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Speaker 1: And hello, welcome to the Big Podcast on this Thursday.

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Today is the fifth day of March, Year of Our Lord,

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twenty twenty six. My name is Tom Sullivan, and so

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I'm minding my own business. We're putting the podcast together.

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We've got great topics to go down. And in the

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middle of all that, all of a sudden, there's a

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news flash that comes out that says Christinome has been

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fired as Homeland Security Secretary. I if you've listened to

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this podcast, you know that I have been very disapoint

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pointed in Christinome. I think she has failed so many times,

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and it's so obvious to me. I don't understand why

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the President picked her in the first place. You could

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see what she was doing when she was governor of

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South Dakota. She would take the entire tourism budget and

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use it to produce commercials in which she was the

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focus of the commercials. One of them she was a

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plumber and she was fixing things. Another one she was

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a dentist and she was for healthcare. And another she

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had all these dress up roles and she would be

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the star of all of these commercials. And you know,

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they were basically saying come to South Dakota. Well, the

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problem is is that the people of South Dakoma's South

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Dakota's tax dollars were paying for all this, And I thought, wow,

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she's And there were a number of occasions I could

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I could regale you with about the fact that she

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wanted to be the vice presidential pick for Donald Trump

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two point zero. She did everything in her power to

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be the vice presidential pick. And I'm sure she was

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severely disappointed when Trump picked Jadie Vance. But she is looking.

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I'm all for ambition. I think ambition in people, I

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love it. I love ambitious people. But you've got to

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be smart, and I don't think she is. I think

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she's lacking not only smarts, but in addition to that,

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she has no management skills. The stories about her belittling

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her staff and talking down to them and treating them poorly,

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We've all met those people. We have some of us

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have worked for some of those people, and it's because

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they don't know how to manage. So the President today, well,

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I don't know what it is that he sees in her,

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but he basically announced that she was no longer going

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to be the Secretary of the Homeland Security Department of

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Homeland Security, and that she was being replaced immediately. Well,

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actually it's going to take place at the end of

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the month, but the announcement was she's out, and Mark

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Wayne Mullen, the Republican Senator from Oklahoma, has been nominated

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by the President to be the next Homeland Security Secretary.

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Now this isn't important. There's all kinds of wonderful jobs

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in the cabinet, but this is important. This is about

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keeping our country safe, and you want the best and

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the brightest to do that. Now, I'll tell you Mark

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Wayne Mullen. He's a good old boy. He's a good

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old boy from Oakland, and he says what's on his mind.

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He seems to be a very straight shooter. He seems

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to be a guy that doesn't have a lot of

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patients with people that are playing political games. He's very

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successful in business. He started his own business, bought a

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couple of other businesses. He's been financially successful in business.

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And now he is going to be the next secretary

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of the Department of Homeland Security. I'm not quite sure

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where to start. The reaction to this has been huge.

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The precipice of this, what broke the straw on this

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story probably came to a head yesterday. She was Christinohan,

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was testifying before a committee and they were asking her

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various questions and I'll play I'll play a couple of

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them from yesterday. This is Tom Tellis, senator from North

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k who really just chewed her out during the hearing yesterday.

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But it was it's been coming. I've been telling you

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on this podcast for months that she doesn't she was

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going to be the first one out. I'm surprised she

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lasted this long. But here's Tom tell Us from the

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hearing yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Secretary. I read your book last week, and honestly, some

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of the parts of it impressed me, but some of

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it distresses me. And I'll give you a good example

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of one that does the passage where you talk about

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killing a dog that was fourteen months old. I trained dogs,

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all right, And you are a farmer. You should know better.

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hunting lodge and you're putting pheasants out and you're putting

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dogs out, you don't take a puppy out there. A

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fourteen month old dog is basically a teenager in dog years.

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You decided to kill that dog because you had not

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invested the appropriate time in training. And then you have

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the audacity to go to a book and say it's

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a leadership lesson about tough choices.

