

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a statewide and regional issue.

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Speaker 3: So you don't think we should change the federal minimum

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wage of seven dollars and twenty five cents an.

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Speaker 5: Now, no, sir, okay, Vestant.

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Speaker 1: You know, I mean, I just want you to think

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about that. At the same time they're talking about their

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priorities are the tax cuts for the billionaires, they're also

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saying they're also saying that here's here's this other clip

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of bessent Jeremy It's it's it's not the immediate clip after.

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It's the one where Besson says enacting Trump's tax giveaways

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for billionaires is the single most economic important economic issue

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of the day.

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Speaker 9: Here play this clip, Senator, Senator Crapo, thank you for this,

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and thank you there for the meetings over the past

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few weeks. I've enjoyed working with your staff. And this

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is the single most important economic issue of the day.

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This is past fail that if we do not they

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fix these tax cuts, if we do not renew and extend,

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then we will be facing an economic calamity.

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Speaker 2: So it's funny. I just don't get how when I

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watched him say that, I just kept scratching my head again,

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because facts matter. We will face an economic calamity. You me,

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the ninety nine percent of this country, not that one

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percent or tenth of one percent. So if hypothetically Elon Muskmorek, Zuckerberg,

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Jeff Bezos, you know, they ended up paying their fair

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share in taxes, So maybe he wouldn't be worth five

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hundred billion dollars, he'd only be worth four hundred billion.

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I can assure you that there's not one person watching

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this segment right now that will go home and cry

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for him and say, holy shit, we're gonna put ourselves

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into an economic calamity. If in fact, you know Elon Musk,

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worbizos so a Zuckerberger. One of them has to pay

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one hundred million dollars out of their hundreds of billions

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of dollars of net worth that they're going to have

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to pay. This What an economic calamity that you and me?

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How are we ever going to afford gasoline and groceries

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under such a circumstance? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's such a great point there, Cohen. It's

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how I believe in capitalism. I mean, I don't believe

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in a in a I don't believe in a capitalism though,

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where billionaires get unfair advantage. That's what happens. I believe

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there needs to be anti trust enforcement. I believe billionaires

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need to pay their fair share. It seems that we

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basically have social welfare for billionaires and not actually people

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who are deserving and who need things to help them

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rise to positions that would benefit the entire economy. But

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it's a great point, like what do you do with

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a billion dollars? What do you do with one hundred

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million dollars? Like what do you do with ten million?

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Speaker 2: Funny thing? You're right, you can't spend a billion dollars.

476
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I know several people who are worth you know into

477
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that one plus billion dollar number, they live the life

478
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that every American dreams of. All right, their children's children,

479
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their great grandchildren will never have to work a day

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in their in their lives. Now, imagine somebody worth fifty billion,

481
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all right, Okay, so instead of having five grandkids or

482
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ten grand kids with more money than they know what

483
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to do with, they can have twenty. And then what

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if you're worth one hundred or two hundred or five

485
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hundred billion. I mean, do you realize that five hundred

486
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billion dollars is more than some of the third world countries?

487
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I mean, it's it's it's insane. It's absolutely insane. And

488
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what it does is it gives a certain amount of

489
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power to Look, we're all watching, is what's going on

490
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with TikTok. All right? Whether you like the app but

491
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:26,440
you don't irrelevant. But now they're talking about selling TikTok,

492
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which has one hundred and seventy million Americans using it.

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One hundred and seventy that's like half the country is

494
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:41,319
on that app, and it's functioning, it makes money. They're

495
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gonna sell it to Elon Musk Why because he's got

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the money to buy it. And now that'll be another platform.

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So now you have x roomed, you'll have TikTok ruined

498
00:31:54,599 --> 00:31:59,599
Washington Post under Bezos roomed. I mean, why have any

499
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new paper, why have any app right? Just have it

500
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run by government and it be state run, just like

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they have in Russia, just like they have in Russia,

502
00:32:08,799 --> 00:32:13,160
because there will never be honesty, there will never be facts.

