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Speaker 1: And hello, how are you welcome to the Big Podcast

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on this Monday. Today is the eighth day of June,

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year of Our Lord twenty twenty six. My name is

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Tom Sullivan. And well, busy Monday. And we've uh, well

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we've been in fact, on Friday, I think I got

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to the point where I just said, you know, the war.

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We've talked about the war till we're blue in the face.

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But so we went on to other things. I don't

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think we even talked about it on Friday. But today

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it's back in full scope because of the fact that

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over the weekend, well, Iran and an Israel were firing

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at each other, and Iran was also firing. Well, let's

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start with a run. On Sunday, Iran launched a barrage

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of missiles at Israel. And what's weird about this is

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that the President told Benjamin Nett and Yahoo not to respond.

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Well he did, and I mean Israel they had to

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defend themselves, so they responded with an attack and then

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Iran fired back of them, and President Trump, on a

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telephone call again told Benjamin Nett and Yahoo not to respond.

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That was yesterday. Then today the President told Iran and

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Israel to stop the shooting. That was early this morning,

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and then he held a second phone call with Benjamin

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Nett and Yahoo and after that Iran apparently stopped their

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shooting and Lebanon reported that Israel was still striking there.

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So it been anything this so called ceasefire. No, so

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let's find out. Barack Ravine from Axios has lots of

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good contacts and was asked kind of backwards, if we

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will start with the with the latest, which is what

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happened on that second phone call.

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Speaker 2: So first, there were several phone calls over the last

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twenty four hours between Trump and Antonio and patania and

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other senior members of the Trump administration. I spoke to

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President Trump earlier today and he said that doing those

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twenty four hours, other than his calls with Nataniao, at

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least five regional countries who are involved in the mediation

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between the US and Iran called him to ask him

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to stop is the Israeli strikes and resume the negotiations

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on a deal. And one of the things President Trump

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told Nataniao. One of the things President Trump told me

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that he told Nataniao is that if he continues and

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this turns into an all out war, Israel could find

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itself facing Iran on its own. And Trump told me,

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told NATANIAO, you should be careful because if you continue

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down this road, you might find yourself alone against Iran

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very soon. And I think this was one of the

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messages that Trump told natania gave NATHANIAO in order to

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get into at the end of the day, stand down

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and stop the strikes. And from what I hear from

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Israeli officials is that when President Trump spoke to NATANIAO

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on Monday morning, the idea was about to launch the

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most intense and massive wave of strikes against Iran since

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this escalation started, and basically the idea of just wait

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for the order from NATANIAO. And Trump told NATANIAO in

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that call that he needs to stand down and that

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the Iranians gave messages to the US that they're ready

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to stop if NATANIAO stops. And after Trump told this

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to the Ready Time Minister, he got the okay from him,

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and basically then he put out this true social post

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saying that both sides are ready for a ceasefire.

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Speaker 1: Well, the part that I took away from what Barackervi

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is reporting is that President Trump told Benjamin Netanyaho, you

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keep shooting at Iran, and I think Lebanon as well,

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you'll find yourself on your own, the President saying, well,

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we'll leave and we'll leave you to fight the war

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there against Iran. So it was very threatening at the

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very minimum. So the President also yesterday had a sit

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down interview with Turtzan Welker, who is the host of

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the Meet the Press, and it started off fine, but

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it went downhill. About the fact that when Kristen Walker

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asked him about about rigged elections and about twenty twenty,

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and he got mad, and you could see him. His

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face changed, his demeanor changed, he raised his voice, and

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he pulled his microphone off and left. He bagged the

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interview right in the middle of it. But before he

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got to that, he was asked about the fact that

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he doesn't seem to want to use the military, no

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matter what.

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Speaker 3: It costs us very little to keep them there. I

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don't consider them in danger where the best defense anyone's

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ever seen were the best offense anyone's ever seen, So

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I don't consider danger. I would say it would be

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foolhearty to do that, because maybe we may use them

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it's unlikely, but I think we'll keep them there until

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such time as we have a completion.

