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Speaker 1: Welcome to political beatdown. I'm been Mycelis, joined by Michael Cohen. Cohen,

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I guess i'll have you react at the outset to

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the breaking news that Alena Haba likely going to be

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the press secretary. That's according to multiple sources. You were

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deposed by Elena Haba in the courtroom. She didn't have

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a great deal, she didn't have a great deal of success,

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and all of the cases pretty much that she represented

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Donald Trump, she either lost or was sanctioned or there

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was another case also where she was involved with. It

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was the allegations were that she groomed someone at Bedminster

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and then that resulted in a lawsuit against Haaba being

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filed or a potential lawsuit against Haaba being filed. I

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think there was a settlement that was reached out. What's

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your immediate reactor. My dogs are obvious reacting to it.

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Speaker 2: Well, they definitely are. So let me just jump in

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for a quick second. I've been deposed by Elena on

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several occasions. Let me say that it's an understandable choice

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by Donald. If you look to see and I know

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that there's a photo of the various different people who

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Donald has now appointed to various different cabinet positions. They

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all fit the role. As Donald would have said years

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ago when I was part of his world, that it's

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central casting. Alena Habba is central casting for the Press secretary.

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He likes the way she looks, he likes the way

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she speaks, and he likes the fact that she's willing

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to go toe to toe with the press. In fact,

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you'll go toe to toe with anybody to defend him,

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even when things have said that are legitimately indefensible. He

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will come up with a response within which to protect him.

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And that's all that he wants. You see, That's why

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Sean Spicer, I had said, was going to be the

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first to go and lo and behold, he was the

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first to go. Why because Sean Spicer wasn't Alena Haba.

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He's not going to turn around and say things that

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are not exactly accurate, simply because that's what they know

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that Donald wants. She is. She's willing to go that

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extra mile. And so based upon being mouthy, her looks,

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the fact that she's a lawyer, she fits perfectly into

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this position. In fact, if I could just draw an

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analogy here, think about his pick Tom Homan who is

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going to be the borders are. Tom is a big

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fella former New York City Police officer, and he says

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all the right things as it relates to Donald Trump's

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policy on immigration mass deportation. He looks the part of

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somebody that you would see patrolling the border. He just does.

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And if you've seen that, there are a couple of

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videos ben of him when he was testifying and he

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was going toe to toe with AOC, he came right

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back at it. Each and every one of these people

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who are getting these positions are people who have fought

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for him over the past, let's say, one year, and

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stayed on his message and that's what he wants.

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Speaker 1: Well, let me show you that clip you mentioned Tom Homan.

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We've been talking a lot about Trump's plan that he

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said for bloody that's his term, bloody. It's going to

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be bloody, bloody mass deportations. On day one, here's Tom

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Homan at that committee hearing AOC is asking Homan about

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the forced separation policy. That Homan pioneer, not sure that's

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the right word when he was leading ICE in the

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first Trump administration. Let's watch that interaction. Let's play this.

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Speaker 3: Memo you're not the author, but you signed the.

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Speaker 4: Memo, yes, a zero tolerance memo, So.

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Speaker 3: You provided the official recommendation to Secretary Nielsen on family

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for the United States to pursue family separation.

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Speaker 4: I gave Secretary Nielson numerous recommendations on how to secure

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the border.

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Speaker 3: And say but it says here that you gave her

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numerous options. But the recommendation was option three, family separation.

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Speaker 4: What I'm saying, this is not the only paper where

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we're given the Secretary numerous options to secure the border

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and save lives.

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Speaker 3: And so the recommendation of the many that you recommended,

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you recommended family separation.

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Speaker 4: I recommend a zero tolerance.

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Speaker 3: Which includes family separation.

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Speaker 4: The same as is where ever US citizen parent gets

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arrested when they're with the child.

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Speaker 3: Zero tolerance was interpreted as the policy that separated children

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from there.

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Speaker 4: If I get arrested for GUI and I have a

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young child in a car, I won't be separated. When

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I also police officer in New York and I arrested

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a father for domestic violence, I separate that mister Olmer with.

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Speaker 3: All two respect. Legal assyls are not charged with any.

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Speaker 4: Crime when you're in the country I legally is violation

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eight United States Code thirteen to twenty five.

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Speaker 3: Seeking asylum is legal.

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Speaker 4: You want to seek a Simon, go through the port

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of entry, do it the legal way. The Attorney General

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of the United States had made that cleary, you know.

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Speaker 2: And at the very end, did you see the exasperation

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on AOC's face that in and of itself guaranteed that

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Tom Homan was going to be the Director of Ice.

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There was no doubt in my mind when I saw

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that he was going to be considered and he would

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probably make it, because that's what Trump saw. He saw

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the fact that there was someone there who was willing

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to go toe to toe on his policy and not relent.

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And that again.

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Speaker 1: Goes right to the hurt group.

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Speaker 2: Of playing the role central casting for what he wants

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his administration to look like. You see, it's why Alina

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Haba was not up for attorney general. He knows that

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she's not competent to be the Attorney general, but she's

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more than competent to be Press secretary.

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Speaker 1: Well then, but then Tom Homan's boss is Christy nom

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South Dakota governor, so he picked someone there. You know,

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she's the one who bragged about shooting her dog cricket.

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You know, she's someone who doesn't really have any experience

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when it comes to homeland security type of stuff. I mean,

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during the campaign, she was serving basically as the moderator

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for Donald Trump's phony town halls, where she would kind

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of follow him around. Remember she was doing the dance moves,

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you know, with him. I'll give you you know my theory.