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Speaker 1: It's in your book.

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Speaker 2: We could play it if we had time.

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Speaker 3: At that same lunch hour, you killed a goat, and

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you killed the goat because you said it was behaving badly.

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behave badly. You should have probably done that before. But

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my point is those are bad decisions made in the

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heat of the moment, not unlike what happened up in Minneapolis.

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I expect we're an exceptional nation, and one of the

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reasons we're exceptional is we expect exceptional leadership. And you've

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demonstrated anything but that.

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Speaker 2: And the time that I've seen you responding to the

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emergency in North Carolina and across the Southeast and acknowledging

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when mistakes are made and speaking too soon for the

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expedient of social.

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Speaker 1: Media or whatever it is. I'll leave you with this misnome.

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Speaker 2: I'm expecting answers to Charlotte's web I requested it in

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a month ago.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's the senator from a stake that was damaged

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heavily biased dorm and he's trying to get answers and

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he hasn't. He hasn't obviously succeeded the whole idea. I

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mean about management. Rodney Scott is the head of see

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the Customs and Border Protection. He's twenty nine years experience

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and he is the head of this CBP staff and

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Christine Noman and her wink advisor, Corey Lewandowski were challenged

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by him because they would say things and try to

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do things, make decisions that they didn't have any knowledge of,

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and he would try to give them some direction as

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a guy with twenty nine years experience, and they did

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everything according to the staff that they treated mister Scott

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as with evil tactics that would negatively impact his family

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and others. I mean, they're just they're nasty people, according

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to the reporting. And so this is a guy who

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really has the experience and they should have relied upon him,

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but they tried to push him out and were unsuccessful

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in doing that and not happy about it. And the

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same reporting goes on about todd Lyons. Todd Lyons is

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the acting director of ICE and she and Loandowski apparently

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tried to push him out of the way. And the

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man who's been there also similar decades of experience, so

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not a good manager. So we got Tom Tellis chewing

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her out. Senator Kennedy asked about this latest advertising This

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may have been the crux, the latest advertising contract that

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she signed for two hundred and twenty million dollars in

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which the ads were going to feature her very much

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like she was doing in South Dakota. Here's, Senator Kennedy, the.

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Speaker 4: President approved ahead of time you spending two hundred and

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twenty million dollars running tvaedgs across the country in which

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you are featured prominently.

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Speaker 5: Yes, sir, we went through the legal processes.

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Speaker 1: Well, apparently the President did not know anything about this,

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and it was just the latest of one after another

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after another of her making up stuff He didn't know.

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She all we went through the legal process hawking Jeffries,

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as you could imagine, could not be happier. But let

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me play what he said.

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Speaker 6: Christin Nolan has been fired consistent with what we have

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demanded on behalf of the American people. But let me

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also make clear a change in personnel is not sufficient

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we need a change in policy and that has to

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be bold, dramatic, transformational, and meaningful.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's nice political words, and I expect him to

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say something like that. But now the question is what

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are they going to do about funding DHS. Noam is gone.

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Now they're going to have to deal with somebody who

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probably will be able to get some sort of agreement

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with the Democrats on this. It'll be interesting to see

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how Mark Wayne Mullen handles all of that. Peter Doocey

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was over at the White House at his post for

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Fox News and said he got text messages from people

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within the White House.

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Speaker 7: Straits as follows, it was time. Replacing Christy was based

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on the culmination of her many unfortunate leadership mishaps, including

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the fallout in Minnesota, the two undred million dollars ad campaign,

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the allegations of infidelity, the mismanagement of her staff, and

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are constant feuding with the heads of other agencies, including

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CBP and ICE. Christy's drama sadly overshadowed and distracted from

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the administration's extremely popular immigration agenda, which will continue full force,

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and so so it sounds like the only thing that

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was really saving Her job was that the border remained

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pretty much close. They are rattling off a number of

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very big stories that swirled up, but her job was safe.