503
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It will always be whitewashed information within which to back

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00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:21,519
the administration that is in power. And that, my friends,

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is the beginning to the end of our democratic republic.

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You know.

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Speaker 1: And look, I'm not sure if Musk is. I heard

508
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there was a rumor about Musk, but I don't know.

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Speaker 2: You know, if that's it's not a rumor on TikTok,

510
00:32:36,519 --> 00:32:39,519
I actually have because I have like three hundred and

511
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:45,519
sixty thousand followers on it. I have a TikTok manager

512
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and I spoke to him yesterday about an issue and

513
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I started talking to him and he's in the inner circle.

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And it's not a rumor. There is conversation within which

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to sell it to a Musk controlled entity. You know.

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Speaker 1: As that's going on, you have Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos,

517
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Mark Zuckerberg. They're going to be sitting right next to

518
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,680
Donald Trump at the inauguration, right, so you're going to

519
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:21,200
have a billionaire's row right there, to which even some

520
00:33:21,319 --> 00:33:24,559
of the MAGA people are like like what, Like, we

521
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aren't we against these people? Wait a minute. Now they're

522
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paying Donald Trump, and so now we're supposed to be

523
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for them. But here are the facts Cohen as well.

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While Donald Trump is serving up at his Palm Beach

525
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golf course trump Burgers with his face on it, here

526
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:44,480
are the issues that Americans are going through. Egg prices

527
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are at their highest yet, jump twenty five percent in December.

528
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:54,079
Mortgage rates are climbing to their highest point yet because

529
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they don't necessarily follow interest rates, They follow the ten

530
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:03,039
year yield for the bond market, which is pricing in

531
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a lot of the problems that is foreseeable with the

532
00:34:06,519 --> 00:34:09,840
way Donald Trump's going to be running things. Many people

533
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:13,400
expected mortgage rates, if Kamala Harris would have won, would

534
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have been closer to five to four and a half percent.

535
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But now they're going back up, and experts are saying

536
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that food prices are here to stay. Also, there's no

537
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peace deal in Ukraine, as Donald Trump promised. Within twenty

538
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four hours. And so while Donald Trump's going to try

539
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,079
to distract us with all of these different things, I've

540
00:34:32,119 --> 00:34:34,880
been calling it a weapon of mass distraction. I think

541
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:38,280
we always have to be focused. If we could remain disciplined,

542
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:42,199
and look, I'm not saying ignore the crazy shit that

543
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he's going to say, because it's dangerous and could have

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real implications. But I always want to remind Americans of

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what he promised, the lies, the outright fraud, and I

546
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think if we can focus on that, there is a

547
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strong possibility we can start waking some of these Americans

548
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up who stayed on the sideline or who even voted

549
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for him by appealing to just the reality and truth

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right now, which you know we're going to do each

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and every day. We only have one ad break today,

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we will talk more about some of these confirmation hearings.

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excited for that, we'll take our first and only break

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of the show.

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Speaker 1: Those are great ad reads. I mean, I think you

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come for the political analysis and you get some coen

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ed ads.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you really got I mean, what could be

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better than that? Could be better than that is a

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hamburger with Trump's a stamped into your bun. I mean,

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you know, you really, you really do have to say

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that there's something about someone who wants to have their

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face even emblazoned into a bun that they're selling at

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your golf course. I mean, it is truly spectacular.

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Speaker 1: I can go into what Stormy Daniels had to say

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on Kimmel, but my dogs don't want me to do

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that right now, and I want to retain our large audience,

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So let's stick to the We'll stick to the news

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right now.

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Speaker 2: And the juiciest hamburger is there anything and you're able

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to bite into and it just troops right down your hands.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's probably a direct correlation to having

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your face on a hamburger and also having a very

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tiny anyway, let let let let me let me go on.

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Let's talk about this Scott Bessent confirmation hearing as well.