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Speaker 1: So he's willing to keep our military there, and he

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said in case we need to use them, but it's unlikely.

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So again he has made it very clear to the

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Iranians that the chances of him using the military are

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slim to now he's broadcast that to them that he

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won't use the military, slim chance of that happening, so

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that gives them the upper hand in the negotiations. But

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he said, there is a red line.

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Speaker 4: I want to know what your red line is.

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Speaker 5: What would trigger you to restart military action.

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Speaker 6: Would it be Iran killing more American city?

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Speaker 3: Well, certainly that would be something that I wouldn't think

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about very seriously. But my red line would be if

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I think I wasn't going to make a deal, or

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if I wasn't going to make a deal fast enough.

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So we're having very good negotiations with the people that

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are leading the country.

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Speaker 1: Now, and speaking about the president's attitude regarding the people

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that are leading the country of Iran, he was asked,

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do you want to meet with the Ayatolla?

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Speaker 7: Is this younger comedye any better for the United States

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than his father was.

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Speaker 3: Younger, I think, more rational. Injured, it's pretty badly injured,

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So there's a certain bravery there. A lot of people

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if they were injured that badly, they wouldn't be talking about,

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you know, how we're doing with the United States, said

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that other things on their mind. So there's a certain

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bravery there. But he is very seriously injured.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so he repeats that the Iatola twice, he said

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to her he's very seriously injured, but but honored him.

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So he's a brave guy. Younger, he's more rational, and well,

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let's weigh in. Kate T. McFarland was a deputy National

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Security advisor in Trump one point zero. Let's see what

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she says about the fact of no military.

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Speaker 8: Ultimately, yes, because what's happening is, as you very rightly

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pointed out, Iran is fractured. The leadership is fractured. They

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have the moderists and the so called pragmatist moderists, and

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then the crazies. It's really just they have the crazies

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and then they have the craziers, and the craziers are

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the I ERGC. So every time the moderates seem to

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come up with some kind of an agreement of ceasefire, agreement,

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of potential peace plan. It's the extremist, it's the IERGYC,

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the sabotage is it doing all the attacks that you've

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just outlined. So what's the end solution? Can you trust them?

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Absolutely not. Even if you've got an agreement with Iran,

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the extremists, the h I ERGC would probably sabotage it.

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Speaker 1: So what do you need to do?

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Speaker 8: You need to prevent their ability to break the agreement.

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You can't not just just verify, not just make sure

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they're doing it, but to have an absolute ability to

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stop them from breaking the agreement. How do you do that?

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I think you're right. You ultimately have to go in

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and finish the military targets, not the energy targets, not

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the other things, but the military targets.

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Speaker 1: Okay, there's another national security expert that says, we have

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to use the military to go in to fineaf this otherwise,

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And you can't, no matter what the agreement is, and

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no matter what the subject matter the agreement is, you

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can't trust the people that are running round. So let's

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check in with Alex Plitzus. He is also national security consultant.

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See what he says.

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Speaker 9: I think the Oramians have made clear through the negotiations

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they were looking for the US to begin withdrawing some

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of the forces, withdrawing some of the naval forces from

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the blockade as part of the negotiations. So if the

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President began moving those forces one, it would seem from

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an opics perspective, it could be sort of giving into

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that a little bit without getting anything in return, but

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from a more practical perspective, without having the forces there

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necessary to conduct any offensive actions. To the President choose to,

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it's a practical matter of that. That's how we got

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into this in the first place. When help was on

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the way, when the protests were ongoing, and you know,

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tens of thousands of Broughtians were alleged to be slaughtered

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in the streets, the national security strategy reprioritized the Western

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Hemisphere and the Pacific, and we didn't have a carrier

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battle group for a sustained period of time in the

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region for the first time in nearly half a century.

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And so there was a clear problem in not being

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able to back up those words the President is not

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going to allow that situation happened again, should you need

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to take action?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so the President already said no, that is highly

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unlikely that I'm going to use the military again. But

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he's not going to send them home. He's going to

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lead them right there in the region, which I think

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is excellent. With all of a sudden this increased activity,

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What does General Jack Kane think currently?

