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Speaker 1: And Hi, how are you welcome, one and all to

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the Big Podcast on this Tuesday. Today is the second

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day of June, Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty six.

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Mon name is Tom Sullivan, and it is an election

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day in six states today, so we are well, there's

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no there's a bunch of them California, Iowa, Montana, New Jersey,

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New Mexico, and South Dakota. So the last one, the

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furthest west is California. Polls close it eight o'clock tonight

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Pacific daylight time. So those of us on the East coast,

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let's go of you a late night. And they're so slow.

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They are always so slow. I don't understand what their

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problem is. Why is California, I mean, it's the it's

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the home of technology, isn't it. Can't they find some

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way to count those ballots faster? Anyway, So we got

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we got a bunch to go over there. We've got

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the update on the war, the slush fund which has

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been put on pause. Not sure what that means, but

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and Vanilla Ice talking about them, cancelation of the Big Party,

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the Great American State Fair that was supposed to be

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held over a period of a few weeks late this

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month and early next month. But let's start. Let's get

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the update on the war, because as we left you

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yesterday late in the day, Iran says, you know what,

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we're not We're going to stop the negotiations. We're not

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going to continue to talk. And the President came out

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and said the negotiations are going at a rapid pace.

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So I'm not quite sure if anybody's talking or not.

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I want to start with something that was very insightful.

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This was after the word came out that the Iranians

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were going to stop their talking, but it was before

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President Trump and President bb Net and Yahoo of Israel,

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before they had their apparently a blowout phone conversation. Now,

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these two guys have known each other for decades and

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they considered each other to be friends. But even with friends,

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sometimes you know, you you just don't have a good

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phone call. So apparently it degraded because of the fact

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that Donald Trump wants Israel to stop military action in Beirut,

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in Lebanon against Hesbelah, and Iran says, we're not talking

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anymore because of Lebanon and Israel. So they're tying that

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into it. That is Iran's excuse for stopping their negotiations.

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The problem is Benjamin Nette Yahoo is sitting there as

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the leader of Israel trying to protect his people, and

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Jack Keene talks about it so far that they have

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supplied Iran has supplied his Blah with thousands and thousands

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and thousands of missiles over the forever, and so they

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have a big inventory of missiles and they are firing

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missiles into Israel every single day, to the tune of

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they've fired a couple of thousand of them, and you

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expect bb Net and Yahoo to sit on his hands

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and not respond. So that's kind of the nut that's

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going that's causing all these problems. Let's start with Iman Jabbers.

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He's a Washington based guy for CNBC. He picked up

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the phone and called the president late yesterday and had

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a conversation. It wasn't recorded, but here's Jabbers basically going

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through the transcript of.

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Speaker 2: The call that do you think the negotiations are over

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now or is this a bluff by the Iranians? The

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President said, I don't care if they're over Honestly, I

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really don't care. I couldn't care less if they're over there.

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Over if they're not. You know, I think they took

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too much time. Frankly, I think they started to get

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a little boring. The President said he thinks that the

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Iranian side was tapping us along, that is, that they

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were stalling for time. Ultimately, on oil prices, the President

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was confident that. He said, oil will be dropping like

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a rock. He said, Ultimately, if the Iranians want to

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try and have a nuclear weapon, I will blow them

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up to Kingdom come. He said. What this is all

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about for him is a strongly held conviction that the

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Iranians should not ever be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.

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And then American voters will tolerate higher gas prices as

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long as they know what the goal is here. I

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also asked him about net and Yahoo and the Israelis.

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I asked, it seems to be that the Iranians are

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saying they're not going to negotiate until Israel stops attacking

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in Lebanon. Have you talked to Netan Yahoo about it?

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I asked the President. He said, this is about forty

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minutes ago. He said no, But I'm going to ask

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him what's going on with Lebanon. They've been fighting for

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a long time now. Since our call. Just in the

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past couple of minutes, we've seen a report on Reuters

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that crossed the wires a short time ago suggesting that

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the present and has now called natan Yahoo to discuss that.