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There would be a little mini scandal. She was safe.

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President trouble get asked about it. He was pleased, but

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he was keeping tabs. And now she's gone.

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Speaker 1: The list of bad management and scandals. Yeah. She testified

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that the president knew about the budget for the ad campaign,

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the two hundred and twenty million dollar ad campaign. Not true.

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The President was not happy with the way that Ice

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handled the deportations in Minneapolis, the ad, the ad campaign,

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the rumors that have been other politic about she and

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Corey Lowandowski have an intimate relationship as opposed to they're

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both married to other people. The fact that she's been

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buying airplanes, I mean multi multi million dollar private jets

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for her personal use. And there was one yesterday that

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came out and showed a photo of there was a big,

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giant twin bed in the plane. And she was asked

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about it at the hearing yesterday about why do you

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need a jet with a big twin bed in the

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back and with a bedroom, and she said that it's

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being used for deportations. There's just multiple failures of leadership.

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But the President, I don't know what he sees in her,

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but he's kind of saving her a little bit. She

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is now, he says, she's out as a Secretary of

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Homeland Security, but she's going to be the head of

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some new organization that is being started on Saturday called

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the Shield of America. I don't know what that is.

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It sounds kind of like the Board of Peace. I

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don't know what it is. But she is going to

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somehow head that up. Now, maybe she can do her

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ads and play like she's a plumber or a dentist

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or oh. Back to the airplanes. There was another little

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episode where they flew in to someplace and the plane

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had a mechanical so they needed to switch planes. Fine,

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so they got Corey Lowandowski and Christinom off of plane

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number one and brought them over to plane number two.

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And the fact that in doing so somebody forgot Christinom's

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favorite blanket, and also there was apparently a bag of

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some kind and we don't know what was in that bag.

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But Lowandowski fired the pilot on the spot. So they

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get everything moved over and then file everything else. They

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looked around and they go, well, how do we fly

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back to Washington. Well, you just fired the pilot, Corey,

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so they had nobody to fly in the back, so

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he had to rehire the pilot. I mean, it's that

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sort of juvenile management decisions they've been making that have

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been just horrible.

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Speaker 8: Carl Row weighs in, well, a pretty dramatic change. We

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should not have been surprised about this ad campaign. When

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she was the governor of South Dakota in twenty twenty,

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there was some controversy about her taking the entire tourism

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budget and put it behind a television campaign that featured

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her inviting people to come to South Dakota and then

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running it on Fox News and other conservative outlets, and

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it was not a you know, there was a little

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bit of controversy over that, and her advisor in that

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situation was the same advisor apparently behind this ad campaign,

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Corey Lewandowski. So important for the president to stop the

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hemorrhaging it started when he sent Tom Homan to Minneapolis

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to settle things, to take command of these enforcement efforts,

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and smart to make the decision now and get it

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done with.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So I talked about her ad campaigns in South Dakota.

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hard to get their Carl in fact continues on.

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Speaker 8: With that, Yeah, that was a second ad campaign. The

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first ad campaign was aimed at tourism, the second. You're right,

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there was a second campaign that said move your businesses

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to South Dakota. That followed the two. I think that

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was like twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two and incidenttally.

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Speaker 1: But the pal was the Federal Reserve. But you're right.

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Speaker 8: The President doesn't like people who are wasting money, and

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this was clearly a waste of money. But good that

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he sent Tom Homan in. Senator Mullen is going to

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be I think very well received by his colleagues in

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the Senate confirmation. Well, it will be a little bit bumpy.