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Speaker 10: When the Iranians fired eleven ballistic missiles in Israel, that

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was a development since the April eighth general cease fire,

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and certainly from Israel's perspective, any one of those missiles,

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if a penetrated, could kill hundreds of people. So there's

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no way that they can accept something like that, and

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they obviously retaliated in kind. But when you draw back

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from this, we went to a general ceasefire on April

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the eighth, and who has been violating that ceasefire? You've

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been reporting on it. Iran began, but violations right there

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in the straits of a moves, fast boats, drones, interfering

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with traffic. We have defeated every single one of those.

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Israel in Lebanon. And who has been violating that ceasefire,

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Iran over two thousand rockets and drones fired into northern

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Israel towns and villages, evacuated, over three hundred people wounded

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as a result of that. I've read the terms of

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the April seventeenth agreement. It's specified in the terms that

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Israel both sides can exercise offensive capability only when an

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attack is planned, it's eminent, or it's in execution. And

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what Israel has been doing those attacks have been in execution,

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and they've been eminent, and they've been firing back out

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of them from a defensive position, and then they couldn't

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stop them, so they said, we do have the authority

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attack because they're planning them. Where are they planning it?

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permissible in the terms of the agreement, and as a

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result of that, Iran fired those eleven ballistic missiles.

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Speaker 1: Can you blame Israel? I mean, could you imagine if

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somebody was firing a couple of thousand rockets into US

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cities and towns and we did nothing, of course we

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would retaliate. That's what Israel did, and then the President said,

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don't do.

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Speaker 10: That nowhere in the middle frankly, but on the meeting,

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And obviously I think he's significantly injured, and we've been

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told disfigured whether there would be a meeting or not,

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I think is unlikely. But the real issue is is

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a ron sincere about making a deal? I mean, we

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have our negotiating team in talking to them, they convince

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on negotiating team that there is sincerity there. But it

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seems like every time we get close, no deal. And

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why is that? Because? I think the people really in

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charge don't want a deal, or they want a deal

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that are terms that are completely unacceptable to the president

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and they know what those terms are. So I think

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the strategy the Iranians are playing out right before our

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eyes drag this out as much as possible.

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Speaker 1: But the General has made it very clear on a

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number of interviews where he's talked about the fact that

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they he wants to go back and finish the military

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mission and the President doesn't want to clearly, So what

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if he got his way, what if the military mission

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was given the green light?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, Well, what's dis counted here is in going back

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to our military operation. There's two fears out there that

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are prevalent in the Gulf community, and one is is

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that we go back to military operations. They're gonna be

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Iranians will hit the gore oil and gas infrastructure in

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the Middle East, and they likely will. However, one we

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can help defend that. We're defending Israel because they asked

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us to. If they want us to defend that, we can.

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We can put a plan together to thicken that defense.

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That's number one. Offensively. We've been watching these guys for

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eight weeks now. What have they been doing. They've been

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excavating the tunnel systems that we've rubbled so they couldn't

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get missiles out of there. What are they doing. They're

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taking the missiles and the launchers out and they're taking

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them someplace. Are we watching that? You bet you. If

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we go back to military opera, what are we going

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to hit? We're going to hit a lot of things,

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but we're going after all of those missiles and those launchers.

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Speaker 1: Well, he wants to go after all the military targets,

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but he's he was reminded in this interview today that

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the President doesn't want to use the military.

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Speaker 10: Think that's where he is now, as long as he

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believes there's some aspiration here for some kind of a

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realistic deal to meet his objectives. I think once that

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is over, the alternative then is returned to military. Remember

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we had the estimate is ten to fourteen days. We

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stopped on April of the eighth, This would have been

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over at the end of April. Offensive operations, defensive operations.

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keep it open and likely at this point passing some

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of that responsibility to allies and partners. That's the track

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we would have been on, and we're on the we're

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on the negotiation track, and I think it's likely coming

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to it.