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But at the time that he and I spoke, he

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suggested that, in fact, they had not talked yet.

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Speaker 1: So then I asked him, you know.

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Speaker 2: What is the endgame here in terms of the Strait

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of Hormuz, How ultimately are we going to get out

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of the situation that we're in. The President said he

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thinks that NATO should come in and help the United

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States out. He said, they're the ones he said, we

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don't use the Strait, we don't need it. We have

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a lot of oil. And I said, have you talked

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to anybody at NATO about that? Have they changed their

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tune on coming in to help the United States and

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the Strait? He said they would if I wanted to,

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But we don't need them. We don't need NATO. They

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were very weak and very sad. And the last thing

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I would leave you with is this idea of you know,

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where we go from here? I asked the President, when

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all this is over, how do you bring this to

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an end? If negotiations are not happening and the ceasefire

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is in place, I asked him, is it time to

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end the ceasefire? And the President said, we'll see. Let's

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say I knew exactly what you know, what you're asking

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me to do, and I sort of do know it,

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why would I tell you? So the President there suggesting

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that he does have a plan that he's not going

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to talk to the media about naturally to end this situation.

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But clearly the President suggesting that he doesn't care that

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negotiations have wound down with the Iranians, and he thought

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that the Iranians stringing the US along in the first place,

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and that those negotiations took too long.

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Speaker 1: So that was a conversation that Emon Jabbers from CNBC

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had with the President late yesterday afternoon. And so if

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he doesn't care and then there's no ongoing negotiations and

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there's no military action, what happens next. Well, Ryan Crocker

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has been our ambassador to a lot of the Middle

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Eastern countries, and he was asked that exact question, what

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happens now.

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Speaker 3: We're clearly anywhere close to any kind of comprehensive or

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detailed agreement what's in play right now is whether the

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ceasefire continues or it doesn't. And it was an extraordinary

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phone call between President Trump and Prime Minister Netnia who

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I can't think of a single time in a long

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and checkered career when a president of the United States

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has spoken to an Israeli prime minister.

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Speaker 4: In that way.

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Speaker 3: I cannot recall an incident, and I've been through a

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lot of Israeli conflicts in Lebanon and elsewhere. Well, it

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tells me that President Trump has enormous influence over net

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Nyahu one. Two, that he really really really wants this

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ceasefire to endure in Iran and recognizes that the Lebanese

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situation is key to that. And three it demonstrates that

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to the IRGC, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard leadership of Iran,

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that they have got tremendous influence over Trump.

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Speaker 1: So what happens next. Does that mean that bb NET

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and Yahoo will stop the fighting with Lebanon. Well, we're

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going to find out.

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Speaker 3: I think the fact that he got the ceasefire in

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the first place indicates he has a considerable amount of influence.

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Nett Nyajou did not want to stop the fighting in Iran.

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He certainly didn't want to pause it in Lebanon. That

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has been unpopular with Israeli public on both counts, and

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clearly with his will of drones and other ordinance raining

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down on northern Israel, he definitely does not want to

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have to cease fire in Lebanon. So this is going

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to be a real test of who has the upper

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Speaker 1: So we go back to General Keen and find out

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what his thoughts are, as the situation with Iran is

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very very fluid.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, certainly we're in almost the eighth week now

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of a ceasefire. President Trump has rolled up his sleeves

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and he's got his team focused on trying to get

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a peace deal here. And I think the people that

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our negotiators are talk talking to are indicating to them

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that they want to make a deal. But I believe

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there's real tension in the organization of the regime itself,

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and the military guys really have the leverage, and that's Vahiti,

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who you mentioned that the Institute for Study of War

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identified as the kingpin here, and you can see what

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he is doing to undermine negotiations. For weeks now, his

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forces have been attacking in the straits of a moves