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You know, my theory is that Trump thinks that that

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position's going to take a lot of heat. It will

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soften to the public from a pr perspective, the bloody

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nastiness of what's going on if you have Christie Nome

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kind of in front of the camera while you have

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somebody like Tom Homan doing bloody mass deportations and separations.

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Because remember Homan would then kind of report to her.

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She's at the home the top of homeland security. So

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I think that's the dynamic that he's looking for. I

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get your perspective, because I mean, to have Christi Nome

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the head of homeland security. I mean, if you've watched

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her interviews before and you've seen her on the public stage,

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I mean it's all over the place.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So again it goes right into central casting. She

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has made it crystal clear that her position on homeland

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security is identical. There's not a dot tom, there's not

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a paragraph break that she does not agree with President Electrum.

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She's made it crystal clear and that she is and

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made this crystal clear as well prepared to accomplish his

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policy goal on the mass deportation. Plained and simple. She

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looks the part, she has the congressional background where she

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claimed that she was involved in this sort of thing.

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It is again a very easy pick, I will tell

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you though, I don't think a lot of these people

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are long termers. And I'm a little bit shocked, including

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by the way like Marco Rubio, who, for whatever the reason,

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he ended up giving him what do you call it,

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Secretary of State. This is one that blew my mind.

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In fact, when I saw this come out, Ben, I

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was actually shocked. Number One, I don't think he looks

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the part. You know, take a look at somebody like

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an Anthony Blincoln. He's kind of like central casting. But

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he's just really confident. I'm not really sure, especially given

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some of the comments that Marco Rubio has made and

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Trump has made about Marco Rubio going back just a

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couple of years. I was very shocked, very shocked that

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he elected to bring him into this administration.

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Speaker 1: I think we have a montage of some of Marco

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Rubio's statements, Jeremy, this is the one with Trump picking

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Marco Rubio as his secretary of State is pretty hilarious.

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Just take a look at this montage that we've got.

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Speaker 5: Let's play five days ago, we began to explain to

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the American people that Donald Trump is a con artist.

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The Party of Lincoln and Reagan and the presidency of

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the United States will never be held by a con artist.

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Friends do not let friends vote for con artists, and

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friends don't let friends vote.

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Speaker 2: For con artists.

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Speaker 6: I can just tell you that a con artist is

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about take to take over the Republican Party and the

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Conservative movement, and we have to put a stop to it.

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There is no way we are going to allow a

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con artist to take over the Conservative movement. And Donald

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Trump is a con artist.

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Speaker 7: So to be clear, Donald Trump, and now he's reporting

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to this con artist right as.

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Speaker 2: What do you call it, secretary of state.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic, Look, Donald Trump's vice president. In terms of people

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who have political leaders who have called Donald Trump. Hitler

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the only one that really comes to mind. There are

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people who said he's fascist, he speaks like Hitler. But

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the one who made the direct he is America's Hitler

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is his own vice president.

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Speaker 2: Vice Yeah. JD.

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Speaker 1: Vans Now his secretary of State has called him a

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con artist. Donald Trump made statements about Marco Rubio that

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I would never even hire Rubio to run any small business,

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yet alone any Trump business. And now he is the

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Secretary of State. But I want to rewind a little

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Speaker 2: Can I bring up two more points here as it

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relates to Marco Rubio. All right, so you may remember

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in twenty sixteen, there was an ad that was put

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out by the Trump campaign and it was basically turning

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around calling Marco Rubio corrupt. And it literally went on

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It's like a two and a half three minute commercial

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about all the things that Marco Rubio did that were corrupt,

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taking flights like a dozen flights from Florida around Florida

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on his campaign's dome, purchasing certain things. That's not even

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the worst thing that Trump did to Marco Rubio. Do

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you remember in the National Inquirer on the front page,

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we had a photo of Marco Rubio nude in a

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pool with a bunch of other guys also all nude,

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and the headline was it was a wild cocaine bash

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with you know, featuring Marco Rubio. I mean, we're not

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talking about somebody that turned around and said, you know, hey,

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his rhetoric is vile or something like that. One calls

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the other guy on artist, the other one calls the

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guy corrupt, and now there's a love affair and the

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guy is Secretary of State. I don't see lasting relationships

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with a lot of the picks that have taken place,

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including the chief of staff. I just don't see with

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Susie Walls. Though. Susie, let me take that back for

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a second. I don't think she's gonna want to stick

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it out the four years, though I think she has

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the fortitude to do it. She's been around a long time.

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She knows the game, and she knows how to handle Trump.

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The problem with being chief of staff is you have

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twenty different people that will be part of this we'll

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call it executive right administration team, and each one of

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them are going to be pulling at her in order

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to get certain things, and Trump hates that shit. That's

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why Ryan's previous had no shot whatsoever.

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Speaker 1: Cohen, this was the photo, and you specifically use the

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language this is what we were doing, because at that

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time you were on Team Trump. You were involved in

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a lot of the stuff that was happening there, whether

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it was with Rubio or Ted Cruz and all over

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Hillary Clinton or Hillary Clinton. You know, before your Maya culpa,

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you were involved in that.

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Speaker 2: And you're right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I totally forgot about that incident until you

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said that your team put out an image of like

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a gay Org bubble bath, and then there was an

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arrow pointed to someone who Trump claimed was Marco Rubio,

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which you couldn't even see, and then there was an

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arrow pointing to that, and that was one of the

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things that tanked Marco Rubio. And that's that was That

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was the photo, right, that's the one that you're thinking of.

