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Speaker 1: And shortly ago you heard Nick Craig. He was sitting

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in for Revents Cochley and Nick was playing the audio

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of what the FBI had to say, and they said that,

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you know, everything they know at this point is that

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it acted alone. You know, they scoured places, their's bombs,

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you know the incentive devices that have been found. Is

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there a connection between what happened in Vegas and what

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happened in New Orleans other than the truck being the

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same rental company? At least that's the last I had seen.

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We don't know the other fascinating thing or military radicalized

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individual that that did this. So many different aspects, there's

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just things we we don't know, and and and and

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so many things happen in real time. So if you

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if you're on the news, what you see is kind

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of this thirty minute loop of No matter if it's

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CNNMSNBC or Fox or whatever, they're in the thirty minute loop,

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you're kind of seeing the same thing you're seeing. You know,

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if the FBI does an update, they play that, and

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then they'll play that until another update happens. Meanwhile, they'll

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have subject matter experts on a variety of fronts that

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will come in and say and give their opinion if

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I was doing it, here's what they should be saying,

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or here's what they shouldn't be saying, or here's what

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I would do in that in that position. And and

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so you saw this play out. You've got several New

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Orleans officials that have said, hey, we would delay the

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Sugar Bowl one more day. You have the Sugar Bowl

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that's supposed to happen in New Orleans. It was supposed

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to be yesterday, they put it. They knocked it off

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till today. There are other people that are concerned about

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the safety. You know, the governor deployed one hundred additional

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agents to secure the Sugar Bowl folks there. So we

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don't know. There's more that we don't know than we do,

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and otherwise there's a lot of speculation. One of the

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most difficult aspects of this to me is watching the

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lack of trust in the FBI now and think about

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that for a minut I'm not trying to overly politicize this,

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but I'm saying we know that the FBI at the

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highest levels did have several DEI woke like policies in place.

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They did spend an extraordinary amount of time at the

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highest levels with the Donald Trump stuff. They did withhold

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information from the media about the Hunter Biden laptop story.

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They did spend time, effort, resources in social media and

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engaged in that over the past four years. So the

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unfortunate reality and the FBI is a massive agency. Does

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that mean everybody wasn't doing their jobs. No, it doesn't

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mean that at all. It does mean, in the eyes

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of the American public that the agency itself, at the

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highest levels spent time doing things that undermine trust in

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the department. So when the department says, oh, we've been vigilant,

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We've been on top of the terrorist activities, you have

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to say to yourself, well, it wasn't that long ago

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that Joe Biden came out and told the nation that

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the number one threat to America was white supremacist groups,

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which we know in light of the Nashville shooting, we

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know in light of other shootings, we know that's not

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fundamentally not true. But he told us, the President of

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the United States told us this. There's no evidence that

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this certainly wasn't a white supremacist activity. There's no evidence

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that what happened in Vegas was a white supremacist activity.

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All in fact, it is isis so the threats, and meanwhile,

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the border being completely poors and unsecured, has allowed we

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don't know the level of threats that have come across

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the border. We don't know the people that are part

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of sleeper cells or trying to radicalize individuals that are

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trying to create threats to the country. And several Democrats

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have said, you know what, there's no evidence that migrants

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have made things worse, that illegal immigration has made things worse.

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But here's the thought on that, and I'm getting away

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from the New Orleans thing we'll come back to. It

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is that there are plenty of bad people in society

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right now. In what is here legally that stretches agencies,

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that stretches law enforcement departments, sheriffs, police, all up and down.

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There's plenty here. So the fact that more dangerous individuals

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are imported is adding to that which stretches the ability

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to deal with bad people even further out, more costly,

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more time consuming, less able to keep track of all

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the threats because now you've added into the mix many

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more potential threats. So is the the fact that an

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agency was stretched? Is that why they missed this guy?

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Are there how many people like that have they missed?

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This didn't happen in a vacuum. There were several signs.

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We know that the custody of the kids was at play.

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We know that there were people close to him that

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were saying, hey, there's a problem here. What we don't

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know is was he radicalized in a systemic way? Was

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he radicalized Diyce's former thirteen years in the US military army?

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Was he radicalized with some kind of intent and other words?

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Were there individuals that were radicalizing him in subtle machiavellian ways?

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Were there ways that they were twisting him or did

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he have mental issues and got twisted up on his own.