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in a Gulf area while as we were trying to

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ease shipping through there, kind of do it quietly. We

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can do that under the cease fire. It's not a

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violation of it, certainly to move shipping in the lane

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that we cleared, and we've moved a lot of them

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through there, some seventy plus. But he's been attacking them,

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and we've been obviously responding to that. They shut down

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one of our drones that was flying in international waters

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just recently, and we went after the air defense system

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and the commander control system that did that. They fired

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at the Arab States from time to time at US

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base is this week, all undermining negotiations, and then we

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have this debacle going on in Lebanon. April of seventeenth

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was the beginning of the special ceasefire in Lebanon with

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terms of agreement, and almost immediately Hesbelah has violated. So

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here we are much less than two months and as

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we indicated, they have fired rockets and drones two four

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hundred times into northern Israel, over three hundred wounded civilians.

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Many of the towns in Northern Israel and villages have

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had to be evacuated. Israel cannot sustain them. Nobody could.

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southern towns. Drones from a cartel did something like that.

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So Israel responded, and they kept coming and kept coming,

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and then they decided to expand. And as a result

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of that what happened. Hesbolo appeals to Iran after we've

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killed three thousand of the Hesbela fighters. Now, remember this

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is a ceasefire, and the Israelis are in a defensive mode,

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only able to attack when an attack is eminent or

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it is being executed. Otherwise, they can't conduct offensive operations.

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But they were pushing out to conduct an offensive operation

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and go after the stronghold to see if they could

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finally shut this thing down. And that's when the Iranians

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told the president they were going to stop negotiations. So

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the president got involved and settled a new cease fire.

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just as the previous cease fire has been violated. So

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who is charging Hesbela to do what they're doing. The

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IRGC is they supervised the proxies Vahiti has his grip

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on them. That's the reality of it. So they are

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undermining negotiations, to be sure, and that's the tension in

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the regime that the administration is facing, for sure, and

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absolutely right the more you dragged this out. Their idea

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here is that if they can drag this out closer

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to the elections in the United States, and they watch

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what we're doing here like a hawk. They're very tuned

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into us. They believe, just like Russia and China believe

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that if you ever get in conflict operation with the

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United States, what you have to do is weaken the

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political support for that operation with the American people. And

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that's what this has a lot to do with. So

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what they're saying to us, we get closer to the election,

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it's less likely that President Trump would conduct military operations

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if the negotiations just blow off. Well, I think that's

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likely to be a miscalculation as far as I'm concerned

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in terms of how they're interpreting President Trump.

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Speaker 1: I have to remind you, not only did they say

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we're not going to continue negotiations because of Israel and

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his blaws fight, but they also minded the president they're

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going to blockade the port or the straight of Horror Moves.

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So that is back on the table.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they recognize it exceeded their expectations. Frankly, what happened.

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They seized the straits of a moos largely through intimidation

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and coercion, and they were able to get control of it.

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remember what happened, we went to a ceasefire and that

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I think emboldened them. As a result of it. They

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told us that they would go into negotiation with us

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and work out a deal to open the straits of

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a move. That's what enticed us into the negotiations. That

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didn't happen, and then we slapped the navel blockade on them.

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But yeah, they want to normalize their control of the

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Straits of Moves as much as possible. I would suspect

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one of the tension points in the negotiation is over

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the fact that they still want to have some organizational

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control over it. And that is absolutely hand off as

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far as President Trump and his team as it should be.

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We want them. This is international warners, freedom and navigation.

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They have no right to make any territorial claims here whatsoever.

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I think at some point here we're going to need

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to take a hard look at returning to military action

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here if we're going to move these people in the

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right direction.