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Speaker 1: And the General wanted the president to go back to

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military actions and let the military do their job. But

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the way it's like you said, right now, that's not

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where the president is, and the president, I don't know

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if you if you think it would be smart to

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go ahead and start military actions again and target the regime,

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take the regime leaders out. Like Katie McFarlane said, you

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can make whatever agreement you want with these people. They're

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not going to they're not going to live by it.

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They will not abide by it. That's what's going on

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with the war still back and forth. So California is

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nothing's changed there in a week. A week tomorrow will

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be one week since election day. They're still counting the ballots.

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In the governor's race, Jabier Basserra has moved into first

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place in the second place is Steve Hillton, and third

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place is Tom Steyer. On the Los Angeles mayor's race,

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Karen bass is still number one, but number two is

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now Nythia Ramen. She's moved into second place ahead of

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Spencer Pratt. And it was because of a big surge

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in the last twenty four hours for Nythia Roman. So

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this is President Trump also in that interview with Meet

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the Press, and I told you got all upset when

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she started asking about rigged elections, and he thinks California's

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election is rigged.

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Speaker 11: Two.

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's looking.

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Speaker 1: Look at what's happening about California. It's California. It's now.

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They're not there dropping fast because it's a rigged election.

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Speaker 11: Let me tell you, it's four days and they aren't

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even close to coming up. That's how they can't know

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why they're doing well because they're cheating.

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Speaker 1: On the election.

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Speaker 10: What do you evidence to SUP I have.

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Speaker 11: To do is look, well, I have to do us

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that's not listen and I listen to people and let's

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see what happens.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so he's going down the rigged format again and

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it first of all Los Angeles. You know how the

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registrar in Los Angeles fifteen percent of LA residents are Republican.

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That's it. It's very much like New York. No Republicans

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going to get elected in New York, not recently anyway.

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So it's same and intact worse in Los Angeles. As

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far as California is concerned, they registered voters are a

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twenty five percent Republican in the state of California, twenty

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six percent for Independence, and forty five percent for Democrats.

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So it's an uphill battled for Republicans to get elected

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in the state of California. Dean Logan, who is the

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registrar of voters in Los Angeles, well, I brought that.

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I brought this up on Friday or Thursday of last week.

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The longer this drags out and they seem to think

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it's fine, but it's not fine, because everybody's done their

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election results by far in the first day, with very

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few exceptions. The problem with it sitting out there like this,

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We've got mail in ballots and there's all kinds of

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opportunities to cheat. There's stories about the fact that there

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were people down on skid Row getting a bunch of

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people down there to sign up their names and then

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somebody would fill in the ballot for them, all like

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all the shenanigans that go on. And when you don't

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have an immediate result, and you can still recognize ballots

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coming in postmarked last Tuesday but still coming in today,

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they're still counted, and so that brings up the suspicion

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and conspiracy thoughts about the fact that somebody is playing

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games with the ballot. So the president is suspicious of it.

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He's not alone, but Dean Logan, the guy who's in

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charge of voting in Los Angeles, this is what he

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had to say.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, Unfortunately, I can't really explain it because I don't

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understand it myself, other than to say that I think

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the kind of political narrative that we've seen really dating

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back to twenty twenty and going forward, is that if

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you are dissatisfied with the outcome of the election, you

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start taking a tax, you know, making attacks towards the process.

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What I can tell you is that the process that

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is happening in California and here in Los Angeles County

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is the way elections are structured in California. And I

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get that it's frustrating, but that structure is designed to

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make sure that voters have multiple options, multiple opportunities for

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how and when where to cast their ballots. And in

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this election, a lot of those voters did that leading

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right up until the final hours of voting on election day,

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and we need to make sure that all.

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Speaker 1: Of those ballid votes are counted and counted properly. What

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he doesn't seem to understand, and what the people who

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came up with these rules in California don't seem to understand,

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is it creates questions about voter integrity. And that is

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critical because if you start losing voter thinking that the

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vote is rigged, that the integrity is not there, then

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people are going to stop voting. You're going to lose

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the voting system in this nation if you don't make

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it so that people think the results are legit. Steve Hilton,

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who is in second place, was talking today.

