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Speaker 1: Welcome back to The Michael Cohen Show on our continued

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So I want to talk today about the discussion of

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the number of billionaires that are receiving appointments in Trump's

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cabinet and in his administration, and how the MAGA supporters

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and those representing them are not even from the same universe.

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So first I want to show you some clips, and

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here's a clip of Representative Derek Van Orden discussing, as

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an example, John Fhalan, someone who I happen to know

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for over twenty years, who's going to be Secretary of

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the Navy. Play that clip.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to start there first. Thank you so much

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for joining us your thoughts on the president alex recently

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announced pick for Secretary of the Navy.

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Speaker 1: John Feelin.

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Speaker 2: He's not someone who has military experience or any significant

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public connection to the Navy or the Pentagon. He's someone

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who founded a private investment company. He was a large

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donor to Trump's reelection campaign, we should note, do you

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think Phelan has the right qualifications to be Secretary of

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the Navy.

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Speaker 3: Well, first of all, Happy Thanksgiving to everybody. I'm also

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in the House Agriculture Committee, So when you're eating your

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Thanksgiving feast tomorrow, make sure you think it farmer. You

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know what, I'm the longest serving enlisted member of the

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United States military to ever be elected to Congress in

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the history of our nation. I have multiple combat tours

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as a United States Navy seal, and I'm completely comfortable

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with our incoming second now. The reason being is that

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we need somebody that's able to make sure that they

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can lay out a strategic vision and then follow through that.

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That's what the Navy's about, projecting strategic power through keeping

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sea lanes open. And I have the utmost confidence that

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our incoming secretary is going to be able to do

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just that, because he understands that in order to get

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things done, you have to be able to put something

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above yourself. He's done that in the private sector, putting

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in the company and the welfare of the stockholders above himself,

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and he's going to be able to do that as

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the incoming sect now by putting the United States of America,

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our well being and the well being of our allies

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above himself.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so let me start by saying I don't agree

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with Representative Ordon at all, other than to say I

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do think that John Fhalan can do a good job. Now,

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if it has to do with the construction of a

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boat or something to do with Navy ordinances, he'll have

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to learn that on the job. But John is very

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good at organization. He ran a massive organization. But then again,

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what the hell do I know about what's needed. If

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it requires having Navy experience in order to be Secretary

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of the Navy, then he's certainly not the right guy.

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If it's more of managerial and budgeting and so on,

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he is exactly that, And he's going to make the

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right because, look, like I said, I know him. He's

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a fair minded he is an intelligent guy. He is

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going to do what's right for the Navy, regardless of

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who tells him what that they want to do, and

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so on. So again, we will see what ends up happening.

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But I also want to show you a clip of

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Steven Miller confirming that Mark Zuckerberg went to mar A

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Lago in order to let's just say, bend the knee.

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Play that clip. Steven real Quick.

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Speaker 4: Politico is reporting that Mark Zuckerberg was at mari A

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Lago today meeting with President Trump.

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Speaker 5: Can you confirm that, yes, that's correct. And Mark Zuckerberg

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has been very clear about his desire to be a

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supporter of and a participant in this change that we're

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seeing all around America, all around the world with this

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reform movement. Donald Trump is leading. Mark Zuckerberg, like so

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many business leaders, understand that President Trump is an agent

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of change, an agent of prosperity, and so business leaders

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CEOs everywhere they want to be an element, a supporter,

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a booster of making our economy prosperous, delivering for American workers,

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and making sure that America is the most powerful, wealthiest,

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freest nation on the face of the earth. So we'll

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see what comes of that. And Mark, obviously he has

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his own interests, and he has his own company, and

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he has his own agenda, but he's made clear that

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he wants to support the national renewal of America under

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President Trump's leadership.

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Speaker 4: Good, it's good for the president. He turned the page

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with some talk show hosts on another channel, and he

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might be maybe getting over the fact that Zuckerbucks really

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impacted the twenty twenty election in those very in the

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battleground areas.

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Speaker 1: So of course Zuckenberg is to go there, right, He

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wants to continue in order to be in the good

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grace for fear, for fear that his business is going

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to get hammered by Donald Trump and this new administration,

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as well as you know, losing market share to others

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who are and have remained in Trump's camp. Now, look,

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do you blame Zuckerberg for doing that? I don't. I don't,

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I don't. He cares about the profit of his company

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for his own personal and the one thing I'm going

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to agree with Steven Miller and I can't believe I'm

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saying it, Yeah, Mark Zuckerberg went there for his own agenda,

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plain and simple. Now, I want to show you a clip,

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for example, of another enormously wealthy guy, Scott Bissent, Who's

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Trump's pick for Treasury secretary, saying that Trump is the

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most sophisticated leader that he has ever met in his

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entire life. Play that clip.

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Speaker 6: Donald Trump is the most sophisticated leader on economics, that

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I've met, and he's also the most open minded. So

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the idea of bringing back tariffs. You know, Alexander Hamilton

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was the original tariff man, and why did he like tariffs?