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So he's asked a pretty basic question, which is are

656
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there any policies proposed by Trump that you expect will

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increase prices for famili It's a pretty basic question, right,

658
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Like everybody agrees that these tariffs are going to increase prices.

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Bloody mass deportations. When you take away the labor force,

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that's going to increase prices. Watch what this guy says, though,

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who Trump wants to be the treasure Resecretary, and it

662
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will be the Treasury Secretary to watch this for.

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Speaker 10: Any specific policies proposed by the President elect that you

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expect will increase prices for families.

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Speaker 5: There's nothing I can immediately think of, so that's no.

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Speaker 10: If the President elect were to propose a policy that

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you believe will increase prices, would you advise against it?

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Speaker 5: I would advise.

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Speaker 9: I would speak to President Trump about it.

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Speaker 5: It is his decision, and I believe that.

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Speaker 9: We think that if we look back, that it is

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a complete composite return in terms of aggregate inflation numbers,

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and I think it's very difficult.

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Speaker 10: Well, if you believe, I have limited times. So if

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you believe that a policy that is proposed by President

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Trump would increase prices, would you advise him against doing it?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Or no?

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Speaker 9: I can't answer that question because it's a hypothetical.

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Speaker 10: All right, Let's move on to when we met prior

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to the hearing. You told me that President Biden was

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responsible for increased prices over the past four years, something

683
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we can litigate, but I don't want to.

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Speaker 5: Right here.

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Speaker 10: By the same token, I assume you would agree that

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if prices increased in the next four years. President elect

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Trump would be responsible.

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Speaker 5: I think there could be a variety of reasons.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it wasn't that amazing, isn't it? Is it

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not amazing? But by the way, he's endemic of the problem.

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The same thing. Anybody who's with us right now watched

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during the confirmation hearings, whether it was Rubio, whether it

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was heag Seth, whether it was Bondy, It made absolutely

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no difference. They all turn around say the same thing

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because they're all basically coached to say the same thing.

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Ask me something, or if you're asked a question that's

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a hypothetical, I don't answer hypotheticals. Well how could you

698
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not answer hypothetical? Because Trump has not taken office and

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nothing has happened yet. So we're just trying to find

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out whether or not, Like a hypothetical that was asked

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of the Supreme Court nominees, would you respect starry decisives

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in the matter of Roe v. Wade? And of course,

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of course you know, but you know it's a hypothetical.

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But you know that law, you know that's there, and yeah,

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we respect starry decisives. They never would answer the question outright,

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And here each and every one of these individuals, especially Besson,

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who you kind of almost have to feel sorry for.

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He's flubbering over himself because he doesn't want to get

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shit canned before he even gets nominated, right or he

710
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gets put into into the position. He's sitting there. Yay,

711
00:44:48,079 --> 00:44:52,239
he studied. Well, you know, Donald Trump could never be

712
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:55,639
at fault. How could Donald Trump ever be at fault?

713
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:58,199
And would I ever tell him that it's not a

714
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:01,800
good idea? Well, it's his, it's his decision to make.

715
00:45:02,559 --> 00:45:06,039
That's not the role. That's not the role that you

716
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:11,440
are just supposed to succumb to any whim that comes

717
00:45:11,519 --> 00:45:14,880
out of the executive office. You're actually supposed to turn

718
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:18,800
around and engage the president in conversation as to the

719
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:22,119
pros and the cons. Fuck. I know that better than anybody.

720
00:45:22,199 --> 00:45:24,880
I did it for over a decade. I can't tell

721
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,239
you how many times he would get angry. He would

722
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:31,119
but then at the end, sometimes he would turn around

723
00:45:31,119 --> 00:45:33,800
and change his position. Other times he would just go

724
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:36,840
with it. And that's okay. It is his decision to

725
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:40,599
do it. But you do have an obligation to the

726
00:45:40,639 --> 00:45:46,480
American people, to yourself, to your own, to yourself to

727
00:45:46,559 --> 00:45:49,320
turn around and to tell him if something that he

728
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:53,760
wants to propose is detrimental forgetting about to the country,

729
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,079
let's just say we don't care about the country. At

730
00:45:56,079 --> 00:45:59,639
this point. You are brought on for a specific purpose.