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We don't know. There's a lot more that we don't

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know than we do. The same thing with the situation

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in Vegas. Though. The interesting thing about the Vegas bombing

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was that that cyber truck the way it was built,

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and Elon Musk was on top of that immediately saying, hey,

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we're going to look into this, and through the telemetry

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and all the interesting information they had, they knew about

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that truck. They knew it was a bomb, they knew

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it wasn't the battery. They knew very quickly that it

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was not a mechanical failure with this truck. They knew

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a lot of data on the truck that they were

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able to retrieve quickly. Also because of the construction of

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that truck. If you look at the bombing, the individual

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in it blown you know, destroyed. If you're going to

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destroy it should be that one. So but if you

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look at where that was parked in front of the building,

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there were no windows blown out. The doors of the

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Trump Resort were not damaged. I mean, obviously the sprinklers

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went off and the flames went straight up, so there's

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roof dams there. But that had that truck just been

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a fall apart vehicle. A lot more people could have

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been hurt or killed that we don't know the power of.

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We don't know. There's a lot about that situation. We

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don't know. The one in New Orleans. You hear the

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police chief. She's almost seventy very politically connected in her

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former California stint and up in Chicago where she was

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connected Democrats there now in New Orleans. And I'm not

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trying to say this is a Democrat thing. The point

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is she had political connections in that realm and there

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was some you know, you wonder when you saw her

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many people had a reaction like that. It's the police chief.

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We know that the blockades, he drove around the blockades

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onto the sidewalk. We know that also there are barricades

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in the streets that either didn't work or did it doesn't.

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It's a horror. People that want to inflict harm will inflict,

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will find a way. So that's why the intelligence and

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security is so critical. See something, say something. If you

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look at there's actually a video, there's a very odd

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video circulating that is that truck. And if you know

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the layout of Canal Street and Bourbon Street, you kind

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of know this. So there was a video of this

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truck coming down the street kind of in bumper to

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bumper track at traffic, and you can see it coming

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down the street. I don't know if you've seen the video.

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And then you can see that it makes a right

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onto Bourbon Street, so it's coming up, I guess up

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from the river, makes a right on Bourbon, which is

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where all the partiers were, and you see it just

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accelerate right into that turn. So it's moving it two

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point nothing miles an hour and it makes a right

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hand turn and zoom, you see it just take off.

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I think both of these I read, and I could

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be wrong, could be read somewhere they were ev vehicles.

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We know the Tesla is, but not sure about the Ford,

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but that's kind of what it said.

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Speaker 1: Christopher Rai, not to be confused with Christopher Ray, is

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the gentleman who assistant I guess he's assistant director of

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the FBI. He came out and spoke, we've got that

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queued up, so we'll cue that. And this is the

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FBI deputy assistant director about the New Orleans text. Let's

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play that clip. That's about a minute thirty six. Go

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Speaker 3: First and foremost, let me be very clear about this point.

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This was an act of terrorism. It was premeditated and

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an evil act. This was obviously a critical incident, and

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with that, lots of information and tips come pouring in

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for law enforcement, first responders and the public. We have

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been aggressively running down these tips and information. As you

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all know, that takes time, and we will continue to

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do so until every lead has been followed through on.

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This investigation is only a little more than twenty four

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hours years old. Sore twenty four hours old, so I

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ask you to keep in mind that as I go

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through some of the specifics later. But at this point, currently,

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and this is another position on another fact I want

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to be clear on, we do not assess at this

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point that anyone else involved in this attack is involved

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in this attack except for shamsu den Jabbar the subject.

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the FBI is doing. So we are surging people and

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assets to the area from across the region and across

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the nation, special agents in multiple field ups.

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Speaker 1: We can we can cut that one off down. But

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the last half hour or so about what they know. Now.

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words are intentional. He's reading them. They've been written. It's

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for your to digest that Shimpson shamsu Den Jabbar acted alone.

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acted alone. Meanwhile, he also said agents are being deployed

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to the area and across the nation. I guess they're

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wanting to make sure that what he said holds up.

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Now on the flip sides we know about, we don't

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know the connection, if there is one, to what happened

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at Trump Tower. It is odd that two trucks blew

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up not far apart from a timeline standpoint. We know

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that one was radicalized. We suspect the other probably was.