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Speaker 1: Well, I've said it many times before, not even not

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even a question. The general wants to go back using

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military action. He wants to continue the military mission, which

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was cut short. President had stopped them from continuing the

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mission at about seventy percent of what the military was

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set out to do. So we're waiting to see what's

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going to happen on that. Well, let's get some other

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topics in here, because also late yesterday we got word

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that the one point eight billion dollar slush fund, the

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weaponization fund, whatever you want to call it, there's actually

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one billion, seven hundred seventy six million, get it, seventeen

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seventy six, and that the President has agreed to put

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it on pause. So what does that mean. Let's talk

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to David Urban, who speaks Republican.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I did I think that Speaker thun along excuse me,

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a majority Leader Thuon along with Speaker Johnson, probably had

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a discussion with the President and.

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Speaker 4: Looked at the political calculus.

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Speaker 6: You have a handful of Senators now who are not

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running for reelection, some of them because of the President's doing.

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And Speaker Johnson probably similarly with Massey and Nancy Mason others,

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and simply explained the President this was already pushing a

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big rock up a hill, and it was going to

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be pushing an even bigger rock, and he just simply

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wasn't going to win. Under the law. You know, people

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could still sue the federal government. There's you know, twenty

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eight USC. Twenty seven to sixty one is the Federal

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Tourt Claims Act. That's what Mike Flynn and Ashley Babbitt

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suit under. They received settlements and compensations. So it's not

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like there are aggrieved parties who are somehow who are

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truly a grieved parties are going to somehow be shut

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out from the courts. As the Congressman Fitzpatrick correctly points out,

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there are funds appropriated from that, so we have to

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see the Congress appropriates those funds every year for DOJ

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to pay out of.

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Speaker 4: That settlement fund. So we'll have to see.

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Speaker 6: But it's not like the doors being closed forever just

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on this one particular instance of this one point seven

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point seven million billion dollar fund.

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Speaker 4: Right, that's what's being shut down.

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Speaker 1: But question now is is it being shut down? It

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was put on pause according to the White House, and

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that's a question that makes everybody nervous. Is the President

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going to come back out and give this life again

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the last day of his administration? So urban has it

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right that if you are harmed by the government, you

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can hire a lawyer and sue the government. And they

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have a fund in their budget for paying out to

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people that they have harmed. So all the people that

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got harmed on whether it was January sixth or some

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other date, they still can go to a lawyer and

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sue the government, and if they are right, they will

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get a check. We didn't need this one point eight

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billion dollar weaponization fund.

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Speaker 6: Donald Trump prides himself correctly on being able to sniff

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out those eighty twenty issues. Right, He's on the right

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side of all these eighty twenty issues. This is an

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eighty twenty issue, but in the wrong direction. As Congressman

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Fitzpatrick points out, there is nobody in Lower Bucks County,

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or in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, or in Philadelphia County that

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thinks this is a good idea.

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Speaker 4: This is a loser of.

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Speaker 6: An idea, and I think the President would slow to

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realize that, but now is being shown the light by

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again by the Majority leader and the Speaker of the

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House and others who say, not only you know, are

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you harming yourself, but you're harming our members. Is they're

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going to run this, They're gonna have to take these votes,

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these very tough votes they don't want to take, and

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they're likely to vote against you.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, I do believe he's burned a lot of

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political capital here.

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Speaker 1: So it's rare to see. But the president did back off.

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At least it's on pause, and Congress now is talking

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about maybe passing a law so that he can't bring

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it back. But that's what people are worried about. And

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speaking of politics, since today's a big day, let's start

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with Jim Messina. Jim Messina is considered a guru in

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the political campaign world because he ran the campaigns to

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get Barack Obama elected and so ever since, people have

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looked at Jim and said, boy, he already knows what

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he's doing. So he was asked about not only the Democrats,

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but the Democrats that are running for governor in California.

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Here's Messina.

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Speaker 7: Well, the governor's race, Will staid, no one seems to

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want to be governor in California. Everyone thought Kamala Harris

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was going to then everyone thought that Senator Alex Padilla

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was going to run, and then everyone thought that ag

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Rob Bonta was going to run. All of them declined

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and instead you have this wide open race with a

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historic amount of spending.