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Speaker 2: I most Sutanly is, most Stanly.

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Speaker 1: Is, and that guy's the Secretary of State right now. Yeah,

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you know the same way I read Matt Whittaker, who

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I guess is being considered to be Attorney general. There

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was this article in GQ from twenty eighteen that talks

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about before Whittaker kind of rose up the MAGA ranks.

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Whittaker ran would sell all.

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Speaker 8: Of these like things, and one of the things he

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sold was like a like a allegedly like a toilet

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bowl for men with gigantic balls, and like that's what

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his job. It's like, it's like a Larry David episode

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toilet bowls for men with giant baldwoy?

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Speaker 2: Have we really bressed on this political beatdown with all?

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I'll tell you.

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Speaker 1: That but that, But that's it. That's These are I

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think important throwbacks and callbacks, so like we know what

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we're dealing with. Yeah, this is what I'm not making

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I was not making this up.

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Speaker 2: Good.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad that Jeremy gave me at least evidentiary support

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for what I was just saying. Trump's new attorney general

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has a long history of absurd scams. From November fifteen

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to twenty eight, GQ by Jay Willis, Matthew Whitaker served

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on the board. It's interesting they need a board of

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directors for this, a board of a company that courted

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investors in time travel, cryptocurrencies, bigfoot dolls, and toilets designed

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for well endowed men. Now, Cohen, what do you think

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that board? Uh, all right, we're here by calling up Whitaker,

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can you lead the board me? Everybody, we're assembled here

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at our biannual board meeting. We are determining whether or

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not the toilet seat should be seventeen inches off the ground.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think it be more right now.

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It really has to do more with the shape of

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the bowl, right because right, you know, that's what it's

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really all about.

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Speaker 1: Is that what it's all about? My er I I'm

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glad you clarified that's what it's all about. A right

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let me you see, I was gonna say, let me

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rewind to the beginning and talk about some serious stuff

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right here, looit.

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Speaker 2: But I think this is very serious. You know, we

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can try to be a little jovial during this time

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that everybody is sort of anxious. It's something that I'm

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going to be talking about with Fred Wellman, who's part

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of the Minus Touch network as well on my Maya

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Kolpa that's the one with the blue background. But we

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talk about that where Obviously, if you're Maga, you are

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elated at this now se term of Trump. If in

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fact you are team Kamala, you're obviously very concerned, and

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you're worried and many other emotions. You know, one of

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the things that you know, we talk about, and I

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don't want to ruin the episode for you, but one

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of the things is that you must believe that the

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systems will not allow one person to do what that

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person claims that he can do, like rewrite the constitution

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or destroy the tripartite system of government or rammed through

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all of these appointments and so on. There is a

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system that needs to be adhered to, and I guess

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that's really the hope. But each and every one of

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these picks so far, I just am concerned that they

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will not respect the process, will not respect the you know,

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the rule of law that guides every other whether it's

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attorney general or whether it's you know, a chief of staff,

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or whether it's you know, press secretary. There are certain

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rules that have been followed for two hundred and forty

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nine years. And the hope is that these folks will

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take the job seriously on behalf of the country and

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not in fealty to anyone individual, if in fact that

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that individual requests it.

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Speaker 1: Look, hope springs eternal, but I think it's important already

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that we call out promises broken. By the way, if

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the promises are kept, can call them out to But

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you know, in terms of promises broken, right. Trump said

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that within twenty four hours of winning, not of being sworn,

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and he said of winning, that he would call up

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Remember he said this, Vladimir Putin and Zelenski. I would

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tell you, and I would say you do this, and

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I say you do this Putin, and I'd have it

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all done, and I'd have it all done the twenty

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four hours. Well, that didn't happen. In fact, Donald Trump

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leaked to the Washington Post that he has spoken with Putin. Now,

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if you think Putin is interested in reciprocity, right and goodwill,

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and Donald Trump's team is leaking that he had a

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call with Putin, don't you think Putin, in the spirit

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of reciprocity, would say we did have a call. It

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was productive. No, pull that up. The Kremlin has said,

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we don't know what he's talking about. It's absolutely pure fiction.

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Phone call didn't happen. What else did they do in Russia?

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And again this is not getting mainstream play. It's why

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we have to build our media platform as well. After

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Dinald Trump saying that he told the Russian leader not

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to escalate in Ukraine. What did Putin do?

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Speaker 2: Escalated?

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Speaker 1: Amassed an additional fifty thousand soldiers, including North Korean troops,

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ahead of a counter offensive right after that call took place,

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and did a lot of other very kind of furtive

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moves showing an escalation as well, like clear escalation taking place.

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And then Putin has Russian national TV show these photographs

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of Milania, the nudes, and they were just laughing, you

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know how Donald Trump, and they did this in purpose right,

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because they said, you know, you know, Trump goes there.

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I hate when people laugh at me. The world's laughing

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at me. They're laughing. So what does Putin have his

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people do at the Russian state media laugh at him?

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And what more way can you disrespect like a man,

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like an alpha man? I mean, it's probably other ways,

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but in what more ways can you disrespect him? Then

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showing nudes of the man's wife and then laughing hysterically

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and then saying, oh, I guess it's her body, her choice,

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as they're laughing on Russian state media, all after Donald

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Trump claimed he was having productive conversations with Vladimir put

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I want to talk about.