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Should should move pretty fast. But notice today Hakeem Jeffries

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is upping the ante. The Democrats have got to be

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afraid that now that this change has been made, that

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they are going to start there's going to be more

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at tension to the fact that they're holding up the

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approval of the DHS budget for an and ever growing

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and ever changing lisht of demands with regard to policies

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inside the agency. So when we get cramped at the

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airports with TSA's fewer TSA screeners has happened to me

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two nights ago, We're going to increasingly be turned into

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the Democrats and saying why are you holding up funding

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this important part of government. It should have been dealt

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with earlier. You have the problem if she insisted on

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approving all contracts over a very modest amount. So you

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had a lot of complaints from areas like western North

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Carolina that had suffered terrible natural disasters and not getting

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the assistance they needed. You had Minneapolis where she shot

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her mouth off pretty quickly claiming that a man who

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was killed in an altercation with Ice agents was a terrorist,

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and it turned out that wasn't the case, and the

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administration got a black eye on that. So yeah, no,

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I'm glad it happened. It would have been better had

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it happened earlier. So now the question is Mark Wayne Mullen.

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He is a successful businessman. He also apparently a champion

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MMA fighter formerly undefeated. A mixed martial arts fighter, he

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holds a black belt in jujitsu. He challenged the head

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of the teamsters to a fight in a Senate hearing.

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He's no, let me put it that way.

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Speaker 1: This guy's a tough guy, and I kind of like

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the idea of a tough guy being the head of DHS.

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So the process from here is picked up by Carl Well.

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Speaker 8: First of all, the governor of Oklahoma, I think, has

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the authority to appoint a Senator who will serve until

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the next election, so the Republicans won't be down one

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vote in the Senate. But you know, it's a safe choice,

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and he will be replaced by a Republican immediately by

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the governor, and probably replaced by a Republican in the

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election whenever.

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Speaker 1: That is.

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Speaker 8: Mullin was not up for election this year, so I

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think at least two years left in his term, maybe four.

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But also it shows that a president a sensitive to

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getting these things done and out of the way before

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we get deep into the summer and then into the fall.

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If you're running a White House political operation, you want

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to be able to control as much of the agenda

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for the fall, for basically for August, September, October, and

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the first few days in November as you possibly can,

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so get things like this done and out of the

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way sooner rather than later.

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Speaker 1: Red Bear, who knows where all the bodies are buried

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in politics in Washington, DC, also weighed in.

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Speaker 9: So starw that brought the camel's back is accurate, because

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I've talked to a couple of people already who say

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this was it. This was what kind of pushed the

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president over. There was a thought that he was not

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going to move and make any moves in his cabinet

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prior to the midterm, but this was too much. The

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drama surrounding Christinome was accelerating, and it wasn't just the Minnesota.

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It wasn't just the allegations of infidelity and.

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Speaker 1: All of that.

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Speaker 9: It was this answer really upset President Trump.

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Speaker 1: And that was the answer she gave to John Kennedy

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about the fact, well, you went through all the proper

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legal steps and all this sort of stuff. So it

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will be interesting to see what happens from here. I

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don't know what the Shield of America is, but she's

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going to be tossed a bone and that will give

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her something to do up here. I wish they would

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send her back to South Dakota. Very incompetent. So let's

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get updated on what's going on with the war in Iran.

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It's going to go into a period of where we're

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just going to have daily updates about the latest. But

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I want to bring up the status of the six

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soldiers who were killed in the drone attack in Kuwait.

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The first four names that we got was Sergeant Declin Cody,

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Sergeant first Class Noah Tiagens, Sergeant first Class Nicole Aymore,

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and Captain Cody Cork. They were the first four names,

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and then today we got the other two, Major Jeffrey

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O'Brien from Indianola, Iowa, and Chief Warrant Officer Robert Marzan

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from Sacramento, California. Don't have I don't have words to

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adequately say. How are our hearts? Are sad for the

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for the families who thought that their loved ones were

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just going to go over there and there they were

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in a reserve unit uh and take care of their

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obligation as members of the military. But sadly they're coming

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back in a coffin. There will be a dignified transfer.