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Speaker 4: And I'm really looking at it.

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Speaker 7: The question is can Democrats get both two seats in

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advance to the jungle primary. Doesn't look likely, but there's

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a shot. Tom Steyer has been rising. It looks like

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Exavierorbsera has the votes to get to the next round.

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And the question is does stire go or does former

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Fox News host Steve Hilton go. It'll be really interesting tonight.

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It looks very, very close. And once again, is every

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race you've been covering, this is about affordability. This is

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about people out there saying everything is too expensive and

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we want someone to come in and fix it. And

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in the fourth largest economy in the world, California is

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a really important barometer. In the mayor's race in La

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you know, a bunch of very angry Los Angeles voters,

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especially voters in the Palisades and other places, affect him

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by the fire. They're very critical of the incumbent mayor,

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looking at two challengers, one from the very left and

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one from the very right, and the question is who's

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going to get in that in that jungle primary runoff

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in November. It is really unusual in California that we

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have races and is close. Usually the party is decided

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by now, but it shows you the kind of anger

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of American voters, and that's no exception in the great

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state of California.

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Speaker 1: So did you hear Messina say that there are two people,

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one from the very far left and one from the

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very far right running for mayor, And that would be

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the one on the very far left. Yes, she is.

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What is her name? I don't even remember her name,

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but she is. She is a very far, far far lefty.

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And when you talk about Spencer Pratt, he's not a

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right wing that job, not at all. I heard another

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politician the other day talking about him like he was

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some sort of nuts. So I went on the internet

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and started looking around for why do people call Spencer

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Pratt a nut? And the answer is that he had

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a job as a villain on a reality TV show,

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the MTV series The Hills. It was a part that

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he played as a villain, So that's one of the

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things that they cite. Secondly, conspiracy theories. He made apparently

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bizarre public comments about climate change and stated he would

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rather die than accept a government microchip implant. What else

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has he got here on the list of things that

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make him a nut? He has unconventional campaign. He launched

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a highly eccentric campaign running on a platform of anti

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corruption and public safety. All for heaven's sakes, this guy

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is truly a nutjob, isn't he. That's what they consider

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a far right nutjob in Los Angeles. Yeah, those were

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comments that I read from various places that why they

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thought he was a right wing nutjob. I think he

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sounds terrific personally. But what about Bass Karen Bass, Well,

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let's go back to Jim Assina, see what he thinks

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about her.

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Speaker 7: Well, she should be very worried no matter who's in

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the runoff right now, there are people very angry. She's

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acknowledged those mistakes. She's got to prove to people that

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this election is about the future, not the past. When

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I run campaigns, I say to people all the time,

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it's these voters want to know where you're going to

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take them, not where you've been, and she's having a

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lot of problems with that. I know a lot of

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people watching this morning are a little freaked out about

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another reality star rising in American politics. But if you

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look at Spencer Pratt's social media, the best I've ever seen.

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I'm not saying he would be a good mayor, I'm

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not saying he's a great candidate, but he's really taken

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over this race with some really eventive AI outreach that

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I think all campaigns on both sides of the Aisle

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can learn from. We'll find out tonight if it's enough

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to get him to the runoff.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's Jim Messina saying good things about Spencer Pratt. Meantime,

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we haven't visited Harry Innton lately, the statistics guy, and

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he has been looking at the Democrat Party because everybody

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talks about and reports about how terrible Donald Trump's ratings are,

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how they've just sunk like a rock. He's he's doing lousy,

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on and on and on, Well what about the Democrats.

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Listen to this from Harry Anton.

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Speaker 8: The Democratic base is very much divide. I take a

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chop right down the middle, and they are very dissatisfied

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with the direction the party is. And you can see

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it right here because this is I mean, hello, Democrats,

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who are satisfied with the dem Party In twenty twenty six,

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it's only about forty six percent. Fifty two percent are dissatisfied.