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Speaker 7: That and more.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we got our first we got our first quick

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show possible. Before the break, I was talking about it's

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Donald Trump gonna keep these promises.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: He ran on, I'm gonna be tough with Putin and

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I'm gonna call him on day one, and I'm gonna

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call Zelensky on day one after the election, and I'm

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gonna say, you do this, you do this. So Trump

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lames he called Putin, he leaked it to the Washington

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Post that this conversation happened, and then Putin, giving the

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middle fingerback, said pure fiction. Phone call didn't happen. In fact,

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he goes, I'm gonna then direct Russian State TV to

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show Milania nudes and then laugh at Milania and Donald

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Trump to their faces. And then I'm going to escalate

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in Ukraine to show Donald Trump that I'm the alpha here.

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And then Cohen to make matters even worse or more obvious,

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then his senior aid releases a message a communicate across

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all Russian TV saying the following quote to achieve success

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in the elections, Donald Trump relied on certain forces to

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which he has corresponding obligations and as a responsible person,

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he will be oblige to fulfill them. And that came

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from the chairman of Russia's Maritime College and a close

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Putin aid, So that wouldn't happen without Putin giving the

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green light to that. Nikolay Petrtchev puts that out. So

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Putin sending a message here. It's pretty obvious.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no doubt about that. I do want to

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turn around and say, as it relates to Russia and

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Putin and Ukraine and Israel and Kamas and the mass

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deportation and so on, if you look at the historical waves,

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the dips, and the troughs in regard to these elections,

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this was an anger vote at where we are as

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a country right now, despite the fact that many of

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us believe that Joe Biden and Democrats have done a

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pretty fantastic job over the course of the last four years.

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So what ends up happening in the midterms you'll see

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is basically it becomes a referendum on how much Trump

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is going to be successful in fulfilling the pledges that

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he made during the campaign, and this always this historically happens,

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it goes and you could look look it up your

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You'll see every two years when they have the Congressional

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the House of the Senate, unless, of course, the president

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is successful in a plethora of policies that promises that

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they made during the campaign that they ultimately fulfill. And

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I believe that the very first promise that Donald Trump

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will put out there, because I do know from some

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insiders that they intend on like over two dozen executive

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orders that he intends to come right to the White

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House with on day number one, one of which is

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the mass deportation. And this is where you know you're

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going to have home in and Christy Nome are going

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to have to really step up and so on. Now,

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if that doesn't end up going as expected, you can

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expect Trump to demonstrate his anger towards them, right and

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it's a very precarious situation for them to be. I

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wanted just to say one last thing, Ben. When you

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turn around, you're talking about political beatdown, and whether it's

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Maya Kopa or whether it's any of the other products

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that you find here on the Midas Touch network, a

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lot of people are really kind of burnt out right

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now as a direct result of all the we'll call

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it miss chagas that's been going on, all the tumult

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that's been going on over the course of the past

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year plus regarding the elections and with the divisiveness, the

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rhetoric and so on. I want to second what Ben said,

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This is not the time to sit on the sidelines.

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This isn't the time to start to unsubscribe, whether it's

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political beatdown on my YouTube channel or the Michael Cohen

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Show or any again of the other products here. I'm like,

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this is the time that you want to dig in

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because the more factual information that you're going to get,

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and that's the only thing you're going to get here

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on this Midas Touch network of facts, know, innuendo, pure

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up facts. And the scary part is when you start

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to see things like you know, these mainstream newspapers or

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television or cable news not actually providing the legitimate truth

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or spinning it in ways that are not legitimate. They

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do that so that they'll make sure that they're on

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the list to get a interview with the president or

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the vice president or Alina Haba's press secretary. They're willing

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to do things like that. We don't do that, and

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we also don't have sponsors. As Ben was talking about,

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where we become beholden to changing our tune, to changing

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our truth. And that's why organizations like Midas Touch Network

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will continue to grow, stay in and day out. You know.

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Speaker 1: I did a whole segment on this Michael Cohen that

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after the election, David Zaslov, who's the chairman of Warner Discovery,

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he was basically saying, look now that Trump won and

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Warner Discovery owns CNN, we're gonna have this great age

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of mergers and acquisitions. We're gonna unleash all these corporate mergers,

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and we'll be able to finally do the things that

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we wanted to do, you know. And Zaslov had made

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a comment like that when he was in Sun Valley

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in Idaho at this Allen and Company convention several months

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back that I highlighted where it seemed that he was

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rooting for Donald Trump, and that seemed, in my own opinion,

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to permeate CNN's coverage. So I had to do some

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digging though, and I had to see, Okay, then there

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must have been you know, was Zaslov trying to do

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a merger during the Biden administration that didn't work. That

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was that Biden blocked, and that now he's saying these things.

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So I look back and lo and behold. Though the

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very merger that gave Zaslav control over CNN took place

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April twenty twenty two, when Biden was in office. The

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merger between Discovery and Warner was approved. The issue was

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the merger wasn't all that successful, not because it was

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Biden's fault, but because people stopped watching CNN's coverage. So

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they had all of these assets like HBO, Max and

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Discovery that.

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Speaker 2: Was doing good.

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Speaker 1: They thought that they could buy CNN and turn it

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like Foxlight or make it like a Fox News and

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then grow it. But people weren't buying it, so the

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merger was bad, and they actually called that the CNN company.

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They called Shitco internally, as though Shitco is the CNN

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linear assets. So then it became clear to me. So

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basically what you're saying, Zaslav is you were paid tens

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of millions of dollars every year you did the merger

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during the time when Biden was in office, the merger

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didn't go as planned because Biden was no drama. And

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now you're saying, oh, it must have been Biden's fault.