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That almost synonymous with this this morning, and there's a

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protest in New York Downtown, New York, hundreds of anti

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Israel protesters gathered in Times Square yesterday waving Palestinian flags

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and calling for into fodder revolution. On the same day,

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a terrorist carried out deadly cartec in French quarters in

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New Orleans. The protest, organized by the Palestinian Youth Movement,

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the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the People's Form,

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was led in a chant of there is only one

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solution into fodder revolution. We're sending you back to Europe,

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you white, Yeah, whatever, I can't exploitive. One female demonstrator

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wearing a kefia shouted at counter protesters, go back to Europe,

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go back to her now interested in Europe's been overrun

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and becoming almost an extension. You know, there is a strong,

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strong eradication of Western civilization taking place in Europe. So

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a lot of this type of mentality is incompatible with

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the free society it is. It's the wa hobbyist, it's

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the extremist in this into fodder group. So as Iran

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loses prestige as there's been pushback against every one of

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its proxies in the region around Israel, whether it be Hamas,

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whether it be whatever group it is from the Hutis

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take over Syria, but it doesn't look friendly. And Iran's

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getting ready to get economically cut off. Even as John

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Kerry and Joe Biden the Democrats were very friendly to

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Iran as they were funding, so we were funding, we

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were funding Iran or freezed up. You re freed up

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a lot of their assets, so they could use that

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money in those resources to attack Israel and US. We

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also the fact that the Europeans are funding the Russians

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through oil purchases to help fund the Ukraine while giving

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money to the Ukrainians. It's a weird reality. I think

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that's going to change it about I don't know. Nineteen

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days were the second so eighteen days. So when you

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October seventh, and we saw heading into the spring of

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this year, it was a highly coordinated student activism on

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the campuses that undermined these universities credibility in the eyes

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of the American public. The fact that those protests went on,

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so they went so far. Could you imagine almost any

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other group on the right having such It would not

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be tolerated. There is a tolerance for the anger on

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the left. That's I don't know why, other than you don't.

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I don't want to say, hey, the left hates America.

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lot a lot of them love this country. The issue

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is that at the highest levels there is not a

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desire to stop this. That's where we should be speaking

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with one voice. The left and right should be putting

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down these protests calling for violence. Intifada, you're calling for

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an into fader revolution. That's what means it's okay to

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kill people who disagree with you. That's not what we

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should be what we should be up to, not what

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we should be doing, not what we should be about.

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the heels of the of this terrorist attack into ones

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with the explosive device in the truck in New Orleans

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that had he made it to a certain point, he

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would have detonated that and the carnage would have been

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much more widespread. I think he ran into kind of

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a lift and amount of elevation device that was in

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the way. But just unbelievably shocking. That strange. So and

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trust confirm it. Both of those individuals were stationed at

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what is now known as Fort Liberty at one time.

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then I think it'll probably be Fort Bragg again before

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the next four years is up. Both rented EV vehicles

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from the same app that we saw both attacks within

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hours of each other. So it's something at that level

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coincidence has to be looked at, just I mean, other

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than the fact that it's New Year's Day. I mean,

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that's a time, you know, people like these kind of

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specific times. Nine eleven wasn't. And I heard someone say

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in the midst of all this and is some experts said, hey,

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the further one of the problems with this is the

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further you get away from the last terrorist attack, massive

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terrorist attack, the closer you are to the next one,

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and the more we become complacent. And they's phrased it

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very differently, and I don't remember the gentleman's name. They said,

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the further you are from the nine from nine to eleven.

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on words. The further you are away from nine to

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eleven the closer yard of nine to ten, and what

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he's really trying to say, the closer yard to the

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next terrorist attack. And it's an easy way to say things.

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And so while we're arguing about DEI and wokeism and

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transgender in the military, the people who want to kill us,

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the people that want to undo our country, the people

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that want the organizations that want to destroy our nation.

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They are not distracted by that. And that's where the

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complacent political left that wants to pick fights over things

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that are not nearly as critical distracts us. That serves

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only as a distraction away from what we really need

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to be focusing on, because all they're doing is they

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are being complacent and creating complacency. Because while we're paying

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attention to that, especially in the military, you want to

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follow wokes, you want to push this stuff, go fine,

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have protests, whatever. But when you're trying to indoctrinate the military,

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you're trying to indoctrinate a the FBI, when you're trying

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to undermine, that's dangerous. And I'm not saying that it

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led to this, but it certainly didn't help. There's no

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way you can argue that doing these things helped that

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all of those other policies did not contribute in some way.

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So that being said, we'll talk. I'm sure we'll talk

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a little bit more about this. Also in the news today,

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Josh Stein taking office from someone who was I guess

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the attorney general for sixteen years, was in the General

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Assembly for fourteen years, Roy Cooper thirty there than eight years,

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thirty eight years, and most people can't name anything he

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really did. Josh Stein taking over from Cooper, expected to

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hold it, to have an executive order. The conventional wisdom

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on the executive order that josh Stein would be and

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he's going to do it from Western North caass So

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that's where most people think, Hey, there's going to be

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some executive order about helping the folks in western North Carolina.