731
00:46:00,119 --> 00:46:03,800
If you believe that Trump is doing something in order

732
00:46:04,119 --> 00:46:08,199
that will do harm to his own administration, aren't you

733
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:11,920
obligated to say something. This week's spineless piece of shit

734
00:46:12,159 --> 00:46:16,360
couldn't even say that. He couldn't even say of course,

735
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:19,280
of course I would turn around and tell him that

736
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:22,400
I don't think that here are some options. There's a

737
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,760
reason why I believe that this is not good for

738
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,239
you forgetting about it, even talk about the country. It's

739
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:31,159
not good for you or the administration. Just take it

740
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:35,440
under advisement. That's what he could have said, you know.

741
00:46:35,559 --> 00:46:39,039
Speaker 1: So then you go from that hearing to the confirmation

742
00:46:39,199 --> 00:46:42,719
hearing of Pam Bondy, which is, you know, she basically

743
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:46,119
does the same approach, right. I mean, she's asked questions

744
00:46:47,079 --> 00:46:49,199
have you heard this? What are your views on this?

745
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:53,800
And no matter what the question is, I never heard it,

746
00:46:54,519 --> 00:46:59,079
not sure, can't really answer it. And so here Pam

747
00:46:59,119 --> 00:47:03,119
Bondi claims she hasn't listened to Trump's call asking Georgia's

748
00:47:03,119 --> 00:47:05,920
Secretary of State to find eleven thousand, seven hundred and

749
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:06,400
eighty votes.

750
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:07,239
Speaker 5: Here play this clip.

751
00:47:07,679 --> 00:47:10,519
Speaker 11: Have you heard the recording of President Trump on January

752
00:47:10,519 --> 00:47:13,519
TEWOD twenty twenty one, when he urged the Secretary of

753
00:47:13,519 --> 00:47:17,400
State of Georgia to quote find eleven thousand, seven hundred

754
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:20,039
and eighty votes and declare him the winner of that state.

755
00:47:20,639 --> 00:47:23,400
Speaker 8: No, I've heard about it through clips, but no, Senator,

756
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:24,039
I've not heard it.

757
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:28,360
Speaker 11: What was your reaction to the President Trump making that call?

758
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:32,199
Speaker 8: I have I would have to listen to the tape. Senator, Well, the.

759
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:35,079
Speaker 11: Quote that I give you is exact. He said to

760
00:47:35,159 --> 00:47:39,559
the Georgia Secretary of State, find eleven thousand, seven hundred

761
00:47:39,559 --> 00:47:40,280
and eighty votes.

762
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:43,320
Speaker 8: Do you have the entire context in that call? I

763
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:45,159
feel like it was long, much longer than that.

764
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:48,440
Speaker 11: Maybe it it was an hour long, and you can

765
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:52,440
certainly listen to it. I hope you will. Every American should.

766
00:47:53,159 --> 00:47:57,039
As a former prosecutors, Are you not concerned that the

767
00:47:57,079 --> 00:47:59,800
President of the United States called a state election a

768
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:02,280
fife and asked him to find enough votes to change

769
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:03,280
the results of the election.

770
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:07,480
Speaker 8: Senator, I have not listened to the hour long conversation.

771
00:48:08,039 --> 00:48:11,360
But it's my understanding that is not what he asked

772
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:13,039
him to do.

773
00:48:13,079 --> 00:48:14,119
Speaker 11: You need to listen to it.