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Two reasons, One to fund the treasury, two to protect

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nason US industries.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, let me just say that's going to be

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a problem for this country. It's going to be a

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problem for Donald Trump. If I was sitting there at

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the table, I would turn around and I would say, Okay, look,

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you talked about tariffs during the campaign. Don't concentrate on

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that one. Talk about other things that you've concentrated on

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that could actually bring you a benefit. Tariffs are going

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to hurt. As I have explained on other shows, the

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Michael Cohen Show, in other segments, I've explained how tariffs

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are going to whack the little guy right in the ass.

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All right, it is one hundred percent not going. Twenty

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seven of twenty nine of the top economists in this

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country have turned around and said this is problematic. In

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twenty seventeen, when Trump, as an example, put a tariff

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on Canada for aluminum, in lumber and so on, what

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did he end up doing Almost within a month within

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a month thereafter he started handing out waivers. So first

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you put a tariff, and then you give everybody a waiver.

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So what the hell is the point? It diminishes what

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he's intending to do. There are a thousand things that

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he can do. Tariffs is not the way to go. Now,

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let me just finish this by turning out and telling

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you I want to show you an article because as

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we as I've said before, and I've only picked out

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two of the billionaires, there are a dozen, dozens of billionaires,

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from Linda McMahon all the way to all the way too.

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Let's say, know who else do they have over there?

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There's just a dozen billionaires, Howard Lutnik for example. Right,

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these are all billionaires, Young Charlie Kushner. Now who's going

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to be the ambassador to France. There's billionaires all over

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this administration. You know where you know? And who's right

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now freaking out over the whole thing. The Democratic billionaires

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because they pumped a shit ton of money into Kamala

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Harris's campaign and they got absolutely nothing from it. You

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see the billionaire class they like to see Richard. Oh,

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of course, I forgot about Elon Musk and vivik Ramaswami, Right,

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I mean talking about you know, the guys that are

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front in center Democrats want to see some benefit these

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Democratic billionaires. They all want to see some sort of

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return on their investment in But the Democratic billionaires aren't

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seeing that, and they're nervous right now. So I want

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to show you an article as an example that the

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New York Times put out. It's entitled right, What's a

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Democratic billionaire to do? Now? All right? This is a

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really interesting article. The party's donor class is still wrestling

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with Donald Trump's victory, worried about retribution and sluggish liberal energy.

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Some rich Democrats are even pondering leaving the country. Here's

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the second part to it. Mister Hoffman, and let me

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remind you he is the founder of LinkedIn declined to

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comment through a spokeswoman, has helped to pay for some

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of the most aggressive private litigation against Donald J. Trump,

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and he's worried about retribution from a president who has

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promised to go after his political opponents, including major Democratic donors.

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Mister Hoffman's reaction is dramatic, and it's unclear how much

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moving abroad would protect him or his assets. From mister

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Trump's wrath. He is hardly alone in a liberal, big

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money world still stunned by Vice President Kamala Harris's defeat. Now,

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let me go on and say this, He's not the

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only one. For example, there's a guy by the name

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of Seth London who's an advisor to some of the

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Democratic Party's biggest donors. He wrote in a private memo

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that was addressed to there's a group there it's called

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Discourage Democrats, arguing that the party should begin with a

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complete rejection of race and group based identity politics. What

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they've done is they turned around and they took a

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look and saw that the things that we Democrats were

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running on right as the Republicans are woke, woke ism

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and so on, that this isn't working, that people care

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about gas and groceries, and despite the fact that the

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economy is doing well, didn't matter. It didn't matter. And

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one of the other things that he said, Democrats have

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increasingly focused on the priorities of core party activists over

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the common voters we claim to represent. Yes, it's something

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I tried to reach out to Jamie Harrison on and

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when I would turn around say to them what are

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you guys doing? What are you doing? Couldn't get in

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touch with anybody. That's also the difference here there. And

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this is why I turn around. I say, we all

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just need to take the temperature down. What's going to happen?

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I don't know. I really don't. Nobody does. All I

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can say is the following some of the things that

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Donald Trump has said that he intends to do, Like what,

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for example, Reid Hoffman may be concerned about he is.

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He has the right to feel that way. He most

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certainly does and do. I think, as The New York

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Times wrote, that by running off to another country can

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stop him, not unless you runs to a country that

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doesn't have extradition to the United States. There's only a

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handful of those countries which I don't think read Hoffman

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tends to live. So, you know what, relax, calm down.

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Maybe he won't end up doing that. Maybe there's so

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much going on right now in this country that needs fixing,

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Maybe there's so much around the world that needs to

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be fixed as well. Then he'll put all this shit

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aside and say, you know what, I'm President of the

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United States enough, regardless of what these sycophans, these hanger

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ons are going to try to get him to do

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Maybe he turns around and he says, I actually want

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to be a president for all Americans. Now, there's a

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difference between being hopeful and optimistic, but what else can

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we be? And as always, thanks for listening. Hey everyone,

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