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If that happens, we'll bring that to you as well.

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Speaker 1: Twenty twenty five off boring start and all sorts of

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things happening. A sugar Bowldelaide. Two terrorist attacks that looks

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like crazy people protesting in New York. Biden leaving doing

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some strange stuff on the way out the door. By

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the way, Biden, this is the weird one. I pulled

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it up so many people have reposted it. So they

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posted a video. I don't know who's responsible for posting

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at the Biden White House, because certainly he's not in

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charge of what he's doing. I think he needs to

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be told everything to do here, do this, here, do this.

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Even his press conference on the bombing was rather odd.

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But they posted a video from the pandemic encouraging lockdowns

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and masking. It was uploaded in January of twenty one,

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as soon as Biden took office. It was re uploaded

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today as he should be like preparing to exit. Why

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did they share the video again? Why'd they redo this?

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It's odd? You know you had the terrorist attacks drone

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by the way, did you notice the drones have disappeared?

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Did you notice that story was like huge, and I

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mean it was everything from foreign adversaries to people with

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lots of drones out there in the northeast. Who could

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it be UFOs planes? You people are mistaking drones for

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planes or planes for drones. It's just news, news, news, news,

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every every It was just like inundated with drones and

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then all of a sudden gone. But ever, you know

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what everyone knows now, they know the you know the

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red light green light. I'm not talking about squid Games.

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I'm they see a plane coming toward them or going away.

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If you ever take your faxam you got a no

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red light green light. Not the squid games, but they

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all say Squid Games two came out, so people were

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watching that as well. But that's the drone story just

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kind of evaporated, just disappeared. No resolution, by the way,

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no resolution. Can you imagine a big story, a national

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news story, You're not gonna believe this, and then it

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just disappears and there's no resolution. We never found out

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whenever we just heard, well, it's probably probably just a

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bunch of drones that people had. And by the way,

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before Christmas, you would expect it. Maybe after Christmas, you know,

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a thousand new drones are out there and people are

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flying them all over the place, you would expect that,

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but not not. Right after Christmas, all the drones disappear.

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It's almost like a bunch of parent said, oh, I

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got these really cool drones. I want to start flying

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my six foot drone before I give it to my kid.

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Hundreds of drones appear over the Northeast military bases everywhere.

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They are just everywhere. Jacob, welcome to the show today.

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How the heck are you?

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Speaker 4: Hey there?

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Speaker 5: Hey, yeah, those drones are just falling from the sky,

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aren't they. You know, just just some fireworks shows. You know,

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instead of paying ten grand for a fireworks show, you

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get a little less money and get some drones and

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then they fall and get kids in the face. But

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that's not why.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I want to I want to take

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you care off it. Those drones. If you look up

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some of those, especially there's one or two in the

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US you can find. But the drone displays that people

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are putting on with, you know, ten thousand drones in

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the air doing these an made it. Those are it's

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it's through the looking glass kind of stuff. It's really remarkable.

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Speaker 5: But anyway, go ahead, Yeah, yeah, I've seen it on TV.

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I just think it's too it's in its embryo stages.

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Obviously they got some things to clean up. So let's

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get back to New Orleans. I'm a seventeen year veteran

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of security.

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Speaker 6: Six year security manager at Merrick Stadium Spectrum Center, worked

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with some government to some entities, including nuclear security.

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Speaker 5: So you know, barriers are a huge, huge thing. It's

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the it's the first deterrence to a controlled space. Right,

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So let me just say that I wouldn't want this

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police chief working on my staff. And you know, if

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you had even put three or four police cars in

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a row, the guy couldn't have got through. There is

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one police car, he went around it and he was

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off to the races, as we know. So why weren't

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there at least you guys you know where the Jersey

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barrier is, right, Yeah, okay, they could have brought those in.

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Those are portable, they're they're put them up with you.

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As a matter of fact, you move them with a

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piece of equipment similar to the one that he ran

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into at the end of the way there, or you

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could have put dump trucks or anything anything else. And

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my other point is, you know, government, the wheels of

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progress with the government moved slowly. This stuff should have

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been done weeks ago. Whatever repairs they're doing on the

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ballard system that should have been finished weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm glad you knew that. It shows your expertise.

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Those balls, this is the thing. They're replacing them ahead

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of Super Bowl, the next super Bowl in the world.