774
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:17,360
Speaker 1: I mean you have that he or she is. She's

775
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:22,639
asked about QAnon and the fact that Trump's pick Cash

776
00:48:22,679 --> 00:48:25,920
Battel to be the FBI director said that he agrees

777
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:27,760
with a lot of q and on stuff, and then

778
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:30,280
Pam Bondi goes q and on. I think I heard

779
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:31,920
of it, but I don't know what they actually do

780
00:48:32,039 --> 00:48:32,920
here play this club.

781
00:48:33,599 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 11: I did not expect you to be as outspoken as

782
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:41,519
you are about Cash Battel. He's been characterized as a professional,

783
00:48:41,639 --> 00:48:45,679
career defense attorney and a career prosecutor. That's pretty amazing

784
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:48,800
achievement in his life. But he also has said and

785
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:52,519
done some things which are impossible to understand and justify.

786
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:56,920
For example, are you familiar with something called the QAnon Conspiracy?

787
00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:01,039
Speaker 8: I have heard of it, but I I do not

788
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:05,519
know what it is. But I've heard of it many times, Senator.

789
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:08,159
Speaker 11: So let me tell you what I've learned about it.

790
00:49:08,199 --> 00:49:12,639
The core belief is that a cabal of Satanic cannibalistic

791
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:18,360
child molesters are embedded within our government and are conspiring

792
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:22,480
against President elect Trump. They asked mister Patel about it,

793
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:26,199
and he said, quote, I agree with a lot that

794
00:49:26,199 --> 00:49:31,039
the movement says, end of quote. Does that sound like

795
00:49:31,079 --> 00:49:33,199
a good preparation to run the FBI?

796
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:38,480
Speaker 8: Senator, I don't know anything about I Actually I had

797
00:49:38,519 --> 00:49:42,079
heard of QAnon that I've never heard that definition attached

798
00:49:42,119 --> 00:49:42,559
to it.

799
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:45,599
Speaker 11: Until we get answers to those questions, I don't know

800
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:47,519
many people on this side of the table will give

801
00:49:47,559 --> 00:49:51,719
him an unequivocal endorsement. This in his enemy's list, what

802
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:55,400
he calls his government gangsters. This is what you expect

803
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:58,519
of Stasi, This is what you expect of secret police.

804
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:01,719
It is not what you expect of justice in America,

805
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:04,800
as you've even described it at the table today. So

806
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:09,039
I would say this unequivocal support of mister Patel should

807
00:50:09,079 --> 00:50:12,079
at least have some reservation until he explains some of

808
00:50:12,119 --> 00:50:14,199
these outrageous positions he has taken.

809
00:50:15,599 --> 00:50:17,480
Speaker 1: Right Cohen, It's the same thing I could show. Yet

810
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:20,440
they'll all say, I don't know, never heard of it,

811
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:23,039
never listen to it. That's not my understanding.

812
00:50:23,119 --> 00:50:26,320
Speaker 2: You imagine her tournament saying that I haven't heard that recording.

813
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:31,079
I mean I'm not sure that there's anyone over the

814
00:50:31,119 --> 00:50:36,000
age of fifteen that hasn't heard that recording of Donald

815
00:50:36,039 --> 00:50:42,280
Trump asking Brad Rathensberger, the Secretary of State for Georgia,

816
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:46,800
to find him eleven seven hundred and eighty votes and

817
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:49,159
then went on, of course, to turn around to tell

818
00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:53,719
him that you know, he wouldn't be doing you know, justice,

819
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:59,679
or he wouldn't be doing right if he doesn't. And

820
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:04,519
yet yet, even after being read the quote, to take

821
00:51:04,559 --> 00:51:09,199
the sort of smug position that you know, I can't

822
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:13,639
answer that I don't know enough about it. Well, the problem,

823
00:51:14,079 --> 00:51:17,159
the problem when you have seven minutes to ask a

824
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:20,679
question and then a second round four minutes, which I

825
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:24,079
don't think they did a second round for anyone. The

826
00:51:24,119 --> 00:51:27,400
real problem that you have here is like if I

827
00:51:27,559 --> 00:51:34,079
was if I was involved in Congress, what I would

828
00:51:34,119 --> 00:51:36,639
have done is I would have turned around and I

829
00:51:36,679 --> 00:51:41,719
would have brought all the Democrats together. And here's a

830
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:46,519
hundred questions that we want answers to with Pam Bondy. Now,

831
00:51:46,559 --> 00:51:51,639
some people will not get an opportunity to actually ask questions.