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We don't know when. There was some rumor it might

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be today, but so far we haven't heard that it's

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going to take place. Today, so probably tomorrow at Dover

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Air Force Base in Delaware. So again, our hearts, our prayers,

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our thoughts to the six families of these brave soldiers

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that died on the battlefield, in this case in Kuwait.

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Don't have I don't have words to adequately say, how

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are our hearts are sad for the for the families

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who thought that their loved ones were just going to

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go over there and there they were in a reserve

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unit and take care of their obligation as members of

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the military. But sadly they're coming back in a coffin.

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There will be a dignified transfer. We don't know when.

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There was some rumor it might be today, but so

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far we haven't heard that it's going to take place today,

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So probably tomorrow at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.

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So again, our hearts, our prayers, our thoughts to the

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six families of these brave soldiers that died on the battlefield,

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in this case in Kuwait. So the war continues, in fact,

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another round of attacks again missiles and so forth. The

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story is that again when the government broken into these

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various provinces of Iran, they were all given they all

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have their own military units, and they were all given

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very specific constructions on what to do if they were attacked,

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and that's why they are still out there all over

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Iran doing what they were assigned to do if they

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were attacked. So that's why not only they're shooting missiles

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obviously at Israel, but they're also the various Arab nations

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that are getting hit continued to get hit with missiles.

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So this is far from over. And then the question

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comes down to do we have Do we have enough

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equipment inventory of the interceptors and all the other things.

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We need enough weapons stockpile to keep going for quite

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some time. General David Petraeus was asked about that. I

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think it's very real, and it's great to see the

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President bringing together to the industrial leaders who presumably are

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going to be asked to ramp this up very very substantially.

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To put some perspective here, last year, reportedly they were

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somewhere around six hundred and twenty Patriot missile interceptors produced.

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They're about two million per copy. Smaller numbers were produced

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of the THAD interceptors SM six and these others that

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are on ships and so forth. So we're talking about

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a relatively finite number, and what you want to be

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sure that you don't have to do, but we have

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seen happen during this operation is to use a two

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million dollar interceptor against the twenty thousand dollars Iranian shaheit.

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By the way, Ukraine experienced this, a member of the

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Iranians provided Shahads to Russia, even the ability to manufacture them.

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The Russians have now done product improvement efforts there and

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so Ukraine realize they can't use sophisticated missile interceptors for this,

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and they developed a very comprehensive approach. There are guns,

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there's electronic warfare, there are even drones that run into

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the Iranian drones. Anything to prevent from having to use

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again a Patriot or similar interceptor. So this is a

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very important meeting. We need to ramp up very rapidly.

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two thousand per year. That's still not a huge number

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when you look at the numbers of missiles that have

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been coming from on much less than number of drones.

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not just in the interceptors, but also in the short

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range air defense systems, and they have had quite a

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successful rate of interceptors of drones without having to use missiles.

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But you do not want to up again with this

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cost effectiveness ratio of two million to twenty thousand. Yeah,

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the interceptors cost two million and they blow up these uh,

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these drones that cost twenty thousand dollars, and so that

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that you no, you got it. You can't keep using

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those interceptors at that rate. So let's get to something

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you and I pay attention to, and that is gas

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and oil. And if you look at the Strait of

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horror moves, Iran Has says, we will let anybody through

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the Strait of horror moves as long as you are

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not affiliated with the United States, Israel. Was it else

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that they were, Oh, Europe, any European ships. So I

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guess the ships from China can go through. But Brian Sullivan,

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my old palell from Fox Business, he's over at CNBC.

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He's become quite the energy expert. And this is how

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he described the whole situation with getting oil out of

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the Mideast. Knock on effects.

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Speaker 5: Listen, oil as oil is a bunch of different things,

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but ship shipping attacked. There was a ship near Kuwait

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that was on fire. There's some other ships that have

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been hit. Here's the reality of where we are right now.

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And I know we serve the investor. So I want

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to quickly walk through Morgan Stanley with a note out

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last night about sort of what are we looking for

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if you're an investor. Well, they want clearer outlines of

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policy objectives by the administration. Basically, what do we want

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what would it take to end this war on either

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our side or the Iranian side? Also watch iranium proxy activity.