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And I don't mean to single Zaslav out, but I

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think that that is something that we've seen over and

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over again with lots of different groups as well, that

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they've tried to just play the blame game over and

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over again.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: And again I'm not doing the post mortem blame thing here,

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but I simply say, and I repeat this, you know,

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this is where a political party, where you have a

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great story to tell about accomplishments, really needs to step

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up and tell that story. I mean, look, you want

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to talk about the unemployment rate is the lowest since

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nineteen sixty eight, Inflation at two point two, which is

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below average normal inflation that was brought under control by Biden.

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GDP growth the best in the world, financial markets under

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Biden soaring. Biden actually cut the deficit, We've had a

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manufacturing boom. I mean, you could just take a look

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at the charts. I mean, if you look at the

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charts under total construction spending under Trump, just take a

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look at it. It's flat it's level under Biden. Look

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at the ingenuity of America that was unleashed. The manufacturing

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boom is felt across the country in the infrastructure projects

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that were going up. So, as I've said before, Biden

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understood the pulse of the nation. He understood the moment.

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That's why he livered infrastructure, bottom up, middle out economics,

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why he focused his tax programs on helping middle class

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and people aspiring to be in middle class. Not the billionaires,

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but Cohen, the billionaires, the oligarchs. They were very instrumental

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in letting people know that even despite all of these metrics,

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that people's struggles post COVID, which we have to acknowledge

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those struggles are real. Were Biden's fault versus the fact

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that people coming out of a pandemic, catastrophic event, it's

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going to take time to heal and people cannibalize. Biden

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versus uplifted the messages clearly not the messenger he was before.

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Speaker 2: Well what they did then, what they did is they

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ignored every single thing that you just showed on that chart,

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and they leap fraud it with things like guess the

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cost of eggs, milk, bacon. Remember when Trump had that

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whole table of food outside. I think it was ben

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Minster his golf course and ben Minster showing that nobody

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could afford what's on this table here, and that was

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the message that they kept hammering home. You see, look,

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let's just not bullshit one another here. There's no bullshit

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on Midas Touch network and definitively not on political beatdown.

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The Democrats we fucked up are messaging has always been shit.

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And say whatever you want about Donald Trump, many things

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that you could say about him. One thing he is,

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hands down, he is the master of media manipulation. What

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they do is every single one of their hundred one

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hundred different speakers and they're they're different messengers. They all

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get the identical talking points memo every single morning at

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eight am, and they turn around they say, if you

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are going to speak and you're going to go on

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television or speak to media, put your just hit reply back.

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I'm going on so and so where and use these

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talking points for today. So now what happens. You have

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one hundred different messengers every single day on the identical point,

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whereas in the Democrat group you have hundreds of messengers,

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but nobody is on point with anybody else. It's everybody

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sort of doing their own thing answering questions. It's why

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if you listen to some of the responses by I'll

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give you an example. What's his name? He just got

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offered a position as well. Oh, the congress member from

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here from New York, leez Elden Leese Elvin. They asked

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Leez Elvin a question, and the response goes right to

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oil and drilling and the economy. It's as an opposite,

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polar opposite if I turn around and say black versus white,

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or North versus South. He didn't answer the question at

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all because that wasn't part of the talking points memo.

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They absolutely hammered everything home and those comments and the

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talking points get regurgitated over and over and over and

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then over again, where ultimately, even if it's a lie,

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as Stalin used to say, if you repeat the lie

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enough times, the lie ultimately becomes the truth.

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Speaker 1: And let me show you for example, here was a

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Latino Trump voter on CNN and recently he's wearing the

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Trump hat. He wears the like yellow hair Trump wig.

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You could I thought that was the guy's real air

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at first. There it's the Trump wig that he's wearing,

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and he says, look, we're not going to get deported.

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I'm family oriented and and they're only going to go

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after the criminals. They're not coming after me. Here play

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this clip.

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Speaker 9: If they let in hundreds of thousands of people already

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have criminal records, if deporting them create some mass deportation,

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I'm all for it.

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Speaker 4: But what if rounded up in all of that are

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people who work on a farm, If they're doing.

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Speaker 1: The jobs that Americans don't want to do.

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Speaker 2: What does that worry you?

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Speaker 9: That wouldn't be fair. Of course, you know, they need

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to make sure that they don't throw away, they don't

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kick out, they don't the poor people that are there.

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Speaker 2: Family oriented, the question they won't asleep Again, I'm so

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sorry to interrupt you, but it's important. It's part of

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the talking points memo that everybody got. Make sure you

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refer to all the illegal immigrants as criminals, rapists, drug dealers, murderers,

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and so on, people coming in from insane asylums. This man,

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who clearly has a diminished IQ based upon his commentary,

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is merely regurgitating the stupidity that he heard over and over

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and over again, based upon whoever it was, and whatever

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source that he's obtaining his information from. Again, it is

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all the same talking point, and now you have another

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person who's out there spewing it. That's the name of

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the game.

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Speaker 1: Well look, you know, but now it's now that they've

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got his vote, right, they don't have to do the

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charade anymore. They could go and say what they're going

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to do. Right, And so Charlie Kirk, who is in

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Donald Trump's inner circle, he said the following about Tom Holman,

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who's now the borders are he said, Tom Holman announces

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he will begin workplace immigration raids. If you are illegal,

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get out of our country now. It will save us

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time and energy and also spare you the humiliation. The

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days of gaming America's immigration system with impunity are over.