832
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:58,719
For example, the person before who the person before would

833
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:02,960
have turned around and play the recording for her in

834
00:52:03,039 --> 00:52:05,840
that way, knowing that she was going to turn around

835
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:08,360
and say, you know, I don't answer hypotheticals. I've never

836
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:11,440
heard it before. Well you just heard it. What do

837
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:15,480
you think about that? Right? They should work together because

838
00:52:15,519 --> 00:52:19,840
so many of them asked similar questions, and all it

839
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:22,920
did is give her the opportunity within which to continue

840
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:26,159
to deflect because she was fully prepared for that. I mean,

841
00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:28,599
don't think that any of these folks that are coming

842
00:52:28,639 --> 00:52:32,840
in aren't fully prepared. And then the better part and

843
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:36,039
the ones who get my two fingers saluted today are

844
00:52:36,079 --> 00:52:39,960
the Republicans that will turn around for somebody like Pete Hegseth,

845
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:42,840
like Mark Wayne Mullins, for God's sake, No, I got

846
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:45,280
to be honest with you. I think Mark Wayne Mullins

847
00:52:45,599 --> 00:52:51,840
was the most effective Republican asking Pete Hegseth questions because

848
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:56,199
they were so complimentary. They were so that they were

849
00:52:56,800 --> 00:53:00,519
there was humor in it. They were complimentary him. They

850
00:53:00,559 --> 00:53:04,039
completely ignored all of the negatives, and they turn around,

851
00:53:04,119 --> 00:53:06,239
you know who should you go ahead and think and when?

852
00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:08,719
Of course Pete Heggseth, you know, forgot to thank his

853
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:12,280
wife for you know, providing him a family and children

854
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:14,519
and so on. He turned around, he had to remind

855
00:53:14,599 --> 00:53:18,840
him he was great for Pete hegg Seth, he humanized

856
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:22,320
him and everything. But that's not what they're there for.

857
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:29,199
They're there to actually ask questions, substantive questions. And remember,

858
00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:34,840
remember I went through that process seven times, but I

859
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:38,719
didn't have the luxury of a mere four hours, which

860
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:44,559
is what each one of these nominees had. Each of

861
00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:51,039
my seven hearings were nine hours long, all right, sixty

862
00:53:51,119 --> 00:53:54,840
three hours of it where one side just beat the

863
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:57,239
living shit out of you and the others asked you

864
00:53:57,320 --> 00:54:00,639
to explain. I didn't have anybody turn around saying, oh,

865
00:54:00,639 --> 00:54:03,239
I'm just calling You're a great family man. You've helped

866
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:06,639
so many people over the course of your I didn't

867
00:54:06,679 --> 00:54:08,880
have any of I didn't have any ass rubbing. I

868
00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:12,719
can assure you that, right, you know, and and I am.

869
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:17,159
I'm absolutely disgusted by the way that the Republicans were

870
00:54:17,159 --> 00:54:19,440
turning around and for all of them, like including with

871
00:54:19,519 --> 00:54:22,079
Pam BONDI, why didn't a Republican turn around and say

872
00:54:23,199 --> 00:54:27,360
Ms Bondi, you're you're seeking to be confirmed by this

873
00:54:27,559 --> 00:54:33,559
body as the next Attorney General, and on paper, your

874
00:54:33,679 --> 00:54:42,079
CV is wonderful, But I cannot imagine considering every single

875
00:54:42,159 --> 00:54:46,320
person that I know has heard of that tape with

876
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:49,920
Brad Rathensberger. Are you really telling us that you've never

877
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:52,599
heard that? You never watched the news and saw it.