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Are they basically funding the Houthis to blow up ships

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to the Red Sea whatever that may be.

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Speaker 1: And then, of course, guys, that's straight of horm moves activity.

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Speaker 5: I do have a little bit of good news for

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you for oil and we can get to other stuff.

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So the Saudi's of a pipeline that goes across their country. Okay,

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they load most of their oil in the Persian Gulf,

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which means you got to go through the strait of

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horror moves. They've shipped a lot of that activity left

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the Red Seas. On the left side of that screen,

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a lot of ships there are and there's a lot

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more than there were a couple of days ago, because

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the ships are coming around to load it a new

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port called Yanbu. Again, I know this is wonky stuff.

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They can do about five million barrels of days. It's

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not going to mitigate the twenty million or so that

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go through the strait, but it will help a little bit.

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Speaker 1: So that's my map.

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Speaker 5: On the right straight or four moves left, you could

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see a lot more shipspeacky. But the knock on effects

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for everything else jet fuel, fertilizer, even potable drinking water. Yes,

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what does that have to do and put a lot

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because a lot of water is shipped in the Middle East,

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they don't have a lot of potable drinking water, so

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they actually ship a lot of water. There's things that

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are yes, there's things that are starting to run out,

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jet fuel storage, very specific for example. I'm just saying

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this this. I know we're used to things being over

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very quickly in the United States. More and more people

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I talk to every day are worried that this may

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not be over in the near term period of time,

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and then we haven't maybe begun to feel some of

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these effects.

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Speaker 10: That's certainly the way our market is trading you know,

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closed up again yesterday on the idea that this is

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going to be over and done and kind of passed.

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What would be the signs we would look to to

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and what are the people who are saying this could

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take longer?

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Speaker 1: What are they pointing to? Apparently, oil refineries you can't,

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and oil pumps you can't. You can't just flip them

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on and flip them off, Brian explains it. It's going

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to take a while to get the oil business back

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on its feet like it was before the war tre gas.

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Speaker 5: You look at some of these companies, Venture Global Stock

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has swored a lot of the shipping company stock Sword Qatar,

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number one natural gas producer.

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Speaker 1: In the world, offline.

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Speaker 5: It's going to take two weeks to get that refinery restarted,

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and then maybe another two weeks to cool the gas.

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So you're looking potessially a month with one fifth of

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the world's natural gas.

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Speaker 1: Right offline.

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Speaker 5: It's possible that in the next few days a week

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this continues, we could see more knock on effects. But

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to your point, Becky, right now the US markets are

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trading like everything's just fine, Joe.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that it's gonna take some time. You can't

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just flip the switch, and this is natural gas. One

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fifth of the world's supply is basically shut down. But

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that was from this morning. But as the markets went

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back to work today, everything took a pretty good dive again,

482
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so way up or way down today. We went down

483
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seven hundred and eighty four on the Dow to forty

484
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seven thousand and nine fifty four, the SMP down thirty eight,

485
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the Nasdaq down fifty eight, Gold down forty five, I'm sorry,

486
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forty four dollars to five thousand and ninety and oil

487
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just keeps going higher. It's trading right now up four dollars,

488
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up to seventy nine dollars and some change for one

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barrel of oil. It was over eighty during the intra

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day trading. So we're not done. There's a lot more

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war to be taken care of here before everything comes

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back to wherever we were before the war started. So

493
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that's it for today again. Enormous gratitude to the six

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soldiers who gave their lives, Sergeant Decland Cody, Sergeant Noah Teaching,

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Sergeant Nicole Moore, Captain Cody Cork and Major Jeffrey O'Brien,

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and Chief Warren Officer Robert Marzon. May they rest in peace.

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Thank you for coming by. We will be back again

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tomorrow and I hope to see you then