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much for your support. All right, so Donald Trump gets

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sworn into office yesterday, goes to a whole bunch of parties,

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dances with a sword, and then he starts signing a

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whole bunch of executive orders. As promised, there were a lot.

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I have a list from Reuters President Trump that remember

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this is Reuter's So I'm just going to read these things.

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I don't agree with the UH, with some of the

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some of the ways that they are defining, you know,

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what was done. So there's going to be some bias here.

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So I'm going to run through these because there's a lot.

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But in case there's one on this list that you've

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been waiting to hear, you'll hear it. Okay, So here

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we go. Direct the DOJ not to enforce the TikTok

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divest or ban law for seventy five days. Not allowed

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to do that, Halt seventy eight Biden era executive actions.

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So he put a stop on seventy eight executive actions

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from Biden. Withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, end all

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federal cases and investigations of any Trump supporters. Revoke protections

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for transgender troops. That's what they call protection, okay, whatever

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part in about fifteen hundred people criminally charged in the

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January sixth attack, while commuting the sentences for six By

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the way, I'm seeing reports also that the DC jail,

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where a lot of these j sixers are locked up,

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they're not cooperating and releasing the people who have been

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held there. Overhaul the refugee admission program to better align

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with American principles and interests. Declare a national emergency at

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the US Mexico border. Designate drug cartels and trend de

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Aragua as foreign terrorist organizations, which, by the way, that

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means the military can now target them. Reverse several immigration

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orders from the Biden administration, including one that narrows deportation

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priorities to people who commit serious crimes and are deemed

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national security threats or were stopped at the border. RESCIND

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a policy created by the Biden administration that sought to

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guide the development of AI to prevent misuse. RESCIND a

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Biden era So once again, all of these are framed

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in sort of a Biden did the right thing context right.

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Resind a Biden era policy that allowed federal agencies to

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take certain initiatives to boost voter registration. Yeah, because why

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are all these federal agencies like sending out voter material.

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You know. Anyway, stay in your laying guys, do what

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you're supposed to do. Recind the twenty twenty one Title

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nine Order, which bans discrimination based on gender identity or

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sexual orientation in education programs that get federal funding. Revoke

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Biden's recent removal of Cuba from US State Sponsors of

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Terrorism list. So that got undone. And if Biden had

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actually cared about it, he should have done it way earlier,

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but he waited to the last minute to do it.

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Order federal employees back to work in office five days

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a week. Order a federal hiring freeze, including exceptions for

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posts related to national security and public safety, and the military.

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Direct every governmental department and agency to adre us the

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cost of living crisis. Restore freedom of speech and prevent

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censorship of free speech. End the weaponization of government against

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the political adversaries of the previous administration. Did you hear

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that lefties? End the weaponization of government against the political

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adversaries of the previous administration, the political adversaries of the

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pre So I'm thinking that means we're still allowed to

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go after lefties. I'm just kidding. No, he said it

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would end, he said, he said, we are not doing this.

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This is over. Impose twenty five percent tariffs on products

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from Mexico and Canada as of February one. Reverse Biden's

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sanctions on Israeli settlers in the West Bank. Reverse Biden

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order requiring fifty percent of new cars sold in twenty

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thirty to be electric vehicles. Proclaim that there are two

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biological sexes, male and female. Diversity, equity and inclusion programs

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within federal agencies. Establish the Department of Government Efficiency or

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the DOGE Institute Enhanced screening for visa applicants from certain

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high risk nations. It's a buzzle. Bit are we still

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doing that? I know it's been eight years, but are

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we getting that band back together again? Where we pretend

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that there are certain nations that really really hate us

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and have been indoctrinating their populations to really really hate us,

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and so maybe we should take another look at them

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before we just let a million okay, reopen Alaska's Arctic

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National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration. Order Attorney General,

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Secretary of State, and Secretary of Homeland Security to quote

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take all appropriate action to prioritize prosecution of illegal aliens

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who commit crimes. And by the way, we are already

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seeing some operations now, I think out of Chicago today.

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Withdraw the US from the Global Minimum Tax agreement. Why

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are we entering into any deal with any other country

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for a global minimum tax? Why would we do that?