878
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:55,360
You know, you didn't listen to any recordings. Have you

879
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:58,400
not been on any podcasts where they asked you anything

880
00:54:58,679 --> 00:55:04,880
like that? I can't believe not a single Republican asked

881
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:10,000
a single question that wasn't anything other than blowing smoke

882
00:55:10,079 --> 00:55:12,920
up their ifs. And for that, I say fuck you

883
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:16,000
to all of you, because that's not what you're there for.

884
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:19,400
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, look, take a look at who these

885
00:55:19,519 --> 00:55:26,119
maga Republicans promote from within themselves. Right, we cannot love

886
00:55:26,559 --> 00:55:30,760
Mike Turner, who chair the Intelligence Committee in the House

887
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:34,039
of Representatives, Right, Like, we can disagree with that, But

888
00:55:34,079 --> 00:55:37,159
the guy's been a member of Congress since two thousand

889
00:55:37,199 --> 00:55:41,920
and three. He worked up the ranks, relatively bipartisan guy,

890
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:48,280
very outspoken in favor of Ukraine and NATO, someone who,

891
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:54,079
while you disagree with vehemently, He's from Ohio's tenth congressional district,

892
00:55:54,079 --> 00:55:56,800
would used to be their third you at least go okay,

893
00:55:57,039 --> 00:56:02,519
like he can do the job. Right, So Trump gets

894
00:56:02,599 --> 00:56:05,599
rid of this guy, and who does Maga Mike Johnson

895
00:56:05,679 --> 00:56:10,239
replace him with an Arkansas Republican congress member by the

896
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:13,679
name of Rick Crawford, who in twenty twenty one said this,

897
00:56:14,039 --> 00:56:14,679
let's planned.

898
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:18,199
Speaker 12: Look, we need to we need to understand. I believe

899
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:22,119
that the covid virus is real. However, I don't know

900
00:56:22,199 --> 00:56:24,760
that it's any worse than the common cold, and we

901
00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:28,320
somehow managed to get through the common cold. As we

902
00:56:28,559 --> 00:56:32,360
develop over time, vaccinations and herd immunity and things of

903
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:36,039
this nature. I'm not downplaying the severity of the pandemic,

904
00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:39,519
but we have to learn to live with it. While

905
00:56:39,519 --> 00:56:41,400
I have you have you here, I do want to

906
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:43,360
move on to infrastructure, because.

907
00:56:44,039 --> 00:56:45,840
Speaker 1: Right, that clip is from an asshole.

908
00:56:46,119 --> 00:56:49,840
Speaker 2: By the way, what an asshole? Yeah? You know what,

909
00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:52,239
We could say the same thing about polio. Yeah, you

910
00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:55,280
could learn to live with it, right, or you know,

911
00:56:55,719 --> 00:56:59,480
the chicken chicken pox, or shingles or measles, Mump's rebella,

912
00:57:00,239 --> 00:57:02,920
you know, and any of the other dip theory. We

913
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:05,920
could learn to live with it. It's so it's common. Well,

914
00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:10,320
eventually get a hurt immunity. Sure, you will all right again,

915
00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:15,719
they're all just playing ben to the to the script

916
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:19,280
that's given to them. And that's how Donald Trump won

917
00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:23,840
the election. And that's where Democrats were fractured, all going

918
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:25,719
off on different tangents.

919
00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:29,599
Speaker 1: Look that clip too that I showed you is from

920
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:34,800
twenty twenty one. It was when people knew that the

921
00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:38,559
deaths that were caused by COVID. He's still saying that.

