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Trump BLASTS 'communist' Hasan Piker · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: All right, well, Vice President J.D. Vance rallying voters in
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  Speaker 1: Iowa and sending a message of prosperity for rural America.
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  Speaker 1: He's also arguing that Democrats turned into the party of lunatics.
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  Speaker 2: Madeline Rivera joins us live with those details. Good morning, Maddie.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning. Vice President J.D. Vance is doubling down on
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  Speaker 3: the administration's agenda, touting the jobs he says they've created.
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  Speaker 3: He also talked about no taxes on tips and border security,
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  Speaker 3: which did elicit cheers from the crowd. Republicans, though, are
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  Speaker 3: facing some headwinds in Iowa, where a Fox News poll
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  Speaker 3: shows about 42 percent of voters feel they are falling
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  Speaker 3: behind financially. Vance acknowledged more work has to be done,
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  Speaker 3: saying Rome was not built in a day. He's making
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  Speaker 3: an appeal to farmers who are crucial in in the
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  Speaker 3: agriculture-heavy state.
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  Speaker 4: China has committed to buying $ 17 billion.
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  Speaker 2: From our farmers just this year.
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  Speaker 4: The other is we've got to make it more affordable
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  Speaker 4: to actually.
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  Speaker 5: Grow things here, and we've got to get Washington out
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  Speaker 5: of the way of our great farmers. You worked that.
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  Speaker 2: Farm for 50, 60, 70 years, and you go and
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  Speaker 2: meet the Lord.
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  Speaker 6: Your farm ought to go to your family, not the D.C.
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  Speaker 4: Bureaucrats.
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  Speaker 3: There is another big campaign event to watch next week.
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  Speaker 3: Former Vice President Kamala Harris will appear alongside Democratic Senate
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  Speaker 3: candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan on Tuesday. It comes as
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  Speaker 3: El-Sayed comes under scrutiny once again for his ties to
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  Speaker 3: streamer Hassan Piker, who made some controversial comments in a
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  Speaker 3: recent interview, including that the U.S. conducts more terrorism than al-Qaeda.
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  Speaker 3: El-Sayed says he does not agree with Piker, but some
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  Speaker 3: critics say his answer is not good enough.
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  Speaker 6: Don't you think it's disingenuous just to call him, like,
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  Speaker 6: a California streamer when you know the guy, you campaign
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  Speaker 6: with the guy, he was a big part of your campaign?
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  Speaker 2: He wasn't a big part of my campaign. We had
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  Speaker 2: him to Michigan once. I totally get that.
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  Speaker 6: I'm just saying, if you just call him a California streamer,
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  Speaker 6: that seems to minimize what he did in the primary.
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  Speaker 6: That's the only thing I'm asking you. Do you think
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  Speaker 6: that minimizes that?
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  Speaker 1: Here's my issue.
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  Speaker 2: Here's my issue. At the end of the day, right,
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  Speaker 2: he is a streamer in California.
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  Speaker 3: Al-Sayed says he won't do any more campus tours with Piker. Charlie, Rachel,
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  Speaker 3: and Griff.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Maddie, thank you very much. And Al-Sayed's connection
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  Speaker 5: to Assam Piker is also coming into sharper focus. The
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  Speaker 5: far-left streamer now reacting to the Michigan Democrat's many attempts
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  Speaker 5: to distance himself. Here's a little more.
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  Speaker 4: But do you think Abdul El-Sayed is basically buying into
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  Speaker 4: the argument that you're anti-Semitic? Do I think Abdul El-Sayed
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  Speaker 4: believes I'm anti-Semitic? Of course not. But do you think
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  Speaker 4: he's basically saying that? I think that he is trying
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  Speaker 4: to take advantage of the short period of time that's
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  Speaker 4: remaining in the next like 40 plus days to just
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  Speaker 4: move away from this issue to the best of his ability.
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  Speaker 4: Because every moment that you're talking about a Twitch streamer
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  Speaker 4: from California– is a moment where you're not talking about
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  Speaker 4: the cost of living crisis, a moment where you're not
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  Speaker 4: talking about gas prices. And Republicans know that. And that's
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  Speaker 4: precisely the reason why they keep needling on this issue,
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  Speaker 4: to make it seem like I am a salient point
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  Speaker 4: that Michiganders care about.
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  Speaker 1: Well, even President Trump is chiming in on what Piker's
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  Speaker 1: influence means for the Democrat Party.
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  Speaker 2: Watch.
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  Speaker 7: I think there's a terrible liability. I think he's got
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  Speaker 7: a power over some of these Democrats, and he'll be
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  Speaker 7: voting that way. I mean, he's A communist, there's no
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  Speaker 7: question about it. And the Democrats have a lot of communists.
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  Speaker 7: And the communists can hold up the party because it
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  Speaker 7: only takes a few votes. He's a guy who's... I mean,
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  Speaker 7: his statements are so bad. And the mainstream Democrats, I
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  Speaker 7: know many of them, and I'm friendly with many of them,
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  Speaker 7: but they've gone way left because they've had no choice.