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So they're saying, oh, we're gonna fix them for that.

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You had the Sugar Bowl coming up, you had a

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high target air you knew there were some alerts out there,

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and you're right, they announced that they were being replaced.

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So you basically said, hey, we're not going to have

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any protection on this street to be bad guys, and

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you thought they could have put in There were a

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number of things they could have done. So I don't

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understand it, and I think more it's Monday morning quarterbacking

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a little bit. But this looked bad. There's no way just.

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Speaker 5: Having worked up at Charlotte Mukenberg Government Centers, you no,

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I know how that works. And there's someone above the

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police chief who made those decisions and didn't get that

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work done on time. It's not really I would blame

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the police chief for not getting a temporary barrier in there,

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but I would blame someone else for not having the

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responsibility to have that construction work done weeks ago leading

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up to these three huge events.

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Speaker 1: Great observation. Did you know the police chief hit two

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pedestrians back in August while on time? She hit two?

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That sounds like I'm laughing, but you know, like you said,

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is that you want to charge you hit two pedestrians

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while on duty. So but thank you for the call.

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Various two to observation and it's yet reason number five

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hundred and eighty why I love talk radio. Thank you,

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thank you so much for the call. Jacob Okay, Joanne,

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Welcome to the show. And how are you this beautiful

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day after New Year's I guess I'm.

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Speaker 7: Fine driving the car. Regarding drones is what I called about, right,

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But from what your previous caller was plaining about, I

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thought they had like CEM things that they could freeze

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up from the ground and they just didn't do it.

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Speaker 1: They're called ballards b O l A b O l

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l A r d s and you can they're stainless

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steel removable posts that are locked behind each crosswork. They're

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supposed to be attached and they weren't. They're being repaired,

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renovate I don't know, but they said they're going to

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replace them all. So in the midst of replacing them,

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they left that street completely vulnerable and didn't do anything else.

476
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So he drove around it onto the sidewalk. But yes,

477
00:26:04,839 --> 00:26:08,319
what you said, they hadn't done it. It was completely exposed.

478
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Speaker 7: Now was it because of incompetence or was it part

479
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of the plant?

480
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Speaker 1: They claim it was part of a plan. They they

481
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announced to the public that they were replacing them ahead

482
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of the Super Bowl.

483
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Speaker 7: I mean a conspiracy plan. I meant a bigger plan,

484
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:28,319
like let's hurt somebody. But the drones. According to an

485
00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:33,880
informant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Corporation, they're putting

486
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chemicals in that to make people more compliant choicy.

487
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Speaker 1: Well look, I love if you've listened to me at

488
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all here on Calendar Show or any other places that

489
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I've sub hosted, here on this wonderful station, I love conspiracies.

490
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,400
I don't buy into them as much. And that one

491
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that's a big stretch. You're you're talking about compliance. They're

492
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putting compliance drugs in these things. But why just that area?

493
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Why wouldn't you do it every and why wouldn't you

494
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be more insidious, because there'd be a thousand different ways

495
00:27:02,519 --> 00:27:05,480
to be more insidious about making people compliant, whether it

496
00:27:05,519 --> 00:27:08,519
be water systems or you know, any in crop dusting,

497
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,759
you know, any when you're dealing with mosquitoes. You know,

498
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So why in those drones, like I said, a lot

499
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of were aircraft, A lot of them were small drones,

500
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but there were some big ones mixed into. But we

501
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just never heard the rest of the story.

502
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Speaker 4: I know.

503
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Speaker 7: Well what you were saying was it was a test

504
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run deceive it worked.

505
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Speaker 1: Ah so, and that fits. See. That's the beautiful thing

506
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:33,640
about a conspiracy theory is when things fit, it drives.

507
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,200
And the Bill and Melinda Gates stuff, that's just that's

508
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:39,359
been ongoing for a long time, from vaccines to climate

509
00:27:39,519 --> 00:27:43,480
change to you know, the global population control. They've had

510
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,640
a bunch, even the Epstein stuff. I mean, Gates is

511
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,519
you know, being on two or more conspiracies. He has

512
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been tied into the Epstein stuff as well. Would you

513
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a three?

514
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Speaker 4: Yeah?

515
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Speaker 1: I appreciate the call man, Yeah, thank you, chat out.

516
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I'm sitting in for Pete Calender. Absolute pleasure and honor

517
00:27:59,839 --> 00:28:01,519
to be here. And you know I looked for the

518
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:06,480
latest new Jersey New northeast drone story. There hasn't been

519
00:28:06,519 --> 00:28:08,720
one in like two weeks. It was like one a

520
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:10,079
week ago, but it was nothing to do with that.