922
00:57:38,719 --> 00:57:41,679
And so let's be clear, Like, if you're willing to

923
00:57:41,719 --> 00:57:45,800
have Pete Hegsith be your Secretary of Defense, if you're

924
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:50,239
willing to have Rick Crawford lead the Intelligence Committee and

925
00:57:50,519 --> 00:57:53,960
have Donald Trump be your leader and be the president,

926
00:57:54,239 --> 00:57:59,159
if you're okay with that, then you're really then there's

927
00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:03,320
really no doubt to the depravity you'll go anywhere. There's

928
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:09,119
frankly nothing that you will not be okay with once

929
00:58:09,199 --> 00:58:14,719
you've opened the Pandora's box right there. And our founders,

930
00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:19,440
I think believed that in our two party system, the

931
00:58:19,559 --> 00:58:25,760
systems themselves would safeguard that kind of like it does

932
00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:29,960
in parliamentary systems, where you usually not all the time,

933
00:58:30,039 --> 00:58:35,440
but you usually can't become the leader of your party

934
00:58:35,519 --> 00:58:38,960
in a parliamentary system unless you've worked your way up

935
00:58:39,039 --> 00:58:41,360
from the ground up through the party, you show you

936
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:43,880
can work with other people. And then in a multi

937
00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:47,599
party system you usually have to make alliances with other

938
00:58:47,639 --> 00:58:52,280
parties that you may disagree with. But here our system,

939
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:55,079
and I know people go. Our founders were so brilliant,

940
00:58:55,079 --> 00:59:00,760
The constitution was so brilliant, I think that it could

941
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:06,679
be except it relies on good faith. And historically, while

942
00:59:07,079 --> 00:59:12,000
these norms and traditions were exercised in good faith, not

943
00:59:12,079 --> 00:59:14,440
all the time. Let's be very clear that dark times

944
00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:18,360
the arc moving in the right direction. But the good

945
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faith aspect of these norms that held it together, that

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they've been shattered, and they've been shattered by the people

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that you're seeing there.

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Speaker 2: And and come on.

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Speaker 1: What, why is it a political issue to say COVID

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is dangerous and deadly, Like that's so strange to me,

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Like that's not a political issue. What the hell are

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you even talking about?

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Speaker 2: It is a political issue because Trump made it a

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political issue exactly to be wrong. So when he turned

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around and said it'll be gone by the end of

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the weekend, ignore it, and so on, and then more on,

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Mike Tense got up there and did the same at

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Sea pack that's why.

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Speaker 1: Exactly, you know, and it's the same people. Never before

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would you politicize a tragedy like a like hurricane wins

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that spread fire, like you would never turn the tragedy

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that we've experienced here in LA into a political issue

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and right away start lying about the cause of it

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to undermine democrats like that just never was a thing.

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You know, we wouldn't be Like when there was a

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hurricane in Florida. You know, oh, this is the the

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hurricane is being caused by Deysantis. The hurricane is being

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caused like that, That's just not what you do. You

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you rally to the people, you don't spread lies about it.

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But now, no matter what it is, right the hurricanes

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in the East Coast, the lie was Biden's only giving

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seven hundred and fifty dollars. By the way, they use

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the same one here, Bema's only giving seven to fifty.

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Speaker 2: That's just it's just falls it's the same seven fifty

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that they claim that giving all the migrants too. It's

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it's it's you know.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, Davin Newsom, who I think is

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built for this moment to debunk disinformation, right, younger guy

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quick on his feet, good looking, kind of made for

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the articulate, made for the moment. It took him like

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four or five days to realize the hustle. And frankly Biden,

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because Biden's an old school guy who was into norms

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and let's work together. And Biden just was unable to

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swat down the lies because it just wasn't it wasn't

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in his fabric in DNA as as as as the

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leader that he is. And I think it's unfortunate because

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I think his leadership is what's needed. But you know,

988
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you need the TikTok presidency, you need the you know,

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that's where we are, and so we have to recognize that.

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You gotta deal with that. You can't ignore that. But

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we're gonna work here on political Beatdown on the Midas

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