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Speaker 13: The most important thing is that actually we're very confident

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now that we'll be in the top two. There's not

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really any realistic possibility for the billionaire climate fanatic. Time

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started to catch up. That means that in November, Californians

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will have a real choice another four years of this

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insanity that's given us the highest cost of living in

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the country and all the other problems we see, or

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a new direction towards common sense, lower taxes, cutting the

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bloat in our government.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm offering. Yeah, but you still and so

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if it's rigged, and how did Steve Hilton get to

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be at least in second place? But it's still it

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raises questions. And the more President Trump talks about an

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election is rigged, more and more people are going to

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think elections are not legit. Josh crash Hour weighs in

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on his view about California.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and look, he has a really strong message to

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run on given the record and the history of California

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governmental incompetence, and boy it takes. We're going to be

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well over a week now starting tomorrow in counting votes.

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We're probably not going to have a call for another

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week or two. I mean, this is about government. The

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message that Hilton is talking about is about government and

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effectiveness and inefficiency in California. And it's going to be

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potent against Tavier Paserra, who was basted by Democrats when

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he served in the Biden administration as HHS secretary. But

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as far as the vote COUM goes, look, Hilton has

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a four point lead about over Tom Seyer, even if

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the Demo. Even if that margin narrows, everyone I've talked

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to suggests that Hilton is in very strong position to

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hold into that second place spot and face.

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Speaker 1: Even if Hilton does stay in that second place, He's

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got a big heavy rock to push uphill in California,

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being a Republican. Kevin Kylie is a congressman. I told

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you about him before. He's a congressman that was a Republican,

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and they redrew the map to make his district very

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favorable to Democrats and to make it almost impossible for

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a Republican to get elected. So he said, okay, I'll

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change my party. I'll become an independent and I'll run

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as an independent. And people were in and voted, and

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I went Oh look, I'll vote for the independent guy.

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So he's ahead in his race, and it's not because

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of anything other than he took the Republican name off

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of his ballot. He's still a Republican, but it shows

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as an independent. Here's Kevin Kylitt.

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Speaker 14: That is the thing that I think is fair to criticize,

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And in fact, the Washington Post did an editorial saying

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this super slow vote counting undermine's faith in democracy. The

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New York Times did this editorial saying, what's going on?

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This is like something out of the pre Telegraph era.

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So I do agree. California needs to get attacked together.

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And pretty much every other state in the country, whether

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it's a red state or a blue state, they have

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most of their results tabulate on an election night.

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Speaker 1: There's no reason we can't do that in California. It

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should be able to get their vote together. But you

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heard the Dean Logan saying, no, we want to make

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sure everybody has a chance to vote. That was very important,

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the accessibility. But the Washington Post and the New York

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Times saying it's reducing the public's faith in the integrity

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of elections. Here's Kevin Well.

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Speaker 14: Here's the thing is California actually has some of the

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worst access in participation as well. When you look at

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the Election Performance Index, which is in a non partisan rating,

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California ranks forty first along those metrics of access and

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participation and transparency. So not only do we get our results,

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you know, a month after the election, we also don't

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do well by these other measures. So this isn't brain surgery.

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You don't have to reinvent the wheel. You can just

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look at basically any other state of the country. Look

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at Massachusetts, look at Colorado. They have all kinds of

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voter protections, and they also manage toccount votes in a

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timely way. I think the bigger issue in California is

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just basic government performance, and you do see that, And

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I think it's a function of why I religned so

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long at the DMV. Why don't people get their unemployment

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checks in a timely manner. It's just a basic issue

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of government performance that really transcends partisanship or anything else.

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Speaker 1: So true, try to do business with the government in California, Yeah,

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you're going to be bald, you'll all your hair out.

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They drive people crazy out there because they are so inefficient.