521
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:11,920
There was one that crashed down in Florida, but it

522
00:28:12,079 --> 00:28:14,240
just like it wasn't sexy, wasn't time, he wasn't topic,

523
00:28:14,279 --> 00:28:18,319
it wasn't fun, not newsworthy. I guess the news media

524
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:21,039
has the attention span of a gnat. Sometimes he's swatted

525
00:28:21,079 --> 00:28:22,640
away and it goes on to something else. Well this

526
00:28:22,759 --> 00:28:25,640
right now, though Dallas would house a friend for the

527
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:29,799
past I'd say twenty years, twenty years plus. I guess

528
00:28:29,799 --> 00:28:32,160
I've known Dallas that long. It's hard to believe. He's

529
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the state director of American Majority, has served in many

530
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capacities at ian Raleigh, and also a fellow wolf Pac fan.

531
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So we can equally be ashamed of the way our

532
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,240
team acted at the end and equally chagrined that we're

533
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:45,319
not better at all the sports than we are being

534
00:28:45,359 --> 00:28:47,960
the largest university just about in the state. Dallas, welcome

535
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,559
to the show. How are you today, Thank Chad, Happy

536
00:28:50,599 --> 00:28:53,359
New Year, Happy New Year to you. Now, one thing

537
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,960
I can say with certainty is that you have one

538
00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,839
of several people, I would say, have a unique and

539
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:05,720
more knowledgeable series of observations about Josh Stein than almost

540
00:29:05,759 --> 00:29:08,559
anyone in the state. You've worked around him, You've worked

541
00:29:08,599 --> 00:29:11,839
around you know that that whole world in Raleigh, Josh

542
00:29:11,839 --> 00:29:14,240
Stein been laying in wait to become the next governor.

543
00:29:14,839 --> 00:29:18,240
They have a very successful story that I think they

544
00:29:18,279 --> 00:29:20,000
held until the election to make it so he could

545
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walk into the governor's mansion. He's now the governor. I

546
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,880
think he's holding a news conference here in about thirty minutes.

547
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:28,599
It'll probably be something about western North Carolina. What are

548
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,400
your observations on Josh Stein? What should we expect in

549
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your opinion?

550
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Speaker 4: Well, I think the easy thing to sort of look

551
00:29:39,279 --> 00:29:43,160
at is you know that you know he is a

552
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:50,319
cutoff those Roy Cooper cloth you know, both were attorney generals,

553
00:29:51,039 --> 00:29:58,559
both were state senators, both share the mega Democrat campaigns

554
00:29:58,599 --> 00:30:04,839
consultant Morgan Jackson news extraordinarily talented. I agree, and and

555
00:30:04,839 --> 00:30:09,480
and you know, and and of course the Stein face

556
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:16,440
is a similar political situation too. That Roy Cooper, you know,

557
00:30:16,759 --> 00:30:21,039
focused our faith most of the time in and he

558
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,960
will face. I mean it's you know, it's hard for

559
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me to imagine there'd be in a scenario, although not

560
00:30:26,039 --> 00:30:29,599
impossible towards the end of the decade, where Democrats, by

561
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you know, some extreme small margin take over the legislature,

562
00:30:34,319 --> 00:30:38,519
but they are at such a demographic and geographic disadvantage

563
00:30:38,559 --> 00:30:41,359
I think, you know, you're likely to see a Republican

564
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:45,759
legislature probably with pretty healthy margins, not always super majority.

565
00:30:47,519 --> 00:30:50,240
And so you know, the question of stein will be.

566
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:56,319
You know, Roy Cooper was enormously successful politically. He never

567
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lost an election when I guess today's third d So

568
00:31:00,559 --> 00:31:04,359
yesterday was Wednesday, January first. When Roy Cooper woke up

569
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:08,240
yesterday morning, it was the first time in thirty seven

570
00:31:08,319 --> 00:31:11,559
consecutive years he had not been in an elected office,

571
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you know, So that you know, the question is, you know,

572
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but his time as governor is fairly unmemorable, right, I mean,

573
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:25,359
he you know, he rode in with back last about

574
00:31:25,839 --> 00:31:30,000
eighth v. Two, a political situation that quite frankly North

575
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,559
Carolina was a little bit of ahead of the argument

576
00:31:33,079 --> 00:31:36,200
that would have been probably very different had that argument

577
00:31:36,279 --> 00:31:38,640
taken place at another point in time, after we got

578
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:40,319
into fights over wins.