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That's stupid, that's Biden. Anyway, institute a ninety day pause

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and the issuance of US foreign aid order the Attorney

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General to pursue. By the way, one of the things

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that Trump talked about this too, like when we when

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we give donations of aid, when when the government does that,

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and like you can make an argument that you get

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more bang for the buck by delivering palettes of rice

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to people who need food, right, that that is a

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higher bang for the buck for diplomatic outreach than you know,

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building an embassy and you know, staffing it with the

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people and all of that and hosting the fancy dinner

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parties and stuff like, all of that expense. And you

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could say that that you know, redounce to the benefit

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of Americans and some way you have these foreign relations

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all that blah blah blah. Okay, fine, but I am

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open to the argument, and actually I lean towards the

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argument that putting bags of rice and corn and food

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you know, on planes and boats and delivering them to

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people who are starving, giving them that kind of aid

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is way more cost effective. But here's the thing, and

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Trump talked about this. If you're going to do that,

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you put our name on the aid, right, for the

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love of me, why would you not do that? Well,

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we don't want to offend the local populations. Okay, Well,

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then you don't get the food, like seriously, seriously, if

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you don't, if you hate us so much that you

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would not eat a bag of rice that comes to

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us and you'd rather starve to death, Okay, then that's

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your choice. But there are other people that may not

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make that same choice. And so let's give them a

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bag of rice, and let's let them know where it

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came from. Like, for example, let's take the example of China.

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They put made in China on everything, even stuff that's

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not made there. Right, they steal a whole bunch of stuff,

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slap a made in China tag on it. Like why

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can't we at least label the rice that we send

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to them. By the way, I had a friend who

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did a tour in the Peace Corps over in Africa,

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and he said that the people I think he was

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in Guinea, and he said that they would not eat

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like you would see the palettes of rice stocked or

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stacked up at the port and from all these different

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countries that were sending aid, and the Chinese rice was untouched.

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They would not eat the Chinese rice because I don't

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know if this is true, but this is what they believed.

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They believed that the Chinese fertilized their rice paddy with

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human feces, and so they called it poop rice and

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they would not eat it. See, that's the kind of

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marketing that redounds to our benefit. Right, you have entire

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you have an entire continent Africa that is open to us, like,

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we could do a lot of stuff there by not

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memories that'll last a lifetime. Thomas writes into Pete at

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dpeteclendarshow dot com, Pete, are you tired of winning me either?

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I cannot wait to see what the next twenty six

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hours hold in making America great again. Well, these are

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executive orders, so they only last as long as his term.

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This is the problem with these types of orders. I've

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always been highly skeptical and critical of the use of

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these orders for that very reason. If you want stuff

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to be permanent, and you've got, you know, common sense solutions,

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then you put them into practice and you put them

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into law. That's the way, and that codifies it and

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makes it much more difficult to get stripped away because

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everything there was and now we're going back and forth

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every four years, for every eight years or so, right,

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we're going to be swinging back and forth and back

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and forth because Congress refuses to do its freaking job

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because it's easier for them to fundraise off of YouTube

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clips than it is to actually pass legislation. Right, let

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me go over to the phone lines. Here's Larry, Welcome

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to the show. Hey, Larry, Hey, how are you?

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Speaker 2: Hey?

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Speaker 1: I'm good man. What's up?

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Speaker 2: Well? I can assure you one thing. A lot of

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midnight oil was burned last night in law offices across

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the country. Yeah, and I have I have since learned

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that to get a pardon, one must be charged or convicted,

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as of Hunter Biden, and that was done and there's

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nothing one can do about it. But the Constitution, i'm told,

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clearly states that a pardon cannot be given on a

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presumption or an anticipation or something in the future. One

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must be charged or convicted to get it. So therefore

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the Biden family has been neither, and so that pardon

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is not really worth the paper it's written on.

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Speaker 1: Well, Hunter Biden was charged and convicted, so it would

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apply to the cases where he was charged and convicted. Correct, right,

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saying is true. My understanding is not that My understanding

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is that the pardons are total, like the president has

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this power. I read, I read a part of the

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Constitution yesterday when we were talking about this, So I

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don't know, I'm not aware of that. I've not done

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I've not done the deep dive.

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Speaker 2: And it's just the Constitution is not open ended to

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where something might what's.

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Speaker 1: The exact language, what's the exact language that you're you're

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citing that says it's not to be not based on

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anticipated or whatever, because that's what they did for Nixon.

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Speaker 2: Copious or it basically boils down.

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Speaker 1: To No, no, no, no, it's not what it boils down to.

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Speaker 2: They wouldn't even go to the Supreme Court because it's

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written in there that you can't you can't predict or forecast.

