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Speaker 1: So Trump's reckless diplomacy was on full display yesterday during

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his disastrous presser with Israel Prime Minister, bb NET and Yahoo.

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Literally standing at the podium alongside a US ally, Trump

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turned what should have actually been a serious, a really

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serious diplomatic moment into a personal grievance tour, siding with dictators,

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teasing covert actions, and treating global conflict like it was

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a bragshet. Welcome back to The Michael Cohen Show on

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our continued journey to one million subscribers. Let's get there.

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We got twenty twenty six to look forward to, so

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hit subscribe, watch, comment, and share because this stupidity, it's

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got to come to an end. Now, my friends, what

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you're about to see from this two part presser, it's

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not leadership, It isn't strategy, it isn't even confusion. It's

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literally the same thing that I saw for years behind

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closed doors. A weak man, a week man, and desperate

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for validation from strong men, and utterly unfit for the

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responsibility in front of him. So let's get to it all, right,

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clip by clip, because every single word matters, every word

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that the President says matters, and none of this should

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be normalized. Let's start with the moment that he tells

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you everything you need to know about Trump's loyalties. Reporter

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went on and asked about an alled strike on Vladimir

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Putin's residence. Play the clip.

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Speaker 2: Straight. Yeah, I don't. I don't like it. It's not good.

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I heard about it this morning, you know, tell me

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about it. President Putin told me about it early in

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the morning. He said he was attacked. That's no good.

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It's no good.

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Speaker 3: Don't forget you know, the tomahawks. I stopped the tomahawks.

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I didn't want that because we're talking about here. It's

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a delicate period of time. This is not the right time.

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It's one thing to be offensive because they are offensive.

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It's another thing to attack his house. It's not the

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right time to do any of that. And can't do it.

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Speaker 2: And I learned about it from President Puttin that I

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was very angry about it. What well it came out.

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It came out. Well, we'll find out. I mean, you're

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saying maybe the attack didn't take place.

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Speaker 3: It's possible too, I guess, but.

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Speaker 2: President Putin told me this morning it did.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let me be clear, As I wrote in my

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sub stack of this morning, Trump and the flattery doctrine.

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This came the moment that should have literally stopped everyone

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cult Trump accepting Vladimir Putin's claim that Ukraine attacked his

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residence without any without any independent US intelligence confirmation, and

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why because Putin said so. Volodmya Zelenski, who's hosted just

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one day earlier, called it a lie. But Trump, He's

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never trusted allies ho tell inconvenient truths. He trusts strong

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men who mirror his worldview. My friends, I've seen this

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pattern up close. The louder the lie, the more confidently

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it's embraced, especially if it comes from someone who projects

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power and feeds Trump's ego. Now, let's talk about Venezuela,

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because this, my friends, is where it gets really dangerous.

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A reporter asked Trump about an explosion he bragged about

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in a radio interview. Play that clip of.

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Speaker 2: A must otherwise very quickly. Yep, he's aying.

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Speaker 1: More out the explosion video way.

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Speaker 2: Well, it doesn't matter, but there was a major explod

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and the dock area where they load the boats up

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with drugs. They load the boats up with drugs. So

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we hit all the boats, and now we hit the

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area it's the implementation area. That's where they implement, and

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that is no longer around. I don't want to comment

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the president.

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Speaker 1: How much would you pay to be able to read

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what bb net and Yahoo was just thinking? It was like,

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I can't believe that this dope sitting next to me

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is actually saying this, because then it only gets worse. See,

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that's the problem. When he says something, now he's got

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to double down, it gets worse. Another reporter asked directly,

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was it the US military or was it the CIA?

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Played the clip that right?

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Speaker 4: Please?

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Speaker 2: Can I follow up on Venezuela because the facility taken

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out by the US military or was it another entity

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like the CIA? Well, I don't want to say that

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exactly who it was. But I don't want to say

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who it was, but you know it was along the shore.

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Speaker 1: Look, let me say, as I said again in my substack,

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or perhaps to his survival instinct, kept a poker face

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literally as he said that he praised Trump as the

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greatest friend of Israel that they have ever had. He

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emphasized again the content the intensity of the relationship while

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all of this world chaos is taking place. In fact,

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it's so chaotic. I want to show you a clip

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where Trump gets caught again on a hot mic with

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net Yahoo, because this is pure ego, unfiltered. Play the clip.

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Speaker 2: But to both of them, I said, we're going to

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cut you off on more trade. Then I put two

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hundred percent tariffs on the next day they called, we

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looked at thirty five years of fighting, and they they stepped.

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Do I get credit for it? Now? I did eight

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of them India, how about India and Pakistan? And then

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so I did eight of them and then I'll tell

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you the rest of it. How are you doing?

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Speaker 4: Okay? You know we'll be outside the beautiful sun. Good,

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enjoy your lunch. It's a very good group. We made

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a lot of progress already.

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Speaker 2: We had about a five minute meeting and we've already

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settled about three of the difficulties. So thank you very

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much for being here.

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Speaker 1: You know, you're sitting there talking to a series of

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people on the other side of the table, not Trump's side.