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And speaking of elections. So we've got one tomorrow in Maine.

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This is the one that Graham Platner is going to

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be on the ticket to run for the Democrat nomination

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for Senate. The only opposition he has is Janet Mills,

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who's the governor, and she dropped out, but her name

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is still on the ballot. So it's pretty much it'd

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be a shock if Graham Platner doesn't win tomorrow in Maine.

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But Ram Emmanuel, who is one of the Democrats that's

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flirting with running for president, he was asked about this

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and well, this is Ram Emanuel's response about Graham Plattner.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, well, here's the thing. First, the main voters are

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going to decide yes. Second, it's really ultimately it's not

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what national Democrats have to say. It's his veracity. And

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I think one of the things that's troubling, whether it's

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about this case and I happen to think his private

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stuff is for him and his wife to figure out.

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That's not for anybody else to comment. But he said

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one thing about the Nazi tattoo on his chest, and

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it turned out that wasn't accurate. Other things about the

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past that aren't accurate, So veracity to me is a

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big issue, and that's a big concern, and I think

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that's what's going to the main voters are going to

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have to decide that they're pretty good at making a

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judge of character. But this is going to be important

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from a national perspective, and then that's where you separate

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from the local. This is an essential race if you

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want to think about not just taking control of the Senate,

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but if there's a Supreme Court decision next up, you

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want to have a democratic Senate.

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Speaker 1: I agree that Rom's right on the point. The key

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about the control of the Senate is they're the ones

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who advise and consent on Supreme Court nominees and every

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other kind of nominee is out there, so you if

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you are a Republican president, you want a Republican Senate.

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And speaking of nominees, the President this afternoon did formally

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nominated Blanche to be the attorney general, not the acting

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but to make him the attorney general. So that will

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have to go through the US Senate. So it is

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it is critical. And what Rom's I kind of like

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his answer because he's saying, look at this business about

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sexting other women and doing all of that and his

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bad behavior and his drinking, and that's between he and

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his wife. But what bothers ram about him is that

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he doesn't tell the truth, his veracity. It's another way

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of saying he lies. Mike Quigley another Democrat, he represents,

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congressman from Illinois from Chicago area. He doesn't like Graham

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Platner either.

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Speaker 6: You know he is and I've been part of the

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impeachment investigation in the Russian investigation, talked about the problems

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I've had with President Trump now into my second term

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with him. We have to try to be consistent here

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and for all the reasons we have problems with many

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of our Republicans, especially this president. We can't just turn

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our minds and say no, it's different with this guy

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just because he's got a D next to his name.

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So that's just my opinion. If they're a way to

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replace him on the ballot, I'd be all for it.

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But as Rom said, at this point, I guess it's

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up to the voters in Maine.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 1: So it's up to the voter's main But you can

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tell it was clear he doesn't like him, does not

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like him at all. Alex Sites Waald. He's the guy

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we found last week. He has a newspaper in Maine,

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the Mid Coast Review or something along those lines, and

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this is his last minute thoughts about Graham Plattner.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, and I mean, that's obviously the big question head

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of Tuesdays, since we already know that Platner's basically got

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a lock on the nomination, although it'll be interesting to

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see how many votes are cast for Janet Mills and

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other candidates as a sort of protest against him. But

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this is a democratic state. It hasn't voted for a

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Republican president since George hw Bush, though it keeps re

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electing Susan Collins because she has this unique ability to

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get cross party ticket splitting support. In twenty twenty, there

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were something like fifty seven thousand people who voted for

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Joe Biden at the top of the ticket, and then

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Susan Collins further down the ticket, and she could have

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done it, by my analysis, with as few as twenty

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two thousand votes. So all Grand Platner really needs to

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do is keep every Democrat in the state behind him

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the Democratic nominee. These allegations obviously make it harder for that,

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although I agree with Kevin that I think the momentum

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has maybe started to shift back in his direction among supporters.

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But still we're talking about a fraction of a percent

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of voters here who can make all the difference in November.