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They're dissatid. This is Democrats. This is Democrats. We're dissatisfied

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with their own party. The majority, now, I want to

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put this into some context for you, which was Joe

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Biden back in twenty twenty four put in arguably the

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worst presidential debate I have ever seen, ever seen, and

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yet fifty three percent of Democrats were actually satisfied with

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Biden as the nominee. After that debate, the majority were satisfied.

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And yet today a lower percentage, forty six percent are

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actually satisfied with the party. So the Democratic Party, according

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to the Democratic voters, well, their pissed offness, if I

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could say, that.

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Speaker 4: Has never been higher.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that's been true for quite a

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few years. We people are not happy with Republicans or Democrats.

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We're disgusted with the politicians more than we normally are.

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So it's your vote is up for grabs as far

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as politics goes. I know the people of Los Angeles

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are angry. One of them is a woman I used

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to work with at Fox Kennedy. She lives in Los Angeles.

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She had her house was one of the houses that

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burned down in the Palisades fire. Here she is talking

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about her life as a Los ANGELESO.

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Speaker 9: We're seeing people more ready, and I don't like seeing

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them where they're at because people are so frustrated. They're

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still incredibly traumatized, and they can't get back in their homes,

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and so that's the driving factor for people in Pacific Palisades.

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But you know this election is going to hinge on

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who is most agitated, who is most activated. And it's

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not the business as usual far left Democrats, because you know,

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we have seen their workplay out before us. And right

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now it's a horror show in downtown Los Angeles and

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it's a tragedy and the West side of the city

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where people, you know, they are completely displaced. They can't

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get back into their homes, they can't get permits, they

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can't get money from their insurance companies, so they are

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turning to someone who feels their pain. But you know,

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Spencer Pratt has also been really diving deep into the

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homelessness issue. And I have yet to see Karen Bass

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go to skid row. You know she likes to, Yeah,

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she likes to talk about our Inside Safe program, But

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you know, why not go and talk to some of

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the zombies. You can't talk to them because they are

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out of their minds, slumped over, brooling, giving their pets

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fentanyl before they take it to see if their pets survive.

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Speaker 1: No, she's right. They have a program in Los Angeles

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that Karen Bass came up where she named it Inside Safe. Well,

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they have spent three hundred and ninety one million dollars.

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They got fifteen hundred to move into some sort of housing.

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Forty seven percent of them have returned to the street.

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And anybody who has ever worked with the homeless knows

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there's a lot of them. First of all, it's heavy

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mental illness and or drug addiction, or alcohol addiction, whatever

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you want to go. It's a whole gamut. But there's

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a large percentage of they don't want to be institutionalized,

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they don't want to live in a building. I know

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you do and I do, but they don't. So back

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to Los Angeles. Here's a clip of Spencer Pratt talking

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about what's going on in LA.

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Speaker 10: I need to know about solar you know, Okay, I

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need to focus on making sure the moms are safe

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and the animals are not being abused.

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Speaker 4: That's my party. I know. If you're the mayor, the

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solar panels, that's going to be somebody I'm hiring. That's

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my deputy mayor. Is gonna worry about the soul panels. No, Spencer,

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I got bad news.

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Speaker 5: If you're the mayor, you are going to have to

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learn some of these issues, more solar panels.

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Speaker 4: We were about three years from worrying about solar panels.

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Speaker 10: We need to get all the naked drug addicts off

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of the sidewalks and then I can worry about solar panels.