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Get out. If you just break down that statement, what

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they're saying, they're going to do workplace immigration rates, meaning

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they're going to go to places where migrants are working

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construction sites, farms, restaurants like that guy was in, and

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they're gonna say, show us your papers, and then the

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people are gonna say, I don't know, I don't know.

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I thought it was family oriented, and then they're going

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to throw you in cages and then they're going to

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take you out of the country. And as even Donald

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Trump said, you know, he said he was going to

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send the Haitians to Venezuela, like he's going to send

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you to random countries. And that's what's going to happen.

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And I just want you to think, from just a

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practical standpoint workplace immigration raids. Just think about the mere

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threat of that, the disruption that's going to cause if

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people in their workplaces are going Am I going to

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get raided today? Should I even show up to my

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work today? I'm not a criminal, By the way, Cohen,

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you me. I don't know anybody who I talk to

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who thinks, you know what, the criminals need to stay here,

666
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the terrorists need to stay here. Deport the criminals terrorists yesterday,

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get them out, lock them up. We don't want criminals,

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We don't want terrorists.

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Speaker 2: We also have to acknowledge those that you bring up

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such a great point here, it's a phenomenal point. Number one.

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Just because Donald and the talking points tell you that

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their rapist, murderers, drug dealers, that they're all you know,

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from insane asylums, does make it accurate, all right? A

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bunch of our brigaders, and many of whom are now

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I don't know, trolls. You don't believe that Donald Trump

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is going to actually do a mass deportation. Let me

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be very very clear. I know him better than everybody.

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I know him better than any of the including the

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people like a Tom Homan, including Christinole. I know him

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better than them all. And I'm telling you for a fact,

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that's the first bill that he's putting forth. Why because

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he could then continue to ride that deportation as being

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responsive and actually doing what he said he was going

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to do on the campaign trail. It goes even one

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step further. Do I think it's going to be the

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ten million that they were talking about and so on?

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The answer is no, He's immediately going to go for

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the low hanging fruit. And who's the low hanging fruit.

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They're the migrants that are staying in hotels that are

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already in the system. We know exactly who they are,

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we know exactly where they are at all hours. They're

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basically confined to these hotels until such time as the

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immigration process works. They will send buses, load them up,

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drive them or fly them to their country of origin.

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That way he can declare a victory. Now, you and

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I and others may turn around and say, but that's

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not a victory. That's a terrible, terrible thing, I assure

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you his supporters. And obviously it's more than fifty point

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one percent of this country believe. In fact, it's actually

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closer to sixty eight percent of this country believe that

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all the migrants should be deported. That number, it's an

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enormously high number. He will now hit a home run

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with that almost seventy percent of this country. It'll be

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a home run for him, And that's what they're going

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to do, mark my words on it.

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Speaker 1: Well, the only part that I disagree with you there

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is perhaps in his base they'll view that as a

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home run temporarily. But like all of these ideas, shut

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down the Department of Education, shut down the border, shut

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down the government. It's easy to be a destroyer, right, right.

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It's easy for me to take this cup and just

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throw it on the floor.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: It's hard for me to produce and develop something and

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build systems and institutions. It's easy to destroy. Okay, shut

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down the border. Okay, well you shut it down. Guess

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what how are we going to get the products that

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are being manufactured, say in Tijuana at cheaper prices, into

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other factories at America where you take those products, you

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combine them with other stuff and then you make things here.

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How do we send our products into Mexico? How do

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we bring other products and produce from South America? If

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you just shut down a border, what is that going

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to cause economic devastation? Remember one day where Texas Governor

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Abbott tried to like shut it down by like doing

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inspections of the vehicles that caused literally tens of billions

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of dollars in damages. So at a practical level, there

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will be massive economic turmoil if and when they do that.

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Shut down the government. Okay, well, people don't get their checks,

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you don't get your services, and shutting down the government

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results in economic catastrophe, recession and depression. Shut down the

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Department of Education. That may be something that sounds wonderful

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to people in certain red states, until all of a

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sudden they're like, wait a minute, where's the lunches, where's

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the food for my kids? I now have to go

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back to the grocery stores, where, by the way, the

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prices are higher because you've now deported the migrants who

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are helping get the goods there in the first place.

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And by the way, you've tariffed ourselves. You're not tariffing China.

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You're putting taxes on goods here. So now I have

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to pay for higher prices, and there's no kind of

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food assistance programs at our schools. Then what Cohen and

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I just think, Look, I don't want any of those

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things to happen, but what we have to be prepared

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for is when they happen, to let people know where

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to direct your anger, because I damn sure promise you

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Republicans are going to do what they always do. They

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take the economic gains made by Democrats Obama, Clinton and

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now Biden, they sink it they're the arsonists, and then

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once America wakes up, they then blame the Democrats who

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are now trying to rebuild and fix. And every time

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Democrats fall right back into the trap because rather than

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unite and have a strong message and let people know

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what's the cause, they buy into all the right wing crap.

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They get they're being worked, and they get worked, and

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look like Republicans or magas versus looking like how they should,

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Speaker 1: Welcome, Thank you to our pro democracy sponsors.