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Speaker 1: No, well, it's saying that's for future someone is charged. No, no, no,

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it's I think what you're I think what you're reading

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is the part where it's like, it can't be for

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future things. It can only be for things in the past,

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any crimes committed in the past, and the crimes. Then

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that's why Biden gave this. You know, for a Hunter,

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it was a ten year window or whatever, and for

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the rest of his family that got the part in

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the other day yesterday was I think going back to

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twenty fourteen, So I think that's the I think it's

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a look back. They can't be charged. They have pardoned

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for anything they may have done in that timeframe. It

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doesn't pardon you for future things. I think that was

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But like I said, I would have to go and

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read the actual text of the Constitution and find out

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if it's ever been adjudicated as such. All Right, I

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hope you had a happy holiday season. But tell me

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if something like this happened at your house. Your family

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and friends are gathered around, maybe y'all are in the

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living room, You're laughing, swapping stories, reminiscing, and then somebody says, hey, Dad,

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remember those old VHS tapes? Did you ever get them transferred?

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thank you Monica for sending along also information about this

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as well. But here is what the Constitution says about pardons.

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It's under Article two, Section two, clause one, So two

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two to one Article two, Section two, clause one, and

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you can read the whole thing. It's a very long

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run on sentence with a bunch of semi colons. The

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first like ninety percent of it is not related to

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the pardons. It's about presidents, the commander in chief of

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the Army and the Navy. You know, he may require

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the opinion in writing of the executive departments and blah

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blah blah. And then it says the very last part

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says and he shall have power to grant reprieves and

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pardons for offenses against the United States, accept in cases

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of impeachment. And that's it. That's it. He shall have

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power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the US,

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accepting cases of impeachment. So, as I suspected when I

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was chatting with Larry there, I think what he was

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thinking of is, you can't pardon things that haven't happened yet.

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In other words, you can't say here's a pardon, and

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now you get to do whatever you want and just

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like use this pardon for future crimes. You can't do that.

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It's for offenses against the United States, accept impeachment. And

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so there are some limitations, though the Constitutions text provides.

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This is by the way, according to Constitution dot Congress

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dot gov, the text provides for at least two limits

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on the power. First, clemency may only be granted for

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offenses against the United States, which means a state could

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charge you and the FEDS can't pardon you for that. Okay,

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it's a state crime. And it's also not civil claims.

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They're not covered, so just crimes, right, criminal acts. Also,

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the other limitation here is that the president's clemency authority

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cannot be used in cases of impeachment. Beyond the textual limits.

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External constitutional and legal considerations may act as constraints on

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this power. For instance, the Supreme Court has indicated that

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the power may be exercised at any time after an

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offense's commission, reflecting that the president may not preemptively immunize

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future criminal conduct. So I think that's the thing you could, like,

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the people that Biden pardoned have not been charged with anything,

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but the pardon covers a period of time before yesterday,

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So if they were to commit something after you today

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going forward, that would not be covered. That's the limitation there,

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not the fact that they haven't been charged. It's when

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the offense occurred. And if the offense occurred during that

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ten year window whatever it was, or five year window,

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whatever it was, that he pardoned everybody for that window,

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anything inside of that window gone. So that's what the

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constitution says on that, all right. Other things that Trump

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did yesterday, order the Attorney General to pursue the death

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penalty for killing of a law enforcement officer or any

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capital crime committed by an illegal immigrant. Order the Secretaries

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of Commerce and the Interior to restart efforts to route

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water from California's Sacramento San Joaquin Delta to other parts

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of the state. Withdraw the US from the World Health Organization,

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Order Treasury Department to explore creation of external revenue service

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so instead of the IRS, it would be the ers.

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We go to tax everybody else. Revoke security clearances for

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ex National Security Advisor John Bolton and fifty one intelligence

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officials who said Hunter Biden's laptop bore quote classic earmarks

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of Russian disinformation. Yeah. See, here's the thing, and I've

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said this about all forms of protest, virtually all forms

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of protests. If there is no risk of penalty, it's

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not really a protest. It's just a performance. Okay, Like

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when you lay down in a grocery store and there's

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no real threat that you're going to get arrested. If

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you sit down on a freeway and there's no threat

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you're going to be arrested, right, that's not really protesting

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because there's nothing on the line for you, you know, well,

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aside from getting run over by some angry motorists. But

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as far as I know, that hasn't really happened yet.

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But if there's no threat of a penalty, then it's

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just a performance. You're just a theater kid basically. And

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God knows, we're tired of being governed by the most hysterical,

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neurotic segment of our society. I know, I am, and

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I say that as one who did participate in theater

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performances until like ninth grade, like from fifth grade through

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ninth grade. Well sorry, fourth grade, yeah, fourth grade through

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ninth grade and look in the k through six years.