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And it's not the white working class men that we

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talk about a lot in other places, and that Platner's

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campaign has been held up as a way to potentially

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win over those voters. The swing voters in Maine who

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have voted for Collins in the past are really older,

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educated women on the coast, and those are the ones

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who I think Platner is going to have the hardest

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time bringing back into the fold. So the focus is

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going to be from here to November. And meanwhile, Susan

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Collins is running a campaign almost entirely focused on the

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money she's brought back for the state as the chair

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of the Appropriations Committee, not at all about politics. She

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barely talks about being a Republican. She just talks about

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being a senator from Maine. And I think that's going

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to be her argument. You know, stick with the devil.

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You know you might not love me, but I bring

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back the money. You can trust me. This guy is

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too risky, right.

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Speaker 1: So that's going to be the argument in November. But

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tomorrow Maine is going to vote and probably Platner will win.

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Tonight in New York City at Madison Square Garden is

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Game three of the NBA Finals. It is San Antonio

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Spurs versus the New York Nicks. And it's been a

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long time back in the seventies was the last time

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that the Knixt won an MBA championship. And the President

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is coming to the game, so it's oh man. Madison

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Square Garden is right in the heart of midtown Manhattan,

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and now because of the President coming to the game,

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people are all upset because they were going to have

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a big watch party outside the garden because two reasons. One,

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the tickets are all sold out and secondly, the tickets

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are super expensive, I mean major expense. You can get

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a front row seat for one hundred, one hundred and

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four thousand I think it is for a ticket one

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one ticket. So there's a lot of people that were

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planning to cheer on the New York Knicks outside the

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garden tonight and that's not going to happen. Here's Jessica Tish,

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the Commissioner of the NYPD.

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Speaker 4: Square Garden, as you know by now. Because of that

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visit and in coordination with the United States Secret Service,

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there will unfortunately be no watch party outside of Madison

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Square Garden for Game three of the Finals, and no

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access to the immediate vicinity of MSG without an authorized

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reason to be there. However, the mayor will be hosting

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a watch party nearby at Brian Park, and MSG will

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be hosting two watch parties, one at Woman Rink in

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Central Park and one at Brooklyn Bowl. We do expect

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watch parties to resume outside of the garden for Game four.

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Here is some information about what to expect security wise

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for tonight's game tonight.

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Speaker 1: And then she went on with the Valva street closures

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and all the local information that people need. But as

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far as the watch parties, they're nowhere near. I mean,

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the closest one, Bryant Park is up at forty second Street,

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the gardens at thirty third Street, so it's it blocks away.

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But they're going to have a perimeter around Madison Square

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Garden that's five blocks in all directions, so you can't

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get near it unless there's lots of office buildings in there.

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You can prove that you have a business meeting or

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you work in one of those buildings. So it's kind

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of a goofy security thing. But the president's going to

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be at the game. And it's one thing if he

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goes to a football game and they have a you know,

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an owner's box that he can go sit in, that's

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well secured. But in this case, I don't know what

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they're going to do with him. I presume he's going

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to get front road treatment at the same time the

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mayor is going. But the last time the mayor went

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to one of the games leading up to the playoffs,

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he was up in the nosebleed seats somewhere. And that's well,

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that's him. He's the Democrat, socialist. He wants to be

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a man of the people. But we'll see what happened.

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Maybe the mayor and the president will sit together, since

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they're all of a sudden buddies on some things. As

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far as Walsbridge concern, a mixed bag. Today, the Dow,

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after getting trounced on Friday, finished down eighty eighty. Seems

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like chicken feed. Compared to what happened on Friday, down eighty.

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The Dow at fifty thousand and seven eighty six SMP,

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up twenty one Nazdak after getting clobbered on Friday, up

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two hundred and twenty points today, the price of gold

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dropping fifteen dollars to forty three forty nine, and oil

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went up just about a dollar ninety one dollars and

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some change for a barrel of West Texas Intermediate. So

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that's it for today. Thank you for coming by. We

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will be back again tomorrow. I hope to see you

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then