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Speaker 2: Can I just jump in for one very quick second,

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Sorry than i'mus fleeing a bunch of the again comments

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that were coming through, Say where did you get your

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information from? On the sixty four to sixty five percent

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up to seventy percent. Here's an article, by the way,

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from Forbes. It's entitled do Americans really want to deport

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eleven million undocumented immigrants? It's by Andy Simodiac And in

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this specific article, it just says, in fact, sixty two

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percent of Americans are now in favor of deportations, with

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some Latinos and Hispanic voters also voicing their support. And

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it's the first time in modern history such a vast

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deportation effort is no longer an outlying opinion. But get

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a los On butt a mainstream stance in American politics.

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Like I said to you before, It's why I'm going

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to continuously say this, and you may get tired of

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hearing it. This is not the time to step away.

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This is the time to step in, to dig your

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heels in and stay part of the conversation. Because here

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on Political Beatdown, here on the Midas Touch Network, on

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I'm not basing it like others do by pulling it

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out of my ass. This is written by Forbes. I

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remember just reading it, and that's only one article. If

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you search yourself, you'll see that it goes up to

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like sixty eight plus percent of the country is in

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favor of these mass deportations.

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Speaker 1: Colin, let me give you some data to which is

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the updated election results, so people actually see how close

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it was. I mean, it's not like seeing these results

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are going to make any of us feel any better.

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But at the end of the day, it seems that

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Harris will have seventy five point seven million votes or

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forty eight point five percent. Trump will have seventy seven

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point nine million votes or forty nine point nine percent.

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Other two point six million votes or one point six percent.

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So if that's the case, donald Trump wouldn't even be

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clearing fifty percent. And so some of the questions are,

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is you know, who are some of these voters that flipped.

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And some of the voters that flipped were actually gen

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Z boys and girls, young men and young women who

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swill you and I were talking about several months ago

824
00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:27,039
how the right wing podcast culture Gaming all of that

825
00:53:27,159 --> 00:53:30,079
pushed people, you know, in a direction. Trump showing up

826
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at the UFC fights football players doing the Trump dance thing,

827
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you know, that has permeated culture. And to ignore that

828
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ignores I think one of the lessons. And again, if

829
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you look at the results pretty close, but you flip

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that which went overwhelmingly for Biden, you have a lot

831
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of votes there. You have, of course the flip in

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the Latino votes as well, almost a complete opposite shift

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in Latino men, this time favoring Donald Trump over Vice

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President Kamala Harrison. Look also in places like Scranton and

835
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similar cities across the country, Donald Trump was picking up

836
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these union worker votes who were voting, you know, against

837
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their jobs or their unions. But he was saying to them,

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I'm going to save you all these promises, I'm going

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to protect you, I'm going to save you. I'm the

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only one who can do it. So it's not without

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irony when I look at a Teamsters post like this

842
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one where they're talking about how the Costco fleet drivers

843
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represented by Teamsters Local one seventy four, we've ratified a

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short term collective bargaining agreement set to expire on January

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thirty first, twenty twenty five, the same date as the

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Costco National Master Agreement, which protects over eighteen thousand Costco

847
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Teamsters nationwide. Well, you know, it's not without irony that

848
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you look at that, because what do you think is

849
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going to happen when the National Labor Relations Board, the

850
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NLRB is all full of the Trumpers who are pro management,

851
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where you can't express your collectively bargained for rights. They

852
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don't believe in collective bargaining, you know at all. In

853
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the Trump administration, it's all gonna be anti labor people.

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Whereas President Biden worked to negotiate these types of master deals,

855
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that's not gonna happen under the Trump administration. You know,

856
00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:28,440
at what point, though, Cohen? I mean, I give you

857
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another example. Donald Trump's appointed Mike Huckabee to be his

858
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ambassador to Israel. Huckabee says he doesn't think the West

859
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Bank should even exist. He goes, it's not a thing.

860
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Israel basically should you know, take it all over themselves.

861
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We've seen from kind of senior Israeli people attached to

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net and Yahoo just in the past twenty four forty

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eight hours then basically insinuating that West Bank and other

864
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territories controlled by Palestinians need to be annexed right away,

865
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you know. And then I see these letters from you know,

866
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Arab American groups in Dearborn Michigan who voted for Donald

867
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Trump and in the aggregate helped tip the scales, as

868
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they acknowledge in this letter saying all right, Donald, now

869
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it's time for you to call for the ceasefire. Well,

870
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not only is Donald not calling for a ceasefire. He

871
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brought in Huckabee, he brought in Rubio, who believed there

872
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shouldn't be a ceasefire at all. So just regardless of

873
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what your views are on the situation, we should be

874
00:56:32,679 --> 00:56:36,039
clear eyed that on the one hand, Kamala Harris and

875
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Biden world, he's pushing for a ceasefire and you can

876
00:56:39,119 --> 00:56:40,920
make a lot of criticisms and have a lot of

877
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:44,000
strong feelings. But on the one hand, they were doing that,

878
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and all I saw were the protests at Kamala rallies

879
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and Biden events and events where Democrat speakers. I don't

880
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see any of these protests happening at the Trump events

881
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when Donald Trump just here, do we have this video

882
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of Huckabe, like, just so you see the receipts. Huckabee's

883
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now the ambassador to Israel. Huckabee says, this your playlis Club.

884
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Speaker 10: Well, my feeling personally, and I'm speaking only as a person,

885
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I think Israel would only be acting on the property

886
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it already owns.

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Speaker 2: I think Israel.

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Speaker 10: Has titled e did Judea and Samaria. There are certain

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words I refuse to use. There is no such thing

890
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as a West Bank, It's Shudee and Samaria. There's no

891
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such thing as a settlement, their communities, their neighborhoods, their cities.