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Speaker 1: That was a clip from the Bill Maher show and

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Spencer Pratt was on there and Bill marsh and no, no, no,

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you need to think about all these other issues like

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solar panels, and he's I just I got to take

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care of the human needs first. We can get the

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solar panels. Somebody can work on that. He sounds very

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down to earth, very common sense. So we'll watch and

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see what happens with the elections in Los Angeles, see

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if he makes the run off, or maybe if he

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gets more than fifty percent, it would be done. I

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believe one more of President Trump's ideas that is getting

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shot down. That is the I things that are calling

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it the Great American State Fair. And this was going

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to be a series of concerts in Washington on the

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Mall from late June through early July. And because of

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the fact that five of the entertainers that were hired

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have said, now we thought it was going to be

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non political, but now we think it's going to be political.

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So we're canceling. Martina McBride, Morris Day and the time

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he had a hit in nineteen sixty he's nineteen eighty

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four called Jungle Love. The Commodore is canceled, Brett and

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Michaels and Young mc. All of those people are from

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another era. They're back in the day. But one guy

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who is not. He doesn't want to cancel, but the

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event may be canceled, and that's Vanilla Ice the rapper.

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Listen to what he has to say.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 11: I can only speak for myself, and I'm proud to

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be an American. I was born here and raised here,

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and this is my country, and I don't like anybody

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telling me I really can't be proud of it. And

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is a huge honor to play the birth date.

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Speaker 4: It's open. It's in a lifetime, you know, to fifty.

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Speaker 11: So I'm honored, and I just you know, I respect

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everybody else. I know there's a lot of tension everywhere.

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This whole world is like a snow globe. But it

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shouldn't be that. And music is here to bring people together, man,

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and you know it shouldn't be that this music is

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dragged into politics. It's not fair, you know. I don't

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even vote. I'm not a politician. I don't have anything that.

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I don't have the first thing to say about how

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to run a country or do anything like that. I

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think there's a huge honor and I'm wanting to celebrate

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the country. I was born and raised in Man, and

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we didn't take things so serious back in the nineties.

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Speaker 4: I feel sorry for these kids today.

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Speaker 11: Man. You know, I have kids, so I know, and

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it's a different world. I mean, these computers have kind.

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Speaker 4: Of ruined the world.

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Speaker 11: If you ask me, I think we should all go

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back to the nineties in the eighties when it was

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just you know, having fun and zekav Ricci's and you

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just go out and you rip your back seat and

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you put subwoofers in and you enjoy going to Blockbuster.

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That's all we're doing, is is celebrating the birthday of

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our country.

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Speaker 1: What's the big deal here?

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Speaker 11: And as far as entertainers, I don't think it's fair

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to put any of us on a pedestal like that

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as far as politics goes, because you know, it shouldn't matter.

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Speaker 4: We're just here to play.

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Speaker 11: I play for anybody, so it's you know, I go

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play for Biden's family or anybody. It doesn't matter. It's

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all about just enjoying music. There's fans everywhere.

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Speaker 1: That's Vanilla Ice. So he says he's still willing to show,

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but I don't know if they're going to. I think

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Donald Trump canceled the event and said that he will

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be he will be the star of it. He will

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do basically a Trump rally, And so all the people

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on the left are groaning and all the people on

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the right are disappointed. So's we'll see what if Vanilla

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Ice gets a slot on the celebrating our country's two

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hundred and fiftieth birthday. Well, and speaking of celebrating, Wall

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Street celebrated a little bit today. We have a new

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record on the Dow. We have a new record on

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the S and P five hundred. In fact, the S

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and P five hundred, this is the ninth day in

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a row that it has gone up. It has only

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risen this fast four times since World War II. So

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getting pretty lofty in here. But here's the numbers. The

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Dow today, new record high, up two hundred and twenty eight.

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The Dow at fifty one thousand and three oh seven,

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SMP new record up ten. The Nasdaq not a new record,

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but still going up seven points today. The price of

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gold was up thirteen dollars to four thouy five nineteen,

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and oil up a buck and a half to ninety

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just under ninety four dollars for one barrel of oil.

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

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We will be back again tomorrow. I hope to see

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you then tomorrow. I hope to see you then.

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Speaker 6: Yeah,