579
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 1: Absolutely especially now I mean now it.

580
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 4: Would be and then but that's fine. And you know,

581
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:49,079
he did defeat an incumbent governor, something that there's not

582
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:52,240
been that many opportunities to do since you didn't allow

583
00:31:52,279 --> 00:31:54,920
the governor to run for reelection until the nineteen eighties.

584
00:31:55,440 --> 00:32:00,319
But and Roy Cooper was enormously politically successful, like unting

585
00:32:00,319 --> 00:32:03,880
against the legislature as a pride and true thing that

586
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:08,279
governors do, even when the legislature was controlled by the

587
00:32:08,319 --> 00:32:10,799
same party as it was by the Democrat for most

588
00:32:10,799 --> 00:32:14,160
of the twenty first century in the twentieth century, So

589
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:17,839
you know, and we'll see all the same things out

590
00:32:17,839 --> 00:32:21,960
of Josh. The interesting thing will be does he want

591
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:23,920
to get a little more done than Cooper? I mean,

592
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:29,440
Cooper really finished with virtually no legislative accomplishment.

593
00:32:29,599 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 1: I mean, yet he had one. I would say, Dallas,

594
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I would push back a little bit. And what I

595
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:35,680
love about my relationship with you is you and I

596
00:32:35,759 --> 00:32:39,200
have had amazing disagreements over the past two decades and

597
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:41,680
have been friends through it all. And I'll give you

598
00:32:42,079 --> 00:32:45,839
a lot of kudos because you've had disagreements with number

599
00:32:45,839 --> 00:32:49,599
of people, but you always have a degree of respect

600
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:51,839
for those who disagree with you, And you and I

601
00:32:51,839 --> 00:32:54,000
have had some great ones in the years, and I

602
00:32:54,079 --> 00:32:57,039
think that I'll predict that Josh Doin. I agree with

603
00:32:57,039 --> 00:32:59,480
you on the Josh Stein thing that I think he's

604
00:32:59,519 --> 00:33:01,799
going and tell me if I'm wrong, He's going to

605
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:05,119
probably be much more nuanced than Cooper. I don't think

606
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:08,160
he dislikes Republicans as much. I think Morgan Jackson is

607
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,359
very bright. I agree with you as his consultant, and

608
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:12,400
I think he's going to post a few more victories

609
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:15,359
working with the Republicans. But Cooper, the one thing I

610
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,119
would say he did accomplish was Medicaid expansion, where for

611
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,200
some reason the Republicans went along with him on that.

612
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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, actually, it's not just for some reason.

613
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It's not for some mysterious some reasons. Why did they

614
00:33:26,559 --> 00:33:28,599
go along with it? And you can disagree with them,

615
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,640
but you can disagree with it is you know, the Republicans,

616
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:35,480
the sate. The Republicans, I remind you elected Donald Trump

617
00:33:35,519 --> 00:33:39,279
in twenty sixteen, and they elected Republicans to run both

618
00:33:39,359 --> 00:33:43,960
chambers of Congress, and the Republicans mostly the foot of

619
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:49,680
the decease John McCain. But Republicans failed to repeal Obamacare

620
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:54,839
in Congress and to do something about healthcare, and when

621
00:33:54,839 --> 00:33:58,400
they refused to do that, they left the States in

622
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:04,000
a terrible situation where basically the government's insurance you know

623
00:34:04,039 --> 00:34:08,639
that the insurance market could collapse. And and I'm a

624
00:34:08,639 --> 00:34:11,440
little more sympathetic on the expansion of Medicaid than some

625
00:34:11,519 --> 00:34:14,599
of my conservative friends are, because I I don't like it,

626
00:34:14,639 --> 00:34:16,360
but I can understand why they felt like they had

627
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:19,719
to do it, because you know, our employers can't get

628
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:21,880
anybody insured and they can't get anybody to go to

629
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:22,679
work otherwise.

630
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Speaker 1: And so you left one part out though, Really what happened.

631
00:34:27,119 --> 00:34:30,199
Speaker 4: When the federal government threw all this money towards Medicaid

632
00:34:30,199 --> 00:34:34,920
expansion and the Republicans refused to repeal Obamacare when they

633
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,000
had the people in Congress.