892
00:57:30,519 --> 00:57:32,840
There's no such thing as an occupation that they get

893
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out of their minds that people are living in lean

894
00:57:36,239 --> 00:57:42,280
to's tents, sleeping in cars circled around a tree, living

895
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in very well designed and beautiful cities and communities can't

896
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wait to get back. I'm going to take an extra hat.

897
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I'm going to get it to President elect Trump, build

898
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Israel great again. Who knows, we may see him wear

899
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this out there in one of his rallies somewhere. No,

900
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can't promise that. I can only promise he will get

901
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a copy of the hat.

902
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Speaker 1: Thank you very much, And so again Cohen, as we

903
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close out this episode, I think it's important to note

904
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though also why, and again it is a little bit

905
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you know, self whatever that I'm saying this self serving,

906
00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:25,800
that I'm saying this, you know about our network, But

907
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you know, I guarantee you that if this was Biden,

908
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because I know what happens, if these incredible lies are

909
00:58:37,039 --> 00:58:41,159
already occurring, that would get wall to wall coverage. All

910
00:58:41,199 --> 00:58:43,960
I'm seeing I don't even watch corporate media, but when

911
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people forward me stuff, is this like bizarro North Korea propaganda.

912
00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:54,320
Elon Musk showed up at mar A Lago wearing a

913
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dark Maga shirt and it was wild, and then he

914
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:01,719
was hanging out with Trump's daughter and they were laughing,

915
00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:04,679
and it's like, Okay, can you please stick to the

916
00:59:04,719 --> 00:59:08,159
freaking issues? Here are the things. Call them out because

917
00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:12,679
already there's been two not like minor lies by Trump,

918
00:59:13,119 --> 00:59:17,079
major major lies. And we've covered him here on the show,

919
00:59:17,159 --> 00:59:20,199
Cohen two finger salute and close us.

920
00:59:20,119 --> 00:59:23,559
Speaker 2: Out, you know, before I give you the two fingers salute,

921
00:59:23,599 --> 00:59:26,960
because believe it or not, I'm still thinking about who

922
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:32,519
actually deserves it. But Axios also put out an article

923
00:59:32,920 --> 00:59:36,199
where it turns around says sixty eight percent of Americans

924
00:59:36,639 --> 00:59:42,320
said that illegal immigration causes major problems in communities, while

925
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:46,679
only twenty seven percent said the same about legal immigrants.

926
00:59:46,960 --> 00:59:52,079
And so on, these these polls, these stories that they're

927
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all over the place, my point being, it doesn't really matter,

928
00:59:55,360 --> 00:59:59,039
all right. This was the message that just kept going

929
00:59:59,159 --> 01:00:02,559
on and on in on and getting regurgitated over and over.

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01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:07,400
And that's the mistake that Democrats made. They never countered

931
01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:13,599
properly with having all of the all of their surrogates

932
01:00:13,639 --> 01:00:18,079
out there on the same exact message. And that, of

933
01:00:18,119 --> 01:00:23,320
course is my opinion, what ultimately gave Donald Trump the victory.

934
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And all of these elections are always extremely close. Our

935
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country is relatively plus or minus one percent for the victor.

936
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I mean, it's just how it's been for the last

937
01:00:35,079 --> 01:00:39,360
six elections. The two fingers. Salute really goes to anybody

938
01:00:39,400 --> 01:00:43,159
that didn't vote. If you didn't vote, you don't have

939
01:00:43,280 --> 01:00:45,960
a right to complain. You don't have a right to

940
01:00:46,360 --> 01:00:51,440
even make a statement, in my opinion as to where

941
01:00:51,440 --> 01:00:54,440
the country's at, what's going to be happening, Who's going

942
01:00:54,519 --> 01:00:58,400
to be the leader of this country. It is imperative

943
01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:02,480
that everybody votes. We had less of a turnout now

944
01:01:02,679 --> 01:01:06,039
than the last election. And you say to yourself, why

945
01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:14,599
why when the conversation was so significant about where this

946
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:18,360
future of our country could could And I want to

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be careful when I say that it could go, because

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one thing that we know is that Donald says a

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lot of things, a lot of it maybe comes true,

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maybe doesn't become a reality, So we don't know. But

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what we do know is that these comments were made

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by him and his surrogates. And again to those people

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who didn't vote, seriously, fuck you. I'm so tired of

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hearing people complain about what's going on in the country.

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And the simplest, the easiest thing that an American can

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do is you pick up you go to vote dot org.

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Your type thing. You say, I'm not gonna be able

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to make it on that day, Mail me a fucking ballot,

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Nail me a ballot. You fill the goddamn thing. And

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it's ten twelve questions that you have to fill in

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the little tiny black space in terms of whether you're

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going for Trump, you're going for Harris, you're going for other.

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For God's sakes, that's all you needed to do. And

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that was too much. And if you don't do that,

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you go over to the over to the place there

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e it's carrying the the you know, the ballad booth,

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and then you just do it. Holding takes ten fifteen minutes.

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How about all the people I deplored them that stood

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on those lines for hours to make their voices heard,

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to exercise their constitutional right. The most important thing that

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makes America the beacon on the hill of democracy is

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our right to pick and choose our leaders. We right

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now as a country have chosen Donald Trump, whether you

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like them or you don't. So you know what next

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time vote If that's not who you want next time,

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get out there and vote. Well, there you have it.

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for watching. We appreciate you and we'll see you next time.

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