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The other side serious serious diplomats who have years of

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experience in diplomatic relations. But Bibe, he understands Trump, He

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really does. And later even indulge Trump's deepest weakness. What

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did he do? He announced that he's going to award

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the Israel Prize, the nation's highest cultural honor, to Trump,

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who of course responded by declaring that Israel itself might

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not exist today without bb Netanyahu's leadership. My friends, you

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know what this is. This is a mutual admiration society

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that's built on flattery, not foresight. See because next Trump

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is pressuring Israel President Isaac Herzog into a pardon for

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his friend BB netan Yahoo by stating a pardon is

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on the way, a statement Israel's president was now forced

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to deny after Trump's public manifesting play the clip, right,

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and what's about the.

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Speaker 2: Problem that's privates a pardon?

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Speaker 4: I think you will?

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Speaker 2: How do you not He's a wartime prime minister who's

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a hero. How do you not give a parton? I

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think it's a very hard thing not to do it.

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I spoke to the President and it's on. I mean,

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he tells me it's on its way.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Let me go on to say that this first

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part is a disaster. But the second half of the presser,

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this is where Trump completely loses the plot. Rush out

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of the meeting with net and Yahoo, he compares himself

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to a wartime president. It's interesting because I didn't know

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we were at war. Play the clip, pre supportant.

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Speaker 2: It's meant from the heart, thank you, you know, as

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I said outside, he's been a time prime minister and

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we were look. I guess I could say I was

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a wartime president in more places than just Israel, if

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you think about it. But is always a big factor,

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and we're with you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, But when the self proclaimed wartime president is pressed

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on China now surrounding Taiwan with evil exercises, here's the problem.

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Trump flails. Play the clip.

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Speaker 2: And they didn't believe what was going to happen would happen. Yes,

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ma'am doing naval exercises basically to test encircling Taiwan. Can

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you explain to us what your knowledge is of that?

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What do you think about that? Have you had any

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discussions with Well? I have a great relationship with Presidency

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and he hasn't told me anything about it. I certainly

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have seen it, but he hasn't told me anything about it.

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And I don't believe he's going to be doing it. No,

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nothing worries me. Nothing's fire, right, so if you're in circle,

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if you're doing naval exercises and air exercises, doing naval

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exercises for twenty years in that area. Now people take

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it a little bit differently, but in fact larger than

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they're doing right now. So we'll see. But they've been

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they've been doing that for twenty twenty five years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but he doesn't know anything about it, right,

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And after shrugging off that question, he pivots back to

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his safety mode, breaking about his ballroom. Play the clip.

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Speaker 2: I'm doing a magnificent, big, beautiful ballroom that the country

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has wanted, the White House has wanted for one hundred

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and fifty years. It's a massive job and it's a

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tiny fraction of that number, and we're under budget and

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ahead of schedule. Now it's bigger than I told you. It's,

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you know, after realizing we're going to do the inauguration

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in that building. It's got all bulletproofed lass, it's got

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all drone they call it drone free roof. Drones won't

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touch it. It's a big it's a big, beautiful, safe building.

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But it's you know, some big budget for tiny fraction

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that we're under budget and ahead of schedule, and they

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wanted it for one hundred fIF years. Think of it,

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the Federal Reserve building two buildings.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he knows because one hundred and fifty years ago

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he sat down and he had a conversation right with

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who I mean, finally we get the cherry on the

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top Trump threatening to actually sue the Federal Reserve chair.

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Speaker 2: It had no impact. We won all seven swing states.

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But no, no, we're thinking about bringing a suit against

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Powell for incompetence because think of it, these are two

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These aren't outstanding buildings. These are small buildings. He said

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four billion more. It's gonna end up costing more than

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four billion dollars four billion. It's the highest price of

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construction again, Democrats, highest price of construction per square foot

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in the history of the world. It's never been Gorgeous

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monuments are built for a much smaller price. So we're

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thinking about bringing a gross incompetence what's called grossing cops,

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gross incompetence against Powell. And it was his baby, and

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the guy's just incompetent. There is nothing you can do

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about it. He's just a very incompetent man. But we're

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gonna probably bring a lawsuit a guess him. Thank you

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all very much. I appreciate it. BB congratulations, my friends.

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Speaker 1: Let's just put this all together. Trump shrugs off possible

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military strikes. He won't say who conducted the covert operations.

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Congress doesn't know. He pressures our allies, He minimizes China's

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aggression towards Taiwan. He talks about ballrooms when he should

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be talking about global crises. And then of course he

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threatens the FED for not obeying him. This is not leadership.

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As I said before, this is not deal making. This

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is recklessness fueled by ego and also by fear. And

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the reason that I break it down clip by clip

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is because the bee behavior only survives when people, when

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you and I, when this community stops paying attention. And

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here's my promise to you as we head into the

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new year. I'm not stopping, and I ask you not

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to stop as well. You know, I finished even my

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sub stack. Trump in the flattery doctrine with this. As

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the new year approaches, people will resolve to eat better,

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to drink less, to be kinder. Trump will resolve to

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do exactly what he's always done, because in his mind,

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the problem has never been him, and that is what

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makes this moment in time so dangerous. When ego replaces

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judgment on the world stage, the cost is not personal failure,

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it's global consequence. And unlike most broken resolutions, this one

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doesn't fade quietly by morning. And as always, thanks for listening.

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