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That was mandatory. I can't help it if I was

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good at it, you know. And then they wanted me

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to do you know, alligators all around from really rosy

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or yeah, chicken soup, Oklahoma jazz rock chorus. I it

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was just to get into college, I swear. Next up,

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he declared the border crisis and invasion and ordered the

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Attorney General and Secretaries of State and Homeland Security to

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take all appropriate action to repel, repatride, or remove any

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alien engaged in such and formally renamed the Gulf of

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Mexico to the Gulf of America and Alaska's Mount Denali

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to Mount McKinley. Oh And, by the way, our Attorney

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General Jeff Jackson aka Baby Jesus. He has joined with

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other attorneys general to sue over Trump's immigration executive order already,

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so that was they had that one already lined up

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in the legal shoot as it were ready to be

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deposited upon the executive order signing. So let the law

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fair begin. I think the real winners and all of

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this right now, the lawyers. All right, if you're listening

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to this show, you know I try to keep up

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with all sorts of current events, and I know you

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do too, And you've probably heard me say get your

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news from multiple sources. Why Well, because it's how you

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but it also supports Ground News as they make the

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media landscape more transparent. Let me get Helen on real quick.

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Hello Helen, Hi Pete.

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Speaker 3: Hey, I love your show.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you. I appreciate that entertaining. I'm trying my hardest.

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Speaker 3: Well, you do a good job. They need to give

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you a raise.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Mike Schaeffer, listen up. That's okay. Uh, probably not

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gonna happen, but thank you.

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Speaker 3: Anyway. My question is I was listening to you and

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you said, baby Jesus is got in on this lawsuit. Yeh,

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immigration lawsuit. Who pays for that?

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Speaker 1: That is a very good question. I don't know the

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answer to. I could see it being US taxpayers. If he's,

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you know, acting on behalf of the state of North Carolina.

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I could see them taking money from there the budget

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that the Attorney General's office has to do it, or

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maybe there's a third party nonprofit that's kicking money to

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states for the litigation. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Yet, all right, Well, I was just curious because if

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President Trump is now the president from an overwhelming vote

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of the people, shouldn't that say something?

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Speaker 1: Well he would, I would say that Jeff Jackson would

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argue that, no, this is the proper role of the

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states to challenge federal actions and you know, overreach, and

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if the federal government is acting in an unconstitutional way,

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that's what the attorney generals are supposed to do. And

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Republicans do this against Democrat administrations. Also, I'm look and

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I'm I would agree with that argument that you do

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want states to push back against the federal government on

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things where the federal government is overreaching. The problem here

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is that the federal government is in charge of immigration law,

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and states have been disobeying and been flouting immigration law. Right,

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So it seems to me like he is trying to

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sue in order to prevent the federal government from doing

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what the federal government is supposed to be doing. And

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for that I haven't read. It just came down like

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an hour ago, so I haven't read the lawsuit, but

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I am curious how we would argue that this is

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somehow in defense of the citizens of North Carolina, because

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by definition, these are not citizens that we are talking

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about exactly.

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Speaker 3: Well, Pete, listen, thank you so much and keep doing

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what you're doing.

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Speaker 1: We love yet well, thanks Alan, I'm gonna try. That

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is up to management, though now I appreciate the call.

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Thank you, Helen. It's good to talk with you, and

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thanks for listening. Can I use you as a reference.

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I don't have time to play this clip, but there

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was apparently a service Donald Trump his family, like his

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whole family, his kids and their spouses, and Jade Vance

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and his wife, and they all went to some service

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at the National Cathedral I think or something, and yeah,

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the National Prayer Service. And this was at an Episcopalian

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church or there was an Episcopalian minister or preacher, and

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she delivered a sermon chastising the president to have mercy

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on the scared LGBT children and illegal immigrants, and just

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made this overtly partisan political speech, which, by the way,

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turns out this preacher check was also like an anti

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Trump protester. They've got video of her out in the

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streets screaming against Trump, so that's who they had up there.

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She then chastises the President. He is on his way

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back into the White House and somebody asks him what

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he thought of the sermon. He said, not too exciting,

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was it. They could do much better. They could do

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much better. And Eric Erickson said, when were I presidents,

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I would not go to a prayer service led by

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an Episcopalian because I am Christian and I would prefer

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to have a Christian minister lead the service instead of

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a pagan. I didn't say that, Eric Erik said, I'm

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just okay, all right, that'll do it for this episode.

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