634
00:34:36,639 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 1: To do so, and they put waightwaight Tallas. They also

635
00:34:40,039 --> 00:34:43,440
prior wait, wait, prior to the Medicaid expansion, they pushed

636
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:47,119
for managed care, which ended up being somewhat disastrous as

637
00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:50,199
predicted fiscally. Yeah, I mean it just didn't it didn't work.

638
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I mean managed care didn't.

639
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,480
Speaker 4: Work the Republican holdo. Second, now, the Republicans got a

640
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:58,039
whole I mean, Medicaid was blowing the budgets up on

641
00:34:58,079 --> 00:35:02,039
a routine basis in Raleigh before Republicans took over. Republicans

642
00:35:02,119 --> 00:35:05,800
great improved the medicaid situation. But okay, so he got

643
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:07,599
Medicaid expansion, right, I mean.

644
00:35:07,559 --> 00:35:10,159
Speaker 1: Oh, yaya, I would say that's the only thing I said,

645
00:35:10,199 --> 00:35:12,840
Dallas was that was it? Dallas. I just said that

646
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:14,760
was the one he got. Other than that, I don't know.

647
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:18,559
Speaker 4: Of anything, you know, and and you know, and by

648
00:35:18,599 --> 00:35:23,320
the way, there's you know, expanding medicaid. Whatever you want

649
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:26,880
to say about North Carolina, there's nothing unique about it, right,

650
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:30,559
I mean forty nine, you know, forty seven other states habits,

651
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:34,119
you know. I mean, they point to his management of

652
00:35:34,159 --> 00:35:35,800
the COVID issue, which you and I are going to

653
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:37,880
disagree with how he managed on it. But I mean

654
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:40,719
my point is they don't exactly write about you in

655
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:44,280
the history books because you oppose the other political party.

656
00:35:44,559 --> 00:35:47,639
That's pretty much sort of par for the course. So

657
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:50,360
there are a number of things that are not that political,

658
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,159
you know. I mean, the governor has the ability to

659
00:35:53,199 --> 00:35:57,360
reorganize state government, which needs to happen from time to time,

660
00:35:58,599 --> 00:36:02,360
you know, the craft excuse me, the Republicans in the

661
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:06,960
legislature I believe we're willing to probably give Roy Cooper

662
00:36:07,039 --> 00:36:09,880
a lot of stuff, give him some programs he.

663
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,159
Speaker 1: Liked fun well, he look, look, Cooper hated the Republicans.

664
00:36:13,159 --> 00:36:14,840
That that a lot do with it. Let me ask you,

665
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:20,360
looking forward, what what do you think the legislature? I agree,

666
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:22,760
I agree. I think Cooper's hatred of Republicans was made

667
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:26,079
manifest every day. So looking at Stein, who doesn't have

668
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:30,480
the kind of animus that Cooper did, Cooper's a different

669
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:33,360
political beast than Stein, in my opinion, what do you

670
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:36,239
see as the big accomplishment that these guys could work

671
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:36,719
together on?

672
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Speaker 4: Well, I hope that. I hope that they have the

673
00:36:43,079 --> 00:36:46,920
ability to sit down. We have a new Republican state auditor.

674
00:36:47,079 --> 00:36:52,559
I think he is very smart. Let's work with honoring

675
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:58,360
gist and efficiencies in government. You know, I would like

676
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:02,760
to see John Gosh, our governor, sort of work with

677
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:06,159
the Republican legislature on education to the point where you know,

678
00:37:06,199 --> 00:37:09,320
we can go, all right, well, we like the voucher program,

679
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,000
and we believe in that you want to do this.

680
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:13,760
You know, let's figure a way to do both and

681
00:37:14,159 --> 00:37:16,360
let let's work hand in glove as opposed to it

682
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:18,119
because we're not going to give up what we believe.

683
00:37:18,159 --> 00:37:20,280
You're not going to give up what you believe. So

684
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:24,280
how can we work together on that? Transportation you know,

685
00:37:24,599 --> 00:37:28,079
is sort of a major thing, and that gotta take

686
00:37:28,159 --> 00:37:32,840
something else. Somebody's gonna have to bite off a piece

687
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,599
of tough steak and chew on it. And that's dealing

688
00:37:35,599 --> 00:37:40,920
with our university. Enrolling is down, you know, whether they

689
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:44,400
are providing the kind of education in some places that

690
00:37:44,559 --> 00:37:45,400
needs to prepare them.

691
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Speaker 1: Well, we'll tell you what, Dallas to tell you what

692
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:48,280
can you stay through the break? I need to go

693
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to a break here?

694
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Speaker 4: All right.

695
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Speaker 2: That'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much

696
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