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  Speaker 2: Not because they don't believe it.
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  Speaker 7: They know communism's never worked. They know socialism's never worked.
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  Speaker 7: But these people are— petrified of the radical left, and
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  Speaker 7: he's one of them.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, of course, it is true that that wing of
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  Speaker 2: the party has definitely taken over the Democrat Party. And
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  Speaker 2: you start seeing people like El-Sayed scrambling because, of course,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he needed people like Hassan Piker in the primary,
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  Speaker 2: and now he doesn't need him anymore. And it really
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  Speaker 2: is kind of funny to sit there and listen to
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  Speaker 2: Hassan Piker. Who's like Mr. Al Qaeda suddenly talking about
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  Speaker 2: being Mr. Affordability and like talking about the kitchen table.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a I'm not a Twitch streamer. I don't
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  Speaker 2: listen to this stuff. But from based on people that
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  Speaker 2: I've talked to, he doesn't spend a whole lot of
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  Speaker 2: time talking about affordability. He spends a lot more time
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  Speaker 2: talking about the crazier stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really, that's such a great point. This is
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  Speaker 1: the guy who said, Hasan Piker, I want to see
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  Speaker 1: the blood of landlords pouring through the streets of New York.
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  Speaker 1: And then, but he really cares about the price of milk.
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  Speaker 3: No, he doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: That said, this is very common, Griff, where people say
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff to get the primary. They go
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  Speaker 1: to the left and then they quick hurl to the right.
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  Speaker 1: And it seems like Hasan Piker is like, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: get the game. He needed me in the primary. Now
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  Speaker 1: it's the general, and he needs to get a lot
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  Speaker 1: more mainstream sort of independence and more conservative Democrats on board.
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  Speaker 1: So he doesn't need me anymore. He seems okay with it.
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  Speaker 5: The most reprehensible thing he's said in recent days, I think,
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  Speaker 5: is when he said that the Middle East would be
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  Speaker 5: better off if Iran had a nuclear weapon, which is
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  Speaker 5: bizarrely actually making the strongest argument for President Trump and
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  Speaker 5: the unpopular war in Iran right now. But I think
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  Speaker 5: the larger part is it's undeniable that the energy inside
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  Speaker 5: the Democrat Party is clearly with guys like Hassan Piker.
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  Speaker 5: That's why that election in Michigan for the Senate is
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  Speaker 5: basically Hassan Piker versus inflation. And you've got Democrats like
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  Speaker 5: Senator Fetterman acknowledging just how strong of a grip Piker's
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  Speaker 5: got on that party.
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  Speaker 6: Listen to this.
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  Speaker 8: I feel like I lost to Hassan Piker. He's an
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  Speaker 8: individual that just declared that we are worse than al-Qaeda,
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  Speaker 8: and Democrats are campaigning with him, defending him, and our
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  Speaker 8: base loves him. So, like, maybe I can't compete with that.
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  Speaker 2: And, of course, also going on, you have leadership in
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  Speaker 2: the House and Senate turning now to saying, OK, we
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  Speaker 2: don't like trying to distance the party from people like
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  Speaker 2: Hassan Piker, but at the same time realizing that getting
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  Speaker 2: al-Sayed elected is going to be very important to them
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  Speaker 2: getting their hands on the gavels. And so they're all
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  Speaker 2: kind of bowing the knee at one another, as you
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  Speaker 2: point out, now that the primary is over, and they're
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  Speaker 2: all trying to figure out a way to unify around
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  Speaker 2: things that they found abhorrent.
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  Speaker 1: And this whole commentary by President Trump also shows the
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  Speaker 1: Republican strategy, which is clearly to remind the country— that
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  Speaker 1: you may not be happy with gas prices right now,
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  Speaker 1: but the other side doesn't have a plan to fix
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  Speaker 1: that anyway. They've never— they' ve always wanted high gas prices because
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  Speaker 1: they have an energy problem.
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  Speaker 3: That's the point of everything. That's the point for them.
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  Speaker 1: But also to remind everyone that, you know, they're crazy,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the alternative. And so you notice the president
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  Speaker 1: is not mincing words. He's not saying socialists. He's saying communists.
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  Speaker 1: He's saying exactly who they are. And I think he's
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  Speaker 1: right to do that.
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  Speaker 5: You can't overstate the point you just made, Rachel, about
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  Speaker 5: they don't have a plan for affordability. They're not putting
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  Speaker 5: policies together.
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  Speaker 3: Why is that?
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  Speaker 5: Because, as you mentioned, getting their hand on those gavels, Charlie,
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  Speaker 5: what are they going to do? Let's go back to
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  Speaker 5: 2018 when Democrats got the gavels. Every single House committee,
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  Speaker 5: from Oversight to Intel, what did they do? They launched
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  Speaker 5: investigations into the Trump administration and President Trump, and history
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  Speaker 5: tells us that's exactly what they're going to do.
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  Speaker 2: And push the Green New Deal, which would jack up
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  Speaker 2: gas prices and fuel prices everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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